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Gods and Mortals [Phalla] - Game Over: Village Victory!
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K, it's cool, though the post-game discussion is a dumb place to cause drama like that is what I'm saying. But yeah, I'll ignore it now.
I was genuinely curious about why such a decision is best for the village. I guess I can see the argument, but I still disagree.
Not to mention, we don't take kahndly to meta-modding 'round here.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Actually he wasn't, he was foxed. I had him killed for several reasons, it was mostly a combination of small things. A post here and there that seemed off somehow, jumping on and off bandwagons at the exact right time, and I think someone in my network mentioned that for a Phalla regular your play style seemed different.
I might be getting you confused with someone else though.
Yeah, that's cool. It's really a playstyle thing, and may not always be appropriate.
As for the drama, I really doubt Frosteey's comment was to be drama-inducing at all--that's really just how he rolls. A lot of the game of Phalla is learning how people "are" and when they are acting "off" and small jibes get passed around quite frequently.
See, those are all general comments, and I'm pretty sure he's looking for specific examples. What seemed off about the post here or there? I'm not vh, but I'm curious, and I hate when people answer this sort of request in this sort of way--you're not really helping.
I'll look back, but I just deleted all my PM's and my spreadsheet changed from day to day, so I don't remember much.
My mindset was mostly "take a target out then move on." Focus entirely on the suspect of the day and screw the next.
Nah, it's okay. He had a lot of suspects over the course of the game, I can't expect him to remember the single greatest thing that tipped him off about me.
It's a little annoying, though, because the last few times I've been a bad guy, a couple people have been like "It was so obvious man" leaving me to wonder what the hell I'm doing wrong. I'll figure it out eventually, I guess.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
Yeah, which is weird. Because I know that Elki was playing how he always plays, but was sure he was evil anyway. I honestly have no idea what tipped me off to that one.
:lol: It's true.
As he was going down yeah, but before that there was like two posts a day. It seemed like he was playing the Elki role from the Phalla Phalla (which by the way, I read in my depression after Detroit's game 3 loss in the Stanley Cup Finals, tremendous job VH).
EDIT: I guess he posted 44 times, that is rather a lot for him.
"But Master Yoda told me to be mindful of the future!"
"Yes, but not at the expense of the present."
Oh. Oh! Ha. Spot on. Good work.
I misread the rules thread and thought the logical fallacies were AGAINST the rules, not just frowned upon, so I apologize for that mistake on my part. As to the calling out part, I felt the greivance was an act against the community, not myself, and by multiple parties in multiple phallas, hence my putting it in the thread, not a pm. If I'm ever personally offended by a single individual, I will definitely keep it in pms as you've suggested.
This I didn't know, I figured we would fall under D&D customs of debate. I honestly view all phallas as mostly games of reasoned debate, and consequently bristle at logical fallacies being used in place of arguments. Thank you for correcting me on this misconception.
I can appreciate this sentiment. I've never been too concerned with rule breakers, I've used the report button twice, and only for nsfw videos posted without a nsfw tag. I just really enjoy these games, and was treated with a great deal of respect and kindness in my first game. I want other newbies to have a similar first experience.
In eight days, though? Counting the rampup in posts near the end, that seems about close to the description in the Phalla Phalla of four per day, right?
I can understand the bristling at the logical phallacies, personal attacks, and just stupid moves that may happen during the course of a Phalla game, but you really, really need to get over that and ignore it when playing Phalla because pretty much anything goes in the game of deception... you're trying to peg players as good or evil by their actions and how their actions differ from game to game, and many people are going to do things simply to throw people off their trail, spark some sort of reaction, or just mess with people for no reason. It's anything goes, and everything usually does.
He died night five. One ghost post and I think he had one or two postgame. That's eight posts a day on average. Way more than I thought he had.
EDIT: I Just counted, 12 in the run up to his death it looks like. So he was on a reasonable Elki pace before he died, but still a little more chatty than usual. It was like six posts a day.
This. Great work, thetheroo. It's clear you did a good job running the network once you took over, even to those of us that weren't in it.
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Also, I also turned against the Elki bandwagon after I realized that I post even less than he does. This is odd because I spend lots of time lurking in this forum. The primary thread is always interesting, especially to a Canadian.
Didn't realise he had been dead so long--my bad. Still, I'm sure the last day he was alive throws off the average a lot, but yea, it's a bit high I guess.
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I see your edit. Hah. Funny.
Edit: Wow I posted 154 times. Remind me not to do that.
Even I got this!
On a slightly more serious note, I loved playing this game:
1. I assumed everyone would be welcoming. You were.
2. It did not, at any point, feel like a clique.
3. It got a bit scary at times, cos people appeared very cross at each other, but I just thought that was part of the gameplaying.
4. I was sad when I was killed, cos I wasn't part of the game any more. I wouldn't have felt like that if 1 and 2 weren't true.
5. Different time zones meant it was a bit hard, cos you (apart from Bwanie) were all asleep in the middle of my day, and I was asleep 2-3 hours before end of voting. Ah, well.
Has this ever been played at PAX? Would it be viable? (There's an Assassins game going to happen).
Thank you guys, it was fun.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
Just drop it dude. Especially when I have only been anything but mean to the new players.
Edit: Really, you act as if this community has been going around and punching new players in the face. I haven't ever seen that happen. Not by me, and not by any other vet around these, or CF's parts.
I have no idea if you actually posted more or less than usual, but it just seemed as though you were not as active as I've seen you in the past.
That was a combination of me actually being busy during the week and the fact that I tend not to participate as much when I'm a mere villager, so I was going for that.
Whatever, next time I won't care and just get in any argument I want.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
I wish I could be evil again. With all I've learned since then... I'd still have no idea how to play it.
Well I was making sure that I tried to post as much as I had in other games I'd played in
I mean I'm paranoid so I always assume people keep track of that meta shit
I don't find "I'm only treating players with experience poorly, not new players. How could that possibly effect new players perception of how the game is played?" to be compelling. In all the phallas I've played I've never seen play as aggresive as in this one, but as LaOs has said, that is apparently an acceptable part of the game, so the issue is over. My personal beliefs are trumped by the communities.
Aggressive
Trust me you'll be forgetting it as soon as you finish this sentence.
The one where B:L went crazy? I want to say it had something to do with space. . .maybe?
EDIT: I think the most aggressive performance was done by Drez in the Eternal Darkness game...
Yeah where you could choose to cheat and stuff, and choose a story choice on your little laptop thingy
Perhaps you should think on this fact.
I look forward to your next game.
Seriously, need moar phalla now!
That game needs to start officially.