Hello. In this game, I'll be showing off various types of cellular automata. Such as this chaotic knitting pattern. which uses Rule 30, left XOR (center OR right), to produce a chaotic arrangement of triangles and lines.
- Don’t be a dick. This is a heated game but toxicity will not be tolerated. Attack the play not the player. If your fellow players tell you to stop, you must stop. If you do not stop, I will tell you to stop. If you still do not stop, you will be force-replaced. Asking people to stop voting you or to stop scumhunting you entirely doesn't count for this rule and you may find yourself lynched if you try it.
Don't talk about ongoing games
- You may not talk to each other about this game outside of threads I have created for this purpose. You may not talk about other ongoing games in this thread.
Animated GIFs
- are of the devil, but they are permitted behind spoilers if clearly labelled as such.
Tiny text
- is also of the devil, keep it 70+ please.
Provable randomness
- is against the rules. Saying that you rolled a dice is fine, using dice tags or random.org is not.
Claiming scum
- by yourself is fine. Claiming scum with another player is against the rules.
- You have about 72 hours to confirm your role and your alignment by PM. Game will start sooner if everyone confirms. Posting in a private topic counts as confirmation.
Days
- Day 1 lasts 10 days and other days last 7 days. Extensions may be granted if there are replacements, or if the majority of players make it clear to me that an extension is desired.
Activity
- You must post at least once every 36 hours or I will Prod you. You then have 24 hours to post in the game thread or I will replace you. If you come back before I find a replacement, you can stay. The activity timers run at half-speed on weekends. Players can request me to prod somebody early. This will only count as an official prod if you don't post before you would have been due for a prod. If you haven't posted in the 24 hours before the thread is locked for night, you must reply to the night start PM or you will be replaced during the night.
Vacation/Limited Access
If you need to be absent for longer than this, you should declare
V/LA
in bold in the thread like this: [
b]
@Mod: I will be v/la until Thursday
[
/b]. While you are V/LA, you will be nudged once every 54 hours. Two nudges equals one prod. If you have not posted game advancing content in 5 days, regardless of V/LA status, you will be replaced.
Prodging
- A naked "prod dodge" does not reset the prod timer. To avoid being prodded/replaced for inactivity, include some game advancing content in your prodges, such as "got prodded; xxxx is still scum."
Quoting
- You may not quote (or copy paste) any private information into the thread, including your role PM and any mod communication.
Voting
- Votes must be in bold in the format VOTE: Plotinus or
Vote: Plotinus
. Strong preference for using vote tags instead of bold tags. Unvotes are nice but not required. If I think it’s a vote, it’s a vote, no tricks. Type [
v]Plotinus[
/v] to vote and [
uv]Plotinus[
/uv] to unvote.
Lynching
- Days end early when a simple majority of players (50% of living players + 1 rounded down) vote to lynch somebody. If a majority is not reached at deadline or if a majority of the players vote for no lynch, the day will end without a lynch. At evens, 50% is sufficient for no lynch.
Twilight
- Begins when a majority is reached and lasts until I lock the thread. You're still alive until I flip you so you can talk in any game threads you have access to until then, but no votes or unvotes will be counted.
Night
- Night lasts at least 48 hours. The night phase can be shortened if every living player -- even those with no night actions -- agrees to it and if I'm not busy.
Action submissions
- You may submit actions via PM (if town) or PT (if scum). If the actions are not submitted by the deadline then you do nothing. You can change your mind as many times as you like before the deadline.
Reminders
- If I don't hear from you about your night actions, I'll PM you 24 hours before the deadline. This doesn't count as a prod. If I still don't hear from you, you will take no action.
Notes PT
- Let me know if you want a private thread to store your thoughts and feedback for the other players. This thread will be made public immediately after the game. You may draft posts in your notes PT but you may not talk about your notes PT in public. You definitely may not use the notes PT to demonstrate that you've had a town mindset in private all along; just put your town mindset in public to begin with and keep your notes to yourself.
Play to win
- this particular game, not some future one, and keep it fun!
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:24 pm
by Plotinus
Setup Info
Spoiler: Full Setups
Column A & Row 1:
Mafia Roleblocker, Mafia Goon, Town Cop, Town Doctor, Vanilla Townie x 5
Column A & Row 2:
Mafia Roleblocker, Mafia Goon, Town Jailkeeper, Town Tracker, Vanilla Townie x 5
Column A & Row 3:
Mafia Roleblocker, Mafia Goon, Town Mason x2, Vanilla Townie x 5
Column B & Row 1:
Mafia Rolecop, Mafia Goon, Town Tracker, Town Friendly Neighbor, Vanilla Townie x 5
Column B & Row 2:
Mafia Rolecop, Mafia Goon, Town Jailkeeper, Town Friendly Neighbor, Vanilla Townie x 5
Column B & Row 3:
Mafia Rolecop, Mafia Goon, Town Tracker, Town Doctor, Vanilla Townie x 5
Column C & Row 1:
Mafia Goon x 2, Town Cop, Vanilla Townie x 6
Column C & Row 2:
Mafia Goon x 2, Town Jailkeeper, Vanilla Townie x 6
Column C & Row 3:
Mafia Goon x 2, Town Mason x2, Vanilla Townie x 5
Spoiler: Role PMs
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:25 pm
by Plotinus
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:25 pm
by Plotinus
All role PMs have been sent out (in the order of the signup list so timestamps mean nothing)! We will start in (expired on 2020-01-30 09:30:00) or when [8/9] people have confirmed, whichever happens sooner.
The above clock and any others used throughout this game will be accurate from the time you loaded the page.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:00 am
by Plotinus
Spoiler: animated GIF of gliders in conway's game of life
The most famous cellular automaton is Conway's Game of Life. It's a way to study how complex systems can arise from very simple rules. You have a grid of cells and there are rules for how the cells will change from one generation to the next: if it has too many neighbours it dies (turns white), if it has too few neighbours, it dies. If it has 2 or 3 neighbours, it turns black.
Mod notes:
Everybody except skylarrrlb has confirmed. That means we can get started early. skylarrrlb has another (expired on 2020-01-30 09:30:00) to remember that MafiaScum exists before I replace them.
Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with my ruleset because I have some rules you may not have encountered in other games before regarding animated gifs, tiny text, prodging and perhaps some other things.[/area]
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:17 am
by bugspray
Hey
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:18 am
by bugspray
VOTE: tse 2 in a row?
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:23 am
by bugspray
RVs questions:
What's the best smash Bros game?
Which ice cream flavor is your favorite and what's so good about it?
Are you happy with the role you randomed?
What piece of old technology do you think should be brought back?
Buses or trains?
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:27 am
by bugspray
For me it's brawl. The SSE is very good and I think olimar was really cool on it
Chocolate or cookie dough or cookies and cream.... They all have very good sweet creamy tastes and different textures to fit any situation
Yes
CRT tvs are do so good
Trains
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:51 am
by clidd
In post 8, bugspray wrote:RVs questions:
What's the best smash Bros game?
Which ice cream flavor is your favorite and what's so good about it?
Are you happy with the role you randomed?
What piece of old technology do you think should be brought back?
Buses or trains?
1 - I never played.
2 - Açaí, taste.
3 - Yes.
4 - Radio.
5 - Trains.
VOTE: Bugspray
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 6:59 am
by bugspray
What's so good about acai taste?
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:08 am
by clidd
t is naturally bitter, but extraordinarily good when sweetened. Much more than the common flavors of ice cream.
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:09 am
by GeorgeBailey
In post 8, bugspray wrote:RVs questions:
What's the best smash Bros game?
Which ice cream flavor is your favorite and what's so good about it?
Are you happy with the role you randomed?
What piece of old technology do you think should be brought back?
Buses or trains?
1. Melee. No items, Fox only, Final Destination.
2. Cookies and Cream. Makes me feel like a child.
2. Roles are a spook. I am my own Role, and the role is me.
I don't play competitive smash but I think I was best at Samus when I played brawl (though a recently helped to a smashu tournament and it was neat watching the games)
I dislike the RVS questions - they are unrelated to the game and therefore pointless, apart from question 3 which feels like role-fishing.
I'm just trying to find scum through a bit of investigation. Please don't try to police my play
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:55 pm
by Luca Blight
I’m not trying to police your play - it’s called advancing the game. During RVS something has to act as the catalyst to move the game from meaningless to meaningful, and one way of doing that is by zoning in on things in order to create talking points.
That said, I am sincere in my view and have you as a slight scum read as things stand.