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Part of Mastin Academy.
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Original Publication: November 26, 2017 by Mastina.
Revised: January 1, 2018 by mastina.
Last Edited: Mastina (talk) 22:14, 1 January 2018 (EST).
Introduction
So something I've wanted to do for a while is a glossary for me: a mastina dictionary of my terms, where I define and explain them in detail. I figured I might as well post them here. These things are, in essence, a complete list of mastinaisms: my terminology, my phrases, my quirks, and the connotations they carry when I use them.
Terminology
Playerlist Synergy
The ability of a playerlist in a given game to synchronize. How well they mesh together. Usually, when I use this term, I am referring more specifically to how they do so with me, and vice-versa, in that I am going to make it well-known how well I can work with the players in the game (or more likely, complain about the inverse).
This is how well different players can work together. Too much of the same style is bad, as is a conflict between two entirely alien styles of posting. The best level of playerlist synergy offers a mixture of the familiar and the unknown, of people you know well and call friends, people you know but don't really interact with much, and people who you don't know. (It is best to avoid having people who you strongly disagree with most often.) It is closely tied to situational awareness, specifically as town.
Gamestate
The state of the game. It is directly tied to situational awareness, in that situational awareness is essentially knowing what the gamestate is. A gamestate is how the thread is progressing. It is the way the game is moving, for better or for worse. It includes type of content and also direction of momentum. Mood is both influenced and a driving force behind gamestate, in that the emotional state of players will determine how things go, and yet how things have gone will influence the emotions of players. Playerlist synergy (or lack thereof) has the strongest influence over it.
Mood
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Situational Awareness
Simply put, it is self-descriptive: the ability to have a level of self-awareness about your situation in any given game. As town, this manifests as knowing the playerlist synergy in your game (or lack thereof) and having a good feel for what your role in the game will be/needs to be: what role you need to fill, what you need to do. This is from a combination of your role PM, your confidence level in your reads (or lack thereof), and your interactions with your fellow players.
As scum, this mainly manifests in psychologically profiling players and creating plans: knowing what the likely obstacles you are to encounter to endgaming town, and producing the best path to overcome said hindrances as quickly as possible. You get a good idea of how players are going to interact with each other, you get a good grip on how your team will play with one another, and then you form a strategy wherein you manipulate circumstances such that events always favor your faction. It is THE most important skill to have as scum, hands-down, because if you lack the awareness to know where you stand in a game, then you fundamentally cannot make decisions be it day or night which move the game in the direction you want.
Psychological Profile
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Town Triple-Threat
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Obvtown
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Charismatic
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Accuracy
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Three Axes of Reads (Merits)
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Play-based Merits
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Meta-based Merits
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Crowd-based (Consensus) Merits
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Soulread
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Thinking In Concepts
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Scenario(s)
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Possibility
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Plausibility
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Probability
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Play > Role
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Role != Alignment
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Opportunism
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Stances
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Context
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Circumstances
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Situations
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Nothing's Universal
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No right way, many wrong
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Critical Analysis
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Acknowledgement
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Three Axes of Tools
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The Tool
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The Method(ology)
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Player Specialties
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Motive
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Mindset
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Intention
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Information
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Facts
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Truth
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Lie
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Best Lie is the truth
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Interconnected
AKA, Interlinked, entwined, and other such various terms. (Further description here)
Engagement
AKA, interaction. (Further description)
Cooperation
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Collaboration
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Cohesion
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Strengths
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Weaknesses
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Playing to Audience
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Playing to Strengths
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Negativity
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Subjectivity
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Objectivity
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Logic
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Reason
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Philosophy
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Theory
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MD Debate
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Theoreticals
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Mechanics
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Roles
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Reasonable Doubt
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Assumption
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Suspicion
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Hypothesis
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Flow
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Coherent
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Manipulate
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Narrative
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Gap
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Picture
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Flawed
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Common Terms
Create, Write, Weave, Compose, Uncover, Craft, Conflicting, Conceive, Convincing, Contradicting, Confuse, Expose, etc. Some as scum (implication of falsified/exaggerated/manipulated narration), some as town (implication of discovered narration), some as both (implication neutral, context sensitive, etc.). (Details here.)
Transparency
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Scumhunting
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Reads
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Scumreads
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Townreads
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Nullreads
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Lurking
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Fluff
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Artificial
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Forced
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Faked
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Unnatural
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Inorganic
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Natural
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Real
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Genuine
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Organic
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Fluid
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Expecting to be wrong
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Delusions of grandeur
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Innocent until proven guilty
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Scum are scum
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Town are town
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Policy lynch
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Regardless of alignment
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Strongarm
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Push
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Readslist
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>/< random
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+/-EV
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Point
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Control vs. Influence
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Reads to fit the evidence
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"Do as I say, not as I do"
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Content
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Direction
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Plan
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Obstacle
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Path
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