The Syndicate

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:30 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:49 pm

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:24 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:19 pm

tutuu wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:11 pm [VOTE: superbestfriend] aubergine

Why?

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:13 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:08 pm [VOTE: Staypositivefriend] aubergine

Yes

Why?

i found your vote amusing. i have no idea if it's serious or not

Why the self vote?

why do you care

KZA wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:08 pm Esooa idk, not townreading her yet and thought her questioning of my Falcon post was odd but she seemed to accept my explanation. I solved her off of mech in Spiderverse and was (semi) wrong about her in Fallout 2 so she's kind of a tough one for me

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:42 am I strive to create a perfect Mafia utopia, where trying hard is encouraged and celebrated.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:31 am I’m feeling torn. While I cannot call KZA town with any confidence, I also have tended to find suspicions hurled against him to be uninteresting/unconvincing. And yet, I still believe that suspicion to be predominantly town-sourced. So without overt town indicators from KZA I just find myself shrugging and accepting the existence of his wagon despite my doubts.

NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:43 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:42 am I strive to create a perfect Mafia utopia, where trying hard is encouraged and celebrated.

Trying good, posting as a measure of effort bad

KZA wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:39 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:33 pm

KZA wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:03 pm Nanook hasn't spoken to me once but now I'm Maf to him so he can get OMGUS'd too

[VOTE: KZA] aubergine

whatever

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:35 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:56 pm @KZA why are you so staunch in your townread of Sloonei?

Lots of people are, why's his townread notable?

probably because Marmot is iso'ing me first as he said instead he was going to

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:43 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:42 pm also jay has never in his life omgused me as town and he has as mafia sample size = like 2

"omgus" is such a dumb concept and it should disappear from Mafia vocabulary

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:37 am

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:56 pm A few things have thrown me off from the beginning but his current vote for Marmot is something that inclines me to think that way as well. I also just don't think his iso is carrying the proper tone and I'm wondering if his read on sloonei was developed improperly. He also also seems hesistant to say things that I wouldn't usually think he'd be hesitant to say. I did like the post he made where he talked about sloonei/jay mutual TRs and how seriously they're taken or something though idk

this is probably just the usual day 1 jay tinfoil but that's where I'm at

yes I know. His tone is way too serious, as if he's very much tryharding.

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:48 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:43 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:42 pm also jay has never in his life omgused me as town and he has as mafia sample size = like 2

"omgus" is such a dumb concept and it should disappear from Mafia vocabulary

agree

Alison wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:50 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:48 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:43 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:42 pm also jay has never in his life omgused me as town and he has as mafia sample size = like 2

"omgus" is such a dumb concept and it should disappear from Mafia vocabulary

agree

There has to be a word for "voting someone because they voted you", that's a pretty common occurrence

If you wanna make up your own word for it and insist on using that word go ahead, as long as your meaning is clear (I don't think anyone else uses "exe" for the TK/elim/chop, but I use it because I like it)

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:20 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:27 pm I got a red peek on Nanook btw

I am reading this as w/w tbh

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm I think that Tutuu, Jay and Alison are town. I am less confident about SPF and Sloonei but they certainly aren't driving anti town agenda to a point in which I feel compelled to solve them via threadkill.

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:16 pm @staypositivefriend how d'ya think you'll wield your vote once you decide not to chop yourself?

my vote would probably land on aL_sama, marmot, or ted right now. i honestly don't have a single name that i can point to as definitely being scum right now though - i moreso have the game divided between "probably town" and "probably not town"

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:44 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:31 am I’m feeling torn. While I cannot call KZA town with any confidence, I also have tended to find suspicions hurled against him to be uninteresting/unconvincing. And yet, I still believe that suspicion to be predominantly town-sourced. So without overt town indicators from KZA I just find myself shrugging and accepting the existence of his wagon despite my doubts.

How do you feel about his response to my needling on this page and the previous one?

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:54 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm I think that Tutuu, Jay and Alison are town. I am less confident about SPF and Sloonei but they certainly aren't driving anti town agenda to a point in which I feel compelled to solve them via threadkill.

why Alison

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:25 pm I don't actually care all that much about spf's self vote and joke claim shenanigans. I just needed something to stir the pot with while phone posting at work.

I'll figure out what's happening and do something with my vote accordingly.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:27 pm This dialogue between SPF and Alison reminds me of some similar exchanges between SPF and Sloonei in Fallout 2. They seemed to harbor at least some mutual suspicions, but their communication tended to be low in overt animosity -- instead they each stated their highly nuanced and specific causes for suspicion, and along the way they both seemed to acknowledge that the intended communication didn't seem to be getting through. As a host in that game I got the impression that those two kinda figured one another to be civilians, but just wanted to really do their due diligence in a thorough discussion before allowing themselves to get there. Eventually they truced it out and ended up being town/town (or something like that in my weird game). I kinda get the same impression here with SPF/Alison, like there are mutual town reads struggling to spring out through a barrier of unease.

This is an extremely specific comparison, so it may mean little or nothing. Thought I'd share anyway.

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:29 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:16 pm SPF what do you think has been the towniest thing you've done so far this game? In a vacuum, what's the best reason to townread you?

i don't feel that i'm obvious town to anyone who doesn't already know how i typically play. the strongest argument i can give for me being town is that i have a lower postcount than BoKnows but a significantly higher ratio of text. i am uninterested in creating a strong presence in the thread and more interested in working in my own corner of the game and poking and prodding at things that stand out to me. if i was playing from a wolf mindset then i would be more intense, more focused on establishing particular narratives, more stilted, etc etc

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:30 pm

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:27 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:26 pm

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:16 pm @staypositivefriend how d'ya think you'll wield your vote once you decide not to chop yourself?

my vote would probably land on aL_sama, marmot, or ted right now. i honestly don't have a single name that i can point to as definitely being scum right now though - i moreso have the game divided between "probably town" and "probably not town"

I also had a salad for dinner tonight.

my number one takeaway from this game so far is that i don't understand what "salad" means :P

"I would vote A, B, or C" is close to the prototype for the player salad tell. It's suggestive of keeping one's options wide open when not comfortable committing to suspicions. What's holding you back from placing one of those votes right now?

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:56 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:25 pm I don't actually care all that much about spf's self vote and joke claim shenanigans. I just needed something to stir the pot with while phone posting at work.

I'll figure out what's happening and do something with my vote accordingly.

I seriously don't understand posts like this. What stirring the pot does questioning something fully NAI accomplish? Like rly I'm just still hung up on people criticizing me for finding minor details to scum read people on while others are just in thread like "y'know what, I'm just going to question this. To start arguments."

KZA wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:30 am okay I'm not w/w with Michelle that's good news

maybe I can summon @Dom too

KZA wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:53 am Michelle seems town based on the night/day difference I'm seeing from when I played against her in Spiderverse

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:55 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:44 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:31 am I’m feeling torn. While I cannot call KZA town with any confidence, I also have tended to find suspicions hurled against him to be uninteresting/unconvincing. And yet, I still believe that suspicion to be predominantly town-sourced. So without overt town indicators from KZA I just find myself shrugging and accepting the existence of his wagon despite my doubts.

How do you feel about his response to my needling on this page and the previous one?

I just reviewed it again. I find both your needling and his responses to that needling to be generally whatever. The only thought that even came to mind was that I'm not sure what you describe in 1212 is something that mafia-aligned players are likely to think of (generally speaking) as some deliberate strategy. KZA agrees with that apparently. Still, that doesn't mean much to me. It's just "that accusation is wrong" rather than "I'm a civilian". The shrugs persist.

tutuu wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:11 am My eyes are glazing over the walls in pages 21-23 sorry i cant ;-;

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:03 am It does not need to have been a deliberate strategy. I did not conceive of it as such when I initially wrote it, though I understand it being received that way by you and KZA. I would see it more as a knee-jerk, impulsive response to pressure by someone who has been caught off guard.

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:47 am

KZA wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:39 pm

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:33 pm

KZA wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:03 pm Nanook hasn't spoken to me once but now I'm Maf to him so he can get OMGUS'd too

[VOTE: KZA] aubergine

whatever

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:35 pm

Marmot wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:56 pm @KZA why are you so staunch in your townread of Sloonei?

Lots of people are, why's his townread notable?

probably because Marmot is iso'ing me first as he said instead he was going to

why do you not care about the Alison vote

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:42 am I strive to create a perfect Mafia utopia, where trying hard is encouraged and celebrated.

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:46 pm POE: AL_sama, JPIC, KZA, TonyStarkPrime, tedxtr

Alison wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:50 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:48 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:43 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:42 pm also jay has never in his life omgused me as town and he has as mafia sample size = like 2

"omgus" is such a dumb concept and it should disappear from Mafia vocabulary

agree

There has to be a word for "voting someone because they voted you", that's a pretty common occurrence

If you wanna make up your own word for it and insist on using that word go ahead, as long as your meaning is clear (I don't think anyone else uses "exe" for the TK/elim/chop, but I use it because I like it)

Alison wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:50 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:48 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:43 pm

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:42 pm also jay has never in his life omgused me as town and he has as mafia sample size = like 2

"omgus" is such a dumb concept and it should disappear from Mafia vocabulary

agree

There has to be a word for "voting someone because they voted you", that's a pretty common occurrence

If you wanna make up your own word for it and insist on using that word go ahead, as long as your meaning is clear (I don't think anyone else uses "exe" for the TK/elim/chop, but I use it because I like it)

tedxtr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:06 amsup

Alison wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:56 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:54 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm I think that Tutuu, Jay and Alison are town. I am less confident about SPF and Sloonei but they certainly aren't driving anti town agenda to a point in which I feel compelled to solve them via threadkill.

why Alison

Why aren't you asking him about tutuu?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:09 am

tedxtr wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:06 amsup

Hi ted. I have my vote on you out of some very vague notion of your thread posture, like my eyeballs gravitate to your name when I look at the player list with my town reads in mind. Please tell me why you are town so I can do something with my read, k thanks.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:00 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:56 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:25 pm I don't actually care all that much about spf's self vote and joke claim shenanigans. I just needed something to stir the pot with while phone posting at work.

I'll figure out what's happening and do something with my vote accordingly.

I seriously don't understand posts like this. What stirring the pot does questioning something fully NAI accomplish? Like rly I'm just still hung up on people criticizing me for finding minor details to scum read people on while others are just in thread like "y'know what, I'm just going to question this. To start arguments."

I do a thing. SPF responds to said thing. Player B might then respond to SPF responding to me. Player C might respond to me by doing X. We can make reads on Player C based on X. SPF and Player B might have an extended conversation resulting in SOMETHING. All the while I'm not even here. I'm just trying to breathe life into the thread while I'm away.

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:07 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:42 am I strive to create a perfect Mafia utopia, where trying hard is encouraged and celebrated.

I appreciate the sentiment but I don't recall you acting like this in bread mafia, which is a more "Serious" format, while this being closed and 22 players, is less serious, and you also said in bread mafia that "robot jay is more often scum"

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:05 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:03 am It does not need to have been a deliberate strategy. I did not conceive of it as such when I initially wrote it, though I understand it being received that way by you and KZA. I would see it more as a knee-jerk, impulsive response to pressure by someone who has been caught off guard.

I thought you might mean it that way, and it is a preferable interpretation.

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:55 am

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:16 pm @staypositivefriend how d'ya think you'll wield your vote once you decide not to chop yourself?

my vote would probably land on aL_sama, marmot, or ted right now. i honestly don't have a single name that i can point to as definitely being scum right now though - i moreso have the game divided between "probably town" and "probably not town"

I'm just gonna note this post for later

@staypositivefriend can you link me a recent scum game

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:11 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:07 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:42 am I strive to create a perfect Mafia utopia, where trying hard is encouraged and celebrated.

I appreciate the sentiment but I don't recall you acting like this in bread mafia, which is a more "Serious" format, while this being closed and 22 players, is less serious, and you also said in bread mafia that "robot jay is more often scum"

Yeah I don't fault you for that. In Bread Mafia I played what was probably my loosest game in two or three years. I hardly capitalized letters and was pretty spammy. It was a sort of liberating experience to return after a few months away. That kind of play is the exception for me rather than the rule though.

And when I am a robot, I look different even from this. Here I am a boisterous fellow with joviality and cheek. My robot body is a humorless bore. I'd like to work on that, but I never seem to roll mafia so fuggit!

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:11 am I think SPF is town

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:13 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:55 am

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:24 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:16 pm @staypositivefriend how d'ya think you'll wield your vote once you decide not to chop yourself?

my vote would probably land on aL_sama, marmot, or ted right now. i honestly don't have a single name that i can point to as definitely being scum right now though - i moreso have the game divided between "probably town" and "probably not town"

I'm just gonna note this post for later

@staypositivefriend can you link me a recent scum game

i actually can't - my most recently completed scum game is north pole oligarchy on epicmafia (RIP). i'm all town, all the time :P

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:14 am

Esooa wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:11 am I think SPF is town

interesting! what makes you think so?