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Barbiero
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Brazil5259 Posts
January 06 2012 12:26 GMT
#461
Palmar, why didn't you send your PM to ZBot with your vote, if your case is as solid as you say?
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Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22632 Posts
January 06 2012 12:30 GMT
#462
shit doesn't work, I'll try again
Computer says mafia
Refallen
Profile Joined August 2010
452 Posts
January 06 2012 12:47 GMT
#463
What I want to ask wiggles and jackal is this; obviously, the argument that he was acting unusually (in the sense that he was acting different because of low activity posting and lack of aggressiveness) no longer holds. And palmar has offered a spirited defence of himself, something i noticed he did as town too in tlxlvii. With that in mind, would you still vote for him, and why?

Because right now, I am much more comfortable in lynching risk.nuke than Palmar.
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22632 Posts
January 06 2012 12:51 GMT
#464
how the fuck does the voting work? I pmd: "##Vote: Mr. Wiggles" with "Vote" as the subject to ZBot
Computer says mafia
Cwave
Profile Joined November 2011
Netherlands313 Posts
January 06 2012 12:53 GMT
#465
Someone said earlier that you have to put Purgatory in the subject or smt.
I've learned so much from my mistakes. I'm thinking of making a few more.
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22632 Posts
January 06 2012 12:55 GMT
#466
Cool, thanks. It's apparently above the "How to Vote" section, so I missed it.
Computer says mafia
layabout
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom2600 Posts
January 06 2012 13:14 GMT
#467
What do all of these players have in common?
Blazinghand
Bluelightz
Dirkzor(?)
Grackaroni
HarbingerOfDoom
layabout
Tyrran
xsksc
Zephirdd

To my knowledge they (we) are all relatively new to TL mafia having played a small number of games each. It seems highly unlikely that any of us will have read a large enough number of games to have strong understanding of any other players meta.
If you do not have a strong understanding of a certain players meta you cannot use your own judgement of that players meta against them. You cannot compare their play to your idea of their meta and reach a conclusion.

Instead you are reliant on other players assessment of that player meta and how their play this game is supposedly incriminating. As town you should be reliant on your own judgements and reach your own conclusions and you should not vote entirely because somebody else has a reason that you cannot verify*.

Furthermore despite my limited experience of your various playstyles even i was able to spot an error in Wiggles "meta analysis
Palmar is normally a very aggressive and direct townie. He is not afraid to share his reads, to call people out, and to use his vote to pressure. He tunnels, and he is happy to call out bad play when he sees it. However, this is not the Palmar that we have in this game.

On January 04 2012 23:24 xsksc wrote:
Hi guys.

First multi-factional game for me as well, not really sure how we should proceed strategy-wise. Lynching an angel day 1 would obviously be ideal, although getting a demon is definitely better than a townie.

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On January 04 2012 21:13 Refallen wrote:
Is this some kind of metagame thing again? Dosen't Palmar always troll around in day 1? I remember that in TLXLVIII.

Yeah, and then he went on to be one of the only useful townies that actually read the game and used his brain.

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On January 04 2012 21:07 syllogism wrote:
We should probably lynch palmar today, he appears to be some sort of scum and hating his life right now

Syllo, if Palmar does decide to mess around on day one again, would it not be better to wait and see how he behaves later on (like in TLXVIII), rather than just lynching him?

Apparently he often trolls day1 anyway? If players who feel that they know his meta disagree about what his meta is how can i or the others trust them?

Simply, voting for a player based soley on meta that does not come from your own judgements instead of voting based on your own judgements is either bad town play or scum play.
Mr. Wiggles is encouraging people to vote for bad reasons (from their perspective)

since at least half of the players in the thread have an extremely low chance of having solid enough meta on Palmar and Palmar isn't going to vote for himself, then the majority of town cannot justify an entirely meta based case vote on day 1.

-Similarly i cannot justify voting based on risk.nuke's meta.

-As far as i am concerned Grackaroni doesn't have any points worth considering against HoD.

-I also see no case against RoL.

Therefore we should go for a proper case with reasons that we can support, instead. We should lynch Grackaroni.

*well you could verify it by spending a long time going through past games but i doubt that anyone has the time nor the effort to spare to do so```
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Bluelightz
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Indonesia2463 Posts
January 06 2012 13:15 GMT
#468
Okay, now i'm going to share my thoughts on grack

First, before I explain why I want to admit I'm playing really bad

Next, before reading this read previous cases on him

By: layabout
On January 06 2012 03:02 layabout wrote:
I would lynch/shoot/violently murder Grackaroni if i had to kill someone now

at the beginning he talks about hypotheticals involving roles, serveral players did this and it was largely irrelevant and so cannot really be used in analysis.

he then wrote
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On January 05 2012 02:59 Grackaroni wrote:
As you already mentioned the game only started 10 hours ago so I'm sure people would post if they could.
If we can't be sure that a player is an angel/demon I think the safe lynch is bluelightz.

His play in Student mafia was weak and so far this game he has posted nothing but one liners. Hopefully he will have solid content when he returns but I am not too optimistic. I just don't think I will get a good read on him and he's not somebody I would want at lylo, the only downside to lynching him is that it may not give us as much information as many other lynches.

Perhaps he would be a good n1 target for the town demon hunter?

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If we can't be sure that a player is an angel/demon I think the safe lynch is bluelightz.

very confusing to be pushing a lynch and saying that a lynch was safe (which implies the existence of reasons why the case is safe but does not offer them)
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I just don't think I will get a good read on him

if we paraphrase then including this last bit results in "i think we should lynch a player that i do not think i will be able to get a good read on"
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it may not give us as much information as many other lynches

lynch to kill scum not to get information
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Perhaps he would be a good n1 target for the town demon hunter?

here grack suggests using towns KP on a player he doesn't think he can read who hasn't posted more than a couple of lines by this point in the game.

It has also already been explained why he shouldn't have suggested BL would be useless

The above post seems a lot more reasonable if there are scum goals behind it.
it should be self evident this is why this is so, but i will say that most of those statements don't make sense if grack is town.
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On January 05 2012 08:26 Grackaroni wrote:
KK I'm back. I suggested the Bluelightz lynch and it looks like BH took a lot of shit because of me

he (kind of) tries to take credit for pressuring BL and takes the blame for "BH taking shit for him"
I am pretty sure BH "taking shit" was not because of grack and that grack is possibly trying to "buddy" up with BH and paint himself in a good light for taking blame.
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this is't particularly incriminating but reading that sentence did bug me

There isn't much to analyse but he is a reddest shade of grey in my eyes


On January 06 2012 05:26 layabout wrote:
Grackaroni:
In this post his writes a pile of nothing to call HoD scum. my comments have been italicised
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On January 06 2012 04:06 Grackaroni wrote:
HarbingerofDoom is my scum pick.

He was one of the first people into the game and took a lot of time to comment on the setup.
(this is what the majority of his posts are about) -a completely null tell
At the start of the game he asks for us to give strategies for demons/angels which to me seemed weird from a town perspective and not beneficial to town.
-asking to not reveal game winning strategies for the other team is weird for town?this strikes me as counter-intuitive

In Newbie mini Mafia he was very active and spent a lot of time scum hunting.
So far there has been no scumhunting done by him -no scumhunting halfway into day 1, applies to a large number of players in this game and isn't necessarily a scummy thing to do.

On January 05 2012 15:05 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:
So how would people feel about lynching Palmar or Erandorr if they don't start posting more? Both have posted nothing of worth so far, Palmar was even active elsewhere on the mafia forum today, and both are known for doing very little as scum.

He seems fairly content with lynching a lurker. (Palmar/Errandorr are the only people he's pushed lynches for)

Together this paints a picture to me, he is one of the earlier players to sign up, he was here right when the game started, he had the time to post quite a few things about the setup which tells us nothing about his allignment. In another game when he is town he is more active and does a lot of scumhunting but in this game he wants a lurker lynch.(granted it did include some meta with it) He has the time to post but chooses not to.
I'll wait for more posts.
-here he accepts HoD's early posting is null tell
-he offers weak "meta analysis" based off of a single game
-decides to wait for more information, likely because the case isn't strong enough to justify voting


Here, he decides that the person that he thinks should die right now, which is equivalent to his best lynch target for now is not HoD but Bluelightz
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On January 06 2012 04:24 Grackaroni wrote:
As for the Palmar question I would shoot Bluelightz because he could easily be mafia, there's much less downside to shooting him than a potentially useful town player who I think is scum and there's no way of knowing his allignment unless he takes a stance on something.

However the lynch is used for Information as well as killing scum, it wouldn't give the most information but more than I previously thought as a lot of people seem split on whether he is scum or not.

Question for Syllogism, Why do you dislike lynching BlueLightz?
Is it because you have gotten a town read on him, (if yes plz do share), or was it just because of the way I presented his lynch.

Says he would lynch bluelightz mostly because "there's much less downside to shooting him than a potentially useful town player who I think is scum and there's no way of knowing his allignment unless he takes a stance on something" which is an awful reason to kill a player.
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On January 06 2012 04:26 Grackaroni wrote:
On January 06 2012 04:23 Blazinghand wrote:
If I knew 100% Bluelightz was town, I'd be focusing other players.

There's a difference between saying I wouldn't mind if he is town and it might be good to kill, just because even if he is town he could be useless.

"Oh but Blazinghand I am grackaroni and have no understanding of nuance please explain"

Oh, Grackaroni, you are always so self-derprecating. Here I will help you.

If Bluelights is lynched and flips scum, that would be sweet.

If Bluelightz flips town, i'm gonna mind a lot. I'm gonna be pissed because he played like shitty dick. It will still have been the right move to have lynched him based on the info we had, and even if he is town, you have to admit he's useless-- indistinguishable from scum and actively hurtful if he, somehow, lives to LYLO.

So I guess my question for you, Captain Grack Sparrow, is, do you really think I'd be happy lynching a townie day 1? Or do you think I'm just willing to accept the consequences of my actions, like a goddamn man, make a case, like a goddamn man, and ACTUALLY VOTE AND DO STUFF.

fine. ##Vote: HarbingerofDoom
But with that I am off, Will be back in a few hours though, I promise

votes that we lynch and kill a player other than the player he said he would most like to kill 2minutes earlier
this is a glaring contradiction. I cannot understand why he would post such a thing as town.

a universe in which those actions make sense would be a universe that sucks big ol' hairy BearBollocks.

It seems that he could have decided to vote because Blazinghand told him to do something and he responded by voting, but all i can see is weak/barely even reasoning behind him thinking HoD is scum and nothing of worth to justify a vote. I do not think we should let players vote for such bad reasons. I think the vote is scummy.

Does anybody thing his defence in this post is adequate? ( i do not )


So, now i'm going to analyze his post's, also this is long so I have it spoilered

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On January 05 2012 01:22 Grackaroni wrote:
Let's get started.

Since it's instant majority lynch I think we should wait until near the end to vote or at least be aware of how many votes a player has on him before voting. We want the days to last as long as possible so we might as well use all the time that we are given instead of hammering the first scummy person we see.

It would be smarter if the Town Channeler banishes people who are likely to be hit n1 instead of aiming to roleblock an angel unless he's very confident about a read.

Obviously we want to lynch an angel today to try to reduce the KP but I'm not sure that there is anyway we can tell the difference between demons and angels, at least until their teammates have flipped. Probably later in the game we will have to focus on lynching demons over angels when they've corrupted several townies but We'll talk about that if it comes to that.



In this one, he discusses what we should do, and also what the channeler should do, lastly what he think should be doing

On January 05 2012 01:37 Grackaroni wrote:
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On January 04 2012 23:38 Dirkzor wrote:

Actually, we can use the banish ability offensively to determine the role of scummy player. If the slay ability is not used one nigth, then the banished (or the transported) player are very likely to be the angel holding the power of the death ray, and they should be priority target for investingation/future banishement. Therefore we can banish one of the player we think is an angel and see if the slay ability is used that nigth.

Note that if no corruption happens on even numbered nigths , its harder to conclude because Demons could have tried to corrupt an angel or the sage.


What if they target the player that is in purgatory? If Player A is in Purgatory and is targeted with Slay, he won't die. All we would know (from day posts) are that noone died from slay. Was it because Player A was targeted or is Player A the Angel of death?

Either way we can't conclude anything. It would be very suspicious if it happened several nights with the same player in purgatory. We could have gotten lucky either way: Having the AoD in Purgatory or the AoD targeted the player in Purgatory, but no way to know which.

For this situation the most important fact is the person's status. If it's a veteran who had a high likelihood of being attacked n1 then he should be checked before lynched. If it is somebody who you wouldn't expect to be attacked lynch him. Sure it's possible that the angel could hold back his shot but it's unlikely for them to do so since they would rather kill the target of their choice than let a random player get lynched(which could even end up as one of their own.)


Saying his opinions on what he thinks the Town Blues should do


On January 05 2012 02:15 Grackaroni wrote:
Hey BH, we meet again
Do you think that Dirkzor would be a good day1 lynch or did you just vote him to check Zbot?


Asking BH about why did he vote Dirkzor, there's nothing that here that can shine his alignment though


On January 05 2012 02:59 Grackaroni wrote:
As you already mentioned the game only started 10 hours ago so I'm sure people would post if they could.
If we can't be sure that a player is an angel/demon I think the safe lynch is bluelightz.

His play in Student mafia was weak and so far this game he has posted nothing but one liners. Hopefully he will have solid content when he returns but I am not too optimistic. I just don't think I will get a good read on him and he's not somebody I would want at lylo, the only downside to lynching him is that it may not give us as much information as many other lynches.

Perhaps he would be a good n1 target for the town demon hunter?


His opinions of me.


On January 05 2012 03:10 Grackaroni wrote:
What I'm saying is that even though I have a null read on him (he hasn't posted anything of value yet) he's not somebody that I would expect much from and could be a liability to the town later in the game. I don't think I'll get a solid read on him as I wasn't able to in student either and he's not somebody I would want in Lylo.

The issue is that the last game I played in the town pretty much unanimously agreed that one player was acting scummy and he flipped town leaving the town basically as clueless on day 2 as we were day1. He seems like a solid lynch to me but if he flips town We'll be left with less information than I'd like. I basically answered my question from the end of my last post, he's a good demon hunter target (not like the angels will kill him for us) but maybe not the best for a lynch.


Okay, i'll explain the connection of this post with another


On January 05 2012 03:21 Grackaroni wrote:
I guess you're right there, if he is a demon they could be saved by the transport and if he is an angel he wouldn't die.
If he is sent to purgatory I would assume it was done by demons but their intentions are unknown, maybe they want to save him maybe they want to force a mislynch.


Opinions on what he thinks what our blues should do.


On January 05 2012 08:26 Grackaroni wrote:
KK I'm back. I suggested the Bluelightz lynch and it looks like BH took a lot of shit because of me. Bluelightz was a null read and somebody I felt would be anti-town no matter what allignment he is. In this way it is similar to a lurker/inactive lynch, it's a null read but posting one liners can be just as bad for town as lurking. He will be my 2nd choice for lynch If I can't find a target I believe is scummy I will vote for him instead of a lurker lynch.

Syllogism was right, In Student Mafia he was a replacement and scum, this is not enough information for me to know that he won't be helpful to town but that was the impression I got from him and he has not done anything to change it thus far. (BH seemed to have gotten the same impression)

As for lurkers I'm a bit disturbed that Errandor is the only person getting called out.

I have not seen a post from Errandor or RoL and Palmar knows the game started but only posted

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On January 04 2012 20:33 Palmar wrote:
I'm a kite!


From what I gather though this is standard for Palmar.

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On January 04 2012 21:13 Refallen wrote:
Is this some kind of metagame thing again? Dosen't Palmar always troll around in day 1? I remember that in TLXLVIII.


These players are veterans so I hope that they will contribute to the game. Luckily the day is 72 hours so we still have plenty of time left.


Here again is his opinion's on Me, lurkers,and Palmar


On January 05 2012 08:55 Grackaroni wrote:
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On January 05 2012 08:41 Blazinghand wrote:
On January 05 2012 08:26 Grackaroni wrote:
KK I'm back. I suggested the Bluelightz lynch and it looks like BH took a lot of shit because of me.


No I took a lot of shit because of me. You didn't contribute to my Bluelightz idea at all, except to remind me he existed and is bad.

If you like the bluelightz lynch, make a case and make your vote like a man. If you don't like it, don't do it. You make expand and defense it and you do so with vigor. Being like "hey guys should we pressure Bluelightz" and then apologizing for it doesn't help my case against him, and it doesn't help him either.

I already explained this though he is my 2nd choice for a lynch over a lurker lynch. Both styles of play are anti-town but we should be lynching scum not just people who are being anti-town. Your case on BL does not prove that he is scum it just says that his actions are anti-town.




On January 05 2012 08:55 Grackaroni wrote:
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On January 05 2012 08:41 Blazinghand wrote:
On January 05 2012 08:26 Grackaroni wrote:
KK I'm back. I suggested the Bluelightz lynch and it looks like BH took a lot of shit because of me.


No I took a lot of shit because of me. You didn't contribute to my Bluelightz idea at all, except to remind me he existed and is bad.

If you like the bluelightz lynch, make a case and make your vote like a man. If you don't like it, don't do it. You make expand and defense it and you do so with vigor. Being like "hey guys should we pressure Bluelightz" and then apologizing for it doesn't help my case against him, and it doesn't help him either.

I already explained this though he is my 2nd choice for a lynch over a lurker lynch. Both styles of play are anti-town but we should be lynching scum not just people who are being anti-town. Your case on BL does not prove that he is scum it just says that his actions are anti-town.



Explaining that I am his 2nd choice for lynching over a lurker.


On January 06 2012 04:06 Grackaroni wrote:
HarbingerofDoom is my scum pick.

He was one of the first people into the game and took a lot of time to comment on the setup.
(this is what the majority of his posts are about)
At the start of the game he asks for us to give strategies for demons/angels which to me seemed weird from a town perspective and not beneficial to town.

In Newbie mini Mafia he was very active and spent a lot of time scum hunting.
So far there has been no scumhunting done by him

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On January 05 2012 15:05 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:
So how would people feel about lynching Palmar or Erandorr if they don't start posting more? Both have posted nothing of worth so far, Palmar was even active elsewhere on the mafia forum today, and both are known for doing very little as scum.

He seems fairly content with lynching a lurker. (Palmar/Errandorr are the only people he's pushed lynches for)

Together this paints a picture to me, he is one of the earlier players to sign up, he was here right when the game started, he had the time to post quite a few things about the setup which tells us nothing about his allignment. In another game when he is town he is more active and does a lot of scumhunting but in this game he wants a lurker lynch.(granted it did include some meta with it) He has the time to post but chooses not to.
I'll wait for more posts.


Okay now, in the other post he said that he would rather lynch Me, but here he say's now he would rather lynch HoD

On January 06 2012 04:18 Grackaroni wrote:
Defense in bold
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On January 06 2012 03:02 layabout wrote:
I would lynch/shoot/violently murder Grackaroni if i had to kill someone now

at the beginning he talks about hypotheticals involving roles, serveral players did this and it was largely irrelevant and so cannot really be used in analysis.

he then wrote
On January 05 2012 02:59 Grackaroni wrote:
As you already mentioned the game only started 10 hours ago so I'm sure people would post if they could.
If we can't be sure that a player is an angel/demon I think the safe lynch is bluelightz.

His play in Student mafia was weak and so far this game he has posted nothing but one liners. Hopefully he will have solid content when he returns but I am not too optimistic. I just don't think I will get a good read on him and he's not somebody I would want at lylo, the only downside to lynching him is that it may not give us as much information as many other lynches.

Perhaps he would be a good n1 target for the town demon hunter?

If we can't be sure that a player is an angel/demon I think the safe lynch is bluelightz.

very confusing to be pushing a lynch and saying that a lynch was safe (which implies the existence of reasons why the case is safe but does not offer them)
The lynch is safe just like I would call a Lurker lynch safe, he's won't be any more beneficial to the town than a lurker.
I just don't think I will get a good read on him

if we paraphrase then including this last bit results in "i think we should lynch a player that i do not think i will be able to get a good read on"
Yes, that is part of my reasoning, why do people lynch lurkers?
it may not give us as much information as many other lynches

lynch to kill scum not to get information
Correct the primary goal is to lynch scum, but the information aspect is also important, why do you think people hate no lynching?
Perhaps he would be a good n1 target for the town demon hunter?

here grack suggests using towns KP on a player he doesn't think he can read who hasn't posted more than a couple of lines by this point in the game.
I based it off of a past experience and the few quotes he had; I knew that he wouldn't be helpful. Besides BH used those same quotes why not question him?. I was wrong to do so but he still hasn't proven me wrong.
It has also already been explained why he shouldn't have suggested BL would be useless

The above post seems a lot more reasonable if there are scum goals behind it.
it should be self evident this is why this is so, but i will say that most of those statements don't make sense if grack is town.

On January 05 2012 08:26 Grackaroni wrote:
KK I'm back. I suggested the Bluelightz lynch and it looks like BH took a lot of shit because of me

he (kind of) tries to take credit for pressuring BL and takes the blame for "BH taking shit for him"
I am pretty sure BH "taking shit" was not because of grack and that grack is possibly trying to "buddy" up with BH and paint himself in a good light for taking blame.
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this is't particularly incriminating but reading that sentence did bug me

There isn't much to analyse but he is a reddest shade of grey in my eyes

I don't see much of a difference between my reasoning and BH's reasoning as much as he'd like to deny it.
BH took all of his quotes and they only point to him being a bad player not scum.
He even goes as far as to say that he wouldn't mind if he is town.

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On January 05 2012 03:02 Blazinghand wrote:
Don't go lynching anyone but Bluelightz if you think he's a legit valid scum. It doesn't matter whether he's an angel or a demon or what. In fact, given that he was staggeringly bad in Student mafia (though he WAS a replacement) it might be good to kill him just because even if he is town he could be useless.



His defense to layabout's case


On January 06 2012 04:24 Grackaroni wrote:
As for the Palmar question I would shoot Bluelightz because he could easily be mafia, there's much less downside to shooting him than a potentially useful town player who I think is scum and there's no way of knowing his allignment unless he takes a stance on something.

However the lynch is used for Information as well as killing scum, it wouldn't give the most information but more than I previously thought as a lot of people seem split on whether he is scum or not.

Question for Syllogism, Why do you dislike lynching BlueLightz?
Is it because you have gotten a town read on him, (if yes plz do share), or was it just because of the way I presented his lynch.


And again, here he says he now would like to lynch me. First he says that he would lynch me then HoD then he wants to lynch me again.


On January 06 2012 04:26 Grackaroni wrote:
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On January 06 2012 04:23 Blazinghand wrote:
If I knew 100% Bluelightz was town, I'd be focusing other players.

There's a difference between saying I wouldn't mind if he is town and it might be good to kill, just because even if he is town he could be useless.

"Oh but Blazinghand I am grackaroni and have no understanding of nuance please explain"

Oh, Grackaroni, you are always so self-derprecating. Here I will help you.

If Bluelights is lynched and flips scum, that would be sweet.

If Bluelightz flips town, i'm gonna mind a lot. I'm gonna be pissed because he played like shitty dick. It will still have been the right move to have lynched him based on the info we had, and even if he is town, you have to admit he's useless-- indistinguishable from scum and actively hurtful if he, somehow, lives to LYLO.

So I guess my question for you, Captain Grack Sparrow, is, do you really think I'd be happy lynching a townie day 1? Or do you think I'm just willing to accept the consequences of my actions, like a goddamn man, make a case, like a goddamn man, and ACTUALLY VOTE AND DO STUFF.

fine. ##Vote: HarbingerofDoom
But with that I am off, Will be back in a few hours though, I promise


Now, to me this vote feel's forced.

On January 06 2012 08:25 Grackaroni wrote:
@Layabout. I think what you don't understand is that I see a difference between a day1 lynch and a day vig.
I know perfectly well that Bluelightz is being anti-town but having him as a lynch target won't make anybody take a stand on their vote. Everyone can agree that he is being anti-town and then if he flips town all we will gain from it is BH saying "Damn I'm so pissed off that this player who I completely expected to play well has performed poorly, guess it's his fault." i would avoid this problem with a day vig shot.


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On January 05 2012 03:57 Blazinghand wrote:
On January 05 2012 03:55 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:
On Bluelightz:
I will go check out his filter in the newbie game to see what all the fuss is about.


You're in for quite the ride.

@BH Do you really hold him up to the same standards as other players that you would be pissed off if he flips town?

If people are going to lynch somebody who I don't think is scum and If I can't find a scum player I will vote Bluelightz, he is simply my backup lynch. (I think he has a greater chance of flipping scum than any random lurker)
His play is anti town but that doesn't mean he is scum.

You're right that I should be shooting the person I vote for but the choice to vote wasn't really thought out. i'm not confident that HoD is scum but I do have my suspicions. The vote was a little bit based off of emotions because I am tired of BH's "be a man and vote" rants. Nevertheless it's not the end of the world as my vote is not locked in stone by any means and I still have more time to look into HoD. (or anyone else for that matter)


Here he responds to questions and who he will vote(me) if he cannot find anyone more scummier than me(to him)

On January 06 2012 09:06 Grackaroni wrote:
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On January 06 2012 05:08 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:
On January 06 2012 04:06 Grackaroni wrote:
HarbingerofDoom is my scum pick.

He was one of the first people into the game and took a lot of time to comment on the setup.
(this is what the majority of his posts are about)
At the start of the game he asks for us to give strategies for demons/angels which to me seemed weird from a town perspective and not beneficial to town.

In Newbie mini Mafia he was very active and spent a lot of time scum hunting.
So far there has been no scumhunting done by him

On January 05 2012 15:05 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:
So how would people feel about lynching Palmar or Erandorr if they don't start posting more? Both have posted nothing of worth so far, Palmar was even active elsewhere on the mafia forum today, and both are known for doing very little as scum.

He seems fairly content with lynching a lurker. (Palmar/Errandorr are the only people he's pushed lynches for)

Together this paints a picture to me, he is one of the earlier players to sign up, he was here right when the game started, he had the time to post quite a few things about the setup which tells us nothing about his allignment. In another game when he is town he is more active and does a lot of scumhunting but in this game he wants a lurker lynch.(granted it did include some meta with it) He has the time to post but chooses not to.
I'll wait for more posts.

All but two of my posts as of when you said this occurred while I was one of 5 people with posts in the game. Clearly I shoulda been scum hunting hard with all that info in the thread. I also did not and do not want a lurker lynch today. I wanted Palmar and Erandorr to start contributing, and the thread was fairly inactive at the time, so I thought bringing up a more controversial idea like lynching a couple veteran players might help get things moving, or at least get them contributing a bit more. Also, please don't use my first game ever to establish a meta on me. I've obviously adjusted my play since then. Try checking out Steamship or Election (as TotallyNotTwoPeople, starting game day 2 for when I basically began playing solo) to get a better meta read on me.

That's basically one of the reasons I'm suspicious. You post a lot at the start and then when scumhunting begins you disappear, not that you didn't scumhunt at the start.
The only meta I got from you was that you seemed like somebody who posted a lot and spent a lot of time scumhunting in that game. I should have looked into more recent games but what's wrong with letting me think that of you?
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On January 06 2012 05:50 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:
On January 06 2012 05:39 risk.nuke wrote:
On January 06 2012 05:08 HarbingerOfDoom wrote:

@risk.nuke
Isn't carefree play usually a townie trait? How does seeming carefree implicate bluelightz? The "everyone looks town!" is surely incriminating, but I am not finding the carefree being incriminating. Why would town get nervous when accused? They know they are innocent. Explaining themselves, yes, but I know I get annoyed, not nervous.

It depends. If you are having a single one or two people accusing you, you get annoyed. Like I am now now with syllo. Or example in steamship prplhz tried to get me lynched on a bad case. I got annoyed. Then there are situations where you have a majority of people looking suspiciously at you. You've likely messed up and done something to justify their suspicions but you need to defend yourself. If you mess up town mislynch you. There is a situation I would be nervous in.

Hmm, a fair point I suppose, but he had about as many people saying he was a bad lynch as he had saying he was a decent target, so I still don't know how much nervousness that would really induce. Also, an accusation from syllo is more likely to be a death-sentence than an accusation from someone like grackaroni or blazinghand, so I would think that would be more of the nervousness inducing suspicion... :-)

@Grackaroni
Could you please explain why you are using your previous game experience with bluelightz, where he was scum, to influence your opinion of how useful he may end up being as town in this game? Things like that along with your poorly constructed case on me certainly aren't looking very good to me so far, but I'll be checking out your previous games to see what kind of standard you should be held to when it comes to your use of logic/case building.

the first part of your quote strikes me the wrong way because I get the feeling that you just wanted to downplay my abilities, you don't care if I accuse you and think my opinion should be worth less than a veteran like syllogism.

You've done nothing to change my mind, the only person you call scummy is me and your reasoning is that you think my case against you is shitty + you add in my opinion of bluelightz which I don't think you would have even mentioned if I didn't accuse you. Next you make some posts about people lurking and leave. You haven't been scumhunting but you keep giving me reasons to believe that you have lots of time to do so : [previous game with lots of scumhunting and posting, early signup, post a lot on strategies at the start of the game (early to find out it started too) quick to see my post and has time to defend yourself] You're definitely holding back in your posting.


Now, here he is comparing HoD in Newbie Mini and here, nothing shines his aligment here though.
[/b]

Now, wishy-wahsyness(like me) isn't really like himself in Student Mafia, In Student he was Direct and gave no second thought when he was voting on anyone. So, in conclusion

FoS: Grackaroni
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syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
January 06 2012 13:22 GMT
#469
layabout: It doesn't take much effort or time to read a through few filters to get the general idea what someone's town play looks like. In fact, you are expected to do that in every game when pushing to lynch someone.
syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
January 06 2012 13:32 GMT
#470
And just like with everything else, you trust people who you think have made themselves look towny and you consider good players. Quoting a person with one post to support your anti-meta stance doesn't make you look particularly good, though I don't otherwise have an issue with your play so far
Jackal58
Profile Joined November 2010
United States4264 Posts
January 06 2012 13:35 GMT
#471
On January 06 2012 19:04 Tyrran wrote:
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On January 06 2012 11:14 Refallen wrote:
I'm thinking Jackal is town this game. At least, he appears to be taking a different route than on TLXLVIII when he was scum. Plus I don't think any scum would risk trying to outright lynch Palmar without a really detailed case.


I disagree with you here. From the few games I've read Palmar seems to be a efficient scum hunter.Bussing Palmar is therefore an good scum strat. Almost EVERY SINGLE one of Jackal post were attacking palmar. And he NEVER had more than 1 line of justification. He did not even refer to MrWiggles case. That is scummy play for me.

Also note that as there is 2 scum faction, they can perfectly both be scum, one angel and one demon. I'll be looking at both of them today. Palmar need to step up his game, and Jackal needs to start become useful.

Almost all of my day 1 posts attack Palmar. It's a habit. Not necessarily a bad one either.
Life can only kill you once.
layabout
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom2600 Posts
January 06 2012 13:47 GMT
#472
having read through recent townie Palmar games:
nothing to see here (clicky) Palmar trolls and call people stupid
stundent mafia he was smurfing as electric black Palmar make lots of reads
election mafia read about half of this and filtered syllo+palamar hyra Arctocod, run for major and call people stupid
Steamship mafia Palmar analyses and calls people stupid
TL Mafia XLVII Palmar runs for major and calls people stupid

I have seen quite a lot of variability in how town Palmar behaves, after these i read resistance I(which isn't quite mafia) and responsibilty mafia in which palmar was 3rd party/scum.

In those games i could not confidently make inferences about his meta and correctly use them to determine whether he is scum or town, because there was not enough common day1 town traits that have become clear to me in the games of his i have read through, thoroughly. This was largely due to the variance in his play on day1.
I feel like i have spent quite a lot of time reading through his post but i feel like i would need to do more to establish a strong read based on his meta that i would confidently support.

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syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
January 06 2012 13:50 GMT
#473
I'm more interested in you reading risk.nuke's previous games. I do not particularly care about palmar meta reads.
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22632 Posts
January 06 2012 13:52 GMT
#474
how about you do something useful layabout. If you're scum, you already know I'm not, and if you're town, you've just reached the correct conclusion.

What do you think about my case against mr. wiggles? Can you explain further why you want to lynch grackaroni (I agree that his play is just... derp, so far, but why do you think so?)
Computer says mafia
layabout
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom2600 Posts
January 06 2012 13:53 GMT
#475
On January 06 2012 22:32 syllogism wrote:
And just like with everything else, you trust people who you think have made themselves look towny and you consider good players. Quoting a person with one post to support your anti-meta stance doesn't make you look particularly good, though I don't otherwise have an issue with your play so far

xsksc was agree with Refallen (that palmar trolls) so i considered that 2 quotes. It was also to illustrate that the people that are confident in their meta read might have different meta reads.
besides the logic behind my stance is independent of the quote and that logic is the important part.

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syllogism
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland5948 Posts
January 06 2012 13:53 GMT
#476
How would he know that you are not scum even if he is scum?
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22632 Posts
January 06 2012 13:54 GMT
#477
On January 06 2012 22:35 Jackal58 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 06 2012 19:04 Tyrran wrote:
On January 06 2012 11:14 Refallen wrote:
I'm thinking Jackal is town this game. At least, he appears to be taking a different route than on TLXLVIII when he was scum. Plus I don't think any scum would risk trying to outright lynch Palmar without a really detailed case.


I disagree with you here. From the few games I've read Palmar seems to be a efficient scum hunter.Bussing Palmar is therefore an good scum strat. Almost EVERY SINGLE one of Jackal post were attacking palmar. And he NEVER had more than 1 line of justification. He did not even refer to MrWiggles case. That is scummy play for me.

Also note that as there is 2 scum faction, they can perfectly both be scum, one angel and one demon. I'll be looking at both of them today. Palmar need to step up his game, and Jackal needs to start become useful.

Almost all of my day 1 posts attack Palmar. It's a habit. Not necessarily a bad one either.


And do you think that's productive? Are you town? Do you think you're helping town progress right now?
Computer says mafia
Palmar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Iceland22632 Posts
January 06 2012 13:54 GMT
#478
On January 06 2012 22:53 syllogism wrote:
How would he know that you are not scum even if he is scum?


two families, right.

Anyway, the point stands, he's not being useful.
Computer says mafia
Dirkzor
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Denmark1944 Posts
January 06 2012 14:41 GMT
#479
Risk.nukes first post

Disregarding meta (i have nothing) his first post for me can be described like this: "Lets push ever so slightly on 3 different targets and lets see who bites." Shitty plan as a town - he later claimed that was his plan, but a perfectly good play for scum. Start a weak case and have someone else pick it up can carry it to mislynch. Rests of his posts are basicly fluff and useless. Oh and avoiding commiting on anything with excuses.

I dislike a lynch on Bluelightz. He have been active and trying to contribute. How his contributions have helped town can be discussed but I take that as bad play rather then him being scum. He is just a guy who saids what he wants in one sentence. =)

I'll take a look on Palmar/Wiggles case/counter-case soon.

@Cwave. You posted some time ago that you wanted to shoot me without reason. Still want to shoot me? But more importantly why?
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Bluelightz
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Indonesia2463 Posts
January 06 2012 14:50 GMT
#480
@Dirkzor since your here who do you think we should lynch? Why?
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