Um, hi. Confession time.
So, it turns out I may have been a little manic yesterday, due to an unforeseen drug interaction. And by may have, I mean was completely. And by a little, I mean a lot.
Apologies all around. It exacerbated my natural tendencies toward paranoia and strange behaviour.
makeinu
Yes, though it's not a solo effort, of course.
Would you please explain what you mean by this statement?
This question still stands.
Scum hunting is a team effort, even if the town doesn't know who's on their team. I thought that pretty obvious, thus the skip over on the answer. I hope that clarifies.
You have one person voting you. Why do you assume you are the one who is going to hang today?
Please, read the note above re: paranoia. Past games, acting as I have has generally ensured my D1 lynch or N1 kill.
Playing mafia on a different forum only requires knowledge of the forum-specific rules. The game itself plays the same.
This isn't quite true. Different forums also have different cultures, different scum-tells and different ways of scum hunting. Have you looked at the Mafia Theory thread and was there anything like that on your forum?
In depth, and no. I'm not sure that I agree that different forums have different scum-tells, but I'll accept the possibility that I'm mistaken.
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However that is an intersteting pint.
I like a pint now and then, but I have never heard of an intersteting one. </sarcasm>
Sorry, couldn't resist.
makeinu: You said if no one reacted, you would do nothing. That implies that you believed that if no reaction was produced then the information was useless. And as stated below, the game will not be played the same because of the different preset cultures and play styles. The styles evolved around the forum and so will be that much different as you've likely seen so far. For example, the massive use of acronyms. Do you believe you will get better at understanding the general playstyles here, or will you continue to play as you have elsewhere? Also, do you have a current suspect or someone your trying to pursue?
No reaction can be informative, in that it is itself a reaction, so I wouldn't say useless. It's, again, about establishing a baseline. In 20/20 hindsight, subtlety could have worked just as well. And, yes, I'll adapt to the style here, though that will likely only serve to temper, not utterly change, my own style. I yam whats I yam, after all.
And, at the moment, no suspect. Just some intuitiony brainitches.
Those are not real words, merely wordish. Sort of.
makeinu:
...That, is not a good answer. If no one reacted in anyway to it, you should have pushed about it. Asking why the questioner didn't respond to it would be a good start to get some pressure up.
If no one reacted to it, then that tells something.
Explain what you would get from no one reacting to it, what a complete lack of reaction would mean to you. I'm trying to understand how you think and specifically what your motivations are. I know what you've said about that - what I am trying to understand is how your behavior and choices support or fail to support your claim.
I don't know that I entirely
buy the whole right-brain/left-brain dichotomy thing whatever, but starting from that, I tend to play more a right-brain game. I have to have reactions to things to understand people. So, I give them something to react to. Thus, no reaction is, itself, a tell; it means that person is not easily rattled. Given that, if, later, I say something that
does rattle them, then either I've just caught them at a bad moment (it happens), or I've struck a nerve.
Further assume that overnight, I come up with strong evidence of another player's scum role. Having now made baseless accusations, I can compare and contrast the reaction to that against a factual accusation.
This statement looks glaringly wrong to me. You are saying that you made 'baseless' accusations in order to possibly compare reactions to 'factual' accusations?
For one thing, only one player knows if any claim that's made is 'fact' or not - and that's the player that claimed it.
True, but even that is not necessarily a guaranteed thing. Sometimes, what we "know" to be true is deliberately false, due to whatever factors, paranoid investigations, power redirects, stuff like that. Not saying those exist in this game, but my inclination is to assume the craziest and work against that.
I'm going to ask again - are you trying to get yourself lynched?
No.