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Post Post #9 (isolation #0) » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:02 am

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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 play
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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.
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Post Post #25 (isolation #1) » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:26 am

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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.
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Post Post #104 (isolation #2) » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:06 am

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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.
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
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.
SFG wrote:you guys on this site are unforgiving and scary and that doesn't help :(
This sounds like it would mostly apply to bad players. :V
Vi wrote:Maybe people will get the hint.
And do what?
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Post Post #132 (isolation #3) » Sun Sep 19, 2010 8:53 am

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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.
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.

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.
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Post Post #165 (isolation #4) » Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:39 am

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This is like a millimetre away from complains about elitism. Not that I don't think it's a good idea.
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Post Post #170 (isolation #5) » Thu Sep 23, 2010 2:03 pm

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Maemuki wrote:I really want to join this group now. I guess I don't want to play anymore. *le sigh.*
I want to want to. But I don't want to, as much as I try. :(
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