Mafia XXV: Action Movie Badasses Game Thread Day 6

[[M] Trevor - Gay Dad]

@Sammy: I can't help but notice you're not voting your top scumread for lynch ir first massclaim. Why?

[[M] Trevor - Gay Dad]

@Eastwood: Top 3 scumreads and why pls.

@Vin Diesel Same question.

[[M] Joe - Army Dad]

Case of Daniel Craig

Voted for Jason Statham Day 1. Voting for scum mates is a good way to distance yourselves. He also voted for Jason Statham on Day 2, but only after initially voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Consistently voting for his team mate? Maybe, maybe not. Day 3 he jumped on the Sigourney Weaver bandwagon - despite being suspicious of Statham two days running. That's pretty strange to me! Yesterday he returned to Jason Statham but thanks to my mass deception/inability to count, he wasn't the lynching vote as he perhaps anticipated and so he didn't look as much like a hero as he'd like to think.

[[M] Joe - Army Dad]

@Sammy: I can't help but notice you're not voting your top scumread for lynch ir first massclaim. Why?

Because Vin's claim will confirm certain things for me. Important things.

[[M] Trevor - Gay Dad]

So you think I'm buddying Thurman and using trout logic Good start, but you can do better.

PS I didn't say either of that so I'm not even gonna try if you're not even gonna read my posts, your majesty.

OK, I get it, you have me as a townread. What if you're wrong?

Imagine a world where you know me to be scum. How would you show it to your fellow townies?

[[M] Joe - Army Dad]

So you think I'm buddying Thurman and using trout logic Good start, but you can do better.

PS I didn't say either of that so I'm not even gonna try if you're not even gonna read my posts, your majesty.

OK, I get it, you have me as a townread. What if you're wrong?

Imagine a world where you know me to be scum. How would you show it to your fellow townies?

I would vote for you and tell them you are scum and they would follow me because they believe I am some kind of lucky devil. I don't know; I would use evidence and logic and CALL THEM smurfHEADS AND DICKBITCHES UNTIL THEY LISTENED. I would pretend to be Psychotic and therefore immediately correct on all assumptions ever made.

[[M] Joe - Army Dad]

Case of Clint Eastwood

Not very active. Didn't vote on Day 2 at all, and on Day 1 he voted for Uma Thurman for probably no real reason. I don't know, he hasn't posted much and yet I still can't be assed going back through it all. On Day 3 he jumped on the Sigourney Weaver bandwagon, pretty late too. That could easily be construed as a positive; scum would have no need to hammer Weaver as she was doing the job for them. Alternatively though, the relative frequency of the lynchee being someone entirely different from the prime suspect all day probably had the Mafia on edge. Straight up voted Jason Statham yesterday because "cop said so." Which was right, I mean, but yeah, dodgy. Also Jason Statham voted for him at one point yesterday (and on the first day - distancing vote?) but this is all just basic stuff and I'm lazy.

[[M] Joe - Army Dad]

I am glad that drunk Cage has seemingly gone to bed but



smurf you quiet mothersmurfers. I'm going, you deal with this mess yourselves.

[[M] Adama]

I don't buy Uma's only one kill vigilante claim. The vigilante is pro-town but it is also suppose to put the town on edge. Should one person have that sort of unilateral power? The role is a rare town killing role and to only have just one kill and waste it stupidily on the first day is bulltrout when ain't trout been figured out. Why waste your one shot so early on?

Your claim somewhat made sense at the time with the Gameshow host but to not use that power or to blow it so early on seems to convenient. I made the mistake of helping to lynch the cop (but they didn't really do themself any favors) but I will not make that mistake again.

Basically, your role claim makes no sense.

##VOTE: Uma

[[M] Trevor - Gay Dad]

I am glad that drunk Cage has seemingly gone to bed

Because I'm making sense, or for some other reason? What is the other reason?

Why are you claiming a tracker-type role when your shrink-claim was so well accepted?

Your case on me is still trout. Do better.

[[M] Gaius]

I've been busy, so I'm not as active as I'd like (this is usually my active time), please forgive me. I know you missed my brilliant observations. Hey, I've not always been able to articulate it, but I've been right a lot so far. Maybe because I'm watching how people are playing THIS game, not basing my observations solely off of what I've seen other people do in past games, since that's surely a terrible way to play (in more than one way).

I don't understand the point of the massclaim. I mean, I know what you all say it's for, but it seems like whatever you all think you're going to gain from it would be mitigated by how much it gives the mafia. Isn't our biggest advantage that the mafia lacks knowledge? If they knew what you all want them to know with this claim business, would Johnson have died via night-kill? I don't think this tells the town as much as it tells the mafia. If the town votes to do it, I'll do it, but note that I think it's stupid.

Is this massclaim thing something that normally happens or something? Does it work? I don't have an opinion one way or another on who should go first, because I don't know how this is going to tell me anything since I can't trust anyone.

To be clear, I'm against doing this, but I'm not abstaining. If I had a better role, though, I would, as should anyone left who has something worth keeping from the mafia.

Who instigated this, because it sure seems like a big ol' waste of time, and I just don't get why a town would want to waste time at this point. The mafia are reeling, keep them on their toes.

As far as who I think is mafia, I'm not really sure. I was right about Statham, and Johnson, but of who's left, there's a lot of equally scummy-seeming nonsense and possibly-scummy inactivity going on.

Question first, though: Would mafia still be lurking at this point in the game?

I don't know if this is true or not, but I would think that blooming late might be a marker for mafia, though knowing this, mafia should never behave that way. i.e. Diesel is either mafia or dumb in the way he lurked then came on strong late.

I really hope Jackson's not mafia. If he is...I would hope there's not somebody playing with us who's THAT GOOD. If he's mafia and we don't lynch him, it'll be so embarrassing.

In other words I'm sticking to the Jackson's pro-town idea for pride's sake.

Uma seems to be working for the town. I haven't analyzed all of her votes, but I don't remember anything outright scummy in anything she did. Her attitude's a little hard to deal with sometimes, but so was Weaver's and look what happened there. The only thing that bothers me about Uma is her weird 1 time daykill role. I know there's been a lot of claiming of weird-ass roles in this game, but have any of them actually been confirmed? Pretty standard stuff flipping on the dead, right? Yet I don't think that one thing is enough to paint her scummy.

Cage is either really drunk or mafia acting drunk in order to excuse potentially scummy posts.

I agree that one of the late-comers is probably mafia, but I don't know that any of them have given enough to the thread to really work with. I can't tell if Jackson really thinks Stallone is scummy or is just messing around or is laying some elaborate trap or is (the best ever) scum trying to (gently) get attention off of Ford (that's who came in with Stallone, yeah?).

[[M] Trevor - Gay Dad]

Yes, Im drunk. You seem to be suggesting that it's impossible for town to drunkpost. Is that what you're saying?

[[M] Gaius]

No drunken Nic Cage. There's this conjunction. It's called "or".

[[M] Trevor - Gay Dad]

Aye, you said, and I quote:

Cage is either really drunk or mafia acting drunk in order to excuse potentially scummy posts.

This excludes the possibility of both drunk and town.

[[M] Elize]

Dear Arnie (and any others who are actually stumped by this), the reason Vin was quiet and then suddenly burst into life is most likely because the original player got replaced and there is now a new player using the account. It's not a ploy or anything like that.