Spectator Thread can i use words here? please tell me i can

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
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Fanto

Confirmed Town
Hi! Just got caught up, so big post, with TEXT!!!! I'm free from images!!
why is fanto role fishing
I legit thought that Ty and Mao were Masons overnight when I saw that post from Ty that I quoted, and then I was just super pumped when I saw that he flipped Mason and couldn't help but try to see if I was right lol.
Anyways I noticed Monkey's earlier hints about being a mason based on how she reacted to Ty4on being NK'd, so I'm willing to believe that claim for now.
Wait, SHE CLAIMED!?!?!
Yeah I'm not sure how I feel about gif mafia. On the one hand, it feels like an opportunity to have fun and be experimental and absurd (and in that sense I did have my fun), but in this game in particular it feels like people are fighting against the format and taking it too seriously and getting frustrated as a result?

Honestly, more than once I had the impression people would rather be playing regular mafia.
I mean, for me I guess it's about trying to express my thoughts as easily as possible using only gifs/images. There were a lot of times where I was struggling to think of how to convey a certain thought or a certain read on someone, and I think that challenge is what makes Gif Mafia actually more fun for me than a normal game. I'm definitely "fighting against the format" but that's kind of the point to me I suppose.
I kinda loved it, it was really fun trying to condense my thoughts into simple gifs and forcing myself to express something understandable.
Reading got much more gut and following the thread real time, ISOing was almost impossible lol
With some effort tho I could get thru stuff, esp using the old strategy of opening every page on desktop and going thru them.
This is also something I like, because honestly even though I do it a lot in normal games, I hate doing ISOs and painstakingly rereading posts and days, I like going with my gut and just "in the moment" reads.

I also think Gif is a lot more based on reading votes at the end of the day, which is something I need to get better at personally anyways, and today when I came in with my correct read list at the start of the day, that was all based on votes alone, so I feel good about that.
I thought that enlarging the game would be a good idea but it turned out to be bothersome to moderate. And while I thought beforehand that changing to C9++ would generate more discussion, it ended up doing that too much and I think the game was hard to follow for some, spectators and players alike.

If I ever run another game like this again, I'd change it to a smaller game (smaller than 2d3 if possible, even), and another thing I'd change is apply penalty for rulebreakers swiftly instead of giving reminders on and on and on, since that hasn't worked. Something like saying upfront "if you break any individual rule twice, you are modkilled/replaced".
Yeah I'm not going to lie, during D1 and D2, even though some of it might be able to be chalked up to "Monkey and Fanto in the same game" I did start thinking like, yeah, if there were less people, there would be a lot less posts being made here which is really more comfortable for everyone involved I think. The first games felt pretty good at 9 players, I think keep it at or around that as a maximum is probably for the best if you run another one. It sucks since it does seem to be pretty popular so not as many people can play, but I think it's for the best for everyone like you said.

Agreed about the rules as well. I would also maybe suggest players to use an addon that auto-uploads to imgur as well since I used one of those for this game and it helped me out a ton.
Go, Fanto! I believe in you!

Until tonight, when they kill you. :(
God, I wish they would have killed me, that end game was rough. I'm sorry I couldn't do it, I was trying really hard after you died, but I didn't have my best defense force for when people thought I was Scum anymore, which is your sick Town reads on me. :(
 

heymonkey

Known Roblox Expert
Staff member
God, I wish they would have killed me, that end game was rough. I'm sorry I couldn't do it, I was trying really hard after you died, but I didn't have my best defense force for when people thought I was Scum anymore, which is your sick Town reads on me. :(
It happens!

I doubted you at first but when you came screaming in with that prepared post, then I knew you were locked in as town. You can fake a pretyped but you were EXCITED and INVESTED and I haven't seen you fake that (yet).
 

Sawneeks

little green dog
:laughing:

My super ambitious N0 stuff was a secret code where dogs were scummy and cats were townie and a plan to split the player-base in half so we could focus on one each, I picked Sawneeks as the splitting point using the glover image lol

I made that dog gif as the first thing D1 combined with spamming I have no dog end of N0 as a start of “this is me lying to the thread” signal :P

having read the mason chat before this one when I got to that I just shook my head and laughed.

Saw and Capt maybe too weird and obvious for a team.
gonna tuck this little bit of info into my 'use when scum again' folder
 

Fanto

Confirmed Town
It happens!

I doubted you at first but when you came screaming in with that prepared post, then I knew you were locked in as town. You can fake a pretyped but you were EXCITED and INVESTED and I haven't seen you fake that (yet).
Making a big pretyped post with only gifs was a fun challenge haha. I was asking Pedro a bunch of questions overnight about how far I could go with custom images because I wanted to try condensing it as much as possible lol.
 

lokiduck

Awww yiss mothafuckin' breadcrumbs
Wait, SHE CLAIMED!?!?!

She sure did!

First hint I saw that she was Ty's partner was this:
giphy.gif
In response to his death.

Then this:


I may be wrong, but if I'm right, it was the only actual hint i picked up on besides all the vanilla claims. XD
 

cabot

Why.
I still don't understand why Nuevo survived this game.


Like the times he was under pressure all he did was flail around. It hurts.
 

Ty4on

The 4 is silent
I still don't understand why Nuevo survived this game.


Like the times he was under pressure all he did was flail around. It hurts.
Mafia are gonna protect him so you gotta work hard. Low hanging fruit are called that for a reason.
 

Ty4on

The 4 is silent
Looked through the browsing history on my desktop and sure enough the final post I made D1 about going after Retro tomorrow was the only post I made on a computer :D
 

heymonkey

Known Roblox Expert
Staff member
She sure did!

First hint I saw that she was Ty's partner was this:
In response to his death.

Then this:



I may be wrong, but if I'm right, it was the only actual hint i picked up on besides all the vanilla claims. XD
Yeah, the first was the hint and the second was full claim.
 

heymonkey

Known Roblox Expert
Staff member
I will say I think d2 was the worst day of mafia I've had in a very long time and I'm going to put myself in the corner and think about my life and my choices.
 

RetroMG

Bergentrukung
Staff member
OK, ya'll, I have many things to say.

I find it a bit weird Retro and Monkey are both town reading each other.
I WANTED to scumread Monkey, because I wanted to try to push her out early, but I was already going to be scumreading Neeks as a part of a sort of reverse-busing strategy, (throwing shade at her so she'd look more townie if/when I died,) and going after Sawneeks AND Monkey felt suicidal.

Also I'm sorry Pedro you keep having to tell the players to not break the rules D:
Hey real talk, Pedro, what do I get for being the only person you didn't have to yell at this game?

Yeah I'm not sure how I feel about gif mafia. On the one hand, it feels like an opportunity to have fun and be experimental and absurd (and in that sense I did have my fun), but in this game in particular it feels like people are fighting against the format and taking it too seriously and getting frustrated as a result?
So when Pedro invited me to the game, I wasn't going to join, but the verbage he used was, "Come post gifs and play around," and I thought, "Oh, yeah, that's cool, he's not expecting me to take this really seriously, I can go post some stupid gifs and probably die pointlessly and it will be a fun little diversion." I was gonna post gifs from r/gifrecipes with every vote. I was basically gonna be Blargonaut.
But then I rolled scum. And it's kind of a dick move to not take the game seriously when you're town, but it's a super dick move to do it when you're scum. That's ruining the game for everyone. So I decided to play seriously.

The Good Place and Brooklyn Nine Nine things were self imposed challenges :P I did break it several times on D1 and once on D2, but it was a fun limitation :D
I WANTED to do something like this, but I was going to rotate, and I was going to try to use gifs from things that I don't think a lot of people around here have watched. (Which was mostly going to be little kid shows from Netflix.) I was going to sprinkle in Alton Brown gifs, because it's me. But as I got invested in the game, I wound up just constantly googling the exact text of what I was trying to say and looking for any image that matched it.

Retro saying he’s busy working 3-4 posts in a row tho, that’s a cover :P
It was and it wasn't. The first time, I was actually trying to give a kind of inspiring town speech. "Don't panic, we've still got a lot of work to do."
The second time, I was trying to say, "Now I have to ignore the thread for a while because I'm at work and my boss is going to get mad if I don't at least look like I'm working."
Then I saw something I HAD to respond to, (don't remember what,) and then I was trying to say, "OK, now REALLY, I HAVE TO GO WORK NOW."
Then I got called on it, (By you?) and I wanted to respond, but I thought, "no, it's time to stop."

Could be but Retro’s votes have felt like kinda fumbly town to me. I’ve gone back and forth but I keep landing there.
I appreciate this, because honestly, "fumbly town" was exactly what I was trying to convey. Kind of dumb but very earnest.

did the day end 3 hours ago and no one pinged any of the game watchers? probably everyone was sleeping (like me), but lol
I was awake but I honestly completely missed that it was Turbo. TinyMG woke me up and I was looking at the thread for a second and thought, "Geno self-voted? Weird. Should I comment on it? No, it's 3am. Go back to bed."
Then I woke up the next morning and thought, "Wait, that was day end? What?"
 

RetroMG

Bergentrukung
Staff member
Also, I laughed really hard when I saw the scum team. I come back after years away from playing and Pedro puts me on a team with two of my best Mafia friends? Pedro, buddy, we gotta talk about your RNG procedure. ;)
 

Ty4on

The 4 is silent
I will say I think d2 was the worst day of mafia I've had in a very long time and I'm going to put myself in the corner and think about my life and my choices.
Don’t wanna toot my own horn too much, but townies are usually killed for a reason :D

I knew from that it was very likely at least one of my public reads were correct like Retro scum or Maol town.
 

Pedro

The Last Airbender is actually a great movie
So there were a lot of posts I didn't understand here, but one of the funniest/most confusing ones was this. What did you mean by this, Ty?



175 lbs??? :laughing:
 
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Pedro

The Last Airbender is actually a great movie
Also, I laughed really hard when I saw the scum team. I come back after years away from playing and Pedro puts me on a team with two of my best Mafia friends? Pedro, buddy, we gotta talk about your RNG procedure. ;)
I told the modchat that I had used all my luck on the 2 rolls: 1 for getting the role distribution (in a game with gifs I get to have *another* private chat where people are forced to talk through images? perfect!!), and another for giving the roles to the players.

Ty and Monkey were just as good as masons too, because I knew from past games where they have been lovers/gossips/etc. that they'd post a lot there.
 

Ty4on

The 4 is silent
So there were a lot of posts I didn't understand here, but one of the funniest/most confusing ones was this. What did you mean by this, Ty?




175 lbs??? :laughing:
I can explain every post if people need me to lol

That was linked to the post numbers that I posted later, 175 was the post where monkey iirc said Retro was townie, I misunderstood that as scummy at the time.

Post 69 btw is my favorite post lol
 

Pedro

The Last Airbender is actually a great movie
I can explain every post if people need me to lol

That was linked to the post numbers that I posted later, 175 was the post where monkey iirc said Retro was townie, I misunderstood that as scummy at the time.

Post 69 btw is my favorite post lol

OOOOOOHHHHHHH
 

Ty4on

The 4 is silent
I was really struggling to find something to express post numbers until I realized I could use bathroom scales for the early posts. I couldn't find something to link directly to Retro's post that I found scummy so I used 7 and 15 for my post 715 where I called him out.
Ideally I wanted something I could link directly to on imgur instead of reuploading random pictures from online.
 

RetroMG

Bergentrukung
Staff member
I was really struggling to find something to express post numbers until I realized I could use bathroom scales for the early posts. I couldn't find something to link directly to Retro's post that I found scummy so I used 7 and 15 for my post 715 where I called him out.
Ideally I wanted something I could link directly to on imgur instead of reuploading random pictures from online.
Now you got me curious what I said that was so scummy.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the bigger fish to fry thing. Yeah, I was kind of flailing.
 

Ty4on

The 4 is silent
Now you got me curious what I said that was so scummy.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the bigger fish to fry thing. Yeah, I was kind of flailing.
Yeah, I was like “Why not vote?” which is why I also posted that the good the bad and the ugly gif :P
 

RetroMG

Bergentrukung
Staff member
Yeah, I was like “Why not vote?” which is why I also posted that the good the bad and the ugly gif :P
That was day two, right? I didn't want to move off Fireblend and lose that momentum. I was trying to find a way to convey "Let's kill Fireblend today cause he's clearly scum, then Maol tomorrow 'cause he's also clearly scum, then Sawneeks cause she's probably scum."
EDIT: Looking back, I was also trying to say, "Sawneeks and Maol are both voting for Fireblend, which is weird because I think all three are scum, but the best way to unravel this mystery is going to be to go ahead and kill Fireblend and see what happens. If Febe is town, then Maol and Neeks are DEFINITELY scum."

Next time I play Mafia, I want to use words.
 

Natiko

Town's Friendly Neighborhood Serial Killer
That was day two, right? I didn't want to move off Fireblend and lose that momentum. I was trying to find a way to convey "Let's kill Fireblend today cause he's clearly scum, then Maol tomorrow 'cause he's also clearly scum, then Sawneeks cause she's probably scum."
EDIT: Looking back, I was also trying to say, "Sawneeks and Maol are both voting for Fireblend, which is weird because I think all three are scum, but the best way to unravel this mystery is going to be to go ahead and kill Fireblend and see what happens. If Febe is town, then Maol and Neeks are DEFINITELY scum."

Next time I play Mafia, I want to use words.
So you admit there will be a next time you play Mafia:eyes:
 

CaptainNuevo

MDTLA Enthusiast
Staff member
Someone, i don't remember if it was febe or cappa, said once "twitch clip mafia". And, that would never work because people can't hear audio at all times, but it would be worth it just for the extra reactions.

I'm personally offended anyone would suggest I would recommend anything that would line amazon with cash. (Also just to give credit to him, it would be Fireblend, or at least not me, and could be fun).

Capt was a wagon two days in a row and is a top target so you lynch him now and hopefully get two days where the mafia wagon was saved.

Hey now, that's not really true. I was a wagon 1 day, then took a break where I didn't vote (which somehow was never brought up) THEN wagoned again.
I see Saw, Retro, Fanto, Z-Beat, oh we missing Capt :laughing:
I was busy doing life things :D out and about in the world, and this game was hell to even look at on my laptop. I wasn't about to try loading a page on mobile data on the beach.

Also, I laughed really hard when I saw the scum team. I come back after years away from playing and Pedro puts me on a team with two of my best Mafia friends? Pedro, buddy, we gotta talk about your RNG procedure. ;)
Dawwwww. This was a fun scumteam. Would've been even better with words tho :P




ALSO When I said the 3 thing in D1 and someone called it a scumtell thing: I WAS SAYING 3 PEOPLE HAD VOTED FOR ME AND I WAS BREAKING A TIE >:(

Not outing the number of scum. That was pure coincidence.
 

RetroMG

Bergentrukung
Staff member
Dawwwww. This was a fun scumteam. Would've been even better with words tho :P

Honest truth, I was freaking out about being scum, because I've only ever been scum once* and I was *terrible* at it. But I had a good laugh when I saw the team and said, "Okay, maybe this will be all right."
Although right off the bat I assumed you and I were gonna die early and try to push Scumneeks to victory.

*Read "Prisoner's Dilemma," true believers! It wasn't technically a real Mafia game, but I was on the scum team. (And we won.)
 
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Sawneeks

little green dog
Don’t wanna toot my own horn too much, but townies are usually killed for a reason :D

I knew from that it was very likely at least one of my public reads were correct like Retro scum or Maol town.

Since the format of this game made it so expressing yourself clearly was hard I figured being bold in the NKs would work without scrutiny. And it did! I'm still glad people never looked back at who you or monkey were scumreading n_n;;
 
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