SpyreX

Finished Games

Game	Start	Role	Alignment	Result	Notes
Newbie 607	07/29/08	Vanilla	Town	Abandoned	This one was a..debacle. If Gimbo hadn't ruined it, town would have lost for sure. For a first game, this one really was irksome. It definitely set the tone for my absolute hatred of meta - especially as a defense. PEG earned the lynch - I dont feel bad about that. The rest of it was bickering between town and, as is obvious in rereading, lost sight of even looking for scum. Not a great start.
Newbie 723	12/26/08	Vanilla	Town	Loss	I got outplayed. Plain and simple. KKB really played a solid game and earned the win - there was only one piece of evidence really against him. The town played abysmally this game and its a little sad how bad it truly was in the reread.
SSW III	07/24/08	She-Wolf	Town	Win	I was hyper aggressive but it payed off in spades - my first list of real suspects nailed 2/3 scum with good reason. But it all REALLY fell into place when we shifted to Jebus. The speed of those last two days makes me laugh in rereading. Most of the town played a great game and we were really good at eliminating those that weren't.
Monty Pythons Mafia Circus	07/01/08	French Taunter	Town	Win	A great game. Babies first power role. We got some mad help from DBE claiming in the great debacle D1. My night pull ended up being awesome and the docs freaking ruled. I did hit the Sk and if they had saw my breadcrumb I think it would have been even easier. A lot of fun.
Xyl's Relative Chaos	11/01/08	Secret Agent	Scum	Loss	I may have lost, but my god was it a win. I got killed by the other scum group for being too town. Yea, thats right. If I'm going to lose, I'd love it to be this way. My role was sweeet too.
Lynch All Lurkers	04/15/09	Vanilla	Town	Win	I replaced in, said my piece (and was fairly decently right about it) and then was NK'd. Fun while it lasted. A very interesting dynamic with the lurker-scum vibes and the push against it.
Mallrats	07/22/08	Vanilla	Scum	Abandoned	It was fun while it lasted. I wish it wasn't abandoned. I think at the point we were at no one would have tagged ALL of us and if anything I was the sacrificial lamb.
Kirby Mafia	09/09/08	Vanilla	Town	Win	I replaced in to a game so covered in apathy it shouldn't have been won. Yet, we managed to pull it out. Go go lylo!
Grimmmafia	10/15/08	Rumpelstiltskin (Vig)	Town	Win	This was one of my favorite games. My self-inflicted post restriction really made it a hoot. I am still floored that the scum never even tried to kill me even after I started picking them off. Good times.
Serum & Steel	11/01/08	Krark-Clan Shaman (Metallurgist)	Town	Win	Blah. Blah on this game. Its a win, but.. I really didn't like the setup nor the rule changes as it went on. Not my favorite.
Prozacmod 2	11/14/08	Vanilla	Town	Win	I couldn't ever get into this game. I kind of liked the dynamic of the rooms at night, however the abysmally long nights killed a lot of it for me. I was glad to die.
Killing Verse	02/02/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	The post restrictions were hard on the town. Real hard. Couple that with scum roles that invalidate the town... blah. Interesting, but I wouldn't say balanced well.
Street Fighter 4	03/13/09	Vega (Traitor)	Scum	Loss	Porkens stole the show this one. Faking a guilty (and being right) really screwed us up. I pat myself on the back for living another day WITH A COP RESULT on me. The powers of Empking I guess
Polygamist Mafia	07/05/08	Lover (Adel)	Town	Win	I know, somehow, I was instrumental to the town actually pulling this out. However, I'm still not sure what I did. The mess around the hammer hurt my head - how do you not lynch someone who says they are scum? However, my partner was liquid awesome. A lot of fun all the way through. I think, if I ever do a Poly, I am going to push AGAINST the massclaim early even harder.
Tranquility	09/14/08	Vanilla	Town	Loss	This game should be better known as "How to not play as Masons." I am still irritated watching what SHOULD have been an easy town win. But, alas.
Mini 701	11/01/08	Cop	Town	Loss	This game is the poster child for balance. 10 players... 4 scum? Really? We had one mislynch and still lost. I still am proud of my play, but.
Capitol of the World!	11/29/08	One-Shot Vig	Town	Win	Note to scum: Don't implode day 1 over a joke-case. It leads to a scum loss. This game was a hoot, from the getgo.
Mafia Jailbreak	01/31/09	Vanilla	Town	Win	Nothing like playing balls out in endgame for an assured win. I can imagine the scum irritation when Bio and I said "welp, if you're scum you win." Fun, fun stuff.
Normalcy	03/09/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	I wish I could have lived longer. Ohh the joys of getting lynched I suppose. :P Interesting setup and some good play by scum. Fun to read along with.
Return of the Mafia!	01/22/08	Vanilla	Town	Win	Notice that this game started BEFORE I JOINED THE SITE. Good gravy. I did some megaposting and nailed some scum (and was abysmally wrong about some too). Fun to look at in retrospect.
SSW II	07/03/08	Werewolf	Town	Win	I love swift games. I like the pace so much better and my experience has been really good with it. I think I played well in this game. Especially towards the end. BM made a huge mistake in going after OGML - aside from that he played a damn good game. OMGL gets the mad props for pushing so hard on the recruiter day one which, in turn, made him explode into goo. Fun times.
Near Vanilla	03/02/09	Vanilla	Town	Win	Camn is tech. Seriously. Her replacing in swung that game around so hard it was still spinning. A fun reread.
Doubleday Mafia	06/19/08	Vanilla	Town	Loss	I only am angry that two lurker scum won this. LF played an amazing scum game. The town... well, not the best showing. I need to learn to give and take a bit more - I was way too bull-headed.
Streets of Verona	05/29/08	Vanilla	Town	Win	I got double killed Night 1. After pushing DJ's MOON MATH. Apparently that made me the greatest threat ever.
WWF Mafia	07/09/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	Awesome post restrictions. Awesome flavor. Goofy town. :P
A Roccisi Summer	05/14/09	Vanilla	Town	Win	An extremely fun game (even if I was lord of wrong) and well modded and balanced. I still hate neighborhoods SO much though.
Lovers Mafia	07/24/09	Lover	Scum	Win	My first scum win! I was really, really nervous when Haylen self-voted and had to spin some serious tales for damage control - I think if I hadn't done that I would have been busted right out.
Wheel of Time Mafia	04/17/09	Male Who Can Channel / Vanilla	Chaos / Town	Loss	Teach me to roll with the town - I would have won faster than lightning if I had stayed chaos. I loved the setup sans the "lying" mechanic which (no fault to Kinetic) I think just can't be done well in a mafia game. Its far too subjective.
Apennine Mafia	07/07/09	Vanilla	Scum	Win	Flawless win after 120 pages. All in all lurkers + spew dominated this game and made it fairly easy - up until I L-1'd my partner to break that wagon which ended up in one of the most pro-town players hammering themselves (instead of me). Good game, overall.
Bleach Mafia	07/22/09	Inoue Orihme	Scum	Win	Flawless win in a fast setup. The balance was off - this was a really, really swingy game (we won D3 start because we had 3 kills d2). A good idea but the mod hiatus + the amount of kills made it blase.
Twilight Mafia	06/19/09	Charlie (Cop)	Town	Loss	Stupid, stupid scum NKing me D1. I had hit a scum that night and had the others wrapped up. I guess I took too hard a role at the start and that backfired. Scum played solid after that point.
/in-Vitational Game 5	08/08/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	Apathy kills towns. Not a whole lot more to say than that. Scum played solid, but we ultimately shot ourselves in the foot.
Less Flavor than English Food	09/01/09	Godfather	Scum	Win	This one was a fun game. I came out guns a blazin' to try and force a cop investigation... to find out there was no cop. Benmage took on the role of town-destroyer and it was amazing to watch it always come back to him. Decent play by scum, but mostly town killed themselves here.
Murder in Emerald City	06/10/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	This was a fun game to replace into. I liked my performance. KK was inspired. Xyl played an amazing game. Kinda sucks losing by lynching scum but eh.
Newbie 840	09/08/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	I liked Net's move trying to drag me down with him. The joys of newbie games - seriously.
MtG: Parallel Universe Mafia	08/06/09	Vanilla	Town	Loss	The modkill rules were blah. Cults are double blah. Cults that get to fake being a cop are triple blah. Definitely not my favorite from a game perspective although I love my play during it.

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General Mafia Thoughts

1.) Meta - Meta is, as its normally used, retarded. Meta can not and should not be a defense for scummy playstyles - why encourage it? Instead, kill them without remorse until they shape up. Meta can, and isn't, used as 'icing' on a case - if you see a set of scummy actions, and due to playing with them or other play see the same set of results - say so. Otherwise, drop it. I hate having meta arguments every damn game.

2.) Hammertime - Early game there is a REAL issue with the hammer. It holds way too much sway; its just a vote, ffs. Players shouldn't be instantly condemned for doing it nor should, if it hits scum, they be proclaimed heroes. Wagons take every player.

3.) Bandwagons to Claim - It drives me nuts in early game when bandwagons get pushed until a claim...and then die. To be replaced by another. To do the same thing. Seriously, why not just massclaim. This drives me nuts and I'm starting to see a definite scum push-pull in this mess.

4.) WIFOM - STOP IT. Not using it, calling it on everything. There's a rhyme and a reason and nothing at all wrong with scum conjecture when it is designed to apply to what has happened, not the circular logic pattern that IS WIFOM. Pull it together, ffs.