As some of you probably know, me/Foolish/TheMango played a "champions" game of mafia off-site with a bunch of mafia players from ~15 different sites or so. In any case, mafia won a close victory at 2-1 lylo.
The organiser wants to make another game, this time with some emphasis on weeding out the inactives who dragged the last game down a little. He wants TL Mafia to choose two representatives to play.
There are a couple of things to note:
- they're going to be using 24 hour days for this game - game will start mid-October, around the 14th - probably want players who can perform decently as either alignment
As this game looks to be having 24 hour days, obviously players willing to be active and spend time are going to be quite important.
I can throw up a poll with some arbitrary names for you guys to vote on if you wish, or maybe if you just want to list two players in order, I can manually tally the votes. We'd like both our names sorted by 9th latest.
I think it'd be a lot a simpler to just see first who's interested (and actually has time to play 24 hour days) before voting for people. It seems to me like very few people would actually have time for this (especially among the players who I'd nominate).
On October 04 2013 00:30 iamperfection wrote: is a champions game. doesn't invite champions back. wat?
Actually, we will.
There will be probably 5 of these games. At the end of it all, sometime next year, we will have an Ultimate Game of Mafia Champions, featuring the best players from these first 5 games.
I'm excited to see who you guys pick for this second game!
On October 04 2013 02:48 HiroPro wrote: I think it'd be a lot a simpler to just see first who's interested (and actually has time to play 24 hour days) before voting for people. It seems to me like very few people would actually have time for this (especially among the players who I'd nominate).
This definitely is the best way to go about it, but if I had to choose in a vacuum it'd have to be Chezinu (because he's actually good as either alignment and the Brown Brotherhood must be represented) and I don't know who else. I don't know if I played with Palmar enough to judge him. I would vote Keirathi if he's open to it, but I think he's busy which is why he's stopped playing and I don't know how much he's played scum. I just remember him being good as town.
I got it. Ace has to go. Maybe he'll get a chance to play without everyone unduly fearing him when he's town due to his scum abilities. He's good as both town and scum.
as has already been said, you should get a thread where people are interested before you vote people. Most of the people nominated are either inactive or don't wish to play (kita)
If we're being serious then kita. I dunno who else. If we're not (or hell even if we are) then whatever genius suggested Chezinu and Axle. It's not even that they're bad players, 'cause they're not. It would just be amazing to pit their styles against the 'Champions.'
I can certainly manage to replicate my best town games in an environment of new players (to me at least).
As far as playing mafia, I think that people who are unfamiliar with me and how I play might have difficulty early on with reading me correctly. I'm also a class-1 thread destroyer if I feel like being disruptive.
24 hour days will pose a challenge at times but it's likely I wouldn't be alive too long as either alignment anyway.
Alright, we're gonna be doing it like this instead:
The game starts October 17. The first game day will be 2 days, meaning Thursday and Friday. After that it's the weekend which is also one combined day. After that it's back to regular 24 hour days (with weekends still being one combined day though). So this will allow people to get warmed up and get into the game before the pace picks up a bit.
The Great and All Knowing Fojod has sensed that His time has come and has come out out of retirement to demand his name be cast in the metaphorical goblet that he may smite his foes and let the world know of His name and of His deeds.
On October 11 2013 07:59 Fojod wrote: The Great and All Knowing Fojod has sensed that His time has come and has come out out of retirement to demand his name be cast in the metaphorical goblet that he may smite his foes and let the world know of His name and of His deeds.
Marv asked me if I wanted to; I said no. I don't think I'd do a good job of representing us honestly, and I think its kind of silly that I'm even being considered when there are so many players who are vastly more experienced or just better than me.
On October 13 2013 04:12 WaveofShadow wrote: Marv asked me if I wanted to; I said no. I don't think I'd do a good job of representing us honestly, and I think its kind of silly that I'm even being considered when there are so many players who are vastly more experienced or just better than me.
Ability to play in the champions game is more dependent on time than anything. I know for the first one a few other people were asked, but they couldn't play cause they didn't have the time to. Truth be told the game was delayed starting because I told thingman I wouldn't play unless it started after Labor Day weekend. Honestly I think almost anyone who has been recommended in this thread is qualified to play and since there's going to be a few more of the champion's games there will be other opportunities for those who can't play now. I would really want Ace to play in one of them.
On October 14 2013 00:05 Mattchew wrote: god that sucks so bad that foolish was scum
I can see why you say that but I didn't really think so. My mafia play in forum mafia has gotten a lot better as of late (of course in my relative time that's like the past two years) and this was the perfect opportunity for me to push that play further, which I felt like I was able to do. Of course I kinda sucked in game at times, but eventually I had marvellosity convinced I was town and fooling him means a lot more than fooling anyone else cause we have played plenty of times.
In retrospect, being able to play for more than a day or two in that game probably speaks more for itself than anything. It's hard to judge just how good someone is based off of that one game. One guy we killed Night 1, soah, plays with us on esports mafia now (he's Keith). After playing with him a few times it's clear that he's really good, however from the champions game you would never know cause he was only alive for 48 hours. With that said, I'm glad I was able to at least accomplish something in that game; I made a name for myself by fake claiming cop, other players aren't so lucky.
Really it would probably take a few games to showcase what I'm generally known for: power stomping the mafia on day 2. That's because it would require me to be town, to not die nights 1 and 2, and to actually be right and catch the mafia, and the occurrence of these three things together is small. Sure, you might remember the games where I stomp mafia, but there are plenty of games where I die very early and there are the games where I don't stomp the mafia cause I was wrong. I am in the top 20 for most number of games played on this forum and a lot of them I played shitty.
There shouldn't be a need to pick the "best" players (whatever that means) among us to go play in those games. Those games would need to be hosted with the same players multiple times before you can determine who is really the best and who isn't; one game is too small of a sample size. I would rather send someone who is excited and is willing to dedicate the time to play his or her best even if that player may not be as good as other players mentioned thus far (remember there were quite a few inactives in the game I played in). The game of champions games should not be taken seriously as proof that players A from mafia group B are better than players X from mafia group C. The competition is for fun. Rather, this should be taken as an opportunity to unite mafia players into a common front; to expand our borders and integrate with the foreign communities if you will.
The real trick is to accurately describe our representative's town metas, but claim it's their scum meta, in this thread and use SEO to direct all searches of their usernames to those posts so they get horribly mislynched.
On October 11 2013 05:44 yamato77 wrote: The problem is that this thread has become a mafia game and no one is reading anything that anyone else posts.
On October 11 2013 05:44 yamato77 wrote: The problem is that this thread has become a mafia game and no one is reading anything that anyone else posts.
That reminds me, we should send jackal so he can go bowling instead of reading the thread
On October 11 2013 05:44 yamato77 wrote: The problem is that this thread has become a mafia game and no one is reading anything that anyone else posts.
That reminds me, we should send jackal so he can go bowling instead of reading the thread
On October 11 2013 05:44 yamato77 wrote: The problem is that this thread has become a mafia game and no one is reading anything that anyone else posts.
That reminds me, we should send jackal so he can go bowling instead of reading the thread
We must send this man.
On December 07 2011 06:46 kitaman27 wrote: Greatest Jackal quotes compilation: + Show Spoiler +
On January 05 2011 08:44 Jackal58 wrote: I'm going bowling. I shall return around 10ish inebriated.
On January 26 2011 08:38 Jackal58 wrote: I'm going bowling. I'll be back around 10ish to find out if I wrecked our chances to win or not.
On February 23 2011 12:22 Jackal58 wrote: Well poop. Damn me for going bowling.
On February 24 2011 00:47 Jackal58 wrote: Sorry for the late start but I bowl on Tuesday night.
On February 24 2011 22:41 Jackal58 wrote: Sorry I was bowling.
On March 02 2011 08:31 Jackal58 wrote: I'm going bowling.
On March 09 2011 08:35 Jackal58 wrote: I'm going bowling.
On March 30 2011 07:33 Jackal58 wrote: And I'm going bowling. It's Tuesday night. I bowl on Tuesday night.
On May 31 2011 10:54 Jackal58 wrote: It's summer league now. I bowl on Wednesdays.
On June 02 2011 07:42 Jackal58 wrote: I'm going bowling. I'll make my next post after I am good and drunk.
On June 09 2011 06:18 Jackal58 wrote: Now I'm going bowling. And drinking. Mostly drinking.
On July 14 2011 01:47 Jackal58 wrote: I have bowling tonight so I will not be on much until late this evening. And by then I'll be drunk.
On September 07 2011 07:38 Jackal58 wrote: I have about 10 minutes before I leave for bowling.
On September 21 2011 07:42 Jackal58 wrote: Just got home from work. I'll be leaving again shortly for bowling.
On October 17 2011 11:40 Jackal58 wrote: My wife and I went to a bowling tourney yesterday and decided not to come home til today.
On December 07 2011 06:24 Jackal58 wrote: I have bowling tonight. I wont see you guys again until tomorrow morning.
I'm pretty excited to rep TL. Apparently this starts tomorrow, so if any of you want to follow along, I can post the thread link here.
I'll probably be doing some kind of video log of my play this game to attempt to rationalize my actions in game to the best of my ability, and then post it afterward. I'm treating this as a learning experience mostly, as I think being largely unaware of what to expect from the players in this game should give me quite a few challenges along the way.
On October 17 2013 02:20 Blazinghand wrote: wouldn't each game be worse than the last though until eventually everyone on tl has played so we have to send 4F kush and caller as our reps
On October 17 2013 02:20 Blazinghand wrote: wouldn't each game be worse than the last though until eventually everyone on tl has played so we have to send 4F kush and caller as our reps
i think we can find 6 players better than kush.
i dunno man have you seen the last few games on here
On October 17 2013 02:20 Blazinghand wrote: wouldn't each game be worse than the last though until eventually everyone on tl has played so we have to send 4F kush and caller as our reps
i think we can find 6 players better than kush.
i dunno man have you seen the last few games on here
On October 17 2013 02:20 Blazinghand wrote: wouldn't each game be worse than the last though until eventually everyone on tl has played so we have to send 4F kush and caller as our reps
i think we can find 6 players better than kush.
i dunno man have you seen the last few games on here
Moving into a new house. Planning my wedding. Dealing with my final year of undergraduate. Working on either myself or my fiance becoming a dual citizen. Breaking my mafia addiction. Breaking all my other addictions. You know, the usual.
Moving into a new house. Planning my wedding. Dealing with my final year of undergraduate. Working on either myself or my fiance becoming a dual citizen. Breaking my mafia addiction. Breaking all my other addictions. You know, the usual.
Fuck that shit get back in heeeeere. While you're at it, sit down, relax, have a drink, a smoke, a needle....
Moving into a new house. Planning my wedding. Dealing with my final year of undergraduate. Working on either myself or my fiance becoming a dual citizen. Breaking my mafia addiction. Breaking all my other addictions. You know, the usual.
Fuck that shit get back in heeeeere. While you're at it, sit down, relax, have a drink, a smoke, a needle....
I have midterms for the next week but I think I may join a game after that. If any are worth joining. Any [N][M] opening? Or anything I should look at in general?
On October 17 2013 06:57 Promethelax wrote: you need to play with more cutie pies like me and less meanie poopoo heads like whomever you have been getting angry at. Obviously.
Gosh Prome, I would really love to but wouldn't you know it, ALL THE QTPIES QUIT PLAYING THE GAME.
On October 17 2013 04:10 Promethelax wrote: why you gotta make me do my own work, aren't you here to look at shit for me?
e:oh god I thought you were joking, there really are no games. I need to smurf into a newbie.
Yeh not sure if morale issues or general activity but it's been like this for a little while now. Big normals took months to fill.
We're always slow in the beginning of the school year, and we've been slow to fill Large Normal games for the last year+
So whats the short and tall of it? Who has gotten good? Who has stopped playing and who has fallen off? Tell me things little WoS.
Um... There are a bunch of players in like every game recently---Koshi, Rayn, me (though I opted out of Hogwarts) and they've been insanely spammy.
Mafia wins almost every game all the time, though there is hope for strong active and vocal towns without a large lurk component (which is a rarity).
Um...kinda hard to sum up like 5 months of mafia into a short post. Ace played on and off over that time, um...MZ...Mattchew is back....Palmar recently played his first game since you left.... If anyone else has anything to add they can I guess?
I'm not going to read any games without me in them. I'm not that much of a masochist.
Mafia winning every game is a pretty new, who is good at red nowadays?
Hooray for Matt and Palmar I haven't gotten to be wrong about Matt's alignment in over a year (it was Liquid city when last I played with him) and Palmar is a wonderful little grouch who probably didn't learn anything from smurf mini and I love him dearly .
Coag plays again I see, its fun to see your name and Pandain's around. Its been a while since I saw either of you.
On October 17 2013 10:34 Promethelax wrote: I'm not going to read any games without me in them. I'm not that much of a masochist.
Mafia winning every game is a pretty new, who is good at red nowadays?
Hooray for Matt and Palmar I haven't gotten to be wrong about Matt's alignment in over a year (it was Liquid city when last I played with him) and Palmar is a wonderful little grouch who probably didn't learn anything from smurf mini and I love him dearly .
Coag plays again I see, its fun to see your name and Pandain's around. Its been a while since I saw either of you.
Finally someone who understands. I hate people who cite meta without using specific examples... unless all parties in the conversation were in that game.
the real thing is that mafia shoot me N1 every game and COINCIDENTALLY they also win games where that happens. this has happened like 3 games i shit you not
On October 17 2013 10:42 VisceraEyes wrote: I suppose Thug was the exception that proves the rule eh BH?
I actually think Thug is a legitimate exception. Town did win, and I WAS shot N1. I will say this though: I have no fucking clue what either scumteam was thinking that game.
like correct me if I'm wrong here, but all 6 scum players literally (not figuratively, like actually literally wrote posts doing this) claimed scum. like, said "I am scum. I am claim scum" right
I can't even begin to understand
when you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back
On October 17 2013 10:42 VisceraEyes wrote: I suppose Thug was the exception that proves the rule eh BH?
I actually think Thug is a legitimate exception. Town did win, and I WAS shot N1. I will say this though: I have no fucking clue what either scumteam was thinking that game.
like correct me if I'm wrong here, but all 6 scum players literally (not figuratively, like actually literally wrote posts doing this) claimed scum. like, said "I am scum. I am claim scum" right
I can't even begin to understand
when you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back
On October 17 2013 10:39 Blazinghand wrote: the real thing is that mafia shoot me N1 every game and COINCIDENTALLY they also win games where that happens. this has happened like 3 games i shit you not
On October 17 2013 10:39 Blazinghand wrote: the real thing is that mafia shoot me N1 every game and COINCIDENTALLY they also win games where that happens. this has happened like 3 games i shit you not
On October 17 2013 10:39 Blazinghand wrote: the real thing is that mafia shoot me N1 every game and COINCIDENTALLY they also win games where that happens. this has happened like 3 games i shit you not
On October 17 2013 11:53 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Now I'm thinking,
Does Blazinghand's Law apply when he's scum? Does mafia still secure their victory by shooting BH Night 1?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. There's only one way to find out.
This means I have to experiment with this in "##" Mafia. The scum team may or may not include him and may or may or not be required to shoot him night 1. mwahahahahahahaha
On October 17 2013 11:53 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Now I'm thinking,
Does Blazinghand's Law apply when he's scum? Does mafia still secure their victory by shooting BH Night 1?
Honestly probably yes, I don't know if I've ever not gotten lynched as scum besides as Eccleston. Shooting me and claiming credit as a vigi is a decent strat. The only reason scumteams with me on them ever win is that I have good teammates and after I die people try to dive into my terrifying lobstrosity of a filter looking for meat and associative tells, but find only darkness and paradoxes
On October 17 2013 11:53 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Now I'm thinking,
Does Blazinghand's Law apply when he's scum? Does mafia still secure their victory by shooting BH Night 1?
Honestly probably yes, I don't know if I've ever not gotten lynched as scum besides as Eccleston. Shooting me and claiming credit as a vigi is a decent strat. The only reason scumteams with me on them ever win is that I have good teammates and after I die people try to dive into my terrifying lobstrosity of a filter looking for meat and associative tells, but find only darkness and paradoxes
On October 17 2013 11:53 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Now I'm thinking,
Does Blazinghand's Law apply when he's scum? Does mafia still secure their victory by shooting BH Night 1?
Honestly probably yes, I don't know if I've ever not gotten lynched as scum besides as Eccleston. Shooting me and claiming credit as a vigi is a decent strat. The only reason scumteams with me on them ever win is that I have good teammates and after I die people try to dive into my terrifying lobstrosity of a filter looking for meat and associative tells, but find only darkness and paradoxes
There is a spectator chat on Skype that everyone from all sites are invited to. It's a load of fun, you should totally join it. Add me on Skype: thingyman
Also, if you want to prove that you have good reads, there is a link to a friendly reads competition based on day 1 only in post #3 in the game thread.
VisceraEyes “I'm something of a WIFOM connoisseur. I have no idea what that word means, but I saw marv use it once. I feel like one of my main strengths is looking really townie, mainly by pming people my alignment to remove all doubt. Having played so many games I like to think I innately understand the different mindsets that are present in Mafia games. It's not the most accurate way to look for mafia, but when you play as many games as I do, it's bound to work once or twice. ”
VisceraEyes “I'm something of a WIFOM connoisseur. I have no idea what that word means, but I saw marv use it once. I feel like one of my main strengths is looking really townie, mainly by pming people my alignment to remove all doubt. Having played so many games I like to think I innately understand the different mindsets that are present in Mafia games. It's not the most accurate way to look for mafia, but when you play as many games as I do, it's bound to work once or twice. ”
I wonder how many of those "champions" were also in a similar situation as we were (send the only ones that even replied to marvs PM lol), and their bios+description are bullshit as hell lol
To be fair, I didn't get a PM. Also, being fair, I would have said no. World Champs mafia took too much out of me to immediately hop into a fresh environment.
On October 18 2013 02:20 gonzaw wrote: I wonder how many of those "champions" were also in a similar situation as we were (send the only ones that even replied to marvs PM lol), and their bios+description are bullshit as hell lol
But certainly not yours VE+yamato! <3
Yours are actually the only site where more than one person declined an invitation . And I believe it was only one other site where one person declined an invitation. A few of the bios only look weak because their sites don't have yearly awards or anything that testifies to their skill
On October 18 2013 04:23 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: We can set up an Obs QT and PM each other in
I actually did just this, then refreshed the thread and saw this post. If anybody would like it, please send me or sentinel or gonzaw a PM, I shot them the link since they were actively chatting here.
VE yamato and rayn excluded ^^; And if someone else wants to make a more better-er one, that works too lol.
On October 18 2013 04:23 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: We can set up an Obs QT and PM each other in
I actually did just this, then refreshed the thread and saw this post. If anybody would like it, please send me or sentinel or gonzaw a PM, I shot them the link since they were actively chatting here.
VE yamato and rayn excluded ^^; And if someone else wants to make a more better-er one, that works too lol.
On October 18 2013 04:23 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: We can set up an Obs QT and PM each other in
I actually did just this, then refreshed the thread and saw this post. If anybody would like it, please send me or sentinel or gonzaw a PM, I shot them the link since they were actively chatting here.
VE yamato and rayn excluded ^^; And if someone else wants to make a more better-er one, that works too lol.
On October 19 2013 21:59 yamato77 wrote: Shot N1, get some.
Based on my experience around various mafia sites I'd kill the TL townie under lest suspicion night one. We have some of the strongest town players around. Maybe that has changed recently but when I played regularly that is how I would define us.
Sorry Iamp its for your own safety as much as it is for ours. Take sir ThingyMan here for example. OMGUS had gotten a spot in his super nifty champions game for our most favorite and beloved player ever and everything was going so super swell and then one dark fateful night the ThingyMan stumbled into our lair uninvited and unannounced. After gazing upon the dark abyss that is scumslip.. + Show Spoiler +
@wich point I could only assume delivered a near lethal dose of butt hurt
he promptly told us all to go fuck ourselves and headed for the hills in a maddening panic.. he lives life in fear now.. on the run constantly haunted by dick pics and shit posts.
I can confirm that this happened exactly as Broag says it did. Right down to the brutally pained anus. It was one of the worst cases I've seen since any time that cDgCorazon (may God rest his anus) posted anything.
this is the ACTUAL reason you don't do infinite shot vigs
After the flips it turns out Scum had 3 1 shot vigs,(limited by which night hey could shoot) giving them 2nk 2nk 2nk 1nk 1nk 1nk ..... Town had a vig that could shoot until number of times until population fell below X (forgot what X was)
Not sure how the existence of vigs lead to anything specific.
I know some of the town vig shots were ???
Town having all its extra kp in one place does make it swingy...? maybe.
They had a seer and a back up/apprentice seer. If swingy was the issue an apprentice marksmannot sure I see the issue you do.
navigating the thread is a nightmare but I'm pretty sure the same guy was also one of the dudes not voting at lylo and also is from the naruto forums go figure hue hue
navigating the thread is a nightmare but I'm pretty sure the same guy was also one of the dudes not voting at lylo and also is from the naruto forums go figure hue hue
Correct. He also acted "purposely scummy to not get night killed" so the most influental players wasted like half of their time figuring out if he is scum or bad. That helped a lot. <3
navigating the thread is a nightmare but I'm pretty sure the same guy was also one of the dudes not voting at lylo and also is from the naruto forums go figure hue hue
Correct. He also acted "purposely scummy to not get night killed" so the most influental players wasted like half of their time figuring out if he is scum or bad. That helped a lot. <3
wait, you were town and thought VE was scum? Were you high?
navigating the thread is a nightmare but I'm pretty sure the same guy was also one of the dudes not voting at lylo and also is from the naruto forums go figure hue hue
Correct. He also acted "purposely scummy to not get night killed" so the most influental players wasted like half of their time figuring out if he is scum or bad. That helped a lot. <3
wait, you were town and thought VE was scum? Were you high?
Yep i did. I got a town feeling when he raged at me but then he didn't use his protection N1 and said "i didn't protect yamato the obvtown because he would have just pushed a lynch on me D2. In fact i did not protect anyone because i didn't want to possibly roleblock a blue" when in fact he forgot to send in action. I just couldn't buy that. :/
navigating the thread is a nightmare but I'm pretty sure the same guy was also one of the dudes not voting at lylo and also is from the naruto forums go figure hue hue
Correct. He also acted "purposely scummy to not get night killed" so the most influental players wasted like half of their time figuring out if he is scum or bad. That helped a lot. <3
wait, you were town and thought VE was scum? Were you high?
Yep i did. I got a town feeling when he raged at me but then he didn't use his protection N1 and said "i didn't protect yamato the obvtown because he would have just pushed a lynch on me D2. In fact i did not protect anyone because i didn't want to possibly roleblock a blue" when in fact he forgot to send in action. I just couldn't buy that. :/
navigating the thread is a nightmare but I'm pretty sure the same guy was also one of the dudes not voting at lylo and also is from the naruto forums go figure hue hue
Correct. He also acted "purposely scummy to not get night killed" so the most influental players wasted like half of their time figuring out if he is scum or bad. That helped a lot. <3
wait, you were town and thought VE was scum? Were you high?
Yep i did. I got a town feeling when he raged at me but then he didn't use his protection N1 and said "i didn't protect yamato the obvtown because he would have just pushed a lynch on me D2. In fact i did not protect anyone because i didn't want to possibly roleblock a blue" when in fact he forgot to send in action. I just couldn't buy that. :/
It's not that; you seem to have a quality that makes you positively lynchable, whereas calling people stupid is probably a negatively lynchable quality.
You should find out what your positively lynchable quality(ies) is(are) ^_^
edit: e.g. say on average every townie gets lynched 1/5 times calling people stupid reduces this to 0.5/5 times however you get lynched 3/5 times
So it's what takes you from 1 to 3, not your failure to reduce from 1 to 0.5
Anyway, it's a matter of familiarity I think - my style is kinda....lofty I guess. I play as if I know what I'm doing and sometimes people don't like that. I think in that Champions game it was a weird mix of having that playstyle plus the meta reads from players who /should/ be familiar with my play plus my failure to use my claimed power. I find I'm lynched a lot more on MafiaScum when I play there, and I think it's a similar kind of thing.
I'm just gonna keep doing what I do and either get lynched or don't. Like I said in my bio - I find success enough doing what I do to keep doing it.
If you just had said you did forgot to send in your action.. :/ We could have lynched the lenC dude i tried to push all game but "his tone was so townie" based on everyone.. "ok".
On October 26 2013 07:36 VisceraEyes wrote: Rayn you wouldn't have believed that shit you had a "meta scum" read on me you're full of shit die.
Well i was obviously wrong. I didn't think you would be so "different" from your townie self and say stuff like "you can't read me" when in Thug life you were the most obvious town after 5 posts. Of course i fucked up because i was wrong on you, but you didn't help yourself much especially on D2.
My D2 was townier than D1 by far, this is how I KNOW you're full of shit - D2 was when I did ALLLLLLLL of my scumhunting and reading and analyzing. You're full of shit, you're just saying whatever the fuck to justify your lynching me.
On October 26 2013 07:42 VisceraEyes wrote: My D2 was townier than D1 by far, this is how I KNOW you're full of shit - D2 was when I did ALLLLLLLL of my scumhunting and reading and analyzing. You're full of shit, you're just saying whatever the fuck to justify your lynching me.
Yes VE, i know. But what am i supposed to think when you said you didn't use a Jailkeeper role for the reasons you did? It did blind my judgement because it sounded so ridiculously dumb.
You're supposed to account for everything else. You didn't mention a single thing I said all of D2 - all you did was "VE DIDN'T USE POWER HE'S OBVIOUSLY SCUM METAAAAAAAA" all fucking D2. That's literally all you did all D2. Literally.
Like, I correctly called out Vineektra D2. Did you happen to notice? Noooooope. I incorrectly called cj town, but was very obviously being swayed by the touted "Town MVP" D2. Did oyu notice that? Nooooooope. You didn't notice anything I did D2. You wrote me off as scum and just pushed my lynch. No amount of "Yeah but" is gonna change that fact.
I'm not saying I was like, a beacon of towniness or anything - yamato also incorrectly identified me as scum. But my point is you can't come in here and say "Why didn't you say this then we could have XYZ" when that's very observably not what would have happened.
On October 26 2013 07:45 VisceraEyes wrote: You're supposed to account for everything else. You didn't mention a single thing I said all of D2 - all you did was "VE DIDN'T USE POWER HE'S OBVIOUSLY SCUM METAAAAAAAA" all fucking D2. That's literally all you did all D2. Literally.
I know, i just said that was a mistake. Look, we just played a game where 2 scum basically claimed scum and people doubted they are scum. I will not let that kinda stuff slide whatever other stuff they do. That's what i do, and i need to work on that.
The first time I ever tried to hardcore drive a lynch and was successful it was on VE. It was like the first game I had played with him. He was town. I don't try and lynch VE anymore.
Next time in order to better represent the Teamliquid Mafia Community, we must elect at least 1 troll. It would be interesting to see how the self-proclaimed "champions" handle the lowliest of the Brown.
or perhaps we should spare them. Would it be cruel to infect mafia communities across the interwebs with the Brown Plague? Would chaos spread to no bound? Perhaps it should be contained... For the Brown box is not ready to be opened, nor the interwebs prepared for its content. The time is not now.
On October 27 2013 21:54 Chezinu wrote: Next time in order to better represent the Teamliquid Mafia Community, we must elect at least 1 troll. It would be interesting to see how the self-proclaimed "champions" handle the lowliest of the Brown.
or perhaps we should spare them. Would it be cruel to infect mafia communities across the interwebs with the Brown Plague? Would chaos spread to no bound? Perhaps it should be contained... For the Brown box is not ready to be opened, nor the interwebs prepared for its content. The time is not now.
It would be cruel to withhold the wonder and awe of the experience known as the Brown. For those who do not know shall not be Prepared. The End Times are coming and only the Brown shall survive.
On October 27 2013 21:54 Chezinu wrote: Next time in order to better represent the Teamliquid Mafia Community, we must elect at least 1 troll. It would be interesting to see how the self-proclaimed "champions" handle the lowliest of the Brown.
or perhaps we should spare them. Would it be cruel to infect mafia communities across the interwebs with the Brown Plague? Would chaos spread to no bound? Perhaps it should be contained... For the Brown box is not ready to be opened, nor the interwebs prepared for its content. The time is not now.
It would be cruel to withhold the wonder and awe of the experience known as the Brown. For those who do not know shall not be Prepared. The End Times are coming and only the Brown shall survive.
Thingyman It's me again. It's time for season 2 of the Mafia Championships.
This time it will be just 1 player from each community for the entire season. At least, that's the plan at the moment, but if I can't find enough communities, a big community like TL may end up getting an additional spot, plus having an alternate on standby is always good, so preparing a #2 player is probably still a good idea.
People who participated in season 1's finale are ineligible to play again. So marvellosity and yamato cannot be voted in as the representative.
If you're up for it, here is the info you could post (sorry, I don't know how to use bold in PM's, so the formatting looks bad)
The current plan for season 2:
• 65 different communities will be represented. • 1 player per community for the entire season (preferably). • 5 qualifying games will be played with 13 players each. • 2 players advance to the finale from each game based on post-game votes. • 3 additional players are granted wildcard spots.
Game setup:
The game will have a very basic mafia setup: 3 mafia members, 7 vanilla townies and 1 cop. The cop starts the game with a random vanilla townie peek.
Some communities are not very used to playing basic setups like this, but for the first season, we utilized a setup with a good share of power roles, so this time around we are trying something new. For season 3 we will switch it up again.
Days will last 36 hours and nights 12 hours, meaning 48 hours (2 days) per game day. With one exception: The weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) will be one game day. This means the game will last a maximum of 2 weeks.
Timeline:
The first game is set to start April 6th. The other four games will take place in the 1-3 months after that. I will make a Doodle and find out the best times to start the 5 games so that preferably everyone gets to play during a time that suits them well.
In addition to this, it is also a priority to ensure as much as possible that all the players in any given game has no prior history of playing with each other to ensure a level playing field (but I cannot 100 % guarantee that this won’t happen).
Thingyman has asked that the TL Mafia community nominate another representative for their mafia championships. I guess we should figure out who would be interested in playing and then perhaps vote on a consensus. We have until April 1st to decide. Any takers?
On March 22 2015 10:31 ObiWanShinobi wrote: FINE I DIDN'T WANT TO PLAY ANYWAYS.
If you really really want to play, I don't think anyone will stop you.
I don't actually think I can ftr, I'll probably be on vacation whenever this starts and I don't think I'll have time to read the thread at all. I'm just being over the top.
I'd defo like to get in on this at some point, though.
Originally Posted by IAmRobik View Post I'm gonna represent the video mafia community imo. I got banned from TL recently -- I was planning on quitting so I went out with a bang. I told them I'm leaving and then they broke up with me after i broke up with them. I'll let them pretend like they had the upper hand.
On March 23 2015 16:07 sicklucker wrote: They had some pretty mean things to say about you yamato lol. I used to piss people off at 2+2 so I was exited when I found out they played mafia
On March 24 2015 01:55 marvellosity wrote: no no, he was in the champions of champions game at the end of the series and was the only person to get modkilled all game.
I shouldn't have played anyway, I was entirely burnt out on the game at that point and also didn't have nearly enough time for such an absurdly active game. Even if I was town I would have quit tbh. 2p2 meta is not fun to play in for me any longer.
On April 01 2015 08:58 DarthPunk wrote: LOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL You should have sent one of the newbies like Rso.
And crush their desire to keep playing mafia?
You're evil.
It's not that bad. You just need to expect to clearly carry the game get yelled at alot and then not get credit because the 2+2 player who sucks arse is friends with thingyman.
On April 01 2015 08:58 DarthPunk wrote: LOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL You should have sent one of the newbies like Rso.
And crush their desire to keep playing mafia?
You're evil.
It's not that bad. You just need to expect to clearly carry the game get yelled at alot and then not get credit because the 2+2 player who sucks arse is friends with thingyman.
On April 01 2015 12:23 Coagulation wrote: omgus.net got banned from this but we still represent the best way we know how by sending people to spam dick pics in the game threads.
On April 01 2015 12:23 Coagulation wrote: omgus.net got banned from this but we still represent the best way we know how by sending people to spam dick pics in the game threads.
Who is Chezinu? Well... Chezinu is Chezinu. There is no way one can explain the being. It was once said by a man who saw the face of Chez, "You were a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Now you are just a riddle."
His following is great. His cults are many. His role, unbelievable.
Chezinu first made his appearance in a small town called Liquidia on March 18th, 2008. For years, the being trolled the forums of TL Mafia with laughter and prestige. The beast has never left his cave, which is TL Mafia, until now!
But he leaves not to abandon... but to expand!
As it is written, "Today, we cry out to the Beast! We have brave heroes and wizards in our mist. We shall ride the Beast to new worlds! We shall fly mounted to distance lands! The TL Mafia Empire shall Expand!"
Who is Chezinu? Well... Chezinu is Chezinu. There is no way one can explain the being. It was once said by a man who saw the face of Chez, "You were a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Now you are just a riddle."
His following is great. His cults are many. His role, unbelievable.
Chezinu first made his appearance in a small town called Liquidia on March 18th, 2008. For years, the being trolled the forums of TL Mafia with laughter and prestige. The beast has never left his cave, which is TL Mafia, until now!
But he leaves not to abandon... but to expand!
As it is written, "Today, we cry out to the Beast! We have brave heroes and wizards in our mist. We shall ride the Beast to new worlds! We shall fly mounted to distance lands! The TL Mafia Empire shall Expand!"
DP asked me to write his bio for him such an honor
Darth Punk was born with an innate ability to piss people off. After years of getting beat up for being a twat he discovered internet mafia where he could refine his pretentious douche persona without the threat of people throwing garbage at him everywhere he goes.
He spends his mafia time divided between TL.net where he enjoys circle jerking in the ban list and reminiscing about how awesome he is while occasionally stopping by at omgus.net to remind everyone they are shit newbie scrubs.
The term “idiot savant” comes to mind when thinking of Darth. And I think its safe to say that I speak for all of us here at omgus.net when I say, please go die in a fire.
In Mafia XV, Chezinu didn't like that his mafia team wasn't communicating with him, so he created a new team on his own and recruited townies, setting up a private forum with various levels of access, and tried to take over the game as a publically-proclaimed member of the ISRC and Brown Empire.
In Mafia XVIII, Chezinu openly claimed detective multiple times but was never shot, yet somehow trusted in the end (only player who can do this). He checked the mafia godfather foolishness and he then claimed to Foolishness. Foolishness thought he could use him and kept him alive to help him defeat the other mafia family. However, Chezinu knew Foolishness was GF anyway, and while proclaiming Foolishness innocent in the threat, tried to engineer his death behind the scenes. Then he harassed Foolishness by sending him inane PM's: the best was one time after they finished an irc conversation, he sent Foolishness a pm entitled "A conversation I had with myself after you left, thought you'd be interested" followed by a long irc argument between Chezinu and himself.
In Merc Mini Mafia, Chezinu roleclaimed "bank" and hinted that he was third party the entire game. Chezinu figured out the entire mafia team by day 3 with no extra help (he only accused/voted for mafia). Chezinu believed he was a 3rd party survivor who's goal was to lynch the mafia, live, and amass as much money as he could, even giving away his imba Serial Killer gun. Unfortunately he read his role pm wrong or created a new one and was actually a Serial Killer that needed to be the last player alive.
What is your best Chezinu story? Here's Chezinus'
On July 27 2012 06:42 Chezinu wrote: Semi-Sane (I tried, but couldn’t resist and little insanity) Speech:
Hello everyone, My real username is Chezinu. Mr. Walton was my alias. I know a great number of you know me as the director of communication. You may have presumed I had about 3 people working with me that had an ability to communicate. There have been rumors that I could intercept mafia’s communication lines. This is false. There have been rumors that I could censor mafia’s messages. This is false. There have been rumors that I know all the town roles. This is false. There have been rumors that I am mafia. This is false. There have been rumors that I have a role checking ability. This is false. There have been rumors that Chezinu’s play style is amazing. I would like to be this is true.
So what is truth? I would like to say in this case, it is objective and absolute. So what is the truth about Chezinu’s role. You see, Chezinu feels uncomfortable about coming out with his role. He loves to bluff and play both sides because he loves to live to troll again. By revealing who he really is, he could be placed in danger and forever end his ability to troll in the current game. How can he captivate his audience when there is no mystery? However, Chezinu must do the right thing and play to win, although it is not mentioned in the rules. Sometimes that requires sacrifice. He has to lay down his ammunition to troll and have fun for the greater good of town. The truth… It hurts to day… I once heard in a tv show, “If the truth hurts, you are not living your life right.” Well, today it hurts to tell the truth. I think it is because I’m selfish… I just want to troll and have fun, but I must let it go! I must tell the truth.
Okay, here we go. I am…a…. Bossy Employee. There I said it. I am no longer going to do as I did when I pretended to be a bank in the game LSB hosted. You see, in that game similar to this game, I took properties of my roles and morphed it into something way more powerful. It’s all an illusion. It’s just Brown Fluff to cause chaos in the eyes of mafia and to keep my selfish self alive. Though some of you may wonder how I could possibly only be a bossy employee yet know soo much about other people’s roles and alignment. If I said, “Cause I’m Chezinu” I wouldn’t be telling the whole story. Yes, I do have some skills to read peoples, but not as advance of Ver (+host rep). There must be something more, you may wonder. Well, Chezinu bluffs a lot. From reactions of the bluff he get feedback on people’s behavior. He jokes around to get people’s guard down so that they may slip. He shoot a fake nuke at mafia to get then to panic and lie. He loves to taunt the mafia and pretends to know their plans. Sometime he may have extremely educated guesses that are accurate. He loves to pretend to be with them and act as one of them. He questions people with “trollish” questions to breadcrumb clues or get reactions. Few may pick it up, but far less don’t. Chezinu’s plans only works if he lives. For only he can read people’s reactions toward himself because he is the only one that knows his own role. He strives to live for a few days as he gathers information. Then if he is town, he reveals his findings if they weren’t picked up from his breadcrumbs. He may be late in posting (if he gets into technical beta for an mmofps game) , but he will come through if he has something to say and if that something should be said.
I forgot about some of those games... the memories! + Show Spoiler +
Yes, even Chez lols at his own trolling!
I even forgot all of my hidden messages (of course, I find them). Here are a few. If you struggle, try quoting this post. I noticed some hidden links don't work in other posts, but I forgot what they use to link to..
On July 17 2012 10:16 Chezinu wrote: Don't be sooo Silly!
Everybody's got a personal nuke, yours is pink but mine is blue!
On July 17 2012 15:51 Chezinu wrote: WBG FTW!!!
Your sanity eases my mind. I've been trying to kill blazinghand since the very begining of this game. First I attempt to send a minion to kill him, but that ended up failing. Then I shoot a nuke at him, but then he blocks it. This time though, I think I can lynch him. The TimeWarper's words are ringing true. I would love to give QBZ thanks for that, . Being SILLY is Fun!
On November 20 2014 14:51 VisceraEyes wrote: So my first instinct when I want to appear active as mafia is to just get in the thread and comment on something - ANYTHING. Like, it doesn't even have to be important, it just has to be a random comment about something happening in the thread.
On November 20 2014 14:44 VisceraEyes wrote: Does anyone want reasoning? I'm like itching to give some, but I want someone to either ask or guess what it is.
Cute. Do you think I'm mafia? If yes, then where's your vote? If no, then what's the problem?
well according to yourself you're playing your mafia meta, and i should trust you as you are a reliable source when it comes to yourself.
You didn't answer the question.
Are you mafia ritoky?
you're the most mafia person in the thread, mainly cuz you're a hypocrite.
and nope.
I'm not a hypocrite. There's a very STARK difference between what I'm accusing Hopeless of, making contentless posts to appear contributory, and what I'm doing, which is making a read on someone based on my observation of their play.
There's literally nothing mafia about what I've done in the thread so far, you're either butthurt about the last game or you're mafia. I'll accept either one, but I'm voting for Hopeless because he claimed mafia first.
claims town -> hey guys this is my mafia meta -> does exactly what he says his mafia meta is.
you can believe your read all you want, but seems more like you just waiting to take a shot at one of the early posters trying to get a cheap "gotcha" moment. whether that's from a town mindset or a mafia mindset at this point i am unsure, but i think as of now it leans more scummy to me. certainly more than anything anyone else has posted. you shouldn't bring up last game cuz then i will have to dig up your reads and we will see how little we should believe this read of yours.
This is LITERALLY what you just did to me. I didn't "gotcha" anything about Hopeless, he did some things, and I explained why I thought they made him mafia. I didn't "catch" him doing anything. You're the one who is saying I'm mafia for doing this, and YOU are doing this. What does that make you ritoky?
Chez made a portrait of me. The likeness is striking.
Cute. Do you think I'm mafia? If yes, then where's your vote? If no, then what's the problem?
well according to yourself you're playing your mafia meta, and i should trust you as you are a reliable source when it comes to yourself.
You didn't answer the question.
Are you mafia ritoky?
you're the most mafia person in the thread, mainly cuz you're a hypocrite.
and nope.
I'm not a hypocrite. There's a very STARK difference between what I'm accusing Hopeless of, making contentless posts to appear contributory, and what I'm doing, which is making a read on someone based on my observation of their play.
There's literally nothing mafia about what I've done in the thread so far, you're either butthurt about the last game or you're mafia. I'll accept either one, but I'm voting for Hopeless because he claimed mafia first.
claims town -> hey guys this is my mafia meta -> does exactly what he says his mafia meta is.
you can believe your read all you want, but seems more like you just waiting to take a shot at one of the early posters trying to get a cheap "gotcha" moment. whether that's from a town mindset or a mafia mindset at this point i am unsure, but i think as of now it leans more scummy to me. certainly more than anything anyone else has posted. you shouldn't bring up last game cuz then i will have to dig up your reads and we will see how little we should believe this read of yours.
This is LITERALLY what you just did to me. I didn't "gotcha" anything about Hopeless, he did some things, and I explained why I thought they made him mafia. I didn't "catch" him doing anything. You're the one who is saying I'm mafia for doing this, and YOU are doing this. What does that make you ritoky?
Chez made a portrait of me. The likeness is striking.
On January 16 2015 13:25 Chezinu wrote: The thing about video mafia, every time I played AND revealed my face... someone fails to record the game.. is it meant to be?
The first voice mafia where I revealed my true voice failed to record too...
Some of you with eyes that see have seen my face. Does that ruin the mystery of the chez?
You were a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Now you are just a riddle.
On June 04 2015 08:40 sandroba wrote: 1 cop who gets a n0 check and checks are 100% acurate vs mafia with no roles is even slightly town favored imo.
and mafia can't communicate. Worse part. The game felt like 3 party. only 12 hour nights to communicate hits and partner lived on other side of the world.
70 representatives from 70 different communities have battled it out since April, and now it's time to crown the ultimate winner -- the internet's reigning forum mafia champion.
I hope you'll enjoy the read, and I hope I'll see your community represented again in season 3. OR, even better, I hope I'll see you for any other upcoming fun cross-community events - we're gonna do a Hydra game where players can sign up in pairs, which should be a ton of fun
In case you're interested in talking with others about the game (or if you just want to shoot the breeze with other mafia enthusiasts), we are a horde of 110+ people on Skype spectating the game. Add me, if you'd like an invite: thingyman
I am making this post with the hopes that your community would be interested in participating in Season 3 of the Mafia Championship. It will be bigger and more epic than ever before.
This year we’re expanding once again; 136 communities will be invited to participate, making this not only the biggest Mafia event ever, but also the largest cross-forum event in the history of the Internet. We’ve also moved the venue to Mafia Universe, a new site created largely because of this series.
Are you interested?
As always, how you decide your representative is completely up to you. To guarantee your community a spot in Season 3 of the Mafia Championship, I will need to know of your community's interest within the next week (until April 4th). Following this, you will have an additional two weeks to decide your nominee (until April 18th). Additionally, it would be a very good idea to also name an alternate.
Remember that your representative needs to be prepared to deal with a lot of activity. Expect at least upwards of 500 posts per 24 hours during the early stages of the game. The representative needs to not only be able to read all this, but should also at least be able to manage making 10+ posts per day phase.
Season 3 Specifics
• 136 different communities are invited to participate. If some decline the invitation, I may opt to allow larger communities an additional nominee. • 8 Qualifying Games will be played with 17 players each. • 2 players advance to the Finale Game from each game based on post-game votes. • 1 Wildcard Game will be played (Wildcards are decided by a jury consisting of former finalists), determining the 17th and final spot in the Finale. Runner-ups in this game will be first in line to replace any finalists who may have to drop out.
Season 3 Timeline & Important Dates
The first Qualifying Game is set to start April 25th. Additional games will take place in the 1-3 months following. I will create a Doodle and find out the best times to start the various games so that preferably everyone gets to play during a time that suits them well.
In addition to this, it is also a priority to ensure as much as possible that all the players in any given game has no prior history of playing with each other to ensure a level playing field (but I cannot 100% guarantee that this won’t happen).
Season 3 Game Design & Setup
For each season, we’ve changed it up. This time, we’re doing something new again!
The setup is called Matrix12 and is inspired by mafiascum’s popular Matrix6 setup, if any of you are familiar with that. In short, the concept is that there are 12 different possible setups and the host randomizes which one is used. The players know what setups are available, but not which one will be used!
Regarding lynch mechanics: There will be a deadline each day phase, and the person with the most votes at the end of the day is lynched, unless a majority has already been reached before then, in which case the day ends prematurely.
Days will last 36 hours and nights 12 hours, meaning 48 hours (2 days) per game day. With one exception: The weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) will be one game day (so day will be 60 hours and night 12 hours on weekends).
On March 31 2016 00:55 Coagulation wrote: No it's a good opportunity for thingyman to expand his userbase
We send someone who is so awesome that everyone is like "damn, I gotta go to TL to play with that guy."
I think TLMafia has something unique to offer, something MS doesn't have. 48 hour days and 24 hour nights, for people who want faster days and deadline plurality lynches. Are there other mafia sites who are bigger than us with those mechanics as the standard?
And what could it hurt? Besides the fragile egos of those not chosen.
My serious thoughts, I agree with Kush on this - at least from last year, there was quite an interest following our rep (Chezinu) through his games.
Challenge here is to find someone who is active and willing to sink in the time and deal with the BS of how the other reps might play, as was said before if you cannot handle TL, you wouldn't be able to handle an all-star game.
marv/Foolishness/Chez/yamato/VE/rayn/Chezinu have done past iterations of this AFAIK and they won't want repeat players.
I'd nom any of Damdred/Kita/Artanis/ritoky/Greymist/Shining but honestly I also know all of them are very very busy people. The other people that come to mind for me would be JAT/Koshi/Rels - if based on timezones, an NA player is more optimal/required, I'd say any of Damdred/Kita/ritoky/GM/geript/sandroba.
I think Damdred would be the best player to send as he is one of the best players currently on TL Mafia and probably can play in their time zone pretty well.
On March 31 2016 03:39 Half the Sky wrote: My serious thoughts, I agree with Kush on this - at least from last year, there was quite an interest following our rep (Chezinu) through his games.
Challenge here is to find someone who is active and willing to sink in the time and deal with the BS of how the other reps might play, as was said before if you cannot handle TL, you wouldn't be able to handle an all-star game.
marv/Foolishness/Chez/yamato/VE/rayn/Chezinu have done past iterations of this AFAIK and they won't want repeat players.
I'd nom any of Damdred/Kita/Artanis/ritoky/Greymist/Shining but honestly I also know all of them are very very busy people. The other people that come to mind for me would be JAT/Koshi/Rels - if based on timezones, an NA player is more optimal/required, I'd say any of Damdred/Kita/ritoky/GM/geript/sandroba.
That's probably my shortlist FWIW.
Ideally you would want someone who is really good at both alignments. Which leaves you with damdred and kita from that list. Would support both because they would also leave a good impression behaviour wise.
On April 01 2016 13:51 Blazinghand wrote: quick! hide the human rights violations!
KadaverBB is excellent at hiding our stuff
Like there was that time someone said a beetle juice meme at me in reply to a question so I responded with shrines to Molech and depictions of demons and Chernobyl mutants and victims and like dead dogs
Kind of interesting to play in these in my experience. It's odd how much variance in play style there is from site to site, many things that people that play on TL take for granted as self evident truths are contentious or unfamiliar to people on other sites.
So definitely worth doing for someone that wishes to broaden their mafia experience.
lol i know no one's asking for my opinion but kush has been awesome since he returned to playing seriously...i'd be happy to have him represent us if we want to send a real rep
also have no problems with sl <3 there was a time where i didn't think much of you, sl, but you've def changed my opinion since your hiatus
i wouldn't send ian, if only cause ian has like the absolute worst luck on the planet >> seriously man, you do >> heh
On April 03 2016 04:42 Half the Sky wrote: Kush over sicklucker only because it's my understanding they don't take repeat players.
Thats because this is "thingyman recruitment mafia" labeled as "champion mafia" to sell it.
I pointed this out like 2 years ago. It clearly cant be a championship series if the players get shittier and shittier each game.
The guys scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find anyone at all who can be bothered to give a fuck anymore let alone bring "champion" level play into this ass backwards joke of a concept.
On April 03 2016 04:42 Half the Sky wrote: Kush over sicklucker only because it's my understanding they don't take repeat players.
Thats because this is "thingyman recruitment mafia" labeled as "champion mafia" to sell it.
I pointed this out like 2 years ago. It clearly cant be a championship series if the players get shittier and shittier each game.
The guys scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find anyone at all who can be bothered to give a fuck anymore let alone bring "champion" level play into this ass backwards joke of a concept.
Pretty much. Remember this from when it started?
On October 15 2013 05:04 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: Pick two:
Chezinu, Bill Murray, kushm4sta
Or if we're actually doing serious, I'd like to vote for marv and rayn.
On October 17 2013 02:20 Blazinghand wrote: wouldn't each game be worse than the last though until eventually everyone on tl has played so we have to send 4F kush and caller as our reps
omgus even got an invite to the first game and then got promptly banned when thingyman discovered we in secret devised a plan to send our weakest players first so when every other site was sending 3rd stringers we would bust out our heavy hitters and rek those bitches. It was alakaslam or kush we tried to send that got us banned btw.
I dont think it started out as a recruitment scheme because thingyman made his own site recently and broke off from the site he used to use. but it certainly is now
i vote for whoever wants to play it and will try to win. i suggest to whoever goes to be nice first and foremost. not just to represent the site well (but not accurately ;D), but because from what little i cared to read last year some websites and players lynched purely on people being assholes and 0 game thought behind it.
also it not being on a site with a filter function from what i saw is kinda.....ew..
"Kush over sicklucker only because it's my understanding they don't take repeat players."
We don't accept previous finalists. Everyone else can play again. We feel that those who've already been to the finale have had their shot at the ultimate glory. With regards to "player quality" dropping because of this, I'm not sure I'd agree on a general level at least. Besides, this season, about half the communities are participating for the first time.
"I dont think it started out as a recruitment scheme because thingyman made his own site recently and broke off from the site he used to use. but it certainly is now"
I don't mind you busting my balls , but if I am to give a serious answer: Many people didn't like the series being hosted on 2+2, and for a lot of people the site was even blocked because it was a gambling website (meaning that some reps couldn't play, and they can now). The site spawned as a direct consequence of many people saying that it would be a good idea to create a neutral site for games like this, as that would also help minimize the feeling of "why the hell are we going to this random poker site with crappy functions?".
Oh, and to clarify another point: You will indeed be sending just one representative. One per community.
"also it not being on a site with a filter function from what i saw is kinda.....ew.."
There is a filter function. Just press "ISO" on any post, and you will get that person's posts. There are many features to make playing a lot easier, including the ability to request votecounts at any time and being able to bookmark posts, etc.
Thingy is innocent. I distinctly remember playing with him on Daily Mafia on the day you guys are saying Champions Mafia turned into Chumpions Mafia. Clearly not Thingy's doing.
There is a very, very strong possibility of there being at least one Euro game amongst the qualifying, which your rep could sign up for, if that makes it an easier decision for anyone considering volunteering.
Have all expressed interest and koshi and Rels were also suggested. I have a ton of time over the next month now that life is normalizing but whatever community wants
the reason I want to go is because I think playing with different players elsewhere will get me out of this laxy funk I am in to some degree.
It would force me to play against players who don't know my meta and where I can't skate by on reputation.
shrug its a bit just for me instead of the community and I won't stand in the way of koshi either and I'll try to just work through some of the things I've talked through with some people.
Unfortunately, it's one rep per community, but if anyone ever needs to sub out during these games and an alternate can't be found from that representative's site, the alternates will be pulled from the largest communities' alternates.
June 13 aka Damdred kills off everyone is set get your tv's radios and telescopes ready as I mafia in the shower, car and at work to bring tl the glory.
On April 20 2016 06:38 Damdred wrote: June 13 aka Damdred kills off everyone is set get your tv's radios and telescopes ready as I mafia in the shower, car and at work to bring tl the glory.
On April 20 2016 06:38 Damdred wrote: June 13 aka Damdred kills off everyone is set get your tv's radios and telescopes ready as I mafia in the shower, car and at work to bring tl the glory.
On April 20 2016 06:38 Damdred wrote: June 13 aka Damdred kills off everyone is set get your tv's radios and telescopes ready as I mafia in the shower, car and at work to bring tl the glory.
Here's hoping I roll scum
Oh shit I'll be in Germany at that time, if you (or the hosts) have twitch, someone send me the link so I can stream on the road. Go get 'em!
edit: though it was forum mafia I recall people streaming Chezinu last year, don't remember how that worked out exactly.
On April 20 2016 06:38 Damdred wrote: June 13 aka Damdred kills off everyone is set get your tv's radios and telescopes ready as I mafia in the shower, car and at work to bring tl the glory.
Here's hoping I roll scum
Oh shit I'll be in Germany at that time, if you (or the hosts) have twitch, someone send me the link so I can stream on the road. Go get 'em!
edit: though it was forum mafia I recall people streaming Chezinu last year, don't remember how that worked out exactly.
I don't think they streamed him actually playing. That would probably be problematic rulewise.
you guys should check out these turb games. I dont mind advertising for them since we have nothing like this here. im signed up for one now if you wanna play. Just sign up ans play when you get 9
Would prefer a skype chat with only TL people. Let's see how fast we can call his alignment. Actually it's a great idea and I will create it tonight if nobody stole my idea first. IF YOU STOLE MY IDEA PLEASE PUT "RELS IS A GODDMAN GENIUS" IN THE CONV TITLE
On May 02 2016 17:55 Rels wrote: Would prefer a skype chat with only TL people. Let's see how fast we can call his alignment. Actually it's a great idea and I will create it tonight if nobody stole my idea first. IF YOU STOLE MY IDEA PLEASE PUT "RELS IS A GODDMAN GENIUS" IN THE CONV TITLE
ikd makes more sense to use the discord channel we play voice mafia with then. it also has a chat feature pretty much the same as skype
On May 02 2016 17:55 Rels wrote: Would prefer a skype chat with only TL people. Let's see how fast we can call his alignment. Actually it's a great idea and I will create it tonight if nobody stole my idea first. IF YOU STOLE MY IDEA PLEASE PUT "RELS IS A GODDMAN GENIUS" IN THE CONV TITLE
ikd makes more sense to use the discord channel we play voice mafia with then. it also has a chat feature pretty much the same as skype
Why not if we can create a private chat that damdred cannoy access ? And if there is a chat history ? If no to both of those things Skype is better
If you wish to spectate, remember you can just add me on Skype (thingyman) and I'll throw you into our 180+ person chat. Or you can PM thingyman on the above site and I'll add you to the private thread. The idea of creating your own private chat also sounds very good!
Crossing my fingers for a fun and exciting game
LINK OF THE PRIVATE CONVO IN PM CANT POST IT IN THREAD CAUSE DAMDRED IS A KNOWN CHEATER THAT WILL EVERYTHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE JOIN AND BECOME PART OF THE TL MAFIA VIP GROUP WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN AND THERE ARE A LOT OF SEXY WOMANWOMEN
On May 03 2016 04:45 Rels wrote: LINK OF THE PRIVATE CONVO IN PM CONTACT ME CANT POST IT IN THREAD CAUSE DAMDRED IS A KNOWN CHEATER THAT WILL EVERYTHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE JOIN AND BECOME PART OF THE TL MAFIA VIP GROUP WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN AND THERE ARE A LOT OF SEXY WOMANWOMEN
It's a good thing Damdred didn't have access to the private chat given the marvelous amount of game-related analysis contained in it. I can safely say the game is either solved or almost solved.
On May 12 2016 23:07 sicklucker wrote: wait did two towns not vote last day? lol I voted you
Day ended as soon as majority was reached. GG Damdred you were clearly the MVP this game. Super good game. Klopp was also a beast. You two should advance IMO. A few townies were pathetic though. JK not claiming his role in an open setup and PE self voting in a 5-5 votes (that also happened to be vs a scum) was sooooo bad.
On May 12 2016 23:26 Damdred wrote: After the cormag lynchbi only pushed scum agenda to win, always soft scummed silver and pushed other day let town kill themselves.
I even townreads my whole team at points yay me.
It was the best scum game I've ever seen from you. You wanted to make TL proud right ? ^^ TBF Silver & LE both played a good game too. I hard townread LE for the whole game until that hammer yesterday. He should have been auto lynched for that.
also there was so much wrong with those last 2 days....guy insta-hammers a town to end the day wayyyy early, and the following day he isn't auto-lynched? CMON MANNNNNN
Well i am not sure how you can take the "champions" word seriously when for example this...
On October 26 2013 00:59 raynpelikoneet wrote: Inactivity.. :/ 2 of the townies didn't vote on LYLO.
..or this...
On April 10 2014 03:47 Ace wrote: Also Thingyman, the guy that stifled discussion that didn't suit his views, refused to let any case on a fellow forum member get traction, and as vigilante killed three Town players because of "town consensus" and didn't shoot his suspects - got an award and got voted into the "champion of champion games".
On April 10 2014 03:47 Ace wrote: Also Thingyman, the guy that stifled discussion that didn't suit his views, refused to let any case on a fellow forum member get traction, and as vigilante killed three Town players because of "town consensus" and didn't shoot his suspects - got an award and got voted into the "champion of champion games".
..is considered "championshipmanish"....
Bro IDK about past games but you're wrong on that specific one. It was a good game with a few bad townies but no trolls. 2 townies didn't vote on LYLO because instant majority ended the day not even half way through when 1 townie voted another townie and the remaining scums piled on him to hammer.
On May 13 2016 04:54 raynpelikoneet wrote: Well i am not sure how you can take the "champions" word seriously when for example this...
On October 26 2013 00:59 raynpelikoneet wrote: Inactivity.. :/ 2 of the townies didn't vote on LYLO.
..or this...
On April 10 2014 03:47 Ace wrote: Also Thingyman, the guy that stifled discussion that didn't suit his views, refused to let any case on a fellow forum member get traction, and as vigilante killed three Town players because of "town consensus" and didn't shoot his suspects - got an award and got voted into the "champion of champion games".
..is considered "championshipmanish"....
Bro IDK about past games but you're wrong on that specific one. It was a good game with a few bad townies but no trolls. 2 townies didn't vote on LYLO because instant majority ended the day not even half way through when 1 townie voted another townie and the remaining scums piled on him to hammer.
I am not talking about this game, i am talking specifically about past games. The post i quoted was from 2013. Nevertheless, people should not insta-lynch (or even vote for) anyone until the EOD in an IML game -- especially in (or close to) LYLO, unless there is mechanically confirmed mafia and even then it's questionable since more time = more accurate reads in most of the cases. Self-voting is even worse. Whoever doesn't understand this doesn't really belong to a champions game.
Idk Rayn we played the game extremely well and forced town into the situation.
Mafia tricked town into doing something non optimal and then we hammered it was the right thing.
Anyway I thought just IMO the game itself was decently high level for a qualifying game. And I would recommend it even if I don't advance it was quite fun if not challenging and relieving for the metaless environment
I am not really sure how mafia possibly "forces" town into..
players who hammered themselves instead of scum
Well one town thought he was a better Lynch than the other person up for Lynch.
..either of these situations?
Anyways i don't know what happened in the game, i havent even read it. I was just commenting on your post where you implicated same kind of things i have seen in the past games -- things that should definitely never ever happen in a game with "best mafia players".
And my second comment was an answer to HtS' question about why some people here on TL Mafia take trolly approach to these games, or don't really care.
I've always been under the impression that those who played on other sites found the level of play to be startlingly bad compared to TL, though I've never played elsewhere myself so I can't say for sure.
It was one guy who ran out of time and was about to be modkilled for talking about out of game information so he got himself lynched to save a Lynch for town.
I found several people to be under the level of play but I found probably 6-8 that were great just in my game. Though many were wrong because scum team played well.
Also we forced them into situations where we killed the reasonable people and left the people who were going full rayn tunneled XD.
On May 13 2016 06:33 Blazinghand wrote: I've always been under the impression that those who played on other sites found the level of play to be startlingly bad compared to TL, though I've never played elsewhere myself so I can't say for sure.
From what I've seen in the champion game, we are better at town and worse as scum as a whole. Maybe that's why I was shocked by the setup actually, if the setup used in the champions game was used here, town would win 99% of the time. It was 5 mislynches for town to lose + jailkeeper + cop with with no cop hate + no-lynch allowed against 2-shot roleblocker + 1-shot strongman. And the strongman was not even a mafia vig, it just makes the mafia NK bypass protection. But apparently it lead to two good games already which both ended up won by scum so I suppose it's balanced for these games.
On May 13 2016 06:33 Rels wrote: the two quotes are the same situation =D
What is your point?
Just for clarification; I don't disagree with any of this:
Anyway I thought just IMO the game itself was decently high level for a qualifying game. And I would recommend it even if I don't advance it was quite fun if not challenging and relieving for the metaless environment
Possibly, even probably this game you played in Damdred (and other ones of these games) are more enjoyable and fun to play for some people than for example here on TL and i don't want to discourage anyone to play in those games if they want to. There are certainly good players aswell, but i think people need to know what they are signing up for because i don't think the name of the game represents the product.
I just find the whole "format" and how it is "sold" hilarious. People making mistakes and wrong decisions - shooting townies as vigilante or whatever - is one thing, but it's another thing that for example the "jury" who decides who are the best players - or played the best - in a certain game makes a decision that a vigilante who shot three townies (amongst other things) is the best town player and qualified to advance further. That simply cannot be true except for under certain circumstances, which i know was not the case in that specific case since i followed that game. I don't even remember who won that game, but if town won it was definitely not the vigilante's good play that made it happen, if mafia won, he was probably scum MVP in the game lol..
This is not to mock anyone's play, it's to show how the decision making process on who was "good" or not is either completely biased or people making the decision are not actually qualified to make one -- at least if you call the game "Mafia Championship game".
Same goes with inactivity in some games. "Best of the best" people playing mafia and half of the players never catch up on the thread and/or people getting modkilled/replaced because of whatever (non-personal) reasons.
Some people copy-pasting the playerlist and putting "town", "null" or "scum" after each name repeatedly changing those "reads", never explaining why. If that's not enough, then we have people never lynching them because "wow tone is so townie". If even that is not enough, some people even thought the dude was scum MVP because "he managed to fly under radar so damn well!".
So yeah.. That's why i take the trolly / don't care approach.
On May 13 2016 07:09 Damdred wrote: Ty I thought that klopp would of gotten second or first but yeah scum play seems higher but town playbis slightly weaker
I believe that is probably because of there being no meta involved at all.
If i read the skype chat between TL people correctly a lot of people thought you were scum there. well idk, not a lot, but some. There were not even a lot of people who actually followed the game. ^^
On May 13 2016 07:22 Damdred wrote: Yeah but you do your game based on who you play with. I was 100% calculating and not to involved but involved enough.
Ofc you do. And from what i know you did that well. It was basically a response (or a "point") to the meta- and difference in town/scum level of play discussion.
Actually I think there is one more key difference in scum play thatbi encountered in this game vs here.
We have a tendency to solo play scum and try to get town read screw our partners. While we covered and pushed for each other.
There was barely any busses. I took part in shenanigans d1 that my partner was going down to anyway. Everyone else totally chainsaw, could be higher town here as well.
But idk sometimes really miss the team feeling here.
We hit VCA and associative reads pretty hard here. Often what wins or loses the game for scum here is the town making correct assumptions about what the scum would or wouldn't do. We seem to try and throw odd actions and wifom associations to the town, which is easier with more of a solo mindset.
That being said I didn't follow the game and I don't know how the town did its thing. I completely agree that TL is way too in love with busing.
On May 13 2016 07:09 Damdred wrote: Ty I thought that klopp would of gotten second or first but yeah scum play seems higher but town playbis slightly weaker
100% Klopp deserved to go over Silver IMO. Not that Silver played bad, but Klopp played an amazing game.
It's funny. I've always been disappointed to not be nominated for this. Though I've been equally happy about getting to avoid the fuckfests it turns into.
As you all know, Damdred played in the finale game, which almost just ended, and did well and won
136 communities, 10 games and almost 6 months. In the end, the townies took home the victory, and Whiskeyjack from the westeros community was crowned the ultimate champion
Interest in a hydra event?
At least a dozen different communities this year expressed an interest in a so-called "hydra event", so it's finally gonna happen. If you don't know what "hydra" means, it's when two people share the same account (two heads). So the idea is that each participating community can send one or multiple hydras of two players, the advantage of which is that it's maybe easier to be active when two players are both playing on the same account, and it's also just a lot of fun
So maybe your community would also be interested in this. If so and if you're wanting to play and have a partner, please send me a PM on this site before mid September. I'll check back then and give you more information. Alternatively, you don't need to, but if you want, you can also go ahead and directly sign up in this thread, which also has a bit more info: http://www.mafiauniverse.com/forums/threads/3597-Hydra-Event-2016
Soft deadline for signing up is September 14. You can maybe still get in after that date, but anyone signing up before that will have a greater say in which start date they'll be scheduled for and will be guaranteed a spot.
Currently up to 73 confirmed hydra pairings.
If you are in, let me know the two names here, that's all you need to do for now. I'll take care of creating a hydra account for you closer to game start and I'll send you a Doodle next week.
Also, to be clear, you don't need to agree on just one hydra or anything like that - multiple hydras are allowed to go from each community, it's just for fun
I havent played mafia in like 3 weeks so im due!. and I liked my last hydra game even got n1'ed and met a new friend. ill play I dont really care who im with. pm me tumbleweed or someone else because ill probably forget to check this thread. hell jat man up!
im already a member of that site so I can sign us up etc
On September 11 2016 04:10 Coagulation wrote: alakaslam is clearly not race bannon and its kind of shitty to say that. race is abrasive and toxic. alakaslam doesnt post malicious or negative shit.
trust me. I have a PHD in chupology.
I agree with this. Race Bannon got TL banned for spamming the shit out of a brood war forum. I think Alakaslam would know better than to do that.
On September 11 2016 04:10 Coagulation wrote: alakaslam is clearly not race bannon and its kind of shitty to say that. race is abrasive and toxic. alakaslam doesnt post malicious or negative shit.
trust me. I have a PHD in chupology.
I agree with this. Race Bannon got TL banned for spamming the shit out of a brood war forum. I think Alakaslam would know better than to do that.
Yes. I am an oldliquid per sé, I moved here from the SCll forums and General. I would argue about politics and get bans for "using the Hitler argument" in gun discussions (mild trolling) and would bend over backwards and kiss Kennigit's feet to undo it
Then he got banned for drunk banning ppl and I was like "well..."
Finally,
On September 11 2016 04:05 Grackaroni wrote: Kush and Shapelog. KUSH AND SHAPELOG.
I actually would like to take Kush's place, Shapelog still about eh?
On September 10 2016 16:18 Thingyman wrote: Soft deadline for signing up is September 14. You can maybe still get in after that date, but anyone signing up before that will have a greater say in which start date they'll be scheduled for and will be guaranteed a spot.
Currently up to 73 confirmed hydra pairings.
If you are in, let me know the two names here, that's all you need to do for now. I'll take care of creating a hydra account for you closer to game start and I'll send you a Doodle next week.
Well, shheeeeeeeeeeeit
On September 11 2016 00:12 Holyflare wrote: Race banno and Alakaslam plz.
Now impossible in two ways! Sorry. Apparently he took the enigma style way farther than is practical.
On September 12 2016 04:01 Thingyman wrote: "I might be able to join it if it is in October."
Indeed it is
Wait you said September 14
That's the soft deadline for signing up. After that, I will begin to schedule and sort out the games. The various games (looking like there'll be 7) will start between end of September and mid October. So if you are good to start a game anywhere in that range, you're good.
On October 06 2016 04:43 Artanis[Xp] wrote: For anyone that's curious, our game has started and is currently approaching D1 deadline. You can find it here.
just saw you two got dieded. was pretty easy to read your alignment. gg
On October 06 2016 04:43 Artanis[Xp] wrote: For anyone that's curious, our game has started and is currently approaching D1 deadline. You can find it here.
just saw you two got dieded. was pretty easy to read your alignment. gg
Host's looking for a replacement in that game so if any hydra wants to step up in the challenge..