The Syndicate

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:29 am**

acrosstheaether wrote:Mods, is there a majority in this game at all?

Aether, I'm not sure what you mean by this. Could you try phrasing the question differently?

I also want to second that it's been great having you on the site so far. I hope that your experience here has been and remains enjoyable, and that you continue to grace us with your presence.

Golden wrote:Whoops, I accidentally clicked on myself instead of aether. Hosts can you please take that as a vote for aether.

No.

Vote's a vote.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:GO CAVS *votes Golden*

GO CAVS!
Infinite butter for JJJJJJJ.
Seriously, though, happy to see a fellow fan on here!

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:33 am**

Important Hostly Updates:

Day 6 may end an hour or two late. We are having a happy hour with work tomorrow to welcome the summer interns, and I am expected to attend.

Assuming there are subsequent Nights and/or Days:

Night 6 will probably end early, due to schedule constraints in llama's life. This means that Night 6 will be shortened, probably by 2-3 hours. You still have to get your PMs submitted in time for them to count, so make sure to plan accordingly.

Days beyond this one will be 24 hours, in order to keep up the pace of this speed game.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:34 am**

well that isn't very reassuring.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:35 am**

Cavs.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:40 am**

Golden wrote:Whoops, I accidentally clicked on myself instead of aether. Hosts can you please take that as a vote for aether.

That's what happens when I vote as soon as I wake up instead of having my morning caffeine first.

Seriously? Hosts, I can't believe you asked this guy to replace back in.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:44 am**

G-Man wrote:

Or both.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:57 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:well that isn't very reassuring.

I agree, in fact it sucks.

Russtifinko wrote: No.

Vote's a vote.

I think a vote is a vote, and I voted aether.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:01 am**

Cavs are fucked without Irving.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 2:48 am**

I may have been a bit grumpy and thrown my toys. Sorry hosts. I don't think the decision is a fair one, but I do understand it is yours to make.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 4:27 am**

By majority, I mean, is someone lynched when the number of votes for them reach a certain number? It seems like there's no such thing on this site though.

How long until EoD from now?

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:44 am**

My lynch seems to have been decided. No point even modkilling myself now. Please let me know what else I can do to benefit town!

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:14 am**

acrosstheaether wrote:By majority, I mean, is someone lynched when the number of votes for them reach a certain number? It seems like there's no such thing on this site though.

How long until EoD from now?

Ah, I see. Well if it became truly insurmountable, the Day could be ended early. However, I usually only do this if every vote has been placed, as there is sometimes a penalty for missing votes. There is also a lot of potential lynch manipulation in this game. And more practically, I have to leave of work right now, so the lynch will have to end at or shortly after the scheduled EoD, which is 6:26pm Eastern (US) Time.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:15 am**

T answer your EoD question as you asked it, since I know time zones can be weird, EoD is 14 hours from when you posted asking when it was.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:20 am**

acrosstheaether wrote:My lynch seems to have been decided. No point even modkilling myself now. Please let me know what else I can do to benefit town!

You've observed everyone who has cased the last couple phases. Who do you feel was most manipulative about it, or most unfair? Is it consistent with your last rainbow?

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:20 am**

cased you*

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:31 am**

If this game sees a Day 7, i hope nobody rushes their votes. We'll need to talk it through.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:33 am**

I can understand why many members of town would view me as mafia. That doesn't make anyone more or less town imo. What I would like you to look at after I go is who seems genuine in their casing/s against me and holding some reservations, and who has conveniently jumped on board.

My rainbow hasn't changed that much, except I feel worse about Vompatti.

fingersplints
Dragon D. Luffy
JaggedJimmyJay
sanmateo
Golden 2.0
Vompatti
G-Man

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:34 am**

Voted G-Man, but please do not rule out Vompatti and the others.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:36 am**

Btw, if you're town and think there is a good chance you'll be nightkilled, please do use the next night phase to discuss your thoughts thoroughly.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:38 am**

5v1 tomorrow, you should have good chances. Maybe 6v1 if someone manages to protect themselves from being NKed. idk. Good luck.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 8:47 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:If this game sees a Day 7, i hope nobody rushes their votes. We'll need to talk it through.

Spoiler: show

acrosstheaether wrote:Btw, if you're town and think there is a good chance you'll be nightkilled, please do use the next night phase to discuss your thoughts thoroughly.

Spoiler: show

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:29 am**

I smell a lynch stop.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:31 am**

Even if you don't offer a full list G-Man, at least give me your three most likely mafia.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:54 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Even if you don't offer a full list G-Man, at least give me your three most likely mafia.

Spoiler: show

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:26 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:Reasons why sanmateo is town:

~ i think he has mostly played to his town meta (acknowledging that he is still new enough to mafia to not have played as any other alignment often enough to have any established counter-meta).

Honestly that's it.

Reasons why sanmateo is mafia:

~ He has taken part in exactly zero mafia lynches. when BR was lynched, he missed the vote. when Roxy was lynched, he voted for aether. when Bass was lynched, he voted for G-Man.

~ He was vocally defensive of both Bass and Roxy when they were threatened with lynches, and later chalked it up to simply being wrong all game long. in one of my earliest mafia-aligned games, i employed that exact strategy -- intentionally be wrong in every read and see how long i can get away with it

~ I think his interactions with all three of the dead mafia players reflect poorly on him. My exact conclusions were: w/r/t BR, he looked barely okay (which was frankly too generous). w/r/t Roxy, he looked worse. w/r/t Bass, he looked so bad it's extreme WIFOM.

idk how i'm supposed to defend myself from this case without doing a pile of wifom. but ftr this is the worst game i've played. i haven't been right since like day 2, i dont even wanna keep coming back and checking the thread at this point

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:01 am**

Turnip Head wrote:Cavs are fucked without Irving.

The New Rogues are fucked without turnips.

Oops, wrong game.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:03 am**

Get out of here, marmotface.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:09 am**

MovingPictures07 wrote:Get out of here, marmotface.

A kind old gentleman who sounds like Freddie Mercury invited me here.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:18 am**

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I smell a lynch stop.

Only just realised this is possible. I haven't kept track of guns and butters the whole game, I don't even know how many I have lol

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:21 am**

Is it possible for someone else to stop my lynch? I wouldn't recommend that tbh. Once town is 100% sure I'm town there would be more clarity for future scumhunting.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:46 am**

Mafia might want to do that for the sake of stalling, and also creating confusion. If you're town, it puts us on a tricky position next phase. And if you're mafia the benefits are obvious.

I wouldn't advise town to do it, for the same reason. We need more information, not more confusion. And we have enough time to make mislynches.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:48 am**

Happy 300 posts, DDL!

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:53 am**

Posting my rainbow. No I don't care if people get nightkilled for looking like townies. This is how the game works, dwi.

Likely mafia

acrosstheaether
G-Man

Beats Me

Vompatti

Slightly Town

sanmateo
Golden
JJJ
fingersplints

Not having anyone on likely town right now. I have tinfoils against pretty much everyone. The ordet is the actual order of suspicion, though.

Linki: wow thanks MP, I hadn't noticed myself.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 11:53 am**

What can I say? I like numbers. :P

Jay is getting close to Post #666.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:29 pm**

DDL, what makes you lean slight town on sanmateo?

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:47 pm**

@Site admins

Can we please ban Majiffy (player from 2015 Mafia Championships Game #5) pre-emptively? He has told a player to literally commit suicide in the game. Like not in the context of the game but irl.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:03 pm**

We have a strict don't be an asshat (or jerk or whatever you want to call it) policy here, in order to maintain the excellent community we have been able to develop. So do not fret.

It's really a shame that Game 5 was tarnished by such play, in my opinion.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:05 pm**

MovingPictures07 wrote:We have a strict don't be an asshat (or jerk or whatever you want to call it) policy here, in order to maintain the excellent community we have been able to develop. So do not fret.

It's really a shame that Game 5 was tarnished by such play, in my opinion.

Ninja'd, I just sent you a PM about it

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:07 pm**

I'm gonna flip if he gets a wildcard. D***head better be permabanned on 2+2.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:11 pm**

acrosstheaether wrote:I'm gonna flip if he gets a wildcard. D***head better be permabanned on 2+2.

QFT

I didn't follow Games 4 and 5 very much, but I have been vaguely keeping up, and I just couldn't believe his behavior. I didn't like the way people were bashing each other's gameplay even in Game 3 (Banks's constant bashing of Turnip and others for "not playing the game" when most of his post quality was questionable also annoyed the hell out of me), so to see what happened in Game 5 is discouraging.

I'm curious as to who will be awarded a wildcard, but perhaps this is better discussion for the Championship thread.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:15 pm**

Also, where's my resurrection?

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:16 pm**

I have no problem with how Banks went after me in that game btw. I was totes bad and I didn't give him much to work with. I haven't been keeping up with the recent games though so I'm not sure what's happening there.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:20 pm**

Turnip Head wrote:I have no problem with how Banks went after me in that game btw. I was totes bad and I didn't give him much to work with. I haven't been keeping up with the recent games though so I'm not sure what's happening there.

I don't really either, I just was annoyed by the consistent implication that quantity > quality when there were many posts throughout the game that didn't contribute much of anything, IMO. That said, there was much amazing town play all around, and I wouldn't argue that you didn't give them much to go off of either. :P

Game 3 actually went well; it's not even a comparison to Game 5. There just was some tension, particularly at the start of Game 3, as I'm sure you recall, that wasn't exactly pleasant.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:23 pm**

Well yeah, he definitely posted too damn much, but that's just my fault for not killing him sooner lol lol :P

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:24 pm**

Turnip Head wrote:Well yeah, he definitely posted too damn much, but that's just my fault for not killing him sooner lol lol :P

Indeed.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:25 pm**

Speaking of posting too much, MP is still trying to break the posting record even while he's dead.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:26 pm**

I've hardly shown my face in the spectator chat since Game 3 because I was arguing over and over that your behavior was almost certainly due to you being the Seer, so thanks for that. :P

(And yes, I continue talking, ignoring my own thought to move this discussion to the other thread)

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:26 pm**

lol fail

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:27 pm**

Turnip Head wrote:Speaking of posting too much, MP is still trying to break the posting record even while he's dead.

Damn! You got me.

Seriously, it's only because I'm ridiculously procrastinating homework because talking with you folks is way more fun.

Posted: **Fri Jun 05, 2015 1:27 pm**

Epignosis wrote:lol fail

Quiet, you!

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