Re: Recruitment Mafia IV: Dawn of the Clans (Day 6)
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 9:30 pm
Votes llama
Murder, Mayhem, and Mafia
https://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/
Like I said, I was liking your game and don't want to see you go, or Wilgy, for that matter. But my reasons for wanting you to stay are the same as my reasons for wanting Canuckle, DH and the others I've mentioned before to stay; you seem to be playing honest. But it's all alignment-neutral at the end of the day, and I'm well aware of that. We are all going to be recruited eventually, and I don't see you as the type to only apply for civviedom, so I cannot say that you, or Wilgy are really playing like civs. But just that you are playing in a style I'm digging. So no, I'd only call it the baby and the bath water if I had an alignment read on you and it matched my own eventual one.S~V~S wrote:Isn't that throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Thanks for your reply. I'm not sue how much it will change my overall pov on you but for today you won't get my vote.timmer wrote:@Sorsha, you make good points, actually. In regards to Bubbles, the reason you see a dichotomy is that I was combining my main thrust in the game (vote for people who seem disingenuous) with commentary on the game from the pov of those who are playing more traditionally. So basically, I was looking at it from two ways simultaneously.Sorsha wrote:Ok, one of the players to vote for bubbles on day 4 when it didn't matter and then NOT vote for her on day 5 when it did matter is Timmer.
(Voted Golden day 3)
Now you think bubbles wasn’t on team Uzi? And that last line in this last post can pretty much apply to yourself. You are all over the place in regards to the bubbles lynch switch and the team uzi itself. These posts are literally only minutes apart.
In regards to this lynch, I'm curious to see how Wilgy shakes out if he gets lynched. I've kind of given him a pass because he fits my group of people who seem to be playing in a genuine way. I'd also like to point out that while I am also giving SVS a pass for the same reason, DH's continued insistence about her makes me wonder if perhaps an SVS lynch would be an informative move. If she flipped unrecruited, I would declare that DH is a baddie. If, however, she flipped baddie, it would bolster DH's credentials. It would potentially bust the game open.
So I'm happy either way, is my point.
But he has done it to me as a civ. That was why I mentioned Gotham. I just wanted to make sure you were not implying that you thought he had info. Becasue he can't, but even if it were possible, DH would not do the whole "wink wink nudge nudge" info thing. This is a gut read, which i respect, since this is how I play as well. Although I think he maybe needs some maalox, his gut is off .timmer wrote:Oh, no no, you misunderstand me, I think. I have no idea if DH is to be trusted about you at ALL. But he's obviously being insistent and blundered about it. I see it two ways.
1. A civ DH would not do this to you unless he knew you were bad.
2. A baddie DH would do this to you for just about any reason he felt like.
I can't see one option being more likely, but at least your status would suggest likelihood in regards to him.
How is this unsatisfactory? Do tell? If you want me to explain my indifference, It's because I hadn't looked into her at the time. I stated that the players of interest were Dom, SVS, Unfurl, and Boomslang. I didn't have any real interest outside of that and voted for SVS, but I wasn't willing to protect TinyBubbles at the time.Scotty wrote:I'm keeping my vote on Wilgy, since I'm still not satisfied with his responses. Like this one:DrWilgy wrote: So, go ahead and inquiry away my friend! I don't appreciate inquiry on things I've stated previousIt never made sense for TB to kill Unfurl. That was the premise of my argument. Killing of Unfurl happened between these two posts. Being OK with the TinyBubbles lynch was indifference. I had no strong reads on her, positive or negative.
I refer you to RMIII, wherein my gut destroyed a majority of the baddies and nobody would listen to me.S~V~S wrote:But he has done it to me as a civ. That was why I mentioned Gotham. I just wanted to make sure you were not implying that you thought he had info. Becasue he can't, but even if it were possible, DH would not do the whole "wink wink nudge nudge" info thing. This is a gut read, which i respect, since this is how I play as well. Although I think he maybe needs some maalox, his gut is off .timmer wrote:Oh, no no, you misunderstand me, I think. I have no idea if DH is to be trusted about you at ALL. But he's obviously being insistent and blundered about it. I see it two ways.
1. A civ DH would not do this to you unless he knew you were bad.
2. A baddie DH would do this to you for just about any reason he felt like.
I can't see one option being more likely, but at least your status would suggest likelihood in regards to him.
Hmm, this long history muddies everything. So he's pushed this hard against you as a civ on nothing but gut, and been wrong, but he's also done this and been right. Admittedly, this is too complicated for me to be throwing generalizations around, I guess.DharmaHelper wrote:I refer you to RMIII, wherein my gut destroyed a majority of the baddies and nobody would listen to me.S~V~S wrote:But he has done it to me as a civ. That was why I mentioned Gotham. I just wanted to make sure you were not implying that you thought he had info. Becasue he can't, but even if it were possible, DH would not do the whole "wink wink nudge nudge" info thing. This is a gut read, which i respect, since this is how I play as well. Although I think he maybe needs some maalox, his gut is off .timmer wrote:Oh, no no, you misunderstand me, I think. I have no idea if DH is to be trusted about you at ALL. But he's obviously being insistent and blundered about it. I see it two ways.
1. A civ DH would not do this to you unless he knew you were bad.
2. A baddie DH would do this to you for just about any reason he felt like.
I can't see one option being more likely, but at least your status would suggest likelihood in regards to him.
I never moved my suspicion away from TH. I just started to suspect you more. And I tend to tunnel a bit in mafia, and hang on to the suspicions I have. I also like to play my cards close. So, yes, I have other thoughts. But my main suspicions have been shared.Ricochet wrote: 10) LoRab, you've gone back to TH, but do you have any other opinions, suspicions apart from him and me? It's D6, the bad teams are at a standard size; the field is also down to a standard full-game size. Your nod to SVS's case on Bullzeye is pretty mellow, almost as if to tell the thread that you're receptive to others, but not much more than that.
Also, as a general side-note, although this should probably be saved for post-game, I cannot express how much I dislike the "placeholding" vote tactic. Changeable votes are supposed to influence the course of a Day phase, in a way - they can be placed to influence, fish out reactions, shape discussion, make a temporary but clear stand and so on. Parking votes just because of how big the field of players is and unwillingness (or laziness?) to check (or open a separate tab with) "View results" doesn't fit into any of those categories.
Is that a euphemism for something, or are you actually watching Mary Poppins? Because, I'm not sure which is more awesome. And I think I'm going to start using "watching Mary Poppins" all the time when I want to be ambiguous about my activities. Also, it's a great movie.thellama73 wrote:I'm not going to be around too much tonight. I'm watching Mary Poppins with friends. Of the people who have votes, I am mosts suspicious of Bullzeye and TH, so I'll hold my vote for now in case I need to save myself.
I didn't switch my suspicion, I started to suspect someone else more when that player posted something that was, to me, suspicious. And, yes, I do look at style and tone and language and posts more than "concrete" evidence. In my experience, it's a more accurate way to find baddies. Statistics are much more easily manipulated.Boomslang wrote:Well, I think I'm going to vote Dr Wilgy. I feel like I made some good points on him, I feel vindicated by llama's own suspicion, and I saw him creeping around last night without addressing any of the arguments made against him. *votes Dr Wilgy*
With that out of the way, I want to say TH's vote for me feels really lazy, and I'm frankly annoyed by it.
First, with that sly little (!?), he's criticizing the number of my posts and not their content/quality. I could easily add another 30 to 40 posts, TH, if (like you) I included OT jokes and RIPs after every lynch/NK. Second, and more importantly, quoting and summarizing my posts is not making a case. A case involves interpretation or analysis. You take your suspicions as self-evident, and that shouldn't be acceptable in this game.Turnip Head wrote:
If you're interested, check out his posts - I didn't even read all 35 (!?) of them, I started at Day 4 with his first (and only) mention of Bubbles and worked up to the present.
Any case I make would essentially just be quoting his Day 4 - present posts and summarizing them.
Addressing Bullz:
1. I admit that the "am I bad or just stupid" quip sounds bad. Honestly, I was just frustrated at that point by dealing with what I regarded as irrelevant logical minutiae, and you have to read that quote in the context of the whole discussion, where JJJ is picking more nits than a pack of chimpanzees.
2. My Lorab vote was weak, but not entirely throwaway. I hadn't had time to consider the TinyBubbles case, and I had given time to the Lorab/Rico thing. What pinged me most was the abrupt switch of Lorab's target from TH to Rico and the way she seemed to be targeting playstyle instead of more concrete evidence. My vote was an attempt to bring attention to those points.
You've been confused about her since Day 4. She hasn't pushed that argument you guy had at all.DrWilgy wrote:How is this unsatisfactory? Do tell? If you want me to explain my indifference, It's because I hadn't looked into her at the time. I stated that the players of interest were Dom, SVS, Unfurl, and Boomslang. I didn't have any real interest outside of that and voted for SVS, but I wasn't willing to protect TinyBubbles at the time.Scotty wrote:I'm keeping my vote on Wilgy, since I'm still not satisfied with his responses. Like this one:DrWilgy wrote: So, go ahead and inquiry away my friend! I don't appreciate inquiry on things I've stated previousIt never made sense for TB to kill Unfurl. That was the premise of my argument. Killing of Unfurl happened between these two posts. Being OK with the TinyBubbles lynch was indifference. I had no strong reads on her, positive or negative.
I have a question for everyone that thinks I'm dirty. Why did I not defend TinyBubbles the first time she was up to be lynched if she was on my team? If I planned to defend her as hard as I did day 4, why wouldn't I set up for that day 5? Why didn't I defend her day 4? What sense does that make going all out as I did?
I still admit that I flubbed, I suppose if I die for this you'll at least be able to believe me after I flip. After me, please lynch SVS, Llama, possibly Tranq and bea. I still believe I wasn't wrong about my day 5 recruitment theory, but I suppose that's my ego at work. Also, I'm still confused about Sorsha. I wanted to but didn't have time to look into Rico's death. It'd be sly as hell though, if a baddie killed his own teammate and then used another teammate to rez him and somewhat clear him.
Wilgy looks at his friends, gives MM a hug, puts a coin into the kiddie ride in the mall, and hops on board yelling "weeeee!" Everyone is still confused about what to do with Wilgy.
You don't think that's...fishy at all??? How he just backed off you and is STILL confused about how to feel about you?Sorsha wrote:He did seem to have a shift a few days ago in his play style. Like he suddenly became more serious about it. Not really seeing him as bad yet though.Scotty wrote:Hey Sorsha, what do you think of DrWilgy right now? I mean, you guys did have a spat that ended very abruptly if I recall in Day 4.
Have you played mafia with him before on other forums?
This motha trucka right here yall.Sorsha wrote:Seems awfully strange that all this anti-wilgy is coming up after he turned his suspicions on svs.![]()
If svs comes up bad I'd say the same about you Scotty. You should go next.
Voting svs
I'll take the NO U.Sorsha wrote:Seems awfully strange that all this anti-wilgy is coming up after he turned his suspicions on svs.![]()
If svs comes up bad I'd say the same about you Scotty. You should go next.
Voting svs
You're a dingus for not listening to me. You played RM III for crying out loud.reywaS wrote:Ok, I feel like I've caught up enough.
I voted DrWilgy because I don't like the votes on S~V~S and llama. They both feel civ to me, and in fact I agree with S~V~S post on Bullzeye talking about how he's been around plenty but didn't have any solid opinions on anyone. Then bullz got kind of defensive and then maybe went a little overboard trying to make up for his previous lack of opinion. Bullz definitely came off as baddie to me in that exchange.
nutella wrote:DrWilgy seems to be using the defense of "why wouldn't I have defended Bubbles earlier" which sounds to me like the obvious set-up defense in the case that Bubbles was only recently recruited. There's a lot of WIFOMy stuff going on with regards to his defense of Bubbles but now that I'm actually looking at his posts I think it's enough for me to *vote DrWilgy*
DharmaHelper wrote:You're a dingus for not listening to me. You played RM III for crying out loud.reywaS wrote:Ok, I feel like I've caught up enough.
I voted DrWilgy because I don't like the votes on S~V~S and llama. They both feel civ to me, and in fact I agree with S~V~S post on Bullzeye talking about how he's been around plenty but didn't have any solid opinions on anyone. Then bullz got kind of defensive and then maybe went a little overboard trying to make up for his previous lack of opinion. Bullz definitely came off as baddie to me in that exchange.
I still don't know what WIFOM isnutella wrote:DrWilgy seems to be using the defense of "why wouldn't I have defended Bubbles earlier" which sounds to me like the obvious set-up defense in the case that Bubbles was only recently recruited. There's a lot of WIFOMy stuff going on with regards to his defense of Bubbles but now that I'm actually looking at his posts I think it's enough for me to *vote DrWilgy*
You better! Take care of everyone for me, OK Scotty? Avenge me, and avenge Unfurl for me. It was fun while it lasted. Keep an eye on MM for me, he is a good friend. It's sad I gotta leave him behind again. 15 min left... One last greentextScotty wrote:Wilgy, for the record, if you flip civ or unrecruited, I apologize profusely and take full credit for mislynching you.
I just don't think that is the case right here.
Switched to wilgy (whose name I keep thinking is wiggly) because this post tipped the scales. You are not new to this game, and I find it hard to believe that you don't know what WIFOM is--I don't believe that is a unique term to our mafia culture. It stands for The Wine in Front of Me, a Princess Bride reference. It means that a baddie is posting something as if to say, "why would I ever do XYZ? I would never do that as a baddie!" when that's exactly what they've done.DrWilgy wrote:I still don't know what WIFOM isnutella wrote:DrWilgy seems to be using the defense of "why wouldn't I have defended Bubbles earlier" which sounds to me like the obvious set-up defense in the case that Bubbles was only recently recruited. There's a lot of WIFOMy stuff going on with regards to his defense of Bubbles but now that I'm actually looking at his posts I think it's enough for me to *vote DrWilgy*![]()
If Bubbles was only recently recruited that'd make my theory on day 5 recruitment correct yes? at least I'm right here.
Honestly I'm kinda sad, but it is what it is. I flubbed everyone. I'm sorry.You better! Take care of everyone for me, OK Scotty? Avenge me, and avenge Unfurl for me. It was fun while it lasted. Keep an eye on MM for me, he is a good friend. It's sad I gotta leave him behind again. 15 min left... One last greentextScotty wrote:Wilgy, for the record, if you flip civ or unrecruited, I apologize profusely and take full credit for mislynching you.
I just don't think that is the case right here.
Wilgy sees his friends standing before him. He smiles and apologizes one by one to each and everyone of them. He hands them each a sealed note. He hands BWT his penguin suit, BWT realizes who the penguin was the other day, but can do nothing other than stand there in awe. Wilgy picks up his backpack and heads for the front door. He smiles as he looks back one final time, waving with a backwards hand. He looks forward, drops his hand and walks into the distance.
your favorite categoryDharmaHelper wrote:I'll take, oddly flimsy reasons to suspect someone Day 6 for 200 Alex.
I used to lynch a lot of players because their logic didn't make sense to me. I lynched a lot of civvies that way. Being illogical is not the same, or even correlated to, being bad. I would think you would know that.DrWilgy wrote:Woah, hold up! Wilgy holds up a big stop sign, Jack black can be seen in the distance pointing at it. Disagreements in logic isn't genuine suspicion? Logic doesn't lead to genuine suspicion? Genuine suspicion isn't caused by logic? Wat? If there's something you don't understand quote me for it, but this makes absolutely no sense Llama.thellama73 wrote:I'm starting to wonder about DrWilgy. I haven't played with him before and up to now he's escaped my notice, but he begged us not to vote for TinyBubbles, and his vote for SVS is based on disagreeing with her logic, not genuine suspicion.
What about DrWilgy's post made you suspect shenanigans would be afoot?S~V~S wrote:I am SO expecting shenanigans after the drama/nobility of that last Wilgy post. And i swear on a stack of esoteric texts that I bring no shenanigans myself
I half-agree that bad logic isn't necessarily indicative that a player is bad. I do question though whether you can fairly expect DrWilgy to "know" something (something I think isn't actually an objective truth anyway) that you have just admitted to not knowing yourself at one point in your tenure as a Mafia player.thellama73 wrote:I used to lynch a lot of players because their logic didn't make sense to me. I lynched a lot of civvies that way. Being illogical is not the same, or even correlated to, being bad. I would think you would know that.DrWilgy wrote:Woah, hold up! Wilgy holds up a big stop sign, Jack black can be seen in the distance pointing at it. Disagreements in logic isn't genuine suspicion? Logic doesn't lead to genuine suspicion? Genuine suspicion isn't caused by logic? Wat? If there's something you don't understand quote me for it, but this makes absolutely no sense Llama.thellama73 wrote:I'm starting to wonder about DrWilgy. I haven't played with him before and up to now he's escaped my notice, but he begged us not to vote for TinyBubbles, and his vote for SVS is based on disagreeing with her logic, not genuine suspicion.
DharmaHelper wrote:I beg your fucking pardon?