To Web I'd like to say I don't see how flavor can get in the way of the game. Furthermore what's with this chillosity thing you keep mentioning? I've seen it before but... I don't quite get why you keep bringing it up. Is the "attack circle" really that bad? It doesn't seem like it to me honestly...
Having too much flavor can actually be a drain on your games. In doing so, you can hide certain points, draw people's focus away from the game or to useless details, or even get someone lynched! It can certainly confuse people, and you have to watch for that.
And I don't mean just you when I say we should remain chill. I mean everyone. While we're certainly not attacking each other, I also don't want it to be taken the wrong way. I understand your point, but not everyone might. That's why I poked fun at myself, because I am the epitome of flavorless. I can tell you that no flavor games run like a well-oiled machine. No one's confused about what happened. No one's trying to read into details. Everything is clear, concise, and to the point. But, I can also tell you that flavor can make a game twenty times better than it was.
I hope this explains it well.
Hmm... let me put it this way. I'm 23, pretty much an old woman at this point for purposes of a lot of this forum, and I'm so tired of fighting with people and rudeness in general. And I remember being younger, more of a teenager, and seeing no reason not to cultivate a combative atmosphere (kind of fun!).
I really wish we could just keep the fighting to the games and be polite, if jokey, outside of them. I'm not saying "no hard teasing" or whatever, I'm saying only that I'm really tired of people having grievances and cutting people down first, asking questions later.
Psh, come now, Vector. I think we're a lot better, don't you? I don't see Dariush being as mean as before, and that's actually really good. I'm also trying not to be as combative. Neither are you. I think we can stay pretty chill here, and if someone doesn't want to be chill, we can have a light discussion with them, tell them that we find their behavior to be detrimental to the Mafia Subboard, and ask them to politely refrain. If they refuse, then we'll deal with it then.
We all have our bad days and our stresses and we sometimes lash out at people. I know I did during the Great Temple, and I'm sorry I did. No one deserved any of it. Not Mephansteras. Not Tiruin. Heck, not even Dariush deserves to be lashed out at, when I did that to him. So, if I lash out at someone in the future, someone be kind enough to tell me. Because I'll be kind enough to tell you.
Now, we are all fucking chill.