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
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I gradually got less enthusiastic about mafia until I took a break for a couple weeks, then came back and put all my effort into one game for a couple months. That game was the essentially unwinnable AoaDa, which I won a scummy for and pretty much single-handedly killed any interest in mafia; not such a good trade.
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 playwelland 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.Succinctness is pro-town.
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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.Goatrevolt wrote:I don't play mafia anymore.Succinctness is pro-town.
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SFG wrote:one of those "almost-unwinnable-for-town" games and I was in overdrive the entire game trying to fight that only to watch it all fall apart the moment I got nightkilled. Now I feel like the hard work I normally put into games is pretty damn useless, completely demoralized. I probably WILL come back eventually, maybe in late December or so around my 1-year.
These actually apply, I just didn't want to post this. It's just really difficult to put any significant effort in when there's a decent chance it won't affect the outcome.The Fonz wrote:every time I feel like this, I just think of one or two of the VIs I've been subjected to over the course of my time here, think 'Do I really want to put myself through this' with regard to the process of ascertaining which of the four people in an average game who appear to be trying to ruin it IS trying to ruin it, which is scum, and which ones are just so dense they don't know any better
This sounds like it would mostly apply to bad players. :VSFG wrote:you guys on this site are unforgiving and scary and that doesn't help
And do what?Vi wrote:Maybe people will get the hint.Succinctness is pro-town.
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A good defining characteristic of a VI is that they don't attempt to improve, regardless of outside prompting. They're not just bad players, and they're not just new.RichardGHP wrote:If people actually quit their whinging, and taught VIs what /not/ to do, then we wouldn't be having this problem or conversation.
The "lynch all VIs" crew is playing a game of chicken where one side decides by consensus, with the default to swerve, and the other side is almost always driving straight with no regard for their own well-being.Succinctness is pro-town.
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