Posted June 17, 2022
Hello! Since I don't see you on the list of people playing on page one, it is very much okay for you to private message me directly if you would like to help me out. ^_^ I may have the avatar of a giant sea creature with eight arms and two tentacles, but I promise that I don't bite, drown people in the ocean, or make them play horribly dangerous games.
dedoporno: Do you have any reads on anyone even if it's just one person? For example the argument between Frostburn and ZFR has pretty much gotten the spotlight at the moment. I assume you've been following it. Do you have any opinion on the matter and/or either of the two sides? Let's have a moment of complete and total honesty. There will be zero deception and half-truths because I have a point to make about the FrostburnPhoenix and ZFR situation that should be taken entirely at face value.
1. Acronyms really do in fact give me a ton of trouble. I rarely use them for this reason. I'm using a sans-serif font at a larger size as it is easier to ready, but letters still sometimes just bleed into each other. I find it very hard to follow conversations when I keep seeing unfamiliar acronyms and unfamiliar jargon doesn't help things either. It really does look like a private conversation written in some super secret spy code that I don't know how to decipher. I don't know how else to describe it.
2. However because of the significant point that I am going to make next, I am going to say that I think ZFR was on to me when he seemed a bit insisted that I was at the more experienced end of the newer players after I said that I only played three games. I wasn't lying when I said that I only played three games on a 6-8 hour cycle about ten years ago.
I just didn't mention that I hated the 6-8 hour day/night cycle so much that I co-moderated a bunch after that and pushed for a 12-hour cycle where I wrote out all the death scenes. No sad lists of the dead when night actions were reported to me. Instead the day would start where someone would be found stabbed to death in their shower (in the style of Psycho), murdered by crop duster (North by Northwest), buried in a shallow grave under a flowerbed that a dog dug up (inspired by Rear Windows), fell to their death from a Ferris wheel (because The Third Man), or maybe they just disappeared completely after probably being tossed into the nearby lake. We tried a 24-hour cycle game, but there was so much impatience and whining over it taking so long. The site I played on hasn't been around in years.
3. As for the FrostburnPhoenix and ZFR situation more specifically. I found it extremely hard to follow, but this one post here really stuck out:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_mafia_76_trouble_in_the_lucas_arts_multiverse/post119
It may have been ten years since I played or moderated this game anywhere, but we had this one game that was super memorable just for the rule that came out of it. One of the Mafia withheld their vote on day one, implying that they had the Voteless Townie role. The actual Townies were enraged at the fact that one of their own couldn't vote that they sent the moderators private messages over it, resulting in a statement being made mid-game that the Voteless Townie role would be discontinued after that game. All games after that really did have a there is no Voteless townie rule, even after the lie was revealed.
Just because someone makes a statement that they revealed they have a role and offer to claim it, that doesn't mean that they'll give an honest answer about it. Technically we all have roles, even if that role is generic townie or mafia goon.
And another mafia tactic that I ran into on that site was to lay low and not post much in the mafia game thread while posting quite a bit in other threads. This way they would be seen but not in a way that attracted too much attention to themselves. So with that in mind, it might be a good idea to check as to who has and who has not been participating.

1. Acronyms really do in fact give me a ton of trouble. I rarely use them for this reason. I'm using a sans-serif font at a larger size as it is easier to ready, but letters still sometimes just bleed into each other. I find it very hard to follow conversations when I keep seeing unfamiliar acronyms and unfamiliar jargon doesn't help things either. It really does look like a private conversation written in some super secret spy code that I don't know how to decipher. I don't know how else to describe it.
2. However because of the significant point that I am going to make next, I am going to say that I think ZFR was on to me when he seemed a bit insisted that I was at the more experienced end of the newer players after I said that I only played three games. I wasn't lying when I said that I only played three games on a 6-8 hour cycle about ten years ago.
I just didn't mention that I hated the 6-8 hour day/night cycle so much that I co-moderated a bunch after that and pushed for a 12-hour cycle where I wrote out all the death scenes. No sad lists of the dead when night actions were reported to me. Instead the day would start where someone would be found stabbed to death in their shower (in the style of Psycho), murdered by crop duster (North by Northwest), buried in a shallow grave under a flowerbed that a dog dug up (inspired by Rear Windows), fell to their death from a Ferris wheel (because The Third Man), or maybe they just disappeared completely after probably being tossed into the nearby lake. We tried a 24-hour cycle game, but there was so much impatience and whining over it taking so long. The site I played on hasn't been around in years.
3. As for the FrostburnPhoenix and ZFR situation more specifically. I found it extremely hard to follow, but this one post here really stuck out:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/gog_mafia_76_trouble_in_the_lucas_arts_multiverse/post119
It may have been ten years since I played or moderated this game anywhere, but we had this one game that was super memorable just for the rule that came out of it. One of the Mafia withheld their vote on day one, implying that they had the Voteless Townie role. The actual Townies were enraged at the fact that one of their own couldn't vote that they sent the moderators private messages over it, resulting in a statement being made mid-game that the Voteless Townie role would be discontinued after that game. All games after that really did have a there is no Voteless townie rule, even after the lie was revealed.
Just because someone makes a statement that they revealed they have a role and offer to claim it, that doesn't mean that they'll give an honest answer about it. Technically we all have roles, even if that role is generic townie or mafia goon.
And another mafia tactic that I ran into on that site was to lay low and not post much in the mafia game thread while posting quite a bit in other threads. This way they would be seen but not in a way that attracted too much attention to themselves. So with that in mind, it might be a good idea to check as to who has and who has not been participating.