Belisarius

Games Played

Game	Start Date	End Date	Mod	Role	Start Status	End Status	Game Result	Comments
Newbie 1306	November 30, 2012	December 30, 2012	DeasVail	VT	Replaced in, Day 1 Predecessor had 0 posts	Alive	Town Win	Had a lot of fun on Day 1, but one scum selfhammered at the end of Day 1, and the other at the start of Day 2, so it was a pretty disappointing game all told. Voted 3 times in total, the first 2 vs. scum.
Newbie 1314	December 31, 2012	March 15, 2013	Jackal711	Town Doctor	Replaced in, Pregame	Shot, Night 1	Scum Win	Tried to direct the NK on D1 so I'd know who to protect, then realised that was an incredibly stupid thing to do. Nobody picked up on what I did there and the scum NK'd me because I was too obvTown
Newbie 1305	January 28, 2013	February 4, 2013	Jackal711	Mafia RoleCop	Replaced in, Day 2	Lynched, Day 3	Town Win	First time as scum. Fucked it up pretty hard. Took some bad risks, but I think they were justified. I enjoyed losing this game more than I enjoyed winning in Newbie 1306. Had lots of good opportunities to quote Shakespeare.
Newbie 1344	March 5, 2013	March 30, 2013	Ser Arthur Dayne	VT	Original player	Shot, Night 1	Town Win	This is the first win I'm actually counting, and I wasn't right about anything once at any point in the game.
Newbie 1352	March 26, 2013	April 26, 2013	UberNinja	Mafia Goon	Original player	Lynched, D2	Town Win	I shouldn't have voted for Cybertronix.
Newbie 1375	May 15, 2013	July 22, 2013	Nobody Special	Cop	Original player	Shot, D3	Scum win	Oh how I hate getting town PRs. The finale was a real nailbiter, though.
Newbie 1377	May 19, 2013	August 2, 2013	Voidedmafia	VT	Replaced in, D2	Lynched, D2	Scum Win	Not my finest hour; First I made a giant throbbing mentulus out of myself by jumping in all casual-like with a by-the-book'er mod, and then I got myself mislynched for the first time in 8 months by being indecisive. I suppose I could have played worse, if I'd claimed scum and then posted nothing but all-caps racial slurs and porno, but I'm really not happy with how this game turned out.
Micro 129	February 15, 2013	March 1, 2013	DeasVail	Town 2-Shot Rolecop	Original Player	Shot, Night 1	Scum Win	So confusing.  Couldn't follow anyone's reasoning D1, and the town quickhammered my only strong townread.  The director was fucking hilarious though.
Micro 126	February 9, 2013	March 29, 2013	RachMarie	VT	Original Player	Shot, Night 2	Scum Win	GODDAMMIT I COULD HAVE HAD THIS ONE. All I had to do D1 was not unvote and Nacho would have got the plurality lynch.
Micro 206	February 9, 2013	September 2, 2013	JasonWazza	Global Watcher	Original Player	Survived to Endgame	Town win	A lot of luck involved in this one -- I watched the same night scum killed for the first time, and only one person visited the dead player. Town really came through for me by visiting their scumreads
Mini 1432	March 12, 2013	July 1, 2013	guille2015	Mafia Goon	Original player	Lynched, D3	Town Win	ITT I learn not to listen to my gut. I had a strong intuitive feel that D3 was time to bus, so I told my partner to bus me. In retrospect, I think scum should never bus in this setup due to the high probability of being unable to NK for lack of an item.
Mini 1440	April 5, 2013	June 16, 2013	Phenenas	Mafia Rolecop	Replaced in, D2	Lynched, Day 6	Town Win	Got busted hard; Klick wins 1,000 Magnificent Bastard points.
Mini 1451	May 11, 2013	June 19, 2013	Cephrir	1-shot Dreamwalker	Original player	Endgamed, N5/D6	Scum win	I wasn't just shit in this game, I was Ultimate Shit. Literally everything I did worked in the scum's favour. Nothing I did could have worked out worse if I'd been trying. Fun game, though.
Open 477	February 15, 2013	May 16, 2013	Robocopter87	Mafia Goon	Replaced in, Day 2	Lynched, Day 2	Scum Win	ITT I have no idea how to react when I get a cop guilty on me.
Open 480	February 22, 2013	April 18, 2013	Gammagooey	Mafia Roleblocker	Original Player	Survived	Scum Win	My first scum win. Cheery Dog was an awesome scumbuddy and the town kept me worried all game long.
Open 492	April 18, 2013	May 11, 2013	jmo16mla	Mafia Goon	Replaced in, Day 3	Survived	Majiffy Win	Jiffy pushed every mislynch. All TNE and I did was not die. In fact, the game could have ended 24 hours sooner if TNE and I had been less careful -- it was L-2 with 2 scum online but neither of us put a vote down in case the other had just gone offline.
Open 506	June 18, 2013	July 9, 2013	Jennifer	VT	Original player	Shot, Night 1	Regfan Win	This is the first game I ever tried using US Marshal Mark McClish's Statement Analysis method right out of the gate. It was wrong about everything. Luckily, a Regfan alt (Tomorrow) replaced into a slot that was about to be lynched and single-handedly won the game for the town.
Open 513	July 26, 2013	July 30, 2013	Fuzzybutternut	VT	Original player	Survived, endgame	Town Win	Shortest game ever. Everyone just played silly buggers all game long and we took out 3 scum in 3 game days. It wasn't a perfect game, though -- The D1 scumkill was our mislynch's daykill and one townie was modkilled.
Open 524	August 27, 2013	October 3, 2013	Karnage	Cannibal Mafia Goon	Replaced in, Day 1	Survived, endgame	Scum Win	This setup was wicked fun...probably because I was scum and NK'd a PR on night 1.
La Isla de la Muerte	July 30, 2013	October 3, 2013	StrangerCoug	Mafia Goon	Original player	Lynched, Day 6	Town Win	We so could have had this if I hadn't missed a night deadline because FFXIV.
Fire Emblem: Awakening	August 26, 2013	December 29, 2013	Cephrir	Town Proposer	Original player	Lynched, Day 6	Town Win	Early in this game I entered into a massive slump and got a massive case of WTF-do-I-do-itis. This was only the 2nd time I was ever mislynched, and I basically led my own lynch.

Last updated: August 31, 2013

Games Modded

Game	Setup	Start Date	End Date	Game Result	Comments
Open 519	Enemy of My Enemy	August 12, 2013	October 10, 2013	Werewolf Win	First time this setup was run, so of course the scum investigative roles cross-killed each other N1, and it became multiball mountainous. Town only lynched correctly once.

Playstyle

• I absolutely hate metagaming. Hate, hate, hate. -- I'm softening on this stance quick-like. It's harder to avoid than I thought. Belisarius 15:10, 2 January 2013 (EST)
• I am somewhat competitive and want to win, but my first priority is to enjoy myself as much as possible.
• My first core principle in any game: It's better to make the others react to me than it is to react to them. It gives me more control over the game and it's easier to get accurate reads based on someone's interactions with me than it is between two others.
• The second core principle is Shaheed's Law, simplified as "If you need something to be true or you're screwed, assume it is."
• Third core principle: "A shit leopard can't change its spots" ~Jim Lahey
• "Active Lurking" and "IIoA": Buzzwords used to stifle discussion and scare people away from using humour. If you use these buzzwords, autovote me every game because I shall no longer be silenced save by lynch.

Offsite Games Played

Game	Start Date	End Date	Mod	Role	Start Status	End Status	Game Result	Comments
Eyes on Final Fantasy Anniversary Mafia	November 14, 2012	November 27, 2012	Jiro	Apothecary	Original player	Shot, Night 7	Mafia Win	Played quite poorly, had no grasp of theory. Roleclaimed early, ham acting damaged town as much as the mafias, stayed in til night 7 chiefly by luck. Misapplied Shaheed's Law on the 2 mafia theory. Still had a lot of fun though, especially the part where I told one of my own buddies to go to Hell in Hamlet's own words when I didn't know who he was. Did manage to scotch the Mafia Poisoner's last night kill, ironically by following the advice of both Mafia Godfathers. This is where my hate of metagaming was born after my correct diagnosis of [M] Setzer as scum was derailed by a metagaming mislynch. Town was terrible in this game as the second Mafia Godfather truthfully roleclaimed 3 days before the end and still won
Eyes on Final Fantasy Mafia XXV	April 1, 2013	April 12, 2013	Laddy	Death Miller	Original player	Shot, Night 5	Mafia Win	I actually thought I'd been lied to in my role PM when I flipped scum and realised that my role hadn't been explicitly named, showed up in town green, and didn't have a link to the Mafia talk are.

Misc

• If you give me any opportunity to quote Shakespeare, expect Shakespeare.
• My favourite thing about Mafia is that "Magnificent Bastard" moment when I realise somebody has successfully pulled the wool over my eyes.
• Some Canadians may like to spell words the American way. I am not one of those people. I speak the Queen's English, please do not "correct" me when I spell words the correct (for me) British way.

Shaheed's Law source

“But of course poker isn’t really a card game. It’s a game of people. The cards are just a tool for playing your opponents. That may be why you weren’t good at it. Bridge comes much closer to direct problem solving— the extrapolation of discrete logical permutations. You can’t ignore who your opponents are, naturally, but you win with your mind more than your guts.

“You’re trying to win this one with your guts, Morn. You need to use your mind.”

Morn drank more coffee. She didn’t say anything: she didn’t have anything to say. Instead she concentrated on the pain in her throat. “We have a maxim in bridge,” he continued. “If you need a particular card to be in a certain place, assume it is. If you need a particular distribution of the cards, assume it exists. Plan the rest of your strategy as if you have a right to be sure of that one assumption.

“It doesn’t always work, of course. In fact, you can play for days without it working once. But that’s not the point. The point is, if your assumption is false you were going to fail anyway. That assumption represents the one thing you have to have in order to succeed, so you might as well count on it. Without it, there’s nothing you can do except shrug and go on to the next hand.”

Donaldson, Stephen R. (2010-07-09). Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Into Vision (pp. 180-181). Random House, Inc.. Kindle Edition.