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Popcorn Mafia 4 - Cycle 5 Deadline August 27 at 10PM EDT
- Thread starter Aura Guardian
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because i dont have any questions right now
paranoid of a powerwolf team who are pushing the narrative that scum are afk iirc
any team would pick a strong player with shaky reads, nobody is picking an afk slot
We have not shot an afk yet, you can be paranoid but if you go into a game thinking “wow all the people trying to solve the game the most could be mafia we have to kill them they are going to run through us” you will win 0 games
There are almost certainly power wolves deep yes, but you it is never worth to kill all the people trying to solve to get the odd deep Wolf, when you can kill the poe afk and get kills while not crippling town
Mafia is a game of odds, if you want to win you must accept some risk and that doesn’t mean blindly sheeping but you can not account for everything and shooting the people trying to play every game just means you’re trying to win the 10 percent and forgoing the like 40 percent in favour of that, if you don’t vote the scummy people then what’s the point in even having reads you’re just playing to nail the Hail Marys at that point instead of the highest chance of winning
Like at a certain point it’s optimal to afk in these games because “can’t shoot afk, they could be anything” but if someone posts is “oh they are towny but they could be mafia playing really well! Wouldn’t it be cool if i caught them”
So let’s shoot through all towns most active players to get the1 or 2 deepwolves and then lose to the afk wolves we could’ve easily cleared early
So let’s shoot through all towns most active players to get the1 or 2 deepwolves and then lose to the afk wolves we could’ve easily cleared early
And ftr I don’t want to shoot either realiti or clever or Texas because ok yes there could be mafia in them, there probably is but at least they are playing and the alignment should become clear
When we shoot someone we aren’t clearing them, we are killing them even if they are town
Rn Miyami is essentially a dead player with a gun, not a cleared town member because she’s going to die, so if you get the gun it’s not proving anything or helping anything it’s just killing you if you are town you DONT want to be shoe and as mafia you also don’t want to be shot obviously so anyone and everyone stop being ok with being shot please
When we shoot someone we aren’t clearing them, we are killing them even if they are town
Rn Miyami is essentially a dead player with a gun, not a cleared town member because she’s going to die, so if you get the gun it’s not proving anything or helping anything it’s just killing you if you are town you DONT want to be shoe and as mafia you also don’t want to be shot obviously so anyone and everyone stop being ok with being shot please
I am also on board with this plan for the record
Shoot flanders skipper pulsar joey des and then hopefully I have something more to go off of
instead of someone i town read before getting shot shooting one of my top town reads
Shoot flanders skipper pulsar joey des and then hopefully I have something more to go off of
instead of someone i town read before getting shot shooting one of my top town reads
the hardest part of popcorn is taking your ego out of the game
I'd like to keep it going a bit longer, there's no harm in trying to lay out as much information as publicly possible
on that note, can you and phoopes AirC a fairy Texas Cloverleaf joey post readlists or some other longform content please I'd like to engage with more than just the same four people before I take the shot
I’ve been so busy the past couple of days 
, I’ll interact with thread when I get home
Quick thoughts
a decent part of Texas’s posts have been “shoot x” which feels very “I’m going to low effort control the gamestate”
I still think realiti, Cel, and Tommy are town
I would like to see more actual content from DBD. I really liked their wall post but I’m just like “gimme more”
I don’t wanna scumread Flandrs in case this is oog but I feel like the last time they were scum they p much idled the whole game until they subbed out.
, I’ll interact with thread when I get homeQuick thoughts
a decent part of Texas’s posts have been “shoot x” which feels very “I’m going to low effort control the gamestate”
I still think realiti, Cel, and Tommy are town
I would like to see more actual content from DBD. I really liked their wall post but I’m just like “gimme more”
I don’t wanna scumread Flandrs in case this is oog but I feel like the last time they were scum they p much idled the whole game until they subbed out.
pulled a few of my longer posts from my iso to reference, i dont have anything further to contribute right now in respect of the amount of time i can dedicate the game - additionally i dont think additional content generation is productive right now because retrospectives are navel gazing given no change in the public information, its a situation where looking for things creates things to find without there being things necessarily to fine
my top townread is tommy, i think he’s been the most invested in actually solving and his frustration in #1059 and #1063 feels genuine to me so emotionally town, although this is something tommy is likely capable of faking, so im being wary of hard townreading experienced players
i scumread joey for having partner equity with clouds, as well as being entirely unhelpful the whole game like the other inactives which makes him a good shot
realiti claiming conftown based off of saying “clouds is scum” without majorly contributing to the shot happening feels like scum trying to gain town equity from a partner being shot but i could be totally wrong on this. I would not shoot realiti this cycle though, i think waiting for a skipper flip would be good to be able to better gauge realitis alignment
airc / celever is probably unpaired based off the weird slip in #801. if celever is town i could totally see it as a way to for scum to peddle a mislynch while still being able to say “dont blame me i townread them” after they flip town. if celever is scum then i doubt an airc cele scumteam encourages a celever shot while
simultaneously townreading celever. if airc flips town i dont think that says anything about celevers alignment.
i scumread joey for having partner equity with clouds, as well as being entirely unhelpful the whole game like the other inactives which makes him a good shot
realiti claiming conftown based off of saying “clouds is scum” without majorly contributing to the shot happening feels like scum trying to gain town equity from a partner being shot but i could be totally wrong on this. I would not shoot realiti this cycle though, i think waiting for a skipper flip would be good to be able to better gauge realitis alignment
airc / celever is probably unpaired based off the weird slip in #801. if celever is town i could totally see it as a way to for scum to peddle a mislynch while still being able to say “dont blame me i townread them” after they flip town. if celever is scum then i doubt an airc cele scumteam encourages a celever shot while
simultaneously townreading celever. if airc flips town i dont think that says anything about celevers alignment.
I will try to find time
Now that you're here, we're gonna need a lot more from you if you're townI’ve been so busy the past couple of days
Quick thoughts
a decent part of Texas’s posts have been “shoot x” which feels very “I’m going to low effort control the gamestate”
I still think realiti, Cel, and Tommy are town
I would like to see more actual content from DBD. I really liked their wall post but I’m just like “gimme more”
I don’t wanna scumread Flandrs in case this is oog but I feel like the last time they were scum they p much idled the whole game until they subbed out.