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Love Boat [Mafia] |OT| Till Death Do Us Part

No
What the fuck is the point of claiming anything as scum? Why would they need to see how anyone reacts?

Not to see how they react, just so they get out in front of future suspicions if that ever falls on them naturally. You introduce an element of doubt, where people don't want to risk lynching you if you're useful.
 

Hobohodo

Member
cabot, I am here! Not gonna deliver as you hope however.

Well it took me two days but I am all caught up. Seriously are we aiming for Gafias first two topic game? Or has that all ready happened...?

So th first day was a pain to follow after the fact, not gonna lie. The second day has been easier to look at.

So mainly focusing on Kark or Blarg (the shipper names haven't sunk in). I've been more trusting of Blarg since day 2 but it really is just that. A gut feeling. Maybe I'm susceptible to mega posts as it's an uninterrupted stream of one players thoughts but I was leaning towards trusting Blarg over Kark before that point anyway. That said I don't really feel Kark is scum either, but again it's all just gut. I've read so much this last two days that it's kind of hard to process. I am probably inclined to vote out Timeasis and his partner (sorry, the names escape me!!) based of the day one shenanigans more so than Kark or Blarg.
 
This is the most frustrating attempt at vote justification I've ever seen and honestly I wish your vote didn't count.

I hope the other players in the 14 voters currently against us that have voted us out have not done so because of your line of reasoning too.

I've justified my post 48+ hours ago.
 

Hobohodo

Member
Oh also, I can't help but wonder if cabot and Splinter are talking all dirty as a way to lay hints to their character names, or just because cabot is a filthy smeg head.
 
Half of these points are not objective at all. It's just conjecture that you're selling as an actual data point. Come on, man

It is an objective proposal because I have bothered to include concession for your POV and the merit in your accusations, right beside my own counter-accusations against you. I tried to take a step back from ourselves and look at our conflict from a bystander's perspective.
 

Karkador

Banned
I don't disagree, but you want objective data in a mafia game? :p

True, but this is like, seriously imagined friendships between people...and it's fine it you want to theorize a 'maybe', but this is being pitched as "5 things vs 2 things", which is disinfenuous.

I feel like I've hardly even acknowledged Splinter and cabot, though Zipped and I have discussed them. To be described as "extremely chummy" is crazy. I would expect that accusation for perhaps Launch and I, since we had a few friendly exchanges.
 
Also, please, would at least one or two people kindly unvote us for now? All it takes is someone as inconsiderate and/or apparently overwhelmed as Launch to swoop in and hammer us in a TURBO drive-by.

Please, just give me the courtesy of the last day to defend ourselves, after I had taken the past 2 to build our case in our defense. Please.
 

Karkador

Banned
Also, please, would at least one or two people kindly unvote us for now? All it takes is someone as inconsiderate and/or apparently overwhelmed as Launch to swoop in and hammer us in a TURBO drive-by.

Please, just give me the courtesy of the last day to defend ourselves, after I had taken the past 2 to build our case in our defense. Please.


Inactivity isn't courtesy
 

Ty4on

Member
True, but this is like, seriously imagined friendships between people...and it's fine it you want to theorize a 'maybe', but this is being pitched as "5 things vs 2 things", which is disinfenuous.

I feel like I've hardly even acknowledged Splinter and cabot, though Zipped and I have discussed them. To be described as "extremely chummy" is crazy. I would expect that accusation for perhaps Launch and I, since we had a few friendly exchanges.

You and Flux/Cabinter I agree, but I have felt a weird connection between Flux and and Cabinter before Blawl brought it up.
 

Karkador

Banned
You and Flux/Cabinter I agree, but I have felt a weird connection between Flux and and Cabinter before Blawl brought it up.

It can be looked into or prodded the next day. I don't see a definitive yes or no on them, based on whatever Flux would flip.
 

Camjo-Z

Member
No, not just 2 extra tracking reports; it seems like you missed the most important part of our proposal:

I'm sorry to throw a quote chunk at you like that, but I don't know how else to ask you to regard this as a whole picture:

*Splinter x Cabot (unknown)
Karkador x Zippedpinhead (claimed x-shot Tracker)
FluxWaveZ x Timeaisis (claimed Name Cop, said it was a lie)


vs.

Blargonaut x Kawl_USC (claimed Miller/unlimited Tracker)

Those 6 have been the dominators of over 28 players since the beginning of the game. Please, tell me, doesn't their apparent D1 and early D2 antagonizing of each other, then their somehow magical D2 camaraderie after Timeflux confessed they were lying, seem suspicious to you at all?

If you lynch us and we flip as Town, you learn nothing about *Splinter, Cabot, FluxWaveZ and Timeaisis' alignments. You only learn about Karkador and Zippedpinhead, because they are the only ones we've had direct relations with during our time alive here.

If you lynch Timeflux for his alignment, you have a direct gauge for whether *Splinter, Cabot, Karkador, Zippedpinhead, FluxWaveZ and Timeaisis were acting in collusion since D1 all along (that's information about SIX players compared to just TWO if you lynch us). You get 5 leads FASTER, than only 2 leads from killing us!

It's a simple matter of numbers, amount of leads gained. As I quoted above, 5 leads from Timeflux's lynching, compared to only 2 from ours.

(cont., one sec)

Yes, your 5 leads are what I was referring to when I said I don't think lynching Flux earlier gives us any particular benefits. Points 1 and 2 aren't necessarily any more helpful if they happen now rather than later, Point 3 doesn't really matter since you're currently being lynched anyway, Point 4 is true but the fact that they'll eventually have to be confronted doesn't mean it has to take precedence over this. And Point 5 is the one I said could potentially be helpful, but probably won't be due to shenanigans.

Basically, I don't see how the connections we'll make between players if we lynch Flux now won't still apply if we lynch Flux later. We're getting them faster, sure, but is that really all that helpful in the long run, especially when we'd have to keep either you or Kark (one of whom is an all-but-confirmed maf) alive another day?
 

*Splinter

Member
What's the upside to a turbo?

If it's just "waahhhh I'm bored" please come back in a few days when Day 3 starts, no need to keep shitting up the thread.

PW had an early end and all they got for it was a super long night phase. No thanks.
 

Karkador

Banned
What's the upside to a turbo?

If it's just "waahhhh I'm bored" please come back in a few days when Day 3 starts, no need to keep shitting up the thread.

PW had an early end and all they got for it was a super long night phase. No thanks.

15 locked in votes that can be scrutinized
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
What's the upside to a turbo?

If it's just "waahhhh I'm bored" please come back in a few days when Day 3 starts, no need to keep shitting up the thread.

PW had an early end and all they got for it was a super long night phase. No thanks.

The upside is that, if town is convinced they have found scum, it's better to turbo immediately instead of scum finding a way to worm themselves out of a lynch and divert the majority of the votes to a townie team. The more time progresses, the less people feel strongly about their votes, and the more compelled they are to place it on another team, especially when we're dealing with at least 6 Loveless who can subtly influence the course of things.
 

*Splinter

Member
The 5 leads is nonsense Blarg. We can only lynch one couple per day, and you're trying to push this 5 weak reads over the slam dunk that we'd get if you flipped town (and would in turn lead to those same other leads in due course.

But you aren't going to flip town, because if you were you'd have pushed for Kark's lynch or accepted your own. There absolutely no justification for anyone to be voting outside of the counter claimants. That's a guaranteed scum in a pool of 2 players, and anyone still trying to weasel the discussion elsewhere is top of my shit list.
 
I'm pretty into the idea of a turbo, though.

I don't even understand anymore why people are letting you and Time walk. Your gameplay has been so unbelievably bad since D1; you claim Name Cop, you shoo away Doctors and helper power roles, you keep telling us how you and your partner are one of the most uncoordinated pairs and that you don't discuss anything together, you live through N1 and D2 you apparently confess that you lied about your role claim, and then people still defend you for this?

You are the most slippery WIFOM fuckery I have ever encountered in a game and I am in awe.
 

*Splinter

Member
The upside is that, if town is convinced they have found scum, it's better to turbo immediately instead of scum finding a way to worm themselves out of a lynch and divert the majority of the votes to a townie team. The more time progresses, the less people feel strongly about their votes, and the more compelled they are to place it on another team, especially when we're dealing with at least 6 Loveless who can subtly influence the course of things.
We know we have more than 50% players intent on lynching Blarg. I'd propose we agree not to change today's vote and simply continue discussion. That really shouldn't be so hard to grasp. I had a perfectly fine conversation with Cam earlier, I was able to probe him and improve my read of him without voting.
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
I don't even understand anymore why people are letting you and Time walk. Your gameplay has been so unbelievably bad since D1; you claim Name Cop, you shoo away Doctors and helper power roles, you keep telling us how you and your partner are one of the most uncoordinated pairs and that you don't discuss anything together, you live through N1 and D2 you apparently confess that you lied about your role claim, and then people still defend you for this?

You are the most slippery WIFOM fuckery I have ever encountered in a game and I am in awe.

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Welcome.

I didn't do the underlined, though; that's everyone else. People kept asking me about how we converse in our private chat and so I answer.
 
So to everyone else who is not posting and not voting...

Why don't you want to vote or post?

That's the whole game, vote or post. Most posts come at the beginning of the day and within the last 30 minutes. Why wait four days to post?
 

*Splinter

Member
Blarg needs Flux to die first because he's gone so hard against him. If Blarg flips scum now then Flux becomes much harder for them to lynch (not saying he'd be immune, just not easy as he is now).
 

FluxWaveZ

Member
We know we have more than 50% players intent on lynching Blarg. I'd propose we agree not to change today's vote and simply continue discussion. That really shouldn't be so hard to grasp. I had a perfectly fine conversation with Cam earlier, I was able to probe him and improve my read of him without voting.

As we know, things don't often go that smoothly.
 

Karkador

Banned
We know we have more than 50% players intent on lynching Blarg. I'd propose we agree not to change today's vote and simply continue discussion. That really shouldn't be so hard to grasp. I had a perfectly fine conversation with Cam earlier, I was able to probe him and improve my read of him without voting.

Splint. The closer we get to day end, the more likely people are going to drop out of the Blarg vote, because chaos will come up and people looking to slide out of the commitment will slide.

If we go into D3 with a presumed 24 players, and we have 15 votes from today locked in, we have more to work with on D3
 

*Splinter

Member
As we know, things don't often go that smoothly.
Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but I can't believe we'd be foolish enough to deviate when the vote could have been reached several times already. It's only by courtesy and now pragmatism that the day is still going.
 

*Splinter

Member
Splint. The closer we get to day end, the more likely people are going to drop out of the Blarg vote, because chaos will come up and people looking to slide out of the commitment will slide.

If we go into D3 with a presumed 24 players, and we have 15 votes from today locked in, we have more to work with on D3
I or someone else could hammer right now, and the other 14 voters would have no say in it. Write those 14 names down if you must, they are "commited", whatever that means.

I'm not voting because I don't agree with your assessment that these are the only 15 names that matter.


Is anyone actually concerned that the vote would move from this point? I just don't believe it
 

Karkador

Banned
*wriggle*

Yes. You have a list of those who voted on Blargageddon, and those who did not. It's not a list of good and evil, it's actual data to talk about tomorrow.
 

Burbeting

Banned
el topo & giant panda (0)
cabot
cabot

launchpadmcq & gorlak (1)
giant panda
ultrajay
coppanuva

kingkitty & hyperactivity (0)
cabot

timeaisis & fluxwavez (1)
gorlak
coppanuva
blargonaut
fluxwavez
camjo-z
blargonaut
tl21xx
blargonaut

magnumboy20xx & batsnacks (0)
flame_ac
ty4on

*splinter & cabot (2)
launchpadmcq
ty4on
*splinter

blargonaut & kawl_usc (14)
karkador
zippedpinhead
flame_ac
hyperactivity
*splinter
timeaisis
camjo-z
tl21xx
launchpadmcq
kyanrute
ultrajay
retroid
fluxwavez
ultrajay
camjo-z
fluxwavez
batsnacks
cabot

hobohodo & ty4on (0)
cabot
cabot
cabot
fluxwavez

coppanuva & flame_ac (1)
dusk soldier

karkador & zippedpinhead (1)
gorlak
ty4on
blargonaut
karu

15 Votes Needed for Majority
 

Karkador

Banned
Blarg,

Theoretically,

If we could put aside our differences and work some last-hours-of-the-day magic,

Would you help me get a majority on splinter and cabot?

Because that right there was kind of terrible and scummy.
 

Ty4on

Member
True. After all, there's never been a game of Mafia where a seemingly surefire vote went to shit at the last second because people got cold feet!

If that happens you'll actually have some voting data to look at.

If it helps you sleep easy I will vote Blawl if the majority moves* to anyone else and I'm online.
*Approaches. To make it specific it's ~75% of the votes.
 

Hobohodo

Member
Can you explain the splinter/cabot reasoning? I kinda focuses on just the two pairs reading through the day. Anything more to it than splinter disappearing like that just now?
 
Yes, your 5 leads are what I was referring to when I said I don't think lynching Flux earlier gives us any particular benefits. Points 1 and 2 aren't necessarily any more helpful if they happen now rather than later, Point 3 doesn't really matter since you're currently being lynched anyway, Point 4 is true but the fact that they'll eventually have to be confronted doesn't mean it has to take precedence over this. And Point 5 is the one I said could potentially be helpful, but probably won't be due to shenanigans.

Basically, I don't see how the connections we'll make between players if we lynch Flux now won't still apply if we lynch Flux later. We're getting them faster, sure, but is that really all that helpful in the long run, especially when we'd have to keep either you or Kark (one of whom is an all-but-confirmed maf) alive another day?

1. Timeflux backed down from their Name Cop role claim. There is no more apparent game-mechanical conflict with our Miller claim anymore. Our claim should garner validity from this.

2. Consider that there are scum hiding in this easy bussing of the claimed Miller. Both Kark x Zipped, Timeflux, *Splint and Cabot and Launch x Gorlak (?, I have to double-check this) have implored you all to end this day as fast possible. If you lynch Timeflux instead of us, you directly take care of a much more massive WIFOM problem than Team BLAWL (who are on almost equal terms with Kark x Zipped as we are both Tracker claimants; the only reason it is so convenient to lynch us instead of Timeflux is because of our Miller claim, but what is more scummy; We claimed to be a Miller/Tracker, dropping the first hint on D2 that we got results in seeing Kark x Zip visit us too but we kept that discreet in the light of no NK's occuring last Night as we thought they could have been the Doctor responsible, then Kark x Zip voluntarily revealed themselves, essentially stealing our Tracker role claim from us saying that he's the "real one" even though WE were first to hint that the N1 visit was mutual and therefore had to be between Trackers in the first place, then accusing us of being scum and a necessary lynch for our Miller claim despite it being a pro-Town move we had to do given the role we had? Or the pair claiming to be a Role Name Cop, saying that Flux dropped the claim without the other's consent and then refusing protection and then saying 'oops, sorry, we lied about being Investigative role' the Day after there was no NK, and then 2 other prominently active pairs, one of which is our main accuser, choose to back that shenanigans up and defend it after they said they lied?)

3. Why would you advocate to postpone gaining more potential lead information earlier rather than later? If you agree with me about Timeflux and the greater lead generation, then why wait, and why lynch us first then?

Also, I say that Kark x Zip and Splint x Cabot have been "extremely chummy" because they avoid antagonizing each other to the same amount that they have been tag-teaming us. Blarg x Kawl have been placed on the super-defensive by the both of them, even though Kark's claim of Tracker is just as equally attackable as our own; it is our Miller claim alone that separates us from Kark, and I believe they have been tandem-hounding us solely based on the Miller aspect of our claim because we are an easy bussing to a lynch for it, and they both save Timeflux, who they openly defend despite their shady fuckery, in the process of killing us. This is why I want to lynch Timeflux first, as it could potentially expose a greater evidence of scum collusion between those 3 pairs, than the easy lynching of the Miller who only has direct ties to one other pair, can achieve.
 
Blarg,

Theoretically,

If we could put aside our differences and work some last-hours-of-the-day magic,

Would you help me get a majority on splinter and cabot?

Because that right there was kind of terrible and scummy.

I would forego the obvious lynch for this option

I'm pretty sure they're working together
 

Flame_AC

Member
That would be rather comical, would remind me of when we did that to Hyper in Harry Potter, I think, and he turned out to be scum.

Not saying they are though.
 
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