10 Years in Mafiascum

[Claus]

I was vaguely aware that my 10th scum day was coming. I was planning to post then, but I missed it because of course I did.

This is so bizarre.

MS was the last online society I ever felt myself a part of. Before it there was Nexus Wars, and before that urban dead, and before that Aardwolf Mud, and IRC. Then I started to drift away from MS and nothing really took its place -- I lurk some local subreddits but nothing.

I really miss this. But I never managed to get it back. I post in a few threads, lurk in others, but I don't feel it anymore

I wish you all the best!

[shaft.ed]

Claus!

the key is not having a meatworld social group

[Sudo_Nym]

Welcome to the 10 years club! We have special hats! Or eggs, whatever!

[Max]

I remember you Claus. You've always been cool. We love when the old guard come back and give us life updates. )

[Claus]

Shaft.ed! Why do you think I'm posting here right now? Know that every time I decide to try lurking here again, one of the first things that I do is to check on your recent posts. Do you feel my stalker-ish love yet?

Sudo, thank you!

Max - I still remember your "dead people have powers" game. It was pretty fantastic to play. As for life updates, I'm going through my mid-life crisis, nothing special Also, I just found out that in my university there is actually a group that does research on developing Artificial Intelligence agents for Mafia games. They even have a national conference. I am studying up to see if I can contribute something there, but Natural Language Processing (specially in Japanese) is definitely not my forte :-/

[mastina]

Mafiascum has no escape clause.

[shaft.ed]

Do you feel my stalker-ish love yet?

that and your eyebrows is a scary combination
I think swapping out the killer santa avatar was to lull us into a sense of security

[Claus]

On related news,

There has been for about 3 years a "Special Interest Group" working on creating AI agents for mafia games at the Japanese society of AI... I have been procastinating joining them because
the prospect of doing Natural Language Processing in Japanese was pretty terrifying. But just a few minutes ago a student I am supervised just showed up with a super thick book with
"programming AI agents for Mafia games".

I guess I'll have to add that to my plate now - It is cool and scary at the same time