hugh_donnetono
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No prob, that guy seems pretty sus
I mean, is there anything wrong with an occasional wild-ass take? better utter nonsense than nothing at least (so long as it's fun nonsense
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hugh_donnetono
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Hm, do we want to go off lore and try and figure out what kinds of powers might come from there? or do we all want to avoid that like the plague after prospagnosia
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- She/Her
Hm, do we want to go off lore and try and figure out what kinds of powers might come from there? or do we all want to avoid that like the plague after prospagnosia
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B is Prospagnosia, yes.
And C is just that if this is lower power madness anyway I'm not sure how useful speculation about the setup is really?
hugh_donnetono
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Fair enough, I don't know the lore at all anyway
I mean, is there anything wrong with an occasional wild-ass take? better utter nonsense than nothing at least (so long as it's fun nonsense
There are productive hot takes and unproductive hot takes. Both are entertaining but productive ones are still strictly better.
hugh_donnetono
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well here's a hot take for ya, you tell me if it's productive or not:
[x] Vote Boohoo the 3rd
Putting the sixth consecutive vote on someone an hour into day 1 when hammer is eight votes is already pretty bad; doing so half an hour after someone had explicitly pointed it out is worse. It is also, however, extremely funny.
I think I know boohoo decently well, and I can totally see this just being her going along with a gag for funnies without thinking about it, but I can also totally see this being scum!her trying to rush things into a town elim before anyone notices. @Boohoo the 3rd any thoughts?
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- Female
I honestly just voted because I genuinely have no idea what I am doing lol
hugh_donnetono
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- Caught Out In The Rain
hugh_donnetono
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@Boohoo the 3rd While you're here, any thoughts on the general game so far? Don't worry about being super detailed or useful or "right", I just want general impressions.
hugh_donnetono
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Hm, just realized - hey, esteemed dm, it might be better to sort these as Informational threadmarks rather than standard threadmarks? so they don't clog things up when you want to just go through day/night start posts
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Well I found the general thread a few months back, read the rules, found them interesting and checked a few ion the past mafia game threads in the index. Also saw a few YouTubers play Mafia. That basically sums up my experience with this game.
Also not sure who to vote for, I voted for Shalom because he started the chain basically, which I find Sus, but not sure anymore if its a good idea to vote someone.
Whats the general idea/agreement with voting someone on turn 1? On one hand, low chances of actually catching a mafia without any info, on the other hand, actually getting on suspects removal basically no?
hugh_donnetono
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Essentially, in my experience the d1 chance of actually getting a maf on the yeet is not really appreciably above shooting randomly unless maf misplays pretty seriously, so actually getting maf immediately is not usually the primary goal today imo. Instead, we spend the day feeling the other players out, asking around and poking people, and generate interesting and potentially revealing content that can be reexamined later when new evidence arrives. Then at the end of the day, we vote out someone who seems sus enough and who has formed connections with other players through day play that may reveal things about those other players regardless of if the d1 yeet is town or scum. Does that make sense?
In practical terms: derp around, poke people, vote someone if you want to get them talking, unvote them when you think they've said enough for now, actually yeet someone whose death you think will give interesting info.
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- Female
I quite frankly have no idea whatsoever what is even happening lol
hugh_donnetono
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- Caught Out In The Rain
Any questions you'd like to ask me, in that case? I'm pretty experienced with these, I may be able to clear things up.
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- He/Him
Don't worry Boohoo I feel the same way. Its the first turn anyway, so not much to go on it seems.
Got it, thanks for the explanation.
hugh_donnetono
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- Caught Out In The Rain
Today is the day we create the things we'll go on tomorrow.
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- She/Her
The more that happens today in terms of actual pushes, the more people build patterns of evidence to use in the future. That is, the goal of D1 is (usually) about creating data and evidence.
It doesn't, imo, matter super much if you actually vote someone that much, but predeciding to stick with inaction means that you can write off anything you do do or just justify doing nothing or being a distraction, which is the antithesis of the goal.
Most anything today that happens, save, like, super obvious issues, putting the seventh vote on -Rosen and tagging someone else with "@NAME, HURRY" is pretty forgivable now, but, if, for example, someone claims to read that stacking as scummy now and then suddenly flips and calls it towny when another player that's voted similarly to them is on the chopping block...
You want, in a sense, to perform being a confused detective with no leads and no firm allies, especially if you actually have a power that gives you leads, especially especially if you're actually scum.
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InterstellarHobo
Cosmic Vagrant
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- No Fixed Planetary System
Fixed, thank you
Replacement #2
Effective Immediately @Cyricubed replaces @Legend of Ruina .
Do not discuss the circumstances of the replacement, this is grounds for a warning and if needed immediate removal from the game.
Do not discuss the circumstances of the replacement, this is grounds for a warning and if needed immediate removal from the game.
hugh_donnetono
No use to complain
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- Caught Out In The Rain
Speaking of this, any particular reason why you're still on that wagon?
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- She/Her
Speaking of this, any particular reason why you're still on that wagon?
Clearly, if 6 people thought -Rosen was sus, there must be something there! Where there's smoke there's fire.
More seriously, there's no danger of a hammer. TBH, I didn't actually read the rules properly to realize hammer was a thing. By the time I noticed, the vote was down to what it is now, so, well, no real issue not changing and no clear suspicions yet. I can null, and with hammer that's not a bad idea entirely if getting a sane vote is the goal, but I don't think that last part is necessarily good.
That said, tbh, if someone did push hammer D1 to kill a vet in the first hour of posting, after the rules were clarified, it would probably lead to a very early town win imo. From that perspective, once it's clearly pointed out in thread, I think there's relatively little reason to change. Flirting with disaster strikes me as quite potentially productive in a way memes aren't.