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Linkzmax said:
theprof00 said:
Linkzmax said: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4075305

You are confused. If I had the patience to do it, I'd find it. The person that said it was clean.

Ok, I understand that. I did notice that you found wild, though it wouldn't be unexpected to throw him under the bus either. I don't recall any strong push toward wildvine from you, even when I initiated a vote for him, and another joined me.

I think it's a mistake to decide between people simply because they're not in your "don't want to kill today" list. But please do read them anyhow.

How is it not unexpected for me to throw him under a bus, but your analysis of GOW going after him makes him town?

Do not twist what happened, you may have voted wildvine, but you barely put any accusations against him. Your vote didn't even last an hour at that, and the unvote came long before Trucks eventually voted. Wildvine was ALWAYS on my suspect list and would've gotten a vote if it weren't for the realization he was a first-timer. I was never in the position to push for anyone's lynch day one and several players(yourself included) seemed unwilling to lynch him, so even from a self-preservation standpoint I had to settle for NotStan who was quite a bit lower on my list.

Yesterday I was all over Heph, thinking he was scum. Rereading day one in light of today's events so far, it's like everything became clear and I have a fairly good town read on him. So it's not just that he could provide information if town and can be marginalized if scum, I simply don't see him as scum and thus wouldn't vote for him. I'd even defend against his lynch, which may be necessary and hilarious given yesterday's proceedings.

If you mean Vette, then I'm not liking much of what he says at all, but I'm still not voting him without some incriminating evidence. I'd still try to push for someone else's lynch, but I can't nor wouldn't refer to any content in an attempt to defend him.

You mentioned it a couple times but never really pushed the issue. GoW pushed the issue multiple times, and for a much shallower reason. Yours had some evidence behind it, his didn't. Yours wasn't really aggressive, his was. I thought I explained this already.

As far as my vote on wild, you're right. I didn't really have anything on him. I make, nor made, no claim that I correctly voted him. I make the claim that you didn't push when opportunity arose. Nothing more. Also, I'm sure you know by now that I hate the "i'm innocent" defense. I'm sure you can agree that your untraining on wild could be interpreted as scummy, so I don't care to hear the "it's not that at all" retort. I know you unvoted him because he's new. That doesn't absolve you of the scumminess of the action. Anyway, that's off-topic to this discussion.

 

I don't understand why you say, "do you mean Vette", when I quite distinctly wrote, "don't try to lynch someone simply because they aren't in your "i don't want to lynch today" group". The statement takes no sides. It's both Vette and FF. You plainly put everyone but those two in an "i don't want to lynch today" group, despite how you really feel about them. You say Heph would be a good lynch, but not today. You say I would be a good lynch, but not today. If me and Heph were scum, then you'd be looking to lynch innocent players simply because you're willing to lynch them. Is that clear? I thought it was very straightforward.



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Also, I'm gunna lol at all those people who say, "I find it disturbing that the majority of people don't know my role yet", and yet can't figure out my role.

"Prof is intentionally making people explain vague things, he must be the SK or mafia. ANyone with half a brain, well, anyone TOWN can tell what my role is"

lulz on both the irony and the logic.



Votals coming right up.



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Votes to Lynch: Player Name: L-4 L-3 L-2
L-2 Final-Fan
SilverTiger Linkz GodofWar
L-2 Heph Final-Fan Prof Vette
L-4 Prof Heph - -

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L-3; Time Limit: Stefl, Vette

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With 8 voters, 5 votes will result in a lynch

L-5; Stefl: Heph, (Heph), Prof, (Prof)

L-5; GodofWar: Heph, (Heph), Prof, (Prof)

L-2; Heph: Final-Fan, (Final-Fan), Final-Fan, Prof, Vette

L-2; Final-Fan: Heph, (Heph), SilverTiger, Linkz, Heph, (Heph), Stefl, (Stefl), GodofWar

L-5; Vette: Prof, Heph, (Prof), GodofWar, Prof, (Prof), (Heph), (GodofWar)

L-4; Prof: Heph, (Heph), Heph

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Voting History:

Heph: Stefl->Unvote->GodofWar->Unvote->Final-Fan->Unvote->Vette->Unvote->Prof->Unvote->Final-Fan->Unvote->Prof

Final-Fan: Heph->Unvote->Heph

Prof: Stefl->Unvote->Vette->Unvote->GodofWar->Unvote->Vette->Unvote->Heph

GodofWar: Vette->Unvote->Final-Fan

SilverTiger: Final-Fan

Linkz: Final-Fan

Stefl: Final-Fan->Unvote

Vetteman94: Heph

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Corrections would be greatly appreciated

In the previous votals, Final-Fan was written as having voted for himself and then unvoting; This was supposed to be Stefl voting for Final-Fan and unvoting.



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theprof00 said:
Final-Fan said:

@ prof:  I don't believe TWO mafia would claim investigative roles in one game, that's just insanity.  Heph flipping scum would, if anything, reinforce my belief that Stefl is legit.  Although I guess it could hypothetically have been set up in advance by them, to try to ... out the real cop ... or something?  But I would put that at very, very low probability. 

I wouldn't call it a stunt to out a cop. I'd call it a stunt to confirm a mafia.

Like I said, I'm pretty sure stefl is town. If heph flips mafia though, I will heavily look at stefl and hephs relationship.

I'm going to have to go back to the lack of a counterclaim here. If Heph flips scum, the lack of a cop claim would as FF says, "reinforce my belief that Stefl is legit." Zero investigative roles is quite unlikely in my opinion.



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Hephaestos said:
Linkzmax said:

I never enter a level with Yoshi without wearing a cape so we can fly together!

Mafia-wise this couldn't even be the case. If ST is town and I'm mafia then I'd(nor my mate(s) would) never gain the upper hand with "sacrificing" ST. At least I don't think that should be possible, and so even if it were so I wouldn't do it.

now obviously this video was a joke =) (but theoretically, you can sacrifice ST at 3 players left and win.... whichever of you two is scum)

I know it was a joke, and a good one at that.(Which also caused me to spend far too much time checking out other dorkly bits) I don't know if a mafia that is about to suicide would still win, but it's not an issue for me since I'm town. I was just making it clear that I wouldn't do that even if it were possible, it's like cheating to me.



Stefl1504 said:
Linkzmax said:
Stefl1504 said:

To be honest I think it would be sound for the game if we would end the day sooner or later, since we are somehow geting nowhere...

Unvote

Vote Time Limit

Why did you unvote? Why didn't you vote someone else?

To be honest... after yesterday I am really afraid of being wrong again, so I decided to let the others place their votes and then decide to vote for someone if I think town is heading in the totally wrong direction, for example I would not like if Heph gets lynched, though when hes town some people will think that I am town too - Its just that I think that you and Heph are the only ones I wouldn't like to see lynched right now (and ST since that would kill you too). On the others I have a pretty similar opinion right now, that why I can't vote for someone without hasitation... I voted for FF because he could cause a slip-up when he roleclaims and is scum - like claiming a role that another person has. Now that he doesn't wants to claim (or so I understood it) I don't think I should keep my vote on him for now.

Fair enough. I found it odd that you want an end to the day, but honestly I like it better with you waiting until near the end to place a vote. It puts more pressure on others to try and steer lynches and divulge information.



theprof00 said:

However, I'm glad someone finally looked at the hider role, as I assumed you all already had, and came to the conclusion that there wasn't much to know.

These are the facts.

A traditionally town role was mafia.
The role hides from night-kills.

From this, it is logical to propose that there may be other "switched" roles. ie; tracker, etc.

Aside from that, we can speculate that there is a second kill source which may in fact point to a second mafia team.

I haven't yet thought of this as a possible scenario. Immediately, this makes me look at the people questioning my RB claim since THEIR mafia faction might not have the blocker!

I wonder...could there be 2 factions of which each has one mafia lover? Or would that be imbalanced? It does bring to question the numerous relationships. Before, I was thinking the possible scum were ST/Linkz, Heph/someone, Vette/FF

Could there be 2 factions consisting of 3 mafia each? Each one having a lover? The large number of scum, 6 total, would indicate imbalance, except that if 2 were lovers (think of rival gang houses like montagues capulets), and the remaining 4 would be balanced by the fact that each has a chance of killing the other, correct? This would also indicate to me why it is becoming so hard to lynch someone. Normally, when a mafia thinks a townie is going to be lynched, they'll stay out of it.

Stefl linked the role immediately after the flip occured, and then pointed out the implications in the following post. It's possible that the role was tweaked a bit along with the alignment change, but that can't be known until post-game. I find it odd that GOW didn't look it up or made an assumption about the role.

Once again you're not putting yourself in the position of this supposed faction without the RB. They're the ones that have no reason to question your claim.

I think lovers that are mafia of different factions is somewhat imbalanced. Since the lover is already at risk of death due to the link, there's more reason to send them for the kill. If they're caught red-handed somehow then at least the link, who is not part of the scum faction will be taken out as well. It's the same risk as a mafia-townie pair, but twice that since both factions could consider such a strategy. It's more crap roles to land than imbalancing though. As for the later theory of vengeful mafia lovers, that should absolutely never happen. It would actually give incentive for mafia to have one of their own lynched, to the point that it's just as good as lynching anyone not of the mafia team.(barring roles)

At the moment I think it's unlikely there are two factions, and I'm not going to discuss it further unless more evidence comes to light. As for lynches being tough to go through, that could also be because the prospective lynchees aren't townies.



I'm too tired to be making much of a case right now and don't have the time to put much together, but here is something. Profs weird connections with GOW had me paying more attention to GOW.

Things that have bothered me

1 the connection with prof with how easily he though prof was town

2 his thinking there still is a cop out there and not wanting the cop to claim

3. his focusing so much on wildvines lurking but iirc not anylising wv's post like he did for zarx

4. his asking heph to explain something that was in the first posts of the day, especially (iirc) after he was one to understand hephs role.

and now time to crash



1.  I'm posting this in the dark, by which I mean I'm posting it before I read the stuff that's happened after I posted last. 

2.  OK, upon reviewing the thread, I don't really know what to say about how hard I dropped the ball on the GoW post.  I thought I'd read the whole post, and just skimmed the part where GoW made his argument or something, but apparently I just fucking skipped the last third of the post somehow.  My only excuse is that I was doing two or three other things at the same time, but there's really no good reason for it.  But that's what happened.  You can vote me if it's unforgivable, or if you really think my inattention points to me being scum, which it doesn't. 

3.  It occurs to me that I could do a better job than I have done of articulating my suspicions of Heph.  For instance, a while ago prof said something like "Heph said he was given the flavor to make up for ABC's clearing Vette".  I don't know why I didn't see fit to respond to this before.  What the hell kind of sense does that make?  ABC gives the town information, and makes up for it by giving the town even MORE information?  It would make more sense if information was given to the mafia.  Which is what I believe Heph is. 

4.  I'll read the new stuff now. 



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