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I just had a dream about you. Are you by coincidence a fish-human hybrid AND drummer for an awesome underwater band, and the representation/avatar of death?
My my my, what do we have here? A peculiar peculiarity, do I adhere?
What's up with the "I'm the best, all of your plays are ****, follow me" persona? Have you tried doing this in-person?
Who do you think the top 5 town players are in Dgames?
What is your level of accomplishment in academia? What do you want to do with yourself in the future?
Who's the hottest girl on the planet?
If there was one dude who you HAD to bottom for, who would it be?
On a scale from 1 - 10, answering only with whole numbers, 1 being a little and 10 being a lot, how much do you love me? Note: you can not choose the option "hate" on this scale, and you must choose a whole number. Variables aren't allowed.
The Spot vs Nightcrawler? This is full-on crazy bad*** Spot that actually uses his intelligence and abilities, btw, not ****ty joke villain Spot.
Lex Luthor vs Two-Face? (no 'real' weapons, in Luthor's office)
Lobo vs Deadpool?
Green Lantern with infinite energy vs Silver Surfer?
Batman vs Daredevil? Batman only gets hand to hand and batarangs, DD can use his billy clubs and hand to hand.
Ozymandias vs Batman? Not a fistfight at all. They're just both trying to accomplish something through social engineering 'n' **** and know what the other guy is trying to do so it's just a PREPARATION TIME-off basically.
Rupert Thorne vs J. Jonah Jameson? Thorne wants to be elected into public office; JJJ wants him to not be elected and holds Spider-Man levels of contempt for him. Almost said Luthor but I think Luthor'd trounce JJJ's pedestrian hate journalism.
Black Cat vs Catwoman. No weapons for BC but Catwoman gets the whip.
Arcade vs The Riddler? Both are in a deathtrap of the other's design and must race through it to reach a gun with which to shoot the other guy.
Aquaman vs Namor?
The Joker vs Mr. Negative? This is a gang war where they are trying to get the same turf, not a personal fight
Mr. Freeze vs Penguin? Penguin is very powerful and well-entrenched and has Nora. Freeze has no resources other than a laboratory and as much prep time and resources as he needs but can't hire muscle or anything
Lex Luthor vs Mr. Lau? LexCorp is hoping to expand into Hong Kong.
Wish I'd asked Tom some of these but alas, I cared not about puny mortal comic books back then
The Spot vs Nightcrawler? This is full-on crazy bad*** Spot that actually uses his intelligence and abilities, btw, not ****ty joke villain Spot.
Lex Luthor vs Two-Face? (no 'real' weapons, in Luthor's office)
Lobo vs Deadpool?
Green Lantern with infinite energy vs Silver Surfer?
Batman vs Daredevil? Batman only gets hand to hand and batarangs, DD can use his billy clubs and hand to hand.
Ozymandias vs Batman? Not a fistfight at all. They're just both trying to accomplish something through social engineering 'n' **** and know what the other guy is trying to do so it's just a PREPARATION TIME-off basically.
Rupert Throne vs J. Jonah Jameson? Thorne wants to be elected into public office; JJJ wants him to not be elected and holds Spider-Man levels of contempt for him. Almost said Luthor but I think Luthor'd trounce JJJ's pedestrian hate journalism.
Black Cat vs Catwoman. No weapons for BC but Catwoman gets the whip.
Arcade vs The Riddler? Both are in a deathtrap of the other's design and must race through it to reach a gun with which to shoot the other guy.
Aquaman vs Namor?
The Joker vs Mr. Negative? This is a gang war where they are trying to get the same turf, not a personal fight
Mr. Freeze vs Penguin? Penguin is very powerful and well-entrenched and has Nora. Freeze has no resources other than a laboratory and as much prep time and resources as he needs but can't hire muscle or anything
Lex Luthor vs Mr. Lau? LexCorp is hoping to expand into Hong Kong.
Wish I'd asked Tom some of these but alas, I cared not about puny mortal comic books back then
What is your real name and what is Ryker?
What's your #1 favorite video game?
If you could have any 1 super power, what would you have?
What have been your favorite mafia games: recent, not so recent, old?
How would you describe your play style?
How would you describe your personality?
Major hopes and dreams?
How did you figure out Skies of Acadia mafia so fast? What was your game plan from start to finish? Was there anything in that game that threw your plan for a loop, and required you to rethink your strategy?
If you remember, in Portal mafia, you came up with a plan to lure out the SK. Tell me, do you usually form plans like this as scum? What are some important factors to look for when forming a plan as scum? As town?
Realistic - Get married. Have at least one kid. Generic answer, but one that is really important to me.
Ambitious - Reach a point where I no longer have to work before age 45. I am literally the smartest person I have ever met and it's possible. Whether it's because I have enough money to retire at 45 or because I no longer consider it work because it's something I enjoy doing so much I don't call it work.
I know there is a worse thing out there because there isn't too much about me that my parents don't know, but I'll say the fact that I still had a pacifier until age five because I can't think of anything worse.
Real life, no. Online? Sure, if I thought of something I liked enough to ditch this name. It has a lot of history for me, but I would start forging more if I found something I liked more. I enjoy using other names on other places because I like funny stuff, but when it's what I'm going to be primarily recognized with by a group I care about socializing with at all, then I want it not to look ********.
I have never seen a horror movie all the way through.
I have scared ****less of stinging bugs and spiders/snakes that I know are dangerous.
I own an authentic union army cap, but not a confederate one.
I have been to 18 states at the age of 21. Another reasonable goal I can mention is to visit all 50 U.S. states before I die.
I cried when I finished reading "Where The Red Fern Grows."
Jessica. Honorable mention goes to Andrea. Possibly, but probably not. I would likely name a daughter something starting with an A, as my name, my brother's name, and my sister's name all start with A. Andrea would probably not work because it would be a lot of hassle for no reason as my name is Andrew.
I am smart. So smart, in fact, that there is literally nothing I cannot do if I care to do it. The price in my time and the fact that there I don't give a **** about a lot of stuff is what keeps me from doing many things. Note that I use "I" here instead of "You." I'm proud of the fact that I'm lucky enough to have my mind.
2.) You can't be disappointed in yourself if you don't know you can do better.
I can get in a REAL funk if I do badly at something. I KNOW I can do better and that fact is the only reason I can even get disappointed in myself. Framing it like that goes a long way to not beating yourself up over something unjustly. I've gotten very good at psychologically outsmarting myself like this. However, I can get behind statements like that and consider myself the ****ing best through all the knocks I take.
3.) It feels good when other people have confidence in you. It is necessary to have confidence in yourself.
It doesn't matter at all what other people think about your ability. It is imperative that you believe that you can do something in order to do it. For example, I will psyche myself up for any sort of competitive setting and, even if I know that I'm outclassed on some mental level, I will go into that match believing I am favored to win. This does not mean to be a fool and underestimate the difficulty of any given task.
4.) Always have a plan.
Self explanatory. Don't just wing it unless "just winging it" is your plan (generally only applicable for stuff you do for fun).
Fairly. I'm slightly more reserved because anonymity is a shield. I swear less because people care more. On the whole, it's pretty close though. I am extremely confident and I enjoy letting people know about it. I would say you get to see me be nicer more often IRL. There are fewer times that genuine empathy is called for online, but there are even a few people here who would vouch for me not being a complete douchebag when things don't go well for others. There is normally nothing to gain from kicking a man while he's down.
A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk,... have at you!
Alternatively, a man is one who does what he has to do in order to achieve what he wants. If they can't do what they have to, then they can't be called a man.
Scum (I assume you mean mafia) - Batma(n)fia 2. Lost Mafia.
Batma(n)fia 2 was my first game as mafia on SWF. No one really had me marked as a powerful player. I ended up bussing KevMo and Cello on Days 1 & 2. I maintained a town read throughout the game from, essentially, everyone and I won in LyLo by getting the mislynch on Junglefever with the remaining player being Steel whose Speaker For The Dead role allowed him to speak with everyone who had died (meaning the entire game).
Lost mafia is a game that had severe set-up problems, but I played well that game despite losing. I had a finger in everything and I took a lot of risks where I stuck my neck out and succeeded in saving scum mates and affecting reads without being pinned to it, even in the witch hunts that followed the flip of scum J. I managed to successfully avoid both of the investigative roles and get Doc EE to protect me from the Vig (Glyph). In the end, a no-kill mafia was just pigeonholed by the fact that there was a cop, a tracker, a doc, and a vig on town when scum had no answer. When someone reached the point that they were no longer going to be lynched outside of some crazy circumstances, we couldn't deal with them because no night kill means very little control. I am still fond of the post I made when Kat and I threw in the towel.
Town - Rusty Guillotine. Higurashi. Shining Force. Final Fantasy Tactics.
Rusty Guillotine was a game I adored. I ended up figuring out the game down to a certain pool with room for a single mislynch (the only one we could afford). I correctly pinned J as town, saved his ***, and worked with him to eliminate that scum pool. The entire time, I was working against town Cello who was working hard to throw the game. So much fun.
Higurashi and Shining Force are the same story. In Higurashi and in Shining Force, I was correct about the entire scum team as was Kuz (Higurashi) and Swiss (Shining Force). In both games, I was the cop, so I sat in the back perfectly willing to let the other townie take the bullet and to play a support role. Hell, I didn't even need to claim because I knew we were right. It was simple, clean play and a good preformance. I do not hold MvP for either of those games because I played to my role. I am still satisfied with knowing I played at least as well as the other two. Note that I replaced into Higurashi.
I won't rant about FFT, but there was an AMAZING play involving getting common town read Gheb killed (shoutouts to Gheb playing well as scum in that game) in the same phase as scum Ruy and otherwise adding direction to a rather lost town full of easily mislead players. I wasn't entirely right about the rest of the game. I made mistakes, but essentially every lynch that occurred went through because I wanted it to and that play lead to town victory.
Indy - Dissidia. Skies of Arcadia.
I have never drawn indy on my main account. I have never lost as indy.
Dissidia (Radical Fiction - Sephiroth, Serial Killer) and Skies of Arcadia (Aggressive Mediation - Ramirez, Independent Redirector) both showcase my hydra partner and I playing the edge of the knife until it's safe to come out and be obvtown and controlling every aspect of the game with a HUGE level of preparation and great reads and reactions. These two might be my favorite games I've ever played and in no small part due to Swiss and Laundry who I played them alongside.
Because if they work, then you have succeeded and profited from it.
They're bad when they don't work because you gained nothing and you have blown your credibility.
Things like a cop gambit are easy to see direct results from because you can see a flip resulting from it. Things like a Day Vig gambit are normally BAD because you stand to blow your credibility and not net significant gain that you couldn't have worked out without it.
My advice, don't gambit if you plan on ever revealing that it is a gambit. It doesn't help you. Success or failure, then you will be hurting your influence in the thread and gimping yourself. I wouldn't gamble in the long term either, if I were you as it is MUCH more dangerous and the list of people I trust to gamble in mafia can be numbered on one hand.
I am not going into how to gamble successfully because it hinges on being competent enough to support it and with an explanation of how to do it players whose reads and influence are not at a level to succeed will attempt to gamble, fail, and hurt me in games.
Yes! For the love of god, yes. People don't UNDERSTAND WIFOM. Any possible alternate explanation makes a situation WIFOM. You have to weigh likelihoods and be able to convince people that your proposal is the one that is actually happening, regardless of if you are town trying to get a scum lynch or scum trying to manipulate a situation.
Ideal roles in order from favorite to worst- Town Bulletproof. Mafia Godfather. Bulletproof Serial Killer. Town Vig (not Day Vig, **** that role). Town Comparison Cop. Town Sane Cop.
These are the roles that make it where I don't have to depend on other people. These are the best roles.
Ideal scum team - Ryker, Swiss, EE. I'll take Marshy, Stew, or Gova if I need a fourth. Any of them.
Pick your town team and we would pick it apart.
Ideal town team - Considering an 18 man game. 4 mafia and one indy. Leaves 13 townies.
Not too many strong willed players and not a player on that list who isn't good enough to get their alignment out in the open for players like Swiss, EE, Circus, and myself to pick up on and convince others of. I am confident in each of those players to make the right choices with night actions and to handle LyLo provided that I do my job and get enough information out there before I inevitably die.
AiB! Sprite (Vult Redux on SWF) hosted a "Werewolf" game, which was just a vanilla mafia game, on the General Silliness board. It was the first exposure I, or most anyone there, had to mafia. The game clicked with me because it involved common sense and reading people. I was one of the best on AiB because I figured the game out quickly and have been improving since.
I was told by a friend to follow him during lunch one day my Freshman year of high school. I went to a senior computer class classroom where a group of about 12 of us played Counter Strike during lunch every day. Everyone else had a handle and I wanted one. I threw together the syllables off the top of my head and I've stuck with it. I used "Cpt" as a way to get around sites where it was already taken. It's simply coincidence that it is the same name as a Star Trek character.
I use it still because it is a simple name that sounds cool, fairly normal, isn't horribly unoriginal, and is short.
They look at the game, the playerlist, their team, and decide which of those two is possible and do the one that makes them win. Personally, I prefer the latter. It is much harder.
Given a weapon of your choice, how many clones of Rockin could you take down before they overwhelmed you? Assume the Rockins come at you one at a time.
Military Marshy and Big Man EE. I am confident in my own ability to keep up with the motivation of a zombie apocalypse at my back. I would take you as my fourth. I feel you wouldn't slow us down and your smile would brighten my day (being Texan in a zombie apocalypse is also a plus).
Depends on the speed of the turn. I'd probably use 'em. I would have no qualms with pulling the trigger if asked to though. I've thought of that scenario before.
****. I was trying to get this done. These questions are ****ing hard if I want to be interesting.
I slept with a stuffed Ernie (from Sesame Street) when I was little. I chewed most of its hair off when I was teething.
I got my first kiss when I was eight.
I never three starred Mario Kart Wii.
I've never been able to stomach a full episode of Futurama.
I hate ninety percent of today's mainstream music. I also hate 90% today's non-mainstream music.
I have thought about this a lot after seeing where you asked it a few days back. By characters, I'm assuming I can't choose people from real life, so I have to get my two second strings.
In no particular order:
Kamina - Gurren Lagann (anime)
Kelsier - Mistborn (book)
Doctor Doom - Marvel Comics
The Joker - DC Comics
Peter Wiggin - Ender's Game series (book)
Speaking of aroused Rockin, let's say you, Swiss, and I are camping out in the woods when the guy comes barreling out of the woods at us with the biggest erection you've ever seen. What would you do?
Ryker-chan, it was pretty cool to meet you. You were the first person I met that could keep up with me (might have something to do with that ADD + intellectually gifted combo, hurrr). So, I was wondering, who is the first person you met that could keep up with you?
I'm lucky enough to have a brother who is 23 months younger than me. He is the first person I met who could keep up with me. Outside of my family, it would be a guy I met in middle school named Blaine. He was about two feet taller than me, so it looked odd to see the two of us hanging out, but we were good friends until different high schools separated us.
I've met a few people since then, but there are very few people I would say fit that description. It's one of the reasons I like the internet. People like me show up there.
When you screw up, don't run from the problem. Confront it. Wait until it makes sense to confront it because confronting it immediately can cause some things to blow up in your face, but do NOT just hope it will go away.
I hate cats. Kittens are awesome until they turn into cats. Dogs are infinitely better because you can love a dog and a dog will love you. You can love a cat and it won't give two ****s about you. You work on its schedule.
As much as I enjoy talking about ego, it's not ego. It's confidence. That being said, yes, I am that confident. I am 90% certain that I am the smartest person I have ever met. That 10% is the possibility that my brother is smarter than I. I do not believe that he is, but he's DAMN smart and that might really be my ego talking.
Say you were an indie who had the win con of being nice and not cursing for one Day. Literally all you had to do was not have an ego for Day 1, and you win, no matter what happens to you that Day. You also have to complement every player in the game at least once. Would you play to it?
I don't play all of these still, but these are what I enjoy as far as video games go.
RPGs. A LOT of RPGs. League of Legends. A couple of rhythm and puzzle games (shout outs to Professor Layton and Pokemon Puzzle League). A few shooters (Gears, L4D, Counterstrike). Platformers, lots of them, especially challenging ones like Super Meat Boy or the classics like Mario, Sonic, Banjo. Megaman, Castelvania, and games like them (but not Metroid, surprisingly). Any LoZ game. Mario Kart. Mario Parties 1-6. MMOs that tickle my fancy. And NCAA.
Don't be wrong. You can do everything required to be a good player, I've seen it, but you're just wrong sometimes. Make sure that everything you do has a point to it, even if that point is to "see what happens." Try working with those people you normally clash with if you believe they are town.
Don't go inactive. Don't draw stupid indy alignment changers. Look hard at who stands to benefit from each flip and how that could have effected their stance the previous day.
I just had a dream about you. Are you by coincidence a fish-human hybrid AND drummer for an awesome underwater band, and the representation/avatar of death?
I am the best. **** plays are ****. I win if you follow me. One hundred percent of the time.
I do it in-person. I am the best when I am the best. I call **** what it is. If something requires a group and I want it to get done right, I get people to do what I want. It's hard to compare because I am not the best at some things. I am the best at mafia.
I want to get the girl. I want to see the states and accomplish things. I want to settle down and have a family. I want to be the best damn dad ever. I want to never be content and always strive to do more. I can be content when I'm dead knowing that I did everything I could. Always move forward, death will find you eventually, but you don't have to sit and wait.
I have no clue about what I'm going to end up doing for a job in the long run, but right now I'm looking at computers. Eventually I want to be my own boss.
On a scale from 1 - 10, answering only with whole numbers, 1 being a little and 10 being a lot, how much do you love me? Note: you can not choose the option "hate" on this scale, and you must choose a whole number. Variables aren't allowed.
When I get another copy, I will very likely start running Wind Waker again. It's too cool not to. I enjoy being able to show people it. Ditto with my ****ty, ****ty, 13 star run on Mario 64.
1.) He's good and I like winning.
2.) Of the good characters, he was the first one I played that fit me well. He lets me ride momentum when I get going. He lets me be SUPER lame. He has REALLY good oh **** buttons.
3.) He's a cocky *******.
I enjoy playing lame. I can get opened up like the first can of beans in Texas during the zombie apocalypse if they get in, so I have to be right the entire time to put up my perfect wall. It's a mental battle and an endurance war. I enjoy it a lot.
A friend of mine discovered it and wanted to try playing here. He hated playing with Marshy and Kevin and the sheep that left them alone so much that he's never played a second game here.
Feels good. When I am passionate about something, I want to see it improved. You want to see something happen around here, I'm a very good choice to contact to get it to happen so long as it's a good idea.
EE will always be the biggest threat. Most people should see Swiss and myself as the second biggest threats because EE has the advantage of a spotless reputation. Past that, Marshy, Kevin, and Gheb. They're a pain in the *** as any alignment because they will not let you know enough to figure them out. Marshy and Kevin in particular have two of the most anti-town playstyles ever. I, however, enjoy the challenge.
Classic rock. 90% of it. I like orchestral stuff as well. I enjoy video game sound tracks and remixes for nostalgia and the scores for multiple movies. I do not like most new music.
Again, AiB. He and I hit it off there. Skype was a thing there, so we were around a lot. There's a lot of interest overlap and we went on to other websites and communities because we were both interested. We both can be pretty driven at getting things we want done. He's a friend, how did you get close with any friend?
It's a very thorough process of elimination. I can get anyone in the game lynched by day 2 if I want and I abuse that. I lynch people to narrow the possible scum throughout the game (starting with the scummiest) as town. I lynch people who could possibly stop me as mafia (starting as high as I can safely get away with).
I'm a ****. I'm a smartass. I'm egotistical. I'm overconfident. I'm also driven and one of the absolute best people to have nearby when you need someone to help you through a problem, to help give sound advice, or to give a shoulder to cry on.
How did you figure out Skies of Acadia mafia so fast? What was your game plan from start to finish? Was there anything in that game that threw your plan for a loop, and required you to rethink your strategy?
Process of elimination. I figured out what I assumed would be included. Marked it off when I found it. I figured out what was confirmed to exist. Added it in the blanks. I matched people's play to the roles I assumed to exist. I added new things as they emerged. It solved itself.
Recruiter, Masons, and the fact that J wasn't scum all threw me for a loop and forced me to adjust.
If you remember, in Portal mafia, you came up with a plan to lure out the SK. Tell me, do you usually form plans like this as scum? What are some important factors to look for when forming a plan as scum? As town?
I always form a plan. I have eighty different contingency plans. Nine times out of ten, one of them will work for the situation. That last time, one of them can be adapted to work. Regardless of alignment, I am ALWAYS forming a plan. That plan is ALWAYS changing.
When forming a plan as either alignment, KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU KNOW! Things you assume, make a plan for. Make a back-up plan in case you're wrong. Make a second plan in either scenario. Look at how it will make people react. Keep track of how your different plans will make people react as things change. When you get new information, change your plans to reflect that. Keep an eye out for when to take risks. Examine what happens if you take that risk. See what happens in the far future and if it is implemented. Can that problem be avoided.
Always look at contingencies. I have to talk out these plans. With a hydra mate, with the mod, with myself. Some people can do it all in their head.
I need to end this, I've been working on it for four hours. I'll give you the abridged version. Ask me on Skype if you want details.
A fantasy JRPG with an early branch in story that you decide which path you want to take. Decisions you make affect who will be on your side and who against you in the end. The main character stands a high chance of being killed off. I would LOVE to explore how such a blow would effect the rest of the cast and how they would step up to deal with it or step down because they can't.
You did a REALLY good job of putting in three different roles that I consider cardinal sins and making me still not hate the set-up. I like indy redirector as a concept, but goddamn it's hard with investigatives running around and no BP. We played REALLY well in that game, but I'm not gonna lie and say that a couple of things didn't just fall right.