MAfIA 84 - A VERY TENDER THANKSGIVING GAME THREAD

[BunnyGo]

what's your research on bongo

Whom I trust now, who's left in POE.

Also doing some research for my job...sadly there's way too much of it. Watching some theoretical talks on Geometry and Probability theory of convergence of distributions to extreme value distributions.

sounds like something aaro would know

Probably not...but his uncle and cousin would.

[ghug]

Please expand upon, and discuss, your use of the word "decisions" in the above sentence.

decisions pl. n. Choices. Often demonstrated through actions, or behaviors.

Examples: 1) Not mentioning you know I work closely with heartthrob.
2) Your post responding to Chaqa about "Have you Read your Role PM" but never commenting on the lack of JOAT entirely, and not publicly wondering if Chaqa knew.
3) Commenting that Heart was mafia in the last game and then saying "the more they change the more they stay the same"
4) Talking about worcej like he's bona. What's with the Baltimore county stuff?
5) Not calling me out for +1ing while staying mostly silent for a long time

All in all, you've seemed sillier (changing people's names in quotes) and less likely to jump on things than I've seen in the past.

1. Why in particular would I need to mention that?

2. You know there is a long-standing trope about whether Chaqa has read his role PM, don't you? This arises from a couple of games in succession, perhaps three or so years ago, where Chaqa declared that he would not read his role PM, and I got slightly salty with him back then because I felt it was implied by the general structure of the game that you were obliged to read your Role PM? Since then it has become a little joke. I was making a reference to that.

3. "The more things change the more they stay the same" was a reference to the ongoing chronic poor performance of Worcej's favoured sports team, not a reference to Heart-throb's potential alignment. Read my whole post.

4. Worcej made a reference about needing therapy. I was quoting from the lyrics of the popular song "Frontier Psychiatrist" by Avalanches. It's a very fun song with a great music video and I recommend you check it out. I made no reference to Bona in that context, nor could I have done, since he had not yet subbed into the game when I posted it.

5. Have you been +1-ing? I did not notice.

See the issue here is that you assume I noticed all the same things you noticed, and "decided" not to comment on them in the precise way that I ought to have done so in your imagination. Yet you have evidenced here that there is plenty you haven't noticed (such as the song lyrics I was quoting and whether they were a reference to Bona (they weren't) ).

In fact in several of the above cases, I did not "decide" anything. I just didn't observe the world through the same lens that you do, or which you imagine I do.

This is my favorite Jamie post ever.

[ghug]

Jamiet is on fire here. Definitely gets a town pass for now.

This shit is suspicious as hell.

Putting a pin in this

[ghug]

Or pocketing, whatever it’s called

Either or.

I have my eye on you.

Aww, thanks

This whole exchange

[ghug]

Fine, let's dissect your "jokes"

The humor comes from saying, "Teehee, I'm mafia! Teehee." Which is to say, you're being transgressive by claiming to be the role in the game which nobody is supposed to claim to be.

But this is a game of listening to the players, understanding their POV.

There are a few reasons you might find this transgressive humor funny:

1) You're a 12-19 year old child
2) You're incapable of lying, and so covering for your inadequacies

There are others, but those are the likely ones.

Are you a 12 year old child? I didn't get that sense, but I could be wrong.

Otherwise, it seems this is how you WOULD behave were you scum. And you keep coming back to it unprompted. Which is off putting, as it seems at the front of your mind.

Guys I’m 1000 years old

Bunny: wow this is how someone were to act if they’d not know how to lie

Bunny, you’re looking too deep into things. Honestly I wish I was twelve. College is hard as hell.

College is fucking easy.

Life is hard. Get ready.

College is way harder than life.

[ghug]

OK, you're in college. Not too far off.

Do you play other games? Are you any good at them?

I play Diplomacy, Civilization, Wolvesville recently, as I have learned to really enjoy mafia as of late, Catan,

And my absolute favorite: Dead Last(the board game) so fun

I'm not familiar with all those, but of the ones I am: there's no teammates.

Do you realize that *if* you're town, then you don't need to win the game, you need your TEAM to win the game; and that there's a difference?

Is this game just scum sweet and scum Bunny getting all bent out of shape around the way scum Will is playing?

[ghug]

Those are literally NOT the same thing.

Forming an ALLIANCE where only one will end up winning (Catan) or where you will play kingmaker is a FUNDAMENTALLY different style of game.

I'm talking about a TEAM. Like fu**ing baseball, or bridge, or MAFIA where you win or lose with THE WHOLE TEAM regardless of your actual actions.

Your answer suggests you do not understand that fundamental thing.

So to answer your original question: I do think there's a chance you're mafia. But I don't actually care. Town's chances of winning will be increased if we eliminate you day 1 regardless. I care about that statement (usually that statement requires me to believe a player is mafia)

The point.

You seem to su** as a teammate. You seem to even be incapable of recognizing what a TEAM IS!! So I have 2 options:

1) you are mafia (so I should vote you)
2) you’re a shitty teammate and will harm my team (so I should vote you)

There is literally nothing that upsets me as much in a game of Mafia as Bunny typing out "su**".

[worcej]

Guys I’m 1000 years old

Bunny: wow this is how someone were to act if they’d not know how to lie

Bunny, you’re looking too deep into things. Honestly I wish I was twelve. College is hard as hell.

College is fucking easy.

Life is hard. Get ready.

College is way harder than life.

Hard disagree, and this is coming from a STEM major lol...

[ghug]

Oh boy, if sweet turns out to be mafia I am in a shit ton of trouble lol

I want to townread this so bad but it fits with the profile of someone openly scunclaiming in the thread.

[ghug]

##Vote Just

Tie it up and get the vanities to move over the next 20 minutes.

Still looking for a Macca-as-mafia explanation just because they "forgot they signed up," etc.

Very suspicious vote if Will is town.

[ghug]

I don’t know. I’m rereading everything to see if I voted right, but I’m 100% certain that if I change my vote then I die, no matter what I actually think. I just saw that Macca said ND was scummy without ND being here, and it makes me wonder if she really just didn’t pay attention or if she truly forgot, picked a name at random, and rolled with it, only to get slapped in the face with realization

You could get killed and be content that we can pull some info from it. There is a town motivation to go, but not go so willingly.

We tried to explain that to Will last game, that it is a team game and while self preserving as town is okay, the focus should ultimately be on the team winning.

Defense of the teammate he's bussing?

[ghug]

Bunny, other than my jokes, why do you scumread me?

Fine, let's dissect your "jokes"

The humor comes from saying, "Teehee, I'm mafia! Teehee." Which is to say, you're being transgressive by claiming to be the role in the game which nobody is supposed to claim to be.

But this is a game of listening to the players, understanding their POV.

There are a few reasons you might find this transgressive humor funny:

1) You're a 12-19 year old child
2) You're incapable of lying, and so covering for your inadequacies

There are others, but those are the likely ones.

Are you a 12 year old child? I didn't get that sense, but I could be wrong.

Otherwise, it seems this is how you WOULD behave were you scum. And you keep coming back to it unprompted. Which is off putting, as it seems at the front of your mind.

fwiw only other time i've seen this joke made repeatedly within the same game, the joker in question was on the scum team

I once claimed scum as town, went head to head with scum wagons three days in a row, and then bozo killed me anyway. If that helps.

[Hamilton Brian]

Meanwhile at the parade..

A crowd gathers around a suspcious man who just cant stop chasing April the journalist. Finally the crowd is forced to beat the man to death.

April: Oh my god, Joe has been following me everywhere

Kyle :(puts his arm around kim) He must be some sort of obsessed stalker. Wow

April: Wow

Luke Wilson: Wow

sweetandcool has died he was Joe the Mafia Stalker

oh lmao he was mafia I only saw the vote count

Is this a township

OR a calculated post?

[SpiritoftheRadio]

@Worcej is on a 5 scum catching streak. Not trying to buddy him, but one more and we get a free sub sandwich

I am pretty convinced that will is scum and sweet’s post at will earlier in the phase was a coaching attempt.

Agreed, as I've said before, them as a scum team seems likely based on sweets words and vote since he is a busser and Will not switching to him when it made more sense. Plus, I asked Will to explain his vote for macca over sweet, and he just kind of didn't.

[SpiritoftheRadio]

College is fucking easy.

Life is hard. Get ready.

College is way harder than life.

Hard disagree, and this is coming from a STEM major lol...

Life is hard, all of it, including college. The world is suffering. But maybe this is just what grad school does to a man.

[Hamilton Brian]

No defense to avoid voting for sweet. Is the switch to Sweet with 5 minutes to go just the feeble attempt to bus?

What's Sweet's goal when running that vote to Just? It was 5-4-4 at that point. Hoping that swing votes to the other 2 might happen?

[ghug]

Will having his whole I look bad if sweet flips and then the two of them immediately having some awkward conflict feels pretty partnered.

[Hamilton Brian]

Let's remember the healing power of a kind word and a gentle touch.
#HallmarkMagic #SpreadLoveLikeConfetti

Definitely overthinking the EoD but we have an extra-long day. I think there's a lot to play with around EoD but also connect some dots to Sweet.

[Jamiet99uk]

decisions pl. n. Choices. Often demonstrated through actions, or behaviors.

Examples: 1) Not mentioning you know I work closely with heartthrob.
2) Your post responding to Chaqa about "Have you Read your Role PM" but never commenting on the lack of JOAT entirely, and not publicly wondering if Chaqa knew.
3) Commenting that Heart was mafia in the last game and then saying "the more they change the more they stay the same"
4) Talking about worcej like he's bona. What's with the Baltimore county stuff?
5) Not calling me out for +1ing while staying mostly silent for a long time

All in all, you've seemed sillier (changing people's names in quotes) and less likely to jump on things than I've seen in the past.

1. Why in particular would I need to mention that?

2. You know there is a long-standing trope about whether Chaqa has read his role PM, don't you? This arises from a couple of games in succession, perhaps three or so years ago, where Chaqa declared that he would not read his role PM, and I got slightly salty with him back then because I felt it was implied by the general structure of the game that you were obliged to read your Role PM? Since then it has become a little joke. I was making a reference to that.

3. "The more things change the more they stay the same" was a reference to the ongoing chronic poor performance of Worcej's favoured sports team, not a reference to Heart-throb's potential alignment. Read my whole post.

4. Worcej made a reference about needing therapy. I was quoting from the lyrics of the popular song "Frontier Psychiatrist" by Avalanches. It's a very fun song with a great music video and I recommend you check it out. I made no reference to Bona in that context, nor could I have done, since he had not yet subbed into the game when I posted it.

5. Have you been +1-ing? I did not notice.

See the issue here is that you assume I noticed all the same things you noticed, and "decided" not to comment on them in the precise way that I ought to have done so in your imagination. Yet you have evidenced here that there is plenty you haven't noticed (such as the song lyrics I was quoting and whether they were a reference to Bona (they weren't) ).

In fact in several of the above cases, I did not "decide" anything. I just didn't observe the world through the same lens that you do, or which you imagine I do.

This is my favorite Jamie post ever.

It is interesting you feel that way, Ghug.

Bunnygo completely ignored that post.
What do you think of that?

[Jamiet99uk]

Will having his whole I look bad if sweet flips and then the two of them immediately having some awkward conflict feels pretty partnered.

What, this:

Sweet you already voted me

For emphasis.

This feels like a mafia sweet thing to convince people that because he just flipped “which he didn’t” to vote me as wel ##VOTE SWEET

you aren’t the kind of guy to emphasize

....?