Choose Your Side: A Comedy of Whims (Game Over)

[Super Smash Bros. Fan]

Why do people ask questions unrelated to the game?

Because it's during the confirmation stage and we're not really require to play the game yet (Although doing it during confirmation stage does give us a head start, see Mafia 114: Mafia Vs. Werewolves).

[Nobody Special]

Why do people ask questions unrelated to the game?

Because I'm insatiably curious.

@Magna:

[Seraphim]

[REDACTED]: close enough. It's a little [REDACTED] but it should serve. I will try to make my posts [REDACTED] so I can make [REDACTED] understood while still [REDACTED] my average.

Nobody [REDACTED]: No, I did not [REDACTED] my [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. Though I suppose I was [REDACTED] for it in the signup [REDACTED].

[AlmasterGM]

Magna 1
NS 0.

Animorph day one lynch sounds like a fine idea. That is actually entirely what I was trying to get at with the questionnaire, actually - question two was supposed to determine whether you got what you wanted, and then research would reveal what you were likely to request. Magna beat me to the concluding punch, but I 100% agree with his results.

Question 1 is obviously silly, but if you didn't answer questions 3 and 4, stop pretending you are important and have a life and answer. If you were actually as busy as you are pretending to be, you wouldn't have time for forum mafia. Information can be deduced from them, you know.

To answer my own questions
1) No response.
2) Yes.
3) I would give him the $200. A life is worth more than that (even a petty theif's), and I don't think I could live with the image of him screaming as he burst into flame for the rest of my life.
4) Depends on the situation. If I were playing the game as a mental exercise and/or for fun, I wouldn't cheat as that defeats the purpose. However, if I were playing the game to prove myself as superior to the other players, then I would do whatever needed to win.

Also, Seraphim's post restriction is annoying as fuck.

[Seraphim]

YOU think it's [REDACTED]? You don't have to write the [REDACTED] posts. I'm just saving up so my [REDACTED] are readable [REDACTED], when it's important. As soon as the [REDACTED] starts, I say we [REDACTED] ani...it's a good idea given the logic behind it. Even so, we should let [REDACTED] speak for himself first.

[SaintKerrigan]

The ruleset has been modified...

From

Article III: Night

1. Night will last 72 hours.

Forgot to change that part when I copy-pasted my standard ruleset...

[animorpherv1]

@Almaster:

If you want me to answer the questions, then relate the questions to the game. I don't normally answer questions anyways because IMO, they do nothing for scum-hunting that the RVS doesn't do. It's just a cop-out for people who hate the RVS, IMO.

@Policy Lynch:

The reason I took out what I like to get that is to avoid myself WIFOMing and saying "Yes, I like mafia and 3rd party, but I sent in Town." And, FTR, everyone else should to, even if they put town as what they wanted, to avoid WIFOM. The main reasons I like town less than mafia/3rd party is that I like having a kill. Which is also why I like Vig, PGO, CPR Doctor etc... All of them effectivley are a vigilante.

[animorpherv1]

EBWOP: "Even if they put town as their Alignment Preference"

[animorpherv1]

EBWOPX2: I found this, which I mostly agree with:

I find the RQS to be banal and just as pointless, if not more so, than the RVS stage. I'm not saying that questioning is bad during the beginning of the game but throwing down a survey and expecting everyone to answer pointless questions is just as bad as randomly voting people for jokey reasons. I also dislike the entire idea of there being "stages" in the first place...the entire idea of "Random Question Stage" seems to imply that EVERYONE should be asking random questions which makes the "RQS" even more unfun. It has just as much potential for discussion as it does dragging down the game. So "RVS" all the way.

[AlmasterGM]

If you want me to answer the questions, then relate the questions to the game. I don't normally answer questions anyways because IMO, they do nothing for scum-hunting that the RVS doesn't do. It's just a cop-out for people who hate the RVS, IMO.

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I find the RQS to be banal and just as pointless, if not more so, than the RVS stage. I'm not saying that questioning is bad during the beginning of the game but throwing down a survey and expecting everyone to answer pointless questions is just as bad as randomly voting people for jokey reasons. I also dislike the entire idea of there being "stages" in the first place...the entire idea of "Random Question Stage" seems to imply that EVERYONE should be asking random questions which makes the "RQS" even more unfun. It has just as much potential for discussion as it does dragging down the game. So "RVS" all the way.

The first question is obviously silly, but the other three are not dumb random questions like, "what's your favorite color." The second one is designed to try and find out whether everyone got the side they wanted, which is pretty relevant in a game where you supposedly CHOOSE YOUR SIDE. The third and fourth questions reveal how far you are willing to go to get ahead. which is also pretty relevant in a game where some people are TRYING TO GET AHEAD BY LYING. The answers also help gauge people's personalities in general, which is always nice information to have, even if you can't use it in game.

And even if the questions ARE useless, you are wasting more time arguing about whether you should answer them or not than it would take to just answer. What's the point of being difficult on purpose?

[Seraphim]

I am eagerly when the [REDACTED] begins so we can hurry up and [REDACTED] animorph. There shouldn't be any [REDACTED] in answering the [REDACTED] questions, honestly. It's a tad [REDACTED].

[SaintKerrigan]

I have received sufficient confirmations.

One by one they made their way to the meadow. Some looked mean, some not...all looked curious, uncertain of what was going to happen next.

"Welcome, you cast of characters," I greeted. "There are fifteen beings in this place today. Some of them have hostile intentions towards others. You may wish to find and eliminate these people."

I look at the sun, in the middle of the sky, and it quickly set behind the mountain, bringing forth night. Five seconds later, bright rays of light peeked out from behind the mountaintop. "Yes, the sun just set and rose in the opposite direction," Charles remarks. "Don't worry about it. I'll be watching you from [BEEP!] and when the day is over I will come to personally check on all of you."

I grin and wave. "Good luck!" With a poof of clouds Charles disappeared.

Vote Count 1.2

Not Voting: caelum, Andrius, Toon Fighter, Nobody Special, animorpherv1, CSL, MagnaofIllusion, AlmasterGM, Seraphim, Mafuyu, manho, UncertainKitten, Super Smash Bros. Fan, Twomz, Espeonage

With 15 players alive, it takes 8 votes to lynch.
Deadline is on Monday, August 23rd, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. CST.

And...........................................................stop!

[SaintKerrigan]

Charles chuckles. "I love chaos and mayhem. It's the oregano of the universes."

Just kidding, y'all can go now.

Day 1 has officially(?) begun.

[AlmasterGM]

OH HEY VOTING TEIM

Vote: animorpherv1

[Seraphim]

Vote: animorpherv1

This isn't really an [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. Just keeping my sentence count up in order to [REDACTED] [REDACTED].

[Super Smash Bros. Fan]

Vote: animorpherv1

Admitting to liking being Mafia/3rd party more then town usually isn't evidence pointing that a person is scum but in this case it is. As this is a game where you could choose your side, you would want to pick your favorite alignment and I don't see animorpherv1 picking town.

His meta indicates that he tends to flake out of games he's uninterested in and games he does play to full extend he usually plays poorly in, which already makes him a decent policy lynch candidate as town do not want useless players in their games.

His outright refusal to answer the question is scummy as well, as AlmasterGM has proven that #2, #3, and #4 are related to the game in some way and I'm convinced. While MagnaofIllusion hasn't answered the questions yet either, he at least gave a decent reason for not originally doing so (Which is not moot since AlmasterGM answered the question himself, now he must as well). I don't see a town reason for animorpherv1 to be avoiding those questions at all.

[Nobody Special]

I'm down with that.

Vote: animorpherv1

[AlmasterGM]

This wagon is so pro.

JUST LIKE THIS GAME.

I mean, who doesn't love finding scum in the confirmation stage?

[Mafuyu]

Mafuyu confirmed.

1. A small subset of players have known the answer to this since before SK even started pre-ins.
2. Teehee.
3. Disco Inferno.
4. No. Mafuyu doesn't need no stinkin' cheatin'.

[Nobody Special]

Oh, damn. I totally forgot.

unvote

Vote: Mafuyu

Trust me on this one.

[AlmasterGM]

lol Mafuyu care to comment on, you know, the game?

[Super Smash Bros. Fan]

@Nobody Special: Why should we trust you in lynching Mafuyu? You have given us no evidence supporting Mafuyu-scum.

[AlmasterGM]

I can't wait for animorph to flip scum so we can lynch NS for being his buddy.

OH LOOK A WAGON? I GUESS I SHOULD GET ON.

OH LOOK A SCAPEGOAT? QUICK MOVE GUYS TRUST ME YOU DONT WANT TO LYNCH MY PARTNER.

[manho]

NO WE SHOULD NOT LYNCH ANIMORPHERV1

vote: mafuyu

i trust you on that, NS

[Nobody Special]

@Nobody Special: Why should we trust you in lynching Mafuyu? You have given us no evidence supporting Mafuyu-scum.

Because she isn't. Please do try to keep up.