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Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 10 2015 16:52 GMT
#27
Okay so on the one hand, this game looks awesome. On the other it looks like it might be best saved for experienced players.

So, I'll in, but only if you'll have me.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 15 2015 10:07 GMT
#233
Hey guys. I didn't actually realise I was in this game until just now, because I never /in'd or confirmed. But anyway, I don't have any time to catch up or play today because I'm in meetings all day and have stuff this evening. Sorry. I'll get back quite late tonight, and will catch up etc then.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 15 2015 21:29 GMT
#476
Back. Catching up now.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 15 2015 23:28 GMT
#492
Okay, I'm all caught up. First thing's first - I think I have played with most of you before, but the people I don't really know are Vivax, The Shining and DandelIon. I wouldn't say I know BM, geript or FF particularly well, though.

My thoughts on the game so far:

- Rayn's thread presence so far seems to be pretty standard for him. I've listened to him on voice play both sides, and when he's town he basically has this uncontrollable urge to solve the game just from the role setup alone. The way that he continued to batter at LS for his view on the martyr issue reminded me of town rayn in voice, which is basically "I'm right and if you don't understand then you're mafia". In my view he massively overreacted to LS's comments on the martyr (see his posts #100 and #115), but then he did basically the same in Newbie XIV on n00b and Bresh early on.

- I think Lightning Strike is town, and I think the early push on him was suspect. I don't know how any of you can be surprised that LS says stuff that doesn't add up early on. He's done that in every game I've seen him in, and he's also basically like that in voice. The way that he responded to Rels at his post #362 (basically "I'm not talking to you any more") felt very genuine, and exactly how I'd expect angsty town LS to respond.

- I think the person who comes out from the LS push looking the worst is TT. At his post #218 he basically says that LS is a "fine lynch", but his reasons are just re-hashes of what other people have posted earlier. He then takes it back at (#473) after others already had. I also think his town reads of Rayn, Rels and Vivax feel a little ... safe. I think thread sentiment is all pretty set on those three already, for pretty obvious reasons. When TT was mafia in HG he felt like he was always on the right side of every argument, and so far he reminds me of this.

- Dandel Ion has been trolly thus far. Seriously, don't sign up for a game if you aren't going to take it even vaguely seriously. That stuff really, really, really irks me. It's all so Onegu-esque that it's tough to get a read on. Worthy policy lynch.

- Damdred looks like he has been in other threads, but hasn't said anything since his thread entry, where he also sheeped the anti-LS sentiment (#121) but hasn't followed up at all. In my first game with Damdred, HG, he was town and he ran around all day like a man with his hair on fire, throwing accusations everywhere. In the last Gaiden he was mafia, and he basically just poked around all day, iirc (I obs'd that game).

- Bill Murray's thread entry felt very off to me - he posted a town-read on rayn without any justification at all, and then said he "usually has something important going on" (#113). His later interactions feel a lot more fluid though, and I really like his read on TT (his thoughts are basically the same thing that I think a lot of people had in HG).

- Rels looks towny insofar as his activity level goes, but he was also early on the LS 'wagon', although he didn't vote for it. I also don't like his TT read, and quite a lot of his activity seems responsive rather than pro-active, which is different from our last game together. Then again, that game (Personalities) was pretty weird and so IDK whether it's a reliable guide to someone's meta.

I don't have a good handle on geript, TS (whose thread entry got a lot of talk, but which seemed pretty NAI to me) and FF. HTS is playing the same as the last two games we played together (when she was town). Her reason to scum me look genuine enough (if wrong, lol), and her read evolutions on LS and BM look natural. I think she's probably a town read, but I'm pretty sure when she does roll scum she'll fool me.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 15 2015 23:30 GMT
#494
I'm going to head to bed, but I'll be around for a bit getting ready etc.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 15 2015 23:54 GMT
#501
On September 16 2015 08:27 Half the Sky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 16 2015 08:21 Damdred wrote:
Anyway I'm like 95% sure that my bro shining is scrum he was the first filter I looked at. He is just so... emotionless to a point and he barely reacts to the thread to a point with pretty posts that seem to be structured.


He explained he's not a fan of playing much D1. Did that factor into your scumread or are you just not buying that explanation period?

Idk if that's even a good excuse though? Like, I'm not sure how much store to put by a purely 'emotion'-based scum read in forum Mafia, but at the same time I would say generally not wanting to play an entire day is pretty scummy. Thats what annoys me so much about certain players on this forum, they just coast through the early game and leave town basically fucked when it comes to trying to read them late game.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 08:31 GMT
#541
On September 16 2015 17:04 Tictock wrote:
Fidei can you explain why you say this

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I think Lightning Strike is town, and I think the early push on him was suspect.


Why do you find the push to be suspect?

Keep in mind people were pushing him as mafia when these were his only 2 posts:
Show nested quote +
On September 15 2015 07:18 LightningStrike wrote:
Hi guys I don't have much time atm but I'm here and Town so let's get down to business!

Show nested quote +
On September 15 2015 07:20 LightningStrike wrote:
So rayn since you want the martyr to claim do you see any benefit of them not claiming at all?



Two reasons:
1. (And this is likely to get the Rayn hate, but w/e) I actually understand where LS is coming from on this. I've never played this setup before, and Rayn comes in and says that there is only one correct way to play the martyr. I'm naturally suspicious of those sorts of claims - most roles in Mafia are nuanced enough to have multiple uses. If I'm the martyr here and, say, HTS or some other really strong town is the NK target, I probably think it's worth to sacrifice myself, because then they get another day. Particularly if the martyr honestly assesses themselves as a weak town player.
2. It's LS. Pretty much every game I've been in has had a wagon start on him (or ruxx pretending to be him) for appearing 'naive' or disagreeing with a strong town player. No offence LS, but you're probably the easiest ml out there. Jumping on him for a pretty innocuous question just seems really opportunistic.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 11:47 GMT
#595
On September 16 2015 20:19 Tictock wrote:
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On September 16 2015 17:31 Fidei86 wrote:
On September 16 2015 17:04 Tictock wrote:
Fidei can you explain why you say this

I think Lightning Strike is town, and I think the early push on him was suspect.


Why do you find the push to be suspect?

Keep in mind people were pushing him as mafia when these were his only 2 posts:
On September 15 2015 07:18 LightningStrike wrote:
Hi guys I don't have much time atm but I'm here and Town so let's get down to business!

On September 15 2015 07:20 LightningStrike wrote:
So rayn since you want the martyr to claim do you see any benefit of them not claiming at all?



Two reasons:
1. (And this is likely to get the Rayn hate, but w/e) I actually understand where LS is coming from on this. I've never played this setup before, and Rayn comes in and says that there is only one correct way to play the martyr. I'm naturally suspicious of those sorts of claims - most roles in Mafia are nuanced enough to have multiple uses. If I'm the martyr here and, say, HTS or some other really strong town is the NK target, I probably think it's worth to sacrifice myself, because then they get another day. Particularly if the martyr honestly assesses themselves as a weak town player.
2. It's LS. Pretty much every game I've been in has had a wagon start on him (or ruxx pretending to be him) for appearing 'naive' or disagreeing with a strong town player. No offence LS, but you're probably the easiest ml out there. Jumping on him for a pretty innocuous question just seems really opportunistic.


Been mulling this over a little. I fail to see why this leads you to the conclusion that mafia was pushing LS.

#1 Sure. If I recall correctly LS, geript, and myself all questioned what benefit there was in having Martyr claim. I think the question itself is pretty null.

#2 If LS is pushed every-game then him being pushed this game shouldn't mean that much. It's weird to me that you looked at this push and seemed to conclude there was mafia involvement.

I kinda thought the open LS made was pretty scummy in it of itself.

An excuse and a townclaim, plus some "getting down to buisness"

The question after was hardly any business.

It wasn't the fact that he was being pushed I had an issue with, its more that there were people jumping on it after it had started. But yeah, I see your point re people always pushing LS early. I don't know how much you can put into openings, honestly. I mean, mine was "I'm busy" and then WOT, whereas lots of people come in with some variant of "I'm town". It was the push on him I found much more interesting than his opening, which was meh.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 12:05 GMT
#605
Jeez that's actually like three questions.

1. I've already said that thread entries are difficult to read, because everyone is in the same boat. I always struggle with them (although I usually have to make holding posts, given the games usually start after I've gone to bed). I just don't see what's scum indicative about saying what LS said, or at least, enough to make everyone actually start voting for him. Hell, in the newb game rayn tunnelled Bresh for a lot of d1 because of a comment he made about him and Yamato. If people want to give LS a slight scum lean for it, that's fine. And the pressure was helpful in getting LS to talk.

2. I just don't agree with this either, as it stands. It's easy to rack up the post count as either alignment. But I will agree with you that TT has picked it up a lot. Rayn seems to think his callback to Vivax was scummy, but I agree with Vivax - town look for allies whereas mafia are happy to let them lie fallow. So yes, I'm walking back my TT scum read, but not just because he is try harding. Unless that's what you were saying anyway.

3. In Personalities you basically did very little for the first couple of days, then took off like a rocket after D2 when there was that wagon on you. So maybe I'm just dinging you for being so active on D1, which, thinking about it, is a pretty lame reason to scum read someone.

I need to read geript's filter before I end lunch. He certainly seems to playing very differently from personalities, but I'm fairly sure he was RPing most of the way through that.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 12:20 GMT
#607
I'm not sure what to make of geript's thread entry. Rayn seemed earlier to have a bead on what geript was getting at, but I presume it's some sort of blue-soft that went over my head. The rest of his filter is essentially:
- A weak push on LS
- null reads on HTS and TS
- pushing Dandel for inactivity.
Not a lot to go on really. I'm struggling to remember the difference between geript and Palmar on voice - I think it was Palmar that is always really self-assured. Geript here seems to be struggling a bit to find his groove. He was very sure of most of his reads in personalities, but he could just be a bit disconnected, given his OOC stuff going on (which he claimed beforehand, so is NAI).
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 16:19 GMT
#629
I would lynch Damdred. The only other good option, from an activity/engagement perspective would be Dandelion, and I keep expecting him to stop Onegu-style trolling and actually play the game. Forlorn hope? :-/

Get better soon HTS.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 16:24 GMT
#630
@geript anything bothering you in particular?
@Rels My only experience with BM is in voice and in games where he gets MLed d1. Off the cuff, he seems more active and chatty this time around. I'll check his filter when I get home.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 20:31 GMT
#667
On September 17 2015 05:27 LightningStrike wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 17 2015 05:25 raynpelikoneet wrote:
On September 17 2015 05:23 LightningStrike wrote:
I here and got out of class early and I been trying to answer people's concerns straight up to the best of my ability rayn. Plus I take you over Vivax because I can't remember much of Vivax other than he's the Martyr because no one cced him. We don't want him to have it because if he dies when he got it than we lose it for the rest of the game I think if I read the op correctly.

okay. if you are sure i am town and you are right why would i not die?

Angel save assuming Vivax dies from the soup. Also I just checked the op about the timing of the lynch and it's 72 hour days so tomorrow is the deadline so that is a relief for me so I can be here tomorrow at deadline

@LS I'm pretty sure it's either or with the soup.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 20:59 GMT
#683
@LS you were on geript for quite a while, but now you've moved onto Damdred. Was it something geript did, or what? Because from my view, geript seemed to be carrying on in the same way he has for the last couple of days.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 21:01 GMT
#684
The Shining looks pretty good on his thread re-entry. I think lying about something as personal as anger management and losing friendships would be tough, and probably not worth it just to win a mafia game.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 21:20 GMT
#691
On September 17 2015 06:07 raynpelikoneet wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 17 2015 06:01 Fidei86 wrote:
The Shining looks pretty good on his thread re-entry. I think lying about something as personal as anger management and losing friendships would be tough, and probably not worth it just to win a mafia game.

unless you are Blazinghand.

I didn't hear that one, lol.
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 21:38 GMT
#692
@geript other than Dandel, who else do you think is Mafia? I just read your big WOT, and you sort of soft scum a bunch of people, but you seem to end up null on mostly everyone. I think you've said twice now that you're struggling to read me? Idk, there seems like a disconnect between the intensity of your writing, which I like, and the lightness of your reads..
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 23:24 GMT
#702
Damdred, do you have any thoughts on the game at all, other than your read on TS?
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 16 2015 23:25 GMT
#703
'Cause you're sort of leaving us hanging if you're town and you're just tapping out for some reason :-/
Fidei86
Profile Joined May 2015
United Kingdom2116 Posts
September 17 2015 12:21 GMT
#783
@dandel if you aren't going to at least *look* like you're trying to play the game, then I really just want to vote you off. This sort of stuff makes me so angry - it's like KSC and OWS in the last game, or Onegu in all his games. Town just can't win with people like you trolling and refusing to help. Nobody NKs you, eventually we get to LYLO and you're the easiest mL target in the world, or alternatively you don't help.
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