Therefore, you are a not a good player.
I never said I was a good player. I've played lots of Mafia games before, but never online. They went about like this:
Power roles include stuff like Cupid, Terrorist and Gas Station Owner, because they sound funny and because most players want the game to finish fast.
Conversation during the day is often hopeless circular logic, people argumenting with WIFOM (and their arguments being generally accepted), personal rivalries from previous games and RL, threatening to vote for others if they don't buy the next round of drinks, and telling the dead to shut up.
And in the end, a player gets lynched because his right neighbor is the loudest one to claim that he heard something to the left of him when the Mafia was awake last night. And they're generally correct.
So I'm theoretically an absolute beginner.
Remember when I had that plan? I took the concept of Mafia, assumed everyone plays to win, and applied a good dose of game theory to it.
My plan was a direct consequence of the theory of Mafia. Turns out that Mafia does not work well with theory (IC: What's the difference between theory and practical Mafia and why the hell?), and that swearing is a generally more accepted way of playing to win. I learned something new and unexpected, which is why I signed up in the BM in the first place. Next thing I know, swearing is generally not considered good behaviour at all, unless your name starts with D and ends with ariush. I'm beginning to get the feeling that common sense is getting punched in the face. Mafia is awesome.
Now normally I learn something by looking at it and applying common sense. But because common sense is so rare around here, I'm gonna have to learn by my next best learning method: trial and error. Obviously, trial and error is not very compatible with playing to win, but if I want to play to win, I have to know how to play to win.
If I didn't listen to an IC, it's because I assume I can't trust them if they aren't talking in their
IC voice. Dariush specifically is behaving very oddly towards me, and I couldn't tell if he was telling me that my plan is crap because he genuinely thinks that it's crap or because he just wanted to foil my plan (IC: Was the plan really absolute crap? If yes, then what exactly is wrong with it?).
Oh, and by the way: If you think I look like somebody who's found a pile of shit in their pants and is going around sticking it up everyone's nose and telling them to enjoy it, dismissing their claims that it's shit with a "But I made it myself, it can't be shit" attitude, then I've got the correct idea of what you think I look like.