The Syndicate

pyxxy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:55 pm
DrWilgy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:54 pm
pyxxy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:53 pm
pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:03 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:37 pm Can someone who knows Sheep and SPF better suggest which songs they think may be theirs?

Like, the cricket song is a bop, but I don’t think it is Nutella’s. But I could also be wrong—especially as Nutella would likely totally change up the genre and style of music for the second video.
interesting, Cricket felt very much like the cloud song

separately it was not my favorite so my vote in honor of the Battle is between glass and crane
gth here I was at glass = SPF, nutella = Crane, cricket = Sheep

reading to see if anyone has a strong opinion
I'm thinking our guesses are somewhat in line, but I think I'm far less confident than the other guessers.
I think we're in the same boat / everyone is equally unsure, barring a setup world where scum does get to know their teammates' submissions, which I would consider whack and against the heart of the BotB theme

Huh. I can't imagine a game set up where they don't.

And I will now be paranoid that I just got played. *frets nervously*

[VOTE: Glass] aubergine

My guess is also SPF for Glass Beach. Not sure about the other 2.

I'd be happy to switch to Glass Beach if anyone else will switch, as well, so as not to create a tie.

I could switch, but then it's a tie. And I don't trust Epi's kids' musical taste.

DrWilgy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:48 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:59 pm Ugh. I have no idea what songs to choose. I went with Crane your neck for the moment.

Because both Nutella and Sheep have been mentioned for Cricket, and I'm fine with either of them being sent home by the judges. And I didn't want to create a tie.

[VOTE: Crane Your Neck] aubergine
What, both you and Falc advised that cricket was unlikely Nutella. That's why I voted for it. We want Nutella flipped, so vote for less likely to be Nutella.

Someone else (don't remember who) said it might be Nutella? I'm open to switching.

falcon45ca wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 3:33 pm Does anyone else randomly get the McDonald's jingle (sans lyrics) pop into their heads?

Ba-da ba ba baa is fuckin' catchy as hell

I constantly have music in my head. So, yes. Also other jingles. And super random songs.

Ugh. I have no idea what songs to choose. I went with Crane your neck for the moment.

Because both Nutella and Sheep have been mentioned for Cricket, and I'm fine with either of them being sent home by the judges. And I didn't want to create a tie.

[VOTE: Crane Your Neck] aubergine

falcon45ca wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:43 pm Lady Lamb's Crane Your Neck is the only one I actually want to listen to, the others are on my nerves 10 seconds in

LOL. I didn’t listen to the whole thing, but I was enjoying the cricket one!

Can someone who knows Sheep and SPF better suggest which songs they think may be theirs?

Like, the cricket song is a bop, but I don’t think it is Nutella’s. But I could also be wrong—especially as Nutella would likely totally change up the genre and style of music for the second video.

I’m going to go make some food now. I’ll be back.

Ok. I voted.

[VOTE: Nutella] aubergine

I still suspect her. And I don’t like how she keeps dropping my name in, and yet doesn’t engage with me at all.

Also, we should remember that she may have an extra vote (depending on if she is telling the truth about her prize).

pyxxy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:37 pm @Sheep @LoRab vote plz

I’ll vote when I’m ready.

falcon45ca wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:40 pmWho is LA?

Nutella. Sorry--I keep forgetting that is no longer her nickname.

Hey, y'all!! Fell asleep yesterday right before the results, and then felt like crap when I woke up, so read up and then went back to bed.

I cannot believe I was wrong about Long Con. Seriously--my tinfoil says he's bad and has an evil secret power that he comes up as civ. But, I don't actually think that, but anyway. Sorry, y'all. I was truly convinced.

I'm fine with an LA Lynch, since I was starting to suspect her anyway. I, too, do not find sheep civ-like.

And can someone remind me why people were excited to send them to battle day 1? And expressed disappointment that he wasn't on the poll day 2. And why he's kind of fallen off of everyone's radar? I'm honestly asking--I don't have enough experience with them to judge their play, and since I wasn't here and read up the whole beginning of the game at once, I really don't remember.

Are people actually posting based on what song they like more?

DrWilgy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:28 pm Now, I will admit, the feeling I get for voting in line with Pyx and Sheep is kinda icky.

As 'who I'm voting with' counts as any criteria, I may swap lol

Why wouldn't it count as criteria? The mafia has more info than we do. I would be shocked if they weren't allowed to talk about which submission is whose in BTSC. It wouldn't make sense from a game set up point of view.

I think, like with any vote in mafia, it makes sense to discuss it, share opinions of whose song is whose, and analyze votes after the fact.

Anything else I can't see as being best for the town.

falcon45ca wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:04 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:59 pmWhy?

I've been in a few walrus's w/ her, and it strikes me as something she'd sub...so does Cloud Cult, but Holy Holy just seems to be a bit more up her alley IMO.

Of course, watch me be so so wrong and she's silently raging

Sorry to be old, but important question:

What is a walrus?

(I'm not disagreeing, but I am honestly curious and am currently undecided on which)

Porscha wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 1:18 am ok we are on same page... I wonder about everyone else

Mind sharing your thought on who did which song?

Evening out the vote a bit (or at least making it so that all votes are not in one place), in case I get caught up with work tomorrow.

[VOTE: cloud cult] aubergine

Will try to look tomorrow more closely tomorrow and try to be more thoughtful about voting. In the meantime, any vote is a random vote, I think.

I mean, that is as legit a reason to vote as any. At least initially. Assuming we can switch.

I’d prefer to vote Nutella, personally.

At the moment, I’m way more convinced that LC is bad than that LA is (although I don’t think she’s civ, at the moment). I remain completely confident that LC is bad. AND, if they are both bad, LA would do much less chaos spewing, because style.

Now, to figure out whose is which.

Or strategize how to make the voting collectively for the best result.

DrWilgy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 6:03 pm I like the instrumentation of 1 at 1:30 but 2 is more my speed.

Do we actually want to play the 'let's predict who submitted what while watching who votes where game?'

Suppose we should.

I can’t think of a different strategy that makes sense.

At initial partial listen, Ihave no idea. But I’ll listen and research more tomorrow. I’m so wiped out from a super long day.

Are votes changeable?

The truly funny thing is that LC knows that I’m not going to be able to convince this group I’m right that he’s bad. Because it’s based on meta. And I haven’t been back long enough for the new wave of players doesn’t get how I think—and certainly doesn’t know which players I can accurately read. (There is only 1 player whom I could read better than LC—and if that player ever returned, I’m pretty sure I’d still be able to read him, as I can LC). But nearly no one knows that history.

Wilgy could theoretically remember, but I don’t think we played that much together—and that he would necessarily remember. But you know who does know this? Nutella.

And thinking that through, has caused me to start suspecting her. I am starting to believe that no matter which of them wins, the mafia loses a vote in the game and gains a prize.

Cape90 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:34 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:53 pm
pyxxy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:05 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:02 pm what is going on here lol
it's a repeat of Timelines Mafia

town is once again slacking

I have once again solved the game

Long Con is once again ignoring my solve
He's not ignoring it. He's bad.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:30 pm and yeah it does look like we'll be up against each other today so I do have to hope you're a hit but nothing you're doing is really causing any doubt
He's so clearly bad. He's spreading chaos. Like he does when he's evil. FEBbers gonna FEB.

He isn't even trying to pretend to seem civ at this point.
What kind of chaos is Long Con spreading? Usually when I think of mafia spreading things to cause confusion it's with like... PR claims and throwing as much at the wall as possible to disorientate town from the actual solve. Like Long Con seems fairly set in suspecting DrWilgy/nutella and really has not strayed from that

He has mentioned me a few times. And has just been posting ridiculousness. He’s trying to distract us.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:59 am That predates Mafia. For us.

I’m fairly certain it predates my time in the land of OT at all. I’ve only known you with this name.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:45 am And I have literally never been tempted before. It has been "So Divine" since time immemorial.

I am honored. Truely.

Also….eternal?

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:23 am
LoRab wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:19 am I have a new strategy. We all ignore Long Con for the next 13 1/2 and a half hours or so. He’s just going to continue to spread seeds of chaos throughout the conversation. The more we respond, the more he’ll spew. You can think he’s guilty or not. But he’s definitely doing his best to distract us from discussing anything else. And, yeah, I’m also part of doing this. But it’s bad strategy to continue to goad him (other than possible off topic). Even if he is civ (which I very much doubt), we can engage with his ideas after the battle, should he be a contender (and I hope he is).

I, for one, is not going to answer LC’s FEBspewing. I’d rather think about what comes after this day and this night.

sorry, dude. You know I adore you. And also, say hi to BR!!
"Seeds of chaos"??

If that becomes a band name, memoir title, or anthing else, I hereby declare that I need a liner note/credit/acknowledgement.

Note: I also recognize that I’m not great at executive functioning. And I’ll probably poorly impulse control at some point and answer him. But I’ll feel bad about it, lol.

I have a new strategy. We all ignore Long Con for the next 13 1/2 and a half hours or so. He’s just going to continue to spread seeds of chaos throughout the conversation. The more we respond, the more he’ll spew. You can think he’s guilty or not. But he’s definitely doing his best to distract us from discussing anything else. And, yeah, I’m also part of doing this. But it’s bad strategy to continue to goad him (other than possible off topic). Even if he is civ (which I very much doubt), we can engage with his ideas after the battle, should he be a contender (and I hope he is).

I, for one, is not going to answer LC’s FEBspewing. I’d rather think about what comes after this day and this night.

sorry, dude. You know I adore you. And also, say hi to BR!!

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:52 am
LoRab wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:49 am
Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:46 am And pyxxy's confidence that I'm civ... is pyxxy the only one with that perspective? I thought there might have been one more player that at least gave me the benefit of the doubt. Maybe not.

Anyway, I'm saying that could be TMI from Wolf pyxxy. And it makes me a little sad to say it, because I love the things pyxxy says about me.
Thanks for your input on putting out the seed that you have 2 teammates. I hope I’m not alone in recognizing that this may or may not be true.
Man you double down every time you POST!

I feel like some emotional vampire at this point.

What can I say. I miss you.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:46 am And pyxxy's confidence that I'm civ... is pyxxy the only one with that perspective? I thought there might have been one more player that at least gave me the benefit of the doubt. Maybe not.

Anyway, I'm saying that could be TMI from Wolf pyxxy. And it makes me a little sad to say it, because I love the things pyxxy says about me.

Thanks for your input on putting out the seed that you have 2 teammates. I hope I’m not alone in recognizing that this may or may not be true.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:01 pm bleh i don't know sometimes LC is just inscrutable as town

Think back to literally every game you’ve played with LC. Like, all of them. He may be inscrutable as town, but he’s extremely scrutable when he’s bad.

Can you really imagine civvie LC pushing so much chaos into the thread in the way he’s doing? To be spewing ridiculous accusations against everyone left and right? This isn’t at all civ LC. His tone is entirely FEB LC

Also, you voted for him. Stick with your instinct that he is baddie mcbaderson.

Pyxxy: You seem super convince that LC is civ. You’ve said it many times. You said it was mainly because you suspect Nutella? But that doesn’t really make sense to me as why you therefore assume civ LC.

Do you have anything about his posting that indicates civvieness to you? Because, to me, he seems so blatantly bad, that I really want to comprehend how others aren’t seeing that. I’m not saying you’re necessarily wrong (although, obviously, I believe you to be), but more that I want to understand the other side to see if maybe I’m missing something?

Porscha wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 11:19 pm lorab is town

Truth.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:02 pm or it's just LC and pyxxy together and that's the devil in my ear

That's my thought, tbh.

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:17 pm which fits with the world i currently live in, which is a world where long con is town and nutella is mafia who has been trying to stack a robyn and long con ML back to back

Can you say more about why you think that LC is town? Because that seems highly unlikely to me.

pyxxy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:05 pm
nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:02 pm what is going on here lol
it's a repeat of Timelines Mafia

town is once again slacking

I have once again solved the game

Long Con is once again ignoring my solve

He's not ignoring it. He's bad.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:30 pm and yeah it does look like we'll be up against each other today so I do have to hope you're a hit but nothing you're doing is really causing any doubt

He's so clearly bad. He's spreading chaos. Like he does when he's evil. FEBbers gonna FEB.

He isn't even trying to pretend to seem civ at this point.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 6:56 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:29 pm
DrWilgy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:03 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:59 pm Don't try to lawyer your way out of it now.
I see.

Alright well if you don't desire for me to actually solve you, I'll move on.
I am dissapoint that the following wasn't part of this exchange:

Dammit, LC. Wilgy is a doctor, not a lawyer.
Also this was funny. Top drawer, Ms Rab!

*bows*.

DrWilgy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:14 pm Allow me to add to my PoE conclusions, that Nutella/LC are the closest thing I've seen/felt to a dif check this game.

They aren't aligned and it's hard to think that there isn't a wolf in one of the players that kicked up the wagon on Robyn.

I'm not entirely convinced that they both could be bad. That said, I'm not seeing bad Nutella, personally, but I realize others are and I guess the reasons--especially as they are from people who have played with her more recently. However, one flipping bad doesn't mean that the other one isn't also bad.

Did that make any sense outside of my brain?

pyxxy wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:20 am
DrWilgy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:52 pm Hmm...

How the hell do we handle TSP's slot?

If they are afk they haven't submitted. Sending TSP ever to clear the afk slot may as well guarantee a bonus for the other player sent.
"may as well guarantee a bonus for the other player sent."

this is clever

maybe wilgy not bad after all

yes I did re-read my own post and remember that my wagon was probably clear

Which also means that mafia would have little problem with sacrificing one player to save another.

Long Con wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:54 pm
DrWilgy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:46 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:45 pm
DrWilgy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:43 pm Now, by all means, I could be wrong on you entirely. I even think I've found lately that I just struggle to read you correctly LC. Gut reading is fine and dandy and I get that you've had vibe takes this game, but when vibe takes aren't getting us pelts and you continue to push me and had pushed a dead townie over, what am I to work with and think in that scenario?
Something else, unless you want to be the next one strung up for placing a vote on a town member.
I mean, I think I've given you everything you'd need to help me get to that "something else" I've elaborated on my PoE in detail. Why am I correct or incorrect on that PoE? Who have I wrongly removed from PoE?
Lorab should be a suspect. nutella is practically a guaranteed hit.

Switcheroo much? (aka omgus)

Long Con wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:21 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:10 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:57 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:53 pmteammate(s)?
Eeesh, this just shines out as a "I better not let on that I know how many Wolves there are in the game!"
I’m a grammar nerd. You know this. Is the Oxford comma going to be suspicious next?
Not to mention that you've seen me as Mafia countless times, but "OH, Long Con isn't like this as a Civilian!" as though you don't have plenty of memories of me not acting like this as Mafia.

Pretty suspicious, you're on the naughty list.

Fine being there.

But, really, I've seen you as civ, as mafia, as neutral, as indy...and, that is exactly why I have plenty of memories of me calling you out when you're bad. And, it has been rare that I've been wrong about you--ever since that first game when I killed you....I believe with a hoe...as the civ nk. And, nearly every time I'm wrong about you, it's because you've been recruited by evil, or because you fool me into thinking you're civ. Not so much the other way around.

Long Con wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:57 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:53 pmteammate(s)?
Eeesh, this just shines out as a "I better not let on that I know how many Wolves there are in the game!"

I’m a grammar nerd. You know this. Is the Oxford comma going to be suspicious next?

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 10:18 pm
LoRab wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 12:13 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 11:53 pm Good thoughts, LoRab! Welcome to the game.

What kind of strategy were you thinking? Someone suggested putting up one (town) player to try and boost their power, and one (wolf) player to eliminate... but that plan has an obvious downside, were we to pick the wrong song. Who suggested that? Suspicious.
I'm not sure. But I think it should be discussed. I don't remember who suggested that plan...but I'm not sure putting it out there to be discussed is a bad thing. I think we should all have a conversation about how to decide who to put up. I'm trying to think through a strategy that the baddies couldn't manipulate to their advantage.

I also don't remember who said that they'd probably be weird (not their word but I can't remember the word they used) and try to figure out who chose each video. I don't think that's weird at all. I mean, really--it's kind of how the game is set up. That's why we can't hint at our songs...and I can't see a strategy that doesn't involve figuring out whose music is whose once the battle begins.

Also adding, I would have likely voted for Robyn on Day 1--her reaction to being suspected, especially towards LA, was harsh--in a cornered animal kind of way. Also, she didn't seem happy in the game--in the way that many in this wave of players seem to not like being mafia (also, what's up with that?) My not being that way was one of the ways she suspected me in Ted Lasso. And her refusal to answer any suspicion really sat wrong with me. No idea where her allegiance is (or was), but my gut says not civvie.
mm i kinda believe the perspective on robyn here - think this would be a pretty clever thing to post if u were a wolf with TMI that robyn was about to flip town

That would be clever. But it was honestly my thought at that time.

And LC—are you really going to be spewing all over the place so the thread spends the entire day the next day trying to figure out your teammate(s)?

Porscha wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:33 pm I dont believe pyxxy's bonus for winning was killing abi

It was wolves (crooked poser judges) who get to off someone every night along with the vote. So abi was the wolf night kill

No one said that. pyxxy not being on the poll was the reward.

Still waiting on sushi.

I think sticking to their guns was about them flip flopping and not voting for him if they suspected him. First off, civvies are way more likely to flip flop in general. And, my memory of LA (nut)'s play is that she in particular is more likely to be, or at least seem, unsure as a civ.

Adding: LC just simply isn't this antagonistic as a civ.

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