User:StrangerCoug

StrangerCoug

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It's a mad world, my friends, and you're in for one HELL of a ride!

About the StrangerCoug

Note that the word "the" is not officially part of my user name and is therefore lowercase unless it starts a sentence, and it is incorrect to address me as "the StrangerCoug". It is acceptable to refer to me as "the StrangerCoug", however.

My name is Jeffrey Hope. I was born on December 26, 1989 in Virginia Beach, VA, but I grew up in El Paso, TX and still live there. Sometimes I think I want to get out of here—I'm so bored of this place! In fact, anytime I'm more than 50 miles away, I'm happy.

I first played Mafia as a forum game on a site called Rooster Teeth. I've made myself quite an established presence there, playing every round except for the first, though I am currently trying to get to be the game moderator there. When I came over to MafiaScum (via my browsing around on Wikipedia) and signed up on May 6, 2008, one of the biggest things I noticed different is that, on MafiaScum, all votes are viewable to the public and can be changed by the person making them. On Rooster Teeth you had to send a PM to the game moderator, and once he recorded it you were not allowed to change it (as far as I know, anyway). I'm still trying to cope with the differences, but I think I'm getting the hang of it now.

Origin of the name

As I said, I first played Mafia on Rooster Teeth. The first time I signed up as StrangerCoug was on there. As seems to be commonplace on that site, most usernames have something to do with one of the machinima series, especially Red vs. Blue. Only the former was true in my case: my addiction was to The Strangerhood since, when I started watching the videos and visiting the site, I didn't have a computer that would work with The Sims 2. When I finally decided to join their forums, I implemented the fact that I liked those videos in my user name by making it a portmanteau of that and my high school mascot, which happened to be the cougar. I tried to make my name StrangerCougar, but the site only allowed names to be a 12-letter maximum. I left it as what could fit, and on December 30, 2005, the name as we know it was born.

MafiaScum.net Stats

Record

The 4 games I'm playing in where I'm still alive and the 0 games I found myself in that were abandoned are not counted below. The 5 games I am or was in that are still in progress do not appear in the win/loss record.

Win/Loss Record

Alignment	Wins	Losses	Draws	Total
Town	0	0	0	0
Scum	0	0	0	0
Neutral	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0

Result Record

Alignment	Lynched	Killed	Endgamed	Survived	Other	Total
Town	1	0	0	0	0	1
Scum	0	0	—	0	0	0
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	1	0	0	0	0	1

Games

All dates and times are Mountain Time unless otherwise stated.

Newbie
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Role and Alignment	Player Status	Game status
Newbie 614	Thok	2008-05-18	Still in progress	—	—	Vanilla, Townie	Lynched Day 1	Day 2
Mini Normal
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Role and Alignment	Player Status	Game status
Mini 591	somestrangeflea	2008-04-24	Still in progress	PsychoBob during Day 1	—	Unknown	Still alive	Day 2
Open 72	Selande	2008-05-12	Still in progress	ya_its_me during confirmation stage	—	Unknown	Still alive	Day 2
Mini 601	Incognito	2008-05-21	Still in progress	—	—	Unknown	Still alive	Day 1
Mini Theme
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Role and Alignment	Player Status	Game status
None	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Large Normal
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Role and Alignment	Player Status	Game status
Mafia 79	xyzzy	2008-04-12	Still in progress	Evilgorillaz during Night 2	—	Unknown	Still alive	Day 3
Large Theme
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Role and Alignment	Player Status	Game status
None	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Mafia games outside MafiaScum.net

I do play Mafia on sites other than MafiaScum. Those recorded below:

Rooster Teeth

This is the site I played Mafia on before I came here (and I still play on RT). It took awhile to adapt to the site because of several major differences between the game there and here, most notably:

• The game pace is much faster on Rooster Teeth. From the start of the game day to the next one is usually three or four days (formerly one week).
• The first two rounds were night starts, but every round since then has been a day start.
• The cop and bodyguard (actually more like the Doc by MafiaScum terminology) are known in advance, cannot be killed, and are necessarily sane. For the purposes of the game record below, they are pro-town, and the Mafia winning when I was cop or bodyguard are scored as being "endgamed".
• Replacement players do not exist.
• Voting is private. Once a vote is made, it cannot be retracted for that day.
• The player distribution used to be fixed at 10 vanilla townies (called civilians on Rooster Teeth), 10 mafia, the cop, and the bodyguard. This is no longer true as of Round 3 for obvious reasons.
• It is possible for players to get hints from other player's posts in thread; however, the majority of the hints come from the storyline, which in turn often involve the profiles of those playing. The most helpful hints are the cop investigations given the information in the third bullet above.¹
• Speaking of the story lines, they are often longer and much more detailed than those found on MafiaScum.

I'd post links to the start and end of each game, but linking to the site sets off the spam filter, and using different sub-domains doesn't solve the problem. As compensation, I used post numbers from the game thread instead. Click on the link to the Wikipedia article on Rooster Teeth above, then click on the link to Rooster Teeth itself, then click on "The Forum" under "Community", then click on "Forum Games" under "Rock Bottom", then look for the Mafia thread in there.

¹ I currently believe the fact that I specifically edited this page to say that I was investigated by the cop and revealed as Mafia in the post saying so caused Mr. Flay to believe I was giving information outside the thread that I wasn't allowed to. This section was rewritten in the hopes of helping clear up confusion with him, and any investigations on me by the cop is given a post number in the Role and Alignment column as proof.

Record

The 0 games I'm playing in where I'm still alive and the 0 games I found myself in that were abandoned are not counted below. The 1 game I am or was in that are still in progress do not appear in the win/loss record.

Win/Loss Record

Alignment	Wins	Losses	Draws	Total
Town	2	1	0	3
Scum	1	0	0	1
Neutral	0	0	0	0
Total	3	1	0	4

Result Record

Alignment	Lynched	Killed	Endgamed	Survived	Other	Total
Town	0	0	1	2	0	3
Scum	1	0	—	1	0	2
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	1	0	1	3	0	5

Games

All times are Mountain Time unless otherwise stated.

Rooster Teeth Mafia
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Role and Alignment	Player Status	Game status
Round 2	Waldo69	2007-12-13, post #1419	2008-01-30	—	—	Cop, Townie	Endgamed3	Mafia wins, post #1971
Round 3	Jalnor	2008-02-18, post #2219	2008-03-03	—	—	Mafia, Scum	Survived	Mafia wins, post #2502
Round 4	Jalnor	2008-03-24, post #2897	2008-04-09	—	—	Civilian, Townie	Survived	Town wins, post #3928
Round 5	Jalnor	2008-04-21, post #4111	2008-05-10	—	—	Bodyguard, Townie	Survived	Town wins, post #4623
Round 6	SarBni	2008-05-18, post #4757	Still in progress	—	—	Mafia, Scum (revealed post #5113)	Lynched Day 4, post #5142	Night 4