The Syndicate

birdwithteeth11 wrote:Really? Over a typo? You've gotta be kidding me.

That being said though, I shall consume all the zombie wine before anyone else dies. Take that you bastards!!! LONG LIVE FONTAINE!!!!!!!!

nutella wrote:

>SpaghettiEverywhere wrote:*facepalm* great. RIP mattchu :c

I know someone irl who everyone calls mattchu :o

Vompatti wrote:

A Person wrote:

Lizzy wrote:

A Person wrote:

Vompatti wrote:ho ture, I didn't know it was wedneesaysday alraedy.

Well it is k

would you believe me if i told you i'm coming down with a cold q.m.

:OoOo I r sorrow. drink a lot of lemon with tea k

I will k. I got some cold medicine earlier so I'm prepared.

I woudln't trust western medicine on an issue this grave.

Lizzy wrote:

A Person wrote:

Vompatti wrote:ho ture, I didn't know it was wedneesaysday alraedy.

Well it is k

would you believe me if i told you i'm coming down with a cold q.m.

:OoOo I r sorrow. drink a lot of lemon with tea k

I will k. I got some cold medicine earlier so I'm prepared.

Vompatti wrote:ho ture, I didn't know it was wedneesaysday alraedy.

Vompatti wrote:

A Person wrote:It is true I'm overly cynical and paranoid. Given the circumstances, I think I'll try to further prove my theory that educated guesses are often wrong by voting for myself, lynches result in the lynched person's identity being revealed, don't they?

DON'T DO IT IT'S A TRAP!111

thellama73 wrote:Why? How does that accomplish anything or give anyone useful info? I'm not sure if you're a baddie, but you're certainly not interested in helping the civs win.

indiglo wrote:As for A Person, we have already what could be a possible "slip up", and couple that with this latest response...

A Person wrote: That's my point, there's no point to voting with reason if other people can glean information from it.

This response pings me. It seems to me that the only people who want to hide with their vote are mafioso, since civs don't have anything to hide. In fact, our main influence on the game is our vote - so why would a civ choose to NOT use that main influence on the game? And rather choose to throw it away in order to hide? That just doesn't make logical sense to me either.

For this reason I am debating a vote for A Person today.

Snow Dog wrote:

A Person wrote:

juliets wrote:Hi everyone - back early. Seems like I missed a lot. Out of everything I read, what really struck me was what Elohcin said about A Person

Elohcin wrote: <snip>
Also, A Person said, "At this point voting randomly seems likely to result in voting for someone not on my team, and since I can't pretend I have anything to go on I might as well try that." If he/she is more likely to vote someone NOT on his/her team with a random vote, then he/she must be bad.
<snip>

A Person, do you understand why this makes you seem like a baddie? Or did I miss where you corrected yourself (I was scanning posts on my phone so I could have missed something)

Speaking of my phone, I have half a mind to vote Vomps for posting that long-ass randomizing explanation and then having at least two people quote it! LT, thank you for refraining from quoting it! (just to make sure everyone understands, I am joking about voting Vomps for that reason)

I understand why people think it makes me look like a baddie, but my interpretation of the civ teams seems to be that they can all win individually, and since each team has members that can night kill it only makes sense to me for them to exercise that power to the fullest as soon as possible. It could mean lives lost in friendly fire but that happens at the beginning of every game even when people try to make educated decisions. Once the game really gets underway it gets easier to make decisions based on facts that aren't wild guesses and people can be more careful. This is a lynch though, and as far as I can see the validity of the reasons people get lynched for can vary wildly. It's probably just my personality, but I can't trust voting for people based on actions made publicly. Those reasons together make me think it's best to just vote randomly and hope you don't shoot yourself in the foot.
Based on what I've seen from games I've played and paid attention to, the general structure of the game is that there is a culling of players, civilian or otherwise, until individual players start making more of an impact. The winning team also always seems to have had some amount of luck on their side, so that's what I'm hoping for for the civs. I'd also like to say that it could be that I'm just really bad at mafia and only see this because I can't see what people are really doing, so maybe someone can prove me completely wrong.

The problem with a random vote is that you make yourself non accountable. If your vote contributes towards lynching a civ it's nice to see some evidence of why one voted that way rather than...oh I random voted. It gives us nothing. I think I will vote a random voter today. Probably you due to your slip up with the team thing.

thellama73 wrote:Yes, the civ teams CAN win by themselves, but they are less likely to win if they kill each other off rather than the ones who are actively trying to kill them-the baddies. I am quite disturbed by your cavalier attitude towards lynching civilians.

What do you mean "I can't trust voting for people based on actions made publicly."? What do you base your votes on then? Actions made privately that you have no way of knowing about?

juliets wrote:Hi everyone - back early. Seems like I missed a lot. Out of everything I read, what really struck me was what Elohcin said about A Person

Elohcin wrote: <snip>
Also, A Person said, "At this point voting randomly seems likely to result in voting for someone not on my team, and since I can't pretend I have anything to go on I might as well try that." If he/she is more likely to vote someone NOT on his/her team with a random vote, then he/she must be bad.
<snip>

A Person, do you understand why this makes you seem like a baddie? Or did I miss where you corrected yourself (I was scanning posts on my phone so I could have missed something)

Speaking of my phone, I have half a mind to vote Vomps for posting that long-ass randomizing explanation and then having at least two people quote it! LT, thank you for refraining from quoting it! (just to make sure everyone understands, I am joking about voting Vomps for that reason)

thellama73 wrote:I realize we have the randomizing argument every game, and it really comes down to a difference in play style, so it doesn't really ping me about the randomizers. I still think they are wrong though, but I'll leave it at that.

thellama73 wrote:

A Person wrote:

thellama73 wrote:Mafia is not about fairness. It's about trying to win by finding the members of the opposing team and killing them. Brutally.

At this point voting randomly seems likely to result in voting for someone not on my team, and since I can't pretend I have anything to go on I might as well try that.

I got some Maytag blue cheese today.

If you are a civ, this is certainly not true. Out of thirty-six players, only eight are baddies (ten if you count the indies.) So the odds are you will vote for someone on your own team if you vote randomly. Unless you are bad, or an indie, in which case, we should probably lynch you.

thellama73 wrote:Mafia is not about fairness. It's about trying to win by finding the members of the opposing team and killing them. Brutally.

Vompatti wrote:tfw I am a parasite :'(

Lizzy wrote:

A Person wrote:

Vompatti wrote:I just obtained the game and it looks pretty stunning k :O

Plus I can eat potato chips and drink wine just like in real life.

ur a capitalist

:O tuer i smell crypto-capitalist scum

Vompatti wrote:I just obtained the game and it looks pretty stunning k :O

Plus I can eat potato chips and drink wine just like in real life.