A few odds and ends here. Filtered through my IRL feelings. ((I’m moving back in with my parents. I had, and lost three jobs in 2016. I lost a job of 4.5 years at the end of 2015.))
I’m a bit introspective at the moment. This will probably be tertiary to the game at best, fluff and outright OOG at best.
That said, and to further my response to Drain Bead I’m going to “go there”. I firmly believe that I can dissect Alcohol Squid here and make a few general Mafia points. I won’t get there on my own. I’m asking for opinion.
“”… The bad guys can ignore the context and just play however they’d like because they’re not seeking information.“”
I get the theory here. I differ at what Scum can and do with the context. After all, isn’t ignoring context the same as Skimming? Isn’t Skimming A top five scum tell?
I think it’s more a Bruce Lee thing, paraphrased:: ““respect the rules, while not being bound to them””. I’d wager power role town could seek similar benefit, subscribing to this belief.
I don’t think scum ignore context as much as you are making it out to be here.
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“”… I don’t know what it means that you’ve decided to use your magic faerie wand to say that Ulla’s not scum.“”
The full meaning of Magic Bag escapes me at the moment, suffice that it was more personal, to the self, claiming in a vauge sense. I want to associate your faerie wand with a magic bag claim. … Is there a connection here?
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“…I can’t figure it out with the information at hand, so it’s irrelevant to me.”
Wow.
At once, I feel the “Old” Meeko wanting to attack you here. … More reserved, I look inward. [[When we see a man of contrary character, we should look inward, and examine ourself. -Confuscious (Yeah, philosophy and spirituality searching is real deep shit.)]]
I can’t go here with you. My key issue is with “irrelevance”". A Discarded, disposed irrelevance? Or, a “please sir, let me check your coat for you” irrelevance? At what point in time do you come back to this, and is it an absolute that additional information becomes present before doing so? … If my thoughts were real, and our games were also,real… I would own a circut track of floor space, from my mental pacing. ((Rumination, if I am brutally honest here. :(
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The old me … And perhaps still me at present, would work on a point long after others and common sense have stopped. There is obviously a line of thought here, that would benefit me. I could fill my tank with it… But as for most things in then space, for me on a personal level, it’s not a matter of tank capacity … I flat out do not have the tank at all to begin with. I see the treasure, I don’t have the hands to grasp it.
The second part, is more what I intended to get to, before I opened up, frankly. … And admittedly it’s meta. I’ve lost most of my train of thought on this one… Except the overarching question.
Does “birth order” and or being an only child affect Mafia play?
“”…and having votes being placed on me as scum is a lot more concerning.“”
I feel, perhaps the same level of concern if votes are placed on me as town. As Chronos pointed out, I have in the past done everything I could to confirm my town status. … And if you spare me the rationale… I wonder if birth order ((Or indeed, being an only child)) plays in here, to color my perspective. … It all falls on me to get what I want done… There is no other … Group of authority (By consensus, “mob” or otherwise) to achieve my agenda, if I go under… I can’t count on siblings to forward my goals. Perhaps I equate the lynch as parental control… I don’t know. This is fast transitioning to from a ““move”” in Mafia into a session where my time is up for the day… And as I said, I’ve lost where I was going on this particular point, as I started…
-Meeko, who is debating if this fulfills his group therapy obligations… [[Not that he actually has any, at present.]]