A memes to an end(Meme Mafia: Game Over)

[Li Syaoran]

In AD 2010, Mafia was beginning! What happen? Someone set up us the vote!

Take off every vote! Move vote! For great justice!

##Vote: C-C-Combo Breaker

Линч голос Вам!

Линч голосует тебя/вас!, you mean.

[Chad Hutchins]

Смотри, я включил его в Google Translate в порядке.

[Maya Kumashiro]

Yo dawg, I see you like Russian, so I put an English dictionary in your car so you can learn to speak English while you drive.

##Vote Soviet Russia

[Chiaki]

OH GOD SHIKI IS HOT

she's liek ON FIRE with her OH NOEZ NOT SERIOUSNESS

she is my new waifu and u know what real men do to their waifus!

##FAITHFUL HUSBAND DECLARATION BACKHAND: TOUHOU HIJACK

[Margaret Houlihan]

##Unvote: Lolcats
##Vote: Zerg Rush

srs bsns over nothing = bad. Not a strong case, just a Day One one.

In Mafia, Soviet Russia speaks English please? Is difficult enough making posts without having to translate previous ones first.

[Nathan Greaves]

Unfortunately, Aperture Science databases do not accept Cyrillic characters. This is not a leftover protocol from the Cold War. That is simply a lie spread around by the communists.

However, test subjects should have access to the Aperture Science Communist Communication Converter, better known nowadays as Google Translate. All he has posted so far is what appears to be the Soviet national anthem and 'look, I just run my posts through Google Translate'.

Zerg is being very unfriendly. Unfriendly players do not get cake when they win. You want cake, don't you?

My memory banks are scrambled. Are we still in the Aperture Science Salem-Endorsed Random Voting Stage? Because there seems to be a serious case rising against Zerg, but there are still random votes flying around. I would prefer not putting Zerg any closer to a lynch (and thereby risking vote abstensions) before these subjects can submit meaningful queries.

[Margaret Houlihan]

Vote is relatively serious, for clarification. Best case so far. This says little, and I'd be suspicious of anyone quick-lynching from here. Zerg are at L-4 still, so no risk of lynch yet.

[Over 9000]

##:Unvote: Zerg Rush

I see nothing wrong with Russia's opening post entirely being flavor; feh. It's no higher than power level 500! Hard to scout much this early.

[Over 9000]

Strangle: IE. Truly it's bullshit has always been over 9000!


Unvoted Zerg Rush; it looks like the joke vote phase is over and our demonic bug thingies already have several votes on them.

[Asuka Langley]

Well gee the joke phase is over, I guess that makes it okay to do nothing and express no opinion. Uh no.

##UNVOTE: ZERG RUSH
##VOTE: OVER 9000

The Koreans rub me the wrong way, but that was just plain bad.

[Nathan Greaves]

Unvoted Zerg Rush; it looks like the joke vote phase is over and our demonic bug thingies already have several votes on them.

You are voting nobody and doing nothing. This is not pro-Town action. Aperture Science protocol would normally give me authority to use the Aperture Science Gentle Coercion Cattle Prod at this point.

However, since there is no sign of an Aperture Science Gentle Coercion Cattle Prod, a vote will do.

##Unvote: TOUHOU HIJACK LOL
##Vote: Over 2328 9000

[Bill Hellsnake]

I can see why some might, misunderstand
And vote for those, who just pull ba~ack.
But do be warned that this, ain't a real te~ell.
To pick scum from bad town then you, need the fa~acts.

Scum's gotta keep those joke votes hot
Which nine thousand sure has not
Unlike Shiki and the Comrad
He hasn't even said a thing
Just stay neutral and sing.
Which I'm thinkin' is a sign that he's ba~ad.

##Unvote: XBox,  ##Vote: Soviet Russia

[Tohsaka Rin]

<flavor>
I still not liking goggies.  But time to get down to biznis.

</flavor>
##Unvote: Advice Dog
##Vote: Russia

Voting No Lynch is about as untowni as we can get.  Even in jest it sux.  Best to make a real vote (in propir lang, plz).

[Alice Margatroid]

A good day to you all. Mistress Remilia has asked me to weigh in on the matters at hand in her stead, as she is quite busy. I am here and ready to serve as necessary.

I see a few curiosities, though none so subtle that others have not already picked up on them. It is a little hard to make a choice over what is worse, the active choice to be neutral (the Red) or the passive choice to be neutral (the large number). If Mistress Remilia ordered me to make a choice, though, I would definitely say the active choice is worse, as the passive choice may just be a result of lack of confidence in making a decision. (Not to say this is a good thing in any way, of course.) The Scarlet Devil Mansion officially requests the Red stop tainting our good color, as well as an explanation for why he deemed it prudent to make a choice known universally to be anti-town.

I trust the yama's decision to be made in the interests of all of us, however, and will not take her vote away from the insect masses. Not before we hear the Red's explanations, anyway.

[VySaika]

Much thanks to Snowfire for covering votes for me yesterday.

VOTECOUNT
Zerg Rush: (3) - Over 9000, Advice Dog, O R'LYEH!? Touhou Hijacker, Demotivator
OVER 9000: (9004) - Touhou Hijacker, Hueg Like XBOX, Boxxy, Advice Dog, The Cake is a Lie
OH GOD SHANA IS HOT (0) - Zerg Rush
Touhou Hijack LOL (2) - The Cake is a Lie, 2girls1cup, Shana
Advice Dog: (1) - Advice Dog, lolcat, Zerg Rush
lolcat: (0)- Demotivator
Hueg Like XBOX: (0) - Rick Astley
All Your Base: (1) - C-C-Combo Breaker
COMBO BREAKER: (1) - All Your Base
Soviet Russia: (3) - Yo Dawg, Rick Astley, lolcat
No lynch: (1) - Soviet Russia

Some whole bunch of hours remain in day 1. With 17 active memes, it takes 9 votes to axe someone in the face.

[Zerg Rush]

KEKE! KEKE!

Lolz, nooblets, QQ about one strange, early game vote then QQ about someone voting for srs on one strange early game vote. GG.

L2CONSISTENCY, kk? Lulz, voting over srs Mafia. Game has to start sometime, nublets, and one dumb vote from a terribad is still one dumb vote from a terribad.

KEKE! KEKEKEKE! KEKEKEKE! KEKEKEKE!

If ur srs no lynch is bad and ur a quitter terribad too. Besides, in Korea, we hate Russian anyway. Just as useless as as self vote, and slightly worse looking. Might as well tech pure medic, mirite?

CA-KEKE! CA-KEKEKEKE!

lol, wimp. Zerg rushes are srs bsns, as are mafia. If Apeture Science Vessel Cake Liar have case u push case, u don't just go 'lolz look he losing and bad so I not vote cause we'll accidentally day one lynch.'

KEKEKEKE! KEKEKEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKEKEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKEKEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKE! KEKEKEKE! KEKE!

Opinionless noob looks worst to me. OVER 9000? Moar like OVER-LY USELESS, mirite? He's all "u all are going on the attack, so I gonna tech up like scrub in meanwhile, kk?" L2haveopinion.

##Unvote: Advice Dog
##Vote: OVER 9000

Still like Advice Dog less then siege tanks for lulz bad dumb vote, but like OVER 9000 less for lulz lack of opinion. Reds are also bads for not wanting to play game and need to explain themselves 2.

[Helga Pataki]

"Right. Clarice is still out, so I'll be the one commenting here. And, seriously, people? Laughing off Advice Dog as a - hold on, what's the term... Jokevote! And then going off and accusing Soviet Russia? I mean, don't get me wrong, no supporter of communism here, no sirree, but that strikes me as rather questionable thinking.

"Of the people that did that: Rick Astley seems to sing about how deplorable Over 9000 is, but then votes... Soviet Russia. Uh huh. lolcats, in addition to being the bad news bear of allergies everywhere, votes Soviet Russia, but at least they also found Advice Dog suspicious. Both seem to me to be jokevote thingies, tho. Zerg Rush is terribad- I mean Zerg Rush is at least commenting there, too. Of the three, then, I think I can vote one meme in good conscience to the Great Axe, The Eternal (GATE)."

##Unvote: TOUHOU HIJACK LOL
##Vote: Rick Astley

"Besides, Jameson did that meme better. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go fill a cup up and pour it over Miss Sleeping Beauty here-

"... You perverts."

"Oh, and one more thing. Over 9000 may be suspicious for not having a vote down, but someone else pulled the same thing. Milhouse is Not A Meme Is A Meme, anyone? While I'll agree Over 9000 is more suspicious due to circumstances - Milhouse being firmly ensconced in Jokevote Time, for one, while for Over 9000 it's arguable not, and they could easily have chosen to put their vote elsewhere. But for now, I want want answers out of one man. RICK ASTLEY. First, I will woo him.

"...and if that fails I'll just kidnap him and get the information out of him. Mebbe shave his head bald, see if he stops singing."

[Nathan Greaves]

lol, wimp. Zerg rushes are srs bsns, as are mafia. If Apeture Science Vessel Cake Liar have case u push case, u don't just go 'lolz look he losing and bad so I not vote cause we'll accidentally day one lynch.'

Placing you too close to lynch would give test subjects an excuse to refrain from voting your case. There are several subjects who have still not commented, and keeping you distant from the Aperture Science Fifteen-Hundred-Megawatt Super-Comfortable Electric Chair means people cannot make their first post something along the lines of 'Zerg is bad, but he's at L-whatever so I'm not voting'. The vote on Touhou Hijack was semi-serious because at the time her jump on Zerg seemed reactionary. Given his (their?) recent AtE though, I am uncertain again. I will think it over as I dine on this lovely cake which no-one else can have. <3

Russia's No Lynch processes as a jokevote to me. 9000 is worse for jokevoting, then unvoting and doing nothing.

[Tohsaka Rin]

Jist to clarify the sickmeme's comment about my votes, the goggie was jokevote (*evil Iz to goggie, tho, goggies evile*), but my vote to Russia was a pressure vote to actually move out of a jokevote that is not town-friendly.  When you don't know who all is scum and who is town, voting for anyone is fine for your first vote.  It's sort of why the jokevote phase exists.  But a No Lynch is never town-helpful.  Just wanting that jokevote off the board now that serius bsns has begun.

Plus, I'm all fer da memspeak, but zerg, english a bit moar, pleez.  I find it hard to read yer posts.

[Bill Hellsnake]

Don't want to break your sweet, sweet heart, Hazel.  So here's my thinking for all to see.

I don't find 9k+ to be that bad.  Mostly, it's because he's at least noticing that we've moved on.  But Shiki, Cats (non lol), and Comrad Ivan there all seem to be missing the point.

Now, why Boris instead of Moose and Squirrel?  Because there's nothing in his post.  Just some singing.  Take a look at everyone else, they're even loading up the bandwagons fast and furious, and this guy refuses to do even that.

Though, yeah, thanks for pointing out Milhouse.  About as bad, just not as many snazzy links.

[Alice Margatroid]

Hazel, I believe Astley's attempts at aural wordplay have made his communication sufficiently unclear that you misunderstand what he says. Astley does not condemn 9001; rather, he posits that scum's best interest would be to maintain the "joke vote phase" and then declares that 9001 does not do that. By my estimate, he is voting Soviet Russia for Soviet Russia's continuation of nonseriousness and No Lynch vote. I will admit that his post took several study sessions to understand fully, but he does not appear to be guilty of the crimes you accuse him of.

A ninja by the man in question confirming my suspicions. It is always nice to see when one is correct, even when it happens as many times as it does for me.

Wait, my records indicate that the entity known as "Hazel" was playing in the last game as well. Is there some unfamiliar sorcery behind her return and apparent metamorph from the lagomorph form? This curiosity requires further research.

Cake, while I suppose it is possible that Soviet Russia's vote is his own continuation of the joke vote phase, it is atill anti-town behavior, as the cat has already explained. I also take some issue with this:

Placing you too close to lynch would give test subjects an excuse to refrain from voting your case. There are several subjects who have still not commented, and keeping you distant from the Aperture Science Fifteen-Hundred-Megawatt Super-Comfortable Electric Chair means people cannot make their first post something along the lines of 'Zerg is bad, but he's at L-whatever so I'm not voting'.

Is this not exactly what you yourself are doing? There is no logical reason to be afraid of voting for anyone when the vote does not push them to at least the L-1 threshhold, as a coordinated lynch rush would be spotted immediately and rightfully burned. Your vote would have only placed Zerg Rush at L-3, which is no major worry, and even leaves open another vote window before we start wandering into worrisome territory. Hypocrisy is bad. ##Unvote, ##Vote: The Cake Is A Lie

lolcat, your catness rating is 91/96.

[Over 9000]

There were four votes on Zerg Rush during the jokevote phase.  That kind of train forming that quickly made me uncomfortable; thus the switch.  That human loving soviet may have made a bad, bad choice with a joke no lynch vote, but it was still his first vote in the game. So meh, I donno. Tho, the game being out of the joke phase is good, as no scouter made can translate flavor text into meaningful contributions.

Is this not exactly what you yourself are doing? There is no logical reason to be afraid of voting for anyone when the vote does not push them to at least the L-1 threshhold, as a coordinated lynch rush would be spotted immediately and rightfully burned. Your vote would have only placed Zerg Rush at L-3, which is no major worry, and even leaves open another vote window before we start wandering into worrisome territory. Hypocrisy is bad. ##Unvote, ##Vote: The Cake Is A Lie

Someone picked up nearly half the lynch votes they needed in joke time; it's enough for that to build into something out of thin air. I can't say I'm thrilled with Zerg Rush's heavy use of slang,  as it makes makes for difficult reading. That still doesn't mean I want to put that kind of pressure in play before everyone's had a chance to weigh in and post in the non joke phase.

I'd like to give a little more time before calling out lurkers for hiding under the scouter, but the game's a moving! It does town no good if we sit and argue about who's power level is mightier while those of less mighty town levels sit and watch.

[Over 9000]

*I'd like to give a little more time before calling out lurkers/people still in the joke vote phase for hiding under the scouter, to get the game a'moving. Blah.

[Tron Bonne]

Sorta sums up how my head is currently.

Okay, let's start: Soviet Russia, is the usage of a language just about none of us can understand a straight-up posting restriction? I'll assume not -quite-, because having a player we can't understand ever without resorting to Google Translator would plain suck - but this is a bit of a step below even stuff like Boxxyposting. Also, I have to note on this from the Slingshot Girls:

"Oh, and one more thing. Over 9000 may be suspicious for not having a vote down, but someone else pulled the same thing. Milhouse is Not A Meme Is A Meme, anyone? While I'll agree Over 9000 is more suspicious due to circumstances - Milhouse being firmly ensconced in Jokevote Time, for one, while for Over 9000 it's arguable not, and they could easily have chosen to put their vote elsewhere.

Way to overread into me not liking jokevoting. I always hated jokevote phase, and don't like simply placing votes just for placeholdering when there's absolutely -nothing- going on - like it just about always does in the earliest stages of day 1 jokevoting. Now I look bad simply because I didn't place a vote in a phase where just about every movement is nearly meaningless until somebody screws up and makes for the easy train at the worst day in the game? I'll admit I could've been more contributive by now, but I was hoping the day 1 syndrome of sucking ass, joke phase or no joke phase, would cut back a bit after the first 24 hours or so. It kinda didn't, so may as well dive in anyway. At least, joke phase is over.

And, if this doesn't make it clear, I don't think Over 9000's movement is a reason to go hysterical about either - doesn't look great, sure, but the voting drives feel mostly led by mass hysteria right now, and that's just fucking -great- when you're trying to actually catch scum, much like sprinkling lemon and pepper on a wound is great when you want it to stop hurting.

So, for general thoughts: I have no idea on how to read Zerg Rush going KEKEKEKEKEKEKE on Advice Dog's jokevote other than "dear christ prozac exists okay". It's scary that a train formed so quickly over that, but day 1 cases. Slingshot Girls' case on Rickroll has been mostly clarified as a misread. Besides that, only Over 9000/Cake/Touhoulolz/cheezburger/Dog/Zerg have been even active besides people already mentioned. I'm just not happy with any of the trains presented right now, but I'd be even less happy with a no-lynch day. Which, by the way, I'd like Soviet Russia to clarify whether he actually meant as a joke or not  - and what does he hope to accomplish with a no-lynch if this is serious.

##VOTE: Soviet Russia

Consider this a pressure vote, if anything else.

[Nathan Greaves]

Is this not exactly what you yourself are doing? There is no logical reason to be afraid of voting for anyone when the vote does not push them to at least the L-1 threshhold, as a coordinated lynch rush would be spotted immediately and rightfully burned. Your vote would have only placed Zerg Rush at L-3, which is no major worry, and even leaves open another vote window before we start wandering into worrisome territory. Hypocrisy is bad.

At that point several test subjects had yet to produce even a jokevote, let alone a genuine vote. Milhouse at least posted, but there was nothing of the Rapper of Redundancies or Shana's stalker. Forcing a D1 case which could easily have been an effort to get the day started threatens to break the Aperture Science 'Speak Sense and Stay Standing' protocol and to reduce the day to 1 case.

On that note, the players mentioned above have yet to offer useful contributions. I may still have some cake crumbs to offer you if you post something useful.