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Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 01:12 GMT
#2315
I can never read kush.

Also why do my nukes disappear but not yours?
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 01:14 GMT
#2319
What's a cycle
I thought that meant day
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 02:22 GMT
#2347
On October 31 2013 11:09 strongandbig wrote:
Pandain I'll ask you again, why do you think I'm scum? Last time I asked you didn't answer, but wos did and after I explained stuff he changed his mind.

I really feel like you're just continuing to say I'm scum because you're comfortable with having a scum read on me. You mention me like a hundred times as one of your preferred lynches but you haven't done anything substantive to explain that or persuade anyone why I'm likely scum. I don't like it.

Alright I'll make a post afterwards in like 20 hours because sleep. I'll approach it with an open mind
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 21:46 GMT
#2536
On October 28 2013 23:49 strongandbig wrote:
Hey guys
I like promethelax and oatsmaster
Nothing as meta as Marv had (tho I don't disagree) but prome makes sense and his thread presence seems to be working towards a scumhunting-positive environment
Oats has way better SNR than I think he does as scum
Don't want to power up Marv yet and probably not at all today unless we decide to just power everybody, not bc I think he's scum but bc I can't trust a town read on him this early in the game unless he does something unintentionally telling, which he hasn't yet

Best case so far in the thread has been oatsmaster's case on pandaman, so weird.

I'm a belieber
##yolo Promethelax
##Refudiate Oatsmaster


What is SNR in this context?
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 22:04 GMT
#2541
I'm going to be posting my analysis of SnB in different parts so it isn't one huge thing and people can give feedback while I'm still doing a thorough analysis of him.

First post coming soon.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 22:04 GMT
#2542
To begin, I think there are key things which will always be true for any mafia play. Let's write them down.
  • Appear town
  • Not get lynched
  • Leave options early for play later on. This means no outright all scum bussing, but also to lay some suspicion on your teammates. Or at least rightfully not call them town. I would say even if there were a mafia team where everyone was playing extremely pro-town and everyone thought they were town, mafia would still cast suspicion on themselves.


Now what are the characteristics we can identify for a town play? Town's greatly vary in their motivations, but here are the very basics
  • Find Scum and lynch them

That's really it.

My first reasoning as to why SnB begins with a look at his first post, a very interesting one.
On October 17 2013 23:10 strongandbig wrote:
/in
Need mah mafia fix

Whichever team I'm on beware, I've got a five- or six-game losing streak and it shows no sign of letting up!

I hope I'm on a team with sentinel so I can get my revenge for his shameless mod-fuckery!


Notice how he is currently on a huge losing streak. We can assume some things from this. One that he is going to try, and two he is probably going to be upset if he starts playing poor or is upset with himself. This'll come into play later, but keep this is mind as what he wants out of this game and what you think he wants out of this game.

On October 28 2013 23:56 strongandbig wrote:
@marv the key point on pandain isn't that his play doesn't make sense, it's that he voted rayne for reasons which were disproven (the #kill thing) but then when that was found out, pandain made up very tenuous reasons to justify his suspicion staying on rayn rather than unvote, look for other reads, reconsider, etc. (saying that attacking bad reasoning is scummy, attackign rayn for "buddying" you when he really doesn't appear to be - bot of which are tenuous reasons in the first place and are doubly so when you're talking about rayn who yells at everyone for what he sees as bad reasoning and who loves to short-term buddy people to do his in-thread buddy cop thing).


The thing I don't like about this is that he's making an assumptions-based argument. This means that he's assuming I responded a way I did (making up tenuous reasons) when there is no way to prove that was my intention. I think it's harder for town to make these arguments as they know the state of uncertainty town is in, but scum have to be trying to find scum so they focus on these assumption based arguments because they're the only ones they really have.

On October 29 2013 00:19 strongandbig wrote:
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On October 28 2013 23:58 marvellosity wrote:
The key point on Pandain is whatever I say it is, s&b, and you're just describing bad/weird again.
Could Pandain be mafia on his play so far? Yes. Could he also be town? Yes.

I obviously haven't missed what you're describing, I just don't put anything strong on it.


well, i guess i just dont agree. i dont see that as bad, i see it as scummy.

the difference is "bad/weird" are things that are bad or dont make sense for town but dont for scum either. if something is bad or doesn't make sense for town but there's a clear link between it and a scum mindset or scum motivation then it's not bad/weird its scummy.

obviously he could be mafia or town based on his play so far. but oat's case is the best one i saw when i was reading through the thread, and i think by reducing it to "bad/weird play" you're well understating it.


Contradiction between first two paragraphs and last one. Justifies(hopefully genuinely) that he think's I'm scum; it's an early push he gave and this is his third post on the subject. He then leaves a path out - "Obviously [Note: What? As an aside I think people who say obviously are scum ] he could be mafia or town based on his play so far, but Oats case [ Note: Defines it as Oats case and not something he believes in ] is the best one".

On October 30 2013 00:40 strongandbig wrote:
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On October 29 2013 20:06 Oatsmaster wrote:
##Twerk
Cant you read me well marv?


weird question.
i think i was scum with oats in a game where he kept asking people to read him. am i remembering correctly? does he do this as town as well? idk, but suspicious. still leaning town on him though

also ##Twerk

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On October 29 2013 22:02 Promethelax wrote:
On October 28 2013 23:56 strongandbig wrote:
##Yolo promethelax
my b


interestingly SnB did not do this correctly either time he Yolo'd me. Not sure if intentional but worth noting.


you should've said something.

##Yolo Promethelax

you should've said something but w/e

catching up with the thread atm, on page 50, rather lynch clarity than oohchild atm, still kind of think pandain is scum but i'll filter him once i catch up, could oohchild be OO? doesn't matter but would be punny.


This is the third time that he did the ##Yolo Promethelax. So he's had three times to think about it. Before he had said in this post that he wouldn't power up Marv because he can't trust a town read on him. But he's that confident in Prom? I mean, he could do this as town but it's still weird and disconcerting to me.

I think the fact he just twerked Marv is a town point for him because mafia wouldn't want to directly contradict themselves earlier, however, but the Prom thing is weird.

On October 30 2013 00:54 strongandbig wrote:
should i update koshi? we've collectively powered up everyone else who claimed an in-game power and my faith in TL towns is low enough that I think town probably gets a better deal from powering up everyone than from powering up everyone but one person.



We've seen in previous and later posts that SnB is far more then okay to deliver his own opinions on matters. However, for this matter, he defers to town. Why? For town SnB, it doesn't really make sense. He should be able to share an opinion, and then people can reflect. For scum SnB it makes perfect sense, whether or not Koshi is scum(though it's clearer if he is), it may be suspicious for SnB to power up everyone. Not that I would think it really is, but he might.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 22:31 GMT
#2545
Second Section of SnB analysis

On October 30 2013 01:43 strongandbig wrote:
here's the thing i notice about wos's filter. there's a lot of talking about other people talking about himself.

+ Show Spoiler +

On October 28 2013 14:01 WaveofShadow wrote:
Just popped in to say ##Paranoia I don't like your play this game either Prom.
Your first post yelling at everybody not to be powering everybody up....I completely agree with.

I just wouldn't have expected it to come from you.
You take it a step further though---you say not only is powering other people up dumb, but you say it's policy lynchable.

Have you pursued this course of action in your questioning of all of the people who have done so thus far?

And THEN, not 4 posts later, you explain to everybody how to power you up.

This reminds me of the very first ever game I played with you Prom, LX, in which you created some horseshit RNG talk early 'just to get discussion started' and you were promptly lynched for it---and flipped red.

So Prome, your reads list at the start of the game. All I remember is you saying you'd lynch me based on my entry to the thread. I don't see you pursuing your policy lynches, your apparent scumreads or your 'discussion.' Funny part is' you never actually call me scum, you just say you'd lynch me based on me entering the thread and leaving, and even THEN you don't pursue it, and have not mentioned me even once since then.

Your activity is pretty fantastic and all, and I get that you think Pandain tryharding is also pretty fantastic, but that don't mean shit imo. It's funny though, you say you'd rather base your read of Pandain off of what you get from him this game only and ignore his past meta, but you're ok to base your weak early read of me on meta even though you haven't played a game with me in ages?
You are incredibly inconsistent just from your first few posts and I don't like it. I don't like it one bit sir.
Care to discuss?

##Vote: Promethelax

On October 28 2013 14:24 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On October 28 2013 14:22 WaveofShadow wrote:
On October 28 2013 14:16 Promethelax wrote:
Oats there is no case.

WoS had two points,
1) the powering thing, already addressed.
2) meta on him but not pandain, I've played with WoS before but not pandain.

Oh look, entire case refuted.

Yeah, no Prome.
First, the section Oats outlined.
Second, I know how you play. You fucking meta the absolute fuck out of everybody in most games. Why are you halting at Pandain now? You say I 'liked' town? When I had played with you last that was all I had played. Period. If anything I remember bitching about still not having rolled scum yet.

Third, the policy lynch discussion---who did you have in mind in your first post when you discussed people randomly powering people up without reasoning?

And just like Palmar in Thug Life I will point out: you are basing a meta read of me on something that is months old and you are missing out on half my mafia career with that read. That seems like a terrible meta read Prome.
Are you terrible?

Palmar wasn't terrible when I called him out for that.

He was scum.

On October 28 2013 14:28 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On October 28 2013 14:25 Oatsmaster wrote:
Man all the time this happens to me, I jump on a townie being scummy to me and scum jumps right on after.
Not that Prome is town and WoS is scum, just that WoS is way more likely to be scum if Prome is town.

Do you think as scum I would be likely to attack a town Prom as my primary mislynch target?

Prom is there a reason you don't feel like talking to me and instead feel the need to graze over my questions with Oats instead? Am I bothering you?

On October 28 2013 22:57 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On October 28 2013 22:47 Clarity_nl wrote:
So, it's cool that you both thought yuck at the same time apparently, but then don't just ignore me and talk to eachother, explain.

Your case to me seems based on basically nothing. Oats clearly posted his thing directly after my post not as a reply to it, and as far as correcting what he viewed as inconsistencies, that could theoretically be seen as towny since poking holes in a case on your scumread will either dismantle it or make it stronger---becoming something you can use. I don't personally believe it is alignment indicative but whatever.

I didn't get a scumvibe from Oats for not specifically taking the points I used and running with them because he was working on his own stuff and looked like he was actually trying to figure out what was useful or not from my case.

On October 28 2013 23:10 WaveofShadow wrote:
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On October 28 2013 23:01 Promethelax wrote:
marv, that is kind of a subtle read. Not super subtle but like not a read I'd expect a newer player to have.
As soon as I typed this I realized WoS isn't actually all that new anymore, carry on.

Clarity. Explain what oats is doing here that is out of character for him. Unless he started making sense and not doing stupid shit/changing his mind all the time this is totally in line with his meta AND that meta applies to both alignments so even if he wasn't doing that (which he is) it wouldn't be alignment indicative. I'd get you the venn diagram but I think you get my point.

So despite me harping on you for your meta read of me, you just realized this?
Marv I actually had a townread on someone else this game for something very similar but that was very late last night and I can't remember who it was exactly. Not the arrogance but the quizzing and confidence that people 'see him as town and here's why.' I'll try to look back and figure out where it was I came up with that.

Essentially your read to me makes sense, and I'm glad it is for reasons that didn't occur to me/are not related to my case since that gives me more to think about. I'm always a little bit wary of giving experienced players townreads based on mafia not being so upfront and arrogant though because there are definitely people very capable of that kind of play (ie Pandain). I guess in Prome's case it's mroe the mindset behind that type of play and his posting? I'll have a closer look.

On October 28 2013 08:28 WaveofShadow wrote:
I find the fact that Pandain even gets a slight scumread from my opening post hilarious. He's played games with me and should know almost every single opening post of mine is along the lines of what I rolled and I often whine about something, often what I rolled.

To me Pandain it looks more like YOU are the one who is trying to contribute something to look good---I don't find anything you picked out regarding me OR Rayn scum-indicative in any way, and as such I find your posting incredibly weak thus far.

Oh and I suppose I should have mentioned this before the game started but considering my not-so-great play and the embarrassing length of my filter in Thug, I plan on keeping things way more concise than usual. I do not plan to be in the top few posters lengthwise this game. Make of that what you will.

Anyway I'm tempted to fuck off until whatever Sentinel did resolves but I suppose that wouldn't be very helpful. Guess we'll see.


generally i don't like this, not one bit. it's like, scum are much more likely to do that kind of thing than town, because they care much more about deflecting small amounts of suspicion from them. note that none of these early things that wos is responding to amount to any serious pressure, any serious chance of him getting lynched, but he still attacks the people who attack him.

Prome, as for your case -
(1) his soft claim - well, i guess it's getting towards 'later in the day' when he said he would use his post. but if we're talking about claims i think sent's is way worse than his.
(2) not being here post - meh. i've done that as town, no reason why someone else cant.
(3) 9 minutes. a little suspicious? but i could easily see him having gotten three or four of your filters from the database, scrolled through looking for big cases, and coming up empty in that amount of time. also if he actually knew it was bs, why say that as scum?
(4) the 3p thing. yeah it's weird. is it scummy? Only if scum know there's a third party in the game that town doesn't know about, and we have no evidence that that's the case.

i actually like rayn's case a lot better than yours, it's similar to the argument i made above about wave being self-focused, plus rayn's pretty right that town wave just has more backbone than in this game.

overall i think wave is probably a good lynch choice today but i don't really agree with your case's reasoning for that.


I think this is a very weak post. The analysis of WoS is that "he defended himself too much against early pressure" and he concludes with "Wave is probably a good lynch choice today". I don't think the case is good, it seems like an attempt to put suspicion on a townie while still appearing contributive and he's giving generic case reasons which can point to someone being scum. AKA it's a common argument to be used for WoS and therefore really SnB is safe in making this post. But the post is weak.

On October 30 2013 01:56 strongandbig wrote:
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On October 30 2013 01:35 Oatsmaster wrote:
Fuck, both marv and Prome are pushing Wave, BUT I THINK ITS THE WRONG LYNCH.

Strong and Big is scum. Discuss.

So SnB comes in, calls people town and then argues a bit about Pandain being scum with marv. not a strong start here.
Disappears and then posts this. Which really rustled my jimmies.

On October 30 2013 00:40 strongandbig wrote:
On October 29 2013 20:06 Oatsmaster wrote:
##Twerk
Cant you read me well marv?


weird question.
i think i was scum with oats in a game where he kept asking people to read him. am i remembering correctly? does he do this as town as well? idk, but suspicious. still leaning town on him though

also ##Twerk

On October 29 2013 22:02 Promethelax wrote:
On October 28 2013 23:56 strongandbig wrote:
##Yolo promethelax
my b


interestingly SnB did not do this correctly either time he Yolo'd me. Not sure if intentional but worth noting.


you should've said something.

##Yolo Promethelax

you should've said something but w/e

catching up with the thread atm, on page 50, rather lynch clarity than oohchild atm, still kind of think pandain is scum but i'll filter him once i catch up, could oohchild be OO? doesn't matter but would be punny.

He throws suspicion on me for something that he misread. Why would he throw suspicion on me but not follow it up with any questions or try and figure out if there was anything else scummy about my play?
Also, I kinda dont like the 'rather lynch who than who', because it still leaves the option of changing your mind and not looking bad. Also here is the switch on his read on Pandain. Hes scared that pandain(scum) might actually be lynched so he wants to flip his read around and decides to randomly filter Pandain and not any other people. Odd? Yes. Very odd.

On October 30 2013 00:56 strongandbig wrote:
also something I didn't see from clarity - is he going to start playing more later in the game or is this all we're getting out of him? cause if he's not going to commit to ever playing differently then he really needs to replace out or get lynched tomorrow, we just can't allow someone who's playing like that to live to LYLO. but i'm okay with not lynching him today.

Also here, he doesnt give a read on Clarity, this is a policy lynch on a townie. Nothing here says that clarity is scum and we should lynch scum. He doesnt think clarity is scum. This is important. He seems to know that Clarity is TOWN.


So Marv/prome, why is WoS a better lynch than SnB? And how do you guys not wanna lynch SnB???

yeah i got you confused with kushmasta, who i was scum with in sicilian.

i filtered pandain because i said i would filter him when i posted while catching up to the thread. also how is it odd that i went back and filtered the guy who was previously my top scum read. how is that odd.
love the connection case with no flips btw.

then your last point
Show nested quote +
he doesnt give a read on clarity

Show nested quote +
he seems to know that clarity is town


lol

seriously though do you disagree with me? regardless of clarity's alignment i don't want him alive at lylo unless he starts playing differently.

Really weird justifications for filtering me. He's filtering me because he said he would do it? That's the reasoning? And then he says "yo i was suspicious of him of course I would filter him." Which is what I think he would just say outright, and not use it as an addendum. The post just seems weird and more scum phrased then town phrased.

Note: At this point I am noticing he is delivering several big posts. See, here:this, this,this. The posts are long but they have all been weak. I'm also noting that in TL NOIR, he posted different. And even though he was a replacement, he replaced day one after Darthpunk went crazy. He had math homework to do, but still. His play feels more like mafia Thug Life in his posts layout. Kush just said SnB doesn't post like he does with analysis as scum, but that's directly wrong as shown in Town Noir and Scum Thug Life . If he is town after this I'll have to up my opinion of him, not that he's bad but he seems more confident and delivery-based as scum then he does as town, which makes sense since scum have the information.

On October 30 2013 05:41 strongandbig wrote:
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On October 30 2013 05:38 WaveofShadow wrote:
On October 30 2013 05:32 Seuss wrote:
On October 30 2013 05:14 Koshi wrote:
On October 30 2013 05:13 Seuss wrote:
On October 30 2013 04:52 Koshi wrote:
Seuss
Why did you not say anything about the ##Boost power from WoS?


I wasn't here at the time he used it, and when I got back he wasn't here and no one had commented on it. Meanwhile, what would later become the OOHCHILD/Clarity fiasco was underway so I dove right into that.

So you read it while catching up and didn't think it was worthwhile to talk about? Did you believe WoS actually used a power on you?


I thought it was possible but as I had zero information about what he did and it had been completely ignored, I filed it away and moved on.

For that matter, why didn't you or anyone else comment on it?

Fuck buddying, do people honestly think Seuss is scum after this post?
So fucking transparent about everything he does---yeah it could be faked I suppose but not to the degree he's taken the questioning from people.

SnB---you know...I think i actually like my vote on him.
His case on me isn't one at all. He defends me to Prome and then just says 'I like Rayn's case better' without adding anything of his own.
And then this:
On October 30 2013 03:45 strongandbig wrote:
@marv devils advocate - what if wave didnt want to lynch Seuss bc he has warm fuzzy feelings from coaching his noob game


Why does he keep defending me? More than anything it looks like he is pre-shifting responsibility for when I flip blue, even though he could have just sheeped me and not had any responsibility to BEGIN with because he had NO hand in my lynch! Pre-assumed guilt is forcing him to do this imo....SnB could very well indeed be scum. Defending a mislynch as scum doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you see it from that perspective---he is trying to hedge his bets while trying to be on the 'right' side of town.




im not defending you
the attitude that if i agree with someone's conclusions i have to agree with all of their logic is one of the many silly tropes in mafia

also i guess i didnt vote yet

##vote: waveofshadow


Finally votes WoS, now confirmed town. Others voted him too but this doesn't help him, especially when he had poor reasoning. I'm also interested why despite him repeatedly saying before that clarity should die or be lynched if he plays like this , he instead chose to vote WoS. Like Clarity was way up for the lynch.

On October 30 2013 05:46 strongandbig wrote:
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On October 30 2013 05:34 Pandain wrote:
Day one scum try to contribute and appear town, but aren't that actually dedicated.

They usually aren't retarded, think through their posts, and still don't try to help town atmosphere.

All the things a scum would do on day one I see in SnB

which of these things are not also things a townie without much time would do? i guess the thread atmosphere thing, but how am i hurting thread atmosphere?

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On October 30 2013 05:42 Pandain wrote:
On October 30 2013 05:39 marvellosity wrote:
On October 30 2013 03:48 strongandbig wrote:
Also - I'm starting to worry about sentinel's mystery countdown power and why he still hasn't told us what it does. Despite calling koshi scum for not telling us what his power does.

I dunno about s&b. This post is pretty bad because Sentinel has talked about his power so many times, I don't see the point in bringing it up again.

Then again it looks like s&b actually made genuine effort to go and look at Pandain's games earlier when he talked about his big posts


Problem is SnB also made a genuine effort to point out why Palmar was scum in Thug life. SnB can go hard to explain a read he's confident in when it benefits you.

The problem is even if he did, was that in the approach to help town or to explain himself. If it's to help town, why share it when really I wasn't under any suspicion. If it's to explain himself, it makes sense to defend me as I'm town and that will be revealed later/he's ultimately right.

I don't think SnB is giving an effort to help town, I think his effort ultimately only shows that he's interested in appearing town by posting reads.

Has he really attempted to change this lynch or help drive a lynch?

dude you were on my team, you KNOW that wasn't a genuine effort because I knew palmar was scum because he was ON A TEAM WITH THE TWO OF US
also did even that case didn't involve any actual research into palmar's past games

also i forgot that sentinel claimed he doesn't know what his power does. but why is saying that scum motivated.

last thing, why would i have attempted to change the lynch when i like it


Way super defensive. Also it seems like he has thought plenty of reasons why he's not scum in the form of how a scum would response. As scum, remember you're trying not to get lynched. So you always think of reasons why you're not scum instead of why you're town . SnB's reasons are that he's not scum, instead of that he's town. Townies defend themselves based on their actions, scum defend themselves based on that they're actions weren't scummy.


I will note that SnB later posted this:
On October 30 2013 05:56 strongandbig wrote:
yeah if people are telling the truths about their powers then clarity gets lynched i think


I forget where this came about, what was the reasoning for clarity having to be scum based on powers. It was that town couldn't have all three powers, right? No? Like WoS/Me/Clarity. But I thought he was suspicious of WoS?

Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 22:55 GMT
#2554
Third Portion

scum-esque style of posting.
On October 30 2013 06:15 strongandbig wrote:
why dont we just like nuke everyone except marv?


Another "how about this guys", makes sense from mafia perspective instead of giving definitive opinion as town.
On October 30 2013 09:00 strongandbig wrote:
It's like a shitload of lynches without scum getting to nk in between. It's super pro town.


No

Contradiction with his nuke

Notice how SnB was supporting town discussion and his opinion on who to nuke
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On October 30 2013 08:47 strongandbig wrote:
Currently considering nuking sent cause I'm not sure I believe his story about his power and I don't like the contradiction with how he acted towards koshi's asking for powerups; rayn because of the Marv power thing and also for the lulz; and koshi cause of the whole "x number of people with powers that need to be charged up" thing and also cause I don't trust him (after he won that one game as SK I feel like his ability to look town as scum far outweighs his ability to find scum as town).

Actually we should probably nuke both koshi and sent to resolve that for good.

Comments?

On October 30 2013 06:15 strongandbig wrote:
why dont we just like nuke everyone except marv?

On October 30 2013 08:57 strongandbig wrote:
Okay wait I realized the problem with nuking almost everyone. If we miss one scum then the scum team can just nk everyone we don't nuke who is town, we have to leave at least enough people alive to have a lynch after nukes plus NKs. I think we should leave at least five people unnuked.

On October 30 2013 10:45 strongandbig wrote:
I will nuke someone in half an hour. Currently on the list:
VA for pigheadedness
Sentinel for reasons mentioned above
Rayn for teh lulz




Then he does this:
On October 30 2013 11:37 strongandbig wrote:
Okay
##Nuke HotCottonCandy

Oh wait I spelled it wrong


Which contradicts what he was talking about before. Town discussion about nuking since SnB wanted to treat all nukes as real. It contradicts who he wanted to lynch about. He nuked someone without any discussion and that, while it does draw suspicion to him(town), is extremely anti-town. I just cannot see a town SnB blindly nuking HCC who never had suspicion on him before.



On October 31 2013 02:26 strongandbig wrote:
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On October 31 2013 02:06 WaveofShadow wrote:
On October 31 2013 01:55 marvellosity wrote:
On October 31 2013 01:52 WaveofShadow wrote:
On October 31 2013 01:50 strongandbig wrote:
On October 31 2013 01:41 Pandain wrote:
Does anyone disagree SnB is scum btw?

I do

Why am I scum

No one has made a case I can respond to

Also I'm not

Also I'm probably dying at the end of night anyway

I will. Give me a few. And marv preflip association bad. I don't want to assume OOHCHILD is scum hard-defending SnB yet.

Please don't tell me what's good and bad, I was doing it in association with Prome's own read on OOHCHILD, and it didn't tain my own read. I don't need teaching how to play the game.

How am I supposed to know what affects your read and what doesn't?
Everybody needs reminders sometimes, even you, o unfallible one.

Regarding SnB:
On October 30 2013 05:46 strongandbig wrote:
On October 30 2013 05:34 Pandain wrote:
Day one scum try to contribute and appear town, but aren't that actually dedicated.

They usually aren't retarded, think through their posts, and still don't try to help town atmosphere.

All the things a scum would do on day one I see in SnB

which of these things are not also things a townie without much time would do? i guess the thread atmosphere thing, but how am i hurting thread atmosphere?

On October 30 2013 05:42 Pandain wrote:
On October 30 2013 05:39 marvellosity wrote:
On October 30 2013 03:48 strongandbig wrote:
Also - I'm starting to worry about sentinel's mystery countdown power and why he still hasn't told us what it does. Despite calling koshi scum for not telling us what his power does.

I dunno about s&b. This post is pretty bad because Sentinel has talked about his power so many times, I don't see the point in bringing it up again.

Then again it looks like s&b actually made genuine effort to go and look at Pandain's games earlier when he talked about his big posts


Problem is SnB also made a genuine effort to point out why Palmar was scum in Thug life. SnB can go hard to explain a read he's confident in when it benefits you.

The problem is even if he did, was that in the approach to help town or to explain himself. If it's to help town, why share it when really I wasn't under any suspicion. If it's to explain himself, it makes sense to defend me as I'm town and that will be revealed later/he's ultimately right.

I don't think SnB is giving an effort to help town, I think his effort ultimately only shows that he's interested in appearing town by posting reads.

Has he really attempted to change this lynch or help drive a lynch?

dude you were on my team, you KNOW that wasn't a genuine effort because I knew palmar was scum because he was ON A TEAM WITH THE TWO OF US
also did even that case didn't involve any actual research into palmar's past games

also i forgot that sentinel claimed he doesn't know what his power does. but why is saying that scum motivated.

last thing, why would i have attempted to change the lynch when i like it

What are you referring to here exactly?

On October 30 2013 11:42 strongandbig wrote:
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Decided to nuke HCC because (a) I don't like the way he swapped to pandain from wave for no reason, (b) don't like how he powered up koshi for no reason at the very start if the game then attacked people for doing the same to sentinel, (c) don't like how he only talks about me and oo while yelling about going after easy targets, (d) general feeling.

This bothers me because I feel like a ton of people did exactly the same thing but you're trying to find a way to justify your nuke on VA.

On October 30 2013 23:19 strongandbig wrote:
On October 30 2013 21:43 marvellosity wrote:
On October 30 2013 21:41 strongandbig wrote:
It's too late for more nukes
And Marv I'm just surprised people are multi nuking me rather than any of the other actually scummy people around

Which two people would you flip right now if you had the chance?

Well, I'm actually kind of unsure now about wos. Once pandain made my vote not matter I didn't have to decide whether I believed the turnaround. So like, I would be happy if he flipped but I'm not sure I want to flip him.

I think I'd go with ooh child and vayne.

Sent I'm struggling with because I feel like the way he played is antitown but I can't see his power going to mafia unless they're all fake. So if they turn out to be all fake nukes at the day post then sentinel.

Actially nm I think I still would put wos on the list above sentinel. I just get really bad feelings about how self-focused he was early in day 1 on people who attacked him despite the pressure being largely superficial.

I suppose I understand your reasoning at the end of the post regarding why you still want me to flip, but I don't understand why you said you were unsure in the beginning.

I also don't understand---do you think OOHCHILD/Vayne/me are all scum together? Because i'm not sure that is possible.


1. Like I said, once I decided I didn't want to kill pandain, I decided that you were a good choice to lynch and better than the other options people were voting for (if there were any, I don't remember). I'm pretty sure I posted something about that where i said i disagreed with promethelax's case but i still thought you were scum. and my filter is pretty short, you must've read that right?

2. "Trying to find a way to justify" vs "explaining my reasons for". If I was scum and wanted to yolo lynch someone, I would've made up reasons for nuking rayn or Marv or someone good instead of vayne right? Or I would have just kept my nuke, but I see no scenario in which nuking vayne isn't worth my life as scum. Especially when I can be pretty sure a revenge nuke is coming (since this is VA we're talking about). Instead, suppose I'm a townie, I've decided to use my nuke before going to sleep, I look around at the players who haven't been nuked yet, and I choose vayne. How does my post in this scenario differ from what I actually posted? (Protip: it doesn't)

Also I strongly disagree that other players who had not yet been nuked had done all the things I talked about vayne doing. He was definitely more hypocritical and more suspect than the other people who were still alive and unnuked.

3. The only reason I was unsure was that Marv and prome seemed persuaded by your outpouring of emotion and rage. I think they're both good players so the fact that they appeared to think you were genuine made me hesitant.

4. I don't care who you are scum with. I don't look at potential teams until someone flips. I look for the people most likely to be scum and try to make all of them die.

Good town post.


His later play from page four onwards is fine.


Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:03 GMT
#2559
Conclusion and Overall Look


1. SnB's play is more like his play in Thug Life then TL Noir

2. SnB has been posting like a scum and not like a town. He is appearing town by posting analysis, but failing to try to catch and find scum by failing to engage in town discourse or really push his reads. He gave poor reasons for lynching WoS and I don't like how he just ignored Clarity.

3. I simply don't like his abrupt nuke on HCC

4. I don't get the feeling he genuinely cares about this game. He is on a 6 game streak and is playing not just poor but like somewhat uninterested despite all his posting.
Larger Context
Here is my current reads:
Promethelax
WaveofShadow
Pandain

[UoN]Sentinel
Oatsmaster
Koshi
strongandbig
OOHCHILD
marvellosity
Seuss Onegu
Clarity_nl
HotCottonCandy
raynpelikoneet

I believe the Mafia to be in Sentinel, Koshi, SnB, OOHchild, Seuss/Onegu, and HCC.
Let's say three scum since there are 13 people.


I'd be willing to switch from SnB to any of these people except Sentinel, but this is why I believe SnB to be scum.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:06 GMT
#2561
On November 01 2013 07:46 raynpelikoneet wrote:
marv i am still nuking Oats.
Someone else can do Seuss. There are other nukes right, Prome?


Stop. What?

On November 01 2013 07:50 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On November 01 2013 07:47 OOHCHILD wrote:
its not hard to read but can you do a tldr?

post by post analysis are so bad and don't serve the purpose..

I didn't do every post, I did posts which I felt could show he's scum. You can decide whether or not all of them are valid. If you don't have time to read it, then don't play this game because this is analysis at its core and a thorough analysis, not just an analysis.

On November 01 2013 07:52 OOHCHILD wrote:
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On November 01 2013 07:50 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On November 01 2013 07:47 OOHCHILD wrote:
its not hard to read but can you do a tldr?

post by post analysis are so bad and don't serve the purpose..


Not true? but pandain i actually read your entire case for real and it didn't convince me.


Okay, that's fine for me honestly.

On November 01 2013 07:56 OOHCHILD wrote:
@pandain i just read some of his filter from thug life and I think his analysis this game is much deeper. Basically the only smart stuff he said in thug life was picking apart other people's cases on town.


I find no strong points he has made.

On November 01 2013 07:57 raynpelikoneet wrote:
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On November 01 2013 07:52 OOHCHILD wrote:
On November 01 2013 07:50 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On November 01 2013 07:47 OOHCHILD wrote:
its not hard to read but can you do a tldr?

post by post analysis are so bad and don't serve the purpose..


Not true? but pandain i actually read your entire case for real and it didn't convince me.

yes true. Even the worst mafia players do not slip in every post of theirs. I can tell from Pandain's case, even when i havn't read it, and even if SnB is scum, that at least 50% of his points are invalid. If you do a case like that the main point gets buried somewhere between there and it's alot easier for scum to defend as if they defend 90% of the case it looks good even if it's the 10% that actually makes them scum, just because they defended pretty much everything -> case is bad.


This is probably why you never find scum.



Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:09 GMT
#2564
y do u think oats is scum
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:10 GMT
#2565
Didn't you say you didn't read my case?

Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:15 GMT
#2568
On November 01 2013 08:14 strongandbig wrote:
Hahahahaha pandain

If you're gonna do a meta analysis you should try reading a town game where I was trying
Instead of one where I basically didnt play


Which game should I look at?
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:18 GMT
#2569
I explained earlier why I thought Oats was town, so if you're not going to give me the respect of reading my case I'm not going to give you the respect of answering you now.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:36 GMT
#2576
You should probably nuke Kush, he's playing way too certain and shit. It's just really throwing me off.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:39 GMT
#2577
I don't doubt that you had reasons to do what you did, I would hope you did scum or town. I just think your reasons don't justify your actions.

Also were you waiting for Clarity to just respond "Yes I don't plan to play" to your question?
On October 30 2013 00:56 strongandbig wrote:
also something I didn't see from clarity - is he going to start playing more later in the game or is this all we're getting out of him? cause if he's not going to commit to ever playing differently then he really needs to replace out or get lynched tomorrow, we just can't allow someone who's playing like that to live to LYLO. but i'm okay with not lynching him today.



Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
October 31 2013 23:40 GMT
#2578
Your nuke for Vayne came out of nowhere. It's so disconcerting. I see that it could be town because your drawing suspicion to yourself, but by that point you could've gotten away with it. That's why right now I'm focusing on how anti-town and sudden it was. Probably the most suspicious nuke in my eyes.
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
November 01 2013 00:08 GMT
#2588
Rayn isn't going to be lynched.
Don't think you should be focusing on him Oats
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
November 01 2013 00:10 GMT
#2592
On November 01 2013 09:09 Oatsmaster wrote:
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On November 01 2013 09:08 Pandain wrote:
Rayn isn't going to be lynched.
Don't think you should be focusing on him Oats

we got like 32 hours, chill out.


I'm pretty chill right now although apparently no one agrees with me about SnB which I don't know how to feel.

I just think you have better use of your 32 hours then to even inititial vote Rayn
Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
November 01 2013 00:17 GMT
#2599
I think only conclusion is that two can't be scum, but all three could be town
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