The Syndicate

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:54 pm**

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:51 pm i am mafia.

thoughts?

I'm not buying it. What's your case?

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:55 pm**

alison cute

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:57 pm**

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=htt ... AdAAAAABAD

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:57 pm**

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=htt ... AdAAAAABAD

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:58 pm**

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:59 pm**

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:54 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:51 pm i am mafia.

thoughts?
I'm not buying it. What's your case?

she has an anime avatar, and is a lockwolf by default!

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:59 pm**

BoKnows wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:58 pm

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:01 pm**

KZA wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:59 pm
BoKnows wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:58 pm

stop taunting me

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:03 pm**

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:03 pm**

BoKnows wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:03 pm

wtf is wrong with me

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:15 pm**

boomah

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:16 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:15 pmboomah

hello

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:19 pm**

Alison wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:30 pm You sure you don't wanna sub out?

Lol you want me out of the game that bad eh?

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:40 pm**

Hey man. Oh Jeez I left the coffee pot on didn't I?

Look I'm your Mod okay there now. That means you come to me by PM if anything upsets you okay? Just PM me if there's a problem, okay? I really don't want there to be a problem.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:09 pm**

JPIC, Alison, Esooa, Nanook.

Game over, town wins.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:11 pm**

Oh geez, I forgot how dang active folks are on Day 0s around here. Sorry in advance if I have a low post count to start out with. It's been exactly 45 years since I last played a game of 'Mafia' on the webzone mafiathesyndicate dot com.

All I have read-wise is an impulsive fear of the old RYM crew because memories of old games still wake me up at night in a cold sweat, and a default wariness of everyone else because I have lost all meta on you, if I ever had it to begin with.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:22 pm**

TSP is either a TMI machine as mafia or he is town. Everyone else was skeptical about my claim but he said immediately and confidently he knew I was town; he also asked if it was multiball out of the blue, and heavily implied that he had reason to do so when pressed on why.

So either TSP is making some serious scum errors or he has a role that gives him setup information (which is townie). I think the latter is more likely than the former.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:22 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:26 pm To someone without deep knowledge of the setup or the Fargo theme, there would seem to be two available theories about why someone else would immediately speculate about multiball:

1) That someone is on a mafia team and has some unique insight indicating that it's possible.

2) Fargo as a theme presents some unique structure that could be appropriate for multiball.

I don't fault Sloonei for his interpretation, and it seems evident Tony is familiar with the theme. So #2 is fine.

2) doesn't explain his reaction to KZA's accusation that he was on a surprisingly small mafia team.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:23 pm**

Someone tell Grandpa Strawhenge what multiball is, or is supposed to be.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:24 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:00 pm I was thinking before the game - what do i do when i rand scum? People expect alot of my scum game i need to impress i cant disapppoint. So i wss thinking of opening up old town games of mine and lowkey copy pasting postd, only changing a little bit. But im town so i dont have toml. But i think it eoupd have worked. I am considering not telling. Guys of yhis hypotethical scum plan but since il toen i can swueeze out dome vlaue out of it still by revealing it and thus showing my kind nature

tutuu is mafia. Too many typos.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:25 pm**

Too many typos means the typos are intentional. Intentional typos means tutuu is trying to pocket us with her cutesy half-clueless half-tryhard act like she does as scum every time. The difference is that it's genuine when she's town and inauthentic when she's scum.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:25 pm**

Either that or it's the most annoying way of breadcrumbing a claim ever concocted, but to be honest I think tutuu would do that as scum more often than town anyway.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:27 pm**

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:07 pm Thanks.

I am perhaps pre-conditioned to distrust an early Alison claim because I have seen her do it two times and she has lied both times.

I claimed PR post 1 in Making Friends and Enemies.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:28 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:01 pm ALSO im finally toen in a game with eso @Esooa so now I DONT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT HOW I APPROACH UR SLOT (cuz im town hehe)

that's too bad, I'm mafia

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:30 pm**

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:07 pm I am wary of the motivation for Alison to claim exactly like this in her entry post. She is explicitly wedging herself into a pre-formed town-core via this claim. It seems as though she has the confidence to project this claim into the thread right off the bat because she is comfortable declaring town reads on Mac and Jay ~20 posts into the game. I don't disagree with either of those reads, but it feels like Alison has pre-concocted a plan to drop this partial claim which hinges on these other "strong players" also being town. I question whether Alison would make this claim if she didn't have those town reads, but I also question that she would be confident enough in these reads to make the claim only 20 posts in.

In the Mafia Alison world, she wants to wedge herself into a towncore of her own invention by capitalizing on an advantageous role which can (presumably) be used to appear as mechanically confirmed later down the line (we explicitly are told that we know nothing about the setup. Any variety of a role claim should be taken with a grain of salt right now), and pocketing a few of the more authoritative voices in the thread right off the bat.

Why can't I be doing all this shit as town? What specifically about the way I went about claiming made you think it was "pre-concocted" (presumably in scum chat), or that I wouldn't be "confident" enough in my early reads to claim based off them?

For the record I decided to post 1 claim the moment I saw my role. The fact that I opened up with a couple of nice town reads on JJJ and Mac made it even sweeter, but if I was NAI on everyone I would have claimed anyway.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:30 pm**

Do wolves actually whisper? I'm more acquainted with their howl.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:32 pm**

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:15 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:43 pm
Alison wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:42 pm Currently I have the tiebreaker vote. If I vote for 8PM EST can you promise me that you will deliver a scum flip through your EOD interactions?
No. That would be silly.
^^before i saw sloonei's explanation for his read on alison, i actually thought that his suspicion toward her was borne out of this specific interaction

alison is a very purposeful player, and i didn't understand her purpose behind asking that specific question to sloonei. it didn't feel like a question that was intended to get alignment indicative information out of sloonei, nor did it feel like a question that was intended to create a serious deal with him, so it left me scratching my head. it made me wonder if alison was asking an effectively pointless question for the sake of justifying her vote in the poll, and didn't feel comfortable placing a vote down w/out providing some kind of justification for it

i have no other thoughts about alison ATM

I would have locked Sloonei scum if he had said yes. I think he can say no as both town and scum, but he only says yes as scum. It's a free roll at outing him on page 1 without any risk.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:32 pm**

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:04 pm hi im gay =)

angle shooting @ mods

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:33 pm**

guy im hay

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:35 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:15 pm Some similar concerns have at least passed through my head. I don't have the same "early" anecdotes to reference -- I'm not sure I played in any relevant game. I do have a basic meta parallel however, from Bread Mafia, wherein Alison's first play was to spam similar town reads (including a frivolous town read on me) to ingratiate herself in an early town core. Notably she included her own teammate (DkKoba) in that example.

In Radiohead Mafia, where I was town, I wrote this in my first post:

Alison wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 2:17 am The following players are town: DrWilgy, Dyslexicon, Hally, Herm, MacDougall, Master Radishes, Oddmerta, Poison Chan, sprityo, SPF and tutuu.

The behaviors you are describing are NAI. You're reversing cause and effect; you shouldn't scumread me for spamming townreads at the start of the game because you've seen me do it as scum once. Instead you should consider that I did it as scum in Bread Mafia because it's what I always do as town.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:35 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:30 pm I, JaggedJimmyJay, site administrator and long-time Mafia enthusiast, am a member of the town faction. Oh good gravy!

I am town, and claimed as such

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:36 pm**

I'm p sure you claimed mafia essooaaa

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:36 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:19 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:07 pm
TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:06 pm setup spec time: i wonder if this is multiball
I bet mafia-aligned players are more likely to conceive of this by page two than civilians are. How about THAT?
Im town and i thought the same (as tony)

Why?

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:36 pm**

I know nothing about this show. Am I at a disadvantage?

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:37 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:26 pm I agree with none of falcon's Sloonei suspicions, and I think falcon looks very much like a civilian.

Yes.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:38 pm**

Strawhenge wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:23 pm Someone tell Grandpa Strawhenge what multiball is, or is supposed to be.

It means there's two (or more) mafia teams.

Is this multiball?

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:38 pm**

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:00 pm
AL_sama wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:58 pm hello this is my first game here

so how do you guys start things here??
What did you have for dinner tonight?

soup

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:39 pm**

Strawhenge, you're a grandpa now??? Congratulations!! I had no idea

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:39 pm**

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:06 pm setup spec time: i wonder if this is multiball

god please no

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:40 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:08 pm
TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:06 pm setup spec time: i wonder if this is multiball
I bet mafia-aligned players are more likely to conceive of this by page two than civilians are. How about THAT?

probably, but are mafia more likely to say it than town? no

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:40 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:48 pm Official tone and proper punctuation lowkey scare me tbh. It always sounds so serious. Like someone is scolding me. I am feeling stressed out from writing this right now. I wanna whimper

But it does suggest that you're not actually intoxicated and are perfectly capable of writing without typos. I don't usually see you make such a gratuitous amount of typos in your normal rants, which is why I think you're faking them now.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:41 pm**

Alison wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:32 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:15 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:43 pm
Alison wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:42 pm Currently I have the tiebreaker vote. If I vote for 8PM EST can you promise me that you will deliver a scum flip through your EOD interactions?
No. That would be silly.
^^before i saw sloonei's explanation for his read on alison, i actually thought that his suspicion toward her was borne out of this specific interaction

alison is a very purposeful player, and i didn't understand her purpose behind asking that specific question to sloonei. it didn't feel like a question that was intended to get alignment indicative information out of sloonei, nor did it feel like a question that was intended to create a serious deal with him, so it left me scratching my head. it made me wonder if alison was asking an effectively pointless question for the sake of justifying her vote in the poll, and didn't feel comfortable placing a vote down w/out providing some kind of justification for it

i have no other thoughts about alison ATM
I would have locked Sloonei scum if he had said yes. I think he can say no as both town and scum, but he only says yes as scum. It's a free roll at outing him on page 1 without any risk.

I could have very easily said yes as Overconfident Town World Champion Sloonei there.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:41 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:21 pm This game already feels like a civilian win. Strut your stuff town gang and we can climb the 2021 leaderboard in no time. Just do your thing, because you've been blessed with a state of total solving comfort.

scummy

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:42 pm**

Marmot wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:39 pm Strawhenge, you're a grandpa now??? Congratulations!! I had no idea

I sure feel like one. But I am a stepdad now, which, I mean, come on, who saw that one coming.

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:42 pm**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:27 pm I would be nice if other people would talk about Sloonei's Alison read and/or about Sloonei or Alison separately. My read on both players is in the I'm not telling zone until further notice.

why

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:43 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:58 pm HELLOOOOOOOOOO HOW ARE YOU GUYS I HAVENT PLAYED MAFIA IN SO LONG IM SO EXCITED I COULDNT WAIT TILL TRH GAELME ISNOVER IM ACTUALY FEELING SO FRESH LIKE I JUST DTSRTED PPLAYIBG MAFIA AGAIN AND THERES SO MUCH MEMORIES

IM AT MY GRANDMAS VILLAGE AND IN THIS VERY ROOM I STARTED PLAYING MAFIA A FEW YEARS AGO. ALSO I HAVE NO WIFI AND I HAVE TO USE MOBILE DATA THANKFULLY MY PLAN GIVES ME 20 GB EVERY MONTH. ALSO ON MY FITDT SYNDICATE GAME I WAS IN MY OTHER GTNADMAS VILLAGE AND I ALSO HAD TO USE MOBILE DATA AND ITS SOOO NOSTALGIC SO REFTEHSING

you're in a village? Lamist.

This is a joke btw

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:44 pm**

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:05 pm Ill be honest the first thing i did is reread my own posts jm not reading thread yet im rerradig my posts to admire myself famn is this lowkey narcissistic. But it gives me more pleasure to read my posts than to read ither peoples posts

that's amazing

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:46 pm**

KZA wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:10 pm k Sloonei is town

Falcon's case on him I'm having trouble believing is real tbh

weirdchamp post

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:46 pm**

Strawhenge wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:23 pm Someone tell Grandpa Strawhenge what multiball is, or is supposed to be.

Two mafia teams.

What’s your first impression of the new blood, Mr Hange?

Posted: **Sun Apr 04, 2021 11:47 pm**

staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 9:15 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:43 pm
Alison wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:42 pm Currently I have the tiebreaker vote. If I vote for 8PM EST can you promise me that you will deliver a scum flip through your EOD interactions?
No. That would be silly.
^^before i saw sloonei's explanation for his read on alison, i actually thought that his suspicion toward her was borne out of this specific interaction

alison is a very purposeful player, and i didn't understand her purpose behind asking that specific question to sloonei. it didn't feel like a question that was intended to get alignment indicative information out of sloonei, nor did it feel like a question that was intended to create a serious deal with him, so it left me scratching my head. it made me wonder if alison was asking an effectively pointless question for the sake of justifying her vote in the poll, and didn't feel comfortable placing a vote down w/out providing some kind of justification for it

i have no other thoughts about alison ATM

meh read. Alison makes OOG posts all the time

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