Don't take it as a personal attack. The Rock Wars index is even more out of date and those didn't stop like the Mafia games did. :whistles innocently when someone asks who was keeping that up:

Recordkeeping is pointless unless said records are used for something.

I went back and re-read some games. Boy I didn't realize how antagonistic I could be lol.

That thread is a little tough to go through. Quarantine seems like the best time to tidy it up


Anybody watching any good shows? I’m about to finish season 4 of Breaking Bad. I can’t believe I put off watching this show for so long.

I just caught up on Wynona Earp. It may feel really good.

Brooklyn 99 has had an excellent season.

Started watching Outlander with the wife. Scottish idioms are fun. Casting is good. Cinematography is very good. Story is ok.

I rarely used it for wins/losses. I used it to go back and revisit old games. Especially since it gets difficult to hunt up some of the older threads.

(Or to even remember the games to look for them - I'm old enough for early retirement, I can claim age as an excuse )

I played a handful of times, and had an even smaller handful of wins, but being Luke Skywalker and managing to blow up the Death Star is the personal high point of my Mafia career.

I'm so ready to start a new mafia adventure. I'm looking forward to this game! Thanks everyone for signing up! We're on schedule to start tomorrow!

Started watching The Good Place on Netflix and it's a really funny show. I started watching with the kids and realized, it's probably not quite kid-friendly. I really didn't expect to have to talk about masturbation with my 9 yo for at least another couple of years. Granted I didn't actually do so. I deflected but yeah, I know I'll have to have the answers sooner rather than later now.

Yeah, my kid is 12 now so he knows sex is a thing even though he doesn't quite understand what the big deal is just yet. It does make for some awkward conversations from time to time. We were watching a game show where five people visit each others' homes to then guess who lives where. In one of the homes two contestants lay on the bed and invite a third to join them, and the third replies "sure, we can hava threesome in bed" and everyone laughed (the Swedish word for threesome is the word for triangle..). The kid just stares and asks
"What's a threesome?"
"...It's when three people have sex together."
"Oh. ... I don't get how that would work."
"Well, it depends a bit on who's involved. You can take turns, for example".

He's also hanging out in various English-language gamer chats, so sometimes he asks me what various English words means. Sometimes it's sexual words. I try my best to answer, but fortunately he's rarely wants to know more.

I think I need to practice on my Grampa Simpson impersonation though, it might come in handy sooner than I might be comfortable with.

Good Place is an excellent show by the way, the wife and I are big fans. Never watched it with the kid, mostly because when it was on TV it was broadcast late at night so we assumed it wasn't a kids show and we were right.

Started to watch Rick and Morty on Netflix by the way as I've heard good things about it but never got around to watching it. Apparently the kid is familiar with it already and he has a younger friend who watches it. I am not comfortable watching it with him though. Right now I am busy educating him on the works of Monty Python anyway and he has expressed an interest in the Bond films, so we have a lot to watch together.

Yeah, I’ve been using the quarantine to catch up on shows/movies that I’ve been putting off (Currently Breaking Bad and That 70s Show).

To my delight, my girlfriend has shown interest in watching the Marvel movies in order, so we will probably tackle those in release order after Breaking Bad. I don’t love every Marvel movie, but there are enough that I enjoy, so I can put up with rewatching the bad ones so that I can rewatch the good ones.

The thrill of a new mafia game. Never gets old.

Also third the Good Place being a great show but it did definitely jump the shark at some point. I'll wait for all present to have finished the series to discuss more indepth!

Game is officially open. Good luck to everyone!

Anyone else watch Dave? I guess it's because demographic-based big data marketing is just so damn good these days, but FX keeps pumping out shows that seem personally catered to me

So since the stay-at-home order started, I've started playing Jackbox Party Pack games with friends and family remotely.

If you're not familiar, the Jackbox games are party games (trivia games, pictionary type games, bluffing and mad lib type games). Fairly casual, pretty fun.

The way they work is you have the game screen on a TV or computer, and then everyone uses their phones/tablets as controllers to connect to the game to select the write answer, draw the prompt, or vote, etc.

I've been playing with people far away over Discord. I stream the game screen (and also have audio/video chat) on a Discord server, and then people use their phones at home to connect to the games and play. I don't think this was the original intention but it kind of works out great with remote players.

Would anybody be interested in having an HCR Mafia game night? Most of the games are 8 players. It might be fun to put voices/faces to screen names.