GTKAS - Yosarian2

[Andycyca]

You're welcome to write an "about me" post before answering anything. You don't have the right to remain silent.

Why play mafia?
Why mafiascum.net?
Did you like the previous "standard questions"?
Do you know who Bertrand Russell is?
What's the first thing that comes to your head when you hear "Mexico"?
What's the thing you associate the most with Mexico?

Who (on the GTKAS queue) would you like to interrogate next week?

[Korts]

are you interested in arts?
if so, which art movement specifically?
visual or literary arts?
how would you order the following artists in terms of impact on culture?
Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duschamp, Salvador Dalí, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Edvard Munch

[hasdgfas]

When did people start agreeing with you so much?

Best game as scum?

Best game as town?

Worst game as scum?

Worst game as town?

Dream theme for a mafia game?

[forbiddanlight]

Are you really Gimbosarion37's dad?

[IH]

brawl or melee.

[Porochaz]

Do you know everything?

[Lord Gurgi]

What will my next question be?

[Mr. Flay]

Who do you enjoy having disagree with you (on this site or IRL)?

[Korts]

Your favorite scumtell?

Your least favorite one?

Mafia or SK?

North or South?

East or West?

Guns or knives?

[Simenon]

Favorite novelist?
Playwright?
Poet?
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Do you prefer open or closed setups?
Normal or themed?
Traditional or variation?
Stoofer or Glork?
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Do you think an understanding of textbook anthropology would assist a mafia player? By how much?

Automatic "12 players: One Game!!" question goes here.

Where do you think the state of mafia on mafiascum is going? Do you like that direction? If not, how can we change it? If so, how do you contribute to these growing trends?
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Where does my signature come from?

[yellowbounder]

Which player (on mafiascum) do you think is cool?
Do you like Cults, or Jesters?

Are you worried about Google?
What do you do in your spare time when you're not doing mafia related activities?

[pickemgenius]

sup?

[Yosarian2]

Wow, questions piling up fast here...I'll try to answer a few now.

Why play mafia?

It's fun, and really satisfying when you lynch a scum/avoid getting lynched/manage to convince people who were just crying out for your blood that you are actually town after all.

Why mafiascum.net?

Eh. I like it here. Good place to play mafia; better standard of mafia playing then most places I've seen, and better games then most places. Beyond that, it's just a great group of people here; there's really no one on the site that I dislike, which is really amazing considering how most online forums are; even if I somehow got bored of mafia (not that that's likely to happen, lol), I'm sure I'd still hang around.

Did you like the previous "standard questions"?

Eh. Not a bad place to start.

Do you know who Bertrand Russell is?

Nope, not offhand, had to google him to find out.

What's the first thing that comes to your head when you hear "Mexico"?

Uhhh...well, the first thing that came into my head was a map of North America with "Mexico" labeled on it, heh. I don't know; my dad took a road trip down there once, but I've never been to Mexico myself.

What's the thing you associate the most with Mexico?

Um...I donno. Warm beaches?

Who (on the GTKAS queue) would you like to interrogate next week?

Hmmm...(looks) Probably Yoko Kurama or Nightson.

are you interested in arts?
if so, which art movement specifically?
visual or literary arts?

Not really into visual arts so much; I'm just not that visual of a person I guess.

how would you order the following artists in terms of impact on culture?
Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duschamp, Salvador Dalí, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Edvard Munch

Heh...you should probably ask someone else.

[Alabaska J]

Are you this agreeable in real life?

[Yosarian2]

When did people start agreeing with you so much?

That whole meme started when Mr Stoofer mentioned somewhere (I think in the scummy nominations thread or something) that in mafia discussion threads, he would pretty much just waited for me to answer and then agree with me. He then made the "I agree with Yosarian2" sign, which was quite amusing.

Best game as scum?

Probably 24 mafia. viewtopic.php?t=5508. Man, that game was awesome in all kinds of ways, and probably the most complicated mafia game setup I've ever seen; Pooky, you've got to run another one of those if you get a chance.

A close second would be PBuG's "Gaian Alliance", viewtopic.php?t=2049&start=0, where I was a SK with no nightkill protection or cop protection and with a disadvantage that sometimes a townie could use me as a cop and I wouldn't get to kill, and I managed to win by basically lynching the entire mafia and killing off the power roles at night. That was a fun and a challanging one, especally since Baby Jesus was town in that game and he was after me for much of that game, even though I defended him day 1.

Best game as town?

Hmm. Probably a recent one, Pick your Poison II. viewtopic.php?t=6899&start=0. Fun game; I replaced in day 2, and figured out who 2 of the 3 scum were before the end of the day.

Worst game as scum?

Hmm. These questions are harder, because there's pleanty of bad games to choose from, lol. I'd have to say "Cultural Revolution Mafia"; a member of my mafia scum group (or someone we thought was one) was lynched every single day for the first *seven* days in a row, with me going on day 7. (Note that, while mlaker wasn't in our scum group, we THOUGHT he was and were told that he was, so that's just as bad). The scum somehow won that game anyway, because of absolutly absurd game balance stuff going on, but I played that one pretty badly I think. viewtopic.php?t=3053&start=0&postdays=0 ... highlight=

Worst game as town?

Hmm. Probably Lights Out Mafia II. I helped lead the town to something like 4 mislynches in the first two days (we got 2 lynches a day in that game), and then got lynched on day 3 because of it. I was basically wrong about nearly everything for most of the game. Town ended up losing that game, it was pretty ugly.

Dream theme for a mafia game?

Oh, I've got like half a dozen themes boucing around in the back of my head I'd like to mod (or, you know, play in, if I wasn't designing the game.) Right now, I've got like 5 games pretty much totally laid out, for after the games' I'm modding now are done, and trying to decide which one to run:

Lynch all Lurkers Mafia

2000 Flordia Election Mafia (where everyone just keeps stuffing the ballot box, you can vote again every 48 hours, no unvotes, a bunch of roles that cheat to rig the election somehow, and most votes at end of 2 weeks is lynched.)

White Wolf Mafia (based on Warewolf:The Apocolypse, Vampire: The Masquerade, and similar games)

Cop City (Police convention comes to town; mafia moves in to wipe them all out; chaos insues)

Stereotypical Playing Styles BandwagonMafia (Everyone is given a "steriotypical playing style", and they get an extra vote based on that. Like, "Sheep" would have a second vote he could only cast on a bandwagon that already had 3 other votes on it; "Hamma slamma" would have a second vote he could only use to hammer, "Frustrated newbie" would have a second vote he could only use to vote himself; others would be "random voter", "indecisive", "lurker-hunter", stuff like that. Voting roles public, no connection to alignments.)

[Yosarian2]

Are you really Gimbosarion37's dad?

Lol. Pretty unlikely, I'd say.

[Yosarian2]

brawl or melee.

Haven't played enough of either to have an opinion.

Do you know everything?

Not yet, still working on that.

What will my next question be?

[Space intentionally left blank so I can go back and edit it in after you ask your next question]

Who do you enjoy having disagree with you (on this site or IRL)?

Oh, a lot of people; I enjoy a good debate, so long as people stay reasonable and stuff. It's a big part of why I like mafia, in fact.

Your favorite scumtell?

Lurking.

Your least favorite one?

Being defensive.

Mafia or SK?

SK.

North or South?

North.

East or West?

East.

Guns or knives?

Yes.

[Alabaska J]

Can I pre-in for 2000 Florida Election mafia?
Did you think Gimbosarian37's avatar was clever?

[shaft.ed]

Does it disturb you that Alabaska is threadjacking your GTKAS thread?

[Yosarian2]

Favorite novelist?

Hmm. I'm probably going to have to say Asimov, although when I read his early stuff now I don't enjoy it as much as I used to, now that I can see the prob.

Playwright?

Poet?

Don't really have a favorate of either, offhand.

Do you prefer open or closed setups?

Um...closed, I guess, although I like variety, and some open setups are great.

Normal or themed?

Themed, usually. Although I'll always mix in some normal games.

Traditional or variation?

Variations, I guess.

Stoofer or Glork?

Ummm...in what context? To play mafia with? To hang out with? To talk with in general discussion?

Either one, really.

Do you think an understanding of textbook anthropology would assist a mafia player? By how much?

Well, probably a little. Anything that gives you another tool, another way to look at the world, I think makes it easier to figure stuff out, and that's true in mafia as much as anything else. I don't think it'd be the key to finding scum, but if it gives you another viewpoint to look at the game with, I'm sure it'd be helpfull.

Automatic "12 players: One Game!!" question goes here.

Um...let me just give the names that come first to mind. Glork, Baby Jesus, Internet Stranger, Ether, Coron, Mr Stoofer, Seol, PJ, MeMe, Mr Flay, Dragon Phenox. There's a bunch more, too, but those are just all people that make any maifa game they're in much more interesting, much more challanging (if they're on the other side, heh), and a lot more fun. It'd also be a good mix of people; you don't a game with all, well, "fire" players, or a game with all "earth" players; you need some good logical players and some good intuitive emotional players, some careful players and some agressive players, to make a game of mafia really work well.

Where do you think the state of mafia on mafiascum is going? Do you like that direction? If not, how can we change it? If so, how do you contribute to these growing trends?

Well, the site is expanding a lot and very quickly, which means a lot of games that are mostly new players. A lot of them drop out, and some of those games don't work so well because of it, but on the other hand new ideas really bring a lot to the game of mafia, I think.

I don't think GD is going in a bad direction, which is not what a lot of people seem to think. But the thing is, when I started here a few years ago, GD was dead. People almost never posted here at all. Then came a period where it was basically just GTKAS threads. Then there was a lot of spam and stupid stuff. I think that GD in, say, the last few months, is probably as good or better as I've ever seen it here.

One problem I do see developing is that now that mafiascum is starting to get bigger, it's starting to get a little clique-y, and occasioanlly even giving the appearence of "hostile factions" or something. Which is totally unneccessary, and I really don't like. Everyone here is awesome; can't we just all get along?

Where does my signature come from?

Don't know, off the top of my head.

[Yosarian2]

Which player (on mafiascum) do you think is cool?

Lots and lots of them. Along with that 11 player list I made, I really think The Status Quo is cool, Quagmire (RIP ), Adel, Mizzy, Elvis (I just remembered when looking back though my games that I was scum with Elvis and we won way back in 2006...man, that rocked ), PEG, Save the Dragons, uh...I could go on and on. Lots of people are really cool.

Do you like Cults, or Jesters?

I like cults, if they're balanced well. Which is really hard to do, of course.

Jesters, meh. Not a great role, but they usually just do something funny and dumb and then get lynched and win and go away, so it's not that disruptive to the game and sometimes entertaining.

Now, survivors, I really don't like.

Are you worried about Google?

Uh...why should I be worried about Google? Is it coming for me? (looks around) Are they adding a "Yos's living room cam" feature to Google Maps?

What do you do in your spare time when you're not doing mafia related activities?

Uh...read, play computer games, spend time with friends, work, try to take over the world...you know, normal stuff.

[Yosarian2]

sup?

Hey man, how's it going?

Sorry I stopped playing tribalwars; games like that always seem so much fun at first, then I get bored with them after they start to get repetitive.

[Yosarian2]

Are you this agreeable in real life?

Meh. I can be pretty convincing, I guess.

Can I pre-in for 2000 Florida Election mafia?

Heh...not sure if I'm running that one next, or when I would be.

Did you think Gimbosarian37's avatar was clever?

Yeah, it was very amusing.

Does it disturb you that Alabaska is threadjacking your GTKAS thread?

He's not really, I don't think.

[shaft.ed]

Sorry should have read:

Does it disturb you that Alabaska is threadjacking

to

your GTKAS thread?

[Simenon]

What is your first impression upon seeing This.

Can you name two other works by the author of this short?