[4/13/2012 9:47:39 AM] John Morris: This is GMarshal
[4/13/2012 9:47:51 AM] Jason Pipkin: Jason Pipkin has shared contact details with John Morris.
[4/13/2012 9:49:41 AM] John Morris: poke
[4/13/2012 9:49:59 AM] Jason Pipkin: good morning
[4/13/2012 9:50:11 AM] John Morris: afternoon for me, but ok

[4/13/2012 9:50:20 AM] Jason Pipkin: ah sorry
[4/13/2012 9:50:39 AM] John Morris: so, whats up?
[4/13/2012 9:50:53 AM] Jason Pipkin: not much I suppose
[4/13/2012 9:51:12 AM] Jason Pipkin: first time I've played in about five years
[4/13/2012 9:51:20 AM] Jason Pipkin: and I know no one's meta at all
[4/13/2012 9:51:47 AM] John Morris: Id give you the blurb about how meta is worthless
[4/13/2012 9:51:58 AM] John Morris: but its not true, so I'll can it

[4/13/2012 9:52:03 AM] Jason Pipkin: heh
[4/13/2012 9:52:13 AM] Jason Pipkin: I called out many people on my old site because of meta
[4/13/2012 9:52:23 AM] Jason Pipkin: it's especially useful in this kind of a game in my opinion
[4/13/2012 9:52:38 AM] Jason Pipkin: scum suck at lying in chat conversations much more than in threads
[4/13/2012 9:52:43 AM] John Morris: I Havent played in a while either, so my meta knowledge is rusty
[4/13/2012 9:53:03 AM] John Morris: also, I might as well tell you that I fundamentally disagree with posting all private convos in the thread
[4/13/2012 9:53:14 AM] Jason Pipkin: I qualified the all
[4/13/2012 9:53:25 AM] John Morris: because of the mere fact that it breaks the possibility of a deception throught duality
[4/13/2012 9:53:36 AM] Jason Pipkin: what do you mean by that
[4/13/2012 9:54:08 AM] John Morris: For example in XXXVI I think it was Jackal tricked the last mafia deconduo, into night killing the wrong person by being very clear that he thought decon was town in the thread
[4/13/2012 9:54:22 AM] John Morris: and then saying the opposite to everyone in PMs
[4/13/2012 9:54:35 AM] John Morris: its a little more convoluted than that
[4/13/2012 9:54:39 AM] Jason Pipkin: well
[4/13/2012 9:54:47 AM] Jason Pipkin: if you're doing a plan that relies on private info
[4/13/2012 9:54:56 AM] Jason Pipkin: then I'd hope people would use common sense and not post it
[4/13/2012 9:55:09 AM] Jason Pipkin: but if it's just a general conversation like this - why not?
[4/13/2012 9:55:19 AM] John Morris: but Pms have the unique potential to allow players to behave differently in the thread than privately, and sometimes you can't tell the person you are baiting that you are baiting them
[4/13/2012 9:56:04 AM] John Morris: I dislike it, you are free to do as you please, but I don't really think it helps the town, rather townies should be free to reveal information they consider relevant when the time is right
[4/13/2012 9:56:15 AM] Jason Pipkin: fair enough
[4/13/2012 9:56:30 AM] John Morris: in another example, if I'm baiting a player to get a strong read, that can take a while, if its posted its likely someone will read it and point it out
[4/13/2012 9:56:34 AM] John Morris: and wham plan sunk
[4/13/2012 9:56:45 AM] Jason Pipkin: I see
[4/13/2012 9:57:10 AM] Jason Pipkin: I guess in my head I had PMs in mind like "hey what do you think of X" etc
[4/13/2012 9:57:32 AM] John Morris: PMs are much more than that ^_^
[4/13/2012 9:57:39 AM] John Morris: although using them in that way is fine too
[4/13/2012 9:57:44 AM] Jason Pipkin: true
[4/13/2012 9:58:02 AM] Jason Pipkin: in any event, I think chat conversatoins are far more telling
[4/13/2012 9:58:19 AM] Jason Pipkin: the more people that talk to one another, the more the scum are forced to fake conversations
[4/13/2012 9:58:23 AM] John Morris: true
[4/13/2012 9:58:41 AM] John Morris: but I'm a thread analysit, I like my thread juicy and big
[4/13/2012 9:58:45 AM] John Morris: any reads so far btw?
[4/13/2012 9:59:00 AM] Jason Pipkin: well
[4/13/2012 9:59:06 AM] Jason Pipkin: I said I thought sandroba was likely town
[4/13/2012 9:59:20 AM] Jason Pipkin: scum reads? no clue so far
[4/13/2012 9:59:37 AM] John Morris: thats a fairly obvious read to pick up though, every good player agress sandro is most likely town, based on his plan proposal

[4/13/2012 9:59:47 AM] Jason Pipkin: other than that
[4/13/2012 10:00:05 AM] Jason Pipkin: acro and sandroba and you and sandroba are not scum together, if one is scum
[4/13/2012 10:00:20 AM] Jason Pipkin: based on acro's post about sandroba and I think you voted for him for captain rather early
[4/13/2012 10:00:45 AM] Jason Pipkin: I base most analysis on weak connections like that but there haven't been too many
[4/13/2012 10:01:13 AM] John Morris: fair enough
[4/13/2012 10:01:17 AM] John Morris: connection play can work
[4/13/2012 10:01:26 AM] John Morris: I'm not fond of it, but its a legit way to play
[4/13/2012 10:01:32 AM] Jason Pipkin: I'm also getting used to the no avatar thing on tl
[4/13/2012 10:01:44 AM] John Morris: haha, takes a while, I know
[4/13/2012 10:01:45 AM] Jason Pipkin: it's hard to keep track of who is who because I forget to read people's names haha
[4/13/2012 10:01:56 AM] Jason Pipkin: I followed death factory mafia 2 pretty closely
[4/13/2012 10:02:12 AM] Jason Pipkin: and I didn't have everyone down until like day 2 or something
[4/13/2012 10:03:14 AM] John Morris: you get used to it surprisingly fast
[4/13/2012 10:03:20 AM] John Morris: + that way you have to remember names!
[4/13/2012 10:03:28 AM] Jason Pipkin: true true
[4/13/2012 10:03:37 AM] Jason Pipkin: have you chatted with anyone else this game?
[4/13/2012 10:04:04 AM] John Morris: a bunch of people
[4/13/2012 10:04:13 AM] John Morris: sandro, chaoser, risknuke
[4/13/2012 10:04:24 AM] John Morris: I have a bunch of others I plan to chat with time permitting
[4/13/2012 10:04:32 AM] Jason Pipkin: they all posted their skype info right?
[4/13/2012 10:04:38 AM] Jason Pipkin: I haven't gone back through the thread
[4/13/2012 10:04:46 AM] Jason Pipkin: although risknuke added me right after I posted
[4/13/2012 10:07:50 AM] John Morris: stupid skype crash -__-
[4/13/2012 10:08:09 AM] John Morris: and no, they haven't all posted their skype info, I just happened to have a lot of them already
[4/13/2012 10:08:19 AM] Jason Pipkin: gotcha
[4/13/2012 10:08:20 AM] John Morris: play enough and you end up with everyones contact info

[4/13/2012 10:08:55 AM] Jason Pipkin: will you be posting your conversations, provided they don't contain town-damaging info?
[4/13/2012 10:09:07 AM] John Morris: probably not
[4/13/2012 10:09:14 AM] John Morris: I'm doing a lot of fancy footwork
[4/13/2012 10:09:21 AM] Jason Pipkin: mmm ok
[4/13/2012 10:09:22 AM] John Morris: and I'm not going to spoil that by posting it
[4/13/2012 10:09:34 AM] Jason Pipkin: fwiw consider any convo with me fair game to be posted
[4/13/2012 10:09:36 AM] John Morris: Have you read Ver's guide?
[4/13/2012 10:09:47 AM] Jason Pipkin: parts I suppose
[4/13/2012 10:09:49 AM] John Morris:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=147475[4/13/2012 10:09:52 AM] Jason Pipkin: not all the way through
[4/13/2012 10:09:55 AM] John Morris: keep the town on a need to know basis
[4/13/2012 10:09:58 AM] John Morris: read it
[4/13/2012 10:09:59 AM] John Morris: twice
[4/13/2012 10:10:12 AM] John Morris: trust me, you'll become much better instantly
[4/13/2012 10:10:15 AM] John Morris: its worth the slog
[4/13/2012 10:10:24 AM] Jason Pipkin: I've played 20+ games you know

[4/13/2012 10:10:26 AM] Jason Pipkin: just not on tl
[4/13/2012 10:10:28 AM] John Morris: so have I
[4/13/2012 10:10:34 AM] John Morris: I re read the guide often anyway
[4/13/2012 10:10:39 AM] Jason Pipkin: of course I played with the same people over and over
[4/13/2012 10:10:40 AM] John Morris: because fundamentals help
[4/13/2012 10:10:42 AM] Jason Pipkin: so it got easier
[4/13/2012 10:10:48 AM] John Morris: especially when you don't have meta
[4/13/2012 10:11:54 AM] Jason Pipkin: so what does fancy footwork mean?
[4/13/2012 10:12:17 AM] Jason Pipkin: just reading through the thread I can't imagine people already having enough info to do fancy footwork
[4/13/2012 10:12:25 AM] John Morris: I can't let you tip off your scumbuddies! Lets just say what I say to one person in PMs doesn't necessarily line up with what I may tell others
[4/13/2012 10:12:38 AM] John Morris: its interesting to see how info falls through the cracks
[4/13/2012 10:12:57 AM] John Morris: and who knows things they maybe shouldn't
[4/13/2012 10:13:17 AM] Jason Pipkin: so you have reads already?
[4/13/2012 10:13:35 AM] Jason Pipkin: in the thread you mentioned a troll and maybe the candidates list
[4/13/2012 10:13:48 AM] John Morris: sure, I always have reads. Are the accuarate? Maybe, maybe not.
[4/13/2012 10:13:57 AM] John Morris: That was a very deliberate post by me
[4/13/2012 10:14:06 AM] John Morris: lets see how you think, why did I say what I said?
[4/13/2012 10:14:33 AM] Jason Pipkin: well it sounded like you didn't want to say for the most part
[4/13/2012 10:15:02 AM] Jason Pipkin: also it sounded like you were being truthful
[4/13/2012 10:15:14 AM] Jason Pipkin: I think the captain's candidate list would be a fruitful place to closely look
[4/13/2012 10:15:23 AM] Jason Pipkin: although far from guaranteed
[4/13/2012 10:15:28 AM] John Morris: I'm seeing who goes after the soft lynch in the troll
[4/13/2012 10:15:46 AM] John Morris: its a stupid lynch except for policy reasons/if nothing better can be found
[4/13/2012 10:15:54 AM] John Morris: best left for vigilantes
[4/13/2012 10:15:59 AM] John Morris: as lynching him says nothing about others
[4/13/2012 10:16:05 AM] Jason Pipkin: yeah I've seen that idea posted a couple of times
[4/13/2012 10:16:18 AM] John Morris: now, who is going to push that because I said I wanted him lynched?
[4/13/2012 10:16:19 AM] Jason Pipkin: "vig the lurkers" etc
[4/13/2012 10:16:36 AM] John Morris: who is going to vote for me for captian based on the fact that I'm not threatening any of them directly
[4/13/2012 10:16:37 AM] John Morris: ?
[4/13/2012 10:16:44 AM] Jason Pipkin: are you running for captain?
[4/13/2012 10:16:49 AM] Jason Pipkin: I thought you voted for sandroba
[4/13/2012 10:16:50 AM] John Morris: Always
[4/13/2012 10:16:55 AM] John Morris: its my policy to always run for mayor
[4/13/2012 10:17:00 AM] John Morris: sure I voted for sandroba
[4/13/2012 10:17:03 AM] Jason Pipkin: but vote for someone else?
[4/13/2012 10:17:08 AM] John Morris: its not gentelmanly to vote for yourself
[4/13/2012 10:17:10 AM] Jason Pipkin: you can't vote for yourself?
[4/13/2012 10:17:11 AM] Jason Pipkin: heh
[4/13/2012 10:17:17 AM] John Morris: (and not allowed in most games anyway)
[4/13/2012 10:17:24 AM] Jason Pipkin: allowed in real life
[4/13/2012 10:17:38 AM] John Morris: irrelevant, I am a gentelman!
[4/13/2012 10:17:51 AM] Jason Pipkin: well maybe someone takes that bait maybe not
[4/13/2012 10:18:03 AM] John Morris: ah, but now I told you
[4/13/2012 10:18:04 AM] Jason Pipkin: I'll hold off on posting this until the end of the day anyway
[4/13/2012 10:18:09 AM] John Morris: so the bait is less relevant
[4/13/2012 10:18:26 AM] John Morris: now I'm interested in who told me they were temped by it in pms
[4/13/2012 10:18:28 AM] John Morris: and now aren't
[4/13/2012 10:18:35 AM] Jason Pipkin: so you play as though scum are acting individually?
[4/13/2012 10:18:48 AM] Jason Pipkin: whenever I've played scum it's always been very team
[4/13/2012 10:18:54 AM] Jason Pipkin: with some exceptions when people do stupid shit
[4/13/2012 10:18:54 AM] John Morris: thats what I;m saying
[4/13/2012 10:19:02 AM] John Morris: now I've leaked the fact that its bait
[4/13/2012 10:19:03 AM] John Morris: to you
[4/13/2012 10:19:09 AM] John Morris: so if you are scum, they now now
[4/13/2012 10:19:11 AM] John Morris: *know
[4/13/2012 10:19:21 AM] Jason Pipkin: I guess
[4/13/2012 10:19:22 AM] John Morris: so I'll see if anyone;s attitude takes a swift turn
[4/13/2012 10:19:24 AM] John Morris: or maybe not
[4/13/2012 10:19:47 AM] Jason Pipkin: if you're telling me that then you seem to be talking yourself in circles haha
[4/13/2012 10:19:50 AM] John Morris: anyway, most things I do have a motive, even if its not clearly visible
[4/13/2012 10:22:56 AM] John Morris: and scum can be very disembodied in how they act
[4/13/2012 10:23:03 AM] John Morris: its not necessarily all team play
[4/13/2012 10:23:28 AM] Jason Pipkin: yeah I've seen a scum bus another one with a fake convo where he made it seem like the one guy accidentally slipped to him
[4/13/2012 10:23:47 AM] Jason Pipkin: but the guy getting bused had no clue, and then got mad and posted everything in the thread
[4/13/2012 10:27:20 AM] John Morris: lol