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![]() They call themselves "Grey Wolves". For months, the irony bros running the politics/comedy podcast CHAPO TRAP HOUSE have been converting impressionable followers to this cult, and for what? To support their number 21-ranked Patreon. There are thousands of these Grey Wolves, and they're making you uncomfortable like when Michael Barbaro sees a homeless guy in a subway station. Calling out your milquetoast liberalism. Rousing troll squads in your Twitter mentions. Questioning the smoothness of your brain. It's but a matter of time before this CIA / AKP psy-op is activated, destroying any hopes you had for civility in The Discourse ![]() Now an unlikely alliance of Tankies, conservatives, traditional Catholics, Hillary boosters and Lin Miranda fanatics have have joined forces for an assault on the CIA-funded Park Slope mansion that is the Chapo Trap House. But who can you really trust? Grey Wolves are everywhere. Are you on the Road to Soavedom, or is today the Dawn of Justice and Development? ![]() Welcome to Assault on Chapo Trap House, a mafia game for 15 players with flavour based on the greatest podcast. C H A P O T R A P H O U S E: Overview Chapo (@chapotraphouse) is a twice-weekly podcast hosted by Will Menaker (@willmenaker), Matt Christman (@cushbomb) and Felix Biederman (@ByYourLogic) which can be inelegantly described as what happens when leftist politics meets weird Twitter. The episodes are around an hour in length and deviate wildly between intelligent, well-read people sharing their considered views or interviewing subject experts to mercilessly satirising self-important blowhards from across the political spectrum. Generous doses of ironic snark are doled out. A trope which may be important for this game is that very early on the hosts declared their loyalty to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in about Episode 2, I think it started as a bit but has become so much more. How does this translate to mafia? The Chapo hosts spend a lot of time crudely and hilariously insulting a range of people including conservative columnists who feign outrage over what bathrooms people use, war hawks urging greater US support for Saudi brutality, milquetoast liberals who enable their proclaimed opponents to disenfranchise minorities, batshit crazy Tankies, and people who enjoy the musical Hamilton. The Chapo hosts also regularly engage in Twitter beefs with these and others, earning them a lot of internet enemies. Through callbacks and regular inside jokes Chapo has essentially developed a canon of these people - most of you will play these people who are trying to eliminate the Chapos, and the hosts will be doing their best to ensure that Justice and Development continues to reign supreme. Should I play? New players are certainly welcome. The setup is not overly complex and everyone will have to rely on their wits much more than role wizardry. While many of the themes and subjects Chapo deals with are serious, it features fast paced conversation and savagely funny satire, and I'm hoping that this game will too. If you hate fun, this may not be the game for you. ![]() ![]()
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birdstrike fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Nov 14, 2016 |
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I am literally listening to my first episode of this right now. In!
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I claim Volcel
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Oh and biebstrike I don't have PMs so you can email thenarratorsa at Gmail dot come
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Hola
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i am a tankie and i wanna play this
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Playing a birb game
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sure
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Get people in this game w t f
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In to stop trump.
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But as a heads up I absolutely hate fun.
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join
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sorry Narrator, chores is the ultimate Caleb
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Birdstrike posted:sorry Narrator, chores is the ultimate Caleb my sweet boy chores, what happened to you?
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i dont know what these words mean
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got some chores tonight posted:i dont know what these words mean https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-49-teaser-letter-from-caleb
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yes please
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I am ready to burn it all down Spitting acid like a xenomorph hooker
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i WILL PLAY this mytsterios game
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Hello
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lmaok mod done got homerlf a ban i WILL RUN this mysetiors game
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I KNIw all the chapos: guzman, gomez, fwlix bonerman, alexis Texas
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Bstrij picked me as the most ideologically correct of his syccessord
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I'll play a birb game
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SirSamVimes posted:I'll play a birb game Birb game = the most dangerous game ![]()
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iajanus posted:Birb game = the most dangerous game jAI ALAI?
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SLASHER HAWKE posted:lmaok mod done got homerlf a ban more like co-mod
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im in the game
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derp posted:im in the game I know I have you haha problem is I'm out of the game, I'm going to call this one off thanks everyone for trying to support what I hope would have been a good game I will post setup soon
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Birdstrike posted:I know I have you haha the aristocrats
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As this is the second game in a row I've tried to run which hasn't managed to get players while multiple games which started after mine filled up, it's kinda clear at this point that people don't want to join my games so I'm calling this off. The overall idea for this one was to build on some earlier ideas about a game which appears to be role heavy but is actually kind of vanilla, as you will see: Overall setup: 15 players: 11 town, 3 scum, 1 3P Town
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3P Carl Diggler, 1x Bulletproof Jester: Protected from 1 NK attempt. Wins if dunked, loses if survives game or is NK'd. Cannot claim an action result, cannot scumclaim, cannot claim to be Will/Matt/Felix. The only role which I thought would have a tangible impact on gameplay was the BP Jester: if town lynches them town loses a day, if scum NK them scum loses a night. I thought this was balanced (and I really wanted to have a game with a Jester.) The Janitor might have had a smaller impact depending on if people bought into other potential 3Ps, but basically it and every other role is designed to make people think there are roles like cops around without there actually being any. My goal was to make scumhunting and analysis the key to the game rather than information from roles. CCKeane definitely would have been the Mailman. Flavour Flavour-wise, I had a whole stable of people to use for town characters and fake claims including but not limited to The Traitor Gulen, Baseball Crank, Red Kahina, Robbie Soave, Josh Foust, Arthur Chu, Freeway Ross Douthat, David French, Rod Dreher, Sady Doyle, Bill Mitchell and of course, "Love That" Ron Fournier. I had written in Virgil Texas and Roqayah Chamseddine in as town characters as ostensible Chapo-allies out to get them (Virgil as revenge for continued humiliation at the hands of Carl; RoqChams as revenge for Will mangling her name). Game-wise these characters were supposed to show people that flavour couldn't solve the game (also scum would have had fakeclaims). Thanks Like I said thanks everyone for signing up and I'm sorry this didn't get off the ground. Also listen to Chapo Trap House it's good.
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Birdstrike posted:Also listen to Chapo Trap House it's good. ![]() and thanks for running the game anyway birdo, it sounds like it would've been great.
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Birdstrike posted:As this is the second game in a row I've tried to run which hasn't managed to get players while multiple games which started after mine filled up, it's kinda clear at this point that people don't want to join my games so I'm calling this off. ![]() Aww I wanted to be scumbros with Moat again
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what role would i have received
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Brirb.. no...
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Bifauxnen posted:
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well that's a shame
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# ? Feb 11, 2025 07:39 |
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thanks for the game birdman i had fun
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