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Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 08 2012 17:29 GMT
#1288
Hello all. Apparently, I'm the replacement for Miltokram. Ummm, yeah, thats about it right now. =)
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 08 2012 18:16 GMT
#1321
On September 09 2012 02:30 austinmcc wrote:
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On September 09 2012 02:29 Kreb wrote:
Hello all. Apparently, I'm the replacement for Miltokram. Ummm, yeah, thats about it right now. =)
Welcome to hours before lynch in a cycle where we keep swapping targets and we've got a claim that might be fake and maybe another lynch target and a lot of other stuff going on!

Thanks for replacing, and sorry you hopped into this situation. I just replaced into a similar spot and it took me a couple days to get my bearings.

Thanks. Voting in 2h 45min right? I guess its a likely bandwagon for me then. I'll try to read through the last day until then.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 08 2012 19:53 GMT
#1354
Ok, spent last 1.5h reading through last days pages (what better way to spend a saturday evening, ey?). Im not sure it even matter since BKE seems to be going out anyway, but the case on him seems like the best one so far. Voting for BKE.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 08 2012 22:19 GMT
#1394
On September 09 2012 07:13 Hapahauli wrote:
Welp. Gotta grab a drink or something. My apologies to BKE.

I have no idea what happened with the NK's night one. They put a single stack on BC and presumably suicide-bombed DrH. Might have been a medic-save somewhere N1 - that's the only explanation I have.

Going to take a dive through some filters tonight.

Ok, gonna have to start asking a bit of question here to get into things. First, who is DrH? Cant find any name or role fitting that.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 09:11 GMT
#1489
On September 09 2012 15:10 Bill Murray wrote:
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On September 09 2012 07:09 slOosh wrote:
I don't even.

So Scum decided 1KP on BC was a good idea? ...
GK probably bombed ... so ...
Gah I'm just gonna wait till tomorrow NK to figure it out. By then vigs should have used their second bullet and should claim.

Gonna go cool off first.

Notice the capitalization of scum, and him seeming to have too much knowledge. Couple that with IIoA and I'm a little suspicious.

I didnt get this at least. From that post you make out that he seems to know too much. How? To me he is just speculating, which might not be worthy of a post to begin with but doesnt seem scummy to me.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 10:22 GMT
#1497
On September 09 2012 18:40 Shady Sands wrote:
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On September 09 2012 18:11 Kreb wrote:
On September 09 2012 15:10 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 09 2012 07:09 slOosh wrote:
I don't even.

So Scum decided 1KP on BC was a good idea? ...
GK probably bombed ... so ...
Gah I'm just gonna wait till tomorrow NK to figure it out. By then vigs should have used their second bullet and should claim.

Gonna go cool off first.

Notice the capitalization of scum, and him seeming to have too much knowledge. Couple that with IIoA and I'm a little suspicious.

I didnt get this at least. From that post you make out that he seems to know too much. How? To me he is just speculating, which might not be worthy of a post to begin with but doesnt seem scummy to me.

Kreb, BM is just trolling. Can you look at the DP/me/Hapa exchange in the past few pages and give us your thoughts?

Well, I didnt ask him about the "lulz gay" post (troll post). I asked him about him finding someone suspicious, which doesnt seem like trolling to me.

Anyway. Hapa apparently was a pretty big part in the mislynch against BKE, and then afterwards comes out strong with vig call on ShiaoPi. My first feeling is it would be pretty ballsy for a mafia to that (which is obviously a good reason to do it as mafia yea yea I get that). But continuing down the discussion I do think he seems quite (emotianlly?) invested in his scumhunting and his frustration is relevant for someone who is feeling he is being questioned more than he might deserve.

Apart from that, a lot of your argument seems to be based on meta. His read on Shiao, your read on him not questioning you for your supposed off-what-you-normally-do-meta. I cant really comment on much of that since I dont have any meta reads at all on any of you.

In addition I do like and agree with your reasonign on Grush. Giving him "free pass" is a bad idea to me because of what the situation might turn into should we get closer to mylo/lylo with him still in it. If we're gonna have to do a 75/25 guess on him at some point anyway we might as well do it earlier since it gives us an extra cycle to discuss whatever target we might go on should we give Grush a pass. A lot of this is apparently about meta too, but people seem to agree his play is always trollish/anti-townish so I'll go with that for now.

And since we're talking meta anyway, whats the reason for your meta to be so off from your normal? I did see you mentioning a being busy at work in an earlier post, but not sure if thats the whole reason..
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 10:43 GMT
#1503
On September 09 2012 19:26 Shady Sands wrote:
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On September 09 2012 19:22 Kreb wrote:
On September 09 2012 18:40 Shady Sands wrote:
On September 09 2012 18:11 Kreb wrote:
On September 09 2012 15:10 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 09 2012 07:09 slOosh wrote:
I don't even.

So Scum decided 1KP on BC was a good idea? ...
GK probably bombed ... so ...
Gah I'm just gonna wait till tomorrow NK to figure it out. By then vigs should have used their second bullet and should claim.

Gonna go cool off first.

Notice the capitalization of scum, and him seeming to have too much knowledge. Couple that with IIoA and I'm a little suspicious.

I didnt get this at least. From that post you make out that he seems to know too much. How? To me he is just speculating, which might not be worthy of a post to begin with but doesnt seem scummy to me.

Kreb, BM is just trolling. Can you look at the DP/me/Hapa exchange in the past few pages and give us your thoughts?

Well, I didnt ask him about the "lulz gay" post (troll post). I asked him about him finding someone suspicious, which doesnt seem like trolling to me.

Anyway. Hapa apparently was a pretty big part in the mislynch against BKE, and then afterwards comes out strong with vig call on ShiaoPi. My first feeling is it would be pretty ballsy for a mafia to that (which is obviously a good reason to do it as mafia yea yea I get that). But continuing down the discussion I do think he seems quite (emotianlly?) invested in his scumhunting and his frustration is relevant for someone who is feeling he is being questioned more than he might deserve.

Apart from that, a lot of your argument seems to be based on meta. His read on Shiao, your read on him not questioning you for your supposed off-what-you-normally-do-meta. I cant really comment on much of that since I dont have any meta reads at all on any of you.

In addition I do like and agree with your reasonign on Grush. Giving him "free pass" is a bad idea to me because of what the situation might turn into should we get closer to mylo/lylo with him still in it. If we're gonna have to do a 75/25 guess on him at some point anyway we might as well do it earlier since it gives us an extra cycle to discuss whatever target we might go on should we give Grush a pass. A lot of this is apparently about meta too, but people seem to agree his play is always trollish/anti-townish so I'll go with that for now.

And since we're talking meta anyway, whats the reason for your meta to be so off from your normal? I did see you mentioning a being busy at work in an earlier post, but not sure if thats the whole reason..

Emotional involvement is a null tell. Scum get angry just as much as town (thank you Blazinghand). My read on Hapa basically boils down to two things:

1) Hapa is playing off his meta while ignoring my shift on meta.
2) Hapa is being very selective/arbitrary in his scumhunting, and so far has led us to mislynch someone. Note that neither part of #2 is scummy on its own, but when taken together, are a clear scumtell.

As for my own quietness, I honestly was busy. Will still be busy tomorrow and the next few days.

Of course scum get angry too, but it's most certainly a different type of anger in that case. Obviously hard to distinguish from a piece of text, but one can at least try and then match it together with other possible reads.

And isnt your 1) and 2) the same? You consider his scumhunting selective (2) because him ignoring your meta (1)? Thats one read, not two.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 19:25 GMT
#1548
On September 10 2012 04:21 austinmcc wrote:
strongandbig asked for my thoughts on Forumite/your case. I've got him down as one of my stronger town reads. I think that was a good request for to make, and I've obliged.

Is that the only thing you're basing a town read on? There has been at least few other cases of "Can I please get some opinions on this case here?".
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 19:50 GMT
#1551
On September 10 2012 04:36 austinmcc wrote:
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On September 10 2012 04:25 Kreb wrote:
On September 10 2012 04:21 austinmcc wrote:
strongandbig asked for my thoughts on Forumite/your case. I've got him down as one of my stronger town reads. I think that was a good request for to make, and I've obliged.

Is that the only thing you're basing a town read on? There has been at least few other cases of "Can I please get some opinions on this case here?".
I'll admit that I like the opinion request when made in this way, not "Can I get another opinion?" which just sits empty and people might or might not jump on, but rather "X will you comment on Y's case, Y on X's case?" Clear request. Ought to be answered. Gives information on X and Y, as well as on the strengths/weaknesses of their cases.

A lot of the read comes from minor stuff though, posts that I felt came from a townie:
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On September 05 2012 00:29 strongandbig wrote:
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On September 04 2012 23:52 Maverick32x wrote:
I voted for Matt due to the lying- but I would be curious to hear if he has a defense of some kind??


lol.

If matt was going to defend himself he would have said something by now other than "hey guys maybe I'm a VT trying to draw scum shots lol".

I've played a bunch of games with Mattchew recently and based on those, I think this is him as scum. For example, if I were going to fakeclaim miller as scum, I would do it very differently. However, you have to remember a couple things about Mattchew:
- he's lazy as fuck as scum, except in themed games
- he's pretty aggressive as town a lot of the time.

The example I was thinking about was from him in TL Mafia LV, where he and I were both town. He lied about taking a shot, and then when I suggested that it made no sense for him to take a scum shot and he might have been vigged, he attacked me like a moron for the rest of the game.

Unlike that, in this game his lie doesn't have any follow-up. If it was a planned-out pro-town lie, which I imagine is what he'll pretend it is, he would have been all over the first few people to attack him. Instead he just disappeared.

It seems much more likely that what he did was the same thing I did in deathnote - claimed miller without first asking the hosts whether millers are self-aware, and got caught for it. The difference is, I did it in a game with a closed setup.

##vote: mattchew

Gives a solid response here. There were some other "Mattchew scum cuz he's not defending himself" posts, but snb gaev a more detailed breakdown that I liked, that felt townie to me.
On September 07 2012 19:18 strongandbig wrote:
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On September 07 2012 06:59 Toadesstern wrote:

strongandbig: That guy should be scared as shit about me but he isn't. Not at all. To be precise he's even pretty buddy-ish with me. I think he knows I'm not mafia. Do not like.
[snip]
Ottox definitly is the best lynch if he survives. BKE & S+B are mentioned because I want people to check their filter as well. I'm not set on lynching them yet but they're the best candidates I've got besides the "usual" ones. I'd rather not have people just forget about them.


So why should I in particular be scared of you in particular? Is it because I should be quivering in fear of your particularly stellar scumplay? Cause something about the ridiculous way you died last game makes you seem a lot less scary, as irrational as that is.

Now, I'm not sure how you think I'm buddying you. Unless you mean the "we're the only ones in the thread" thing - I see game-related buddying like 'ooh your reads are right on yeah way to lead the town' as being a lot scummier than 'hey man sup in the thread at this european hour or whatever', but whatever.

I was actually just going to ignore this whole thing because there's really not much for me to say about it ("you're buddying me! No I'm not! Yes you are!" doesn't really help anything), but it made me think a bit about you this game vs last game, and I wanted to ask something.

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On August 22 2012 03:25 Toadesstern wrote:
On August 22 2012 03:19 HiroPro wrote:
On August 22 2012 03:13 Toadesstern wrote:
On August 22 2012 03:06 HiroPro wrote:
Hi toad. Why is your vote on someone who's not going to be lynched today? Why have you not talked about any of the actual cases that have been brought up recently?

Because I'm still undecided so far. I'm just don't really like lynching people I never played with before d1 in general so I don't talk about imallinson at all because I want to have more time to get a proper read on him because I don't know what's "normal" for him and what's not.

I'm sure you'll find my opinion on every other guy that has been mentioned so far as I actually played with most of the people in this game before.
Call a name and I'll copy & paste the quotes but I'm sure you could just search for it yourself.

Am I posting too much so that I'm like gonzaw or are you not reading my posts?


You haven't said anything about Dirkzor either. I know you've played with Zeph before, VE has brought a case.

I guess I just ninja'ed you.

Not much of an opinion on Dirkzor right now. He's one of the guys I'd rather have a look at day-2 or day-3.
Same goes for Zeph. Last game I wanted to lynch him because I found a couple of posts that read like scumslips to me and he ended up flipping mafia. So pretty much the same as Dirkzor: Rather leave him alive and check out d2 or d3. If he's mafia he'll slip soon enough.

I'm really in favor of lynching vets d1 in general. That's why you'll mostly find me comment on those people because I feel more comfortable judging them even with fewer amounts of posts.


This is from last game - this game, instead it's
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On September 07 2012 03:58 Toadesstern wrote:
I really don't like the cases on forumite (or vets in general this game) as they're incredibly far-fetched, which is obvious considering the fact that we're still on d1/n1.
That being said I still (somewhat?) agree with the conclusion but I'll post shortly before deadline :p


What changed? And don't say your alignment, from how highly you talk of your own scum play I know you wouldn't be doing something as simple as coming down on different sides of a policy question as scum vs town.

Now in terms of your process of elimination thing - the obvious biggest problem with that is that it assumes you're town. You've done this before, like when we were playing in mtg mafia. You even actually came right out when the last vet was dead other than you and said "but why would I say that as scum, it's setting myself up to be lynched later." That argument worked that time, but it also taught me to watch you when you start talking about vet balance.

That said, I think forumite is looking scummier than you are atm. I still really don't like his "don't use meta on vets" comment, and I don't think that's been addressed since I brought it up last time

Yeah I think the same person is looking bad as you do even though you just accused me of buddying you, deal with it.

Stayed away from the buddying stuff, noticed a contradiction in Toad's policy posting.
On September 08 2012 08:20 strongandbig wrote:
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On September 08 2012 07:28 grush57 wrote:
AWWW SHEEEEEEEEEET.
I KNOW WHY TOAD CALLED ME SCUM
I FORGOT
STARSENSES.


lol i was worried

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On September 08 2012 06:52 Toadesstern wrote:
grush is mafia. BKE's probably; if BKE's not mafia it's probably foru?

But I had almost no time today as friends came over so I'll have to reread things tomorrow. Haven't even read what happened the last 4 hours so far except for an incredible fast read.


toaaaaad why do you say grush is mafia?

ps this is a serious question. grush is like by far the easiest rando free scumread to throw around.
Not letting someone get away with "Grush anti-town" or "Grush scum." I think this is major town points, and something I should have been doing harder. I don't like a thread filling up with people parroting a half-read when they don't seem to have taken the time to really substantiate their own thoughts with clear references to what the guy's been doing.
On September 09 2012 02:25 strongandbig wrote:
I don't think grush is scum. As far as I can tell the case on him from toad started off as "grush is trying harder to look/be townie than he usually does, therefore he must be scum." The alternative explanation is that maybe he's just trying harder to look/be townie? I played/obsed the recent PTP game, where grush survived until almost the end - that game, trolly as it was, was the towniest grush has ever been.

I'm still not entirely sold on BKE, but I feel much better about him than about Grush.

The claim, I don't know about. It's a very easy claim for mafia to make, and we can't prove it false or true, especially since he'll be able to claim roleblocked. There's the fact that if he checked the person who was suicide bombed he should be dead, but I give zero weight to the argument that's been made by some people that his claim is too weird to be made by mafia. If the claim is fake, it's possible that he was the one who delivered the KP on BC - or one of the two if he was double stacked - and the claim is designed to be safe against trackers and real watchers.

Anyway, I don't think we should ignore the case on him just because he claimed a PR. I agree with whoever it was up above who said that if we do that, then scum can just always claim PRs and get free extra life by claiming to be roleblocked.

So I'm back to the original core of the case against him - his scummy shift in position on Mattchew before and after Palmar's post in the thread. Sure it's not 100% a sure thing, but I like that case better than the case on Grush, and so ##vote: broodkingexe

pre-edit Reading over Austin's post right above mine it looks like some decent arguments on z-boson as well - big lists, not following up on his own stuff, inconsistency, etc. Also someone to consider.

Again, finds Grush townie. Which I like. Notices the weakness in any kind of case on Grush. Is wishy-washy on BKE, bad, but goes through some reasoning as to why, chooses a decent line of reasoning to vote on - what's the case before the claim. Not my favorite, but all right.

Agreed on the "feeling" townish. But I cant help noticing S&B seemed to be opposed to Toads claim of him buddying Toad, and then follows it up by "voting Toad for mayor". Though maybe thats all small talk.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 20:23 GMT
#1554
Funny you posted that right now Z-Boson :p

I was just done reading strongandbigs filter, and I did notice a lack of cases on anyone throughout the thread. So I do agree on that point, but mostly was gonna keep it in mind until later while I just commented on the buddying thing. But I dont quite see the problem with his reasoning on why to vote on BKE over Grush. He had two main options, liked one more than the other and there are plenty of reason not to start a completely new case from scratch even had he had one. Why doesnt it make sense?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 09 2012 20:53 GMT
#1565
He does mention it being d1/n1 too. And considering a lot of his own case on Forumite was based on "town-forumite would be much more helpful", it does make sense. On d1/n1, it might be early to call someone out for not helping, but almost at end on N2, its not.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 10 2012 07:02 GMT
#1649
My first thought seeing the night kills were: why wouldnt they shoot Toad considering who they shot N1? Ok, Toad is likely to have som kind of protection, so maybe he was saved or mafia assumed protection and went for easier targets. But then theres another option: Is it possible they left Toad alive because Forumite is town and they wanted Toad to push for the D3 (mis)lynch on Forumite? A mislynch of Forumite would also definitely put Toad in the spotlight, which could be another possible mislynch?

Also, it is fair to assume mafia doesnt have a vig at this point?

On another topic, Murray seems town with his vigi read and the way he handled it. At least for now its believable.

Forumite still really need to answer to the accusations of Toad from a while back though, which I assume he is going to. But even though people seem to be backing off the Forumite wagon I dont want that case Toad posted to go unanswered.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 10 2012 07:30 GMT
#1650
On September 10 2012 12:19 Bill Murray wrote:
Ill answer that. I'd rather lynch imallinson today, contrary to what most of you believe. I'm leaving Toad/Forumite for now. If they're town, it will help the town.

Actually, thinking some more about it, I retract my town-read since 10min ago on BM, at least until I get some more answers.

@Murray
Why would you leave Forumite considering what you (and Toad) had posted on him before? A very large part of the case against him was "town-forumite is helpful, Forumite this game isnt helpful, as such he is scum". However, now you're saying
If they're town, it will help the town

Why would you come to the conclusion it will help town considering hes been unhelpful so far? Also, supposing you are town, how could nailing another mafia be a bad idea?

Lets look at some options:
You town, Forumite anything. You should be happy to push the case on Forumite considering he's unhelpful alive.
You mafia, Forumite town. If Forumites case gets pushed by someone else, you get towncred for backing off. Forumites gets left alone, you can always come back to the case later.
You mafia, Forumite mafia. You try to save your mafia friend from a lynch with the reason that "he will be helpful if hes town", but should the case go to a lynch anyway, you can fall back on your read of him being scummy and can easily bus him while leaving the perception that you successfully scumhunted him.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 10 2012 22:42 GMT
#1681
On September 11 2012 07:34 Mementoss wrote:
I read all of day 3 and no one gave a good reason why they are voting forumite. Can someone explain? I will get to reading through the game eventually but, the way this day is going its just killing discussion.

Read Toads filter. Theres a pretty big post about it there.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 10 2012 23:44 GMT
#1692
Anyway, about the Forumite case I cant really say much. Its a meta-argument which I can neither really confirm nor challenge. If the case sticks Im probably just gonna bandwagon.

As for my own reads, (which arent really reads I guess) Im mostly annoyed with the one-line posters which you cant really get an answer out of (Murray, Grush). Murray still hasnt answered the question Z-Boson asked, and I cant say Im satisfied with his reply to me either. Apparently that fits with their meta though, which together with all the vet talk and people making posts for the sake of provoking reactions seemingly all over the place makes me very hesitant to try to push anything myself. I cant say Im familiar with what tactic generally is considered best to deal with such players either.

But there has been a few cases on BM and lots of people seem suspicious of Z-Boson, so whats your take on those two Forumite?

Also I do hope that we could get around to pressuring lurkers/non-contributors more too. I dont feel Im really saying much useful stuff at all and Im not committing to anything, so had I been mafia I bet I wouldve felt pretty good with all the discussions about vets/boson going on while I bandwagon with 10+ other people. And there plenty of others I dont really get a feeling for at all because they dont really contribute much at all either. Granted, Forumite kind of fits the category of non-contributors though even though he might not be lurking, so that is another reason why Im fine with that vote too.

I'll ask Toad since for now he seems to be the head scumhunting dude: Whats your take on everyone not contributing? Just leave them for later? You listed 4 fairly active players as non-town (S&B, Boson, BM, Foru), supposing all of these are non-town there likely gonna be very few mafia left after that, isnt it a pretty good reason to believe theres several mafia hiding among the silent majority?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 10 2012 23:48 GMT
#1696
Maverick said it pretty well too.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 00:00 GMT
#1700
On September 11 2012 08:55 Forumite wrote:
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On September 11 2012 08:44 Kreb wrote:
Anyway, about the Forumite case I cant really say much. Its a meta-argument which I can neither really confirm nor challenge. If the case sticks Im probably just gonna bandwagon.
At least you are honest about it.

Heh, truth be told Im feeling pretty useless atm. Its all meta-reads going on over my head and seemingly all active posters going to town becaues they played 50 (?) games vs each other. Hopefully we get down to the point where I can try and provide reads from within the thread and feel relevant.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 00:02 GMT
#1701
Well that post might have come off as some sick buddying of Forumite. Not really relevant at all I guess. Anyway, good night.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 07:44 GMT
#1716
Ok, decided to not follow the wagon after all (damn im such a rebel).
My vote will be on BillMurray for now. Few reasons:

- This post made by Hapa before he died. It did kinda get left alone given that Toads case on Forumite was posted later same page (page 77).
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On September 10 2012 01:26 Hapahauli wrote:
First off, I don't buy ShiaoPi's excuse. If Shiao is moving into university as he is suggesting, I find it hard to believe he'd sign up for a Mafia game if he knew his schedule. He was also plenty active to respond to Maverick's suspicion against him - and much more frequently than the "10 minute loading time" per page he was suggesting about his internet earlier.

Finally, Shiao's only standing read is an OMGUS against Maverick.

Strongly suggest shooting him tonight.

Also, I won't be as active for the next few hours, so I wanted to comment on...


Bill Murray

This is mostly based on his actions (inactions?) during the BKE lynch.

Right around when I dropped the case on BKE, Bill Murray had a burst of 6 short posts, all compiled into one larger one for your convenience:

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id love to lynch maverick or hapahauli
why are people voting BKE?
can i get a summary of the case?

Hapahauli's link doesn't count = 13 lines of rubbish he linked ON THE SAME PAGE

If Doyouhas is town we don't lynch Hapahauli
If Doyouhas is scum we lynch Hapahauli
imo

I'll be here for a few hours if anyone would like to discuss anything

I had a post about associative tells, but honestly, I'm not even going to bring another one up. I'll be waiting to push someone on hard evidence, like what I found (not saying it was my case.. but filtering him, it glared out at me... so i found it as well) on Mattchew.


I summarized the case for him and never heard back from him. The only post he made between there and after the lynch is this weak-sauce soft-push of BKE:

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On September 08 2012 15:40 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 08 2012 03:12 BroodKingEXE wrote:
On September 07 2012 11:37 Hapahauli wrote:
Before I go to bed for the night:

BroodKingEXE

He has two very suspicious posts regarding two confirmed players: Mattchew and Ottoxlol.



A bit before Mattchew is scum-confirmed (right around when a few players start voting for Mattchew), Broodking posts this unbelievably wishy-washy opinion on Mattchew.
On September 04 2012 16:20 BroodKingEXE wrote:
About Mattchew (who I think is town):
Here's my breakdown of the situation : Matt's roleclaimed and given two reasons he claimed to avoid mislynch and/or draw a mafia shot. At first glance the roleclaim seemed like a great idea, but as I thought about it there were just too many holes. My initial thought was that it was a good idea and that could have been Matt's (based on the reasoning too). Another problem I find with lynching him is that what he has done (roleclaim) isn't verifiable until he is lynched. Right now its a coinflip and I haven't seen anything else that suggests he is scum. Fakeclaims aren't good basis for a lynch, they're not even able to be confirmed until the lynch, so I cant vote for him unless his posting sounds scummy.


Look at the logic - he first thinks its a great idea, then there are "too many holes."
He doesn't want to lynch him because his "roleclaim isn't verifiable until he is lynched" - the hell?
He said he's town originally, then says "its a coinflip"
Then he says "Fakeclaims aren't good basis for a lynch" and wants to wait until "mattchew sounds scummy". Again, the fakeclaim is the entire reason everyone voted for him.

But wait! Two pages after the fakeclaim (and before Mattchew posted anything in the interim):
On September 05 2012 00:12 BroodKingEXE wrote:
Unvote
##Vote: Mattchew


Wow.


After stating earlier that the fakeclaim wasn't enough to lynch Mattchew, he votes Mattchew for that very reasoning.



His viewpoints on Ottoxlol are the nail in the coffin:

Goes from top scumread:
No, his response was belivable based on posts he made after his sloosh interaction. Ottox has replaced him [ed note: Broodking's scumread on Toad due to the fact that he is pushing a "Matt is an assasin/townie scheme" instead of pushing his scum read toad.


Then proceeds to push cases against Miltonkram, Shadysands, and Gravan while Ottox is his top scumread:

Then says strange things about potentially townie Ottox while keeping a scumread on him.
filter
My 2 cents about the Ottox thing. I played with him in Area 53 and he's as stubborn as a mule. I could see him trying to derail a lynch from a town perspective. I just don't get why as town he wont push a lynch canidate (in all seriousness his isn't doing much to push toad or hapa). That's why Im keeping a scum read on him.


Then SOFT DEFENDS OTTOX when talking to DrH
On September 06 2012 16:03 BroodKingEXE wrote:
On September 06 2012 15:39 BlackMamba24 wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=329128&user=124671&currentpage=2

I see a clear attempt to be helpful and constructive here, at least over the first couple pages. Not belligerent, listening to other players, pressuring people, making a real effort to help the town. Seems very different to me.

It was later in the game from what I remember, just that he doesn't really listen (or ignores) others logic.




BroodKingEXE is scum!

##Vote BroodKingEXE

I've got a break to post. The reason I didn't like the idea of voting for a fake-claim is because short of Mod-confirmation, we wouldn't have any way to confirm BC's theory. I switched my vote because the fake-claim was confirmed and Mattchew had made no attempt to explain the fake-claim from a town perspective.

considering... like... people (a guy named xelin, off the top) have had nosy-neighbor roles before? i disagree w this


This is the only post he makes during the BKE push. Note that he doesn’t take a stance and simply disagrees with BKE’s defense.

Then, after the BKE lynch...

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i cant believe you all lynched BKX
You all need to listen to me, even if I've been drinking lightly.


All of a sudden, he acts as if he was against BKE the whole time. Now I’m not sure if BillMurray is capable of doing stuff like this as town (his normal posting is scummy after all), but this specific thing seems scummy as hell to me.



- His unwillingness to reply to this post, to Bosons post questions or to my question. There might be more occasions but probably not needed.

- Me generally disliking that way of posting. If you purposedly post scummy (which people have claimed he always does) you just make it way too easy for yourself to hide.

- Him not really committing to anything and switching opinions about people all the time. He said he'd back off Forumite, voted on him anyway. He had also gone back and forth about Maverick in his filter (without explaining the reasoning of course).

- Toad seemingly agreeing BM needs to die. Toad is the one one who seem to have the meta knowledge about the others, and even though he's preferring Boson/Forumite, at least it doesnt mean the meta-argumentation clears Murray of anything.

- Me having a bad feeling about the Forumite case and how its unfolding. Maverick explained it well
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I don't like the way these cases are being played out. By there being more than just a dominant voice of "Everyone pile on this person"- having another option forces people to choose. If everyone just says "vote for this person" and no one is offering an alternative- scum is safe to just follow along since there wasn't a realistic option.


That would be about it. Im very open to change my vote should he make an effort to defend himself though, but I've got a feeling that wont happen.

Short opinions about Maverick and Boson and why I dont want to vote on them for now.
Maverick: With the 10 or more people I have no feeling for at all, Maverick at least made two recent posts I very much agree with as town. Not enough to put him as a clear town, but enough to not make me wanna vote on him now.
Boson: I think the best explanation of his play so far was him being 3rd party. So I'll stick to that opinion about him for now.

##Vote Bill Murray
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 13:56 GMT
#1729
On September 11 2012 22:25 imallinson wrote:
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On September 11 2012 19:32 Forumite wrote:
On September 11 2012 19:09 mkfuba07 wrote:
On September 11 2012 18:20 Forumite wrote:
On September 11 2012 09:27 mkfuba07 wrote:
On September 11 2012 08:01 Forumite wrote:
On September 11 2012 07:54 mkfuba07 wrote:
I've put my z-boson investigation on hold (more accurate to say it never started, since I just recently woke up) so that I could weigh in on Forumite. I don't know what to add that hasn't been mentioned already, but his "I guess I kind of looked scummy" post is the what's most convincing for me. I hadn't found his vote post to be very suspicious, since it was clear at that point that Mattchew had lied and was clearly scum. This indicates him being defensive without reason. In that same post he tells Rewok to stop looking for other scum, since we already caught one that day. I didn't understand that when he wrote it, and I still don't get it. Why stop scumhunting just because we've found a confirmed scum?

Then there's smaller things, like accusing Mav of being scum essentially because he "...defended a confirmed scum during the crucial time during which Matts scumbuddies might have tried to save him." Isn't the time while the fakeclaim is unconfirmed the time when someone is most likely to be unsure about a lynch on someone? If I were in the game at that time I would have likely had second-thoughts about a Matt lynch as well. If there was more to that case that I'm missing, then let me know.

I'm still looking at z-boson's filter because I think he's suspicious as well, but I feel comfortable with my vote on Forumite.

##Vote Forumite
Who the hell are you? Where did you come from, and why do you drop such a scummy post? Seriously? "I´m happy with lynching Forumite so I´ll stop looking for other scum now"?

I replaced in for Lvdr and have been catching up on the over 80 pages of the game. Is there something about my post that you find scummy aside from the single sentence at the end that you misrepresented? I never said I wasn't looking for other scum. I actually said that despite being fine with a lynch on you (read: I think you're scummy) I'm still going to read through z-boson's filter because I believe he's scummy as well. You somehow inferred the opposite. Strange.

You were one of a few people I was suspicious of after reading through the thread. I am going to look through z-boson's filter again and post my thoughts on him after I've done so. My vote may change, it may not. Basically, I don't currently feel that a vote on you is wasted.
You replaced in, which is all good and well, but you still inherit the scummyness of the previous player. I´m forced to hold you to a higher standard, so when I see your post which is about how you can possibly accept voting for me, instead of the candidate you were looking at, the one I most want you to lynch, it´s irritating in all sorts of ways. You are a scummy player blaming me for distracting you from your highest scumread, that you say is Z-boson, so once this is all over you can say that Z-boson was the one you wanted to lynch the whole time. Wishy-washy.

You also misinterpret what I meant in those posts. I´m suspicious of Mav because if he is scum, then he´d have a reason to softdefend Matt and provide alternative candidates when it was possible to do so, townies could do that too but there´s no motivation behind it unless there´s a big flaw in the case, and they really have a good alternative candidate. I´m also fairly sure I never told Rewok to stop scumhunting, what I meant was that when you have candidate X up for a lynch, then it´s a bad idea to try and build cases on based on X being scum. X is lynched on his own scummyness, if you are going to lynch Y then he has to be a good candidate on his own, UNTIL X flips and this puts Y into some kind of suspicious interaction with a confirmed scum. Lynch the scummyest one and build cases based on association AFTER the flip.

I guess I can accept inheriting Lvdr's scumminess, though it consists entirely of lurking 100% of the time. I can't defend myself against his complete absence from the thread, however, so I'll just leave it at that.

I'm in no way blaming you for distracting me from my highest scumread, and have no intention of ignoring ZB. I'm going through his filter now, deciding if all of the "off feelings" I've had have been actually scummy or just bad play.

What are your current thoughts on Mav? You said you want Hopeless to die. Is ZB no longer your strongest scumread then?
I´ve got too many scumreads and I´m weighing back and forth on some of them. The strongest ones are Z-Boson and Bill Murray, slightly less sure about Mav and Hopeless1der, with about half the rest as scummy. I´ll post the full list before the lynch if it´s still on me.


What would be really helpful is if you actually made a case now. You said before that you thought day three was going to be a waste now. Surely you actually contributing something, besides saying a few people are scummy, would help to alleviate that. You posting vague reads on people doesn't help town lynch scum which is the reason everyone is voting for your lynch in the first place.

If you're looking for something alternative to Forumite, theres been cases last 2 or 3 pages on both him, Z-Boson and Bill Murray. You should really try and read some of those rather than just leaning back and demanding him to do the work. If he had anything to say in addition to whats been said Im sure he'd mention it. If he doesnt have anything else to add, you should read through them and make your own opinion.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 14:31 GMT
#1734
Looking back at who voted who and why so far, I couldnt help but noticing this one:
On September 11 2012 04:07 Rewok wrote:
I've been wrong every time I voted on my own instinct and right the time I followed Toade so my vote is for Forumite.

##vote: Forumite

Do you really not have any opinion on this yourself? If you dont have an opinion on the voting candidates, at least elaborate a bit on why you chose to follow Toad blindly and not any other random player.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 19:18 GMT
#1744
On September 12 2012 04:04 Z-BosoN wrote:
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On September 12 2012 03:51 Forumite wrote:
On September 11 2012 23:56 Hopeless1der wrote:
On September 11 2012 23:16 Forumite wrote:
I dislike most of the case (Z-boson's case on BM), especially him calling BM out for lying, often a "lie" is the player simply forgetting something instead of scum-motivated. What I do agree with is that it´s very bad of BM to have been gone during the BKE lynch. My opinion of BM is that he doesn´t try to help. We want him to be a town leader and all he does is short posts, cryptic or irrelevant passages, FoS on me, taking back FoS on me, saying he actually always suspected me, back and forth.

The old cases on me during N1 were weak, and both BM and Toades said so, so I didn´t do much about them except resolving to get more active, and yet it´s those same reasons that are used to get me lynched today. =/

- You want BILL MURRAY to be the leader? The voice of reason, a beacon for us to rally around? Are you kidding me?
- Where is this so called activity? Why is it that my posts are never responded to? Am I lurking to hard? For the last time:
On September 11 2012 07:24 Forumite wrote:
And there goes D3.

Come on guys, ignore the wagon for a while, where are the other scum? When I flip town, who is your next target? I´ve been away a few hours and the only thing that´s happened is that everyone´s said they want to lynch me. Doesn´t anyone have something else to add?

On September 11 2012 01:09 Hopeless1der wrote:
Forumite, could you perhaps flesh things out a bit more on Z-Boson, besides his interactions regarding Mattchew? Why is he a better lynch than you right now?

Forumite, Why should we lynch Z-Boson?
Why do you want me to die?
Make an effort to explain yourself.



For reference, a case on Forumite that is not based on Meta:
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On September 07 2012 02:43 Hopeless1der wrote:
First, my original case on Forumite:
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On September 04 2012 13:18 Hopeless1der wrote:
Supposing we table the nosy-neighbor discussion(which appears to still be going strong), I would like to point out my take on Forumite:

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On September 04 2012 09:36 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:12 Mattchew wrote:
I am a nosy neighbor. Anyone else with this role should insta-claim as well.




The reason people policy lynch people like BM and Grush is because they get by into later in the game because they are unreadable. This is because they barely actually play the game and if you end up in lylo with one of them left, you've basically already lost. I completely understand anyone wanting to policy lynch them, but we should also not allow them to be off the hook for some sort of scum read during the day.

That being said, I remember thinking to myself that I don't hate BM's play in the last few games I have been in with him. I do not want to policy lynch today.
Why would you claim this? You eliminated yourself as a possible blue from scums list of townies, and it´s not like you doing this eliminates you as a scum suspect. If someone see you visiting a player who dies the we´re lynching you anyway.

"We're lynching you anyway"

Not cool. First, I disagree with the notion that revealing yourself as a nosy neighbor is scummy. Oh wait, Forumite didn't really say that. He didn't really say much of anything here if you ask me, but back to the point of "lynching you anyways", I don't like the blanket statements from Forumite. Here's another one:
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On September 04 2012 09:46 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:42 BlackMamba24 wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:27 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:07 BlackMamba24 wrote:
I mean that blues should do what they feel is best with their own judgment and ignore any direction from the "town"
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I wondered about this phrase:

On September 04 2012 07:55 BlackMamba24 wrote:
Never lynch someone just because they wouldn't claim to the town leader or whatever, that's asinine, asiten, asieleven, asitwelve, etc.


What is there to explain? There's a difference between lynching someone for not backing themselves up after they're caught lying or whatever and lynching someone because they don't trust the town circle.
It sounded weird. It´s common for the voteleader to be lynched unless he claims (convincingly).
As an aside, "It sounded weird" is not a phrase I like to see. Immediately makes me suspicious.

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On September 04 2012 09:55 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:43 Mattchew wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:36 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:12 Mattchew wrote:
I am a nosy neighbor. Anyone else with this role should insta-claim as well.




The reason people policy lynch people like BM and Grush is because they get by into later in the game because they are unreadable. This is because they barely actually play the game and if you end up in lylo with one of them left, you've basically already lost. I completely understand anyone wanting to policy lynch them, but we should also not allow them to be off the hook for some sort of scum read during the day.

That being said, I remember thinking to myself that I don't hate BM's play in the last few games I have been in with him. I do not want to policy lynch today.
Why would you claim this? You eliminated yourself as a possible blue from scums list of townies, and it´s not like you doing this eliminates you as a scum suspect. If someone see you visiting a player who dies the we´re lynching you anyway.

Because there is no town benefit to me hiding this information. and for all everyone knows I could be a blue role trying to avoid being incorrectly tracked as well

if I get tracked to a dead person atleast there will be something to think about before mislynching me
Lying to town as a blue is a bad idea. If you fakeclaim nosy neighbor to fool scum, then you risk getting lynched by town. You are still going to draw a few trackers during the first few nights, just to make sure that you are really visiting people at random with no effect, so because of this you might actually be hurting town by distracting blues.


Why are trackers going to be inclined to 'verify' a nosy neighbor claim? Even if Mattchew is scum, he just needs to do something and his claim is still up in the air. Why is Forumite trying to manipulate our blues? There's also the point about lying as a blue. How about lying in general to the town? There isn't any value in this statement.

Town is supposedly harmed because our Trackers have to make sure Mattchew is really visiting random people with no effect. And then they get a confirmed townie out of the exchange. Wait, how does that hurt us again?



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On September 04 2012 10:00 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:55 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:05 Forumite wrote:
Finished with page 12.

On September 04 2012 08:01 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 07:58 Toadesstern wrote:
On September 04 2012 07:56 slOosh wrote:
Hapa, what is your idea of a town circle and how does it help us find / lynch / kill scum?

Toad - How is that useless stuff that has nothing to do with the game? The setup changed and maybe people haven't read the updates. I've asked you once and I'll do it again, what else do you want to talk about?


I don't know what you want to talk about. I'm talking about your useless post being useless.

Well BlackMamba's recent post just shows that people can miss information. My post has already proven itself useful, and your opening post which tries to discredit mine has not. Do you think I'm scum by my first post?
What is your problem with Toades? Do you think he´s deliberately disruptive?

What makes you think I think that?
Let me rephrase: What is your problem with Toades play in this game?

You were reacting very strongly to a random vote coming right at the beginning of the game.

Dat Over-reaction:
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On September 04 2012 07:42 slOosh wrote:
Cool ... you wanna talk about something else?


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On September 04 2012 07:56 slOosh wrote:
Hapa, what is your idea of a town circle and how does it help us find / lynch / kill scum?

Toad - How is that useless stuff that has nothing to do with the game? The setup changed and maybe people haven't read the updates. I've asked you once and I'll do it again, what else do you want to talk about?


And then of course slo0sh himself points out:

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On September 04 2012 10:17 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 10:00 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:55 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:05 Forumite wrote:
Finished with page 12.

On September 04 2012 08:01 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 07:58 Toadesstern wrote:
On September 04 2012 07:56 slOosh wrote:
Hapa, what is your idea of a town circle and how does it help us find / lynch / kill scum?

Toad - How is that useless stuff that has nothing to do with the game? The setup changed and maybe people haven't read the updates. I've asked you once and I'll do it again, what else do you want to talk about?


I don't know what you want to talk about. I'm talking about your useless post being useless.

Well BlackMamba's recent post just shows that people can miss information. My post has already proven itself useful, and your opening post which tries to discredit mine has not. Do you think I'm scum by my first post?
What is your problem with Toades? Do you think he´s deliberately disruptive?

What makes you think I think that?
Let me rephrase: What is your problem with Toades play in this game?

You were reacting very strongly to a random vote coming right at the beginning of the game.

I reacted strongly because there was no grounds for the vote / read. I still have a problem with the fact that he keeps emphasizing the uselessness of the post (it isn't, because as clearly seen that people can miss setup information), which I take as soft discrediting of my posts in general. I'm not claiming my opening post is super useful, but to call it useless is unwarranted. That said I can see this coming from a town perspective, so my problem with his play thus far is a matter of taste rather than alignment.


On September 04 2012 10:04 Z-BosoN wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:55 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:05 Forumite wrote:
Finished with page 12.

On September 04 2012 08:01 slOosh wrote:
On September 04 2012 07:58 Toadesstern wrote:
On September 04 2012 07:56 slOosh wrote:
Hapa, what is your idea of a town circle and how does it help us find / lynch / kill scum?

Toad - How is that useless stuff that has nothing to do with the game? The setup changed and maybe people haven't read the updates. I've asked you once and I'll do it again, what else do you want to talk about?


I don't know what you want to talk about. I'm talking about your useless post being useless.

Well BlackMamba's recent post just shows that people can miss information. My post has already proven itself useful, and your opening post which tries to discredit mine has not. Do you think I'm scum by my first post?
What is your problem with Toades? Do you think he´s deliberately disruptive?

What makes you think I think that?


Um... this: " My post has already proven itself useful, and your opening post which tries to discredit mine has not"
You are saying that he tries to discredit you ---> you think he tried to discredit you ---> if he tried to discredit you, you are saying he wanted to do this and is being deliberately disruptive. Why not just straight answer the question without adding another one?

There is a difference in someone discrediting me and someone being deliberately disruptive. Forumite phrased the question in a way that seemingly put words in my mouth as I said the former but not the latter (or never intended to so I checked with my question).

Specifically the last paragraph is what I want noted.
Then again, slo0sh addressed the 'strong reaction' in the first part of that quote, but I don't think slo0sh reacted 'strongly' at all. Forumite is just stirring the pot here and not really being helpful to me. He looks like he's pushing discussion, but slo0sh was taking care of that all on his own. We didn't need Forumite to prompt him.


I see a lot of roundabout advice from Forumite on why claiming self-aware miller is terrible and how our blues are screwed for it. But nowhere does he tell us that Mattchew is scummy, just that he'll still be suspicious no matter what. His prodding at slo0sh dead-ended pretty quickly and he's ducked out of the thread after making this post:

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On September 04 2012 10:01 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 10:00 Z-BosoN wrote:
Hello folks ^^
I would appreciate it if someone could clear some things up, since I've never played in this setup yet. Right now I've noticed this new mechanic: visiting someone.
A nosy neighbor will randomly visit someone. This will be caught up by the town watcher and/or tracker.
Now what I don't understand: if a medic saves someone, or if a roleblocker blocks some, or if a Suicide Bomber plants a bomb somewhere, or if a goon tks someone, will they also "visit" this person?
Yes, all nightactions, including mafia nightkills, can be detected by watchers and trackers.

I´ve never seen you before. Have you been on TL-mafia long? What do you think about the game so far?


I don't think his posts have contributed anything to getting scum lynched, and I think it is because Forumite is scum.

##Vote: Forumite


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Pregame answer for Rewok, I got curious when going through Forumite's filter:
On September 03 2012 01:49 Forumite wrote:
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On September 03 2012 00:51 Rewok wrote:
There's a word for arguing for arguments sake but I can't remember it. Anybody want to help me out?

No there isn't! + Show Spoiler +


Eristic



My followup, continuing my journey through his filter:

His entire reasoning for voting matt is to sheep BC:
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On September 04 2012 21:11 Forumite wrote:
Still catching up with the posts made while I was asleep.

For now:
##Vote: Mattchew

He´s a scummy liar and I´m 100% behind BC for calling him out.

He didn't even read the entire thread through...He initially just tossed his vote in there because BC was so sure of himself, but that wasn't really the case. How do I know this? Because in his next post, he's defending his 'out of place' vote in the spoilered post below:
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On September 05 2012 11:17 Forumite wrote:
Reading through the thread, my vote on Matt looks kind of odd. I made it after I got a PM-confirmation from Palmar but before I saw Palmars post in the thread.

Why do people fakevote, then say "lol, I never really voted!" It´s irritating. Making a vote in this thread might not count but I think it´s bad form. Similarly it´s bad to stealthvote in the other thread without confirming it here. If you want to pressurevote, do it for real.

@BM
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On September 05 2012 05:57 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:36 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:12 Mattchew wrote:
I am a nosy neighbor. Anyone else with this role should insta-claim as well.




The reason people policy lynch people like BM and Grush is because they get by into later in the game because they are unreadable. This is because they barely actually play the game and if you end up in lylo with one of them left, you've basically already lost. I completely understand anyone wanting to policy lynch them, but we should also not allow them to be off the hook for some sort of scum read during the day.

That being said, I remember thinking to myself that I don't hate BM's play in the last few games I have been in with him. I do not want to policy lynch today.
Why would you claim this? You eliminated yourself as a possible blue from scums list of townies, and it´s not like you doing this eliminates you as a scum suspect. If someone see you visiting a player who dies the we´re lynching you anyway.

check this scummy post from forumite
1) misreads the setup
2) attacks him with a smirk for the claim, which looks scummy as shit
3) takes the visiting thing a step further, saying "if they die" which clears a ton of scum roles... forumite is scum with a role
FoS: Forumite
I don´t get it. Matt was looking very strange for claiming when there was no benefit in claiming. I was talking to him to try and get a better read. Yes, if Matt was blue then I might have exposed him, but I wasn´t worried about that, I was thinking Matt was either NN or scum.

With Matt looking more and more scummy, do you still accuse me of fishing for his role? Your FoS seem to rely on Matt being a townie, which he´s probably not.

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On September 05 2012 09:48 Rewok wrote:
Been keeping up my reading. Here's how the situation seems to me:

We're voting Mattchew today. Pretty much no getting out of that. If he turns up scum, Ottox and a few others could be on the chopping block. If he's town, we've got a whole new set of reads.

But it seems to me that our whole strategy hinges on how Mattchew turns up after he's killed. Is there any way we can get another read / another kill set up for D1? One which doesn't hinge on Mattchew's alignment?

I'm asking because you guys are way more familiar with the way TL mafia runs.
One lynch at a time. Once Matt is dead, we shut up during the night, and then try to figure out what his flip means tomorrow. We can´t lynch more than one target at a time, so we lynch the scummiest one and worry about finding the rest of the scumteam later.



More specifically, pulling from the spoilered post above:
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On September 05 2012 11:17 Forumite wrote:
Reading through the thread, my vote on Matt looks kind of odd. I made it after I got a PM-confirmation from Palmar but before I saw Palmars post in the thread.
It didn't look strange. Feel free the check the timestamps, his vote came after Palmar confirmed the lie. Forumite says he got mod confirmation anyways, but to what avail? This is a defensive statement when there is nothing to defend against. This is scummy behavior. Why did he have to sheep BC if he had mod confirmation? More scummy behavior.

Next, he's reading things between lines that I have a hard time seeing. Read BM's post and show me how you came out of that thinking "Well BM is accusing me of bluefishing":
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On September 05 2012 05:57 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:36 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:12 Mattchew wrote:
I am a nosy neighbor. Anyone else with this role should insta-claim as well.




The reason people policy lynch people like BM and Grush is because they get by into later in the game because they are unreadable. This is because they barely actually play the game and if you end up in lylo with one of them left, you've basically already lost. I completely understand anyone wanting to policy lynch them, but we should also not allow them to be off the hook for some sort of scum read during the day.

That being said, I remember thinking to myself that I don't hate BM's play in the last few games I have been in with him. I do not want to policy lynch today.
Why would you claim this? You eliminated yourself as a possible blue from scums list of townies, and it´s not like you doing this eliminates you as a scum suspect. If someone see you visiting a player who dies the we´re lynching you anyway.

check this scummy post from forumite
1) misreads the setup
2) attacks him with a smirk for the claim, which looks scummy as shit
3) takes the visiting thing a step further, saying "if they die" which clears a ton of scum roles... forumite is scum with a role
FoS: Forumite

Forumite's response to BM:
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On September 05 2012 11:17 Forumite wrote:
I don´t get it. Matt was looking very strange for claiming when there was no benefit in claiming. I was talking to him to try and get a better read. Yes, if Matt was blue then I might have exposed him, but I wasn´t worried about that, I was thinking Matt was either NN or scum.


Next is him stifling active discussion and being wishy-washy:
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On September 05 2012 11:17 Forumite wrote:
One lynch at a time. Once Matt is dead, we shut up during the night, and then try to figure out what his flip means tomorrow. We can´t lynch more than one target at a time, so we lynch the scummiest one and worry about finding the rest of the scumteam later.

He's kind of hedging his bets on what Matt's flip is going to be. This is a step back from when Matt was a scummy liar in his previous post. So what if we can't lynch more than one target at a time? I disagree with the concept of shutting up at night, but I don't necessarily see that as scum motivated. What is scummy is that we can "worry about finding the rest of the scumteam later." This isn't shutting up at night, this is shutting up in general. Rewok phrased his question poorly as an "alternative D1 target", but the basic concept of CONTINUE TO SCUMHUNT is completely valid to me.




In the next post:+ Show Spoiler +
On September 05 2012 21:19 Forumite wrote:
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On September 05 2012 12:43 Z-BosoN wrote:
Allright, Mattchew is set to be lynched.
What can we conclude if he flips scum or town?
In the unlikely event that he will flip town, will we have enough evidence to go for a BC lynch?

My take is, if he flips town, BC's suspicions will go way up, but I don't agree with insta-lynch. We all agreed that fakeclaiming is not something a blue role would do, and is most likely coming from scum.

If he flips scum, then we will take a long hard look at the people who insist that he shouldn't be lynched.

Ox, as of now, is my top candidate for a lynch. He's been so obnoxious and so annoying regarding the whole Mattchew business that he looks the most suspicious up to now. He also has been of zero usefulness this entire game.


@Shiaopi
Your meta is a little off from Dwarf Mafia, where you were town and had much more contribuitive posts in day 1. When will your internet be fixed?
Basically that, if Matt flips town, then BC could be anything, but if Matt flips scum then BC is most likely town, and everyone who defended Matt until Palmars confirmation looks kind of bad. People who defend Matt after Palmars confirmation look bad for creating a disruption over something that is allready decided, that Matt lied and needs to die, but I think most scum jumped on the bandwagon long ago.

If Matt is an Assassin then we get rid of both the 3rd Party in return for 2 townies dead. Not a good trade, but I think it´s unlikely that Matt is an assassin. There´s no point in not defending yourself to the end as a 3rd Party, while scum often shut up to avoid giving away any of their buddies.

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On September 05 2012 14:38 Bill Murray wrote:
No, Forumite. I don't see how you get that whatsoever. I see you as being scum with Mattchew for not jumping on voting him there.
Isn´t that a different accusation? Before you accuse me of trying to get Matt to claim (meaning that you thought I was scum and Matt town), and now you say I´m scum together with Matt. To answer why I didn´t vote Matt early, at the time I was weighing on what Matt was and engaged him in conversation to get a better read, but until Palmar confirmed how Nosy Neighbors works, there wasn´t enough on Matt for me to throw down a vote. Matt was suspicious for claiming NN, but there were no proof that he was really lying at the time. Why should I vote someone who claims a town role unless I have a good reason to think he´s lying?

,
He basically says that if Matt flips red (which he has) then everyone looks kind of bad sometimes because of disruption and bussing something something waffle. Don't count on finding scum using Matt's flip is the message I got from that.
This, in addition to his "find scum later" response to rewok reads very scummy to me.

He also pushes his luck with BM regarding the bluefishing, which I don't think actually happened and Forumite is twisting the situation to make BM look bad.

For the most part, he's shut up other than to call Mav scum and neglect to address the ottoxlol issue. This is null since he said he'd wanted to shut up at night, but with everything else, I'm reading heavily into Forumite being scum.

- Well, I´d hope Bill Murray would at least lead a lynch on a scum sometime during this game. He´s been hanging back, most importantly during yesterdays mislynch.

- I´m giving the game the time I can give, but it´s a bloody big game. Lots to read through. 1) At least the thread doesn´t grow that fast anymore, even if that´s because the scum killed the most active posters.

- 2) Why Z-boson? I can´t tell, there´s a lot of scumsense and odd posts, but nothing huge and damning. There´s no single thing I can point to that is definetly a scum move, but several that make me suspect there´s a scum motivation somewhere. It´s a big game and the two flipped scum died very, very early, so unfortunately this is the best I can do for now. I´ve gotten a scumread on Z-boson and it´s one of the few that hasn´t changed through the game. I´ve flip-flopped on almost everyone else, but my read on him has been off for a long time. It could just be tunneling of course.


1) This is good then? Not to flatter myself, but you propose to kill the most active poster atm. Liking the silence?

This is another pretty good reason why I dont wanna vote Boson lol. He puts so many words in peoples mouthes. I have no idea how "At least the thread doesn´t grow that fast anymore" becomes "you propose to kill the most active poster atm". At thats hardly the first time, he hits on everything, left and right. I somehow have a hard time believing a mafia wouldnt be more...... tactical than that.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 21:28 GMT
#1769
The amount of people following the case blindly is highly annoying to me. People arent really making their own opinions but seem to be following the wagon way too much. We've already lost two active posters last night and we're about to lynch Forumite (who Im feeling more and more good about not voting on). Whats gonna be left after N3? Its gonna be Toad going all solo and as it looks now it seems he will be able to get any case he wants through. Granted, it might work if people spam him with night protection, but I dont like those odds.

Or if Toad would be mafia I bet he's having a pretty good time now. Hes completely untouched and people are seemingly following what hes saying.

Oh well, we can hope Forumite flips red, or at least 3rd party.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 11 2012 22:00 GMT
#1780
F5 F5
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 13:35 GMT
#1824
Is there any chance we could get a comment from Toad before its time for night kills? If not it might be good idea for doctors/jailkeepers to move their protection around to people who seem to be more similiar to what hapa/austin was. I imagine theres been quite a few people protecting Toad so far, and that could be up for discussion.

Also note: Im not suspicious of him (well, not more than the paranioa he pretty much asked for us to have regarding him :p), but since he was took the biggest part in the mislynch, it would be nice to know what he has to say about it and what he wants the next move to be. Theres already been two people throwing suspicions his way (Forumite, Grush).
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 13:40 GMT
#1825
Also agreeing on that a big shot on Bill Murray would be a good idea.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 13:41 GMT
#1826
Big shot :D
Well, maybe that too!
Obviously meant vig shot though.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 13:50 GMT
#1829
On September 12 2012 22:43 imallinson wrote:
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On September 12 2012 22:35 Kreb wrote:
Is there any chance we could get a comment from Toad before its time for night kills? If not it might be good idea for doctors/jailkeepers to move their protection around to people who seem to be more similiar to what hapa/austin was. I imagine theres been quite a few people protecting Toad so far, and that could be up for discussion.

Also note: Im not suspicious of him (well, not more than the paranioa he pretty much asked for us to have regarding him :p), but since he was took the biggest part in the mislynch, it would be nice to know what he has to say about it and what he wants the next move to be. Theres already been two people throwing suspicions his way (Forumite, Grush).

Just because he led a mislynch doesn't make him less town. Town players are perfectly capable of being wrong. If we start suspecting everyone who pushes a mislynch we won't have anyone pushing lynches at all.

Of course.

But given the fact that he pretty much told us we should be paranoid as fuck about him (which I very much am) due to how supposedly good he was as mafia, I at least think we could demand a comment. As I said Im not suspicious, Im just paranoid. I trusted him for this lynch, that trust took a bit of a hit. Im wondering if I should renew the trust or not.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 13:59 GMT
#1831
On September 12 2012 22:43 imallinson wrote:
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On September 12 2012 22:35 Kreb wrote:
Is there any chance we could get a comment from Toad before its time for night kills? If not it might be good idea for doctors/jailkeepers to move their protection around to people who seem to be more similiar to what hapa/austin was. I imagine theres been quite a few people protecting Toad so far, and that could be up for discussion.

Also note: Im not suspicious of him (well, not more than the paranioa he pretty much asked for us to have regarding him :p), but since he was took the biggest part in the mislynch, it would be nice to know what he has to say about it and what he wants the next move to be. Theres already been two people throwing suspicions his way (Forumite, Grush).

Just because he led a mislynch doesn't make him less town. Town players are perfectly capable of being wrong. If we start suspecting everyone who pushes a mislynch we won't have anyone pushing lynches at all.

And Im not exactly calling for a lynch on him. However depending on what will be said from now until N3 ends, I might call for doctors/jailkeepers to re-evaluate their decision to protect Toad (obviously supposing they protected him in the first place, which I find very likely).

A likely N2 scenario was mafia ignoring Toad and using their KPs on austin/hapa. The most likely either ignored him because A) They expected him to have protecting B) Hes mafia. In bose cases, keeping spamming protection on him is useless. At least the doctors/jailkeepers should exercise the possibility of their protection being better placed elsewhere.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 14:00 GMT
#1832
On September 12 2012 22:56 DarthPunk wrote:
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On September 12 2012 22:50 Kreb wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:43 imallinson wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:35 Kreb wrote:
Is there any chance we could get a comment from Toad before its time for night kills? If not it might be good idea for doctors/jailkeepers to move their protection around to people who seem to be more similiar to what hapa/austin was. I imagine theres been quite a few people protecting Toad so far, and that could be up for discussion.

Also note: Im not suspicious of him (well, not more than the paranioa he pretty much asked for us to have regarding him :p), but since he was took the biggest part in the mislynch, it would be nice to know what he has to say about it and what he wants the next move to be. Theres already been two people throwing suspicions his way (Forumite, Grush).

Just because he led a mislynch doesn't make him less town. Town players are perfectly capable of being wrong. If we start suspecting everyone who pushes a mislynch we won't have anyone pushing lynches at all.

Of course.

But given the fact that he pretty much told us we should be paranoid as fuck about him (which I very much am) due to how supposedly good he was as mafia, I at least think we could demand a comment. As I said Im not suspicious, Im just paranoid. I trusted him for this lynch, that trust took a bit of a hit. Im wondering if I should renew the trust or not.


Don't blindly sheep people. That answers your question right?

Was that directed at me? If so, what question did you refer to?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 14:12 GMT
#1838
On September 12 2012 23:04 Toadesstern wrote:
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On September 12 2012 22:50 Kreb wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:43 imallinson wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:35 Kreb wrote:
Is there any chance we could get a comment from Toad before its time for night kills? If not it might be good idea for doctors/jailkeepers to move their protection around to people who seem to be more similiar to what hapa/austin was. I imagine theres been quite a few people protecting Toad so far, and that could be up for discussion.

Also note: Im not suspicious of him (well, not more than the paranioa he pretty much asked for us to have regarding him :p), but since he was took the biggest part in the mislynch, it would be nice to know what he has to say about it and what he wants the next move to be. Theres already been two people throwing suspicions his way (Forumite, Grush).

Just because he led a mislynch doesn't make him less town. Town players are perfectly capable of being wrong. If we start suspecting everyone who pushes a mislynch we won't have anyone pushing lynches at all.

Of course.

But given the fact that he pretty much told us we should be paranoid as fuck about him (which I very much am) due to how supposedly good he was as mafia, I at least think we could demand a comment. As I said Im not suspicious, Im just paranoid. I trusted him for this lynch, that trust took a bit of a hit. Im wondering if I should renew the trust or not.

hey am back, haven't read a thing yet and yeah I agree with what you "proposed" although it's for a different reason.
Only got like half an hour time until I've got to leave again but I'll have time later on (like 4 hours prior to deadline) to post something.

However reasoning for medics considering me: I don't think medics / Jailers should be protecting me as well.
Right now there's pretty much no way mafia is going to shoot me because people are getting paranoid about me. Mafia are probably not going to shoot me because they want that paranoia. Yeah I could be saying that as mafia as well giving an explanation why I survived yet another night but it really works both ways.
For all I care, if you're paranoid just track me if you think I'm mafia and frankly I'd actually say that already happened given my "most people are afraid about me" post either n1 or n2 anyways.
Of course if you're a tracker it's up to you when you want to track me because if I was mafia I could just tell people to track me and be the guy who's not delivering a KP (assuming more than 2 mafia alive). So waiting until we've got rid of another mafia might be the way to go for trackers, but it's up to you, I've got nothing to hide :p

Cool.

On topic of tracking and watching, whats your opinion there?

Personally I feel tracking and watching should be pretty well spent on lurkers/low profile players. If you were mafia theres no way you'd be carrying out the kills. A watcher believing you to be town might have a good reason to. Catching your killer would be great should you go down tonight. But other than that option, I'd say watch/track low profile players, the information could be very important later in the game when where down to 8-10 players.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 14:15 GMT
#1842
Actually, that was pretty dumb what I said. Watch likely kill targets, track low profile dudes.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 14:19 GMT
#1845
On September 12 2012 23:15 Bill Murray wrote:
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On September 12 2012 23:12 Kreb wrote:
On September 12 2012 23:04 Toadesstern wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:50 Kreb wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:43 imallinson wrote:
On September 12 2012 22:35 Kreb wrote:
Is there any chance we could get a comment from Toad before its time for night kills? If not it might be good idea for doctors/jailkeepers to move their protection around to people who seem to be more similiar to what hapa/austin was. I imagine theres been quite a few people protecting Toad so far, and that could be up for discussion.

Also note: Im not suspicious of him (well, not more than the paranioa he pretty much asked for us to have regarding him :p), but since he was took the biggest part in the mislynch, it would be nice to know what he has to say about it and what he wants the next move to be. Theres already been two people throwing suspicions his way (Forumite, Grush).

Just because he led a mislynch doesn't make him less town. Town players are perfectly capable of being wrong. If we start suspecting everyone who pushes a mislynch we won't have anyone pushing lynches at all.

Of course.

But given the fact that he pretty much told us we should be paranoid as fuck about him (which I very much am) due to how supposedly good he was as mafia, I at least think we could demand a comment. As I said Im not suspicious, Im just paranoid. I trusted him for this lynch, that trust took a bit of a hit. Im wondering if I should renew the trust or not.

hey am back, haven't read a thing yet and yeah I agree with what you "proposed" although it's for a different reason.
Only got like half an hour time until I've got to leave again but I'll have time later on (like 4 hours prior to deadline) to post something.

However reasoning for medics considering me: I don't think medics / Jailers should be protecting me as well.
Right now there's pretty much no way mafia is going to shoot me because people are getting paranoid about me. Mafia are probably not going to shoot me because they want that paranoia. Yeah I could be saying that as mafia as well giving an explanation why I survived yet another night but it really works both ways.
For all I care, if you're paranoid just track me if you think I'm mafia and frankly I'd actually say that already happened given my "most people are afraid about me" post either n1 or n2 anyways.
Of course if you're a tracker it's up to you when you want to track me because if I was mafia I could just tell people to track me and be the guy who's not delivering a KP (assuming more than 2 mafia alive). So waiting until we've got rid of another mafia might be the way to go for trackers, but it's up to you, I've got nothing to hide :p

Cool.

On topic of tracking and watching, whats your opinion there?

Personally I feel tracking and watching should be pretty well spent on lurkers/low profile players. If you were mafia theres no way you'd be carrying out the kills. A watcher believing you to be town might have a good reason to. Catching your killer would be great should you go down tonight. But other than that option, I'd say watch/track low profile players, the information could be very important later in the game when where down to 8-10 players.

Why? Because you're not low profile, and you don't want tracked?

As per watching, no, that is terrible. if there are any watchers, DEFINITELY watch people who will be targetted.

As per tracking, it can be beneficial depending on how the kill system works (whether or not they have to send a name in, or if it's random) because if they can protect good players, then I'd agree with you.

Yea that was a stupid post by me, agreed. As for myself, Im probably not low profile enough to be a likely good tracking target I wouldnt say, no. If you disagree, feel free to track me. Only watch me Im you think I might get killed.

Hmmm, I was sure mafia had to send in names on who killed who. Maybe I shouldnt have taken that for granted...
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 21:00 GMT
#1870
Well that was an unlikely turn of events lol. Mad Hatter and "100% read" on Toad? Hmm....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 21:05 GMT
#1873
Actually, with all actions happening simultaneously, he should be able to move the bomb should he get killed by the mafia (if hes town). So mafia should still be wary shooting him for that reason, the bomb might end up anywhere.

I'd still prefer not tracking him though, if hes mafia theres no way he'll do the night kills, and even if the claim is true that doesnt mean anything because he wont necessarily move the bomb. Watchers might wanna watch him though.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 22:17 GMT
#1884
Theres gotta be a Vig at work here? mkfuba....
Mafia shot Z-Boson + someone else who got saved?
Vig shog mkfuba?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 22:22 GMT
#1889
On September 13 2012 07:19 imallinson wrote:
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On September 13 2012 07:17 Kreb wrote:
Theres gotta be a Vig at work here? mkfuba....
Mafia shot Z-Boson + someone else who got saved?
Vig shog mkfuba?


Why do you think mkfuba was a vig shot?

Because hes been lurking. Why would a mafia wanna shoot him? He's no threat to the mafia as of now. Plus if mafia bought Z-Bosons claim they'd wanna kill him to also kill Toad (supposing Toad is town).
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 22:23 GMT
#1890
On September 13 2012 07:19 Shady Sands wrote:
Niiice play from ZB there. Well done

I need to think through stuff here but this was my first reaction too. And I also do think this makes Toad look more town.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 12 2012 22:28 GMT
#1892
On September 13 2012 07:26 imallinson wrote:
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On September 13 2012 07:22 Kreb wrote:
On September 13 2012 07:19 imallinson wrote:
On September 13 2012 07:17 Kreb wrote:
Theres gotta be a Vig at work here? mkfuba....
Mafia shot Z-Boson + someone else who got saved?
Vig shog mkfuba?


Why do you think mkfuba was a vig shot?

Because hes been lurking. Why would a mafia wanna shoot him? He's no threat to the mafia as of now. Plus if mafia bought Z-Bosons claim they'd wanna kill him to also kill Toad (supposing Toad is town).

They did kill ZB and not toad. That makes it look like scum bought the claim and shot ZB aiming to get toad as well.

Yes, thats what I thought too. But thats 1KP on Boson. Would the 2nd KP really be on mkfuba? I dont see that making sense....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 13 2012 07:50 GMT
#1913
Ok, First something which you might wanna know. I'll be gone for about 32ish hours from now (work...), so I wont take much part in the finding of new targets and expect to see a bunch of votes on a few people when I get back. I'll leave in 2h too so might be able to post short comments on anything until then should there be need to. I'll just pick the best targets out of those. I'll try to do what I can with this post though.

ShiaoPi - Not posting much and lurking. I did read through his filters though and I dont really see much pointing him towards mafia compared to other lurkers. So not really feeling him right now, although hes pretty much a null read.

Gravan - This is the lurker I feel best about. Apparently there were some suspicions of him D1 when he soft-defended Matt calling him 3rd party. Now, I do often attribute saying stupid things to bad town play (a lot more than others here seem to do at least, so much bad play being called suspicious all over here...) but this one doesnt fit inexperienced bad townie play to me at all. Why would you stick your head out like that calling him 3rd party already on D1? Also, the feeling the need to contribute (which definitely can be bad townie play, new players might not wanna lurk and look scummy as town because they often feel lurking = scummy. Being quite new myself I definitely felt the need to contribute sometimes even though I really dont have much to say) probably more often takes shape in calling out cases on random people with very little backing it up. But I dont feel it comes in the shape of calling 3rd party on someone already looking highly suspicious. Examples:
This can easily be just bad townie play wanting to contribute:
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On September 06 2012 10:16 Gravan wrote:
I think Bill Murray is scum.


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Also, Hapahauli, what is your read on Gravan? Scum or town? I don't want you using the word Null. Pick one. Scum or town? Consider yourself having a Gun to your head.


This is the first time he mentions me. At this point, he hasn't put forward any kind of read on me at all. In addition, many of his posts up until this point (not to mention quite a few afterward) are pointless one-liners, or just generally non-contributing.

The next thing he does is tell austin to read my filter as if I was scum (again, not argument put forward on his part - he is talking as if me being scum is a forgone conclusion).

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On September 06 2012 07:18 austinmcc wrote:
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Looking through his profile, I see his only other game was LIII. So he's at least played, although not with me. But he knows that some of the people in this game played that game, he played with them, he knows they are competent individuals with functioning brains.

It's the first time I've ever seen someone cling to something absolutely wrong in this manner. I have posted paranoid rants in two games, stuck by them for a while as possibilities, gotten upset if people wouldn't consider them as possibilities, but I didn't get like this.

Right now (and if Matt flips scum I will be more certain of the read) I can't help but read the whole thing like this:
Matt got caught
Ottoxlol tried to save him, without realizing how bad an idea it was
Ottoxlol shortly realized how bad an idea it was
A decent scum player told him right after he got caught looking very odd that he couldn't back off his defense, because then he'd look even scummier
So he went full bore nuts, and that's why he won't listen to anyone or anything


It doesn't feel like he's just obtuse. At some point he'd get the message. It feels like he's clinging to this.

Do me a favor, and go read Gravan's filter as if he were a scum idiot


Then he goes on to say that hap is on his scumlist for "coaching" me.
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On September 06 2012 07:23 Hapahauli wrote:
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Null. Deal with it.

His posts/logic right now could come from either mafia or bad-townie. I don't have enough information to make a decision since hasn't posted much. Fortunately we have 48 hours to make a read on him.

yeah youre on my scum list
so is gravan
you openly coached him


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On September 06 2012 07:27 imallinson wrote:
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I'd say Gravan looks real scummy right now. He attempted the same thing as Ottox, defending Matt by saying he was probably an assassin, but much more quietly and backed away as soon as he realised it was a bad idea. If anything that looks more scummy than Ottox at the moment.

THANK YOU.
Go read Gravan's filter, and tell me if you don't find hapa coaching him?
2nd person I've caught him coaching that looks like scum with him (Doyouhas is the other)


His next two posts that mention me go on to mention (offhandedly) the apparently obvious need to have me shot by a vig.

Further, if you read his filter he is very non-comittal on the otto-defending-matt-and-generally-acting-scummy issue. His posts are passively worded and just softly agree with the flow of the thread at the time.

However this to me does like bad and scummy:
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On September 05 2012 09:38 Gravan wrote:
First, the straightforward part. It seems to me that Matt is most likely an assassin, or a very careless player.

As many have said before me, there is no case for him to do what he did from a town perspective. To me, it seems that if he were mafia or town, we would likely have seen at least some kind of attempt at an explanation - either to strengthen his fellow mafia by giving them 'towncred' as they jump on his bandwagon or to try to convince us we are making a mistake as a town blue. As an assassin, he could just be seeing his end and giving up - this is of course moot if he decides to put in his piece later.

Since he is apparently not a random newbie (who is a random newb, anyway ?), and clearly likes to be an active player, it shouts assasinto me.

Since it is day 1 and we only have so much information, we essentially have to lynch him anyway (even if we were nearly certain he is an assassin. At this time, I'll be throwing my vote his way.

The post where I make my comments on the information currently present (as in, not to do with the matt bandwagon) is coming up later. I just wanted to put down somehing somewhat solid so thanI can start to develop a post hostory, watery as it might be.

And the rest of his posts from there on does nothing to change this. If anything it does the opposite.

- Bill Murray. Havent forgot about him, still would like him lynched. In addition to my previous reason to vote on him (read my filter) I would like to add that it seems like hes trying to taunt us with his constant "you should have listened to me" and "I knew about them flipping green all the time". Trying to analyze a troll might be futile, but I see that more fitting a scummy troll than just a regular troll. Its like hes having fun and wants to push it as far as he can get for shits n' giggles.

- Strongandbig. Feeling his has gone a bit lately, and thats the problem. I pointed out in a previous post recently after I had joined about his non-committing posting. Theres a descent amount of post but very little scumhunting and committing to cases. And since then he hasnt really done anything except joining the wagon on Forumite and his posting quantity has gone down a bit. This kind of play fits very well with a mafia who wants to blend in and kinda knows how to do it without looking stupid (as opposed to Gravan) but still doesnt really add anything to the discussion of finding scum. If theres anyone I would like to see some extra discussion on when Im back, its S&B.

Some people has also mentioned Shady and Mav. I've already covered Mav very fast in a previous post that I have very little on him but I do think he posted townish a while back so still likely not gonna vote him. For now, I'll also say the same about Shady.

Grush - Id love to see some more pressure on him due to his stupid playstyle, but for now I dont see that happening and I really dont have much reason to believe him to be scummy over anyone else. Plus in the stupid playstyle category BM wins the scummy-looking award anyway.

And Rewok, you seriously need to start posting anything too and starting to reply to stuff people say to you if you want to avoid later lynching. You're absolutely doing shit atm, but you're saved by the fact that theres enough cases on others.

TLDR
Im quite pro-lyncing Gravan and BM. And I would like to see some more discussion regarding S&B. If I am to vote anything else than that it will most likely be because of new info while Im gone.

Wee, Im learning to use red colours too to add to my arguments too! They totally look stronger than without them!
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 13 2012 08:30 GMT
#1918
On September 13 2012 16:55 DarthPunk wrote:
@ Kreb. How do you feel about Shady and Allison?

Gonna be pretty short:
Shady - His discussion with Hapa way back seemed genuine (Hapa seemed to agree with Shady looking townish because of it). Since then, nothing I would consider scummy. His Forumite-vote didnt look all too convincing, but theres bound to be a bunch of townies joining that wagon too.
Allison - Before looking through the filter, just nothing really, null read. After a very quick look through the filter: I do kinda like how hes actively trying to discuss he way through what happened during night. Though maybe thats because I do too and Im just applying my own town-motives on him.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 13 2012 08:55 GMT
#1922
On September 13 2012 17:52 Bill Murray wrote:
Gravan is town

On September 13 2012 16:50 Kreb wrote:
I would like to add that it seems like hes trying to taunt us

Yeah....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 15:31 GMT
#2105
Ok, time to catch up on things....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 16:59 GMT
#2115
Ok, first my vote so thats clear to the rest of you: #Vote Gravan
Because
- I already mentioned him in my previous post
- His defense was, imo, lacking
- The main voting targets are Mav and SS, which I already explained I dont wanna vote on. I'll also add to Mav that his defense was much better than Gravans (mainly this post)
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On September 14 2012 09:00 Maverick32x wrote:
Read through the case on me-

There is a LOT of tunneling going on.... Also why are people STILL bringing up Matt?? My 'soft defense' occurred prior to any confirmation that he was lying... once that was confirmed.. I switched. Simple enough.

As for my "blaming the lurkers is an easy strategy"- There is something unique about those top 3 that I find is different than just 'lurking'.... there is something about the frequency of posts and the disappearance of them.... I know thats not the concrete answer you guys want, so I'll try to get some 'science' to back that feeling up.

Voting me is a mistake. I am a plain boring vanilla town.

I just really can't understand how ShiaoPi is not scum to more people? Okay, his 'timezone' presents as an issue to discussion.... and I'll even move past the lurking to be more specific in his posts.


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On September 04 2012 12:17 ShiaoPi wrote:
On September 04 2012 12:13 BroodKingEXE wrote:
Actually, Mattchew why should they claim now? Can't they just wait till its pointed out?


no...that kind of defeats the purpose


Lets bring it ALL the way back...
He is backing up Matt's encouragement for others to claim. How is this LESS scummy than me soft defending someone who I didn't know I was lying?


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On September 04 2012 15:17 ShiaoPi wrote:
No disrespect meant to you rewok, but what the fuck is a list full of null-reads supposed to do? It is on the first hand piling up the the thread like crazy and secondly it gives us 0 information...you are simply rehashing what happened in the thread so far.
That entire post can be summarized into: "I have no clue about you guys, mind helping to lynch scum?"

Seriously.....dafuq


Right, Rewok's decision to do this sucks. Doesn't seem like Rewok and him are connected based off that post. I highlight this post mainly due to the relationship that is seen here.


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On September 05 2012 10:39 ShiaoPi wrote:
can you just shut up ottox, it gets annoying to see you harping around the same obvious nonsense all thread long....

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On September 05 2012 10:55 ShiaoPi wrote:
@Ottox: thanks, have a good night and just cut it >_>

@Hapa: Besides the ones that have been called out already (e.g. Ottox, goodkarma, Milton, all leaning scum for me, maybe with the exception of Ottox...) I do not really have some at the moment. Austin is way more inactive from the town-austin I know but that's a kind of weak meta argument right now.

Also I am still waiting on Gravan

On September 05 2012 09:38 Gravan wrote:

The post where I make my comments on the information currently present (as in, not to do with the matt bandwagon) is coming up later. I just wanted to put down somehing somewhat solid so thanI can start to develop a post hostory, watery as it might be.





Both of these posts were made prior to Ottox's (town) death. ALSO, His statement of Ottox (town), Goodkarama(scum) and Milton (personally I think town) are leaning scum... but he 'excuses' Ottox.... LIKELY because he knows that Ottox is on the chopping block. Also, as pointed out previously, it is typical for scum to post a list, and sprinkle in scum buddies.


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On September 05 2012 16:53 ShiaoPi wrote:
On September 05 2012 12:43 Z-BosoN wrote:

@Shiaopi
Your meta is a little off from Dwarf Mafia, where you were town and had much more contribuitive posts in day 1. When will your internet be fixed?


Internet is unstable as of now, dunno if it will get better. If you are concerned about my meta you should probably read TL Mafia LV instead, since dwarf fortress was a mini, but anyway.

Gravan has gone to sleep apparently without doing his promised post, which is something I really don't like...


Comments made about his lack of meta- these are covered up by "Internet problems" However, observations made about his meta.


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On September 06 2012 11:23 ShiaoPi wrote:
EBWOP:

I just woke up and read through.
Matt flipped red as everyone (bar Ottox) expected, so I'll be talking about him first.
To be honest I thought for a while that Ottoxlol is just bad townie, but having caught up with the thread, naaah he is like 99%
red. Hopefully a vig shoots him tonight, so he's gone.

Also Gravan has finally done some contribution beyond Mattchew stuff, but I am not impressed at all. It feels like it was a
case for sake of writing a case on somebody to get off some pressure which has started on you. He should either be a town
kill at night or lynched tomorrow if it stays this way with all the points in thread already.

Ending the post with some comments on the cases we got this night so far. DYH brought up Hopeless1der as a candidate. Reading Hopeless' filter there is some merit to DYH's accusation, but I am not entirely sold on him being scum.

Hapa also brought out quite a switch from DrH/Blackmamba in opinion so I am interested in hearing his answer to it as well.
Looked a lot like his town play though so maybe he got some good explanation for it.
Also shouldn't lvdr be modkilled by now? no posts at all.


Him and lvdr are likely not connected- again, just another relationship point. Also, Hapa becomes his new target at this point. Similar to Ottox, he starts to pick up speed on targeting him.

-He goes into a string of 1 liners at this point- likely due to my confrontation with him.-

But then Hapa makes a decent post attacking him.

On September 09 2012 12:44 Hapahauli wrote:
1) ShiaoPi has a reasonably active town-meta. ShiaoPi has no scum meta.
2) ShiaoPi is hardcore lurking this game, "internet issues" cited, but were not mentioned pre-game (odd, considering severity). His activity is very different from his 6 town games.

He certainly hasn't posted anything that makes me think he's town. Some other newer players have posts that show effort, but ShiaoPi has shown none. As far as I'm concerned, the above makes him scummy. If he'd like to defend himself and convince me otherwise, he should take the opportunity to do so.

Should I hold your hand too, or will that suffice?




I don't want to post the WHOLE quote from Shiao- you can look it up, but again with an excuse of internet problems and a post pretty much just defending himself from Hapa who attacks him pretty hard....

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On September 09 2012 19:27 ShiaoPi wrote:
I would see Hapa as town. His reasoning was solid for most parts and I can understand his frustration with the game since he led a mislynch. Also his "selectiveness" reads to me as focusing on one read at a time which does not sound too bad with me. Got to go now though


Similar with Ottox- ShiaoPi decides to absolve Hapa and declare him TOWN.

oh ya... Hapa dies that night..... .... .... .....

Seems similar to the Ottox? Ottox attacks him.. Dies... Hapa attacks him... Dies...

Something tells me this is more than just a bad feeling....

Get your votes off me you dummies.

Vote Scum. Vote ShiaoPi.

MAVERICK OUT!


And this:
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On September 14 2012 10:18 Maverick32x wrote:
Doop-de-doop, I'll look at Grav.

Before I dig into filters, my gut feeling of Grav is that he has been on the side lines throughout the game and that he's a new player.

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On September 05 2012 05:41 Gravan wrote:
This post is passive and is just here to give you guys some information about me.

I am reading through all the filters and will be making a real contributive post sometime soon. I haven't been keeping up with this thread as well as I ought to have. For some reason, I can't seem to access the voting link from my phone - I am trying to work out when the vote is due, but I will be submitting one in a few hours after reading and pondering, once I get back to my computer. I hope I am not missing a deadline because I really would not like to be modkilled so early on.

I am done traveling after today, so I will be properly active very shortly. Sorry for lurking and not contributing.

Again, sorry for the spam, hello and expect to start hearing from me.


Passive. Very passive and apologetic. This sounds like subtle fear of being 'found out' (scummy)


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On September 05 2012 09:38 Gravan wrote:
First, the straightforward part. It seems to me that Matt is most likely an assassin, or a very careless player.

As many have said before me, there is no case for him to do what he did from a town perspective. To me, it seems that if he were mafia or town, we would likely have seen at least some kind of attempt at an explanation - either to strengthen his fellow mafia by giving them 'towncred' as they jump on his bandwagon or to try to convince us we are making a mistake as a town blue. As an assassin, he could just be seeing his end and giving up - this is of course moot if he decides to put in his piece later.

Since he is apparently not a random newbie (who is a random newb, anyway ?), and clearly likes to be an active player, it shouts assasinto me.

Since it is day 1 and we only have so much information, we essentially have to lynch him anyway (even if we were nearly certain he is an assassin. At this time, I'll be throwing my vote his way.

The post where I make my comments on the information currently present (as in, not to do with the matt bandwagon) is coming up later. I just wanted to put down somehing somewhat solid so thanI can start to develop a post hostory, watery as it might be.


Wants to blend in. Still apologizing. Pretty bad first couple posts.


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On September 05 2012 13:30 Gravan wrote:
On September 05 2012 13:00 Hapahauli wrote:
Why is he voting Mattchew if he's convinced he's an assassin? Hell that post doesn't really explain why he's even voting - "we essentially have to lynch him anyway" - wut?



This is my fault for wording this sentence poorly. Although I am still leaning towards Matt being an assassin, he certainly looks all kinds of scummy as well. There isn't enough information at this point to lynch someone else - this lynch will, at worst, be neutral. I feel that, unless someone who has better evidence against them comes up (unlikely) we are better off to make this lynch and gain the information (Matt's flip) than sit idle. I am just asserting that I personally think he is an assassin. I'm done on the whole Matt issue now; still working on making my posts more constructive and less parrot-y.

If Matt flips scum, Ottox and Toad really need to be looked at. Ottox has been making his bizarre crusade about the potential innocence of Matt, as everyone knows. To me, Toad's last few posts have seemed a little aimless and very personally aggressive with little content. He spends a considerable amount of time shutting down and pointing at Ottox (who is looking obviously scummy or very misguided) in a well written post, then shifts to personal attacks and negligent remarks.

Sleep time for me now; I'll actually have some rest by tomorrow and won't be travelling.



This was my perspective as well when I played the Portal Mafia, which is making me wonder if a lot of this is kind of 'new town' sort of stuff? My perspective was "Kill everyone that is not town" I didn't care if you were 3rd party, 4th party or mafia.... if you weren't green... you needed to die. So his thought that- "Well, he's 3rd party, so we're good to lynch him" makes a lot of sense to me. He connects Ottox and Toad loosely... but I think he digs in a bit with his reads considering his post history.


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On September 06 2012 10:16 Gravan wrote:
I think Bill Murray is scum.


Also, Hapahauli, what is your read on Gravan? Scum or town? I don't want you using the word Null. Pick one. Scum or town? Consider yourself having a Gun to your head.


This is the first time he mentions me. At this point, he hasn't put forward any kind of read on me at all. In addition, many of his posts up until this point (not to mention quite a few afterward) are pointless one-liners, or just generally non-contributing.

The next thing he does is tell austin to read my filter as if I was scum (again, not argument put forward on his part - he is talking as if me being scum is a forgone conclusion).

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On September 06 2012 07:18 austinmcc wrote:
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Looking through his profile, I see his only other game was LIII. So he's at least played, although not with me. But he knows that some of the people in this game played that game, he played with them, he knows they are competent individuals with functioning brains.

It's the first time I've ever seen someone cling to something absolutely wrong in this manner. I have posted paranoid rants in two games, stuck by them for a while as possibilities, gotten upset if people wouldn't consider them as possibilities, but I didn't get like this.

Right now (and if Matt flips scum I will be more certain of the read) I can't help but read the whole thing like this:
Matt got caught
Ottoxlol tried to save him, without realizing how bad an idea it was
Ottoxlol shortly realized how bad an idea it was
A decent scum player told him right after he got caught looking very odd that he couldn't back off his defense, because then he'd look even scummier
So he went full bore nuts, and that's why he won't listen to anyone or anything


It doesn't feel like he's just obtuse. At some point he'd get the message. It feels like he's clinging to this.

Do me a favor, and go read Gravan's filter as if he were a scum idiot


Then he goes on to say that hap is on his scumlist for "coaching" me.
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On September 06 2012 07:23 Hapahauli wrote:
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Null. Deal with it.

His posts/logic right now could come from either mafia or bad-townie. I don't have enough information to make a decision since hasn't posted much. Fortunately we have 48 hours to make a read on him.

yeah youre on my scum list
so is gravan
you openly coached him


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On September 06 2012 07:27 imallinson wrote:
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I'd say Gravan looks real scummy right now. He attempted the same thing as Ottox, defending Matt by saying he was probably an assassin, but much more quietly and backed away as soon as he realised it was a bad idea. If anything that looks more scummy than Ottox at the moment.

THANK YOU.
Go read Gravan's filter, and tell me if you don't find hapa coaching him?
2nd person I've caught him coaching that looks like scum with him (Doyouhas is the other)


His next two posts that mention me go on to mention (offhandedly) the apparently obvious need to have me shot by a vig.

Further, if you read his filter he is very non-comittal on the otto-defending-matt-and-generally-acting-scummy issue. His posts are passively worded and just softly agree with the flow of the thread at the time.


I ALMOST like this post. He target BM which is cool. Very straight forward, non-apologetic. The only problem is, its only because he's being called out and feels threatened. So again with the fear response.


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On September 06 2012 10:39 Gravan wrote:
On September 06 2012 10:31 BloodyC0bbler wrote:
On September 06 2012 10:26 Gravan wrote:
On September 06 2012 10:18 Z-BosoN wrote:
On September 06 2012 10:16 Gravan wrote:
I think Bill Murray is scum.


Also, Hapahauli, what is your read on Gravan? Scum or town? I don't want you using the word Null. Pick one. Scum or town? Consider yourself having a Gun to your head.


This is the first time he mentions me. At this point, he hasn't put forward any kind of read on me at all. In addition, many of his posts up until this point (not to mention quite a few afterward) are pointless one-liners, or just generally non-contributing.

The next thing he does is tell austin to read my filter as if I was scum (again, not argument put forward on his part - he is talking as if me being scum is a forgone conclusion).

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On September 06 2012 07:18 austinmcc wrote:
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Looking through his profile, I see his only other game was LIII. So he's at least played, although not with me. But he knows that some of the people in this game played that game, he played with them, he knows they are competent individuals with functioning brains.

It's the first time I've ever seen someone cling to something absolutely wrong in this manner. I have posted paranoid rants in two games, stuck by them for a while as possibilities, gotten upset if people wouldn't consider them as possibilities, but I didn't get like this.

Right now (and if Matt flips scum I will be more certain of the read) I can't help but read the whole thing like this:
Matt got caught
Ottoxlol tried to save him, without realizing how bad an idea it was
Ottoxlol shortly realized how bad an idea it was
A decent scum player told him right after he got caught looking very odd that he couldn't back off his defense, because then he'd look even scummier
So he went full bore nuts, and that's why he won't listen to anyone or anything


It doesn't feel like he's just obtuse. At some point he'd get the message. It feels like he's clinging to this.

Do me a favor, and go read Gravan's filter as if he were a scum idiot


Then he goes on to say that hap is on his scumlist for "coaching" me.
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On September 06 2012 07:23 Hapahauli wrote:
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Null. Deal with it.

His posts/logic right now could come from either mafia or bad-townie. I don't have enough information to make a decision since hasn't posted much. Fortunately we have 48 hours to make a read on him.

yeah youre on my scum list
so is gravan
you openly coached him


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On September 06 2012 07:27 imallinson wrote:
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I'd say Gravan looks real scummy right now. He attempted the same thing as Ottox, defending Matt by saying he was probably an assassin, but much more quietly and backed away as soon as he realised it was a bad idea. If anything that looks more scummy than Ottox at the moment.

THANK YOU.
Go read Gravan's filter, and tell me if you don't find hapa coaching him?
2nd person I've caught him coaching that looks like scum with him (Doyouhas is the other)


His next two posts that mention me go on to mention (offhandedly) the apparently obvious need to have me shot by a vig.

Further, if you read his filter he is very non-comittal on the otto-defending-matt-and-generally-acting-scummy issue. His posts are passively worded and just softly agree with the flow of the thread at the time.


This is the worst case I've ever seen.



Typically, when one argues against another, a counter-argument has to be presented. Since it appears as though I am on some people's chopping blocks, some discussion could be useful. Just denouncing my case gets town no-where.


You chose a poor person to analyze. Bm is like chezinu and incredibly hard to pin down normally. You typically have to rely on things like scumslips to catch either of them or take look at the overall effort they put into a game.

Now given that. You're analysis is very lacking, and looks like cherry picking. You don't include examples or even a link to his filter to prove your case. It seems rushed and made by someone backed into a corner. If you are town you should have no reason to feel rushed, you have plenty of time to post your thoughts.



First off, while I understand a player's meta is something to consider, I really have no idea what you are talking about with respect to how Bill plays or whoever this chezinu is.

I included at least three examples. See those quotes/spoilers? All of them include quotes from Bill Murray.

As to being rushed, well, I am just trying to not lurk. Apparently that is a bad thing to do - working on putting my thoughts out there and trying to stimulate discussion.


I like this post actually. It speaks to me well. I also am not up to speed on the "meta" of other players... This indicates to me that he really IS a new player.. trying to find his way and get the swing of things. He wants to put his thoughts out and get something going, but seems unclear as to how to do it.

Okay, as I'm going through the filters from this point to the end of his page 1- he all of a sudden starts to pick up a LOT more momentum. He is being more assertive with his claims and is getting more involved.

Here are some posts.


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On September 09 2012 01:02 Gravan wrote:
On September 09 2012 00:50 BroodKingEXE wrote:
On September 09 2012 00:26 austinmcc wrote:
On September 09 2012 00:21 Shady Sands wrote:
Thanks.

Ergo, we have no way to verify BKE's claim...
Right. Either he's a watcher OR he chose a fakeclaim so bad it could be disproven pretty much by flips alone. And it wasn't a pressure claim, he was getting called out all yesterday, then claimed while nobody was doing anything.

I'm currently believing the claim since it seems like a giant risk to take when you're already down 2. Heck, why go with a terrible fake claim when you could name anything?


BM, where you at? We discussed scum having/not having some sort of leader earlier. I'd like to hear your updated thoughts.

Ottoxlol flipped town, so it's not a case where mattchew/ottox/gravan all messed up and looked scummy D1. 2 vets died, so they're not options as some sort of mafia general, commanding the troops.

Now we've got this BKE claim. Do you believe that claim? Are there players you could see saying, "hey you, go make a terrible fakeclaim that's so bad people will have trouble thinking it's from scum"? I don't see BKE, if scum, going that route, because you don't really gain anything compared to a better fake claim.

I have to be honest, Im just laying it out. In XIII Newbie, I was One-Shot and didn't claim and everyone said I should've. I don't want to make the same mistake. I know me getting GK back is useless, but I need town to know what you guys will be lynching. Medic should not claim definetly(if we have one and they acted), else we both die. I picked BC primarily for the reason that Matt was his first pick and he was using the lynch to look around for other scum. He was speaking with really solid logic and had a few scum reads already. DrH was under a bit of fire, so I wasn't sure if scum was going to let that sit and develop. I didn't think Toad was active enough to be killed that night, but he had by then moved to my town list due to his response to my case.

Just to make it clear I think
Shady and Mav are scum


I would actually like to hear what you suspect happened on N1 - who did what, from your point of view. What was the scenario?

Also, unless I am missing it, did you actually make any kind of case against Shady?



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On September 09 2012 01:50 Gravan wrote:
I still have reservations about this switch. According to what I can gather from this thread, Grush always acts like an idiot. This gets him mislynched often. We're lynching him, instead of BKE (who, until his meager roleclaim and sudden throwing out of cases) was under intense suspicion and getting wagon'd.

So far as I can tell, the logic goes roughly as follows:

BKE is very suspicious, but his blue claim isn't out of the question.
Lynching a blue would be very detrimental to the town.

Grush is suspicious (alternatively idiotic and anti-town, depending on who is talking) and non-contributive besides.
Lynching Grush is, at worse, a mislynch (we won't miss his discussions as a townie) and at best a mafia lynch.

This is all just a little sudden for me. What happened to those strong suspicions regarding BKE's earlier flip-flopping? Can one of you vote-switchers explain to me how that behaviour is now negated/lessened because of his role-claim?



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On September 10 2012 03:52 Gravan wrote:
There is a lot of "in this game x player played like this" or, "y is a veteran, therefore the following is probable...". While I think these are fine as supporting arguments (since past tendencies/experience are relevant things to consider) I feel like all this talk of veterans and meta play is clouding and overtaking what people have actually said and how people have actually been playing.

It could be a mafia tactic to draw away from the discussion, or it could just be a little too much focus on outside/less relevant factors, but either way I encourage everyone to focus more on filters from this game and less on filters from other games.

Also:

On September 10 2012 02:56 strongandbig wrote:
##vote: toad for mayor

No but actually, you bring up a very good point. I played in WoF and Forumite this game does remind me of his play from that game.

That said, I think austin's case on z-boson is pretty good as well - he's hedging a lot, and his reasoning around the BKE vote really doesn't make much sense. So toad and austin, since both of you are pretty decent players and regardless of your own alignments are gonna be pretty good at mafia logic, what do you make of each others' cases?

One last thing - I don't have all that much time so I was looking through some shorter filters. What do people think of hopeless1der? His filter can be described as
- kind of a scummy waffle around the mattchew lynch
- tunneling forumite

Now, on the one hand I think forumite is a decent scum candidate; but seriously I don't think hopeless has talked about anything else for more than one or two lines. This is a contradiction for me from past games, where hopeless's filter has looked well-thought-out and where it's easy to get a town read on him.
Also I feel like there might be a contradiction here:

On September 05 2012 06:18 Hopeless1der wrote:
On September 05 2012 06:09 BloodyC0bbler wrote:
On September 05 2012 05:57 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:36 Forumite wrote:
On September 04 2012 09:12 Mattchew wrote:
I am a nosy neighbor. Anyone else with this role should insta-claim as well.




The reason people policy lynch people like BM and Grush is because they get by into later in the game because they are unreadable. This is because they barely actually play the game and if you end up in lylo with one of them left, you've basically already lost. I completely understand anyone wanting to policy lynch them, but we should also not allow them to be off the hook for some sort of scum read during the day.

That being said, I remember thinking to myself that I don't hate BM's play in the last few games I have been in with him. I do not want to policy lynch today.
Why would you claim this? You eliminated yourself as a possible blue from scums list of townies, and it´s not like you doing this eliminates you as a scum suspect. If someone see you visiting a player who dies the we´re lynching you anyway.

check this scummy post from forumite
1) misreads the setup
2) attacks him with a smirk for the claim, which looks scummy as shit
3) takes the visiting thing a step further, saying "if they die" which clears a ton of scum roles... forumite is scum with a role
FoS: Forumite



Only real issue I have with this is that he didn't misread the setup to my knowledge. The setup was completely ambiguous on the Nosy Neighbor and required a mod to come in and clarify the situation.

Aside from that I do get how you made the connections you did although he doesn't neccesarily have a scum role as my understanding of the setup would be mafia choose who makes a night KP given that no mafia can be responsible for more than 1 shot according to that mafia KP change. Thus any "non visiting mafia" would be "cleared" from suspicion.

A mafia with a role can both use his action and take a shot. As an example, the mafia Vig can 'visit' and shoot two different players in the same night.
I don't follow how the Scum KP mechanics make it unlikely that Forumite (or any potential scum) would NOT have a role, or for example, how a goon who stays home is cleared.


On September 08 2012 16:06 Hopeless1der wrote:
Unless someone claims a vig shot on GK, you're supposed to be dead right now. That was worse than Mattchew's claim.



insta-reaction was to throw water on bke's claim, even though he already knew a scum with a role could also deliver a factional kp. Now, I also didn't believe bke's claim, but it's not just that he didn't believe it - he discounted it with a reason that he already knew wasn't airtight.

Not sure how bad of a contradiction that is but I think it is a contradiction.


I do get the feeling (as I implied/made light of earlier) that Hopeless' claim was a little too absolute. I would like to hear a little more of Hopeless so that I can get a bit more of a read on him - especially since his favourite target (forumite) is in the spotlight/sights right now.


Ok, this next post I think is REALLY important.

Show nested quote +
On September 12 2012 05:48 Gravan wrote:
On September 12 2012 05:39 Forumite wrote:
On September 12 2012 04:27 Hopeless1der wrote:
If you're going to respond, could you not cherry pick?

Forumite, Why should we lynch Z-Boson?
Why do you want me to die?
Make an effort to explain yourself.
I don´t know, stuff you´ve done. I´m not as sure on you as on Z-boson and BM though, and sometimes I get the feeling you are more likely town. I have 80 minutes left in the game, why do you want me to spend it on making a case on you?

On September 12 2012 04:37 Mementoss wrote:
On September 12 2012 04:35 Z-BosoN wrote:
Also, eagerly awaiting your case on mav:

On September 11 2012 22:12 Mementoss wrote:
I am at work and don't have much time. Catching up is hard, from my reading so far I think Maverick is scum and will vote him I read the most recent case on forumite but I just don't see it. Hopefully I can finish filling in the gaps of reading tonight and actually post a worthy post of why maverick is scum. I'm hoping I can make deadline today busy day.



When I posted this I was at page 40. I'm at page 59 now. So I still have half the game to catch up on. At this point it won't change whose going to get lynched, but I still have to find out who is scum so I can be helpful day4
Mementoss is SCUM SCUM SCUM!

Noone cares about Mav, so stop wasting your vote and actually put it on someone that might get lynched tonight. There are only 3 candidates:
Forumite
Z-Boson
Bill Murray


Put it on one of them, or I´ll scream at vigis to kill you tonight!

On September 12 2012 04:54 Gravan wrote:
At this point, my viewpoint is as follows (on the big topics):

Bill Murray is still suspicious, but, really, who the fuck knows?
Z-Boson is highly suspicious.

Forumite is highly suspicious, and very shifty. For somebody who is posting somewhat regularily, he hasn't done too much to defend himself other than point as many fingers as he can as quickly as he can - something that seems really scummy.

I wish we had another day to talk about this, heh.

##Vote Forumite.
On September 12 2012 04:56 Gravan wrote:
To be a bit more clear:

Bill Murray's posting is very difficult to read, and he claims to have had more knowledge than he really ought to have had. That said, he has apparently been playing mafia for a while so he could also have just made a good read.

Z-Boson is far too defensive for my liking - it seems like he thinks that every post that isn't in agreement with him, or that pulls the discussion away from his posts, is targeted at him.
FML

You explain how all three candidates are scummy, and then vote the one with the biggest wagon. You are SCUM! too.



This kind of posts only strengthens the need to vote for you, in my mind. Down to the wire, all you are doing is pointing as many fingers as you can, as aggressively as you can (in big red letters, hehe), with the bare minimum amount of evidence or effort. It seems desperate instead of simply defensive.

Why not try to clear your name and answer the accusations about yourself as best you can in an attempt to lift votes off you (no matter how futile, at this late hour)? Hopeless (the first person in the game to point a serious finger at you) has even given you this opportunity on a silver platter. Yet, all you continue to do is dodge and slip around, shouting at other people and being selective in your question answering and case-making.


This is something that I think he was TRYING to do early game. However, he kind of violates his own rule when he decided to turn on BM in an attempt to 'clear his name'. In fact- his quoted posts above clearly indicate that he felt he needed a counter argument... which was to point fingers to clear his name?????

Other than that, he has started to contribute a lot more which I can relate to. I hate posting early in the game. It sucks. Its confusing. There are too many people talking. You have people like BM saying things like "This person is scum" and everyone just listens to them for seemingly NO reason... Now though- he is posting significantly differently than he was at the start....

Why would a scum INCREASE his posting.. when there are plenty of lurkers for him to hide amongst? He is putting himself out there in more assertive ways...

This speaks more to Gravan's personality as a person.. probably awkward in groups- has to get to know people more before opening up...probably only has a few close friends.. etc etc... (Also yes, I am a therapist ha)

tldr: Gravan appears to be a new player(town)- or a mafia pretending to be new.. and doing an absolutely awesome job at it.


I'll add to SS too in my next post, but I got an additional town read on him too. Not 100% related to my vote so putting it in next post.
- I also did, at least at first glance, Mavs case on ShiaoPi looked good, gonna read through it, but as Shiao is so far to catching up on votes im not gonna vote him anyway.
- BM is still on my list of people to consider, but no votes on him = my vote goes to Gravan quite clearly.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 17:32 GMT
#2122
Ok, this post will be mostly directed at BM

About my case on you.
I agree its not very strong. Actually I agree with you calling it a "case" as you nicely highlighted it with quotation marks. And the reason it is weak is because its impossible to create a strong case on someone playing the way you do taking your suppoed meta into account. Without meta, the case is like the strongest case ever because you've done like what, 20(?) things that each on their own could result in suspicions being targetted your way. However, you obviously have to take meta into account, and as all such normally suspicious activities suddenly can all be explained by "its his meta, he always does that regardless of alignment". So yea, the "case" is weak, and its also impossible to be strong. Its like trying to create a "strong" case against someone not posting or someone FoSing everyone. Try to do that.

About policy lynches
Is my "case" of you a policy case? Definitely partly. And is that a problem? Policy lynches are absolutely fucking needed in this game. The second you remove the possibility of policy lynching someone, thats the second someone not replying or someone FoSing everyone becomes unbeatable as mafia, because you cant create strong "real" cases against them. As such, you NEED to pull policy cases now and then, and policy cases should always be considered. It would be way to easy to play as mafia otherwise.

Depending on the situation, I wouldnt have minded starting a policy case on Grush either. Especially not early in the game. later its more debatable. But for now thats probably neither a good idea nor likely to go through. However my "case" on you isnt only a policy case. You on the other hand has given additional reasons to vote for you, which I why I was more "pushy" in your case. Dont be surprised to see me pushing policy lynches in other games should I join more, especially if the people in question give me additional reasons to. Off topic: + Show Spoiler +
I could post a long-ass reason why I still would like to policy lynch in general (not related to this game) and what I hope to accomplish with it, but I'd consider that pretty unnecessary and off topic (since its not related to the game, duh). If you want, I can share on PM or in the thread after the game is done though, just ask for it.


You also (conviniently?) forgot about this and the point there directed to you:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 11 2012 16:44 Kreb wrote:
Ok, decided to not follow the wagon after all (damn im such a rebel).
My vote will be on BillMurray for now. Few reasons:

- This post made by Hapa before he died. It did kinda get left alone given that Toads case on Forumite was posted later same page (page 77).
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 10 2012 01:26 Hapahauli wrote:
First off, I don't buy ShiaoPi's excuse. If Shiao is moving into university as he is suggesting, I find it hard to believe he'd sign up for a Mafia game if he knew his schedule. He was also plenty active to respond to Maverick's suspicion against him - and much more frequently than the "10 minute loading time" per page he was suggesting about his internet earlier.

Finally, Shiao's only standing read is an OMGUS against Maverick.

Strongly suggest shooting him tonight.

Also, I won't be as active for the next few hours, so I wanted to comment on...


Bill Murray

This is mostly based on his actions (inactions?) during the BKE lynch.

Right around when I dropped the case on BKE, Bill Murray had a burst of 6 short posts, all compiled into one larger one for your convenience:

Show nested quote +
id love to lynch maverick or hapahauli
why are people voting BKE?
can i get a summary of the case?

Hapahauli's link doesn't count = 13 lines of rubbish he linked ON THE SAME PAGE

If Doyouhas is town we don't lynch Hapahauli
If Doyouhas is scum we lynch Hapahauli
imo

I'll be here for a few hours if anyone would like to discuss anything

I had a post about associative tells, but honestly, I'm not even going to bring another one up. I'll be waiting to push someone on hard evidence, like what I found (not saying it was my case.. but filtering him, it glared out at me... so i found it as well) on Mattchew.


I summarized the case for him and never heard back from him. The only post he made between there and after the lynch is this weak-sauce soft-push of BKE:

Show nested quote +
On September 08 2012 15:40 Bill Murray wrote:
On September 08 2012 03:12 BroodKingEXE wrote:
On September 07 2012 11:37 Hapahauli wrote:
Before I go to bed for the night:

BroodKingEXE

He has two very suspicious posts regarding two confirmed players: Mattchew and Ottoxlol.



A bit before Mattchew is scum-confirmed (right around when a few players start voting for Mattchew), Broodking posts this unbelievably wishy-washy opinion on Mattchew.
On September 04 2012 16:20 BroodKingEXE wrote:
About Mattchew (who I think is town):
Here's my breakdown of the situation : Matt's roleclaimed and given two reasons he claimed to avoid mislynch and/or draw a mafia shot. At first glance the roleclaim seemed like a great idea, but as I thought about it there were just too many holes. My initial thought was that it was a good idea and that could have been Matt's (based on the reasoning too). Another problem I find with lynching him is that what he has done (roleclaim) isn't verifiable until he is lynched. Right now its a coinflip and I haven't seen anything else that suggests he is scum. Fakeclaims aren't good basis for a lynch, they're not even able to be confirmed until the lynch, so I cant vote for him unless his posting sounds scummy.


Look at the logic - he first thinks its a great idea, then there are "too many holes."
He doesn't want to lynch him because his "roleclaim isn't verifiable until he is lynched" - the hell?
He said he's town originally, then says "its a coinflip"
Then he says "Fakeclaims aren't good basis for a lynch" and wants to wait until "mattchew sounds scummy". Again, the fakeclaim is the entire reason everyone voted for him.

But wait! Two pages after the fakeclaim (and before Mattchew posted anything in the interim):
On September 05 2012 00:12 BroodKingEXE wrote:
Unvote
##Vote: Mattchew


Wow.


After stating earlier that the fakeclaim wasn't enough to lynch Mattchew, he votes Mattchew for that very reasoning.



His viewpoints on Ottoxlol are the nail in the coffin:

Goes from top scumread:
No, his response was belivable based on posts he made after his sloosh interaction. Ottox has replaced him [ed note: Broodking's scumread on Toad due to the fact that he is pushing a "Matt is an assasin/townie scheme" instead of pushing his scum read toad.


Then proceeds to push cases against Miltonkram, Shadysands, and Gravan while Ottox is his top scumread:

Then says strange things about potentially townie Ottox while keeping a scumread on him.
filter
My 2 cents about the Ottox thing. I played with him in Area 53 and he's as stubborn as a mule. I could see him trying to derail a lynch from a town perspective. I just don't get why as town he wont push a lynch canidate (in all seriousness his isn't doing much to push toad or hapa). That's why Im keeping a scum read on him.


Then SOFT DEFENDS OTTOX when talking to DrH
On September 06 2012 16:03 BroodKingEXE wrote:
On September 06 2012 15:39 BlackMamba24 wrote:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=329128&user=124671&currentpage=2

I see a clear attempt to be helpful and constructive here, at least over the first couple pages. Not belligerent, listening to other players, pressuring people, making a real effort to help the town. Seems very different to me.

It was later in the game from what I remember, just that he doesn't really listen (or ignores) others logic.




BroodKingEXE is scum!

##Vote BroodKingEXE

I've got a break to post. The reason I didn't like the idea of voting for a fake-claim is because short of Mod-confirmation, we wouldn't have any way to confirm BC's theory. I switched my vote because the fake-claim was confirmed and Mattchew had made no attempt to explain the fake-claim from a town perspective.

considering... like... people (a guy named xelin, off the top) have had nosy-neighbor roles before? i disagree w this


This is the only post he makes during the BKE push. Note that he doesn’t take a stance and simply disagrees with BKE’s defense.

Then, after the BKE lynch...

Show nested quote +
i cant believe you all lynched BKX
You all need to listen to me, even if I've been drinking lightly.


All of a sudden, he acts as if he was against BKE the whole time. Now I’m not sure if BillMurray is capable of doing stuff like this as town (his normal posting is scummy after all), but this specific thing seems scummy as hell to me.



- His unwillingness to reply to this post, to Bosons post questions or to my question. There might be more occasions but probably not needed.

- Me generally disliking that way of posting. If you purposedly post scummy (which people have claimed he always does) you just make it way too easy for yourself to hide.

- Him not really committing to anything and switching opinions about people all the time. He said he'd back off Forumite, voted on him anyway. He had also gone back and forth about Maverick in his filter (without explaining the reasoning of course).

- Toad seemingly agreeing BM needs to die. Toad is the one one who seem to have the meta knowledge about the others, and even though he's preferring Boson/Forumite, at least it doesnt mean the meta-argumentation clears Murray of anything.

- Me having a bad feeling about the Forumite case and how its unfolding. Maverick explained it well
+ Show Spoiler +
I don't like the way these cases are being played out. By there being more than just a dominant voice of "Everyone pile on this person"- having another option forces people to choose. If everyone just says "vote for this person" and no one is offering an alternative- scum is safe to just follow along since there wasn't a realistic option.


That would be about it. Im very open to change my vote should he make an effort to defend himself though, but I've got a feeling that wont happen.

Short opinions about Maverick and Boson and why I dont want to vote on them for now.
Maverick: With the 10 or more people I have no feeling for at all, Maverick at least made two recent posts I very much agree with as town. Not enough to put him as a clear town, but enough to not make me wanna vote on him now.
Boson: I think the best explanation of his play so far was him being 3rd party. So I'll stick to that opinion about him for now.

##Vote Bill Murray


So no, my "case" isnt only a policy case.

Ok, now time for BMs case ("case"?) on me. I totally wish I could reply with something along the lines of "i really dont think BMs deserves a reply considering his play before". Too bad that would like unnecessaily scummy.

-You accuse me of flip flopping you. Actually its true, I did. But what I also did was explain my reasoning behind my flip flopping. How many flip flops have you done and how many out of those have you explained?
- You accuse me of wanting to policy lynch you. Already covered that. But as to your accusation, yea I do want to lynch you due to policy (and other things).
- You accuse me of not focusing one target "as a town would". True, I didnt. But please explain why a town would do that and while you're at it you might explain how it relates to the amount of targets you've focused over the thread :p

About the recent SS/BM "bluefishing" exchange (Oh man, BM is gonna love calling us scumbuddies for this):
I dont really see the problem with Shadys "bluefishing". The thing is he is already pushing for a case on Grav.
Ok, put yourself in mafia-SS's boots. You're pushing for a mislynch on Gravan for whatever reason (because you think hes blue?). In from nowhere comes BM saying Gravan is Blue, and not green which is the other option for mafia-SS. Would it under any circumstances make sense for mafia-SS to ask for a confirmation about where the blue read come from? Except for maaaaaaaaybe out of curiosity that you might have hit jackpot by leading a mislynch wagon against a blue, nothing. Under any normal circumstances, mafia-SS would smile for himself, hope BM is right and stfu. I do agree with BM had SS been pushing for anyone else but Grav. Then it might very well have been bluefishing. But as he was pushing Grav, I dont.

On the other hand, town-SS being suspicious of BM has a reason to demand an explanation when BM comes in and opposes town-SS's main tunneltarget.

If anything, that exchange put SS more towards the towny side for me. I really dont see mafia-SS acting like that at all. That is also the townread i referred to and why Im not voting him.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 17:40 GMT
#2123
On September 15 2012 02:31 Mementoss wrote:
How was Mav's defense good? He basically said why are people bringing up my scummy post from day 1. If you say something SO scummy on day 1, it doesn't magically get unscummy by day 4. He's trying to discredit things he did in the past as non relevant. Also, the way that slo0sh immediately mentioned how Mav's statement on Grav made Mav look town is really discomforting. It looks like slo0sh told him to write that about Grav looking townie, and then for him to tell the rest of the town that it makes Mav look town. Hm. I still like the Maverick lynch personally.

I don't think the BM stuff on shady really shows anything.

I do agree with what sloosh said about it being a bit towny.
I also do think his case on ShiaoPi had some merit.
Other than that, not much really. But I said it was "much better than Gravans". Which these two point alone made it imo.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 18:05 GMT
#2126
Ooooh, I like that one sloosh. Had given up on getting anything on S&B.

You are very late though....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 18:09 GMT
#2129
Ok, as I said Im totally against Maverick and Shady Sands. Im not entirely against this one though. Gonna read through S&Bs filter again. I might join the wagon.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 18:44 GMT
#2130
Ok, Im liking this case enough to give it a shot. I think its too late, but I'll be around at deadline and should this not catch fire I'll just switch back to Gravan to try and ensure none of the other targets get voted out.

##Unvote: Shady Sands
##Vote: StrongandBig
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 18:45 GMT
#2131
Errrrrr
That unvote was on Gravan. Ctr-c Ctr-v fail....also clarifying in voting thread.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 20:10 GMT
#2139
This voting could turn out pretty messy if 2-3 people show up and switch around votes lol
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 20:12 GMT
#2140
Mementoss/Gravan? Not considering switching?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 20:19 GMT
#2142
Well, ofc you are? But why arent you in that case?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 20:22 GMT
#2144
Your vote is still on Shady Sands. Why wouldnt you wanna move it to someone to increase your survival chances? Or do you believe peopel will switch to him?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:50 GMT
#2160
I dont exactly feel like voting Gravan, but I feel even less for Mav, so Im gonna have to go back to Gravan VERY soon if ppl dont switch to S&B.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:53 GMT
#2162
Actually nvm, Mav seems safe. But Snb is probably still around and will switch his vote to Gravan.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:54 GMT
#2163
Gravan (6) : imallinson, Shady Sands, ShiaoPi, Toadesstern, Darth Punk, Rewok
Maverick32x (3) : strongandbig, Hopeless1der, grush57
Shady Sands (2) : Gravan, Bill Murray
S&B(4): Sloosh, Kreb, MMToss, Mav
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:54 GMT
#2164
is that correct?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:54 GMT
#2165
The wagon seems too late...
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:56 GMT
#2169
Gravan (5) : Shady Sands, ShiaoPi, Toadesstern, Darth Punk, Rewok
Maverick32x (3) : strongandbig, Hopeless1der, grush57
Shady Sands (2) : Gravan, Bill Murray
S&B(5): Sloosh, Kreb, MMToss, Mav, imallinson
If im correct
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:58 GMT
#2173
Hopeless changed!
Gravan (5) : Shady Sands, ShiaoPi, Toadesstern, Darth Punk, Rewok
Maverick32x (2) : strongandbig, grush57
Shady Sands (2) : Gravan, Bill Murray
S&B(6): Sloosh, Kreb, MMToss, Mav, imallinson, Hopeless1der
?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 21:59 GMT
#2174
This could be the best (or worst) play ever :p
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 22:00 GMT
#2178
Deadline up according to my time....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 22:22 GMT
#2192
Hahahahaha that was pretty funny
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 22:35 GMT
#2200
Half the win is that we get a whole bunch of very much towny looking ppl :p

Though, If this is a sloosh bus and mafia wins....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 22:52 GMT
#2206
S&B was buddying Toad a bit at the start though. Not sure why you'd buddy a mafia teammate....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 23:29 GMT
#2214
For now I have to agree on Toad with his continous attempts to paint S&B as an assassin does not look very well for him. If so, that makes his Z-Boson night kill rather ballsy, I guess he called the bluff.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 23:42 GMT
#2215
Im not sure if there anyone experienced enough to comment on this, but I'd be very interested if someone could confirm/deny this claim by Toad:
As far as I know we don't actually know whether we've got Assassins in this game or not. If we have some it's highly likely that BM and S&B are those Assassins because hosts don't usually give 3rd party roles to new guys because they're hard to play.

Is that really so? I thought it hosts were randoming most of the time...
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 14 2012 23:44 GMT
#2216
Bill Murray, being a vet and all, what your take on the "hosts doesnt give 3rd party to new guys" claim? =)
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 11:38 GMT
#2230
With a nights sleep and soem thinking I thought I'd try and update a bit on the situation as I see it.

People I'd consider high priority voting target atm: Toad, Rewok and maaaybe BM too. Not gonna spend another big post on BM, but I'll spend one on Toad and Rewok respectively.

Toad - Woah, theres too many little small things here I'd like to mention, but without a doubt the biggest one is his interactions with S&B and his continous assassin painting of him. But, as Ive explained before Ive been very paranoid about Toad. That probably means Ive thought a lot more about "Why would Toad want to write this here if he was mafia?" than Ive done with any other player. I'll just list a bunch of things I thought were very conviniently said, or things which happened which would be very convinient for a possible mafia-Toad (incoming overusage of the word convenient):

1) This post:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 07 2012 06:59 Toadesstern wrote:
Toads very important thoughts mostly about VETs and whatever else
I consider important so far


I'm doing this post because I'm probably going to die tonight. I consider myself a vet and most people probably consider me a vet as well but unlike BC I usually don't draw protection from medics for two reasons I don't need to go into detail right now, although the reasoning becomes apparant after reading the whole thing :p

First important topic: VETs in this game
  • Forumite
  • BlackMamba24 (referred to as DrH from now on to not confuse him with BM)
  • BloodyC0bbler
  • Bill Murray
  • Toadesstern/myself :p

That's my take on who's a vet in this game.

A lot of people think it's hard to analyse vets to a point that they almost got a mental blockade when it comes to vets, that's why I'm going to post some about those 4/5 although I don't have anything major yet, though I've got a conclusion I'm quite comfortable with.

First things first, I did this post (+ Show Spoiler [click me!] +
On September 06 2012 07:40 Toadesstern wrote:
Bam. Watcher on people like BC and me please.

Mafia will want to hit that.
) on purpose trying to get some reactions, mainly from vets. Simply put I was trying to rub a subtile "sup guys I'm comfirmed town now" into peoples faces to see what they're going to say. Why did I do that?
I am an incredible controversial guy and a shitton of people are scared like crazy about me because I'm apparently unreadable according to them.
I'm a little like BC-junior, or maybe WBG-junior in that regard because people tell me I'm looking pro-town no matter of alignment every single game. So usually I'm getting the same old crap about me every game "Toad is looking townish, but that's a null-tell because Toad always looks that way". Take AC for example, Radfield actually told his scumbuddies to just attack me for looking good because I'm always looking good. WBG called the play VE and I did in LI "the best bus TL has ever seen", he said I'm unreadable in PTP, I totally destroyed town in magic and surely everyone remembers the "Annul game" (sup palmer :p). Except for PyourPoison I destroyed pretty much every town I played against as mafia and every single game I was called a townie by the vast majority of the game while telling people what to do.
That's the reason I'm getting these bullshit arguments like "Toad is unreadable" / "Toad is looking town but that means nothing" all the time. No matter if I'm town or mafia and frankly I was expecting to hear something like that from a mafia-player because it's an incredible easy approach to attack someone because you can just say that EVERY single game. Sadly it never happened.
However I still ended up getting some reactions although they're minor ones.

tl;dr / Summary so far:
  • I am town
  • BC is pretty much town
  • I highly lean on BM being town giving his style. He attacked me during this night for something he thought to be something. It obviously was nothing but his argument was not the typical "toad is unreadable, BE AFRAID GUYS" fear mongering I get all the time and I doubt a mafia would get in there attacking me the way he did.

That leaves us with Foru and DrH. DrH still feels odd although I can't put my finger on it. Foru feels way to cautios when he's posting.
I'm almost certain one of those 2 got to be mafia and considering that my guts are telling me that foru feels cautios I'd rather bet on him being mafia by some degree.

The thing about this is that it's not a clear case. What I've got about those 3 (BM / foru / drH) so far is very minor and not worth making a case about so I'm not going to. However process of elimination is a nice approach for those kind of people and that being said I really doubt BM or BC are mafia.

People who are not vets but should be a topic
Ottox: No need to talk about him I guess
DoYouHas: He's looking bad when posting but I actually like his answers
strongandbig: That guy should be scared as shit about me but he isn't. Not at all. To be precise he's even pretty buddy-ish with me. I think he knows I'm not mafia. Do not like.
BroodKingEXE: Weirdest vote from d1. Other than that he's fine but the vote really looks like "let's scatter at least SOMEWHAT, just pretend you forgot to unvote BKE"

If Ottox somehow manages to survive the night you've got to lynch him no matter what. It's actually quite possible that we've got vigs thinking "well we probably got a bunch of vigs who want to shoot him so I don't need to as well. No need to quadrupel-stack him". I've been in that situation as well and ended up shooting my #2 reads instead of my #1 reads (AC comes to mind ) because I thought someone else would take care of the #1 read anyways because the guy was pretty much confirmed mafia.
Ottox definitly is the best lynch if he survives. BKE & S+B are mentioned because I want people to check their filter as well. I'm not set on lynching them yet but they're the best candidates I've got besides the "usual" ones. I'd rather not have people just forget about them.

That being said I think it's quite likely I'm going to be dead in a couple of minutes so I'm posting this to give a couple of thoughts in case I'm not around any more. They're obviously all pretty vague because it's d1/n1 after all and thereforet it's just a summary. That means you've got to check filters yourself to understand what I'm talking about and wether or not you agree with me. Regretted not doing that in WoF when I was shot n1 as well ...



Right now we're having quite a luxury problem though: We're having to many people doing cases about everyone and their dog.
That's totally fine in itself but you guys need to make sure you got some focus tomorrow. Talking about a lot of people is fine but if everyone's like a little gonzaw we'll have 25 people screaming "NO MY CASE IS THE BEST" and mafia has an easy time to pick a fitting case out of the 15915815 existing ones and will push that one.
So don't spam the thread too much. This post I just did is already a wall-of-text although I'm only scratching the surface of things when talking about stuff. So keep that in mind tomorrow.


And in particular this part:
That's the reason I'm getting these bullshit arguments like "Toad is unreadable" / "Toad is looking town but that means nothing" all the time. No matter if I'm town or mafia and frankly I was expecting to hear something like that from a mafia-player because it's an incredible easy approach to attack someone because you can just say that EVERY single game. Sadly it never happened.

That, to me, looks like pre-defending against the normal "Toad is unreadable" posts. Convenient to do for a mafia.

2) However, following that thoght, I think his post had a bit of a backlash. Remember me posting this:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 12 2012 22:50 Kreb wrote:
But given the fact that he pretty much told us we should be paranoid as fuck about him (which I very much am) due to how supposedly good he was as mafia, I at least think we could demand a comment. As I said Im not suspicious, Im just paranoid. I trusted him for this lynch, that trust took a bit of a hit. Im wondering if I should renew the trust or not.

And I also think I remember someone else also expressing paranoia about Toad, dont quote me on that though, not gonna read through everything to find a sentence about it. I might be wrong. But anyway, after that we saw Toad saying stuff like this:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 14 2012 04:58 Toadesstern wrote:
Also this is nothing special. I'm awesome at playing mafia yet I'm only an average town-player. Mafia left me alive in *whatever the name was* although I was a modconfirmed town mason in that game. But again, a lot of people are paranoid about me, even if I end up being innocent-child-like confirmed. Not saying it's that strong this game but you've got to be really paranoid to consider me a mafia after what happened yesterday.
I usually get shot either n1 or survive until lylo. Pretty much nothing inbetween exists in the history of Toad-games so far.

You should put your paranoia somewhere else. Maybe something good will come out of it if you target someone else.


And this:
On September 14 2012 05:59 Toadesstern wrote:
sure, I want to know wether or not my doubt is justified. For that to happen I need him to stop acting all paranoid about me.

Very convenient to try and get rid of the fact that people have expressed paranoia about him.

3) Him posting an extensive case on Forumite, but not really trying to push the wagon on it. He left that to other people (there was someone pointing this out, dont remember who, not gonna spend the time looking for that one phrase). Very convenient to plant the seed and let others do the hard work.

4) Him compltely going "sit back and watch" style for the last night kill. He was very lightly discussing who to vote. We saw posts like these:
On September 13 2012 22:46 Toadesstern wrote:
voting for Mementoss to get lynched seems like a good plan for today. Thoughts?

On September 14 2012 00:48 Toadesstern wrote:
Yeah I'd be willing to lynch anyone out of Gravan, Mementoss and Mav today (so far).
But I'm willing to sheep someone else today, for the good of town!

On September 15 2012 02:28 Toadesstern wrote:
30 more minutes until I've got to leave. Shady Sands or Gravan?

Now these wouldnt have been all too strange if he hadnt been a lot more pushy in his previous cases. Now hes seemingly fine sitting back and enjoying the show. Very convenient.

5) Also not how he switches people very fast in those quotes (MMToss -> Grav/MMToss/Mav -> SS/Grav. And he doesnt seem to keen on explaining why he is switching around all those names. Its like he doesnt have a will at all and just wants to follow. And I do think we can be pretty sure Toad has a will.

6) Him coming into the thread with a "perfect" setup defense at 2.30 am when he (at least according to what he said) wasnt present at lynch time. Hmmm.

7) The claim itself, where he claims tracker (no other confirmed track so far, convenient) and how most of his reads are impossible/hard to confirm.

8) Bringing back the same quote from before:
On September 14 2012 04:58 Toadesstern wrote:
Also this is nothing special. I'm awesome at playing mafia yet I'm only an average town-player. Mafia left me alive in *whatever the name was* although I was a modconfirmed town mason in that game. But again, a lot of people are paranoid about me, even if I end up being innocent-child-like confirmed. Not saying it's that strong this game but you've got to be really paranoid to consider me a mafia after what happened yesterday.
I usually get shot either n1 or survive until lylo. Pretty much nothing inbetween exists in the history of Toad-games so far.

Now, he didnt say anything about his town-play in that big post he made early on where he explained his awesome mafia play. But he has certainly done a descent amount of talking about what vets are and that they are good at the game. Then hes suddenly claiming to be an average town player (when we should be asking ourselves why he isnt dead yet, especially since there was a quite unanimous view that he shouldnt get any protection last night). Very convenient to build yourself as an average player to stop such questions from popping up? Oh yes.

9) In light of his tracker claim, doesnt this come off as a bit odd?
On September 13 2012 05:30 Toadesstern wrote:
So I propose this:
Trackers go and track Z-Boson. If he's a Mad Hatter as he says he is and he genuinely believes me to be mafia he already has the bomb placed on me (as he just claimed) and therefore doesn't need to visit someone as he doesn't need to change the bomb and can just leave it on me. If that guy visits someone we've got ourselves a mafia :p

Why would you try to direct trackers somewhere if you were a tracker?

And to remind you all: These are IN ADDITION to the constant assassin painting of S&B.

Paranoia or not, with the S&B flip I do think this looks a bit too fishy to leave alone.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 11:39 GMT
#2231
Rewok - He is up there together with Toad, but for a completely different reason. The reason he is up there is because I cant see how he hasnt purposedly gone completely lurk mode. This feels like something only a mafia would do (possibly because some other mafia (Toad?) told him do to so). Look a bit at his starting posts:
+ Show Spoiler +
Holy shiet this thread gets going quickly!

Alright, time to say hi :-) My name's Rewok. I haven't played with any of you before, so I'm gonna take this first post to tell you about my strategy for this game. I'll also give my reads, etc. But that's gonna be further down.

Basically, I see the game like this. The goal for mafia is to stay alive. The goal for Town is to get rid of people. Knowing this, Town tends to be more bloodthirsty from the front. While Mafia's best strategy is to target specific people.

Town strategy tends to lean towards "getting blood" right away. Because each person gone could kill a mafia. Worst case scenario, you know one person isn't a mafia. And you can get a better read from the filters.

Mafia tends to want specific people dead, right away. They have better information. So they tend to skew towards "let's kill THIS PERSON. Otherwise, let's pass on the ban this round."

(A little about me: I like to be careful about my scumreads. I'll only give a scumread if I've got a VERY strong hunch. My goal isn't to lynch townies. It's to make sure we use each lynch to nail a mafia and get this game over with quickly. Also - with every townie left alive.)

Now that I've revealed this, the meta is gonna change. However, using the current filters from before I posted this, here's what I got:

page 9 stop being paranoid

- - - - - -
READS
<< ps. holy filters, batman!! >>
- - - - - -

And:
+ Show Spoiler +
When I say Town Read or Mafia Read, it's gonna be a firm read as far as I can tell. I'm not looking to change or update my reads every 1/2 day. My goal is to make reads that stick, which simply requires more info than we're got so far. (Zero votes and lots of bickering.)

He comes into his first mafia game all fine and dandy with perfectly reasonable posting for a newbie, right? But then he completely shifts into lurker mode without saying anything! Would a newbie with all good-hearted and genuine goals not say anything? I find that very unlikely. He is apparently a bit taken by surprise by the amount of posting going on and how much he is supposed to keep up with. Wouldnt a town-newbie really excuse himself? Say stuff like "Im sorry I cant keep up this is taking too much of my time" or "Im not really used to this so Im sorry Im not helping much" or maybe even go as far as to ask for a replacement? We've seen nothing of that, instead he just goes afk completely.

This might also be due to a mafia leading the pack (Toad?) telling him to stop with his "Im an innocent townie"-talk to not get attention drawn to him. Maybe mafia prefers him being easily bussable. Last part might have been far fetched by yea, I dont see his play fitting an innocent newbie.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 11:47 GMT
#2232
I think people should also re-read point 8 in my Toad list. This was my biggest uh-oh feeling about him. He is, in one section, trying to remove paranoia as well as stop any "Why isnt Toad dead? He shouldnt have got any protection last night, we agreed he shouldnt, as such why didnt mafia shoot him?" questions. Painting yourself as an average player does very much not look like the Toad I learned to know (which, admittedly isnt near as much as others know him). Anyone has a meta-read on Toad and him saying other times that hes average at town play?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 14:36 GMT
#2243
@Toad

1&2: Had you been town, these are obviously nothing, and your reasoning is correct. But these two are kind of adding up to the whole picture to me. Alone, they are nothing.

3&4: Ok, my wording of you being "pushy" was probably bad wording on my part. And you focus heavily on me being contradictory (which, if you want to interpret the word pushy in the way you did, theres reason within your claim that I indeed was). But the fact still stands that the way you acted those two nights are very different. And the asking around what other people think (4) is to me very much not your style (see the sentences about will). That, you still havent attempted to explain.

5: Its still an awful lot of switching. And we have this:
I very much think he's scum. I like my vote on Mementoss better for the moment though. If only for the reason that I no longer want to lynch Mementoss first.

It explains that you are willing to switch off MMToss, but it doesnt explain why you are willing to. Also, I dont see why you'd consider voting on SS unless you at least have an equal scumread on SS as you did on Gravan. If you did have such a scum read, you have explained why (again, why is the key word) you were willing to vote swtich. If you did not have that scum read, you shouldnt have considered SS at all and stayed on Gravan.

6: It was my weakest point probably. And quite frankly your reply to it doesnt really relate to my point six (and you cant really defend yourself against it either, since it was mostly just me going "it seems pretty strange he got that post together at that time so fast"). About what you said in the defense though: Nothing of what you claim you did would be impossible to do as mafia in preparation for later defense. And your point about what happened N1 (which as I said have nothing to do with my point 6) I have a bit of a hard time to relate to since I wasnt there at the time. And about you not planting breadcrumbs as mafia, thats a null-read from my PoV. If someone I trust as town can confirm it, I'll take it into account.

7: Agreed its confirmation bias. Not one of my better points. Just another one of those "this does fit a bit too well" moments. Maybe I shouldnt have mentioned 6 and 7, but as 1&2 neither of them are strong at all on their own, but together they make something, so I added them. And quite frankly I dont think you can defend yourself against 6 or 7 so you probably shouldnt bother. Blame my paranoia would make more sense (since if I'm all wrong in all of this, I will be the first to admit that my paranoia totally got me on the wrong track).

8: You totally didnt reply to my point at all. My point was about you painting yourself as average town player at a time when we should be asked why you arent dead (being vet and all). The timing of that was VERY telling and nothing you wrote relates to that at all. As for the Z-Boson situation (why is this on my point 8 lol?), you yourself said you're awesome as mafia. Would you really say you, supposing you are mafia, are unable to make the read Boson was bluffing and then call for the kill on him to clear you? As someone who claimed to be awesome as mafia, dont you agree you should be able to make that call? I have that faith in someone making such a claim at least.

9: Cant really reply to that one. I think its strange you tell where trackers should go when you're the tracker. You say you did it to not look blue. Thats possible. Up to everyone to decide whether they believe you or not I guess. Personally im very sceptical.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 15:39 GMT
#2251
I'm going to answer the ones we disagree about. There's really no point in talking about 1,2,6,7,9 right?

Agreed.

3,4 ) Yeah it was different because I wasn't anywhere near as comfortable picking the right lynch as I was the day before that.

With that, I think we are at the end and where its up to the rest whether they believe it or not. Personally I think its very strange that someone goes from seeing non-town all over the place (you had Boson, Forumite, BM, S&B all pinned down as non-town) into being very uncomfotable about any reads at all. That is a VERY big switch of certainty. And I find it much more likely to be motivated by a scum wanting Forumite gone, planting the seed, then watchign the seed grow nad blossom. And then next lynch following it up the next day by being very content with who was being talked about and not wanting to get his hands dirty but rather preferring sitting back and let the others do the mislynch-job.

Thats my version. Believe mine or his.

5) Pretty much my last sentence I just wrote
Show nested quote +
The reasons I didn't want MMToss and Mav lynched are all minor reactions I saw.
. I explained it a little but those things are awfully hard to explain.

Well then at least you can agree this one doesnt make you look very good, right?
SS was simply the only guy who had votes besides Gravan if you exclude MMToss and Mav. I also think I mentioned Shady quite some time over the last couple of days as possible mafia and never retracted that at all.

Its not impossible I could have missed it. But as you claimed you had him on your target since previous, you should really show that. As it stands now, you still havent presented much of a reason as to why you considered SS as good of a target as you thought Gravan was. Also consider the follow-up question should you have such a reason: why werent SS on your 1st and (more importantly) 2nd list in that case if you had him on your mind all along?

8) You're kind of asking me "why did mafia not shoot you". How am I supposed to know that. I mentioned the Z-Boson situation because that's an easy explanation for one of the nights. The first night I obviously didn't get shot because they prioritised BC and BM24. Ever after that we had an awful lot of talk about a medic because everyone assumed there was one for sure, so as mentioned they probably tried to get safe kills rather than vet kills when they were already low on numbers after losing 2 mafias d1/n1.
But again, I have no clue. How am I supposed to know why mafia did or did not shoot me. It's just a guess and I can't answer that question.

Im not entirely sure what you're saying, but I cant find anything related to the fact that you painted yourself as average town at that time, so I'll leave it at that.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 22:01 GMT
#2289
Please kill Toad if I die tonight =)
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 15 2012 22:34 GMT
#2305
O.o
I totally didnt see that coming
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 16 2012 10:51 GMT
#2311
I was totally prepared to tunnel Toad for the coming 48h, but now that hes gone and I've got to read through Shadys filter I do agree he is the best lynch we have atm. He joined the voting of Forumite without really adding anything and since then he's been pushing confirmed townies all over the place. The "strong town read" on S&B seals the deal.

Also theres no secret (for those who read the threat at least) that I've put SS on the more towny side before, and he has also expressed town read on me and he tried to get BM off my back when he posted his "case" on me. So should SS get lynched and flip red I should probably get tracked the coming night so you can confirm Im not mafia. But thats for later really. I'll make sure to post that again should we lynch SS and he flips red.

For now though:
##vote: Shady Sands
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 16 2012 20:03 GMT
#2314
Well this thread died :p
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 09:33 GMT
#2326
We should be looking at hardcore lurkers / unreadable players afterwards imo (assuming SS get lynched, which theres no reason to assume he wont atm). Rewok is my best bet. BM/Grush comes after although BM kind of has started to seem more serious recently. We have no reason to not believe ShiaoPi's claim and Im gonna put all S&B voters on the towny side for now at least. That leaves DarthPunk, who is more of a "feels town" kind of player to me, but I cant say I have much concrete to say to back that up with. I also felt SS to be townish previously so I'll probably have to take another clear look at DP at some point.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 09:39 GMT
#2327
Darth Punk has also gone very much under the radar, dont think anyone has ever brought up anything on him, so that might be another reason for everyone to take a serious look at him. Should he be scum it should be possible to find something on him, compared to Rewok/Grush.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 14:20 GMT
#2336
Its usually dead around now since its work/school time for EU and sleep time for NA.

Plus, its quite obvious whos gonna get lynched. Some talk about whats coming after doesnt hurt, but a lot still depends on the flip.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 14:24 GMT
#2338
Unless someone comes in like sloosh did with S&B that is. Or Shady makes an effort to prevent it. Other than those options its kinda downtime atm....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 22:48 GMT
#2348
That was a wasted 48h.....

Also, didnt Rewok miss the vote?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 23:03 GMT
#2350
Ok, I still kinda wanna lynch Rewok, but Im still very much interested in Grush and BM. Rewok I posted about this before, and I dont have anything else on him:
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 15 2012 20:39 Kreb wrote:
Rewok - He is up there together with Toad, but for a completely different reason. The reason he is up there is because I cant see how he hasnt purposedly gone completely lurk mode. This feels like something only a mafia would do (possibly because some other mafia (Toad?) told him do to so). Look a bit at his starting posts:
+ Show Spoiler +
Holy shiet this thread gets going quickly!

Alright, time to say hi :-) My name's Rewok. I haven't played with any of you before, so I'm gonna take this first post to tell you about my strategy for this game. I'll also give my reads, etc. But that's gonna be further down.

Basically, I see the game like this. The goal for mafia is to stay alive. The goal for Town is to get rid of people. Knowing this, Town tends to be more bloodthirsty from the front. While Mafia's best strategy is to target specific people.

Town strategy tends to lean towards "getting blood" right away. Because each person gone could kill a mafia. Worst case scenario, you know one person isn't a mafia. And you can get a better read from the filters.

Mafia tends to want specific people dead, right away. They have better information. So they tend to skew towards "let's kill THIS PERSON. Otherwise, let's pass on the ban this round."

(A little about me: I like to be careful about my scumreads. I'll only give a scumread if I've got a VERY strong hunch. My goal isn't to lynch townies. It's to make sure we use each lynch to nail a mafia and get this game over with quickly. Also - with every townie left alive.)

Now that I've revealed this, the meta is gonna change. However, using the current filters from before I posted this, here's what I got:

page 9 stop being paranoid

- - - - - -
READS
<< ps. holy filters, batman!! >>
- - - - - -

And:
+ Show Spoiler +
When I say Town Read or Mafia Read, it's gonna be a firm read as far as I can tell. I'm not looking to change or update my reads every 1/2 day. My goal is to make reads that stick, which simply requires more info than we're got so far. (Zero votes and lots of bickering.)

He comes into his first mafia game all fine and dandy with perfectly reasonable posting for a newbie, right? But then he completely shifts into lurker mode without saying anything! Would a newbie with all good-hearted and genuine goals not say anything? I find that very unlikely. He is apparently a bit taken by surprise by the amount of posting going on and how much he is supposed to keep up with. Wouldnt a town-newbie really excuse himself? Say stuff like "Im sorry I cant keep up this is taking too much of my time" or "Im not really used to this so Im sorry Im not helping much" or maybe even go as far as to ask for a replacement? We've seen nothing of that, instead he just goes afk completely.

This might also be due to a mafia leading the pack (Toad?) telling him to stop with his "Im an innocent townie"-talk to not get attention drawn to him. Maybe mafia prefers him being easily bussable. Last part might have been far fetched by yea, I dont see his play fitting an innocent newbie.



BUT, I might have something on Grush.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 23:09 GMT
#2351
I cant really say I have much due to what he has said. But I decided to take a different approach to this. And I might have found something. Lets look at Grushs posting habits around night posts:

Night 5 post:
Palmar Iceland. September 18 2012 07:30. Posts 5910
Grush post night 5: grush57 Korea (South). September 18 2012 07:43. Posts 1372
13minutes after

Night 4: Quatol Burkina Faso. September 15 2012 07:16. Posts 55
Grush: grush57 Korea (South). September 15 2012 07:29. Posts 1372
13min after

Night 3:
marvellosity United Kingdom. September 12 2012 07:01. Posts 5085
Grush: grush57 Korea (South). September 12 2012 07:18. Posts 1372
17min after
BUT
Also: grush57 Korea (South). September 12 2012 06:40. Posts 1372
21min before

Night 2: Nothing close

Night 1:
marvellosity United Kingdom. September 06 2012 07:34. Posts 5086
Grush: grush57 Korea (South). September 06 2012 06:48. Posts 1372
46min before, but only 12min before deadline
grush57 Korea (South). September 06 2012 07:50. Posts 1372
16min after

My point: Grush has clearly been around 4 out of 5 nights. He was also posting soon before deadline Night 1 and 3.
WHY WASNT GRUSH POSTING PRE-NIGHT 4, WHILE WE WERE ALL SWITCHING TO S&B?
Obviously, not proof. And hes gonna say he wasnt there, which we cant say anything about. But lacking something on his posting content this might be something to go on.

Gonna take a closer look at DP/BM tomorrow too most likely.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 23:56 GMT
#2358
On September 18 2012 08:37 Bill Murray wrote:
KREB HOW MANY SCUM DO YOU THINK THERE ARE?

2. Most likely within the trio: You, Grush, DP.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 17 2012 23:59 GMT
#2359
Pretty good we got rid of Rewok at least. It should be 5-2. If both KPs hit during the night it will be 3-2, which is doable. I prefer 3-2 without Rewok than 4-2 with.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 00:26 GMT
#2361
Worth noting on Grush too: Hes called lots of people scummy, but the following three posts were the only three I could find where he was (very very soft) defending people.

On the BKE case:
On September 08 2012 06:39 grush57 wrote:
Not hard defending him, I'm just pointing out things in your case. He isn't 100% scum, but if it comes down to it I'll probably vote for him.


On a post made by Z-Boson targetted at S&B:
On September 10 2012 05:25 grush57 wrote:
Oh Z-Boson, you are so confused.
S&B was not contradicting himself at all in that post.


On September 14 2012 04:27 grush57 wrote:
Nice find there sloosh.
##Vote: Maverick32x
Also you guys don't get how BM plays.


These are the only times he attempted to defend someone. One flipped green, but he also expressed that he'd be willing to vote for him. One flipped red. The third is still in the game (and Im very suspicious of).

Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 00:36 GMT
#2362
How I think atm:
grush57 - Highly suspicious
Bill Murray - Suspicious
DarthPunk - Neutral, gonna take a long read through his filter tomorrow
ShiaoP - No reason to not believe the claim, town.
imallison - The only town I feel I kinda could be wrong about, but still putting him on town side for S&B vote and previous filter-reading.
Hopeless1dr - Tipped the vote against S&B, should be town.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 00:51 GMT
#2365
On September 18 2012 09:45 DarthPunk wrote:
I am kind of glad Rewok got mod killed because he would have been a serious liability tomorrow. Kreb Could you please post a case on me if you keep lumping in with BM and Grush as scummy. From what I have gathered you are suspicious of me because I have not been under suspicion and because I felt townie. Read my filter. Read my interactions with the other players in the game etc. and post a case. It is far preferable than what you are currently doing. Especially at LYLO.

That goes for all of you. If you think someone is scummy Make a case. Bring as much info out into the open as possible. So that we can inform ourselves and make the best decision. The last cycle was terrible. We miss lynched shady and have no info and no discussion from it.

Im not suspicious. I just kind of acknowledged that you're the one I've put the least thinking into. And given that no one else seems to neither put you as town nor mafia, that seems to fit others too. Also I tried to make it clear in the last post where I stand in your case.

For now its 02:50 and I dont feel Im in a state where I wanna dive more deeply into this game until I've slept. I know I'll have time tomorrow too. I promise to post what I feel about you before the night kill, be it more mafia-like or town-like.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 07:27 GMT
#2368
Ehm? Is that a troll or are you just fishing for a reaction or something?

What I see is a handful of sentences stating what the state of the thread is. I even go as far as to say that "Some talk about whats coming after doesnt hurt". Not gonna claim I encouraged discussion exactly either, because I wasnt. But please, do elaborate on how I "encouraged the non activity" and "made by best efforts" (I wonder what my worst efforts look like if thats my best....) to waste 48h.

You're accusing me of shutting down a (highly contributory?) discussion which wasnt there. If you two guys had something to say, YOU should have said it. Im supposed to be responsible for you two not sharing possibly vital information by stating the situation?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 07:57 GMT
#2370
You're not elaborating very well. You have called it "encouraging non activity", "making my best efforts to waste 48h" and now its "ladded nothing apart from letting you know it was pointless". You're saying the same thing three times and use one of the three things to back up the other. Its like saying "this is great because its awesome". But then why is it awesome?

Explain like Im 5 years old: Where do I do this?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 08:21 GMT
#2373
Anyway, onto DPs filter.

I dont have anything I would call particularly scummy. The "problem" might be that he's largely been targetting BM (and a lttile bit onto Grush at the start) and since we havent seen BMs flip its hard to say what motives are behind it. But the cases he presents are at least well thought out and I agreed (and still agree) with a lot of the points. I find it unlikely they would be some kind of scum team trying to look like different alignment, the cases are a bit too extensive for that imo. That leaves the possibility of DP being scum and the others town, but thats waaaaaay less likely than the other way around with the way Grush and BM has behaved throughout the game.

So here we go: Im calling Grush/BM scum team.

Grush: Already posted about him two posts recently. The cases arent exactly waterproofs, but considering their his activity its pretty much impossible to create one. But with mostly solid town reads on the rest and medium scum reads on Grush, I see no other option.
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On September 18 2012 09:26 Kreb wrote:
Worth noting on Grush too: Hes called lots of people scummy, but the following three posts were the only three I could find where he was (very very soft) defending people.

On the BKE case:
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On September 08 2012 06:39 grush57 wrote:
Not hard defending him, I'm just pointing out things in your case. He isn't 100% scum, but if it comes down to it I'll probably vote for him.


On a post made by Z-Boson targetted at S&B:
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On September 10 2012 05:25 grush57 wrote:
Oh Z-Boson, you are so confused.
S&B was not contradicting himself at all in that post.


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On September 14 2012 04:27 grush57 wrote:
Nice find there sloosh.
##Vote: Maverick32x
Also you guys don't get how BM plays.


These are the only times he attempted to defend someone. One flipped green, but he also expressed that he'd be willing to vote for him. One flipped red. The third is still in the game (and Im very suspicious of).


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On September 18 2012 08:09 Kreb wrote:
I cant really say I have much due to what he has said. But I decided to take a different approach to this. And I might have found something. Lets look at Grushs posting habits around night posts:

Night 5 post:
Palmar Iceland. September 18 2012 07:30. Posts 5910
Grush post night 5: grush57 Korea (South). September 18 2012 07:43. Posts 1372
13minutes after

Night 4: Quatol Burkina Faso. September 15 2012 07:16. Posts 55
Grush: grush57 Korea (South). September 15 2012 07:29. Posts 1372
13min after

Night 3:
marvellosity United Kingdom. September 12 2012 07:01. Posts 5085
Grush: grush57 Korea (South). September 12 2012 07:18. Posts 1372
17min after
BUT
Also: grush57 Korea (South). September 12 2012 06:40. Posts 1372
21min before

Night 2: Nothing close

Night 1:
marvellosity United Kingdom. September 06 2012 07:34. Posts 5086
Grush: grush57 Korea (South). September 06 2012 06:48. Posts 1372
46min before, but only 12min before deadline
grush57 Korea (South). September 06 2012 07:50. Posts 1372
16min after

My point: Grush has clearly been around 4 out of 5 nights. He was also posting soon before deadline Night 1 and 3.
WHY WASNT GRUSH POSTING PRE-NIGHT 4, WHILE WE WERE ALL SWITCHING TO S&B?
Obviously, not proof. And hes gonna say he wasnt there, which we cant say anything about. But lacking something on his posting content this might be something to go on.

Gonna take a closer look at DP/BM tomorrow too most likely.


BM: Little needs to be said which I havent already said in various posts. But a quick recap.
- He is not answering to questions
- He is switching votes on and off people all the time
- He doesnt explain why these vote switches occur
- Hasnt built a single serious case and attempted to push it through
- He has taken lots and lots of chances to taunt us by purposedly expressing opinions rivalling the general opinion, to further build him as "someone who just plays like that".
- He is, obviously, well aware that hes doing all of this. But what motives would you have to not do this? The obvious answer is that by purposedly "overacting" his scummyness he can hide behind a notion that people will excuse him because "its his meta".

Now, I would very much like DP/allison/hopeless/Shiao to comment on this? Do you agree? Is it weak, if so why? Do you have any other solid reasons to believe anyone else is scummy? Lets get this discussion going.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 08:26 GMT
#2374
On September 18 2012 17:14 DarthPunk wrote:
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On September 18 2012 10:08 DarthPunk wrote:
Kreb demonstrated some pretty clearly anti town behaviour during the shady bandwagon. Shiao Pi and I were trying to get some discussion going and kreb joins the thread to pretty much shut it down and encourage the non activity that was the previous status quo during the last cycle.


On September 17 2012 23:20 Kreb wrote:
Its usually dead around now since its work/school time for EU and sleep time for NA.

Plus, its quite obvious whos gonna get lynched. Some talk about whats coming after doesnt hurt, but a lot still depends on the flip.



On September 17 2012 23:24 Kreb wrote:
Unless someone comes in like sloosh did with S&B that is. Or Shady makes an effort to prevent it. Other than those options its kinda downtime atm....


He then goes on to state that the past 48 hours were wasted. despite making every NO effort to ensure that was WASN'T the case. Clearly anti town behaviour. I don't think this makes him scum for sure. But if we throw away the assumption that no scum Bussed S&B then it looks pretty suspicious.

On September 18 2012 07:48 Kreb wrote:
That was a wasted 48h.....

Also, didnt Rewok miss the vote?



Happy?

Yes, very much. I can agree with the last part now (still not agreeing with "encouraging non activity"). Its absolutely true I made no effort to stop it. I saw no point since we were quite unanimous and it would have felt very "forced" trying to find an alternative target when we were already happy with the current one. I thought thats how everyone was reasoning, considering no one made an effort to stop the (mis)lynch. Oh well.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 08:44 GMT
#2376
On September 18 2012 17:39 DarthPunk wrote:
We needed to push discussion during that lynch because of this exact scenario and to mitigate damage if we mislynched by having something to go off during LYLO. What you did was anti town.

As far as I understand, the anti town part I did was not pushing this discussion you mention. If thats anti town to you, then I agree I acted anti town. However, then I also think everyone acted anti town, because no one did push it.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 17:38 GMT
#2383
It would really be nice to get imallison and Hopeless in here too....
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 18 2012 22:20 GMT
#2393
GL town!
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 23 2012 23:31 GMT
#2864
You should just not have killed me lol. I would have helped mafia to easy victory by voting grush or BM.
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 23 2012 23:35 GMT
#2865
On September 24 2012 08:06 DarthPunk wrote:
Meh. This victory feels hollow. Shiao pretty much figured us out and the only reason we won was because grush thought I was a newb. Anyway. It has been a LONG road. GG all.

Yea dont say that. Mafia deserved it imo. Excluding ShiaoPi the last like 8 or 10 townies were pretty lost. I wouldve felt pretty hollow had we won because it wouldve felt like a cointoss at the end with grush/bm there. Also the biggest help came from an assassin lol (sloosh with the s&b case).
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 23 2012 23:53 GMT
#2867
Wait a second. How did 3ppl die Night 4? Mafia had vigged sloosh and zboson (according to scum qt). Austin was only town vig and was dead at that point. So how could Gravan, MMToss and Mav all die?
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 23 2012 23:55 GMT
#2869
Oh, ok. I thought Assassins wouldnt shoot until they had got 100% confirmation who the other assa was. :p
Kreb
Profile Joined September 2010
4834 Posts
September 24 2012 00:06 GMT
#2870
So what wouldve happened if Grushs bomb was on DP? Lynch, bomb and modkill into no winner? :D

Or actually one winner. Sloosh!
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