oromagi

You can have whatever opinion on what the Schumer quote "YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE" means, and I would never call for your censorship you constitutional 1st amendment hater.

"We know what’s at stake. Over the last three years, women’s reproductive rights have come under attack in a way we haven’t seen in modern history. From Louisiana to Missouri to Texas, Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they’re taking away fundamental rights. I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.  The bottom line is very simple. We will stand with the American people. We will stand with American women. We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans, who have stacked the court with right-wing ideologues, that you’re going to be gone in November, and you will never be able to do what you’re trying to do now ever, ever again. You hear that over there on the far right? You’re gone in November." 

"Now, I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They didn't come out the way I intended to," Schumer said Thursday morning. "My point was that there would be political consequences, political consequences for President (Donald) Trump and Senate Republicans if the Supreme Court, with the newly confirmed justices, stripped away a woman's right to choose."

• apologize to his fellow DARTers for authoring fake news and
  
• request that the Mods take down this partisan accusation as inflammatory, defamatory and false.
  

You can hammer me as I was your pick for today. Since I’m town I obviously won’t do that myself (it’s anti town). But stand by my history of surrendering as mafia to die with dignity when it’s hopeless.

I listened to Song of Solomon.

And your thoughts?

I am pretty deaf...

Really? Can you tell me about it?

I took 3 years of French in high school.

Americans don't learn foreign languages in school, so I'm thinking you aren't American.

I would also say speed, but speed was actively on during that drafter lynch and didn't hammer when he had every reason to want to hammer

Speed (just because this is utility, he contributes nothing to even look at. So it's a shot at hitting mafia when it would be near Impossible to gain reads either way )

I think it was yesterday he said he had been sabotaged, which I am not sure if people would get a notice about it (nor am I sure anyone would mention it, much like Speed, Drafter, and I have not mentioned the now pointless notifications of where the mechanic and vest have gone).

I just noticed that Supadudz starts with the letter S....the exact same letter that begins the word scum!

VTL Supadudz

Did anybody get any report about sabotage?

The person has I think 56 wins and no ties or losses.  How did this happen?

• The number one factor is forfeits.  In 57 debates I have never forfeited once- a characteristic largely shared by winning debaters.  Any regular voter on this site will confirm that the majority of wins on this site aren't won so much as lost by forfeitures.
  
• Before accepting a debate, study your opponent's record (on DART and DDO).  If the debater
  
• Demonstrates debate experience
  
• Makes arguments in a highly organized or persuasive fashion
  
• seems particularly knowledgeable about the topic, or
  
• never forfeits
  

• Arguments are less than 50% of the possible voter points awarded.  You can actually outargue your opponent every time and still have a losing record (look at Virtuoso's debates for an example of this).
  
• Make a point of being nicer to your opponent than your opponent is to you (if only the forums followed this rule).  If your opponent goes low, do not retaliate.   Wait until the final round and then coolly request a point.
  
• Make a point of having more sources than your opponent.  Wikipedia is the finest artifact the internet has ever produced, use Wikipedia liberally for the conventional wisdom on any topic.  ONLY use sources that rate very high or high on https://mediabiasfactcheck.com  Peer reviewed scholarship typically offers the best evidence and most sophisticated thinking on any point.  I spend a totally unreasonable amount of research time trying to understand technical papers way over my head.
  
• Using an opponent's sources against her is a major advantage.  Scour every opposing source for arguments that support your case.
  
• I'm actually pretty bad at re-reading my arguments for spelling and grammar.  The more I re-read my stuff, the less confident I become in my choices and I get lost in (mostly counter-productive) rewrites,  but my first draft grammar is pretty good and spellchecker gets the majority of the misspellings.  Nevertheless, I'd recommend that you re-read your arguments for legibility and comprehension.  Your argument is useless if voters can't read it- make a point of demonstrating better spelling and grammar than  your opponent.
  
• If there are serious grammatical or spelling errors in the title, take the debate.
  
• Read and use the DART and DDO debate guides and advice.  I like Ragnar's debate style best so I go back to his guide most often. 
  
• If you are making a debate, always define terms, concepts and BoP to your advantage.  This is the instigator's main advantage.  A contender's main advantages are opponent selection and the last word- which far outweighs the instigator's advantage.  The best way to counter this advantage is to set terms that no superior debater would accept or at least terms that must be objected to, cutting into the opponent's word count.
  
• I suspect logicae would object to this tactic based on a recent debate definition: "BOTH sides have a burden to prove their positions. (I have noticed this kind of burden swinging in far too many debates. It is a tactic to merely win a debate, not to find truth.)"  As a voter, I have awarded many wins to debaters who I knew were advocating wrong and even dishonest positions based on the strength of the argument.  The pursuit of truth is always admirable but offers little advantage in winning debates.
  
• Personally, I think the notion of dual burdens is bullshit.  Debates were traditionally practice for law and politics.  In law and politics, the question is always binary- pass/fail, guilty/ not guilty.  Dual burdens suggests that the instigator must prove one thesis and the contender must develop a second, opposing thesis and prove that which creates four possible outcomes-
  
• /A proven B unproven/,
  
• /A unproven B proven/,
  
• /A proven B proven/,
  
• /A unproven B unproven/. 
  
• Many theses don't have a true opposite or have multiple true opposites.  Furthermore, the opposing thesis is almost never explicitly stated.  The contender is left proving some ill-defined negation.  Dual burdens makes for fuzzy, unfocused debates with much cloudier outcomes.  It's like saying the state must prove the defendant guilty and also the defendant must prove himself innocent. 
  
• A good debater always suggests that the other guy has the entire burden of proof while also arguing as if the burden is entirely hers to prove.
  
• Any debater who instigates a debate but then fails to set terms in the long description or R1 has handed the contender all of the main advantages.  Look for debaters who operate this way and exploit those advantages.
  
• Try hard to be interesting for readers.  Unfortunately, most people will never read your debate but you can make a friend of the few who do by trying to write appealing, creative arguments.  Try hard to be original- I try to list all the arguments I can think of before I start researching other people's arguments.  Typically, other people's arguments are better informed than mine but an original argument supported by the facts is more satisfying to write and forces the opponent to think of an original defense.
  
• Depending on the debate, it usually helps to give voters a concise reason for voting for you at the end of the debate.  Voters are required to defend their votes so giving them a plausible reason or two they can cite or paraphrase while voting for you makes their job easier and their vote that much more likely.
  

It's water.

Sorry, but telling the mafia who exactly is the mechanic is (so they can kill him) and who has a vest (so they can avoid killing them) is completely dumb.

The fact is that a random player has the gun. I've advised them not to kill one certain person tonight, because that would destroy the mechanic ability.

A study published in 2008 used Eysenck's dimensional model of personality based on neuroticism and psychoticism to assess the mental health of high school students based on their self-reported frequency of prayer. For students both in Catholic and Protestant schools, higher levels of prayer were associated with better mental health as measured by lower psychoticism scores. However, among pupils attending Catholic schools, higher levels of prayer were also associated with higher neuroticism scores.[12]

Many accept that prayer can aid in recovery due to psychological and physical benefits. It has also been suggested that if a person knows that he or she is being prayed for it can be uplifting and increase morale, thus aiding recovery. (See Subject-expectancy effect.) Many studies have suggested that prayer can reduce physical stress, regardless of the god or gods a person prays to, and this may be true for many reasons.

According to a study by Centra State Hospital, "the psychological benefits of prayer may help reduce stress and anxiety, promote a more positive outlook, and strengthen the will to live."[13] Other practices such as Yoga, T'ai chi, and Meditation may also have a positive impact on physical and psychological health.

A 2001 study by Meisenhelder and Chandler analyzed data obtained from 1,421 Presbyterian pastors surveyed by mail and found that their self-reported frequency of prayer was well-correlated with their self-perception of health and vitality.[14] This research methodology has inherent problems with self-selection, selection bias, and residual confounding, and the authors admitted that the direction of perceived prayer and health relationships "remains inconclusive due to the limits of the correlational research design".

Are you just retarded or am I missing something 

both things can be true

Nm. Again just glanced. Just picked up on the part where mafia could be those roles 

Do you know of any way to run a prayer experiment using the scientific method?

Are you just retarded or am I missing something 

Roles:

Town-

1 gunsmith. The gunsmith will be selected randomly, and HAS to pass a gun to someone each night. The gun MUST be used by the person receiving the gun. The gun can be passed to mafia, but is the only night killing method. After using the gun the player will become the new gunsmith and must select who to give a gun to the following night phase.

1 vest maker. The vest-maker will be selected randomly, and HAS to pass a 1x bulletproof vest each night. The vest is a 1 time use, and expires after the night phase it is received. The receiver of the vest becomes the new vest maker, and must pass the vest the following night phase.

 

1 Mechanic. The mechanic will be selected randomly, and HAS to select a person to fix each night. If a vest or gun has been tampered with, the mechanic will fix the item. The receiver of the mechanic ability will become the new mechanic, and must pass the ability on the following night phase.

Mafia-

1 Saboteur. The Saboteur is the only role in the game that is static and cannot be passed. This role will be the mafia's only ability, barring they aren't given a gun or vest. The Saboteur can choose a player to sabotage at night. If that player received a vest, it will not work. If that player owns a gun, the gun will backfire and kill the shooter. The mechanic is the only counter to this role.

Gunsmith, vestmaker, and mechanic will be chosen at the start via RNG, meaning yes the mafia can potentially start out with one or all three of these roles, so starting out as one of these is not town confirmation. If someone dies as any of these roles, the role is permanently removed from the game and cannot be passed anymore.

Anyone interested? I think 7 would be fun for this. If we get seven, I will make 2 mafia vs 5 town, if we get only 5 I will do 1 mafia vs 4 town.