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Dark Souls Mafia |OT| Git Gud or Die Trying

Everyone else seemed to ignore you on this so I'll ask: why did you bring this up?

I was trying steer the discussion away from mechanics. Granted there wasn't much else to say and that's the only thing I could think of at the time.

I've nothing against CornBurrito at the moment that makes me think he's scum but at the same time he's not the worst choice for a lynch candidate.

Lord of Castamere makes a good case against FireBlend but this being Day 1, I wouldn't be surprised if he flipped town. Might be worth a punt?
 

nin1000

Banned
Well since we are almost done with the day let's try something.

I hope everyone can put up their own personal list.



1. [m] Burbeting would not mind dead
2. [m] Fireblend would love to hear more from him. For now. Would not mind dead
3. [m] nin1000 would mind dead
4. [m] Muffin1611 still has to say a bit more would not mind dead
5. [m] isaacnukem would not mind dead
6. [m] verelios null. Would not mind dead
7. [f] kitsunelaine all over the place. Would not mind dead
8. [m] Trigger a non entity that can later become a problem. Would not mind dead.
9. [m] oreomunsta I liked his list. Would mind dead for today
10. [m] flatearthpandas agressive, I like it. Would mind dead
11. [m] StanleyPalmtree would mind dead as he strike me as not as dumb as he used to be
12. [m] CornBurrito null would not mind dead
13. [m] Christina Mackenzie don't know. Would not mind dead
14. [f] hey_monkey Talks a lot, at least tries to do something. For now would not mind dead
15. [f] sawneeks almost too town. Would mind dead for today
16. [m] LordOfCastamere he made good posts. Would mind dead
17. [m] rac. Who ? Would not mind dead

I hope everyone can do something similar.
Since I would love go hear everyones thoughts on the players and who you wouldn't mind seeing dead today.
 
Any other thoughts on players ?

Burb, Stan, muffin or even me ?

You're intentionally inflating your post count, I wish I could get away with something like that. I could see you lasting longer that most players in this game but that unfortunately makes you susceptible to something else entirely.

rac isn't here to play nice with town.

I was expecting to see more activity from CornBurrito and Fireblend.
 

nin1000

Banned
You're intentionally inflating your post count, I wish I could get away with something like that. I could see you lasting longer that most players in this game but that unfortunately makes you susceptible to something else entirely.

rac isn't here to play nice with town.

I was expecting to see more activity from CornBurrito and Fireblend.

I am sorry that bothers you, since I know it can be a pain in the ass to read through pages and pages of posts, but in this game the activity is pretty low, that's why I am currently playing like this.
 

Verelios

Member
Even worse after he turned up. Just standard sholck, and a bandwagon vote for FEP. Coupled with the Burb stuff, it just makes me more suspicious. I will say that if he is scum, it's not a good play right now, but besides going after an inactive, which he more or less is, I don't see a better path. So no, I won't be moving my vote by their actions, I will switch if someone else gives me a reason to.

Also, It's late, so I'm going to bed. I might not get to my remaining reads tomorrow, and I have class, so I might not post before deadline at all, not sure, I'll try though. Anywho, the summery is mainly, everyone needs to post more, except for nin, monkey, and Sawneeks, who are good people, except Sawneeks, who we should kill, because she scares me, alot, but she probably isn't scum.
That's a bold play cotton, let's see if it works out for them. Why don't you think Saw couldn't be scum? I haven't seen anything to sway me either way day 1 but you seem pretty confident.
 

Verelios

Member
Lord of Castamere makes a good case against FireBlend but this being Day 1, I wouldn't be surprised if he flipped town. Might be worth a punt?
Does this mean you're interested in a Fire lynch? Seems like you pre-empt it by saying he might be town but then 'I want to make sure so wouldn't mind the lynch'. Seems like an odd stance.
 

Trigger

Member
I have a tough time reading Sawneeks or Oreo as scum right now. Hey_Monkey too. They're all contributing to the conservation in a way that I feel productive. If we're going to lynch, my choice would be someone like Corn or nin. People assume that scum wants to lay low, but sometimes a good offense is the best defense. Posting a lot without moving the conversation forward is an easy way to generate presence. That's the vibe I get from nin. Corn's post just give me weird vibes. I admit that there is little to argue with there. Sometimes you just have gut feelings. I'll do some more thinking about LoC, Stanley, kits, and Muffin before I place a vote.
 
Does this mean you're interested in a Fire lynch? Seems like you pre-empt it by saying he might be town but then 'I want to make sure so wouldn't mind the lynch'. Seems like an odd stance.

Was referring to Lord of Castamere's reasons for suspicion when Burbeting gave Fireblend a pass for not being "dead weight" despite being absent most of the day phase.

A question though. How was Fireblend contributing exactly at this point? You didn't include him on your kill list, but at that point he had posted nothing. Still hasn't really fill-fulled his promises. I had, at least, one bigger post discussing my thoughts, at that point, but not Fireblend.

It's an interesting idea but the pessimist in me says I wouldn't be surprised if Fireblend flipped town since what are the chances of hitting scum on Day 1? Not in any games I've participated at least.

Not going to lynch Fireblend cause I want to see if he's town but if he does flip mafia and that would implicate Burbeting and I'm aware it's a longshot.
 

nin1000

Banned
I have a tough time reading Sawneeks or Oreo as scum right now. Hey_Monkey too. They're all contributing to the conservation in a way that I feel productive. If we're going to lynch, my choice would be someone like Corn or nin. People assume that scum wants to lay low, but sometimes a good offense is the best defense. Posting a lot without moving the conversation forward is an easy way to generate presence. That's the vibe I get from nin. Corn's post just give me weird vibes. I admit that there is little to argue with there. Sometimes you just have gut feelings. I'll do some more thinking about LoC, Stanley, kits, and Muffin before I place a vote.

I am guilty of those charges.
Yet I want to ask you this though.

How is a player who only made posts about observations pushing the conversation forward ?
 

nin1000

Banned
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Like, why even post this? Why even post? And where is the supposed thoughtful follow up? It never came. Instead we got "nonono let's do business as usual here's some fud and snark even after having game mechanics quoted for him.

1. Because other people then talked about it and did the math, so I didnt have to. I also had something called WORK that occupied my time.

2. "Right..." isn't fud and snark. It was me being embarrassed that I missed that No Lynch counts as a vote.
 

Verelios

Member
Was referring to Lord of Castamere's reasons for suspicion when Burbeting gave Fireblend a pass for not being "dead weight" despite being absent most of the day phase.



It's an interesting idea but the pessimist in me says I wouldn't be surprised if Fireblend flipped town since what are the chances of hitting scum on Day 1? Not in any games I've participated at least.

Not going to lynch Fireblend cause I want to see if he's town but if he does flip mafia and that would implicate Burbeting and I'm aware it's a longshot.
Okay, I didn't understand the wording then. So basically you think there might be an argument against Fire, but not to the extent you'd lynch him today? Got it.
 

Fireblend

Banned
2. Fireblend
I understand that life happens, I really do, but as a 3 time scum, one thing I'm intimately familiar with making promises that I have no intention of keeping.

I wasn't expecting to vote for these two when I started, but it is what it is, I'm not getting good vibes from either, after my dig, and today might be our only big info lynch, so I think we should reap the soul of Fireblend. If my connection is true, and it might not be, we could get two scum my one lynch. In any case, my vote is decided.

Why Fireblend over Burb? Burb is at least contributing, if we have to kill someone I’d rather be wrong with someone that isn’t as useful, honestly.

They can counter this, of course, but I don't really know how you can without prior meta usage, which is lame duck excuse imo.

I think there's a fair chance that Fireblend, Burb, and one of the people on his list is scum.

VOTE: Fireblend

I mean, I hope you're right because I'd be happy to be "traded" for one scum. Maybe scum-Burb saw me as an inactive he could use and decided to randomly state I had contributed to the game, which is plain false so far.

Even worse after he turned up. Just standard sholck, and a bandwagon vote for FEP. Coupled with the Burb stuff, it just makes me more suspicious. I will say that if he is scum, it's not a good play right now, but besides going after an inactive, which he more or less is, I don't see a better path. So no, I won't be moving my vote by their actions, I will switch if someone else gives me a reason to.

Are you talking about me here? I didn't vote for FEP, but Stanley. Not that I think that changes your view of me? Just a clarification and it strikes me as curious that you named the wrong player.
 

Fireblend

Banned
For the record, Burb implying I was contributing over other players is a good observation, by the way. I totally missed it. I'm tempted to say, sure lynch me and then Burb because there might be something there and a 1-for-1 trade might be a good idea?

I want to see what Burb has to say.
 
Right now I don't think Verelios has potential of turning into dead weight later, if nothing else, he is usually around even as a scum.

unvote

When I say dead weight, I mean something scum can use to divert the attention from themselves by there being players in late game for town to do lazy mislynches on. For example, the lynch on StarSketch in love boat 2 was kinda like that - a vote on a pair of players who were lynched on weak arguments, but were done so anyway because it was easy for the scum to divert the lynch there. Dead weight also fits one of the scum profiles of a player who is scared of posting much, but is just mostly there.

So using a patented bear-bean-machine, I have a list of players I wouldn't mind lynching today:

5. [m] isaacnukem
7. [f] kitsunelaine
8. [m] Trigger
9. [m] oreomunsta
17. [m] rac

I was kind of considering adding Fireblend and nin there, but Fire does usually post semi-actively, although he has bad case of blending in the games I've played with him. Nin isn't dead weight, but the scum does usually let him live for long time just to let him do his thing and confuse/muddle the waters in the game in general. But the five chosen are the ones that I wouldn't mind seeing gone.

For the record, here were the bear's remarks on the situation.
 
I called it a good catch yesterday, but looking back, he did address it. So - is Burb trying to make something happen, as LoC and Fireblend would posit? Or are they trying to make something happen?

Without scum chat, I think it's important to note in this game who sides up with who, where, and on what, for which reasons.
 
rethinking Nin - where is the line between too obnoxious to be scum and overposting with absolutely nothing to clog the airwaves and block real discussion?
 
squidy, this may be a dumb question but I didn't see it in the first posts - mafia can't communicate, but they know who their team members are, right?
 

nin1000

Banned
rethinking Nin - where is the line between too obnoxious to be scum and overposting with absolutely nothing to clog the airwaves and block real discussion?

There was no real discussion going on either way. If there was I would have happily joined it
 
2. "Right..." isn't fud and snark. It was me being embarrassed that I missed that No Lynch counts as a vote.

Ah, i misunderstood then. Took it as snark.

My vote stays for now though. I'd like to see a push on someone though.

I like nin's read list. For day 1, it does seem useful to judge who you would and wouldn't want to see lynched. I was thinking of doing something similar actually, based off usefulness.

Anyway, today I've been liking sawneeks, monkey, fireblend.

To a lesser degree, loc, oreo, nin, and stanley.

Would consider votes for isaac, kits. Day end is 4am for me so i definitely won't be around but I'm going to reread before going to bed. As of right now, i think cb is a fine lynch. To be honest, i kind of like cb as far as gut but my head actually does like the lynch. The math attempts feel townie but they are perfect to create that feeling.
 
DAY 1 CURRENT VOTE TALLY:

CornBurrito (2)
Christina Mackenzie 134
flatearthpandas 182 328
flatearthpandas 328

Christina Mackenzie (1)
CornBurrito 89

Fireblend (1)
Lord of Castamere 386

Sawneeks (1)
oreomunsta 385

StanleyPalmtree (1)
flatearthpandas 150 182
Fireblend 353

nin1000 (1)
StanleyPalmtree 185 361
kitsunelaine 418

kitsunelaine (1)
hey_monkey 245

flatearthpandas (1)
kitsunelaine 110 418
StanleyPalmtree 361

Trigger (1)
Burbeting 296

oreomunsta (1)
Sawneeks 293

isaacnukem (0): Lord of Castamere 96 386, nin1000 275 399

Burbeting (0): Sawneeks 44 130

Verelios (0): Burbeting 67 296

No active vote for Day 1: isaacnukem, Muffin1611, nin1000 (has previously voted), rac, Trigger, Verelios

Day 1 Postcount: Burbeting 31, Christina Mackenzie 18, CornBurrito 10, Fireblend 10, flatearthpandas 28, hey_monkey 57, isaacnukem 9, kitsunelaine 22, Lord of Castamere 10, Muffin1611 15, nin1000 72, oreomunsta 22, rac 9, Sawneeks 28, StanleyPalmtree 17, Trigger 10, Verelios 16


Day 1 ends:
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9 votes for majority
 
yeah that works.
thats for holding onto that fep.

unvote

now who the heck do i actually want lynched?
i should probably decide quick right? i mean as much fun as staying up till 7 am with y'all sounds, i think i would rather not do that at all.
 
I'm sorry I haven't been in the game much. Also if I'm still alive by the end of the day I won't be around until Saturday evening. Good night and good luck.
 
I have been down the semi-active CornBurrito path before and he was not scum. Doesn't feel like the right lynch today. Still hold that kitsunelaine was acting strange. Would be okay with Fireblend. Suspicious of Sawneeks but probably not the right lynch today. Lots of others just dropped out. Will revisit the list.
 
whelp, it 3 am and i cant think of anyone particularly good to vote for, so imma pick one of the ones who stood out by not standing out.

vote: trigger

congrats! you have dont little to deserve this, but its yours anyway.
if the vote feels uncomfortably warm, blame fep, he was sitting on it for a while.


and now i go to sleep, laters everyone

o/
 

Trigger

Member
Eh, I guess I can't deny that I always come off a little scummy for not taking harder stances or posting more. However I don't see what you guys gain in lynching me. This is pretty low hanging fruit. It didn't help town any in Love Boat. It won't help us now. Scum hides in plain sight, not at the bottom of the posting list.
 
I'm back.

Eh, I guess I can't deny that I always come off a little scummy for not taking harder stances or posting more. However I don't see what you guys gain in lynching me. This is pretty low hanging fruit. It didn't help town any in Love Boat. It won't help us now. Scum hides in plain sight, not at the bottom of the posting list.

Kark kinda did in LB, as well as FEP and kitsu. But I agree that it's not the only place to look.
 
And as this game is going even more slow, it's even more unlikely to hit scum just by going after coasting players. Not the tactic I want to use this time around.
 

Trigger

Member
I'm just really not interested in being on the receiving end of a lazy lynch on Day 1. I'm not at the bottom of list if the argument is about my contribution to the greater discussion. I'm not even sure how I'm the most scummy when Isaac basically told us he wasn't going to be here or drop a vote for the end of the day.
 
Hmm... Hypnotist is the greatest counter to the Arsonist.

Arsonist probably cant risk being too active. Lest they draw that attention.

I bet our Arsonist has made few posts today, unless they are smart and staying middle of the pack.
 
Hmm... Hypnotist is the greatest counter to the Arsonist.

Arsonist probably cant risk being too active. Lest they draw that attention.

I bet our Arsonist has made few posts today, unless they are smart and staying middle of the pack.

I'd think it's the latter. If I were the Arsonist, I'd take the danger of getting hit by the hypnotist over being to inactive and becoming the victim of a sudden lynch for coasting.
 
I'd think it's the latter. If I were the Arsonist, I'd take the danger of getting hit by the hypnotist over being to inactive and becoming the victim of a sudden lynch for coasting.

Town can really only afford to lynch for coasting early on, and honestly that tends to only happen on D1 and D2. In a normal game anyway.
 
That's a bold play cotton, let's see if it works out for them. Why don't you think Saw couldn't be scum? I haven't seen anything to sway me either way day 1 but you seem pretty confident.

Let me reverse that on you, what has she done that seems scummy? She's active, not only in contribution, but also discussion. I see no reason to suspect she's scum, as of right now, and I would be very much against a lynch on her.

It's an interesting idea but the pessimist in me says I wouldn't be surprised if Fireblend flipped town since what are the chances of hitting scum on Day 1? Not in any games I've participated at least. The longer she stays alive though...

Not going to lynch Fireblend cause I want to see if he's town but if he does flip mafia and that would implicate Burbeting and I'm aware it's a longshot.

Realistically, almost anyone we kill will flip town, I'm just trying to connect any dots I can to give town an early win. It's better than a *shrug* vote.
 
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