Miscellaneous/Multi-Purpose Mafia I - Page 28

On January 12 2012 15:52 Incognito wrote:
Protactinium TL Mafia XXXVIII for most hillariously awesome play

On January 12 2012 17:03 Coagulation wrote:


Because every player should strive for their own 7 page shit storm about the sportsmanship of their actions post game. Awesome.

On January 12 2012 15:52 Incognito wrote:
As long as it doesn't include best/worst player, ya

Any village idiot for most hillariously awesome play
House Chezinu for a more seriously awesome play

Most hilariously awesome play: House Chezinu by far
Most seriously awesome play:
Most ridiculous bandwagon:
Best analysis made by a townie: Incognito against Ace in one of the PYP:I games
Best defense given by a mafia: southrawrea's "here's my backyard" picture in TL Mafia XXVIII
Funniest mafia mistake:
Funniest town mistake:
Best Roleclaim:
Best story post (or series of posts): Batman
Worst Roleclaim: Any "I am blue role claiming one hour before I get lynched"
Most able to BS and get away with it: [b]Caller (WaW) or Pyrrhuloxia (any game where he's Mafia)
Most entertaining game setup: Pick Your Power

Anything else you can think of

On January 13 2012 03:08 Radfield wrote:
Most seriously awesome play: Palmar's Hitler video. Funniest thing I have ever seen on the mafia forum.

On January 14 2012 00:37 dreamflower wrote:
After reading the Mafia Awards nominations thread, I think this would be a good time to discuss changing the name of the "Dreamflower" role to something else. I think "samurai vigilante" is pretty catchy and captures the role's abilities very well. I realize that the role was originally invented for Personality Mafia, where everyone had a role named after them, and this particular role happened to be good enough that people wanted to use it in other games. At the time, I loved the role, especially because it forced (or should have forced) other people to agonize, stress out, and gnash their teeth over using their vigilante shot correctly and responsibly nearly as much as I did when I was a vigi. But now...

Now, while I am honored that such a balanced, useful, and surprisingly popular role happens to bear my name, I frankly think that if you were going to name a role after anyone in the TL Mafia forum and thus immortalize them, it shouldn't be me. I've only played in a handful of games and was pretty bad in most of them. To provide contrasting examples, both Qatol and Foolishness, for instance, have both done great work to organize and unify this forum, and I know Qatol at least would probably love having a role named after him that gets used a lot in games. Ace has played in more games than I can count, and when he plays in a game, stuff happens, and the game is usually going to be memorable and interesting. Lots of other people have played very well for much longer stretches than two games in a row, write great posts, and are fearsomely reliable snipers, like Ver, Incognito, or Radfield. So, I don't know why there should be a role named after me and none after these people.

Besides, darn it, I don't like having my name out there a lot, as it is right now in the Mafia Awards. I dun wanna be honored. It makes me twitchy and uncomfortable. I liked when Responsibility Mafia used the name "Justice Vigi" for the role, though not the explanation that "It works just like the Dreamflower role" (urrgh). I think having a more descriptive and generic name like "justice vigi" or "samurai vigi" (still my favorite, especially with the mention of seppuku) for the role is way better than naming it after someone that most players haven't even heard of or played with, and it fits much better with the names of other roles available in Mafia games too. I mean, when your role list reads, "Detective," "Medic," and "Veteran," which looks better and more fitting at the end of that list: the "Dreamflower" or the "Samurai Vigilante"?

So, please, let's change the name of the role to something else? Even if it only gets used in a theme game here or there, I would feel much better, and the role would look more standard, too. Much better, right?

On January 14 2012 00:37 dreamflower wrote:
After reading the Mafia Awards nominations thread, I think this would be a good time to discuss changing the name of the "Dreamflower" role to something else. I think "samurai vigilante" is pretty catchy and captures the role's abilities very well. I realize that the role was originally invented for Personality Mafia, where everyone had a role named after them, and this particular role happened to be good enough that people wanted to use it in other games. At the time, I loved the role, especially because it forced (or should have forced) other people to agonize, stress out, and gnash their teeth over using their vigilante shot correctly and responsibly nearly as much as I did when I was a vigi. But now...

Now, while I am honored that such a balanced, useful, and surprisingly popular role happens to bear my name, I frankly think that if you were going to name a role after anyone in the TL Mafia forum and thus immortalize them, it shouldn't be me. I've only played in a handful of games and was pretty bad in most of them. To provide contrasting examples, both Qatol and Foolishness, for instance, have both done great work to organize and unify this forum, and I know Qatol at least would probably love having a role named after him that gets used a lot in games. Ace has played in more games than I can count, and when he plays in a game, stuff happens, and the game is usually going to be memorable and interesting. Lots of other people have played very well for much longer stretches than two games in a row, write great posts, and are fearsomely reliable snipers, like Ver, Incognito, or Radfield. So, I don't know why there should be a role named after me and none after these people.

Besides, darn it, I don't like having my name out there a lot, as it is right now in the Mafia Awards. I dun wanna be honored. It makes me twitchy and uncomfortable. I liked when Responsibility Mafia used the name "Justice Vigi" for the role, though not the explanation that "It works just like the Dreamflower role" (urrgh). I think having a more descriptive and generic name like "justice vigi" or "samurai vigi" (still my favorite, especially with the mention of seppuku) for the role is way better than naming it after someone that most players haven't even heard of or played with, and it fits much better with the names of other roles available in Mafia games too. I mean, when your role list reads, "Detective," "Medic," and "Veteran," which looks better and more fitting at the end of that list: the "Dreamflower" or the "Samurai Vigilante"?

So, please, let's change the name of the role to something else? Even if it only gets used in a theme game here or there, I would feel much better, and the role would look more standard, too. Much better, right?