Aspiring Rapper's MAFIA- Game Thread

Hey, I've actually read three hundred-odd of the 700 posts here, mister. No content in any of them, nothing else to go on due to the extended Day phase, I'm not reading the other half.

Yep, I was away this weekend And man, we have a lot of posts already! Based on a very cursory scan, I'll vote Zack.

Askthepizzaguy said:

Hoo boy

Folks, this site doesn't usually have this level of activity and many players are not used to the pace and can't keep up. I don't want to tell folks how to play, but I also don't want a wave of players subbing out either.

Mercy.

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I'll keep it down. I'm going back to uni anyway, so my posting level will drop down significantly.

I'm just going to come right out and say it:

700 posts of mindless drivel is not fun to read.

Granted, there's about 10% of useful tidbits going on in here. Some reads, whether they're good or not, and some actual real discussion. You know, the viable stuff that makes mafia mafia. The rest is absolutely unnecessary and has already sapped my will to even play this game. Expecting me, or anyone for that matter to go back later and sift through the rubbish at a later date because this stuff is quote 'helpful' is not my personal idea of having fun with these games. That sounds tedious as anything. There's still over two and a half days remaining until we get any concrete info (ie, a player's alignment) and yet I sense we're going to keep the verbal diarrhea going.

There's some saying not posting lets the scum blend in. That's true, I'll be the absolute first person say I've used that as a viable tactic because no discussion makes it an easier game to play as scum. But this is just as bad. How do you find the content? How do you form any sort of cohesive long-term thought when everything is changing literally by the half-hour? Naturally if I'm scum and don't want to stand out, I can just as easily make a handful of posts and disappear into the sea of nonsense. Maybe someone will call me on it, maybe not, but regardless it's not hard to hide when there's so much ancillary noise.

I was skim reading as best I could today, and somehow I ended up on a few suspect lists for one post. Now is that the meta on your other sites, ie, lynch the guys who don't post a zillion times, or was there something legitimately tangible someone, anyone would like to expand on? No I'm not going back to find who said it. It's day one, I don't even care. But that's exactly my point - things like that get buried so easily that's it's rather simple to forget it even happened.

But I'll play along and elaborate on why I voted edse. Anyone who knows me knows I hate distractions. They do nothing for the town, and the joking posts between Visor, Newyn, and whoever else early on accomplished zilch. Nada. So why post it? Now I know how Visor plays and it's not out of character for him to do the joking thing. I get it. But when others start piling on (edse in this case), it takes the conversation further from where it needs to be. Edse's vote is a throwaway. Everyone and their cousin knows that. So again, why vote there? It doesn't help, it doesn't add anything, and ultimately continues the farce of actual communication. So I went ahead and called him on it, hoping he'd elaborate and at least admit as such. Nope. Buried and gone. Forgotten under a sea of posts.

Noticing a trend here?

Another thing, can we please dispense with the meta game arguments, especially from other sites. I don't play there, and nor do I want to read three other game's worth of posts just so an argument can be made on how a player plays when (s)he's town or scum. Guess what? I can't be bothered to keep up here. You think I want to read them too? It's also difficult to treat such arguments with any more than a grain of salt, especially when I don't know your specific motivation for making said argument. Anything can be spun a particular way to suit an argument, and for crying out loud it's day one. We're really going there already?

I'm sorry if this post comes across as overly harsh and critical of a playstyle I cannot wrap my head around. It isn't meant to be and I'm truly glad we have some new blood to keep the games going. It's just incredibly difficult to come back to a game on my home site I don't even recognize and be expected to contribute at any sort of level, let alone a high one as I hold myself to.

Lastly, I've made this whole thing one post. A bunch of you will take the time to read through all of it. I thank you. I only ask that an attempt is made to consolidate your thoughts in the future in such a way to make the game more enjoyable for myself and anyone else who is getting overwhelmed at the amount of content being thrown at them.

((This also isn't a post to try and convince you play differently, or the start of a dialogue that results in a debate of mafia tactics. Clearly, there will be a ton disagreement and push-back from what I've said. That's for another thread. I do not want to discuss mafia strategy here, as it will detract from the game's purpose of finding the bad guys before they kill us all. So I also ask that we do not engage in a debate.))

5 glossy
4 visor
4 cuthilius
others misc.

Cuth and Jarrema moved off visor and onto glossy which was just the next highest. Jarrema is tougher to read as he has been voting visor day 1 most frequently.

before we JUMP and lynch arakhor for behaving exactly like he did in none shall pass 3 where he refused to make a deciding vote (or any vote) in day 1 as a scum, he was presumably having to stay on the down low as a 2-man scum team in a multifaction game, let us also remember that many of these votes are old votes and some of ya'll need to make committed votes. Like cass_ or glossy (voted early on, never changed AS FAR AS I CAN TELL) or sooh

I cannot vouch for this accuracy, i may be mistaken

Askthepizzaguy said:

Visorslash said:

Tally:

7 Visor (Cuth, Newyn, KingMorgan, GlossySushi, landlubber, Jarrema, Al Sips)
3 Glossy (Visor, Takhisis, Pouter)
2 Lassie (Lohrens, Cass)
2 Edse (Backwards, choxorn)
2 Arakhor (Kennigit, Xym)
1 Murska (Lassie)
1 Zack (edse)
1 Choxorn (Murska)

Probably mistakes in there somewhere.

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^Tally is correct.

Spoiler :

al sipsclar votes Visorslash
arakhor votes
autolycus votes
backwards logic votes edse
bsmith votes
cass_ votes Lassie
choxorn votes edse
cuthilius votes Visorslash
edse votes Zack
glossysushi votes Visorslash
golden1knight votes
jarrema votes Visorslash
kennigit votes arakhor
kingmorgan votes Visorslash
landlubber votes Visorslash
lassie votes Murska
legato endless votes
lohrenswald votes Lassie
mat93 votes
murska votes choxorn
newyn votes Visorslash
pouter pigeon votes Glossysushi
sooh votes
takhisis votes Glossysushi
visorslash votes Glossysushi
xym votes Arakhor
zack votes

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Arakhor said:

Good lord, Legato. Have you really only been here for a year? It seems much longer!

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Why thank you. I think?

Takhisis said:

It is indecent that he's accrued such a low postcount in so long a time.

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Quality over quantity Tak.

Backwards Logic said:

Another thing, can we please dispense with the meta game arguments, especially from other sites. I don't play there, and nor do I want to read three other game's worth of posts just so an argument can be made on how a player plays when (s)he's town or scum.

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Ah, apologies.

I would also prefer a general change to at least multi quoting, and perhaps dialing the activity back a bit. We're rapidly heading to a burn out situation where half the native player base will essentially check out of the game. At least, that's what happened in the Toy Story game on the Playground. And the activity divergence wasn't this extreme.

Although to disagree slightly with Backwards, I kind of liked the first 6-7 pages of general humor. We've got a lot of people, and after a relative dead zone on Civ it's nice getting the community back together. If that means Day 1 gets botched due to socialization, that wouldn't be the end of the world to me unless the trend actively continued.

*stupid stupid sheep theme game*

On a more content related note, I'd be willing to switch to Jarema for looking vaguely opportunistic, as well as for some meta reasons, though I'm a bit vexed on commenting there after my apology.

Glossysushi said:

I'll keep it down. I'm going back to uni anyway, so my posting level will drop down significantly.

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We can just lynch you to make sure. Also, for metagamers out there, people announcing their future absences are always scum.

Backwards Logic said:

I'm just going to come right out and say it:

700 posts of mindless drivel is not fun to read.

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That's why I ain't readin' none of that, mang.

Legato Endless said:

Quality over quantity Tak.

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¿Por qué no los dos?

Legato_Endless said:

I would also prefer a general change to at least multi quoting, and perhaps dialing the activity back a bit. We're rapidly heading to a burn out situation where half the native player base will essentially check out of the game. At least, that's what happened in the Toy Story game on the Playground. And the activity divergence wasn't this extreme.

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I've already asked, dawg. They ain't listenin'.

Legato Endless said:

On a more content related note, I'd be willing to switch to Jarema for looking vaguely opportunistic, as well as for some meta reasons, though I'm a bit vexed on commenting there after my apology.

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We don't have that many Eastern European players to start dropping them off that slightly.

(i.e. if you vote for Jarrema on meta then I'll discourage you on meta)

Takhsis, just quit. I do that as both alignments. Don't make assumptions for me. [emoji14]

Arakhor said:

As an addendum, if you're generating more ham than Brian Blessed and Jeremy Irons in a butcher's shop, then you're either ATPG or you're doing it wrong.

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GS, I'm going to be frank here.

I am extremely blunt when it comes to these games. Most people I've played with here can attest to that. I am very much no nonsense a lot of the time.

I don't exactly make a lot of friends.

But I also try not to treat people the way you seem to be doing. Nobody wants to talk to you, because you just give off a ridiculously snappy vibe. I think you're town, you've attempted to make zero friends.

But I'm not going to defend you much from the lynch, because the way you're currently acting is making it hard for people to focus.

Please, just trim your posts down, and cut the crap.

There is no need for your attitude and some of the things you've said thus far. I get your playstyle and how you think and play and all the rest of it, but you really need to tone it down. This isn't MU or POG. Or even PerC.

That said, my activity level will also drop a bit, to help make things mangageable for you guys.

My reads are basically as stated, KM/Jarrema/Legato are all moving in the town direction.

I'm willing to give Cuth another day.

Unvote; Vote: Al Sips I am not.

Glossysushi said:

Takhsis, just quit. I do that as both alignments. Don't make assumptions for me. [emoji14]

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You's just not roleplayin' at all! That ain't good. I'm not in the mood. You're so rude. Better touch wood.

Dear fellow players,
I did some thinking. And then some. I'm sorry if I made it not fun to play this game. I really didn't intend to do so.

I actually wanted to make a good impression, so I decided to come out guns blazing, and ready to win this game. Yeah, I wasn't focused on making friends, because I usually make them outside of the game. Inside, it's no holds barred, no hard feelings afterwards. Well, maybe a bit of ribbing.

Anyway, I thought that playing a strong game would be the best I could do for the rest of the players, so I have been very nitpicky and even hostile. I was not cognizant of site culture that now seems to indicate a general friendliness and camaraderie within the thread, even after being told about some aspects of site culture, and was also pretty unaware that people were avoiding me because of this.

I'm sorry for being rude and patronizing. I'll tone it down and my amount of posting, because both probably have been overwhelming. Also, quite distracting. You have bigger fish to catch. I'll not get in the way. (Had to put a fish pun in there, sorry [emoji14])

Yo, man, don't be takin' it like that. It's simply that you're pickin' them nits when we was all purposefully playin' sillybuggers as we do every single game on Day One. Know what I'm sayin'?

fwiw I thought you were fine

Cass_ said:

*snip*

I get you on Glossysushi. And the re-read. This is nothing like the game was 'going' to be.
What do you mean by the bold/What were you leaning on me for? A read that Lassie was seeming scum or the fact that he wasn't who he looked to be?
*snip*

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Both really. I assumed you'd be better at figuring out if it was Alette and had it been you would have been better than me at reading her probably since you know her play better.

Lassie said:

Can you please quote those early posts that you felt was pingy? or just mention them, if you remember them on top of your head.
I'm not too impressed with your scum reads, for obvious reasons.

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Remember that I'm only up to post 200 too. Reads are subject to change this early on in the game.

I'll quote the posts once my reread is done. If I forget to do so, remind me please.

Takhisis said:

We don't have that many Eastern European players to start dropping them off that slightly.

(i.e. if you vote for Jarrema on meta then I'll discourage you on meta)

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I am not Eastern European

Don't be silly, Poland is clearly in Eastern Europe.

choxorn said:

Don't be silly, Poland is clearly in Eastern Europe.

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POLAND IS IN CANADA