TL Mafia LXXI: Gaiden - Page 7

You know I've been extremely lazy. Remember Carol of the Bells, where I basically afk'd through Day 1, Night 1, and most of Day 2?

There were many, many worse games since then. Notable games are Down Under Mafia (both games), and Guardians of the Galaxy. Every single large game I've played in, I haven't been able to keep up at the start of the game. You'd think I would learn, but I haven't.

Also, I'm home from college, now. I only started playing mafia when I was in college. I've been spending time with my family and my friends here, and this makes my schedule a lot harder to fit mafia in to. Since I returned from college, I've only played two games. One as a smurf (and I smurfed for two reasons: one, to try a new playstyle, and two, to play at a lesser standard (primarily activity). I felt that playing as a smurf would be a sign that I wasn't able to play to my full abilities, but many people just said "why didn't you play on your main account?", so I did. The other game was a fairly low-posting newbie game, and I was mafia. I just posted late and didn't bother arguing or interacting as much, so it didn't take as much time. Plus, it was a low-posting mini game.

Then, I get into this large-game spamfest..... Anyway, I've talked to rsoultin about all of the above, so she can confirm it if necessary.

Furthermore, I've had some real life issues since the game began. They aren't huge issues, but emotionally and mentally I'm a very weak person. If you don't believe it, ask rsoultin, or look at my coaching QT from Newbie Mafia 61, where I made a million posts of whining and ranting to Artanis[Xp]. My emotional behavior in this game turned someone away from TL Mafia, something I'm still upset about.

I've been having some girl problems, problems interacting with my friends, and our family hosted a guest from Europe for the past few days. And I've been too far behind in the thread to want to try and catch up, especially with the lynches being seemingly set in stone, and me not having the thread knowledge/presence/mental strength to argue against them.

Background:

Oatsmaster mentioned that rsoultin's high usage of "xP" in this game suggests that she is mafia. KelsierSC analyzed several of rsoultin's games as both alignments and concluded that rsoultin uses "xP" more as mafia than as town, and her average in this game matched her town averages. However, he then analyzed only the first four pages of each game, and the "xP" count was not alignment indicative.


The post that started the conversation.It's a simple question, and it has a simple answer. However, as town, rsoultin doesn't care if she argues with people, doesn't care about looking good, tends to answer questions and discuss in a really round-about way, and really doesn't like dealing with people/reads she thinks are stupid. I know you're going to say that rsoultin does this as mafia too, just wait patiently...

What rsoultin is saying is fairly obvious, at this point. If someone is smart, and they say/do something that is clearly below their intelligence, then this is a reasonable sign that they are mafia. The problem is that there are many reasons that people can incorrectly read people in this way (applying the method incorrectly, such as incorrect assumptions about people's intelligence, misreading the questions, people simply thinking in different ways, other factors like being high/drunk/etc). But the core of the read is a sensible read. There is no town motivation for intentionally being stupid.

Swahili, as in that Harkon completely missed rsoultin's answer, as if it were in Swahili. Then rsoultin slightly expands on the same thing.


That's enough to convey the point. Rsoultin did answer the questions asked of her every single time, just in a very round-about way. And evidently Harkon and marvellosity didn't really understand the answers (or they could have gone straight to the important questions, such as why rsoultin expects more intelligence than this from KelsierSC, how she knows that there isn't some other explanation, why rsoultin isn't paying attention to the effort that KelsierSC used, etc.

As town, rsoultin seems to care more about answering questions in her own way and posting in her own way than playing such that other people can easily/clearly see what she is saying. We've talked about this a few times. In Assassination Mafia, this eventually caused her to make a few huge essay-style posts, clearly stating her reads in simple English.

Point being that rsoultin seemingly dodging questions and being unhelpful is an issue in communication, and doesn't make her scum. On the contrary, I think that as mafia, rsoultin would be more willing to be helpful and answer questions more clearly, and be less argumentative. Furthermore, there's an element of creativity to these answers that provides hints at the thought process that created her reads, which could be harder to replicate as scum.