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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 14 2015 15:37 GMT
#4
hopefully this won't start until after the holidays

/in

5th game means I'm not a newbie anymore though...boo.
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 15 2015 13:11 GMT
#8
On December 15 2015 20:35 Half the Sky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 15 2015 19:11 Fidei86 wrote:
Hopefully this starts before the holidays, so I can spend Xmas day getting drunk and mislynching Alex.


Please. He needs the noose after what he did to me in Dark Tournament

<3


Dani, stop treating your scummates to whisky and I won't give you the noose <3
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 21 2015 21:11 GMT
#46
Great to see more newbies around. Welcome newbies and wb Eversince, I hope you've recovered since fullmetal.

Nutcracker is in triple mylo right now so hopefully we can pick up the remainder soon.

Also I want to let everyone know we need to policy lynch Fidei day 1. Free town reads for everyone that does it!
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 22 2015 16:45 GMT
#66
On December 22 2015 23:28 Fidei86 wrote:
Alex and Scott in the same game?

Shit. Scott has shown he's very good at reading me. Alex is jealous because I steal his wife from him at night to play Dota.

I'm definitely not making it very far if I roll scum this game.


All we need now is MoosyDoosy and disformation in this game and it will be one grand clusterfuck xD

Seriously though...

On December 22 2015 23:28 Fidei86 wrote:
I'm definitely not making it very far as either alignment this game.


Corrupting Dani with dota is a crime punishable by death policy lynch.

##vote Fidei86

Of course, mods rolling you scum would be great, that's three dota players I can seriously lynch in two games
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 22 2015 18:36 GMT
#68
I'd lynch him after Fidei but never before, I doubt largely because of timezones he'd steal her as much as Fidei does, if he has ever played with her at all.
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 23 2015 14:28 GMT
#87
On December 23 2015 08:25 GlowingBear wrote:
I couldn't be prouder of HTS. Playing Dota when her husband used to play LoL before is really nice.

That's a hard evidence that good taste can never be corrupted


*facepalm*

Looks like I found the third mafia. Easy lynch list.

Fidei/Onegu/GB

GGs everyone can go home.
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 27 2015 01:32 GMT
#117
On December 26 2015 13:35 kitaman27 wrote:
Hope the surgery goes well!


This. See everyone Monday.
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 28 2015 02:31 GMT
#125
On December 28 2015 05:36 Half the Sky wrote:
##TeamTalisker (if mafia coach)


No.

Not this shit again. The fact that Tictock in Nutcracker went on his own and bought fucking whisky as an inspiration from you and took shots with mislynches...I don't even.

Just stop. Or those of you that roll mafia, if you get HTS as a mafia coach, please ignore anything she says regarding whisky. Just don't do it.

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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 28 2015 14:51 GMT
#135
On December 28 2015 19:34 GiygaS wrote:
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On December 28 2015 16:03 Shapelog wrote:
I just had a morphine induced moment. It was incredibly dumb. I am showing it like a 5 dollar whore so everyone will realize I am a Sun tuz (or whatever) when i am high as shit.
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Friends of all ages!
I have a new playstyle!
I am not going to look at my Role PM!
Like that one greek guy said "I know that i do not know who the fuck i am!"
I want to be the one fucking greek guy, like i want to go to his college and take all his classes.
Wasn't his name Assoplitle or something?

Like if i was playing and I saw this shit. I would lynch the guy. Or call him devilry handsome and make him mayor.
Tbh I am bored...........I keep falling asleep while laddering. It is quite funny. I am going to stulk on Team Lquid

I just know that this game is going to be entertaining now


This. I look forward to playing with you both after seeing you in Nutcracker.

And Dani, silly Dani, if only I could lynch you again. If only.

<3
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 28 2015 14:52 GMT
#136
Wait, when does the game start again? 2300?

See everyone then!
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 28 2015 20:58 GMT
#155
Can we sleep at any point in the game?

Also can the doctor save the same person twice in a row or is there a restriction on that?

If roleblocks aren't notified, what result will a cop get if they make a check and they are roleblocked?
I was a cop in my second or third game but I was never roleblocked so I don't know...
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 00:08 GMT
#194
Greetings everybody! We're going to start the day by getting rid of obvious scum. And by obvious scum, I mean the dota players. Because as we all know Dota is a shitty game played by shitty people so it's never too soon to start taking out the trash!

##vote Fidei86

Fidei is the worst of them all, as he's openly admitted pre-game, he steals my wife on a regular basis playing dota with her in the evenings.

After Fidei, we plow through Onegu who I understand plays with her on occassion and then we take out GlowingBear who has told me in a previous scum qt (newbie 13) that he wouldn't coach me because I'm a League player.

Welp. EZ game EZ lyfe get rekt scum.

Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 00:23 GMT
#199
On December 29 2015 07:29 Irishbound wrote:
I can already tell my complete lack of meta or understanding of what happend in prior games you guys have played together is going to make it difficult to scumhunt and follow some conversations.

Know it's a weak thing but I'm leaning town on Noonian already, think scum would be less likely to be so brazen to make #62 and like his instant "That's anti-town to do" reaction towards Glowings statement.

I understand that we're meant to be voting in a separate thread to make it easier for the mod to tally up votes but I'd appreciate if everyone also posted here with their vote -- it'll make following the game and reading into context behind votes much easier than attempting to line up timestamps of when people voted in comparison to their thoughts/posts in here.

@Glowing - Who is this Kush you're voting?


Alright so starting off, I'm not sure I agree with this read and some of this boils down to the definition of anti-town.

On December 29 2015 07:04 nooniansoong wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2015 07:02 GlowingBear wrote:
I wanted to be blue so much


it's so anti-town to claim vt


The use of "anti-town" here could be coming from either alignment, when anti-town is considered to mean not just scummy, but possibly also from town not acting in the best interest of town. Any VT (when referencing GB's comment) saying "I wish I was blue" can be considered anti-town because one can make the argument that claiming VT narrows down the field for mafia to find who the blue(s) are. So this can be considered anti-town (not in the best interest) even if the comment is coming from town. To this end, and seeing that Irishbound is an experienced mafia player, it's safe to say this comment should not have warranted the town read that he gave him. To me, this read should have been null at best, as I feel a comment like this could come from either alignment.

On this alone, that's a scumlean, but I'll continue through the rest of the thread.
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 00:33 GMT
#202
On December 29 2015 08:52 Irishbound wrote:
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On December 29 2015 08:45 GlowingBear wrote:What exactly you didn't like about their openings?


I didn't like Scott bandwagoning with Nonians comment in #167, it's also a very easy way for scum to enter into the thread, quite a similar concern with Mdergs #168 although I have liked him prodding you about your town read on me. Do understand that Giygas accusation on Noonian in #172 was a joke but I find it's the type of statement that scum awkwardly make more often than town do, either way I think I'll be able to get a stronger read on the three of them as the day progresses.


Looking at Scott's comment, he's just saying I agree. Does he try to make anything of it? If he was pushing an agenda, I'd argue he was mafia of it. The tone behind that comment is light enough to me (wording: haven't you learned Bear, although this is also me knowing that Scott will call him MafiaBear or Bear or whatever) on a comment I felt could have come from anywhere. I see what you mean by possibly an easy entrance though and how that point can make sense from your perspective. The other thing I don't understand is why you are equating the joke statement as awkward. Is this based on some of the places where you've placed mafia from or....?
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 00:35 GMT
#204
On December 29 2015 09:20 Kmatt wrote:
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On December 29 2015 09:08 NocturneMage wrote:
Greetings everybody! We're going to start the day by getting rid of obvious scum. And by obvious scum, I mean the dota players. Because as we all know Dota is a shitty game played by shitty people so it's never too soon to start taking out the trash!

##vote Fidei86


You know it's one thing for the SC2 purists to trash DOTA but I'm not about to take that from "DOTA: Casual Cashgrab edition"




Pfffffffff that's what everyone says. We're too casual. Meh. I just think dota players are too elitist

My wife picked up dota from her brother to be fair, he lives in the US so she is more easily able to play with him than she would have if they both played LoL. Meh. At least I married another gamer. xD
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 00:52 GMT
#206
I'm also falling into the category of townreading mderg for being more sceptical on that read/alignment over GB.

GigyaS first few posts - not really getting much either way out of his 3 posts. First post (172) is banter, could come from either alignment. 186 (experience query) same deal, either alignment. Third post might warrant a slight town lean, possible mindmeld looking into Irish's experience as a possible detriment from a perspective standpoint. However the caveat here is that it's not entirely clear whether GigyaS townreads Irish lightly or doesn't at all. It's not explicit.
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 01:00 GMT
#208
KMatt from post 197 you are suggesting that probability is a reason that GB is more likely town, yet the reality here is 3/11 chance (I know I'm town and you would on yourself from the perspective that you are town) there is mafia and in this case, that you might suggest there is potential mafia behaviour (buddying in this case) for GB.

From the perspective of an experienced player, and/or based on his repetition you suggested, do you see that possibly coming from town or mafia? Do you see any other interactions from GB that would point you towards either direction.

Furthermore, do you have any other observations on the other players that have made reads/interactions in thread?
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 01:04 GMT
#209
On December 29 2015 09:28 Shapelog wrote:
I fall asleep after eating and 1 and half pages gets written, was hoping for more.

Any ways, I can understand Kmatt and about how GB is putting a postive vibe out there. Personally though, its not enough for me to really be concern about it. Only GB town read on irish is weird
I like Kmatt, he hates my main race in sc2 ^.^ (though, tbf i do not use ults a lot, only like 60% of my ZvT games)

Mostly everything is NAI towards me or reads slightly AL. Irish's intro to me seemed a bit construed when i 1st read it but now seems a bit more free flowing. I can see the town points GB is talking about but i do not think that warrents him a free town read. IDK, idc for strong town reads on a person on D1 (Rikoty lol)


What do you mean by AL?

Also do you think the bolded is more likely to make GB town or mafia?
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 01:08 GMT
#210
On December 29 2015 09:47 Irishbound wrote:
@NM - I am well aware of the definition of "Anti-Town", what I liked was the speed of Noons reaction towards Glowings comment (The difference between it being posted and his response was 1 minute) which fits more with a natural townie reaction towards the comment being "That's going to hurt us" one and while I don't doubt that it's fake-able for mafia to do that I just find that mafia are more likely to think through the post or it's consequences more there. Again it's not a strong town read but out of everything that had occurred at the time it's only town read I had.


Alright, I see what you mean by the timestamps, I can accept this explanation, fair enough.
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 01:13 GMT
#212
On December 29 2015 07:11 GiygaS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2015 07:02 nooniansoong wrote:
yo wassup.
first post. that means im 100% town right?

Failed first post means you're 100% scum, sorry you got discovered so quick man


Alright I didn't find this opening "forced' but from the perspective of a player (this is at Irishbound) not familiar with the site or the players, I can see where this sentiment would be reasonable. No issues there.

Did you make anything out of GigyaS third post or not really?
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NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 01:17 GMT
#213
And with that, off to bed I go. Seeing as this game is mostly Americans I'll have more things to wake up to.
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 14:30 GMT
#251
On December 29 2015 10:47 scott31337 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2015 08:07 GlowingBear wrote:
On December 29 2015 07:29 Irishbound wrote:
I can already tell my complete lack of meta or understanding of what happend in prior games you guys have played together is going to make it difficult to scumhunt and follow some conversations.

Know it's a weak thing but I'm leaning town on Noonian already, think scum would be less likely to be so brazen to make #62 and like his instant "That's anti-town to do" reaction towards Glowings statement.

I understand that we're meant to be voting in a separate thread to make it easier for the mod to tally up votes but I'd appreciate if everyone also posted here with their vote -- it'll make following the game and reading into context behind votes much easier than attempting to line up timestamps of when people voted in comparison to their thoughts/posts in here.

@Glowing - Who is this Kush you're voting?


You're the quickest townread I have ever had!

Hi! Welcome to the forums!

Kush is nooniasoong. This account he is using is actually a smurf. Every time I talk about kush, I am talking about nooniasoong.

Don't worry with meta. I think most of us in this thread doesn't use it. But we may talk about past games. It won't take much part of the game, so you can relax


GB throwing out townreads like it's drunken Monday - hmmm...

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On December 29 2015 08:52 Irishbound wrote:
On December 29 2015 08:45 GlowingBear wrote:What exactly you didn't like about their openings?


I didn't like Scott bandwagoning with Nonians comment in #167, it's also a very easy way for scum to enter into the thread, quite a similar concern with Mdergs #168 although I have liked him prodding you about your town read on me. Do understand that Giygas accusation on Noonian in #172 was a joke but I find it's the type of statement that scum awkwardly make more often than town do, either way I think I'll be able to get a stronger read on the three of them as the day progresses.


Okay, I'm extremely doubtful a newb mafia makes the post above with the information available. Maybe GB was right You get a townlean for this Irish.

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On December 29 2015 09:08 NocturneMage wrote:
Greetings everybody! We're going to start the day by getting rid of obvious scum. And by obvious scum, I mean the dota players. Because as we all know Dota is a shitty game played by shitty people so it's never too soon to start taking out the trash!

##vote Fidei86

Fidei is the worst of them all, as he's openly admitted pre-game, he steals my wife on a regular basis playing dota with her in the evenings.

After Fidei, we plow through Onegu who I understand plays with her on occassion and then we take out GlowingBear who has told me in a previous scum qt (newbie 13) that he wouldn't coach me because I'm a League player.

Welp. EZ game EZ lyfe get rekt scum.



I could possibly jump on this - but it's a big bag of joke/null for now...

Show nested quote +
On December 29 2015 09:13 Kmatt wrote:
On December 29 2015 09:02 GlowingBear wrote:
On December 29 2015 08:59 Kmatt wrote:
On December 29 2015 08:45 GlowingBear wrote:
On December 29 2015 08:36 Irishbound wrote:
On December 29 2015 08:07 GlowingBear wrote:Kush is nooniasoong. This account he is using is actually a smurf. Every time I talk about kush, I am talking about nooniasoong.

Ah, that makes sense. Is there any one else here that is likely to referred to as a different name?

And I'm guessing your vote on Noon is a jokeish vote in that case? Do you have any scum-reads at the moment? There's several peoples openings that I haven't particularly liked (Mderg, Scott & Giyga) but aren't confident if my issue with them is playstyle or alignment based yet.


Nop. Just kush.

Yeah, it's a joke to be fair we are kinda very "jokish" here in TL Mafia in the beginning of the games. We even call it "joke phase"

No, I don't, these opens are basically not alignment indicatice (NAI)

What exactly you didn't like about their openings?


If this is jokephase I got one:

What do you call a Zerg player that researched Chitinous Plating?
+ Show Spoiler +
Promoted to diamond league


It's funny because it happened to me and I felt validated but now I hear that ultras are OP and doubt myself.

On second thought let's not tell jokes. As for openings, I only thought yours was fishy, but it's day one and you probably end up being more valuable alive since you're still likely town.


Why am I likely town?


Well just by probability there's a better chance of town than mafia. No real information to work off of yet.

On December 29 2015 09:02 Irishbound wrote:
@Kmatt, what did you find fishy about Glowings opening?


He seems to be working more on making a positive image of himself compared to everyone else. Made a lot of early posts like.

On December 29 2015 07:14 GlowingBear wrote:
Lol did I? Anyway, you're now my buddy!!!


On December 29 2015 07:18 GlowingBear wrote:
100% true

##Vote: kush


On December 29 2015 08:07 GlowingBear wrote:
You're the quickest townread I have ever had!

Hi! Welcome to the forums!

Kush is nooniasoong. This account he is using is actually a smurf. Every time I talk about kush, I am talking about nooniasoong.

Don't worry with meta. I think most of us in this thread doesn't use it. But we may talk about past games. It won't take much part of the game, so you can relax


He just seems to be trying to be overly friendly and helpful compared to everyone else who seems to be content to wait for more information. Then again this is Newbie Student Mafia so being more friendly and helpful is to be expected (I think). No one else's first posts had much substance aside from how you were reading into it, but GB seems to be trying at getting his name out there in a positive light. I don't think that's nearly enough to convict someone, just trying to practice reading into posts.


This Kmatt guy kind of does what I do - quote into notepad, post thoughts - I like this so far as well.

I'll work on page 11 after the American Football game (or maybe halftime)


Catching up.

There are a few things I don't like about this post, some points were already touched on.

Now there are a few things I already know about Scott, I've had two games worth experience with him, one was newbie 14, where I had a more comprephensive experience with him, and he was an easier (IMO) town read, the second was newbie 17 where he was mislynched day 1. He has made bad posts as either alignment. That said:

(1) GB throwing out reads like candy - what is the actual (alignment) stance on that? Too easy of a read? Unusual for his gameplay?

Looking at GB's filter, another thing I didn't like was him asking KMatt a question and not following up on it one way or another.

(2) The read on me so it was a null opening. Doesn't say much. Any thoughts about the rest of my posts that would help resolve at least a preliminary stance?

(3) The method of notetaking shouldn't be a reason to townread people (I mean look at Trfel, for those of you that know him), unless he's townreading him for reasons that wasn't clearly explained.

This post alone would warrant a scumlean pending some explanation or follow up.
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 14:35 GMT
#252
On December 29 2015 10:41 GiygaS wrote:
The joke was forced in that I wanted to post to say "I'm here" basically, but didn't really have much to say.

As for what I think about Irish, slight town lean. Only real suspicion is on GB atm for his very matter of fact town read (I agree with it to some extent but he was very confident in it so early which I thought was weird) and that weird first post.


This is a tough call. I can't see scum drawing attention to themselves like this "yeah my comment was forced" but it did happen in Dark Tournament with disformation. I'm going to say (for now) possible but unlikely and don't feel this is a good reason to scumread GigyaS yet. The point of him not taking too many stances on the content that has occurred is valid though.

That said, GigyaS if you can talk to us about GB, Scott, Fidei, and mderg it might help.
Vlad for life. SKT supporter. I policy lynch all dota players, end of.
NocturneMage
Profile Joined July 2015
United Kingdom1965 Posts
December 29 2015 14:51 GMT
#254
On December 29 2015 23:37 Onegu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2015 21:34 Fidei86 wrote:
On December 29 2015 21:08 mderg wrote:
On December 29 2015 20:56 Onegu wrote:
VT Claim

Not quite the first post I'd have imagined

Onegu claims VT in every game he plays, whether it's voice or forum. It is super NAI. Hopefully he'll be less useless than all the other games we have played together, but somehow I doubt it >>



##Vote: Fword Dude

How about this?


Are you voting Fidei because you actually think he's mafia or because you have a personal vendetta against him saying that you throw games all the time? Do you really think he's being unfair calling you useless when (from what I understand) you contribute dick all to the thread (especially day 1).

If you think Fidei is mafia, what in that post actually makes him mafia? Knowing the things he's said out of game about you that statement is NAI to me and could potentially be town if you looked at it from the vantage point that he's trying to guide others (in this context, mderg) on how you should actually be read.
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NocturneMage
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December 29 2015 14:51 GMT
#255
Of course, I'd like to lynch you as well for being a Dota player but too bad we can't lynch more than one player per day
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NocturneMage
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December 29 2015 15:08 GMT
#256
On December 29 2015 20:06 Fidei86 wrote:
Hi all. Not many people in this player list I know at all. I know NocturneMage (Alex) pretty well - been in two games with him. Also Scott, GB and Onegu, though I think I've only seen town Scott and Onegu. Everyone else is basically brand new to me.

Alex/NM's opening on me is the most NAI post I've ever seen - he and I always joke about lynching each other pre-game. I don't see how GB could have got anything from that post. GB have you played with NM before? The rest of GB's contributions are pretty ehhh as well. The only thing that sticks out to me is that the last time GB did a claim first post was Newbie XIV, where he was scum and claimed "not not doctor" or some such bullshit. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

The thing that irks me about Alex/NM's play is always his tone. I usually think when people type too formally it's a Mafia tell, because they're the ones concerned about things being out of place. But with him, that's just how he is. Maybe it's a doctor thing? Content wise, I liked his post at #202. I don't think it makes Irish scum at all, but this is how Scott plays. His activity is always up and down, and he basically has a "see say" way of playing town. He also has played a lot with GB afaik. If anything, I'd give Scott a slight TR. Null on Alex/NM though.

Onegu has a horrible record of AFKing though D1 and then getting replaced. Ugh. I'm not going to hold my breath on that.

I'm not sure what to make of ShapeLog. For an experienced player, the fact that like 80% of his posts are totally off topic would be a major warning sign. But since he doesn't have all that many posts, it could be that he's just feeling comfortable in the thread. As someone who is literally terrified of posting whenever I roll mafia, this is pretty towny to me WITH THE CAVEAT THAT IT IS FUCKING ANNOYING AND SHITS UP THE THREAD WHICH IS VERY ANTI-TOWN. Ahem. Don't spam posts please people.


Alright, this post. I am assuming you think GB is scummy, which a lot of other people are sayign as well. Are you saying his claim could make him more or less mafia? I gave an explanation earlier of how it could be anti-town but not necessarily scummy.

Also I don't understand by what you meant by see say way of town. I'm not sure your stance is reasonable from the perspective that you haven't played with a scum Scott before. How do you know his post couldn't possibly come from a scum perspective?

The tone read on me is confusing at best. In Dark Tournament you compared me to a Jack Russell on meth because I was emotional and last game I admitted that I was playing emotionally because Trfel and Half the Sky were in that game and both of those players had me on full tilt all game. The existence of HTS in general will have me on full tilt in any game as you should know but as neither of those players are present do you think my current tone is unusual or makes me mafia? You said before that my current tone is what you'd normally expect of me. So the meta change really doesn't make sense to me.
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NocturneMage
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December 29 2015 15:08 GMT
#257
Also -

You didn't play Nutcracker did you? Shapelog was like this there too. I'm just going to ignore the spam and focus on where he actually gives reads or alignment stuff. There was one set of reads where he said everything to him was NAI up to a post with GB which I really didn't agree with and I wasn't sure if initially he was trying to be noncomittal. From a wording thing the other thing was Shapelog saying that he was going to "wait for more content" which generally for a player I don't know well is a scum tell because scum generally play a more reactive game.
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December 29 2015 15:11 GMT
#258
EBWOP - post 256

The existence of HTS in general will have me on full tilt in any game....do you think my current tone is unusual that it could potentially make me mafia (seeing as you've given me a null read)?
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NocturneMage
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December 29 2015 15:19 GMT
#259
mderg's filter at present time warrants a town lean. Short and to the point yes, but reasonable stances taken on the most relevant players. At present time, nothing is also jumping out to me as scummy or questionable.
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December 29 2015 15:20 GMT
#260
Going to duck out at the moment, will be back.
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December 29 2015 15:34 GMT
#263
Also presently voting Scott, that vote can change, there are a few other scumreads that I need to continue resolving one way or another, GB, Shapelog, possibly Onegu/Fidei and at present noon and Cow would fall under the policy lynch category for me.
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December 29 2015 15:36 GMT
#264
Shapelog, any opinion (given your last on Onegu) on his vote on Fidei?

And that crossed out statement, are you inferring that could be another reason for mderg to be scum from your perspective?
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December 29 2015 15:41 GMT
#265
Ergh, I don't know about that read on mderg. Like agree with everyone else on GB, but saying the GB vote is too easy? I don't recall anyone else in thread actually saying that. So I don't think that part of the conclusion is reasonable.
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NocturneMage
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December 29 2015 15:41 GMT
#266
And afk again...
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December 30 2015 01:21 GMT
#385
Reading and catching up.

On December 30 2015 01:15 Shapelog wrote:
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On December 30 2015 00:36 NocturneMage wrote:
Shapelog, any opinion (given your last on Onegu) on his vote on Fidei?

And that crossed out statement, are you inferring that could be another reason for mderg to be scum from your perspective?


Onegu does whatever Onegu does. He expects everyone to follow him IMO like he is town jesus. Onegu could honestly mean to vote Fidei based off of no explanation or lack of explanation. When he was smurfing he was quite aggressive last game.

But if i was to take off the meta glasses of mislynchs, I see either a horrible pressure vote or a troll vote IMO. I mean im guessing the "how about this" was to draw out a reaction of sorts.

No the [S] was because i was being too trolololoing. Idc if he has problems with my playstyle (or hopefully my old play style). His opinion is his opinion

And no i wasn't Afk, i went to grab my grits and it takes me a bit of time to type due to me misspelling every word and having to go back and retype it.


This is really hard to tell at first, probably a troll vote, seeing Onegu's filter, also that Fidei has posted after that troll vote and has done nothing and Onegu in resurfacing isn't doing anything with the reaction so it's definitely not pressure I would say. Onegu not making anything of it is null at best, although trolling is something I would associate more with scum.

The afk comment btw, was in reference to myself going afk, though, not you.
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 01:26 GMT
#386
On December 29 2015 20:17 Fidei86 wrote:
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On December 29 2015 18:32 mderg wrote:
Meh, reading this thread is difficult when you don't know most of those names.

People are quick to jump on GB, I like that because his opening was fishy but I also don't like it because it feels too easy. I'll have to see how that continues.

Don't like GiygaS so far... Has made like 7 posts but I didn't see anything of substance. The fist reads also don't really seem that strong.

I have a slight townread on NocturneMage, he's being out there and being open about his thoughts. He's also asking lots of questions which makes me think he's trying to solve the game. He is a dirty league player, though...

I don't understand your read on Gigya versus your read on ShapeLog. I read Gigya's thread and I agree with what you say - it's basically soft town reads on a couple of people based on activity with the rest OOC filler. But then, look at ShapeLog's filter. It's mostly the same, except three times longer.


Can you explain this post when you can? You are saying that you agreed with the read on GigyaS, and thus you scumread him (????) but then you are making a like to like comparison to Shapelog who you are townreading? Can you explain if this affects your townread on Shapelog or whether it should because I don't otherwise understand what you are getting at here?
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 01:42 GMT
#389
GB, two that I recall. In Newbie 14, Scott was engaged with the thread, and very active and made strides to solve that game. You were mafia in that game, Fidei threw in 2:1 lylo. In my last newbie, he was town but not as engaged and scum Trfel pushed him to death day 1. I'm loathe to use meta so I would rather opt to flesh him out as much as I can in this current game. His scum games, he is not quite as active or does very little, but as I've never actually been in a game with him as scum, I'd rather just flesh him out.
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 01:44 GMT
#390
mderg, I looked at Kush/GB filters, Kush could be argued to soft push him and GB doesn't mention him at all, but if you are arguing they are both scum for that, seeing as you have independent (???) reasons to scumread them both, I'd rather see a flip or a stronger case against one of them before using the association argument.
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 01:54 GMT
#391
I'm looking at GB's reaction test on KMatt or his read on KMatt. My only issue with this reaction test is, looking at his filter, and his conversation with Shapelog is trying to see if his stance based on the reaction test would change his reads (or further solidify his reads) on Shapelog or KMatt. KMatt has responded since then and what bothers me further with GlowingBear is that I would expect him to also at least engage KMatt.

Could KMatt be scum (there's a post I'll draw attention to, it was the one where he drops the GB scumread, it could be scum backing down or dropping a read or it could be a townie new to the game lacking confidence) - sure. But you would think the townie thing to do particularly of a veteran player would be to engage or further engage him.

Wishy washy filter? okay.
Vote placed? Okay.
Reaction test and explanation? Okay.
What are you doing with either the reaction test OR the scumread? Nothing.

???????????????????
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December 30 2015 01:55 GMT
#392
And I say that because GlowingBear's response after that last response was to query me on how many games I've played with Scott. Despite KMatt actually being in thread.

It doesn't make any sense.
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December 30 2015 01:57 GMT
#393
EBWOP Well maybe the question itself could make sense since my vote is on Scott, fair play, but the lack of engagement with a scumread is what I am having trouble with.
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 02:04 GMT
#394
At least Cow's layout is more clear and has more specific points that can be crosschecked.
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 02:15 GMT
#397
From context in 362 I am going to make the assumption that KMatt (unlike Cow/Irishbound) is pretty inexperienced at forum mafia.

On December 30 2015 09:43 Kmatt wrote:
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On December 30 2015 09:40 Shapelog wrote:
On December 29 2015 10:11 Kmatt wrote:
On December 29 2015 10:00 NocturneMage wrote:
KMatt from post 197 you are suggesting that probability is a reason that GB is more likely town, yet the reality here is 3/11 chance (I know I'm town and you would on yourself from the perspective that you are town) there is mafia and in this case, that you might suggest there is potential mafia behaviour (buddying in this case) for GB.

From the perspective of an experienced player, and/or based on his repetition you suggested, do you see that possibly coming from town or mafia? Do you see any other interactions from GB that would point you towards either direction.

Furthermore, do you have any other observations on the other players that have made reads/interactions in thread?


I didn't really mean anything by saying that he was "probably town", just purely the 3/11 (27%) vs 8/11 (73%) chance factor. I actually didn't think about the buddying factor though, since none of the people he was "buddying" came off as suspicious to me. I wouldn't go as far as to say that GB is showing mafia behavior, just that he stood out to me.

If I had to guess right now, his posts would make more sense for a mafia to do. However, that seems like it would be an obvious (mafia) rookie mistake (considering a scrub "caught" him on it), which I wouldn't expect of him. I'm still neutral on it for now.

Kind of the same with Irish. He's certainly putting more ideas out there than a lot of other posters, but nothing that would really swing me either way.


So u have list the chances of him being town, then null him, then put him up for vote?

What has changed? I mean all that has happen is that he scum read u. did you reread and a earlier post seems scummy now or what?

I can understand ur GiygaS Khan vote thou.


I don't think much has changed. To be honest, I did have a scumlean on GB, but I don't want to assert that since I wasn't confident enough in my own "evidence". Looking back over it I think I'm comfortable dropping my scumlean on GB. With that said:

##vote GiygaS


Can you also walk me through what in your head made you drop that scumlean on GB? That's about the only thing not clear in the filter. I can see the evidence threshold being reasonable of an argument for a newbie who doesn't know what he's doing to make. I can see this quote:

On December 30 2015 09:49 Kmatt wrote:
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On December 30 2015 09:36 GlowingBear wrote:
On December 30 2015 09:32 Shapelog wrote:
On December 30 2015 09:22 GlowingBear wrote:
I think Kmatt's filter has been wishy washy, that's why I voted him. I could quoting and explaining my rwas but I'm actually too lazy right now to put effort

I'm also playing another game which from times to times keeps me from giving my full attention to this one


So basically a non commitment issue. Yeah that's true.
At least ik what ur prob. is now.

Can u still explain y if i had a read on him matter?


I usually delay explanation and post just votes and questions just to have people talking. If I answered you right at that moment I would destroy this premise. So I was just trying to have people talking about it for a longer time.


While that seems like an effective tactic, I really can't like using it as town since that fits "make posts that stir up trouble without actually contributing to the thread" to a T. Not five minutes after I toss my scumread...

If you really do have an argument against me, let's get it out into the open. I don't think there's anything to lose by hiding information from all three of us in here right now.


Being a reasonable amount of scepticism towards someone for someone who is inexperienced with forum mafia. This becomes more certain when you take that against GB's lack of (direct) followup per his filter.

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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 02:17 GMT
#398
On December 30 2015 11:04 NocturneMage wrote:
At least Cow's layout is more clear and has more specific points that can be crosschecked.


Also forgot to add to this, starting another wagon when he could have put his vote on scott as a scumread is generally a town tell.
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December 30 2015 02:24 GMT
#401
Not if there's a basis? I don't think there's anything wrong with an early vote and pressing for answers.
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December 30 2015 02:33 GMT
#405
KMatt, can you comment on the following:

(1) Irishbound's case/explanation on the Noon/Scott association
(2) Fidei and his opening reads
(3) Noon's posturing (for lack of better words) on GB
(4) Scott and how he looks from your perspective
(5) any other issues - EXCEPT Onegu who I feel is bordering the closest to a policy lynch - that you think are deserving of the thread attention?
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December 30 2015 02:37 GMT
#407
GlowingBear, what do you make of the responses KMatt has given since your initial assertion?
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NocturneMage
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December 30 2015 02:39 GMT
#409
On December 30 2015 11:35 GlowingBear wrote:
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On December 30 2015 11:24 NocturneMage wrote:
Not if there's a basis? I don't think there's anything wrong with an early vote and pressing for answers.


Your basis is basically inactivity and low involvement in the thread, and he is like this as town tooX so you don't actually have a basis


Actually, no it wasn't.

Look at my post again. I'm suggesting the problems in the POST THAT HE HAS lies in his wording and context. I am already aware he CAN be a low activity poster, I'm arguing that what he DOES have is scum indicative given the context in the thread.
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December 30 2015 02:41 GMT
#411
This is what I was saying earlier with something that looks scum indicative - >>>>> early pressure vote for further clarification and answers.

There is nothing wrong with that basis.
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December 30 2015 02:41 GMT
#412
On December 30 2015 11:40 Shapelog wrote:
Hasn't people said that scott played a versus amounts of play styles? (active, semi active, afk) all as town?
I mean if his play style is that changing then i be more incline to think the afk is NAI then AI. idk i like to see him post more as with GiygaS Khan.


Again, I can't speak for others but Scott being afk is NOT why I'm scumreading him.
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December 30 2015 02:50 GMT
#415
On December 30 2015 11:44 Shapelog wrote:
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On December 30 2015 10:55 NocturneMage wrote:
And I say that because GlowingBear's response after that last response was to query me on how many games I've played with Scott. Despite KMatt actually being in thread.

It doesn't make any sense.


GB might of made a post about this yet, but GB has been very defective this game. Apperainty it is to generate content and have people talk about it. But yet it is funny to me that afterwards, when he posts, it generates more content then the tatic did.
And a quick skim up the thread shows that he is deflecting a Kmatt read.

I really starting to have probs. with this again. Hes deflecting to much IMO.


Well like I said before his initial explanation for a reaction test made sense the lack of followup or conclusion on KMatt's responses does not. Or lack of engagement to resolve the scumread. It doesn't make sense from a town perspective.
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December 30 2015 03:00 GMT
#419
On December 30 2015 11:18 Irishbound wrote:
I'll summarise the issues I have with Noon:

a) In the pregame he stated that he was looking forward to playing with Onegu here, it's not impossible that it was him being sarcastic but it does make his attempt to policy lynch Onegu based on nearly nothing inside this thread look very scum motivated. b) I find the timing of his push on Onegu (When there was attention on Scott) as well as his shotty reasoning behind town reading Scott in this post to mean that he makes a lot of sense as scum with Scott. c) Strongly dislike the fact that he's not attempted to scumhunt at all throughout this day phase and is attempting to state he won't do so until D2, that makes sense coming from scum thinking he's able to coast a day phase without any risk himself.

Alright I'll continue catching up an then I'll post my reads line.


I can see where you are coming from especially since Scott's reasoning to townread KMatt on taht explanation was poor, plus saying what he said there "I could jump on this" it doesn't line up with ending up at a null read, not to mention I had already posted other material that Scott could have looked at. but to be fair that is a separate issue that he may have neglected to look at as either alignment.

Policy lynching is something I have seen coming out of both alignments to be fair, I know it was the case in Dark Tournament, townies wanting to lynch other townies but I think those townies had been playing all game.
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December 30 2015 03:04 GMT
#420
On December 30 2015 12:00 NocturneMage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 30 2015 11:18 Irishbound wrote:
I'll summarise the issues I have with Noon:

a) In the pregame he stated that he was looking forward to playing with Onegu here, it's not impossible that it was him being sarcastic but it does make his attempt to policy lynch Onegu based on nearly nothing inside this thread look very scum motivated. b) I find the timing of his push on Onegu (When there was attention on Scott) as well as his shotty reasoning behind town reading Scott in this post to mean that he makes a lot of sense as scum with Scott. c) Strongly dislike the fact that he's not attempted to scumhunt at all throughout this day phase and is attempting to state he won't do so until D2, that makes sense coming from scum thinking he's able to coast a day phase without any risk himself.

Alright I'll continue catching up an then I'll post my reads line.


I can see where you are coming from especially since Scott's reasoning to townread KMatt on taht explanation was poor, plus saying what he said there "I could jump on this" it doesn't line up with ending up at a null read, not to mention I had already posted other material that Scott could have looked at. but to be fair that is a separate issue that he may have neglected to look at as either alignment.

Policy lynching is something I have seen coming out of both alignments to be fair, I know it was the case in Dark Tournament, townies wanting to lynch other townies but I think those townies had been playing all game.


actually wait - look further into this and you see Noon raising the KMatt white knighting issue and KMatt had responded to that. There was no followup there and his looking to GB to find a reason to scumread KMatt (probably this in conjunction with the white knighting argument is my guess from his filter). There's two futher points against Noon - the lack of followup to KMatt's response on the white knighting and using some really bad association (namely if GB is town then KMatt must be scum) to try and get where he needs to be (post 364). The scum motivation looks like he's reaching for that scumread unless he was not satisfied with the response but there is no such indication in his filter AND subsequent posting.
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December 30 2015 03:18 GMT
#428
On December 30 2015 11:55 Irishbound wrote:
@NM - I've just finished going through Fideis ISO and have literally no read on him at all, you've got some meta experience with him from what his posts suggest, what's your read on him at the moment (With some reasoning please)?


So basically what I know of Fidei's meta is that as town he tries to solve the game, will whine about spam and is generally a low volume poster since he's a laywer who works ridiculous hours. There are two reads that I have not been able to follow easily (I'm seeing a double standard between Shapelog and GigyaS reads but I do want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding those reads). I don't agree entirely with his initial scott read, partially because I'm sceptical of meta and he used a game (NSM 14 where scott was high activity) where he took a town trait and compared it to here. But looking into the substance - or lack of substance in scott - moving to null would make sense.

There is not enough solving of the game from him and I cannot contest what he's saying on Onegu as a policy lynch, but he has not returned.

I tentatively have a null to scumlean on him largely because I couldn't follow the GigyaS/Shapelog reads but I was going to engage him when he returned to the thread and would hopefully comment on the key issues that have arisen since.


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December 30 2015 03:23 GMT
#430
On December 30 2015 12:18 NocturneMage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 30 2015 11:55 Irishbound wrote:
@NM - I've just finished going through Fideis ISO and have literally no read on him at all, you've got some meta experience with him from what his posts suggest, what's your read on him at the moment (With some reasoning please)?


So basically what I know of Fidei's meta is that as town he tries to solve the game, will whine about spam and is generally a low volume poster since he's a laywer who works ridiculous hours. There are two reads that I have not been able to follow easily (I'm seeing a double standard between Shapelog and GigyaS reads but I do want to make sure I'm not misunderstanding those reads). I don't agree entirely with his initial scott read, partially because I'm sceptical of meta and he used a game (NSM 14 where scott was high activity) where he took a town trait and compared it to here. But looking into the substance - or lack of substance in scott - moving to null would make sense.

There is not enough solving of the game from him and I cannot contest what he's saying on Onegu as a policy lynch, but he has not returned.

I tentatively have a null to scumlean on him largely because I couldn't follow the GigyaS/Shapelog reads but I was going to engage him when he returned to the thread and would hopefully comment on the key issues that have arisen since.


ebwop - post 386 is where I'm trying to flesh those reads out with Fidei.
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December 30 2015 03:33 GMT
#433
I need to head to bed, but with where my head is, I think the lynch list needs to be somewhere in this:

Noon/GB/Scott

Further fleshing out: Scott/Fidei/GigyaS
Last resort/policy lynch: Onegu

For GigyaS there was one post that I felt was unlikely to come from scum, but considering where he's not been in thread for >24h now, getting a mindset read with all that has happened is I think pretty important with a few of the concerns brought up.
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December 30 2015 19:49 GMT
#555
ET north of 45 minutes until I can get to a computer, catch up and reassess.
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December 30 2015 21:09 GMT
#589
Have my laptop, here we go. Reading simultaneously from page 22.

Scott, I have questions for you. First your scumread on GigyaS.

(1) His third post admitting his joke was forced and admitting he didn't know what to say. (post 214/218) Why does that come from scum?
(2) He has posted and made reads since. You are saying his filter is (still presumably) worse than yours (worse as in less content? how?)

How is what he's done from your perspective scummy?

Admittedly I agree with mderg etc, moving Noon up at the time you did is a weak/poor defence, but I need to see what Noon's posted since. I'm not experienced enough (5th game on TL, 4 of which were newbies, and no other forum experience for those who don't know me) to know what a pocket is or what categorically qualifies as a pocket.
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#590
I'm skimming through the scumslip argument on Fidei since enough of you are making a big deal on that. That is debatable 50/50 because given his apparent experience with Onegu you can see the context where that's coming from. If Fidei is mafia tbh, it's not (necessarily) for the scumslip, going to look closely at his list post and a few other things.
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#591
Holy, I almost forgot TheCow was even in the game. Mind you I've been afk a bit myself. Last I recall he seemed towny for the way he tried to re-perspective KMatt. I thought his responses were satisfactory when we were all querying him last night.

Scott looking at your latest list post, why was the case poor? Is it because you are townreading KMatt or because you thought TheCow was legitimately making the case based on scummy and/or questionable points?
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#594
On December 31 2015 06:01 scott31337 wrote:
4) Irishbound - Wants me dead, wants Onegu dead - we're both town/mislynches (Pretty sure Onegu town) - scumlean
5) GiygaS - filter worse than mine - would lynch
6) NocturneMage - Wants me dead just not as badly - Doesn't look like his scum meta (unless he's been learning!) - townlean
7) Fidei86 - His list post is pretty decent - wouldn't lynch today - but not super solid townlean either.
8) mderg - Lots of one liners and questions - was honest about my filter when re-reading it though but still votes me - I dont feel so OMGUS'y on him like I do Irish though. There are better lynches for today.
9) GlowingBear - He's a little too calm - but I still think he's town
10) Onegu - Started barf VT claim town Onegu day 1 meta - dont lynch
11) nooniansoong - Defended me when the thread is after me, but I don't think it's a pocket.


Can you differentiate what makes Irish scum for wanting you dead? I think both of us had similar grounds for your lynch. (You are townreading me.)

Was there a specific quote/case that jumped out as scummy?

I don't generally trust meta reads....can someone verify if Onegu does the VT claim thing as mafia?

Onegu was pure policy when I last afked. In skimming just now, aside from Fidei, he seemed to have a scumlean on GB, which looked reasonable to me given the non-engagement issues I had with him when I afked.
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#595
On December 31 2015 06:15 GlowingBear wrote:
Scott, vote Kmatt with me.


Was there something new you had an issue with or was this the same stuff from last night? If it was the same stuff from last night, is it completely unfathomable from newbie town to do what he did? This is one key thing to me, that makes Cow more town than you - he's trying to frame the situation from one that is believeable from his perspective.
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#600
On December 31 2015 06:25 Onegu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2015 06:21 NocturneMage wrote:
On December 31 2015 06:01 scott31337 wrote:
4) Irishbound - Wants me dead, wants Onegu dead - we're both town/mislynches (Pretty sure Onegu town) - scumlean
5) GiygaS - filter worse than mine - would lynch
6) NocturneMage - Wants me dead just not as badly - Doesn't look like his scum meta (unless he's been learning!) - townlean
7) Fidei86 - His list post is pretty decent - wouldn't lynch today - but not super solid townlean either.
8) mderg - Lots of one liners and questions - was honest about my filter when re-reading it though but still votes me - I dont feel so OMGUS'y on him like I do Irish though. There are better lynches for today.
9) GlowingBear - He's a little too calm - but I still think he's town
10) Onegu - Started barf VT claim town Onegu day 1 meta - dont lynch
11) nooniansoong - Defended me when the thread is after me, but I don't think it's a pocket.


Can you differentiate what makes Irish scum for wanting you dead? I think both of us had similar grounds for your lynch. (You are townreading me.)

Was there a specific quote/case that jumped out as scummy?

I don't generally trust meta reads....can someone verify if Onegu does the VT claim thing as mafia?

Onegu was pure policy when I last afked. In skimming just now, aside from Fidei, he seemed to have a scumlean on GB, which looked reasonable to me given the non-engagement issues I had with him when I afked.



I have done it as mafia multiple times. I have done it as blue multiple times. I have done it as VT multiple times.


If your explanation is true, then that's quite the rubbish meta explanation from Scott - that is, he's townreading you for a very bad reason.
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#603
On December 31 2015 06:01 scott31337 wrote:
1) Kmatt - Shows some decent thoughts that I like - expresses thoughts - and the post I noted before - townlean


KMatt has been a point of contention for a few people here, I personally didn't agree at all with your initial post for townreading him. If you are caught up (and it appears you are based on updated reads for some of the other players here), then in your own words, why is KMatt town?

More specific, examples of "decent thoughts?"
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#628
On December 31 2015 06:51 scott31337 wrote:
People om Fidei look better than on Kmatt after looking it over.

Is that better?


Can you at least explained what changed? You had a townlean on him?
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#635
well fuck
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#637
I need to reassess everyone on the scott wagon it looks like. Regarding Irish, honestly, nothing is jumping out right now, and Irish's continued reasoning for scumming Scott, honestly I can't argue that because Irish did have a reason to town Onegu even though I'm not sure I fully agreed with it, I don't see that it could make him scum.

The early voting makes him more townie and I didn't get a chance to fully look through Noon today which was his other willing vote. I know someone pinged me out earlier for putting Noon in the lynch list but that was because he was going after KMatt for white knighting or something and then didn't follow up at the time I looked at him.

I am curious to see where people are calling Irish tryhard scum. He really believed in the case on Scott.
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#639
Irish kept the same read on Noon, but I know Noon's posted today, so I have to see the basis for why that read stayed the same. That's about the only thing I can think of.
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#640
On December 31 2015 07:08 GlowingBear wrote:
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On December 31 2015 07:06 NocturneMage wrote:
I need to reassess everyone on the scott wagon it looks like. Regarding Irish, honestly, nothing is jumping out right now, and Irish's continued reasoning for scumming Scott, honestly I can't argue that because Irish did have a reason to town Onegu even though I'm not sure I fully agreed with it, I don't see that it could make him scum.

The early voting makes him more townie and I didn't get a chance to fully look through Noon today which was his other willing vote. I know someone pinged me out earlier for putting Noon in the lynch list but that was because he was going after KMatt for white knighting or something and then didn't follow up at the time I looked at him.

I am curious to see where people are calling Irish tryhard scum. He really believed in the case on Scott.


So you don't think he is scummy?


The aspects of his play that are sticking out to me, no. The only thing is the read on Noon since he mentioned Scott or Noon.
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#641
We have a result of 6-3-1-1.

I'd say most likely 2 mafia on the Scott wagon.
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#642
Looking at the off-wagon people....their being afk (KMatt and Shapelog in particular as they were unable to push their reads due to work/emergency) is NAI. Cow was in the process of reassessing when he disappeared 15+ hours ago but who knows the reason. The reasoning up to then was towny.

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#643
Alright, let me clear my head a bit and then I'll return and reassess.
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#645
On December 31 2015 07:31 GlowingBear wrote:
NM I've asked that because in early day1 you said Irish was a scumlean but he completely disappeared from your radar since that time


I know I had an issue with him about the anti-town stuff, but that concern was resolved. Since then I had no reason to take issue with him. The way he had been ferretting things out to me looked towny.
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#646
On December 29 2015 10:08 NocturneMage wrote:
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On December 29 2015 09:47 Irishbound wrote:
@NM - I am well aware of the definition of "Anti-Town", what I liked was the speed of Noons reaction towards Glowings comment (The difference between it being posted and his response was 1 minute) which fits more with a natural townie reaction towards the comment being "That's going to hurt us" one and while I don't doubt that it's fake-able for mafia to do that I just find that mafia are more likely to think through the post or it's consequences more there. Again it's not a strong town read but out of everything that had occurred at the time it's only town read I had.


Alright, I see what you mean by the timestamps, I can accept this explanation, fair enough.


At GB - I assume this is what you were referencing.
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#685
Happy New Years to all the Americans stateside. Been partying all night but a few comments before I finally crash.

First this whole scumslip business, I still have no idea what you people are looking for or looking at. Onegu, Fidei gave context to how he was reading you, even if the read was ON you, I tried to look for examples using search where people are either making interpretations of these things and of these things as either alignments and the interpretations from both alignments seem to be all over the place.

I'm with Noon with how is Shape scum independent of the scumslip (based on how you phrased post 667), and how is reading you MORE of a scumslip than not reading you?

Scumslips - being misused or misinterpreted by townies on townies
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/493411-newbie-student-mafia-xiv-firefly?page=75#1493
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/494873-battle-of-the-drams-mafia?page=214#4276

Actual scumslip - read wasn't even made on a person
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/484076-assassination-mafia?page=80#1582

No I don't have an example here where scumslips were misused by mafia on townies, but I imagine that there have to have been scenarios where this has happened.

Point is, absent a secondary argument (yes I am aware Noon has one which is something I'll read when I re-examine filters) beating scumslips out of proportion if town (as demonstrated in the examples above) can be unreliable at best and scummy at worst.
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#686
The second question regarding Onegu - since I've never played with him before is that is the whole finding scum thing based on scumreads on you - is this something he does as town, mafia or both alignments?
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#687
Also Onegu, is your case against GB boiling down to:

(1) the quick town read on Irish
(2) his scumreading/pushing you

Or was there more than that? That was all I could garner from your filter.

Did you have any comments to make regarding his engagement with his scumreads?
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#688
On January 01 2016 13:56 nooniansoong wrote:
happy new years all. good to have you back shape.


+1

Welcome back and I hope you are recovering well.
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#689
On January 01 2016 13:49 Shapelog wrote:
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On January 01 2016 13:46 GlowingBear wrote:
On January 01 2016 13:33 Shapelog wrote:
On December 31 2015 04:25 Irishbound wrote:
On December 31 2015 04:21 GlowingBear wrote:
Kush and fidei are probably town
It should be clear that Kmatt is Mafia right now
So you think Onegu is town? Mderg also?


Yes, I've got a town read on Onegus reaction towards Fideis post, it's not a particularly strong one but not even remotely interested in lynching there. I do have a very strong town read on Mderg, his reads and thoughts mirror mine when catching up quite often, I can understand his reasoning behind almost all of his reads, I'd almost bet the entire game on him being town.

Want to make an agreement Glowing? We lynch Scott today, if he's mafia like I expect you let me tell you where to put your vote tomorrow, if he flips town you can tell me where to place mine.


Page 28.

This is either a big ass mafia slip (which btw, mderg copied his scum slip from me! look at the filter its their.) Or one huge town tell


So it is NAI, basically


idk i read his filter when i catch up if i feel like it tonight.

And just saw scott got lynched.......And no one else voted for kush. Eh shapelog Vs Kush rule must happen.


I'm confused by this?
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#690
On January 01 2016 14:19 NocturneMage wrote:
Also Onegu, is your case against GB boiling down to:

(1) the quick town read on Irish
(2) his scumreading/pushing you

Or was there more than that? That was all I could garner from your filter.

Did you have any comments to make regarding his engagement with his scumreads?


EBWOP - alright I saw posts 652 and 653.

Have most players who have tried to metaread you typically been scum?
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#691
On December 31 2015 23:32 GlowingBear wrote:
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On December 31 2015 23:17 nooniansoong wrote:
@GB if you think the scumslip is a legitimate why do you have a weak townread on shape?


I don't believe in scumslips, I've quoted that because I find hard to believe Onegu would see a slip from fidei but wouldn't from Shapelog.

To add to that, he said "then shape is Mafia too" but just forgot about that and now he is only scum reading me and Fidei


I didn't actually play in Nutcracker, but seeing that Onegu didn't play in Nutcracker do you think it's possible or believeable the Shapelog scumslip would have just gone over his head?
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#692
On January 01 2016 14:36 NocturneMage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2015 23:32 GlowingBear wrote:
On December 31 2015 23:17 nooniansoong wrote:
@GB if you think the scumslip is a legitimate why do you have a weak townread on shape?


I don't believe in scumslips, I've quoted that because I find hard to believe Onegu would see a slip from fidei but wouldn't from Shapelog.

To add to that, he said "then shape is Mafia too" but just forgot about that and now he is only scum reading me and Fidei


I didn't actually play in Nutcracker, but seeing that Onegu didn't play in Nutcracker do you think it's possible or believeable the Shapelog scumslip would have just gone over his head?


Wait, ignore post 691. I stand corrected. Onegu smurfed that game. That completely negates my last question. That slip/criteria for slip probably should have jumped out at him since it was a game he played in.
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#693
On December 31 2015 06:56 nooniansoong wrote:
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On December 31 2015 03:25 nooniansoong wrote:
lemme summarize reasoning for voting fidei real quick.
Several posts that are long and have nothign to do with scumhunting. Talking about past games, talking about the virtues of policy lynches, etc.
In his big reads post, his scumreads are summaries of me and gigas' play put into a scummy light. He latches on to some of my trolly posts and doesn't stop to think "why would scum make such overtly scummy posts"?

On December 30 2015 23:27 Fidei86 wrote:Scum

Gigya - He has a filter almost totally devoid of reads. His one TR is Irish (#214) but at the same time in his post at #192 he actually says that as Irish is experienced, the post could have been faked. ???. He also suspects GB for his "matter of fact town read", even though he agrees with it? The only thing keeping this from moving into policy is that he has a couple of posts where he talks about non-game stuff (#225, #228). If you have time to do that, you have time to play as well. This is how newbie mafia play, imo.

Noon/Kush - This whole filter makes me want to facepalm. He TRs Scott for saying he could "possibly jump" on someone else's read. WTF? I just don't understand this read at all - mafia are the ones who are going to hedge and give weak reads, not town. He then goes into a day-long "woe is me, D1 is so hard" stupor, which is (a) totally destructive to town, and (b) effective at hiding his thoughts on the game. Having said that, he then seems to basically mindlessly sheep GB onto his read onto Kmatt. I also don't follow his point about NM and KMatt whiteknighting, since a bunch of other people also came into the thread to say that timestamp analysis wasn't helpful. He then also prods a bunch of people into giving reads, despite the fact that he himself has given almost no content.
##Vote -- Gigya




Looking at this case - the Onegu bashing/policy lynches is something Fidei has done as both alignments and in pre and post-games. So to me that is NAI.

Regarding the reads on GigyaS, "a filter that is almost entirely devoid of reads".....for someone that has been relatively inactive that could go either way. The bolded that I have for GigyaS read looks reasonable enough to scum for unless you are arguing that he's taking those posts out of context in which case I will go back and mark those pages to read around the filters.

The Noon read is actually slightly more concerning to me because the "possibly jump" part I think you even disclaimed that it was a shitty read/criteria (paraphrasing) and it would seem to me that mafia would try and hide that.

"Woe is me/Day 1".....I remember you getting off a great scumread in Dark Tournament on the player both DoYouHas and myself eventually got lynched (Half the Sky) and considering Fidei was also in that game - I replaced in, so I know -, do you think it's completely unreasonable for him to scumread you when you were clearly more productive in that game, contrasting to here where you go for the straight policy lynch?

Sheeping GB onto KMatt? Wait.....didn't you argue against that? Or at least accuse GB of misinterpreting?
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#694
On December 30 2015 23:27 Fidei86 wrote:
Noon/Kush - This whole filter makes me want to facepalm. He TRs Scott for saying he could "possibly jump" on someone else's read. WTF? I just don't understand this read at all - mafia are the ones who are going to hedge and give weak reads, not town. He then goes into a day-long "woe is me, D1 is so hard" stupor, which is (a) totally destructive to town, and (b) effective at hiding his thoughts on the game. Having said that, he then seems to basically mindlessly sheep GB onto his read onto Kmatt. I also don't follow his point about NM and KMatt whiteknighting, since a bunch of other people also came into the thread to say that timestamp analysis wasn't helpful. He then also prods a bunch of people into giving reads, despite the fact that he himself has given almost no content.


Can you explain this? (bolded) If you read Noon's filter carefully you will see subsequent pushback.
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#695
6am. I'll pick up later today.
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#734
Catching up on the rest of the thread, though I just read through that wall of text, my god that was painful. I disagree with the summary comment from GigyaS because that was anything but. I know people solely summarising is generally a scummy tactic, but he is providing interpretations.

I'm looking most specifically at how KMatt portrayed some of GB's attacks on him. Some of his context IS off compared to the way a lot of us are seeing things, but I wouldn't expect a newbie to understand what reaction tests are for instance.

I'm also going to say newb town on that.
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#738
Onegu still pushing the OMGUS/"shouldn't be metareading him" route on GB and Fidei scumslip? But nothing new on Shapelog?

Also Fidei (post 715) not denying the scumslip does not make him mafia. He just might not be arsed to debate it more than he already has, pretty sure he responded regarding the difference in interpretation himself.

Could vote Onegu. Still reading....
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#739
On January 03 2016 00:42 Fidei86 wrote:
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On January 02 2016 23:58 nooniansoong wrote:
Fidei.I didn't read it. I skimmed it and it confirms my newb town read.
Yes it's aggressive in tone which I think is town coming from a newer player. He seems to believe what he's saying.
Except town does do all those things he said town doesn't do. So I don't think it's a good case.

I don't think being aggressive in reads is necessarily newb town, especially when that townie has previously been kinda meek. Ehhhh.

I really want to hear from Shining and Alex (NM) before I update all my reads. I'll quickly read GB's filter a bit to see if I can get a handle on it. That said, the fact that Onegu is so happy to jump onto GB for literally the flimsiest reasons I've ever seen make me more sure that Onegu is scum, which makes it unlikely GB is with him. But, associative reads, I get it.


This might be a shit way of me explaining this, so if I need to break it down further, shout -

Newb town gets scumread once by player A.
Newb town exhibits a calm tone to getting scumread.
Player A townreads him.
Player A scumreads him again based on some criteria that makes little sense to him/looks flimsy (how other players think of it is irrelevant to his POV).
Player A proceeds to do other things that make little sense to him.

Newb town exhibits more aggro tone towards Player A in case.

Do you think the change in tone is unwarranted/unreasonable for a townie perspective based on these events?

I don't.
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#750
My take on GB, going through his filter.

Points that make GB scummy

(1) Engagement with KMatt was poor when he initially scumread him and early on I felt he didn't do anything with his reaction test (or whatever it is) that got any alignment indicative information on Shapelog (the only other person interacting at the time), etc. This I thought was scummy from GB.

(2) This post. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/500060-newbie-student-mafia-xviii?page=31#615
Kush voting with Onegu was after Onegu gave one reason for voting Fidei and Kush at that time gave a separate reason for voting Fidei. So I don't think this is unreasonable and it looks like you are taking the situation out of context.

(3) The post on killing GigyaS is bad because D1 nightkills yield little information, like I did in a few of the games I've played you need multiple nights of NK WIFOM analysis or NK WIFOM analysis with something else to more reasonably go after someone.

(4) Stance on mderg. From what I can tell mderg has posted in and out of the thread since GB has made his initial scumread on him and GB seems pretty content to call him mafia without (from what I can tell) any re-evaluation.

(5) Related to (4), hard stance on Onegu in nightphase - he's saying that Onegu cannot possibly believe what he's saying/double standards on him and Shapelog but then he takes a read based on LESS RELIABLE INFORMATION (NK WIFOM from night 1) and wants to lynch GigyaS over what from his perspective should be MORE RELIABLE INFORMATION (Onegu cannot believe what he's possibly saying).

The problem with this is that both GB and Onegu are calling each other mafia, Onegu is straightaway lynching GB, GB isn't lynching Onegu straightaway though, so I'm trying to figure out if this could be the surface of double bussing or what.
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#751
Also the reason that I'm saying that night 1 NK WIFOM is unreliable is because I just came out of a game (Dark Tournament) where the scumteam purposely tried to WIFOM with the nightkills and in other games where NK WIFOM does uncover/indicate correctly mafia, it takes multiple nights of that to really sort out.

GigyaS could be mafia but it's going to take me more than NK wifom from a single night to vote him is what I'm saying. Town should be looking at things that amount to more than WIFOM.
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January 02 2016 16:47 GMT
#756
GB -

Re: (4) I didn't say you were scumreading mderg for lurking. I am saying that he is providing new content (re-entering thread, that wasn't supposed to be a lurking context) and then you are not re-evaluating him on that.

On (4) you still think his approach after his latest bit of posting is scummy?
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January 02 2016 16:47 GMT
#757
Reading kush/Fidei filters again....
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January 02 2016 17:04 GMT
#759
Getting an overall town feeling from Noon's filter, particularly with the Shapelog/Onegu scumslip discussion and re-eval of Fidei, GigyaS and KMatt.

Moving on...
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January 02 2016 17:54 GMT
#764
On January 03 2016 00:55 Fidei86 wrote:
Only two points on GB:
1. His early reads were mostly town reads and were short, but that fits in with him being in another game. Kmatt puts a lot of emphasis on that in his case, but it's NAI if anything. In my mind it's more towny than anything as he would find it harder to walk back if he needed for a ML.
2. My experience of playing GB is that he struggles to maintain calm when he plays as scum. In the game we played together, he was much more acerbic and less flexible with his reads. He's different here - note #736 where he re-evaluates on Kmatt.

GB is an experienced player who probably could change up his meta, but I think he's probably town. He's not the lynch today for sure.


What do you think about GB's voting GigyaS and then Onegu after I explained my issues with him? And especially voting GigyaS after going hard on Onegu from the perspective that Onegu couldn't possibly believe what he is saying night 1?

Another point against GB is that in spite of him being confident that mderg is scum (not so much the last post, that was after the fact but I'm referring to post 735), still why GigyaS over either of those two? How does this make sense from a town perspective?
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January 02 2016 17:55 GMT
#765
On January 03 2016 02:40 Onegu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2016 01:45 mderg wrote:
On January 03 2016 01:41 GlowingBear wrote:
Mderg, what's your read on Koshi?

Koshi is always town. He's not in this game, though.



Koshi is always scum and should be lynched day 1 because he is more cancer than I am


???????????

Do I even want to know?
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January 02 2016 18:02 GMT
#766
On January 03 2016 02:54 NocturneMage wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2016 00:55 Fidei86 wrote:
Only two points on GB:
1. His early reads were mostly town reads and were short, but that fits in with him being in another game. Kmatt puts a lot of emphasis on that in his case, but it's NAI if anything. In my mind it's more towny than anything as he would find it harder to walk back if he needed for a ML.
2. My experience of playing GB is that he struggles to maintain calm when he plays as scum. In the game we played together, he was much more acerbic and less flexible with his reads. He's different here - note #736 where he re-evaluates on Kmatt.

GB is an experienced player who probably could change up his meta, but I think he's probably town. He's not the lynch today for sure.


What do you think about GB's voting GigyaS and then Onegu after I explained my issues with him? And especially voting GigyaS after going hard on Onegu from the perspective that Onegu couldn't possibly believe what he is saying night 1?

Another point against GB is that in spite of him being confident that mderg is scum (not so much the last post, that was after the fact but I'm referring to post 735), still why GigyaS over either of those two? How does this make sense from a town perspective?


EBWOP - he's voted Onegu since, but at the time he voted GigyaS.
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January 02 2016 18:17 GMT
#774
Alright, read and re-read Fidei's filter. 705 and 706 seem towny to me, I know mderg disputed 706 but I think the overall "probably town" conclusion comes from him weighing other attributes of Kush/Noon's filter against a point that is probably null (town or scum defending him). It didn't look off to me. It probably would have looked weird if he'd have said kush is a strong town read, but that's not how it was described.

I am curious to hear his responses to my questions re: 737/742, although it seems like he's townreading GB based on meta. Even ignoring the read on KMatt, his reads on mderg/Onegu have been constant, and I know Onegu is disputing the read on him.
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January 02 2016 18:18 GMT
#775
Getting food and some quality time, but will revisit Shapelog/mderg filters in detail when I return.
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January 03 2016 01:16 GMT
#803
Plowing through Shapelog's filter now, but I'll add this in the meantime:

On Onegu

Right now, I think Onegu and GB are both mafia for independent reasons, but I'm having a real tough go at which one I actually want to lynch. Both are voting each other and GB's initial hesitancy before voting Onegu made me want to think he's protecting the roleblocker or a godfather in the situation they are both mafia but yes I realise this is unflipped association. And now that he's voting Onegu that makes me pause because he would have put up greater resistance to that instead of actually voting him.
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January 03 2016 01:20 GMT
#804
From a non-associative standpoint, his push on GB is almost purely OMGUS whereas the argument that GB is making against him is that Onegu is saying something he possibly couldn't believe. Whereas Onegu is countering with GB is mafia for trying to metaread him, and making a read like that isn't a metaread. That's just an argument for why Onegu is legitimately mafia.

From a non-associative standpoint, Onegu is still paying no mind to Shapelog even though he said earlier "he's probably scum" based on the same scumslip criteria so this could also be very well a soft push and a complete lack of followup. I had reason for a scumread on Shapelog earlier in the game as he was playing a very reactive game.
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January 03 2016 01:32 GMT
#805
On January 03 2016 01:37 GlowingBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2016 01:19 NocturneMage wrote:
My take on GB, going through his filter.

Points that make GB scummy

(1) Engagement with KMatt was poor when he initially scumread him and early on I felt he didn't do anything with his reaction test (or whatever it is) that got any alignment indicative information on Shapelog (the only other person interacting at the time), etc. This I thought was scummy from GB.

(2) This post. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/mafia/500060-newbie-student-mafia-xviii?page=31#615
Kush voting with Onegu was after Onegu gave one reason for voting Fidei and Kush at that time gave a separate reason for voting Fidei. So I don't think this is unreasonable and it looks like you are taking the situation out of context.

(3) The post on killing GigyaS is bad because D1 nightkills yield little information, like I did in a few of the games I've played you need multiple nights of NK WIFOM analysis or NK WIFOM analysis with something else to more reasonably go after someone.

(4) Stance on mderg. From what I can tell mderg has posted in and out of the thread since GB has made his initial scumread on him and GB seems pretty content to call him mafia without (from what I can tell) any re-evaluation.

(5) Related to (4), hard stance on Onegu in nightphase - he's saying that Onegu cannot possibly believe what he's saying/double standards on him and Shapelog but then he takes a read based on LESS RELIABLE INFORMATION (NK WIFOM from night 1) and wants to lynch GigyaS over what from his perspective should be MORE RELIABLE INFORMATION (Onegu cannot believe what he's possibly saying).

The problem with this is that both GB and Onegu are calling each other mafia, Onegu is straightaway lynching GB, GB isn't lynching Onegu straightaway though, so I'm trying to figure out if this could be the surface of double bussing or what.


(1) I've just explained that it wasn't a reaction test, it was just to have people discussing. This means that how people react doesn't matter. So I don't necessarily was expecting a response from Shapelog and I don't necessarily need to infer anything from his responses. Also, have in mind that although I've posted a vote without reasoning, it doesn't mean I didn't have a read on Kmatt. I did.

(2) I didn't click on the post lol so I don't know what you're talking about, I will check it after I post this.

(3) Fair enough. I had in mind that if I wasn't going to be killed night1 it was because I was wrong (my reads differ from basically everyone in the thread, I supposed that if I was right I would die, therefore, my reads are wrong and I should re-check Irish's scum reads). But you are right.

(4) Lurking isn't the reason I am scum reading him, so coming in and out of the thread doesn't matter. What matters is HOW he is doing it, and he is being very selective on what to talk about and not really pursuing any person to further investigate people's alignment, which makes me think he is scum.

(5) You're right, again. I should be voting Onegu.


GB, two things

(1) On mderg, do you think his latest post - or rather how he's framed it - comes from a mafia mindset? Specifically the argument that GigyaS is the easiest target for you (paraphrasing) as opposed to you trying to push him (mderg) or Onegu?
To me either alternative would have been reasonable because it was earlier in the cycle.

Or are you saying that mderg is mafia because he's only talking about you? How are these things impossible from a town standpoint?

(2) On gigyas, I get what you mean here but your reads could be wrong, they could be right (mafia with 1kp cannot kill two people with correct reads), they could have been bluehunting for all we know, or they could have just taken out someone who would appear to them impossible to mislynch.

To me, it just appears odd at best that a veteran player like you would put so much weight on that when you had (1) more conviction (for whatever reason) that mderg was mafia and (2) you previously made an argument that placed Onegu as exclusively mafia.
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January 03 2016 01:33 GMT
#806
I'm putting my vote on Onegu - this could obviously change.
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#807
Shapelog makes several comments on Onegu throughout his filter but no actual reads on him, only that Day 1 Onegu is "weird".

681 is really scummy because he definitely talks about the scumslip and should have been able to make a conclusion on it. Instead he tells Onegu to "put in effort". There's no meaningful interactions where he either makes a conclusion. In 684 he still fails to make a read on him, even after asking questions.
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#808
EBWOP - There's no meaningful interactions where he makes a conclusion either way.
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January 03 2016 02:01 GMT
#809
Couple additional things I don't like about Shapelog - he said his reads got more pointed/more precise as the game would go on, On that note alone, the Onegu read alone, that fails.

Also a general newbie mafia tell - if I am correct here, this is his second game, aside the issues with him in the ER, and NYE, and newbie mafia have a tough time posting over multiple cycles, or they fall off. Some time has elapsed since New Year's, and this combined with other points, makes a mafia Shapelog more likely.
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January 03 2016 16:07 GMT
#826
On January 03 2016 22:46 nooniansoong wrote:
Thanks for stepping in to explain it to the newbie, Mr mafia 😄


Post 815....that could come from either alignment. I've played enough newbies, I've seen rayn (as town) and ritoky (as mafia) and a few more in there make those suggestion type posts to newbies.
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January 03 2016 16:10 GMT
#827
On January 03 2016 22:48 nooniansoong wrote:
Shape mderg onegu is my scumteam. So we basically agree nm.


No, not quite. It's possible I could be wrong somewhere, but my mind is right now Shape, Onegu, GB, with the latter two atm double bussing. Both need town cred, so the scum motivation makes sense, and so does the town motivation, but independent of associative reads, I have reasoning to scumread them both.

I thought mderg's last posts against GlowingBear were towny as it pointed out a discrepancy in prioritising his vote against what his sentiment was.

I know why you are reading mderg as scum fundamentally but what am I missing here? Meta? Should I hit the database then?
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January 03 2016 16:25 GMT
#828
On January 03 2016 23:37 Onegu wrote:
@NM if you scum read both me and GB why are you voting me over BlowingGear?


I am scumreading both of you, there might be some associative stuff (unflipped, yes I realise this) with my other scumread, Shapelog, and GB's hesistancy to vote you indicates power role protection behaviour. Again, unflipped.

But

(1) I have independent reasons to scumread both of you individually.
(2) I have reasons that you might be a higher priority kill than GB. Admittedly associative, but they are there.
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January 03 2016 16:27 GMT
#829
KMatt, I have a question. Let's say GlowingBear gets modkilled for whatever strange reason today.

Whom would you vote for now?
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January 03 2016 16:38 GMT
#831
It looks like GB owes responses to questions from GigyaS and myself, Fidei owes responses to myself as well. Granted it's a Sunday afternoon, let's hope people haven't been drinking like crazy all weekend.
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January 03 2016 16:39 GMT
#832
Actually GB has been posting drunk in another ongoing game. On second thought...
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January 03 2016 18:46 GMT
#842
GB still not back? Guess it's time to set priorities...

##unvote
##vote GlowingBear
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January 03 2016 18:46 GMT
#843
On January 04 2016 03:30 Fidei86 wrote:
I'm a bit concerned that nobody has really defended Onegu at all, but at this point if he's scum his scummates are probably trying to distance themselves from him. Also, GB is not the lynch today. I don't really like any of the points made against him.

##vote: Onegu


Can you read post 764 and get back to me?
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January 03 2016 18:49 GMT
#844
On January 04 2016 01:59 nooniansoong wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 04 2016 01:10 NocturneMage wrote:
On January 03 2016 22:48 nooniansoong wrote:
Shape mderg onegu is my scumteam. So we basically agree nm.


No, not quite. It's possible I could be wrong somewhere, but my mind is right now Shape, Onegu, GB, with the latter two atm double bussing. Both need town cred, so the scum motivation makes sense, and so does the town motivation, but independent of associative reads, I have reasoning to scumread them both.

I thought mderg's last posts against GlowingBear were towny as it pointed out a discrepancy in prioritising his vote against what his sentiment was.

I know why you are reading mderg as scum fundamentally but what am I missing here? Meta? Should I hit the database then?


Mdergs point against gb was so obvious he doesn't get townpoints for that. Put your self in scums place. Would you think to jump on that post from gb? Of course.


Two questions:

(1) What makes mderg's actions exclusively mafia? When I skimmed GB's filter, you can see where GlowingBear expresses sentiment against mderg (confident we are hitting mafia) and an argument against Onegu where Onegu is exclusively mafia ("he cannot possibly believe what he is saying") so how can you eliminate either alignment looking at this and coming to the same conclusion? Am I making sense?

(2) The flip side to this question - why do you think GlowingBear is town?
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January 03 2016 18:51 GMT
#846
Or Noon, are you saying reading the filter is so obvious to come to that conclusion that he shouldn't get the townpoints? If true, then so.... But then that still poses the question - how do you arrive at any other conclusion?

Like if there's some metaread on mderg you have, that's great, but not having played with this person I don't really understand other than your surface level argument "he's looking town, but not acting in the best interests of town", that I get, but I'm trying to separate that argument from what you just said.
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#849
Your arguments so far against mderg is basically saying that he's towny on the surface. Let me read his filter again in entirety.
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#850
And your read on mderg is NOT a meta read, correct? If it is, then I will also check his games from the database.
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January 03 2016 19:09 GMT
#853
Page 1 of mderg's filter could come from either alignment. Mostly one-liners, indicates someone conversational, again either alignment. The scumread on you from him makes sense - if he's not familiar with your play (????) then it makes sense for him to call you hypocritical for calling a lynch when you don't play until d2.

From a scum motivation however, post 323 can be seen - you cannot expect someone to solve the game day 1. From a town motivation though you can also say that you aren't working towards finding a proper scum lynch.

The way I see it for my own standards is that if you cannot find a good lynch or compromise on a lynch early enough in the cycle THEN you go for the policy lynch.
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January 03 2016 19:12 GMT
#857
On January 04 2016 04:09 Shapelog wrote:
Hi
This is shapelogs girlfriend.

My Bf is in the ER again and has to get another surgery. He asked me to ask for a /replace or whatever that is.

Where do i do this at?


Damn, I'm really sorry to hear about this. Give him our regards so he recovers quick. You need to PM Kita.
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January 03 2016 19:15 GMT
#859
On January 04 2016 04:10 GiygaS wrote:
I honestly cannot figure out who I want to lynch today. I was so sure on kmatt until that megapost. Going to go over GB and Onegu's filters and the cases on them one more time, as it seems like the lynch will be one of those two.


Even more confounding is both players have voted the other but have completely AFKed.
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January 03 2016 19:17 GMT
#862
On January 04 2016 04:09 NocturneMage wrote:
Page 1 of mderg's filter could come from either alignment. Mostly one-liners, indicates someone conversational, again either alignment. The scumread on you from him makes sense - if he's not familiar with your play (????) then it makes sense for him to call you hypocritical for calling a lynch when you don't play until d2.

From a scum motivation however, post 323 can be seen - you cannot expect someone to solve the game day 1. From a town motivation though you can also say that you aren't working towards finding a proper scum lynch.

The way I see it for my own standards is that if you cannot find a good lynch or compromise on a lynch early enough in the cycle THEN you go for the policy lynch.


To add to this, checking timestamps it appears you called for the policy lynch fairly early in the cycle. On the flipside, mderg has made some reads/leans day 1. Nothing unusual either way, most players day 1 and early on aren't going to be substantial, just because it's day 1.
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#867
Page 2 - 443/444 I can see where either alignment can make this, 445/455 look more towny. Rest of page 2 takes him to end of day 1. I'd say the only thing mderg doesn't do is that if he believed in the case on scott he could have pushed it more, some of the second page there looks like filter padding (posts 574-576), but even more of his one liners, there are some questions.

If I had to think about it deeper he does ask GigyaS some questions, but I'm not sure if they go anywhere now that I think about it...

....page 3...
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#869
On January 04 2016 01:50 Kmatt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 04 2016 01:27 NocturneMage wrote:
KMatt, I have a question. Let's say GlowingBear gets modkilled for whatever strange reason today.

Whom would you vote for now?


I would probably start looking into Noon more before placing that vote. The Onegu train seems to be going strong but I haven't been sold on him, while I have been picking up on that connection between GB and Noon. Admittedly with my hunt for GB I haven't been scrutinizing other players more and I ought to go do some more reading on the rest of the thread.

On that note, where is Shape? His sudden disappearance following the first night kill is rather suspicious. I can understand being out for New Year's, but it's been two full days now. I think I'm gonna have to join you on that scumread you have for him.


Fair enough, seems like a few people hadn't been either. I understand the latter point, but what makes you hesitant on Onegu specifically?
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#870
On January 04 2016 04:27 GiygaS wrote:
Going over it again I really don't like how kmatt ignored GB's probably most substantial post despite going over pretty much every other one when most of his case relies on painting GB as someone who's just shitposting and questioning people.

Post I'm referring to:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 31 2015 03:35 GlowingBear wrote:
Cool I've finished catching up.

town
Fidei

NocturneMage

Irishbound
(the way these three are engaging the thread looks like townies trying to solve the game. They see posts, they react, they go after information to further investigate people's alignment)

Kush
(I've played games with kush before and as mafia he really doesn't care, and he seems to care here. He is here, he is commenting stuff. It's a read mostly based on meta, tho)

Shapelog
(my weakest townread. I think his excitement to play is genuine, but the way he is engaging the thread is a little more passive than I expect from a townie. His opinions aren't firm. So I think he is townie but I have an eye open regarding him)

Scott is null. I've made a promise to keep him alive for more than one day because he usually plays like this. Actually, those incongruences you've guys found in Scott's post could come from town Scott based on his previous games (I think Battle of the Drams is the one I'm thinking about, but I'm not really sure the name of the game I remember him playing like this as town)

TheCow is null because I have no idea what his posts are actually after, but I think the formatting is SO SO CUUUUTE

Kmatt I had him as mafia, then I reevaluated and thought he might be town (after talking to kush), then he voted me using a very poor reasoning to do so. He is null but very close to scum

mafia
mderg
(no original thoughts. the guy is just following the thread and rarely putting any original thoughts on the thread. Throw suspicions without going after it, like he did talking about me and kush avoiding each otherm and simply isn't caring for actually uncovering people's alignment)

Onegu
(Meta: he is too invested in the game) (Evidence: calls fidei out for a dumb reason as a scumslip, saying Fidei is mafia for saying Onegu is a mislynch. This is bad, but the greatest problem isn't that this is a bad reason to jump on someone. It's because one of Shapelog's first post was this [spoiler]
On December 29 2015 07:06 Shapelog wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 29 2015 07:05 scott31337 wrote:
On December 29 2015 07:04 nooniansoong wrote:
On December 29 2015 07:02 GlowingBear wrote:
I wanted to be blue so much


it's so anti-town to claim vt


I agree with the stone man here. Haven't you learned yet Bear?

He might need another mislynch......
[/spoiler] but he never suspects Shapelog for TMI - Too Much Insight)




Trying to see it from his point of view - a total newbie, the focus of the case, and the fact he's stated numerous examples to support his case. I have some ideas from that perspective as to why he may have ignored this - but I think it's town's best interest to see what he has to say as to his focus.
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January 03 2016 19:52 GMT
#871
Finished with the mderg filter. Nothing's really screaming out to me as "I am scum lynch me" whereas is the case with Onegu and GB. I can understand a PoE argument but that's usually an argument I'd use for after there is at least one red flip.
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#884
On January 04 2016 04:54 GlowingBear wrote:
Why am I Mafia, NM?

I've went against every single point you've wrote. You decided I'm Mafia because I didn't come back earlier. Is that all?


No, first, you re-voted Onegu after the fact, second, there were followup questions from both GigyaS and myself you didn't answer.
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#885
On January 04 2016 05:22 nooniansoong wrote:
i disagree that disinformation confirmed anything. His girlfriend didn't see the PM when she started writing in the thread. the host had to respond in the thread because she wrote in teh thread.


This.
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January 03 2016 20:49 GMT
#887
On January 04 2016 05:46 GiygaS wrote:
He answered mine, it was because I missed a filter page


Okay, fair enough, back at GB, your first wave of answers, you also didn't check up on (2), also on (4) kush was trying to convince me that mderg was mafia, and a look through his filter showed he had a decent range of reads on people, so your argument about him being selective doesn't hold water either.

Kush is arguing that mderg is going after easy reads which is a separate argument but GB, your argument that he's being selective definitely does not hold water.
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January 03 2016 20:50 GMT
#888
Like I still have to account for what evidence you had in front of you when you made the original vote that you did and why. And why that vote makes no sense given your prior argument and sentiment.
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January 03 2016 22:51 GMT
#923
Goddamn.
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January 03 2016 22:56 GMT
#928
On January 04 2016 07:12 GiygaS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 04 2016 07:07 The Shining wrote:
Well I fucked that. I can't even be mad at anyone but myself. Giygas, I'm pretty sure I know why but I just want to hear it from you. Why did you switch?

GB you were just saved. Start shitting townie rainbows pls? Super close lynch like this and I'm feeling like I chose wrong...bah

I just wasn't sure on GB and then your point about where mafia was voting convinced me.fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck


This might sound like a dumb question but if this was the case, why did you vote him in the first place?

On January 04 2016 05:09 GiygaS wrote:
I would agree with this if you also included his mderg "read". I can see you ignoring it though as it wasn't particularly substantial. I think I'm going to vote GB, the case seems to hold up.


Until Shining appeared from what I was reading of your filter, you didn't seem to have a read on Onegu either though you had said you'd look at both filters.
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January 03 2016 22:58 GMT
#929
Hey FF. We meet again.

And we had an extended night cycle over New Year's, but Shapelog appears to have had RL issues even before he was replaced.
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January 03 2016 22:59 GMT
#931
On January 04 2016 07:22 The Shining wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 04 2016 07:13 GlowingBear wrote:
On January 04 2016 07:11 The Shining wrote:
On January 04 2016 07:10 GlowingBear wrote:
On January 04 2016 07:07 The Shining wrote:
Well I fucked that. I can't even be mad at anyone but myself. Giygas, I'm pretty sure I know why but I just want to hear it from you. Why did you switch?

GB you were just saved. Start shitting townie rainbows pls? Super close lynch like this and I'm feeling like I chose wrong...bah


I promise you I'm town this game and I didn't try to deceive you


You answered the Fidei TR, thanks, but why did you have me as never lynch?


No mafia asks for a replacement for being unable to play. They can use it to survive through days. People that ask for a replacement is usually town concerned of ruining other people's game.


So you think Shape is town, too? Don't you think it's also likely scum being unable to play would also ask for a replacement to not risk being modkilled and screwing over their scumteam? That feels NAI, at best, to me. I'm not sure it warrants a read either way. And I've def seen scum replace out before. Hm.


Yeah I'll admit I don't like this response either - I can think of two games offhand where scum replaced out, Dark Tournament (Onegu for FF) and Himalayas which I obsed I know there was a mafia replacement and that replacement played really well, wound up endgaming infamously with Holyflare.
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January 03 2016 23:08 GMT
#933
Future reference:

day 1

Final Vote Count
scott31337 (6): Irishbound, NocturneMage, mderg, GiygaS, GlowingBear, Fidei86
Fidei86 (3): Onegu, nooniansoong, scott31337
nooniansoong (1): Shapelog
GlowingBear (1): Kmatt
Kmatt (1): TheCow, GlowingBear, scott31337
GiygaS (0): Kmatt, scott31337, Fidei86
Onegu (0): nooniansoong

day 2

Final Vote Count
Onegu (5): GlowingBear, nooniansoong, NocturneMage, Fidei86. GiygaS, The Shining
GlowingBear (4): Kmatt, Onegu, mderg, NocturneMage, GiygaS
GiygaS (0) GlowingBear

Not Voting (1): Shapelog

Starting point to look at context of votes. If I learnt anything from Newbie 17...thank you Trfel.
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January 03 2016 23:12 GMT
#936
On January 04 2016 07:48 The Shining wrote:
Irish flipped town and I have a pretty solid TR on NM, who are the first 2 votes on Scott. Irish also pushed this lynch pretty hard. I believe the lynch was a case of town adamantly pushing the town ML and scum having to do zero work on it. I wouldn't be surprised if there was only one scum on the Scott wagon and the rest were off-wagon. Like kush/noon. If i choose to believe GB is town, that leaves me with mderg/Fidei/Giygas as one of the scum on the Scott wagon.

Kush can you explain to me how you went from voting Fidei WITH Onegu D1 to voting Onegu WITH Fidei D2?

I also really hate outlier votes and have caught scum that way, because scum wouldn't want to all be on the wagon if its a mislynch, like Scotts wagon. So I'm immediately suspicious of Kmatt and Shapelog. But I found a few townie brownies in your filter and Shape is apparently being replaced or modkilled so I won't get too much into that until next day phase, assuming I live.

I'll probably go read Fidei and mderg and giygas tonight.


This probably boils down to me not understanding this part of voting analysis but

(1) how are you sure scum didn't just pile on at the end, like what are you using to eliminate that possibility?
(2) how are you sure multiple scum wouldn't be caught off wagon?

Both plays seem suboptimal unless you are taking the route of considering this for a newbie game.

I'll need to re-read for full context, but...
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January 03 2016 23:14 GMT
#939
EBWOP, wait you're saying kush was off wagon? If I remember right from end of cycle, he was on a wagon of three against Fidei and tried to get people to vote Fidei.
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January 03 2016 23:15 GMT
#940
On January 04 2016 08:14 Fecalfeast wrote:
Wait who's the one who started the conversation about whether replacing is alignment indicative? that's scummy as fuck mod actions and replacements are not alignment indicative it's practically setup talk


Pretty sure that was GB.
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January 03 2016 23:17 GMT
#942
On January 04 2016 08:14 NocturneMage wrote:
EBWOP, wait you're saying kush was off wagon? If I remember right from end of cycle, he was on a wagon of three against Fidei and tried to get people to vote Fidei.


like I'm interpreting the Fidei/scott wagons as the main ones and everyone else off wagon but that's just me based on the context of end of 1st cycle.
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January 03 2016 23:28 GMT
#946
Also at Shining, solo voters aren't so bad if they are tunnelled, at least that's what I was taught by town coaches in the past, maybe you agree/disagree there, but there should be alternate scumreads that allow them to consolidate for experienced players.

Another thing I'll fill you in from day 1 is that 2-3 of those votes were total afk votes, they had to post their cases and were unable to push them. I remember looking this over night 1 or something and trying to pin down 2 votes on the main (scott) wagon and the remaining I just assumed it was a solo voter but all votes were afk votes, I think two of them had cases, a third might not have had one.

KMatt had his back and forth spiel on GB, Cow (now you lol) had his spiel on KMatt and Shapelog afk voted Noon in some wall of text.
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January 03 2016 23:33 GMT
#947
I also recall Noon voting Fidei, pushing for the lynch but dropping that read IIRC but I also need to re-read for context.

Going to pick up on this tomorrow as I'm closing in on midnight now.
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January 04 2016 15:43 GMT
#1006
Phoneposting since I'm off break now but offhand:

(1) mderg is town for the manner in which he went after you at latest. However, there are other parts of his filter that are 50/50 which I conceded in my filter walkthrough.

(2) If I had to give a scumread on Fidei, he would be scum for not getting back to my questions, but I did see where earlier posts could be towny.

(3) GigyaS right now is a coinflip. Couple of towny posts for a lean early on, but I'm still trying to grasp end of day 2 and where his mind is on previous scumreads.
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January 04 2016 15:46 GMT
#1007
On (2), I want to see where Fidei is now that Onegu has flipped town.

On (1) I know Noon and I disagreed on how organic/obvious/predatory/whatever word you want to use the argument made against you. I'm going to chalk this up to the gap in experience - where such an argument might be because he's much more experienced than I am. To me making that argument wouldn't be obvious without double checking filters.

mderg is an experienced player so if Noon's arguing that his argument against mderg is a low-ball argument for someone of his calibre (???) to make against you, then that's a different story.
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January 04 2016 18:20 GMT
#1020
On January 05 2016 01:05 nooniansoong wrote:
NM it's not that it's a lowball argument. I looked at it and thought the same thing: "wow what a bad reason to scumread/vote someone"
But it's so obvious that mafia can think of it easily.


On January 05 2016 01:07 nooniansoong wrote:
clarification: I thought GB's reasoning was bad. Mderg's reasoning for scumreading that post wasn't bad but it's too easy to get townpoints for.


On January 05 2016 01:24 mderg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 05 2016 01:07 nooniansoong wrote:
clarification: I thought GB's reasoning was bad. Mderg's reasoning for scumreading that post wasn't bad but it's too easy to get townpoints for.

That's not wrong BUT is there anything I get scumpoints for?
Seriously, both you and GB have been scumreading me for like 5 rl days without giving any proper explanation for it but for some reason want the others to prove that I'm town. That's so fucking stupid I can't even believe it.


I had to read this exchange a few times to understand but now I finally understand why mderg has I think a valid concern here.

Noon, you agreed that mderg's reasoning to scum GB at least made sense - from context "wow what a bad reason to scumread/vote someone".

But mderg is saying that your reasoning to say that it's obvious that mafia can think of this (Now I finally understand why Noon, you are not giving him townpoints for this. I disagree, but I digress.) - he doesn't dispute this (third quote).

But what may be a problem here is that from his eyes, you are characterising his play as exclusively scummy, or taking what can be seen as town play and seeing it from a mafia standpoint. To frame it as such and exclusively, that, can be mafia indicative.

mderg -

(1) is my understanding of the problem correct?
(2) when I went to Noon's original concern on you he said you were playing passively, a little too passively for town. I am not familiar with you. How would you describe your towngame?
(3) how often have you played with Noon? Is it enough where he should be familiar enough with your towngame?
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January 04 2016 18:21 GMT
#1021
EBWOP - But what may be a problem here is that from his eyes, you are characterising his play as exclusively scummy, or taking what can be seen as town play and seeing it exclusively from a mafia standpoint. To frame it as such and exclusively, that, can be mafia indicative.
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January 04 2016 18:39 GMT
#1024
On January 05 2016 01:12 nooniansoong wrote:
Could be scum:
1) Kmatt
2) Shapelog replaced by FecalFeast
3) TheCow replaced by The Shining
5) GiygaS
7) Fidei86
8) mderg

Scumteam?:
FF
Fidei
mderg

~~~
Gigyas did something that seemed town to me. I'd have to find it again though.
~~~


I realise Shining didn't make the cut here for final scum team and atm I don't remember what your read on Cow was early game, but why "could" Shining be scum? What was your thinking?

Shining's approach to end of cycle looked town to me because when I re-read end of cycle, he brought a new perspective (vote analysis) to how he tried to crack the two wagons. This is similar to how he used vote analysis/behaviour to solve the game altogether in Dark Tournament. Was he wrong? Yes. Was he maliciously wrong? Doubt it.

892, 896, 898 look quite towny to me. He's trying to match his votes to sentiment through his filter on GB and does the same thing trying to ferret Noon's alignment (post 922).

The ONLY possible concern with Shining is post 965, but that's such subjective meta I feel it pales in comparison to how Shining's come out so far in trying to solve this game.

If Fecalfeast feels Shining could be mafia based on that (don't recall him saying anything) then let's hear it but otherwise I don't think it's concerning.
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January 04 2016 19:02 GMT
#1026
FF, I had to read his list post several times to understand and I'm not sure I understand your analysis of your last post. the way I read that day 1 was him trying to look at it from two different perspectives particularly on the Irish read:

(1) you have a new player not familiar with scott or TL for that matter scumreading scott under his own set of criteria and then
(2) you have Fidei who knows Scott and uses his own knowledge of Scott (see null list) to read him.

Furthermore Fidei uses other criteria to townread Irish. The question should be, what read/approach should make sense for Irish given his background and knowledge of the players and I can't see how Fidei's prior knowledge of Scott causing the difference in reads is a problem.

Basically I'm trying to understand what wording in that range of reads is reading as "paranoid" or even trying to appease someone.

The Cow interpretation - I am assuming the "weak read" comes from the ordering of the reads, so I had to read the Shapelog post again, to see if that justified a "stronger' townread from his worldview.

Having gotten coached as town before I've been told that list posts don't go over well with people so I'm not sure if Fidei has an inherent bias towards that, but I could argue at least between the Shapelog and the Cow posts, the Cow should have been ranked above Shapelog, since it appears that Shapelog read is based on tone, but this is also an area of extreme subjectivity for me, I know some people on this site really rely on tone reads and especially for day 1.

You might need to break it down to me line by line.

this is getting lame and I think I'm starting to look for evidence that fits my conclusion rather than using the evidence t ocome to my conclusion but it really feels like fidei is trying really hard to show where his reads are coming from, moreso than he's trying to show his reads, if that makes sense.


Fidei could be mafia, don't get me wrong, but it wouldn't be for this.
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January 04 2016 22:33 GMT
#1043
Fuck.
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#1062
GB is bluehunting, I know for a fact from my newbie game as cop he was very active doing it in the mafia qt, and I even caught on to trigger phrases that the scumteam used (admittedly with the help of my coach at that time).
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January 05 2016 13:22 GMT
#1063
GigyaS, I actually did. I saw both of them as mafia, but I was trying to go for the roleblocker read, GB being more active at that time. With a possible vote switch/people yet to vote, however, in the event of that flip, I also did not want to dictate how the mafia should act and only make that call openly after the fact.

(For the newbies, semi-open setup, possible veteran in said setup, mafia will want to protect the roleblocker.)
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January 05 2016 13:24 GMT
#1064
I think he's the most likely to flip mafia at this point.

##vote GlowingBear
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January 05 2016 13:30 GMT
#1065
On January 05 2016 17:15 Fecalfeast wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 05 2016 14:11 Kmatt wrote:
The way he was questioning me when I had a wagon going even though I was already voted on led me to believe that he was considering Vig shotting me. Obviously we know that's not the case, but it could have been that he scanned me night one. That would explain why he didn't bother questioning me much after that initial quizzing.

lol this is the kinda silly stuff I like do you really think this?


I actually think this is very believeable. Admittedly biased, but this is exactly how Half the Sky was thinking when she first started out on TL, she was scum read very often, got wagoned very often, and one of the very first things she learnt, was figuring out who was mafia pushing her aggressively, who might be blue and possibly more subtle or not showing an agenda. She tried to read blues even as town so that if she needed to push back, she didn't want to trigger a blue claim by accident.
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January 05 2016 15:53 GMT
#1071
GigyaS is a coinflip to me, he very well could be mafia, if someone wants to make a meta argument or has some degree of familiarity with him, that's great but we're in lylo and in mylo/lylo, you go with the most likely chance of hitting scum.
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January 05 2016 15:55 GMT
#1072
Fidei, first I'm the only vote atm, but I get it, many people have scumread GB at points. I don't like the last question he asked KMatt, it's the type of question that will either get potential blues to talk about themselves in a way that out themselves or it gets newbies to talk about themselves in a way that will narrow down who the blues actually are based on their reads or their answers. As for 14, if you read the qt, GB goes point by point trying to narrow down the blues based on reactions and reads. There was one specific phrase in particular made by mafia Copcake (by this time GB was dead mind you) after a mislynch that actually was a root cause of my checking her that night although other factors did come into play.

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January 05 2016 16:06 GMT
#1073
KMatt is newb town, not lynching him today.

If you are looking at mderg, then take a look at how he responded to me, his key argument against Noon is that Noon is framing his arguments to be exclusively mafia. My only concern based on mderg's response to me is that when he says he's sure he's on mafia, he will push them pretty hard, but I've not seen that so far. This is by his own standards.

Noon is making the same argument as you on mderg though, and the way this game has been going there's a decent shot one of them is mafia, and I think particularly as Noon's claimed scum meta is similar to mderg's scum meta here, I will probably need to resolve those two using the database as well as how this cycle goes.
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January 05 2016 16:51 GMT
#1074
On January 06 2016 01:06 NocturneMage wrote:
KMatt is newb town, not lynching him today.

If you are looking at mderg, then take a look at how he responded to me, his key argument against Noon is that Noon is framing his arguments to be exclusively mafia. My only concern based on mderg's response to me is that when he says he's sure he's on mafia, he will push them pretty hard, but I've not seen that so far. This is by his own standards.

Noon is making the same argument as you on mderg though, and the way this game has been going there's a decent shot one of them is mafia, and I think particularly as Noon's claimed scum meta is similar to mderg's scum meta here, I will probably need to resolve those two using the database as well as how this cycle goes.


EBWOP - poorly worded phrasing

And I think particularly with Noon's claim on mderg's scum meta being reflected in this game.
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January 05 2016 17:15 GMT
#1076
Bah browser crashed, one more thing to say.

I had a scum read on Shapelog prior to departure.

FF from the two games I've played with him has shown he doesn't care both as town (newbie 17) and as scum (Dark Tournament). Here, FF comes in catching up with a light townread on Fidei and a scumread on mderg. So far he seems to care. That is probably town indicative.

He pushes mderg as a scumread. My concern here is that answers he's looking for to determine the latter's alignment can be found in a conversation and not necessarily forced into a case. Now I realise people do ask for cases when they are trying to catch up or links to posts but contextually this was a conversation they were having at the present time he asked for a case.

"Why not make one now" (post 1040) reads to me like a "gotcha phrase" something I would have expected would have been "alright, based on reason X can you further elaborate" or "can you give me a link to a post that supports what you are saying in your last post" working with his preferred way to do things, given how mderg has played all game. (One-liners/conversational style isn't in of itself scummy.)

This could be just me reading too much into semantics but that was what I pulled from that exchange.

Finally I do want to see what comes of posts 1038-40.
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January 06 2016 00:13 GMT
#1121
Back, reading and catching up.
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January 06 2016 00:39 GMT
#1122
On January 06 2016 07:14 Fecalfeast wrote:
wait wtf he had like 0 minutes to dwitch when giygas voted....

yeah gb might be town


Shennanies happens all the time hitting people of both alignments. How is the timing alignment indicative?
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#1123
Or is that in reference to GigyaS voting - I don't recall you having a read on him.
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#1125
GB, I read that post a few times and tried to break down what you are trying to do with the question. That's the issue. The direction of your question made no sense to me - the question centred around something that was already known to begin with when the statement was made and when you asked it.

I don't recall him ever scumreading or townreading that slot to begin with (and even if he did, then????) and I am not sure what you could do with the information other than to say wait he didn't have a read but why would it matter now since he's flipped. Additionally, when I read the question I get extremely wary of anything that discusses blue roles/situations/reads outside situations where there are claims/counterclaims/fakeclaims near end of cycle, and even then sometimes you have to be careful. There was a potential risk that you get a reaction where a townie - especially a newbie townie - is going to spew something that further helps narrow the field down or outright gives himself away.

In general, it reminded me of what happened right after the lynch I discussed in newbie 14. I always review scum qts especially when scum endgame and what stuck out to me was your rolehunting. So taking it into account who it was coming from, I got concerned.
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#1126
On January 06 2016 09:41 Fecalfeast wrote:
The main reason i had him as scum was he stayed on onegu while his scumread gigyas voted onegu too. The timing means gb had little time to move if any at all so my reason for scumming hin is invalid


Ah gotcha. Wasn't sure if I was misunderstanding something with voting analysis.
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#1131
It's scummy if it's out of context, what I will need to do is to read the cited posts in context and to see where his direction is.

Part of the issue jumping in there and saying its chainsaw defence is that mderg and GB honestly have been scumming each other all game, and you can't argue that them scumreading each other HASN'T been central to how the other has played.
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#1132
I can understand the Fidei/GB connection as he has been defending GB all game though, but that's pre-flip.
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#1133
mderg said the second point was factually inaccurate so I'll start there.
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#1134
Alright, that second point is bad. Wow.
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#1135
First point is phrased weird, but mderg's explanation makes sense. Second point about the cherry picking is really bad.
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January 06 2016 01:16 GMT
#1136
And third point is also really bad (out of context) because he stated that he couldn't be back before deadline. So that is actually not alignment indicative. So you can definitely make the argument once you read in for context, that Fidei is taking something that isn't alignment indicative and making it so.

Fourth point is subjective but we already have half the case shot so...
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January 06 2016 01:17 GMT
#1137
On January 06 2016 09:58 nooniansoong wrote:
so guess it's fidei, oo, gb.
well played fidei this scumgame was actually a lot better than your last one.
But that case against mderg is so scummy lol.


Dumb question, but who's OO?
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January 06 2016 01:21 GMT
#1138
I mean there's an OO in a certain ongoing game that we're both in, but he's not in here?
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January 06 2016 13:08 GMT
#1160
On January 06 2016 21:10 Fidei86 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2016 10:08 NocturneMage wrote:
Alright, that second point is bad. Wow.

I just don't understand this pov. GB said that he thought there was something to be gained by looking at Irish's scum reads. GB then accurately recited Irish's scum reads. Mderg then basically said that GB had done so in a misleading way. But mderg didn't follow up that point by saying "oh yeah you actually can tell something from the other reads Irish had". It isn't like he was trying to make a nuanced argument based on that point, he just shit on GB fullstop. And even if he had, it doesn't matter anyway because GB wasn't purporting to talk about all of Irish's reads in the first place. To me, that is mderg trying to scum GB for bad reasons, at best. And that is following on from his GB read which honestly has made no sense to me the entire game.


It wasn't the recitation of the scum reads that was a problem, it was how it was being used. I had the same problem. You're confusing use with intention. It wasn't confirming the scumreads, it was what he did with the Irish scumreads.

Those are two separate points.

And GB not purporting to talk.....he didn't need to.
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January 06 2016 13:13 GMT
#1162
GB in that argument said he was "confident" (paraphrasing) mderg was scum and made a previous argument on Onegu (now flipped town) that he is stating something that he cannot possibly believe in. This is a mafia indicative assertion.

The argument against GigyaS at that time was NK WIFOM.

In stating his scumreads GB votes GigyaS from the off when he had two reads with - in his view - stronger basis.

Why is what mderg did unfathomable/unbelievable/impossible/whatever word you want from a town perspective?
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January 06 2016 13:18 GMT
#1163
Separate point - these comments were made at GB.

On December 31 2015 04:11 Onegu wrote:
Also meta doesnt work on me GB you have played with me long enough to know this. I purposely change how I play both alignments periodically so I cant be meta read. And the fact that you are trying to meta read me is complete garbage.


On January 03 2016 00:50 Onegu wrote:
GB not deciding to defend himself just saying it is a town case from kmatt is really telling.

And yes I will be tunneled on to fword dude and GB until they are dead, I am dead or it is lylo then I will reevaluate in lylo. Tunnel for now.


We know Onegu's flipped green, so at the very least these are honest. On the first one, I trust that players know their own meta and own methods of solving the game.
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January 06 2016 13:23 GMT
#1164
I think a common theme of all the scumreads on mderg - not just Fidei's tbh - is that he plays too passive whereas mderg argues that's his base style.

I'm going to hit the database, read 4 games, 2 town/2 scum and see for myself.
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January 06 2016 13:31 GMT
#1167
On January 06 2016 22:28 Fidei86 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 03 2016 01:04 mderg wrote:
On January 03 2016 00:58 GlowingBear wrote:
On January 03 2016 00:55 mderg wrote:
On January 03 2016 00:38 GlowingBear wrote:
There's a reason Irish is dead and I'm not. The reason is that he was probably right at least for one of his scum reads.

His scum reads were kush/Giygas/Scott. Scott is dead, I think kush is more likely to be town. So I'm voting Giygas because I simply have no reason to town read him.

That gigantic post from Kmatt probably makes him town. If I had a wrong scum read, it is him. I keep my scumread on mderg and Onegu, tho.

To be fair, I'm pretty confident we hit a Mafia on mderg. But considering the night kill we should probably kill Giygas first.

I don't like this post at all. You're simply using his reads to vote without giving it any real thought. You're also ignoring pretty much all of his other reads this game. That's not town play.

##vote GB


His other reads were town reads dude, why would I take that into consideration when deciding who to lynch now? Rofl

What you're doing is basically taking a look at a list with his reads and taking the one that's most convenient for you.

Phone posting so can't consolidate, but this is his second post. Will post third in one sec.


See 1162. That's what I am trying to counter.
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January 06 2016 13:41 GMT
#1170
Okay, let me phrase this a different way then. Because somewhere along the way something isn't getting through here.

GB "thinks" Noon is town and PoEs GigyaS from that list of reads and IN THE SAME POST lists reasons for his prior scumreads on Onegu and mderg.

Those assertions were made in the same post. So how is mderg's assertion that "not giving it any further thought" invalid? How is that scummy?

If GB had given it "thought" he would have picked a read that he had a stronger basis for a scumread.
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January 06 2016 13:58 GMT
#1171
Reading World Cup Mafia (mislynched day 2), Storm Mafia 2 (mislynched day 2), and New Year's Party Mafia (endgamed night 4) filters for mderg.

All three town games.

WC, a lot of defending and debunking of scumreads. That pattern is similar to here. Does not push any scumreads hard.
Storm, I'm not seeing pushes at all, and town play is pretty passive in that game.
New Year's Party Mafia, push on liancourt is limited to a few quotes. Does show a bit more towniness in lylo when he tries to analyse the remaining players.

So after reading these games I don't see the current town game terribly outside the bounds of his town play. Lot of one-liners in those games too.

Moving to the scumgames.
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January 06 2016 14:24 GMT
#1178
On January 06 2016 23:20 GlowingBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2016 22:13 NocturneMage wrote:
GB in that argument said he was "confident" (paraphrasing) mderg was scum and made a previous argument on Onegu (now flipped town) that he is stating something that he cannot possibly believe in. This is a mafia indicative assertion.

The argument against GigyaS at that time was NK WIFOM.

In stating his scumreads GB votes GigyaS from the off when he had two reads with - in his view - stronger basis.

Why is what mderg did unfathomable/unbelievable/impossible/whatever word you want from a town perspective?


Why the Bolded is a Mafia indicative assertion? Explain to me how that assertion can't come from a town and why that assertion is a consequence of a scum mindset.


You misunderstood.

I'm not saying that was mafia indicative for you. You are making an assertion on Onegu that he cannot believe what he is possibly saying. The argument you are making on Onegu is a mafia indicative assertion on Onegu.
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January 06 2016 14:28 GMT
#1179
On January 06 2016 23:23 GlowingBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2016 22:18 NocturneMage wrote:
Separate point - these comments were made at GB.

On December 31 2015 04:11 Onegu wrote:
Also meta doesnt work on me GB you have played with me long enough to know this. I purposely change how I play both alignments periodically so I cant be meta read. And the fact that you are trying to meta read me is complete garbage.


On January 03 2016 00:50 Onegu wrote:
GB not deciding to defend himself just saying it is a town case from kmatt is really telling.

And yes I will be tunneled on to fword dude and GB until they are dead, I am dead or it is lylo then I will reevaluate in lylo. Tunnel for now.


We know Onegu's flipped green, so at the very least these are honest. On the first one, I trust that players know their own meta and own methods of solving the game.


ROFL now you're just full of shit. So now that Onegu is town his "meta" on me is accurate? Give me a break m


No, this statement does not indicate he's metaing you. He's arguing that people should not meta him.

Those are two separate points.

The argument is not YOUR meta.

The statement is what YOU are doing about HIS meta.

What Onegu's flip does do here is show that his interpretion of his own reads on people is accurate.

The reason I brought that up was because I also want other people who know Onegu better to discuss this.
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January 06 2016 14:35 GMT
#1182
On January 06 2016 23:14 GlowingBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2016 22:08 NocturneMage wrote:
On January 06 2016 21:10 Fidei86 wrote:
On January 06 2016 10:08 NocturneMage wrote:
Alright, that second point is bad. Wow.

I just don't understand this pov. GB said that he thought there was something to be gained by looking at Irish's scum reads. GB then accurately recited Irish's scum reads. Mderg then basically said that GB had done so in a misleading way. But mderg didn't follow up that point by saying "oh yeah you actually can tell something from the other reads Irish had". It isn't like he was trying to make a nuanced argument based on that point, he just shit on GB fullstop. And even if he had, it doesn't matter anyway because GB wasn't purporting to talk about all of Irish's reads in the first place. To me, that is mderg trying to scum GB for bad reasons, at best. And that is following on from his GB read which honestly has made no sense to me the entire game.


It wasn't the recitation of the scum reads that was a problem, it was how it was being used. I had the same problem. You're confusing use with intention. It wasn't confirming the scumreads, it was what he did with the Irish scumreads.

Those are two separate points.

And GB not purporting to talk.....he didn't need to.


What did I do that was wrong?

Why do townies get shot, NM?


Townies get shot for a few reasons. Blue hunting, impossible to mislynch, accuracy of reads are the top three I can think of.

If you are town, you cannot know why mafia shot Irishbound. The Irishbound kill was a night 1 kill. You looked at his reads. Fine.

By your own standards you admitted that your mderg read for whatever reason was stronger. By your own standards you made an argument on Onegu that he is saying something he couldn't possibly believe in (which again, to clarify, is mafia indicative for Onegu, not you). So the argument here is that your vote on GigyaS is misplaced and I'm also ignoring the fact that you read kush as town, because kush was mentioned in those reads and the same argument could be made even if you did scumread kush).
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January 06 2016 14:36 GMT
#1183
On January 06 2016 23:35 GlowingBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2016 23:24 NocturneMage wrote:
On January 06 2016 23:20 GlowingBear wrote:
On January 06 2016 22:13 NocturneMage wrote:
GB in that argument said he was "confident" (paraphrasing) mderg was scum and made a previous argument on Onegu (now flipped town) that he is stating something that he cannot possibly believe in. This is a mafia indicative assertion.

The argument against GigyaS at that time was NK WIFOM.

In stating his scumreads GB votes GigyaS from the off when he had two reads with - in his view - stronger basis.

Why is what mderg did unfathomable/unbelievable/impossible/whatever word you want from a town perspective?


Why the Bolded is a Mafia indicative assertion? Explain to me how that assertion can't come from a town and why that assertion is a consequence of a scum mindset.


You misunderstood.

I'm not saying that was mafia indicative for you. You are making an assertion on Onegu that he cannot believe what he is possibly saying. The argument you are making on Onegu is a mafia indicative assertion on Onegu.


Ok, so?


That comment was in response to Fidei, how it relates to you is in my previous post.
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January 06 2016 14:37 GMT
#1184
And the reason it relates to Fidei is because he's making an assertion on mderg that I think is scummy and I think you should comment on that too.
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January 06 2016 14:42 GMT
#1186
On January 06 2016 23:29 GlowingBear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2016 23:20 nooniansoong wrote:
On January 06 2016 23:12 GlowingBear wrote:
On January 06 2016 21:20 nooniansoong wrote:
Irish said he had to re-read and reasses therefore his scum reads were going to change


Reassessing scum reads doesn't mean he would drop them, necessarily. Why are you pushing this information so hard?

Um because it is your only current scumread with actual reasoning behind it. So I don't have a lot to push lol.

We can argue in vain about how sure he was about his reads. All we know is "reread and reasses" indicates he had some extent of doubt about his reads. That doubt was not acknowledged by you and it makes your reasoning for voting gigyas that much weaker.

People have answered your questions. You have done nothing with the answers. I'd like you to make some content other than defending yourself.
You could give your thoughts about fidei's case since that seems to be the hot topic right now.


NO

IT DOESN'T MAKE IT WEAKER

BECAUSE REASSESSING DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN DROPPING

And as soon as people told me I was WIFOM I've reevaluated and dropped it.

Now I'm conscious about Giygas and I think he looks scummy for all the reasons I've brouhht AND IF YOU THINK I'M PUSHING GIYGAS BECAUSE OF THE NIGHTKILL YOU ARE NOT READING MY FUCKING POSTS


Okay, let's ignore the nightkill argument on GigyaS.

Let's break this down and let's start with his latest vote on you and your explanation on him.

On January 06 2016 12:39 GlowingBear wrote:
I don't admit that. I admit that Irish was killed because he was looking townie. Which doesn't mean Mafia didn't think he was also a danger to the team while scum reading Giygas.

But the reason I scum read Giygas is that it is already day3 and I know nothing about his reads. He is not engaged, he is not investigating. He is here, comes by and do nothing. There is something in particular: he decided to vote me last day. After asking me questions that I answered and made him say "oh yes you're right you already said that". What I mean is that, from our interaction, you can see that he had a suspicion on something about me and when proved wrong, he backtracked. Therefore, it basically means he dropped his suspicions on me. Why voting me, then? It came out of the blue.

Then Gyigas voted Onegu. Again, what under Giygas POV makes him switch to Onegu's wagon? Basically, me and Onegu are never partners for the way we've pushed each other. So if Giygas actually was scum reading me, how come he switches to Onegu?


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January 06 2016 14:43 GMT
#1187
pfffff hold on, I hit post too early.
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January 06 2016 14:47 GMT
#1189
I'm getting interrupted at work. GlowingBear, I want to pick up at post 1186 when I return.

How much longer are you around?
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January 06 2016 16:01 GMT
#1203
phoneposting -

On January 07 2016 00:46 GlowingBear wrote:
Well, lynch me today
When I flip town lynch my scum reads

They are Giygas/mderg/?

Also remember what I said on NM before

I'm getting ready to work and I'll be AFK during the entire day.

I hope you guys do the right thing. If you don't, do NOT ignore my reads.


I don't understand

(1) why is mderg mafia? Your reason for scumming him boils down to his style. I read his town games (disclaimer - could not get to his scum games yet) and his style in this game is similar to his town games. so I don't like your argument and any of the arguments against him on passivity. Of further note, mderg has gotten mislynched a bunch of times looking at his record.

(2) your points against gigyas are somewhat legitimate regarding not understanding his reads, mindset but I also agree with Noon that how he's formulating scumteams looks towny. what I had wanted to ask you was the way you attacked his approach to the thread, he gave a lot of RL excuses but those excuses were nai.

where I have more trouble is that gigyas had posted since yet you made that same conclusion.
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January 06 2016 16:03 GMT
#1204
On January 07 2016 01:01 NocturneMage wrote:
phoneposting -

Show nested quote +
On January 07 2016 00:46 GlowingBear wrote:
Well, lynch me today
When I flip town lynch my scum reads

They are Giygas/mderg/?

Also remember what I said on NM before

I'm getting ready to work and I'll be AFK during the entire day.

I hope you guys do the right thing. If you don't, do NOT ignore my reads.


I don't understand

(1) why is mderg mafia? Your reason for scumming him boils down to his style. I read his town games (disclaimer - could not get to his scum games yet) and his style in this game is similar to his town games. so I don't like your argument and any of the arguments against him on passivity. Of further note, mderg has gotten mislynched a bunch of times looking at his record.

(2) your points against gigyas are somewhat legitimate regarding not understanding his reads, mindset but I also agree with Noon that how he's formulating scumteams looks towny. what I had wanted to ask you was the way you attacked his approach to the thread, he gave a lot of RL excuses but those excuses were nai.

where I have more trouble is that gigyas had posted since yet you made that same conclusion.


ebwop - his record for getting mislynched is somewhat relevant, I forget which game it was but I recall him defending himself against a vigshot/vote for not scumhunting, and I felt that argument sort of paralleled what is going on in this game with him.
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January 06 2016 16:11 GMT
#1205
On December 31 2015 03:35 GlowingBear wrote:
mafia
mderg
(no original thoughts. the guy is just following the thread and rarely putting any original thoughts on the thread. Throw suspicions without going after it, like he did talking about me and kush avoiding each otherm and simply isn't caring for actually uncovering people's alignment)


for further clarity

this is the argument you are using against mderg, as far as I've read your filter, and you continue to scum him throughout

this is the argument I am disputing.
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January 06 2016 21:43 GMT
#1228
phoneposting.

yeah, 8 players left, 3 mafia.
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January 06 2016 21:45 GMT
#1230
odd, he's an experienced player too. hell, he was my coach in my first game on TL.
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January 06 2016 21:49 GMT
#1233
On January 07 2016 06:46 mderg wrote:
GB not realizing it's MYLO definitely makes one doubt. Of course he could be saying that on purpose but still...


Hmmm, does it make sense for scum to wifom something like this? IDK.
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January 06 2016 21:56 GMT
#1238
On January 07 2016 06:54 GiygaS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 07 2016 00:46 GlowingBear wrote:
Well, lynch me today
When I flip town lynch my scum reads

They are Giygas/mderg/?

Also remember what I said on NM before

I'm getting ready to work and I'll be AFK during the entire day.

I hope you guys do the right thing. If you don't, do NOT ignore my reads.

6 hours ago I think.


gb was final vote, and the prior vote count with the 7 other votes was 23h ago. so even that is possible wifom.
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January 06 2016 21:59 GMT
#1241
FF hasn't posted in 20 hours.
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January 06 2016 22:00 GMT
#1244
What the hell?
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January 06 2016 22:01 GMT
#1248
Wait there was no second blue role?
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January 06 2016 22:02 GMT
#1250
I am at a loss for words.

GlowingBear I'm sorry.

GGs everyone else.

DoYouHas, I am grateful for your expertise, KMatt fantastic go as first time on the forum and James way to hang tight.
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January 06 2016 22:05 GMT
#1255
1000% agreed. As soon as the noms go up for 2016, I am definitely putting in for DYH for that category. really appreciate him taking a decent chunk of his leave to help us with our scum game.
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January 06 2016 22:07 GMT
#1256
Could the mods please explain why there was only one blue role? Not trying to be persnickety but we were trying to brace for a blue claim in mylo and none ever came. Now I realise why...
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Last Edited: 2016-01-06 22:09:33
January 06 2016 22:08 GMT
#1258
Also Onegu, why do you call Fidei F-word dude for real? I can only imagine what comms are like when you two play dota together.

(Speaking of which, I mislynched two dota players, woohoo!)
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January 06 2016 22:12 GMT
#1261
On January 07 2016 07:08 nooniansoong wrote:
I had the sneaking suspicion that NM was too agreeable but godamn he did so much analysis..
kmatt how is that your first game.. you liar


I'll keep that in mind.

I hear so many people moan about playing scum and I wasn't confident really in my play going into this. But I wanted an honest go and wanted to learn, not gonna learn if you don't play, so if anyone has any comments on my play, shout please, much appreciated.

edit: looking at obs qt, I'm looking at especially Rels and LightningStrike, you caught me well on it looks like.
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January 06 2016 22:18 GMT
#1269
obs qt is hilarious. She is utterly fuming. You have no idea.

Artanis, she was reading the thread, she said I was biased.
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January 06 2016 22:31 GMT
#1278
On January 07 2016 07:19 DoYouHas wrote:
NM, I really loved watching your play and mentality grow during this game. You went from uncomfortable and panicked, questioning everything to awesome and panicked, leading your team. Glad I was a catalyst for that (though a little afraid of you now TBH).


Cheers....and right back at you. You created a monster as you said...but now I think I might be just as afraid of you.
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January 06 2016 22:34 GMT
#1280
Reading scumformation's QT....

I don't think he liked me either
(At least not my spam.)
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January 06 2016 23:23 GMT
#1289
On January 07 2016 08:07 LightningStrike wrote:
Called out James early but later got to Alex but couldn't connect Kmatt to them. WP scum. Honestly I feel like the biggest reason town lost was lack of activity and mafia was able to move the thread/hide in the thread very easily.


You called me first thing in obs qt...how?
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January 07 2016 17:52 GMT
#1322
To be fair I am pretty nitpicky as town. Ironically there is a bunch of things I said in this game that I would have done as town.

Also I did think that Fidei would get caught out on vote analysis for the tail vote on scott.

And Onegu did push Fidei and GB but since others voted GB, he voted GB over Fidei.
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January 07 2016 17:56 GMT
#1323
I also don't think GigyaS should be hard on himself either. I think his play was greatly affected by lack of time. I think for him he should have re-priortised and gone into stream of consciousness mode on his reads, but I think Kita touched on that already.

He DID ask some good questions, the day 2 voting decision to me was a good one.
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