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Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 14:20 GMT
#1159
Amiko you're wrong. But you can kill me if you promise to agree to a written consent that you're just lynching me because my lynch list after the policy lynch on jabber went:

1. town
2. mafia
3. mafia

instead of you who with the benefit of a cop check actually had mafia at no 1.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 14:47 GMT
#1167
On June 05 2014 23:11 Amiko wrote:
First let's talk about why Palmar's points are unconvincing.

1) Palmar's vote on ninjabunnies means nothing
Mafia make cases they don't intend to push, and mafia talk to each other.
Even if that were not true, I don't think Palmar gets any credit for this given that he didn't actually push or do anything with that case, anyway.

Take a look at ninjabunnies' reaction - she's the one being "attacked" and she doesn't care because the case is so obviously meaningless
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/451317-detention-mafia?page=9#175
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/451317-detention-mafia?page=9#177


I haven't played with NB before and I'm not a prophet. There is no way I can predict how she would react to me making a weak case on her. The case is still correct, it just doesn't mean she's mafia. That shit happens all the time in mafia.

On June 05 2014 23:11 Amiko wrote:
(2) Palmar hasn't actually bussed his team
Palmar may have argued with gobble and said he would support a slOosh lynch.
However, those words are not consistent with his action.

On day 2, Palmar resisted a slOosh lynch in favor of M_Z.
Further, look at his discussion that day.
Even if Palmar thought M_Z was a better lynch, he doesn't weigh in on slOosh except to say that he would vote for him. He doesn't actually vote for him, doesn't really explain why M_Z is a better lynch. Although he says his lynch on M_Z is a slam dunk (despite it being weak) he doesn't even attempt to push his case. When he tries to convince people to move to M_Z, he doesn't discuss the merits (the "slam dunk") part at all, and only goes with the WIFOM "too easy" argument.

Further, after telling people to vote for their top scumread on day 1, he tells people not to vote for the "too easy" lynch on day 2. To me, this all looks like someone who is eager to get votes off a scum partner.

If Palmar was town and thought slOosh would be mafia, his day 2 should have spent trying to get reads to distinguish between the players and figure out which was more scummy. He should have at least weighed in on the slOosh case and provided some explanation.


Your case on Sloosh wasn't wrong. There is no point for me to argue about the merits of the case. In a world where MZ doesn't exist I would have just sheeped your case. I actually intended to do that until I got cold feet regarding how easy the wagon was.

I'm still sort of surprised it was this easy, but I guess gobble actually being mafia explained some of it.

My argument was never that your case was wrong, my argument was that my case on MZ was really good. However I reached the wrong conclusions for the right reasons on MZ. I proved that he wasn't reading the thread and wasn't actively trying to solve the game, but I neglected the conclusion that he might be lazy and apathetic town. Just like you (and others) are now using correct arguments (I tried to divert a mafia lynch) to reach the wrong conclusion (I'm mafia).

The difference is that unlike MZ I'm going to actually respond and explain until there is nothing left, I am a vengeful bastard and I want you guys to feel bad about not having listened or appreciated the efforts if you end up lynching me anyway.

I don't waste time when I'm playing mafia. I see no reason to post when town is doing what I want it to be doing. I was okay with Sloosh getting the lynch until later in the day. If I was mafia and planned to defend him I probably would've done it earlier and not just based on wagon speed. But hey, ignore that.

On June 05 2014 23:11 Amiko wrote:
If Palmar actually thought the M_Z case was better, why was he so inactive day 2?
Why didn't he try to get anyone to join the losing wagon he was so sure about?
Why didn't he talk about the merits of slOosh at all?
He doesn't even say anything like "If M_Z does flip town, slOosh dies next." He doesn't talk with anyone who begins to townread slOosh to try to convince him otherwise.

Palmar may have said he doubted slOosh, but his play reflects a strong desire not to lynch slOosh.


On the contrary. Me not doing stuff means exactly that I'm happy with whatever it is town is doing, or at least that I don't really mind it. That's the entire point.

Your argument doesn't fit any reasonable mafia strategy. You're saying I initially decided to bus Sloosh and then decided to not do it anymore way later.

I'm not this incompetent as mafia dude. When you drop the case I make a decision on what I want to do, and I either bus him for credit or defend him by breaking your case. Your case was good, you KNOW your case was good. If I'm mafia and don't want sloosh to die I would have to dismantle it immediately. Your explanation does not fit.

On June 05 2014 23:11 Amiko wrote:
(3) Palmar defending fuba doesn't mean anything to me
First off, Palmar's point here misreads the situation.

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On June 05 2014 18:50 Palmar wrote:
On June 05 2014 18:50 Palmar wrote:
On June 01 2014 08:43 Amiko wrote:
Please explain this (Palmar & fuba):

How do you not vote slOosh when nearly everything suspicious about M_Z also applies to slOosh, plus slOosh is scummier in other ways?

@Palmar:
You should also join my lynch on slOosh because fuba's play today is weird and he is pushing M_Z - if you don't see that I can argue about it.


I think fuba is town, I don't care if his play is weird.

This sloosh lynch is going too easily. We should do MZ.


If I'm mafia, why am I defending fuba, who is (at the time and still is) the most likely person for town to get behind lynching. It doesn't make any sense.

At the time we were talking, the wagons were M_Z and slOosh. Fuba was not the most likely person for town to get behind lynching.
Second, this isn't really defending fuba at all. It's just admitting someone's play is weird and still calling them town.
If anything, it leaves the door open for Palmar to try to mislynch fuba later (because fuba's play is weird).


Yes but I didn't really need to call him town. And yes, it was not a strong townread. I haven't still went back and found what triggered the townread, but I made it for some reason.

The backtracking strategy you're claiming is actually awful, because if I'm mafia I need two mislynches here, not one. It woul be ok if I needed just one. I can't do the "contemplate my reads" thing twice.

On June 05 2014 23:11 Amiko wrote:
(4) lol

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On June 05 2014 18:50 Palmar wrote:
Regarding lazy on MZ lynch day

I don't see how this has anything to do with my alignment. Hell, if I am mafia I would like to think I'd actually have continued playing on that day, mostly because I'd have known this was a mislynch and I needed some continuation strategy. What I did instead was to fuck off and leave no strategy for myself as mafia.

So please, heads out of asses, I'm not the mafia we're looking for.


I actually expected scum-Palmar to make this point.
Even if it wasn't a terrible point (and it is) it doesn't actually matter because mderg and fuba were lazy too.

It also doesn't explain your inactive play on d2, where you should have been quite active since two people you suspected were on the chopping block.

More in a bit :3


Again you're saying "you should have done something" that doesn't fit with how I actually think. I'm usually the most active when I think townies are up for a lynch, or I have to fight for something.

It isn't a terrible point. What's the point of being active when the people I want to lynch are on the chopping block? That's exactly the time to not do anything because there isn't anything to argue for. I already explained this to you during the MZ lynch. I thought MZ was mafia, what's the point of trying to figure out if Slam is mafia or not. It's a complete waste of time.

You're making a huge logical leap here. You assume that people acting how you WANT them to act to be how they WILL act.

And you're risking the game on you being cocky.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 14:48 GMT
#1168
On June 05 2014 23:23 Amiko wrote:
I'll also mention that I think it's more likely I would be roleblocked or killed D1 since I was playing pretty towny, yet I wasn't. I think townreading Palmar may have helped with that


If you allow yourself to condemn me for the actions of the mafia you're being awful. This is terrible.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:02 GMT
#1170
On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
Give a good explanation for your day 2.


Ok.

On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
You should have been talking about both M_Z and slOosh since you claim you thought both were scum.


No I shouldn't. You think I should, but that isn't how everyone thinks.

On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
You should have been questioning these players to decide which was the better lynch.


Why? Both players had good cases on them. I thought mine was better but clearly it wasn't. I really had no problem with a sloosh lynch initially, and I said as much.

On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
Explain how you think your case on M_Z was a slam dunk.


He didn't read the thread and instead threw out a random buzzphrase "trying to back out of the read".

The main point is here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=21429355

On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
Explain why you didn't push your "slam dunk" case.


I was fine with your case on Sloosh. There's a reason I said "I might throw my lynch behind a sloosh lynch". I mean this may be hard for you to understand, but I was actually telling the truth... huh!

On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
Explain why you were not upset the "slam dunk" case was not getting traction.


Because I was fine with a Sloosh lynch initially. For some reason everyone thinks I'm an egoistical bastard that refuses to listen to anyone but himself (it's half true, I am egoistical), but intelligent sheeping is a strong part of my game. I knew you were town, I liked your case, so I wasn't really in a hurry to lynch MZ.

On June 05 2014 23:25 Amiko wrote:
Explain why when you started asking people to move to M_Z, you didn't talk about the great case you had.


I did, I said it was slam dunk etc. Did you want me to say the same thing again... maybe translate to spanish for slam? I don't see a point in restating my case over and over again.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:03 GMT
#1171
On June 05 2014 23:32 Amiko wrote:
And no, you are the top lynch because there are three people unconfirmed and
(1) you are the scummiest of the three
(2) mderg is the least scummy of the three, so it doesn't matter to me a whole lot whether you or fuba dies first.

I'd rather kill you first though, since I think if we finish the game tonight probably I don't end the game dead :3

There is also the small possibility that if we leave you alive until tomorrow you will bamboozle Haru into voting for mderg for no good reason.
Show nested quote +
On May 29 2014 09:07 Palmar wrote:
I've seen some shit man, you wouldn't even believe.



Objection! That's subjective bullshit.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:12 GMT
#1174
On June 05 2014 23:49 Amiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2014 19:33 Palmar wrote:
Sloosh got lynched anyway. Why on earth did I not try to at least milk some credit for it by switching back or someting, If you think I'm mafia I already brought up that sloosh was scummy and I might throw my weight behind the case. It makes no sense for me to let him be lynched and leave myself in a worse position before.


Palmar could have switched until his play at the end of the day. With (I think) less than two hours left, Palmar finally gave some comments that distinguished between the two lynches: he said that the case on M_Z was better (it wasn't) and that the slOosh lynch was "too easy" (it wasn't). After he committed to those comments, he could not switch back to slOosh without looking very scummy or going into my "trap" comment.
Given how close the votes were, I don't think he would want to, anyway.


Well the bolded just proves my point, you want to lynch me because my list of top scumreads went town, mafia, mafia, and not mafia --- whatever.

The sloosh lynch was too easy. In hindsight the reason was that gobbley was afk and mafia had no presence, but I could not possibly have known that.

I don't even know what your trap comment is.

On June 05 2014 23:49 Amiko wrote:
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On June 05 2014 19:33 Palmar wrote:
It's just pointless. It's almost sort of insulting that you guys think I'm mafia because in order to believe that I'm mafia you also have to believe I'm incapable of forming a winning strategy, there is literally no path to victory for me even if gobble hadn't gotten killed.


I don't understand this point.
Let's say you are scum and gobble didn't get killed. In this case, gobble votes M_Z over his scumpartner.

At that point, it'd look like this - we'll assume for the moment ninjabunnies still gets shot:


1) Chromatically Vanilla Town Shot Night 1
2) 27ninjabunnies (Vanilla Town Shot Night 2?)
3) Meapak_Ziphh Vanilla Town Lynched Day 2
4) jabberwockzerg Vanilla Town Lynched Day 1

5) slOosh
6) gobbledydook
7) Palmar

8) mderg
9) fuba
10) HaruRH

11) sqrtofneg1
12) Amiko

13) Alakaslam


In what way does that foreclose a winning strategy?
You'd be in great shape.


No, because we've all sided on the same side. Any competent strategy splits us on day 2 so we have the opportunity to unite for a day 3.

Saving sloosh wasn't worth it. I would never do it as mafia.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:16 GMT
#1176
@fuba:

I cannot play as much on weekends, I'll provide links to prove it:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=21262920
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=21045213
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=20957916
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=20960223
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=20827739
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=20752441
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=19865612
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=17447313
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:16 GMT
#1178
On June 06 2014 00:13 Amiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2014 00:03 Palmar wrote:
Objection! That's subjective bullshit.


Make your case on mderg already.

Maybe I don't want to. Only one of them is mafia. First I need to decide which one it is.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:17 GMT
#1179
On June 06 2014 00:16 Amiko wrote:
You ignore the point of the votes.
You don't have to have your votes split d2 because there are still plenty of wagons you can unite behind.

You can try to attack the people who swapped for a mislynch (Haru, sqrt, fuba)
And, you can bus slOosh the next day if you need to.

It doesn't matter if all three of you vote M_Z.

Who cares.

I'm telling you. I would not do what I did as mafia. I think it's a terrible strategy.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:18 GMT
#1180
It's actually terrible enough that I'm getting lynched for it as town, just imagine how bad it is if I'm mafia.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:27 GMT
#1184
On June 06 2014 00:19 Amiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2014 00:16 Palmar wrote:
On June 06 2014 00:13 Amiko wrote:
On June 06 2014 00:03 Palmar wrote:
Objection! That's subjective bullshit.


Make your case on mderg already.

Maybe I don't want to. Only one of them is mafia. First I need to decide which one it is.


Work on this.

Then stop calling me mafia for reasons that don't make me mafia.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:27 GMT
#1185
On June 06 2014 00:19 Amiko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 06 2014 00:17 Palmar wrote:
On June 06 2014 00:16 Amiko wrote:
You ignore the point of the votes.
You don't have to have your votes split d2 because there are still plenty of wagons you can unite behind.

You can try to attack the people who swapped for a mislynch (Haru, sqrt, fuba)
And, you can bus slOosh the next day if you need to.

It doesn't matter if all three of you vote M_Z.

Who cares.

I'm telling you. I would not do what I did as mafia. I think it's a terrible strategy.


I think this falls under the subjective category you mentioned earlier. Not persuasive.

Yes but I'm an expert on myself.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:30 GMT
#1186
On June 06 2014 00:18 Amiko wrote:
The "trap" comment was where I encouraged you to move onto slOosh and pretend that you were only voting on M_Z as a trap to try to get mafia to join the M_Z wagon. I didn't expect you to do it and regretted the post.

here's a little tidbit.

I read your case on sloosh. As for your other posts, I don't really pay attention.

You mentioned somewhere in this conversation that you thought i and someone else... (fuba? haru?) could be moved to MZ on day 2. I had not even the slightest clue about these things.

When I've decided I think someone is town, I generally stop paying much attention to what they say, unless I think it's very important. I mostly read closely what the people I'm undecided on are posting.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:32 GMT
#1187
Oh I'll meta myself too.

I'm not mafia because I don't actually act this way when I'm about to get lynched as mafia.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:36 GMT
#1189
On June 06 2014 00:34 Amiko wrote:
Here is more reason why I want to lynch Palmar-

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On May 30 2014 04:55 Palmar wrote:
On May 28 2014 16:49 Meapak_Ziphh wrote:
On May 28 2014 16:43 Palmar wrote:
On May 28 2014 13:55 slOosh wrote:
On May 28 2014 08:51 Palmar wrote:
If someone isn't following why that last MZ post raises alarms (aside from the fact he's calling everyone mafia), I'll explain.

On May 28 2014 08:42 Meapak_Ziphh wrote:
On May 28 2014 08:26 sqrtofneg1 wrote:
You know what else I don't like?
Amiko's not as active as he usually is.
Yes, he's making big posts and big cases.
Yes, he has been the most substantial player so far, in terms of post content.
But he's not as active.
Other games, he's always around, asking people questions and the like.
This game, not so much.

You've thrown around a lot of suspicions this game. Instead of making a vague statement like this, interpret what it means. If you leave it vague like this, it makes it seem like you're just trying to throw dirt on him without actually having to take a stand. Instead tell us why this is a problem, maybe provide some examples if you're gonna cite his meta.


The bolded quote is very much not trying to figure out i's alignment. If MZ thinks there is any chance i is mafia, why is he trying to stop i from digging his own grave under the threat of "if you keep doing this I'll be suspicious of you!!!!". This looks like MZ wants to read i as town, while still looking like he's poking people.


Palmar could you please explain your MZ read more?


Which part of it do you not get?

"If you leave it vague like this, it makes it seem like you're just trying to throw dirt on him without actually having to take a stand."

This is basically saying

"If you don't elaborate, you're acting like mafia".

When in reality if MZ is town, he shouldn't care whether or not i acts like mafia, but if he is mafia. If MZ is town and thinks i is town his logical explanation should be

"If you don't elaborate, you won't convince anyone".

Because if MZ thinks i is town, he wouldn't care about i doing something potentially scummy for the sake of it being scummy, and rather because it is not helpful. However if MZ thinks i is mafia, why is he explaining the steps i can take to remove any suspicion MZ might have to him. It's like me saying "hey, you just made a case that is wrong, that is very mafia like. please make another case that is right so I don't have to call you mafia." It's just an absurd way of playing the game.

The only reasonable conclusion is that MZ must think i is town, and thus it makes no sense for MZ to point out something i does looks like something mafia does.

The reason I created in my head is that MZ knows i is town, and doesn't feel the need to call him mafia right now, but does leave the open-ended suspicion for use later.

Palmar that's honestly one of the worst posts I've ever seen you make and does nothing to change my opinion on your alignment. It seems as though you called me out, misjudged the thread's perception of me, and are now trying to back out of the read.


If I die tonight.

MZ is like 95% mafia. His response to me here has nothing to do with what I was saying in the post. Like it's beyond obvious he's not reading the argument at all and all he wants to do is discredit me.

What I was doing: Explaining why I thought MZ was mafia
What MZ claims I was doing: Trying to back out of the read.

The two are mutually exclusive damnit. I was explaining my read to someone who wasn't following it in hopes of convincing them, which is literally the opposite of trying to back out of a read.


This is a post from Palmar from night one. At this point, Palmar is convinced that M_Z is scum.
Palmar quotes the post from day one. At that point, there was still time to push someone other than jabber.

So, Palmar had already gone through the things that he felt made M_Z scum on day 1, but he doesn’t push this until after jabber has been mislynched.


I already explained that, and I also explained why we had to lynch jabber.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:41 GMT
#1191
1. I already mentioned MZ's post, right here:

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=21421396
On May 28 2014 17:05 Palmar wrote:
Where do you get the feeling I'm backing out of the read? That's super interesting you somehow get the feeling I'm backing out of anything with this post.


2. I wrote several big posts on how I was conflicted about the jabber lynch:

On May 28 2014 21:11 Palmar wrote:
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On May 28 2014 20:37 Chromatically wrote:
On May 28 2014 20:11 Palmar wrote:
Don't ask hard questions Chrom, he might not have an answer right now.

hue hue hue

Palmar, you still feeling good about this lynch?


Amiko, I don't see you pushing anything. Who do you want to lynch and what's your read on jabber?


I don't know.

I think we have to lynch him. He's flailing so much and saying all the wrong things even after coming back to the thread makes it hard to think he will 100% flip mafia. If he is mafia he is not receiving any help from coaches or teammates.

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On May 28 2014 01:14 jabberwockzerg wrote:
On May 27 2014 20:59 Chromatically wrote:
Also, read this whole page again: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/451317-detention-mafia?page=5

bunnies starts by (presumably) joking about me being scum, not a serious push as evidenced by not voting.

On May 27 2014 11:19 jabberwockzerg wrote:
Both of you make a fair point, but I agree with bunnies.
If he's lurking (he probably is) he'll be quick to post something, which we can further use as more information comes to light

This is jabber's passive-agressive response. "he probably is" heavily implies that jabber has a strong scumread on me, which clearly doesn't make sense given that I've made one completely non-alignment indicative post. From a scum perspective, it makes sense for jabber to try to go with the flow of the thread and throw suspicion on me, but accidentally take it too far.

On May 27 2014 11:20 jabberwockzerg wrote:
Counter point: he could have been super into last game because he was mafia, and isn't as into being vanilla town.

On May 27 2014 11:21 jabberwockzerg wrote:
Definitely leaving towards scum though

Again, here he makes it seem as if he strongly thinks I'm scum, which just doesn't make sense unless he has a preset idea of what he wants to push my alignment as.

Lovely.
I was trying to get the game moving along, I was pretty pumped to start interrogating and scum reading, which isn't how I acted last game, when I was scum.
Lying about who was scum last game, I was trying to conceal information. I didn't realize that last game's roles were known, it would be beneficial for me if no one knew I was Mafia, just because there would be no real patterns of my play, and I could remain a wild card, which I thought could help me later.


This post specifically is so bad. If he is town this game it would have been directly in his benefit to make known he was mafia in the last game and then proceed to play like a townie. There is no benefit in concealing information about your playstyle as a townie. I'm not 100% caught up on the game so I don't know if he elaborated on how being a wild card might help him.

But the point is, he's doing that thing where he is almost too scummy to be scum. So if we get a slam-dunk case today I'm all ears. We actually might have one with MZ's overreaction and misinterpretation of my post against him, but we need to let it play out.

Thing is, too scummy to be scum is really hard to deal with. To my knowledge he's not providing any useful reads or cases, he sheeped i on the case on me with almost no explanation other than my initial vote being weird. Could he be a deer in headlights? Yes, absolutely.

But I'm not sure I want to gamble the game on just thinking he's too bad to be mafia. Maybe the explanation is simple and he is just mafia who fucked up. I haven't really read the setup but if we have a vigi it might be a good thing to not lynch him and shoot him.


I bolded the parts where I'm explaining why I feel like despite my trepidations I think we have to lynch jabber.

On May 28 2014 22:06 Palmar wrote:
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On May 28 2014 21:54 Chromatically wrote:
So I agree that he's done absolutely everything wrong, but I don't really get "too scummy to be scum". Like he's done everything I would expect scum to do in his position. What do you think he would be doing differently as mafia? Or what about it makes you doubt that he's mafia as opposed to just sealing the deal?


The "too scummy to be scum" concept is a very fragile and shitty, but surprisingly often correct thing that happens.

The idea is basically that if he is mafia, his team knows he made a blunder, so they would help him devise a strategy to come back, or bus him.

if bus: I'd expect him to just shut up and not try to come back. Now I know I'm town but other people don't so this is weak from everyone else's perspective, but why on earth is he piling shit on me if his team is busing him. That is basically just helping me gain influcence in town. It's just bad play if he's mafia to give credit to a townie.

if they try to save him: I'd expect him/his team/mafia coach to have come up with a better plan than what he has posted. His arguments are just straight up awful, If the mafia team can't collectively think up some better defense than this well.. I just don't want to believe that.

And thus, he's being soooo awful that it's possible he's too scummy to be scum. He's blatantly wrong. He's hardly trying to cover up how awful his stuff is.

But, there's also the chance that he's just acting on his own, he messed up, he's not thinking long term and thought maybe a wagon could be built on me, and in that case he's just mafia who's playing badly.

Like I don't really like or see the point in speculating on this thing. If we have a slam dunk case on someone I'll support it, but currently I see no other outcome for today than lynching him.


again bolded the important parts.

At the time I didn't think my case against MZ was 100% slam dunk. It wasn't until MZ proceeded to do absolutely nothing that I convinced myself it was.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:42 GMT
#1192
man mderg's 3 page filter is far less fun than my filter. Mine has so much more smart and charming and awesome in it.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:47 GMT
#1195
On June 06 2014 00:45 Amiko wrote:
Point to where you became sure about M_Z.


gradually over n1. He already made the posts that I wanted to lynch him for, but the inaction factor doesn't have an exact time on it, it's just a feeling that he isn't really trying.

by the time I said he had a 95% chance of flipping mafia I was pretty damn sure
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:48 GMT
#1196
which is entirely consistent with how I said we needed to see the MZ thing play out but it might be a slam dunk case.

Man I'm consistent as fuck when I'm town, I wish I could do this as mafia.
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22633 Posts
June 05 2014 15:51 GMT
#1199
On June 06 2014 00:48 Amiko wrote:
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On September 19 2012 21:43 Palmar wrote:
This is why most people shouldn't use meta. The problem here is that you're simply looking at one action, and assuming it's valid to point that out. I never point to my own meta as town or scum because I know I'm perfectly capable of altering it.


Don't listen to Palmar, he's an idiot.

I get the first point, but man the second point is bad. The one person who has the authority to actually know if I'm playing inside my meta or not is me, because I'm an expert on myself.

Honestly though. This isn't a meta thing. You have two ways of explaining my actions, one where I'm mafia and the other where I'm town. I've repeatedly shown it's easier and more consistent to explain them if I'm town. I'm just adding the meta thing for flavor.
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