A question for you: I've certainly had it impressed upon me on my time in Beginner's games that analyzing NKs is unproductive. By your first post D2 here, you seem to think otherwise. Why?
The answer is in the question. You have had it impressed upon you in Beginner's games. You have been to Mafia school, and you have been told: this is how the game works. WIFOM is evil, non-conformity is scummy, and analyzing NKs is unproductive.
I never played Beginner's games. I started playing Mafia back before there was even a subforum for it, if I recall correctly. I learnt on the go, as it were. Sure, it sucked sometimes- god damn, if you read over an old game, there are obvscum all over the place. But we learnt. Terms were picked up from that one wiki place, and brought into circulation. We learnt about common scumtells, about how to play as both town and scum. And slowly but surely, there formed a respectable, knowledgeable, capable mafia community.
And then. And then. I noticed it quite early. RVS was used too much, and for too long. But no biggy, right? Right. And then. OMGUS, bandwagon, WIFOM- these terms changed from being shorthand for scummy things far more complex to scummy things in their own right. And then. I stopped playing for a year, I come back, what do I find?
A sub-forum full of conformists. Students of the New School. If you don't conform to the standards of mafia, as taught in Beginners, you are not just wrong, you are, in fact, scum.
I made a big deal of protesting this. I still do. I proudly adhere to- an admittedly idealized version of- the Old School. From back in the day, when no one knew what was right or wrong, but had to
think all the time.
So, when you say 'Beginners has taught me this' as if that somehow makes it true, it sets my blood BOILING.
Shakerag, I have a question. Why did you end the day with an RVS vote still in place?
I wasn't satisfied with the responses I had been given so far, I was waiting for Pandarsenic to respond to my last post directed at him, and because I was wanting to get more content from him in general. He's been a little scarce this game, unlike what he was stating in response to Jim early D1.
And when he failed to respond, you saw no need to draw attention to this? Point out to others that he was lurking, maybe try to pressure him into responding?
See, it looks like you were content to just let the whole OB thing play out, whilst you sat back on the excuse that 'Pandar hasn't answered my questions yet'.