@John: But... I'm not passing it off as
just that. I'm saying that with a performance that is objectively and plainly not MVP being awarded as much, in your first non-Newbie game modding, and it just so happens to be to your friend who, while a good half a league or so above the rest of his faction, was directly outplayed by the scum (and actual) MVP, didn't make the right things happen, and directly lost the game...
I think at that point it becomes almost unquestionable that bias plays a role. If it hasn't, then it's the biggest gorfdamn coincidence I've seen in mafia for quite some time. Maybe it is as much, but everything points against it.
You say MVP isn't
just the outcome, but I'm not denying that. However, in your decision you directly
ignored the outcome. Honestly, with where I was at in the game when I joined this debate in the first place, I was expecting Riddle to be dead before long, RR to have been a direct cause of that, and RR to have been leaning Bardull > BSP and eat the NK going into lylo. And even then I just didn't think it was good enough.
But the outcome speaks volumes here, man. RR was the only townie on the game-losing mislynch. I just really can't imagine that that's going to be a game where he looks at his dice and feels happy about how things went. Compare that to Xonar or Glyph, where the former can lose traction in his argumentation or the latter can slip hopelessly into laziness, but both have those red dice that they earned the gorfdamn **** out of. Or Tuna, an old school only player from the Eor/ligolski/early frozenflame/THE GUT days whose only dice come from the game where he drew nurse as a relative newbie and proceeded to make the right saves after the doc died, with the town in dire straits, over and over and lead town to good lynches by Day.
That's what I want dice to represent to all of us. It's not about egotistical self-satisfaction or a sense of being part of an elite or any of that ****, it's about having a physical (well it's digital but shut up you get me) trophy that you can look at and will conjure up good memories of a time that you did something you enjoy and you did it well. Well like a girl orders her steak. I want it to mean something to the person that got it. Other people admiring each other's bling ain't **** to me and was never a factor for me when I helped kickstart the system in the first place.
No, the outcome isn't the be-all, but it's the thing you should look at first, and sometimes there's an obvious red flag waving right in your face. Relinquishing the game in a lylo QL on a townie before said townie even posts is one of them. And it still would have been even if the Day had been given a proper length and a proper consideration but faced the same outcome.
That's about the last monetary value I can wring out of my 0.02, I think. I know RR already declined your award, but I want you to see this and consider it because you'll be around DGames for the long term and, thus, will host future games. Making the wrong call in m/lylo should
always be a disqualifier for MVP. It's the most precise, quantifiable point where such a thing can be tested and measured.
Red Ruy said:
I made a stupid hasty decision off the wrong ideas about what the set-up was.
That's a feel of which I am aware. Hit me up sometime on AIM or PM or whatever if you want, because I have a rather perfect example of the same and I still kick my own *** about it all the time. But, I also learned valuable lessons from it. I could also offer some advice on general issues that came up in Puzzle Bobble as they relate to my earlier critique of your play if you're interested.
Just throwin' it out there.
