Instructions: Given a post that is a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation and an associated claim about its type, verify if the claim is true or not. The claim asks if the posts are historical or hypothetical. The posts are "HISTORICAL" when the author has already done something and they are "HYPOTHETICAL" when the author is considering doing something in the future. Say 'yes' if the claim is true otherwise say 'no'
Input: CLAIM : The following post is HISTORICAL. POST : So the game is called [Mafia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)), or Werewolf. *[--skip down if you know what mafia is--]* In short it is where a group of people are split into innocents (also called towns) and mafia (also called scum) members. The innocents do not know each other's affiliations, but the mafia members do. There are 2 alternating phases, day and night. During the day all players vote to eliminate a player; during the night the mafiosos choose to eliminate a player. Last faction standing wins. Roles may be added for variety. Some of you may know of off-shoots such as TownOfSalem. 

There's a saying that playing Diplomacy (or Monopoly or some other game) is the fastest way to lose friends. I think mafia gives diplomacy a run for its money. 

In the purest form of the game, it is a game of deception and psychological analysis. For example, in a live game, you can ask someone "are you mafia?" While this seems like a stupid question to ask because everyone would answer "no," the best players can deduce the affiliation of the responder based on their behavior when answering. When a player makes a judgement of another players affiliation it's called a "read." Seasoned players may have their own play styles, called their "meta." 

[----] In this case the game is being played online forum-style semi-anonymously; at the point of the incident I've played several games of mafia on the forum. I've cultivated a meta of brashness/assholery (which is counter to my behavior when I'm just talking with people normally); I'll admit though that sometimes I enjoy ripping apart someone whose read logic I simply disagree with completely. On this particular forum most of my interactions with other people is in playing mafia. I don't want to link to the game to protect my anonymity.

My ass-level could range from saying things to the effect of:

&gt;"all your reads are such trash I'd be surprised if a single one of them is correct"

to

&gt;"are you being pimped out by [player]?" 

([Hooker](https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Hooker) is a role in the game, the implication being the subject and [player] are both scum and [player] is [bussing](https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Bussing) the subject), to the worst offender 

&gt;"lmao are you fucking retarded"

The specific case that triggered an out of game response was in this one game where I was ripping apart a new-ish player. I say new-ish because he's played several games on that forum as well, but that forum was his first time playing. He also sounded kind of young, maybe high/junior-high? I latched on to him early in the game because new-ish players are easier to read because they tend to give off "noob tells." 

I don't recall the exact scenario. But I think I was pretty aggressively accusing him of being scum with exactly 0 evidence. He got defensive. I couldn't get a good read on him but I didn't back off. 

He gave some reads that I disagreed with. I immediately called him out on it, and I believe I said something to the effect of "you're either a moron or you're scum." 

I went on to call him a bad player when his reads were proven wrong a a flip (affiliation reveal when a player dies). I even dug up his old games to show that his read accuracy was lower than random guesses, and encouraged other players to "inverse" him. At this point I had a light town read on him, but I was still disproportionately targeting him. 

I pushed him around for a few day phases before he went off on me. He said I was kind of an asshole. My internal reaction was "yeah that's how the game is played." To my surprise several other players agreed with him. Some said if they see me in game line up they'd avoid joining. All these players are new-ish players of varying skill. 

I explained that's just the way I choose to play the game, I'm not like that in other parts of the internet to no effect. 

This escalated out of game. On an unrelated thread my original subject called me an asshole in 3rd person to another player. I interjected saying that outside of game communication is forbidden. The other player agreed with the first player that I am an asshole. 

They never actually called me asshole. The words they used were more to the effect of "douchebag" and "arrogant." 

I am technically an asshole, I said that in the title. But the question is, am I really really an asshole and should dial it back in game, or are some of these players just taking the game too personally, or am I the one taking the game too seriously?

[----]

I'm putting this part at the end cause it's less related. The fact is the aggressive play style works. I've used it to great affect in previous games. I've seen other players use to to good effect. It has been used on me, with multiple players getting a correct town read on me; the particular case it was used on me was IMO more assholey than anything I've done, the player was using all manner of gay rape language on me. The asshole meta is neither common or uncommon. For a given game, one could expect 0, 1, or 2 asshole-like meta players most of the time. 

I also try avoiding being an ass and use a different meta in pure noob games, because I have a line and I don't want to scare noobs away. I don't go off on someone unless they're in a "big boy" game. 

The more seasoned players did not get themselves involved in the drama. I've played on other forums with some of the same players, at least one has said they respect me as a player. 

I've cultivated the asshole meta mostly because I believe it's effective. But I think it's also because I do have some repressed assholery inside of me for real, or else I wouldn't be able to pull the style off so naturally and convincingly in game. 

Output:
no