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Tronak
Profile Joined February 2015
Spain217 Posts
February 25 2015 00:01 GMT
#501
On February 25 2015 08:54 KelsierSC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:54 Tronak wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:45 KelsierSC wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:44 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:41 KelsierSC wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:39 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:36 KelsierSC wrote:
also in half an hour I have a blow your mind read.

I bet I have to explain that aswell.

I mean if I think HTS is mafia for not doing anything and I don't get what you're doing, why wouldn't I think you're mafia?

I don't get why you're so butthurt about people asking you for this. You replaced into a slot that hadn't done shit previously occupied by a player known for getting shit done. Handwaving her lack of production by saying "read me not her" and then doing your best to make it difficult to read you isn't leaving me any options


i'm not butthurt i'm just having a good time


cool
so why do you expect me not to scumread you here? if you're town then clearly I'm wrong and missing something townie you've done (esp. since I explicitly said "you've done nothing townie") so how about taking a minute of your time and showing me


scum read me if you want i don't give a fuck lol


Following Eden's thoughts on Kel with interest and agreeing with her so far.

Gonna throw 1 question for you Kel before i go to sleep:
1 - Do you really care about the results of this game or you were persuaded to come make this replacement?


your question is as wank as your game


Thanks for curving the answer.

My game is unexperienced. Why should you be so agressive? That makes you feel better? ok, this wont help on anything, so I'll rather hit my pillow.

nn

LeaVe & LeT DiE
Eden1892
Profile Joined March 2014
United States5866 Posts
February 25 2015 00:02 GMT
#502
On February 25 2015 08:59 Damdred wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:52 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:43 Damdred wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:32 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:25 Damdred wrote:
Seriously eden, last night I explained my misgivings on you and hts. You asked I answered, after I answered wave took over. You haven't really responded to that still.

You reentered the thread called for policy lynch didn't act on it moved on to picking on node. Nowback to ksc.

You just aren't trying to figure things out but have the appearance at this point

you keep saying things without backing any of it up, what am I supposed to do about that? and "wave took over" lol what even is that

"picking on Node"? are both of you blind? I scumread Node for making this big post on you that all but called you mafia then put you in null/not necessarily mafia. He had a decent reply so I backed off of it. Then he did it again with Tarnok. That's pretty suspicious behavior to me, the only reason I'm off of it is b/c I did think Node's response to my first callout was ok and I read Artanis town and he's telling me he thinks Node is townish.

I want Tormented to explain his initial reads and then tell me what's changed in all the posts in-between.

Still think KSC is mafia b/c HTS wasn't doing anything (which is completely opposite her town game) and KSC hasn't done anything townie since he reentered the thread

This is so dumb that I even have to explain this. I'm pretty obviously town if you compare to any of my mafia games


People can check out your filter and come to their own conclussions. I post my thoughts. And people can fact check you know that's how I work. Which makes this a super defensive post.

Actually you do have to defend yourself and when you compare this tone wise length wise and content wise it's way different than your town.

When I say wave took over you disappeared after I answered you.

Your reads are lacking for you as kel pointed out though.

you caught a bad case of the dumbs this game

restate your apparent case on me as concisely as you can and see if it still makes sense, because every time I attempt to reduce it to a consolidated form that I can respond to I don't understand it

seems to be a bunch of stuff I can't even respond to, like alleged ties to HTS and tone reads, mixed with things that aren't alignment indicative (not giving superficial explanations for reads that I can do and have done as both alignments before; filter length being not as long as past town games, except the one I just got out of lol, even though I've actively made an effort not to post as much b/c it runs people out of games)


Nope not dumb I've given you two posts that were concise and talked about your play here. You wanted us to look at your mafia games to compare here which isn't what we need to do, you lack follow up on a shot ton of things. I've pointed out several.

You lack a clear push just settling on tormented even though you are clearly slumming hts slot. Which is possible to be mafia granted.

And this isn't about some associative read with hts

LIKE WHAT????? Your earlygame comments where you wanted me to jump around every 5 seconds because I did it in some town games a few weeks / month or so back? I literally remember nothing else you want me to "followup" on

And then you're saying I "settled on Tormented" WHEN I'M VOTING HIM TO GET HIM TO FOLLOWUP ON SOMETHING I SAID EARLIER????

Wtf am I supposed to do with this?
“I like to see myself as the swim instructor that trows kids in the pool shouting at them they should try to not drink too much water.” - Koshi
KelsierSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United Kingdom10443 Posts
February 25 2015 00:03 GMT
#503
On February 25 2015 09:02 Eden1892 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:59 Damdred wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:52 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:43 Damdred wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:32 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:25 Damdred wrote:
Seriously eden, last night I explained my misgivings on you and hts. You asked I answered, after I answered wave took over. You haven't really responded to that still.

You reentered the thread called for policy lynch didn't act on it moved on to picking on node. Nowback to ksc.

You just aren't trying to figure things out but have the appearance at this point

you keep saying things without backing any of it up, what am I supposed to do about that? and "wave took over" lol what even is that

"picking on Node"? are both of you blind? I scumread Node for making this big post on you that all but called you mafia then put you in null/not necessarily mafia. He had a decent reply so I backed off of it. Then he did it again with Tarnok. That's pretty suspicious behavior to me, the only reason I'm off of it is b/c I did think Node's response to my first callout was ok and I read Artanis town and he's telling me he thinks Node is townish.

I want Tormented to explain his initial reads and then tell me what's changed in all the posts in-between.

Still think KSC is mafia b/c HTS wasn't doing anything (which is completely opposite her town game) and KSC hasn't done anything townie since he reentered the thread

This is so dumb that I even have to explain this. I'm pretty obviously town if you compare to any of my mafia games


People can check out your filter and come to their own conclussions. I post my thoughts. And people can fact check you know that's how I work. Which makes this a super defensive post.

Actually you do have to defend yourself and when you compare this tone wise length wise and content wise it's way different than your town.

When I say wave took over you disappeared after I answered you.

Your reads are lacking for you as kel pointed out though.

you caught a bad case of the dumbs this game

restate your apparent case on me as concisely as you can and see if it still makes sense, because every time I attempt to reduce it to a consolidated form that I can respond to I don't understand it

seems to be a bunch of stuff I can't even respond to, like alleged ties to HTS and tone reads, mixed with things that aren't alignment indicative (not giving superficial explanations for reads that I can do and have done as both alignments before; filter length being not as long as past town games, except the one I just got out of lol, even though I've actively made an effort not to post as much b/c it runs people out of games)


Nope not dumb I've given you two posts that were concise and talked about your play here. You wanted us to look at your mafia games to compare here which isn't what we need to do, you lack follow up on a shot ton of things. I've pointed out several.

You lack a clear push just settling on tormented even though you are clearly slumming hts slot. Which is possible to be mafia granted.

And this isn't about some associative read with hts

LIKE WHAT????? Your earlygame comments where you wanted me to jump around every 5 seconds because I did it in some town games a few weeks / month or so back? I literally remember nothing else you want me to "followup" on

And then you're saying I "settled on Tormented" WHEN I'M VOTING HIM TO GET HIM TO FOLLOWUP ON SOMETHING I SAID EARLIER????

Wtf am I supposed to do with this?


vote SL
Zerg for Life
Eden1892
Profile Joined March 2014
United States5866 Posts
February 25 2015 00:06 GMT
#504
On February 25 2015 09:03 KelsierSC wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 09:02 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:59 Damdred wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:52 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:43 Damdred wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:32 Eden1892 wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:25 Damdred wrote:
Seriously eden, last night I explained my misgivings on you and hts. You asked I answered, after I answered wave took over. You haven't really responded to that still.

You reentered the thread called for policy lynch didn't act on it moved on to picking on node. Nowback to ksc.

You just aren't trying to figure things out but have the appearance at this point

you keep saying things without backing any of it up, what am I supposed to do about that? and "wave took over" lol what even is that

"picking on Node"? are both of you blind? I scumread Node for making this big post on you that all but called you mafia then put you in null/not necessarily mafia. He had a decent reply so I backed off of it. Then he did it again with Tarnok. That's pretty suspicious behavior to me, the only reason I'm off of it is b/c I did think Node's response to my first callout was ok and I read Artanis town and he's telling me he thinks Node is townish.

I want Tormented to explain his initial reads and then tell me what's changed in all the posts in-between.

Still think KSC is mafia b/c HTS wasn't doing anything (which is completely opposite her town game) and KSC hasn't done anything townie since he reentered the thread

This is so dumb that I even have to explain this. I'm pretty obviously town if you compare to any of my mafia games


People can check out your filter and come to their own conclussions. I post my thoughts. And people can fact check you know that's how I work. Which makes this a super defensive post.

Actually you do have to defend yourself and when you compare this tone wise length wise and content wise it's way different than your town.

When I say wave took over you disappeared after I answered you.

Your reads are lacking for you as kel pointed out though.

you caught a bad case of the dumbs this game

restate your apparent case on me as concisely as you can and see if it still makes sense, because every time I attempt to reduce it to a consolidated form that I can respond to I don't understand it

seems to be a bunch of stuff I can't even respond to, like alleged ties to HTS and tone reads, mixed with things that aren't alignment indicative (not giving superficial explanations for reads that I can do and have done as both alignments before; filter length being not as long as past town games, except the one I just got out of lol, even though I've actively made an effort not to post as much b/c it runs people out of games)


Nope not dumb I've given you two posts that were concise and talked about your play here. You wanted us to look at your mafia games to compare here which isn't what we need to do, you lack follow up on a shot ton of things. I've pointed out several.

You lack a clear push just settling on tormented even though you are clearly slumming hts slot. Which is possible to be mafia granted.

And this isn't about some associative read with hts

LIKE WHAT????? Your earlygame comments where you wanted me to jump around every 5 seconds because I did it in some town games a few weeks / month or so back? I literally remember nothing else you want me to "followup" on

And then you're saying I "settled on Tormented" WHEN I'M VOTING HIM TO GET HIM TO FOLLOWUP ON SOMETHING I SAID EARLIER????

Wtf am I supposed to do with this?


vote SL

nah not yet

the point that he peaced out was actually a pretty good one but I'm gonna wait to see what he does
“I like to see myself as the swim instructor that trows kids in the pool shouting at them they should try to not drink too much water.” - Koshi
Damdred
Profile Joined July 2014
15669 Posts
February 25 2015 00:14 GMT
#505
In horns for example when you Scum read or almost Scum read you would talk to that person pose questions to figure out alignments for instance.

You asked me questions I answered and you didn't really have much else to say basically null. You came back wanted to policy lynch ksc still think he's Scum I believe?

Artanis[Xp]
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Netherlands12968 Posts
February 25 2015 00:28 GMT
#506
On February 25 2015 08:35 Damdred wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:09 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
Damdred, why do you like Yamato?


He has thoughts pushes thoughts, has a good prwacense in the thread

What thoughts has he pushed other than a pretty poor case on Tormented which he isn't pushing anymore because he's been shitting unsubstantiated 'question marks' at me? I see a Yamato on the sidelines that isn't really doing much other than throwing dirt on me where possible, with a few idle questions here and there.

On February 25 2015 08:53 KelsierSC wrote:
fuck it mind blown time is now boys.

so I had SL as my scum read early because his posting was pretty fucking awful. just a feeling then he made this gem.

Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 06:14 sicklucker wrote:
Snarf is town because his first post was asking about players he didnt know. This is the strongest opening because as town its also what I want to know and It was my opening to answer it.

Dandred is town because Ive played him as mafia 3 times and he just lurked. When he leads the discusion day1 hes always been town in like 9 games ive played with him as town. Ive had this read for quite awile and im glad we finally both rolled town for once so I can use it.


Like this kind of "meta" read on damdred is like the most superficial garbage . Damdred can just talk to a thread it isn't beyond his intelligence. Maybe damdred is town but SL shouldn't be reading him town.

So then I'm like well SL makes bad reads as both alignments, and as for his arrogance, well he is an obnoxious mo fo in general. I remember in a mafia game he said he had hf "twisted around his finger" hehe

so i'm like ok maybe i'm not sure. let's step back , he's a fool. let's see what he does. Since I stepped back we get...

Nothing. He doesn't give a shit about this. Just two shit tier town reads.

I got him boys, join in on this

##Vote SickLucker



Why does scum sicklucker not give as much of a shit as town sicklucker in this position? From what I recall him saying he actively tries to be unreadable by not giving as much of a shit in general as town when it isn't necessary.

On February 25 2015 08:58 WaveofShadow wrote:
Artanis, bad bad. Using meta to describe my play? Plz. And even worse still, using months old meta. The reason my town play isn't like Shadow or like you're used to is because my town play is shit and I'm trying to improve myself. Yamato will vouch.

As for reads yamato, my schedule has been particularly brutal as of Monday. I'll try to look at stuff after iris tonight.

Have you played any games that aren't months old though? I actually still need to check if you go along with town sentiment more as mafia to collaborate it too but I recalled very strongly that you do your own thing regardless of town sentiment. It is most certainly not bad.

I'm gonna go do that now.
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
February 25 2015 00:29 GMT
#507
So artanis, what exactly do you think of me?
Writer@WriterYamato
KelsierSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United Kingdom10443 Posts
February 25 2015 00:30 GMT
#508
On February 25 2015 09:28 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:35 Damdred wrote:
On February 25 2015 08:09 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
Damdred, why do you like Yamato?


He has thoughts pushes thoughts, has a good prwacense in the thread

What thoughts has he pushed other than a pretty poor case on Tormented which he isn't pushing anymore because he's been shitting unsubstantiated 'question marks' at me? I see a Yamato on the sidelines that isn't really doing much other than throwing dirt on me where possible, with a few idle questions here and there.

Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:53 KelsierSC wrote:
fuck it mind blown time is now boys.

so I had SL as my scum read early because his posting was pretty fucking awful. just a feeling then he made this gem.

On February 25 2015 06:14 sicklucker wrote:
Snarf is town because his first post was asking about players he didnt know. This is the strongest opening because as town its also what I want to know and It was my opening to answer it.

Dandred is town because Ive played him as mafia 3 times and he just lurked. When he leads the discusion day1 hes always been town in like 9 games ive played with him as town. Ive had this read for quite awile and im glad we finally both rolled town for once so I can use it.


Like this kind of "meta" read on damdred is like the most superficial garbage . Damdred can just talk to a thread it isn't beyond his intelligence. Maybe damdred is town but SL shouldn't be reading him town.

So then I'm like well SL makes bad reads as both alignments, and as for his arrogance, well he is an obnoxious mo fo in general. I remember in a mafia game he said he had hf "twisted around his finger" hehe

so i'm like ok maybe i'm not sure. let's step back , he's a fool. let's see what he does. Since I stepped back we get...

Nothing. He doesn't give a shit about this. Just two shit tier town reads.

I got him boys, join in on this

##Vote SickLucker



Why does scum sicklucker not give as much of a shit as town sicklucker in this position? From what I recall him saying he actively tries to be unreadable by not giving as much of a shit in general as town when it isn't necessary.

Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 08:58 WaveofShadow wrote:
Artanis, bad bad. Using meta to describe my play? Plz. And even worse still, using months old meta. The reason my town play isn't like Shadow or like you're used to is because my town play is shit and I'm trying to improve myself. Yamato will vouch.

As for reads yamato, my schedule has been particularly brutal as of Monday. I'll try to look at stuff after iris tonight.

Have you played any games that aren't months old though? I actually still need to check if you go along with town sentiment more as mafia to collaborate it too but I recalled very strongly that you do your own thing regardless of town sentiment. It is most certainly not bad.

I'm gonna go do that now.


why are you saying this when SL himself says he posted the towniest thing in the thread?
Zerg for Life
Artanis[Xp]
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Netherlands12968 Posts
February 25 2015 00:33 GMT
#509
On February 25 2015 09:29 yamato77 wrote:
So artanis, what exactly do you think of me?

Leaning mafia, but I think the case on Tormented is better.

Reading Cell right now I notice WoS bashing meta. I chuckled.
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
February 25 2015 00:38 GMT
#510
On February 25 2015 09:33 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 09:29 yamato77 wrote:
So artanis, what exactly do you think of me?

Leaning mafia, but I think the case on Tormented is better.

Reading Cell right now I notice WoS bashing meta. I chuckled.

loooooooool
Writer@WriterYamato
Artanis[Xp]
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Netherlands12968 Posts
February 25 2015 00:43 GMT
#511
Ugh, Cell isn't really comparable since the lynch pool is so limited so thread sentiment becomes much more likely to happen regardless and I tried getting through Guilty but then I realized determining what thread sentiment is pretty hard in hindsight so I guess I'm just gonna have to drop it.
WaveofShadow
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada31494 Posts
February 25 2015 00:47 GMT
#512
On February 25 2015 09:38 yamato77 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 09:33 Artanis[Xp] wrote:
On February 25 2015 09:29 yamato77 wrote:
So artanis, what exactly do you think of me?

Leaning mafia, but I think the case on Tormented is better.

Reading Cell right now I notice WoS bashing meta. I chuckled.

loooooooool

And I will continue to bash it.
It's fucking terrible and even when I'm scum people attempt to catch me with it and fail.
By all means continue though
twitch.tv/waveofshadow ||| Winner of AHGL's So You Think You Can Cast! ||| Juicy Dad for lyfe ||| 'idk i get a kick out of stupid things' - Jarms Yarng
yamato77
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
11589 Posts
February 25 2015 00:50 GMT
#513
I was lol'ing at artanis' read
Writer@WriterYamato
Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
February 25 2015 01:23 GMT
#514
Confession time, my post on Damred was premature and I knew at the time. But it seems to have worked in a sense. At least he is posting more and being a little more proactive. After my initial case dropped he pleaded for more time to make his case. That his reads at that point in time were purely meta based and so not yet ready. This seems completely fair to me. So what has he done since then.

Damred's Case Against Eden
It's all about the meta-game. Damred's initial case
+ Show Spoiler +
  • Eden you feel so disconnected and out of it right now
  • What do you want me to do exactly I don't enjoy using meta especially hours into a game and show you how Eden usually has like 5 pages of filter is constantly pushing the thread forward. The having fun excuse is a bad one because he started Linux mafia the same way seemingly having fun before he got nailed, if you look in new years eve mafia you see the same thing. But all we have here is that this Eden isn't spamming or trying to make plays like in horn of Africa mafia.
  • For instance Eden, if Marvs tone is off and he's not doing Marv things he's scum. Your scum game is pretty apparent over time. You are a pretty easy town read and when read can tell your scum a part from your town. You are missing some of your carefree jumping everywhere and trying to make a play. Its not enough for a vote and its more of a gut meta read which is early indeed.
  • I do not think that you and HTS can be on a scum team right at this moment for a couple reasons not really looking for a team if I think either of you are scummy at this point its separate of each other but HTS has an odd reaction i'll talk about briefly in a second.
  • Eden is potential scum based off of meta at this point.

Not exactly an improvement but ok there must be something in the works right? Well no, what we get is this.
+ Show Spoiler +
Though Eden bothers me a ton, really aloof of the thread only taking shots from the sideline lacks follow up on earlier things. Suddenly I want to lynch Eden.,,

Eden is passive and sniping from the sidelines, lacking follow up. This is Damred's best post as far as I can tell. So what is the motivation here? He has pleaded for time to make a case, he's got that, and as far as I can tell this is all he has but he happy to lynch off of it. Sounds a lot like a meta case to me. Damred is not interested in pushing cases, he just wants the heat off of himself.
When Eden pushes him to actually put some work into his suspicions he gets these responses
+ Show Spoiler +
  • Seriously eden, last night I explained my misgivings on you and hts. You asked I answered, after I answered wave took over. You haven't really responded to that still. You reentered the thread called for policy lynch didn't act on it moved on to picking on node. Nowback to ksc. You just aren't trying to figure things out but have the appearance at this point
  • People can check out your filter and come to their own conclussions. I post my thoughts. And people can fact check you know that's how I work. Which makes this a super defensive post. Actually you do have to defend yourself and when you compare this tone wise length wise and content wise it's way different than your town. When I say wave took over you disappeared after I answered you. Your reads are lacking for you as kel pointed out though.
  • Nope not dumb I've given you two posts that were concise and talked about your play here. You wanted us to look at your mafia games to compare here which isn't what we need to do, you lack follow up on a shot ton of things. I've pointed out several. You lack a clear push just settling on tormented even though you are clearly slumming hts slot. Which is possible to be mafia granted. And this isn't about some associative read with hts

Well Damred please show me these magical posts. I know I write text walls but at least you can follow my thought process.

Now I know that Damred has been pushing HTS/KSC harder. I am looking into that case, but for me his "case" on Eden seals the deal. Surely if you're town you have two goals, number one find scum, number 2 don't get lynched. If you are under the pump for being too passive with your reads and spreading suspicion around without building a case, you build that case. If you really think Eden is scum, you run that shit hard until people get on board and convince people to lynch them. If you aren't sure, you stop casting suspicion around as all that does is provide cover for scum. If you think HTS/KSc is a better target, you build that case and advocate for their lynch.

Now if you happen to be scum, you're number one priority is to avoid the rope, you can give sweet fuck all priority to finding scum. What you need is people to look elsewhere. Your focus becomes moving the target of suspicion to someone else so who cares if you post a case. So maybe you back off Eden a little, focus more on someone else, but you just can't help adding a bit of negativity where possible. Because hey, who knows who might be up for a lynch come EOD.

TLDR: Damred has no interest in presenting a coherent argument. His focus is not finding scum and convincing us to lynch them. According to his own posting he makes god-tier scum-wrecking cases and what we have is "passivity and sniping". If that is true then why is he not interested in presenting one that nails Eden to the wall but is still happy to lynch him? Doesn't sound like town play to me.
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WaveofShadow
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada31494 Posts
February 25 2015 01:30 GMT
#515
I'm not going to lie, I have zero clue what is going on in thread right now. I don't know who is a suspect, who looks scummy to whom. This hasn't been a particularly productive day so I'm going to attempt to re-read later tonight to see if I pick up on anything.
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Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
February 25 2015 01:57 GMT
#516
On February 24 2015 17:37 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 24 2015 09:25 Snarfs wrote:
Okay, I see some other games with some of these other guys as well. And Tronak said already that it's his/her first mafia game ever so it looks like I'm covered in this regard, no need to continue down the rabbit hole.

Is this the point where someone proposes an RNG lynch?


This was really early in the game, so take it with a grain of salt, but I'd like to point out that this is actually really scummy. Beyond an RNG lynch being an awful idea for reasons already stated, there's also bit of a deflection here -- Snarfs isn't going to propose a lynch, "someone" is. Nevermind that he's the first one to actually bring it up.

Snarfs also just posted a wall of text without actually saying much of anything. Yeah, there are some reads in there, but considering there are a couple of people that he'd lynch "pretty happily", there's nothing concrete. Just some feels without conclusions and a distinct lack of an actual case or vote.

Based on that, I'm going to park at ##Vote: Snarfs for now.

On February 25 2015 04:51 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 25 2015 04:03 Eden1892 wrote:
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On February 25 2015 01:44 Node wrote:
On February 25 2015 00:47 Damdred wrote:
On February 24 2015 17:48 Node wrote:
On February 24 2015 15:53 Damdred wrote:
I never threw any shit honestly I think Hts is scum, Eden is potential scum based off of meta at this point.

There are always two sides of giving someone a chance they give you more evidence to help secure a lynch, or they come in and proove they are town.

HTS is a very capable town player, sometimes she gets tricked but still a good player. Very capable of looking town with original thoughts.

So why can't their be town motivation in making sure I don't get tunneled on something hours into a game when Hts hasn't even broken a page quite yet, bit has said some questionable things.


I have no issues with people backing off a read, but you can't keep saying you think people are "potential scum" or have said "questionable things" without actually putting some substance behind it. Make a case! Scum doesn't care about a few people maybe being iffy about them, they care about hard cases that put them in the spotlight.


you seemingly haven't read the whole thread or only skimmed as I answered why I think both are scummy. This is interesting post


OMGUS harder, why don't you?

It's a little annoying how one of the default responses to criticism is "did you even READ?" I read your filter. You've quoted none of the people you say are suspicious, you haven't engaged any of them directly, and you're straight. A key tell for a mafia is indecisiveness, and what people are picking up on isn't that you're backing off on your reads, it's that they were barely there to begin with. It's as if they were practically set up just to be backed off of later, or inconsequential enough that you wouldn't have to follow through. Here's what I'm talking about:

On February 24 2015 13:04 Damdred wrote:
though pr is most interesting person in the thread


On February 24 2015 11:44 Damdred wrote:
Eden you feel so disconnected and out of it right now. I'm really really worrying you rolled scum with hts


Now, I want to make it clear that I don't think you're scum. Yet. (a blatant OMGUS isn't helping) But I do think your posts have done little more than gum up the thread. It's one thing to call my post "interesting" and start to get people thinking about me. It's another to actually say what I did was scummy and why.

RNG was so pure. This post bleeds red to me

Something about the sequence here reads "let me make several arguments for why you're mafia and then say that I don't suspect you but leave the door open for doing so later"


Mostly it's because my belief in Snarfs being mafia is significantly stronger.+ Show Spoiler +
I don't believe that someone as active as Damdred early on that attracts as much attention as he has is likely to be scum. I feel that we're much better off early on putting pressure on people that are hesitant to post. Yes, it's possible to post a lot and be scum, but town benefits a lot more at this point from forcing those that aren't posting to respond -- Damdred's already given us plenty to work with as time passes. However, I also think he could also be doing a much better job of actually hunting scum. (For one thing, when the threads get as long as they do as quickly as they do in this forum, you'd better believe quotes are an important tool if you want people to listen to you. Don't depend on others to draw the conclusions you have.)

Which brings me to Snarfs: He's content to pop up and comment on what's going on, but constantly asking people what they think of other people isn't actually much of a contribution. What does he actually think about anybody other than me? His big post seems substantial, but what's backing it up? Again, he says he'd be "pretty happy" to lynch either The Shining or sicklucker, but flash forward a day and there's still nothing else on those two. Like, it costs nothing to throw your vote around. Put your money where your mouth is.

On February 25 2015 07:12 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 25 2015 06:26 sicklucker wrote:
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On February 25 2015 06:23 WaveofShadow wrote:
You had to post 6 times For that?


Hi this is my posting style deal witth it


We might deal with it by lynching you. Can we not turn this into a spamfest? Seriously, I don't have the time to deal with hundreds of pointless posts a day.

And speaking of pointless posts, let's have a quick gander at what Tronak has had to say so far.

On February 24 2015 22:21 Tronak wrote:
After re-reading all, Going to throw some open questions and my thinkings about them:

1) Snarfs, why would you suggest a RNG voting being town and a veteran player?
Either was a simple way to make fellow townies show up them selves or in my newbie opinion should be read as a scummy post.

2) Artanis' opening: why would you introduce Mayors voting if game setup is given?
Opening joke? Mayor is usually a starting point and you didnt read game setup? This follows another game? If not, I would read your post as mafia. If yes, is

-Yamato quickly (1min later) votes for lyching Artanis . And Mayor joke appears again. Why?
I can only read 2 mafias trying to create confusion, but I would be happy to hear what you both think about this.

3) Tormented throws his bomb list.
Want to think, Tormented thought similar to me (above) and when pressured by Artanis to give his reads made a quick list pointing out both names (Artanis and Yamato). Would mafia do this? I dont think so, it was too early from my point of view, too much to lose.

4) Probulous accuses Damdred: I like Probolous' read and arguments given against Damdred so much that when I first read his post all my senses were focused on analysing Damdred's following posts. Up to this point, I think Probolous wins the mini batle and Damdred will need to give futher arguments to convince me about his alignment.

5) Yamato appears again to switch completly thread's focus and focus on Tormented again giving good arguments based on filtered history. Snarfs looks like aproving this switch very fast and Artanis pushes this line further in his last post.

If Yamato/Snarf or Artanis were mafia, would they like to lynch a "tormented" townie and use this line to save a suspected Damdred? Sure!

Conclusion: despite all guides about Mafia I have read suggest scum wouldn't be so active in the first hours of the game, from my point of view so far, all makes me think that at least 1 or 2 scums must be between the list of names mentioned in this post (with no exceptions). However I can't arrive to single point any of them and the innocents should also be very valuable for the town. I see the names not mentioned in this post as townies so far. So, I hope your answers for my wall of text clear my way.


"Here's a bunch of things that have happened so far. Some of these people might be scum, but they all feel like town."

On February 25 2015 03:16 Tronak wrote:
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On February 25 2015 02:57 Snarfs wrote:
Tronak, you left Node off your list. Your thoughts please?


Actually some points:
-He pointed out before me the scummy sense of your RNG voting post. Since I had same, "maybe" unexperienced, reading while i was reading your post, my first impression was to feel aligned with him, therefore should be townie to my eyes.
-About voting on you so directly = since he posted that his reason was just a "grain of salt" I suspect is just a move to push you = townie again to get information about you.
- Recently he pushes agressively Damdred which I can only applaud since I look forward for more information about this last one. (to my eyes this should be townie post again, or.... could be mafia move to save Tormented, in case he is mafia).


"Here's what Node has done. He might be town, but he might also be mafia."

Overall, I don't have a read on Tronak yet, but that's because he hasn't actually said anything. I'm willing to cut him some slack for being totally new, but if he doesn't step it up soon and get some posts that go above sounding desperate to contribute, I'm going to get a lot more suspicious.

On February 25 2015 05:33 Snarfs wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

There we go. Here's what I have written on Node:

On February 25 2015 02:55 Snarfs wrote:
Once I get to work I'll probably dig through some of Node's recent games. I don't know much about his play except that he's been around for awhile.

Following up a bit, I'm less convinced that Node's opener indicates he is mafia. Keep in mind these were games from ~2.5 years ago, but if he hasn't played mafia in between then there's no indication that he would have changed so it's all I've got to go on.

From Death Note mafia (Node as town detective):
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 01 2012 09:19 Node wrote:
I'm going to vote for BlackMamba. Here's why:

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One scum almost always takes it upon themselves to make large posts early on and establish themselves as very very "pro-town". They love buzzwords like "anti-town" and other stupid things like that. I just can't see any reason for a townie to spend that much time, early in the game, establishing their townieness unless there is a mayoral election or something like that.


This is such an incredibly wrong and scummy statement that it's unbelievable. Think about what it means for just a second. Mamba is saying that going out of your way to establish your townieness is unnecessary -- even scummy. It's even one of the first rules in Ver's guide: establish your own innocence in order to create a good atmospere and make it easier to find scum. (forgive me for not citing it directly at this moment; my resources are limited)

Now, why would he want to enforce this? Only scum could possibly want to establish an atmosphere where showing your innocence is a bad thing.

There's also the insinuation that claiming self-aware miller is a poor choice, the questionable case against Hapa (dismissed with an "I wasn't-really-trying" excuse), and the statement that voting for someone doing as little as Palmar would actually be a bad idea. All of this comes together to show somebody that isn't trying to establish a pro-town atmosphere, is pushing the wrong targets, and is definitely scum.

##vote BlackMamba24

What I read here is a very pressure-oriented tactic. It feels very similar to how he opened up against me. He focuses in on a single player and doesn't waver at all in his assertion that this player must be mafia because of a single thing they said. He also doesn't drop any town reads.

From Liquid City mafia (Node as mafia goon):
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 01 2012 17:40 Node wrote:
I don't think Shady Sands is scum -- at least, not given what we've seen so far. His "trolling" antics were silly, but they weren't scummy. If he were scum, I don't think he would've dropped the trolling pretext so quickly, and I certainly don't think he would be willing to reappear and start pushing targets.

Now, kush on the other hand has been talking a lot about absolutely nothing. Seeing as he considers his vote on Shady absolutely inconsequential so far ("My vote for Shady had nothing to do with a scumread of any sort"), he's sure spent an awful lot of time discussing it. Weirdly enough, he justifies his current vote by saying he doesn't have any scum reads, yet has also thrown a few FoS's around. So, we see his vote that doesn't matter (yet) on someone he doesn't care about, instead of actually pushing the rather perfunctory cases he's made so far, possibly just so he can look like he's actually contributing.

So, I'll actually put my vote where my mouth is. ##vote kushm4sta

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On October 01 2012 14:30 Z-BosoN wrote:
##FoS Coagulation
Shitty one-liners and refuses to explain anything. Either very arrogant or wants to pretend he is actually contributing.


Bolded for emphasis. This is pretty much exactly how Coagulation plays every game. If he's town, in a day or two he'll come up with a handful of proper scum reads to tunnel for the rest of the game, about half of which will be correct.

Contrast this with Node's opener as mafia. Here he's making sure to comment on something else going on in the thread. He's dropping town reads to fit in. "Hmm Shady Sands is probably not scum. He's silly but not scummy... hmm maybe we can look at someone else and here's a decent reason why." And then he continues to comment on some other pieces of information.


This right here is the kind of thing I like to see. (and not just because it concludes I'm town)

On February 25 2015 07:41 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 25 2015 07:30 Eden1892 wrote:
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On February 25 2015 07:12 Node wrote:
On February 25 2015 06:26 sicklucker wrote:
On February 25 2015 06:23 WaveofShadow wrote:
You had to post 6 times For that?


Hi this is my posting style deal witth it


We might deal with it by lynching you. Can we not turn this into a spamfest? Seriously, I don't have the time to deal with hundreds of pointless posts a day.

And speaking of pointless posts, let's have a quick gander at what Tronak has had to say so far.

On February 24 2015 22:21 Tronak wrote:
After re-reading all, Going to throw some open questions and my thinkings about them:

1) Snarfs, why would you suggest a RNG voting being town and a veteran player?
Either was a simple way to make fellow townies show up them selves or in my newbie opinion should be read as a scummy post.

2) Artanis' opening: why would you introduce Mayors voting if game setup is given?
Opening joke? Mayor is usually a starting point and you didnt read game setup? This follows another game? If not, I would read your post as mafia. If yes, is

-Yamato quickly (1min later) votes for lyching Artanis . And Mayor joke appears again. Why?
I can only read 2 mafias trying to create confusion, but I would be happy to hear what you both think about this.

3) Tormented throws his bomb list.
Want to think, Tormented thought similar to me (above) and when pressured by Artanis to give his reads made a quick list pointing out both names (Artanis and Yamato). Would mafia do this? I dont think so, it was too early from my point of view, too much to lose.

4) Probulous accuses Damdred: I like Probolous' read and arguments given against Damdred so much that when I first read his post all my senses were focused on analysing Damdred's following posts. Up to this point, I think Probolous wins the mini batle and Damdred will need to give futher arguments to convince me about his alignment.

5) Yamato appears again to switch completly thread's focus and focus on Tormented again giving good arguments based on filtered history. Snarfs looks like aproving this switch very fast and Artanis pushes this line further in his last post.

If Yamato/Snarf or Artanis were mafia, would they like to lynch a "tormented" townie and use this line to save a suspected Damdred? Sure!

Conclusion: despite all guides about Mafia I have read suggest scum wouldn't be so active in the first hours of the game, from my point of view so far, all makes me think that at least 1 or 2 scums must be between the list of names mentioned in this post (with no exceptions). However I can't arrive to single point any of them and the innocents should also be very valuable for the town. I see the names not mentioned in this post as townies so far. So, I hope your answers for my wall of text clear my way.


"Here's a bunch of things that have happened so far. Some of these people might be scum, but they all feel like town."

On February 25 2015 03:16 Tronak wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:57 Snarfs wrote:
Tronak, you left Node off your list. Your thoughts please?


Actually some points:
-He pointed out before me the scummy sense of your RNG voting post. Since I had same, "maybe" unexperienced, reading while i was reading your post, my first impression was to feel aligned with him, therefore should be townie to my eyes.
-About voting on you so directly = since he posted that his reason was just a "grain of salt" I suspect is just a move to push you = townie again to get information about you.
- Recently he pushes agressively Damdred which I can only applaud since I look forward for more information about this last one. (to my eyes this should be townie post again, or.... could be mafia move to save Tormented, in case he is mafia).


"Here's what Node has done. He might be town, but he might also be mafia."

Overall, I don't have a read on Tronak yet
, but that's because he hasn't actually said anything. I'm willing to cut him some slack for being totally new, but if he doesn't step it up soon and get some posts that go above sounding desperate to contribute, I'm going to get a lot more suspicious.

On February 25 2015 05:33 Snarfs wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

There we go. Here's what I have written on Node:

On February 25 2015 02:55 Snarfs wrote:
Once I get to work I'll probably dig through some of Node's recent games. I don't know much about his play except that he's been around for awhile.

Following up a bit, I'm less convinced that Node's opener indicates he is mafia. Keep in mind these were games from ~2.5 years ago, but if he hasn't played mafia in between then there's no indication that he would have changed so it's all I've got to go on.

From Death Note mafia (Node as town detective):
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 01 2012 09:19 Node wrote:
I'm going to vote for BlackMamba. Here's why:

Show nested quote +
One scum almost always takes it upon themselves to make large posts early on and establish themselves as very very "pro-town". They love buzzwords like "anti-town" and other stupid things like that. I just can't see any reason for a townie to spend that much time, early in the game, establishing their townieness unless there is a mayoral election or something like that.


This is such an incredibly wrong and scummy statement that it's unbelievable. Think about what it means for just a second. Mamba is saying that going out of your way to establish your townieness is unnecessary -- even scummy. It's even one of the first rules in Ver's guide: establish your own innocence in order to create a good atmospere and make it easier to find scum. (forgive me for not citing it directly at this moment; my resources are limited)

Now, why would he want to enforce this? Only scum could possibly want to establish an atmosphere where showing your innocence is a bad thing.

There's also the insinuation that claiming self-aware miller is a poor choice, the questionable case against Hapa (dismissed with an "I wasn't-really-trying" excuse), and the statement that voting for someone doing as little as Palmar would actually be a bad idea. All of this comes together to show somebody that isn't trying to establish a pro-town atmosphere, is pushing the wrong targets, and is definitely scum.

##vote BlackMamba24

What I read here is a very pressure-oriented tactic. It feels very similar to how he opened up against me. He focuses in on a single player and doesn't waver at all in his assertion that this player must be mafia because of a single thing they said. He also doesn't drop any town reads.

From Liquid City mafia (Node as mafia goon):
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 01 2012 17:40 Node wrote:
I don't think Shady Sands is scum -- at least, not given what we've seen so far. His "trolling" antics were silly, but they weren't scummy. If he were scum, I don't think he would've dropped the trolling pretext so quickly, and I certainly don't think he would be willing to reappear and start pushing targets.

Now, kush on the other hand has been talking a lot about absolutely nothing. Seeing as he considers his vote on Shady absolutely inconsequential so far ("My vote for Shady had nothing to do with a scumread of any sort"), he's sure spent an awful lot of time discussing it. Weirdly enough, he justifies his current vote by saying he doesn't have any scum reads, yet has also thrown a few FoS's around. So, we see his vote that doesn't matter (yet) on someone he doesn't care about, instead of actually pushing the rather perfunctory cases he's made so far, possibly just so he can look like he's actually contributing.

So, I'll actually put my vote where my mouth is. ##vote kushm4sta

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On October 01 2012 14:30 Z-BosoN wrote:
##FoS Coagulation
Shitty one-liners and refuses to explain anything. Either very arrogant or wants to pretend he is actually contributing.


Bolded for emphasis. This is pretty much exactly how Coagulation plays every game. If he's town, in a day or two he'll come up with a handful of proper scum reads to tunnel for the rest of the game, about half of which will be correct.

Contrast this with Node's opener as mafia. Here he's making sure to comment on something else going on in the thread. He's dropping town reads to fit in. "Hmm Shady Sands is probably not scum. He's silly but not scummy... hmm maybe we can look at someone else and here's a decent reason why." And then he continues to comment on some other pieces of information.


This right here is the kind of thing I like to see. (and not just because it concludes I'm town)

ok, do it once, I can give a pass with a decent-sounding answer

do it TWICE? no way

who do you actually scumread if all of your would-be cases turn into "I don't actually read him mafia yet"?


Hi, have you seen my posts on snarfs? Do you see where my vote is sitting right now?+ Show Spoiler +


And if you'd be willing to call Tronak scum based on what we've seen so far, be my guest. I'm not. My hope is that he'll see the pressure and step up to the plate, but if he doesn't, well, my vote can certainly be changed.


Explain please
"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
February 25 2015 01:59 GMT
#517
On February 25 2015 10:30 WaveofShadow wrote:
I'm not going to lie, I have zero clue what is going on in thread right now. I don't know who is a suspect, who looks scummy to whom. This hasn't been a particularly productive day so I'm going to attempt to re-read later tonight to see if I pick up on anything.


It's because people are throwing out accusations without backing them up with evidence. It just fucks up the thread.
"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
Node
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States2159 Posts
February 25 2015 02:16 GMT
#518
On February 25 2015 10:57 Probulous wrote:
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On February 24 2015 17:37 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 24 2015 09:25 Snarfs wrote:
Okay, I see some other games with some of these other guys as well. And Tronak said already that it's his/her first mafia game ever so it looks like I'm covered in this regard, no need to continue down the rabbit hole.

Is this the point where someone proposes an RNG lynch?


This was really early in the game, so take it with a grain of salt, but I'd like to point out that this is actually really scummy. Beyond an RNG lynch being an awful idea for reasons already stated, there's also bit of a deflection here -- Snarfs isn't going to propose a lynch, "someone" is. Nevermind that he's the first one to actually bring it up.

Snarfs also just posted a wall of text without actually saying much of anything. Yeah, there are some reads in there, but considering there are a couple of people that he'd lynch "pretty happily", there's nothing concrete. Just some feels without conclusions and a distinct lack of an actual case or vote.

Based on that, I'm going to park at ##Vote: Snarfs for now.

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On February 25 2015 04:51 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 25 2015 04:03 Eden1892 wrote:
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On February 25 2015 01:44 Node wrote:
On February 25 2015 00:47 Damdred wrote:
On February 24 2015 17:48 Node wrote:
On February 24 2015 15:53 Damdred wrote:
I never threw any shit honestly I think Hts is scum, Eden is potential scum based off of meta at this point.

There are always two sides of giving someone a chance they give you more evidence to help secure a lynch, or they come in and proove they are town.

HTS is a very capable town player, sometimes she gets tricked but still a good player. Very capable of looking town with original thoughts.

So why can't their be town motivation in making sure I don't get tunneled on something hours into a game when Hts hasn't even broken a page quite yet, bit has said some questionable things.


I have no issues with people backing off a read, but you can't keep saying you think people are "potential scum" or have said "questionable things" without actually putting some substance behind it. Make a case! Scum doesn't care about a few people maybe being iffy about them, they care about hard cases that put them in the spotlight.


you seemingly haven't read the whole thread or only skimmed as I answered why I think both are scummy. This is interesting post


OMGUS harder, why don't you?

It's a little annoying how one of the default responses to criticism is "did you even READ?" I read your filter. You've quoted none of the people you say are suspicious, you haven't engaged any of them directly, and you're straight. A key tell for a mafia is indecisiveness, and what people are picking up on isn't that you're backing off on your reads, it's that they were barely there to begin with. It's as if they were practically set up just to be backed off of later, or inconsequential enough that you wouldn't have to follow through. Here's what I'm talking about:

On February 24 2015 13:04 Damdred wrote:
though pr is most interesting person in the thread


On February 24 2015 11:44 Damdred wrote:
Eden you feel so disconnected and out of it right now. I'm really really worrying you rolled scum with hts


Now, I want to make it clear that I don't think you're scum. Yet. (a blatant OMGUS isn't helping) But I do think your posts have done little more than gum up the thread. It's one thing to call my post "interesting" and start to get people thinking about me. It's another to actually say what I did was scummy and why.

RNG was so pure. This post bleeds red to me

Something about the sequence here reads "let me make several arguments for why you're mafia and then say that I don't suspect you but leave the door open for doing so later"


Mostly it's because my belief in Snarfs being mafia is significantly stronger.+ Show Spoiler +
I don't believe that someone as active as Damdred early on that attracts as much attention as he has is likely to be scum. I feel that we're much better off early on putting pressure on people that are hesitant to post. Yes, it's possible to post a lot and be scum, but town benefits a lot more at this point from forcing those that aren't posting to respond -- Damdred's already given us plenty to work with as time passes. However, I also think he could also be doing a much better job of actually hunting scum. (For one thing, when the threads get as long as they do as quickly as they do in this forum, you'd better believe quotes are an important tool if you want people to listen to you. Don't depend on others to draw the conclusions you have.)

Which brings me to Snarfs: He's content to pop up and comment on what's going on, but constantly asking people what they think of other people isn't actually much of a contribution. What does he actually think about anybody other than me? His big post seems substantial, but what's backing it up? Again, he says he'd be "pretty happy" to lynch either The Shining or sicklucker, but flash forward a day and there's still nothing else on those two. Like, it costs nothing to throw your vote around. Put your money where your mouth is.

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On February 25 2015 07:12 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 25 2015 06:26 sicklucker wrote:
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On February 25 2015 06:23 WaveofShadow wrote:
You had to post 6 times For that?


Hi this is my posting style deal witth it


We might deal with it by lynching you. Can we not turn this into a spamfest? Seriously, I don't have the time to deal with hundreds of pointless posts a day.

And speaking of pointless posts, let's have a quick gander at what Tronak has had to say so far.

On February 24 2015 22:21 Tronak wrote:
After re-reading all, Going to throw some open questions and my thinkings about them:

1) Snarfs, why would you suggest a RNG voting being town and a veteran player?
Either was a simple way to make fellow townies show up them selves or in my newbie opinion should be read as a scummy post.

2) Artanis' opening: why would you introduce Mayors voting if game setup is given?
Opening joke? Mayor is usually a starting point and you didnt read game setup? This follows another game? If not, I would read your post as mafia. If yes, is

-Yamato quickly (1min later) votes for lyching Artanis . And Mayor joke appears again. Why?
I can only read 2 mafias trying to create confusion, but I would be happy to hear what you both think about this.

3) Tormented throws his bomb list.
Want to think, Tormented thought similar to me (above) and when pressured by Artanis to give his reads made a quick list pointing out both names (Artanis and Yamato). Would mafia do this? I dont think so, it was too early from my point of view, too much to lose.

4) Probulous accuses Damdred: I like Probolous' read and arguments given against Damdred so much that when I first read his post all my senses were focused on analysing Damdred's following posts. Up to this point, I think Probolous wins the mini batle and Damdred will need to give futher arguments to convince me about his alignment.

5) Yamato appears again to switch completly thread's focus and focus on Tormented again giving good arguments based on filtered history. Snarfs looks like aproving this switch very fast and Artanis pushes this line further in his last post.

If Yamato/Snarf or Artanis were mafia, would they like to lynch a "tormented" townie and use this line to save a suspected Damdred? Sure!

Conclusion: despite all guides about Mafia I have read suggest scum wouldn't be so active in the first hours of the game, from my point of view so far, all makes me think that at least 1 or 2 scums must be between the list of names mentioned in this post (with no exceptions). However I can't arrive to single point any of them and the innocents should also be very valuable for the town. I see the names not mentioned in this post as townies so far. So, I hope your answers for my wall of text clear my way.


"Here's a bunch of things that have happened so far. Some of these people might be scum, but they all feel like town."

On February 25 2015 03:16 Tronak wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:57 Snarfs wrote:
Tronak, you left Node off your list. Your thoughts please?


Actually some points:
-He pointed out before me the scummy sense of your RNG voting post. Since I had same, "maybe" unexperienced, reading while i was reading your post, my first impression was to feel aligned with him, therefore should be townie to my eyes.
-About voting on you so directly = since he posted that his reason was just a "grain of salt" I suspect is just a move to push you = townie again to get information about you.
- Recently he pushes agressively Damdred which I can only applaud since I look forward for more information about this last one. (to my eyes this should be townie post again, or.... could be mafia move to save Tormented, in case he is mafia).


"Here's what Node has done. He might be town, but he might also be mafia."

Overall, I don't have a read on Tronak yet, but that's because he hasn't actually said anything. I'm willing to cut him some slack for being totally new, but if he doesn't step it up soon and get some posts that go above sounding desperate to contribute, I'm going to get a lot more suspicious.

On February 25 2015 05:33 Snarfs wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

There we go. Here's what I have written on Node:

On February 25 2015 02:55 Snarfs wrote:
Once I get to work I'll probably dig through some of Node's recent games. I don't know much about his play except that he's been around for awhile.

Following up a bit, I'm less convinced that Node's opener indicates he is mafia. Keep in mind these were games from ~2.5 years ago, but if he hasn't played mafia in between then there's no indication that he would have changed so it's all I've got to go on.

From Death Note mafia (Node as town detective):
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 01 2012 09:19 Node wrote:
I'm going to vote for BlackMamba. Here's why:

Show nested quote +
One scum almost always takes it upon themselves to make large posts early on and establish themselves as very very "pro-town". They love buzzwords like "anti-town" and other stupid things like that. I just can't see any reason for a townie to spend that much time, early in the game, establishing their townieness unless there is a mayoral election or something like that.


This is such an incredibly wrong and scummy statement that it's unbelievable. Think about what it means for just a second. Mamba is saying that going out of your way to establish your townieness is unnecessary -- even scummy. It's even one of the first rules in Ver's guide: establish your own innocence in order to create a good atmospere and make it easier to find scum. (forgive me for not citing it directly at this moment; my resources are limited)

Now, why would he want to enforce this? Only scum could possibly want to establish an atmosphere where showing your innocence is a bad thing.

There's also the insinuation that claiming self-aware miller is a poor choice, the questionable case against Hapa (dismissed with an "I wasn't-really-trying" excuse), and the statement that voting for someone doing as little as Palmar would actually be a bad idea. All of this comes together to show somebody that isn't trying to establish a pro-town atmosphere, is pushing the wrong targets, and is definitely scum.

##vote BlackMamba24

What I read here is a very pressure-oriented tactic. It feels very similar to how he opened up against me. He focuses in on a single player and doesn't waver at all in his assertion that this player must be mafia because of a single thing they said. He also doesn't drop any town reads.

From Liquid City mafia (Node as mafia goon):
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 01 2012 17:40 Node wrote:
I don't think Shady Sands is scum -- at least, not given what we've seen so far. His "trolling" antics were silly, but they weren't scummy. If he were scum, I don't think he would've dropped the trolling pretext so quickly, and I certainly don't think he would be willing to reappear and start pushing targets.

Now, kush on the other hand has been talking a lot about absolutely nothing. Seeing as he considers his vote on Shady absolutely inconsequential so far ("My vote for Shady had nothing to do with a scumread of any sort"), he's sure spent an awful lot of time discussing it. Weirdly enough, he justifies his current vote by saying he doesn't have any scum reads, yet has also thrown a few FoS's around. So, we see his vote that doesn't matter (yet) on someone he doesn't care about, instead of actually pushing the rather perfunctory cases he's made so far, possibly just so he can look like he's actually contributing.

So, I'll actually put my vote where my mouth is. ##vote kushm4sta

Show nested quote +
On October 01 2012 14:30 Z-BosoN wrote:
##FoS Coagulation
Shitty one-liners and refuses to explain anything. Either very arrogant or wants to pretend he is actually contributing.


Bolded for emphasis. This is pretty much exactly how Coagulation plays every game. If he's town, in a day or two he'll come up with a handful of proper scum reads to tunnel for the rest of the game, about half of which will be correct.

Contrast this with Node's opener as mafia. Here he's making sure to comment on something else going on in the thread. He's dropping town reads to fit in. "Hmm Shady Sands is probably not scum. He's silly but not scummy... hmm maybe we can look at someone else and here's a decent reason why." And then he continues to comment on some other pieces of information.


This right here is the kind of thing I like to see. (and not just because it concludes I'm town)

Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 07:41 Node wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

On February 25 2015 07:30 Eden1892 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 07:12 Node wrote:
On February 25 2015 06:26 sicklucker wrote:
On February 25 2015 06:23 WaveofShadow wrote:
You had to post 6 times For that?


Hi this is my posting style deal witth it


We might deal with it by lynching you. Can we not turn this into a spamfest? Seriously, I don't have the time to deal with hundreds of pointless posts a day.

And speaking of pointless posts, let's have a quick gander at what Tronak has had to say so far.

On February 24 2015 22:21 Tronak wrote:
After re-reading all, Going to throw some open questions and my thinkings about them:

1) Snarfs, why would you suggest a RNG voting being town and a veteran player?
Either was a simple way to make fellow townies show up them selves or in my newbie opinion should be read as a scummy post.

2) Artanis' opening: why would you introduce Mayors voting if game setup is given?
Opening joke? Mayor is usually a starting point and you didnt read game setup? This follows another game? If not, I would read your post as mafia. If yes, is

-Yamato quickly (1min later) votes for lyching Artanis . And Mayor joke appears again. Why?
I can only read 2 mafias trying to create confusion, but I would be happy to hear what you both think about this.

3) Tormented throws his bomb list.
Want to think, Tormented thought similar to me (above) and when pressured by Artanis to give his reads made a quick list pointing out both names (Artanis and Yamato). Would mafia do this? I dont think so, it was too early from my point of view, too much to lose.

4) Probulous accuses Damdred: I like Probolous' read and arguments given against Damdred so much that when I first read his post all my senses were focused on analysing Damdred's following posts. Up to this point, I think Probolous wins the mini batle and Damdred will need to give futher arguments to convince me about his alignment.

5) Yamato appears again to switch completly thread's focus and focus on Tormented again giving good arguments based on filtered history. Snarfs looks like aproving this switch very fast and Artanis pushes this line further in his last post.

If Yamato/Snarf or Artanis were mafia, would they like to lynch a "tormented" townie and use this line to save a suspected Damdred? Sure!

Conclusion: despite all guides about Mafia I have read suggest scum wouldn't be so active in the first hours of the game, from my point of view so far, all makes me think that at least 1 or 2 scums must be between the list of names mentioned in this post (with no exceptions). However I can't arrive to single point any of them and the innocents should also be very valuable for the town. I see the names not mentioned in this post as townies so far. So, I hope your answers for my wall of text clear my way.


"Here's a bunch of things that have happened so far. Some of these people might be scum, but they all feel like town."

On February 25 2015 03:16 Tronak wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:57 Snarfs wrote:
Tronak, you left Node off your list. Your thoughts please?


Actually some points:
-He pointed out before me the scummy sense of your RNG voting post. Since I had same, "maybe" unexperienced, reading while i was reading your post, my first impression was to feel aligned with him, therefore should be townie to my eyes.
-About voting on you so directly = since he posted that his reason was just a "grain of salt" I suspect is just a move to push you = townie again to get information about you.
- Recently he pushes agressively Damdred which I can only applaud since I look forward for more information about this last one. (to my eyes this should be townie post again, or.... could be mafia move to save Tormented, in case he is mafia).


"Here's what Node has done. He might be town, but he might also be mafia."

Overall, I don't have a read on Tronak yet
, but that's because he hasn't actually said anything. I'm willing to cut him some slack for being totally new, but if he doesn't step it up soon and get some posts that go above sounding desperate to contribute, I'm going to get a lot more suspicious.

On February 25 2015 05:33 Snarfs wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

There we go. Here's what I have written on Node:

On February 25 2015 02:55 Snarfs wrote:
Once I get to work I'll probably dig through some of Node's recent games. I don't know much about his play except that he's been around for awhile.

Following up a bit, I'm less convinced that Node's opener indicates he is mafia. Keep in mind these were games from ~2.5 years ago, but if he hasn't played mafia in between then there's no indication that he would have changed so it's all I've got to go on.

From Death Note mafia (Node as town detective):
+ Show Spoiler +
On September 01 2012 09:19 Node wrote:
I'm going to vote for BlackMamba. Here's why:

Show nested quote +
One scum almost always takes it upon themselves to make large posts early on and establish themselves as very very "pro-town". They love buzzwords like "anti-town" and other stupid things like that. I just can't see any reason for a townie to spend that much time, early in the game, establishing their townieness unless there is a mayoral election or something like that.


This is such an incredibly wrong and scummy statement that it's unbelievable. Think about what it means for just a second. Mamba is saying that going out of your way to establish your townieness is unnecessary -- even scummy. It's even one of the first rules in Ver's guide: establish your own innocence in order to create a good atmospere and make it easier to find scum. (forgive me for not citing it directly at this moment; my resources are limited)

Now, why would he want to enforce this? Only scum could possibly want to establish an atmosphere where showing your innocence is a bad thing.

There's also the insinuation that claiming self-aware miller is a poor choice, the questionable case against Hapa (dismissed with an "I wasn't-really-trying" excuse), and the statement that voting for someone doing as little as Palmar would actually be a bad idea. All of this comes together to show somebody that isn't trying to establish a pro-town atmosphere, is pushing the wrong targets, and is definitely scum.

##vote BlackMamba24

What I read here is a very pressure-oriented tactic. It feels very similar to how he opened up against me. He focuses in on a single player and doesn't waver at all in his assertion that this player must be mafia because of a single thing they said. He also doesn't drop any town reads.

From Liquid City mafia (Node as mafia goon):
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 01 2012 17:40 Node wrote:
I don't think Shady Sands is scum -- at least, not given what we've seen so far. His "trolling" antics were silly, but they weren't scummy. If he were scum, I don't think he would've dropped the trolling pretext so quickly, and I certainly don't think he would be willing to reappear and start pushing targets.

Now, kush on the other hand has been talking a lot about absolutely nothing. Seeing as he considers his vote on Shady absolutely inconsequential so far ("My vote for Shady had nothing to do with a scumread of any sort"), he's sure spent an awful lot of time discussing it. Weirdly enough, he justifies his current vote by saying he doesn't have any scum reads, yet has also thrown a few FoS's around. So, we see his vote that doesn't matter (yet) on someone he doesn't care about, instead of actually pushing the rather perfunctory cases he's made so far, possibly just so he can look like he's actually contributing.

So, I'll actually put my vote where my mouth is. ##vote kushm4sta

Show nested quote +
On October 01 2012 14:30 Z-BosoN wrote:
##FoS Coagulation
Shitty one-liners and refuses to explain anything. Either very arrogant or wants to pretend he is actually contributing.


Bolded for emphasis. This is pretty much exactly how Coagulation plays every game. If he's town, in a day or two he'll come up with a handful of proper scum reads to tunnel for the rest of the game, about half of which will be correct.

Contrast this with Node's opener as mafia. Here he's making sure to comment on something else going on in the thread. He's dropping town reads to fit in. "Hmm Shady Sands is probably not scum. He's silly but not scummy... hmm maybe we can look at someone else and here's a decent reason why." And then he continues to comment on some other pieces of information.


This right here is the kind of thing I like to see. (and not just because it concludes I'm town)

ok, do it once, I can give a pass with a decent-sounding answer

do it TWICE? no way

who do you actually scumread if all of your would-be cases turn into "I don't actually read him mafia yet"?


Hi, have you seen my posts on snarfs? Do you see where my vote is sitting right now?+ Show Spoiler +


And if you'd be willing to call Tronak scum based on what we've seen so far, be my guest. I'm not. My hope is that he'll see the pressure and step up to the plate, but if he doesn't, well, my vote can certainly be changed.


Explain please


Snarfs has nothing to lose by "concluding" that I'm town if he is mafia, so my vote remains unchanged. But I like to see actual analysis, and more of it on other people is likely to sway me.
whole lies with a half smile
Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
February 25 2015 02:33 GMT
#519
"Snarfs has nothing to lose by "concluding" that I'm town if he is mafia, so my vote remains unchanged"
If he concluded you were mafia would that change things?

I agree we need to see more from him.
"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
Damdred
Profile Joined July 2014
15669 Posts
February 25 2015 02:36 GMT
#520
Your post made me chuckle.

Nothing you wrote makes me scum at all, it only means you dislike hoe i do things or the way I'm trying to drive a conversations. Most of my cases and convincing usually occurs after filter diving and deciding who I want to lynch. You make it seem like I need to have everything figures out when we almost have a full day for things to develop.

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