Poetic victory.
If Psy and Ehmcee wouldve engaged with Neon normally, it wouldve been GG. This game really showed the dark side of policy lynching wel.
Neon, pleasure playing with you. The people here suck as people and as mafia players, so dont worry too much about what they say and keep marching forward.
We discussed this in scumchat briefly but I maintain the real lesson regarding policy / LHF voting is with skipper and pulsar. I think skipper was well within his town meta, and pulsar is still sniffing her meta out, her first two games were similar to each other but since then the games have all felt quite distinct. We sent them way too hastily writing them off as unsolvable when I think both are quite solvable and may well have had good reads (in fact skipper did have good reads this game).
Neon destroyed all his good will by meming in the late game. Mafia isn’t a debate, and emotions play a role. I built up a bunch of emotional town cred in the mid-late game but very little objective town cred which is why LS was so sure I was scum bc I wasn’t try to mist her I was trying to mist Psy and Ehmcee as our wincon. Neon OTOH built up a bunch of emotional scum cred even though is his most contributory game yet. Resultantly I don’t think it makes sense to blame town for being affected by Neon’s play.
Which also isn’t to advocate for Neon to be game banned or whatever, but Neon doing what he did is part of why we won. It would have been way harder to send him if he didn’t blow up his good will.