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by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:18 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

ilario wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:17 pm This eod is in 40 mins rifht? Why’s it feel so calm In here lmaooo

We talked a lot today and feel pretty good about the PoE.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:15 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

my current reads from towniest to scummiest

Marmot
iaafr
Lime Coke
ilario/leetic
Dizzy
spf
nutella
DrWilgy
anne
esooa


Something like this probably. I keep forgetting spf is playing tbh
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 8:13 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

I gave you some stuff to respond to ilario wert esooa.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:46 pm
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I've hit post cap

Will be back in 15 minutes or whenever it's lifted.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:45 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

leetic wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:31 pm
Marmot wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:28 pm
leetic wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:22 pm For anyone still thinking anne was a bus attempt, why would Jay on D1 choose anne as his preferred wagon when Axehole was still very much viable? It seemed like there was no real reason for scum to have bussed in that state. I want this point to actually be addressed, not with hypotheticals (e.g. "scum could have decided to bus" or "w/w wagons sometimes happen") but with explanations, and throwing out an inactive member doesn't really make sense either as anne did show up the next two days

When was the NAA wagon feasible? I don't really remember. I looked back at the poll state at 13 minutes before EOD, and Wilgy/anne were the competing wagons at the time.

Wilgy did have a vig, so that particular ability would be far more useful to mafia than most other abilities.


Anyway, I want to answer your question about NAA, I just don't know how to, and don't recall how viable NAA was.
Alright, one last post. JJJ last posted like ninety minutes before EoD (a little bit after post restrictions had been eased) and there were still a good number of votes on Axehole and Wilgy had yet to seriously catch on.

I skimmed back through the last ~4 hours of the day, and the only votes for NAA I could find were LC, you, and nutella, but not all at once, and I don't think he ever ended up with more than 2 votes at least during that time.

NAA was defending JJJ from being yeeted, so at least for JJJ, I think it makes sense that he didn't push NAA. He needed to keep pocketing him.

Mac wasn't around. So depending on who the scum team is, it's very plausible that they just weren't around.


Also, keep in mind this is a game where an uninformed majority and an informed minority are going head-to-head. Town being an uninformed minority, most things are going to be hypothetical, so take it or leave it. :beer:
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:35 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Marmot wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 12:01 am Doing a Michelle thing, here's the current poll.

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) cassandra
1
5%
Voters: Marmot

) DrWilgy
1
5%
Voters: ilario

) Dyslexicon
4
20%
Voters: NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME, Master Radishes, Lime Coke, MacDougall

) falcon45ca
1
5%
Voters: NotAnAxehole

) JaggedJimmyJay
2
10%
Voters: falcon45ca, Dyslexicon

) MacDougall
5
25%
Voters: JaggedJimmyJay, nutella, staypositivefriend, DrWilgy, cassandra

) NotAnAxehole
3
15%
Voters: leetic, iaafr, anne


Not Voting: Sloonei

Here's the poll state about ~24 or so hours before EOD1. I've colored it for ease of viewing. This is the only other Day 1 poll I know of.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:28 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

leetic wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:22 pm For anyone still thinking anne was a bus attempt, why would Jay on D1 choose anne as his preferred wagon when Axehole was still very much viable? It seemed like there was no real reason for scum to have bussed in that state. I want this point to actually be addressed, not with hypotheticals (e.g. "scum could have decided to bus" or "w/w wagons sometimes happen") but with explanations, and throwing out an inactive member doesn't really make sense either as anne did show up the next two days

When was the NAA wagon feasible? I don't really remember. I looked back at the poll state at 13 minutes before EOD, and Wilgy/anne were the competing wagons at the time.

Wilgy did have a vig, so that particular ability would be far more useful to mafia than most other abilities.


Anyway, I want to answer your question about NAA, I just don't know how to, and don't recall how viable NAA was.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:16 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

I'll wait until you vote anne then call it a bus attempt and turbo you to the moon
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:14 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Scum should just ff, we got this
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 7:05 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

For anyone interested in DrWilgy's mentions and interactions with anne like I was, here they are:

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DrWilgy wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 8:21 pm Ising the driving for Holiday now.

Notting the comfort of Falcon vote. Ising the avoiding of Anne.

Ising the low hanging fruit. Notting of SPF; the others Lazy.
DrWilgy wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 8:33 pm Wanting of flipping Anne. Ising trusting of Nutella.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:09 pm
cassandra wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:51 am Spf is probably my strongest townread, followed by illario/leertic (mainly because they called me 95%), iaafr, lime coke

Every time Esooa posts I want to call her outed mafia but I'm aware I need to read her posts with more scrutiny/less lazily

Marmot is prollllllly town. Falcon's posts suck but he was cleared by Mac so W/E

Not sure on dizzy yet but gth town.

Wilgy still feels bad and I don't like the MR shot at all. my immediate poe is Esooa Wilgy Nutella Mac Anne and if that doesn't contain at least 2/3 id be very surprised. If I townread one replace them with Dizzy.
Honestly I think the JJJ yeet makes things alot more clear cut. There were two viable other wagons in Anne and I.

The only hesitation is that if Anne is scum, but then if that were the case then I have no clue what scum was doing not getting me yeeted? Asleep at the wheel?

Do tell me what you find poor about the MR shot. Was there magical information from the Jay's yeet that I missed?
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:16 pm
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 12:19 pm You didn't even read it

[VOTE: Falcon] aubergine
If it's any consolation, I read it and appreciate the effort. While I don't think it changes much in terms of your position for me.

Nutella, Mac and I suppose Dizzy all need to resolve before you RN just on JJJ spew and the advent of yesterday. Again, because I wasn't a counter yeet, either scum was asleep or you aren't scum.

Anyways, your alignment would have reflect of Nutella flip. I believe that to be more important rn.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:24 pm
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:36 pm where is everyone? feel like thread was poppin and then poof
I was sleeping then poopin.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:34 pm
cassandra wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:19 pm Ok Wilgy is towny when he drops the gimmick

Tbh I thought Mr was a bad shot because I had him as town, I think shooting the main CW (Anne) wouldve been correct there, though I wouldn't have cried about a Mac shot.
Fair then. I still haven't really read day 1, but it was JJJ's iso that led me to MR.

My suspicion on Nutella kept me from inquiring the CW. Anne is locktown if Nutella flips scum yes?

Mac was going to take our time regardless of if it was my shot or a yeet.

PoE is pretty straightforward:
Mac, Nutella, Dizzy, Esooa

Falcon will be added if Mac flips red. Anne will be added if Nutella flips green, NAA will be added if Esooa flips red.

Contest me on these 50/50s plz.

I don't know if we win if Ilario, Iaafr, Leetic, Marmot, SPF or Cass is scum without some mechanical savior button.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:33 pm
leetic wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:25 pm Still don't think anne's scum, if Wilgy or Axehole flips bad I might consider it but for now there are much better actions

Not really buying the case on Mac right now either
For Anne to be scum I'm pretty sure I have to be as well. I know that is not the case, but can attempt to view from an outside perspective and still don't see that as the case.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:40 pm
iaafr wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:34 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:33 pm
leetic wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:25 pm Still don't think anne's scum, if Wilgy or Axehole flips bad I might consider it but for now there are much better actions

Not really buying the case on Mac right now either
For Anne to be scum I'm pretty sure I have to be as well. I know that is not the case, but can attempt to view from an outside perspective and still don't see that as the case.
explain why your town alignment confirms anne's? i am missing this logic entirely (may have missed the posts, sorry)
We went from wagon Anne to wagon Jay when I was at 5 votes.

I see little reason why scum, if 2 scum buddies in Anne and Jay were in danger wouldn't have made me the yeet leader.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:44 pm
iaafr wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:41 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:40 pm
iaafr wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:34 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:33 pm
leetic wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:25 pm Still don't think anne's scum, if Wilgy or Axehole flips bad I might consider it but for now there are much better actions

Not really buying the case on Mac right now either
For Anne to be scum I'm pretty sure I have to be as well. I know that is not the case, but can attempt to view from an outside perspective and still don't see that as the case.
explain why your town alignment confirms anne's? i am missing this logic entirely (may have missed the posts, sorry)
We went from wagon Anne to wagon Jay when I was at 5 votes.

I see little reason why scum, if 2 scum buddies in Anne and Jay were in danger wouldn't have made me the yeet leader.
if the team is, say, afk-at-eod mac, afk-at-eod anne, and widely suspected and ill-regarded NAA, it's not like scum really had the clout to do anything about anything that happened at EOD
I suppose. I guess the thing is that I made it free.99 for scum to push me and don't feel like they did (even earlier in the phase for clarity), probably because they were just cool with Anne dying.
DrWilgy wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:15 pm I'm here for a brief moment before further holiday driving.

I see Anne is the lead wagon. Neat. Doesn't make sense to me, but I won't cry about it. Still comfortable with either a Nutella or Mac yeet.
DrWilgy wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:51 pm
Marmot wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:46 pm I still think anne's wagon is weird because it was a counter wagon to Jay yesterday, and nutella is the only person who voted it both yesterday and is voting for it right now.

Also, 3 of the 5 people voting for anne right now either didn't vote yesterday (Dizzy, Sloonsooa) or voted a vanity wagon (iaafr).


Two of the people voting for anne yesterday are dead: Jay and MR

@falcon45ca @DrWilgy why aren't you voting for anne today?
Because it's weird like you said.

I don't think scum Anne would have had Jay on it. I think there's good reason to assume that both Anne and I are V/V as there was no one really concerned with moving votes from her to me prior to the Jay wagon. I was going out of my way to be an easy yeet for science, but there still wasn't a hard push for it.
DrWilgy wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:41 pm
leetic wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 11:04 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:15 pm I'm here for a brief moment before further holiday driving.

I see Anne is the lead wagon. Neat. Doesn't make sense to me, but I won't cry about it. Still comfortable with either a Nutella or Mac yeet.
Spoiler: show
Image
When you disagree with the main vote target, you fight it, you don't just quietly acquiesce to it. You not really caring about how anne will go down makes you look really wolfy.

See you in an hour.
I disagree. I have stated 3 separate times as to why Anne feels like a miss to me. I don't have the time or energy to dissuade further, especially when I could just be wrong. I'll vote where I want, speak of who I think is correct, and move on.
DrWilgy wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:31 am So like. If I'm wrong on Anne that makes Nutella hard town, making Iaafr hard scum.

Mac killing Falcon on yeet is a risk I'm willing to take 100% of the time. Mostly because it's funny regardless of flip that Falcon would get cheesed like that IF TRUE.
DrWilgy wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:39 am
anne wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:38 am let's gooooooooooooo im getting saved bois
:eye:

These two players are very compatible from this PoV. DrWilgy did push anne a bit Day 1, but than proceeded to defend her while presenting a PoE of four other players: Mac, nutella, Dizzy, Esooa.

The thing is, if this PoE (well, after Mac) is wrong, we lose this game to mis-elims.


I think it can be reasoned for DrWilgy to be a wolf. Day 1, anne was the bus attempt. It failed and JJJ flipped. Day 2, Mac was the bus attempt, and it barely went over, with DrWilgy and Anne on Mac's wagon. Wilgy shot MR Day 1. There were worse shots, but MR does fall into the camp of a player who was town, and also could be argued to be a reasonable shot. But there were better shots, and I think Wilgy would admit that too. I think part of the reason I'm coming to this conclusion to his how quickly Wilgy jumped to a gamesolve that doesn't contain anne, and so it could be that the two are teammates.


Anyway.

If Wilgy is town, his gamesolve is almost certainly right. But I can very easily see an alternate world where Wilgy is scum.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:50 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Mafia please kill me tonight so all the people in the plan can talk tomorrow.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:46 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

I'll stick with an esooa vote barring a collaborative agreement to vote elsewhere.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:44 pm
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Dizzy can't post anymore, time to ring him up

[VOTE: Dizzy] aubergine
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:24 pm
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Marmot wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:23 pm I kinda want to chop anne now. And here's why:


I think that Mac is more likely a bus attempt than Jay. Jay had taken heat on Day 1, but he wasn't truly in danger until the final hour of the day, so any wolves who bussed him would have had to be active at EOD. I've already analyzed the EOD1, and concluded that everyone on Jay's wagon is likely town. NAA I thought was possible scum, but that is now wrong. I think SPF has slight potential, but unlikely. Everyone else there is town.

Mac had a role that, upon death, would take a villager down with him. Of all the wolves to bus, his was probably the optimal one. DrWilgy and anne are the two players who were not on Jay's wagon who are on MacDougall's wagon.


I also think that if anne is a wolf, it clears nutella. esooa being a wolf doesn't really clear anyone. She still could be, I'm just trying to think ahead too.

EBWOP: esooa being a wolf doesn't clear anyone who isn't already cleared in my mind.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:24 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

LOL Dizzy! I was just talking myself into voting for anne.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:23 pm
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I kinda want to chop anne now. And here's why:


I think that Mac is more likely a bus attempt than Jay. Jay had taken heat on Day 1, but he wasn't truly in danger until the final hour of the day, so any wolves who bussed him would have had to be active at EOD. I've already analyzed the EOD1, and concluded that everyone on Jay's wagon is likely town. NAA I thought was possible scum, but that is now wrong. I think SPF has slight potential, but unlikely. Everyone else there is town.

Mac had a role that, upon death, would take a villager down with him. Of all the wolves to bus, his was probably the optimal one. DrWilgy and anne are the two players who were not on Jay's wagon who are on MacDougall's wagon.


I also think that if anne is a wolf, it clears nutella. esooa being a wolf doesn't really clear anyone. She still could be, I'm just trying to think ahead too.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 6:14 pm
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Here's a fun wagon-coloring thing


DAY 1

7 - JaggedJimmyJay --- leetic, Marmot, Lime Coke, cassandra, staypositivefriend, NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME, NotAnAxehole
5 - anne --- Master Radishes, falcon45ca, JaggedJimmyJay, nutella, DrWilgy
2 - DrWilgy --- ilario, iaafr
1 - Dyslexicon --- MacDougall
1 - NotAnAxehole --- anne
1 - sleep --- Dyslexicon

No Vote --- Sloonei/Esooa


DAY 2


5 - MacDougall --- Marmot, anne, Lime Coke, DrWilgy, staypositivefriend
5 - anne --- cassandra, iaafr, nutella, Dyslexicon, NotAnAxehole
2 - Esooa --- Esooa, leetic
1 - iaafr --- ilario
1 - NotAnAxehole --- MacDougall
1 - nutella --- falcon45ca



We should probably continue the trend of having anne's wagon be an entirely new set of voters with the exception of nutella.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:16 pm
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Dyslexicon wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:14 pm I'm going to sleep at some point, and definitely won't be here for EoD as usual. Will probably leave my vote on Anne, but I'm ok with any chop between Anne, Wilgy and Esooa. This is my firm PoE. Would be kind of funny to leave my vote on Anne all the time, have her not be chopped and see her flip mafia in the end and be vindicated. I don't know which one between the three is town. I have a hard time seeing anyone else as scum here, and would need a really convincing case for me to want anyone else chopped above those three.

If anyone have more concerns about my alignment and stuff, please be specific about it and I'll try not to snap lol. I think I have like six posts before I'm capped.

How are you so gay?
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:11 pm
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Fwiw, I have you POE'd nutella because of your handling of Mac and JJJ, not because of your posts today.

I also am at the point where I'd rather chop anne before you because if she flips wolf I think that pretty much clears you.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:10 pm
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Dyslexicon wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:09 pm
Marmot wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:08 pm I have read all of nutella's posts and concluded she is not gay
How dare you

Everyone is gay
Hi I'm gay
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:08 pm
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I have read all of nutella's posts and concluded she is not gay
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 4:02 pm
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Lime Coke wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:40 pm Alright well at this rate I don't know what to do because I had a clear cut scumread on someone days 1 and 2 that lead to mafia getting voted off.

Unfortunately I don't have that scumread today and I'm in line to just let whatever happen to happen.

I'm more than likely going to miss most of EOD today. So town can do whatever it wants without me in the way.

You're worth more to us than a clear-cut scumread btw. It's fine if you don't have one, your voice still matters and so does your vote. Just sheep us and then tell us we suck tomorrow if we're wrong. :hug:
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:47 pm
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Lime Coke wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:09 pm I say that I'm trying to stop being toxic and actually try to do so, people just see it as a reason to beat on me and never actually help me.

I'm trying to listen to you and hear where you're at. I may or may not be doing a good job, but I'm trying.

I've talked extensively about why I think nutella's scum. I agree with you on her.

I can also see why esooa and anne are potentially wolves. Also DrWilgy.


I think you're doing a fine job handling your frustration this game btw. You only brought it up in the thread when I asked, and it wasn't directed at anyone.



Also to your point of "I'm literally having my best game". I don't want to take that away from you, because you probably are, but mafia is not an individual game, it's a team game. I think I got a little bit caught up in that on Day 2. Town needs to continue to work together in order to continue that, otherwise we'll blow it. We don't need to set our reads aside, but sometimes that means each person doesn't get to chop the person they scumread the most on a given day.

It takes effort, but sometimes we have to look at things differently to see if we can see the game or players differently and understand why there are disagreements with other players we townread. I've been bringing up different angles to look at today in the hopes that that would help. Nobody has probably read any of the shit that I've posted, but it's helped me anyway.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 3:02 pm
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Where's your head at Lime Coke? You do seem really uncomfortable today compared to Day 1. Is that normal for you?
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:59 pm
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It's fine, I want to hear what you're going to say, I'm just not sure which point you're referring to.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:58 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Did I see why what?
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:55 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Marmot wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:20 pm
Spoiler: show
anne wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:59 pm
cassandra wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:57 pm
anne wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:55 pm can someone give me a scumread. as in write a scumread for me that i can use and vote on.
Mac's posts did nothing to me and felt like he was struggling to generate content

JJJ feels distinctly off - his posting isn't bad but lacks the town leadershipness. i think he's either mafia or some PR trying to survive

NAA feels less towny than last game though admittedly my eyes glazed over when i read a lot of their posts

there u go

---

also i just remembered MR's entrance felt kinda towny.
okay. im gonna go reread Mac and NAA posts since i didn't really get to read those in-depth.

Anne's first mention of Mac comes in the waning moments of Day 1, she runs off to look at NAA and Mac. She never actually looked into Mac before EOD, but she did look into NAA. I find this a little alarming, but not a lot, given the time factor of EOD, and that I think NAA was actually a wagon whereas Mac never was. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong on NAA being a wagon).

anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 12:16 pm Okay, first of all it's impossible for me to engage with this thread when the majority of conversation happens at like 3 AM. Second of all, imma need you to take your votes off of me because it don't make no sense. I was distracted during the previous EOD and I actually went back and reread everything I missed from that, but unfortunately you guys posted up a storm today and I won't be at all re-reading that because it's too much.

So with that I say that we need to stop clearing everyone for "claims". Roles were randed before alignments in the setup so mafia could theoretically have any roles available to them. This isn't important to my point because I don't FOS anyone who has an open claim rn idt, but something to keep in mind. Second of all, I want Nutella to explain why she pushed me when I was not around and apparently continues to do so just based on my skimming? JJJ was extremely reluctant to TR me for a reason, because he knows I am town. Now if I had to guess, JJJ probably was townreading at least one of his buddies. I'd need to go back and reread his posts though to figure out exactly who he was townreading to begin with though.

Also iaafr keeps trying to shove me into a POE with NAA. We can't be teamed so you need to get over that, already your POE is flawed. The reason me and NAA can't be teamed is that if he were my partner I would not buss him and leave my vote up on him like that as mafia ever, it just doesn't happen. I am already anti-bussing to begin with, but I would not miss EOD as wolf knowing it's possible a partner goes over and do nothing to stop. Which is already a point in my favor why I can't be mafia with JJJ, but I acknowledge his wagon formed rather quickly so it doesn't really "count".

Anyways, I'm going to actually give some reads now. I think there was at least one mafia voting me at EOD, either Wigly or Nutella, maybe even both but might be unlikely due to JJJ's vote being on me. Cassandra is probably town for... emotional reasons I don't care to get into. Also she claimed her role for no reason which is rand v for her anyways. I think iaafr's approach to me today has been somewhat opportunistic and he won't even wait to see what I have to say at all, but I liked his day 1 so idk. Also I still think ilario/leetic are town, mostly cause of ilario now because I think leetic has dropped off. Also as I'm typing this, I'm wondering if it's possible Mac and Falcon are both mafia and share the same alignment similar to ilario/leetic? Anyways have a reads list

Ilario/Leetic
LimeCoke
Cassandra
Marmot
Mac
Dizzy
Falcon
SPF
iaafr
NAA
Nutella
Wigly

Not putting Esooa on the list because I haven't read a single one of her posts or Sloonei's posts.

Anne does consider Mac/falcon being a scum team together, but she put Mac pretty high on the list, so :shrug2:

anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:15 pm And I do think Mac and Falcon can be the same alignment anyways, similar to Ilario/Leetic. I agree it's not 100%, but let's not ignore how weird it was for Mac to just come in and clear Falcon right away.
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:17 pm Also Mac flipping mafia would neither clear Falcon nor condemn him while the opposite is true, so idk mech stuff

I don't mind this take from Anne. I think she was the only one who really thought falcon was possibly scum.

anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:22 pm I don't think voting Falcon before Mac matters because I think they both can be scum. You're trying to create an argument where there is none other than your preference to flip Mac first for mech reasons
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:24 pm
nutella wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:22 pm
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:13 pm Where did I suspect the mech clears? Please tell me, Nutella. All I said is that mech clears don't exist in this game as we typically know it, a factually true statement. If you want to suspect me then go right ahead, but don't make up things I never said.
I did near mech clears, yes I know there aren't real mech clears youal are entirely missing my point. The point is we are taking them as town for now and working with a poe and i think maybe you're not happy with that poe and want to expand it.

Sure I think Mac should be in the poe, but not falcon. Illeeric I think are most likely just town from play, it did cross my mind that it could be like a jekyll and hyde situation where one of them is actually mafia but that would be pretty bastard lol. Like I think leetics playstyle alone explains why he's so hard to work with and the way he grabs onto things is towny if aggravating.
Well, I had leetic as my strongest townread, so did you read my post? That's not what I meant when I said we shouldn't mech clear people, also I was referring to the opposite which would be Mac/Falcon sharing alignments. The POE right now is just me basically, so of course anyone I suspect would be "expanding" it and if you look closely at my post, if I was mafia trying to expand the POE then i didn't do a very good job with it.
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:25 pm
cassandra wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:23 pm
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:22 pm I don't think voting Falcon before Mac matters because I think they both can be scum. You're trying to create an argument where there is none other than your preference to flip Mac first for mech reasons
Mac has claimed a green check on Falcon. This game is not bastard
If you think Falcon is scum, you vote Mac first

You not understanding this is incredibly wolfy to me
I don't automatically have perfect mech understanding 100% of the time
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:29 pm
nutella wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:27 pm Hey alexa, vote anne already. You've been dancing around seriously scumreading her all game, you should commit atp.
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:24 pm
nutella wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:22 pm
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:13 pm Where did I suspect the mech clears? Please tell me, Nutella. All I said is that mech clears don't exist in this game as we typically know it, a factually true statement. If you want to suspect me then go right ahead, but don't make up things I never said.
I did near mech clears, yes I know there aren't real mech clears youal are entirely missing my point. The point is we are taking them as town for now and working with a poe and i think maybe you're not happy with that poe and want to expand it.

Sure I think Mac should be in the poe, but not falcon. Illeeric I think are most likely just town from play, it did cross my mind that it could be like a jekyll and hyde situation where one of them is actually mafia but that would be pretty bastard lol. Like I think leetics playstyle alone explains why he's so hard to work with and the way he grabs onto things is towny if aggravating.
Well, I had leetic as my strongest townread, so did you read my post? That's not what I meant when I said we shouldn't mech clear people, also I was referring to the opposite which would be Mac/Falcon sharing alignments. The POE right now is just me basically, so of course anyone I suspect would be "expanding" it and if you look closely at my post, if I was mafia trying to expand the POE then i didn't do a very good job with it.
The poe is really not just you lol. Sure it's technically possible mac and falcon are w/w but the way they explained the mech I think it is exceedingly unlikely. Falcon should be taken as near clear for now imo, it's optimal to go along with it etc
I don't think you understand what I meant, but apparently no one is so it's frustrating and I guess I didn't explain well. I didn't mean flip Falcon first before Mac or whatever, I was just trying to work out how their claim works in the thread.

Anne discusses this further with nutella and others wert Mac/falcon. I agree that Mac first was always the correct flip given the green check existence, but again, unless mafia was relying on Anne to deepwolf (or Mac), pushing in this direction regardless seems counterproductive.

I also firmly believe that nutella and Anne are anti-teamed, or at least not w/w,

anne wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:21 am like id rather vote mac at this point. i think falcon is scummy and he could be w/w with mac and mac isnt that townie either so like he can go

Eventually votes Mac (so she can kill falcon mostly).

Here are Anne's interactions/mentions with Mac.

Anne's take was very specific and kinda counter to what the thread was doing, but her actions were ultimately pro-town, and also despite pushing a different take, her take brought us to the same conclusion, so it's fine.

Her lack of mentioning or looking into Mac Day 1 was a little alarming.


Overall: I want to chop nutella first. If nutella flips wolf, I'm willing to take Anne as town until LYLO. Otherwise, I'll reconsider.

Posting this again because it's relevant.

Anne didn't talk about Mac Day 1 at all, and even on Day 2, she pursued falcon as a SR more than Mac.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:50 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Lime Coke wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:45 pm Why that emoji is at the top is beyond me but that tends to happen often.
If you're phone posting and scroll down to type your post on the page after you open the post editor, sometimes you'll probably put your finger on an emoji as you're scrolling and it'll add that emoji in even though you're just scrolling. It is weird but harmless.




That's why I like, kinda want to ignore most AtE, because it's useable as either alignmnet and meant to relieve incoming pressure, and adding little caveats like "... as town" are easy to slip in even if that part is a lie in an otherwise truthful frustration post.

Aside from that post, do you think that she's clear or townie based on thread state or other events?
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:40 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Lime Coke wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:39 pm I really just want to kill nutella here but Alexa dying townreading her and SPF townreading her is stopping it.

Next best thing is Esooa and that feels like shit.

Why does chopping esooa feel like shit?
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:39 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

esooa and Wilgy are both voting for nutella while anne isn't voting at all, that's actually kinda disconcerting.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:37 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

NotAnAxehole wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:15 am I'm not entirely sure how to best format this post, so I'm going to to my best...

I've started coding a new bot that simulates AI, it's called the JJJ simulator. I'm trying to compile the dos and don'ts, so please tell me where you all agree and disagree with the logic that I am hard coding into my bot.


1) If JJJ politely lectured you about how to play the game or how he sees the game, you're town.

Marmot
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:46 am
Marmot wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:41 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:37 am
Marmot wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:29 am Oh I'm not the only one sensing JJJ being off, good to know. The dude forgot how to wolf.
What’s off
You're talking about people and not to people. I'm accustomed to you engaging people with their takes and posts, rather than dropping a line or two and moving on.

Your tone doesn't look to me like you feel comfortable in this game.


I realize the first of these things is not what's happening here, but that's what I've noticed in your first dozen posts or so (I'm still on page 4).
Okay.

There’s a facilitatory character to what I suspect folks perceive as Generic Jay Play that is less critical in a game filled with great players who will talk plenty without me. That definitely includes pointed dialogue AT people. This thread has started the right way I think and I don’t feel an immediate need to do all that stuff right now. The game is doing well to facilitate itself without all my incessant nudging. Nice job gang! :goofp:

I’ll let you catch up
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:14 pm For Marmot:

I don't care about "pressure". I didn't "offer" to step back, it's just what I have done in this game and I explained when prompted. :meany:
Cassandra
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:01 pm Regarding my leadership capacity (re: alexa): remember from the article (shameless plug) that one of the first core questions to ask about leadership in Mafia is whether or not the game actually calls for it or has a need for it in a given situation. Just joining a game and immediately going Leader Mode isn't necessarily a good thing. :noble:
Ilario
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:27 pm
ilario wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:22 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:15 pm
Marmot wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 12:12 pm Who does JaggedJimmyJay want to eliminate today?
If the day ended in five seconds I'd vote NAA for boring snap reads. I'm in no hurry though.
Huh wdym? Also, why is that alignment indicative For him even if that’s the case?
I clarified a couple posts later, so refer there. I wish to address the orange briefly though, because this is a recurring question that I deal with and I might just refer back to this post number if/when I see it again (no affront intended to you ilario for asking). While I do have a sense on some level of what is or is not "alignment indicative" for certain people, that is not a mindset that holds dominating sway over my solving practice. I think it's a fundamentally flawed question, at least in the way it's most often applied (to literally everything). Sometimes accusations ought to be rendered without regard for such specific notions of meta. I'll include this in the forward of my book.
Leetic
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:55 pm
leetic wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:49 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:32 pm [VOTE: MacDougall] aubergine

one fart too many
I do have one question for you: Is there a reason why it took you this long in the game to vote for someone? Wilgy and Sloonei are the only ones to have held out for longer and the latter didn't even show
Yes. Perhaps my most important discovery over the last two-three years of Mafia is that an environment of comfort is usually better for town than an environment of pressure. Often in the early game if I feel mu vote serves no purpose higher than just pressure, I don’t place it. I feel that gives people I have suspicions of maximum space to change my mind and believe that I really am listening.

Eventually one must vote though. This felt like the time.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:53 pm
leetic wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:52 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:50 pm Thread has become quite turbulent, more than usual. I wish I was better able to help change that now, but it’ll be something we should try to sort as a group moving forward
[VOTE: JaggedJimmyJay] aubergine

Come on. I don't see a JJJ who says a lot of activity is a bad thing.
“Turbulence” is not “activity”. It’s a sense of flailing. Activity is great.
SPF
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 5:08 pm Okay then.

Regarding the MR post SPF highlighted: shrug. I don’t struggle to see the latter paragraph as a token qualifier to encourage an active-listening dialogue. “That said, you could be right blah blah” is kind of a staple of my own play even if sometimes it’s perhaps redundant or otherwise not necessary. It’s a courtesy at least when I do it. MR can expand on his own.

The mechanical dynamics of the post may be questionable with a certain degree of nitpick. But you could be right.

2) Every group read where JJJ defines the group contains AT LEAST 1 Mafia

Group A
leetic/ilario
cassandralexa
nutella
iaafr
Lime Coke
staypositivefriend

Group B
Anne, MR, Sloonei, Wilgy
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:20 pm @falcon45ca I have collected a solid number of town reads and posted them. I may not have posted the generic ~list~ but it’s in the plans once I can dedicate some time to review. For the moment here are town reads in no particular order:

leetic/ilario
cassandralexa
nutella
iaafr
Lime Coke
staypositivefriend

I feel pretty good about this group. There are some others I might consider e.g. Marmot. I’ll see.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:56 pm
cassandra wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:53 pm JJJ. who do you scumread tbh?
Active suspicion is limited. I don’t trust Nanook. I am vacant of cause to town read Anne, MR, Sloonei, Wilgy

3) If JJJ wrote anything about your thought process or how to handle you without talking about the game at all, you are town.

Leetic
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:42 pm leetic has a uniquely pointed means of getting into dialogues with people, as in, he is assertive even in contexts where it may not necessarily be "warranted" (this shouldn't be interpreted as a complaint). I haven't played a ton of games with the fellow, but it's immediately recognizable in his treatment of me. The general "shouldn't you be solving more" dig is an ordinary thing for someone in his position (limited but non-zero experience with me) to expect of JaggedJimmyJay, and there's already nuance in the development of his perspective of me that I think looks authentic.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:19 pm To clarify my view of leetic, which seems to be halfway controversial at this point: I view him as a player who in his hunt favors the most direct, readily apparent evidence available. He isn't the sort to take extra logical steps to develop reads e.g. wifom, and whether he is right or wrong he will stick with the first available interpretation of the posts in front of him. A Syndicate long-timer that I think plays a similar game is DFaraday. Sometimes that approach can be interpreted as opportunistic or low in nuance without those added inferential steps in the thought process even when it's a part of a player's solving process.
Lime Coke
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Nov 22, 2021 10:24 pm When last I played with Lime Coke, he was town and play took on a pretty distinct character to my memory:

Stay calm
Adopt a process
Trust the process
Trust other people to sort the process


That process was a dedicated POE hunt that if I recall caught him some flak last time, and despite that he stuck to it (until perhaps running out of gas). I am seeing some of the same general mentality in this young game, not just in a pursuit of town reads but in a general perspective that there's a process and it will work if I allow it to work. An example is LC's reception of suspicion: to give a basic effort to convey a town spirit while mostly just trusting others to get there. So I appreciate all of that from LC so far.
Nanook
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:04 am Nanook gonna do what Nannook do, and I am inclined to let him do it for a while before passing major judgment. I’ve theories for later.
NAA
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 4:47 pm My view of NAA is quite ambivalent. There are little kernels of the town game I saw in Fleabag, e.g. the partially-troll-partially-cooperative treatment of me and my C L O U T. It’s a small point. I don’t know what he thinks of the game.
DrWilgy
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:52 pm I’m not sure any chop on the board is a bigger shrug than Wilgy. I have no read. Folks newer to him should be aware though that his general approach to this game isn’t atypical of what I know of DrWilgy. This is what he do
Marmot
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:59 pm I'm a bit torn on the rodent from the PNW. Holistically, I think his posts look fine -- his hunt seems to be organized in a way that recalls some of his other recent town efforts reasonably well. Conversely I sensed some opportunism in his treatment of me (e.g. suggesting I changed my approach somehow after pressure). I grant there's personal bias in that. It'd help to get someone else's perspective about Marmot's view of me.

4) If JJJ made an associative read, someone within the read is mafia

Nutella
iaafr
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Nov 22, 2021 9:12 pm I love the aesthetic similarity between rabbitposts and nutellaposts, as a general concept rather than a reference to this specific game. Swap their avatars and it's convincing.

iaafr is something resembling a green skittle. I don't have strong feelings but he seems okay. nutella is the absence of a skittle. I'm sure she'll do things when she feels like it so play on
Nutella
iaafr
Sloonei
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:36 am nutella and iaafr tend to look good in their dealings with each other in a way that reminds me of my own dynamic with Sloonei. They speak the same language and in that interaction a purer expression of them seems to emerge. That might not be super clear; it’s dependent upon an abstract connection to a specific player. I’m not sure that is a universal experience for everyone.

Anyway I like their cooperative vibe

5) If JJJ disagrees with your playstyle, and throws a fit over it, you are town.

MacDougall
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JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:44 pm
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:42 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:35 pm Just seems like tripling down on a tired gag instead of enduring the struggle to make real posts
this is a lazy read for you
You’ve played in such a way that this is the only available read beyond “farts are NAI”, and I am not giving you that over 24 hours into Day 1.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:58 pm
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:56 pm why did it feel like the time?
You’d had numerous opportunities to make your mark on the thread, and I was already patient. Tonight it just becomes parody.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:15 pm Thanks falcon.

As a general rule, I’m not giving anyone credit for fart posts and certainly not MacDougall. Your other comments are more useful to me though and I will think it over.

The simulation indicates that JJJ is mafia with 3 of these 5 people:

Anne
iaafr
Nutella
Esooa
Dyslexicon

That is the PoE that the JJJ simulator has spit out.

Just gonna bring this post up again because I didn't have time to look it over at EOD2, but I think it's somewhat relevant.

We can dismiss category 5 because it was wrong, and only had one player in it anyway.

Categories 1 and 3 are probably hard to take automatically, because JJJ would not solely treat only town players in these particular ways. I think it's a reasonable assumption in general, but not universal.

Categories 2 and 4 are good, especially category 2 imo. I'm feeling more comfortable in the idea of yeeting someone in that group of "vacant-of-townreads" that JJJ listed, which would be esooa, anne, and Wilgy.


I'm still leaning towards vetoing a Wilgy chop for today at least, anne or esooa are fine.
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:27 pm
Forum: Previous Rackets
Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Views: 124089

Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

I didn't realize iaafr had postcapped, I wondered why he was so quiet
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:26 pm
Forum: Previous Rackets
Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Views: 124089

Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Yeah I made him stop posting sry
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:22 pm
Forum: Previous Rackets
Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Views: 124089

Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Here's a fun table
PlayerPost CapCurrent PostsPosts Left
anne29521481
DrWilgy1636994
Dyslexicon29227616
esooa24118457
iaafr3623620
iralio/leetic47646016
Lime Coke37031456
Marmot40537530
nutella30227428
staypositivefriend35529560
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 2:07 pm
Forum: Previous Rackets
Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Views: 124089

Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Marmot wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 2:05 pm
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Sloonei wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:07 pm
Master Radishes wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:04 pm
Sloonei wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:02 pm Can I get a brief summary of the main wagons so that I can attempt to weigh in on stuff?
The only one with actual clear reasoning is Mac's for questionable mech usage (but falcon is vouching for him). The rest are various shades of shrugs.
Should we be skeptical of the five people who are voting for axehole for shadey shrugs?

I want to ask about mac's questionable mech usage, but I don't want to force anyone to waste posts explaining something to me that probably has an easily searchable answer, but if someone doesn't mind doing that I would appreciate it.

This was Sloonei's only mention of Mac. It could be a way of acknowledging him while asking people to not engage him with it. Weird.

Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:08 am
Marmot wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:08 am
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:07 am iaafr looking bad on votes is good actaully

Can you read Mac's iso and tell us what it means? He stunk Day 1.
not rn

Esooa says she won't iso mac when I asked her to after subbing in. :(

Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:29 am
iaafr wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:17 am
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:56 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:55 am This post looks town to me for reasons I don’t want to get into. The EM gang or others should say if they feel this is not a post to be town read.

leetic/ilario are probably my top town read.
lol Jay wolfing
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:41 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:27 am
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:23 am
nutella wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:03 am I guess I think nook and jay are v/v now lmao
ok ur town lol
Why
Do me a favour and just ignore my presence until I do things that matter k?
these look unaligned to me btw
Not rly

Disagrees when iaafr calls Mac and JJJ unaligned. This post feels more contrarian than anything.

Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:17 am
leetic wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:14 am
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:11 am
leetic wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:09 am
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:07 am
leetic wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:06 am

Can I see a defense against the points people are making against you? I know you've only been here a short time but you still found time to tinfoil like four separate people, it's the least you could do
No
Yeah you're full of shit. [VOTE: Esooa] aubergine Even my previous point for you can be rescinded given nutella's interaction, and you have not given me one indication you are town. nutella's still scummier but I would not mind going after this.
Your previous points are about Sloonei, lmfao

90% of the rest are "PoE cause they subbed in :grin: "

The only existing not-that reasons are Alexa going off because I didn't agree with her, and SPF saying that I am slightly tonally off in whatever way, I forgot

Extremely cringe
You have tried to go after me for basically no reason other than "wallpost", you've tried shading Mac with no explanation, you have a hedgy and overly convoluted nutella defense, nutella has given a number of strong indications of being partnered with you, I don't even care about Sloonei at this point because the evidence against you is so much stronger.
I'm gonna tell you why this post is really fucking awful then leave

You're doing the same shit people do every game someone subs in where you think because my reads aren't the equivalent of other day 2-esque reads they're bad, and it's stupid

I never shaded Mac and to even try to call it that is AWFUL

I COMPLETELY VALIDLY said his interactions that Iaafr quoted are not good for him

Mac is literally one of the best people at making good w/w interactions I know

He has literally made a partner die because he randomly RT'd a red on them and they responded poorly

I did not hedge on my Nutella defense, I explained my thoughts irt to the post

Partially too because it was something I was feeling earlier, and then remember that's just a part of Nutella, and it's probably towny overall

The "Nutella is partnered with you" thing is really just pointless

Thnx tho, later now

I don't believe esooa ever tried to shade Mac, so I do believe she's right about that point.

Mac is good at making w/w interactions, that is also a good point.

There aren't any reads on Mac here, but this post is fine overall. I can definitely understand esooa's frustration upon entering the game the way she did (or really, the way anyone does). No one gave her a chance to ease into the game, myself included.

Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:16 pm I'm pretty sure nanook is exactly the kill Mac would make btw

This exactly the post I made at EOD lmao.

Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:06 pm mac's green is probably just fake cause they're lovers
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:14 pm mac do you know iaafr
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:15 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:14 pm esooa you know me better than to think that I'd make a d1 play like that with a teammate
... yes?

if you're a wolf the green obviously isn't valid

if you're town I don't really think it is

I'm town reading falcon regardless
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:17 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:16 pm given the mafia got alerted when i checked falcon there's guaranteed to be a mafia voting me with the way that I was playing because they know it's 2 for the price of 1
what lol
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:18 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:17 pm
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:15 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:14 pm esooa you know me better than to think that I'd make a d1 play like that with a teammate
... yes?

if you're a wolf the green obviously isn't valid

if you're town I don't really think it is

I'm town reading falcon regardless
you think that I would gambit day 1 on fake green checking my teammate?
no, my point was if your a wolf the check literally isn't relevant anyways

so the statement only means anything if you're town

This interaction I think looks reasonable for esooa until the end

Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 6:31 pm mac is probably just town actually

not cause of anything he's posted recently but I think if he's a wolf solving in lover chat and stuff, he just puts that activity in thread instead of like flopping about

like if he's already solving and putting energy into the game I can't see the motivation to not use that to get town read more as a wolf

This read doesn't make sense to me. I feel like esooa gave herself reasons to scumread Mac, but ended up with a townread based on how she assumes Mac would play the game.

But I don't blame her for the assumption. Mac did feel like he was flailing, and that was a portion of why I had trouble scumreading him, he wasn't trying to control the game.

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Esooa wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:25 am Finished reading day 1. I'm kinda tired of reading posts so I skimmed/wasn't absorbing much of the EoD, but should be fine

anne - will talk about more after, generally pretty whelmed by her posts but I've liked it more than not. The biggest thing for me was her SPF read about big posts, where she posted it going like "the scummiest thing about spf is her post size," was pressured on it and said it wasn't really serious, then after being pressured a little more explains the read with like 2 decent paragraphs. It's a read that I've had on SPF before too so I kinda understand it, but mostly I think the treatment of shirking on the read by saying it's not really serious but actually having the opinion (cause she explained it and seemed decently serious) makes me think it's just genuine, it's something I've felt a lot where I'm like "yeah I don't really want to give this read cause people won't like me for it so it's just kinda a joke"

cassandra - Talked about for the most part, I thought while reading EoD briefly that her thread positioning fits a wolf who's just kinda riding consensus (which I do think is a problem right now) which also would involve going with the flow and bussing JJJ day 1, but her posts really just don't read like a bus. Even if Alexa was intending to deep wolf this game which isn't really implausible imo, I doubt she ever goes out of her way to get a partner killed when he wasn't really in contention that EoD until she talked about him a lot

DrWilgy - honestly got close to nothing from his day 1 posts. He's posted a few decently lucid thoughts this day phase that I liked, but I don't really know how he plays as wolf. Everything I've seen from him seems in line with his town games from before, though. The biggest problem I have with him is mostly other peoples posting about him, lol. People saying "the MR shot was good for him"

Like, it was on a towny, and it's not rly like he's just going to out to shoot someone outer PoE imo. Radishes is also someone who can contribute pretty well but is also a low accountability kill, like I think it's a scummier kill than not tbh.

Though I just remembered specifically his posting about calling Anne town, that was pretty good and I generally agree with the thoughts, would add those to my reasons to town read Anne

Dyslexicon - Liked their vibes but their recent reads list really pinged me

They read all of day 1 and just dropped a PoE going "Mac Anne Esooa" and it made me really just go like

This is actually just the consensus PoE for the past 24 hours and no one has cared, like hello pls why is this a thing

Particularly don't like it irt mostly in annoyance because I think I'm PoE only for being a sub, but I think it's a pretty good demonstration of what I mean. I have 88 posts in 24 hours already and I still feel like I'm being treated as a nothing slot and nobody really cares that much about my placement, the people who really do I think are decently likely town regardless. And the same thing is being done with Mac/Anne where they're just... existing as PoE and nothing is being done about it. No one's being pushed, Anne has been decently wagoned but there's no one really convicted she's a wolf, it's just kinda like.. yeah she's vaguely scummy, and votes are just placed on her

I think especially because I'm town and no one is taking any interest in movement it decently raises the others chances of being town, btw, but I digress, going back to Dizzy;

The way they engaged with the reads just felt shitty and made the thread state particularly hit me. They read day 1, which like yeah that's good, but then afterwards just dropped their fully consensus PoE with no real interest in actually solving these slots. I've posted around Dizzy a few times and liked that we had similar thoughts, but they don't even seem to have registered that fact. They said "Mac's day 1 was pretty lackluster, hope he picks it up day 2," but doesn't talk about or investigate his day 2 at all. The drive to solve from Dizzy just feels non-existent and I really didn't like it

I was gonna say their recent clap back against Illario was good, though, mostly for it feeling like a kinda towny "get the fuck off me," while I think wolf Dizzy would indeed be more of a smooth talker/etc, but I dunno I'm feeling they're decently wolfy now, prob just going to say they're null becuase idk about the Marmot interactions and think Marmot is decently wolfy

falcon45ca - Pretty confident he's town, like very. Green checked by Mac which I agree isn't ever w/w (his wolf equity probably actually increases if Mac is town cause I still kinda feel like the check is fake) but mostly has just been genuinely towny in giving like, hard hitting reads lol, as in when he explains his wolf reads they just have good conviction, and he pushes on things with determination the way he does as town, etc.

iaafr - Probs town. Had some slight paranoia from reading EoD he could be a wolf because his JJJ vote seemingly came out of no where, but I possibly just don't remember his previous stance on JJJ. I think the way he flip flopped on the read still is good but doubtfully hard clearing just cause I've pointed out this thing before and there's enough people with "iaafr meta" that I think he'd possibly be aware enough to try and subvert it like he did, more leaning to town still though. Generally just based on vibes, way he's posting, so I don't have a specific "this is town" thing from him. Some random thoughts on him I put down cause why not are that I actually did really like the way he approach SPF, he mentioned to me in DM's recently that he thinks SPF has very AI openers, and without me in the game too he brings out this read in specific about SPF, paying specific attention to her opener. Another thing I liked was the way he defended Nutella but didn't want to commit to it mostly because it reminds me of his thoughts about Limestone from a previous game, though I'm kinda eh on that particular read as the days gone longer

ilario/leetic - getting town vibes from both atm. Leetic is funny to me but the way he's pushing things seems more like a towny committed to their processes than a wolf trying to be obtuse to sow division, particularly got this feeling around EoD1. I haven't cared to read either much but Illario has just been really towny imo. Approach to NAA was good, like saying a player is mafia because they're town siding too much. Biggest thing I have in his favor was from EoD1 when he was like "why is (x person, I forgot) a wagon, I hope I get night killed."

Classic Illario town moment

Lime Coke - honestly haven't really been trying to solve him at all. His recent posts about "this day phase is weird" have made me :? slightly because he's mentioned it a few times but hasn't even talked about and is just... saying it. I also just kinda find the posts funny because NAA was saying he always goes into lost mode as town mid-game lmao but yea. People are generally reading him town, I'm fine with it don't care, if he lives another day or two will just ISO then and be able to get a decently confident read probably

MacDougall - think Mac is more likely town than not. Usually when I see him try to dig himself out of holes as mafia he does it more so trying to emulate his town style. Posting reads off the cuff, throwing his ego around, kinda thing. He's done some of the ego stuff but not as much, and the biggest response to pressure from him was just writing a big iaafr case that I liked the spontaneity of and I don't particularly think he'd be casing iaafr here as a wolf cause just.. why

Tbh, thinking this is less strong of a reason than I had in my head now that I write it out though. I do agree that sitting around doing nothing comes from wolf Mac a lot more often than town Mac, too, so yeah.

Marmot - I've explained this one, already wrote enough in this post. Kinda having doubts about him mostly because of volume, I don't really know how capable he is of that as a wolf, but like, I don't really like the way most of his volume is made anyways tbh. It's all very disconnected, and especially when he explains his previous thoughts they're very empty. Like, when I asked him about the Nutella stuff, he gave very generic reasoning for the posts I quoted... but also didn't mention the thought processes going into some of his posts he made about Nutella around that time that I *didn't* quote

And like, if he's actually going thought his thought processes, it feels weird he wouldn't talk about that? Or just have more going on in general, tbh

I kinda thought his response to pressure earlier was wolfy, I don't know how much I care about that now. Not much but I may as well mention

Basically he was pretty aggro about wolf reads on him, calling them really bad, but then he immediately switched into like, cooperative mode, going "I don't think this day phase has been going in a good direction for town, we need to come together to fix the problem." It just felt skeevy but meh

NotAnAxehole - I think he's had a few towny posts but I'm going back and forth on him. I guess he's PoE, but not really a priority at all. His post earlier about me not having thoughts on spew from the wolf was good, mostly because in one of the most previous games we played I read his spew pretty in depth to push his wolf partner Alison, so it makes sense he's expecting me to look at those kinda things again. It's mostly a minor point, though. He had some posts day 1 that were like, snap read kinda things, just posting thoughts on a fair few things in quick succession. I could be wrong about this because I didn't read much of backwards mafia where he was a wolf, but I recall his reads being a lot more formulaic/stilted in that game, not as flowy as there.

I think by far the worst part about NAA is his JJJ read. He talked a lot about JJJ, and basically seemed to put a strong emphasis on JJJ's influence in his game, but at the same time claimed... no read on him. I don't really understand how you can not have a read on someone who's a focal point of your game, and it felt like an excuse more than anything. I also think him being on the wagon is actually bad considering his earlier stuff in the EoD about not voting JJJ

nutella - have felt like she's slightly towny in terms of her reads. Have some minor gripes but meh. I think the pressure against her SoD2 was jumped on by a wolf, which helps, tbh I don't remember who all did that but I know Marmot did at least which I didn't like, lol. I do agree with Iaafr's opinion that Nutella's posts about JJJ don't look partnered but I kinda expected more? Like the one Dizzy quoted earlier and said they liked was good, but I didn't really see much else from Nutella about JJJ that I went like "yeah this is someone without TMI on JJJ"

I also just barely lost to wolf!Alexa due to associative reads lol, (Gira was the one who pulled the trigger on that but I was thinking the same while alive), and kinda was thinking after seeing that, that I shouldn't be clearing partners off of like... individual posts that can really intentionally be wifomy. Nutella's thoughts about JJJ extend past one post but not significantly.

Do agree that her having no tunnels is a bit :scared: but eh. Town leaning her

staypositivefriend - Pretty conflicted on SPF this game which I don't like, leaning her wolf though. I have a lot of stuff that I'd need to pull posts for that I don't really want to do right now because I've spent a lot of time writing this but basically, I don't really agree with Alexa that SPF's EoD was that good. She did venture off the wagons temporarily that led to JJJ being in contention, but I don't think "I don't want to kill JJJ today" is something SPF wouldn't be able to post as a wolf. It's like, not that hard to think as a wolf considering it's a pretty common thought, and she did a few things I didn't like EoD. Immediately after saying she thought JJJ was wolfy but she didn't want to kill him that day, she made a really, really really wolfy post; I'm actually going to go find it.
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 8:25 pm i think that wilgy is the type of player that people might find easy to push on regardless of his alignment, and i also would be lying if i said that ive gotten anything alignment indicative out of his posts

the real reason that im voting for him is because he has a vested interest in maintaining an active presence in this game, but he does not appear to have a vested interest in solving the game. when someone cares a lot about a game but that "caring" doesn't translate to any visible scumhunting, then it can be indicative of the person playing in a wolf mindset
So, in the first paragraph she says "I would be lying if I said that I've gotten anything AI out of (Wilgys) posts"

But then immediately after goes,
then it can be indicative of the person playing in a wolf mindset
while saying something he's done that's wolfy. Saying, like, someone is null to you (the first paragraph), then going into "but here's something they've done that's wolfy actually, and I want them dead today" just reads so awful to me

Other random stuff I didn't like is like, her post earlier saying "I think this PoE from Mac was possibly made to wolf side,"

Which is such a weird sounding thought to begin with, but reading day 1 with that thought in mind I just go... really? Like, this Mac is making PoE's trying to hard wolf side?

He didn't do anything or push anything, and then a wolf died. I really don't think that's a wolf-siding Mac, wolf!Mac here is pretty obviously just doing nothing

I also disliked how disjointed SPF's EoD was. She threw out like.. 4 or 5 posts that were just paragraphs of her posting a thought, without much interaction. It all sounded rehearsed to me, too

I have the p403 is partnery from SPF I'm not gonna find it so there's that

Anyways what I was gonna write after all this is just stuff like, I think the gamestate rn is pretty bad just in the sense there's no real pushes and the votes on PoE are really consensus and basically no one cares, all the people who I see doing non-consensus stuff I think are town, and it's just not good imo

Current people I want to look into more are like, Marmot first of all, probably actually SPF second there, then Dizzy

Though this is a confusing amalgamation of people in terms of interactions but eh lmao

Again, esooa gives herself reasons to scumread Mac, but ends up townreading him. This time she acknowledges that this is how Mac would play the game out as a wolf.

Esooa wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:52 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:37 am i also find it kinda odd that you say mac usually tries to make himself get townread as a wolf by doing "off the cuff" stuff, and then note in the same paragraph that you townread the "spontaneity" of his wolfread on iaafr. isnt that exactly what youre arguing he would try to do as a wolf? this might be nitpicky but i dont really understand ur read on mac and it seems like the least fleshed out read in ur whole readslist, which kinda surprises me given (to my memory) you usually really like trying to sort out mac in games like this
I'm going to use another post because I can't help myself, responding to SPF

I guess I get what you mean about the Wilgy stuff, I mean, the specific idea that "Wilgy's posts individually were NAI but I was reading into his overall playstyle," but don't really think that's how the post comes across in how it's said

That could be partially though cause I realize now I mostly skimmed Wilgy day 1 and honestly got nothing out of his day 1 posts myself lmao, most my read on him was based on day 2. The words he was using were rly annoying to try to understand

So yeah to that

Your posts about Anne like, I mean I was being overly simplistic in the writing of it, but still, you say yourself that the reasons to wolf read her aren't like... thattt great. But she's been a wagon all day

That's also including I'm reminded that like

Both mason are defending her

And people just aren't biting

if you're town I'm probably not picking up stuff cause most this game has been played from me from behind

Both literally and figuratively in the sense that I had to backread an entire day before having the full context (while I've been kinda busy with work), and also just that I've been pretty annoyingly PoE'd because of the existence of an.. 11 poster

Who like, shouldn't even matter at this point

I mean, there's also just random dumb stuff like leetic getting angy I don't have a 100% solid list with exactly 3 wolves and everyone else town or whatever

In regards to the Mac stuff, what I mean by off the cuff posting is just like his typical snap read kinda things. Going "this person is mafia for this" and just saying random stuff

I usually read him by like, if I think he's just saying bullshit or if I actually like his snap reads

But this game my point is, he's doing none of that, and why not? imo as a wolf he wouldn't like, deter from acting like typical town!mac because what does that gain him here in terms of town reads? Is that really the best way to help his position? I don't think so,

And instead, he dropped a case, that I call spontaneous because there was a lot to it, it didn't seem to me to be something he just randomly posted. Like he had the thoughts before, and decided to post them then. So what I like about it isn't the similarities to the 'off the cuff' stuff, but the fact he had thoughts brewing that he didn't really feel the direct need to talk about. Similar to the stuff with his lovers chat, too.

hopefully explained that stuff well, but I'm kinda exhausted of writing all these larger posts after reading like 1000 posts lol

That being said though I mean, iaafr could just be right I'm being dumb about the game in general so idk

Kill who ever you want ig lol, my larger concern rly is just that like, I really doubt people's PoE's are actually solid and seems to be a lot of aversion to actually considering that the people in it might be town :puppy:

meh

Esooa comes back to saying that Mac's behavior doesn't make sense for wolf!Mac, so he must be town. Like, esooa is changing her perception of what Mac's alignment could be based on his play without changing her read.

Esooa wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:49 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:47 pm
Marmot wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:45 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:44 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:42 pm emagherd if you nerds just let this play out the way I wanted I'd be killed by mafia without trying which would be hilar
just pretend to townread me and we will go away and you won't have to worry about us anymore... amazing stuff!
Yeah but this is mafia so you should find wolves, not just survive.
if I can get myself killed by the mafia early when they're trying to get me mischopped that's more +ev for town than me making reads tbh
bruh

you can do both

I do like this post from esooa. Not enough to townread her, but she did call him out for his behavior here.

I just wish I could see intention in solving his alignment, because I don't.

Esooa wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:36 am Mac not being here is bad too

iaafr I guess got bonked for posting over the cap so lmao

I don't think this post is AI, but I don't know what it means.

Esooa wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:52 am
Marmot wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:50 am
Esooa wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:49 am
Marmot wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:48 am
Esooa wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:47 am
Marmot wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:47 am

What do you mean?
he is town
eh probably, but not resolved
how do you tihnk Falcon is town, but the best ? thing about chopping mac is you resolve your town read on an obvious town player

posts wolfily
I'll let you reread my post and look at the parenthesis instead of responding to your continued conf-biasing.
I literally do not know what it's supposed to mean if not that

You put the emphasis on best and worst in parathensis

Like I don't rly even care what you thought you meant when making that post it just generally doesn't make sense

If you're town reading Falcon, who is obvious town, why are you even putting "possibly the best"

esooa and I argue over the cons/benefits of chopping Mac in the waning moments of the day phase.

My point about the original post is that if Mac and falcon are both scum, resolving them is the best

If either one of them are scum, resolving them is the best. Why? We have to chop all the mafia anyway, falcon was always going to die for town to win this game.

If they're both town, it's the worst, because we lose two at once.

Also, falcon isn't automatically resolved before he dies, because we're assuming that they're lovers based on what they told us, it wasn't a guarantee. It was probably true, but they could have both. been scum and not lovers, or both town and playing a gambit. Long odds, but not guaranteed.

I didn't want to take the time to explain this at EOD because it would take too long.


I'm concerned that esooa was trying to pressure me in this dire moment into not voting Mac because it would mean killing my townread, falcon.

Esooa wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:57 am I am now voting Mac
Esooa wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:59 am vote: sloonei

Guys a wolf did u see his day 1

esooa votes Mac briefly before self-voting. I don't think this is AI for esooa, this is just funny content :haha:

Here's esooa's mentions/interactions with Mac in this game.

I think the worst thing for esooa here is that she made three consecutive takes on Mac that looked like this:

1) Mac's not trying to get townread, so he's probably a wolf
2) Mac sitting around doing nothing comes more from wolf!Mac than town!Mac
3) As wolf he wouldn't like, deter from acting like typical town!mac

Point number 2 came in the midst of giving him a townread anyway. It doesn't look like she's trying to solve his slot at all, more like she's trying to force a townread on him.


My conclusion is that a lot of this, including her final vote, is very partner indicative.

@ilario I think you were the one who asked. Here is my conclusion to reading esooa's ISO, there's more reactions inside the spoiler, but my tl;dr is outside.
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Aight, I'mma take my 32 posts left with me to bed and use them tomorrow. Goodnight game thread.
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If we keep talking about it, we can resolve that.
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It's ok, it only counts days you were alive (so Nanook can have one too)
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Everyone who managed to eclipse the postcap-per-day threshold should receive the Hally medal of volume.
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[VOTE: esooa] aubergine before i forget, apparently I wasn't voting yet.
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Lime Coke wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:49 am At this rate I'm just voting Esooa out and just continuing on with what everyone else is saying.

I'm probably missing EOD tomorrow because I'm out the house but we're in good shape.

Yeah, I think the Day 3 chop will actually be clear cut (barring a drastic return from the fruit vendor), so I may be low presence as well.
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staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:46 am
Dyslexicon wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:27 pm
iaafr wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:26 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:12 pm Voters: cassandra, iaafr, nutella, Dyslexicon, NotAnAxehole

^These are the Anne voters. If iaafr is indeed confirmed town, and I'm right that Nutella is town which I'm pretty sure I am, these are literally all town.
ive made the same argument multiple times and all it does is make limecoke rage and leetic reiterate his worldview

this is not a town of malleable minds

also im 1 post from capping now

just remember i get u and ive had a ton of the same perspective the same game and a few stubborn people who refuse to see anything our way doesnt make this game unwinnable, it's probably winnable
@staypositivefriend Please explain to Lime why marmot an Nutella are town actually.
youre very clever trying to group yourself in with nutella in my townreads :P i do think that both of you have been very towny but i think that nutella is townier than you tbh - that is largely because nutella has done more stuff in this game that i perceive as Hard To Fake than you have, and most of my reasons to townread you boil down to tone/sincerity, and that really isnt enough to justify having you as a townread at this stage of the game
I don't see it. Where did dizzy slip his name in?
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I don't think I've ever had the most posts in a game, what is this madness.
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I'm pretty much there on SPF's list. I disagree on nutella, though Dizzy is definitely the player I tinfoil the most of my reads, so I could be swayed on him in a day or two.

I will acknowledge that nutella has at least shown up today. If WIM is a thing that the mafia team is lack that town has, than esooa and anne are the wolves.
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I signed up for role madness, why'd this become a simple straightforward game
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I'm not sorting through Lime Coke or iaafr for their interactions. I might do leetic/ilario tomorrow if I'm feeling energetic or bored, but I'm just taking all three of those as town for the time being. That leaves my current reads as follows.


HYPERTOWN

Marmot
iaafr
Lime Coke
ilario/leetic


HYPOTOWN

Dizzy
SPF


MIDDLING

DrWilgy
Anne
nutella - I'm putting her here because y'all keep saying she's town. :mad:


SCUM

Esooa
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Spoiler: show
staypositivefriend wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 2:33 am [VOTE: MacDougall] aubergine

Votes Mac out of the gate. LOL

staypositivefriend wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:46 pm
iaafr wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:38 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:37 pm honestly, trying to catch up with this thread is not productive for me right now at all. my brain is too tired

who wants to chat about reads?
Mac vs NAA vs other candidates for the d1?
i think that mac is struggling to get his head into the game (regardless of his alignment), and that if he is town, he'll probably kick into gear soon and start making himself more obvious. i've been in multiple games lately where mac has a scummy d1 for the first half of the dayphase and then suddenly kicks into overdrive mode in the latter half, and if mac is town, it wouldn't surprise me if the same thing happens here. mac feels like one of those names that people act like theyre willing to chop throughout d1, but i would be pretty surprised if the day actually ends with him dying. that said, if mac's posts don't improve by the end of the day then im probably fine with killing him

NAA had a string of posts on page 13 that felt wolfy to me because they had an awkward "flow" to them and felt disconnected from one post to another, but i honestly dont think that NAA's posts are explicitly wolfy beyond that? i've actually found the openness of some of his posts a little bit towny. NAA is probably in the lower echelons of whatever POE i have right now, but i would be lying if i said that i actually wolfread him

i think my biggest problem right now is that i dont really feel good about anyone here being a wolf, which is a problem im hoping to fix by the EOD

This is an insightful read on Mac. I think spf could make this read as either alignment, but I think following up on it is a good look for her if she does it (see the rest of my analysis for more details).

staypositivefriend wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 6:15 pm
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 6:15 pm SPF stands for stinky poo farts
no it stands for "MacDougall Is Mafia"

potty humor

staypositivefriend wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:42 pm anyway mac why is jagged mafia?

This question is mildly amusing in hindsight given they were teammates. Mac did not answer it well at all.

staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:11 am i only find mac's claim implausible through the lens of him claiming to be self-resolving - i feel like it stretches credibility to have a role that could have confirmed you as town while also having a role that confirms you as town through you being self-resolving. i don't really buy that he's 100% self-resolving as either alignment, tbh
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:13 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:11 am i only find mac's claim implausible through the lens of him claiming to be self-resolving - i feel like it stretches credibility to have a role that could have confirmed you as town while also having a role that confirms you as town through you being self-resolving. i don't really buy that he's 100% self-resolving as either alignment, tbh
also there's an interesting synchronicity between illario and leetic's claim and mac and falcon's claim even if they arent exactly identical. i would speculate that it is improbable for there to be 2 pairs of players that can become confirmed town to each other (to a certain extent), but anything can happen in a role madness setup

But my one qualm is that spf didn't do anything with that question's answer. It's a small qualm though, because it was a simple question. And anyway, Mac made a claim, so there was other important info to look at.

staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:15 am
MacDougall wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:13 am meh just ask falcon... if you wanna throw and chop me go ahead noobs
you claim to be self-resolving tho, so at what point in this game will your alignment become resolved?
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:24 am i dunno. i think that mac's claim might be fake. i'm open to exploring options outside of him, though. it concerns me that there are no consensus scumreads outside of mac, which is probably bad news for the game regardless of mac's alignment
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:39 am
MacDougall wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:30 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:24 am i dunno. i think that mac's claim might be fake. i'm open to exploring options outside of him, though. it concerns me that there are no consensus scumreads outside of mac, which is probably bad news for the game regardless of mac's alignment
surely you're full of shit if you think i'd make a play like this as mafia
why wouldn't you? i mean, your claim is most likely real regardless of your alignment, but if you are a wolf who got this specific role, you would be backed into a corner of either needing to greencheck falcon or have falcon redcheck you, and in either case, i don't think your claim speaks for your alignment. you can claim that you would have approached your claim differently if you were a wolf but that feels shifty
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:41 am
leetic wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:27 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:24 am i dunno. i think that mac's claim might be fake. i'm open to exploring options outside of him, though. it concerns me that there are no consensus scumreads outside of mac, which is probably bad news for the game regardless of mac's alignment
If Mac has a fakeclaim, falcon will be able to tell us, unless you believe they made such a risky w/w gambit that would result in the other dying if one of them dies. Anyway, how do you feel about DrWilgy? He's pretty scummy
i have found it difficult to get alignment indicative information out of drwilgy's posts. an argument could be made that he's wolfy for seeming to have a vested interest in maintaining an active presence in the thread without seeming to have a vested interest in solving the game, but it's not a read i feel particularly good about

ill vote for him with you for the sake of having different wagons [VOTE: DrWilgy] aubergine

SPF goes on with this discussion with Mac, not believing his claim, but is eventually talked back by leetic, and she votes Wilgy.

I but this progression as one that town!SPF would make. And she did circle back to make reads on Mac.

staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:30 pm
Master Radishes wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:05 am
Marmot wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:04 am
Master Radishes wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:01 am Mac's story doesn't feel like a lie? When mafia lie about mechanics they tend to either keep it simple ('I'm a cop') or overly complex ('I'm a cop on Nights that fall within the fibonacci sequence but I only get a result if its a 3P who has activated their ability and I get a double cop on N1'). Mac's story is specific in a different way ('after 26 hours I got fed up and used it') that is unlikely to be fabricated.

Or it is just a clever lie I guess, which is also a possibility because uh we're starting to reach peak 'confirmed town' in a game that's supposedly not bastard, so I can only imagine the power Mafia have here.

It can be truth, and Mac can be mafia fwiw
I realise this. But occam's razor and all that.
how does "occam's razor" point to mac being town based on the logic that you laid out? doesn't occam's razor point to: "mac's claim is not reflective of his alignment"?
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:32 pm this might go w/out saying but i buy that falcon is town regardless of mac's alignment based on falcon's posts on this page
staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:40 pm
Master Radishes wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:14 am
ilario wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:10 am
Master Radishes wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 2:01 am Mac's story doesn't feel like a lie? When mafia lie about mechanics they tend to either keep it simple ('I'm a cop') or overly complex ('I'm a cop on Nights that fall within the fibonacci sequence but I only get a result if its a 3P who has activated their ability and I get a double cop on N1'). Mac's story is specific in a different way ('after 26 hours I got fed up and used it') that is unlikely to be fabricated.

Or it is just a clever lie I guess, which is also a possibility because uh we're starting to reach peak 'confirmed town' in a game that's supposedly not bastard, so I can only imagine the power Mafia have here.
It doesn’t have to be a lie for him to be mafia. I don’t have any gripes with the claim I have gripes with how he used his role. And idc if he waited 26 hours I’m sure mac would see the value in having his slot cleared especially when people were already wary of him at the start of the game, especially when he has the ability to carry this game himself if he became clear and tried. What does clearing falcon achieve for town? I’ve seen falcon cleared one game before and he just proceeded to stop caring about the game and essentially 5 posted every day phase, it was a bad decision by mac if he’s town to clear falcon over himself considering ive heard falcon is pretty easy to read from others and the fact that falcon is gonna sheep Mac regardless despite being the clear and i think too highly of Mac to think he would make a bad play like that whilst simultaneously having a poe that I have an immense amount of trouble seeing of having any sense to it. He essentially has me and 2 slots who I have clearing interactions with on his poe, it’s just incredibly strange to believe that he legitimately believes me being scum with either dizzy or Cassandra makes sense based on the interactions I’ve had with both slots.
Counterpoint: it sounds exactly like Mac to get bored of waiting and make a snap decision.

You might be right of course. I do think someone amongst the 'clears' could easily be lying or else Mafia have extra PR power.
this post from master radishes pinged me because it felt like an unnatural observation. it doesn't make a ton of sense to say that "someone amongst the clears could easily be lying" when the only 'clears' were illario/leetic (whom MR was addressing this post to) and arguably falcon. MR is shooting down the suggestion that mac could be a wolf based on his claim while suggesting that "someone might be lying", but the only reality where someone is lying AND mac is town is a reality where illario/leetic are wolves together

it just felt like one of those reasonable sounding observations that wolves like to make that doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny when taken with the context of the game. i dont like it

This keeps going all Day 1.

staypositivefriend wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 3:45 pm my vote will probably land in drwilgy/mac/master radishes/and MAYBE NAA but im not really crazy about any of the wagons right now

And she considers a vote on Mac. Wilgy is understandable given his Day 1, though unfortunately her other choices were wrong.

staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:34 am also mac is openwolfing if he actually tries pushing me peace

Day 2 starts with a lolpost

staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:46 am
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:45 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 4:43 am ftr im starting to think that nutella is probably just town again
looking for that elusive easy place to park your vote but ya just can't can ya
nah i already found it

[VOTE: macdougall] aubergine
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:25 am
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:38 pm Town

falcon
iaafr
Lime coke
Nutella

Prob town but weh

Jay
spf
Marmot
wilgy
Axe

Haven't seen them post

Anne

Kill in

Dyslexicon
Cassandra
leetic

if I've missed anyone they're null too I guess

you can flip me now

*farts*
my main concern about mac is that his POE on d1 feels quite a lot like it was written w/the intention to wolfside, especially if dizzy is town. if i take his claim off of the table then im not really sure if i have any reasons to townread him, and i feel like i ~should~ have reasons to townread mac on d2 of a game like this

But SPF votes Mac soonafter, and adds some comments on Mac's Day 1 readslist. I like this post, SPF taking the initiative to go look at Mac's post history.

staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:53 pm
ilario wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:40 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:27 am
ilario wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:25 am But who am I misreading then 🥺
i dunno, what do ur reads currently look like? if you post a list of ur reads then ill tell you where i think youre most likely misreading or misclearing

it'll have to be tomorrow tho cause i should have gone to bed like an hour ago

Ummm I don’t think Alexa or lc ever busses jjj like that So they are town. I don’t think bunny hops off like that eod as mafia and gives up on easy towncred and when I was going over eod yesterday with leetic I found towny posts from iaafr and think he’s town.

Falcon is town regardless of macs alignment, I don’t think they’re scum together but I can see Mac using falcons inactivity and his habits of hard tunneling a read as someone who would be perfect to pocket and scumside while Mac just hides in scum chat manipulating him and talking about farts in the thread. I am somewhat exaggerating this scenario because of how annoying falcons read on me is lol and the fact that he just afks all game and decides as his only worthwhile contribution is to random tunnel me is just aggravating. I also think leetic mentioned somewhere that nook fossed Mac and the nook NK implies there’s probably Atleast one more syndicate regular in the scum team and Rn I think nutella is more towny than mac.

Anne I thought was town early on, read through her iso last night and still seemed fine to me. Idk if her interaction with jjj early game is a point in her favour or against her favour given that she is good at theatre as scum. Like I don’t get why she cares about jjjs read on her when they don’t have much experience together but other then that I think she’s been towny.

Naa won me over by his reaction to me today, but him only hunting for two scum when there’s 3 alive is a bit hmmmm

Leetic has a theory that Nutella might have tmi’d esooa as a partner but if that’s not the case then I can see a world where they’re both town. I had reservations about nutella after the flip yesterday but I think her posts today seem genuine and so do esooas and also I think if sloonei was maf with jjj d1 he would have Atleast made more of an effort. I get people can get busy irl but nobody is so busy that they can’t Atleast make a few decent posts. People don’t low post because they’re live is super busy, yes it plays a factor but if someone still cared about the outcome they’ll still put in some effort to post even if busy. I think sloonei would have felt as with jjj as his teammate. Also jjj made some post about saving his posts near eod to get to talk to sloonei and that didn’t feel partnery to me.

So yeah that leaves dizzy wilgy mac you even though you had posts I liked on d1 I also did find some stuff that felt off about u at times
agreed that alexa and LC are town

i agree that occam's razor points to falcon just being a villager, although im reluctant to clear him specifically because of mac's claim because mac has a recent history of hard shielding and hard defending one of his partners and trying to go to endgame from it (that game where he was wolf with kane and twice shrunk). even so, i agree that there's a higher probability that falcon is town than not

i think that you're clearing anne, NAA, and esooa too easily. do you have any reasons to townread anne beyond her being "fine"? i agree that some of her posts on d1 were towny, but we're at a stage of the game where that isn't a good enough reason to townread someone. i also don't agree with you that NAA's reaction was towny

also, i fundamentally disagree with your reasoning for townreading the esooa slot and i think it's a weird thing to read into. we know for a fact that sloonei was very busy IRL throughout d1, and i think it's weird to assume that he would have magically gotten more free time and ability to post if he had rand'd wolf with jagged - that doesn't seem like a reasonable or logical assumption to make, and i think it's the type of reasoning that will get you burned incredibly easily. i also think that esooa sounds tonally stiff in a way that i have NEVER seen from her in a mafia game before, so i'm not sure what to do with that

Solid read here.

staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:53 pm fwiw my reads at this point arent even particularly hedgy - i feel confident about cassandra and lime coke and illario/leetic and nutella and marmot being town (granted, i want to double check to confirm that marmot isn't a blind spot, but i've felt confident about him being town since early d1)

i townlean iaafr and falcon

the pool of anne/wilgy/dizzy/mac/NAA/esooa either contains the entire scumteam or most of the scumteam, and within that pool, im starting to lean on dizzy/wilgy being villagers as well

i think that im misclearing one person maximum but i havent felt like any of my confident townreads have been wolfy today, so im not gonna second guess myself if there isnt a good reason to
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:29 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:28 pm so there's always a wolf between spf and dizzy so that's neat

also who the fuck is brad?
why? i think it's possible that we're both town
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:34 am
Esooa wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:15 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:01 am okay so, i snapvoted esooa because i read the bottom paragraph of her wallpost and i thought that her positioning looked explicitly like she was trying to wolfside and flip the POE (by having me/marmot as her top 2 foses when i think that marmot is probably just town, and by having dizzy as her third fos when i think dizzy could be town too)

now that ive actually read the wallpost, i think the reasoning is mostly fine and there's some parts of it that i find towny (like her reasoning to tr falcon). her reasoning to wolfread me feels really nitpicky and weak though - like it's obvious that i was saying that the content of drwilgy's posts wasn't AI for him but that his posts still reflected a scum mindset, and i feel like she really had to stretch and misinterpret my posts to frame them in the way that she did. i also dont like that she didnt include any reasons to townread me when i would kind of expect esooa to pick up on some of my towntells as town. i guess the headline is that i overreacted by immediately voting esooa but i think that her current list of scumreads is probably wolf-sided regardless of her alignment
Okay--how exactly does like

His posts reflecting a scum mindset not mean the posts are wolf AI

And regardless of all that were you not still wanting to vote him? Because like, you were as far as I know

irt not posting anything for why you're town

I'm not really pushing my reads that much and worded the ending explicitly as who I want to look into more for a reason

Not specifically because I'm town reading you much but more so because I mean

I basically expect exactly these kinds of responses when disagreeing with any kinda consensus in this lobby

I don't really agree that your response to pressure was that towny though, like, individually towny posts in terms of mindset are what made me shift my read off you in the vigi 10er, and I also noted that game you omgus'd by going like "I'm so obvious town" and town read it there, so don't rly agree there

and besides that the post is 2700 words. I cared more by then to get my current opinions out rather than all my thoughts :shrug2:

I think your entrance was probably towny, in that your entrance reads were reasonable+good in volume, and the uwu stuff was probably slightly towny, etc

Regardless I'm most interested in your opinion on the game state in general

And also too the idea that my reads list is wolf-sided, tbh

Alexa's reasons for wolf reading Anne, the top wagon today and for most of today to my recollection, are "nothing that pingy but she isn't explicitly town yet,"

Does that really sound like reasons to kill Anne to you? Or reasons for her to just be there wagoned all day?

I know there are others, but nothing really that inspiring either imo

And in terms of it being wolf-sided

Who are the wolves?

Like, when Alexa posted "I'm just gonna say all of Dizzy SPF Marmot are town and not actually talk about anything cause why not," I looked at the playerlist and assumed they're all town

Who are the wolves?

They're not exactly that easy to find

I think a lot of the consensus towns are town for decent reasons and if you remove the 3 named above, you're already basically out of names

Like c'mon lol
this post has so many paragraphs but ill do my best to respond to your main questions lol

it's important to note that drwilgy was posting with a strange and borderline unreadable gimmick throughout d1 that made his posts extremely difficult to parse. i had no idea what he was trying to communicate 99% of the time, and i think that everyone else in the game was in the same boat. so, when i said that i didn't get anything alignment indicative out of drwilgy's posts but that i thought his level of activity was alignment indicative, i think it was clear in context that i was making a reference to how unreadable his posts were. i just find it kinda hard to believe that you see this as a legitimate point against me, cause it's so nitpicky and it plays with semantics in a way that i feel like you usually avoid as town

i dunno who said that my self-defensive posts are my most towny posts, but if they did, then i disagree. there are lots of better and more nuanced reasons to townread me, and i feel like you in particular are very good at finding those "micro moments" where i do stuff that i dont usually do as a wolf, and i was kinda expecting you to pick up on some of those things in this game if u were town too, which played into my concern about your initial read on me just being a list of reasons to find me wolfy

also no, i dont think that anne should be scumread for "not being explicitly town yet", but that isn't really why i'm worried about anne. i'm worried about anne because the posts that she made throughout today felt uncharacteristically tonally stiff and like she was struggling to fully articulate herself (which is kinda how i felt about you earlier today), and because im worried that her lack of interest in the game comes from her being a demotivated wolf that doesn't feel like putting in the effort if her team is already being widely POE'd. it was hard for me to come up with specific reasons to scumread anne, so i can acknowledge that the case against her might be a little weak and based moreso on a "lack" of towntells, but i do think some of the stuff she's done in this game is arguably wolf-indicative for her

and well, i think that cassandra, lime coke, marmot nutella, and illario/leetic are all villagers. im fine with solving from the assumption with all of those names are town. from there, i think iaafr has been fairly towny today and that falcon is likely town as well. that leaves dizzy/anne/wilgy/mac/NAA/you, and while i am doubtful that the full scumteam is in that list, i do think that it contains a couple of wolves. i think that dizzy/wilgy have been p towny today out of the names in that POE, so i think there's at least one wolf in anne/mac/NAA/you

so i dunno, i dont find it difficult to craft a POE or come up with potential wolves in this game at all, and i think that your wolflist is "wolfsiding" because at least 2/3 of the names are town, but very possibly 3
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:37 am i also find it kinda odd that you say mac usually tries to make himself get townread as a wolf by doing "off the cuff" stuff, and then note in the same paragraph that you townread the "spontaneity" of his wolfread on iaafr. isnt that exactly what youre arguing he would try to do as a wolf? this might be nitpicky but i dont really understand ur read on mac and it seems like the least fleshed out read in ur whole readslist, which kinda surprises me given (to my memory) you usually really like trying to sort out mac in games like this
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:02 pm this game has honestly gotten really stressful to read - i feel like there's a totally unnecessary amount of super stressed out and frustrated posts at a time when the game is in an objectively good position (and I acknowledge that I've made some similar posts myself)

to be honest I think that we need to suck up whatever infighting or tinfoils we have and just kill someone that is in the POE and needs to die before endgame, I don't really care if it's mac or NAA or w/e as long as we kill someone
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:29 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:21 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:02 pm this game has honestly gotten really stressful to read - i feel like there's a totally unnecessary amount of super stressed out and frustrated posts at a time when the game is in an objectively good position (and I acknowledge that I've made some similar posts myself)

to be honest I think that we need to suck up whatever infighting or tinfoils we have and just kill someone that is in the POE and needs to die before endgame, I don't really care if it's mac or NAA or w/e as long as we kill someone
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm stressed because I don't know half of what's going on, plus, some of the people I town read (Leetic/Ilario and Falcon) has some of the legit worst takes on me I've seen in a while, and it is very frustrating. Especially since I can't at least feel like I'm on top of the game and offer more of a direction. So it's just a double fail. I'll try to tone down the frustration and focus away from said players.
all good, i wasn't trying to call anyone out specifically, more just that i feel like I've seen several games lately that should be easy wins that fall apart because of infighting, and I'm not convinced that this game isn't a fairly easy win as well

mac's d2 has arguably been scummier than his d1 and he seems somewhat ~boxed in~ so: [VOTE: Macdougall] aubergine

More lengthy posts. More reads. A vote for ScumDougall.

These are interactions/mentions SPF had with Mac.

Kind like Dizzy, I gave up part way through Day 2, because she was just hounding his ass, and it didn't make sense to keep copying and pasting quotes. Mac's dead enough. Unlike Dizzy though, I have a lot less tinfoil around SPF, because she followed it up with a vote. SPF town
by Marmot
Wed Dec 01, 2021 12:12 am
Forum: Previous Rackets
Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Spoiler: show
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:42 pm Wasin the working; Happening the here?

Ha, yeeting Mac; What of Mac is the case?
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:51 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:45 pm
iaafr wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:45 pm https://mafiathesyndicate.com/search.ph ... 7&sr=posts

this is mac's iso link

you'll see what i mean if you skim through it wilgy
Thanks
Hmmm...

Notting of aligning; Goof but not wolf.

Ising of Mac the makin of easy yeet; Notting of the knowing yet.
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:33 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 7:54 pm Goof Mac is often mafia Mac though. When Mac don't know what to do, Mac be goofin. Mac can totally not goof and be town when town.
Dizzy, you correct.

Wasing of time to telling; Ising of resolving but not yet.
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:52 pm
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:34 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:15 pm
falcon45ca wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:13 pm I've scammed with Mac, and he never once farted.



I'd think he'd be less full of frivolity if he were scum
Ising the voting of [VOTE: Falcon] aubergine; Of the shit.
falcon is town
Tell the why?
DrWilgy wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:55 pm
MacDougall wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:34 pm
Lime Coke wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:57 pm
cassandra wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 10:56 pm honestly does mac have a role where he has to keep talking about farts for no reason or is he just mafia
This is tough because I have no idea how to read Mac when he's fucking around this much.
fine I'll be serious for a minute...
Wasing of Mac the goofing; Ising of heating; Nowing the serious really?

Coward.
DrWilgy wrote: Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:06 pm Notting of Mac, Falcon the trusting; My vote away.

NAA's case?

Wilgy's Day 1 was confusing to say the least. I haven't the easiest time parsing his posts, he did talk a fair but about Mac too. My understanding is he sussed Mac early, than trusted him after claim.

DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:48 am
iaafr wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:47 am
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:47 am Bruh I already shot lol
well i mean with votes too

if you end up flipping nutella villager today pls locktown me and sheep my poe
Ez.

I'm also down with a Mac flip.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:50 am Idk, that JJJ yeet was solid. I think I did a good job clearing a slot that would cause us trouble at least in terms of PoE.

Get how I'll need to be pulled out of PoE eventually, but for now Nutella or Mac I wanna know.

On to Day 2, Wilgy wants to flip Mac immediately.

DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:16 pm
anne wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 12:19 pm You didn't even read it

[VOTE: Falcon] aubergine
If it's any consolation, I read it and appreciate the effort. While I don't think it changes much in terms of your position for me.

Nutella, Mac and I suppose Dizzy all need to resolve before you RN just on JJJ spew and the advent of yesterday. Again, because I wasn't a counter yeet, either scum was asleep or you aren't scum.

Anyways, your alignment would have reflect of Nutella flip. I believe that to be more important rn.
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:22 pm
ilario wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 1:09 pm The more falcon talks the more I want to yeet mac for putting us this in this situation lol. The dude just tricks falcon into tunneling whoever mac fosses and falcon looks like the bad guy tho in his head he’s convinced they’re his own reads. Honestly it’s kinda smart by mac. And he could be doing it as town but so far the pushes he’s tricking falcon into tunneling for him are all bad.
Taken the words right out of my mouth.

Falcon would be an instant vote rn if it wasn't for Mac.

And he continues to push his worldview where nutella, Mac, and maybe Dizzy are next in line to get yeeted. He was right about Mac, so I'm inclined to trust it for now.

DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:34 pm
cassandra wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 2:19 pm Ok Wilgy is towny when he drops the gimmick

Tbh I thought Mr was a bad shot because I had him as town, I think shooting the main CW (Anne) wouldve been correct there, though I wouldn't have cried about a Mac shot.
Fair then. I still haven't really read day 1, but it was JJJ's iso that led me to MR.

My suspicion on Nutella kept me from inquiring the CW. Anne is locktown if Nutella flips scum yes?

Mac was going to take our time regardless of if it was my shot or a yeet.

PoE is pretty straightforward:
Mac, Nutella, Dizzy, Esooa

Falcon will be added if Mac flips red. Anne will be added if Nutella flips green, NAA will be added if Esooa flips red.

Contest me on these 50/50s plz.

I don't know if we win if Ilario, Iaafr, Leetic, Marmot, SPF or Cass is scum without some mechanical savior button.

And this keeps going. Now esooa is added, but a POE of 4 with two wolves left and 2 misyeets is just fine.

DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:42 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:38 pm
DrWilgy wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:36 pm
Lime Coke wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:57 pm
Spoiler: show
Esooa wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:55 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 3:53 pm
ilario wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:40 am


Ummm I don’t think Alexa or lc ever busses jjj like that So they are town. I don’t think bunny hops off like that eod as mafia and gives up on easy towncred and when I was going over eod yesterday with leetic I found towny posts from iaafr and think he’s town.

Falcon is town regardless of macs alignment, I don’t think they’re scum together but I can see Mac using falcons inactivity and his habits of hard tunneling a read as someone who would be perfect to pocket and scumside while Mac just hides in scum chat manipulating him and talking about farts in the thread. I am somewhat exaggerating this scenario because of how annoying falcons read on me is lol and the fact that he just afks all game and decides as his only worthwhile contribution is to random tunnel me is just aggravating. I also think leetic mentioned somewhere that nook fossed Mac and the nook NK implies there’s probably Atleast one more syndicate regular in the scum team and Rn I think nutella is more towny than mac.

Anne I thought was town early on, read through her iso last night and still seemed fine to me. Idk if her interaction with jjj early game is a point in her favour or against her favour given that she is good at theatre as scum. Like I don’t get why she cares about jjjs read on her when they don’t have much experience together but other then that I think she’s been towny.

Naa won me over by his reaction to me today, but him only hunting for two scum when there’s 3 alive is a bit hmmmm

Leetic has a theory that Nutella might have tmi’d esooa as a partner but if that’s not the case then I can see a world where they’re both town. I had reservations about nutella after the flip yesterday but I think her posts today seem genuine and so do esooas and also I think if sloonei was maf with jjj d1 he would have Atleast made more of an effort. I get people can get busy irl but nobody is so busy that they can’t Atleast make a few decent posts. People don’t low post because they’re live is super busy, yes it plays a factor but if someone still cared about the outcome they’ll still put in some effort to post even if busy. I think sloonei would have felt as with jjj as his teammate. Also jjj made some post about saving his posts near eod to get to talk to sloonei and that didn’t feel partnery to me.

So yeah that leaves dizzy wilgy mac you even though you had posts I liked on d1 I also did find some stuff that felt off about u at times
agreed that alexa and LC are town

i agree that occam's razor points to falcon just being a villager, although im reluctant to clear him specifically because of mac's claim because mac has a recent history of hard shielding and hard defending one of his partners and trying to go to endgame from it (that game where he was wolf with kane and twice shrunk). even so, i agree that there's a higher probability that falcon is town than not

i think that you're clearing anne, NAA, and esooa too easily. do you have any reasons to townread anne beyond her being "fine"? i agree that some of her posts on d1 were towny, but we're at a stage of the game where that isn't a good enough reason to townread someone. i also don't agree with you that NAA's reaction was towny

also, i fundamentally disagree with your reasoning for townreading the esooa slot and i think it's a weird thing to read into. we know for a fact that sloonei was very busy IRL throughout d1, and i think it's weird to assume that he would have magically gotten more free time and ability to post if he had rand'd wolf with jagged - that doesn't seem like a reasonable or logical assumption to make, and i think it's the type of reasoning that will get you burned incredibly easily. i also think that esooa sounds tonally stiff in a way that i have NEVER seen from her in a mafia game before, so i'm not sure what to do with that
how am I tonally stiff
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*Concern*
wilgy vote someone else
Sure thing dad.

[VOTE: Nutella] aubergine

Mac tells Wilgy to vote someone else. Whatever, it's funny.

DrWilgy wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:15 pm I'm here for a brief moment before further holiday driving.

I see Anne is the lead wagon. Neat. Doesn't make sense to me, but I won't cry about it. Still comfortable with either a Nutella or Mac yeet.
DrWilgy wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:15 am Ho boi. You fuckers are too much. Can't keep up but you are making me doubt my Iaafr read now.

I'm back to 50/50 on the Nutella Iaafr thing.

Why aren't we just yeeting Mac tho?
DrWilgy wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:21 am Fuck fuck fuck.

I can't think this fast. @leetic explain why Mac is a bad idea.

[VOTE: iaafr] aubergine
DrWilgy wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:26 am Alright I'm back on Mac.

I'm torn on Iaafr and Nutella, but at least I like the Mac yeet without that contention.
DrWilgy wrote: Mon Nov 29, 2021 12:31 am So like. If I'm wrong on Anne that makes Nutella hard town, making Iaafr hard scum.

Mac killing Falcon on yeet is a risk I'm willing to take 100% of the time. Mostly because it's funny regardless of flip that Falcon would get cheesed like that IF TRUE.

We hit EOD. Wlgy engages with iaafr about Mac. Still pushing the nutella/Mac world.
Here's DrWilgy's interactions/mentions of Mac.


Probably the biggest problem I have with Wilgy is that he was toooo certain that Mac was scum, almost on a tmi level. I do think it looks good that he had this read from Day 1, and it couldn't strictly be a gambit pulled on Day 2.

I'm inclined to believe that Wilgy is town, because he was right about Mac, and his worldview has aligned with my own since the beginning of Day 2. Is that a reason to townread someone? I dunno. I don't feel like I should fully question my reads until my scumreads are proven completely wrong.
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