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On June 27 2013 11:31 hzflank wrote: EBWOP
Sorry my bad, that was Aqua who thought that Lone and Spicy were scummier than Onegu. Still wrong. My read on LoneMeow is null.
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To make myself absolutely clear, I am not convinced that Onegu is town. For me he is clearly in the scummier half of the players in this game. However, I am not convinced enough that he is scum to make a serious commitment to lynching him less than an hour into the day when we are 1 mislynch away from 4-3 LYLO (afaik in the entire history of TL mafia, town has won from that position exactly once).
I will continue to examine his play myself, and if my view of his play should change my attitude to his wagon will change also. For now I'd like to discuss Spicy and StiMaDDict, as well as Onegu, as potential lynches today.
To date the only person who has responded to my points about Spicy was Chromatically. I'd like to hear some other opinions.
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On June 27 2013 13:33 hzflank wrote: I agree with what you say about him playing defensively. I also got a complete null read from his argument with FirmTofu. Regarding voting I think Spicy is in a similar place to Onegu. I don't really have anything else to say on it. Most of your individual points are valid, but reading it all made me feel apathetic towards Spicy, rather than scream Scum at me. This is exactly where I'm at with Spicy. If I was confident he was scum my vote would be on him rather than StiMaDDict. My case was intended to show why the reasons that other people thought (and I previously thought) Spicy was town are in fact not particularly good reasons for thinking that.
Hurricane's reason for thinking that Spicy is certain town (because Hurricane wasn't shot) doesn't even make any sense.
I think Spicy is worth at least as much consideration for a lynch today as Onegu.
Elaboration of my read (or lack thereof) on Onegu: Sidestepping the two main wagons of the day is a generally scummy thing to do. However, the question you must ask yourself is why is it indicative that this person has a scum mentality? The reason, as far as I'm concerned, is that it means you don't have to commit as hard to your reads (which can be used against you later) and you don't have to pretend to analyse the thread.
(There are probably other factors and I've generalised a lot here, but I hope you can see what I'm getting at - it's important to look at WHY a "scummy" thing is actually indicative of a scum mentality, and check in each case whether the "why" applies. If anybody has another fundamental reason why dodging the wagons is scum-indicative, I invite you to share it and talk about whether or not you think it applies.)
Onegu indeed sidestepped both my wagon and Xzavier's in the end. However, he has been analysing the thread (see his cases on me, Alakaslam and FirmTofu). I don't think I've agreed with any of his analysis, but that isn't inherently important. The only relevant question is "Did Onegu believe in the cases he raised?" and my gut feeling is yes. Onegu has certainly not been shy about posting his reads and showing his reasoning, no matter how questionable I or anyone else may think his reasons are.
Am I certain Onegu's sincere? No. But I find it (slightly) easier to believe than the alternative, based pretty much solely on my gut feeling. I could try to justify this (and I will if somebody asks), but I think it really does just come down to my personal opinion - you will have to make your own judgement, even if I tell you where to look.
Every time I can remember that somebody has hardcore tunneled me in a game of Mafia, they have been town. Perhaps I'm wrong, and perhaps you can convince me of that - but I'm getting bad feelings from an Onegu wagon.
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@Onegu: The prevailing thread sentiment at the moment appears to be that you are a favoured lynch for today. I imagine you don't want that, so who do you think we should lynch instead? Your goal should be to persuade the thread that your scum read is more likely to flip scum than you are.
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Still mulling over your case FirmTofu.
I would like to see Onegu's reply before making my comments.
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Im not sure i follow when you say "My feeling is that in Les Mafia Spicy is giving reasons for his suspicions, whereas in this game he is giving justifications for his vote." I gave my reasons for suspecting tofu early on and there was no vote there. Also can you explain the difference between reasons and justifications the way you use it?
I meant to make that distinction more clear, but ran out of time before the deadline and then forgot about it. My impression of your play in this game is that you're not looking for scum (and finding reasons why they are scum), you're finding somebody you can justify putting your vote on. Town look for scum, scum look for a convincing place to put their vote and thus look like they're looking for scum. I can't believe an intelligent townie could seriously believe that Hurricane was more likely to flip scum than Xzavier at the end of day 1.
I also completely disagree with how you claim i defended myself in les mafia. Barely batting an eye? Here is what i wrote in response to someone voting me:
"If you want to bring my meta into this then fine. the newbie game reads were a hell of a lot easier. My analysis has been the same in both games, posting analysis of players. Simply because some of my earlier analysis didnt come up scum doesnt mean that my play is different. Take my recent read on you that you haven't responded to. Called you scum for your consolidation and rampant vote changing. Your tunneling of me this late goes against everything you said about consolidation in your earlier posts. You are scum and your attempt to get a late day bandwagoning going is evident of it. "
The rest of it is just explaining my fucked up post. (quick aside for anyone who didnt want to read les mafia, i was voted for posting a horrible case on one person but contained posts of another).
That's exactly it. People voted for you in Les Mafia. FirmTofu didn't vote for you at the start of the game and yet you jumped all over him with an approach I can only describe as mud-slinging, making the conversation about him rather than about you. On the other hand, in Les Mafia you defended yourself rationally, even though the accusations levelled against you were much more serious. Reacting reasonably to four votes on you that have been made for an objectively valid reason is an entirely reasonable thing to do - reacting violently to a single person saying they are moderately suspicious of you, only a few hours into the game, is not.
You also now think my initial case on tofu is "trash" and yet earlier you stated this:
On June 25 2013 12:36 Aquanim wrote: Show nested quote +
I'm not interested in lynching any of those three today, if that's what you're asking. I can see the thought process of all three and I can easily see all of it coming from a town mindset, even if I don't agree with a lot of it.
Clear contradiction.
I thought it was trash then too, I just thought it was towny. (Townies are not always right - hell townies often don't even make sense.) I reread it more thoroughly during the night, and I changed my mind. Townie's prerogative.
Laslty, my read on hurricane was bad because he was afk and posted nothing but fluff? How does that make it ok?
Well, if I'd looked at Hurricane's filter at that time I would have thought "This guy hasn't been here to post since the initial phase where most everything is fluff... I'll see what he posts when he comes back and there's actual material in the thread for him to work with before I commit to a read on him". You, on the other hand, apparently thought that case was good enough to stick with up until the lynch (even though he'd posted considerably more content since then, which pretty much nullified your original case).
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On June 27 2013 23:52 FirmTofu wrote:Show nested quote +On June 27 2013 22:39 Aquanim wrote: Still mulling over your case FirmTofu.
I would like to see Onegu's reply before making my comments. A few things to be wary of: Onegu is probably shitting his pants right now along with his scum team, who are currently trying to come up with the best plan that minimizes their losses. You need to hold Onegu accountable not only for his response, but also the time he takes to formulate one. The longer he takes, the more indicative it is that he is scum. I apologize for all the grammatical and spelling mistakes in my case against Onegu btw, I was really tired when I wrote that. I don't think you should ever try to judge someone's alignment based on how slowly they reply to you (within reason, of course <stares at StiMaDDict again>). You never know whether real life interfered, or they just needed to think about it for a while, or anything else.
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That being said, @Onegu: If you are in fact town, the way to convince us of that is to post and to show you are seriously analysing the game and looking for scum.
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On June 28 2013 08:32 FirmTofu wrote: I believe his "strongest town read" is hzflank or Spicy By the process of elimination, it cannot be Alakaslam, me, or Aquanim because he has stated his suspicions for all of us. It cannot be LoneMeow or StiM because a lurker cannot be rational person's strongest town read. It probably isn't Hurricane because Hurricane is currently pushing a strong case against him. The only players left are Spicy and hzflank. I'd really prefer not to speculate about it.
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By the way, FirmTofu, my reply to your case is a little redundant now that Onegu has claimed - do you still want to see it?
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@Spicy: What is your read on Alakaslam?
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On June 28 2013 08:47 FirmTofu wrote:Show nested quote +On June 28 2013 08:41 Aquanim wrote: By the way, FirmTofu, my reply to your case is a little redundant now that Onegu has claimed - do you still want to see it? Nothing is redundant. Please show it. Here it is.
+ Show Spoiler +I'll go through FirmTofu's case point by point. + Show Spoiler +On June 27 2013 20:43 FirmTofu wrote:FirmTofu's Case Against OneguPoint #1: Onegu seems to be looking for reasons to vote me that he doesn't necessarily even agree with. Example: Onegu initially states that meta is bad and you should "stop trying to meta peoples play." Show nested quote +On June 24 2013 16:10 Onegu wrote:On June 24 2013 15:46 Alakaslam wrote:On June 24 2013 15:35 Onegu wrote:On June 24 2013 15:32 Alakaslam wrote: I know I sai I'd go but this came up.
From the post for us newbs:
"Please do not talk about any ongoing games either in-game or pre-game. This can affect other games and is unacceptable. Please do not refer to outside-of- thread activity of players in this thread."
I have already messed up in this regard and I apologize. But note some folks have also talked about meta from previous newbie games and I don't think we are allowed to do that either. Will ask In green tomorrow when not trying to go to bed and when at computer. (iPhone)
We are ok since the games we are talking about have finished already. Sweet! Thanks again Onegu. I think I'll read those then- Tomorrow. Man this is worse than angry birds, I am thoroughly addicted. For now here is a list, so ALL of town can meta :D http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=412757http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=407058http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=405359Sorry that there is no meta on me, I'm that new. Note that some players may not only have played newbie games. Search their names! How late you want me up, midnight? I get up at 5 tomorrow! Also, check that you don't get into the above error first. Ok guys meta on peoples play you shold have played with that person at least 5 times, as this is impossible please stop trying to meta peoples play. It is ok to infer somethings on game setup, but people are still learning thier playstyle in a newbie game so you cannot base a scum read on meta play in noob games... Then, when he wants to make a case against me, he uses my failure to use meta as an excuse to call me scummy. Show nested quote +On June 26 2013 20:58 Onegu wrote:On June 24 2013 11:15 FirmTofu wrote:As an aside, I would prefer if the accusations remained within the confines of this game and this game only. That is to say, judging people on the differences between their past games and this one is a rather boring way to play the game. Again this is jsut posting about a discussion we were haveing and posting something on it but not actually giving a good reason. Sorry it is boring is not a legitimate reason to do or not do something in mafia. It seems like Onegu has differing views on meta depending on when it is convenient for him to think one way or another. Inconsistency can be a sign that a player is not seriously analysing the thread, which reflects a scum-mentality. However, I don't think Onegu is being inconsistent with his views on meta here. The first of Onegu's posts quoted here is saying that Onegu thinks that we should not use meta. This post isn't particularly useful but not all posts are. The second of Onegu's posts is observing that FirmTofu's post (which also states that we shouldn't use meta) does not contain a particularly good reason for not using meta. And to be honest, I partially agree with him. While it's a legitimate view for FirmTofu to hold, just because something is "boring" doesn't mean it's a bad idea. Onegu's post does NOT say that he disagrees with FirmTofu about whether meta should be used, only with the argument which FirmTofu used. Summary: I see no contradiction here. In fact, observing that someone whose opinion you agree with has nevertheless justified that opinion poorly indicates a reasonable level of analysis to me. + Show Spoiler + Point #2: Onegu switched his vote from Aquanim to Alakaslam rather arbitrarily, suggesting that he knew Aquanim would flip town and everyone would blame him, so he moved to his "second best" scum read. Example: Here we see Onegu buiding a case for Aquanim and establishing that he believes Alakaslam is "noob scum" and is a lower priority lynch to Aquanim. I have bolded all relevant areas. Show nested quote +On June 25 2013 16:58 Onegu wrote:On June 25 2013 16:48 FirmTofu wrote:On June 25 2013 16:45 Onegu wrote:On June 25 2013 16:33 Aquanim wrote:On June 25 2013 16:01 Onegu wrote:On June 25 2013 15:50 Aquanim wrote:On June 25 2013 15:48 fyfy wrote: I'm getting the read now that Aquanim is more scum than Xzavier as Aqua seems to be extremely defensive and I maintain my belief that Xzavier just types like a scum. Reading through the discussion, I am under the belief that Aquanim is scum.
##Vote: Aquanim Can you explain this some more? What exactly about my play do you think is scum-motivated? Can you please post your case against me as the only thing you have said is I didnt respond when things were going on, well I was going to sleep when HZ posted his case, I responded to the NN thing and have scum hunted and tried to create a useful town atmosphere. I have no idea what this request has to do with the post you quoted, but whatever... The first page and a half or so of your filter is just talking about policy, power roles and random fluff without any particular intention of finding scum. This isn't damning in as of itself, early game does tend to be like that, but the entirety of your efforts in the direction of finding scum is an overwhelming tunnel of myself. As far as I can tell, you haven't looked at anyone else at all, and endlessly tunneling a likely lynch target for the day while repeating the same old arguments (made by other people before you, mostly) over and over is a good way to look active while not actually bringing anything new to the table or having to pretend to do some original scumhunting. You haven't made any significant and new contributions to the thread, which is scum's natural state. That being said, I think it's possible that you're town and that you think tunneling me like this is accomplishing something, which is why I'm voting Xzavier over you. Actually I have made a scum hunt albit small on alakaslam, I think he is noob scum which isnt as important as killing a scum who knows what they are doing. Jesus Christ bud, if you think he's scum, by all means vote him. It's not like you know of any scum who know what they're doing, so you not voting for Alakasam is extremely suspicious to me. If I have 2 scum reads I am going to vote for the one that is the biggest threat to town. And the reason I think he is scum is he posts only fluff offers no posts to help town and offers no reads on anyone at all. The only thing he has said is spicy and onegu defend yourself. Then he dissapears, I feel this is super noob scum play but in no way is dangerous to town, on the other hand aqua has posted dangerous even harmful ideas toward town. Then, as soon as he is pressured, he backs away from Aquanim. CONTEXT! At this point, removing his vote caused the tiebreak scenario between the lynch of Xzavier and the lynch of Aquanim to be lifted. In essence, this move sealed Xzavier's fate and saved Aquanim from being a probable lynch. This ensured that Onegu would not look suspicious post-lynch because he wouldn't be responsible for the death of a townie.Show nested quote +On June 25 2013 18:08 Onegu wrote:On June 25 2013 17:35 Aquanim wrote:On June 25 2013 17:27 hzflank wrote:Xzavier, Onegu and I all seem to have similar opinions on scum voting, yet we all seem to have greatly differing personalities. This leads me to believe that Xzavier and Onegu are town, as I think they arrived at their opinions by looking at the situation from a town point of view. The only slight worry I have on Xzavier is: On June 25 2013 14:33 Xzavier wrote: Whats the massive scum yell. cuz im not gonna lie. i skimmed threw all the noisy neighbor spam just to see who was asking for them to claim. no other part of it means anything to me xD But that could just be a character trait or a lack of time. On the whole I am uncomfortable with the votes on Xzavier. Is there anything about Xzavier and Onegu's play which makes you think they're town besides where their vote is? Personally, I can't see anything about their play which makes me think they're looking at this game with a town mentality and actually searching for scum, rather than just jumping on the only other wagon going. I think they are likely scum but I have a much townier read on you because I can see you're thinking about the game and critically evaluating your reads. Their arguments, on the other hand, are mostly "herp derp he disagreed with us about nosy neighbours" and "look at this single post and how it agrees with something someone else said, that's so scummy!". I don't think either of them could sincerely believe I'm scum based on the arguments they've presented. You said you had some questions for me, will they be forthcoming soon? Ok fine I will admit my case on you with my own findings isnt that strong. And looking at Alakaslam again he is my stronger case. ##: UNVOTE
##: VOTE ALAKASLAMBut if we lynch Xzavier and he flips town we will be lynching you day 2.
The explanation that Onegu jumped from voting me to Alakaslam because he didn't want to take responsibility for my lynch is plausible. However, I also think it's plausible that Onegu, as town, reassessed his case on me and found that it was weaker than his case on Alakaslam, which is indeed how he justified it: On June 25 2013 18:08 Onegu wrote: ... Ok fine I will admit my case on you with my own findings isnt that strong. And looking at Alakaslam again he is my stronger case.
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##: VOTE ALAKASLAM ... But if we lynch Xzavier and he flips town we will be lynching you day 2. I think this is an entirely reasonable town reaction. He realises that the case he's not voting is the stronger one for as long as he doesn't know Xzavier's alignment, and so he switches to it. Obviously, knowing the alignment of Xzavier could change his reads - a lot of the play in day 1 centred around Xzavier, knowing his alignment is obviously going to give you a lot of context for your reads. Making decisions conditional on which way somebody flips isn't something which I think would come naturally to scum. + Show Spoiler + Point #3: Onegu was wanted to lynch Aquanim if Xzavier flipped town, but post-lynch, he didn't even pursue Aquanim at all.
(See last quoted post) The most critical part of this post lies in the last sentence. What changed? Why did he give up on Aquanim? Nearly all of Onegu's case for me relies on events that happened prior to this post. There is absolutely no reason for him to suddenly switch his vbest scum read from Aquanim to me. A townie in this position after Xzavier's flip as town would pursue Aquanim to no end. The only explanation here is that Onegu is scum, and he sees me as a greater threat to his mafia team than Aquanim.
I distinctly recall him making a case on me after the lynch. He chose to pursue you as his primary target, but he still has me on his scum list. I don't see how partially changing his mind makes Onegu scum. In fact, flexibility in changing one's reads as you get more information about your targets is a clear town sign. + Show Spoiler +Point #4: Onegu declared his apathy to both the Xzavier and Aquanim lynches shortly thereafter with no developments other than his case for Alakaslam. Show nested quote +On June 26 2013 02:19 Onegu wrote:On June 26 2013 02:01 FirmTofu wrote: Even now, it is still possible that Xzavier lives because we only have 5 votes. We should try convincing hzflank or Alakaslam to switch their votes.
As I suspect the Mafia team is as follows... Xzavier SpicyDinosaur Onegu
They are trying not to make it obvious that they want to keep Xzavier alive. You can see how they are frantically looking for other scapegoats to shift attention off of Xzavier, but don't have much of a case.
Furthermore, my preliminary assessment of Alakaslam speaks to an SK mindset. I will go into further detail when it becomes applicable on Day 2. To be honest I dont care who is killed if Xzavier flips town my vote will go on aquanim and if he flips scum I will vote Spicydinosaur. My current read on Xzavier is null with scum reads on alakaslam and aqua. With every post Alakaslam makes he looks more and more like noob scum to me. Note: He reiterates that if Xzavier flips town, Onegu's vote will go to Aquanim. This is further evidence for Point #2 and is also indicative that Onegu still has not shifted his suspicions onto me. He says he has scum reads on Alakaslam and Aqua, but doesn't vote for Aqua who was the only one likely to be lynched that day. The scum reasoning behind this is that he doesn't want to be suspected post lynch(Point #2). A townie would be willing to push their second best scum read(Aquanim) if he was the only scum read that was even on the table. Only scum would try and pretend as though Alakaslam was a viable option. Elaboration on why apathy is a problem: Onegu's apathy towards the lynch on day 1 is a clear scum tell. An honest townie, in his position, would never have switched from voting Aquanim to voting Alakaslam. Even if the townie thought Aquanim was a sub-optimal lynch, he would have been willing to pursue it was the lynch that was even remotely likely to go through that he agreed with. However, scum Onegu was obviously apathetic about the lynch because he knew that, no matter what, a townie would die. Therefore, to clear himself of blame, he quickly got off the wagon he was currently on and allowed the other wagon to take precedence. This way, no one could accuse him of being the reason for getting a townie killed. It was a brilliant move, until of course, he was honest about his true intentions. This is a plausible reason why a scum Onegu would do this. However, there is a reasonable town explanation, and it's quite simple. Onegu thought that Alakaslam was more likely to flip scum than either myself or Xzavier. I admit that Onegu did not raise hell to convince other players to switch to Alakaslam. However, he did in fact make a case on Alakaslam, so it's not like he didn't apply any effort at all to convincing us. This raises the question of "Could Onegu have reasonably believed that Alakaslam was more likely to be scum?". I believe the answer to this question is yes. His case on Alakaslam is basically "Alakaslam has posted nothing of worth when there was plenty of worth that could have been said", which is pretty much all you can actually say about Alakaslam. This is a pretty decent reason for thinking Alakaslam was scum, as opposed to his case on me (which never made any sense). Actually saying that "I don't care who is killed" is a pretty impressive slip of the tongue. However, I don't think it's entirely implausible that a town Onegu could be largely apathetic as to which of his null-to-scum reads is lynched, given that he doesn't think his main read Alakaslam is going to get lynched. He tried to convince the thread to lynch his main suspect, Alakaslam - when that failed, he was justifiably not hugely invested in the lynch. Towards the end of the day, the Xzavier wagon was clearly leading. (In fact, the only two votes on me at the end IIRC were Xzavier himself and StiMaDDict.) Jumping on my wagon again would have been absolutely futile, and since he didn't think that Xzavier was scum obviously he wouldn't jump on that one either. Staying on Alakaslam was a REASONABLE thing for a townie to do in Onegu's position. Sure, it would have been better to argue even more for an Alakaslam lynch, but not everybody has the backbone to stare down the rest of the thread over a read nobody else shares. + Show Spoiler + Point #5: Onegu's entire case against me is a scummy OMGUS that only serves to maim my authority and credibility. The only thing that happened right after post-lynch was that Chromatically and I drafted up separate cases against Onegu. Nothing else changed. There was absolutely no reason for Onegu to change his scum read of Aquanim to suddenly attack me. Here is his case for reference. + Show Spoiler +On June 26 2013 20:58 Onegu wrote:Going to make a case on FirmTofu also as looking over his filter looks scummy also. Show nested quote +On June 24 2013 11:15 FirmTofu wrote:Scum Hunt Day 1:On June 24 2013 10:59 Chromatically wrote: hey guys Analysis: Trying to appear friendly with an innocuous greeting. Seems to project an air of insecurity. Preliminary Conclusion: Scum On June 24 2013 11:01 StiMaDDict wrote: so it begins.. Analysis: Neutral statement of fact. Preliminary Conclusion: Need more information. On June 24 2013 11:02 Spicydinosaur wrote: Hey everyone Analysis: Exudes power with strong capitalization techniques along with a greeting. Preliminary Conclusion: A leader with a powerful role. On June 24 2013 11:03 Xzavier wrote: Spicy <3 hello again. Analysis: Trying to establish a connection with a player that he has interacted with prior to this game. A metagaming, manipulative sort of move. Preliminary Conclusion: Scummy On June 24 2013 11:04 Chromatically wrote: Why so scummy, Spicy? Analysis: First baseless accusation. As the old chinese proverb states, "He who smelt it, dealt it." Preliminary Conclusion: Scum Suggested Lynch: Chromatically His first post is nothing, it doesnt promote a good town atmosphere nor does it get anyone to defend themself as the cases are just BS. Show nested quote +As an aside, I would prefer if the accusations remained within the confines of this game and this game only. That is to say, judging people on the differences between their past games and this one is a rather boring way to play the game. Again this is jsut posting about a discussion we were haveing and posting something on it but not actually giving a good reason. Sorry it is boring is not a legitimate reason to do or not do something in mafia. As I am about to go to bed, I would like to go ahead and##Vote: fyfy because he is the only person who hasn't spoken yet. Keep your eye on Stim and Meow as well because they are lurking, especially Stim. Show nested quote +As I am about to go to bed, I would like to go ahead and##Vote: fyfy because he is the only person who hasn't spoken yet. Keep your eye on Stim and Meow as well because they are lurking, especially Stim. Such a wierd choice on who to vote but more on this in a moment. Show nested quote +It wasn't pure spam, and I certainly hoped it would generate discussion. I knew I could not really say anything of substance at that point, so I decided to do something fun that would get people talking. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that. When you look at this post and contrast it to some first few posts, you can clearly see that singling me out as a target is rather silly.
But it was pure spam, when you say it was something fun that means it is spam. Show nested quote +Just because Stim seems scummier than fyfy doesn't mean fyfy shouldn't be voted. I wanted fyfy to talk and I wanted to draw attention to him. That was the reason for my vote. Nothing more, nothing less. We can address Stim now that I am awake. But why try to get someone who hasnt talked at all to try to talk? Someone who you know has posted and is most likely to post again is a much better choice to pressure, unless of course you dont want them to have to talk more... Show nested quote +I almost agree with everything you said. The problem arises when you realize that the case you've made for aqua is a hell of a lot stronger than the case you've made for Chromatically. Is this something you have overlooked? Or are you deliberately weaving a story to pit town against one another? For the time being, it's hard to tell one way or the other, but I did enjoy reading. So you agree with almost everything? Show nested quote +Regardless, I see your story as a plausible conspiracy theory, at best. Acting upon it without further evidence is dangerous. Most of your post relies on speculation about the player's true motives. Show nested quote +I agreed with it in the sense that it was a plausible theory, not that it was particularly likely. For the record I have you both pegged as town and I think you are both wasting precious time accusing one another. His conspiracy idea arose mainly because you accused him of being scum. I see his post as a long-winded retaliation against your credibility to ensure that no one bandwagons him to oblivion. You agree with almost everything but its just plausable and you have town reads on both of them. What a quick backpeddle there, why so fast? Show nested quote +3) You defended fyfy while accusing me of not voting for Stim instead of fyfy. There was no reason to say that when both were perfectly good lurker targets that were largely interchangeable. But there was a big differance and in no way were they interchangeable as all you have to do is look at the ammount of posts they have had. Show nested quote +3) My point is your reason is stupid. What difference does one line of posting make? Seriously? Accusing me of being scum based on one line that someone else wrote? It makes a HUGE difference that one line means you know someone has posted and more likely to post again, while you do not know if the other will post or not. Show nested quote +2) For fyfy, I still hold that there is no difference between the lurkers and you claimed that there is a difference. I think your reasons for claiming that there is a difference are stupid and make no sense because only one line separated one from the other. Why do you continue to defend fyfy? It's quite intriguing. Why do you keep on there is no difference when there is one and spicy wasnt the only one to point it out, with fyfy fliping green this becomes much more relevant. Show nested quote +I would remind everyone of the voting rules.Voting rules:Voting is done in this thread. You cannot PM me your vote.Please vote in the following format: ##Vote: Qatol. Votes not done in the correct fashion may not be counted. Vote counts will be updated whenever intermittently.No conditional voting.You may vote for yourself. You may not vote for anyone dead or outside the game.In the event of a tie the person with the most votes first wins (or loses).You may vote for a No Lynch in the format: ##Vote: No LynchVoting is mandatory. You may NOT abstain.If you do not think Chromatically is scum, then please vote either 1) No lynch or 2) Someone else.In the event of a tie, the person who gets voted up first, dies.
Why post this all it is is fluff and takes up space. Show nested quote +Sounds great! Could you consider looking through Xzavier's filter and reading Chromatically's case against Xzavier and consider voting for him? I would be willing to take you off my scum list if you would do that. So you are happy at first with my statement what changed? Show nested quote +I concur. The Xzavier lynch didn't actually have the highest chance of flipping scum for me; however, it definitely provided invaluable information that we can use throughout the game. I'm glad to see we agree. So you blast me for saying I have a better read on alakaslam but not voteing him then when I do vote him I am scum, but you didnt think the xzavier lynch didnt have the highest chance to flip scum? And me saying before the lynch I am ok with either lynch because the xzavier lynch gives town the most information, but when you say the same thing after the lynch that is perfectly ok? REALLY? Show nested quote +I disagree. vigi should shoot the target most likely to flip scum, and that is most definitely Onegu at this point.P.S. I wouldn't mind Spicy either *wink wink* Directing blue roles is bad and wrong dont do it. Show nested quote +So Alakaslam, if you want to clear yourself in my eyes, you are going to have to vote Onegu. That is the only way I can know for sure that you guys aren't on the same team. If he flips town(which is extremely unlikely), you are cleared of all blame.If he flips scum, you will be scrutinized, but I will take some time to reconsider because you did vote for him.Voting for Onegu is a win-win situation for you if you are town. The only reason you wouldn't vote him would be if you are scum.The ball is in your court.
This is bullying you say if you dont vote how I want you to then you are scum and I will come after you also. Show nested quote +Bullying? I don't see how this is bullying at all. I'm giving him a choice that he can choose to accept or not and I letting him know the consequences of his decision. If he doesnt make the choice you want him to then there will be consequences is the definition of bullying. Show nested quote +Also, Onegu isn't being pro-town by calling me scummy. He's being anti-town. Almost all of town agrees that I have been one of the most pro-town players this entire game. Where are these people and I would ask them to look at your filter again and go ahead and say you are one of the most pro-town people in this game. You have tunneled spicy, xzavier and me and havent done much else other than bully alakaslam andmpost fluff. And when Xzavier flips town you say you didnt even expect him to flip scum. Nearly all of his points refer to supposed "scum-tells" that occurred pre-lynch. If he thought those were scum-tells, why didn't he bother to bring it up when it actually mattered? Why did he conveniently start to think I was scummy RIGHT AFTER I accused him? The only explanation for this sort of behavior is that he doesn't actually think I am scummy, he is just looking for reasons to convince others to think I am scummy so no one will vote him.Are you seriously trying to tell me that there is something scummy about rereading day 1, with the retrospective knowledge of who got lynched, and drawing new conclusions based on that? I guess that makes me scum then... and you... and everybody else in this game (with the possible exception of StiMaDDict). I'd also like to tell a little story here. Imagine you are a townie named Q, making scumreads and generally playing the game. Suddenly one of your scumreads says to someone else: "Vote Q or I'll assume that you're both scum and lynch you!". What is your reaction to that going to be? While I personally don't think that that statement makes FirmTofu scum (if only because it would be way, way too stupid) I'm not even suprised that Onegu went apeshit over it. I probably would have, in his position. Summary: It's a nice little case FirmTofu has built up here, I believe that he believes it, and I think he's townier as a result... but he's wrong. None of this makes Onegu scum, and a fair bit of it in fact makes me think that Onegu is town. Why Onegu is townHe's looking for scum. No, really... In this game, Onegu is suspicious of a lot of people, I might even say paranoid. Most of his posts are talking directly about why another player is scum. Staying on-point with this approach to the game strongly indicates to me that his goal in the game is in fact to find scum. + Show Spoiler [meta] + In the last game, where he was scum, Onegu was MUCH less direct about his suspicions and his posts generally contained a lot more fluff.
In my view his suspicions this game have been both consistent and flexible, both marks of a town-y thought process directing them. Consistent in that he hasn't suddenly changed his mind about anything without justifying it, and Flexible in that he has in fact changed his mind when new evidence presents itself. Looking at a player's overall attitude to the game is in my mind a far more reliable approach than focusing on individual scummy things they did. (Learned through painful past experience of mislynching townies who made dire mistakes.)
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On June 28 2013 08:59 Spicydinosaur wrote:Neutral/scummy. His chaotic play feels very deliberate which doesnt tell me anything about alignment. He voted for a townie so that's why its in the scum direction. His read on onegu is hard to understand, at least for me as it seems he sheeps other's opinions, dead chrom and tofu. Haven't seen his own "case" yet. He's at least posting more than stim did, though with about 95% more fluff. Assuming that we conclude Onegu's claim is legit, who do you want to lynch today?
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Onegu should claim NOTHING more until Alakaslam tells us whether he was roleblocked or not.
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Time to put my cards on the table.
Why I've been voting StiMaDDict
It was a convenient place to start a counter-wagon to Onegu.
If Onegu's was the only wagon, I was concerned that the town would tunnel him, he'd flip town, and we would accomplish less than nothing today.
However, if Onegu was scum, I didn't want to start a strong wagon which would draw townie votes off him. Ideally, scum would jump on the StiMaDDict wagon to draw the lynch away from their scumbuddy, and it would be so obvious that they would be catchable. (Thanks to hzflank for making the StiMaDDict wagon look convincing, btw.)
The StiMaDDict wagon was serious enough to look convincing, but not serious enough to make today a one-wagon day on him.
Do I think StiMaDDict is scum?
I'm leaning towards it, but only by process of elimination. I'd prefer to lynch someone on whom I have a better read than that.
Who do I think is a better lynch?
Alakaslam. There's honestly not much to say about his filter since it's largely fluff and a lot of it has been said, but I'll sum it up here.
Filter is almost entirely fluff + Show Spoiler + I'm not going to prove this one to you. Read his filter for yourself, it's pretty damn obvious
Very concerned with what the town thinks of him + Show Spoiler + I am thinking of how I can establish my innocence. Everyone should be doing this. The more town we confirm, the better off we are finding/accurately reading scum. I also think that I've messed that up, since I actually would like FirmTofu's case against me. I kind of went all Blazinghand, and I'm just not him.
+ Show Spoiler + So for establishing MY innocence:
I haven't been the best town so far, I posted mostly defensive fluff, and the above in the spoiler. HOWEVER, as making the thread difficult to read is not the best thing for town, I put it in there. You are not obligated to read the contents of the spoiler! But feel free to.
I haven't posted much, posting from the table is kind of rude just as is texting from the table. But I managed, and that was probably unwise. I plan to read the thread, and give a case for people IN SPOILERS with a TL;DR above each one so as to keep stuff organized. Remember, scum wants: Confusion, lack of info, and difficulty to read thread.
So town: Keep it organized, I will be doing the same, and see you in a couple minutes. Let's go find some scum!
I do agree that much of what I have posted has been odd. You know where a lot of that comes from?
+ Show Spoiler +
Which I appreciate but late at night it was killing my confidence. Don't worry about doing that further though. I have nothing to hide.
Show me some substantial posts so far! I don't want to drop a deuce on everyone but what HAS been very useful so far? Chromatically has been attacked, hasn't really defended himself yet, but others have defended for him. Odd. Then he came in and kind of defended himself.
I have attacked FirmTofu, mostly out of bitterness due to the bbcode.
Aqua has been attacked, almost for attacking chromatically and for the same reason you have been and I have been- "inactivity".
Note I am bound to be bad town this first game. I have learned much from you my good man. If it helps, you guide my vote until you look scummy.
Well Define: quality. Senseless accusations? No, there are people who have done that that there is suspicion toward. I don't see how that helps.
Accusing, from me, is going to require more evidence. I'm sorry, I just don't read people very well (yet), and I don't want to do what I have been doing.
Well then, does aiding town count?
"Shouldn't town be accusing and whatnot because it establishes innocence and is how you scumhunt etc etc" paraphrase.
"Oh meta is allowed? People have decided they want meta? Here you go, last three newbie games, top of page 13!"
"Well shit* guys I posted nothing but fluff, really sorry about that"
See the above Venn diagram, read my filter, then put it in context reading the thread. It's not scum play it's just try hard bad town. Give me a day/ night cycle and it won't be so bad, more info and I might find one.
Show nested quote +On June 25 2013 01:09 Alakaslam wrote: Voting is requested! I will bandwagon out of bitterness until I see a really good defense. Not so much against the bbcode error (that would be hypocritical) but against... Baseless lurker accusations at the start of day 1!
See how I roll? Am I going to make those accusations? Maybe (I'm kind of doing just that) but in this case, it's because he already has a vote, and I am thinking of helping a bandwagon.
I WANT firm to show up as town, I am super nervous about mislynching! But I need to make a case it seems, and this is what I got because frankly I don't see any great cases yet.
##Vote: FirmTofu
Out because work
He's voting because it was requested, not because FirmTofu is a serious scumread of his? What the hell? See y'all around, when I was looking scummy to myself I knew OMGIS, it wassa comin!
Good luck my friends, you will need it. DON'T not lynch me just because I had a hard day, if I really look scummy Lynch me dammit! Towns must know how to COMMIT! >: )
Now I see how scummy ^^ looks (I mean my post.)
Feh! What am I worried about. My Lynch would give town a lot of confusion though. Not good.
I get a strong feeling Mafia are actually pretty active this game, kind of puppetmastering and doing a good job of it. They've got me so far XD
No case for the above? Well, it's because of my general feeling based on the whole thread.
A lot of people accusing with weak cases or, like me, just avoiding accusing because they're worried their case will be weak (which is in itself scummy in a way- that worry).
You know? Really, I'm just very new and very wishy washy. Feel free to ask me stuff, I'll see it on my spare time and I'll try to answer. A lot of stuff I've done I have done to try to be a sideline resource to town. I haven't the best of skill at reading people anywhere, but one thing I can do is tell the truth and navigate TL. So ask me, try to entrap me and make me guilty worse than I am. I need some Town confirmation if I'm going to be useful, and that is the only way I can think of to confirm myself town. Otherwise, please just lynch me. + Show Spoiler + If everyone thinks I'm scum, I'm just dead-weight because nobody believes me. So even scumreads from me become spam, and useless fluff.
Has anyone actually considered the motivation behind my filter?
I know why I look scummy, heck you guys convinced me (lol). So, I ask you. How do I fix that? What is at my disposal to help town? I thought towniness was any effort to aid town, not YOU MUST SCUMREAD THAT IS ONLY AID TO TOWN AND NO SHEEPING BRO, IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE YOUR VOTE AT ANY GIVEN TIME BECAUSE YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT + Show Spoiler +. If that is actually true, then expect me to suck in the future. I will be a quick lynch.
On June 26 2013 12:36 Alakaslam wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2013 12:26 FirmTofu wrote: Alakaslam, would you be willing to vote for Onegu on Day 2? Yeah, maybe, check my late filter. Depends on cases against him. I just gave my vote to a mislynch right after reading town off his filter. Do not expect voting confidence from me yet! Going to homework, I need it! :p. Potato may = paranoia. Possibly acute. Along with this homework, I am going to read the town section of the thread I linked again. If you make cases against me folks don't do it based on the "lurking" I'm about to do for obvious reasons. -_- In particular, he's planting the idea that he has no confidence in his votes. Town has no reason to do this. There's yet more of this (I didn't believe anyone could martyr this hard) but if you want to see it you can read his filter. I'm well and truly bored of quoting this stuff by now. Alakaslam seems to constantly think he's under pressure when he's barely been mentioned so far... I gave him a free pass for a while because I figured he was a newb, but enough is enough.
Isn't looking for scum + Show Spoiler + Day One: Voted for me with no explanation, got called on it and quickly removed his vote. Eventually moved his vote to Xzavier with the justification that he'd read my filter now and seen my argument that Xzavier was scum. ...
Let me repeat that out here, this one is important.
On day 1 Alakaslam voted for me, at that time one of the leading wagons, WITHOUT having seen anything I had to say about Xzavier. This is not somebody who is putting any effort into finding scum. + Show Spoiler +Night 1: Tries to "vote" Onegu... On June 26 2013 14:38 Alakaslam wrote: Vote: Onegu. EZ PZ but "revenge is not sweet" if I can really do this. I really felt he was a helpful fellow...
can we vote in advance at night?
If not then please understand the intent firm, I believe you. If so bolding upon reply from mods, and mods please consider it a vote.
I want to establish myself town and I understand tofu's case, I am NOT taking this lightly. Like I said I don't like mislynch in a mini like this! and then backs out of this for no apparent reason. On June 26 2013 16:11 Alakaslam wrote: Same, but the counter he made at you early game is bs. Blue claiming is so stupid, I haven't seen it help when I read the epic threads of the bamcis. I see why people didn't like him early. He attacked your attack on him with "your clarifying common sense IN A NEWBIE GAME is just spam. Spicy!
But yeah I think he's town. Will keep reading to make sure.
(He's not specific but I'm pretty sure this is a reply to FirmTofu above, who adressed a question to him about Alakaslam.) Day 2: Says his primary suspect is StiMaDDict (the easiest target in the game), doesn't vote for him, and disappears. This is the same guy who put a vote on me without even having looked briefly at my filter. If he's that free with his vote on an ongoing wagon, why doesn't he want to be seen starting a wagon on his primary suspect? Alakaslam is constantly sheeping the prevailing opinions in the thread with absolutely no input of his own.
A few other things + Show Spoiler +On June 26 2013 10:19 Alakaslam wrote:Show nested quote +On June 26 2013 10:12 Chromatically wrote:On June 26 2013 10:10 hzflank wrote: I'm actually in quite a good position. If Xzavier flips town then I don't look scummy. If Xsavier flips red then a day 2 case against me is beneficial anyway, since there are only 3 other likely scum targets and I can just aim at one of them for my defense. Even if I get lynched day 2, as long as the power roles are being used on the 4 main scum targets then you are likely to get a scum lynch on day 3.
In short: a super late day 1 wagon on me would be a terrible idea for the town. (Not that it was suggested). ..what? Why are you thinking about what makes you look scummy? Why aren't you lynching based on who you actually think is scum? UM, Maybe he is a blue role. If so though, careful with that hz. But yeah good point Chromatically, why would you post this at all hz? If I was scummy before for sheeping Onegu, what is this? I see no possible town motivation for saying this.
Basically the only defence possible of Alakaslam is that he's too scummy to be scum, and that's a ridiculous argument.
I'm still thinking about other possible lynches for today but my vote is on Alakaslam.
##Unvote ##Vote: Alakaslam
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The trouble with excusing Alakaslam's play as just being newby town is that the proof of that really only proves that he's newby, not that he's town. Dealing with pressure in the way he has is newby, but it's not towny.
I can't see any indication in his filter that Alakaslam is thinking about this game like a townie.
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I can't take this any more.
@Alakaslam: Are you claiming that you have a power role? I don't understand what you're saying here.
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@Onegu
You have said you don't want to reveal who you saw visiting Alakaslam because you don't want to out a town power role, and you believe that the person you saw is town.
The possible town power roles in this game are:
Veteran - doesn't visit anybody
Vigilante - Alakaslam is not dead so it can't be this
Parity Cop - is already dead, there won't be more than one
Jailkeeper - If somebody in fact JK'd Alakaslam they should claim and he will be confirmed scum
Tracker - If there was another tracker in the game they would counterclaim Onegu
Watcher - there won't be more than one
Therefore, there are NO town power roles which you can expose by claiming who you saw visit Alakaslam. The only possibilities are Nosy Neighbour or a scum power role.
I see no possible downside to you claiming who you saw visit Alakaslam. I would like for you to do this.
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On June 28 2013 15:51 hzflank wrote: @Aqua, I got some mechanics confirmation from the host.
He could of seen a Tracker or a Jailkeeper. This is true. However, if he did see a Tracker or a Jailkeeper, whoever that is should claim as they will 100% prove that Alakaslam is scum.
Revealing a power role is definitely worth a 100% confirmed lynch.
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