Cats (2019) Mafia

[mewtini]

hey @Stryke! have noticed you following along. do you have any vibechecks/thoughts?

 

[Bluwiikoon]

My experiences are probably why I'm particularly passionate about the cop staying under wraps LOL. I was really happy when the hypocop train started in here :D

 

[Bluwiikoon]

In general I'm trying to contribute a bit more with less off-topic posts, but also, I hope everyone is keeping hydrated and looking after their selves rn! I gotta get a hydration refill myself ^^

 

[Tangrowth]

Wow, my schedule has been something. I'll do things, promise, my apologies everyone.

 

[Stryke]

hey @Stryke! have noticed you following along. do you have any vibechecks/thoughts?

ive had exactly one (1) bastard of a thought and that is what if i made a tier list based solely on responses from a magic 8 ball

 

[Tangrowth]

Oh yeah very important question

@M Plus 7 what's your favorite Pokemon?

Oh man, put on the spot and everything. Hmmm... I'm not really sure. I think Toxapex.

 

[Tangrowth]

I think the approach I'll take for at least the time being is assume I'm replacing myself, prefer to realtime, but steadily catch up on the thread contents via reading back and ISOs.

 

[Tangrowth]

Is there anyone around right now that wants to talk to me about stuff? Haha.

 

[mewtini]

yep! hi

 

[Tangrowth]

Hey mewtini! How are you? What should I know about things?

 

[Tangrowth]

Also, this may sound really silly, but while my mafia experience is varied and long enough (10 years now), I recently-ish have come back from a hiatus and I've barely played any role madness since like 3-5 years ago, so you all will have to bear with me a bit, lol. What exactly is a hypocop?

 

[mewtini]

i'm alright! how're you doing?

What exactly is a hypocop?

um, that depends on how much you've read (if you're starting from the beginning, i'd say that it'll probably help you to skim through the first few pages since a lot of it is just shitposting). also we don't have isos but i abuse the search function by putting in usernames and only searching within the thread.

in re: hypocop -

Brief Explanation of Cop CoverTM

There's probably a CopTM in the game
We don't want Mafia to know who the CopTM is
But if mafia finds them before they claim, we lose their results
That would be BadTrademark Pending

Solution: Everyone pretends they are the CopTM and gives results so when the actual CopTM dies, we know all the results they had
BUT
If any CopTM gives a wrong result, Mafia knows instantly they are not the CopTM
So don't give out checks randomly, or that would be SuboptimalTM

 

[Tangrowth]

I'm a bit stressed honestly, but otherwise pretty good. Glad to be here with you all even if it's been not much of a start yet. And yeah I've barely read anything unfortunately. Good to know about ISOs and hypocop, thanks for that.

 

[Stryke]

"Does *player* have good vibes?"

It is decidedly so
Stryke

Signs point to yes
Butterfree
Bluwiikoon

Ask again later
Keldeo
Herbe
Vipera Magnifica

Most likely
kyeugh
IndigoEmmy
ILS

My reply is no
mewtini

Better not tell you now
Seshas
Trebek

Outlook good
kokorico

Outlook not so good
rari_teh

Reply hazy, try again
myuma
Superjolt

My sources say no
M Plus 7
Mr. Ultracool

Dont count on it
Tofu

Without a doubt
RNP

 

[Stryke]

It would suck if I were on the table to be lynched at some point and this is somehow used against me, but at the same time, man, what a way to go

 

[Tangrowth]

What reads do you have, mewtini? Anyone I should look at with increased urgency, in your assessment?

 

[Tangrowth]

It would suck if I were on the table to be lynched at some point and this is somehow used against me, but at the same time, man, what a way to go

Are you in contention right now? Wait, how do I know the current vote tally? Please excuse all the questions, it's how I generally play but even more heightened here given circumstances.

 

[Stryke]

It would suck if I were on the table to be lynched at some point and this is somehow used against me, but at the same time, man, what a way to go

Are you in contention right now? Wait, how do I know the current vote tally? Please excuse all the questions, it's how I generally play but even more heightened here given circumstances.

I hope not!

 

[mewtini]

Are you in contention right now? Wait, how do I know the current vote tally? Please excuse all the questions, it's how I generally play but even more heightened here given circumstances.

he isn't! uh, so the current vote tally is manually counted by the mod - you vote by bolding a name. usually people kinda keep track of it themselves and share periodically. right now there are no active votes

writing a reply to your other post atm

It would suck if I were on the table to be lynched at some point and this is somehow used against me, but at the same time, man, what a way to go

hahahaha. i'll defend you and your magic 8 ball

 

[Keldeo]

Quick finishing up of stuff I didn't respond to earlier -

VM saying Tofu's town for asking him questions irl is like, either Tofu is a 4d chess master, they're mafia partners, or Tofu is just town, I think?

idk if this is a weird question? but. @.keldeo what would you say differentiates your scum from your town play

Nah that's a valid question. I'm not entirely sure how I'd play it on a new-style TCoD game, to be honest. As mafia I think I put a lot of importance into "looking good" or "doing reasonable things" - I think Skylar's right that there's a distinction between actually putting in work and trying to solve, and performatively doing so. Other than that, I guess I'm generally more decisive as mafia, although I'm trying to work on that, hehe.

Spoiler

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm so frustrated with myself. I failed to consider that if I played to my usual towngame early on in TVT, that immediately after my reputation would be tarnished when I'm actually town. Of course, "usual" is a stretch here, cause I haven't played forum mafia in forever, but I was legitimately trying to be town early on. I literally psyched myself out of knowing what happened to Jack d1 (I killed him) and I was like omg this flavor IS so weird!! I wonder what the hell happened??? Who killed jack????? like, in my head. not even performatively. kyeugh, you can vouch, in scumchat when i was losing my mind and mf was like "go to sleep herbe."

I also make this point because I have to pay attention to the fact that kyeugh and i are not a scumteam anymore and she's not distancing me, she's literally just reading me. And I know that I probably shouldn't be so meta cause that's not gonna wiggle me out of any scumreads but I'm not gonna censor my stream of consiousness for the sake of reads.

Re: keldeo

random question, do you think you like being mafia or town better?

Ask me again at the end of this game, cause I haven't played a game to its finish as town in recent memory. Right now I'm inclined to say mafia. It comes so much easier to me,,,,, also I miss having partners. I miss mawile!!!!! OOT communication is my favorite and I miss being able to bounce ideas off of other players. If anyone wants to loverize me (for real this time) please do!

Anyway I just re-caught up with the thread (and woke up for the day) so yeah. this post is long enough

Herbe scum king tbh!

I like his tone in the stream-of-consciousness stuff in this post, and in his next post reflecting on how he's going to read kyeugh. Guess I'd like to see some more actual stances from him if he can.

@Herbe, how do you feel about my reaction test on Trebek and what all happened after that? I noticed you liking posts and stuff.

Btw people watching when I am online and drawing conclusions based on that just makes me want to like... Live in a shack in the woods with no internet

Aww, yeah, this is part of why I think reads on activity should be discouraged. Sometimes you just don't wanna play mafia and that's okay.

I am extremely pocketed by mewtini tbh and probably won't stop being so all game. just saying.

anyway, keldeo idk if this was just a meme but if it's not can you talk more about why this is? i just remember you being really weirded out when eifie initially said that and i don't think i'm playing that much more reliably right now

Mm, like half a meme? It was me expressing the idea of TRing you, and the meme part is that Eifie's phrasing is more drastic than I currently feel (or probably ever do feel in mafia lol.) To why I'm reading you differently, I don't know, I just am? You've generally felt fair enough and genuine and that's good enough for me for right now.

I can't really be on right now but I think I understand the premise behind Keldeo's vote

I still think Trebek is town for now, I think that it's kind of weak because Trebek I think is at the really new end of the mafia player spectrum

@Seshas just curious, did my explanation meet your expectations?

I don't think it's too ever early to vote, I was a little surprised by the relative lack of movement

are you? this doesn't make much sense to me either, and i don't know why (or what kind of) movement would have occurred when no one's been all that content-engaged and when i think a lot of people were just caught off-guard by your vote

I meant movement of any kind before I voted. We're like fairly into the game in terms of posts or time, I know early voting isn't a thing on TCoD much but there are people here who come from places it is.

As for Trebek, no real thoughts, but given that you asked me about them and then proceeded to gently push them, I'd say you (Keldeo) definitely had some suspicions about them and were probably looking for confirmation. Did anything in particular about Trebek's posts seem odd to you?

@Bluwiikoon good to hear more from you! I made a post about this later on (although I've now changed my mind), did you see that?

Also, what do you think of my read on rari's paranoia about me being kinda towny? I'm a little bit confused why you've mentally separated rari and mewtini's reactions since I read them as quite similar, but that might just be a me thing.