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Reasons why you're bad at mafia

Leeroyy

almost 8 years

Your brain doesn't see what it doesn't expect to see
Your brain will find meaning wherever it can
Your brain makes assumptions, especially when you think you're an expert.
Your brain does some things automatically, despite your best efforts
Your brain has a great difficulty ignoring context (e.g meta)
Once seen, context cannot be 'unseen'
Your brain interprets information in light of information it already has
Your brain will look to confirm what it already thinks or wants to think - even though information opposite to what you believe can be just as useful
Your brain will do almost anything to justify its decisions (even terrible ones)

And this is constantly happening because:

Your evidence is often highly ambiguous
You lack strong objective of what you're looking for
You try to weave together context when they can all be null as independent events
You have a hugely inflated ego, and despite me saying this you still can't deny it
You don't identify and/or rectify your mistakes

Perhaps these faults occur because of:

You are sometimes forced to make 'yes or no' decisions in a short time frame.
You are under pressure from your fellow team
You are a natural conformer to the norm
Emotions towards people can heavily influence decision making

What experienced players do:

Filter out irrelevant information
Simplify information
Utilize past experience
Do things more quickly

However, this comes at a cost.

In fact, players that are more experienced are more likely to succumb to these prejudices/bias despite not realising that are even more susceptible:

They are even more automatic
Decision are less easily articulated
They are expected to know more
Instead of using the fundamental reasoning, they try to use more extraneous factors.
They make more 'snap' judgements

So, what can you do about this?

Be aware? - not enough on it's own
Ask a friend to play with you and critique you after? - no because you will change your style and try harder
Ask a friend to review a game before you read this post? - of course
Just stop using meta? - well there are cases where its unavoidable

Conclusion

Until you can overcome these habits, you will never be a 'great' EM player.

k9trip

almost 8 years

Whitepimp007 says

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.

Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

Good post, but you mean Devil's Advocate right?

deletedalmost 8 years

mandevian says

Most people have become good at mafia just by acting like me.

Heck

almost 8 years

tl;dr i'm better than you

YHWH

almost 8 years

im "bad" at mafia because the circlejerk teams up against me to rack up trophies for their homeboys

ArianaGrande

almost 8 years

i have a life

desuo

almost 8 years

Gerry says

tl;dr

Ur bad at mafia

Gerry

almost 8 years

tl;dr

Whitepimp007

almost 8 years

No.

Karmatica

almost 8 years

Whitepimp007 says

brass stacks

i think theyre spelleded ball sacks

Whitepimp007

almost 8 years

Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there.

Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go.

Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

Karmatica

almost 8 years

mandevian says