TL Mafia Community Thread
Premise
Our goal is to grow the spirit of the TL Mafia community, so we can see each other as friends and not enemies, as fellow members of the same group who we respect and like. It has been mentioned (link) that we have issues getting along here in TL Mafia. I think there's a pretty easy way to deal with that though, and EchelonTee said it first:
On December 17 2013 15:11 EchelonTee wrote:
I know this isn't a direct solution, but in the past I had a good time playing various games like LoL or Dota 2 with TL Mafia people. It helped to put voices to the people that I had been playing with and really made me feel like I was a part of a nice community. A lot of the people in this forum are really cool, when they aren't constantly suspicious of you that is.
It might be a good idea for more people to get together and just play some games together.
+ Show Spoiler +I know this isn't a direct solution, but in the past I had a good time playing various games like LoL or Dota 2 with TL Mafia people. It helped to put voices to the people that I had been playing with and really made me feel like I was a part of a nice community. A lot of the people in this forum are really cool, when they aren't constantly suspicious of you that is.
It might be a good idea for more people to get together and just play some games together.
On December 18 2013 04:18 Blazinghand wrote:
3. The TL Mafia community should come to see each other as friends, not enemies. EchelonTee had a good point that an out-of-Mafia interaction like playing games together could help a lot. We should do team-building exercises and play voice mafia more so we come to be friends with each other, that way this kind of thing doesn't happen. This is best solved not via a rule change imo, but via team-building, group gaming, voice mafia, and so on. We need to become a community again. iGrok and I, for example, had our differences in the past, but we are the best of buds now from many games of dota together (though actually dota may be a bad example given how much clarity rage i've seen lololol). Ultimately I think more than anything else this will strike at the root cause of our problems.
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3. The TL Mafia community should come to see each other as friends, not enemies. EchelonTee had a good point that an out-of-Mafia interaction like playing games together could help a lot. We should do team-building exercises and play voice mafia more so we come to be friends with each other, that way this kind of thing doesn't happen. This is best solved not via a rule change imo, but via team-building, group gaming, voice mafia, and so on. We need to become a community again. iGrok and I, for example, had our differences in the past, but we are the best of buds now from many games of dota together (though actually dota may be a bad example given how much clarity rage i've seen lololol). Ultimately I think more than anything else this will strike at the root cause of our problems.
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This thread will be for getting sharing handles and playing games + other activities together, and will be part of a 3-part team-building movememnt including restarting TL Mafia Podcasts and increasing the number of people playing Voice Mafia.
Other threads to check out:
TL Voice Mafia
Check out the TL Voice Mafia thread here (link). The OP contains info on how to connect to our Teamspeak server, and if you go to the most recent page you'll find people organizing games!
TL Mafia Podcast
Check out the TL Mafia Podcast thread here (link). The OP has links to completed podcasts, and if you go to the most recent page you'll find people organizing and discussing recent podcasts!
Stuff Happening in this Thread
Game Handle Registry
I know we've got a lot of gamers in the house, and nothing brings people together like yelling at each other for feeding the enemy team kills. The two biggest game services that I use are Bnet and Steam, so I'll get started by posting my handles. Feel free to add your handles to the list by PMing me or posting in the thread. If there's another game a lot of us play (Eve or whatever) let me know and I'll make a list for that as well.
Battle.net:
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Blazinghand - Blazinghand#1258
WaveofShadow - WaveofShadow#1896
Umasi - Umasi#1835
Holyflare - Holyflare.980
Raynpelikoneet - BLFG.2598
Rean - Rean.2235
bumatlarge - bum#1884
GreyMist - GreyMist#1268
Cephiro - Cephiro#2652
FirmTofu - FalseTruth#1561
phagga - phagga#2962
Artanis[Xp] - Artanis#519
WaveofShadow - WaveofShadow#1896
Umasi - Umasi#1835
Holyflare - Holyflare.980
Raynpelikoneet - BLFG.2598
Rean - Rean.2235
bumatlarge - bum#1884
GreyMist - GreyMist#1268
Cephiro - Cephiro#2652
FirmTofu - FalseTruth#1561
phagga - phagga#2962
Artanis[Xp] - Artanis#519
Steam:
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Blazinghand - Blazinghand
Umasi - Umasi
Holyflare - Jesus of the black variety
Ange777 - ange777tw
VisceraEyes - DeathRage81
Rean - Rean
Foolishness - CollegeIsHard
HiroPro - (link)
mkfuba07 - mkfuba_07
Risen - TGARisen
bumatalarge - bum_at_large
iGrok - iGrok
GreyMist - GreyMist
Cephiro - Cephirian
Artanis[Xp] - artanisxp
phagga - phagga
Bloodyc0bbler - Bloodyc0bbler
Umasi - Umasi
Holyflare - Jesus of the black variety
Ange777 - ange777tw
VisceraEyes - DeathRage81
Rean - Rean
Foolishness - CollegeIsHard
HiroPro - (link)
mkfuba07 - mkfuba_07
Risen - TGARisen
bumatalarge - bum_at_large
iGrok - iGrok
GreyMist - GreyMist
Cephiro - Cephirian
Artanis[Xp] - artanisxp
phagga - phagga
Bloodyc0bbler - Bloodyc0bbler
League of Legends:
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Umasi - Umasi
Holyflare - Cyilthi (EU W)
VisceraEyes - VisceraEyes81
Rean - ReanK (EU W)
Foolishness - CollegeIsHard (NA)
mkfuba07 - mkfuba07
Risen - KavuJustice
bumatalarge - Lockturne
GreyMist - Drkbane
Bloodyc0bbler - Bloodyc0bbler
Holyflare - Cyilthi (EU W)
VisceraEyes - VisceraEyes81
Rean - ReanK (EU W)
Foolishness - CollegeIsHard (NA)
mkfuba07 - mkfuba07
Risen - KavuJustice
bumatalarge - Lockturne
GreyMist - Drkbane
Bloodyc0bbler - Bloodyc0bbler
Movie Night!
Starting after Christmas 2013, I'm going to be hosting a Movie Night each sunday night for people on USW / USE time. I suppose it could also be a Movie Afternoon for people in asia or a Movie Morning for people in Europe, though I recommend people also try to set up their own movie nights. We'll all hop into a teamspeak channel together and start our movie (or anime episode, or tv show episode, or whatever) simultaneously and comment about it, potentially ruining/enhancing each other's viewing experience.
Even if this sounds terrible, trust me, it's a lot of fun. Feel free to bring friends! Make sure to download/buy/steal the movie ahead of time, or buffer your netflix stream or whatever.
Upcoming Movie nights:
Monday, Jan 13 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) hosted by Blazinghand. Movie: TBD
Monday, Jan 27 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) hosted by Blazinghand. Movie: TBD
Previous Movie Nights:
Monday, Dec 30 2:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) hosted by Blazinghand. Movie: Memento (2000)
This is just based right now off of ideas from the top of my head. Movies and video games are both fun. That being said, this is just the beginning. We'll make this work. Please let me know what we can do to improve this thread, extra features, formatting tips, and so on. It's all doable.
