Napoleon Dynamite Mafia [ENDGAME]

[Scotty]

Vote count with ~5 hours to go in D1:

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Dragon D. Luffy
0
No votes
Voters: None
dunya
0
No votes
Voters: None
Jackofhearts2005
1
9%
Voters: Lime Coke
Jibay
0
No votes
Voters: None
le petit poussin
0
No votes
Voters: None
Lime Coke
2
18%
Voters: Jackofhearts2005, NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME
Long Con
0
No votes
Voters: None
motobot
1
9%
Voters: Wisdom
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME
1
9%
Voters: Long Con
Roxy
0
No votes
Voters: None
S~V~S
0
No votes
Voters: None
Scotty
0
No votes
Voters: None
Spacedaisy
0
No votes
Voters: None
Syn
0
No votes
Voters: None
Thunal33
2
18%
Voters: Dragon D. Luffy, Syn
Wisdom
3
27%
Voters: Thunal33, Scotty, S~V~S

We all over the place

[Scotty]

Vote count with ~5 hours to go in D1:

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Dragon D. Luffy
0
No votes
Voters: None
dunya
0
No votes
Voters: None
Jackofhearts2005
1
9%
Voters: Lime Coke
Jibay
0
No votes
Voters: None
le petit poussin
0
No votes
Voters: None
Lime Coke
2
18%
Voters: Jackofhearts2005, NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME
Long Con
0
No votes
Voters: None
motobot
1
9%
Voters: Wisdom
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME
1
9%
Voters: Long Con
Roxy
0
No votes
Voters: None
S~V~S
0
No votes
Voters: None
Scotty
0
No votes
Voters: None
Spacedaisy
0
No votes
Voters: None
Syn
0
No votes
Voters: None
Thunal33
2
18%
Voters: Dragon D. Luffy, Syn
Wisdom
3
27%
Voters: Thunal33, Scotty, S~V~S

We all over the place

Shit, D2*

[Le petit poussin]

ok lettuce put thunal as town for now smh. gonna check syn/wisdom next.

@Nanook: walk me through your JB read?

[Le petit poussin]

page 1 Syn feels like copypasting posts from his town games. Fight this brah

[NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME]

I feel like I'm reading a different thread and idk if it's because you're mafia or because I haven't played a syndicate game in forever

I feel like you should be able to find me as town, and I'm feeling the same way about you.

You're pretty good at reading Lime iirc, so why aren't you finding his self doubt and strong want to get his reads right as towny? Or his unvoting Jack for a possibly dumb reason we don't know to vote Motobot. I don't think I've seen him fake either of those things.

I'm eh at reading LC, and I'm not seeing much "self doubt and strong want to get his reads right" frankly, like...I just see the same shit he does 80% of the games he plays, sometimes he's town doing it and sometimes he's not. The other 20% he's either extremely obvious town or functionally not playing*, but this middle area I'm not particularly great at reading him in a vacuum.


*this is not a judgment, for the record, I also have games like this, it's just a thing that happens sometimes

[NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME]

ok lettuce put thunal as town for now smh. gonna check syn/wisdom next.

@Nanook: walk me through your JB read?

>wholesome, adorable posting
>lost
>doesn't like to lie
>one post with reads

Idk not super confident or anything, just leans towards new player scum over new player town, but again not super confident and I'd like him to be town, so

Not gonna push it, just want cred in post

[Spacedaisy]

Thoughts as I caught up:

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level zero answer would be rask/little chicken

spicy answer would be ddl

To respond to this: shooting DDL is a spicy hero shot akin to putting Da Bomb hot sauce in your eye.

I’m not gonna tell anyone how to play their game, but it’d be nice to get some answers on the ???’s

if there have been any ???s they happened in a BTSC I don't have access to

do you have access to it?

What? Obviously Scotty meant the people who we have no information about to go off of. Was this a joke or were you baiting?

@Thunal33 @Scotty I'm old and have been out of the mafia scene for too long, what does DADV mean?

Lime Coke looks town to me, so when Thunal and Roxy both came in saying the same I was glad it wasn't that I was just crazy.

[NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME]

DADV is dead air dead village

[NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME]

Basically means "if people don't care/aren't fighting it to the last minute, they're probably town"

It's bunk

[NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME]

It's the kind of thing you point to when you have a TR on someone going over and ignore when you don't

[Spacedaisy]

Basically means "if people don't care/aren't fighting it to the last minute, they're probably town"

It's bunk

Thank you! And I agree with you there.

[Jackofhearts2005]

A lot of me just wants to say "Please yeet the Dragon after you kill me" just because I feel like that push, and trying to link Dunya to me when I explained were always friendly with each other in games, is just bad and attempting to link us together to get 2 towns dead.

Idk how many will listen, hopefully some will if I ping so worth a try...
@dunya @Thunal33 @Jackofhearts2005 @Scotty @Long Con @S~V~S

And anyone else who chooses to believe... vote Dragon if I end up dying.

Um no.

I feel more strongly that DDL is town than I do that you’re scum.

[Jackofhearts2005]

Basically means "if people don't care/aren't fighting it to the last minute, they're probably town"

It's bunk

Yeh

[Le petit poussin]

Tx Nanook. Guess I'll need more posts from him to get a better feel there.

@Syn: why do you want me dead smh? I mean, I know most of these posts are jokes but still that's the one u chose to repeat (when u know activity isn't AI for me, and I have no problem to post as a wolf smh)

[Scotty]

[VOTE: Syn] aubergine

[Jackofhearts2005]

DDL asked what people thought of the Lime defense and my unposted answer was “I don’t think anything of it.” Like that it didn’t move the needle in any direction at all and could be real or fake.

This does things to me.

[VOTE: Jackofhearts] aubergine

You

Literally both of my target votes would be OMGUS'ing between Jack and Nanook.

Just omgusing? Is there anything about them that made you feel suspicious, specifically?

And why them and not me? I was under the impression I was your main suspect.

Yeah I would want you yeeted after I die because you were the main force behind the wagon.
I don't have enough in me to battle you back and even if I gave it my all I'm still not surviving the dome.

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Why am I in such a bad spot mafia wise?

So hoping my flip is incriminating enough to have people vote you.

It's mostly OMGUS'ing the other two because the off wagon people it's either I have in my towns or they're so null from barely posting that I'd probably have better luck doing a randomizer with the names rather than selecting a vote via reading them.

I'm trying to not let my frustration into the thread but it's hard not to because it's sorta explaining why my reads aren't highly detailed or verbose enough to make myself the obvious town that I could be.

Could just be because I’m halfway through reading The Wild Robot and my family put on the movie and it’s super emotional. That’s probably not giving Lime enough credit. Like obviously this doesn’t look more townie because of an emotional story. I’m just doing a bit. Idk. I kinda believe the above and that leaves me with only a very uninspired part time scumread on Wisdom, which is mirrored in the vote count.

I don’t feel any reason to switch to Thunal.

[Le petit poussin]

Vote: Syn

[Le petit poussin]

[VOTE: Syn] aubergine

(I like eggplants smh)

[Spacedaisy]

Ok summary thoughts right now.

First, Syn asked if I always overexplain myself. That was weird. I wasn't trying to explain myself , I was trying to explain my thought process because I think town and wolf reveal themselves because of their mindset. You can make up suspicions for random things throughout a game, but you reveal yourself through the way you think. In my head when I posted the wall of text, I wasn't defending or explaining myself, so much as telling why things looked suspicious to me, sharing that thought process for other town to consider basically.

For that particular reason, I'm really struggling with trusting DDL. He just keeps doing things for optics reasons and reasons I have a hard time reconciling to a town mindset. He's constantly saying things to get ahead of what people might accuse him of, and even moved off a vote he placed because of how it looked for him. I just don't think when you are a civ and actually hunting, you take that much time to curate what other people think of you.

It's part of what I don't get about Wisdom either. They voted off wagon specifically because they don't want to be part of a yeet? That was my understanding and it seemed really weird.

I went and looked at the vote finally and it was Jack that threw that last vote on falcon. Apologies to DDL for saying it was him. My memory really is truly awful. However, when I looked at his explanation it was more than what I remembered. I recalled that it was a vote where someone didn't express a lot of feeling about falcon being bad, but I forgot that he gave some reasoning for not wanting to see Long Con get the most votes. Why does this matter? Well, I thought it was weird that a town person would cast a vote for someone they didn't actively suspect, when a civ role is used to break ties. In my head I voted Long Con because I suspected him more, but I had no read on falcon. I knew my vote and Scotty's would tie it up and I was kind of ok with a civ role breaking the tie. So it felt like a non-town mindset to break the tie in favor of someone they don't even suspect when a town role would do that for him. However, actively believing Long Con is towny is a decent reason to do that and not risk the civ role yeeting Long Con.

That said, I kind of suspect Jack for something he said earlier, and I don't know if it's a good reason or not. So right now, I don't trust Jack, but I don't want to vote Jack yet either.

I'm mildly concerned about Syn, I feel a bit like he's fishing for a good suspicion that looks town, even though he knows it isn't. It';s a very vague impression though.

I still think Long Con is suspicious. I think it's weird that no one has discussed that I moved to make him a counter wagon. I think it's weird that has completely ignored me despite that fact. I think it's weird I have seen very little defense from him. It gives me the vibe he is trying to avoid drawing too much attention to it in hopes of us forgetting about him.

Hot take: SVS and Long Con are wolf teammates.

OK TL;DR: Here's my current wolf and town vibes. Anyone not listed is null

Town
Lime Coke
Thunal
Scotty
Nook

Wolf
Long Con
Jack
DDL
Wisdom
Syn

Clearly, I'm not a trusting person.

[Jackofhearts2005]

I’ve had vague bad feelings about Syn but I don’t think they’re worth a vote. They are worth a “Okay. Why Syn?”

[Jackofhearts2005]

When I have bad feelings about Syn, I think of Syn’s hair and it goes away.

[Spacedaisy]

A lot of me just wants to say "Please yeet the Dragon after you kill me" just because I feel like that push, and trying to link Dunya to me when I explained were always friendly with each other in games, is just bad and attempting to link us together to get 2 towns dead.

Idk how many will listen, hopefully some will if I ping so worth a try...
@dunya @Thunal33 @Jackofhearts2005 @Scotty @Long Con @S~V~S

And anyone else who chooses to believe... vote Dragon if I end up dying.

Um no.

I feel more strongly that DDL is town than I do that you’re scum.

Mm, this post makes me feel a little better about Jack.

I'd probably move him off my Wolf Vibe list, but not onto my Town Vibe list.

[Jackofhearts2005]

For that particular reason, I'm really struggling with trusting DDL. He just keeps doing things for optics reasons and reasons I have a hard time reconciling to a town mindset. He's constantly saying things to get ahead of what people might accuse him of, and even moved off a vote he placed because of how it looked for him. I just don't think when you are a civ and actually hunting, you take that much time to curate what other people think of you.

I agree with all of this is you redact player names. I’m not getting that from DDL at all. Can you show me?

[Jackofhearts2005]

*if you redact

[Jackofhearts2005]

A lot of me just wants to say "Please yeet the Dragon after you kill me" just because I feel like that push, and trying to link Dunya to me when I explained were always friendly with each other in games, is just bad and attempting to link us together to get 2 towns dead.

Idk how many will listen, hopefully some will if I ping so worth a try...
@dunya @Thunal33 @Jackofhearts2005 @Scotty @Long Con @S~V~S

And anyone else who chooses to believe... vote Dragon if I end up dying.

Um no.

I feel more strongly that DDL is town than I do that you’re scum.

Mm, this post makes me feel a little better about Jack.

I'd probably move him off my Wolf Vibe list, but not onto my Town Vibe list.

Snuggle snuggle the top poster in the yellow to orange zone spot.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

Never mind, Lime Coke is town.

Why

[Spacedaisy]

For that particular reason, I'm really struggling with trusting DDL. He just keeps doing things for optics reasons and reasons I have a hard time reconciling to a town mindset. He's constantly saying things to get ahead of what people might accuse him of, and even moved off a vote he placed because of how it looked for him. I just don't think when you are a civ and actually hunting, you take that much time to curate what other people think of you.

I agree with all of this is you redact player names. I’m not getting that from DDL at all. Can you show me?

Yeah, I'll go do an ISO and pull the posts that pinged me.

[Jackofhearts2005]

The scumlean is obviously a strategic differences thing but I love Daisy’s analysis of my Falcon vote and I think it comes from town Daisy.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

gth Lime Coke is town lol. (it's just I find he hit the soft spot of ATEing - "omg my reads have sucked balls lately I've lost all my mojo" - just enough that I find it real. A bit more and I'd just vote him in oblivion but I kinda liked that string of posts)

That being said, it's still a pretty weak read so I am opening his ISO now that I have a bit of time.

Same tbh.

But the thing is, there is a good chance Lime is wolf and yet was still honest about his emotions there.

We need to normalize the idea that wolves can be honest.

Actually never mind, don't normalize that, it helps me win games as a wolf.

[Le petit poussin]

about Syn, for me it's just that he doesn't sound like he cares about his reads as much as I expect him to do as a villager. Also the relative lack of reads alltogether I might say.

@dunya: sup brah. what's your read on Syn?

[Dragon D. Luffy]

-that’s two people now who have called wisdom town without any context or justification and it’s rubbing me the wrong way

I don't know if I'm one of those, but I also said I like Wisdom and gave my reasons. I think they felt legit in EoD1.

[Le petit poussin]

gth Lime Coke is town lol. (it's just I find he hit the soft spot of ATEing - "omg my reads have sucked balls lately I've lost all my mojo" - just enough that I find it real. A bit more and I'd just vote him in oblivion but I kinda liked that string of posts)

That being said, it's still a pretty weak read so I am opening his ISO now that I have a bit of time.

Same tbh.

But the thing is, there is a good chance Lime is wolf and yet was still honest about his emotions there.

We need to normalize the idea that wolves can be honest.

Actually never mind, don't normalize that, it helps me win games as a wolf.

hard disagree. I mean they can but it's harder about emotions. like self-awareness is a bitch and most of them will tend to overdo stuff one way or another.

[Jackofhearts2005]

I go back and forth between not giving a shit about how I look so as to call out players for suspecting me in a bad way, which allows me to catch wolves. It also leads to wolves being like “Jack is yeetable” when I’m not and that leads to bad wolf positioning.

This also tends to cause undying death tunnels on me to townies, which is bad. Sometimes I get those townie yeeted. Sometimes they even yeet me. Certainly it can be a distraction.

Somebody remind me after the game is over to talk about my vote on Lime right now so I can test an overall theory about my play.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

Anyway, I hard veto the Lime wagon. He did several of his towntells when he came back. His fear of being wrong, his DDL push while being aware he loses that dome, his frustration are all towny for him.

[VOTE: Wisdom] aubergine

I don’t know if Wisdom is where I want to end on but I certainly don’t want Lime top wagon.

He "pushed" ddl and said to kill ddl after he dies then didn't vote there lol

Yeah that was sus af and matches with my previous points about him saying things and not putting his vote there, or attacking people without saying things.

I'm just second guessing myself so hard now, though.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

It's 6 min left, right?
Where is everyone? (how many in the PL are america time-zoned?)

VOTE##Motobot
I. DON'T. KNOW.

I feel like people here are town which implies wolves are chilling due to Falcon being town >_>

Like this progression sort of came out of nowhere.

In thread maybe
I didn't like motobot's posts and had him in bottom tier in my read list

About that, I often post little in any game I play, and when I do post I either put nothing on the table, I cause confusion on what I mean, or I end up sounding phoney.
If I don't post much I most likely won't say something wrong.

I had motobot as a very slight GTH town but then I saw this post. Does anyone who’s played with motobot know if he’s worried about saying something wrong in his town games? Because if not imo that’s a wolfy sentiment to have.

Sounds like just someone who is traumatized by being suspected in games before. And more likely townie than scum. I figure a wolf would try to act more cool about that.

[Jackofhearts2005]

Lime Coke was bad last game and was lackluster and passionless to the point of nonparticipation, even up to getting voted out. Markedly different here; a spirited defense.

Hmm

[Dragon D. Luffy]

Ok I need to go, will be gone most day. I guess the general consensus is Lime Coke probably towny, except nook. Suit noted.

Don't count the Lime yeet out yet.

I'm just checking around for possibilities.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

and even moved off a vote he placed because of how it looked for him.

Which vote

[Spacedaisy]

I was gonna stay parked on Roxy for most of the day but someone posted a quasi-angle shooty reason for why Roxy's inactive hunt post makes sense coming from here so I gotta leave before this wagon grows.

I was already feeling LC was blendy before his awkward attempt to pocket dunya, now I just wanna yeet here.

[VOTE: Lime Coke] aubergine

but someone posted a quasi-angle shooty reason

i don't think it's fair to call it angle shooting, i didn't feel that way at all about syn's note.

Me neither, that was me acknowleding it in advance before someone else called me out on angle-shooting for it.

Before people asks, I don't have any big, flashy reason. Just skimmed her ISO and my reaction was "meh".

But I don't have any other suspects I'm confident at. I just want to stir some waves for the time.

This last one isn't about his optics, but it felt weird to me to talk about setting some up for later. Like, as a town if you suspect someone is teammates, you just say, I suspect they might be teammates. You don't say you're setting up a later yeet. Town don't think in terms of lining up yeets, they think in terms of the information we have right now, and they share it in the right now. Later, if it changes, then you share that your opinion has changed because of new information. it just feels like a weird mindset to me for town.

But the dunya thing was a setup for later. IF you flip wolf. If you don't, that big dunya post I made loses its value.

Now my reasons for voting YOU, specifically, predate dunya's. They boil down to how you always seem to agree with the wagons already being voted by other people, without having shown any sus on them before. And when called out, you backpedal.

It's here, if you want to defend yourself:

https://mafiathesyndicate.com/viewtopic ... 5#p1123795

However, in the interest of being fair, he also seems very preoccupied with being wrong and leading misyeets, and that is more a town look to me, if true. Maybe I'm looking at it backwards, I don't know. It's easy to say it though, whether or not it is true is different. It might just be another optics thing. I'm not sure.

[Jibay]

Sup friendos

Literally forgot about this till now (sorry epi!)

Will prolly read the thread sometimes in the next 12 hours or so then post.

He's ALIVE !

[Spacedaisy]

Looks like less posts than it felt like too. Mehhhhh. Now I'm twisting myself up again. Ok, going to go catch up on what was said while I was ISOing DDL.

[dunya]

im here, catching up

[Le petit poussin]

Sup friendos

Literally forgot about this till now (sorry epi!)

Will prolly read the thread sometimes in the next 12 hours or so then post.

He's ALIVE !

lmao.

Where is your head at rn?

[Le petit poussin]

Daisy villagery btw (captain obvious is here for you breaux)

[Spacedaisy]

and even moved off a vote he placed because of how it looked for him.

Which vote

Roxy, but I'm finding myself doubting what I was suspecting before.

I'm most likely putting a vote on Long Con again today though anyway. In fact, I'll do this now, but I'm not closed off to other options if I'm convinced to move elsewhere.

[VOTE: Long Con] aubergine

[Dragon D. Luffy]

gth Lime Coke is town lol. (it's just I find he hit the soft spot of ATEing - "omg my reads have sucked balls lately I've lost all my mojo" - just enough that I find it real. A bit more and I'd just vote him in oblivion but I kinda liked that string of posts)

That being said, it's still a pretty weak read so I am opening his ISO now that I have a bit of time.

Same tbh.

But the thing is, there is a good chance Lime is wolf and yet was still honest about his emotions there.

We need to normalize the idea that wolves can be honest.

Actually never mind, don't normalize that, it helps me win games as a wolf.

hard disagree. I mean they can but it's harder about emotions. like self-awareness is a bitch and most of them will tend to overdo stuff one way or another.

The goal is not to fake emotions, is to show the emotions you are actually having.

Notice how a lot of LC's frustration is related to his TS performance in general, not this game we are playing. We could be feeling that regardless of what alignment he has here.

[Le petit poussin]

also JB, get an avie or we are yeeting you under the sun.

[Dragon D. Luffy]

I think I just convinced myself to revote Lime.

[VOTE: Lime] aubergine

[Le petit poussin]

I think I just convinced myself to revote Lime.

[VOTE: Lime] aubergine

DId you make a case, if so, can you link it to me or tl,dr it to me really quick (will try to iso you before EOD but it's kid time for the next hour and half or so it might have to wait till after that)?

[Dragon D. Luffy]

I was gonna stay parked on Roxy for most of the day but someone posted a quasi-angle shooty reason for why Roxy's inactive hunt post makes sense coming from here so I gotta leave before this wagon grows.

I was already feeling LC was blendy before his awkward attempt to pocket dunya, now I just wanna yeet here.

[VOTE: Lime Coke] aubergine

but someone posted a quasi-angle shooty reason

i don't think it's fair to call it angle shooting, i didn't feel that way at all about syn's note.

Me neither, that was me acknowleding it in advance before someone else called me out on angle-shooting for it.

Before people asks, I don't have any big, flashy reason. Just skimmed her ISO and my reaction was "meh".

But I don't have any other suspects I'm confident at. I just want to stir some waves for the time.

This last one isn't about his optics, but it felt weird to me to talk about setting some up for later. Like, as a town if you suspect someone is teammates, you just say, I suspect they might be teammates. You don't say you're setting up a later yeet. Town don't think in terms of lining up yeets, they think in terms of the information we have right now, and they share it in the right now. Later, if it changes, then you share that your opinion has changed because of new information. it just feels like a weird mindset to me for town.

The mindset is as follows:

I think Lime is bad.

I think dunya is bad with Lime.

I'm more confident in the former than the later, and the later depends on the former, so Lime needs to go first.

Everyone and their cat is townreading me rn, so there is a high chance I get nk'd soon. Because I'm a special snowflake and maybe only I noticed the connection, it's better to point it out now before I die without saying it.

But a side effect of this all is that someone (forgot who) started looking at my Lime case on the grounds of it being a dunya-related thing. It's not. Not just that. I want them to look at Lime in isolation too. Before people start dismissing it because they like dunya or something.

(or gasp, because someone argues again that Lime and dunya are friends. More than one person have used that argument and it sucks, because I'm not having any issue with them being friends, and them being friends outside of the game nhas no influence on their role cards here).