The I don't play anymore thread

Elmo · Post Post #25 (ISO) » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:26 am

Goatrevolt wrote:I don't play mafia anymore.

I'm saddened, but unsurprised. Do you know what it was? I remember reading some of your posts and thinking you'd quit within a couple months.

ReaperCharlie · Post Post #26 (ISO) » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:45 pm

Hi. I don't play any more.

TheLonging · Post Post #27 (ISO) » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:39 am

Would that be because of the baby? Family is more important than mafia, that's why you get them all playing

Mr. Flay · Post Post #28 (ISO) » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:58 am

Lord Gurgi wrote:I don't play mafia anymore.

LIAR!

ReaperCharlie wrote:Hi. I don't play any more.

Not til Friday.

Zachrulez · Post Post #29 (ISO) » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:16 am

How can anyone quit mafia? It's like a drug you can't get enough of.

yabbaguy · Post Post #30 (ISO) » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:21 am

...I wouldn't think of it like that. I also don't want to think of it like that. :\

But the reasoning boggles me, too. I never seem to take the same position, sometimes I take the role of the lazy bum who gets in trouble at L-1, sometimes I'm the honorary Town motivator who gets ousted N1. That's what keeps it different.

Porochaz · Post Post #31 (ISO) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:05 pm

Ive had a comeback but I feel Im in my last round of games for a while...

Nobody Special · Post Post #32 (ISO) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:27 pm

I'm currently not playing. I'm focusing on Modding. And, you know, life (and work).

Andrius · Post Post #33 (ISO) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:29 pm

Mr. Flay wrote:
ReaperCharlie wrote:Hi. I don't play any more.
Not til Friday.

Not till LOTR starts.
RC will never quit.
He'll relapse.

ISO · Post Post #34 (ISO) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:42 pm

The wording of the following post is very important:

TSQ doesn't play mafia anymore.

JDodge · Post Post #35 (ISO) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:04 pm

I tried a comeback over the past couple of days. Can't take the sheer amount of idiocy present in the site meta at the moment.

Korts · Post Post #36 (ISO) » Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:42 pm

Elmo wrote:Talking about mafia is a hundred times more interesting than actually playing it; and playing is now torture, since I don't put the work in to play
well
and know how terrible I am. I kind of want to IC a bit for the sake of it, but all told I feel a lot like I'm done.

I agree with Elmosarian.

Adel wrote:edited to fix grammar errors so severe that I noticed them

ha, that must have been something :)

Mr. Flay · Post Post #37 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:43 am

Thestatusquo wrote:The wording of the following post is very important:

TSQ doesn't play mafia anymore.

Yes, we know.

PokerFace · Post Post #38 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:50 am

wording important? then i bet you still play as an alt...

yabbaguy · Post Post #39 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:05 am

JDodge wrote:I tried a comeback over the past couple of days. Can't take the sheer amount of idiocy present in the site meta at the moment.

Am I an idiot? :(

Besides- if people are being dumb, it's your job (partially) to get back in the games and show them "no you dunces, you've gotta do it [this way]". Even if you get lynched for being a contrarian and a loudmouth, if your side goes on to lose, it's point proven. That's how you do it.

Kmd4390 · Post Post #40 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:35 am

I may have to leave for real when my games end. The majority of my posting has come from my phone lately and I can't do as much that way. I'm not home nearly enough to use the computer, so this might actually be it for a while. Still got 4 games that either need to end or I need to die in first though.

The Fonz · Post Post #41 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:47 am

I'm probably going to go on site sabbatical when my current games end, like I did iirc September-December of last year.

UncertainKitten · Post Post #42 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:36 pm

yabbaguy wrote:
JDodge wrote:I tried a comeback over the past couple of days. Can't take the sheer amount of idiocy present in the site meta at the moment.
Am I an idiot?

Besides- if people are being dumb, it's your job (partially) to get back in the games and show them "no you dunces, you've gotta do it [this way]". Even if you get lynched for being a contrarian and a loudmouth, if your side goes on to lose, it's point proven. That's how you do it.

Part of the idiocy I've noticed is people refuse to change their styles even when they're proven to suck.

That's probably why JDodge is throwing up his hands at this point.

yabbaguy · Post Post #43 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:50 pm

...true.

animorpherv1 · Post Post #44 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:28 pm

Yeah, same here.

I think the Newbie games aren't getting thorugh...

Vi · Post Post #45 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:49 pm

animorpherv1 wrote:Yeah, same here.

I think the Newbie games aren't getting thorugh...

Newbie games teach you the basics of how to play and not completely flop (like don't randomly vote in LyLo, don't claim scum D1, and so forth).
They don't teach you how to find scum.

animorpherv1 · Post Post #46 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:57 pm

Vi wrote:
animorpherv1 wrote:Yeah, same here.

I think the Newbie games aren't getting thorugh...
Newbie games teach you the basics of how to play and not completely flop (like don't randomly vote in LyLo, don't claim scum D1, and so forth).
They don't teach you how to find scum.

Well they

should

. If they did (or even if there is a "How to be a good player" wiki that ICs can link to) than this bout of idiocy would grind to a hault.

pacman281292 · Post Post #47 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:59 pm

JDodge wrote:I tried a comeback over the past couple of days. Can't take the sheer amount of idiocy present in the site meta at the moment.

This is annoying isn't it?
Came back from 15-month accidental retirement (lost internet access then interest for the game) to find everyone shouting around nonsense.

Super Smash Bros. Fan · Post Post #48 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:11 pm

Won't be quitting Mafia anytime soon, but school hit me big time as I'm not able to access the site as much.

I'll need to be in a lot less amount of games before I won't have to worry about not posting in a game.

Vi · Post Post #49 (ISO) » Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:13 pm

animorpherv1 wrote:
Vi wrote:
animorpherv1 wrote:Yeah, same here.

I think the Newbie games aren't getting thorugh...
Newbie games teach you the basics of how to play and not completely flop (like don't randomly vote in LyLo, don't claim scum D1, and so forth).
They don't teach you how to find scum.
Well they
should
. If they did (or even if there is a "How to be a good player" wiki that ICs can link to) than this bout of idiocy would grind to a hault.

There's the other problem.

The first general rule of scumhunting is that nobody, including you (yes, you reading this), has a precise and failsafe way to find scum.

In addition, in the event that you DO find scum you have to be convincing enough to override others' usually-incorrect scumfindings. In a mixed group of players, getting scum lynched is fighting other peoples' metas. (Or to use my own quote, "There's no 'I' in TEAM, but there IS one in V

I

G".)

Rounding out the pizza pie is a corollary to the first general rule - common wisdom and popular ideas about finding scum usually don't work; in fact they tend to be counterproductive for the team as a whole.

Adding the delicious pepperonis on top of this thin crust of your doom is that in the case of Newbie games in particular, ICs are supposed to be helpful and respectable - but not necessarily

good

at playing the game.

For what it's worth, there ARE "How to be a good Townie" and "How to

find scum and

get them lynched" articles on the wiki. People may or may not read them, and may or may not forego what's said in them because they believe they have a better way to go about things.