i'm just gonna start here by saying that when i first joined this site, back around 4 years ago, this place was interesting as heck. i played classic mafia in the training lobby and i thought i was an absolute genius anytime i got it right and as my reads and manipulations improved, and this game had some real world relevance, it wasn't just wasting time. and more, there were literal gods on this site, players who u were looking at thinking, 'there's something, there's a goal, there's competition', whatever. but that's not how it is anymore.

now u may not think it, but this game has actual intrigue. it does have a real world relevance. everyone wants to fancy themselves halfway to being a psychologist, everyone wants to fancy themselves manipulative or perceptive, this is where u come to be all those things. it's like poker. that game's never going to die because it's pitting sheer wit against sheer wit, because it's pretty much brute force warfare. poker is a game that anyone can play, supposedly, and one whose skills transfer across to pretty much anything else u want to pursue. and this game's the same. i mean we're throwing eq up alongside iq these days. this game is actual power, intelligence. so why is this site dying? it's because the idiots are taking over. i'm not even joking.

there is a huge - and i mean huge - necessity for psychological belittlement in our lives. that's what's happening here. it's like the charm in the harry potter series, 'riddikulus', that beats the boggart, makes a joke of the scary thing it's taking the form of. that's what j.k. rowling was getting at there. it's why edgy atheists are cast as 'fedoras', typically fat dudes toting katanas. it's why hitler's birthday is now international weed smoking day. it's why bad jokes are funny. heck, it's why u watch most of what u watch on tv too. it's why manchester united, 'the red devils', made such an absolute fortune. it's why we put monsters on cereal boxes. and so on, and so on, and so on. most of what we do is towards psychological belittlement. it creates pretty much every monster and angel and just everything. and that's what's happening here. this game had the legs swept out from underneath it. we're all playing strip poker now. we're all just laughing idiots now.

training lobby should never have been removed. fancy pants shouldn't exist. reverse mafia shouldn't ever have existed. the comp lobby should have stayed forever the place that good player went to play serious mafia. instead the whole site is just one big sandbox now. everyone has a trophy from a bunch of dumb lobbies. the fame page is a joke, just a random scattering of names. worse even, the only thing that's really very instantly relatable with on the fame page is the 'highest total score' chart, basically telling any new player who arrives here that this site is just dumb as heck and all we really reward is being here for a longass time. lucid got it into his head that he was making the most money out of this site being a social place i guess, and now it's dying because he tried to make a quick buck. i mean when was the last time anyone half decent showed up? there's no other explanation for their not showing up anymore but that this site doesn't have any punch anymore. and now the site's just wilting away in general because it's already conquered before even joining it. even the idiots are joining and thinking this site is dumb. no need to fret, no need to waste my time. but whatever i guess. i just think it's sort of a shame. guns and bombs and orcs and fiddlers. nobody's going to play through any of that stuff thinking they're actually learning something. bring back the cop and the doc and the plain old mafia, let people think they're training to be heroes or b-astards again. but whatever i guess. pandering to the bunch of idiots we have on the site currently only buys us that bunch of idiots.