. You may use it, but do not attempt to impersonate me.
Behaviour
- Keep it civil. 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 48 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 phases last about 14 days. Extensions may be granted if there are replacements.
Activity
- You must post at least once every 48 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: Deimos or
Vote: Deimos
. 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]Deimos[
/v] to vote and [
uv]Deimos[
/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.
All role PMs have been sent out (in the order of the signup list so timestamps mean nothing)! We will start in (expired on 2020-06-19 09:28:39) or when [11/13] 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.
René Descartes (1596-1650) is known by many for his famous quote "cogito, ergo sum".
In addition to philosophy, he made many contributions to the field of mathematics, including in developing Cartesian geometry.
Mod notes:
11/13 players have confirmed, so we can start early. Candy Shop and Rozyroz have another (expired on 2020-06-19 09:28:39) to pick up their role PMs before I start looking for replacements.
Please take a moment to familiarise yourselves with my ruleset.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Wed Jun 17, 2020 11:21 am, edited 1 time in total.
Pictured is a Roman copy in marble of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle (384–322 BC), the Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath.
His theory of virtue ethics continues to be a highly respected position in moral philosophy.
Mod notes:
Vote counts won't always be this frequent, I just wanted the pagetop.
Candy Shop and Rozyroz still have another (expired on 2020-06-19 09:28:39) to pick up their role PMs before I start looking for replacements.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:59 pm, edited 2 times in total.
John Rawls (1921-2002) was an esteemed political philosopher known best for his theory of justice as fairness
and his advancement of the "veil of ignorance" as a method of determining the morality of issues.
Mod notes:
I am a professional moderator who makes no mistakes.
Candy Shop and Rozyroz still have another (expired on 2020-06-19 09:28:39) to pick up their role PMs before I start looking for replacements.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:14 pm, edited 2 times in total.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) was a British philosopher who advocated utilitarianism and liberalism.
He is also known for his early feminist work "The Subjection of Women", written jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill.
Mod notes:
Keep animated GIFs behind spoilers, please.
Candy Shop has received their role PM. Rozyroz still has another (expired on 2020-06-19 09:28:39) to pick up theirs before I start looking for a replacement.
I'm pretty sure Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is known only for his moustache. What a glorious moustache.
I guess he had some famous quote too. "God is well", or something along those lines.
Mod notes:
It's gonna be one of those games where people only play while I'm asleep, huh?
I'm currently celebrating midsummer, which means inconsistent vote counts until Sunday.
Rozyroz has another (expired on 2020-06-19 09:28:39) to pick up their role PM before I start looking for a replacement.
One of John Locke's (1632-1704) main contributions to political philosophy was his theory of natural rights, listed as life, liberty, and property.
Thomas Jefferson adapted this as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for the 1776 US Declaration of Independence.
Mod notes:
NDMath has replaced Rozyroz.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:23 am, edited 3 times in total.
The work of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is studied particularly in Philosophy of Religion and Theology.
He gave five arguments for God: from "first mover", causation, contingency, degree, and design.
Mod notes:
NDMath has replaced Rozyroz.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Mon Jun 22, 2020 1:20 am, edited 1 time in total.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) has been called the father of modern political philosophy and science.
The term "Machiavellian" has come to connote political deceit, treachery, crime, and realpolitik.
Mod notes:
Due to a miscalculation regarding 24 hour weekends, I accidentally prodded Candy Shop too early. I am extending their timer to compensate.
Candy Shop1 has (expired on 2020-06-23 16:00:38) to post before I seek replacement.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) advocated for strong central government, dismissing life in a state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
He was also a major figure in the tradition of social contract theory as a model of political legitimacy.
Mod notes:
Blair replaces Candy Shop1!
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Tue Jun 23, 2020 11:21 am, edited 1 time in total.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) produced one of the first works of feminist philosophy in her "A Vindication of the Rights of Women".
Wollstonecraft argued that women were not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared so due to a lack of opportunities for education.
Mod notes:
My knowledge is mostly limited to Western Philosophy, which
is
sadly dominated by white men. But I have noted the players' dissatisfaction with the diversity of my flavour, and will attempt to rectify it.
Confucius' (551-479 BC) moral philosophy is related to virtue ethics, in that it prioritised personal exemplification and self-cultivation.
His teachings also comprised an early formulation of the golden rule: "What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others." (Analects XV.24)
Gayatri Spivak (1942-) is an Indian postcolonial theorist. She introduced the idea of strategic essentialism, a political tactic by which minority/ethnic groups or nationalities mobilize on the basis of their shared identity to achieve representation.
Mod notes:
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Thu Jun 25, 2020 10:10 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a French West Indian Marxist and postcolonial theorist.
He examined double consciousness and colonial alienation on his home island of Martinique.
Simon Blackburn (1944-) is an English philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism. Quasi-realism is a form of non-cognitivism, which claims that moral statements aren't propositions and hence have no truth value.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a German-American political philosopher.
Her primary research interests comprised totalitarianism and the human condition.
Mod notes:
I don't know enough about Arendt to make further comment on her work.
Truth has failed to pick up the night start PM and is being replaced. I am freezing the day start timer until I find a replacement.
Apologies for the inconvenience. If Truth shows up before I find someone, they can stay.
G.E. Moore (1873-1958) was an English philosopher and one of the founders of the analytic tradition.
He was a moral non-naturalist, offering an influential "open-question" argument against the naturalist position.
Mod notes:
Dunnstral replaces mavsfan41.
Truth has returned and is no longer being replaced.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:33 am, edited 1 time in total.
Diogenes (c. 412-323 BC, pictured living in a pot) was an Ancient Greek philosopher, founder of Cynicism.
He is widely known outside philosophical circles due to the many silly stories that surround him.
Mod notes:
Dunnstral replaces mavsfan41.
Truth has returned and is no longer being replaced.
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Tue Jun 30, 2020 5:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
mafiascum wiki wrote:The game should have at least one Mafia or Werewolf group (of at least two members). In mini games (at most 13 players), there must be exactly one such group, with no third parties.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher known for his advocacy of communism.
His critical theories of society emphasized the role of class conflict and held as inevitable a transition of capitalism into socialism.
Mod notes:
Dunnstral replaces mavsfan41.
I am choosing to interpret Truth's 1745 as a vote for no lynch. Please use the proper tags if this was intended as an unvote.
"Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not." ~Epicurus
popopopopopopo has been lynched Day 2. He was a
Mafia Night 3 Jailkeeper
It is now Night 2. Deadline for night actions is (expired on 2020-07-03 20:43:59)
Carol Gilligan (1936-) originated "ethics of care", a moral philosophy that emphasizes situational responses based on interpersonal relationships and the virtue of caring.
Mod notes:
[/area]
Last edited by Deimos27 on Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:03 am, edited 1 time in total.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) was an American philosopher considered the father of pragmatism. He introduced the notion of fallibilism in epistemology, claiming that knowledge does not require certainty.
J. L. Mackie (1917-1981) was an Australian philosopher famous for his Error Theory in meta-ethics,
holding that all moral propositions are false (for the reason that they posit objective values, when no such values in fact exist).
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) claimed to have solved all problems of philosophy in his "Tractatus", only to return 10 years later and reinvent the field in his "Philosophical Investigations". The influence of Wittgenstein's work on contemporary philosophy cannot be overstated, especially regarding his insights into language and meaning.
I don't know much about Arthur Schopenhauer (1889-1951), and I lack both time and energy to research, so please take a moment to appreciate his haircut instead.
"The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage." ~Cicero
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher in the Continental tradition.
His seminal work "Being and Time" raises the fundamental question of what it means to exist.
Mod notes:
Sorry for the delay starting day!
We can condemn Heidegger's political beliefs while nonetheless finding value in his philosophical insights, which remain highly influential.
