Wall of text incoming (sorry):
Just so you guys know my process for this, I put the players of this game into a list and typed comments/things I noticed about them next to their name. Then I tried to reformat it into paragraphs to make it easier to read.
I am excluding Celever because you all know how I feel about him. As much as I have talked about him, I don't think he's the best target for today's lynch. He does seem genuine (though extremely misguided) in his most recent posts. If he continues to not participate to a level he is capable of, I will reconsider.
This is going to be more of a "things I noticed the second time around" post. It might jump around a lot depending on how much I feel like reformatting when I'm finished.
Going into this, I am trying to pay special attention to users: Fatecrashers, ButteredToast, Serious Bananas, and Haunted Diamond, as I noticed that I have largely ignored these players up until now.
Ullar
- Reassures multiple times that he is going to put thought into his lynch vote. Asks to sub out before saying anything else. Kinda frustrating.
Haunted Diamond
- Something weird I noticed: In post #52 he bandwagons the Jalmont vote with no reason other than "obv mafia", which isn't really a big deal since it's so early on and Jalmont was acting really weird. But when Ullar says he looks bad for bandwagoning, he immediately makes an excuse saying "I just woke up" in post #56.
- I'm now noticing that the entirety of his posts are asking why people won't vote for Jalmont. Don't know why I didn't notice this before. I am up to post #178 and this still rings true. He literally talks about nothing else.
- It's post #313 and still nothing new. Take note of how he excuses Fatecrashers for some reason that makes absolutely no sense.
- Note in post #324 how he doesn't understand the Cancerous lynch.
- Post #332 pulls a complete 180 and jumps on the Cancerous bandwagon right after Fatecrashers. His only justification is "I read some of his posts" and "there's something there". This is A HUGE RED FLAG.
Jalmont
- First half of the game he is largely absent and just spews no lynch BS which he later retracts. Adds nothing further to the discussion.
- The latter half of the game he defends the onslaught of people calling him out for his sudden change of heart. A key difference between him and the other players on the defensive is that he is an active member in other discussions and isn't only concerned with how he comes off to everyone else, which is +townie points.
vonFiedler
- His early contributions consist mainly of troll posts and his argument with moi. I honestly feel like the foundation of the argument was based on misunderstandings. Doesn't really contribute much else.
- Doesn't say much else until his feud with Jalmont which, although not game-related, piqued my interest because vonFiedler only seems to be active when he is fighting with someone.
- Says he's going to give my posts an examination but hasn't posted anything of the sort. Empty promises vonFielder!!!
ButteredToast
- His post #27 strikes a chord with me. He refrains from voting in RVS (I assume he just hasn't really played much NOC) and says that he is going to keep an eye on who is the least helpful. I disagree with this logic. Is he implying that the least helpful people will be mafia? Because that's just not true and it's weird to limit your criteria to that. A good mafia will try to appear helpful.
- Post #86 seems really genuine and seems to come from a concerned villager. There would not really be any motivation for mafia to point this out.
- Thought his reads in post #104 seemed to jump to conclusions a little but seemed fine for such a weighted question early on.
- Weirdly and unnecessarily defensive of moi in post #105 and earlier. I always think it's odd when I see one player defend another early on. You don't really have a foundation of earlier posts from moi, so why would you jump to his aid so willingly when we know literally nothing about him?
- Already explained how I felt post #216 seems there only to seem innocent and to pacify whoever was pressuring him, like "Sorry if I come across like this, but I am trying my best".
- His "change of heart" with Fatecrashers in post 251.
PokeguyNXB
- Still standing by that I wasn't kidding about voting for him for the way he worded his RVS vote. His mention of using random.org for his RVS vote makes him seem not to want to step on anyone's toes.
- His few responses to questions just seem like he's at a loss for something to say. Doesn't seem as panicky as I would expect him to be if he were mafia.
- I find it peculiar that one of the very few times he speaks up on his own is to vote for me. You still haven't adequately answered this question
PokeguyNXB:
Spiffy said:
What part of my aggression is scummy to you? It would be easier to explain if you would cite some evidence. I have been aggressive in trying to get everyone talking, but look at literally every game I have played and you will see that I always try to pressure the inactives into sharing their opinions. (I think this is what you mean by me being aggressive? Again, please cite a post that gives you this vibe)
LightWolf
- Has made one relevant post and that's it. Not nearly enough to make a read off of, but it does seem like normal
LightWolf to me. I want more participation from him. I have responded to and asked him to clarify his criticisms of me but have gotten no response yet.
sunny004
- Post #135 doesn't even try to participate and just asks for a vote count. I read this as trying to see who had the most votes, thinking he could just get away with piling on.
- Votes for LightWolf after I prod him to say something, which to me just makes him seem lazy and uninterested. Not indicative of alignment.
Cancerous
- Already explained what I found scummy about his post #180. "Hey look this is a good opportunity to look helpful and active let me take advantage of it". It wouldn't be so bad if he hadn't been completely silent for like four pages before this.
- Cancerous' later attempts to contribute after being called out aren't really well thought out/don't make much sense to me. This itself isn't really indicative of alignment, just inexperience.
Fatecrashers
- Like Haunted Diamond, most of his posts revolve around Jalmont's no lynch gambit and not much else. Not really proactively scumhunting or considering other players.
- A little later on starts to question Cancerous kind of indirectly/sarcastically but doesn't vote for him.
- His post #275 in response to von acknowledges his total focus on Jalmont but does not make an effort to comment about other aspects of the game (other than the recent Cancerous thing)
- Post #328 flips his vote to Cancerous. There is precedent for him finding Cancerous scummy. However, this could be scumcrashers realizing that the Jalmont wagon is losing traction and jumping on to the one gaining momentum.
moi/Amianki
- I mentioned early on that I thought moi's post #79 was hyper-defensive for such little pressure on him, but ultimately I think he came off well in the argument he had with vonFielder. Just seems like he hasn't played NOC before.
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Amianki seems like one of those players that frequents mafiascum that intimidate me and I have no idea how to read. I am not satisfied with his answers to my questions and he still hasn't answered this (post #257 for reference):
Spiffy said:
I don't understand how this philosophy can work with the "strong town voting block" philosophy you discussed with Jalmont earlier. How can the town work as a cohesive unit if some people aren't contributing or sharing the reasons for their reads?
Serious Bananas
- Jumps on moi early on because he ignored von's post. It was pretty clear to me that moi just misunderstood von's sarcasm. It's like the second page though so I don't see a problem with pressuring this.
- Something I noticed about his post #175 is that the players he talks about are the ones that were the most inactive, and he says nothing about the players contributing. Why only give your thoughts about the players not contributing. Focusing on the inactive/newer players so he doesn't have to receive pressure from more active/experienced?
- Wow the next post I noticed of his was #317 where he does the exact same thing: only focuses on inactives
rssp1
- Buddies Jalmont slightly in post #58. He also kind of speaks for others in this post, explaining their reasoning to Haunted Diamond when no one said anything pertaining to his explanation, which was kind of off.
- Other than this, nothing sticks out to me. Probably my most confident town read.
Read carefully my comments on users: Haunted Diamond and Fatecrashers. After rereading the thread, I am fairly certain that one or both of Haunted Diamond and Fatecrashers is mafia. Their games thus far have been extremely similar and lacking in content. They both focus solely on Jalmont, who they consider to be the easiest mislynch, until people start to cool down on him. Then they both switch to Cancerous. Haunted Diamond's switch is particularly scummy. Additionally, Haunted Diamond makes unfounded accusations but excuses Fatecrashers from them for some reason.
Vote Haunted Diamond
I'm willing to vote for either him or Fatecrashers as I think they are both scum.
The universal support for a Cancerous lynch worries me. Especially since both of these guys are on his wagon.
If I had to rank everyone from scummiest to cleanest, it would be:
Haunted Shadow
Fatecrashers
Celever
Serious Bananas
Cancerous
PokeguyNXB
ButteredToast
vonFiedler
sunny004
Jalmont
moi/Amianki
rssp1
Spiffy
I didn't include LightWolf or Ullar as they have not contributed enough for me to get a proper read on them.