Yup, a rehearsal. I mean, I was in favor of it, but after looking back at the text, there is no real indicator that you are town. You defend your actions, sure, but you never seemed to defend your townhood.
"I played a lot and seen a lot of playstyles. That's what I base my observations on. You may not like them, but they aren't different then any other game and they aren't scummy."
Okay, I don't doubt you. That doesn't hide from the fact that you tried to put up a shield to Werekill's criticism. While you may have been in the right, you over-compensated to seem suspicious on the opposite end, which is seemingly putting up a ploy of your game.
After how poorly I played my first game here, a game in which I only tried to survive as long as possible for personal benefit, I wanted to learn more mafia strategies. I did a bunch of research on the topic to see what good townies would do and what good mafioso would do, but then I realized that you could simply NOT follow the strategy and be just as fair off. So I do hear where you are coming from with those regards because I am inexperienced with forum mafia, which is a whole new ballgame compared to casual, party mafia. After hearing you talk about a meta, though, got me really curious to go back and read if there was one. I was all the more confused to find that the "meta is always changing when more people find out about it". Then I realized; there can't be a meta if everybody knows it and tries to avoid it. This was the silliest part about a mafia meta. Sure, meta's change over time as people adapt to it, and the same exact thing happens with the mafia meta. Reverse reverse reverse reverse psychology.
My point is that people aren't that predictable. I don't know how to play any game besides the one I always have been playing. Every time I play mafia, I try to play the same way regardless of my role. Whether that's dumb or not doesn't really matter, but my mindset for playing mafia does not change my posts, only my wincon. We are more complicated then a meta, which is why I refuse to acknowledge any mafia meta as valid if we can simply NOT go with it. Unless the meta is to "not do the meta," which I would respond with "touché", despite the previous statement being a paradox.
Rough. Passive aggressiveness just got me...
"Look at me fellow townsfolk, I follow the town meta!"
Sorry, just a bit angered at previous bit. My point is that it seems like you are merely going through the motions of town, if that makes any sense, and then you proceed to get angry when people raise concerns about your playing with precise reasons for literally everything you've done. Like I said, I didn't mind it at first, but when you started getting into the technicalities of the game to justify "that's just what town does", or scum reads as "i've seen a lot of mafia, and this is what mafia do", then you are telling everybody that you are keeping a very close watch on what you yourself are doing to act town. Whether you are or aren't, you seem suspicious by your hyper-awareness of the innerworkings of mafia and how people have acted in past games.
This is a really complex topic and I guess it all just boils down to gut(?), but that is where my head is at. Defending yourself isn't wrong, but following up with trying to scumread based on what has happened in the past, regardless of whether it holds for this game, makes it seem like you are doing your best to appear town when that may or may not be the case. Sometimes you have to go in with a blank slate.
Once again, somebody tell me if I'm going insane on this one.
Shiny hasn't been playing too great of a game, I'll agree, but I don't think that voting for them is the correct move at this point in the game. They have yet to act scummy in my book despite not really being into the game, and I can only see a player who's trying to get back into playing the game, after neglecting to look through it for a while. Give me time on that case.
Yeah but we aren't looking at different games. We're looking at this game only. Base your thoughts on past games all you want, but you're trying to analyze 13 poker faces from behind screens, and you can't exactly dictate actions based on past results. It's a good place to start, sure, but nothing is set in stone, and we can't predict the future.
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, sorry if I'm wrong about you. I probably think you're mafia because I don't want to think of myself as an unidentifiable, generic person in the face of the algorith known as the mafia meta. Seeing that my whole gameplay boils down to a predetermined mindset is too complicated for me to successfully swallow.
