##Vote ShadowehI...I'm sorry. I've lost the game for us. Omba, I don't think you realize exactly what you said to me yesterday. I'll just say this now instead of waiting for the post game: never say something like that to someone ever again. There is nothing more demoralizing, and like I said yesterday, you hit me in a spot I can't deal with. I still can't even look at this game without crying. I really don't want to give up, but I really don't think I can reread this game again. Again, I'm sorry if this means we lose the game, but I can't do it.
I still want to address
this line of thought because it makes no sense. As scum, I need EVERYONE lynched. Trying super hard to make someone look townie is counter-productive to that goal. It is not counter-productive to my town goal: keep people I think are town alive. It is not helpful to focus on one person. If I only needed ONE of them lynched it would be, but since I would need them both dead the only logical course of action would be to cast as much doubt on everyone as possible. Declaring someone as town like that would just be stupid. You said it yourself:
Of course that means you're likely screwed once your target flips town,
It makes no sense. "Divide and conquer" does not work in this situation. My best chance of living did not come from buddying up to anyone. My best chance of living came from casting enough doubt on everyone so that they would get lynched. Two potential lynch targets > one potential lynch target. At the very least, if I, for whatever reason, had a lapse of logic and did think that buddying was the best way to live why would I choose to buddy up to SHADOWEH of all people? Dan had already proven that he was willing to ignore people that declared him town. Hell, I didn't even need either of them on my side. Why wouldn't I buddy up to the confirmed townies? You know, the only ones that would matter at all?
. If you really are town and only want to ensure Shadoweh does not get lynched because you're dead sure she's town, too, then it shouldn't matter all that much to you if you're dying before Dan.
While logically sound, this is a bad way to think. I was trying SO hard to convince people I was town despite everything that happened with Polaris. I was trying SO hard to get people to go after who I thought was scum. I was trying SO hard to get people to think the person I thought was town was town. You can't ignore the emotional side of Mafia. You dismissed everything I said like it didn't even matter. Even if that was not your intention, it's what you said to me. I don't think you realize what this does to me, especially after working so hard.
Just something to think about for future games I guess.
