I don’t have time to go through and select specific quotes, but:
Someone asked me what I thought of Sinny’s list (1)
Someone asked me to comment further (2)
1: Not much. The reasoning is within 2.
2: It’s day one. There is no lynch for another two days (I believe). Effectively, all people are doing at the moment is running around, banging drums and throwing wild accusations at one another. Either I’m missing something here, or you’re a bunch of unbelievably inept players who fail to understand both the nature of the game and other meatbags.
Let’s look at this realistically:
Mafia games are - regardless of whether you want to believe this or not - a popularity contest, just like many other things in life. Such is the nature of humans.
Therefore, I would recommend some investigative probing as to who has ‘insies’ with QT; find that out, and you’re likely to have a fair punt at who has a special role (this includes mafia). From there, we can monitor those people and their behaviour. This is of course operating outside the parameters of the game and could therefore perhaps be construed as cheating, but it’s certainly an avenue to explore for those with time. Insights garnered could be kept on the back burner to hopefully make better informed future decisions.
Speculative: people like myself (on the outside of the community) have very little / no hope in hell of getting anything other than a generic townie role. This isn’t verifiable to any real degree for obvious reasons, but… I mean, it is kind of obvious. I barely know anyone here. I’m therefore a wildcard; I’m not going to be trusted with a ‘fun’ role because QT has no idea who I am or what I’m about. I’d be a risk to his game. Unwise move on his part to elect me as anything other than a boring role. If you don’t see any validity to this reasoning, you’re wrong.
Secondly, one does not simply make an informed decision re: the first lynch. Or the second, most often. Everyone is an unknown. All we can do is sit back and let the patterns reveal themselves. Humans are fallible, and even the best mafia players will trip over themselves eventually if pressure is applied in the right places.
All we have to go on at the moment is how a person votes. At this stage in the game, that is likely an arbitrary decision at best, and anybody - mafia included - have plenty of wriggle-room to claim that it was an oopsie and move on unhindered.
It’s too early in the game, and there isn’t enough data. Some of you have insights into one another’s character, and that’s cool - but I’m shooting blind. That I am not yet contributing anything of worth does not preclude the possibility that I’m sat here, odd interjection aside, weighing arguments and observing behaviour. Patterns will inevitably emerge.
All of this ruckus may be fun, but it’s misguided. There seems to be this idea that by speaking up and defending yourself, you’re less likely to be a mafia player. What? Are you joking? This humdrum is fertile grounds for mafia. You don’t know shit about who’s who yet. You’re operating on shaky beliefs and a distinct lack of data.
The patterns will reveal themselves. Sit down, shut up and watch. The first lynch may not be telling; the second may be largely uneventful - but by the third, I’m willing to bet we can start getting a clearer picture of who’s who.
Do I have any suspicions thus far?
Yes, but I need to see more. My vote for Sinny remains in place, because (bearing in mind I’m operating on limited data) I immediately distrust anyone who asserts themselves as some kind of authority (oh the hypocrisy) in an overt manner. I don’t know if she’s town or not - nobody does. It’s all a shit shoot.
Again, apologies for incoherence. I’m typing in work and keep getting interrupted.
TL;DR your approach is ineffective and you’re all shit.
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flinging town reads like that is weird
