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Restraining Order
Profile Joined February 2013
Qatar276 Posts
April 16 2013 17:31 GMT
#3921
whatever, it's not worth arguing over semantics like that, but if u want u can pretend it says just "emo" and not "emo martyr"

feel better now?
Don't let me stop you.
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
April 16 2013 17:38 GMT
#3922
The question you should,d ask yourself is whether or not my behavior this game is more in line with what you expect from town yamato or scum yamato.

I think people have this misconception of me that I stay active and spammy the whole game, which is untrue. The behavior people are calling me scum for is adequately, and truthfully explained by the fact that arguing with people like Oats/Vivax/Mocsta all game is not enjoyable.

I guess I deserve to get lynched for it or whatever, but critical thinking about this situation could avoid town losing due to my lack of motivation.
Writer@WriterYamato
geript
Profile Joined February 2013
10024 Posts
April 16 2013 17:53 GMT
#3923
On April 06 2013 08:29 Bill Murray wrote:
Artanis is scum with Keirathi
GG

On April 06 2013 08:36 Bill Murray wrote:
VE and Geript look bad over an associative tell
that actually changes my FoS

On April 06 2013 10:24 Bill Murray wrote:
FoS Restraining Order
VE is town and scum are trying to get a D1 lynch on him

On April 06 2013 10:36 Bill Murray wrote:
this looks like restraining order is chastising his mafia partner here
if RO is scum, so is OO

On April 06 2013 11:25 Bill Murray wrote:
palmar and caller are basically null because they are afk

On April 06 2013 13:03 Bill Murray wrote:
geript is yamato your top scum?

On April 07 2013 09:44 Bill Murray wrote:
I feel like RO and VE are mislynches
I haven't seen any contribution from Keirathi whatsoever
If he ends up doing something I like, I'll unvote him, if he doesn't, he hangs.

On April 13 2013 00:11 Bill Murray wrote:
yeah ill kill vivax

On April 13 2013 09:53 Bill Murray wrote:
i sent in a kill on geript
hope you all dont mind ^^

Not a sure tell but I think that this is a reasonable associative tell that BM tends to pair 1 scum with 1 town when he calls out 2 people.
geript
Profile Joined February 2013
10024 Posts
April 16 2013 17:55 GMT
#3924
I think Shelvocke is likely town, but I prefer to lynch him than yamato honestly.
geript
Profile Joined February 2013
10024 Posts
April 16 2013 18:14 GMT
#3925
I want to make a very simple point here:
Mocsta -- 28
Geript -- 18
Oats -- 17
Yamato -- 14
Vivax -- 10
Shelvocke -- 3
Sinani -- 3

The 3 most inactive players have been Vivax, Shelvocke and Sinani. We have a green check on Sinani and Sinani is a known lurker. Shelvocke we have no clue who he is. These are our best lynches IMO.
Restraining Order
Profile Joined February 2013
Qatar276 Posts
April 16 2013 18:19 GMT
#3926
On April 17 2013 02:38 yamato77 wrote:
The question you should,d ask yourself is whether or not my behavior this game is more in line with what you expect from town yamato or scum yamato.

I think people have this misconception of me that I stay active and spammy the whole game, which is untrue. The behavior people are calling me scum for is adequately, and truthfully explained by the fact that arguing with people like Oats/Vivax/Mocsta all game is not enjoyable.

I guess I deserve to get lynched for it or whatever, but critical thinking about this situation could avoid town losing due to my lack of motivation.

I have plenty of critical thinking and no matter how critically I think about it, your excuse for not trying is that you never do

Try to look me in the eyes and say that this is not the exact same shit you'd say as scum.
It's not sufficient, and no level of "critical thinking" on my end can make it go away.

So we're left with scummy behavior and an excuse for it that is null at best.
Don't let me stop you.
Restraining Order
Profile Joined February 2013
Qatar276 Posts
April 16 2013 18:20 GMT
#3927
On April 17 2013 03:14 geript wrote:
I want to make a very simple point here:
Mocsta -- 28
Geript -- 18
Oats -- 17
Yamato -- 14
Vivax -- 10
Shelvocke -- 3
Sinani -- 3

The 3 most inactive players have been Vivax, Shelvocke and Sinani. We have a green check on Sinani and Sinani is a known lurker. Shelvocke we have no clue who he is. These are our best lynches IMO.

I actually did look at the same thing just earlier, haha.

It's not just the green-check, the sinani situation will solve itself by tomorrow.
Don't let me stop you.
geript
Profile Joined February 2013
10024 Posts
April 16 2013 18:24 GMT
#3928
I also really dislike the idea of lynching into Sinani today. Someone earlier brought up a game where he toughed it out despite the odds; I could to some extent see the possibility of that happening here too. While it does remove the possibility of a useful double lynch tomorrow; it also removes the possibility of him being able to vote rig tomorrow too. I would be very surprised if he got GF + double vote rig as that would be super OP imo. I think it's best to just take the simplest explanation that he's town.
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
April 16 2013 18:47 GMT
#3929
Vivax, the most prolific spammer of all the spammy spammers, has less spam than me this game.

I could lynch him off that alone.
Writer@WriterYamato
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
April 16 2013 18:49 GMT
#3930
Then again, he was less spammy than normal in Hydra 2, so I can't exactly be sure with that heuristic, can I?

Honestly, lynching Shelvocke is the only thing that I care about today, so you guys are free to run with your crazy "yamato played the best scum game of his life" theories and lynch me so long as you ensure that you win the game by lynching Shelvocke at the same time.
Writer@WriterYamato
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21959 Posts
April 16 2013 19:02 GMT
#3931
Do you have arguments for you being town?
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
April 16 2013 19:12 GMT
#3932
I care about the game.

I made it possible to scumhunt in the early stages.

I came up with a pro-town plan for the picks.

I scumhunted a whole lot in the first couple of days.

I'm more active than I've ever been in any game as mafia.

I'm more town than I've ever been in any game as mafia.

I'm still alive in this game, and am only just now receiving heat for my lack of contribution today, when as mafia I am caught every time on day 1 by how useless and worthless my posting is.

I'm obviously town to anyone who takes the time to look at my filter with anything other than severe confirmation bias.

I'm also right in that none of what you guys are quoting makes me mafia, and all your cases are bad.
Writer@WriterYamato
geript
Profile Joined February 2013
10024 Posts
April 16 2013 19:19 GMT
#3933
I'm going to be honest:
On April 17 2013 04:12 yamato77 wrote:
I'm also right in that none of what you guys are quoting makes me mafia, and all your cases are bad.

I absolutely hate this line. We're close to MYLO. Get to work. I know that none of the cases are amazing, but that is not an excuse to not put in work. We need to be critically assessing each others arguments and investing into the game. WE ARE GOING TO LYNCH SCUM TODAY PERIOD!!! Everyone needs to treat this as a whole new day 1. Work to establish your towniness and innocence. HUNT SCUM!!! PLAY TO YOUR WINCON!!! Dicking around won't help us any. No one is immune to this. I played like shit for the past 2 days. It's not important right now. Focus on working to critically assess; reinforce the good points people have made. Work to create POSITIVE TOWN ATMOSPHERE. We are ending it today by lynching scum. Nothing else matters. Everyone take your head and your dick out of the sand. Reassess. Reread. Post who you think is likely to be town and critically assess those who you think are likely to not be town to find the best lynch. gogogogogogogogogogogogo
Restraining Order
Profile Joined February 2013
Qatar276 Posts
April 16 2013 19:23 GMT
#3934
You clearly have never had your dick in sand.

Although I guess it hurts after a while, and it's also a pain to clean.
Don't let me stop you.
Restraining Order
Profile Joined February 2013
Qatar276 Posts
April 16 2013 19:34 GMT
#3935
And, well my townreads are still mobsta, gayript, oatsmister and sinani.

Which leaves out 3 people, between which we're already lynching. Right now there's a lot of bickering about which of shelvie and yammie gets the honor of getting lynched today, which doesn't really matter that much to me.

In fact I'm just going to switch to shelvocke without further explanation. Because I can.
Don't let me stop you.
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21959 Posts
April 16 2013 19:37 GMT
#3936
On April 12 2013 03:38 yamato77 wrote:
LET'S LYNCH MEAPAK


On April 12 2013 03:42 yamato77 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2013 03:41 Keirathi wrote:
On April 12 2013 03:38 yamato77 wrote:
LET'S LYNCH MEAPAK

No.

YES


On April 12 2013 03:54 yamato77 wrote:
OO I have my vote on.

Most of Sharrant comes across as very "clean" and thought out, but I'm not going to call him scum for that, because it doesn't seem like a strong heuristic. He could very well be town, but the fact that he defended Artanis AND VE is not a good thing.

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On April 10 2013 23:40 Sharrant wrote:
Good morning, everyone.

I'm glad to see I was wrong about Artanis and VisceraEyes.

I'll be writing up a longer post in a minute but I wanted to ask two questions first:

If the role reverser were used on a justice vigi when they shot a mafia member, what would be the end result? Would both/either player live through the shot?

If the role reverser used his power on the janitor when the janitor did not use his power, would it activate or would the role reverser fizzle out because no action was taken by the janitor?


Do people actually say that kind of shit when they're wrong? It seems unnaturally complacent with this "pro-town" ideal he has going on in ihis filter.

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On April 12 2013 00:18 Sharrant wrote:
I'm not particularly happy with any other lynch right now. I'd like to lynch StrongAndBig as things currently stand. Even his lynch has too many "what ifs" in my mind, but that's the lynch I'm most confident in, unless someone has proof that BM is not JusticeVigi.

I agree with the plan to claim from the bottom up, I'm just waiting until we get up to me. I'll do my best to check in on the thread throughout the day, because I don't want to slow the claims down. It seems to likely to me that scum don't have BC, but there's still the possibility that they do.

My votes will be on StrongAndBig, and my second vote will be on Austin. If someone has an anti-nuke to save him, I'll likely move my vote.


This is the only other thing that makes me want to lynch him.


Sorry, but here's another thing that is similar to what you did with Artanis and VE. You shout someone is scum while softbussing scum.

You post like crazy that MZ is scum, then shortly affirm in your next post that your vote is on OO like it's some sort of justification for people telling you that MZ isn't a viable lynch for that day. You posted that last quote where you were voting for someone you thought might be scum more likely than the read you were pushing (MZ) as answer to this from austin:

What has sharrant or shelvocke done that makes them less likely mafia than MZ? OO? Mocsta? geript? There are a boatload of players who have done very little today, almost ALL of us have done very little of consequence.

You are tunneled in on these little weird things and need to expand your view. You want or wanted to kill BM, despite claiming that you picked justice vigi and didn't get it. He seems like the only person who fits the bill, and that means that, if he's town, he's shooting at mafia, and if he's mafia, he's shooting at mafia or dying. If he's actually justice vigi, that is ACTUALLY the worst possible lynch you could come up with. So...quit being tunneled in. It hasn't served you particularly well in some recent games, and right now it's not doing you any good.


Of which, out of all of them, you picked OO to put your vote on, while in a post shortly after you say this, except for geript these are the guys austin wondered about regarding you not wanting to lynch them:

On April 12 2013 04:03 yamato77 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2013 03:58 yamato77 wrote:
On April 12 2013 03:51 austinmcc wrote:
On April 12 2013 03:45 yamato77 wrote:
On April 12 2013 03:42 austinmcc wrote:
If meapak were mafia he could have nuked D1 and didn't.

If meapak DOES have a silent nuke, it would have KILLED SOMEONE. Therefore, IF he had a silent nuke and used it, he killed either artanis or VE (the only people to die at the end of the day). They both flipped mafia. So IF there's a scary ol' silent nuke, it means he used it to kill mafia...

I don't terribly have a problem with someone thinking I was scum at the start of D2. I don't love my play up until that point, and could see nuking me if I were someone else. I don't find his play super anti-town in terms of nuke use except that he didn't check the thread a final time before posting what he'd been writing up.

What's he done today?

Seriously, the dude is LAZY MAFIA.

I've been saying it all game, and he's done absolutely fucking nothing.
Here's the thing. Maybe he's lazy mafia. If he's mafia, he voluntarily just didn't shoot D1. That seems like a poor choice. That's something that I would flag as saying, "Hey...hold up. This guy looks like he might be mafia, but he used his role in an odd manner for someone who is mafia." I would second guess my read on him.

Then I would go, "Wait a minute, snb claimed a cop check on MZ." If snb is lying, he's taking a risk that there are no other whatever-cops above him on the chart. A small risk, but a risk. And maybe MZ is a gf, that's a possibility. But again, it's SOME/SLIGHT/DECENT evidence that MZ might not be mafia.

Then, there are a couple other players with LESS in their favor, imo. What has sharrant or shelvocke done that makes them less likely mafia than MZ? OO? Mocsta? geript? There are a boatload of players who have done very little today, almost ALL of us have done very little of consequence.

You are tunneled in on these little weird things and need to expand your view. You want or wanted to kill BM, despite claiming that you picked justice vigi and didn't get it. He seems like the only person who fits the bill, and that means that, if he's town, he's shooting at mafia, and if he's mafia, he's shooting at mafia or dying. If he's actually justice vigi, that is ACTUALLY the worst possible lynch you could come up with. So...quit being tunneled in. It hasn't served you particularly well in some recent games, and right now it's not doing you any good.

I may appear tunneled, but in reality I'm just trying to work through some of the doubts I have about this game:

Mocsta and his shot
BM and his refusal to claim
Oats' entire play
M_Z and the mason circle
Sharrant
Shelvocke
Sinani and the check (GF?)
OO
Vivax
SnB
EVERY FLIP FROM NIGHT 1
RO

People I'm CONFIDENT that are town:
Geript
Sn0
Austin
Keirathi

You can see the discrepancy.

Now if I was to take things at face value ( like you guys suggest), then the only people I want to lynch into dwindles:

Shelvocke
Sharrant
OO

If 2/3 or 3/3 of the remaining mafia are among them, then yeah, you guys are obviously on the right track here, but you don't really need me to accomplish hunting them, do you? It's already done; I know they have a chance at being mafia, so I'm trying to pursue opinions on other people to get a more clear picture of the game that isn't "tunneled".


This just looks like you were afraid to have your vote on your actual scumread and picked your scumbuddy to drop your vote on while pushing for everything else, in order to have a reason to switch if you managed to convince others.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Next chapter, post-lynch, he starts saying all sorts of inconsistent stuff:

On April 12 2013 04:23 yamato77 wrote:
Has anyone considered this possibility?

If BM is telling the truth, and is JV who shot mafia Caller, and Deconduo was actually mafia Janitor, there's only 1/5 mafia left.

Seems possible, no?

Thus, if we lynch mafia and don't win the game, and there's no anti-town third party, one of Mocsta/BM is probably mafia.

That's how I reached that conclusion.


On April 12 2013 10:46 yamato77 wrote:
Yeah, just shoot Vivax.


On April 12 2013 12:40 yamato77 wrote:
Other potential candidate for last mafia if both Moc and BM are town is Shelvocke.

So yeah, this game is almost solved, assuming there are no more GF flips.


On April 13 2013 04:21 yamato77 wrote:
>_>

You guys are making this game more complicated than it should be.

How about we lynch Mocsta, since his shot was not on scum?


(Picking Mocsta over BM lol)

On April 13 2013 12:39 yamato77 wrote:
##Vote Vivax

Vivax isn't even interested in the game anymore, and is no longer active. He, as town, is spammy as fuck and insane the entire game.

Kill it.


Picking me over Shelvocke who he had as scum during lynch-day.

Lynch yamato
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21959 Posts
April 16 2013 19:38 GMT
#3937
Just found something on why geript might be scum, just you wait.
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21959 Posts
April 16 2013 19:47 GMT
#3938
Why geript could be scum


massive push against keirathi at end of night before he nukes BM:
+ Show Spoiler +
On April 13 2013 03:55 geript wrote:
People should reread Keirathi's filter again with consideration of the flips so far.


On April 13 2013 04:18 geript wrote:
Just read his damn filter. Tell me if his D1 filter looks towny at all.


On April 13 2013 04:37 geript wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 09 2013 03:53 Keirathi wrote:
Bleh, I got drafted into helping my mom in the garden today. So I probably wont be around for a few more hours. Some quick comments:

1) Artanis: His recent play feels more townie, and I thought he was a coinflip at best even before gonzaw died. Not sure why Caller (apparently) killed him. I (still) don't like him as a lynch candidate today even if Caller didn't kill him.

2) Caller: I hate everything about his play, but the fact remains that if Caller is Showtime! and used it now, on Artanis or all people, just doesn't make much sense from scum. Possible, but not likely scum IMO.

3) VE: He still hasn't done his classic scum tell that I mentioned, but he's also not done ANYTHING. With geript claiming that NRA was taken already b spot 6, VE is a valid option for having chosen it (Shelvocke too, since he's obviously a smurf of someone who is at least familiar with older games). I'm just not sure about him at all...if he did take NRA as scum, his play would make a lot of sense. Maybe we lynch him.

4) Shelvocke: MZ + austin had good points. I could get behind a Shelvocke lynch.

5) Sinani: Very possibly scum. I pointed out his weird "playing it safe" quote, and also how he described S&B as trying to direct the thread to justify his vote. He then came back to neither answer my questions nor expound on anything else (including his own reads), just to ask gonzaw his role and tell gonzaw to shoot BM. If not lynch today, then tomorrow.

Anyways, be back in a few hours.

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On April 09 2013 23:51 Keirathi wrote:
On April 09 2013 21:38 Palmar wrote:
And I wrote the assassin and nra = scum analysis.

I hate everything about this so much.

That entire post was just you rehashing things that had already been said. Geript had told us why VE was probably NRA and probably scum. Yours was just why NRA was probably scum, didn't include who it was.

And EVERYONE had already concluded that gonzaw was shot by a scum assassin.

Your entire contribution was...nothing new at all. Why are you trying to buy town cred for that, rofl.

Funny the 180 on VE hunh.

I completely outed VE as NRA and scum but Kei was only "maybe" interested in lynching VE. Tell me that's not fishy.

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On April 07 2013 12:25 Keirathi wrote:
Anyways:

raynpelikoneet:

I just got out of RED Team (click link for his filter) with a town rayn, so my expectations of his town play are still in the forefront of my mind. And some very obvious things aren't matching up:

1) Progression of reads:

I'm not going to quote every instance, but something really sticks out to me:

+ Show Spoiler +

On March 26 2013 08:05 raynpelikoneet wrote:
What's with the ninja vote marv?

On March 26 2013 08:22 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2013 08:11 marvellosity wrote:
On March 26 2013 08:05 raynpelikoneet wrote:
What's with the ninja vote marv?


Just curious how you'd react given you totally overreacted to prplhz. I can join Hapa on his policy lynch though, so you're in luck ^^

Why do you assume i was serious in the first place?

On March 26 2013 08:27 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On March 26 2013 08:23 Dandel Ion wrote:
On March 26 2013 08:19 cDgCorazon wrote:
Rayn goes back to the shadows when he is called out on his argument.

Why are you scummy Rayn?

Is he, though?

Maybe that's all just in your head.

A good question. After all it was prplhz who disappeared, not me.

On March 26 2013 10:15 raynpelikoneet wrote:
S&B: I never said i wasn't serious with my vote. I asked marv why does he assume i am serious. Something he also failed to answer.

On March 26 2013 10:23 raynpelikoneet wrote:
The reason i asked the question from marv was this post:
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On March 26 2013 08:11 marvellosity wrote:
On March 26 2013 08:05 raynpelikoneet wrote:
What's with the ninja vote marv?


Just curious how you'd react given you totally overreacted to prplhz. I can join Hapa on his policy lynch though, so you're in luck ^^

##Unvote
##Vote: ObviousOne


He had voted me because i "overreacted" to prplhz. How does me asking "what's with the ninja vote?" make him change his vote to a stupid policy lynch?

On March 26 2013 10:25 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On top of that marv & Keir seem to be quite defensive about prplhz. Why not let the guy answer himself?

On March 26 2013 21:43 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I have one problem with marv. He pressure voted me early on in the game. When i asked his what's up with the ninja vote, he posted this:
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On March 26 2013 08:11 marvellosity wrote:
On March 26 2013 08:05 raynpelikoneet wrote:
What's with the ninja vote marv?


Just curious how you'd react given you totally overreacted to prplhz. I can join Hapa on his policy lynch though, so you're in luck ^^

##Unvote
##Vote: ObviousOne

If he really thought i overreacted to prplhz why wouldn't he pressure me more? Was the "what's up with the ninja vote" somekinda secret townie answer i gave?

If i was marv and i thought someone overreacted to something and i was already pressuring him, i would definitely keep the pressure on to try to find more clues about their alignment. Here he just completely drops the issue and changes his vote to a policy target (which i do not see serving any purpose in finding mafia).

On March 27 2013 01:16 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 27 2013 01:13 marvellosity wrote:
On March 27 2013 01:11 cDgCorazon wrote:
On March 27 2013 00:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Holy crap Corazon is failing hard to even read my filter.


I read your filter and all you've done is attack 6 people, all of which have been under pressure from others. I read your filter bro. Get some better defense.


The fact is that rayn has brought new things to the table too; his analysis/vote of OO's second post, or Oats' apparent contradiction with the prplhz/Dandel cases - and indeed something came of this.

Being active, suspicious of many people, and aggressively questioning are not what I think of as mafia characteristics.

Besides this i havn't attacked people. I questioned marv and Keirathi. Keirathi told me why i was wrong in prplhz-defending-thingy, i agreed i was wrong and let it go. I questioned marv because i wanted him to do stuff. I agree with his reads/observations when he presented them and it makes me think he is town for now. He still didn't answer my question about the start of the game but because everyone seems to think it's irrelevant it probably is and i'm not going to sidetrack the discussion by screaming about it over and over again.

Try again Cora.


What you'll see is a direct thought process and how rayn's read progresses. He played like this for the entire game: see something he thinks is scummy, questions it, discusses it, and then either votes or moves on to something else. Or even just see something he finds scummy, dissects it, and makes a case. He's trying to figure out the game, and engaging people trying to get comments on his points/comment on their points/doing whatever he can to help town.

Now let's look at this game:

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On April 04 2013 22:47 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On April 04 2013 22:32 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Forced VT claim: is an attempt to understand whether "key roles" are in the game. The action itself should not be used to establish individuals as confirmed town/scum.

The problem with this is that town has no way of knowing who is lying and who is telling the truth. Scum know who is lying and who is telling the truth. The information we gain is only reliable for mafia at the start of the game.

It gives mafia more opportunities to fakeclaim, bullshit, or tell the truth if it benefits them the most, and make plans that revolve around those things. And you have no way of figuring out which is it. If mafia is wise and plays it right there is no way town is going to win anything from this compared to mafia.


RO: Thoughts on this?

On April 04 2013 22:49 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On April 04 2013 22:48 Restraining Order wrote:
On April 04 2013 22:47 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 04 2013 22:32 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Forced VT claim: is an attempt to understand whether "key roles" are in the game. The action itself should not be used to establish individuals as confirmed town/scum.

The problem with this is that town has no way of knowing who is lying and who is telling the truth. Scum know who is lying and who is telling the truth. The information we gain is only reliable for mafia at the start of the game.

It gives mafia more opportunities to fakeclaim, bullshit, or tell the truth if it benefits them the most, and make plans that revolve around those things. And you have no way of figuring out which is it. If mafia is wise and plays it right there is no way town is going to win anything from this compared to mafia.


RO: Thoughts on this?

Nothing I have not already said.

You seem to be disagreeing with me here. What is wrong in what i said?

On April 05 2013 04:31 raynpelikoneet wrote:
3 scum reads:

Caller, RO, Oats.

On April 05 2013 11:11 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On April 05 2013 11:08 Mocsta wrote:
On April 05 2013 10:48 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 05 2013 10:47 Mocsta wrote:
On April 05 2013 10:33 raynpelikoneet wrote:
and yeah, RO is scum i think.

Can you walk me through this please.

From what I saw, the only build up you had to claiming RO is scum is:
On April 05 2013 03:28 Restraining Order wrote:
Ok, you can keep townhunting them townreads if you want, I sent in my numbers already. They shouldn't be too obtrusive to whatever nonsense you'll come up with, so it's okay.

Where I am having trouble following you is:

I dont see how *only* scum would would or could make a statement like this.

RO is failing to contribute to anything at all. See his filter. No more need to be said. Good kill on D1/N1.

I still dont follow.

What has there been to contribute?

We have been talking about plans; just because someone disagrees with you, does not make them scum.

I think this is clutching at straws, and is providing preferential treatment. RO duly pointed out others that also did not agree with the plan; yet you seem to be singling him out specifically.

If you want traction: I am going to need more than "failing to contribute".
Otherwise, this looks like a weak attempt to "scum hunt" - which can indeed be construed as scummy.

In short, all I am asking for is: Why are ROs actions specifically scummy, and can not be a townie that shares a different mindset to that of yourself?
To answer: read his filter.. is not an appropriate answer, because I already disagree with you.. you're meant to be trying to convince me...show me what you see


RO is failing to contribute to the plans provided pre-picking phase by " lolololollllll, i sent my numbers, can't change, fu all,, i don't need to do shit.."

Kill him.

On April 05 2013 11:57 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On April 05 2013 11:51 Meapak_Ziphh wrote:
On April 05 2013 10:10 gonzaw wrote:
On April 05 2013 06:00 Meapak_Ziphh wrote:
On April 05 2013 04:31 raynpelikoneet wrote:
3 scum reads:

Caller, RO, Oats.

Why

On April 05 2013 05:46 strongandbig wrote:
this whole discussion is stupid until we get the drafting list btw


yes

Gonzaw would you mind telling me what you think of oats, artanis, sharrant, and decondou? Would like to hear someone else's thoughts.


Yo how about YOU tell me what you think of them?
You can't force the wise man to do your bidding, he forces you to do his, and then enlightens you or punishes you accordingly

I have to agree with yamato on Oats.
Makes little sense for scum Oats to "intentionally disrupt" town like this in the drafting phase for no reason (if he's scum), rather than doing so when it matters to them: The Day phase.
No reason to call him scum right now, wait until the game actually "matters" to state so.


So you 5 guys are you sending the 1-5 draft choices? If so it may be better to claim so you don't clash between each other, and so you can convince other people not to take those as well (I already changed my number).
I guess it's too late though, meh.


I initially had a pretty bad feeling about oats, however he's just been too loud for me to think he's scum at this point. I'm rather suspicious of artanis, I actually wanted an opinion on sharrant because I have him as a complete null, and decondou was a red herring which I threw out on a whim. In hindsight you'd be too smart to go for it as scum anyway

currently I have rayn as probable town since I've learned that the most annoying people tend to be town. That being said, I also really don't think RO is scummy.

Also for the record, I'm not trying to force a wise man to do my bidding, just wanna check in with someone who completely played me before :D

Oats is bad town or scum.
Artanis is .. hmm.. idk..
sharrant almost definitely town.
deconduo, leaning on scum at him.
RO = scum. kill him <3



Etc, etc. This is how his reads "progress" with every single person that he's called scum. He just pulls their name out of thin air. Maybe makes up some justification for it, maybe not. VE/RO/Caller/me/austin/BM/etc etc. He's called ~half of the people in the game scum for little to no reasoning.

And those reads swing extremely wildly. Over half of the people he randomly calls scum are people that conveniently happen to already be under some suspicion/pressure.

And some extremely strange flip-flops. You'll notice up there in the quote spoiler, he was calling Caller scum for most of the game. Then:

On April 06 2013 10:47 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 06 2013 10:23 geript wrote:
Also, would someone familiar with Caller's meta tell me about him?

Caller is actually town.


Where did this come from? It makes no sense, because I don't see anything major that Caller changed, except he started pushing me. Or maybe that's the sense it makes; he stopped calling Caller scum once Caller started calling one of his "scum reads" scum (aka me).

Which was my point to begin with: his reads just change when they're convenient to change. Not when he has sufficient reasons for changing them. Which is extremely different from everything about how he played in RED.

2) "The Plan":

This point has already been talked about a bit, but I think it deserves a bit more attention.

On April 05 2013 03:14 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 05 2013 03:10 Keirathi wrote:
On April 05 2013 03:06 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 05 2013 03:04 Keirathi wrote:
On April 05 2013 02:59 geript wrote:
@All Would everyone be okay if I came up with a set of 5 pods of rolls and the pods to be selected from in specific picks? I'd expect some feedback and editing on them.

I'll be completely honest and say I hate plans like this.

The game is called Pick YOUR Power. Not Let Everyone Else Pick Your Power For You.

For one, I just don't see everyone agreeing, and to me it just ruins the fun of the game type.

Nobody is saying what you should pick. I am suggesting that 5 players get to pick first. Is that a good plan or not and are the players town/mafia in your opinion?

There are like 100 - or something - roles. If you don't get your favourite pick i'm sure you can find something else that suits you.

I was responding to geripts plan to full pod out the game. IE: people in slots 1-4 only pick roles A, B, C, or D. Players in slots 5-6 only pick roles from E, F, G, or H.

That's boring to me.

I'm fine with players being given first picks (in theory) if they are going to use them to deny scum roles. If they're just going to pick whatever they feel like, then I disagree.

I don't think the players who are going to pick first should be limited to X number of roles. They should pick whatever they feel is best for the town. It's beneficial to town to have as many upper slots as possible.

In one PYP i remember mafia!Chezinu picking CPRdoctor as ~#22. FUCKING CPRdoctor @ #22!!! There needs to be some cooperation in the picks, but it can't be too obvious or it's advantageous to mafia.

If someone of us is mafia it doesn't matter, we need to be responsible for our actions regarding our role anyways.


Notice what he says. People in the top picks need to have some kind of cooperation towards denying roles/picking strong roles.

However, once he got his spot in the top 5, what happened to that cooperation? It was non-existent. He didn't even try. Town rayn in RED was cooperative and attempting to help town win all the way until end game, even when it meant he couldn't win himself (he had a dumb alternate win-con that involved killing a bunch of townies). He realized that he couldn't shoot us, or town as a whole would lose. So he sacrificed his own win-con and didn't shoot on the last night.

Which makes me question this:

On April 05 2013 02:13 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 05 2013 01:20 geript wrote:
New plan: Instead of having a set 'draft list' in that say people drafting from 1-4 need to choose from a list of ABCD roles. People drafting from 5-8 need to draft from a list of EFGH, etc. etc. This makes it very risky for Scum to draft both outside of their own list and inside of their own list.

This is absolytely the best plan and the only one i'm going to support. We just need to find out what the roles are that we put to 1-4, 5-8, etc.


On April 05 2013 02:28 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I also support Vivax' idea if i get to be #1, Geript #2, and yamato, Mocsta, Sharrant #3-#5.


"This is the only plan I will support!"

"Oh wait, no. I'll support the plan that directly benefits me, even though I just said the other one was super good."

He doesn't even explain why that plan is better than geript's. Just that suddenly, since the new plan gives him a free shot at the top 5, he would rather push that one.

But also notice how in the quote about the cooperation, he says "I don't think the players who are going to pick first should be limited to X number of roles. They should pick whatever they feel is best for the town." Which begs the question: why the fuck did he say that he thought geript's plan was absolutely the best plan, then turn around and say that he thinks that plan is dumb just *ONE* hour later?? I can understand liking a plan, pushing it, then liking another plan better. But he completely flip flops by saying a plan is good, then almost immediately saying "no that plan is bad". It all just reeks of posturing to benefit himself, rather than what he legitimately thinks is the "best".

TL;DR: Strange reads with no progression or reasoning, uncooperative, excessive posturing to attempt to get himself in the top picks. Rayn is scum.

##vote raynpelikoneet

Weak case on confirmed towny Rayn.

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On April 08 2013 04:57 Keirathi wrote:
@gonzaw:

I just don't find your case all the convincing, tbh. I think the strongest point you make is the one about the needless complaining about the thread (and maybe a bit about the geript case), but I don't think that is enough to lynch him on. Most of your other points are just comparing him to other players, which is useless and futile. Artanis is not yamato, or rayn, or Sharrant, or me, or VE, or whoever else you compared him to. He's Artanis, and will play like Artanis, not anyone else.

And about the "fake" aggression, I just flat out disagree with that whole section. I took a look back at British since people were talking about it, and he does that same kind of thing as town. Calls out a post, then antagonizes people for disagreeing with him or not commenting on it. Then moved on or keeps pressuring it, as appropriate.

Overall, I'm not particularly interested in lynching Artanis today.

Hard defense of Artanis.


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On April 10 2013 17:37 Keirathi wrote:
Also, as an aside:

Pretty sure Sharrant is scum.

Look at these posts:

On April 07 2013 06:43 Sharrant wrote:
On April 07 2013 04:27 VisceraEyes wrote:
Whatever. Kill me then. I can't hunt scum while not a single person in the entire game is taking me seriously.

##Vote: RestrainingOrder


Hi, Viscera.
I'm pretty much null on your actions, so I want you to help me. Now, the reason I'm null on you is because I know I can't read you. Last game we played I thought I had a slam dunk case on you, and you were town.

Now I might be reaching with this, but I want you to help me talk about Keirathi. See, just a short while ago there was talk about why Keirathi was scum, I think there're some really valid points in there. And I think a few others saw it too, but then suddenly the town was dragged off of this and into a spammy little brawl focused on antogonizing you and painting you as scum. Maybe you're scum, maybe you're not, but the way the thread has turned suggests to me you're not.

This feels more to me like you're getting attacked the same way that caused Marvellosity to explode when he was town in a recent game. So I want you to talk to me about Keirathi, who after being called out has dissapeared after the cases on him, and I just want your opinion on Rayne because frankly I'm not quite sure how to read him.

Do you think this could be mafia Keirathi's team trying to drag the town away from him after he got caught by causing a spammy mess on day 1? Do you think this is more likely town getting in an argument that is not indicative of Keirathi's alignment? And then your opinion on Keirathi himself and Rayne would be great., thank you.


In the pre-game. I think he was actually trying here to do what he claimed was happening with me. I think he was trying to draw attention away from VE and give VE and out by pushing sentiment back towards me.

On April 08 2013 09:46 Sharrant wrote:
Well, I can't think of anyone who commented on my Keirathi case, but here's an update for no one.

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He's off my scum list after these posts. They look much more like his town games. In his scum games he's more political in his posts. In his two scum games he's had disagreements but always contested things conservatively, compared to his town games like Red where he called bullshit twenty or so times on the first day.
On April 07 2013 14:57 Keirathi wrote:
EBWOP:

Oh, what the fuck.

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On April 07 2013 14:48 sinani206 wrote:
StrongandBig: Actually looks like he could be scum. Playing very differently than he did in RTP and I agree with the cases made on him. He seems to be playing a typical earlygame conservative scum strategy, skirting discussion and leading people in the wrong direction. I'll slap my vote on him for now.


Explain the bolded. Because it sounds like made up bullshit.



On April 07 2013 15:28 Keirathi wrote:
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On April 07 2013 15:09 geript wrote:
Honestly Keirathi, I don't feel great about Rayn, but I don't want to put too much stock in a meta read from one game especially when I don't know much of anything about Rayn. I could see someone going for a plan that puts them early in the draft order regardless of alignment.

As for S&B I'd like to hear his response, but I like your points about how he seems to find the draft/picking phase important but doesn't actually contribute anything to them at all.

So go look at his filters from past games. Dismissing a meta read because you're too lazy to look at the meta yourself is just...wtfboggle.

And my point wasn't that he was just pushing a plan to get himself high in the draft order. Yes, a townie could do that too. What I don't think a townie would do is specifically say that one plan was undeniably the best plan for town, the immediately flip flop on it and say that its a bad plan now, just because a new plan came up that benefits himself more. He's putting himself above the town as a whole; suddenly and for not much reason. (Which I also contend is completely different from what town rayn just did last game.)

On April 08 2013 07:54 Keirathi wrote:
@rayn: good, you're back

First: ##Unvote

Now, let's talk a bit:

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
1) How much time i devote to the game depends on how much time i have available. I have not ahd much time this weekend.

What are you defending here? WHY are you defensive? I didn't call you out for lurking/not contributing/whatever. Weird opening statement.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
How i play also depends on the setup. It's very different when everyone is vanilla or when everyone has roles. You are making a meta case and later on you say you are not even sure about my meta. How do you think anyone is going to believe you if you are not sure yourself?

You're right to an extent. I said that I hadn't read your scum meta. But everything about your play has been so glaringly different from the way you JUST played as town. Why? "Because the game is different" isn't an excuse for thinking and behaving completely differently.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
2) That's bullshit. I never said "abandon Geript's plan, it's dumb". I wanted to implement Geript's + Vivax's plan and use them both. Here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=403766&currentpage=19#362
I don't know why you even bring something this ridiculous up..

You didn't specifically call it dumb. I was...paraphrasing, a bit. And that post you just linked came before the post where I said you were calling geript's plan dumb, which is even weirder.

Let's look at the progression, exactly:

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On April 05 2013 02:13 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 05 2013 01:20 geript wrote:
New plan: Instead of having a set 'draft list' in that say people drafting from 1-4 need to choose from a list of ABCD roles. People drafting from 5-8 need to draft from a list of EFGH, etc. etc. This makes it very risky for Scum to draft both outside of their own list and inside of their own list.

This is absolytely the best plan and the only one i'm going to support. We just need to find out what the roles are that we put to 1-4, 5-8, etc.

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On April 05 2013 02:28 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I also support Vivax' idea if i get to be #1, Geript #2, and yamato, Mocsta, Sharrant #3-#5.

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On April 05 2013 02:39 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Combine Vivax' + Geript's ideas and let these guys pick [1][1], [2][1], [3][1], [4][1], [5][1] (everyone else picks [6->] [X]):

Then:
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On April 05 2013 03:14 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I don't think the players who are going to pick first should be limited to X number of roles.


geript's plan was exactly that: the people in the first 4 slots (aka pod, in this case) would be limited to a certain pod of picks. You said that was unarguably the best plan for town. Then changed your mind and are saying it's a bad plan. That's what I was getting at, here.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
There is no reason to push any plans further when people reacted to any plans like they did. 3/4 of the people said "fuck all the plans", "i'm gonna do whatever they want so fu" or "it takes all the fun out of the game". What's the point of discussing any plans further when you already know it's not gonna happen anyways? At least i fucking provided a plan that had four town reads in it for people to discuss but no.. Everyone just hopped right over that part..

Ugh, I hate this kind of excuse. "No one else was doing anything, so I refuse to do anything too!"

YOU were the one saying that the top picks needed some kind of cooperation. Why didn't you try to get any? You just got your top pick, and buggered off.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
TLDR;
- Strange reads with no progression or reasoning - maybe you should have asked me about those reads then if you do not know where my head is at. Now you are just calling me scum because you think i have not reasoned my reads well enough yet you have had no intention to even find out why my reads are what they are.

It's not my job to find out why you spew out bullshit reads with no explanation. The onus is on you to explain yourself. But again, that isn't even my point AT ALL. My entire point was that the way you are acquiring those reads is entirely inconsistent with how you acquired reads in Red Team. In Red Team, you saw something you didn't like, and either made a case right there, or you started poking and prodding at the person, questioning them and their motives. This game you just drop a name. Why so different?

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
- uncooperative - I see myself being the most cooperative peron before we got our roles. there are a lot of people who are way more uncooperative. After the roles were out i have had basically no time to think about the game, but that's gonna change now.

Again, missed the whole point. You said that the top picks needed to be cooperative with picking powerful roles/denying scum roles. But didn't try to cooperate at all with the top picks once the draft order came out.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
- excessive posturing to attempt to get himself in the top picks - rofl, why wouldn't you want to be #1 person picking? How is this alignment indicative at all? Actually, scum would more likely try to avoid being the #1 picker because that automatically gives you a lot of attention and less chances to fakeclaim later if needed. Also the top guys are gonna get killed anyways early on as they probably have the "best" roles in the game. If they do not die it brings more attention to them.

I already addressed that.

No, trying to get yourself in a top pick isn't scummy, in itself. Rapidly changing your mind to a plan that benefits you more, personally, than town, and then refusing to back up your opinions on cooperating with the other top picks is scummy, though.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you contribute today, though. Hopefully you can change my mind.



##Unvote: Keirathi

Regarding Artanis I'm going to do some more reading tonight, but he has some posts that I find quite townie. I think they show that he is trying to contribute, as well as a clear thought process in attempting to help the town determine what is best in the draft phase.

On April 04 2013 17:45 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
So if I'm getting things right we plan on giving strong town reads effectively VT roles, correct? Though the idea of stopping strong scum roles is appealing, there are a myriad of strong roles in the game and I don't think sacrificing strong townreads that can pick early (and therefore are unlikely to be blocked by anyone) VT roles just to stop scum from picking certain roles is good.
1. They'll know exactly what X players before them picked so they can dodge roles that would otherwise make them VT.
2. Strong townreads end up with a public VT role rather than being able to help town beyond their scumhunting.
3. The townVT to scumVT balance will shift heavily in scum's favour
4. If there's scum before the last strong townread assigned to a scumrole, it could easily be sniped anyway.
I think it's best if everyone hides their picks since it'll give scum the least amount of information and prevent them from having safe picks.


Gives critical input on a plan as opposed to negative input, and has his first iteration of a plan: Everyone pick as discretely as possible.

On April 04 2013 18:57 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
I have a better plan for the Yamato plan, if you do decide to go through with it. If we have people that look suffeciently town, are early in the list and are willing to follow the plan, they could RNG between blocking a role and taking a 'real' role themselves without revealing which one they'd want to pick. It would create a risk too great for scum to pick that role unless they're going to WIFOM about if the town player would actually do it or not, and it'd give a 50% shot for the town player to actually still get a useful role. It's less certain than the Yamato plan but I think it puts town in a better position. It could have the same net effect yet have a higher chance for town to get more blues.


Again giving critical input and creating a new plan, or at the very least a new iteration in Yamato's plan.

On April 04 2013 22:42 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
On April 04 2013 18:57 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
I have a better plan for the Yamato plan, if you do decide to go through with it. If we have people that look suffeciently town, are early in the list and are willing to follow the plan, they could RNG between blocking a role and taking a 'real' role themselves without revealing which one they'd want to pick. It would create a risk too great for scum to pick that role unless they're going to WIFOM about if the town player would actually do it or not, and it'd give a 50% shot for the town player to actually still get a useful role. It's less certain than the Yamato plan but I think it puts town in a better position. It could have the same net effect yet have a higher chance for town to get more blues.

No one's actually addressed this yet, especially Yamato which I find strange as it's an improvement upon his plan. I'd propose we use it for 2 roles at the most though. Past that, it just becomes too unreliable.

I don't like the VT claiming idea. Players that ended up with a VT role are still important to town in one way: Taking hits that would otherwise land on blues. I don't think the info gained on roles is worth this downside. There might be exceptions in certain situations (such as a player high up in the list claiming VT when he tried to pick a scummy role), but as the norm I'd be against it.


Brings up his idea again, stating he believes it's an improvement to the plan, and again is applying critical thinking about the picking strategies that others are proposing. I don't see this as "hiding in set up speculation" I see this as someone applying critical thought as to how the town can start the game off with the most advantageous, and start the mafia off with the least.

On April 05 2013 08:21 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
The accountability is a good point actually, I hadn't thought about that yet. Hm. Still think it's better than doing nothing at all though since without any rules at all there's no accountability anyway.
Will sleep on it.


He takes criticism on his plan well, says he'll take time to think about it. To me it reads really townie,especially because of a later post where he brings up that the route town was going had no accountability. His posts to me show the thought process of someone trying to min/max the drafting system, and follows a plausible planning process.


As I said earlier, I'll take a further look into him, and read the cases more thoroughly, but to me he reads as at least decently townie.


I'm going to post this now, I'll be reading and writing for a (hopefully) larger post, so if anyone else is going to be on for a bit, let's chat about someone, I'll even let you pick who.


Deflecting away from Artanis.

On April 08 2013 11:21 Sharrant wrote:
@StrongandBig
Hi!

I'll try and give you a sort of stream of consciousness on this one, and hopefully that will actually help me figure out where I stand on him. I've read through his filter a few times and I always notice things that send me in opposite directions on his alignment.

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On April 05 2013 13:25 ObviousOne wrote:
Okay duders, raid night is over. Going for a quick re-read of the past half day after I post this since I've been tabbing out to catch what I could during down time.

First impressions:

I saw that Oats is/was under some suspicion (just going from memory, don't recall if it was talked out or not) but Oats is Oats; he's a bit all over the place but I don't see the same intent to shut things down that someone mentioned earlier. He was just as loud and all-over in RED. Null still.

RO seems to want to be more helpful than I remember him being as scum in LX, not feeling what you guys that are suspicious of him are feeling there, either.

Got my eye on Rayn at the moment. His style was spammy but usually constructive (at least in telling us what he was thinking) and I've got none of that after the first couple pages of his filter. Ten one-liners in a row or something, doesn't match up to his standard attacking pattern from RED. The attacks there were thought-out, here they mostly look like casual accusations perhaps fishing for reactions? The only points he has going for him is that he's absolutely confused about what is going on regarding the draft process:
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On April 05 2013 12:49 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Should we have our roles by now?

Rayn, if you are serious about RO being scum then lay if out for me in one clean concise post, and if you are not, who are you most suspicious of right now? Or are you just drunk again?



Other stuff:
Most of the chat was about planning how to set up the top spots to get roles protected, is that still a thing? I'm spot 2 somehow, and I was thinking about taking America because America, fuck yeah! Is that going to make me a Pariah or something? Girls just wanna have fun, you know? I'll use it as a second lynch like was suggested yesterday or I can just sit on it if you guys are paranoid about it.

Going back for that re-read and making some coffee. See you in a bit when I'm finished with that.

PS: Seriously guys, the spam, cut it out, I decided to avoid large games because of the sheer volume of posts so please be less liberal with one-liners, thank you!



This post felt very airy, it certainly felt to me like a post that was primarily summation. There are some good questions in there, but there's no hard stances. The closest he comes to that is that he says he's got his eye on Rayn, but then never specifically says he was scummy. Points out he doesn't give fit his previous town meta, but then he gives him an out on it anyways saying that he might be fishing for reactions.


I actually noticed something that really has me leaning towards scum on him now. He makes 2 posts specifically stating for people not to spam, and has several posts insulting BM for making small spammy posts with no content. I read this as townie when I first skimmed through his filter, but looking at it again There's something very wrong.

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On April 05 2013 13:25 ObviousOne wrote:.

PS: Seriously guys, the spam, cut it out, I decided to avoid large games because of the sheer volume of posts so please be less liberal with one-liners, thank you!


On April 06 2013 13:26 ObviousOne wrote:
... Bill we went over this about the spamming -- you've got ~14 posts on this page alone.

Summarize your VE meta and compare it to this game and show me how he's so definitively town. In one post.


On April 06 2013 12:16 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 12:13 Bill Murray wrote:
On April 06 2013 12:11 deconduo wrote:
On April 06 2013 12:01 Bill Murray wrote:
On April 06 2013 11:51 deconduo wrote:
On April 06 2013 11:43 Bill Murray wrote:
DECONDUO
WHAT ARE YOUR READS ON WHO ARE WHAT?

Palmar is afk, but that's normal.
FoS Deconduo


On April 05 2013 01:29 Palmar wrote:
I always suck at PYP games because I find the role discussion so boring I skip it.



PTP 1: 3 posts before Day 1
PTP 2: 8 posts before Day 1
PYP Redux: 7 posts before Day 1
PYP Boardwalk: 18 posts before Day 1

Unless you're saying he's less afk than normal, I don't know why you think I'm wrong.

well i guess he doesnt play like me anymore

You say that like it's a bad thing.



Look at his posts:

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On April 06 2013 10:03 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 09:59 Restraining Order wrote:
In fact, I'm just going to quote myself on this matter.
On April 05 2013 11:30 Restraining Order wrote:
Pick assassin and try to kill me with please.

That way I don't actually die to your stupidity.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll stop reading your posts henceforth.

Wouldn't be a problem if you'd actually think I'm mafia

I'll indulge your soft town claim for a moment and simply ask you why your list contains 9 people. If you can justify all 9 in some way at least we'll know whether or not you're talking the breeze with these myriad suspicions.


On April 06 2013 10:03 ObviousOne wrote:
EBWOP: Oops, looks like I miscounted, make that 10.


On April 06 2013 10:08 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 10:06 Restraining Order wrote:
On April 06 2013 10:03 ObviousOne wrote:
EBWOP: Oops, looks like I miscounted, make that 10.

No, it's 9.

I have no idea where VE got the Caller thing from, and it's sad you just take his word.

If I've misread it please tell me how. It won't be the first time. I spent like 24 hours in Fruity misreading every little thing so just straighten me out instead of spitting in my face, thx.


On April 06 2013 10:09 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 10:08 VisceraEyes wrote:
Actually I misread the quote-pyramid. He was saying he wanted to lynch Kier when I thought he was replying to Caller. My mistake.

....


On April 06 2013 11:28 ObviousOne wrote:
WTF are all these random ass reads BM? Is this what you always do?


On April 06 2013 11:38 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 11:37 Bill Murray wrote:
youre rightabout that

RIGHT ABOUT WHAT PLEASE TYPE MORE JESUS FUCK


On April 06 2013 12:16 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 12:13 Bill Murray wrote:
On April 06 2013 12:11 deconduo wrote:
On April 06 2013 12:01 Bill Murray wrote:
On April 06 2013 11:51 deconduo wrote:
On April 06 2013 11:43 Bill Murray wrote:
DECONDUO
WHAT ARE YOUR READS ON WHO ARE WHAT?

Palmar is afk, but that's normal.
FoS Deconduo


On April 05 2013 01:29 Palmar wrote:
I always suck at PYP games because I find the role discussion so boring I skip it.



PTP 1: 3 posts before Day 1
PTP 2: 8 posts before Day 1
PYP Redux: 7 posts before Day 1
PYP Boardwalk: 18 posts before Day 1

Unless you're saying he's less afk than normal, I don't know why you think I'm wrong.

well i guess he doesnt play like me anymore

You say that like it's a bad thing.


On April 06 2013 13:26 ObviousOne wrote:
... Bill we went over this about the spamming -- you've got ~14 posts on this page alone.

Summarize your VE meta and compare it to this game and show me how he's so definitively town. In one post.


On April 06 2013 13:29 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 13:26 ObviousOne wrote:
... Bill we went over this about the spamming -- you've got ~14 posts on this page alone.

Summarize your VE meta and compare it to this game and show me how he's so definitively town. In one post.

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On April 06 2013 13:26 Bill Murray wrote:
meta

Okay I'm laughing my ass off at this but really, three dot points or something. Substance, please.

Who do you want to lynch D1?


On April 06 2013 13:52 ObviousOne wrote:
... not sure what to make of this but way to leave yourself open to accusations of a scum slip. Wow that's really bad looking.
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On April 06 2013 13:37 geript wrote:
I figured out why I don't like the case on RestrainingOrder at all. In The Game, I got to watch both Bugs and Kita push absolute bullshit towards town's direct. It was well crafted bullshit, but bullshit none the less. VE's case is an exact example of this type of thing for a few reasons:
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On April 06 2013 09:42 VisceraEyes wrote:
So RO wants to lynch inside [Caller, Palmar, Decon, VE, Kierathi, Artanis, austin, OO, Vivax, sn0] before D1 starts. That's cool I guess, but some of those names sound familiar. Where have I seen those names before?
...
Oh that's right. In that OTHER post where he made a list and said "4/5 are townies", he wants to lynch 3/5 of them.

This is the exact type of thing that we as scum would jump on. Any little thing that we could catch where town fucked up, changed reads, etc. It's perfect to attack because it seems so simple and plausible. Town in general are not going to be filtering themselves constantly to see their positions, know where they stood on exact people, etc. Whereas as scum, we were quite often referencing ourselves to see what stances were plausible for us to take. I can't wholly ignore the possibility that RO may just be lazy scum, hell he lurked most of LX until his teammate shot him. However, it's stupid to think that this early on that scum would make a slip this big. It's far more likely to be bad/stupid town. This isn't particularly scummy.



On April 06 2013 13:57 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 06 2013 13:54 Bill Murray wrote:
On April 06 2013 13:28 Mocsta wrote:
@ArtanisXp
I would like to continue discussion regarding your Geript case.

Specifically, your qualms with Geripts wishy-washiness on whether I am town as follows:

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On April 06 2013 07:36 Artanis[Xp] wrote:

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On April 05 2013 13:05 geript wrote:
I'm not saying that you haven't done anything not town Mocsta-ish. There's just a very specific heuristic that town Mocsta seems to follow that you haven't hit on yet for me. I'm leaning town on you but until you get that one aspect I have a hard time putting you there fully.

As for your posting, I really like it.

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On April 05 2013 13:05 geript wrote:
Hi, I think you're being townie, but you're not being you-townie, yet I still think you're townie but I'm not sure if you're townie.
Oh and I think you're pretty townie.
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Why on earth would a townie post this?
WHY?

Mocsta wasn't even close to being in danger, and the town motivation for calling someone town, then suspicious, then town eludes me.


What I find curious about the above, is when we start discussing Geript and you comment the below:

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On April 06 2013 09:13 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
I had you as weak town before our exchange, and the post you made questioned that read, so I questioned you. At first I thought it made you null again, but rereading it I realized that your wishy-washy post wouldn't make sense if Geript is scum, because he created an easy way for you to defend him which you denied. Since I believe Geript to be scum that makes you fairly town.
On April 06 2013 09:16 Mocsta wrote:
Lol.. and if he is town.. what then?
On April 06 2013 09:17 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
[red]Then you'd be null again.


I find this interchange ironic, as you flip flop regarding my alignment much to the same manner Geript does.
Let me guess, the heuristic doesnt apply to your play?


Further, I shall ask the same question I asked Geript.
On April 05 2013 15:18 Mocsta wrote:
Im not sure why I need to know you have me as town though? Nor why everyone else needs to know?

Im asking because, Im still trying to figure out if that affects my perception of you.

town are more likely to flip flop than mafia

On April 06 2013 13:29 ObviousOne wrote:
On April 06 2013 13:26 ObviousOne wrote:
... Bill we went over this about the spamming -- you've got ~14 posts on this page alone.

Summarize your VE meta and compare it to this game and show me how he's so definitively town. In one post.

On April 06 2013 13:26 Bill Murray wrote:
meta

Okay I'm laughing my ass off at this but really, three dot points or something. Substance, please.

Who do you want to lynch D1?

AustinMCC at this point is betraying his blue meta as a lurker that I've seen
He had a plan that would help the mafia, too, in regards to town picking from the mafia role list
It wouldn't surprise me at all to see the mafia have taken from more "town" roles than "mafia" ones
By that token, I don't expect there is a Godfather

So do you know who is mafia or are you saying AustinMCC is a town read of yours?




ALL of those posts were one after another. They're spread out over 4 hours, but it's 11 posts that are almost entirely one liners, some without even any text. Yet he was saying don't spam, make good quality posts. Why wasn't he doing that too?


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On April 08 2013 08:24 ObviousOne wrote:
Also sorry to dine and dash but my cousin wants to hang out, back in a few hours if I manage to be wakeful when I get home.

Oh, gotta vote too.


On April 08 2013 09:58 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 08 2013 09:54 Palmar wrote:
I think it's mafia defending me, I look too scummy for townies to defend me.

why is there no machine gun role that can kill like 8 people on day 1, I'd have liked that.

Also there really is not enough killing this game.

Bored Walk Empire Mafiyawn: Pull Your Pud

=[


On April 08 2013 10:25 ObviousOne wrote:
Undertaker 21-0
GG no RE


On April 08 2013 10:31 ObviousOne wrote:
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On April 08 2013 10:30 strongandbig wrote:
On April 08 2013 09:46 Sharrant wrote:
Well, I can't think of anyone who commented on my Keirathi case, but here's an update for no one.

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He's off my scum list after these posts. They look much more like his town games. In his scum games he's more political in his posts. In his two scum games he's had disagreements but always contested things conservatively, compared to his town games like Red where he called bullshit twenty or so times on the first day.
On April 07 2013 14:57 Keirathi wrote:
EBWOP:

Oh, what the fuck.

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On April 07 2013 14:48 sinani206 wrote:
StrongandBig: Actually looks like he could be scum. Playing very differently than he did in RTP and I agree with the cases made on him. He seems to be playing a typical earlygame conservative scum strategy, skirting discussion and leading people in the wrong direction. I'll slap my vote on him for now.


Explain the bolded. Because it sounds like made up bullshit.



On April 07 2013 15:28 Keirathi wrote:
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On April 07 2013 15:09 geript wrote:
Honestly Keirathi, I don't feel great about Rayn, but I don't want to put too much stock in a meta read from one game especially when I don't know much of anything about Rayn. I could see someone going for a plan that puts them early in the draft order regardless of alignment.

As for S&B I'd like to hear his response, but I like your points about how he seems to find the draft/picking phase important but doesn't actually contribute anything to them at all.

So go look at his filters from past games. Dismissing a meta read because you're too lazy to look at the meta yourself is just...wtfboggle.

And my point wasn't that he was just pushing a plan to get himself high in the draft order. Yes, a townie could do that too. What I don't think a townie would do is specifically say that one plan was undeniably the best plan for town, the immediately flip flop on it and say that its a bad plan now, just because a new plan came up that benefits himself more. He's putting himself above the town as a whole; suddenly and for not much reason. (Which I also contend is completely different from what town rayn just did last game.)

On April 08 2013 07:54 Keirathi wrote:
@rayn: good, you're back

First: ##Unvote

Now, let's talk a bit:

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
1) How much time i devote to the game depends on how much time i have available. I have not ahd much time this weekend.

What are you defending here? WHY are you defensive? I didn't call you out for lurking/not contributing/whatever. Weird opening statement.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
How i play also depends on the setup. It's very different when everyone is vanilla or when everyone has roles. You are making a meta case and later on you say you are not even sure about my meta. How do you think anyone is going to believe you if you are not sure yourself?

You're right to an extent. I said that I hadn't read your scum meta. But everything about your play has been so glaringly different from the way you JUST played as town. Why? "Because the game is different" isn't an excuse for thinking and behaving completely differently.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
2) That's bullshit. I never said "abandon Geript's plan, it's dumb". I wanted to implement Geript's + Vivax's plan and use them both. Here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=403766&currentpage=19#362
I don't know why you even bring something this ridiculous up..

You didn't specifically call it dumb. I was...paraphrasing, a bit. And that post you just linked came before the post where I said you were calling geript's plan dumb, which is even weirder.

Let's look at the progression, exactly:

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On April 05 2013 02:13 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On April 05 2013 01:20 geript wrote:
New plan: Instead of having a set 'draft list' in that say people drafting from 1-4 need to choose from a list of ABCD roles. People drafting from 5-8 need to draft from a list of EFGH, etc. etc. This makes it very risky for Scum to draft both outside of their own list and inside of their own list.

This is absolytely the best plan and the only one i'm going to support. We just need to find out what the roles are that we put to 1-4, 5-8, etc.

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On April 05 2013 02:28 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I also support Vivax' idea if i get to be #1, Geript #2, and yamato, Mocsta, Sharrant #3-#5.

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On April 05 2013 02:39 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Combine Vivax' + Geript's ideas and let these guys pick [1][1], [2][1], [3][1], [4][1], [5][1] (everyone else picks [6->] [X]):

Then:
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On April 05 2013 03:14 raynpelikoneet wrote:
I don't think the players who are going to pick first should be limited to X number of roles.


geript's plan was exactly that: the people in the first 4 slots (aka pod, in this case) would be limited to a certain pod of picks. You said that was unarguably the best plan for town. Then changed your mind and are saying it's a bad plan. That's what I was getting at, here.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
There is no reason to push any plans further when people reacted to any plans like they did. 3/4 of the people said "fuck all the plans", "i'm gonna do whatever they want so fu" or "it takes all the fun out of the game". What's the point of discussing any plans further when you already know it's not gonna happen anyways? At least i fucking provided a plan that had four town reads in it for people to discuss but no.. Everyone just hopped right over that part..

Ugh, I hate this kind of excuse. "No one else was doing anything, so I refuse to do anything too!"

YOU were the one saying that the top picks needed some kind of cooperation. Why didn't you try to get any? You just got your top pick, and buggered off.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
TLDR;
- Strange reads with no progression or reasoning - maybe you should have asked me about those reads then if you do not know where my head is at. Now you are just calling me scum because you think i have not reasoned my reads well enough yet you have had no intention to even find out why my reads are what they are.

It's not my job to find out why you spew out bullshit reads with no explanation. The onus is on you to explain yourself. But again, that isn't even my point AT ALL. My entire point was that the way you are acquiring those reads is entirely inconsistent with how you acquired reads in Red Team. In Red Team, you saw something you didn't like, and either made a case right there, or you started poking and prodding at the person, questioning them and their motives. This game you just drop a name. Why so different?

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
- uncooperative - I see myself being the most cooperative peron before we got our roles. there are a lot of people who are way more uncooperative. After the roles were out i have had basically no time to think about the game, but that's gonna change now.

Again, missed the whole point. You said that the top picks needed to be cooperative with picking powerful roles/denying scum roles. But didn't try to cooperate at all with the top picks once the draft order came out.

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On April 08 2013 06:59 raynpelikoneet wrote:
- excessive posturing to attempt to get himself in the top picks - rofl, why wouldn't you want to be #1 person picking? How is this alignment indicative at all? Actually, scum would more likely try to avoid being the #1 picker because that automatically gives you a lot of attention and less chances to fakeclaim later if needed. Also the top guys are gonna get killed anyways early on as they probably have the "best" roles in the game. If they do not die it brings more attention to them.

I already addressed that.

No, trying to get yourself in a top pick isn't scummy, in itself. Rapidly changing your mind to a plan that benefits you more, personally, than town, and then refusing to back up your opinions on cooperating with the other top picks is scummy, though.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you contribute today, though. Hopefully you can change my mind.



##Unvote: Keirathi

Regarding Artanis I'm going to do some more reading tonight, but he has some posts that I find quite townie. I think they show that he is trying to contribute, as well as a clear thought process in attempting to help the town determine what is best in the draft phase.

On April 04 2013 17:45 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
So if I'm getting things right we plan on giving strong town reads effectively VT roles, correct? Though the idea of stopping strong scum roles is appealing, there are a myriad of strong roles in the game and I don't think sacrificing strong townreads that can pick early (and therefore are unlikely to be blocked by anyone) VT roles just to stop scum from picking certain roles is good.
1. They'll know exactly what X players before them picked so they can dodge roles that would otherwise make them VT.
2. Strong townreads end up with a public VT role rather than being able to help town beyond their scumhunting.
3. The townVT to scumVT balance will shift heavily in scum's favour
4. If there's scum before the last strong townread assigned to a scumrole, it could easily be sniped anyway.
I think it's best if everyone hides their picks since it'll give scum the least amount of information and prevent them from having safe picks.


Gives critical input on a plan as opposed to negative input, and has his first iteration of a plan: Everyone pick as discretely as possible.

On April 04 2013 18:57 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
I have a better plan for the Yamato plan, if you do decide to go through with it. If we have people that look suffeciently town, are early in the list and are willing to follow the plan, they could RNG between blocking a role and taking a 'real' role themselves without revealing which one they'd want to pick. It would create a risk too great for scum to pick that role unless they're going to WIFOM about if the town player would actually do it or not, and it'd give a 50% shot for the town player to actually still get a useful role. It's less certain than the Yamato plan but I think it puts town in a better position. It could have the same net effect yet have a higher chance for town to get more blues.


Again giving critical input and creating a new plan, or at the very least a new iteration in Yamato's plan.

On April 04 2013 22:42 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
On April 04 2013 18:57 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
I have a better plan for the Yamato plan, if you do decide to go through with it. If we have people that look suffeciently town, are early in the list and are willing to follow the plan, they could RNG between blocking a role and taking a 'real' role themselves without revealing which one they'd want to pick. It would create a risk too great for scum to pick that role unless they're going to WIFOM about if the town player would actually do it or not, and it'd give a 50% shot for the town player to actually still get a useful role. It's less certain than the Yamato plan but I think it puts town in a better position. It could have the same net effect yet have a higher chance for town to get more blues.

No one's actually addressed this yet, especially Yamato which I find strange as it's an improvement upon his plan. I'd propose we use it for 2 roles at the most though. Past that, it just becomes too unreliable.

I don't like the VT claiming idea. Players that ended up with a VT role are still important to town in one way: Taking hits that would otherwise land on blues. I don't think the info gained on roles is worth this downside. There might be exceptions in certain situations (such as a player high up in the list claiming VT when he tried to pick a scummy role), but as the norm I'd be against it.


Brings up his idea again, stating he believes it's an improvement to the plan, and again is applying critical thinking about the picking strategies that others are proposing. I don't see this as "hiding in set up speculation" I see this as someone applying critical thought as to how the town can start the game off with the most advantageous, and start the mafia off with the least.

On April 05 2013 08:21 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
The accountability is a good point actually, I hadn't thought about that yet. Hm. Still think it's better than doing nothing at all though since without any rules at all there's no accountability anyway.
Will sleep on it.


He takes criticism on his plan well, says he'll take time to think about it. To me it reads really townie,especially because of a later post where he brings up that the route town was going had no accountability. His posts to me show the thought process of someone trying to min/max the drafting system, and follows a plausible planning process.


As I said earlier, I'll take a further look into him, and read the cases more thoroughly, but to me he reads as at least decently townie.


I'm going to post this now, I'll be reading and writing for a (hopefully) larger post, so if anyone else is going to be on for a bit, let's chat about someone, I'll even let you pick who.


hi sharrant
i don't think you are right in interpreting those posts as townie, those are things scum could do as well - both because setup discussion is always fertile ground for scum to grow the rare towncred-flower, and because it was (or at least, it seemed to me) clear that this town was too fractious for a real plan to come together.
that said i like that you are taking this seriously and giving real thought to what you're saying

it seems like you haven't been commenting much on stuff since the end of the setup phase but that may be because you play more like i did when i was a new player, with a lot of full sentences and capitalization and well-thought-out posts

so how about lets talk about a player? I randomly chose obviousone. i wrote up a few sentences about his post about artanis, how about you do the same and then we can both post ours after i finish my next dota game?

Commercial break. Come at me bro.


On April 08 2013 10:46 ObviousOne wrote:
Mocsta. I love you dearly. Please make paragraphs.

Or

I'll

Do

This

Just

To

Explain

Why

It's

Annoying

And

Difficult

To

Read.


On April 08 2013 10:52 ObviousOne wrote:
@Mocsta

<3 never change



Look at all the spam there. And the kicker,

On April 08 2013 10:28 ObviousOne wrote:
On April 08 2013 10:24 Mocsta wrote:
Gonzaw
Unrelated question.

Do you think I spamming up the thread?

I am asking because my last couple posts have all been big text walls; and not sure if Im getting my message across succinctly at the moment.


Who cares at this point. Give the lurkers a shit load of posts to read when they get back. Let them cry. Let them complain. They will sheep anyway. Your question wouldn't even be relevant if everyone was participating. Be the Mocsta we know and love. Fuck the haters.


Straight up saying to spam. Call it a joke, or whatever, but that kind of conflicting mindset isn't townie.


##vote: ObviousOne

You can't stay in line with your own thinking at all, I think that's because you're scum.


Chainsaw Artanis.

But I think this is the kicker:

On April 08 2013 12:45 Sharrant wrote:
I'm pretty much 100% sure that that was an assassin kill. Gonzaw pretty much gave away his role earlier when he was figuring that he could withhold his shot today and have any possibility of surviving until the next day and being able to shoot. This makes Sinani look worse for fishing for his role now that it is fairly likely that scum have an assassin.

It is possible that he was day vigi'd, but that is much much less likely in my opinion.


This was almost immediately after the gonzaw shot. At the time, Mocsta and I (and maybe a few others), were floundering a bit about what role killed gonzaw. In strolls Sharrant being 100% sure it was an assassin kill (and remember, he's been hard defending the actual assassin).

Keep reading a bit after that and see how the rest of the conversation went down. He tried to flip it to make Mocsta scummy, and he seemed to have put an extraordinary amount of thought into gonzaw being Jack before he flipped for a "townie".

So yea, Sharrant is scum.

And with that, I sleeps. G'nite!

Look at this. He thinks Sharrant is chainsawing onto OO but qualifies with:

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On April 10 2013 17:42 Keirathi wrote:
EBWOP:

1 last thing. I think we have 2 scum between Sharrant, sinani, and Vivax. Maybe OO.

I think our lynch candidates for the day should be out of them. I'm going to drop my vote on Sharrant and sinani, and we can talk tomorrow.


But seems to be thinking OO is likely scum or knowing he is:
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On April 11 2013 10:59 Keirathi wrote:
On April 11 2013 10:53 geript wrote:
Sharrant not likely scum. Shelvocke not likely scum. OO not likely scum. MZ is a big ?? Best lynch of those 4.

Why not OO?

You seem to be overly reliant on this "scum didn't double pick" heuristic. OO didn't double pick with anyone as far as I can tell. Earlier you said "There are likely exactly 2 scum within the people who picked 1-5", which includes OO, except you never talked about him again.


Read his filter and tell me he gives an actual reason for suspecting OO on D2.


On April 13 2013 05:37 geript wrote:
If myself and BM die tonight, please nuke Kei. Kthnxbai



Day starts - relevant quotes:

On April 13 2013 12:09 geript wrote:
So mocsta, what did you think of my points?


On April 13 2013 12:30 Keirathi wrote:
I checked BM.

He is scum.

##Vote: Bill Murray


On April 13 2013 12:31 geript wrote:
Well that makes this easy...
Throw the Holy Hand Grenade at Bill Murray


Keirathi, geript's main scumread, announces red check, and geript immediately kills him, saying it's easy. That doesn't make any sense. Geript clearly didn't have the balls to doubt the check of his main scumread, and that's extremely scummy.
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Artanis mentions:
OO -- 0
VE --1
BM -- 0
This shows a mindset to avoid and never bus.

OO mentions:
Artanis -- 10
VE -- 8
BM -- 8
This shows a mindset to consider bussing

VE mentions:
Artanis -- 1
OO -- 0
BM -- 1
This shows a strong mindset to avoid other scum and never bus


BM mentions:
Artanis -- 10
OO -- 7 (plus some OO ones I don't want to try to count)
VE -- ~15+ times
This shows a strong mindset to not avoid other scum but not bus perceived scum assets
Vivax
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
21959 Posts
April 16 2013 19:55 GMT
#3940
On April 17 2013 02:55 geript wrote:
I think Shelvocke is likely town, but I prefer to lynch him than yamato honestly.


What makes you think Shelvocke is town, and why would you want to lynch him if you think he is?
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