Themed Game Mafia

On February 12 2013 04:30 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Sigh...

/in

No idea how pick your power shit works, but I guess I need to find out eventually

On February 13 2013 09:21 Blazinghand wrote:


maybe voting for the instant majority lynch should be instant majority

On February 13 2013 11:18 jcarlsoniv wrote:
I don't really see any benefit in our role receiver knowing that we made their role.

And yeah, instant voting obv best choice right now.

On February 13 2013 12:40 Blazinghand wrote:


Look, think about your thought process as a townie when you evaluated the three options. You probably rejected the Secret Ballot out of hand barring some weird circumstances because it takes information away from town, then you thought about Mayoral and Instant Majority. Thinking about the strengths and drawbacks of both, you'd note that Mayoral elections produce a different kind of discussion than lynch votes (not necessarily better or worse) and the actual vote itself tends to be about who says they'll use the lynch on whom and who you have a town-read on. Instant Majority sounds dangerous but actually buts the scum under a lot of pressure assuming nobody gets dumb and jumps the gun on the hammer.

But what you don't think about, and I'm certain nobody town aligned thinks about as a main reason not to use mayoral, is the possibility of making a scum player mayor. It's a risk of mayoral, but it's not the reason you wouldn't run it-- after all, if what the mayor does is pick who gets lynched, picking a scum player to be mayor isn't a huge risk. We're not giving powers to the scumteam, and in fact, having a scum under that spotlight could be very helpful to town. From a townie perspective, which any townie will have, you probably want instant majority because it's simple and lets you lynch someone. You want your vote to do something and you want to put pressure on the scum. You don't reject mayoral because a scum might get elected-- this might actually be the best outcome short of a townie get elected and lynching scum. You reject mayoral because instant majority is better and gives you more power to hunt scum.

Oats came into this giving reasoning that comes from a mindset not of townie scumhunting, but of scum shirking responsibility and blending in, and thinking fearfully.

I thought this was pretty obvious, guys

On February 13 2013 13:48 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Is that a challenge?

##vote BlazingHand

On February 14 2013 01:00 Hassybaby wrote:
Good afternoon gentlemen, I hope you're all well

I've been reading everything while at my internship, and this comment caught my eye:



Justify this, because that's the last thing that a townie should be worried about imo

On February 14 2013 03:16 jcarlsoniv wrote:


And see, to me, that's a bit odd. Dandelion expresses how important it is that townies establish town cred (which I personally somewhat disagree that that's not necessarily #1, but that's a whole different discussion) and yet he has done nothing at all in my mind to try to establish his own townieness.

If anything, his behavior thus far has led me the other way.

On February 14 2013 05:30 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Not at all. Some people are appearing townier in my mind, but as far as I'm concerned, you're all scum until the day I die.

I just find it interesting that for someone who is parading around the fact that town members should try to establish townieness first and foremost, you sure ain't doing any of that. Do as I say, not as I do, I suppose...

Also, I would like to point out that since Blazinhand challenged me and I voted him, and Dandelion picked up the assault on Oats, BH has all but fallen off the face of the planet.

On February 15 2013 09:09 Crossfire99 wrote:

Brilliant point. His role creator has a lot to explain why he didn't stop this. Well I really gtg so bye.

On February 15 2013 10:48 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Yes, I created oats' role. No it was not meant to be encrypted.

Will be back at some point tomorrow.

On February 15 2013 22:36 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Morning.



There isn't a whole lot to explain.

+ Show Spoiler +

I switch from 3rd person to 1st person between the 1st and 2nd lines. I didn't intend nor realize it could be taken as cryptic. It was just the way I worded it.

On February 16 2013 00:24 iamperfection wrote:

i want jcarl to explain this from before

this post as i already pointed out if he thought bh was scum why was he trying to kill me.

On February 16 2013 02:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Early in the day, I was leaning scum on BH. Note that I placed my vote on him. As the day went on, these feelings dissipated slightly, enough so that I wasn't going to push the case (nor did I have the time to do so).

I switched my vote to iamperfection. It was coming time to consolidate votes (votes were scattered everywhere). At the time, iamperfection was the best candidate in my eyes. Everything looked fine, I left to go across campus to be with my friends.

I check the thread on my phone and notice that BH has started a panic switch onto oatsmaster. I have seen panic switches in the past, and often (in my experience) they are led by scum day 1 because town has no clue about anyone.

Ok, cool. I made oats' role, so I know that if he's lynched, BH will also go down. Since my previous feeling of BH were not gone, this wasn't the end of the world in my eyes.

Had I been actually at my computer when BH snowballed the panic switch, I may have reacted differently. However, I cannot change the RL circumstances.

Clearly I was wrong about BH, and for that I apologize.

On February 18 2013 02:25 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Well, regardless of whether we lynch gonzaw or not, iamperfection is poisoned. Gonzaw would have to give the antidote. Iamperfection is set to die from poison at the lynch (something I don't really oppose), so his life is in gonzaw's hands before the lynch, whether or not gonzaw dies at the same time.

On February 18 2013 01:55 kitaman27 wrote:
Quick question for you soniv if you're around: if iamp was the best candidate in your eyes on day one and you weren't able to convince town about him being scum, why didn't you try to manipulate the lynch by asking town to unvote and revote so that both iamp and oats would be killed?

Sutters, have you come to any conclusions about the difference between syl in this game and hist past games as town? You said you would be commenting on it.

Does anyone else find it strange that the person that gonzaw claims to have poisoned hasn't claimed yet? Either the person that was poisoned doesn't want town to know about it or gonzaw hasn't actually used his ability and is lying to us.

Cheese, you said a couple times that you were 40 pages behind in the thread. Why is that? Could you do me a favor and comment on every player left in the game? k thx.

On February 18 2013 08:27 jcarlsoniv wrote:
If gonzaw flips town, it's on your head dandelion.

On February 18 2013 00:07 jcarlsoniv wrote:
I rarely place my vote in the first half of the day (hence why I have not done so yet).

I am going to be unavailable for the majority of today (yayyyyyy gymnastics meet ~_~), but I'll be doing my best to keep up with the thread. At this point, my vote is going on either gonzaw or Sylencia (leaning syl at the moment).

On February 19 2013 02:01 marvellosity wrote:
jcarlson casually claiming he created BH's role straight away doesn't make sense if he's mafia either. this i'm pretty damn sure of.

On February 15 2013 07:16 jcarlsoniv wrote:


What's your thoughts right now BH (other than everyone is bad). Still want gonzaw dead?

On February 15 2013 08:56 jcarlsoniv wrote:
So...oats? Ok

On February 19 2013 07:43 Dandel Ion wrote:
buddying with marv.
lol.
You can't be serious.
You can't be.

On February 20 2013 00:19 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Apparently trying to gain information is scummy now.

I remember why I was ignoring vivax.

On February 20 2013 01:40 jcarlsoniv wrote:


good lord...

Dandelion, this hurts my brain.
I can't math right now.

@Vivax: xfire has a >50% of being scum

On February 20 2013 03:20 jcarlsoniv wrote:
My role was fucking terrible. I had to wait until N3 to be able to do anything at all. Was prepared to shoot kita tonight though.

Unfortunately, I didn't have enough time at my disposal the first 2 days because of things that kept coming up, so I couldn't actually be of any use.

Sry guys. I blame my role creator.

On February 20 2013 03:28 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Then it needed to be worded differently. I asked grey, morning of D1 I only had 25 energy. Believe me, if I had a vig shot N2 it would've gone I kita's skull.

On February 20 2013 03:34 Vivax wrote:


Not me, your reactions in the chat to my questions made me think you were pretty scummy lol.
But couldn't tell you you're scum in your face, it gives you reason to act indignant and stop talking.

GreY wrote:
So an interesting thing is that jcarlson, despite what he is saying in the thread, didn't make your role Oats

On February 20 2013 03:38 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Welcome to Themed game Mafia! You are the Infestor! You start with 25 energy, and gain 25 energy per phase (with the daypost).

Only got energy with the day post.

Needless to say, it SUCKS not having a power in a game where everyone has ridiculous powers.

On February 20 2013 03:38 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Welcome to Themed game Mafia! You are the Infestor! You start with 25 energy, and gain 25 energy per phase (with the daypost).

Only got energy with the day post.

Needless to say, it SUCKS not having a power in a game where everyone has ridiculous powers.

On February 20 2013 03:39 Keirathi wrote:

GreY didn't inform me of that change. My intention was for you to get 25 energy per day and night phase.

On February 20 2013 04:53 jcarlsoniv wrote:


Well that certainly would have been nice to know...