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Post #0 (isolation #0) » Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:15 am
Postby Plotinus »
Newbie 1959 | Stuff I Found Online XV
Hello. In this game I'll be showcasing cool stuff I found/learned about online via my RSS reader and maybe talking some about why I think it's cool.
Such as Why Wasn't I Consulted. a post about the driving forces of the internet
- Don’t be a dick. This is a heated game but toxicity will not be tolerated. Attack the play not the player. If your fellow players tell you to stop, you must stop. If you do not stop, I will tell you to stop. If you still do not stop, you will be force-replaced. Asking people to stop voting you or to stop scumhunting you entirely doesn't count for this rule and you may find yourself lynched if you try it.
Don't talk about ongoing games
- You may not talk to each other about this game outside of threads I have created for this purpose. You may not talk about other ongoing games in this thread.
Animated GIFs
- are of the devil, but they are permitted behind spoilers if clearly labelled as such.
Tiny text
- is also of the devil, keep it 70+ please.
Provable randomness
- is against the rules. Saying that you rolled a dice is fine, using dice tags or random.org is not.
Claiming scum
- by yourself is fine. Claiming scum with another player is against the rules.
- You have about 72 hours to confirm your role and your alignment by PM. Game will start sooner if everyone confirms. Posting in a private topic counts as confirmation.
Days
- Day 1 lasts 10 days and other days last 7 days. Extensions may be granted if there are replacements, or if the majority of players make it clear to me that an extension is desired.
Activity
- You must post at least once every 36 hours or I will Prod you. You then have 24 hours to post in the game thread or I will replace you. If you come back before I find a replacement, you can stay. The activity timers run at half-speed on weekends. Players can request me to prod somebody early. This will only count as an official prod if you don't post before you would have been due for a prod. If you haven't posted in the 24 hours before the thread is locked for night, you must reply to the night start PM or you will be replaced during the night.
Vacation/Limited Access
If you need to be absent for longer than this, you should declare
V/LA
in bold in the thread like this: [
b]
@Mod: I will be v/la until Thursday
[
/b]. While you are V/LA, you will be nudged once every 54 hours. Two nudges equals one prod. If you have not posted game advancing content in 5 days, regardless of V/LA status, you will be replaced.
Prodging
- A naked "prod dodge" does not reset the prod timer. To avoid being prodded/replaced for inactivity, include some game advancing content in your prodges, such as "got prodded; xxxx is still scum."
Quoting
- You may not quote (or copy paste) any private information into the thread, including your role PM and any mod communication.
Voting
- Votes must be in bold in the format VOTE: Plotinus or
Vote: Plotinus
. Strong preference for using vote tags instead of bold tags. Unvotes are nice but not required. If I think it’s a vote, it’s a vote, no tricks. Type [
v]Plotinus[
/v] to vote and [
uv]Plotinus[
/uv] to unvote.
Lynching
- Days end early when a simple majority of players (50% of living players + 1 rounded down) vote to lynch somebody. If a majority is not reached at deadline or if a majority of the players vote for no lynch, the day will end without a lynch. At evens, 50% is sufficient for no lynch.
Twilight
- Begins when a majority is reached and lasts until I lock the thread. You're still alive until I flip you so you can talk in any game threads you have access to until then, but no votes or unvotes will be counted.
Night
- Night lasts at least 48 hours. The night phase can be shortened if every living player -- even those with no night actions -- agrees to it and if I'm not busy.
Action submissions
- You may submit actions via PM (if town) or PT (if scum). If the actions are not submitted by the deadline then you do nothing. You can change your mind as many times as you like before the deadline.
Reminders
- If I don't hear from you about your night actions, I'll PM you 24 hours before the deadline. This doesn't count as a prod. If I still don't hear from you, you will take no action.
Notes PT
- Let me know if you want a private thread to store your thoughts and feedback for the other players. This thread will be made public immediately after the game. You may draft posts in your notes PT but you may not talk about your notes PT in public. You definitely may not use the notes PT to demonstrate that you've had a town mindset in private all along; just put your town mindset in public to begin with and keep your notes to yourself.
Play to win
- this particular game, not some future one, and keep it fun!
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Post #4 (isolation #4) » Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:35 am
Postby Plotinus »
All role PMs have been sent out (in the order of the signup list so timestamps mean nothing)! We will start in (expired on 2019-09-28 20:00:00) or when [8/9] people have confirmed, whichever happens sooner.
The above clock and any others used throughout this game will be accurate from the time you loaded the page.
Everyone except for Chibiie is here, so we can get started early. Chibiie has another (expired on 2019-09-28 20:00:00) to remember mafiascum exists before I start looking for a replacement.
Please take a moment to familiarise yourselves with my ruleset because I have some rules you may not have encountered in other games before regarding animated gifs, tiny text, prodging and perhaps some other things.[/area]
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Post #55 (isolation #8) » Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:10 pm
Postby Plotinus »
Before the smartphone, there was the ipod, and before that there was the discman, which was preceeded by the walkman, which was created around the time of the boombox, and before the walkman there was...singing? what did people do when they wanted to have a personal soundtrack in 1926? it was just singing, right?
I was reading some old newspapers and found classified ads for people selling their used pocket phonographs.
Apparently, even 94 years ago, you could inflict your musical tastes on the outside world while sitting on a park bench without resorting to singing. You can see one in action at the link and read some more about it.
[also between the boombox and the pocket phonograph there were transitor radios invented in 1947. being able to bring music with us everywhere we go feels so recent but it's really not]
- You must post at least once every 36 hours or I will Prod you. You then have 24 hours to post in the game thread or I will replace you. If you come back before I find a replacement, you can stay. The activity timers run at half-speed on weekends. Players can request me to prod somebody early. This will only count as an official prod if you don't post before you would have been due for a prod. If you haven't posted in the 24 hours before the thread is locked for night, you must reply to the night start PM or you will be replaced during the night.
Merfin has been prodded early on request. They have (expired on 2019-09-29 17:52:00) to post before this counts as an official prod, and (expired on 2019-09-30 20:56:00) to post before I start looking for a replacement.
GeorgeBailey has been prodded early on request. They have (expired on 2019-09-29 22:10:00) to post before this counts as an official prod and (expired on 2019-10-01 01:05:00) to post before I start looking for a replacement.
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Post #79 (isolation #10) » Sun Sep 29, 2019 8:17 pm
Postby Plotinus »
We are used to thinking of things as having certain elemental properties, of earth, water, fire, and air. But as is well known from Geber, there are isolated substances which are in, between: sulfur and mercury. We also know that there are seven planetary metals, gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, iron, tin, and lead; these are not usually characterized by their makeup in the Aristotelian elements, and that is right, for in fact they stand alone. Even Geber is mistaken in supposing them simply a blend of sulfur and mercury. A metal is not a mixture. What is mixed can, by clever chemical operations, be unmixed; tin can never be divided into a sulfurous component and a mercurial one by any method.
Mod notes: I have extended the deadline by 2 days on request. The site has been loading for me these past few days, but excruciatingly slowly. It seems better today, hopefully that lasts.
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Post #175 (isolation #19) » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:17 pm
Postby Plotinus »
Migrating fish have trouble climbing over dams. Fish ladders are pretty hard for fish to use, but salmon cannons seem to work pretty well, and they are easier/cheaper to construct than fish ladders.
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Post #206 (isolation #21) » Thu Oct 03, 2019 8:31 pm
Postby Plotinus »
Using windmills for electricity instead of milling grain is a pretty modern thing but there was this one guy in the 19th century who had the idea a century ahead of his time and managed to build one. It worked, supplied power flawlessly for 20 years, but over that time the city's power grid got bigger and cheaper and then he didn't repair it.
- is against the rules. Saying that you rolled a dice is fine, using dice tags or random.org is not.
The idea behind this rule is that mafia is a psychological game where we try to guess the colour of people's role cards based on their behaviour. random.org does not give different results to people with different coloured role cards, so if everybody used random.org then we could just simulate the entire game in python without involving any humans at all.
On the other hand, if as part of your private decision making process, you roll a dice, see that it lands on Plotinus, decide that you don't want to vote Plotinus after all, and keep rolling, because it helps you clarify your opinions to yourself, then that's fine. You may privately use randomness and then make up a non-randomness reason afterwards. You may lie about the result of your eeny-meenie-miney-moe strategy, saying that it landed on Plotinus when actually it landed on PenguinPower, or to omit the detail that as a child, you memorised the number of syllables eeyn-meenie-miney-moe so that you would always know where to start counting.
The hard line here is you definitely can't do
Original Roll String: 1d2 (STATIC)
1 2-Sided Dice: (1) = 1
if it's a 1 I vote Plotinus if it's a 2 I vote PenguinPower. And you cannot post a screenshot of random.org but I would be happiest if you didn't use randomness at all.[/area]
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Post #301 (isolation #25) » Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:36 am
Postby Plotinus »
Sarcasm. It’s an Essential Part of a Healthy Breakfast™, but it’s also “dangerous”, especially in writing. What if ~no one~ gets that u are being sarcastic.
this is literally the most srs bsns question ever.
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Post #345 (isolation #29) » Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:26 am
Postby Plotinus »
Irrationality of 21/n for n ≥ 3: if 21/n=p/q then pn=qn+qn, contradicting Fermat's Last Theorem. Unfortunately FLT is not strong enough to prove √2 irrational.
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Post #346 (isolation #30) » Tue Oct 08, 2019 4:31 am
Postby Plotinus »
Dongempire
has been lynched day 1. They were a
vanilla townie.
It is now Night 1. Deadline for night actions is (expired on 2019-10-10 11:30:43)
Saladman27 has not posted in the last 24 hours and must contact me during the night phase to let me know they are still playing or they will be replaced, as per Rule 12. We can do short night if all 8 of you PM me saying you want that. If I don't hear from everybody or anybody says no then the night will last two days
- A naked "prod dodge" does not reset the prod timer. To avoid being prodded/replaced for inactivity, include some game advancing content in your prodges, such as "got prodded; xxxx is still scum."
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Post #451 (isolation #42) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 6:41 am
Postby Plotinus »
Female students, engaged in some illicit late-night cooking via Who invented fudge
Mod notes: AaronFrost is V/LA until Tuesday. All of the previous votecounts this dayphase have said 5 to lynch but this is not true. There are only 7 votes in play and majority is 4 votes.
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Post #480 (isolation #43) » Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:45 pm
Postby Plotinus »
Electrical current is like a current in a river, kind of, so do the navier stokes equations apply to it? well, not at the scale of a circuit in a computer chip because magnetic forces are fairly weak, but Magnetohydrodynamics combines the navier stokes equations with maxwell's equations to describe big stuff like the movement of plasma in the sun
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Post #508 (isolation #45) » Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:15 pm
Postby Plotinus »
Saladman27
has been lynched day 2. He was a
vanilla townie.
It is now Night 2. Deadline for night actions is (expired on 2019-10-19 08:15:00)
Everyone has posted in the last 24 hours! We can do short night if all 6 of you PM me saying you want that. If I don't hear from everybody or anybody says no then the night will last two days
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Post #523 (isolation #49) » Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:07 am
Postby Plotinus »
teacher
has been lynched day 3. He was a
mafia rolecop.
It is now Night 3. Deadline for night actions is (expired on 2019-10-21 15:00:00)
AaronFrost has not posted in the last 24 hours and must contact me during the night so I know they're still playing. We can do short night if all 4 of you PM me saying you want that. If I don't hear from everybody or anybody says no then the night will last two days
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Post #525 (isolation #51) » Sat Oct 19, 2019 7:18 pm
Postby Plotinus »
When playing bingo with a large number of people, if you win, you are equally likely to win with a horizontal bingo as with a vertical bingo, but when we're not considering the case where you in particular win but just anybody at all, then the winner is twice as likely to win with a horizontal bingo than a vertical bingo. This made absolutely no sense to me until paragraph 5 of The Bingo Paradox and then suddenly it was obvious why this true.
It is customary for dead players to wait for the mod to post the final scene before resuming posting in the game thread. In the newbie queue, the setup is known, so the only chance for mishap is if you miscounted the votes, but in other queues there can be setup shenanigans that mean it might look like it's over when it's not.[/area]
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Post #583 (isolation #54) » Sun Oct 20, 2019 6:59 pm
Postby Plotinus »
AaronFrost
has been lynched day 4. He was a
vanilla townie.
The mafia team of
Chibiie, mafia goon
and
teacher, mafia rolecop
have won the game! Good work everyone. I think the mafia team played very well, having teacher rolecop Chibiie was a gamble because Gimm1ck could have targetted somebody else but it was a good move. The town PRs did a good job of staying hidden / the vanilla townies did a good job of pretending to be PRs. I agree with the comments that a bit more activity would have helped. A good rule of thumb is to try to have more posts than the mod does, since ideally I'm only posting once per page to give a votecount, more if I need to prod people. On the other hand, if you are the top poster, consider whether the other players are having conversations with each other or keep getting sucked into conversations with you and then tone it down -- this wasn't a problem this game but I like to mention both extremes together.
If you enjoyed this game, I hope you'll sign up for another. if you haven't completed five newbie games yet, you're still eligible to sign up as a newbie, otherwise people tend to start with normal or open games when they're ready to branch out, but themes can be fun too.
