End of the World As We Know It [UPick] [Mafia Wins]

Just a heads up i'm gonna be gone all day due to regular dnd gatherings on sundays and i might not make it to rollover because my job has a gathering tonight as well.

I'm glad I wasn't lynched, although Gerry flipping town isn't any better :-/

Maybe someone who understands what the fuck a Higgs Boson is supposed to be can sort of try and guess what Gerry's role might have been (I opened the Wikipedia article and couldn't read past the second line, sorry), although I'm not sure exactly how useful that would be...?

Aeiou wrote:Tiki's reasoning was the stun and porn
╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯

My reasoning is flawless.

But okay, now that I'm not distracted by a shiny, new 4X strategy game (3 games and all their DLC, $17.99 on Steam, down from $120, how could I say no?), I can probably say more.

Ahem.

Well, I forgot about the game until about 40 minutes till rollover. Oops. At the time, here's how I saw my options:

1. Vote No Lynch. I believe that woul have caused a No Lynch tie with Gerry, or at least opened the door to one. People were pretty adamant about not wanting that, so I decided not to.
   
2. No Vote was not an option, and I didn't want to just not vote at all. And not voting tends to look worse than voting out a Town, imo, since it puts you out there, instead of trying to play safe and pretend you're not there (ie, the Maf Dylan strategy). Also...I'm not sure if there's a penalty for not voting in this game, but if there is, I didn't wanna suffer it.
   
3. I coulda voted Lucas, or the others with votes on them. I believe this too would have created a tie, and while that can be used to catch a Mafia trying to tip the balance at the last minute, I felt my vote would come too late to make that an effective strategy. Again, I feel like that would have looked worse than voting out a Town.
   
4. Last option was to Vote Gerry. I didn't exactly feel any stronger about voting him than for voting any other stunned player, but I'd already established something humorous involving him, and he was pretty much the last option besides, given I'd crossed out the 3 options above.
   

So here's some sort of a Higgs Boson for dummies thing by yours truly, hope it helps.

Imagine that everything in the world is made out of bricks, held together by glue. Now we're going to call the bricks fermions, and the glue bosons.
Fermions are "solid" particles, stuff like electrons. Bosons basically "carry forces", in a way. An example of a boson particle is a photon, which is a particle that doesn't really... occupy matter, so to say, but "carries light". That's what bosons do. Because they're cool like that, two (or more) bosons can occupy the exact same space, unlike fermions.

Higgs Boson - also called the God Particle - is a special type of boson. Its existence has actually been only tentatively proven in 2013, but has been theorised to exist for a long time before (by someone named Peter Higgs, unsurprisingly, though he wasn't alone, but he proposed the idea, so he got the name rights, I guess). It's special because it has no spin or charge, like - it's not anything on its own, it's just a helper to help other things become something. That's more or less the Higgs Boson. That's also why it's very unstable, because things that aren't anything have a tendency to become something, and why it took them so long to prove its existence.

Why is it important? What it does is helps shit stick together. Without the Higgs boson, our universe would be just a mess of particles speeding past each other, giving zero fucks. Higgs boson is the one that's like, hi there, you two, would you like to hold hands please? It allows particles to join together, to have mass, to become something instead of just nyooooooooooooooooooming by.

Wait, but how the fuck did they find it? Well, they kept smashing protons into each other at almost the speed of light for a very long time. Then one day they thought they saw it. Probably. Can't really be sure, since it disappears the moment you see it, pretty much. But they think they saw it. Probably.

Can we get a science with ezz show in addition to the cooking with ezz show?

Luxaria wrote:Can we get a science with ezz show in addition to the cooking with ezz show?

Why not both?
Besides, there's a science to cooking as well!

vowels

i'm also not looking to vote on anyone who was hit with a jailstunnailgun last night though honestly i DO think at least one of them might be mafia but those are STATISTICS FOR ANOTHER TIME AND NOT RIGHT NOW, ALRIGHT? NOT!! RIGHT!! NOW!!

i DO think at least one of them might be mafia

but

i DO think

protect

happened

no one else seems to

so :////





i said

i'll probably be voting for someone who already has votes on them

and

don't really have strong feelings on who to vote for

e ~ e






also

been super busy

yesterday

w/

dlan

and

blaire

we had a late start on the day and we're

a little sidetracked the rest of the day











i guess w/e i give up someone feed me

this has been very hard :'((((

I love Kiyo's posts. And I too believe there could have been a protect, but, had nothing bette to really go on.

Anyway, I humbly ask to be left to my own devices at night, thank you very much. I think everyone will want to see what happens when a very special aspect of my role triggers. Besides the fact it will make this thread 1,000 times more awesome:

1. It's pro-Town! It provides a lot of information!
   
2. It's pro-Mafia! It's all very confusing information!
   
3. It's pro-Neutral! Because it doesn't affect you and hilarity will ensue!
   

So, as you can see, with my role, everybody wins (except maybe Gerry)!

omg thanks for that great explanation, ezz-senpai ; w;)b!!!

I'm not sure how science savvy Lux actually is, outside of hosting 34 different sort-of-sci-fi-themed mafia games on Crywolf, so now we move from "what the fuck is a Higgs Boson?" to "how the fuck would Luxaria interpret a Higgs Boson as a mafia role?" Tbh, I think if we have a mortician kind of role, maybe they'd benefit from investigating Gerry... although, my pick wasn't really as wild as Gerry's and Lux still managed to interpret it in the most roundabout way possible and craft a... certainly unique role for me, to put it mildly. So maybe, who the fuck knows what a mortician should do in this sort-of-sci-fi-themed mafia game hosted by Luxaria.

Also I guess Tiki is neutral?????? okay?

@ dylan so, how did those leftovers taste after all?

I take all these statements as compliments.

@Lucas: All I got was a PM just letting me know I ate them. Nothing else. If I figure it out and if I think it's in town's benefit to reveal my thoughts, I'll do so.

Otherwise I'll assume the leftovers tasted very bland.

@Lucas, @Ezz: If I were to anticipate any role-related abilities of the Higg's Boson, I'd guess they'd be passive, or triggered on death. Though, last I checked, the weak bosons still have masses of around 80-91 GeV/c2... so I think we're maybe safe.

EDIT: Nevermind, it just said "you no longer have the leftovers," (at the end of the round) and not that I ate them. I guess I assume I ate them...

Kiyoko how were you hanging out with blaire WHEN YOU ARE BLAIRE

Thanks though for posting you guys :>
I think Kiyo is just throwing me off because you can typically be aggressive with things, and now you are mostly giibberish haha

And ye I do believe Tiki just claimed neutral. And I dont know what to do with that because who knows if he is going to bring some sort of destruction

EDIT: dran the rollover stated you ate them

Phase End. Standby for rollover.

So I was wondering.

Oh yeah?

Are there ever any glitches in their universe? Like, anything unusual that goes against the parameters of the simulation?

Have you heard of the Em Drive?

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Rollover

Mr. Alice is... alive???
high seraph was feasted upon by five players.
drandahl was stunned.
deo was stunned.
Kiyoko was jailed.
ezzelin was roleblocked.
Five was stunned.
ezzelin grabbed some half-eaten leftovers out of the fridge.
eleni was killed. She was Melba. She was town.

The ratio is 3 Mafia : 10 Town : 1 Neutral.
This phase will end on Monday, January 23rd, at 7:00PM PST.
Day Two has begun.