God damn it you assholes. The game starts without me,
explodes into posts (which is good!), but then it's almost entirely worthless passive bullshit.
FIRST OF ALL, ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN HOW MAFIA IS PLAYEDYou ask questions in order to gain insight as to who is scum.
Ta-da! That's basically it. A lot of your are going through the motions without having any real idea of what you're doing, or skipping right to the "Vote scum, sit on ass" stage. Sometimes it seems like
ALL of you are stuck thinking about what's scummiest and not who's scum. There's a difference- I want to to ask yourselves, those suspicions? Are they because you get the feeling so-and-so is scum, or because some guide says such-and-such is a scumtell and so-and-so is doing it?
I also want you to ask whether you're pressing further to confirm/reconsider, or declaring a job well done, you've caught somebody doing X, and are now going to ride the bandwagon til the end of the day and be left with absolutely nothing when they get lynched.
Now, on to individually beating people with pieces of rebar. Pay attention, because this is relevant to everyone.
QUESTIONS AND YOU:Deadmeat1471, how do you plan to find the scums ?
freeformschooler, what is your favorite class ?
Meanmelter, which is better color, red or blue?
Now, I realize RVS is basically over anyway, but a lot of you seem to not understand what the point of it ever was. And if you don't understand what RVS is, it's likely you don't fully grasp the point of questions in general.
anzki4, I think you might be scum. So I'm going to ask you a question to look into that:
What's your favorite type of cake?Except, wait, that doesn't help me in the slightest. How are you going to answer in a useful manner? "Chocolate", well chocolate is an easy answer so he must be scum trying to slide by? "Lemon", yellow like the color of fear, so he must be cowardly scum? "Carrot", well carrots are healthy so he must be town?
No.
It's worthless. Complete garbage. Later on you say "well you never know," but you do. There's zero chance for this to result in useful data. And if you're asking this, you're either
not asking
useful questions, or you're bloating your posts with useless fluff. Imagine if my post had a poem or series of ~~~~~'s every so often. That's what you're doing by asking worthless questions.
Now let's look at a useful question instead:
anzki, who would you protect as a doctor?
And yes, there's a lot of ways he can answer without it really being useful. He might give an expected, stock answer like "the ICs," for instance, and if he's not a doctor it might not seem like a meaningful question. But whatever answer he gives will give me insight into how he's thinking, thereby allowing me to read him better- the mafia him, that is, not what movies he likes or whether he enjoys moonlit walks on the beach.
Furthermore, there's always the chance to ask him more questions- I could ask which IC, or how many nights in a row he'd protect an IC when it was obvious other people were being NKed instead. With cake, there is no followup- what else am I going to ask, whether he likes ice cream on it or not?
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More later, both in general instructive sense and the HELLO I SEE YOU ARE SCUM variety. This is a LOT to work through.