Why Alisae should get "lolbalance":
A lot of this discussion has already been had. I'm going to more preemptively address a lot of the issues people had with the title.
1. Alisae has joined the canon of famous MS moderators. There are only so many users who are very well known for their moderation. Tarhalindur, early AniX, Varsoon, mastina, FakeGod, RadiantCowbells, xRECKONERx, etc. This is about more than being a good moderator -- it's about their games and setups having personalities in themselves.
Everyone knows an Alisae game is going to be lolbalanced. There's a certain feel to Alisae design. It's not irreverent in the flavour, or the concept, but in the complete and total abuse of otherwise valid mafia theme mechanics in the roles. Some examples:
- From Team Mafia:
- Mechanic Seer Loud Fruit Vending Rolecop Suiciding Beloved Princess Arsonist
- Hideous Compulsive Neighbourizing Modified Doctor
- Compulsive 1-shot Neighbourizing Cupid Modified Captain
- Some other stuff:
- Disloyal 1-shot-Modified Compulsive-Loyal-Weak-Vigilante Inventor (I had to upload this PM to the wiki)
- Day/Night 1 Compulsive Strongman Suicide Bomber Day 2 Self-Reviving Day Dreaming God/Delayed Entry Backup Vig 1-shot Self-Cloner
- Self-Upgrading Ninja Serial Killing Refexive Neighbourizing Doctor Conditional Alt Wincon/1-shot Astronaut Conditional Roleblocking Poisoner
- Hydra Cycle Doc Poison Doctor Conditional Suiciding Perma Hydra Roleblocker Vanillalizer/Modified Hiding Inventor
This is the kind of shit that would make any sane person say "What the absolute fuck are you thinking?" to which Alisae would respond with
"¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lolbalance."
And then you look at the role PMs some more and realise that these roles actually DO make sense, and in some twisted fucking way, they DO work with each other, and there IS a sense of continuity in the games they run. It's like Alisae is balancing mafia games from a completely different planet in a different galaxy. But on that planet, Alisae is the single most professional mod there is.
2. Along those lines, Alisae is one of the very few people onsite known for their outspoken opinions on balance. Mulch and mhsmith are probably the primary others, with shout-outs to the Open Review crowd and also mastina.
Again, Alisae isn't known for balancing standard MS games, or even standard MS bastard games (like wgeurts for example), but they ARE known for coming up with a twisted sense of balance for the twisted universe that their games take place in.
Alisae games chuck our sense of balance out the window in favour of things like "Day/Night 1 Compulsive Strongman Suicide Bomber Day 2 Self-Reviving Day Dreaming God/Delayed Entry Backup Vig 1-shot Self-Cloner".
They have STRONG opinions on balance that aren't even really in line with or against MS views on balance, but are more orthogonal in a way. Disliking things producing guilties, a passionate hatred for multiball and badly done third parties, etc.
3. It's worded "lolbalance" because that's how Alisae talks.
It's kinda this
How to describe it
Basically
There's no polish.
Or even sense.
But there is WHIMSY!
It's short and sweet and scattered.
Kinda like their game concepts!
Do you get it now?
Good.
ty for reading.
4. Lastly, I agree that it says something about Alisae's personality. Oscar Wilde said "everything in moderation, including moderation".
Alisae burns that phrase to the ground in every post they make.
