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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 24 2020 20:38 GMT
#16
/cohost if KelsierSC bailed on ya.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 29 2020 16:48 GMT
#196
Haven't heard from UoN, and the OP doesn't say anything about a voting thread... sooooo I'll count votes in here for the time being.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-29 17:55:28
April 29 2020 16:57 GMT
#200
Day 1 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


FecalFeast: (0) Vivax
Vivax: (0) GlowingBear
Raynpelikoneet: (1) Vivax
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Jockmcplop, Shockeyy
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear

Not Voting:
Chezinu, FecalFeast, Grackaroni, Alakaslam, Jockmcplop, Koshi, Raynpelikoneet, Trfel


Raynpelikoneet is set to be lynched with 1 vote.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 29 2020 21:05 GMT
#270
Day 1 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=10#200


Votes:

FecalFeast: (0) Vivax
Vivax: (0) GlowingBear
Raynpelikoneet: (1) Vivax
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Jockmcplop, Shockeyy
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
GlowingBear: (2) Koshi, FecalFeast
Shockeyy: (1) Alakaslam

Not Voting:
Chezinu, Grackaroni, Jockmcplop, Raynpelikoneet, Trfel


GlowingBear is set to be lynched with 2 votes.

until End of Day



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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-30 13:30:58
April 30 2020 13:14 GMT
#382
Day 1 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=17#333


Votes:

Jockmcplop: (2) GlowingBear, raynpelikoneet
GlowingBear: (2) Koshi, FecalFeast
ShoCkeyy: (2) Alakaslam, Vivax
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Alakaslam: (1) ShocCkeyy
Kurumi: (1) Trfel
Raynpelikoneet: (1) Grackaroni
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 2 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 15:11 GMT
#434
Day 1 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=20#382


Votes:

GlowingBear: (4) Koshi, FecalFeast, Raynpelikoneet, Vivax
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
ShoCkeyy: (1) Alakaslam
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Alakaslam: (1) ShocCkeyy
Kurumi: (1) Trfel
Raynpelikoneet: (1) Grackaroni
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop


GlowingBear is set to be lynched with 4 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-30 18:26:06
April 30 2020 18:03 GMT
#530
Day 1 - 1-HOUR-TILL-DEADLINE COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=22#434


Votes:

GlowingBear: (3) Koshi, FecalFeast, Vivax
ShoCkeyy: (3) Alakaslam, Trfel, Raynpelikoneet
Alakaslam: (2) ShocCkeyy, Grackaroni
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
Kurumi: (0)
Raynpelikoneet: (0)
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop


GlowingBear is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 18:19 GMT
#563
Day 1 - 45-MINUTES-TILL-DEADLINE COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=27#530


Votes:

GlowingBear: (3) Koshi, FecalFeast, Vivax
Alakaslam: (2) ShocCkeyy, Grackaroni
Kurumi: (2) Trfel, Raynpelikoneet
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
Raynpelikoneet: (0)
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)
ShoCkeyy: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop, Alakaslam


GlowingBear is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 18:35 GMT
#599
Day 1 - 30-MINUTES-TILL-DEADLINE COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=27#530


Votes:

GlowingBear: (3) Koshi, FecalFeast, Vivax
Alakaslam: (2) ShocCkeyy, Grackaroni
Kurumi: (2) Trfel, Raynpelikoneet
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
Raynpelikoneet: (0)
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)
ShoCkeyy: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop, Alakaslam


GlowingBear is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 18:49 GMT
#656
Day 1 - 15-MINUTES-TILL-DEADLINE COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=27#599


Votes:

Kurumi: (4) Trfel, Raynpelikoneet, FecalFeast, Alakaslam
GlowingBear: (2) Koshi, Vivax
Alakaslam: (2) ShocCkeyy, Grackaroni
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
Raynpelikoneet: (0)
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)
ShoCkeyy: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop


Kurumi is set to be lynched with 4 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 19:00 GMT
#692
Day 1 - 5-MINUTES-TILL-DEADLINE COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=33#656


Votes:

Kurumi: (3) Trfel, Raynpelikoneet, FecalFeast
GlowingBear: (3) Koshi, Vivax, Alakaslam
Alakaslam: (2) ShocCkeyy, Grackaroni
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
Raynpelikoneet: (0)
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)
ShoCkeyy: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop


Kurumi is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 19:04 GMT
#696
DEADLINE. STOP POSTING.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
April 30 2020 19:06 GMT
#698
Final Votecount:

Please note, Kurumi is set to be lynched due to arriving at 3 votes prior to other players.


On May 01 2020 04:00 Hapahauli wrote:
Day 1 - 5-MINUTES-TILL-DEADLINE COUNT

Previous Votecount: https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=33#656


Votes:

Kurumi: (3) Trfel, Raynpelikoneet, FecalFeast
GlowingBear: (3) Koshi, Vivax, Alakaslam
Alakaslam: (2) ShocCkeyy, Grackaroni
Jockmcplop: (1) GlowingBear
Trfel: (1) Kurumi
Koshi: (1) Chezinu
Raynpelikoneet: (0)
FecalFeast: (0)
Vivax: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)
ShoCkeyy: (0)


Not Voting:
Jockmcplop


Kurumi is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day


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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 02 2020 22:03 GMT
#957
Day 2 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:

ShoCkeyy: (1) Koshi
GlowingBear: (1) Trfel
raynpelikoneet: (0) Alakaslam, Vivax
Trfel: (0) Alakaslam

Not Voting:
Chezinu, ShoCkeyy, Grackaroni, Alakaslam, Jockmcplop, raynpelikoneet, GlowingBear


ShoCkeyy is set to be lynched with 1 vote.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 03 2020 13:15 GMT
#1111
Day 2 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


ShoCkeyy: (2) Koshi, GlowingBear
Jockmcplop: (2) Raynpelikoneet, Vivax
Koshi: (2) ShoCkeyy, Chezinu, Jockmcplop

GlowingBear: (1) Trfel
Trfel: (1) Alakaslam, Chezinu

Alakaslam: (0) Jockmcplop
raynpelikoneet: (0) Alakaslam, Vivax
Chezinu: (0) Raynpelikoneet
Vivax: (0) Jockmcplop, Chezinu


Not Voting:
Grackaroni, Alakaslam,

ShoCkeyy is set to be lynched with 2 votes.

until End of Day
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 03 2020 17:58 GMT
#1149
Day 2 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


ShoCkeyy: (3) Koshi, GlowingBear, Grackaroni

Jockmcplop: (2) Raynpelikoneet, Vivax
Koshi: (2) ShoCkeyy, Chezinu, Jockmcplop

GlowingBear: (1) Trfel
Trfel: (1) Alakaslam, Chezinu

Alakaslam: (0) Jockmcplop
raynpelikoneet: (0) Alakaslam, Vivax
Chezinu: (0) Raynpelikoneet
Vivax: (0) Jockmcplop, Chezinu


Not Voting:
Alakaslam

ShoCkeyy is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 04 2020 19:05 GMT
#1265
Deadline.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 04 2020 19:20 GMT
#1267
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-05-04 20:52:09
May 04 2020 20:50 GMT
#1279
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Jockmcplop: (3) Trfel, Alakaslam, Chezinu

Koshi: (0)
Trfel: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Vivax: (0)
GlowingBear: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)

Not Voting: (5) Koshi, Vivax, GlowingBear, Grakaroni, Jockmcplop


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 05 2020 18:11 GMT
#1468
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Jockmcplop: (4) Trfel, Chezinu, Koshi, Vivax

Trfel: (1) Alakaslam
Chezinu: (1) Jockmcplop

Koshi: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
Vivax: (0)
GlowingBear: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)

Not Voting: (2) Grakaroni, GlowingBear


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 4 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 05 2020 22:43 GMT
#1486
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Jockmcplop: (4) Trfel, Chezinu, Koshi, Vivax

Chezinu: (1) Jockmcplop
Trfel: (1) Alakaslam
Vivax: (1) GlowingBear

Koshi: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
GlowingBear: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)

Not Voting: (1) Grakaroni


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 4 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 06 2020 02:04 GMT
#1508
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Jockmcplop: (3) Trfel, Koshi, Vivax
Vivax: (3) GlowingBear, Alakaslam, Chezinu

Chezinu: (1) Jockmcplop

Trfel: (0)
Koshi: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
GlowingBear: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)

Not Voting: (1) Grakaroni


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 06 2020 12:49 GMT
#1633
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Jockmcplop: (4) Trfel, Koshi, Vivax, Grakaroni,
Vivax: (3) GlowingBear, Alakaslam, Chezinu

Trfel: (1) Jockmcplop

Chezinu: (0)
Koshi: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
GlowingBear: (0)
Grackaroni: (0)

Not Voting: (0)


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 4 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 06 2020 16:49 GMT
#1665
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Jockmcplop: (3) Trfel, Vivax, Grakaroni
Trfel: (2) Jockmcplop, Alakaslam

Vivax: (1) Chezinu
Grackaroni: (1) Koshi
Koshi: (1) GlowingBear

Chezinu: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
GlowingBear: (0)


Not Voting: (0)


Jockmcplop is set to be lynched with 3 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 06 2020 18:21 GMT
#1727
Day 3 - BRRRR.MONEY COUNT
Votes:


Trfel: (4) Jockmcplop, Alakaslam, GlowingBear, Koshi
GlowingBear: (3) Trfel, Grakaroni, Vivax
Vivax: (1) Chezinu

Grackaroni: (0)
Koshi: (0)
Chezinu: (0)
Alakaslam: (0)
Jockmcplop: (0)



Not Voting: (0)


Trfel is set to be lynched with 4 votes.

until End of Day

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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 07 2020 21:14 GMT
#1864
Anyone interested in some post-game analysis/commentary? I can type something up tonight. Open to suggestions as to format (player grades, mafia analysis, game themes, etc.).
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 08 2020 15:27 GMT
#1900
Game-Thoughts:

There is a simple narrative to this game:
"Mafia was more active and coordinated than town, and therefore Mafia won a flawless victory."
Mafia had an over 450-post QT, were discussing strategy non-stop, and there was even an instance of a rather long three-way mafia chat in the actual game thread! Is it even possible to draw lessons from such a one-sided game?

While this narrative is "true", it is deceptive in what it omits. Mafia did not stomp. When you look at how close GlowingBear and Jock came to getting lynched this game, it is apparent that Mafia's margin of victory was razor-thin. I believe the proper narrative to this game is:
"Mafia made some significant strategic mistakes, but they clawed their way to victory by being active at the right times.
I am going to unpack this "narrative" throughout this post by looking at:

1) Mafia's Strategy and Bussing
2) Mafia's Bursts of Activity
3) The Kurumi Lynch
4) The Shockeyy Lynch
5) The Trfel Lynch
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-05-08 15:38:49
May 08 2020 15:29 GMT
#1901
1) Mafia's Strategy


glowingBEAR
04-29-2020
12:40 PM ET (US)
JOCK I'm working and can't play right now but I must say I'll hard bus you man :/ that Koshi bit was baaaaad

At least one of us will look townie.

Please don't be mad at me, that's how I play as scum ://///

Vivax
04-29-2020
03:23 PM ET (US)
You can always bus, but don't overcommit to it. We just need to post enough to be able to find townie bits giving us an excuse to stop it.

glowingBEAR
04-29-2020
03:43 PM ET (US)
Don't be afraid of bussing me. I've always won a game of mafia because my scum mates bussed me and I flipped.

Mafia QT posts. Read from top to bottom.


One of the coolest things about spectating the mafia QT was watching Vivax and GlowingBear argue and debate about "bussing" teammates. Vivax was in favor of playing a simpler mafia game, whereas GlowingBear was adamant about the important of "distancing". Who won the argument? In this game, I think Vivax did.

GlowingBear spent a lot of time and effort distancing himself from Jock early in the game. GB scumread Jock very early and pushed his lynch. Ditto for Jock. Despite this, both GB and Jock were at the top of quite a few scumlists (and were very close to getting lynched). Trfel had a post later in the game on the associations between GB and Jock, despite their best efforts to distance:

On May 06 2020 11:20 Trfel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 06 2020 11:13 Trfel wrote:
On May 06 2020 11:10 Chezinu wrote:
I'm still here
Is there any way I can convince you to switch back to Jockmcplop?
I'll be here on and off for the next few hours, I'll be taking a sauna with my dad (shout-out to raynpelikoneet!).

Look at the associations between the GlowingBear, Jockmcplop, and Alakaslam team. Notice how Alakaslam is trying to vote anyone other than Jockmcplop, despite having Jockmcplop in his POE list. See how GlowingBear townread Jockmcplop Day 2 despite having no reason to do so (I think a page or two ago I showed why his reasons are invalid). Note Jockmcplop's lack of involvement and desire to play this game. He's a very strong town player, and I know he'd have more pushback against his lynch and throughout the game than this.

...


I feel that distancing did not work as intended for a few reasons:
1) How you distance is more important than the fact that you distance. Talking about your mafia teammates is always going to be a risk - you know your teammate is mafia, and the more you post about him, the more about your mafia mentality (extra information) you will unknowingly reveal. In this case, GlowingBear un-did a lot of his Day 1 distancing work by town-reading Jock on Day 2!
2) In a similar vein, why you distance is more important than the fact that you distance. It is unclear to me what the plan was here. GB seemed to think that he would get "bussed by his teammates" at some point, but why pre-determine this? Maybe GB gets universally town-read by the thread, and if so, who cares about distancing?
3) First-impressions are powerful. Towns have a tendency to latch onto early-game suspicions, and those suspicions, rational or not, are very hard to overcome. If you read the thread, GB and Jock established themselves through their "distancing" as scummreads early on, and as a result, they fought against their reputations for the rest of the game.
4) This town was inactive, especially early on. Why give them clues when you can keep them in the dark? Wouldn't it have been easier for mafia to just push mislynches with their superior activity?

A good illustration is about midway through Day 3. Vivax is almost universally town-read by the thread. GlowingBear posts a "case" on Vivax:

https://tl.net/forum/mafia/558949-oil-futures-mafia?page=75#1481

... and then gets promptly sheeped by several townies, putting Vivax in danger. Why is this necessary? It feels like distancing for the sake of distancing, rather than distancing for an objective.

Vivax had some excellent posts in the QT in response:

Vivax
05-06-2020
03:27 AM ET (US)
It doesn't matter.
Cred for bussing is overrated. As far as I'm aware I've done it to keep suspicion from Koshi and rayn off me, but that didn't require any of you to flip.

Like, what do you think I'm going to do if I get lynched later? Say that I can't be mafia because I voted for you? It never works when everyone knows bussing happens.
If I had Holyflare on my team and everyone was townreading him I wouldn't see a reason to bus him either.


Vivax
05-06-2020
03:33 AM ET (US)
It doesn't help your teammates if you scumread them before you flip.
Just pretend that I'm actually town this game, would you be scumreading me here when you want to get my vote off you? You'd rather try to figure out who of my scumreads are town and push that one instead.

I know I sound super patronizing and made that mistake enough times myself but it's really the only thing worth doing. We all bussed way too much and it's hard to get out of.


Overall, the art of playing as mafia is the art of telling people what they want to hear, as opposed to what they need to hear. If a town wants to mislynch itself, why not give the people what the want (mislynch townies), as opposed to distancing without a clear plan? There are games that you have to bus and distance as mafia, but I do not feel that this was one of them. What was the town going to do if mafia just kept pushing mislynches?

Mafia made these strategic mistakes, yet played super well on a post-by-post basis to overcome a bad strategy.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 08 2020 15:40 GMT
#1903
Got swamped at work - I'll type up the rest later :/
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
May 11 2020 19:05 GMT
#1923
Workin on it. I'm not going to Blazinghand this. I swears.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
June 11 2020 02:21 GMT
#1932
Oh fuck i still need to do this.
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Hapahauli
Profile Joined May 2009
United States9305 Posts
August 07 2020 18:50 GMT
#1936
I'll get this done before Glowingbear's image becomes true.
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