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LicketyQuickety
Current Username
About Me
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I started playing on a site called Personality Cafe. I have 16 games played there, most of which came before 2016. I am coming up on my second year playing; I started in feb of 2015. I have played in at least 9-10 sites with at least one post. I originally had the goal of playing on every site that played Mafia. That dream died when I found out there were over 900 sites that play this game. Currently I would like to at some point play more games on Mafia Universe, but the drawback is that I do not like the length of game days and nights there. My ideal length of day and night is 72/24, but I have not come across any sites that play that length for either the full game or with any kind of regularity.
I had a very, very rough start to my Mafia career. My first game I was in I was mod killed. I made a very stupid mistake of thinking that because I didn't put my role PM in quote tags that I could copy paste it. It gets worse. On the site I was playing, I noticed that after I had copy pasted my role from the QT that I was given, I noticed that there was a certain color that was not a default color in the colors for text. So I encouraged others to copy past their flavor character with that shade of text. Luckily no one else did it or it could have been mod kills all over the place. In my second game (same site) I was mod killed in that game as well! I had noticed that the thread was open (not closed) so I thought I would make a post about what I thought about something - mistake. I posted before the host made the SoD post. This was my second mod kill in 2 games. I was not off to a good start. On top of all this, when I started I had a ridiculously Scummy meta. My first 16 games I was in I was Lynched 8 times Day 1! But guess what? I kept playing. I found the game absolutely fascinating and couldn't get enough of it. I have progressed as a player like you would not believe. If I am Town, I don't have a good chance of getting lynched. I think I have been wrong two or three(?) times in Mylo and Lylo. problem is, I usually don't make it that far into the game.
Some more personal things about me: I am not ashamed to admit that I have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness that occurs in ~.2%-.5% of the population called Schizoaffective disorder - depressive type. I am currently 30 years old and I am on SSI. I am open about this stuff prolly to my detriment because most people have a stigma toward mental illness in general. I consider myself more intelligent than the average human being. I would guess my IQ ranges anywhere from 110-130 based on numerous IQ tests I have taken. I am prolly just a level below genius level intelligence from my estimations. This provides an interesting combo - having a mental illness while being relatively intelligent - it allows me to see the world in a perspective most do not see. For this reason, I have been called "weird," "odd," "strange" and people tend to say things like "I don't understand you." Rather than getting down on myself about this, I actually consider it a strength.
Style Of play
When I first started playing I was always the top poster. I posted so much that it choked the game. After hearing multiple times not to do that I finally decided that it was best that I let the game breathe before I felt the need to post my thoughts. [Redacted]
I have had many people tell me they do not follow my reasoning. For a time I tried to explain myself more elaborately in hopes that people would understand, but it seemed the harder I tried to do that the less understood I was.
I have gotten lazy in my way of playing. I don't often say everything that is on my mind regarding the game, but reduce it to a few things that I feel are of immediate concern. [Redacted]
As Town I am a decent Scum hunter and a leader - my Town game, if you have played with me before, is unmistakable. I do, however, try to match my Scum game to my Town game which is an ever evolving process. [Edit] I do NOT however, prioritize "looking Town" over other aspects of the game as Scum.
As I have gotten more comfortable playing as Scum (which is an ongoing process) I have felt my style of play is very much a power player. I post a lot, but I try to keep giving different or unique insights into what is going on in the game. I don't like to repeat myself so you won't see me making the same argument over and over unless it is called for. I generally do have some unique insights into the motivation of players and I sometimes say things that other people do not agree with the significance of what I have said.
Note: I have been trying to play around with the idea of trying to survive longer. This is done (for me) by not posting as much as I usually do. [Redacted]
Quotes
"There's definitely LicketyQuickety--this one is similar to Ankamius, in that it's not one people would really know about, but given our theory talks, LicketyQuickety is the type of player who, if I was scum, would terrify me because of the potential to nail scum time and time again. I might be one of the few to see it, but I see it all the same." ~Teridax AKA mastin2
"I don't think there's any reason for LQ to lay the groundwork for a later play (I also think that meta-diving LQ proves that he's a "non-traditional" player (whatever that means) more than his words do)." ~Nachomamma8
Lol dude forget about what people say. Don't know who told Occam's that but you do have a history of getting lynched on D1 but I still remember the last game I played with you, you were NKed and your nk basically destroyed the scum team and won us the game. Even owner used to get lynched on D1 but then people started reading her properly. It's the same with you as well dude. ~lost monkey
"LQ was such an idiot when he first started playing on this site. Now that he's settled in he's pretty good. That's a problem." ~Klingoncelt (Scumchat)
"I hate that lickety is so on point even though I genuinely don't get him half the time. He's got half the scum team down." ~Elbirn (Scumchat)
Favorites
favorite play I have made
[1]"Falcon Punch: MarioManiac4" (Day Vig) ~ LQ
[2]"Mariomaniac, who was Snake, Neutral modified post-trapper serial killer 3-shot reflexive roleblocker, was falcon punched Day 1." ~ Mod
Favorite Scum Game
Doc/Vig Newbie Light 13er: Crypt of the Necrodancer on Mafia Universe
Favorite Town Game
S-FM Spirits: A recent game where all my reads were correct and I WIFOMED Scum so hard they thought I was Vig and NKed me solving the game for a Town win.
What I Think is the Ideal Way to Play
As Town: Don't lynch Town. Don't vote Town. Vote your Scum Reads only. Don't get sucked into FPS (Fancy Play Syndrome). Evaluate, Reevaluate. Push stuff that is Scummy; If that means you end up Town Reading that player along your push, then good, you can look elsewhere.
As Scum: Lynch Town. Don't put looking Town above lynching Town. Scum Theatre FTW only.
How I read people
I read people based on instinct, pure and simple. Instinct is different than gut because with instinct you start out with getting a gut read that someone is Town or Scum. Where it is different is that after something pings you or sets off alarm bells or raises red flags or whatever you want to call it you then go to investigate that person more closely you find out if they were Scum all along. Often times its a single post that alerts me that I believe they are Town or Scum and then I just look to see if what I was instinctive of has merit. If it does, I make a case out of it, if not, I might just keep watching. Sometimes there are things that you can just tell that that person would never say that as Town or Scum and that is where the art of reading the person comes into play. Reading the person is far more likely to give you accurate result than pretty much any kind of tell that is general. Tells are subjective, slips are subjective. The only thing you really have is what is said itt by that player and if what they are saying doesn't line up with their personality, then you know something is up. I, like every other player who has any amount of experience, do not have a perfect record for reading players. Its as much of a waiting game for me as it is an active one. I am waiting to see what is going to grab my attention and tell me where to look closer. My rule of thumb is asking myself "would this person post this as Town/Scum?" That said, Tells do in fact exist, but ONLY if you can explain them to a T. Without proper articulation on what the tell is, why it is a tell and how its reliable, it means nothing.
Additions to the Community
[3] Reads Lists: A Personal Perspective