Aaaand ironically, about 30 minutes after I wrote this I headed to the ER. Now enjoying a nice three day two night stay at Casa de Hospital. Hopefully getting released tomorrow. Thanks, gimpy GI tract and assorted bacteria.

Well crap, hope you feel better, sir!

Watching both the mafia proboards and the game thread has been entertaining to say the least..

Somebody tell me what TAK means.

TheAnalogKid

If being used as a verb, it's probably referring to metagame not-lying.

Also it's a great way to annoy other players with said metagame.

Okay. How does 'not-lying' differ from 'metagame not-lying?'

You're basically staking your real life reputation on it. Instead of just confining things to that game only, you're saying that if you're lying there, we no longer have to believe anything you say anywhere.

And chaz, sorry for your troubles. Hope you feel better.

It's the difference between "I'm playing a game" and "I refuse to lie, even within the context of a make-believe murder mystery simulator, so that will have some effect on my answers. Please do not hold this against me, although it totally makes sense if you do."

I'm going to post the mafia one after the game just so people can read today's bit.

I am also highly amused by my game.

TBH, I'm just glad that MSU is dead.

What they said.

I have poorly-received opinions on the matter which shouldn't be re-hashed, so I'm just keeping my answer simple:

TAK used to play Mafia, and his shtick was that he refused to lie, even in a game of Mafia. People since then have been "TAK-ing" or "TAK Clausing" to establish a hard pattern of truth-telling between games so they have a mechanism to utilize for establishing facts about themselves or others during games. It's "metagame not-lying" because it's not just refusing to lie in one game, it's establishing a meta of not-lying when X condition is in effect (such as saying "TAK Clause" before stating the truth), across multiple games.

Citing the TAK clause is a lynch worthy mistake.

Even if you're TAK.

No posting about ongoing games! I'm telling the mod

There is a whose like sketch I want to post but Will wait till it won't affect the game..