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Games Played

Game Start Date End Date Mod Role Start Status End Status Game Result Comments
Newbie 1306 November 30, 2012 December 30, 2012 DeasVail VT Replaced in, Day 1
Predecessor had 0 posts
Alive Town Win Had a lot of fun on Day 1, but one scum selfhammered at the end of Day 1, and the other at the start of Day 2, so it was a pretty disappointing game all told. Voted 3 times in total, the first 2 vs. scum.
Newbie 1314 December 31, 2012 March 15, 2013 Jackal711 Town Doctor Replaced in, Pregame Shot, Night 1 Scum Win Tried to direct the NK on D1 so I'd know who to protect, then realised that was an incredibly stupid thing to do. Nobody picked up on what I did there and the scum NK'd me because I was too obvTown
Newbie 1305 January 28, 2013 February 4, 2013 Jackal711 Mafia RoleCop Replaced in, Day 2 Lynched, Day 3 Town Win First time as scum. Fucked it up pretty hard. Took some bad risks, but I think they were justified. I enjoyed losing this game more than I enjoyed winning in Newbie 1306. Had lots of good opportunities to quote Shakespeare.
Newbie 1344 March 5, 2013 March 30, 2013 Ser Arthur Dayne VT Original player Shot, Night 1 Town Win This is the first win I'm actually counting, and I wasn't right about anything once at any point in the game.
Newbie 1352 March 26, 2013 April 26, 2013 UberNinja Mafia Goon Original player Lynched, D2 Town Win I shouldn't have voted for Cybertronix.
Newbie 1375 May 15, 2013 July 22, 2013 Nobody Special Cop Original player Shot, D3 Scum win Oh how I hate getting town PRs. The finale was a real nailbiter, though.
Newbie 1377 May 19, 2013 August 2, 2013 Voidedmafia VT Replaced in, D2 Lynched, D2 Scum Win Not my finest hour; First I made a giant throbbing mentulus out of myself by jumping in all casual-like with a by-the-book'er mod, and then I got myself mislynched for the first time in 8 months by being indecisive. I suppose I could have played worse, if I'd claimed scum and then posted nothing but all-caps racial slurs and porno, but I'm really not happy with how this game turned out.
Micro 129 February 15, 2013 March 1, 2013 DeasVail Town 2-Shot Rolecop Original Player Shot, Night 1 Scum Win So confusing.  Couldn't follow anyone's reasoning D1, and the town quickhammered my only strong townread.  The director was fucking hilarious though.
Micro 126 February 9, 2013 March 29, 2013 RachMarie VT Original Player Shot, Night 2 Scum Win GODDAMMIT I COULD HAVE HAD THIS ONE. All I had to do D1 was not unvote and Nacho would have got the plurality lynch.
Micro 206 February 9, 2013 September 2, 2013 JasonWazza Global Watcher Original Player Survived to Endgame Town win A lot of luck involved in this one -- I watched the same night scum killed for the first time, and only one person visited the dead player. Town really came through for me by visiting their scumreads
Mini 1432 March 12, 2013 July 1, 2013 guille2015 Mafia Goon Original player Lynched, D3 Town Win ITT I learn not to listen to my gut. I had a strong intuitive feel that D3 was time to bus, so I told my partner to bus me. In retrospect, I think scum should never bus in this setup due to the high probability of being unable to NK for lack of an item.
Mini 1440 April 5, 2013 June 16, 2013 Phenenas Mafia Rolecop Replaced in, D2 Lynched, Day 6 Town Win Got busted hard; Klick wins 1,000 Magnificent Bastard points.
Mini 1451 May 11, 2013 June 19, 2013 Cephrir 1-shot Dreamwalker Original player Endgamed, N5/D6 Scum win I wasn't just shit in this game, I was Ultimate Shit. Literally everything I did worked in the scum's favour. Nothing I did could have worked out worse if I'd been trying.
Fun game, though.
Open 477 February 15, 2013 May 16, 2013 Robocopter87 Mafia Goon Replaced in, Day 2 Lynched, Day 2 Scum Win ITT I have no idea how to react when I get a cop guilty on me.
Open 480 February 22, 2013 April 18, 2013 Gammagooey Mafia Roleblocker Original Player Survived Scum Win My first scum win. Cheery Dog was an awesome scumbuddy and the town kept me worried all game long.
Open 492 April 18, 2013 May 11, 2013 jmo16mla Mafia Goon Replaced in, Day 3 Survived Majiffy Win Jiffy pushed every mislynch. All TNE and I did was not die. In fact, the game could have ended 24 hours sooner if TNE and I had been less careful -- it was L-2 with 2 scum online but neither of us put a vote down in case the other had just gone offline.
Open 506 June 18, 2013 July 9, 2013 Jennifer VT Original player Shot, Night 1 Regfan Win This is the first game I ever tried using US Marshal Mark McClish's Statement Analysis method right out of the gate. It was wrong about everything. Luckily, a Regfan alt (Tomorrow) replaced into a slot that was about to be lynched and single-handedly won the game for the town.
Open 513 July 26, 2013 July 30, 2013 Fuzzybutternut VT Original player Survived, endgame Town Win Shortest game ever. Everyone just played silly buggers all game long and we took out 3 scum in 3 game days. It wasn't a perfect game, though -- The D1 scumkill was our mislynch's daykill and one townie was modkilled.
Open 524 August 27, 2013 October 3, 2013 Karnage Cannibal Mafia Goon Replaced in, Day 1 Survived, endgame Scum Win This setup was wicked fun...probably because I was scum and NK'd a PR on night 1.
La Isla de la Muerte July 30, 2013 October 3, 2013 StrangerCoug Mafia Goon Original player Lynched, Day 6 Town Win We so could have had this if I hadn't missed a night deadline because FFXIV.
Fire Emblem: Awakening August 26, 2013   Cephrir   Original player      

Last updated: August 31, 2013

Games Modded

Game Setup Start Date End Date Game Result Comments
Open 519 Enemy of My Enemy August 12, 2013 October 10, 2013 Werewolf Win First time this setup was run, so of course the scum investigative roles cross-killed each other N1, and it became multiball mountainous. Town only lynched correctly once.

Playstyle

  • I absolutely hate metagaming. Hate, hate, hate. -- I'm softening on this stance quick-like. It's harder to avoid than I thought. Belisarius 15:10, 2 January 2013 (EST)
  • I am somewhat competitive and want to win, but my first priority is to enjoy myself as much as possible.
  • My first core principle in any game: It's better to make the others react to me than it is to react to them. It gives me more control over the game and it's easier to get accurate reads based on someone's interactions with me than it is between two others.
  • The second core principle is Shaheed's Law, simplified as "If you need something to be true or you're screwed, assume it is."
  • Third core principle: "A shit leopard can't change its spots" ~Jim Lahey
  • "Active Lurking" and "IIoA": Buzzwords used to stifle discussion and scare people away from using humour. If you use these buzzwords, autovote me every game because I shall no longer be silenced save by lynch.

Offsite Games Played

Game Start Date End Date Mod Role Start Status End Status Game Result Comments
Eyes on Final Fantasy Anniversary Mafia November 14, 2012 November 27, 2012 Jiro Apothecary Original player Shot, Night 7 Mafia Win Played quite poorly, had no grasp of theory. Roleclaimed early, ham acting damaged town as much as the mafias, stayed in til night 7 chiefly by luck. Misapplied Shaheed's Law on the 2 mafia theory. Still had a lot of fun though, especially the part where I told one of my own buddies to go to Hell in Hamlet's own words when I didn't know who he was. Did manage to scotch the Mafia Poisoner's last night kill, ironically by following the advice of both Mafia Godfathers. This is where my hate of metagaming was born after my correct diagnosis of [M] Setzer as scum was derailed by a metagaming mislynch. Town was terrible in this game as the second Mafia Godfather truthfully roleclaimed 3 days before the end and still won
Eyes on Final Fantasy Mafia XXV April 1, 2013 April 12, 2013 Laddy Death Miller Original player Shot, Night 5 Mafia Win I actually thought I'd been lied to in my role PM when I flipped scum and realised that my role hadn't been explicitly named, showed up in town green, and didn't have a link to the Mafia talk are.

Misc

  • If you give me any opportunity to quote Shakespeare, expect Shakespeare.
  • My favourite thing about Mafia is that "Magnificent Bastard" moment when I realise somebody has successfully pulled the wool over my eyes.
  • Some Canadians may like to spell words the American way. I am not one of those people. I speak the Queen's English, please do not "correct" me when I spell words the correct (for me) British way.

Shaheed's Law source

“But of course poker isn’t really a card game. It’s a game of people. The cards are just a tool for playing your opponents. That may be why you weren’t good at it. Bridge comes much closer to direct problem solving— the extrapolation of discrete logical permutations. You can’t ignore who your opponents are, naturally, but you win with your mind more than your guts.

“You’re trying to win this one with your guts, Morn. You need to use your mind.”

Morn drank more coffee. She didn’t say anything: she didn’t have anything to say. Instead she concentrated on the pain in her throat. “We have a maxim in bridge,” he continued. “If you need a particular card to be in a certain place, assume it is. If you need a particular distribution of the cards, assume it exists. Plan the rest of your strategy as if you have a right to be sure of that one assumption.

“It doesn’t always work, of course. In fact, you can play for days without it working once. But that’s not the point. The point is, if your assumption is false you were going to fail anyway. That assumption represents the one thing you have to have in order to succeed, so you might as well count on it. Without it, there’s nothing you can do except shrug and go on to the next hand.”

Donaldson, Stephen R. (2010-07-09). Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Into Vision (pp. 180-181). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.