The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIII

[Lohrenswald]

So how do they spell aluminium in usa?

 

[madviking]

aluminum

a loo min um

 

[Arakhor]

IUPAC would disagree. If we have to accept 'sulfur' with an F, you have to accept 'aluminium' spelt correctly.

 

[Cutlass]

American spelling is correct spelling.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

IUPAC would disagree. If we have to accept 'sulfur' with an F, you have to accept 'aluminium' spelt correctly.

Wait, we're supposed to spell sulphur with an f? That's news to me!

I'm phlabbergasted

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I'll cover this one.

Basically, it's a "comic jam" dating way back from 2003 where people get together to "draw" a collaborative comic (or in many cases cut-and-paste screenshots and pictures from the internet together). The idea was one person would post a comic, the next person would post a following comic, and then a third person, and so on.

Initially it was mostly poking fun at CFC and particular posters. It quickly took on a space opera feel due to contributors (mostly CivGeneral) using private armies and space fleets in their comics. Later each thread had a basic plot that was supposed to drive the story, for example, an absurd quest (DYOS 5 and 6), strange events happening on the forums (DYOS 4, 7 and 8), a rebellion by old avatars (DYOS 10), and a hacker running amok (DYOS 11).

The Consul (intentionally misspelled from "Council") is a result of the contributor consensus after DYOS 9 that there needs to be a place to discuss ideas, resolve disputes, and so on. Basically a place to chat and, if needed be, deal with trollish/uncooperative behaviour.

The current thread (DYOS 11) is a bit messy but it is wrapping up and a new one will start soon that should be more accessible to newcomers. And we welcome new contributors. All you need to get started is MSPaint.

There's also a spin-off thing (DYOS 10.5, or "Plans Within Plans") which is a continuation of DYOS 10; it exists mainly as an experiment to write/draw a more "serious" story as opposed to the more playful/chaotic banter of mainstream DYOS.

What an excellent answer!


Now will you kindly explain the mafia games and all of that stuff? I have asked several pros who play how it works and all they say is 'you just have to try it' which invariably guarantees I won't.

 

[Mise]

(Disclaimer: I'm not a "mafia gamer guy", I only played some of the games on CFC a few times before, and I've played real games with meatpeople in meatspace that are basically the same thing, except done over the course of an hour or so.)

Basically the premise is that you're all living in a small town, where there has been mafia activity. The townspeople have had enough, and decide to band together to lynch those who they suspect of being part of the mafia. Nobody knows who the mafia are, though - they could be your neighbour, your friend, the nervous-looking guy who hangs out at the legitimate businesman's clubhouse, anyone. The only people who know who is part of the mafia are the mafia members themselves.

The Game Master selects 2 people at random to be the mafia. Everyone else in the game is a normal, lawabiding, nightlynching townsperson. The townspeople don't know who the mafia are, but the mafia knows who the other mafia are. Every day, everybody discusses who is a mafia and who is not, and make accusations at one another, and use the accusations and such to decide who they want to lynch. The mafia might make false accusations in order to throw the townspeople off the scent, or rally the unsuspecting townspeople into lynching people who are getting too close to the truth. Then everyone votes on who to lynch. At night, the mafia confer with each other, and decide on 1 person for them to kill. So during the day, the townspeople lynch someone, then during the night, the mafia kill someone, and so every morning 2 more people are dead. The mafia win the game if they kill all the townspeople. The townspeople win the game if they kill all the mafia.

All the other little rules are in the threads, but that's the basic idea of it. Other more knowledgeable people can add the unique flavour of the CFC mafia games.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Awesomesauce - thanks brah

 

[madviking]

mafia can also be played offline

 

[madviking]

apols for double post

i'm looking for a special type of beer closely associated with texas. i think the word begins with 's'...

 

[bhsup]

Shiner?

 

[Flying Pig]

Google suggests 'Lone Star', 'Southern Star' or 'Shiner Bock'.

 

[madviking]

Shiner?

yup thanks vr

 

[_random_]

I was thinking of Alamo.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Is it true that Americans consider Scotland a disputed territory?

 

[Farm Boy]

Is it true that Americans consider Scotland a disputed territory?

Yes, and one of these days we'll win it back from those stinking Germans that stole the Emerald Isle from us(a)!#1!

 

[Arakhor]

Is it true that Americans consider Scotland a disputed territory?

What?? Or better yet, why??

 

[Radio Noer]

Is it true that Americans consider Scotland a disputed territory?

I've never considered it one, nor have I met anyone who says this.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

What?? Or better yet, why??

It was something I was told that showed how ignorant Americans are of the United Kingdom, saying that Scotland is a disputed territory similar to Palestine, and that it's illegally a part of the United Kingdom and need to be made free from the English oppression.

 

[Lohrenswald]

It was something I was told that showed how ignorant Americans are of the United Kingdom, saying that Scotland is a disputed territory similar to Palestine, and that it's illegally a part of the United Kingdom and need to be made free from the English oppression.

One guess who told you.