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[webadict]

I really liked the story, although Vector-accent confused me.

Is Vector. Is only yoke, see?

I suppose I should clarify that I was confused about how it got there, not what it was.

Even though I'm like two weeks late.

Mostly because she seems to enjoy languages, and those two seemed to happen more often. Plus, they have a bit of a special ops vibe to them, so might as well have her be one.

[TheBiggerFish]

True that.

[Tiruin]

Plus, they have a bit of a special ops vibe to them, so might as well have her be one.

My thoughts exactly <_<
(It's not like I'm profiling everyone's characteristics for RPG character use and stuff whenever games I play give that opportunity...)

[TolyK]

I'd be curious what you'd profile me as.
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[TheBiggerFish]

I'm curious what you'd profile me as.

[origamiscienceguy]

I'd be curious what you'd profile me as.
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You gotta fix your avatar.

[Jack A T]

I'm curious what you'd profile me as.

Question for everyone: What things outside of Mafia have most strongly influenced the way you play/look at Mafia?

For me, the most significant is the book How to Look Good in a War, largely about the complexities of the relationship between transparency and secrecy.  I was already looking at Mafia as centred around transparency and secrecy, so such a book was likely to have an impact.  Main (but not only) result: my current approach of often looking specifically at what players choose not to say/do.  That is, I now look specifically at what players choose not to reveal in addition to the material they reveal.

[TolyK]

I think the single biggest influence on my mafia play was a course and book on formal logic. I generally play with the mechanics in mind even more than the psychology, though that might be biased by the fact I play/love role-heavy games. :p

[Shakerag]

Question for everyone: What things outside of Mafia have most strongly influenced the way you play/look at Mafia?

The Catholic church.  Think about it.


In orther news.  I have discovered this thing called Midori.  That has pretty much sealed the deal on me never not being an alcoholic.  It's so fantastic.

In toether other news:  Being an adult still sucks.  Being a homeowning adult sucks harder.  Enjoy your youth, kids.

[webadict]

I'm curious what you'd profile me as.

Question for everyone: What things outside of Mafia have most strongly influenced the way you play/look at Mafia?

For me, the most significant is the book How to Look Good in a War, largely about the complexities of the relationship between transparency and secrecy.  I was already looking at Mafia as centred around transparency and secrecy, so such a book was likely to have an impact.  Main (but not only) result: my current approach of often looking specifically at what players choose not to say/do.  That is, I now look specifically at what players choose not to reveal in addition to the material they reveal.

I almost died.

Made me not be so mad and angry all the time. You know, after that initial mad and angry phase.

[TolyK]

I'm sure at least a good portion of you have read Catch-22, right? Similar premise, though it's fiction.
A People's History of the United States? (I haven't finished this one, actually...)

[Tiruin]

I'm curious what you'd profile me as.

Question for everyone: What things outside of Mafia have most strongly influenced the way you play/look at Mafia?

My memory.

Bluntly explained as 'I have a very, very distinct and unique feeling on remembering how conscience and existance was before being born', so it affects how I relate to other people and stuff. :O

But dear goodness I remember my first regular game as a newbie. <____< Broke into a cold sweat because Jim Groovester and many others were gonna lynch me D1 (although he was being very kindly and lenient, he was lynching me because I was a [badly playing Town] newwwwb that really didn't go as towny as I hoped to be).

[BlackHeartKabal]

I'm curious what you'd profile me as.

Question for everyone: What things outside of Mafia have most strongly influenced the way you play/look at Mafia?

For me, the most significant is the book How to Look Good in a War, largely about the complexities of the relationship between transparency and secrecy.  I was already looking at Mafia as centred around transparency and secrecy, so such a book was likely to have an impact.  Main (but not only) result: my current approach of often looking specifically at what players choose not to say/do.  That is, I now look specifically at what players choose not to reveal in addition to the material they reveal.

You know how when you pretend to be something else, and forget what you actually are, that your pretending is so good? And then have the sudden epithany of "WTF am I doing?" Yeah. Because of that, I think that day phase questioning becomes less effective as the game goes on, since mafia and thirds will have lied so much about being town that they might forget that they're mafia, or disconnect from the role. Which makes me more reliant on mechanical actions and night phase activity to win.

[flabort]

Question for everyone: What things outside of Mafia have most strongly influenced the way you play/look at Mafia?

Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney series
Aspergers Syndrome (Although doctors have perplexingly renamed it to Autism Spectrum Disorder; I'd honestly rather have a Syndrome than a Disorder, thanks! Disorder implies it's purely negative.)
Whatever popular media I have been watching or following recently
Living with my parents and having to defend my decision each and every time I'd rather stay home then go to one of my dad's music concerts (he plays trumpet)
Being a math nerd, Spreadsheets
Plot Twists in books and stuff

These are not necessarily in order.

[Shakerag]

Aspergers Syndrome (Although doctors have perplexingly renamed it to Autism Spectrum Disorder; I'd honestly rather have a Syndrome than a Disorder, thanks! Disorder implies it's purely negative.)

Let me introduce you to my friend Thomas Szasz.