User:StrangerCoug

StrangerCoug

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

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 and the seventh, being the game moderator in the latter. 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 have now adapted to both, and I actually think the game on here is more fun.

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.

You will sometimes see "the StrangerCoug", especially when I'm referring to myself in the third person, but the word "the" is not officially part of my user name and is therefore lowercase unless it starts a sentence. Addressing me as "The StrangerCoug" is incorrect.

MafiaScum.net was the last site on which I signed up as StrangerCoug when I still had a cougar to call a mascot; however, since August 2007 it has also been my fursona. (Yes, I'm a furry. Get over it.)

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.
• Vanilla townies are known as Civilians.
• The Cop and Bodyguard (the latter actually more like the Doc by MafiaScum terminology) are known in advance, cannot be killed, and are necessarily sane. For the purposes of the win/loss record below, they are pro-town, and the Mafia winning when I was cop or bodyguard are scored in the game record as my being "endgamed".
• The Cop is always a Day Cop.
• Replacement players do not exist.
• Voting is private. Unvotes are now allowed as of Round 8, though.
• The player distribution used to be fixed at 10 Civilians, 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 fourth bullet above.
• Speaking of the story lines, they are often longer and much more detailed than those found on MafiaScum.

Statistics

Please note the following:

• Even if I am confirmed as town, scum, or whatever in a certain game, I will not update the game record to say so until either I die or the game is over, whichever happens first unless the game mod says you cannot discuss your role outside of the thread until the end of the game. This is to prevent any accusations of my revealing information outside the thread that I'm not allowed to. This is the reason why I now use the wording "role not yet revealed" instead of simply "unknown"—it may indeed be known, but you have to check the game in question. This is especially true for the games on Rooster Teeth, and one of their games actually caused a "discussion outside the thread" accusation by Mr. Flay after its cop posted an investigation and I updated this list to give its result (since it is known who the cop is and that he's sane) while I was still alive.
• All dates are Mountain Time.

MafiaScum.net

Of the 10 games listed still in progress, I am still alive in 7.

Wins/Losses

Alignment	Wins	Losses	Draws	Total
Town	1	4	0	5
Scum	1	1	0	2
Neutral	0	0	0	0
Total	2	5	0	7

Draws include the 0 games I've been in that ended up being abandoned.

Results

Alignment	Lynched	Killed	Endgamed	Survived	Other	Total
Town	4	2	1	0	0	7
Scum	1	1	0	1	0	3
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	5	3	1	1	0	10

Games

Newbie
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Status, Role and Alignment	Game status
Newbie 602	JDodge, then Mr. Flay	2008-04-23	Still in progress	Iceall during Day 1	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Day 3
Newbie 614	Thok	2008-05-18	2008-06-30	—	—	Lynched Day 1, was a vanilla townie	Mafia wins
Newbie 630	Thok	2008-06-16	Still in progress	—	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Day 2
Mini Normal
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Status, Role and Alignment	Game status
Mini 591: Re-Infiltration	somestrangeflea	2008-04-24	2008-07-07	PsychoBob during Day 1	—	Endgamed, was a vanilla townie	Mafia wins
Open 72: Mountainous Multiball	Selande	2008-05-12	2008-06-18	ya_its_me during confirmation stage	—	Survived, was a Werewolf	Werewolves win
Mini 601: Cog City: Trouble Below	Incognito	2008-05-21	2008-07-30	—	—	Lynched Day 3, was a vanilla townie	Mafia wins
Mini 604: Mayor's Mansion	ooba	2008-05-24	2008-07-17	clockwork during Day 1	—	Lynched Day 1, was a vanilla townie	Town wins
Mini 618: Farside of the moon	farside22	2008-06-19	2008-07-28	—	—	Lynched Day 1, was a vanilla townie	Mafia wins
Mini 624	Hypatia	2008-06-27	Still in progress	—	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Day 3
Mini 630: The Council of Eville	Dean Harper, backed up by Macavenger	2008-07-12	Still in progress	—	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Night 1
Mini Theme
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Status, Role and Alignment	Game status
Mini 620: Psychopathic Xyzzy Mod	xyzzy	2008-06-28	2008-07-15	—	—	Lynched Day 2, was JEEP (scum)	Town wins
Mini 631: Mental War Mafia	Nocmen	2008-07-14	Still in progress	—	—	Killed Night 1, was the auditory system (scum)	Day 2
Mini 644: Meerkat Manor Mafia	Rishi	2008-07-31	Still in progress	—	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Day 1
Large Normal
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Status, Role and Alignment	Game status
Mafia 79: "The Amish Mafia"	xyzzy	2008-04-12	Still in progress	Evilgorillaz during Night 2	—	Killed Night 4, was a vanilla townie	Day 5
Open 80: Double Day Mafia	somestrangeflea	2008-06-19	Still in progress	Bogre during Day 1.5	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Day 1.5
Open 81: The New C9	Rogueben	2008-06-27	Still in progress	—	—	Still alive, role not yet revealed	Night 1
Large Theme
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Status, Role and Alignment	Game status
Diablo III: The Black Fang	Albert B. Rampage	2008-07-17	Still in progress	W!nt3r during Day 1	Unknown if any	Killed Day 1, was Ursula (pro-town vigilante/Black Fang healer)	Day 1

Outside MafiaScum.net

Of the 1 game listed still in progress, I am still alive in 0.

Linking to anywhere on the Rooster Teeth site currently sets off the spam filter on MafiaWiki. As compensation, I use 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.

Wins/Losses

Alignment	Wins	Losses	Draws	Total
Town	2	1	0	3
Scum	1	1	0	2
Neutral	0	0	0	0
Total	3	2	0	5

Draws include the 0 games I've been in that ended up being abandoned.

Results

Alignment	Lynched	Killed	Endgamed	Survived	Other	Total
Town	0	1	1	2	0	4
Scum	1	0	0	1	0	2
Neutral	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	1	1	1	3	0	6

Games

Rooster Teeth Mafia
Game	Moderator	Started	Ended	Replaced	Replaced by	Status, Role and Alignment	Game status
Round 2	Waldo69	2007-12-13, post #1419	2008-01-30	—	—	Endgamed, was the Cop	Mafia wins, post #1971
Round 3	Jalnor	2008-02-18, post #2219	2008-03-03	—	—	Survived, was Mafia	Mafia wins, post #2502
Round 4	Jalnor	2008-03-24, post #2897	2008-04-09	—	—	Survived, was a civilian	Civilians win, post #3928
Round 5	Jalnor	2008-04-21, post #4111	2008-05-10	—	—	Survived, was the Bodyguard	Civilians win, post #4623
Round 6	SarBni	2008-05-18, post #4757	2008-06-14	—	—	Lynched Day 4 at post #5142, was Mafia	Civilians win, post #5386
Round 7	StrangerCoug	2008-06-18, post #5564	2008-07-12	—	—	Shot dead Night 0, was obviously the moderator	Civilians win, post #6473
Round 8	subversive89	2008-07-15, post #6887	Still in progress	—	—	Blown up Night 3 at post #8245, was a civilian	Night 6

StrangerQuotes

This is where you and I get to post quotes by or about me on MafiaScum that we find interesting. Feel free to add on as desired.

These should be in chronological order, by the way.

• I had a dream last night of you getting lynched. But then, somebody (CDB, I think) said something like, "No, don't lynch him. All he did was a confession. Crazy has done --insert something here--. And then everyone unvoted you and voted me. —Crazy, Newbie 614, post #90

• Stop adding an H at the end of my name! What are you, allergic to cats or something? —StrangerCoug to sirdanilot, Mini 601, post #512

• SC's town, Fark[shinsoup]'s town, what universe are we in? —Crazy, Newbie 614, post #335

• I played Day 1 and I think part of Day 2 thinking I was town and didn't realize I was scum until Green Cow PM'd me. I tried to be very conservative with my posts since it would be obvious that I was scum if I did, but apparently that didn't work. We didn't even get a chance to kill anybody. ...Wait a minute—I've got an idea! *shoots xyzzy* —StrangerCoug, Mini 620, post #161

• SC is a closeted kitten huffer —doctor no, Outrageous Lies about the last poster, post #1978

• Who the hell cares about social experiments? I refuse to copy and paste signature text just to follow a trend. —StrangerCoug, as part of his signature from 2008-08-02 to the present