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[M][N] I'm a cop you idiot mafia --- the reboot

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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
November 29 2016 03:04 GMT
#7
actually forget what I said about time
I have no self control
/in
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
November 30 2016 02:12 GMT
#9
ah crap not 14:00 starts
why can't 15:00 be the norm again
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 05 2016 04:37 GMT
#28
getting second thoughts about joining this game, because I know I am mostly busy right before 2 and mostly free right after 2
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 05 2016 04:37 GMT
#29
pfffffft nah let's do this
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 05 2016 22:45 GMT
#37
oh hey we start at night
so I guess we're in Mylo already?
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 05 2016 22:51 GMT
#39
On December 06 2016 07:48 Koshi wrote:
Hi. Copclaim pls?

?
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 05 2016 23:04 GMT
#41
On December 06 2016 08:03 Chairman Ray wrote:
We got no medic save n0, so shouldn't cop claim come at day?

I guess...
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 01:10 GMT
#44
On December 06 2016 09:33 NeverUnlucky wrote:
I agree that cop should claim at day start, and I also think that the medic should claim. NO VT EVER CC's. Force 1 on 1 with mafia or have up to 3 confirmed town if cop gets a green check who lives through the night.

as is we don't have to lynch anyone today (although LyLo is worse than MyLo) if we want to get extra info. we can use this to get one cop check tonight, one on N1, and if doc claims he will die N1 and cop dies N2 before 2v1 LyLo (assuming we make it that far...)
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 01:19 GMT
#45
so... plan?
cop checks N0 (get conftown or redcheck)
cop claims D1 (two conftown). lynch if redcheck
cop checks N1 (get conftown or redcheck). doc saves cop
reveal check D2, doc claims D2 (four conftown). lynch if redcheck
cop checks N2 (get conftown or redcheck). doc saves cop, probably dies
reveal check D3 (five conftown). lynch if redcheck
so throughout the game we can confirm up to five players as town if doc survives to D2 and cop survives to D1. other possibilities are confirm 4 town and 1 mafia or 3 town and 2 mafia by D3.

I guess if cop or doc dies tonight we just play like normal
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 06:52 GMT
#51
On December 06 2016 15:34 ExO_ wrote:
Hi.

claiming Vanilla Town.

Going back to PoE

ugh I hope this isn't "hi I'm VT bye" because night doesn't mean we can't play. especially when you won't get killed for your reads because N0
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 06:56 GMT
#52
On December 06 2016 14:22 cakepie wrote:
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if doc survives to D2 and cop survives to D1.

45% raw odds of fulfilling prerequisites for the plan, awesome!

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we can confirm up to five players as town

sweet, even if no redchecks, we can find all five town by D3, which PoE the other two for confscum!
good job!

such plan much wow

any NA still ard or am I stuck waiting for EU to wake up?

pls it's 25/42 odds (so about 59%?) of prerequisites.
anyway even if the odds slightly favor us I'd rather play a solid game with real reads and such. blue roles are boring
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 15:09 GMT
#61
On December 06 2016 15:57 ExO_ wrote:
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On December 06 2016 15:52 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 06 2016 15:34 ExO_ wrote:
Hi.

claiming Vanilla Town.

Going back to PoE

ugh I hope this isn't "hi I'm VT bye" because night doesn't mean we can't play. especially when you won't get killed for your reads because N0


And what if it is?

it's not but for the rest of the game I would have been biased towards lynching you
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 15:11 GMT
#62
On December 06 2016 18:33 ExO_ wrote:
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On December 06 2016 17:30 Koshi wrote:
Oh no doc save N0. That makes more sense.
I am going to do nothing and see if mafia respect kills me.


If Koshi doesn't die tonight kill him tomorrow

wifom
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 15:24 GMT
#68
On December 07 2016 00:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Yo, TW, you up for a chat with me? I've one spare hour

I've got half of one but sure
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 15:28 GMT
#70
On December 07 2016 00:26 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 07 2016 00:24 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Yo, TW, you up for a chat with me? I've one spare hour

I've got half of one but sure

Noice.

Do you think you're a good cop check for tonight?

no because I think I'm one of the more likely players to die tonight
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 15:36 GMT
#72
On December 07 2016 00:32 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 07 2016 00:28 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:26 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:24 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Yo, TW, you up for a chat with me? I've one spare hour

I've got half of one but sure

Noice.

Do you think you're a good cop check for tonight?

no because I think I'm one of the more likely players to die tonight

That's the generic answer.

Why do you think so? Have you ever been NKed before? Judging from HM3 idk why you would think you're in danger of being killed, lol.

If you have some non-math related questions for me, do ask. This game is pretty slow so far.

because the NK is always between me you and Koshi. the other players aren't 'respected'and aren't acting townie either
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 15:46 GMT
#76
On December 07 2016 00:39 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 07 2016 00:36 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:32 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:28 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:26 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:24 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Yo, TW, you up for a chat with me? I've one spare hour

I've got half of one but sure

Noice.

Do you think you're a good cop check for tonight?

no because I think I'm one of the more likely players to die tonight

That's the generic answer.

Why do you think so? Have you ever been NKed before? Judging from HM3 idk why you would think you're in danger of being killed, lol.

If you have some non-math related questions for me, do ask. This game is pretty slow so far.

because the NK is always between me you and Koshi. the other players aren't 'respected'and aren't acting townie either

Oh wow, so much honor for me. c:

What do you think of other players' entries, specifically cakepie entering with math and hopeless checking in to check out?

And Koshi, what happened to the "This town isn't going to be lazy" shtick you had last game?

their entrances are not exciting so idc

as for you, me, koshi
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 16:24 GMT
#77
On December 07 2016 00:46 Tumblewood wrote:
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On December 07 2016 00:39 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:36 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:32 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:28 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:26 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:24 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Yo, TW, you up for a chat with me? I've one spare hour

I've got half of one but sure

Noice.

Do you think you're a good cop check for tonight?

no because I think I'm one of the more likely players to die tonight

That's the generic answer.

Why do you think so? Have you ever been NKed before? Judging from HM3 idk why you would think you're in danger of being killed, lol.

If you have some non-math related questions for me, do ask. This game is pretty slow so far.

because the NK is always between me you and Koshi. the other players aren't 'respected'and aren't acting townie either

Oh wow, so much honor for me. c:

What do you think of other players' entries, specifically cakepie entering with math and hopeless checking in to check out?

And Koshi, what happened to the "This town isn't going to be lazy" shtick you had last game?

their entrances are not exciting so idc

as for you, me, koshi I like to reward give-a-shitness

ebwop
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 16:37 GMT
#78
On December 07 2016 01:24 Tumblewood wrote:
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On December 07 2016 00:46 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:39 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:36 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:32 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:28 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:26 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:24 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 00:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Yo, TW, you up for a chat with me? I've one spare hour

I've got half of one but sure

Noice.

Do you think you're a good cop check for tonight?

no because I think I'm one of the more likely players to die tonight

That's the generic answer.

Why do you think so? Have you ever been NKed before? Judging from HM3 idk why you would think you're in danger of being killed, lol.

If you have some non-math related questions for me, do ask. This game is pretty slow so far.

because the NK is always between me you and Koshi. the other players aren't 'respected'and aren't acting townie either

Oh wow, so much honor for me. c:

What do you think of other players' entries, specifically cakepie entering with math and hopeless checking in to check out?

And Koshi, what happened to the "This town isn't going to be lazy" shtick you had last game?

their entrances are not exciting so idc

as for you, me, koshi I like to reward give-a-shitness

ebwop

actually for Koshi it's the whole 'respect kill' thing. didn't mean to lump him in with us
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 22:35 GMT
#80
well fuck
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 22:38 GMT
#81
without a doc cop should probably stay silent. unless he has a mafia check, I guess, but claim = die N1
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 23:55 GMT
#83
On December 07 2016 07:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
I'd lynch either Tumblewood or NeverUnlucky. Both of them posted a bunch of game math yesterday, with the mistake of assuming everything goes well for town, even going as far as avoiding the scenario where either the cop or medic dies. A town looking at game math usually thinks about worst case scenarios and how to avoid them, whereas scum try to convince town of the best case scenarios happening. Neither of them even mentioned the possibility of cop or medic dying, probably because Koshi was a respect kill and not a blue snipe.

worst case scenario: blue role dies
ways to prevent it: doc save ask politely none
glad we figured that one out

and I think I did say "if things don't go according to plan we play mafia as normal"
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 06 2016 23:59 GMT
#84
current evaluation of ray is neutral and bad, as opposed to everyone else (besides NU I guess) who are neutral and not playing
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 07 2016 01:24 GMT
#88
On December 07 2016 10:10 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 07 2016 10:01 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 07 2016 07:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
I'd lynch either Tumblewood or NeverUnlucky. Both of them posted a bunch of game math yesterday, with the mistake of assuming everything goes well for town, even going as far as avoiding the scenario where either the cop or medic dies. A town looking at game math usually thinks about worst case scenarios and how to avoid them, whereas scum try to convince town of the best case scenarios happening. Neither of them even mentioned the possibility of cop or medic dying, probably because Koshi was a respect kill and not a blue snipe.

I find it opportunistic that you call me and tw out on our lack of assumptions now that the medic was shanked rather than when we were actually discussing it ie I doubt that you would be reproaching us this if it was a VT that flipped today.

Also, I dislike that you are entering the day with two targets you'd like to see lynched, especially since pretty much nothing happened N0, so I don't understand how you're ready to see myself or tw lynched already. Also, I don't think your justification to scum-read either of us is worthy of calling us lynch targets.

Point 2 is specifically worse because we're in mylo, and you shouldn't enter the day with a pre-conceived idea of who you want to lynch.

well, you might if the pre-conceived idea is a series of posts leading you to the conclusion that someone is scum. mylo is like a normal day except usually without a lynch
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 07 2016 05:26 GMT
#93
On December 07 2016 11:14 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2016 08:55 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 07:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
I'd lynch either Tumblewood or NeverUnlucky. Both of them posted a bunch of game math yesterday, with the mistake of assuming everything goes well for town, even going as far as avoiding the scenario where either the cop or medic dies. A town looking at game math usually thinks about worst case scenarios and how to avoid them, whereas scum try to convince town of the best case scenarios happening. Neither of them even mentioned the possibility of cop or medic dying, probably because Koshi was a respect kill and not a blue snipe.

worst case scenario: blue role dies
ways to prevent it: doc save ask politely none
glad we figured that one out

and I think I did say "if things don't go according to plan we play mafia as normal"


Point taken. You mentioned that you are leaning town on NeverUnlucky (specifically you said not neutral). What's your reasoning for that read?

it's my way of trying to get people to be active. I reward people for trying if town is dead.
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 07 2016 05:28 GMT
#94
nu the only reason I like you (actually two) is that you're the only other one trying (although ray might do stuff it seems. exciting) and I have low expectations for your scum game :p
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 07 2016 05:29 GMT
#95
hell I'll town ray for now unless exo and 1der and that other guy play the game they signed up for.
ugh mafia made a good move killing koshi
if only shape were here. he'd be active
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 01:49 GMT
#135
On December 07 2016 15:20 cakepie wrote:
G'day folks. RIP Koshi.

It's iml mylo, so I'm not exactly raring to go tying nooses. And it's early in the day yet. But scumhunting can't wait. You got to work with what you have.

Tumblewood
Definitely fishy. As Chairman Ray points out, TW talks plan, gets it all wrong.
But what really sets the alarms off for me is his tone and progression.

TW is definitely aware that state of the game = D1 mylo, with his opening post.
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 06 2016 07:45 Tumblewood wrote:
oh hey we start at night
so I guess we're in Mylo already?


And then there's his plan:
+ Show Spoiler +
On December 06 2016 10:19 Tumblewood wrote:
so... plan?
cop checks N0 (get conftown or redcheck)
cop claims D1 (two conftown). lynch if redcheck
cop checks N1 (get conftown or redcheck). doc saves cop
reveal check D2, doc claims D2 (four conftown). lynch if redcheck
cop checks N2 (get conftown or redcheck). doc saves cop, probably dies
reveal check D3 (five conftown). lynch if redcheck
so throughout the game we can confirm up to five players as town if doc survives to D2 and cop survives to D1. other possibilities are confirm 4 town and 1 mafia or 3 town and 2 mafia by D3.

I guess if cop or doc dies tonight we just play like normal

Several mechanical things about the plan rub me the wrong way here:
  • sells copchecks as conftown without deadcopflip
  • sells high numbers of conftown, when in all likelihood absolutely half of them are going to be dead conftown
  • "D3 (five conftown)" sounds amazing, but is complete false advertising. Relies on (unreasonably?) optimistic view that we manage to lynch a (claimed) redcheck from (claimed) cop. Failing that, we've already lost: D3 is a 2-2 voterace if no-lynch on first two days.
Going from "D1 mylo" to "just get to D3 and we're set!" is just... I'm incredulous. I mean, even if you're just blindly enumerating the possibilities, going from N0 to D1, N1, etc... mylo isn't something that just slips your mind -- you KNOW you have TWO days to make ONE correct lynch. That's not a given. I'm not sure even an incredibly negligent townie would so flippantly irresponsible as to practically take it for granted.

His tone/progression is also problematic.
  • The plan was presented seriously, if maybe a bit tentatively. ("so... plan?"). I detect no joke, no troll, no facetiousness.
  • The plan is clear followup from NU's #43 starting to talking about whether blues should claim / VTs should not fakeclaim.
    NU's post (and meta) suggests he's a player who could be enticed with plans revolving around setup mechanics, so #45 could be working that angle
  • When plan is attacked for bad math, #52 still bad math -- conscientious townie would have triple checked! -- casually sells bad math ("odds slightly favor us") while distancing from the plan at the same time ("I'd rather play a solid game with real reads and such. blue roles are boring").
  • So eager to circlejerk with NU and Koshi, except + Show Spoiler [tinfoil] +
    "didn't mean to lump [Koshi] in with us" but we're totally town just like him, right?

  • Gets all worked up N0 and early D1 about him giving a shit and others apparently not, trying way too hard to oversell his noise as activity before others even begin engaging


Hi ExO. I've been casually drafting since usually no one's around when I'm up.
But since you're here, Imma dump what I have so far, and let's talk.

re: your scumread on me
ok so I made a plan and I didn't think it through all the way. how can you, from that information, conclude that I was mafia trying to mislead you (and it's not like I was trying to steer you away from any plan — there was no plan at the time) and not town just trying to figure the game out? I don't even see the motive besides making myself look better.
and the Koshi thing:
in a world where TW says something that would totally make sense from a townie who mistyped, one man sets out to explain how it was an intentional, subversive scum move.
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 02:11 GMT
#140
On December 07 2016 16:37 ExO_ wrote:
Actually I just realized I misread TWs posts he never says rewarding town. I'm starting to think I'm going a bit crazy

this post (+ sequence before it) feels very candid. it is hard as scum to fake viewpoint -> new evidence -> change viewpoint to reflect that. also it would be a lot of attention to detail to fake a mistake and react realistically.
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 02:18 GMT
#142
in case this needs clarification I had myself, NU, and Koshi in a group [of people who might be N0 kills] but not all for the same reasons: NU because he was active and slightly townie; myself for the same, and I thought that we were potentially a strategic kill to try and abuse a highly inactive town; and Koshi because he is the most veteran and most respected player in the game. I accidentally put Koshi in the same pile for something else but then caught my mistake.
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 02:20 GMT
#143
On December 08 2016 11:17 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 08 2016 11:00 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 08 2016 10:49 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 08 2016 07:55 ExO_ wrote:
On December 07 2016 16:26 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 07 2016 15:13 ExO_ wrote:
I don't agree with Chairman ray's logic about scum would only post in best case scenarios.

I pretty much don't agree with NU's line of thinking regarding TW trying to buddy him, but I think his activity (lol) and bothering to explain it like that makes him town to me.

Ray looks sketchy to me.

TW looks Town.


Just to expand on my previous point, I didn't mean that scum would only post in best case scenarios, but instead that they might mistakenly ignore a very obvious scenario that town wouldn't.

The one scenario that was almost ignored was a blue getting killed N0. If they were town, they could have genuinely believed that if a blue died, we don't have to do anything differently, but if they were mafia, maybe they weren't planning to blue snipe so they ignored it.

But the bigger thing they left out was the scenario that mafia fakeclaims, in which case there are no confirmed town or redchecks on D1. There's a fairly good chunk of math in this scenario which they shouldn't have ignored. Unless of course they knew that mafia wasn't going to fakeclaim, and look where we are now.

So just to summarize, these are my suspicions:
- TW and NU post math assuming that blue roles don't die - Koshi was killed, who I don't think was a blue snipe
- TW and NU ignore the scenario that mafia fakeclaims - Mafia aren't fakeclaiming

So yes, I think it's very possible that they were just speaking casually on whatever was at the top of their mind, but given that they decided to math out a very narrow scenario without much reasoning, and that scenario happened exactly as they assumed, it seems like a really big coincidence.


This is what I have a problem with @cakepie. TW and NU post math that assume blue roles don't die. But that's not scummy in the slightest. Scum have absolutely 0 way of knowing if they are going to catch a blue or a VT. They mapped out scenarios in which blues don't die on N0 and then blues did die on N0. The scenario didn't happen exactly as they assumed. The lack of fake claiming at this point doesn't mean much. It will happen eventually but just because it hadn't happened (and especially when CR posted) doesn't mean it won't happen. Using all of that reasoning to imply that TW and NU are scum is complete bullshit imo. And the cherry on top is he back pedals with "but its possible they were just casually speaking whatever was on the top of their mind"

Summed up

"Yeah I wanna imply that you guys are scum with really bad reasoning, but not commit to it." Looks sketchy and very possible scum-filler type of post.


I don't think you represented my case fairly.

I want to know what you think of TW and NU. When you read over their 'game math' posts, does it read to you like town who are actively trying to win the game? Why didn't you push them for it?

They were not 'game math' posts as you put it. We were arguing why cop/medic should claim USING 'math' to demonstrate it.

Also, you're hardly pushing either of us. You shared your thoughts on me and TW discussing game mechanics, but other than asking us why we town-leaned each other, you never engaged in a conversation with either of us to push us. That, and your whole contribution this game is about me and TW.

So. What is your take on ExO and cakepie?


If you and TW are interested in using math to demonstrate whether or not cop should claim, why the sudden lack of interest today? Exo made a strong push in favor of cop claiming. TW made a short mention that cop should only claim if he checks red. You haven't mentioned anything at all. I would expect that TW should be fighting hard against Exo and you to have some sort of opinion as well. You two were so passionate yesterday but you don't seem to care today.

now that doc is dead any plan for blues to carry us through the game won't work. also now there are posts to talk about instead of just setup and an empty void.
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 03:18 GMT
#145
On December 08 2016 04:04 Hopeless1der wrote:
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On December 08 2016 03:46 cakepie wrote:
Like wtf H1, at least try. Maybe we've exhausted the available material on TW, but tell me something about NU or ExO or CRay.


ExO has maintained that the cop should claim. I dont particularly agree, I'd rather tempt fate on a no-lynch and have the cop end-of-night phase post their N0 check, with the possibility of getting a N1 check as well. Besides that, ExO is doing a poor job of actually reading the thread, and I'm not sure where that falls on the scummy/stupid scale so I dont want to pursue a lynch there.


I like CR's posts, his suspicions, questions, justifications for everything are well reasoned and show appropriate suspicion.


I do not like NU's overly defensive tone following the daypost when CR accused TW/NU of hiding behind poorly reasoned math.
+ Show Spoiler [#86] +
On December 07 2016 10:01 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 07 2016 07:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
I'd lynch either Tumblewood or NeverUnlucky. Both of them posted a bunch of game math yesterday, with the mistake of assuming everything goes well for town, even going as far as avoiding the scenario where either the cop or medic dies. A town looking at game math usually thinks about worst case scenarios and how to avoid them, whereas scum try to convince town of the best case scenarios happening. Neither of them even mentioned the possibility of cop or medic dying, probably because Koshi was a respect kill and not a blue snipe.

I find it opportunistic that you call me and tw out on our lack of assumptions now that the medic was shanked rather than when we were actually discussing it ie I doubt that you would be reproaching us this if it was a VT that flipped today.

Also, I dislike that you are entering the day with two targets you'd like to see lynched, especially since pretty much nothing happened N0, so I don't understand how you're ready to see myself or tw lynched already. Also, I don't think your justification to scum-read either of us is worthy of calling us lynch targets.



Especially the 2nd paragraph in the above spoiler, it reads to me as less about NU being one of the targets and more about CR having more than one target, when they're being accused with same reasoning. Why would CR be inclined to single someone out in this scenario? To me, there's no reason for it and NU's post comes off as contrived to me.


As you said, most of the TW material has been covered so I'll skip over it. Also, I think you're town.

My vote preferences are:
1-No-Lynch
2-TW
3-NU
4-ExO
5-CR
6-cake
7-me



weird seeing 1der go from short posts with lots of nothing in between to a couple walls of text (small ones) all of a sudden. don't know why town would do it, but I don't know why scum would either.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 03:19 GMT
#146
also funny th\t 1der's list of who to lynch is the reverse of mine, perfectly (except no lynch is still at the top ofc)
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 06:24 GMT
#151
gotta check cakepie's meta to see if being an asshat is his normal meta
+ Show Spoiler +
inb4 this is also a subversive, manipulative trick designed intentionally to buddy NU and mislead town

I don't know if you think you're spotting my mafia tricks or some shit but actually you're finding evidence where there is none. literally things that could go either way and you are construing them toward I am scum without hesitation
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 06:26 GMT
#152
On December 08 2016 15:24 Tumblewood wrote:
gotta check cakepie's meta to see if being an asshat is his normal meta
+ Show Spoiler +
inb4 this is also a subversive, manipulative trick designed intentionally to buddy NU and mislead town

I don't know if you think you're spotting my mafia tricks or some shit but actually you're finding evidence where there is none. literally things that could go either way and you are construing them toward I am scum without hesitation

wait guys found the confession
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 06:29 GMT
#154
idk I've only been around for a year but players who haven't played in a long time seem to be more anal than most. cakepie could be town but if so he's town that's really pissing me off. 1der too. if I had to guess it's between cakepie, 1der and ray because none of them have made me lean town at any point.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 15:32 GMT
#164
@cakepie: I don't know what era of TL you come from, but in this one you don't have to write a wall of text to be right. I patently refuse to write an elaborate case, because I don't or want to or have the time to give some highly explained reasons why you're scum or bad.
I have explained my ExO townread and it's a fucking good reason that you all should sleep me for.
doing the math I multiplied five-sevenths by five-sixths, because I forgot that scum won't kill themselves.
and if one more punk decides to vote me scum can and will hammer without warning. we are in MyLo, aka lose the game if you're wrong mode. are you really so confident in yourself because you wrote more words than me that you would risk this. for the love of god, don't be stupid
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 15:35 GMT
#165
I'm in a game filled with nimrods
I want Koshi back
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 15:46 GMT
#166
speaking of Koshi, cakepie's performance in this game really reminds me of Koshi in R1H mafia.tunneled on me all game with a bad but extensively written case and refused to back down, and also won. Koshi was mafia that game btw
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 16:24 GMT
#170
just looked at ray's filter
getting some red flags from him because
a) he only focuses on me and NU
b) he posts as if it is a given that NU and I are scum, even from his third or fourth post of the game
there's a whole game out there, and ray is content to ignore it. maybe normal with someone heavily tunneled, but it's been that way all game.
ray what do you think of 1der, ExO, and cakepie?
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 16:27 GMT
#171
On December 09 2016 01:14 cakepie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 00:46 Tumblewood wrote:
speaking of Koshi, cakepie's performance in this game really reminds me of Koshi in R1H mafia.tunneled on me all game with a bad but extensively written case and refused to back down, and also won. Koshi was mafia that game btw


You're trying to apply Koshi meta on me. That's ... disingenuous.

fair point, except the part where it's disingenuous.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 16:39 GMT
#174
and for the record I have not been useless this game. I have figured out (probably) both the scum out of three people, defended myself against accusations, and been the source of hmalf the game's posts. really not sure how town could do any more on a day one where we aren't lynching.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 16:40 GMT
#175
actually there's one more thing
how do I convince people I'm right in a town where no one plays like me or has played with me (except NU, once)
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 16:46 GMT
#176
all scumhunting is anyway is taking someone's posting, comparing it to their meta, and comparing it to the "general meta" of how scum overall tend to act. I don't think it's disingenuous to say "the last time I saw someone act like this, they were scum". that's a pretty normal thought process to me
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 17:02 GMT
#178
well I'm never going to convince you that you're scum. but understand that I am doing the best job I can finding scum using logic I consider to be good.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 17:45 GMT
#185
hm I'm trying to get out of the town tunnel mindset on NU so I'm trying to make a scum case on him but I actually have no dirt (besides my personal vendetta on the word opportunistic). is anyone scumreading him? I want some perspective here.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 18:55 GMT
#196
yeah looking at the scum filter + having heard his history on that other site, there's no way NU is this convincing as scum
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 19:24 GMT
#204
On December 09 2016 03:46 cakepie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 02:48 cakepie wrote:
he "largely agrees" with my TW case [...] There's zero progression / information for how he got there.


Hm, maybe not completely zero, but there is this bit:
Show nested quote +
On December 08 2016 15:27 ExO_ wrote:
I don't think cakepie is being an asshat. and I find the tone of your posts here to be odd. Saying they could go either way, instead of saying I'm town and you're clearly wrong I think says a lot about the position you are speaking from.
But still there is very little:
#98 TW looks Town. <-- no elaboration!
#107 "Why are you making me scumread TW?" <-- couched read?!
#153 cakepie isn't an asshat and TW's tone is off
#161 "largely agrees" with my TW case <-- no elaboration!

I can get behind him not elaborating but there's definitely a progression there — I don't know what else you'd call what you outlined. his change of opinion gives me no trouble.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 19:33 GMT
#206
ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
turns out no one likes being lynched
and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 19:40 GMT
#210
re: cakepie - ExO's mistake was very likely unintentional. it's not something I've ever seen faked by mafia. if it was a mistake, then the information effectively was new to ExO, even if it was always there.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 20:20 GMT
#218
On December 09 2016 04:35 Hopeless1der wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 04:33 Tumblewood wrote:
ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
turns out no one likes being lynched
and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective



Show nested quote +
Incredibly subjective


Show nested quote +
not an argument for them being scum



Pick one and proceed.

is this your question? I don't see a conflict here.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 20:26 GMT
#221
On December 09 2016 04:50 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 04:33 Tumblewood wrote:
ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
turns out no one likes being lynched
and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective


You argue that being worried about perception can be either town or mafia, and it's incredibly subjective, that I agree with, which is why I pushed on him. However, you came to NU's defense before letting him speak for himself, which is a direct contradiction with your argument.

Just a few posts ago you were asking for other people's scumreads on NU so you can gain some perspective. You don't actually seem that interested after all.

I did want someone to help play devil's advocate and then saw yet another example of the trend where every single game he's scum he dies D1 because he's painfully obvious.
and there is no contradiction in my argument. I wasn't defending him so much as calling out your shitty argument..
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 20:28 GMT
#222
On December 09 2016 05:25 Hopeless1der wrote:
Also to spell it out for you, a read cannot be simultaneously "not an argument" and "subjective". Those are mutually exclusive traits of an argument.

I was using those words talking about two different parts of the quote, aka the first part is not an argument and the second is subjective, if you were fucking reading it
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 20:46 GMT
#225
On December 09 2016 05:43 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 05:26 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 09 2016 04:50 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 09 2016 04:33 Tumblewood wrote:
ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
turns out no one likes being lynched
and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective


You argue that being worried about perception can be either town or mafia, and it's incredibly subjective, that I agree with, which is why I pushed on him. However, you came to NU's defense before letting him speak for himself, which is a direct contradiction with your argument.

Just a few posts ago you were asking for other people's scumreads on NU so you can gain some perspective. You don't actually seem that interested after all.

I did want someone to help play devil's advocate and then saw yet another example of the trend where every single game he's scum he dies D1 because he's painfully obvious.
and there is no contradiction in my argument. I wasn't defending him so much as calling out your shitty argument..


I don't buy this at all. You argued how NU acted could be either town or mafia, and it's subjective. But the way you are acting now, and have been throughout the game, you already have your mind made up that he's town.

I wanted perspective because I was worried I was accepting him as town too easily, and looking through his scum game affirmed that there's no way he could pull this off as scum.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 20:51 GMT
#227
On December 09 2016 05:44 Hopeless1der wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 05:28 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 09 2016 05:25 Hopeless1der wrote:
Also to spell it out for you, a read cannot be simultaneously "not an argument" and "subjective". Those are mutually exclusive traits of an argument.

I was using those words talking about two different parts of the quote, aka the first part is not an argument and the second is subjective, if you were fucking reading it

And yet you still have not given ONE of the binary answers I've prescribed.

here's a question: are you scum? answer either yes, openly or yes but I'm not telling you.

this is how i feeel about your two binary answers. they're both bad and the real answer is valid. read what I said again: I used two mutually exclusive terms to talk about TWo DIFDERENT THINGS
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 20:55 GMT
#228
On December 09 2016 05:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 05:26 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 09 2016 04:50 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 09 2016 04:33 Tumblewood wrote:
ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
turns out no one likes being lynched
and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective


You argue that being worried about perception can be either town or mafia, and it's incredibly subjective, that I agree with, which is why I pushed on him. However, you came to NU's defense before letting him speak for himself, which is a direct contradiction with your argument.

Just a few posts ago you were asking for other people's scumreads on NU so you can gain some perspective. You don't actually seem that interested after all.

I did want someone to help play devil's advocate and then saw yet another example of the trend where every single game he's scum he dies D1 because he's painfully obvious.
and there is no contradiction in my argument. I wasn't defending him so much as calling out your shitty argument..


Ok I'm trying to think about this from your perspective.

Chairman Ray made a very polarizing post giving only the mafia perspective of NU's gameplay. I feel that NU's gameplay also makes sense from a town perspective. I'm going to point out this flaw to Chairman Ray.

Is this the correct interpretation?

I don't fully understand your interpretation so I will rephrase my own:
ray is making a point that NU is distancing from me ergo NU is scum (maybe I misinterpreted your post) -> that's not a valid argument. in the same post ray says NU cares about his image too much ergo NU is scum -> I will point out that that's a bad tell to use because it is subjective and not useful.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 21:06 GMT
#230
look I'm busy from 1:15 to 2:15 so speak now or for an hour hold your peace
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 22:19 GMT
#240
tonight I will have a lot of time, which I will use to post extensive/organized reads (actually I have about 45 minutes to answer questions now).
given that I had two votes and no one hammered, we can eliminate the following scum teams:
ExO + NU
ExO + 1der
1der + NU
all other teams (there are 15 possible) would either need an extra town vote to hammer or include me. I strongly believe that both members of the scum team fall within cakepie, ray, and 1der.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 08 2016 22:44 GMT
#242
On December 09 2016 07:29 Chairman Ray wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 06:44 Hopeless1der wrote:
TW was not slammed when 2 people voted him, Either one of the voters (CR and cake) were scum OR TW is scum. Technically its possible that everyone involved is wrong, but fuck that noise, I'm calling TW scum, Good fucking game.

Cop, dont claim until you absolutely have to at end of Nightphase.

If TW claims cop, lynch that piece of garbage. I will not accept him claiming cop this game.

##Unvote##Vote: Tumblewood

I fully understand that this day is going to be a no lynch. I'm like 51/49 on lynhching TW today.


Show nested quote +
On December 09 2016 07:19 Tumblewood wrote:
tonight I will have a lot of time, which I will use to post extensive/organized reads (actually I have about 45 minutes to answer questions now).
given that I had two votes and no one hammered, we can eliminate the following scum teams:
ExO + NU
ExO + 1der
1der + NU
all other teams (there are 15 possible) would either need an extra town vote to hammer or include me. I strongly believe that both members of the scum team fall within cakepie, ray, and 1der.


What about the scenario where a scum just wasn't online at the time?

hm that's true. it was a long time that I sat with two votes, but neither ExO not NU posted in that time. I doubt on other grounds that they're scum, but really it seems the votes have determined nothing for certain.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 09 2016 00:22 GMT
#244
The case on Hopeless1der

Preamble
I plan on writing posts like this for each player still alive besides myself, going in order the filters are listed. This isn't necessarily an indictment but an analysis of each player and a reasoned guess to their alignment, trying to start from square one and not cloud my judgement with previous bias. I will not go through every post, but I will use quotes liberally.

The case for
  • In this post, near the start, 1der is incredulous (and clarifies -- it's like the mafia equivalent of a double-take) in a way that mafia rarely are.
  • This post + Show Spoiler [quoted] +
    On December 09 2016 04:35 Hopeless1der wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 09 2016 04:33 Tumblewood wrote:
    ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
    turns out no one likes being lynched
    and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective



    Show nested quote +
    Incredibly subjective


    Show nested quote +
    not an argument for them being scum



    Pick one and proceed.
    is incredulous in a similar way, and good in a similar way, but also icky and bad in a way I will describe later.
  • The threat 1der makes + Show Spoiler [near deadline] +
    On December 09 2016 04:47 Hopeless1der wrote:
    a little over 2 hours left today..TW if I dont get an answer in the next hour I'm voting you.
    to me reminds me of the threats I tend to make when I strongly want to vote someone (as town) but rationally know it is a poor play. The vote after is also part of this sentiment. Even if I don't agree with it, it's townie.


The case against
  • N0 he made one post and left. The post + Show Spoiler [in question] +
    On December 07 2016 00:21 Hopeless1der wrote:
    Why are there suggestions for the cop to claim during D1? Why not end of N1 when theres a chance at 2 checks?
    asked a question to no one in particular and hardly seemed to seek out a response. Only one reason for this seems likely, which is that he wanted to avoid complete inactivity but had nothing to say. While town does this on occasion, it gives me pause because he seemed to care little about the answer to his question.
  • Next day he initiated wanting to lynch me, but he didn't present any reasons of his own; he sheeped cakepie + Show Spoiler +
    On December 08 2016 03:27 Hopeless1der wrote:
    cakepie is it okay if I just sheep you today?
    and then when discussing other players left out anything on me because "most of the TW material has been covered". Sheeping is a safe way for mafia to attack town without arguing for themselves.
  • 1der puts full trust into cakepie as town without ever discussing why (this is the first comment on cakepie's alignment: + Show Spoiler [but only barely] +
    On December 09 2016 04:12 Hopeless1der wrote:
    but really, thank you for putting in the work for town cakepie
    ). Town-tunneling is a real phenomenon, but it makes me uncomfortable; it feels more like he is hiding behind someone he can safely call town.
  • 1der asks me to pick between two non-contradictory statements I made + Show Spoiler [right here] +
    On December 09 2016 04:35 Hopeless1der wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 09 2016 04:33 Tumblewood wrote:
    ray, accusing someone of distancing is not an argument for them being scum. also, being concerned with one's perception is a pretty weak tell, because both town and scum do it + Show Spoiler +
    turns out no one likes being lynched
    and because the line between "a regular amount" and "too much" is incredibly subjective



    Show nested quote +
    Incredibly subjective


    Show nested quote +
    not an argument for them being scum



    Pick one and proceed.

    and attacks me for choosing both, but fails to read and comprehend my words. It comes off as an attempt to get me lynched more than to get it right. By requiring one of two binary answers, provided by himself, he forced words into my mouth (and still, somehow, did not learn to read).


Verdict
Probable scum. There are reasons to believe 1der is not scum, but his game is so focused on getting me lynched (especially given his shortage of original reasons) that it is hard to see him as town.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 09 2016 01:05 GMT
#245
The case on cakepie

Preamble
After this post I will take a short break, both to eat food and to keep myself from going insane writing cases. I fear that already my mindset of avoiding bias is slipping. After the break I'll resume with ExO.

The case for
  • I have to give him some credit, at least, for working his ass off for town. He's put an unlikely amount of effort into this game for someone just faking it.
  • He tries to gain perspective on things he doesn't understand + Show Spoiler [for instance here] +
    On December 07 2016 16:56 cakepie wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 07 2016 16:34 ExO_ wrote:
    Just sat down and actually read TW's plan before, I kinda didn't pay much attention to it at first. It's actually dogshit assuming cop and doc are going to make it through to d2 with everythink hunky dory, so much to the point that I have a hard time thinking he meant it to be taken seriously.

    This is snark.

    This might be half in jest

    This exhaustively enumerates N0 thru up to D3 and lists what he sees as all three possible scenarios at D3.
    That's too much effort for simply joking or trolling.
    although he stops short of accepting things as mistakes.
  • Enforces town + Show Spoiler [like here] +
    On December 08 2016 03:46 cakepie wrote:
    Like wtf H1, at least try. Maybe we've exhausted the available material on TW, but tell me something about NU or ExO or CRay.
    on putting effort into the game. Scum can easily allow or encourage inactivity to keep town in the dark on itself.


The case against
  • From his first posts concerning me, cakepie is concerned with indicting me + Show Spoiler [on the grounds of enjoying non-blue-fo…] +
    On December 06 2016 17:00 cakepie wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    I'd rather play a solid game with real reads and such. blue roles are boring
    What a convenient thing to say now.
    for something that is not at all indicative of alignment. No 1der + Show Spoiler [ayy] +
    ayyyyyy
    he accuses me of being scum if all of my actions are twisted to the most scum-leaning possibility.
  • Continuing, he explains how all of my actions were deliberate attempts to mislead and misinform the town. How on Earth do you reach the conclusion that my plan, quoted here, uses devices and rhetoric subversively when obviously the mistake wasn't even intentional? Cakepie overall spends several posts selling my mistakes, contained in obviously low-effort posts (as in, spending little time typing them, not thinking about them) as intentional. Keen to assume mistakes as intentional is always scummy; town isn't looking to paint others as scum without being totally convinced themselves... and also having decent reasons.
  • Chairman Ray posts with similarly poor logic, and cakepie responds + Show Spoiler [in this quote] +
    On December 08 2016 13:10 cakepie wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 08 2016 11:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
    In my experiences, mafia tend to buddy up more when they're the most active ones, and draw distance when town are the most active ones. If the two mafia were the active ones in the middle of a quiet town, I could totally see them patting each other on the back for being active.
    Isn't that a bit circular and self-reinforcing? 1. Active players seem to buddy in quiet N0 -> 2. mafia together? -> 3. oh look mafia buddying in quiet town -> 4. go back to step 2

    Furthermore, I think it looks more like only one (TW) is actively buddying. I think NU might already started smelling a rat and was questioning why/how TW formed that absurd TW/NU/Koshi circle:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 07 2016 15:48 cakepie wrote:
    I mindmeld NU on TW seeming to buddy toward end of N0, and I like his questions #71 #73 #74.
    I believe that NU could be genuinely (if naively) broaching the possibility of "If VTs agree never to fakeclaim, all CCs become MvT". TW jumps at the opportunity to gain easy towncred by enumerating possible scenarios according to mechanics, and to engage NU to try to start a buddybuddy going jerking over setup.

    TW's scumbuddy is somewhere else, and I think they could be tentatively drawing distance at that point in time, with town?NU active, soondead!Koshi and uncertainty over how active the rest of us would behave.

    If you're going down the road of associative reads I think there's more interesting interactions than just backpatting.
    in the normal manner of explaining why it's wrong. He makes no attempt to show why Ray is scum, even though his mistake was no less 'egregious' than mine.
  • Although he accuses me of trying to mislead NU rather than himself, cakepie plays to NU even more + Show Spoiler [here] +
    Could he be trying to establish a bond with you as far back as #44/45, eventually leading up to #72+?
    Did scum!bleweed take advantage of the opportunity you presented to earn easy towncred by talking setup and scenarios?

    by rhetorically asking if I was buddying NU all along. Consider also that he had expressed skepticism when Ray proposed that we were buddying.


Verdict
Scum. Yeah, I don't like to speak in absolutes, but I fail to find any explanation for how cakepie is town. He reacts in different ways to the same tells from different players and above all speaks to why I am scum with evidence that should lead no reasonable person to his conclusions. Trying to find the townie in him, I felt like I was grasping for anything to explain it. If not scum then cakepie is one of the most misled townies I have ever seen, even ahead of Rels that one time.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 09 2016 01:42 GMT
#247
On December 09 2016 10:33 Chairman Ray wrote:
TW, one thing you keep doing when people push on you is to say that what you did was not indicative of alignment. The whole point of pushing on you is to get your side of the story before making a judgement. Everything that was said in this game is not completely alignment indicative, including all your scumreads. But instead of actually explaining your actions from your perspective, you just say that town could have totally said the same thing. That's the exact sort of defense that mafia gives if they didn't have any honest town intentions, but tries to argue that they could exist.

Here's a couple examples:
Show nested quote +
On December 08 2016 15:24 Tumblewood wrote:
gotta check cakepie's meta to see if being an asshat is his normal meta
+ Show Spoiler +
inb4 this is also a subversive, manipulative trick designed intentionally to buddy NU and mislead town

I don't know if you think you're spotting my mafia tricks or some shit but actually you're finding evidence where there is none. literally things that could go either way and you are construing them toward I am scum without hesitation

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On December 09 2016 10:05 Tumblewood wrote:

The case against
[list] [*]From his first posts concerning me, cakepie is concerned with indicting me + Show Spoiler [on the grounds of enjoying non-blue-fo…] +
On December 06 2016 17:00 cakepie wrote:
Show nested quote +
I'd rather play a solid game with real reads and such. blue roles are boring
What a convenient thing to say now.
for something that is not at all indicative of alignment. No 1der + Show Spoiler [ayy] +
ayyyyyy
he accuses me of being scum if all of my actions are twisted to the most scum-leaning possibility.
[*]Continuing, he explains how all of my actions were deliberate attempts to mislead and misinform the town. How on Earth do you reach the conclusion that my plan, quoted here, uses devices and rhetoric subversively when obviously the mistake wasn't even intentional? Cakepie overall spends several posts selling my mistakes, contained in obviously low-effort posts (as in, spending little time typing them, not thinking about them) as intentional. Keen to assume mistakes as intentional is always scummy; town isn't looking to paint others as scum without being totally convinced themselves... and also having decent reasons.Rels that one time.


You also did the same thing when I pushed onto NU, defending him by saying that his actions could have been either town or mafia.

What was your rationale for these defenses, or would you like to argue that town could have totally defended themselves like this too?

I'm trying to avoid this because I recognize people are scrubs have different opinions on what is a good tell, but I feel that I have to point out when people use reasons that don't actually tell us anything useful to support their argument.
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Tumblewood
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December 09 2016 01:43 GMT
#248
gah I remember why I don't do this
why the hell would I write 3 more extensive cases
*sigh* I'll do one more and then do rl work
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Tumblewood
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December 09 2016 01:59 GMT
#249
The case on ExO_

Preamble
This is all I will be able to manage tonight without killing myself. I should have gotten to Ray before, mostly to sort out my own thoughts on him.

The case for
  • He isn't afraid to admit when+ Show Spoiler [at the start of the game] +
    On December 07 2016 15:15 ExO_ wrote:
    Kinda null on cakepie. idk its really hard to read anybody with so few posts
    he has nothing. Scum's instinct is to find opinions when they have none, which makes this an unlikely post for scum.
  • Although surely it's been done before, scum rarely make mistakes + Show Spoiler [like this one] +
    On December 07 2016 16:37 ExO_ wrote:
    Actually I just realized I misread TWs posts he never says rewarding town. I'm starting to think I'm going a bit crazy
    and react convincingly to them even less. ExO's progression once he gets realizes his mistake follows the mindset of town exactly.
  • *bias creeping in help* The analysis in this post is spot on. I have to say I am influenced by the fact that I agree with it, but it shows ExO is thinking rationally and critically.


The case against
  • 12 hours before deadline, ExO just disappeared. Players of both alignments go AFK, but it is more like scum to avoid drawing attention to themselves around deadline.
  • It does raise some red flags that ExO would make several mistakes (setup, other setup, reading comprehension) in one game. If mafia did try to use this as a strategy, it is likely they'd do it several times.


Verdict
Town. ExO has provided good analysis consistently and has hardly done anything to give me suspicion. One thing to watch out for, though, is a dropoff after D1 if it seems like he can coast through the game.
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Tumblewood
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December 09 2016 23:02 GMT
#289
haven't read since last night but I didn't get a pm saying I was dead so I have some important news...
I'm cop you idiot
1der is town dead
ray is mafia
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Tumblewood
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December 09 2016 23:06 GMT
#290
i have crumbs in my analyses of 1der and cakepie. on mobile and in no mood to deal with the quotes but look at the capital letters and numbers. in 1der's analysis the caps read "N0 TOWN" and in cakepie's it says "N1 CHECK" and then the next sentence starts with "Chairman Ray"
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Tumblewood
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December 09 2016 23:06 GMT
#291
##vote chairman ray
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December 09 2016 23:08 GMT
#292
cakepie is also confirmed scum for fakeclaiming
the game is solved, for me
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Tumblewood
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December 09 2016 23:19 GMT
#293
so I am done trying to figure out everything but I will answer any questions you have. I am remarkably free this weekend
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:02 GMT
#298
I didn't claim because I had confidence that both of the people voting me were mafia, and there would be at least two townies who were skeptical. and they were. so now we have both scum confirmed instead of just one.

also please don't vote me. as soon as both scum are online they can snap-vote me and end the game right there.
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:04 GMT
#299
I made posts like "blue roles are boring" and "cop should do this" so I could avoid getting blue sniped. it would be obvious if I avoided it altogether or acted all 'asking for a friend'

I will try to point out crumbs on my phone but it will be easier when I get home to a computer
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:07 GMT
#300
On December 10 2016 09:01 NeverUnlucky wrote:
like, I don't see why cakepie would have fake-claimed cop at this point in time: he was in a good position in terms of being TR'd and was arguably the most influential player in the game. He could've easily diverted any lynch to the target of his choice, so long he convinces 1 town. It doesn't make sense for him to do so.

TW is in the top of most people's scum-reads so it makes perfect sense for him to all-in and hope he gets a ML / trades 1 for 1 with the cop and gets his partner to clean up in mylo

he wanted to seem proactive rather than reactive. if you or ExO were cop you could have checked me and they would have had to backpedal and attack someone else who was more townread
we're already in MyLo so 1-for-1s don't exist. if the next two lynches are not scum - that is, are not cakepie and ray - town loses
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:07 GMT
#302
and by please don't vote me I mean unvote immediately do you want to lose the game
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December 10 2016 00:09 GMT
#303
On December 10 2016 09:07 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 10 2016 09:02 Tumblewood wrote:
I didn't claim because I had confidence that both of the people voting me were mafia, and there would be at least two townies who were skeptical. and they were. so now we have both scum confirmed instead of just one.

also please don't vote me. as soon as both scum are online they can snap-vote me and end the game right there.

Okay, but where are your so-called crumbs? I've checked your filter and found NOTHING of that matter. You complained about blue roles a couple of times and were scum-reading H1 the whole fucking time, you even had him as top lynch at some point. This makes no sense from a cop who has a green check on h1's perspective.

I'm not unvoting you until you can convince me that you are the real cop, if the two scum hammer you and u flip VT it's your own fault for fake-claiming as VT. Besides if you're town, cakepie is scum and he is sleeping atm.

I am not VT. let me make this clear
I am finding crumbs as we speak. give me 15 minutes to get them
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:11 GMT
#304
[QUOTE]On December 09 2016 10:05 Tumblewood wrote:
The case on cakepie

... other stuff ...

The case against
  • From his first posts concerning me, cakepie is concerned with indicting me + Show Spoiler [on the grounds of enjoying non-blue-fo…] +
    On December 06 2016 17:00 cakepie wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    I'd rather play a solid game with real reads and such. blue roles are boring
    What a convenient thing to say now.
    for something that is not at all indicative of alignment. No 1der + Show Spoiler [ayy] +
    ayyyyyy
    he accuses me of being scum if all of my actions are twisted to the most scum-leaning possibility.
  • Continuing, he explains how all of my actions were deliberate attempts to mislead and misinform the town. How on Earth do you reach the conclusion that my plan, quoted here, uses devices and rhetoric subversively when obviously the mistake wasn't even intentional? Cakepie overall spends several posts selling my mistakes, contained in obviously low-effort posts (as in, spending little time typing them, not thinking about them) as intentional. Keen to assume mistakes as intentional is always scummy; town isn't looking to paint others as scum without being totally convinced themselves... and also having decent reasons.
  • Chairman Ray posts with similarly poor logic, and cakepie responds + Show Spoiler [in this quote] +
    On December 08 2016 13:10 cakepie wrote:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 08 2016 11:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
    In my experiences, mafia tend to buddy up more when they're the most active ones, and draw distance when town are the most active ones. If the two mafia were the active ones in the middle of a quiet town, I could totally see them patting each other on the back for being active.
    Isn't that a bit circular and self-reinforcing? 1. Active players seem to buddy in quiet N0 -> 2. mafia together? -> 3. oh look mafia buddying in quiet town -> 4. go back to step 2

    Furthermore, I think it looks more like only one (TW) is actively buddying. I think NU might already started smelling a rat and was questioning why/how TW formed that absurd TW/NU/Koshi circle:
    Show nested quote +
    On December 07 2016 15:48 cakepie wrote:
    I mindmeld NU on TW seeming to buddy toward end of N0, and I like his questions #71 #73 #74.
    I believe that NU could be genuinely (if naively) broaching the possibility of "If VTs agree never to fakeclaim, all CCs become MvT". TW jumps at the opportunity to gain easy towncred by enumerating possible scenarios according to mechanics, and to engage NU to try to start a buddybuddy going jerking over setup.

    TW's scumbuddy is somewhere else, and I think they could be tentatively drawing distance at that point in time, with town?NU active, soondead!Koshi and uncertainty over how active the rest of us would behave.

    If you're going down the road of associative reads I think there's more interesting interactions than just backpatting.
    in the normal manner of explaining why it's wrong. He makes no attempt to show why Ray is scum, even though his mistake was no less 'egregious' than mine.
  • Although he accuses me of trying to mislead NU rather than himself, cakepie plays to NU even more + Show Spoiler [here] +
    Could he be trying to establish a bond with you as far back as #44/45, eventually leading up to #72+?
    Did scum!bleweed take advantage of the opportunity you presented to earn easy towncred by talking setup and scenarios?

    by rhetorically asking if I was buddying NU all along. Consider also that he had expressed skepticism when Ray proposed that we were buddying.


... other stuff ...
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:16 GMT
#305
On December 09 2016 09:22 Tumblewood wrote:
The case on Hopeless1der

...

The case against
  • N0 he made one post and left. The post + Show Spoiler [in question] +
    On December 07 2016 00:21 Hopeless1der wrote:
    Why are there suggestions for the cop to claim during D1? Why not end of N1 when theres a chance at 2 checks?
    asked a question to no one in particular and hardly seemed to seek out a response. Only one reason for this seems likely, which is that he wanted to avoid complete inactivity but had nothing to say. While town does this on occasion, it gives me pause because he seemed to care little about the answer to his question.
  • Next day he initiated wanting to lynch me, but he didn't present any reasons of his own; he sheeped cakepie + Show Spoiler +
    On December 08 2016 03:27 Hopeless1der wrote:
    cakepie is it okay if I just sheep you today?
    and then when discussing other players left out anything on me because "most of the TW material has been covered". Sheeping is a safe way for mafia to attack town without arguing for themselves.
  • 1der puts full trust into cakepie as town without ever discussing why (this is the first comment on cakepie's alignment [redacted]). Town-tunneling is a real phenomenon, but it makes me uncomfortable; it feels more like he is hiding behind someone he can safely call town.
  • 1der asks me to pick between two non-contradictory statements I made and attacks me for choosing both, but fails to read and comprehend my words. It comes off as an attempt to get me lynched more than to get it right. By requiring one of two binary answers, provided by himself, he forced words into my mouth (and still, somehow, did not learn to read).


...

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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:16 GMT
#306
so that's where I crumbed my checks
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December 10 2016 00:19 GMT
#308
thank you
you have to bold your votes and unvoted for them to count though
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:21 GMT
#311
we have 48 hours (well, 46 now) to discuss. if you really think I'm scum, vote me toward the end of that 48 hours in case you change your mind
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:35 GMT
#316
On December 10 2016 09:24 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 10 2016 09:21 Tumblewood wrote:
we have 48 hours (well, 46 now) to discuss. if you really think I'm scum, vote me toward the end of that 48 hours in case you change your mind

Outline to me why cakepie is mafia. No big post, just bullet points.

- interpreted my posts, mostly early game, to illustrate a picture in which I am mafia using subversive tactics to mislead town, but all of the interpretations require huge leaps of faith (shows that he is more concerned with lynching me than lynching the right person as determined via reason)
- presented with similar mistakes from me and ray, he slammed me and merely explained to ray his mistake (does not treat similar situations consistently; consider that I have a red check on ray)

- fakeclaimed cop

to summarize, he is aggressively pushing lynches (specifically a lynch on me) in nearly all of his posts but does not show that he is carefully reasoning to make those. really a case of "there is no way someone sees these posts and draws that conclusion unless they are looking for a justification for a lynch"
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:38 GMT
#317
On December 10 2016 09:19 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 10 2016 09:16 Tumblewood wrote:
so that's where I crumbed my checks

But dude, if you were NKed, nobody would've thought about looking this deep into your filter ie your death would've been pointless. Also, you didn't claim before EoN what your checks were/were going to be like cakepie did (Although i still dont know what they would be). It looks fabricated to me. That's what a mafia crumb would look like imo

I was busy as usual fron 1:15 to 2:15 and figured that if I couldn't post just before deadline it was best to wait till after so I wouldn't die, because I was preeetty confident mafia wouldn't kill the #1 scumread of most of the game
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:39 GMT
#318
and i don't know that there's a difference between mafia and town crumbing, except maybe in the timing.
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December 10 2016 00:49 GMT
#321
On December 10 2016 09:47 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 10 2016 09:38 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 10 2016 09:19 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 10 2016 09:16 Tumblewood wrote:
so that's where I crumbed my checks

But dude, if you were NKed, nobody would've thought about looking this deep into your filter ie your death would've been pointless. Also, you didn't claim before EoN what your checks were/were going to be like cakepie did (Although i still dont know what they would be). It looks fabricated to me. That's what a mafia crumb would look like imo

I was busy as usual fron 1:15 to 2:15 and figured that if I couldn't post just before deadline it was best to wait till after so I wouldn't die, because I was preeetty confident mafia wouldn't kill the #1 scumread of most of the game

Okay, right.

I'm not fully sold on your previous post on cakepie tbh. It's kind of a weak read I think.

How would you describe your confidence on your reads that are not CR in %?

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On December 10 2016 09:39 Tumblewood wrote:
and i don't know that there's a difference between mafia and town crumbing, except maybe in the timing.

Forget that, I wouldn't know.

well my read on cakepie is 100% (okay, 99% in case he's really, really bad and/or trying to lose the game) because of the fakeclaim, but before he claimed it was more like a 90%.
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:52 GMT
#322
On December 10 2016 09:48 cakepie wrote:
I'm going to cash in all the towncred I've banked and issue these orders.

No one votes without thorough discussion and town consensus.
ExO and Ray need to get their asses in here.
Don't be lazy. Read my case.

I'm working out the possibilities but I need everyone to be present.

what possibilities
either you and ray are scum, or I and ExO/NU/ray are scum. there is no other possibility
and your town cred means nothing. you lost it all already
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 00:56 GMT
#324
and your "case" looked more like a quote of every post in the game with a couple sentences after each one
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December 10 2016 00:59 GMT
#329
jesus. I was thinking "I wonder: if I were mafia, would it be a good strategy to have both partners claim so one could get trust?" and then I thought "naw, that means town only has to pick the right one out of 3 options, once." but then you went ahead and did it.
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 01:01 GMT
#333
On December 10 2016 09:57 cakepie wrote:
That's way too many of us. I'm not sure there's enough room in the police car.

ExO, just to be sure, you're not some kind of super secret deep undercover cop, are you?
Like, your VT claim is for realsies and you're not a cop who fakeclaimed VT?

cakepie. did you just, while claiming cop, ask ExO if he is cop?
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 01:07 GMT
#338
On December 10 2016 10:05 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 10 2016 10:04 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Ray's claim is way too convenient, and I think TW is the real cop due to my reasoning in 331.

##Vote Chairman Ray

If you hammer, please have the decency of telling your alignment while we wait for the end game post.


How did you know game was going to end?

SCUMSLIP SCUMSLIP SCUMSLIP

are you kidding me
this is some weak shit right here
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 01:07 GMT
#340
On December 10 2016 10:06 cakepie wrote:
NU, unvote. That's an order.

I guess by principle he should but I'm not really worried if someone does hammer
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 01:38 GMT
#352
On December 10 2016 10:33 cakepie wrote:
NU, have you read my hugefuckingcase? Don't be lazy. Read it.
We're going to need to solve this game with very little help of cop powers.

if a case needs to be a hugefuckingcase to be good, then it's not really a good case. after ten quotes or so a case moves from the "thorough" category to the "just quoted every post in the game and added some analysis" category.
maybe what you say is valid but if it is you should be able to make it not a juggernaut of a post
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December 10 2016 01:40 GMT
#355
On December 10 2016 10:35 cakepie wrote:
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On December 10 2016 09:59 cakepie wrote:
TW, why you no claim at EoN?

because I was busy around deadline and it was less risky to wait till day (because let's be honest: mafia was never killing me there without a claim)
thinking about it now maybe it would have been best to claim way early and either let mafia counterclaim me or kill me and validate my words
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 02:23 GMT
#358
On December 10 2016 10:51 cakepie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 10 2016 10:07 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 10 2016 10:06 cakepie wrote:
NU, unvote. That's an order.

I guess by principle he should but I'm not really worried if someone does hammer

Because that means you'd win.
Either as townwinner or as scumwinner.

You're only interested in using your claim and checks to solve the game by yourself. That's very selfish.

It's lylo. You have to convince town of your claim. You have to dispel all counterclaims. You shouldn't just dump it and expect everyone to take it at face value. You have to show why your checks, PLUS the available evidence in the game thread, all ties together in a coherent narrative that solves the game.

Unfortunately, craycray and I don't have reads that in themselves solve the game. As I already said, we have to solve this game with very little help of cop powers. Assuming all cop claims being equal and nothing else, we need to be given a fair chance to put together our respective narratives.

> very little help of cop powers

how the fuck is it selfish to use the information I have to help town win the game?
and the word narrative concerns me. in the context of explaining a case, usually it involves taking someone else's posts and, without their explanation and usually with several leaps in logic, explaining the ulterior motive behind them. I plan on convincing town that I am cop and that ray is scum and that you would never fakeclaim as vt but that you're both clear scum anyway. also that you and he have associated yourselves so so much.
but I want exo here first
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 04:27 GMT
#363
On December 10 2016 13:14 ExO_ wrote:
For starters just browsing, how the fuck can you claim cop without posting your checks cakepie? It makes no fucking sense. Claim cop without posting who you checked and who you are checking the next night is fake as fuck

I think cakepie is now calling that a fakeclaim? because clearly he doesn't have much of a problem with ray, and he asked you if you were cop, but there's no point where he officially rescinds his claim.
one of the worst claims/fakeclaims I've ever seen
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December 10 2016 04:42 GMT
#368
On December 10 2016 13:30 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 10 2016 13:27 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 10 2016 13:14 ExO_ wrote:
For starters just browsing, how the fuck can you claim cop without posting your checks cakepie? It makes no fucking sense. Claim cop without posting who you checked and who you are checking the next night is fake as fuck

I think cakepie is now calling that a fakeclaim? because clearly he doesn't have much of a problem with ray, and he asked you if you were cop, but there's no point where he officially rescinds his claim.
one of the worst claims/fakeclaims I've ever seen

Why are you saying claim/fake-claim if you're cop????

it just felt a little too skewed to just call it a fakeclaim. I know it was a fakeclaim, but I had that sitting there and it felt too in-your-face so I changed it
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December 10 2016 04:45 GMT
#369
yeah I'll let you sleep on that NU. no sense in rushing it, we have the full 48 hours if you need to be absolutely sure
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 06:30 GMT
#373
back at 90% on cakepie. this has potential to be, instead of mafia, the worst townie I have seen in a long time. if he can post
Well, I’m not going to post a huge ordered list or give townreads and help scum prioritize out who to kill off.
I can maaaybe believe in such a bad fakeclaim.
... actually, even in a world where VT fakeclaims are acceptable, what's the point of posting right before deadline when the whole purpose of doing that is so scum won't have time to react? why not bait it by posting 3 minutes early?
or why would you associate yourself with ray (it really is obvious) all game if you have no special relation to him?
I'll give it a 95% chance cakepie is scum. exo, if you could just play well for a couple days and ease my doubts, that would be nice.
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Tumblewood
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December 10 2016 06:36 GMT
#374
oh jesus what's this big post
On December 10 2016 15:24 cakepie wrote:
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On December 10 2016 14:50 cakepie wrote:
If NU is town, then -- no offense -- you've been selected as the weakest link by scum. So this game rests on your shoulders.

scum!(tw+exo) see NU as the one the can get to vote with them.
But I'm the fucking weakest link now with unforced error.




I'm not actually a super strong player or anything like that. At least, I don't think so given my track record:
  • NMM33: used logic. Logic was mostly sound but being VT and lacking role information, I input one incorrect premise into my logic, based on a tunneled read. I try to make a big play and go shenannies with it. Fortunately, scum had not run the logic themselves, so they committed a forced error. And the player with the actual role had also looked into the logic and caught on so he was ready to save the game from my mistake. We won the game but no thanks to me.

  • NMM36: replaced in, obvious TvT situation. Was too late and barely wasn't able to save the doc who got mislynched D2. Got the town together. I spent a lot of time D3 trying to get the townies who were going to be left alive D4 to townread each other, but they had built up so much animosity from TvT and were so exhausted that it was a difficult and ultimately futile exercise. Fortunately, scum had been coasting off of TvT, and didn't keep up with town after EoD2 so we won handily with scum lynch+modkill on D3. I was criticized for overcomplicating things on D3 (doing things with D4 motivations) and told to "find scum, lynch scum, be happy".

  • Aperture 2 Ep 2: large themed game with role madness. I felt completely lost and useless. Was among the weak players that were killed off closed to the end. We lost.

  • NSM8: Didn't have enough time, played like utter shit. Got pushed by both scum and town and got mislynched D1 as VT. We lost.


NSM8 taught me to make sure I have fuckloads of time (I am a very slow plaer) and to put in tons of effort. Those lessons are freshest in my mind since it's most recent, and I lost in a really shitty way. So I applied them in this game.

Stepping up and being town leader wasn't my intention coming into the game. But I saw busy people, away people and lazy people, so it fell upon me to put in the work for town. Being town leader was a new and strange thing for me. I'm not even that good, but I've tried my darndest and succeeded in establishing myself town.

I also tried to "find scum, lynch scum, be happy". I picked the scummiest target, pushed the read as far as I could. Then, the next target, and take it as far as I can again. This was okay and I knew there would be weak parts of the reads. But it is informative to see how people react. It is also informative to provide material for discussion -- which is why I was somewhat dismayed by the lack of discussion. On the other hand, this approach led several of you to think that I'm trying too hard to find scumtells.

Things were pretty good though, until I forgot the lessons from long ago ( NMM33 and NMM36 ) and decided to do unnecessary shit and make a big play. Now we're fucked unless someone -- most likely NU -- is willing to hear me out on good faith.

So I'm going to submit that it's within my meta for me to fuck up like that.
The way I use logic too, even if that seems alien to you.

I really hope that people are bothered enough to actually put in effort to go look at my meta.
Sorry to increase the burden on you.

If you can't be bothered or don't believe me, then I will shamefully accept responsibility for losing the game.

You're not going to get seals from me, though. I'm town.

I'm not lynching you today, not with an absolute certainty on the board. but consider that, if you're town, then exo has to be scum and must be playing a pretty damn good game. come 2v1 LyLo, you can sort things out (assuming I die so scum doesn't let me check all but one surviving player, and that we don't lose the game today), and I will try to make things as easy as possible for NU, who I predict is the axis vote in this case.
but don't get your hopes up too much
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 10 2016 07:04 GMT
#376
On December 10 2016 15:58 cakepie wrote:
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On December 10 2016 15:30 Tumblewood wrote:why not bait it by posting 3 minutes early?

I did fake #280+281.

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or why would you associate yourself with ray (it really is obvious) all game if you have no special relation to him?

If you mean me calling him craycray, no particular reason. I just thought it would be a funny nickname.
If it's me seeming to let him off the hook, that's because I was focusing on you, then ExO.
If you have something you want to ask me about our interactions content-wise, fire away.

posting at the standard escape-NK time defeats the purpose of baiting the NK by claiming.
and with ray, it's that you never seem to pressure him, you just always see the good side, which isn't how you have treated the rest of the game.
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 10 2016 07:36 GMT
#379
NU has been lynched D1 in every game he's ever played as scum. he is acting like he normally does in his town game, where he does not get lynched often. I will consider you vs ExO but NU is seriously out of the question
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 10 2016 17:09 GMT
#396
just catching up now
On December 11 2016 00:11 NeverUnlucky wrote:
TW:

Same question I asked ExO re: "How do you explain scum-reading [your] green-check the entirety of day 1 and making cases on 3 of the 5 other players, starting with [your] green-check and not doing a case on who [you] scum-read and ended up checking?"

it would have looked weird to act like everything was ok with 1der, because for a townie he looked preeeetty scummy.
for the same reason, it would have looked like TMI if I had acted like I knew 1der was town when as VT I would have probably been calling him scum.
I checked ray because I was uncertain about him, which was partially caused by the fact that I never organized my thoughts about him. initially I planned to get to everyone but making large cases burns me out fast.
hope this clears it up for ya
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 10 2016 17:15 GMT
#398
jeez cakepie why do you have such a strong aversion to scumreading chairman ray
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 10 2016 17:26 GMT
#400
On December 11 2016 02:17 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 11 2016 02:09 Tumblewood wrote:
just catching up now
On December 11 2016 00:11 NeverUnlucky wrote:
TW:

Same question I asked ExO re: "How do you explain scum-reading [your] green-check the entirety of day 1 and making cases on 3 of the 5 other players, starting with [your] green-check and not doing a case on who [you] scum-read and ended up checking?"

it would have looked weird to act like everything was ok with 1der, because for a townie he looked preeeetty scummy.
for the same reason, it would have looked like TMI if I had acted like I knew 1der was town when as VT I would have probably been calling him scum.
I checked ray because I was uncertain about him, which was partially caused by the fact that I never organized my thoughts about him. initially I planned to get to everyone but making large cases burns me out fast.
hope this clears it up for ya

Not entirely.

Why would you start by casing your green-check? If you're limited on time, you should be keeping him for last as you know his alignment as cop and not CRay/me.

What do you think of cakepie and CRay's reasons to TR H1 since you find him scummy? Do you think they are fabricated/TMI?

when I started I thought I would get to everyone anyway so it wouldn't matter. which was silly. but I was fine missing ray because I knew I could get his alignment via copcheck, and I was (am) nearly certain on you.
I don't remember why cakepie and ray were TRing 1der in D1, so I will look into it
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 10 2016 17:55 GMT
#403
having trouble finding why cakepie and ray townread 1der. if someone could point me to the posts where they explain it that would be much appreciated
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 00:33 GMT
#455
here are the only 3 times cakepie ever quotes chairman ray, and his responses/comments.
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On December 08 2016 13:10 cakepie wrote:
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On December 08 2016 11:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
In my experiences, mafia tend to buddy up more when they're the most active ones, and draw distance when town are the most active ones. If the two mafia were the active ones in the middle of a quiet town, I could totally see them patting each other on the back for being active.
Isn't that a bit circular and self-reinforcing? 1. Active players seem to buddy in quiet N0 -> 2. mafia together? -> 3. oh look mafia buddying in quiet town -> 4. go back to step 2

Furthermore, I think it looks more like only one (TW) is actively buddying. I think NU might already started smelling a rat and was questioning why/how TW formed that absurd TW/NU/Koshi circle:
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On December 07 2016 15:48 cakepie wrote:
I mindmeld NU on TW seeming to buddy toward end of N0, and I like his questions #71 #73 #74.
I believe that NU could be genuinely (if naively) broaching the possibility of "If VTs agree never to fakeclaim, all CCs become MvT". TW jumps at the opportunity to gain easy towncred by enumerating possible scenarios according to mechanics, and to engage NU to try to start a buddybuddy going jerking over setup.

TW's scumbuddy is somewhere else, and I think they could be tentatively drawing distance at that point in time, with town?NU active, soondead!Koshi and uncertainty over how active the rest of us would behave.

If you're going down the road of associative reads I think there's more interesting interactions than just backpatting.


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On December 09 2016 19:42 cakepie wrote:
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On December 09 2016 19:25 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 09 2016 19:16 cakepie wrote:
What do you think of H1 specifically that EoD1 behavior
- "i'd spite vote but won't"
- unfair "pick one answer now" questions
- voting after we've left off


When hopeless gets back, I would like to hear his answer for this:

On December 09 2016 07:51 Chairman Ray wrote:
Also hopeless, why did you vote TW after cakepie and I rescinded?


okay, but you haven't answered my questions.

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On December 10 2016 22:42 cakepie wrote:
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On December 10 2016 18:44 Chairman Ray wrote:

On December 10 2016 02:04 cakepie wrote:
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My ExO case post #186 seems weak because I deliberately tried not to include any associative read stuff of TW+ExO. At the same time I pressured TW, and the idea behind it is that with a more solid scum read on TW, we can move on to discuss TW+ExO on firmer footing.
...


You said that the case on ExO was weak compared to the associative reads you had at this time. So I looked at all your associative reads prior to #186, ignoring everything that came after, or any individual reads (because they were apparently weak). I don't fully buy that you had enough evidence to make an associative case at the time that you claimed. Can you please explain your thoughts at the moment where you had associative reads but didn't post them?I think that it's definitely plausible that TW+ExO is the scumteam. I'm currently on a weekend trip, so I can't delve it too much now. I'll be on for a short while Saturday night, and I'll be on Sunday before the deadline.


No, you misunderstand that quoted.

I'm saying that I gimped #186 because I had associative reads in my head at that time but chose not to put them in #186.

I wanted to give time for the number of interactions to increase. I wanted to continue pushing TW further into solid scum territory. Given time, if I am right about their association, I will get more material, and a stronger basis to associate ExO to solidscum!TW.

Tipping them off that I'm on their tail may make them more guarded and harder to catch.

At the time of #186, I had
- the niggling feeling that ExO was evasive, especially re TW
- the only ?solid content? was attacking CR's case (proxy defending TW)
- the N0 interactions.




Ray, I wish I had the luxury of time to engage with you, but my focus is going to have to be on working with NU.
Unless TW and/or ExO extend good faith to me. But they're not doing so.

Today was supposed to be me helping NU town you so we can lynch scum together, but now I have a different task.
I'll clarify/correct you when you don't get what I'm saying or if you misunderstand what I wrote (like above).
Things I tell NU, you can read and process as well.

Otherwise you're on your own to figure stuff. But I don't think you need my help.
I hope you'll do what you can. Maybe at some point NU will be willing to read you on good faith.

good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 00:33 GMT
#456
and all six times ray quotes or asks a question of cakepie
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On December 09 2016 19:25 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 09 2016 19:16 cakepie wrote:
Hey craycray, anything for me?

What do you think of H1 specifically that EoD1 behavior
- "i'd spite vote but won't"
- unfair "pick one answer now" questions
- voting after we've left off

I'm okay with you pushing NU.

I'd really like to see more people interact with H1 because H1 v TW doesn't give me a good baseline to evaluate H1 interactions with me.


When hopeless gets back, I would like to hear his answer for this:

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On December 09 2016 07:51 Chairman Ray wrote:
Also hopeless, why did you vote TW after cakepie and I rescinded?



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On December 09 2016 20:20 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 09 2016 19:42 cakepie wrote:
On December 09 2016 19:25 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 09 2016 19:16 cakepie wrote:
What do you think of H1 specifically that EoD1 behavior
- "i'd spite vote but won't"
- unfair "pick one answer now" questions
- voting after we've left off


When hopeless gets back, I would like to hear his answer for this:

On December 09 2016 07:51 Chairman Ray wrote:
Also hopeless, why did you vote TW after cakepie and I rescinded?


okay, but you haven't answered my questions.


Here's my take on it

The spite vote in itself wasn't the suspicious part for me. The spite vote combined with the timing of it was really fishy. Hopeless clearly stated that he wants to lynch TW:
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On December 09 2016 06:44 Hopeless1der wrote:
##Unvote##Vote: Tumblewood

I fully understand that this day is going to be a no lynch. I'm like 51/49 on lynhching TW today.


However, hopeless only voted after you and I rescinded our votes. He was on during the entire time, so he could have pushed it to 3 votes and maybe gotten the lynch. However he chose to vote after we rescinded when his vote was completely useless.

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On December 09 2016 04:39 Hopeless1der wrote:
EBWOP: Shitty nested quotes

also

On December 09 2016 04:01 Hopeless1der wrote:
On December 09 2016 02:02 Tumblewood wrote:
well I'm never going to convince you that you're scum. but understand that I am doing the best job I can finding scum using logic I consider to be good.

TW, you think cakepie is scum? What the fucking fuck? Please respond to this with either "I think cakepie is scum" or "I do not think cakepie is scum".


Thank you for your cooperation, Tumblewood.







Tumblewood answered a different one instead, and hopeless kept pushing. I think there was a little miscommunication here. I was about to interject and clarify it, but wanted to see how it would play out instead. In the end, hopeless did not ever correct Tumblewood on answering the wrong question, and decided to vote him anyways. To me that seems like Hopeless wasn't that interested in TW's answer anyways.

With these three things combined, there's a bunch of ways you could interpret it, but the motive I'm concerned about is that Hopeless just wanted to distance himself from TW. It would give rise to the scenario where hopeless is scum with TW. That would also explain why TW seemed quite unconcerned with 3 people voting him at EOD. If I were town in that position, I would be begging people to get their votes off so that mafia couldn't hammer it. TW was unphased by it until after the day ended, and then proceeded to post a few big long posts, which would have made more sense to post before EOD. It's late and I'm not sure if I'm getting my read across, but to summarize, I think this is a possible scenario:

Hopeless and TW are mafia together
Hopeless thinks "oh crap, TW is under a lot of fire, everyone's on him but me. I better draw some distance too"
Hopeless draws distance by doing the whole binary question thing and also threatening to vote him, but doesn't follow up on TW answer the question
Chairman Ray and cakepie vote TW
TW thinks "Well, I know for a fact that Hopeless won't kill me, and NU won't vote me either, so I'm safe"
Chairman Ray and cakepie unvote TW
Hopeless votes TW and says "I'm 51/49 on killing you!"

That just one way I could interpret this really awkward exchange between TW and hopeless. I don't really see a scenario where hopeless is mafia and TW is town, that seems really weird to me. If hopeless is town and had good town intentions, I would like him to speak for himself, which is why I asked him earlier.


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On December 10 2016 10:04 Chairman Ray wrote:
Still catching up on the thread, but here's a couple things I want answered:

@cakepie: Why did you fakeclaim?

@NeverUnlucky: At the time, 2 cops have claimed. Why were you under the suspicion that one of them might be VT, and why did you vote on TW, despite claiming the possibility that he's VT?


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On December 10 2016 10:12 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 10 2016 09:59 cakepie wrote:
I claimed at EoN.
TW, why you no claim at EoN?
Ray, why you no claim at EoN?


Because I checked Koshi

Reading through your gigantic case now.


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On December 10 2016 10:51 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 09 2016 23:05 cakepie wrote:
Ray I need you to untunnel NU for a moment.

Your reasons for scumming him are:
1. N0 planning, feigning activity? (same as TW)
2. D1 distancing from TW (NU+TW scum)
3. wanting you to push him
4. caring about how he is perceived

I'm not saying that these aren't valid reasons.
But I'm going to need you to try some good faith for a moment and consider these viewpoints:

1a. I have (weak? meta) reasons to see planning/mechanics as within the range of town?NU; #43 is a naive desire to have simple cop v mafia fakecop fights with no VTs fakeclaiming blue.

1b. #46 is a sound response to #45. With no VTs fakeclaiming blue, force scum to kill the doc N1 for a free flip without needing cop to check doc. Better plan than TW's careless crap; he's thinking as compared to TW's blindly enumerate.

2. The distancing argument relies on #87 + Show Spoiler +
On December 07 2016 10:10 NeverUnlucky wrote:
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On December 07 2016 08:59 Tumblewood wrote:
current evaluation of ray is neutral and bad, as opposed to everyone else (besides NU I guess) who are neutral and not playing

Same feeling for ray, but everyone else (besides you who I've a fetus of a town-lean on) is like ray for me cause 'not playing' IS bad.

Pay attention to context. "fetus of a town-lean" for activity, since no one else is present/active -- only NU, TW, CR are around, and town?NU is in OMGUS CR mode thanks to CR's "lynch NU+TW" post.

3. The problem here, Ray, is that you buggered off for good chunks of time without pushing your scumreads. He could be saying "scum!CR isn't pushing me enough for how strong his read seems to be, that's scummy!"

4. Subjective.

So take a moment and untunnel yourself, this is essential for what I'm about to draft+post up next.


I have to agree here. This is a perspective that i didnt consider.

Initially when i made my "lynch tw+nu" post, I had some red flags, but didnt feel at the time they were mafia, but their reaction to my push made no sense coming from town. What I failed to consider was that they were not reacting to what I said, but rather how i pushed it. I can see the possibility of tw and nu reacting the way they did from a town perspective. Im gonna reevaluate on those two.


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On December 10 2016 18:44 Chairman Ray wrote:
cakepie, I read over your case. There's a lot I like, and some I don't like.

Firstly, I think you might also have a little of the same tunnel syndrome that I sort of had against NU that you called me out for. Some of the reads that you posted aren't alignment indicative and read more like "I don't like how this person is playing". Maybe it makes more sense in your head and you didn't bother to explain everything fully given the sheer length of your post. I would like to draw attention to one thing:

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On December 10 2016 02:04 cakepie wrote:
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My ExO case post #186 seems weak because I deliberately tried not to include any associative read stuff of TW+ExO. At the same time I pressured TW, and the idea behind it is that with a more solid scum read on TW, we can move on to discuss TW+ExO on firmer footing.
...


You said that the case on ExO was weak compared to the associative reads you had at this time. So I looked at all your associative reads prior to #186, ignoring everything that came after, or any individual reads (because they were apparently weak). I don't fully buy that you had enough evidence to make an associative case at the time that you claimed. Can you please explain your thoughts at the moment where you had associative reads but didn't post them?

There's a few more thoughts I had, but I'll share them afterwards.

A couple things I would add to the ExO case from my own personal reads.

During the entire game, nearly every single post ExO made on me was really unfair and misconstrued me into a mafia mold, and was somewhat OMGUS. At the time I read this as town who honestly didn't know who was mafia. This would make sense if ExO came into this game, saw some red flags in me, and then held a strong bias that I must be mafia. Because a legit mafia would know that I'm town, and will only have a logical bias against me to try to get me lynched, but the OMGUS doesn't make any sense if I never gone on him for anything. So I thought he was just being a biased town; however, if I came into the game guns blazing against his mafia buddy, that would explain the OMGUS part.

Earlier I posted an associative read where TW could be mafia with hopeless, because TW did not feel threatened at all at EoD from 3 people voting him, and hopeless deliberately missing his vote would explain it. If ExO+TW was the mafia team, that would also be reasonable, because NU was leaning town on TW, so there was no risk of hammering.

I think that it's definitely plausible that TW+ExO is the scumteam. I'm currently on a weekend trip, so I can't delve it too much now. I'll be on for a short while Saturday night, and I'll be on Sunday before the deadline.


*to be continued*
good times for all
Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 00:42 GMT
#457
for comparison, here is how ray reacts to ExO, the person to whom he is the least hostile. (not including cakepie of course)
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On December 08 2016 10:49 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 08 2016 07:55 ExO_ wrote:
On December 07 2016 16:26 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 07 2016 15:13 ExO_ wrote:
I don't agree with Chairman ray's logic about scum would only post in best case scenarios.

I pretty much don't agree with NU's line of thinking regarding TW trying to buddy him, but I think his activity (lol) and bothering to explain it like that makes him town to me.

Ray looks sketchy to me.

TW looks Town.


Just to expand on my previous point, I didn't mean that scum would only post in best case scenarios, but instead that they might mistakenly ignore a very obvious scenario that town wouldn't.

The one scenario that was almost ignored was a blue getting killed N0. If they were town, they could have genuinely believed that if a blue died, we don't have to do anything differently, but if they were mafia, maybe they weren't planning to blue snipe so they ignored it.

But the bigger thing they left out was the scenario that mafia fakeclaims, in which case there are no confirmed town or redchecks on D1. There's a fairly good chunk of math in this scenario which they shouldn't have ignored. Unless of course they knew that mafia wasn't going to fakeclaim, and look where we are now.

So just to summarize, these are my suspicions:
- TW and NU post math assuming that blue roles don't die - Koshi was killed, who I don't think was a blue snipe
- TW and NU ignore the scenario that mafia fakeclaims - Mafia aren't fakeclaiming

So yes, I think it's very possible that they were just speaking casually on whatever was at the top of their mind, but given that they decided to math out a very narrow scenario without much reasoning, and that scenario happened exactly as they assumed, it seems like a really big coincidence.


This is what I have a problem with @cakepie. TW and NU post math that assume blue roles don't die. But that's not scummy in the slightest. Scum have absolutely 0 way of knowing if they are going to catch a blue or a VT. They mapped out scenarios in which blues don't die on N0 and then blues did die on N0. The scenario didn't happen exactly as they assumed. The lack of fake claiming at this point doesn't mean much. It will happen eventually but just because it hadn't happened (and especially when CR posted) doesn't mean it won't happen. Using all of that reasoning to imply that TW and NU are scum is complete bullshit imo. And the cherry on top is he back pedals with "but its possible they were just casually speaking whatever was on the top of their mind"

Summed up

"Yeah I wanna imply that you guys are scum with really bad reasoning, but not commit to it." Looks sketchy and very possible scum-filler type of post.


I don't think you represented my case fairly.

I want to know what you think of TW and NU. When you read over their 'game math' posts, does it read to you like town who are actively trying to win the game? Why didn't you push them for it?

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On December 07 2016 16:35 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 07 2016 15:13 ExO_ wrote:
I don't agree with Chairman ray's logic about scum would only post in best case scenarios.

I pretty much don't agree with NU's line of thinking regarding TW trying to buddy him, but I think his activity (lol) and bothering to explain it like that makes him town to me.

Ray looks sketchy to me.

TW looks Town.


I have the opposite impression of NU's explanation. All I did was ask the two of them what their townreads were. NU reacted by distancing himself.

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On December 07 2016 16:26 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 07 2016 15:13 ExO_ wrote:
I don't agree with Chairman ray's logic about scum would only post in best case scenarios.

I pretty much don't agree with NU's line of thinking regarding TW trying to buddy him, but I think his activity (lol) and bothering to explain it like that makes him town to me.

Ray looks sketchy to me.

TW looks Town.


Just to expand on my previous point, I didn't mean that scum would only post in best case scenarios, but instead that they might mistakenly ignore a very obvious scenario that town wouldn't.

The one scenario that was almost ignored was a blue getting killed N0. If they were town, they could have genuinely believed that if a blue died, we don't have to do anything differently, but if they were mafia, maybe they weren't planning to blue snipe so they ignored it.

But the bigger thing they left out was the scenario that mafia fakeclaims, in which case there are no confirmed town or redchecks on D1. There's a fairly good chunk of math in this scenario which they shouldn't have ignored. Unless of course they knew that mafia wasn't going to fakeclaim, and look where we are now.

So just to summarize, these are my suspicions:
- TW and NU post math assuming that blue roles don't die - Koshi was killed, who I don't think was a blue snipe
- TW and NU ignore the scenario that mafia fakeclaims - Mafia aren't fakeclaiming

So yes, I think it's very possible that they were just speaking casually on whatever was at the top of their mind, but given that they decided to math out a very narrow scenario without much reasoning, and that scenario happened exactly as they assumed, it seems like a really big coincidence.

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On December 09 2016 20:38 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 09 2016 19:44 ExO_ wrote:
On December 09 2016 19:06 Chairman Ray wrote:
ExO, would you mind taking a look at my case on NU:

On December 09 2016 06:44 Chairman Ray wrote:
My original case about NU still stands.

At the start of D1, NU and TW had townreads on one another. There was no pressure on them from anybody else. All I did was ask each of them, in a very neutral manner, what their townread was. If you were town and genuinely believed that the other person was town as well, you would just give me your town reads. Instead, NU posted his scumreads on TW about how TW is overpocketing him. The posts that NU were criticizing were posted BEFORE NU said that TW was towny. So when TW was overpocketing NU, NU should be suspicious at that time, but instead, he gave TW a townread. It wasn't until I asked him for his reasonings did he finally post his suspicions. From a mafia perspective, this makes perfect sense. Chairman Ray asked both TW and NU what their townreads were. Oh crap, he's onto us, better not seem too friendly. From a town perspective, this doesn't make a lot of sense.

Secondly, NU in two instances asked about what other people's reads of him were. At those times, TW had a strong townread on him, and only I was really on him. He argued that I wasn't pushing on him, so I guess he didn't feel any pressure at all. I would expect town to only worry about their perception if they are under the gun. So given that the overall vibe was positive towards NU, why was he so pre-occupied with other people's reads on him?



For starters:

On December 07 2016 07:47 Chairman Ray wrote:
I'd lynch either Tumblewood or NeverUnlucky. Both of them posted a bunch of game math yesterday, with the mistake of assuming everything goes well for town, even going as far as avoiding the scenario where either the cop or medic dies. A town looking at game math usually thinks about worst case scenarios and how to avoid them, whereas scum try to convince town of the best case scenarios happening. Neither of them even mentioned the possibility of cop or medic dying, probably because Koshi was a respect kill and not a blue snipe.


Isn't exactly a neutral entrance. You may have asked each of them what they thought, after your very first move in the game is to say you want to lynch both of them.

However NU's filter does kinda look bad as I read it. It's really wishy washy all over the place. It makes it difficult for me, because I really don't like the way you've played CR and my immediate reaction to that has been to assume your scum.

So let me ask you CR, assume for a second that TW is town, and NU is scum. Who would the 2nd scum be with NU?


Yeah, after both you and TW gave me shit for the way I present my reads, I know that I fucked that up.

If I see someone do something that has a clear mafia motive, but can also be interpreted from a town side, I just push them for being mafia, and accuse them for one of the many scenarios that could have occurred. If they tell me a valid town perspective, then we're great, but if they can't give me a perspective that makes sense coming from town, then lynch lynch lynch.

I realized after both you and TW gave me shit for it that the push just falls flat due to some glaringly obvious logic flaws. TW reacting similarly to you was the only slight townread I have on him, and that was why I rescinded my vote on him before EOD.

To your other question, if TW is town, NU is scum, my original suspicion was hopeless. This post gave me a slight yellow flag that I was keeping an eye on:

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On December 08 2016 11:00 NeverUnlucky wrote:
On December 08 2016 10:49 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 08 2016 07:55 ExO_ wrote:
On December 07 2016 16:26 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 07 2016 15:13 ExO_ wrote:
I don't agree with Chairman ray's logic about scum would only post in best case scenarios.

I pretty much don't agree with NU's line of thinking regarding TW trying to buddy him, but I think his activity (lol) and bothering to explain it like that makes him town to me.

Ray looks sketchy to me.

TW looks Town.


Just to expand on my previous point, I didn't mean that scum would only post in best case scenarios, but instead that they might mistakenly ignore a very obvious scenario that town wouldn't.

The one scenario that was almost ignored was a blue getting killed N0. If they were town, they could have genuinely believed that if a blue died, we don't have to do anything differently, but if they were mafia, maybe they weren't planning to blue snipe so they ignored it.

But the bigger thing they left out was the scenario that mafia fakeclaims, in which case there are no confirmed town or redchecks on D1. There's a fairly good chunk of math in this scenario which they shouldn't have ignored. Unless of course they knew that mafia wasn't going to fakeclaim, and look where we are now.

So just to summarize, these are my suspicions:
- TW and NU post math assuming that blue roles don't die - Koshi was killed, who I don't think was a blue snipe
- TW and NU ignore the scenario that mafia fakeclaims - Mafia aren't fakeclaiming

So yes, I think it's very possible that they were just speaking casually on whatever was at the top of their mind, but given that they decided to math out a very narrow scenario without much reasoning, and that scenario happened exactly as they assumed, it seems like a really big coincidence.


This is what I have a problem with @cakepie. TW and NU post math that assume blue roles don't die. But that's not scummy in the slightest. Scum have absolutely 0 way of knowing if they are going to catch a blue or a VT. They mapped out scenarios in which blues don't die on N0 and then blues did die on N0. The scenario didn't happen exactly as they assumed. The lack of fake claiming at this point doesn't mean much. It will happen eventually but just because it hadn't happened (and especially when CR posted) doesn't mean it won't happen. Using all of that reasoning to imply that TW and NU are scum is complete bullshit imo. And the cherry on top is he back pedals with "but its possible they were just casually speaking whatever was on the top of their mind"

Summed up

"Yeah I wanna imply that you guys are scum with really bad reasoning, but not commit to it." Looks sketchy and very possible scum-filler type of post.


I don't think you represented my case fairly.

I want to know what you think of TW and NU. When you read over their 'game math' posts, does it read to you like town who are actively trying to win the game? Why didn't you push them for it?

They were not 'game math' posts as you put it. We were arguing why cop/medic should claim USING 'math' to demonstrate it.

Also, you're hardly pushing either of us. You shared your thoughts on me and TW discussing game mechanics, but other than asking us why we town-leaned each other, you never engaged in a conversation with either of us to push us. That, and your whole contribution this game is about me and TW.

So. What is your take on ExO and cakepie?


He asked me about ExO and cakepie, but leaving hopeless out, which is a weak associative tell. If there continued to be this awkward silence between the two of them, that would have definitely been a red flag for me. However, after EOD with the hopeless-TW interaction, it's just too weird to believe that hopeless can be scum without TW. Also at the time, I had no case against hopeless besides his inactivity. NU hasn't been playing the last half of the game, so there's not much more to read into. Right now, I just want him to answer the case that I have already presented. My strongest read right now is still TW and NU.

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On December 09 2016 19:52 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 09 2016 19:21 ExO_ wrote:
On December 09 2016 19:04 Chairman Ray wrote:
On December 09 2016 14:11 ExO_ wrote:
#164 TW hard town reading me --> Scum trying to buddy me because I'm town. Other players I think are town think I might be scum because I wanted cop to reveal (because I thought we had to lynch today). However they think I might be scum faking it. TW isn't even considering this possibilty. #164

#170 TW looks better with this post at least. Hes at least trying to get people to talk

#173 Don't like hopeless1der's post here.

#180 NU trying to redirect Cakepie onto TW. Could see motive for this from both scum and town persepectives

#182 In answer to NU's question here I didn't think TW was trying to buddy him. He did. I don't know what else he wants me to explain

#185 this is gonna sound weird, but TW saying he's trying to make a scum case on NU instead of his town read makes no sense to me and sounds like the thing a scum player would do....which is why I think it makes him look more town. Under suspicion I don't think a scum player would just blantantly say things like this. Instead he reminds me a bit of myself getting scumread as VT in other TL Mafia games and trying to convince players I am town; subsequently the veterans turning everything I say into reasons why it makes me scum. idk When I've skimmed the thread I haven't liked TW, but the more I read in depth the more I question the idea of him being scum.

#186 Cakepie trying to say I'm not forthcoming with information, when she literally wouldn't say information earlier saying "she didn't wanna give information to scum" Fuck that, its completely ridiculous. Misconstrues me considering the possibility that maybe I'm scum reading TW too hard b/c I'm trusting cakepie, into somehow I'm trying to blame her for something? tbh this whole post just annoys the shit out of me.

#203 Chairman Ray literally saying he's only been pushing TW and NU. He's literally admitting to not considering or caring about anything else just pushing TW and NU

#205 Cakepie should go read my dota mafia posts, and should look at the last game we played. When I'm town I usually just post whatever comes to mind. I don't sit and craft careful posts. When I'm scum I'm much more careful about what I post. You getting my stream of consciousness and seeing me move around on my reads is because I'm trying to sift through the information and am doubting myself as I go. Do you honestly think I'm faking this as scum? I have trouble believing that you do

#213 fuck off

#215 hmmmmm. I don't like what H1D is saying here. But if he's scum, why not go ahead and vote? I want to say that he's scum not wanting to be the 3rd vote, but it would no longer matter if he's the 3rd vote if town dies today anyway. Ugh. I don't like anything H1d is saying and I think it's affecting my perception of him

#217 Alright if H1D was scum and TW was town he would jump on the vote here....upon closer look it seems like CR was only the 2nd vote here...so working this out and seeing that H1D did later join this wagon (I'm assuming it was indeed at 3 votes) that if TW is town then either both scum were voting here, or TW is indeed scum.

#228 TW is trying really hard in this thread against a lot of people. It's really making me feel like he's town, but if he was he should probably be dead, or we have some combination of cakepie/H1D/CR as scum.

#231-233. Okay my assumptions were wrong yet again. wtf just happened here. H1D hops on after CR/Cakepie unvoted?

#234 CR still tunnelling NU very hard. I wish CR would consider some other possibility. To me he looks like he's more concerned with having presented a case and pushed it, rather than solving the game.


Haven't read TW's case's yet, but I think he's trying far too hard to be scum.

CR is super concerned with tunneling TW/NU. He cares more about sticking to those 2 reads than considering anything else. He started off kinda weak on them, and has considered nothing since then. CR is scum.


ExO, I don't think your read on me is fair, and to some extent, it's my fault for hunting scum on my own rather than being engaged with town. I think that you are town, so I will explain to you exactly what my thought process was. I really need you and all remaining town to trust me, or at least take my reads seriously, because we all need to vote together tomorrow to lynch the mafia.

Where I'm at right now is that TW and NU are the mafia, you are town, cakepie is town, hopeless is town, and obviously I am town. I have mainly pushed onto TW and NU because there are only two mafia, and it's most definitely those two. I think we can all agree that TW is mafia. I pushed onto NU many times and he's given me shoddy answers the first few times, and he's literally disappeared now and hasn't responded to anything else I posted. I posted a case on him that I want him to respond to, and I want all the town to consider as well, and so far, neither has happened. Also, nobody else has given a strong case against anybody else. Do you see why I have no reason to get off of those two?

I haven't pushed much on anybody else besides TW and NU, but that doesn't mean I haven't been considering or caring about them. As for you, hopeless, and cake, there's a lot I like about your play, and a lot that I don't like, but there's little that I can point to and say "hmm, this play is really advancing the scum agenda, and scum would instinctively do this". I don't post townreads or speculative posts on people because me not being able to scumread someone doesn't mean someone else can't. If someone convinces me of a better option than TW or NU, I'm willing to reconsider. I should probably be more actively engaging with people, and that's my bad.

I also feel that I'm being singled out for tunneling. If you look at other people's filters, Hopeless has been tunneling only on TW, cakepie has mostly been on TW and you, and you haven't been aggressive enough to even be considered for tunneling. So besides the fact that I literally said that I'm tunneling onto TW and NU, singling me out seems a little biased.


I don't think I can agree TW is mafia. I'll admit I've been back and forth on him all game, and he's done some things that have looked scummy. But the type of posts he's made (particularly after #170), the big cases he posted, I don't think scum can fake that effort. A lot of people were tunneling him quite a bit but his reaction overall to that to me doesn't read scum now.

I feel like pointing out that I'm singling you out for tunneling (I don't think I am) isn't really a town thing to post. To me, it screams "look at all these other people they are doing something just as bad." I don't think tunneling is necessarily scum-indicative. But these 2 players are the only players you've said anything about all game. I practically challenge you to give a read on anybody else and you just can't. You're so sure of TW and NU that you're going to stick to them non stop....and I don't buy it as a town trait. I think you are a scum player who is going to stick to those reads come hell or high water. I mean look at your above post. "I think we can all agree TW is mafia: why? That's all you are going to offer here? And you're basically saying NU is scum because he gave some shoddy answers....but I don't see how that makes you lock in on scum so hard here. I don't see it. How are you so sure.

No I think it's much more likely you are scum.


I feel that it's very difficult to get through to you because you are interpreting everything I say in the worst possible way when I didn't mean it that way.

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On December 09 2016 19:04 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 09 2016 14:11 ExO_ wrote:
#164 TW hard town reading me --> Scum trying to buddy me because I'm town. Other players I think are town think I might be scum because I wanted cop to reveal (because I thought we had to lynch today). However they think I might be scum faking it. TW isn't even considering this possibilty. #164

#170 TW looks better with this post at least. Hes at least trying to get people to talk

#173 Don't like hopeless1der's post here.

#180 NU trying to redirect Cakepie onto TW. Could see motive for this from both scum and town persepectives

#182 In answer to NU's question here I didn't think TW was trying to buddy him. He did. I don't know what else he wants me to explain

#185 this is gonna sound weird, but TW saying he's trying to make a scum case on NU instead of his town read makes no sense to me and sounds like the thing a scum player would do....which is why I think it makes him look more town. Under suspicion I don't think a scum player would just blantantly say things like this. Instead he reminds me a bit of myself getting scumread as VT in other TL Mafia games and trying to convince players I am town; subsequently the veterans turning everything I say into reasons why it makes me scum. idk When I've skimmed the thread I haven't liked TW, but the more I read in depth the more I question the idea of him being scum.

#186 Cakepie trying to say I'm not forthcoming with information, when she literally wouldn't say information earlier saying "she didn't wanna give information to scum" Fuck that, its completely ridiculous. Misconstrues me considering the possibility that maybe I'm scum reading TW too hard b/c I'm trusting cakepie, into somehow I'm trying to blame her for something? tbh this whole post just annoys the shit out of me.

#203 Chairman Ray literally saying he's only been pushing TW and NU. He's literally admitting to not considering or caring about anything else just pushing TW and NU

#205 Cakepie should go read my dota mafia posts, and should look at the last game we played. When I'm town I usually just post whatever comes to mind. I don't sit and craft careful posts. When I'm scum I'm much more careful about what I post. You getting my stream of consciousness and seeing me move around on my reads is because I'm trying to sift through the information and am doubting myself as I go. Do you honestly think I'm faking this as scum? I have trouble believing that you do

#213 fuck off

#215 hmmmmm. I don't like what H1D is saying here. But if he's scum, why not go ahead and vote? I want to say that he's scum not wanting to be the 3rd vote, but it would no longer matter if he's the 3rd vote if town dies today anyway. Ugh. I don't like anything H1d is saying and I think it's affecting my perception of him

#217 Alright if H1D was scum and TW was town he would jump on the vote here....upon closer look it seems like CR was only the 2nd vote here...so working this out and seeing that H1D did later join this wagon (I'm assuming it was indeed at 3 votes) that if TW is town then either both scum were voting here, or TW is indeed scum.

#228 TW is trying really hard in this thread against a lot of people. It's really making me feel like he's town, but if he was he should probably be dead, or we have some combination of cakepie/H1D/CR as scum.

#231-233. Okay my assumptions were wrong yet again. wtf just happened here. H1D hops on after CR/Cakepie unvoted?

#234 CR still tunnelling NU very hard. I wish CR would consider some other possibility. To me he looks like he's more concerned with having presented a case and pushed it, rather than solving the game.


Haven't read TW's case's yet, but I think he's trying far too hard to be scum.

CR is super concerned with tunneling TW/NU. He cares more about sticking to those 2 reads than considering anything else. He started off kinda weak on them, and has considered nothing since then. CR is scum.


ExO, I don't think your read on me is fair, and to some extent, it's my fault for hunting scum on my own rather than being engaged with town. I think that you are town, so I will explain to you exactly what my thought process was. I really need you and all remaining town to trust me, or at least take my reads seriously, because we all need to vote together tomorrow to lynch the mafia.

Where I'm at right now is that TW and NU are the mafia, you are town, cakepie is town, hopeless is town, and obviously I am town. I have mainly pushed onto TW and NU because there are only two mafia, and it's most definitely those two. I think we can all agree that TW is mafia. I pushed onto NU many times and he's given me shoddy answers the first few times, and he's literally disappeared now and hasn't responded to anything else I posted. I posted a case on him that I want him to respond to, and I want all the town to consider as well, and so far, neither has happened. Also, nobody else has given a strong case against anybody else. Do you see why I have no reason to get off of those two?

I haven't pushed much on anybody else besides TW and NU, but that doesn't mean I haven't been considering or caring about them. As for you, hopeless, and cake, there's a lot I like about your play, and a lot that I don't like, but there's little that I can point to and say "hmm, this play is really advancing the scum agenda, and scum would instinctively do this". I don't post townreads or speculative posts on people because me not being able to scumread someone doesn't mean someone else can't. If someone convinces me of a better option than TW or NU, I'm willing to reconsider. I should probably be more actively engaging with people, and that's my bad.

I also feel that I'm being singled out for tunneling. If you look at other people's filters, Hopeless has been tunneling only on TW, cakepie has mostly been on TW and you, and you haven't been aggressive enough to even be considered for tunneling. So besides the fact that I literally said that I'm tunneling onto TW and NU, singling me out seems a little biased.


notice how, speaking to cakepie, he is always cooperative, ranging from simple response to a question to simple question to agreement to agreement with constructive criticism. he never disagrees to any major extent like he does with exo, never feels the need to correct him, never finds any trouble with communication.
again, if you looked at his responses to me or NU, it would be a whole different picture.
*to be continued*
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 00:48 GMT
#458
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On December 07 2016 16:56 cakepie wrote:
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On December 07 2016 16:34 ExO_ wrote:
Just sat down and actually read TW's plan before, I kinda didn't pay much attention to it at first. It's actually dogshit assuming cop and doc are going to make it through to d2 with everythink hunky dory, so much to the point that I have a hard time thinking he meant it to be taken seriously.

This is snark.

This might be half in jest

This exhaustively enumerates N0 thru up to D3 and lists what he sees as all three possible scenarios at D3.
That's too much effort for simply joking or trolling.

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On December 07 2016 15:27 cakepie wrote:
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On December 07 2016 15:13 ExO_ wrote:
I don't agree with Chairman ray's logic about scum would only post in best case scenarios.

But do you agree that (conscientious) town would not carelessly only post in best case scenarios?
Because that's the part that makes all the plan fluff at least anti-town, if not immediately obv scum.

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I pretty much don't agree with NU's line of thinking regarding TW trying to buddy him, but I think his activity (lol) and bothering to explain it like that makes him town to me.

Can you elaborate? I agree with NU's buddy-suspicion and see it possibly going further back to trying to put focus on plans. Help me see why it's not a buddy, and moreso not straight up painting them all green together with Koshi.

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On December 08 2016 18:48 cakepie wrote:
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On December 08 2016 18:35 ExO_ wrote:
On December 08 2016 16:16 cakepie wrote:
Oh, and will everyone please take note that I have ceased to tunneltown ExO. Thanks!


What was the purpose of this post. At first it didn't bother me but the more I think about it, the more it makes no sense. Why say this without explaining it? Do you have any reasoning for town tunneling me, then cancelling it for some reason?

Without explanation I can't see a town motivation for posting this


This guy, not even read, doesn't even know where and why I town tunneled him.

Have you been IAW playing that other game again instead of playing the mafia game you signed up for?

I'm drafting something on TW. Will get back to you.

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On December 08 2016 20:39 cakepie wrote:
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On December 08 2016 18:52 ExO_ wrote:
I'm asking you to explain why you stopped town tunneling me. Just announcing it serves no purpose for town. It doesn't help us in any way. What town motivation do you have for just announcing it without explaining

Announcing it serves the purpose that people don't start acting all surprised and worked up when they perceive me 'suddenly' get all up in your face. Cuz, y'know, some folks can't spot hints or read between the lines. Gotta spell it all out.

Not explaining it now has a town motivation of denying information to scum. I don't see a need to explain everything now and give scum time to ponder over it. Town doesn't need my full explanation today (game D1, not real time), but will have it by tomorrow (that is to say, D2.) when it matters.

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On December 08 2016 19:32 ExO_ wrote:
I largely agree with your reasoning on TW. But a no lynch is our safest play. I don't like the idea of the game being over if we're wrong, when we can wait for a day, get more information, and hopefully cop stays alive and really makes it easier.

It's a gamble. If we lynch scum today we effectively buy an extra day. But if we guess wrong we lose. I'm not sure im comfortable lynching today, despite how bad TW looks as a whole

You do you. I'm pretty much done with TW for now unless we get some earth-shattering revelation. Lynch him today failing which continue lynching him tomorrow.

You "largely agree with [my] reasoning", so what part do you not agree with? Besides the bit about the gamble.

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Anyhow, we don't have time to muck about. Can't afford to wait for one scum to flip before looking for others.
Should be obvious that I'm looking at you next ExO; still in the midst of diving your filter atm.
Gotta take a break for dinner and brief relax but when I get back, watch out!

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On December 09 2016 03:46 cakepie wrote:
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On December 09 2016 02:48 cakepie wrote:
he "largely agrees" with my TW case [...] There's zero progression / information for how he got there.


Hm, maybe not completely zero, but there is this bit:
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On December 08 2016 15:27 ExO_ wrote:
I don't think cakepie is being an asshat. and I find the tone of your posts here to be odd. Saying they could go either way, instead of saying I'm town and you're clearly wrong I think says a lot about the position you are speaking from.
But still there is very little:
#98 TW looks Town. <-- no elaboration!
#107 "Why are you making me scumread TW?" <-- couched read?!
#153 cakepie isn't an asshat and TW's tone is off
#161 "largely agrees" with my TW case <-- no elaboration!

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On December 09 2016 04:31 cakepie wrote:
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On December 08 2016 11:11 Tumblewood wrote:
On December 07 2016 16:37 ExO_ wrote:
Actually I just realized I misread TWs posts he never says rewarding town. I'm starting to think I'm going a bit crazy

this post (+ sequence before it) feels very candid. it is hard as scum to fake viewpoint -> new evidence -> change viewpoint to reflect that. also it would be a lot of attention to detail to fake a mistake and react realistically.

TW, just to be clear where I stand on this: it's not "viewpoint -> new evidence -> change viewpoint" in my eyes. There's no new evidence or new information; nothing changed materially. He messed up plain and simple. The question is whether the reason for messing up is innocuous or sinister.

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On December 07 2016 16:34 ExO_ wrote:
I don't have a good reason for this though, but twice he's said he likes to "reward town for giving a shit".

[snip]

the way he's speaking about "rewarding town" instead of rewarding a player is really fucking off. You reward a player with town cred, you don't "reward town" for speaking.

Best lead I have so far. But I'm skeptical. What if I'm just seeing your read and starting to suspect him because of that instead of actual scum slipping. hm :/

- try to find dirt on TW, finds it difficult; feels "skeptical" of his own "best lead"
- blame me for influencing him to tryhard to scumread TW
- realize he actually messed up the read, admits error

If he thought his read wasn't exactly good, why not hold off and take another look? It's not a speed contest.
There's also an element of feeling somehow compelled or obliged to post a scumread even if he has to force it. Awkward!
Finally, insinuating that I'm somehow responsible for forcing him to find suspicion when he didn't suspect TW before. WTF?

No comments on my case, like "I agree/disagree with this part."

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On December 09 2016 19:40 cakepie wrote:
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On December 09 2016 12:44 ExO_ wrote:Im sure cakepie will show up soon, and hopefully she can prepare her usual list of things for me to respond to.
(Not sure where you got the idea that I'm female, I'm not.)

Outstanding things you haven't responded to me or elaborated about:
  • Why was TW town to you at #98

  • Explain that part in #107 where you are skeptical of your read and couch it in terms of me making you feel obliged to find anything scummy at all on TW.

  • in #161 you "largely agree" with my TW case -- what part(s) do you not agrees with?

Maybe this time I'll finally get those answers and elaboration from you, now that I've gone and collated the questions for you in one spot?

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On December 09 2016 19:21 ExO_ wrote:
I'll admit I've been back and forth on him all game

Easy for you to say this, very hard for me to see your progression and reasons.
Can you filter TW for me and tell me which posts are scummy/towny to and why.


this is cakepie responding to ExO. notice not only how much more volume this is (this is only halfway through his filter, and from ctrl+f I see there are at least 16 more instances on page 3 alone), but how much more confrontational cakepie is. where with ray he acts like a partner, with exo he acts like an opponent or at least a debater.

it feels more like I'm playing against an alliance than two individuals with ray and cakepie
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 06:46 GMT
#491
no hammering of any sort went on, right?
good.
dunno why I'd ever let cakepie tell me how to play; NU actually has more experience if you count that other site.
I've given up on reading everything cakepie says. all of it seems really last-ditch to me — frenzy mode.
if I'm feeling particularly useful I might put together a big ol' post on why ray is scum, and after that I'll answer questions but everything should fall into place by itself. sorry to put so much pressure on you, NU. vote who you think is scum any time you feel ready, as long as it's before two and you vote ray
and cakepie, please don't kill yourself caring too much about a forum game.
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 07:07 GMT
#492
shit why do I have to convince that you ray is maf. he should've already done that for you by not posting for 20 hours
in remembrance:
On December 10 2016 10:05 Chairman Ray wrote:
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On December 10 2016 10:04 NeverUnlucky wrote:
Ray's claim is way too convenient, and I think TW is the real cop due to my reasoning in 331.

##Vote Chairman Ray

If you hammer, please have the decency of telling your alignment while we wait for the end game post.


How did you know game was going to end?

SCUMSLIP SCUMSLIP SCUMSLIP

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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 07:32 GMT
#496
On December 11 2016 16:20 Chairman Ray wrote:
cakepie you are a fucking HERO. If we end up winning this, it'll all be because of you. If we lose, it's 100% my fault for being stupid and signing up for a mafia game when I had a day trip today.

yeah because he's your fucking teammate
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 07:43 GMT
#498
I've put in the work this game and I'm tired of wading through crap. it's seriously tedious how much you guys are posting to try and save yourselves. please end it sooner rather than later >.<
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 07:48 GMT
#499
the worst part about it all is I can't gloat yet
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 18:14 GMT
#520
On December 12 2016 01:40 cakepie wrote:
There are two narratives possible for what I'm doing.

town cakepie
cakepie has discovered the scumteam and their nefarious plan

scum cakepie
cakepie and CR have come up with a nefarious plan to mislead town.
This plan involves contorting the filters of two townies to make it look like they are a scumteam with a nefarious plan.

Occam's razor, yo.

this is not how occam's razor works at all
if assuming you and ray are the scumteam and having a nefarious plan is two assumptions, how is me and ExO being the scumteam and having a nefarious plan one assumption?
0/10 terrible post
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 18:16 GMT
#521
AND BY THE WAY NOT CONSIDERING OTHER OPTIONS IS NIT STRICTLY SCUM. ugh all these arguments are s h i t. do I need to respond to them one by one?
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 18:20 GMT
#522
On December 11 2016 16:58 ExO_ wrote:
But I know that you can't be scum, because if CR was actually town the game would've been over already after I voted for him. I know you have to be telling the truth because of that fact alone. But Jesus Christ dude sometimes you say things that look scummy as hell.

also your "ExO is not considering other options" thing doesn't even work because if you are me or ExO you can determine that ray's partner can only be you or NU, and if you have half a brain you can determine that NU is town
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 18:58 GMT
#528
On December 11 2016 19:48 ExO_ wrote:
This is quite a last ditch scum effort from CP/CR. It's full of some pretty coordinated bullshit I think I've presented myself well, and I think this is very obviously a last ditch effort to win the game.

NU the game is in your hands. These posts from CP/CR are big, but they are full of garbage. Lines like this from CR:

"ExO is seriously considering that you might be mafia, because of a case I presented."

should tell you everything you need to know. ofc I was considering you were mafia. I have to consider every possibility, in particular that my reads might be wrong.

No where in CR's posts does he explain why if he was the cop does he only have 2 pages in his filter. Why he strictly tunneled you and TW the entire game. Why he didn't breadcrumb at all. Why both he and cakepie tried to start a a train on Day 1, when it's clearly an incredible risk to do so instead of just waiting a day.


Compare TWs effort all game long, despite constantly being pressured. His posts all game long. He has at least been trying all game long. CR only shows up now. Is that what a cop would do? Post barely anything and tunnel 2 players all game long?

Don't fall for this last ditch effort by CP/CR NU.

<3
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 19:09 GMT
#530
why the fuck would we sheep h1. h1 was just sheeping you
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 19:10 GMT
#531
H1 WAS NOT PRETENDING TO BE COP jesus where do you get this shit
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 19:10 GMT
#532
wait lol was h1 supposed to be a blue snipe
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 19:15 GMT
#533
funny that the person who loves occam's razor is also such a fan of "reading between the lines"
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 19:18 GMT
#534
aaaalllllllllll of cakepie's and ray's desperation posts are filled with garbage claims and too many quotes
I hope I don't need to explain why
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 21:05 GMT
#579
cakepie ur bad
NU ur exceptional
but cakepie ur bad
ExO ur alright
I'm alright too
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 22:10 GMT
#583
one question for the scum team: why kill 1der instead of ExO? you could have easily found one stray vote on me out of 1der and cakepie
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 11 2016 22:11 GMT
#584
On December 12 2016 07:09 Hopeless1der wrote:
TW I wanna know why you took the time to blow up a fake case on me, just so you could crumb a copcheck in there. I tilt hard on OMGUS, and that was the final straw where I convinced myself you must be scum. Plus side I baited the shot but still...I dont agree with that play from you.

idk. I didn't want it to stick out and I expected to do everyone but in retrospect it was pretty stupid because I can never make more than 3 extensive cases in a game before stopping
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Tumblewood
Profile Joined January 2016
United States3709 Posts
December 12 2016 05:35 GMT
#591
On December 12 2016 05:41 cakepie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2016 05:35 Chairman Ray wrote:
To cakepies credit, he got very close to figuring out the game. I dont think anyone else would have considered NU would be scum after I flip, but cakepie got one thing perfectly correct:

On December 10 2016 16:33 cakepie wrote:
On December 10 2016 15:36 Tumblewood wrote:

I'm not lynching you today, not with an absolute certainty on the board. but consider that, if you're town, then exo has to be scum and must be playing a pretty damn good game.


Huh, you might actually care. You could lynch Ray today, and die tonight, and leave us to our devices. But you care (or are pretending to.)

If cop!TW and town!cakepie, it's either ExO or NU with Ray. Don't discount NU with Ray. It's plausible that the following:

- You were selected as D1 target based on N0, and Ray vs NU was a distancing move where Ray has to lynch you to flip you scum and scum NU by association. But we could copcheck you as town and Ray would safely disengage NU. Or we mislynch you and they win. In that sense, Ray v NU isn't even a bus.

- EoD1 may have had NU waiting to hammer you if ExO or H1 voted.

- your crumbs were found, and scum actually opted not to kill cop!TW because:
       - they get to kill conftown in H1
       - you were scumread D1 by H1, me, and ?ExO?
       - with me going after TW+ExO, I'm the weakest link who will mislynch you

- in any event, NU is sent into thread to vote you and get stupidcake to vote you and then Ray hammers

- scum puzzles over my claim for a bit and then figures out I fucked up. Ray formulates his copclaim.

- NU voting ray is ballsy, but they know I will tell NU to unvote.

- This requires NU to be playing very well, but this is the scenario where he has Ray as a very experienced scumbuddy who can guide him.

So you need to consider both ExO and NU.



Yes.

The point when the game was irretrievably lost was when TW shut the door on me.
If he was more receptive, I maybe maybe maybe I could have sorted it out.



I tri ed to give you a chance on D2 but you spent all game crusading to lynch me and to save chairman ray — I was looking for a glimmer of hope, but you continued writing these huge terrible cases (the logic really was atrocious in many instances) campaigning for the mafia agenda. how the hell do I scumread NU over the guy who is helping confscum ray more than ray is helping confscum ray?
:/
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