My Little Pony: Friendship is Mafia - Page 10

Aldurin · 09-25-2011, 12:40 PM

Sure, call him the cult leader because he's a communist.

Way to be a nice person, Nikose.

Professor Smarmiarty · 09-25-2011, 01:57 PM

Oh ok, I misunderstand your poit Snake. I think you are massively underestimating the rationale of the random vote (or I'm massively overestimating it- but it's hitscum in about half the games I've played).

Professor Smarmiarty · 09-25-2011, 01:58 PM

Also communists hate cults! They all about scientific enlightenment.

Nikose Tyris · 09-25-2011, 02:34 PM

Alduin was culted night 0.

RPG is serial Killer.

Snake is probably going to die by mafia kill night one.

Bob the merc is Cult leader.

Solid Snake · 09-25-2011, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Alduin was culted night 0.

RPG is serial Killer.

Snake is probably going to die by mafia kill night one.

Bob the merc is Cult leader.

Vote: Nikose

Because I <3 you.

...No, actually because predicting potential Mafia night kills without the context of power role knowledge is, believe it or not, a tried and true Scum strategy.
...Town, generally speaking, is far more worried about who to lynch than worrying about who may (or may not) die N1. Predicting the activity of what Scum will do, particularly on D1, is an absolute exercise of futility for Town.

Scum, however, benefits by making a prediction that someone will die N1 and then not killing that person N1. If townies eventually collectively buy into a repeated notion that "Snake (or anyone else), if he is Town, will die tonight because X," scum will easily yet subtly guide Town into a mislynch. If Nik is scum his entire ploy would therefore be: "I'll establish I believe that Snake is almost certainly Town now, then express abject disbelief as he continues to survive (all the while knowing he's alive because we're not targeting him), paint a bullseye on his back and let others deal the deathblows."

Also, the problem with Nik's posts is that his lack of elaboration prevents any of us from knowing whether he's actually being serious in anything he types or joking. Which, again, is a vagueness strategy that benefits Scum. Nik could totally play off any comment he makes as "Nik being Nik." I'd rather not spend the whole game questioning the sincerity of every one-sentence statement he makes.

NOTE: Even in typing this I am aware of the likelihood that I am overestimating the crap out of Nikose, and out of everyone playing this game. Assuming Nikose of all people would be playing intelligently and making such gambits as scum is kind of like assuming that a monkey could write a Shakespearean play. (Which, if you're Smarty, is apparently quite easy to believe.)
Nonetheless, I'm sticking by my guns and also suggesting to you all that I think Town Nik would be much more talkative than this; I think there's a greater probability Scum Nik would feel a sense of responsibility towards his teammates and subsequently tone down his usually chatty behavior to benefit his team.

As Town 'Nilla, Nik would totally like be "I AM CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE YOU PUNKS," and he'd create some controversy. I know you Nik! You would!

Mr.Bookworm · 09-25-2011, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Re: Nikose: What is night 0? Does night 0 exist, as a pregame thing?

Yes, there's a Night 0 in some Mafia games, but it didn't happen in this game. If it had, Fenris would have posted something like "Night 0 over" in the first post, and there would be several dead people lying around.

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Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Vote: Nikose

Because I <3 you.

...No, actually because predicting potential Mafia night kills without the context of power role knowledge is, believe it or not, a tried and true Scum strategy.

Nikose's post is such a blatantly obvious lie that I have no idea what he's going for.

He could be a lynch-blocker of some sort for the scum, trying to get us to waste a lynch on him.

He could be a Jester trying to win. I had that role, once, and I did something similar.

He could just be stupid.

Not enough data, unfortunately.

At any rate, Unvote: Smarty McBarrelpants.

Mr.Bookworm · 09-26-2011, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

Friendship the Hell Out of: Solid Snake

he knows what he did

First I joke voted for Snake.

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Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Vote: Oron
For being suspiciously quiet. I'm working my up the list because going down lists is what communists do.

Then Smarty posted this.

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Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

Oh man something is clearly just the fuck up with Smarty.

Offer whimsical night of trotting and magic as apology to: Solid Snake

Friendship the hell out of: Smarty McBarrelpants

So I joke voted for him!

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Originally Posted by Geminex

FRIENDSHIPPING THE HELL OUT OF: Smarty

Because
a) he isn't one of the herd and
b) I'm pretty sure smarty breaks things.

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

UNFRIENDSHIPPING: BARD

VOTE: SMARTY

BITCHES I DON'T NEED REASONS IT'S DAY 1.

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Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

Good job, ponies, we got a nice bandwagon going on here, let's keep it rolling forward.

A bunch of people (including Geminex!) voted for Smarty right after I did, so I made a joke about jumping on the bandwagon.

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Alduin was culted night 0.

RPG is serial Killer.

Snake is probably going to die by mafia kill night one.

Bob the merc is Cult leader.

Nikose then made this incredibly suspicious post, so...

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Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

Nikose's post is such a blatantly obvious lie that I have no idea what he's going for.

He could be a lynch-blocker of some sort for the scum, trying to get us to waste a lynch on him.

He could be a Jester trying to win. I had that role, once, and I did something similar.

He could just be stupid.

Not enough data, unfortunately.

At any rate, Unvote: Smarty McBarrelpants.

...I got vaguely serious and rescinded my joke vote.

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Originally Posted by Geminex

Bookworm, outta curiosity.
Why unvote smarty all of a sudden?

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Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

I was not doing the SRSBIDNESS mafia thing when I voted for him. I might revote for him if I decide he's acting scummy, but I don't think he is right now.

Hell, we even had that exact conversation earlier in the thread.

Oron · 09-25-2011, 08:06 PM

So... interesting discussion so far.

Are we still considering random-voting somebody? I haven't seen much in the way of "I think we should vote to lynch X," except for Snake suggesting Nikose as the target. There was only one response to that point so far, so I don't know.

On rpgdemon: Yeah, I bet he's just being curious. On the other hand, he could be using that to his advantage - playing the ignorance card to suggest a full roleclaim, which would make sense if he were scum.

On Nikose:

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Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Alduin was culted night 0.

RPG is serial Killer.

Snake is probably going to die by mafia kill night one.

Bob the merc is Cult leader.

Why was only the bolded part focused on? Are you being defensive, Snake? What about the "Aldurin was culted" or "Bob's the Cult leader" parts? I kind of saw the whole post as "Eh, Nikose is being facetious." I haven't played mafia with him, though, so I wouldn't know his in-game behavior. You claim to know what he'd do in a given situation, however.

I don't know if you are trying to hide something, though, so I'm not going to do anything.

Re: Fenris:

Isn't a colt a horse? A pony is a little horse, so it's like a colt.

***Fenris*** · 09-25-2011, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Oron

Isn't a colt a horse? A pony is a little horse, so it's like a colt.

A colt is a young male horse.

It is nothing like a cult. It makes sense on basis of sounding similar alone - saying "there is a colt in this game" implies a single young male horse.

Oron · 09-25-2011, 08:20 PM

Aw, alright.

I thought it was funny, at least.

Then again, I'm sleep deprived from homework and playing catch up on my readings.

Edit: Wait. All of the ponies in the show are female, aren't they? I can see why that wouldn't seem as funny, then.

09-25-2011, 08:20 PM	#10
Oron Curious Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 208	Aw, alright. I thought it was funny, at least. Then again, I'm sleep deprived from homework and playing catch up on my readings. Edit: Wait. All of the ponies in the show are female, aren't they? I can see why that wouldn't seem as funny, then. __________________ Sneaking around the forums to read your posts. Last edited by Oron; 09-25-2011 at 08:26 PM.

09-25-2011, 12:40 PM	#1
Aldurin Lakitu Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 4,648	Sure, call him the cult leader because he's a communist. Way to be a nice person, Nikose.

09-25-2011, 01:57 PM	#2
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	Oh ok, I misunderstand your poit Snake. I think you are massively underestimating the rationale of the random vote (or I'm massively overestimating it- but it's hitscum in about half the games I've played).

09-25-2011, 01:58 PM	#3
Professor Smarmiarty Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: K-space Posts: 9,758	Also communists hate cults! They all about scientific enlightenment.