Scummies Nominations 2023!

[Firebringer]

2nd it.
That game plus Legends of the Buisness Company I think definitely qualify Glimli for a Don Corleone nomination.

[Datisi]

Moment of Brilliance
2023/03/24	Datisi	Aristeia	Hollow Knight Mafia	yes, i know this game ended in a loss for town, but i think ari's contribution to this game has made it a grueling marathon for the last scum, as opposed to an utter scum sweep. ari helped vote out scum on day 1. ari was a lazy tracker this game. when i was making the setup, i thought of the role as fairly weak. after all, it's a large game, hitting the exact scum that's performing the kill is difficult. and besides, scum has a non-consecutive activated ascetic. no way the tracker ever gets anything useful here, right? right... on night 1, the ascetic scum was performing the kill. except they didn't use the ascetic. they were neighbours with the flipped scum, surely people would townread them for that, right? well, people did townread them. except for ari, who tracked them to the failed nightkill on night 1. and then she casually tracked another scum to the nightkill on night 2. scum that was in a relatively good position, that she had a pet scumread on since day 1.

[redFF]

3rd gimli insane performance

[Klick]

Nth Gimli

Extremely well played.

[Thestatusquo]

Goodfellas
2023/03/24	Datisi	Gimli	Hollow Knight Mafia	where to start with this one. first, look at the list of dead players: Spoiler: after one mafia member fell day 1, disaster struck on night 1 and night 2. town's tracker ended up getting a guilty two nights in a row. the guiltied scum were in a relatively good position, one of them was being cleared on the basis of being a neighbour with a flipped scum, and they were also an activated ascetic that ended up not activating on the night he got guiltied. another issue was that by the time shea was guiltied, gimli had already locked himself into his claim - nailsmith, a role that can forge a vig shot on one night, then vend that vig shot to another player. gimli was not able to multitask. so - asri, misty, and black's deaths? those were vig shots . gimli was forced into no-killing multiple nights in a row just to keep his claim alive and not be outed as scum. it took over a month from shea's execution for the game to end. and he did it. the madman did it. going from being heavily suspected in the early days, to pocketing just about everyone alive. even at endgame, when mechanics were heavily pointing towards him, his towniness made town come up with incredible mechanical reasons for why someone else is scum, from traitor jailkeepers to multitasking public messengers to odd-night killing traitors and whatever else was there. morning tweet was voted out while there was a hard inno result claimed on her.

In the game of Mafia, a hero did rise,
Gimli, the dwarf, with a gleam in his eyes,
His teammates were gone, taken out by surprise,
But Gimli still stood, determined and wise.

With cunning and wit, he played the game well,
Fooling the others with a convincing sell,
He laid out his case, with a confident spell,
And in the end, the town believed him well.

With a scummy award, he was crowned,
Gimli's victory was profound,
A lone wolf, but not unbound,
A master of Mafia, to be renowned.

So let us all cheer for Gimli, the one,
Who played with skill and got the job done,
He proved that in Mafia, even when alone,
Victory is possible, with a heart like stone.

Which is to say:

Nth

[IceDragon70]

Nth Gimli

Extremely well played.

What does nth mean? I can't find it explained anywhere.

[Ydrasse]

if you nth a non you’re also giving it a show of support without writing up an additional post/nom.

[Pink Ball]

Think it as “second” or “seconded”. So the internet slang became “2nd”, “3rd”, “4th”,… “nth”

[IceDragon70]

Think it as “second” or “seconded”. So the internet slang became “2nd”, “3rd”, “4th”,… “nth”

Ohhhhh okay, ty!

[Aisa]

Kodak Moment
2023/03/26	Aisa	Malakittens	For killing her teammate in HMS Mutiny. With this message.	Malakittens was a Traitor who did not know the rest of her team in this game (I am told the technical mafia.gg term is "Non-meeting Mafia"). At the start of the game, she fakeclaimed a different role, causing some players to townread her. Others yet started townreading her for her posting. There was one notable exception... her (unbeknownst to her) teammate Enchant, who started questioning her claim. Now... Mala had a one-shot killing ability. I received this action submission on N2. She ended up causing the only scum death until Day 5 .

I'm gonna write up a couple nominations I've been meaning to do over the next few hours/days - here is one
Shoutout to Mala for saying I could share the PM (over a month ago, rip)!!

Edited to sneak in an extra detail I had forgotten

[Gimli]

Kodak Moment
2023/03/26	Aisa	Malakittens	For killing her teammate in HMS Mutiny. With this message.	Malakittens was a Traitor who did not know the rest of her team in this game (I am told the technical mafia.gg term is "Non-meeting Mafia"). At the start of the game, she fakeclaimed a different role, causing some players to townread her. Others yet started townreading her for her posting. There was one notable exception... her (unbeknownst to her) teammate Enchant, who started questioning her claim. Now... Mala had a one-shot killing ability. I received this action submission on N2.

I'm gonna write up a couple nominations I've been meaning to do over the next few hours/days - here is one
Shoutout to Mala for saying I could share the PM (over a month ago, rip)!!

seconded, the nail to the coffin on those poor townies

[Gimli]

Mad Scientist
2023/03/19	DragonEater70	Korina	Weird Dreams Mafia	This game had such amazingly done mechanics, it was actually incredible. FIrst of all, the Nightmare mechanic was just fantastic. It was so fun having a PT to get voted into and to do speculation of what invention would be best to give, but none of the inventions felt over- or under-powered. Second, the Falsely Prophetic Fridge was such a cool bastard concept. Like it was such an awesome source of misinformation. It's a real shame the game got thrown, but I think Korina does deserve the award. I would love to play another game with similar mechanics so much!

seconded!

[Gimli]

Moment of Brilliance
2023/03/24	Datisi	Aristeia	Hollow Knight Mafia	yes, i know this game ended in a loss for town, but i think ari's contribution to this game has made it a grueling marathon for the last scum, as opposed to an utter scum sweep. ari helped vote out scum on day 1. ari was a lazy tracker this game. when i was making the setup, i thought of the role as fairly weak. after all, it's a large game, hitting the exact scum that's performing the kill is difficult. and besides, scum has a non-consecutive activated ascetic. no way the tracker ever gets anything useful here, right? right... on night 1, the ascetic scum was performing the kill. except they didn't use the ascetic. they were neighbours with the flipped scum, surely people would townread them for that, right? well, people did townread them. except for ari, who tracked them to the failed nightkill on night 1. and then she casually tracked another scum to the nightkill on night 2. scum that was in a relatively good position, that she had a pet scumread on since day 1.

also definitely seconding this.

[Aisa]

Moment of Brilliance
2023/04/23	Aisa	Radical Rat	HMS Mutiny	We're continuing on the trend of nominating townies for losing performances. Radical Rat played well in what was overall a very tough game for Town. The Town generally struggled to untangle all the claims made by the scumteam: Elements escaped early elimination by claiming a fancy Vanilla Cop and was often believed. Malakittens accidentally poisoned her own teammate, a member of the scumteam; she claimed the kill, making her even more townread than she already was. Many townies tried to make heads or tails of the PR claims, mostly unsuccessfully. After Mala claimed the kill on scum, I thought that would essentially be the nail in the coffin for town, that at best they were eventually going to catch Elements. That is, until RR perfectly identified Malakittens as a Traitor with a sequence of posts (1, 2, 3) in a literal moment of brilliance. In mafia, it's one thing to have a good idea, it's another altogether to stick to it; RR did almost perfectly for the rest of the game. At most times the scumteam looked favoured to win the game; RR's solve made scum's job harder, and made me question if maybe, just maybe, Town didn't still have a chance... in 4v3 ELO.

...I'm sure there were other things I could have said but I cannot remember them now.
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seconded, the nail to the coffin on those poor townies

yeah so I hear

[Aisa]

Hannibal Lecter
2023/04/03	Aisa	Imaginality	Mini Theme 2290: Open ChatGPT	Imaginality won this game with an admirable performance as a 1-shot Bulletproof SK. He did attract some early attention (1, 2), but it was nothing he couldn't shake off, and it positioned him well to slip unnoticed through Days 2 and 3. In a game with 3 killing roles besides himself and a Jailkeeper, he managed to dodge all Night Actions. On Day 3, two townies had both softed power roles, one of them claiming they could clear a third town slot. Luck was definitely involved, but Imag managed to predict which PR we would kill as scum and killed off the other PR, putting us in one of the few scenarios that was not an auto-loss for Mafia and SK alike. The masterstroke was definitely his play on Day 4, in 3v1v1. Imag took control of the narrative, for example advocating that we let the confirmed townie suggest the elimination. He correctly identified my slot as the remaining scum slot and cased us relentlessly in a way that had me completely paralysed. He made us look bad enough that I'm not sure I could have gotten an elimination through on him even if I had realised he was the SK. Which I didn't; I suspected both the two other unconfirmed townies of being the 3rd party above him. It's clear Imag put a significant amount of thought into the game. I had the help of two hydra partners and still personally found it exhausting, at times, to push miseliminations and optimise Night Actions. Imaginality did it all by himself and made it look easy. Conflict of interest: still shocked outraged and bedazzled by him being the SK.

[Alianna]

I'm still a little salty lol, but

nth imaginality

. It was a deserved win.

[Alianna]

nth Radical Rat

too.

[RH9]

Hannibal Lecter
2023/04/03	Aisa	Imaginality	Mini Theme 2290: Open ChatGPT	Imaginality won this game with an admirable performance as a 1-shot Bulletproof SK. He did attract some early attention (1, 2), but it was nothing he couldn't shake off, and it positioned him well to slip unnoticed through Days 2 and 3. In a game with 3 killing roles besides himself and a Jailkeeper, he managed to dodge all Night Actions. On Day 3, two townies had both softed power roles, one of them claiming they could clear a third town slot. Luck was definitely involved, but Imag managed to predict which PR we would kill as scum and killed off the other PR, putting us in one of the few scenarios that was not an auto-loss for Mafia and SK alike. The masterstroke was definitely his play on Day 4, in 3v1v1. Imag took control of the narrative, for example advocating that we let the confirmed townie suggest the elimination. He correctly identified my slot as the remaining scum slot and cased us relentlessly in a way that had me completely paralysed. He made us look bad enough that I'm not sure I could have gotten an elimination through on him even if I had realised he was the SK. Which I didn't; I suspected both the two other unconfirmed townies of being the 3rd party above him. It's clear Imag put a significant amount of thought into the game. I had the help of two hydra partners and still personally found it exhausting, at times, to push miseliminations and optimise Night Actions. Imaginality did it all by himself and made it look easy. Conflict of interest: still shocked outraged and bedazzled by him being the SK.

Nth.

[Porkens]

Mad Scientist
2023/03/19	DragonEater70	Korina	Weird Dreams Mafia	This game had such amazingly done mechanics, it was actually incredible. FIrst of all, the Nightmare mechanic was just fantastic. It was so fun having a PT to get voted into and to do speculation of what invention would be best to give, but none of the inventions felt over- or under-powered. Second, the Falsely Prophetic Fridge was such a cool bastard concept. Like it was such an awesome source of misinformation. It's a real shame the game got thrown, but I think Korina does deserve the award. I would love to play another game with similar mechanics so much!

seconded!

NTH

Hannibal Lecter
2023/04/03	Aisa	Imaginality	Mini Theme 2290: Open ChatGPT	Imaginality won this game with an admirable performance as a 1-shot Bulletproof SK. He did attract some early attention (1, 2), but it was nothing he couldn't shake off, and it positioned him well to slip unnoticed through Days 2 and 3. In a game with 3 killing roles besides himself and a Jailkeeper, he managed to dodge all Night Actions. On Day 3, two townies had both softed power roles, one of them claiming they could clear a third town slot. Luck was definitely involved, but Imag managed to predict which PR we would kill as scum and killed off the other PR, putting us in one of the few scenarios that was not an auto-loss for Mafia and SK alike. The masterstroke was definitely his play on Day 4, in 3v1v1. Imag took control of the narrative, for example advocating that we let the confirmed townie suggest the elimination. He correctly identified my slot as the remaining scum slot and cased us relentlessly in a way that had me completely paralysed. He made us look bad enough that I'm not sure I could have gotten an elimination through on him even if I had realised he was the SK. Which I didn't; I suspected both the two other unconfirmed townies of being the 3rd party above him. It's clear Imag put a significant amount of thought into the game. I had the help of two hydra partners and still personally found it exhausting, at times, to push miseliminations and optimise Night Actions. Imaginality did it all by himself and made it look easy. Conflict of interest: still shocked outraged and bedazzled by him being the SK.

NTH

[SirCakez]

Goodfellas
2023/03/24	Datisi	Gimli	Hollow Knight Mafia	where to start with this one. first, look at the list of dead players: Spoiler: after one mafia member fell day 1, disaster struck on night 1 and night 2. town's tracker ended up getting a guilty two nights in a row. the guiltied scum were in a relatively good position, one of them was being cleared on the basis of being a neighbour with a flipped scum, and they were also an activated ascetic that ended up not activating on the night he got guiltied. another issue was that by the time shea was guiltied, gimli had already locked himself into his claim - nailsmith, a role that can forge a vig shot on one night, then vend that vig shot to another player. gimli was not able to multitask. so - asri, misty, and black's deaths? those were vig shots . gimli was forced into no-killing multiple nights in a row just to keep his claim alive and not be outed as scum. it took over a month from shea's execution for the game to end. and he did it. the madman did it. going from being heavily suspected in the early days, to pocketing just about everyone alive. even at endgame, when mechanics were heavily pointing towards him, his towniness made town come up with incredible mechanical reasons for why someone else is scum, from traitor jailkeepers to multitasking public messengers to odd-night killing traitors and whatever else was there. morning tweet was voted out while there was a hard inno result claimed on her.

very late but nth this. i was on this team and literally no one thought we had a chance to win this after the disastrous start but Gimli totally pulled it out.

Moment of Brilliance
2023/03/24	Datisi	Aristeia	Hollow Knight Mafia	yes, i know this game ended in a loss for town, but i think ari's contribution to this game has made it a grueling marathon for the last scum, as opposed to an utter scum sweep. ari helped vote out scum on day 1. ari was a lazy tracker this game. when i was making the setup, i thought of the role as fairly weak. after all, it's a large game, hitting the exact scum that's performing the kill is difficult. and besides, scum has a non-consecutive activated ascetic. no way the tracker ever gets anything useful here, right? right... on night 1, the ascetic scum was performing the kill. except they didn't use the ascetic. they were neighbours with the flipped scum, surely people would townread them for that, right? well, people did townread them. except for ari, who tracked them to the failed nightkill on night 1. and then she casually tracked another scum to the nightkill on night 2. scum that was in a relatively good position, that she had a pet scumread on since day 1.

also Nth this. curse you for your accurate tracking Aristeia!

[T-Bone]

Community Contributor
2023/05/04	T-Bone	Thestatusquo	Shea pushed forth an initiative that was long overdue, sending out an email to our member list inviting them back to the site. I think this was ultimately a success as countless users have returned to the community in some capacity, either via the discord, and even some mafia games. This was especially helpful because many returning players signed up for Team Mafia. Without Shea's skills in this task, it would not have gotten done because no one on the current mod team had the necessary skills or knowledge to push this through.

[redFF]

2nd

[imaginality]

Nth

[Umlaut]

nth Thestatusquo

[TemporalLich]

nth Thestatusquo