GTKAS - gorckat

[Andycyca]

You're welcome to write an "about me" before starting

Favorite book(s)?
Favorite alcoholic drink?
Favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Do you know who Bertrand Russell is (without googling)?
Do you know who Alan Menken is?
What's the thing you associate the most with "Mexico"?
What's the first thing you think when you hear "Mexico"?
Do you like NCAA?
Favorite video game character?

[cicero]

How do you manage to be so goddamned funny all the time and why do you think it is that you don't get enough credit for it on the board here?

[OhGodMyLife]

How did you decide on your username?

[gorckat]

Oh, wow

You're welcome to write an "about me" before starting

Favorite book(s)?
Favorite alcoholic drink?
Favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Do you know who Bertrand Russell is (without googling)?
Do you know who Alan Menken is?
What's the thing you associate the most with "Mexico"?
What's the first thing you think when you hear "Mexico"?
Do you like NCAA?
Favorite video game character?

-I love Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series (although I can't seem to get through

A Few Demons More

, and there's at least one more after that one ), and Martin Millar's

Lonely Werewolf Girl

was awesome. Stephen King's

It

scared the bejeebers out of me in high school (didn't shower for ~2 weeks- was afraid of drains). I'm big on Clive Barker right now, too. Asimov's Foundation books were wicked cool, and Heinlein's

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

was rocking, as well as the follow-up (something about cat and walking through walls).
-Hard ciders. I had my run ins with Schanpps, MD 20/20 and vodka worked out by the time I was 18, and I've been a llightwieght drinker ever since.
-I drink way too much Coke and Pepsi. I'm giving their Splenda sweetened varieties a whirl, and they're all right.
-Yep. Teapots in Space.
-Do I get to Google Menken? (I just did- name rings a bell)
-A trip to Cancun with my boss, his wife and their daughter, whom I'd broken up with a few weeks prior.
-Ron
-I'm a casual college basketball and football fan, especially around March Madness
-Toss-up between my first Morrowind character (Samural Einos, cat-dude), any character in the original Pirates! and the guy in God of War (he makes me feel like a bad-ass )

[gorckat]

How do you manage to be so goddamned funny all the time and why do you think it is that you don't get enough credit for it on the board here?

I spent over a year hanging out at a comedy website where social status was measured by popular vote. I did fairly well, but its too hard working to please people all the time.

There are way too many opinions of funny here, and while I could drop some viscous (and often well deserved) burn on folks adn catch some of that 'cred', its mean and I'm not a mean person. Vengeful, cynical, sarcastic, yes. Mean, not really.

How did you decide on your username?

My daughter played for a GORC rec council. They were the Wildcats. Needing an AOL username many moons ago, I came up with gorckat (two c's in the middle would of been dumb ).

It also anagrams to:

racktog (sacrifice a rack, gets +1/+1 til end of turn)
go track (should've done track in high school- almost broke sophomore long jump and 4x400 relay records)
cork tag
rock tag (played tag with a bb gun once, but never rocks)
kart cog

And by far the best:

-got rack?

[Elias_the_thief]

Am I the only dreamer?
Is anybody real?
Is this just one big test?
Can anybody feel?

Can anybody hear me?
Does anybody care?
Does anybody see me?
When they point and stare?

Is anybody out there?
Can they understand?
Can anyone be touched?
Can they hold my hand?

Am I even a dreamer?
Am I even real?
Did I pass the test?
Can I even feel?

Am I just a robot?
Wound up and let loose?
Do I act on impulse?
Is my free will recluse?

Where are all the answers?
The ones for which I strove
Will anybody show me?
Is there anyone who knows?


Good luck with those.

[Anticollie]

Basic Philosophy on life and the world around you in no less than 49 words, but no more than 58?

[gorckat]

Am I the only dreamer?
Is anybody real?
Is this just one big test?
Can anybody feel?

Can anybody hear me?
Does anybody care?
Does anybody see me?
When they point and stare?

Is anybody out there?
Can they understand?
Can anyone be touched?
Can they hold my hand?

Am I even a dreamer?
Am I even real?
Did I pass the test?
Can I even feel?

Am I just a robot?
Wound up and let loose?
Do I act on impulse?
Is my free will recluse?

Where are all the answers?
The ones for which I strove
Will anybody show me?
Is there anyone who knows?


Good luck with those.

No, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, yes, no, out there waiting to be found, yes, maybe.

Basic Philosophy on life and the world around you in no less than 49 words, but no more than 58?

We're not here for long, so don't be an ass. Pick each other up, help each other out. Use some common sense, open your eyes, don't lose your liberty. I'll respect you in spite of our differences if you'll respect me, even if you vote McCain...well maybe not that last bit

[Anticollie]

52 words. How... plebeian.

If you were given 3 'free kills,' to whom would they be gracefully gifted?

[Adel]

should Yos2's life ambition be the pursuit of public office?

[Xdaamno]

should Yos2's life ambition be the pursuit of public office?

Gah. That's not fair on all the other countries.

[gorckat]

If you were given 3 'free kills,' to whom would they be gracefully gifted?

Fred Phelps leaps to mind. He's a stain.

The guy who molested one of my best friends in middle school is another.

For the third, we need to go back in time and whack the clown who thought a gay Hutt from New Orleans would be a good character for the Clone Wars movie. It was passably entertaining until that point (even with all the 'Sky-guy' and baby Hutt crap).

[gorckat]

should Yos2's life ambition be the pursuit of public office?

If that's what he thinks will make the world a better place, then sure.

[Simenon]

Favorite novelist?
Playwright?
Poet?

[gorckat]

Heinlein (After last night's novel question, I recall a bunch of his books I've enjoyed)
Miller (The Crucible is the only play I've seen that came to mind)
Frost (Lodged is probably my favorite- quick and easily quotable)

[forbiddanlight]

why?

[gorckat]

Just because. A few things went bump and here we are.

[Elias_the_thief]

I like this gorckat fellow.

[cicero]

I like this gorckat fellow.

[OhGodMyLife]

I like this gorckat fellow.

[Simenon]

Just because. A few things went bump and here we are.

Is it worth knowing the nature of these bumps?

[gorckat]

Just because. A few things went bump and here we are.

Is it worth knowing the nature of these bumps?

Yes. All sorts of things become possible as our understanding of the universe improves.

Cleaner energy, improved health, Duke Nuke'em Forever, invisibility cloaks, hyperdrive...the possibilities are endless!

[Simenon]

Do you prefer open or closed setups?
Normal or themed?
Traditional or variation?
Stoofer or Glork?
~~~

Do you think an understanding of textbook anthropology would assist a mafia player? By how much?

Automatic "12 players: One Game!!" question goes here.

Where do you think the state of mafia on mafiascum is going? Do you like that direction? If not, how can we change it? If so, how do you contribute to these growing trends?
~~
Remember your first game? Remember how much we all sucked?

[gorckat]

Do you prefer open or closed setups?
Normal or themed?
Traditional or variation?
Stoofer or Glork?

As a townie, I think I prefer open- less speculation on what is really out there cuts a lot of chafe. As scum, closed is always better. Makes claiming to a doc who didn't believe the claimed gunsmith and hammered to put the town in LYLO plausible

I've enjoyed the themes I've played, and most of my normals, so I'd have to say "split".

Traditional and themes have their places.

I've played with Glork, but never Stoofer. I tend not to trust players who've been around longer than me- they're always scum

Do you think an understanding of textbook anthropology would assist a mafia player? By how much?

Maybe, but perhaps not because it was anthropology. The dedication to learn and understand something would make a player better.

Automatic "12 players: One Game!!" question goes here.

Hmm...

Seol (he IC'd in my first game, haven't played with him since, but enjoy reading his posts)
Muerrto (I think I have his number, so if he's scum, I'll know )
Adel (need to see what goes on in that twisted head in person)

I'll have to think a bit about the rest. I've played with a bunch of cool people, and there's a bunch more I haven't but can't recall at the moment.

Where do you think the state of mafia on mafiascum is going? Do you like that direction? If not, how can we change it? If so, how do you contribute to these growing trends?

I think, or at least hope, its moving toward a more concrete intolerance of flaking/bailing on games. Some folks chronically drop, and I don't stumble across a ton of games with less than 6 replacements. There are classic games that people point to that didn't have any replacements. They also played faster, which is making a comeback in the number of games running fixed deadlines.

I think mith could make some changes to the queue that would help (haven't looked in that SI thread to see if he's weighed in). Now that I'm trying it, I think more should be asked of mods. A half-hearted modding just makes a game sour.

My game's not done, but when it is I hope to post a nice meaty thread in MD about experience requirements and how they helped or hurt my game, and it'll touch on deadlines and activity, too.

Remember your first game? Remember how much we all sucked?

Yeah- I convinced my partner we shouldn't shoot the cop (Seol) after he self-outed Day 1 thinking he'd be an obvious lynch. Riiiiight

[Simenon]

I mean the one over at MTGS. You played your first here?