I've seen the same regarding myself; however, it's rarely a first-timer conveying these sentiments. And given darwin's experience of IRL games, there is no actual conversation between scummates.(if his games were even large enough to warrant a team) Thus I would be surprised if he slipped up some night-time thinking into daytime conversation.

This gets me wondering about the mafia threads as of late. Daytalk in the world of VGC was something I introduced IIRC, but was not common when I wasn't hosting. Did Trucks allow you and Mr.P to daytalk in round 71?

I think it's severly doubtful that there will be any name counterclaims. The pool of Overwatch characters outnumbers our game by quite a bit, and from my brief experience of the game there aren't really factions within it. So any character could be a good or bad guy, and even if there was one that stands out as bad guy only, VGC has had enough rounds blown up due to flavor meta that safeclaims have become a norm.(Thankfully)

Maybe it's confirmation bias or something along those lines, but I feel better about my unpoken thoughts when others get a similar impression. This post had felt like rolefishing in the sense that anyone that questions his assumption could be deemed vanilla(non-threat) and those agreeing would likely be outing themselves as power roles.  You were the only one to question what "vanillla" means to Baalz, which wouldn't give much information. You followed up by being the only one to bring it up as an accusation while still not really giving any tell.

However, outside of the fear for the role I think prof was hoping would not be claimed, I think in the current situation pressing for Mr.P's role is okay. I would be more worried that Baalz was subtly letting Mr.P know what role he could claim to escape a lynch, but Baalz has been pressing Mr.P quite hard through all of this.

To summarize, I'm worried that Baalz is scum trying to figure out which townies are the biggest threats, but his actions have me leaning town.

I agree it's different, but moreso benefitial to town to mislynch a lurker than to no lynch. For one, an inactive townie is a negative in that they won't be voting when it comes down to end game and if they have a power it will go unused. Two, removing any player reduces the pool for any remaining powers to have a positive influence, and they have a slightly better idea who to target thanks to those pushing for or against the lynch compared to very minimal info from those taking the easy way out of having no lynch. Three, come Day 2 there's a smaller pool of suspects to examine and there's no distraction of "what to we do about Player X that barely posted Day 1?"

I very much disagree, the entire mafia team can be discovered based on conversations Day 1, though it usually won't be apparent until things are confirmed by flips later on. As fun as nighttime activities can be, I've never been a fan of "follow the cop" situations as I think the game should be won or lost by activity in the day. As for buying time, see my previous paragraph. Reading into the scum's kill is most often WIFOM.(Link for darwin and any other newbs unfamiliar with the term)

One thing that's standing out to me is I think I was Stefl's biggest defender while stating I was okay with his lynch. I both outlined Stefl's flaws more than others and gave reasons for his actions that he himself did not state. This should be such a flag for most regardless of how the view Stefl, yet nobody, including you called me out on any of that.

This is probably also the longest we've ever gone without really directly pointing at the other person in some fashion. What's going on.. Are you town, bro?

I will read Round 72(and probably 71[Trucks you need to modedit the title of MG Mafia :P] as well) tomorrow as well as do a re-read of toDay. My initial suspicion of you wasn't simply because you were quiet, but because you were sowing the seed of distrust in Day 1 activity. You said Day 1 votes can stir the pot in the wrong direction. You gave last round as an example, but that's terrible since 3 of the 4 votes from town were on scum.

If you're indeed town, you no longer have a role that represents any power by the way. You are as much of a threat as a vanilla townie to scum. You cannot be confirmed as town unless both a town cop and rolecop exist either.(The latter won't usually identify faction in the case of ambiguos roles like BP or Roleblocker) In short, you will continue to be a hindrance(as in a question mark) for town. Should I offer you congratulations on playing scummy instead of trying to draw a kill and be the hero?

Not sure if I remember specifically, but maybe yes? I think the last two games had day talk...

Just found it, metal gear mafia with me plat and mrp as mafia, there was daytalk

It's only because there have been many others that have jumped out at me. I haven't done my read through of you yet, hence why you're in the up in the air category I listed earlier. However, as a brief feel, I didn't specifically say, but you've said a bunch of things I was thinking during the course of the game. One of which you even preempted a line of my questioning which had me a little irritated.

So yeah, I don't have much to fault you for this game. (also, I think I might've found your town tell)

What distrust??!! Last game Prof joke voted against Xander, and look where that got us... Joke votes as I also mentioned last game stir the pot (we got well over 100 posts last game first day) but in the end it all came down to a non-lynch. I'm not sure what zero was thinking (By voting for Xander) but maybe he could have been influenced by Prof's initial vote. 

@Linkzmas how are you just assuming that my role is about as powerful as that of a vanilla town (Now that my role is out)? Do you think they're is a strongman or a similar role in mafia? The way I see it Mafia can either try and kill me (and in the process spend/waste two nights) or let my role snowball and become more powerful over time. Last game I knew Prof was a doctor and Zero was a cop but apart from educated guesses and hoping I was lucky, I couldn't do much else.

To clarify can a role blocker, block the BP?