21074th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 8)

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#13291

Yeah, and?

#13292

I was gonna say something like I don’t feel compelled to have opinions on quantum computers or pretend they’re particularly informed because it’s not relevant to my life but thinking about where I am and what I’m studying I feel quantum computers could in fact be extremely relevant to my life and I should probably have an opinion on them

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#13293

I am triggered by the word summon.
Because summoning implies the user has control over when they can use their ability.
The thing I have in mind is a passive.

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#13294

that would be my term of summoning, as in the role summons something

which would make me… correct.

#13295

AIUI: This is a normal game of BotF; if the Demon dies, the game ends and Good wins, and if only 2 players remain, the game ends and Evil wins. Separate from this, if at any point Player X dies, the game immediately becomes normal FM, and Good win when all the Evils are dead/Evil win when they reach parity with Good. Abilities are ambiguously kept/not kept.

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#13296

it does seem like evil’s route to victory is constrained

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#13297

they have to keep both the demon and player X alive

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#13298

…righto. Interpretation hell.
I am not dealing with this bit.

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#13299

just only say things you’d stand behind in any context

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#13300

context-based personas are a waste of time and energy

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#13301

unless you’re like tutuu in which case I would pray to god you’re not like that irl

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#13302

WHAAAAAAAT?!?!!

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#13303

I mean, if you get majority at any point, you kill Player X as fast as humanly possible.

#13304

That’s how I interpreted it, to help judge whether or not it was sufficiently clear.

Language is ambiguous and dependent on preconceptions and there is no objective threshold of clarity where it stops being your responsibility if people misinterpret your words, nor is there a threshold of ambiguity where it stops being partially your responsibility that you didn’t ask clarifying questions. As a game host, it’s beneficial to provide as many wards against misinterpretation as possible unless they cause some other, greater harm. Mitigating problems doesn’t stop being your responsibility just because “somebody else is more at fault”. Blaming other people for their misinterpretation, especially if it’s multiple people, is silly and will make your games worse. When you’re writing rules text, you often gotta write for the most literal-minded, connotation-missing, ignorant person you can imagine. That’s my philosophy, anyway

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#13305

yeah but that doesn’t end the game in a win for evil. it just ends the game

#13306

The typical rules & benefits of socialisation as I have experienced it do not permit this

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#13307

One time a highschool classmates invited me to her birthday party at her apartment. I went there late, but the entrance door to the building was locked. I texted and called her but she wasn’t looking at her phone. So I sat there on the bench all alone while the others were partying inside. Eventually I left

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#13308

Yeah

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#13309

Oh my friends are eating 5:30 dinner I should go

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#13310

i at least don’t intentionally do it
i mean everyone acts differently around different people iirc just.