In post 255, Psyche wrote:Another reason I'm voting osuka is that his posting style also seems unnatural, and unlike bugspray who can only call me nervous or weird w/o any further explanation, I can be more specific about why I find his posts that way.
His early posting seems simultaneously irreverent and self-conscious, a conflict that comes off as a bit inauthentic. Posts 105, 109, 139 seem like the best examples of this. His rather hyperbolic reaction to my case against him also fits in the category. On the one hand, he's very attentive to how his posts come off. He pulls a youtube video and large bold font to comment on off-hand oneliner calling his posts "frustrated". He's deeply curious what response LicketyQuickety expected to his question. He wants to know what LQ thinks of his readiness to BS. And But on the other hand, his style and tone are irreverent. Across his whole iso he posts in terse one-liners w/ little concern for grammar/punctuation, and is willing to use really vulgar, hyperbolic language to describe people's posts.
The conflict in all this is that this baseline disrespect for others and the stuff they take seriously doesn't fit well with the co-occuring pattern of spending a lot of time/energy reacting to and interrogating others' idea of him.
There are other potential explanations for these patterns - for example, narcissism. An excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle criticism, and so on are par for the course when it comes to narcissists and cleanly explains the conflicts I'm picking up on. But given that we're only at page 11, I'm exploring the hypothesis that a situational mediator explains the conflict: osuka's win condition especially requires that he manage our impressions of him, but he doesn't want us to catch that. We'll see which pans out.
firstly, you mistake genuine curiosity for self-consciousness. I'm not very self-conscious because I don't typically care enough to be but that means nothing to you if you can't trust me at my word - which, in a game of mafia, is not typically the case.
it's actually a bit clear that you're really not that familiar with my game. i lose my shit fairly regularly and that translates into hyperboles because people just do really, really,
really
stupid shit and i can't really scream over text. as stated, I _used_ to care but now it seems like i have depleted all of that
I ask others about me a lot of the time because i find the game much more engaging when i'm being directly engaged - i don't think i've ever said that at any point in time but it's just a way for the games to be a bit more fun for me. As an aside, you're not the first person to call me a narcissist on ms and you probably won't be the last, but it really is mostly disregard for other people's feelings (oops) rather than inability to be criticized and need for admiration
nice try though
