Contest Pokémafia Spectacular! - Game Thread

[sanderidge]

tfw you log in to see that you're assigned not clever at day phase ✌

 

[Novae]

ive been assigned clown at daystart

 

[mewtini]

bruh

am i ever going to get to play a game with zm wtf

 

[RNP]

im comfy reading rnp as town since it seems like you have a Big Power (the Spectacular Talent thing being capitalized feels canoney) that would be overpowered to give to mafia it looks like you can just Decide that the contest theme Is something through some big wahoo so ya. towncore keith hell yea.

i won't correct you it seems convenient to my narrative

 

[sanderidge]

me, checking the thread at 3am: damn... sure is quiet in here...

 

[haneko]

it's TOO quiet!

 

[qenya]

HELLO sorry i forgot to check the thread this morning

 

[qenya]

i don't buy herbe's explanation of RNP's ability - if he earned 9 points then the move he used must be worth 7 points without the Popular Contest bonus. far too overpowered in combination with the effect. at least i know i don't have anything anywhere near that good.

more likely I think is that he relied on reverse psychology to get other people to use Clever moves because his highest-scoring move happened to be Clever

that's not really AI though that's just RNP

 

[RNP]

i believe i have the "borderline mechanically useless but equipped to fiend appeal like nobody else" considering my coolness move is Solar Beam which is 8 appeal raw not including popularity

 

[RNP]

and has no other effect

 

[Herbe]

more likely I think is that he relied on reverse psychology to get other people to use Clever moves because his highest-scoring move happened to be Clever

;-;

blehhhhh i thought that people would just Go Along With It, i went along with it (see my uh my 2nd loser status)

nah but fr like i thought that ppl generally Didn't Use Clever and so he like rigged it or something
uh
so my reasoning for the read is flimsy so im not really strongholding it for now. no towncore just solrock rockin

 

[Novae]

i think herbe's read might actually have some merit for the wrong reasons

bc like

idk would mf just hand out what's essentially a free triple vote to mafia

...actually yeah probably

 

[sanderidge]

>reverse psychology
mfw i listened and didn't use Clever and now here i am with no vote

 

[sanderidge]

on topic: i've been townreading rnp since d0 because he's been astonishingly not... inflammatory and pretty cooperative? offering ideas on his own in response to others' thoughts (like when he said something along the lines of "$20 says mafia has an ability to kill whoever chose Beauty", and offering info about his moves just now... which, tbf, are the only two times this happens in thread, but there are only six pages so far, so maybe it still means something...?) isn't something that mafia rnp does, i think - i reread both hamilton mafia and knives alley recently, and there's a huge difference in helpfulness/freely offered info between them.

on the other hand it's entirely possible that this is just a year's worth of regular human change lmao so maybe this doesn't mean anything. also guys posting reads is really scary i spent this entire post thinking "this is going to look absolutely fucking awful for me if he turns out to be mafia"

 

[sanderidge]

also i could have sworn Spectacular Talent is a canon thing, i am like 90% sure it's just the name for the move that a pokemon does when it gets to do the peak appeal/crowd excitement move in ORAS, but bulbapedia doesn't say anything so i'm wondering if i imagined it

 

[Herbe]

also i could have sworn Spectacular Talent is a canon thing, i am like 90% sure it's just the name for the move that a pokemon does when it gets to do the peak appeal/crowd excitement move in ORAS, but bulbapedia doesn't say anything so i'm wondering if i imagined it

im a fake fan

 

[sanderidge]

i reread both hamilton mafia and knives alley recently, and there's a huge difference in helpfulness/freely offered info between them.

i meant tarot mafia rip. i think rnp was also town in hamilton mafia? but also on making this correction i went and checked the dates of the games, and tarot mafia is from 2020 which is ages ago and now i am feeling very doubtful on my idea of how 2022 mafia rnp would post/interact. maybe i cancel my own read

 

[Herbe]

had to go check my notes bc ya rnp randed town in hamilton he was the town poet

 

[Herbe]

see heres the thing i think im going to be wrong about everything all the time Especially when i am trying to be Right

 

[sanderidge]

i need a handshake react. me too me also