Popcorn Mafia 4 - Cycle 5 Deadline August 27 at 10PM EDT

no iso readlist because im too busy to iso a third to half of this game sorry

Air - it's airc btw ag. anyways my gut instinct on seeing the torterra avatar to confirm they are airc not air is that they give me good vibes? like i feel like whenever i see the torterra i tend to like the post. id guess town here.
bluedoom - exists in this game, ig. unmemorable slot like i cant really remember what they've done.
Celever - i dont get this pairing people do w/ tommy here. cel hasnt given me scum energy yet. could be wrong, i dont think i am
Dead by Daylight - posted one readlist on d1 and nothing since iirc? wack. dbd usually feels more present i think. not convinced they're scum tho.
des121 - i do think this time there's something to be said about des' behavior being different. they feel more subdued, not posting as much as id expect. do i think that makes them scum? honestly it's not an impossibility.
Evie - i think they're town. their behavior feels town to me. i dunno. im blind to this slot moreso than normal, i think
joey - is in this game? idk. scum, probably. he does this i feel like, rolls scum and then goes fully missing to run under the radar
phoopes - i like phoopes, i dont think they are being coached and their reads do genuinely feel like someone who's got nothing but the thread to go off of and they're falling into a number of small pitfalls id expect someone in their position to be doing.
pulsar512b - longer the game goes the more i think they are scum. i do genuinely think town pulsar actually tries even once, but she frankly hasn't.
realiti - has been acting how i expect scum realiti to act less and less. i am less convinced they are scum, but they are still likely more scum than not in my mind
ShyPebble - i liked their approach when they had that discussion w/ me about my reads. they read like a newer player who isn't getting led/coached, though i could see a world where they're scum and whoever is coaching them is mostly just explaining to them some basic concepts. i dont think that world is this one, but its a world that could feasibly exist
skippergamez - the longer they go without responding to people the worse they seem. i still think they are town, but i am growing more and more suspicious of them
StupidFlandrs48 - i still dont get why everyone reads them as scum. i guess to some extent id trust them w/ the gun if they do end up being the target more than i do the people otherwise people have been clamoring for
Texas Cloverleaf - reasonable chance of being scum. i think their earlier behavior matches what i expect of texas, but as the game goes on and they have adopted the "well game's out of my hands guess i wont do much" then it feels less great how they acted early.
Tommy - i do think tommy is scum. i dont think the advice giving to new players is AI, but i think town tommy even in popcorn actually tries to do stuff and this hasn't felt like that. besides if tommy does get the gun and happens to be town, like, i trust him to target well, yknow?

clouds + pulsar + joey + tommy + 2. skip/realiti might be one of them (don't discount it being both btw! i did this exact same shit w/ skip in an old game and realiti for sure is up for the same stuff), texas might be one of them, des might be one of them. anyone else could be one of them but i am less convinced generally speaking
 
Hi folks, sorry that I was absent for so long. I was busy for sure, but also, to keep it real with y’all I’m not really enjoying the game which means it’s hard to keep motivated lol. It’s no one’s fault, I think it’s just the format. Viva last game and Popcorn this game are different than any other mafia I’ve ever played before, and I’ve found I like traditional style the best. Also the back reading when you’re away for awhile is a killer. So yeah that’s my explanation for absence (and really I mean it when I say it’s no one’s fault I just don’t think I knew what I was signing up for <3)

Anyway, enough complaining…

Before I was tunneling hard on a fairy, but I’ve def softened up there. Still lean scum, but less so now. I found the most recent post in the thread a very helpful summary of reads. As for other scum reads, I would say des and joey, but that could be just their styles of playing the game (with joey just being inactive which is very hypocritical I know but eh, sue me lol)
 
I don't know how Skipper's IRL is (he mentioned a phone ban going into place wherever he is), so I would leave him out of a shot pile for now and instead resolve the whole AirC/ShyPebble thing
 
Hi folks, sorry that I was absent for so long. I was busy for sure, but also, to keep it real with y’all I’m not really enjoying the game which means it’s hard to keep motivated lol. It’s no one’s fault, I think it’s just the format. Viva last game and Popcorn this game are different than any other mafia I’ve ever played before, and I’ve found I like traditional style the best. Also the back reading when you’re away for awhile is a killer. So yeah that’s my explanation for absence (and really I mean it when I say it’s no one’s fault I just don’t think I knew what I was signing up for <3)

Anyway, enough complaining…

Before I was tunneling hard on a fairy, but I’ve def softened up there. Still lean scum, but less so now. I found the most recent post in the thread a very helpful summary of reads. As for other scum reads, I would say des and joey, but that could be just their styles of playing the game (with joey just being inactive which is very hypocritical I know but eh, sue me lol)
yeah i kind of hate popcorn bc i just am constantly like 'why should i even say anything im just gonna get in some stupid argument and its not like ill convince anyone'
 
Hi folks, sorry that I was absent for so long. I was busy for sure, but also, to keep it real with y’all I’m not really enjoying the game which means it’s hard to keep motivated lol. It’s no one’s fault, I think it’s just the format. Viva last game and Popcorn this game are different than any other mafia I’ve ever played before, and I’ve found I like traditional style the best. Also the back reading when you’re away for awhile is a killer. So yeah that’s my explanation for absence (and really I mean it when I say it’s no one’s fault I just don’t think I knew what I was signing up for <3)

Anyway, enough complaining…

Before I was tunneling hard on a fairy, but I’ve def softened up there. Still lean scum, but less so now. I found the most recent post in the thread a very helpful summary of reads. As for other scum reads, I would say des and joey, but that could be just their styles of playing the game (with joey just being inactive which is very hypocritical I know but eh, sue me lol)

The problem is kinda that popcorn is designed to be a rapid paced game, you get the fun you shoot and we go next

People stalling out the shot for little reason when they aren’t stalling every time kills the momentum of the game which really hurts town and kinda sucks the enjoyment out of it

I will again suggest people that if you’re not super hard solving in thread and generating active content, to just shoot because we want the game to move on and you are definitely hurting town by killing all interest in the game and letting apathy build - more time does not mean more info and solving it oftentimes means less because people check out. Please just shoot!
 
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.
part 2

i like fairy’s recent readslist, her progression on skipper feels towny so i think shes fine for now. if fairy / skipper was scum / scum i dont think she would take such a hard defense

i like tommys point about phoopes being emotionally town so im gonna sheep that opinion, phoopes’ posting has seemed genuine so i like to think that they’re town.

im coming around to scum!texas though i still very slightly townlean them, and definitely don’t think they should be shot. they havent been contributing as much but it could be from town who just doesn’t feel like they have much control over the game. in fact i think texas not being as solvy is potentially a towntell since i wouldn’t expect scum!texas to just throw their hands up and let whatever happens happen
 
Ngl I've already done more this cycle than I intended to the entire game, I wasn't joking about afking and hip firing
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
 
they havent been contributing as much but it could be from town who just doesn’t feel like they have much control over the game. in fact i think texas not being as solvy is potentially a towntell since i wouldn’t expect scum!texas to just throw their hands up and let whatever happens happen
I'm not really sure what you're expecting, I think I've done quite a lot of solving and feel I have a fairly strong pulse on the game with how the flips have played out. I don't have the time to do full thread read deep dives anymore and I don't think they're good for scum hunting anymore until you have multiple scum flips anyway. I also don't particularly care about fairy SRing me when I think they're good odds to be maf anyway
 
I will reiterate, if you are holding the gun without engaging in discussion and letting the game stall out, you are actively helping mafia

Please shoot the gun if you aren’t trying to solve and engage with players, as soon as you have it

I feel like I’m in a dark souls one run back after every shot attempt, the 48 hours is an absolutely maximum to not make the game last forever, it’s not a target
 
I guess that is more confusing now that im thinking abt it cuz wouldn't AirC flipping maf say more abt Tommy (who pointed out the slip) or Celever (that they townread but said should be shot anyway) or at least I assume that's why AirC is being sussed
 
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'm pretty sure I sent a read list yesterday, I can go more in depth or do something else if you want, finishing some cleaning and I'll back read a bit
 
Sorry for the delay, I was watching a movie.
I wasn't stalling past a certain point I was just asleep

I feel weirder about skipper and dbd now that we've done this, dbd's sorta defense of him is nonsense considering the entire point of this excercise is to shoot an inactive

##SHOOT: FLANDRS

if this fails and I die shoot realiti thanks
Miyami~~~'s shot ricochets off a window frame, a street sign, and a lamppost back into her. StupidFlandrs48 picks up the gun.

It is now Cycle 5. Deadline is 10pm EDT on August 27. Timer.
 
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