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Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
November 17 2012 06:49 GMT
#2341
Seriously, if your strategy is to fakeclaim, you should try to take advantage of your role. It doesn't make much sense to claim miller for a roleblocker. You can try to breadcrumb a JK role in this case and fakeclaim as a JKeeper when you are in a danger to be lynched.
Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
November 17 2012 06:52 GMT
#2342
EBWOP: Please remember the Dandel Ion fakeclaim in NMM XXIX. The natural thing for a roleblocker is to fakeclaim jailkeeper.

Dandel Ion was mafia roleblocker in that game -> + Show Spoiler +
On October 30 2012 05:32 Dandel Ion wrote:
Okay, I'll make it easier on y'all

I am Honda, some fat guy. AKA the roleblocker.

Why am I claiming now?
Should be obvious - I don't want to get mislynched, and that's what seems to be about to happen.

Do you have the crumbz?
Yes.
+ Show Spoiler +
I actually forgot about the crumb at day 1 at first, and I only remembered the next morning that I should've crumbed it, which is why it's a bit later, and not in my first batch of posts.
Rectifying this is quite literaly the first thing I do, then:link
On October 25 2012 19:23 Dandel Ion wrote:
Right on, I'M Back.

[blablaba]

Bolded. Not my brightest moment, but I was tired and couldn't come up with a better way to incorporate that. I also majorly stressed out about how easy that seems to spot, but it appears nobody did. Maybe the tricky "splitting R and B" is actually amazing.

My night action was roleblocking Kush. He was my strongest scumread, and while it was unlikely even then, that scum would send Kush to kill, frankly, I just had no idea who else to block. I'm no JK, so I can't save people (I wouldn't have guessed Sylver anyways, so w/e)


Context: It's night, I had posted my case on Kush. His response to it was saying "it's bad". That's it. After he posts his nonsense about how he won't be nightkilled now (something he does like to post as scum), I decide to roleblock him. Link
On October 28 2012 00:03 Dandel Ion wrote:
So you're saying, his meta is actually the same to you? After you tried to make it out as if there was some huge meta divergence?

Right. I call Bullshit, Kushyboy.

Pretty straightforward.
To keep it in line with the first crumb, I capitalized the B again. ((I also almost never call people by "wrong" names ingame, except for situations like this, or if I'm really sure they are scum. Both applied here. But you can take that or leave it, it doesn't matter))
Nothing happened that made me want to change that, so I stuck with it.


Why I was so fixated on Djo being the SK:
Because, and this part is actually not the best argument, because it's not IMPOSSIBLE, just unlikely, but I thought JK+Cop+RB+Vig would be too much blue, so I practically eliminated the possibility of a Vig. and I got VERY leery of how Djo randomly jumped into the thread and started a NK speculation (in itself bad enough, since it's little more than fluff) AND started talking like it was a 100% certainity that Sylver was the scum KP AND he found a reason why Sylver was killed in, like, ~10 minutes after the flip (this was pointed out by somebody else, can't remember who).


So where does this leave us? (from my perspective)
Djo is still scum.
Alsn made a case on me, so I feel the need to OMGUS him. He's also currently in the process of setting up Cheese as his next lynch, but I'm not sure where that puts him, since Cheese is null to me.
Roco pretty much claimed scum by sheeping onto the current case, no reasons given. Then he vanished into thin air again. His actions stink like he was told what to do in a QT. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even read the thread himself. No matter what, he's an ABSOLUTE liability, even if he should actually be town.

Nackht is looking more townish now, although the reasons why he finds Cheese scummy still elude me. Frankly, I didn't really understand that post. The reasons for Alsn are even more obscure, cause he didn't give any, looks like.
Cheese is still pretty null to me. I'll have to read nackht's post some more and try to make sense of it...

debears is likely town, though it's strange how he defends me so hard just based on meta. Honestly though, at this point, I don't have a problem with it. He dug all that stuff up (A for effort) and actually thinks about the game, unlike many others in here.

Rad has given me no reason to not read him town, still. I believe his Vig claim, no matter the implications on the setup. Plus, since he claimed the shot, it'd be suicide for him to shoot somebody else. If he's actually SK, then he's pretty damn good at this game.


I am also seriously pissed that nobody actually even aknowledged my defense, and Djo just spammed 2+ pages full of WIFOM bullshit oneliners instead.
I have, to this point, not seen an actual REASON why I'm supposed to be scum, and I didn't want to claim just because nobody reads the thread.

Also, really cool how nobody is even in the thread anymore. Guess I shoulda posted this even earlier...
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25551 Posts
November 17 2012 06:53 GMT
#2343
zZz
When you stare into the iCCup, the iCCup stares back.
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DarthPunk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia10855 Posts
November 17 2012 07:27 GMT
#2344
On November 17 2012 15:52 Djodref wrote:
EBWOP: Please remember the Dandel Ion fakeclaim in NMM XXIX. The natural thing for a roleblocker is to fakeclaim jailkeeper.

Dandel Ion was mafia roleblocker in that game -> + Show Spoiler +
On October 30 2012 05:32 Dandel Ion wrote:
Okay, I'll make it easier on y'all

I am Honda, some fat guy. AKA the roleblocker.

Why am I claiming now?
Should be obvious - I don't want to get mislynched, and that's what seems to be about to happen.

Do you have the crumbz?
Yes.
+ Show Spoiler +
I actually forgot about the crumb at day 1 at first, and I only remembered the next morning that I should've crumbed it, which is why it's a bit later, and not in my first batch of posts.
Rectifying this is quite literaly the first thing I do, then:link
On October 25 2012 19:23 Dandel Ion wrote:
Right on, I'M Back.

[blablaba]

Bolded. Not my brightest moment, but I was tired and couldn't come up with a better way to incorporate that. I also majorly stressed out about how easy that seems to spot, but it appears nobody did. Maybe the tricky "splitting R and B" is actually amazing.

My night action was roleblocking Kush. He was my strongest scumread, and while it was unlikely even then, that scum would send Kush to kill, frankly, I just had no idea who else to block. I'm no JK, so I can't save people (I wouldn't have guessed Sylver anyways, so w/e)


Context: It's night, I had posted my case on Kush. His response to it was saying "it's bad". That's it. After he posts his nonsense about how he won't be nightkilled now (something he does like to post as scum), I decide to roleblock him. Link
On October 28 2012 00:03 Dandel Ion wrote:
So you're saying, his meta is actually the same to you? After you tried to make it out as if there was some huge meta divergence?

Right. I call Bullshit, Kushyboy.

Pretty straightforward.
To keep it in line with the first crumb, I capitalized the B again. ((I also almost never call people by "wrong" names ingame, except for situations like this, or if I'm really sure they are scum. Both applied here. But you can take that or leave it, it doesn't matter))
Nothing happened that made me want to change that, so I stuck with it.


Why I was so fixated on Djo being the SK:
Because, and this part is actually not the best argument, because it's not IMPOSSIBLE, just unlikely, but I thought JK+Cop+RB+Vig would be too much blue, so I practically eliminated the possibility of a Vig. and I got VERY leery of how Djo randomly jumped into the thread and started a NK speculation (in itself bad enough, since it's little more than fluff) AND started talking like it was a 100% certainity that Sylver was the scum KP AND he found a reason why Sylver was killed in, like, ~10 minutes after the flip (this was pointed out by somebody else, can't remember who).


So where does this leave us? (from my perspective)
Djo is still scum.
Alsn made a case on me, so I feel the need to OMGUS him. He's also currently in the process of setting up Cheese as his next lynch, but I'm not sure where that puts him, since Cheese is null to me.
Roco pretty much claimed scum by sheeping onto the current case, no reasons given. Then he vanished into thin air again. His actions stink like he was told what to do in a QT. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't even read the thread himself. No matter what, he's an ABSOLUTE liability, even if he should actually be town.

Nackht is looking more townish now, although the reasons why he finds Cheese scummy still elude me. Frankly, I didn't really understand that post. The reasons for Alsn are even more obscure, cause he didn't give any, looks like.
Cheese is still pretty null to me. I'll have to read nackht's post some more and try to make sense of it...

debears is likely town, though it's strange how he defends me so hard just based on meta. Honestly though, at this point, I don't have a problem with it. He dug all that stuff up (A for effort) and actually thinks about the game, unlike many others in here.

Rad has given me no reason to not read him town, still. I believe his Vig claim, no matter the implications on the setup. Plus, since he claimed the shot, it'd be suicide for him to shoot somebody else. If he's actually SK, then he's pretty damn good at this game.


I am also seriously pissed that nobody actually even aknowledged my defense, and Djo just spammed 2+ pages full of WIFOM bullshit oneliners instead.
I have, to this point, not seen an actual REASON why I'm supposed to be scum, and I didn't want to claim just because nobody reads the thread.

Also, really cool how nobody is even in the thread anymore. Guess I shoulda posted this even earlier...

He Claimed ROLEBLOCKER in that game. If there is a Serial killer claiming JK as mafia is SUICIDAL claming JK with a vig is SUICIDAL.

and the fact that you are making comparisons between a miller claim and a Jailkeeper claim is laughable. Add to that. ZB is far scummier. He is a scummy MILLER CLAIM. With META EVIDENCE. What part of that is the same as a bad (not scummy) jail keeper?

OMG

"If I wanted your opinion, I'd have told you what it was."
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
November 17 2012 08:30 GMT
#2345
Djo, you are running the town in circles and it's not getting us anywhere.
We're not lynching BH today, revisit it tomorrow. Stop it with the setup speculation. We are in the setup we are in, it doesn't matter what the chances were of the setup being X, Y or Z.

Blazing could be scum, but he's currently not the scummiest player, by far. So drop it and move on.
FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
November 17 2012 08:52 GMT
#2346
Comments in red.

On November 17 2012 05:56 strongandbig wrote:
Now, it looks like the "cases" on me (such as they are) mostly boil down to "lol kill the troll." That's scum doing your thinking for you. No, it's not "kill the troll". It's "kill the anti-town who's likely to flip scum"

Scum don't sit there and troll and hope they win; or if they do, they are morons and will lose. Scum try to look like they're helping town; they try to look pro-town without actually being pro-town, or sometimes they actually do try and play pro-town but just do so in a way that doesn't aim town at their teammates. But scum don't sit there and post "lol lol," unless they've established for themselves a character in other games that they think will allow them to get away with posting "lol lol".
wifomwifomwifomwifomwifomwifomwifom

Other than "he's a troll let's kill him with fire so he can't regenerate hit points," there seem to be two arguments in favor of lynching me: that I haven't done much to help town except sit here and troll; and, alternatively, that I've been posting the way I have as part of an elaborate plot to play "outside my scum meta"
Again, you're missing the point. I don't buy your VT claim, and I don't buy the fact that in the last 10 minutes before lynchtime you went off to play dota, true or not, doesn't matter."

The "he hasn't been helping town" argument is stupid as an argument for why to kill me. You don't want to kill people who aren't helping town, unless you think they are scum. Wasting your kill on a townie who's not trying hurts town way more than that townie ever did.

"He hasn't been helping town" is also stupid as an argument for why I'm scum. I haven't been pretending to help town without actually doing it, which is what scum do. What I've been doing is posting my honest unfiltered thoughts for the thread. Scum don't do that. It's too easy to fuck up and get caught, through inconsistency, through letting loose extra information, or just through generally revealing their mindset.
The last three paragraphs are all an overexplanation. You didn't care whatsoever until you got attention and votes, which alignment would do that? Seeing as you know so much about how scum thinks?"

Scum don't sit around and just kind of grumple around in the thread. Scum will either try to follow the thread or to mislead the thread, and I was not doing either of those. Like half my posts were expressing my very real suspicions of BH, even though no one was really listening to me.
wifomwifomwifomwifomwifomwifomwifomwifom

Now, let's look at the other argument - "he's posting like this because of his 'scum meta'."
I never made this argument. In fact very early into the thread someone pointed out you're not like either meta, so we have to read you by what you've done THIS game, the answer is nothing.

First, this argument is wrong, for a couple of reasons. If I was really trying to "go against my scum meta" by consciously manipulating my posting, I would be trying to emulate my "town meta" rather than "just posting whatever the fuck I feel like." There may or may not be a difference between my "town meta" and my "scum meta". That difference is plain if you just look at the last scum game I played. However, the difference isn't "when I'm town I troll and when I'm scum I tryhard." I can tryhard plenty as town too; my town games have had a variety of different posting styles and argumentative styles. It would be way easier for me to fit within that spectrum if I was doing this to avoid being caught by a meta case.

There's one other reason why this argument is bad. It relies on the implicit assumption that I'm functionally retarded.
For me to think that "posting nothing but non-grammatical insults and generally make myself look like a huge troll who doesn't care" is the proper reaction to hearing "your posts tend to feel more constructed when you're scum" would be ridiculous. If my primary motivation really was "avoid being caught on a meta case," there are other ways of playing that would have been both (A) far more effective, and (B) much easier to fake than what I did on day 1 of this game. Like, in my two recent scum games, I've "done nothing but sheep other people's cases and try to blend in" and "try to be a town leader by claiming blue really early and pushing cases really hard and shit." There's a whole spectrum of room between those two that I could have hidden in.
If you really believe that I'm scum because my posts were "intentionally constructed to seem off-the-cuff and poorly thought out", then you have to also believe that I'm stupid.

I'm not stupid.
The fact that you are not stupid is working against you. You choose to be stupid D1 and N1.
Town motivation: None
Scum motivation: Be able to post without people really caring.

I don't make a meta argument, and you come out saying "as scum I play like this!" Really?

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Z-BosoN
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Brazil2590 Posts
November 17 2012 09:05 GMT
#2347
On November 17 2012 15:09 DarthPunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2012 15:07 Djodref wrote:
@ DarthPunk

What do you really have against Z-Bo except for the meta part of your case ?
Did you read the skype conversations ?


Read the case. It is pretty clear it is not solely based on meta. Maybe we should lynch you for being terrible though. THAT is very tempting.


What a bunch of turd. Yes it is all based on meta:

On November 17 2012 11:17 DarthPunk wrote:
Here is SCUM Z-Boson from XXIV

Show nested quote +
On August 20 2012 12:25 Z-BosoN wrote:
All right guys, some debriefing should take place. I agree that we shouldn't back off during the night. It is crucial we get it right this time. Let's see what we have:

YourHarry
Extremely weird player. My main theory against him was that he was trying to do a lame bus on thrawn. Granted as thrawn was indeed vigi, this is not the case.
However, his posts and comments generally are inconsistent, lack explanations, and keep changing. His posts are a diarrhea of WIFOM that I've decided are only here to confuse us with its vagueness, lack of clarity, and lack of purpose. Observe:

I am having second thoughts about Thrawn. First thing that doesn't make sense if Thrawn is scum: If Thrawn is indeed scum then he left that "bread crumb" post so that he can use that as evidence to mislead the town that he is vigilante. But Thrawn denied this post as the "bread crumb" post, and in his initial claim, he never even referenced this post in the first place...

Mega power WIFOM.


Second thing that I am not sure about is that, claiming vigilante is so dangerous for scum. One weak point in this line of thinking is that Thrawn did ask the mod to confirm that there could be more than one vigilante. I think it is possible that scum Thrawn DID ask the moderator in private prior to asking publicly that there could be more than one vigilante.


What is this supposed to implicate? Useless garbage.


STILL, whether or not there could be two vigilante... a counter vigilante claim would definitely have made Thrawn look suspicious. Would it not? I am not sure scum would have taken this risk.


He keeps babbling, and doesn't make a point. How in anyway is this post helping town? And we keep going:

But I am scared to unvote, because I will be the next person to be lynched after Thrawn

What is this supposed to mean? Is he a scum that wants us to think this or is he a townie that wants us to think that he is thinking... oh wait, WIFOM. This statement means CRAP.

... and more ....

I am not super confident in my scum read. Upon my reading just now, I found Jhyut case's scummy. Sheeping Thrawn's case here, but Jhyut did not care whether I am town or scum - he wanted to lynch me. I thought he was something else, but I guess I was wrong again. HE is also lurking pretty hard, so he may turn out to be scum


Crappety crap crap CRAP. He is randomly throwing around suspicions and not committing to anything. This in no conceivable way helps town.

My case against Golbat and Darth was based on my scum read on Thrawn. Not sure anymore.

Scumslip? How does he suddenly know that thrawn is not scum? Oh, that's right, he decided thrawn isn't scum with his brilliant and well thought-out argument, quoted above.
I'm sure we can agree that his posts don't help the town and scream scum. Even though there was strong evidence that thrawn and YH were scum, due to the way they were playing it D1, I am still inclined to think he is scum. This requires much more thought, as we will have to be certain that we lynch a scum in the next day.

Jhuyt

He is a quiet and lurky player. He mentions possibilities, without compromise, and doesn't take a stance on anything.

The more I think of it the more I find that either Shady or Thrawn is scum. But since my basis of suspicion against Thrawn is basically gone I really can't vote for him. I think this post + Show Spoiler + coupled with Thrawn's reason to accuse Arch is enough for me too consider Shady as scum.

##Vote: Shady Sands

I have to go for the next couple of hours so I won't be here for the conclusion of the day, see ya later.


Bases himself off completely off of someone else's arguments, and announces he will have to leave. He then makes complains about how wishy-washy YourHarry is, says it is urgent that we lynch him, and starts to make shallow arguments on GK:

When I looked at the case GK made in this post I got the feeling that you might be scum, but I wasn't sure. When I couple that with your scumslip it makes more sense that he's right and therefore I think you're scum.

The benefit of the doubt line was one that I was considering to cut out of the post because it doesn't add anything and I'm pretty sure I misused the expression.

I should have said that while I do think you're scum I think that YH's behaviour is way scummier and so much more anti-town that a lynch on him is necessary so that we can have a clearer discussion.


But still considering YourHarry's wishy-washyness more scummy. Gets attacked by thrawn, who basically states the same things I'm saying right now, and is defended with weak and contentless posts. He simply doesn't take a solid stance on anyone (except maybe for YH). He's generally much more lurkier and gives off too few to work with.

Golbat
Beastly Lurker. Joined on the thrawn bandwagon and disappeared. We should have lynched him a long time ago. This makes me understand why lurker policy needs to be so strong. If he was a civilian before, then we would be down a lurking civilian who was not helping at all. Now, however, we cannot afford another misslynch, and have to be more careful. But since he has barely any posts, it will be very hard to determine for sure what he is.

goodkarma and DarthPunk

I wanted to make sure that I wasn't skipping any details on the non-obvious choices. I've noticed some weird behavior on GK, which I've already mentioned. Since I've already gone through thrawn's filter, I can understand where GK could have found some reason to back off of thrawn. I don't think he is scum, as I can't think of why a scum would go ahead and say I'M SURE HES GUILTY, to backing off entirely. Scum generally take hesitant postures that lack commitment and conviction.
I've read DarthPunk's filter carefully and wasn't able to detect anything too suspicious or compromising, as he has been making accusations and backing them up with well explained arguments.
Also, both him and goodkarma have been making tons of pro-town and meaningful accusations. If one of them is mafia, it is not in this round that we will be able to lynch them unless we can pick up on something not yet noted.

Stutters and Obvious to come. I'm sleepy and have to wake up early tomorrow. Please, be active, let me know what you think of this post and contribute your own ideas and suspicions as well.



Show nested quote +
On August 17 2012 05:14 Z-BosoN wrote:
My current lists of suspects stands as:

1) thrawn2112
2) YourHarry
3) Shady Sands


Due to all of my previous reasoning, and the fact that none of them have given me reason to retract my suspicions.
However, I am very firm on my decision to execute lynchers. Day one is filled with circumstantial evidence and is very easy to make wrong conclusions, and the probability of a miss-lynch is very high.
What we DO know for CERTAIN is that lurkers are way more prejudicial to the town, because we cannot have decent reads on them. This is a game of reasoning and deduction, but for that, we need DATA, INFORMATION, which lurkers fail to provide. For this first day, since I don't think any of the suspicions so far are conclusive, I will vote for a lurker.
We have Golbat , Stutters, and JHuyt who have been balls-out lurkers. I say we should lynch one of those.
Now, speaking for myself, how will I choose? Let's take a brief look at their history:

Golbat
Has said nothing. Has two posts. He is lurker number one. He briefly accused thrawn with little evidence, threw some dirt on Shady, YourHarry and Solar.
If we lynch him and he turns out townie, we will not have any new leads from that information, but will be down a useless townie.
If we lynch him and he turns out scum, that will be great for us, but we will still have no leads. His accusations could just as easily be his scum buddies due to the fact that he hasn't done any sort of analysis on anybody.
I would go even so far as to think that he will be mod-killed, due to not voting. If he suddenly posts now, we will have VERY strong reason to lynch him the next day, because posting some crap early on and disappearing until close to the deadline is a Strong Strong indicator of SCUM.

Onward.

Stutters
He begins by agreeing that the discussion regarding SK is a waste of time he doesn't raise suspicion, doesn't do any investigative move, just says that and goes on to tell Solar to post better. Then he makes a longer post, telling Solar once again to stop with the trolling (which is fine, he was getting annoying), and making a small, non-compromising case against Shady. States some facts, then moves on, without taking an aggressive stance. Asks why getting filters is necessary (I had already mentioned this...).
And just like that, he's gone.
Basically he is on the same boat as Golbat.
If we lynch him and he turns out townie, we will have lynched a semi-useless townie.
If we lynch him and he turns out scum, great! But still no real info.

So that leaves...
JHyut
Who begins with similar obvious cases against Solar, Shady, and YourHarry. Escapes having to post anything else saying "I'm sorry, but I don't think I can be of any more use until new evidence is posted.".
Then goes on to FOS thrawn, not using any original evidence. Without explaining anything, says that Archrun was not scum, says that thrawn is not scum, then votes for Shady Sands, without explaining, and just like that he's gone.

If we lynch him and he turns out townie, then thrawn will have some weight off his shoulders. He would have ignored accusing a greenie based on his lack of observation. Golbat will look about the same, because he was ignored alongside an innocent and we may figure something out on ArchRun as well (I still have to read more carefully his posts).
If we lynch him and he turns out scum, Archrun and thrawn2112 will not look so good. He INSTANTLY dropped his suspicion of both these players, and this is resonated by my case against Thrawn, where I note a fishy situation between thrawn and either golbat,archrun and/or jhuyt. Here is a snippet so you guys don't have to go all the way back:

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You made an FOS on Archrun by saying that he only had made 3 posts and had no scumhunting. However, you completely ignored Golbat, who only has 2 posts with one-dimensional scumhunting claims, being that the FIRST thing he says is that you are the scummiest player, to which you respond with:

Is this something I need to defend myself on? I am not sober right now so I don't think I could type a clear response till I wake up. Going to sleep now, I hope to wake up and see some more posts.


And you don't mention it again. This seems to me to be a clear, 100% dodge. You give IRL excuses and forget about it, even hinting that you don't feel the need to answer it. You ignore Golbat not once, but twice. A townie thrawn would definitely bother defending himself to a direct attack such as that, and would try to policy-lynch both Golbat and ArchRun.

However, you also didn't call JHyut, who also has 2 posts and even worse in quality than both the mentioned posters.
Why mention only ArchRun and not Golbat, who called you out or JHyut?
Either this is incredibly sloppy play, or you have a scum partner. If we assume the latter, then I can only think of:

1) You are trying to distract people from Golbat by making other accusations, and completely ignored JHyut.
2) You are trying to bus your partner ArchRun so as to draw away suspicion from yourself in case he comes up red. And, you completely ignored JHyut and Golbat.
3) You don't want to call out three people at once for whatever reason and chose someone other than your scum partner.

I find this Highly Suspicious.


That being said, I think right now the general lurkyness of JHuyt + the lack of quality of his posts + this weird switch of votes + his affiliation with Golbat and the amount of information we can make out if he is lynched, I will go with

##Vote JHuyt

PS: I noticed I got sniped. Dangerous timing there, Stutters. I will not bother changing my post, because I have to head out, but I think I will be able to log on near the deadline. Hope I sounded reasonable enough.

Great job increasing the discussion in this eery end of D1!



Here is Z-Boson this game

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On November 16 2012 03:34 Z-BosoN wrote:
Allright, out of the bunch, I'd be happiest with a crossfire lynch. I don't doubt his internet connection problems, but my main problems are of these two posts:

On November 14 2012 14:11 Crossfire99 wrote:
I never want to get that behind ever again. Ugh. That was painful. So many useless posts. I can see why blazing really hated me for posting so much fluff in WLIIA. That's what makes it so weird this game, though. He's posted so much stuff that doesn't matter and just takes up space. In WLIIA, he came down on me so hard because of the amount of fluff I posted. He clearly knows it is anti-town, yet still does it here. I don't understand it at all. If he hadn't claimed jailkeeper (which I'm still not sure I buy), I probably would be voting for him right now. I'm willing to give him a little time to shape up his posting, but if he hasn't done it by then, I want to lynch him.

I am also very confused by strong. I played with him both when he was town and scum, and he never played like this. I believe someone was talking about him possibly changing his meta because it was too obvious when he was scum. Basically he is playing weirdly and has a decent number of fluff posts. This makes me suspicious of him. I find him less scummy than blazing, though.

Other than that though, I just need to digest everything. I have a serious headache now after reading all of that. If you want me to respond to something ask me a question. Otherwise I'll probably come in here sometime after I wake up tomorrow and comment on the top cases. I don't know of any other way of making sense of everything that is happening without going crazy.

Oh and for anyone who is wondering why I chose blazing and strong to single out: blazing really stuck out with the amount of fluff he's been posting plus I know how he plays town because he just did it in WLIIA; as for strong , I've played with him in my last two games, plus I just figured out that he was scum in our last game, WLIIA, so his play is fresh on my mind.


Bolded I read as: "look at me guys!!! I'm trying super hard to read everything!!"
Underlined I read as an overexplanation to him posting his reads, which I find pretty scummy. He does that again here:

On November 15 2012 10:35 Crossfire99 wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:25 iamperfection wrote:
Crossfire if you run away right now i will be super pissed the next 30 or so min of your belong in this thread right now.

I am freaking in this thread. I have to catch up on a lot of stuff. I am sorry I wasn't here. I planned to be here and spend time on this game, but then my internet crapped out. I don't know how else I can apologize for this.

Anyway, I like this case by marv.

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On November 15 2012 08:58 marvellosity wrote:
Z-Boson

Metarelated stuff. Let's a gogo. First of all, here's a sample post from him playing scum in Newbie XXIV. You'll have to excuse the length, but the point is it's length and effort.

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On August 22 2012 02:38 Z-BosoN wrote:
@goodkarma

Well that was quick. Let me see if I understand. Now, in day 3, in a MYLO situation, you propose to.

On August 21 2012 09:16 goodkarma wrote:
Okay then. We need to be active today, and I'm wasting no time in getting started:


@Golbat:

You have a lot of explaining to do for your lurking, so please start there. Also, if you would kindly explain this quote:


On August 18 2012 15:59 Golbat wrote:
On August 18 2012 15:50 DarthPunk wrote:
On August 18 2012 15:32 Golbat wrote:
On August 18 2012 15:19 DarthPunk wrote:
On August 18 2012 15:10 Golbat wrote:
On August 18 2012 12:55 goodkarma wrote:
@YourHarry:

Any suggestions as to who this someone else is that we should lynch?


My first thoughts are either Orchrow or you.


You seem to be very interested in keeping thrawn alive as long as possible... I suggest you start making some meaningful suggestions as to who you feel looks scummier. And it would also be helpful if you commented on people's most recent cases against thrawn, Orchrow, and yourself instead of continuing to strive to keep Thrawn alive.


There are situations here where the vigi still shouldn't claim. Like what if there is an sk, but the vigi hasn't used his shot yet? A vigi counter claim here would be terrible, as he could wind up rb'ed by scum and NK'ed before he can do anything.

And if we wait, who's to say town doesn't get a successful medic save or rb? Or that scum or the sk (if he exists) doesn't just sit back and do nothing for one night? There's a few different ways that there could be an sk but fewer than two night kills.

Waiting achieves nothing. My read, and the read of several of us here, is that thrawn is scum. It's time for him to go. Read through the case points against him, and show us why you feel he might be town. It's more productive than your WIFOM defense of thrawn you're presenting now.


I am in agreement that we should just lynch thrawn here. We seem to have caught a scum or even two, I think if thrawn flips scum then YH is almost certainly scum.


You are lurking pretty hard buddy. I would also like to ask Ochrow, solarsail Z-Boson and Stutters to increase their contributions.


I agree i'm lurking, but I feel that I have at least contributed well for my sparse filter. I made my case on thrawn, and cast my vote. When I see something worth discussing I mention it. I may not be living in the thread as hard as you, harry or thrawn, but at least I've contributed. What do you suggest I do to be less "lurky"? Make a shit case on someone in a misguided attempt to look active? Last game it got me lynched and cost town a vigi shot.

I'll go over the thread again and see if anything catches my eye, but I don't really see a case I can make that hasn't already been made ATM. At the very least i'll prod some people in my next couple posts.


Why so defensive? I understand that you got lynched for being over eager in XXII but your posting is markedly different than what I experienced there (although you were only alive for 24 hours so not much of a meta to read ) my post was not a personal attack but rather a call to all lurkers to contribute something.


Apologies. I didn't mean to come off as defensive, just that I'm not intentionally lurking, just not posting uselessly. in my last game I died before I could make a big contribution, and I just want to help catch a scum before I die this game. Now is the time to step it up I guess.


I've already explained what I felt was scummy about this, but in case you need a reminder:

You seem more interested in staying alive right now than in actually scumhunting. "Not posting uselessly" is not an excuse for not posting at all. Even one one-line post explaining your absence would have been useful at this point, and you wouldn't even contribute that.

You argue to not be lurking intentionally, but I would argue that yes, lurking for 48 hours is rather intentional. There's no way that you haven't thought up anything worthwhile in that time unless if between then and now you have forgotten altogether about this thread. And why would you do that if you want to "make a big contribution" that leads to the lynch of a scum?

One more question: Why did you tunnel Thrawn so hard?


##Vote: Golbat


Wait a minute. This is do or die for the town. You plan to consolidate your vote on someone who barely has any information on him and has been a hardcore lurker since day one? Because he tunneled thrawn, as if you didn't? Oh wait, that's right, you had a very sudden change of heart. But then, you go on and say that:

(...)And finally there's the final vote count for day 2. I currently believe the Thrawn mislynch had heavy scum support. One reason scum would have for getting behind a candidate would be if one of their own also had strong support. If you look at the votes, and see where those who have established themselves as town have voted, I'm sure you'll agree the YourHarry lynch had some reputable town support behind it. And all of the current scum suspects are on the Thrawn mislynch.:


Well that's a very convenient argument, to go along with your name not being on that list. Drop in the bomb, wait for people to sheep you, then escape, no compromises.
It's also ironic you didn't think of it before, when everybody wanted Shady Sands dead, who was the top poster at the moment. I'll go ahead and post the day one votes.

ShadySands (5): SolarSail, thrawn2112, SolarSail, mkfuba07, Jhuyt, YourHarry, YourHarry
SolarSail (0): YourHarry
thrawn2112 (4): YourHarry ShadySands, Archrun, DarthPunk, Golbat
goodkarma (0): YourHarry
Jhuyt (2): goodkarma, Z-Boson
Archrun (2): Ochrow, Stutters695. Ochrow, YourHarry


Same argument you used. Look at that, everyone on ShadySands list must be quite the suspects of being scum. Because, "One reason scum would have for getting behind a candidate would be if one of their own also had strong support."

Except that he wasn't scum was he? This is because this argument is very weak. It only becomes suspicious when one target has a LOT of scumminess on him and a LOT of posts against him while the other looks so innocent and barely has anything substatial on him. This is not the case, because thrawn had a huge wall of text against him, not only the one you posted, but also the one that I did as well. DP also thought he was scum, and I will agree that the case against thrawn was fairly powerful.

DAY ONE should have been the time we should have lynched lurkers. DAY TWO, maybe. Not day 3, with a do or die scenario, against someone who, as Obvious pointed out, is clearly not giving a rat's ass about this game. This day will be the target with the greatest case against him.
I really don't like how quick it was for you to vote on golbat, and how quick some people seemed to sheep you.




Regarding YourHarry, you went from him possibly being your third suspect to him being your main suspect with this post:


On August 21 2012 17:59 goodkarma wrote:
Regarding YourHarry:

Sometimes the most obvious scum is the hardest to spot. YourHarry has a "meta" for sporadic and unpredictable play. But however strange, or different, or unpredictable his play is, if you were to look at the motivation behind his play, you can determine his alignment. With YourHarry, actions speak louder than words:

-First, YourHarry is fond of withholding information from us. YourHarry starts the game by making a weak WIFOM case on me, claiming if I'm not a mason I'm scum. He withholds his read on me for a long time until pressured to provide it, and while here maybe you could argue he had some justification, this is a recurring theme. Over and over again he's done this. With this "mason case," with vote swapping history, with providing reads on certain people (most recently, Golbat). This behavior is clearly anti-town. Obviously withholding information would be advantageous for scum as it could make it harder for others to get a good read on him. Could a townie also do this? Maybe, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.

-YourHarry is a fan of last-minute vote swapping. He has now twice last minute switched his vote to secure the mislynch of the top candidate. This behavior simply can't be ignored anymore. There is clear scum motivation here.

-The use of WIFOM first, actual use of reasoning when pressured later. He already did that today with Golbat. He started today with soft defending him, and then decides he will actually "read his filter." I'll say that again: only after defending Golbat with WIFOM does he decide it's a good idea to read his filter. Then, finally, he decides to actually present a case which is in fact against Golbat. In other words, he's demonstrated a lack of interest in actually contributing meaningfully to scumhunting.

-On top of this, today he has focused a large degree of effort on getting people to role claim. If my theory on scum's motive for the night kills is to be believed, YourHarry is trying to draw important town roles out of hiding as easy scum targets.

There's loads of scum motivation to be seen behind YourHarry's actions, and there are several cases that have already been made against him. Yet somehow he seems to have avoided getting lynched. My biggest issue with lynching him, and why he hasn't been higher on my "scum reads," has been that his play is consistently bad, and it would be easy to mislynch a town YourHarry. But if you look at his actions, they fit a scum agenda.

And finally there's the final vote count for day 2. I currently believe the Thrawn mislynch had heavy scum support. One reason scum would have for getting behind a candidate would be if one of their own also had strong support. If you look at the votes, and see where those who have established themselves as town have voted, I'm sure you'll agree the YourHarry lynch had some reputable town support behind it. And all of the current scum suspects are on the Thrawn mislynch.:

Directly from the official end of day 2 post (minus the blue text):
thrawn2112, as VisceraEyes, vigilante, was lynched!

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Final Vote Count:

Thrawn2112 (5): DarthPunk, Golbat, Solarsail, goodkarma, YourHarry, Z-BosoN, Obvious.660, Solarsail, YourHarry
Obvious.660 (1): goodkarma, thrawn2112, Solarsail
YourHarry (3): DarthPunk, Jhuyt, Stutters695
goodkarma (0): Obvious.660
Jhuyt (1): thrawn2112, YourHarry


YourHarry, right now you're my top scum read.


##Unvote

##Vote: YourHarry

I encourage everyone to put together their reads, as there's still time for you to express your viewpoints before we consolidate our vote in the last 24 hours of the day. And obviously supporting or dissenting case points towards this case would be much appreciated.


Your arguments are nothing new, it's what has been stated on YourHarry since the beggining of time. The only thing new that you add is that he is suspiciously wanting everyone to roleclaim. But why do you focus on him, and blatantly ignore DarthPunk's same remark:

On August 21 2012 13:49 DarthPunk wrote:
On August 21 2012 13:24 YourHarry wrote:
Good point on scums not having time to respond to your latest post. But there were common suspicions between Golbat and Jhyut that were posted hours before deadline:

Z-boson's suspect list went: me, Jhyut, Golbat
Darth's suspect list: Golbat, Jhyut, Solar
GK's suspect list: Golbat, Jhyut, Obvious

Maybe WIFOM. But to me, I still can't get my head around scum Golbat lynching town Jhyut, who seemed to be scum Golbat's only way out.

Regards to no lynching, the only caveat for choosing to lynch today rather than tomorrow is the medic save. But if we decide to go ahead with our lynch today, I think claiming today is a good idea. We NEED a scum lynch today. And everyone claiming would make that much easier.


Sorry I am kind of busy and am not following the thread right now. but I agree with a mass claim. we are at the stage of the game where we need as much info as possible because we cannot afford a mistake. I feel really out of my depth here, scum are either afk winning or playing really well.


The same guy in which you solemnly confided your trust in your "will":

(...)I have played with DarthPunk before, and I’ve seen his scum play. He has been 10 times more proactive than he was in that game about sharing scum reads and I am convinced he is legitimately searching for scum this time around. Add to that that he’s come independently to similar reads as myself, and I feel he is my strongest town read right now. So all of you get behind him as your leader and consolidate your vote under him. There is a small (note: slim) chance that he’s scum, but you’re going to have to live with that. To have a chance of winning town needs to consolidate its vote and this is the best way to do this. Come the next night, I leave it to Darthpunk to leave his successor in a will similar to this one should he also get NK’ed.


Also, you say these incredibly serious accusations:

(...)There's loads of scum motivation to be seen behind YourHarry's actions, and there are several cases that have already been made against him. Yet somehow he seems to have avoided getting lynched. My biggest issue with lynching him, and why he hasn't been higher on my "scum reads," has been that his play is consistently bad, and it would be easy to mislynch a town YourHarry. But if you look at his actions, they fit a scum agenda.


And you don't bother explaining what you mean. You just sheep around with the main case that has already been made, add something meaningless (if you want to give it meaning, please go ahead and attack DarthPunk as well), then hint at the most serious accusations you can possibly make and don't go ahead and explain what you mean.

I agree wholeheartedly that YourHarry is scum, you can go ahead and check that in my filter , but the way you write this and the arguments you use make me feel very suspicious that you may be scum as well. Now I see that the only reason I had lifted my suspicions of you were mainly WIFOM, but your latest actions have definitely raised my eyebrows. Right now is the easiest time for a scum to slip, because any small mistake now will not slip by so easily.

One more thing, you say that the night kills were not discussed in detail. Read my filter, if you will. Actually this night's night kills is what is giving me additional ammo on YH. That soon to come.

##FoS goodkarma


Also, here is Z-Boson's filter from that game: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=359489&user=28495

Notice there are a large number of big posts. Big posts with certain conclusions. All the time. Much as here.

What's missing in Z-Boson's play this game?

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On October 21 2012 22:46 Z-BosoN wrote:
On October 21 2012 13:13 DarthPunk wrote:
Also his defense each time is oh you must be scum and trying to trick me. Nothing townie about it. And your 'meta' read is bleh.

Haha, you don't say, eh DP?



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On October 22 2012 01:03 Z-BosoN wrote:
On October 22 2012 00:52 DarthPunk wrote:
Also ZB. Postgame I would like to go through how you make such accurate reads on me all the time. It get's frustrating as scum. (and also hilarious)

Oh-oh. This obviously-I'm-town post comes mostly from scum DP. Don't get so confident, I'm not dead sure on you yet!



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On October 22 2012 01:08 Z-BosoN wrote:
Sniped by austin. There we are, finally. Now waiting for the two days of unforgiving tunneling from him
Hello Keirathi! How goes your scum life?
Any thoughts you would like to trouble us with?


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On October 22 2012 03:53 Z-BosoN wrote:
k
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Well, you really think he is scum and should insta-die before he's even had a chance to defend himself? I'm uncomfortable sending him to his grave like this...
I'd like to know if you are scum. Think about it. It's the pro-town thing to do. If you are scum, it's pro-town because town will lynch a scum. If you are town, then it's pro-town that we don't have to kill you. Tell us


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On September 30 2012 13:32 Z-BosoN wrote:
Oh god.
Is there anyways I can mega-vote him?


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On September 30 2012 13:52 Z-BosoN wrote:
I think someone has some real issues.
Does liquid city have a psych ward?


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On October 02 2012 11:04 Z-BosoN wrote:
Omfg austin really loves me.
I'm just going to ignore you this time, I make an oath that your bad arguments will bother me no more.
You also seem a lot more scummy this game. At least on LVII your arguments made sense, from an ape's perspective.
Right now you just seem desperate.
I, Z-BosoN, solemnly swear, to never defend myself from austin's scrutiny ever again.


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On October 22 2012 05:24 Z-BosoN wrote:
Austin, holy shit.
For the first time ever, I've successfully agreed with every single thing in your post, every single thing.
/applauds

Due to recent events though, Hapa is coming off pretty suspicious to me.


This is a selection of quotes from GSL3 and Liquid City. I paste them all here to demonstrate Z-Boson's ability, and indeed propensity, to throw in light-hearted comments. He's not all serious all the time.

Look at his filter here. Can you find that? At all? No, not really. It's completely absent. Arguably, this is it:

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On November 13 2012 09:41 Z-BosoN wrote:

Regarding DarthPunk, don't worry, if he's scum, I'll figure it out


Right at the beginning. I find his attitude towards DP... not townie. There's a lack of interaction from Z-Bo towards DarthPunk that I wouldn't expect from townie Z-Bo.

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On November 13 2012 11:20 Z-BosoN wrote:
DP, that's the second time you've voted for him without saying why.
This won't do.


It goes from the above, to:

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On November 15 2012 05:16 Z-BosoN wrote:
Why not DarthPunk?
He hasn't posted much. I find him a good lynch, nevertheless. He is referring himself as a mislynch, YET AGAIN. And I've already told him he loves doing that as scum. I have no idea why he's doing it, but I'm not going to use that as a tell. I don't like how bitchy he is being, focusing most of his time in crying and whining instead of scumhunting. I'm interested to see how he goes in day two though.



He finds him a 'good lynch', but he makes it clear that he's not using the referring to self as mislynch thing as scum. Is it that he's bitchy? Is that a scumtell? Who knows. He's "interested" to see how he goes in Day 2 though. The wording is just... ick.

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On November 15 2012 08:21 Z-BosoN wrote:
Had some internet problems.. Luckily it was on control C. In reply to marvs other post:




On November 15 2012 06:14 marvellosity wrote:
On November 15 2012 06:13 Z-BosoN wrote:
On November 15 2012 06:06 marvellosity wrote:
On November 15 2012 05:16 Z-BosoN wrote:

Why not DarthPunk?
He hasn't posted much. I find him a good lynch, nevertheless. He is referring himself as a mislynch, YET AGAIN. And I've already told him he loves doing that as scum. I have no idea why he's doing it, but I'm not going to use that as a tell. I don't like how bitchy he is being, focusing most of his time in crying and whining instead of scumhunting. I'm interested to see how he goes in day two though.



i hate this. what's your read on him and why?


He can definitely be scum. The reasoning is above. I'd rather lynch Hopeless. Perhaps instead of "Why not DP?" just read "DP" and interpret that as a secondary assessment.
I'd rather lynch Hopeless though, my post says it all.
I find it interesting how you hated my bit on DP, instead of my bit on debears, your main lynch candidate. Is there anything else you want to add while you are at it? Do you agree with what I said?


I'm finding you kinda scummy all of a sudden actually.

"He can definitely be scum" is not a read, by the way. Anyone can definitely be scum.


Isn't it fucking obvious that I mean that to me he has a good chance of being scum, especially given what I've written on him?
10x better than your "I'm finding you kinda scummy" which adds shit to the thread.
If Hopeless is a 10, DP is a 7, go with that.
Try answering the question now? I phrased it very clearly and I find it important enough that I insist.




Anyways, Hopeless´s meta explanation makes sense, and that was my main issue with him. Right now I´d rather lynch DarthPunk. Gonna let marv finish to see if he will/will not change my mind.

##Unvote


There's weird things going on in this post. "If hopeless is a 10" to "his meta explanation makes sense".

Generally, given Z-Bo's intimate familiarity with DP's play and his meta, there seems to be no discernable effort to make any read on him on that basis. Z-Boson is calling DarthPunk scum right now, but there's no supporting evidence of games previously played. I don't buy it.

Also I bolded that other line where he says I should answer just because I find the wording completely unnatural. "I find it important enough that I insist".



None of this play looks like Z-Boson's town play.

When he is townie, he is very indecisive about who he wants to lynch. Just look at his filter in GSL3 or Liquid city. Liquid City his vote jumped around more times than I can count and with great uncertainty, and even his final vote he still seemed clueless. And in GSL3 he agonised for days on everyone before finally voting for someone.

Here there is no... communication with town, trying to figure things out properly. It's BAM, BlazingHand is scum. He pursues BlazingHand - and make no mistake, he can pursue very well as scum, check the filter I gave you. Then when BH is off the table, he comes back today with BAM, Hopeless is scum.

As quoted there's the absence of Z-bo interacting in a lighthearted manner with town that I am familiar with. His filter is short, with long posts, rather than longer, with lots of short posts figuring things out.

##Vote: Z-Boson


Therefore, I am switching my vote from bh who i still think is scummy, but isn't going to get lynched today, to zboson.

##Vote Z-boson



That's probably the safest route for scum. Why go ahead and dip yourself amongst a complete clusterfuck of people trying to figure shit out, when you can just sheep marv, gtfo, and feel all safe? He indicates he was present later on, when he says.

On November 15 2012 11:15 Crossfire99 wrote:
Wow. Good job everyone who voted for him. I think that is first time I've ever seen a last minute vote switch work. I always thought they never worked. Good job. Time to go read his filter.


So yea, I'd be safest with lynching him tomorrow.



thrawn seems waaaaaay off his meta. He's made some long posts, trying to be all open and shit, but that doesn't give me a town read of him. Thrawn is usually much more investigative, and much more present as town. (See marv, I think this applies much better to thrawn than on me). I have to go soon, but I'll read him better when I get back.

Strongandbig is trying hard to be a grush57. That's pretty much it. Can't conclude shit from reading his filter. He's evidently aware of his meta as scum, and could very well be trying to do the opposite here, but imo he's beign completely useless.

marvellosity I still have to read his filter better. I didn't like the fact that he completely ignored my defense and asked me why I seemed so sure of everything, something he really didn't include in his original case. Don't want to lynch him day2 though. If he's scum, he's trying a loooot harder than on GSL.



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On November 14 2012 05:14 Z-BosoN wrote:
On iamp
I hated the reason for which he voted on me, but I share marv's stance on how he's drawing out unnecessary attention. The only thing that actually bugs me is his interaction with BH. As a townie, if I agree with someone, the last thing I would be thinking is:

On November 14 2012 01:02 iamperfection wrote:
On November 14 2012 01:00 marvellosity wrote:
Rock Band or Whose Line are recent town games of his.

do you know any of his scum games? the search function isn't helping me find all his games.


What debears mentions is his radical switch from >>Hunting BH<< to >>Agreeing with BH<<.
Except that this post I quoted is immediately after his vote on me. Here, he still shows interest in finding out if BH is scum, someone he had just agreed with. That being said, he is being incredibly flip-floppy, which I'm finding extremely weird.

I don't think this is enough to peg him as scum though, I can imagine him as town being suspicious of everyone.
I find BH's play to be much, much more appaling. I have only played one game with him, so I'm not super aware of his meta, but it is totally different than his Liquid City one. Here he has made one major case, a weak one at that, and established an unusally high amount of certainty on it, calling it "a masterpiece".




That being said, right now I'm interested in debears, Crossfire, and thrawn.
Crossfire is rather obvious, he's not posted and is heading off towards a modkill/replacement. I'm not considering him a lynch choice until he actually decides to post.

Thrawn, however, is unusually inactive. I remember him as townie being much, much more active than this. He's actually managed to make one entrance post: [ http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=381440&currentpage=19#361 ].
Shows some suspicions, ask some questions, and is gone like the wind.

debears has also raised my eyebrows in this start of the game. He's been extremely fluffy in the beggining, and no matter what his meta is, that's not pro-town. Also, I don't like the feel of his case against iamp. He's establishing himself on some of hapa's arguments, but does not deal with this:

On November 14 2012 02:53 marvellosity wrote:
I don't understand why it's scum play.

1. Believes miller claim
2. Later decides he's scummy

The scum motivation is what? He wanted a case to jump on? Is that it?


Which to me feels like a natural step in accusing iamp of being scum. The most he's said is that he didn't agree with it, and I don't find that satisfactory at all given that he is pursuing a scumread. The only argument he added was "guilty conscience", to which I find very weak, as I don't find any motive for iamp to pursue something he doesn't think is strong.

Anyways, had debears actually voted based on that, I would have been much more suspicious. Right now he just has my eyebrows raised.




@debears
I'd like you to expand a bit more on your read of iamp.
1) I get that you think he has bad reasoning for his switch. Why does this make him scummy? Bad reasoning =/= scummy unless it has scum motivation. What is the scum motivation of his actions?
2) Here you try to make this contrast:
1) He cares about how the town is viewing him
2) He doesn't believe his reasoning is that great for his vote
-note the "well I think his actions speak louder". It's a weak statement. Not a strong one, (a strong one) which should be warranted when you change your read from town to scum in literally no time

I've mentioned this above, but I'd like you to answer it. Why would scum iamp establish a vote for which he himself believes is not based on good reasoning? I don't understand why you are finding this scummy.
Interpret this as: me not buying it.


Now tell me that this is Town ZB and not scum ZB.


Yea, guess I do post lists as scum. But oh, wait!!! Check this out. From GSL:

On October 15 2012 13:00 Z-BosoN wrote:
allright guys, in case I die:

I'm pretty confident that sloosh/DP is scum. Lynch them.
If VE survives tonight, he's scum. Lynch him after sloosh. (see the interaction that begins here). His scumhunting is in no way legit.

Shiaopi has a high chance of being scum.

iamperfection/risk.nuke seem townie, but I haven't read their filters carefully at all. Be weary of them.
Kreb is prob town.
Coag is prob town.
Keir is pretty much town.




A list right? What, now you are gonna say that they are different? Well, where are my red and green colors saying what are the town possibilities and the scum possibilities then?

That's because this argument is stupid. I also use the word "and" as scum... and? That's just bad reasoning.

DP has the mind of a guinea pig and sees everything in a way that confirms his suspicions. My last-minute case on Hapa couldn't have POSSIBLY been an actual read. It, of course, was a WIFOM bomb. Thus, scum. My case is entirely based on meta. That's what's going on with these kinds of posts.

On November 17 2012 10:43 DarthPunk wrote:
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On November 17 2012 10:39 Blazinghand wrote:
I'm feeling more confident in ZB though. This isn't town ZB.


I agree. He felt off all game. And his Death post was a blatant WIFOM bomb if I have ever seen one.

##Vote: Z - Boson


DP is under massive, MASSIVE confirmation bias. This right here proves it:

On November 17 2012 15:13 DarthPunk wrote:
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On November 17 2012 15:09 Djodref wrote:
On November 17 2012 15:07 DarthPunk wrote:
On November 17 2012 15:06 Djodref wrote:
On November 17 2012 15:02 DarthPunk wrote:
We are not lynching BH until MAYBE after ZB DJO Clarity S&B are all dead. Continuing on that tangent is anti town.


He has already 2 votes and debears has voted him during the exchange between S&B and BH. I'm going to push his lynch because you are wrong and I think I'm right. I don't care if I die in the process because we can afford some mislynch and you are going to understand that all my cases were genuine when I flip.


Do you not understand that you are almost certainly lynching a blue?


Does he behave like town ? No.
As I've explained, there is only 40% chances for us to have a jailkeeper. It's far from being almost certain that he is indeed jailkeeper.


ZB is far far scummier than anyone else right now. He claimed miller. Usually that should be enough to lynch him right there. He very likely tried to WIFOM around scum HAPA in order to make him look good if ZB flipped red. The meta is fucking damning on top of it all.

Lynching a Blue claim is newb play and is fucking stupid. You are being fucking stupid and anti town for pursuing this.



Yea, that's why he was so insistent on lynching me as soon as I claimed. Of course he's been feeling like that this whole game. Please...




If anyone else doubts that all the major and main points on me are meta, and that's why they want to lynch me, then just read:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=381440&currentpage=113#2259
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=381440&currentpage=114#2280
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=381440&currentpage=114#2278
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=381440&currentpage=115#2285
www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=381440&currentpage=115#2287

My reaction towards my own lynch was legit. Marv showed doubt when confronted to that. So did DP:

On November 16 2012 02:51 marvellosity wrote:
Hey Bo-man.

Really unsure on Hopeless atm. My note against him says

"Could be either. ick. useless lurky. feels town. now not so sure. torn."

I've also uncoloured you orange for now.



On November 16 2012 10:44 marvellosity wrote:
My reads:

iamperfection - totes town. he just is. not saying any more, he's town.

darthpunk - town, didn't think he was scum all day and then came out really good around lynch time.

clarity - town, for some reason i don't feel as strongly about this as i did, but still feel it pretty strongly. way more involved n shit than when he played scum.

debears - town. would have been null but i find it impossible to believe the way day 1 went down that he's scum. gotta be town.

Kickstart - I think he's town. I said why earlier in the night phase. I quite like his posting, and he was really involved and invested around lynch time, and he voted hapa. should be town.

Now there's a more greyish area:

strongandbig - meta suggests that he's town. but... at the end of the last game i told him specifically what made him look like scum, and I think he's a good enough player to be able to change it up. I'd be more solidly town on him except he's been more useless than i expected. and usually s&b is useful as town. So I dunno. If I was nudged I'd say town, but i'm not uber convinced.

Z-Boson - argggg. his meta is SO FAR OFF, even with his explanation. he DOES buy points though in that he basically preempted my case. Plus, he claimed miller. Now that's not a definite tell in itself, but he did it before everyone had posted and it's really risky, because if a real miller existed, then statistically it's enormously unlikely there are two millers. It just seems unnecessary. If pushed, again I would say town.

thrawn - it's getting trickier here. so fucking lurky. There are a couple of things I consider here. Look at Acme that just finished. Like, everyone is ssaying "i expect more from thrawn as town". But thrawn definitely looked in that game like he'd lost a lot of his va-va-voom. he looked really flat. just like he's playing in this game. In addition to this, his case on DP read as genuine. I know that he totally believes in the meta read that he set forth in his case, which made it sincere. He was using a sincere townie meta argument in his argument on DP, which I liked. I think for whatever reason thrawn is bored or unmotivated, but I think he's town.

Hopeless - i'm all-a flipfloppy on hopeless. I don't like at all how Hapa basically brushed off talking about Hopeless, even though he was quite clearly a major contender for a large portion of the 2nd half of the day. "he lurks as either alignment" is all hapa had to say about it. really weak, tellingly weak even. On the other hand, at some points I've kinda gotten a townie feel from his play. But it isn't a strong gut feeling at all. in other parts he's been fairly non-contributory. If I had to choose, I'd say scum.

Crossfire - lurky AND scummy. Clarity - it's a big mistake too many players make going "oh, he's a lurker, it's so coinflippy". That's a weak viewpoint to take. I talked earlier in the phase why I thought he was scum. He's lurking which is bad in itself, but also he's totally uninvested in the game. I haven't seen a single post of his that shows he gives a shit. I looked at his play in Whose Line where he was town, and he gave many shits. He was involved, he posted quite a lot, he was down with what town was doing, he was mucking in. Even if he is having internet issues or whatever, his posts while he are here do not show any of that mentality. absolutely the strongest lynch in my opinion.

BH - fskfsdkfjsdklfjdklsfjsdklfjklsdfjsdkljfdklsjfdklsjfsdvdfvnxkvsnsdfnsdkjfhdjsvnjksdnvjknksdbnvjksdnvjksdnvksdnvsdkvnsdjkvnjksdnvklzsnvxsknvzkjvnksdvgiojfglkjgdjknbkdjfnbdklsfngkdjngjkdgnjkdfngkljdfngkdnfgkljdngjkdfngkjndgjkldnfjkgndklgndfjkgndjkfgndksjfngkdfjlgndfjkngkdfjngkdnsfgkdfjlnsgkljsdngdjnfgnldfkjgsdn.


On November 16 2012 13:55 DarthPunk wrote:
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On November 16 2012 13:47 Z-BosoN wrote:
DP, I know it's your wet dream to catch me as scum. But look at what you are suggesting.

1. I risked claiming miller and thus a potential counter-claim.
2. I pursued BH to the point he had to claim because I made good arguments, because scum are very insistent like that.
3. On my dying post, I told everyone to lynch hapahauli in day 2, you know, because I'm a scum who wants to help town. Then, in the night, I said crossfire, my other teammate, was the best lynch for today.
4. Hapahauli tried very very hard to defend his scum mate, even wanting to open up skype chat logs. Because that's what scum do right? Openly try to save their buddies.
5. I expected that town would sway from lynching me, someone with a marv case on him, to hapahauli, who hadn't been under any real threat at all in the game, with less than 10 min to go when I made this post:

+ Show Spoiler +
On November 15 2012 10:55 Z-BosoN wrote:
LYNCH HAPAHAULI.

LYNCH BLAZINGHAND. when he is alive day 3.

marv, hope you learn you are not the fucking god of mafia, and see that meta reads are only worth it if it isn't fucking obvious stylistic proven logical and pre-claimed reasons.



Just so I'd come out looking good.

All this makes perfect sense because... of meta. That's it. Not a single thing all game, just... meta.

And even in that regard, I've extensively covered that. Hapa felt like he needed to help, because it's something that I'd discussed with him and he would look bad if he didn't say anything about it. I even mentioned this before marv's case on me (I got sniped, but time difference should confirm I couldn't have possibly written all that in such little time.) so that means I'm self-aware of this meta thing, and decided to play like that anyway.

Sniped post:
+ Show Spoiler +
On November 15 2012 09:01 Z-BosoN wrote:
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On November 15 2012 08:47 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 08:34 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 08:30 Z-BosoN wrote:
Sigh... please make it easy to respond to. I´m not scum and I´m pretty fed-up with having to defend myself every single game being town.


"wahh i'm pretty fed up with having to play forum mafia whenever i play forum mafia"


For what it's worth this is like the scummiest thing ZB has done this game


It's cause you don't know the context. My main problem as town is that people think I'm scum every. single. time. Every past game I've played on, I've been receiving shit based on misinterpretations, things I've said that were confusing, and mismatched other things I have said. I got VERY frustrated because I was playing mafia and I spent like 70% trying to not get lynched instead of scumhunting.

So I've decided to change my playing style a bit, so the general populace stops twisting my unclear words. Hapa pretty much nailed it, as it was a topic I've discussed with him quite a lot:

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On November 15 2012 08:32 Hapahauli wrote:
Uhhh Z-Boson huh? That's interesting. He kinda peaced out of the thread after dropping his Hopeless case.

Off the top of my head he is usually a bit more active in his town games and was a tad lurky in his scum game (can't draw conclusions from that though). I generally think his posts have been fewer in number but higher in quality. I'm inclined to think it's a stylistic change and not scummy given some of my previous conversations with him.


And now I've been trying hard to read more, post less, but with more clarity and quality. And that apparently led marv to have a meta read on me, for "tone", despite me trying pretty hard to get shit right. That pretty much explains my QQ - no matter how hard I try, I'm found as scum every single fucking bitchass time, and this time even marv found it so.

/rant

Anyways, bring it on marv you slut.



Reread please: + Show Spoiler +
On November 15 2012 09:37 Z-BosoN wrote:
Yea, so it's pretty much what I expected and actually said in my sniped post. Responses in red.

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On November 15 2012 08:58 marvellosity wrote:
Z-Boson

Metarelated stuff. Let's a gogo. First of all, here's a sample post from him playing scum in Newbie XXIV. You'll have to excuse the length, but the point is it's length and effort.

(quote)

Also, here is Z-Boson's filter from that game: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=359489&user=28495

I was try-hard at the time, that was my first newbie game. That was a pretty tough way to play, so I abandoned it in favor of a more posty style (pretty much mimicking you).


Notice there are a large number of big posts. Big posts with certain conclusions
. All the time. Much as here.

What's missing in Z-Boson's play this game?

On October 21 2012 22:46 Z-BosoN wrote:
On October 21 2012 13:13 DarthPunk wrote:
Also his defense each time is oh you must be scum and trying to trick me. Nothing townie about it. And your 'meta' read is bleh.

Haha, you don't say, eh DP?



On October 22 2012 01:03 Z-BosoN wrote:
On October 22 2012 00:52 DarthPunk wrote:
Also ZB. Postgame I would like to go through how you make such accurate reads on me all the time. It get's frustrating as scum. (and also hilarious)

Oh-oh. This obviously-I'm-town post comes mostly from scum DP. Don't get so confident, I'm not dead sure on you yet!



On October 22 2012 01:08 Z-BosoN wrote:
Sniped by austin. There we are, finally. Now waiting for the two days of unforgiving tunneling from him
Hello Keirathi! How goes your scum life?
Any thoughts you would like to trouble us with?


On October 22 2012 03:53 Z-BosoN wrote:
k
k
Well, you really think he is scum and should insta-die before he's even had a chance to defend himself? I'm uncomfortable sending him to his grave like this...
I'd like to know if you are scum. Think about it. It's the pro-town thing to do. If you are scum, it's pro-town because town will lynch a scum. If you are town, then it's pro-town that we don't have to kill you. Tell us


On September 30 2012 13:32 Z-BosoN wrote:
Oh god.
Is there anyways I can mega-vote him?


On September 30 2012 13:52 Z-BosoN wrote:
I think someone has some real issues.
Does liquid city have a psych ward?


On October 02 2012 11:04 Z-BosoN wrote:
Omfg austin really loves me.
I'm just going to ignore you this time, I make an oath that your bad arguments will bother me no more.
You also seem a lot more scummy this game. At least on LVII your arguments made sense, from an ape's perspective.
Right now you just seem desperate.
I, Z-BosoN, solemnly swear, to never defend myself from austin's scrutiny ever again.


On October 22 2012 05:24 Z-BosoN wrote:
Austin, holy shit.
For the first time ever, I've successfully agreed with every single thing in your post, every single thing.
/applauds

Due to recent events though, Hapa is coming off pretty suspicious to me.


This is a selection of quotes from GSL3 and Liquid City. I paste them all here to demonstrate Z-Boson's ability, and indeed propensity, to throw in light-hearted comments. He's not all serious all the time.

Except that that style of play is exactly why people threw shit at me all the time. Every single godamn game someone would take something I said, compare it with something else I've said that is inconsistent, and use it to justify me being scum. These light-hearted posts were the reason I spent more time defending myself than actually scumhunting

Look at his filter here. Can you find that? At all? No, not really. It's completely absent. Arguably, this is it:

On November 13 2012 09:41 Z-BosoN wrote:

Regarding DarthPunk, don't worry, if he's scum, I'll figure it out


Right at the beginning. I find his attitude towards DP... not townie. There's a lack of interaction from Z-Bo towards DarthPunk that I wouldn't expect from townie Z-Bo.

It's a jest, as I'm usually correct about DP's alignment.

On November 13 2012 11:20 Z-BosoN wrote:
DP, that's the second time you've voted for him without saying why.
This won't do.


It goes from the above, to:

On November 15 2012 05:16 Z-BosoN wrote:
Why not DarthPunk?
He hasn't posted much. I find him a good lynch, nevertheless. He is referring himself as a mislynch, YET AGAIN. And I've already told him he loves doing that as scum. I have no idea why he's doing it, but I'm not going to use that as a tell. I don't like how bitchy he is being, focusing most of his time in crying and whining instead of scumhunting. I'm interested to see how he goes in day two though.




He finds him a 'good lynch', but he makes it clear that he's not using the referring to self as mislynch thing as scum. Is it that he's bitchy? Is that a scumtell? Who knows. He's "interested" to see how he goes in Day 2 though. The wording is just... ick.

I've done this "Why not xxx" in an attempt to organize town and consolidate on a lynch (kind of the opposite of what you are doing). That kind of wording problem is what I have to pay more attention to. To be honest, I just wanted to say that DP is scummy, but I'm not gonna use my " DP scum-o-meter" yet, as I don't yet have a solid read on him (due to the low amount of posts he has). I didn't spend much time on him because I was more focused on Hopeless.

On November 15 2012 08:21 Z-BosoN wrote:
Had some internet problems.. Luckily it was on control C. In reply to marvs other post:




On November 15 2012 06:14 marvellosity wrote:
On November 15 2012 06:13 Z-BosoN wrote:
On November 15 2012 06:06 marvellosity wrote:
On November 15 2012 05:16 Z-BosoN wrote:

Why not DarthPunk?
He hasn't posted much. I find him a good lynch, nevertheless. He is referring himself as a mislynch, YET AGAIN. And I've already told him he loves doing that as scum. I have no idea why he's doing it, but I'm not going to use that as a tell. I don't like how bitchy he is being, focusing most of his time in crying and whining instead of scumhunting. I'm interested to see how he goes in day two though.



i hate this. what's your read on him and why?


He can definitely be scum. The reasoning is above. I'd rather lynch Hopeless. Perhaps instead of "Why not DP?" just read "DP" and interpret that as a secondary assessment.
I'd rather lynch Hopeless though, my post says it all.
I find it interesting how you hated my bit on DP, instead of my bit on debears, your main lynch candidate. Is there anything else you want to add while you are at it? Do you agree with what I said?


I'm finding you kinda scummy all of a sudden actually.

"He can definitely be scum" is not a read, by the way. Anyone can definitely be scum.


Isn't it fucking obvious that I mean that to me he has a good chance of being scum, especially given what I've written on him?
10x better than your "I'm finding you kinda scummy" which adds shit to the thread.
If Hopeless is a 10, DP is a 7, go with that.
Try answering the question now? I phrased it very clearly and I find it important enough that I insist.




Anyways, Hopeless´s meta explanation makes sense, and that was my main issue with him. Right now I´d rather lynch DarthPunk. Gonna let marv finish to see if he will/will not change my mind.

##Unvote


There's weird things going on in this post. "If hopeless is a 10" to "his meta explanation makes sense".

He defended himself using context, and I agreed with it, these two games are on extremely differnet circumstances. Hopeless then posted his reads which were pretty reasonable and I decided my meta case was not so strong.

Generally, given Z-Bo's intimate familiarity with DP's play and his meta, there seems to be no discernable effort to make any read on him on that basis. Z-Boson is calling DarthPunk scum right now, but there's no supporting evidence of games previously played. I don't buy it.

I didn't choose yet to make an effort on him, because I didn't want to lynch him yet, because he has way too few posts for me to do that. I was gonna attempt to make a case on him right now, due to my change of heart on hopeless, and will do so if I see that I'll be all right (logic here is. If me town dies, then 100% town will come out losing. If me town lives, the % chance of town coming ou losing is the % chance I'm wrong)

Also I bolded that other line where he says I should answer just because I find the wording completely unnatural. "I find it important enough that I insist".

I find it important that you questioned my assessment on DP, and not debears, your top scum read. That led me to believe you agreed with my assessment on debears, and was going to be important for me to completely decided whether or not I would stick to my not wanting to lynch debears agenda. Dunno what you understood from that.



None of this play looks like Z-Boson's town play.

When he is townie, he is very indecisive about who he wants to lynch. Just look at his filter in GSL3 or Liquid city. Liquid City his vote jumped around more times than I can count and with great uncertainty, and even his final vote he still seemed clueless. And in GSL3 he agonised for days on everyone before finally voting for someone.

Here there is no... communication with town, trying to figure things out properly. It's BAM, BlazingHand is scum. He pursues BlazingHand - and make no mistake, he can pursue very well as scum, check the filter I gave you. Then when BH is off the table, he comes back today with BAM, Hopeless is scum.

As quoted there's the absence of Z-bo interacting in a lighthearted manner with town that I am familiar with. His filter is short, with long posts, rather than longer, with lots of short posts figuring things out.

##Vote: Z-Boson


So yea, basically it sums up to the change in my style I've talked about. You're gonna have to accept that the way I was playing before was a detriment to my gameplay, and made me frustrated, because too much of my time was wasted defending myself (which takes A LOT more time than scumhunting, for me). I tried doing that in GSL: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=376602&currentpage=4#73
but failed miserably. What happened? Hapa picked up on some inconsistent stuff I said lightheartedly and BAM, huge clusterfuck of back-and-forths based on something that could easily have been avoided should I have been less posty.

Also, a bit of WIFOM. I remember my scum game, and I looked at the feedback from the obs qt. This part of my meta I'm completely aware of, so why would I not choose to replicate is as scum?

Basically, you are gonna have to decide whether: A) I, ask scum, didn't realize that me as townie posts a lot more and a lot more lightheartedly and posted in my natural scummy way here.
B) I, as town, actually did attempt execute the change of style I extensively talked to hapa about, in a way that makes sense (as you yourself have seen from my past town games), and in a way that's actually better, and more like it's said in XXX analysis (which I reread at times of frustration).

So, please analyze the actual content and the actual effort Im putting in this game (note my pushing of BH, it shows extensive signs of reading and carefulness in my wording and logic... such in a way that you agreed with it) instead of this "he's posting less!!!" argument.
Also, I have much less time to play now, exam weeks coming up ahead, and am trying to make the most of it.

Yep. Z-BosoN = townie.




It's there, it makes sense, and you should pause and think about how silly would it be for me to be scum. Like, I'm a mega-bussing fakeclaiming scum who was extensively defended by his scumbuddy (hapa, at that.), and then was bussed by him as soon as I said he was scum?

0 sense. Turn conspiracy theory goggles off for one second and you'll see reason, I guarantee it.


Ugh fine. But It's not my wet dream to catch you as scum I have done it before. But I agree it would be incredibly stupid for you to play as you have as scum.

I don't want to lynch S&B though. so I am going to have to go through filters when I have access to my PC. Can't do it on a phone.

I am also going to read clarities last game.





@Hopeless

Don't sheep.Just look at who you are sheeping. Why do you think I'm scum? Strongest argument you have. Go.


Djodref
Profile Joined September 2012
France3332 Posts
November 17 2012 13:40 GMT
#2348
Just to give you guys a heads up, I'm going out tonight. I plan on getting really drunk but I'll do my best to wake up for the lynch tomorrow !
strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 14:21 GMT
#2349
On November 17 2012 15:02 DarthPunk wrote:
We are not lynching BH until MAYBE after ZB DJO Clarity S&B are all dead. Continuing on that tangent is anti town.


this is stupid. Trying to persuade people that your top scum read is scum is never anti town. It's only anti town if you use it as a way to hide from actual contribution or engagement with the other people in the thread. But pushing your top scum read is, like, exactly what townies are supposed to do.
"It's the torso" "only more so!"
strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 14:28 GMT
#2350
On November 17 2012 15:07 DarthPunk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2012 15:06 Djodref wrote:
On November 17 2012 15:02 DarthPunk wrote:
We are not lynching BH until MAYBE after ZB DJO Clarity S&B are all dead. Continuing on that tangent is anti town.


He has already 2 votes and debears has voted him during the exchange between S&B and BH. I'm going to push his lynch because you are wrong and I think I'm right. I don't care if I die in the process because we can afford some mislynch and you are going to understand that all my cases were genuine when I flip.


Do you not understand that you are almost certainly lynching a blue?



DP think for a minute.
BH claimed that he was roleblocked. The scum roleblocker hasn't flipped. Therefore, the last scum has to be a roleblocker for BH to be telling the truth. That means that at best BH is a vanilla townie now.

But please, let's actually talk about this for a minute. Why do you believe BH? And please don't tell me that it's "because his claim doesn't make sense for scum." I've already made it clear why I don't agree with that - for one thing, it makes less sense for town in my opinion, and for another thing I think that BH is the kind of player who is likely to fakeclaim blue as scum or SK. I also think that BH's behavior doesn't demonstrate a town mindset or attitude.

And don't tell me it's because of "setup speculation" or that "not enough blues have claimed" - the setup isn't open, so we don't know how many blues there are. We don't even know what modifications Keirathi may have made to the mafiascum/mafiawiki C9++ probability tables. There's also a good chance that one or more blues may just not have claimed yet because it isn't yet the best time for them to do so. This is not a sufficient reason for you to be so sure about BH's claim.

So please, tell me - what in BH's behavior makes you so sure he's telling the truth?
"It's the torso" "only more so!"
strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 14:30 GMT
#2351
oh actually this is worth a try

In the OP, a few specific modifications to the C9++ setup are listed - namely, doctor->JK, IC->miller, all vigs are single shot, no other single shot powers. Are these the only modifications to the C9++ setup, or have you also modified the probabilities of different setups like WBG does in his normal minis?
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Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
November 17 2012 14:36 GMT
#2352
Strongandbig what kind of reads do you have currently? Since you didn't post any in the final hour of N1, perhaps you could now?
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strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 14:42 GMT
#2353
On November 17 2012 15:28 Blazinghand wrote:
lol equating jk claim with miller claim

what a guy


Actually, these two claims are exactly identical right now in nearly every respect
  • both have no night actions
  • both are unconfirmable
  • As yet we have no setup information which makes one more likely than the other


There are only two differences -
(1) ZB claimed exactly when and how a town miller should have claimed, and your claim made no sense from a town perspective
(2) ZB can't be confirmed by a DT check.

So yeah I see those as pretty equivalent.
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Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
November 17 2012 14:46 GMT
#2354
Except for the fact that if BH is a JK then the scum roleblocker HAS to roleblock him.
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strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 14:59 GMT
#2355
On November 17 2012 23:36 Clarity_nl wrote:
Strongandbig what kind of reads do you have currently? Since you didn't post any in the final hour of N1, perhaps you could now?


Yeah so here's what I'm going to do now - I'm going to read the cases on ZB, and his defenses, and peoples' reactions to them, and tell you what I think of that stuff. I think that's the second highest priority for me right now after trying to convince people that BH is scum.

BTW clarity, let's talk about a couple of things regarding your conviction that I'm scum.

(1) Part of your case was that I was lying about playing dota at deadline. Now that I've provided proof that I was not lying, does that part change?

(2) You commented on the first part of my defense, which I think of as the "answers to general arguments for me being scum." However, you haven't commented on the second part of my defense, the "explanation of my filter." There were several things in there that I think were important in terms of responding to the arguments you make in your case. I would like you to tell me what you think of the following points I make:
  • Do you think I am lying in my explanation of the "accidental VT claim"? If so, what don't you believe?
  • What do you think about my explanation of the substance behind the Kenpachi rule? (a) Do you agree that there is a substantial argument to be made there? (b) Do you believe me when I say that to me, it's a real scumhunting technique? Does that make you reconsider anything about my filter?
  • All in all - do you believe or disbelieve my argument that "even though I didn't put any effort into the form of my posts, there was a higher level of involvement with the thread going on than the form of the posts would indicate?
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strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 15:05 GMT
#2356
On November 17 2012 23:46 Clarity_nl wrote:
Except for the fact that if BH is a JK then the scum roleblocker HAS to roleblock him.


I guess that's true but I don't really see how that matters unless we have a second claimed blue role. Unless there's a terrible too-obvious breadcrumb, seven or eight townies should be much better at figuring out the last scum than that scum (by themselves or in the unlikely event that there's two scum left) should be at figuring out any fourth blue role we have that's still useful.
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strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 15:08 GMT
#2357
Just wanted to remind everyone of this:
On November 15 2012 01:10 marvellosity wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 00:48 Blazinghand wrote:
here via phone. anyo e votibg me needs to explain how my play this game is diferent than Storm Mafja or similar to any of the scum games ive played especially since a nontrivial component of the case is meat. no getting off voting me on meta wkfbojt at least doing your HW and staking out a position you can be held to. Ill be back in a few hours prk ably to vote one of these guys trying to opt out of the discussion by voti g me or more likely to call tbem Bad and develep DP case or talk Bout hopeless 1 meat


Take more time on your phone, man.

Anyway, I'll bite.

First things first: you are a clever dude. You are also aware of your scum meta, and we've talked about it before too. As such you're capable of making changes to your meta, or trying to. In other words, being more aggressive and what have you.

Things that have struck me this game with that:

- You called iamp "bad" at least a couple of times. Just outright calling him a bad player. This is in contrast to say Rock Band where you railed at him for poor play and you kept pushing him to play better. Here you call him bad and that's different.

- You called Kickstart "scum or bad", he should be "ignored", he should be "removed from our discourse" (or whatever the direct quote was). The townie BH I know does not completely belittle players like this. This boils down to pretty much outright bullying of a brand new player, and that is not the townie BH I know.

- we've also talked about this before again, but one reason you're pretty good as town is that you make yourself look positively townie with your play. I don't give a shit if you got mislynched once, that's how you normally play town. Here your play is marked by put downs, sarcastic remarks, and very little positive input.

- your case on Z-Boson. This was going to be part of my 'quiz', but if we take a look at your two most recent town-games, Rock Band and Whose Line, your first cases are marked by extensive use of meta. X is scummy because of Y, and look at how he played in this game and this game and this game to try to prove your argument. In this game you made no effort to research Z-Boson's meta, and that's not what I expect of a town BH. In contrast, your first major case as SK in Emergency Mafia also failed to utilise any meta as a supporting argument. Same with Bureaucracy.

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strongandbig
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4858 Posts
November 17 2012 15:14 GMT
#2358
On November 15 2012 21:47 Clarity_nl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 10:52 Blazinghand wrote:
I still don't like Hapa at all. He seems way too straight-laced for his normal town play. Anyone want to lynch him?

Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 10:53 Blazinghand wrote:
I'm like not really serious about lynching hapa, btw, we shouldn't be switching this close to the deadline

Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 10:53 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:53 debears wrote:
Save Hapa for d2 BH


yeah basically this

Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 10:55 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:54 iamperfection wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:53 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:53 debears wrote:
Save Hapa for d2 BH


yeah basically this

well i actually wouldnt mind doing it now this is not town hapa. going herp derp scumslip scumslip


##FoS: Hapa


Let's get a count of who's in. FOS him if you are willing to vote him.

Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 10:56 Blazinghand wrote:
You know what, fuck it, let's vote him. I'll go back to ZB if need be.

##unvote

##vote: Hapa


I just don't get this series of events. I agree that the "scumslip" thing was suspicious but we were waaaayy too close to deadline.



On November 15 2012 21:48 Clarity_nl wrote:
And this is coming from a claimed JK who is now claiming VT. With his reasoning being that he wouldn't be active. Only he was.



On November 15 2012 21:54 Clarity_nl wrote:
The dumbest part for me is that I asked him to post his night action

Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 11:17 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 11:15 Clarity_nl wrote:
Blazinghand, before I forget, in the last hour of night I'd like you to post your night action.


Absolutely. I wouldn't have it any other way.


Then a mere 3.5 hours later he posts

Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 14:54 Blazinghand wrote:
And I know you guys are gonna hate me for thus, but uh, yeah, I'm not a JK. Monday I had some family issues come up and it meant I wouldn't have much time to play through today, so I had to fake claim. Thursday and onwards I'm free though. Of course everyone is gonna be like super mad at me for this, but it worked, okay? Okay.


Why would a VT blazinghand want to answer my question so quickly and with so much conviction if he planned on spilling the beans on his claim.


Clarity do you still feel suspicious about BH's behavior close to the deadline?
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Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
November 17 2012 15:23 GMT
#2359
On November 17 2012 23:59 strongandbig wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 17 2012 23:36 Clarity_nl wrote:
Strongandbig what kind of reads do you have currently? Since you didn't post any in the final hour of N1, perhaps you could now?


Yeah so here's what I'm going to do now - I'm going to read the cases on ZB, and his defenses, and peoples' reactions to them, and tell you what I think of that stuff. I think that's the second highest priority for me right now after trying to convince people that BH is scum.

BTW clarity, let's talk about a couple of things regarding your conviction that I'm scum.

(1) Part of your case was that I was lying about playing dota at deadline. Now that I've provided proof that I was not lying, does that part change?

(2) You commented on the first part of my defense, which I think of as the "answers to general arguments for me being scum." However, you haven't commented on the second part of my defense, the "explanation of my filter." There were several things in there that I think were important in terms of responding to the arguments you make in your case. I would like you to tell me what you think of the following points I make:
  • Do you think I am lying in my explanation of the "accidental VT claim"? If so, what don't you believe?
  • What do you think about my explanation of the substance behind the Kenpachi rule? (a) Do you agree that there is a substantial argument to be made there? (b) Do you believe me when I say that to me, it's a real scumhunting technique? Does that make you reconsider anything about my filter?
  • All in all - do you believe or disbelieve my argument that "even though I didn't put any effort into the form of my posts, there was a higher level of involvement with the thread going on than the form of the posts would indicate?


1) I addressed the possibility of you not lying and actually playing dota, and I explained why it is still scumlike behavior for me.
Please do not get insulted if I call you, or anyone, a liar in this game. It's mafia, people lie. I mean no personal offence.

2)
  • I think your accidental vt claim might be accidental, I think it is more likely a badly thought out scum move that went wrong. I explained how, as town, it doesn't make sense for you to post in exactly that way. If you were town you might have said "I was gonna fake claim miller, awww!" but then realized you'd look like scum if you did, so you added "as vt". But then later on you say you didn't mean to say you were vt, so that rules out that possibility.
  • I agree that the kenpachi rule, as you call it, is something to take note of. I also understand not explaining it. Please note that I did not comment on these posts or put them in my case. They are not scummy posts, calling them townie would be a stretch though.
  • I find it hard to believe that you suddenly have shown interest in the game, to the point of your posts being completely different now. I never believed you were dumb or stupid, I've read some of your previous games.

Calling something dumb, without explanation, is not helpful. You have two posts that were helpful D1, and I pointed both of them out.
Some of your defense is to things I never even mentioned, and I find this weird.

FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AGAINST STUPIDITY CLARITY, I BELIEVE IN YOU! - Palmar
Clarity_nl
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands6826 Posts
November 17 2012 15:24 GMT
#2360
On November 18 2012 00:14 strongandbig wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 21:47 Clarity_nl wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:52 Blazinghand wrote:
I still don't like Hapa at all. He seems way too straight-laced for his normal town play. Anyone want to lynch him?

On November 15 2012 10:53 Blazinghand wrote:
I'm like not really serious about lynching hapa, btw, we shouldn't be switching this close to the deadline

On November 15 2012 10:53 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:53 debears wrote:
Save Hapa for d2 BH


yeah basically this

On November 15 2012 10:55 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:54 iamperfection wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:53 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 10:53 debears wrote:
Save Hapa for d2 BH


yeah basically this

well i actually wouldnt mind doing it now this is not town hapa. going herp derp scumslip scumslip


##FoS: Hapa


Let's get a count of who's in. FOS him if you are willing to vote him.

On November 15 2012 10:56 Blazinghand wrote:
You know what, fuck it, let's vote him. I'll go back to ZB if need be.

##unvote

##vote: Hapa


I just don't get this series of events. I agree that the "scumslip" thing was suspicious but we were waaaayy too close to deadline.



Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 21:48 Clarity_nl wrote:
And this is coming from a claimed JK who is now claiming VT. With his reasoning being that he wouldn't be active. Only he was.



Show nested quote +
On November 15 2012 21:54 Clarity_nl wrote:
The dumbest part for me is that I asked him to post his night action

On November 15 2012 11:17 Blazinghand wrote:
On November 15 2012 11:15 Clarity_nl wrote:
Blazinghand, before I forget, in the last hour of night I'd like you to post your night action.


Absolutely. I wouldn't have it any other way.


Then a mere 3.5 hours later he posts

On November 15 2012 14:54 Blazinghand wrote:
And I know you guys are gonna hate me for thus, but uh, yeah, I'm not a JK. Monday I had some family issues come up and it meant I wouldn't have much time to play through today, so I had to fake claim. Thursday and onwards I'm free though. Of course everyone is gonna be like super mad at me for this, but it worked, okay? Okay.


Why would a VT blazinghand want to answer my question so quickly and with so much conviction if he planned on spilling the beans on his claim.


Clarity do you still feel suspicious about BH's behavior close to the deadline?


His switch from DP to Zbo seemed genuine to me. I haven't looked into him enough to give you an accurate read though, but currently I'm willing to at least let him live. Revisit it tomorrow.
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