Mr. Flay has a space in it, he is obv-town as well.
/in-Vitational Game 5, Simon Mafia 2: Game Over before 832
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damn my inattentiveness
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Still lurker scum. We have kind of short deadlines so lets not stall a couple days into the game now.LlamaFluff wrote:unvote
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So if he has posted on site you would consider this a decent wagon?Battousai wrote:I don't see the first as feasible, as DDD hasn't posted yet. Therefore you don't know if DDD has been active, unless you have seen him post elsewhere (which I'm assuming you haven't as you have failed to link evidence).-
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You werent supposed to reveal he made ten posts untill I got a response...
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You have three FoSs out at this point, but no vote. Am I correct in assuming that everyone you are FoSing is at the exact same level of scummyness?Battousai wrote:Well, I'm not going to vote to suit you...-
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Why?Battousai wrote:I was talking about how they all jumped on a wagon of a player that hadn't entered the game. I guess I didn't think about how they voted. Hmm... now that I think about that, it does seem that LG is a bit scummier than the others(I don't like bandwagonning just to get out of RVS).LlamaFluff and Zazie are the same just about. She quoted LlamaFluff and that is her reason for voting DDD.
Am I reading this as you actually thinking I wanted DDD lynched for lurking when the game had been on for about 48 hours?It adds reasonable doubt in to whether or not he felt that DDD was active lurking or not. After going back to the votes, it doesn't even look like LG even cared why he voted DDD, as long as it was a bandwagon vote and it is why I decided to vote him.
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Im not into outguessing the mod here on how many bellhops are in the game. I actually more like the idea of just locking down the floor with player who looks most town, and slowly shuffling over any confirmed players to that floor. If a town looking player gets moved off the "safe" floor, then bellhop(s) claim, and we should be able to keep the town one safe from there on out.
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Ok, here is my opinion on trying to break the game: it wont work.
The best thing we can do is most likely going to be just to wait untill we are ready to lynch, have the person we are going to lynch color claim then just do a 1d3 on the other colors to see what floor to lock up (this assumes that we are distributed equally). It will RB/protect four players, scum will not know who is NK immune, it basically makes more of the setup hidden to scum, protecting up to four random players. I would rather make four unknown players immune, then make one known immune.-
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I dont think we would of ever really color claimed, it has no real advantages because scum know where everyone is after we do that.TDC wrote:Felt more important to speak out against the colour claim than comment on what looks like a normal D1 wagon. Not sure what the "other scumhunting attempts" you refer to are supposed to be.
Even if you think that it was important to comment on, you still are not really doing any scumhunting, or reacting to anyone who has done any. I dont want to have a game that we spend the first week of a fixed deadline trying to figure out if we can break the setup, or what the best time to claim is, and then not have the maximum time to lynch.
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I absolutely hate playing follow the role, I hate trying to break setups, it just makes the game much less enjoyable to me. I would rather win the game through scumhunting with some role aid instead of roles with some scumhunting.Lord Gurgi wrote:Well since you're being so helpful on that matter, at least contribute in more conventional means. You and Llama both.
I think what I said is the best way to go about it, I would much rather just get down to scumhunting instead of sending half the day trying to break the game. If we are going to insist on setup speculation, I just like locking down a random floor. If we try and lock down the floor with someone who is most town looking, scum can just kill the second towniest. From there the bellhop can just move who he thinks is most town to his floor and we start locking that way.
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Kind of a lip service type thing. Its a concrete way of going about things that is not going to attempt to break the game and just leaves as much as possible about the setup in the dark. Then we can actually play mafia, not 'solve the puzzle'. If I wanted to play 'solve the puzzle' I would go get a puzzle book.SpyreX wrote:If your issue was simply wanting to play regularly versus breaking the setup why did you not intially say so versus putting up rationales that don't stand out as strong and THEN switching to the "scumhunting" stance?-
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SpyreX wrote:Even if this ALL works its not "breaking the setup". Its eliminating the scum-power ploy if it exists with the bellhop AND putting that power right in the towns hands. Its not follow the cop, its keep the towny alive.
I dont play break the setup or anything like that. Its part of the reason I tend to actually not like playing open/semi-open games as much. Too much time is spend on setup and not enough is spent on scumhunting. I could care less about trying to break the game on setup or anything like that, I play much much worse when that is the majority of what is going on, I start lurking because im not interested, it just really drags down my ability to be a part of the game.Goatrevolt wrote:Llama, this isn't "solve the puzzle, while ignoring scumhunting". Doing this will just allow us to supplement scumhunting with puzzle pieces, as opposed to doing nothing and supplementing scumhunting with...also nothing...
Personally, I'm willing to sacrifice your idealized mafia game if it will give us a greater chance of winning. If bending the setup in our favor is going to help the town win, I don't see how you can possibly justify not doing it.
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This game is a good example. It became mostly 'follow the PR' starting D3, I lost just about all interest, stopped having fun and lurked for the majority of the game.Patrick wrote:Llama, can you link to a past situation where you've taken a similar stance towards setups?-
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I still dont see the point of color claiming. We lock green, and its protecting anyone else on green as well. Scum dont know who is on green, so we still random protect a few people. FL just moves town looking players to green, even if she is scum its a forced move. If she gets moved off green, then there is a scum BH.
Now that we have done enough setup work, scumhunting maybe?
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When all that is going on is speculation, there really arent any real good scum tells unless you want to pull the "anyone who disagrees with me is scum" thing. The best tells you can put on someone right now are really lurking (athough I still say that speculation instead of scumhunting is a bit of a tell).SpyreX wrote:What would have, up to this point, stopped you from scumhunting? You've mentioned this more than once now and when combined with the slippy-slide of setup speculation I'm not thrilled.-
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The only effective way to stop setup speculation is to show that it hurts the town. I dont see it hurting the town much if at all in this situation, and the only alternative was to push my speculation as better, which means im going to start losing interest in the game.forbiddanlight wrote:Also, I'd like to ask Llama why he didn't try to take a bigger part in getting people off setup speculation. You were more "No...stop" with a bored look on your face as far as I can tell.
I dont play open games (I think ive played one non newbie open that was not a pure vanilla game, and that was over a year ago). People basically refused to scumhunt during the speculation phase. I made a vote, and it got ignored ENTIRELY, it was kind of disheartening really. I cant scumhunt by myself, there is no back and forths, there are no other opinions.SpyreX wrote:If that is the case (and I doubt it) have you not setup a scenario where scumhunting can not happen?
Same way every game starts. Random stage, calling a slightly scummy move more serious then it is, and playing from there. We basically are a week into the game with not having done anything along the lines of looking for who is scummy. Its not what I signed up for.If setup-speculation = no ability to look for scum then how, exactly, is one going to START looking for scum?-
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If its for not really caring about speculation or not really pushing hard about what I thought the best idea was, yeah I did that fairly intentionally. Getting into a big arguement about something that I dont really care about did not seem to be a good idea.SpyreX wrote:But, we have. Or have been.
My vote on you isn't an accident or pressure. Its a for mad reals vote.
@FL - Yeah thats kind of my early game attitude. I try to scumhunt a bit, get met with a "stop annoying us we are speculating" attitude. Kind of left me with a choice of "argue about something I dont really care about" and "keep trying to suggest we scumhunt".-
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So... you kind of avoided posting your thoughts on if this was a town or scum tell here. This almost looks like you lean scum tell which is really interesting. So if you had to choose which one is it? Also elaborate on 176.Debonair Danny DiPietro wrote:I got nothing either way, it looks like she was trying to decide if it was a good idea or not as most of us were. Her claim was startlingly aggressive, but again that doesn't give me a read either way.
I really don't like her 176 though.
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We have 10 days untill deadline
TDC still has not done any noticeable scum hunting.
He seems like he might see LG as suspicious for OMGUS mostly, or maybe DDD. There does seem to be an attempt to stop having Goat call DDD town though. Like this
TDC wrote:So basically, DDD is town for something that can easily be faked and because Zazie and Batt are scum?
Yeah no scumhunting really. This is as close as it gets.TDC wrote:I understand that and it would be decent argument if they were dead scum.
Where I can't follow is how you're so sure about them both being scum that you base your read on another player on it and want to stop the wagon on him.
Do you think your argument would still make sense if only one of Zazie/Batt was scum?
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We basically had a small RVS stage, and then we went off into speculation. I basically could either vote someone off a random stage movement, for not acknowledging anything that happened in the RVS, or vote someone that I didnt agree with on their theory.Battousai wrote:The problem I have with you, LF, is the same as FL. You did not try to scumhunt while everyone was doing setup speculation, and instead tried to get others to scumhunt (TDC). Did you just not see anything scummy?
There was nothing really scummy in the RVS to me, it moved before I really thought it was over, so I just tried to get on someone who never even was a part of it. Then just got met with things like this
TDC wrote:Felt more important to speak out against the colour claim than comment on what looks like a normal D1 wagon. Not sure what the "other scumhunting attempts" you refer to are supposed to be.
Kind of disheartening to get shot down twice with "leave me alone" type responses.TDC wrote:
This is the exact same question I ask myself before posting, so it's not going to work wonders. If you have anything specific in mind, just ask about that.LlamaFluff wrote:So any thought on anything apart from breaking the game yet?-
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So who is scummy? I dont think you have addressed that in this game yet.TDC wrote:LlamaFluff: Okay, let me get this straight. You think other than me not finding anything particularly scummy, nothing particularly scummy happened. Brilliant. I wish I could pull that kind of stuff, too.-
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Anything really, even if it was just a comment on the wagons on you or DDD. TDC has his random vote still out IIRC, 14 pages into the game.Battousai wrote:
So, what kind of scumhunting did you expect others to do then?LlamaFluff wrote:
There was nothing really scummy in the RVS to me, it moved before I really thought it was over, so I just tried to get on someone who never even was a part of it.Battousai wrote:The problem I have with you, LF, is the same as FL. You did not try to scumhunt while everyone was doing setup speculation, and instead tried to get others to scumhunt (TDC). Did you just not see anything scummy?-
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Elmo is on V/LA untill wednesday IIRC. TDC also still has a random vote out.Battousai wrote:Elmo: You said you are caught up, yet you have a rvs vote still on me. Do you still find my scummy and if so, why?
Nuwen wrote:I don't see anything from FL explicitly stating that she'll volunteer to be lynched prior to a lylo situation. Even if she did agree to be lynched, I think the more optimal pro-town move would have been to stave off claiming for as long as possible in order to get another bellhop to claim. If I had a pro-town bellhop role PM, it greatly reduces the odds that any other bellhop(s) is/are town too.
So are you calling FL scum here or what? It looks like you are already trying to justify a lynch of her.Nuwen wrote:FL's alignment is up in the air. I want to pursue her further either tomorrow or the day after, depending on how night actions resolve. If she is scum, having her move the penultimately scummy player following today's lynch locks down three potential scum candidates: one dies via lynch, FL herself is restricted to green, and we're forcing her to move another player to green. We can begin to narrow down who is and is not able to submit kills faster through elimination.-
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There is your difference. I can recall some of his suspicions, I know where he stands on a few players. This isnt the case for you right now. We are almost on page 15 and I really dont think you have even called anyone suspicious.TDC wrote:
No, I'm just annoyed by Fluff, who, after me basically saying I don't know where to put my vote, points out twice that I still have my random vote going.Patrick wrote:
I'm curious as to why you said this. On the surface it seems like a cheap shot because I don't think my play is comparable to yours even though I'm currently not voting.TDC wrote:unvote Thank you so much for reminding me. Not having a vote out at all (Hi, Patrick), is so much more helpful than sitting on the random vote.
As if random voting SpyreX and not voting at all made any difference.
Your name entered the frame because he doesn't seem concerned by your lack of vote at all, andwhile I wouldn't say you're as clueless as I am, you've only really voiced minor suspicion of Elmo, as far as I can remember.-
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Nice to see some reasoning behind that accusation ya know...Lord Gurgi wrote:It seems like this game has lurkers and townies. Goat is town, Patrick is (always) town, SpyreX seems townish, TDC is town, Nuwen is probably townish (not that I can read her for anything), forbiddanlight's neutral, DDD is becoming neutral as he bothers to post, Elmo's not posting, Batt's not posting, ZazieR's not posting, LlamaFluff is scummy.
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TDC - Still has done absolutely nothing in this game past speculation. When we are 15 pages into the game, are clearly out of the random stage, have multiple wagons going, and you still can not come up with anything of use, something is not right.SpyreX wrote:Llama:
If you had two bullets right now, who would you shoot? Why?
LG - The 'trap' or whatever it was after FL claimed to try and get people to color claim makes no sense still as i go back and read it yet again. He says that people that claimed after FL did would lie about their claim and make it optimal (which I guess he is saying is green). Now what I dont get is why he thinks that having a quick color claim will gleam anything on someones alignment here. What we have to consider is that town will likely not lie since if they get outed later, its giving scum a free lynch. Scum may have more of an incentive to lie, but again ever being outed would likely result in a lynch.
So I have zero idea what a green/not green claim would even mean to him, or to me. It can be WIFOMed to anything really (presuming BH does not know where their target came from in which case telling truth is mandatory regardless of alignment). What it mostly accomplishes is letting scum know who can be killed and who can not.
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While I actually do not think these two work well together, independently they both look somewhat scummy. If I am looking for the lynch that I think is slightly more likely to hit scum, it would be TDC (even though its about 60-40 to me). However a LG lynch is much much more informative at this point, given ties to quite a few more people.-
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You scum, spy is slight scum, DDD is slight scum, Fl gets more town points. LG town is harder to make connections on though as compared to...TDC wrote:What would Gurgi coming up town tell you?
You are town (that big confusing exchange), DDD is town (constant goading of others to join wagon while not being actively presued), FL is town (did some of that same thing Nuwen did of claiming is null read), Nuwen leans town (exchange over color claim), Batt is scum (reading early LG seems like a Batt vote should of appeared but never did).What would Gurgi coming up scum tell you (other than apparently indicating I'm town because we don't "work well together")?
I really dislike open/semi-open for the most part (vanilla ones are fine). I do not like complicated role games, I do not like heavy PR games. There seems to be more time spent on setup instead of scumhunting. Its not fun for me, I lose intrest, I lurk and play poorly. Im not at all going to say that I was an active part of the early game or tried to be. If you want to speculate, fine, im just not joining you. What I have a problem with is when someone is going to only speculate and ignore the "finding mafia" part of "mafia", which is what you continue to do.Delighted that you'd prefer I didn't post at all instead of posting just "speculation".-
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I can cite reasons that I think that each of you are scummy individually, so its not based off the conversation that I think one of you has to be scum. Its more off the conversation that I think that you cant be scum together. In absence of the conversation I would have each of you down as scum.TDC wrote:Why so sure that one of Gurgi and me must be scum? Seems to be more than just thinking we're scummy individually, but rather something that stems from the discussion we had?
Zazie I have seen lurk a few times as town, Elmo is on V/LA and the one time I played with him it was a very slow moving game and he was town. Everyone else is posting I think. Its part of that you were active and actually keeping up with the game, but still never commented on anything past speculation that was really bothering me.I was not suggesting that you post more speculation, I was suggesting that you would be less suspicious of me if I didn't post at all (see the lurkers that don't phase you one bit).
I had about half on the "do not" list, I just apparently missed a few. Im not going to replace out of anything, but I just have a large preference for closed games as opposed to open ones. I have much more fun in them, and play much better.That said, if you hate this so much, you probably should've included pj and all other mods who announced games you were not going to like on the "not-want" list.-
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What was the possible benifit of a color claim? I see absolutely none that can not be twisted into WIFOM. I just dont see the game "going somewhere" good with anyone color claiming. All I see is a new arguement springing up over what color scum would of claimed.Lord Gurgi wrote:I feel like I've gone over this every page for the last five. Could you guys explain to me what I need to expand on? What 'trap' are you both talking about? I wastrying to get honesty out of people before they woke up, where was the trap? I'm really quite annoyed that people are angry at me for trying to get this gamegoingsomewhere. You're all happy to criticise people doing nothing, but seem to view wagons you disagree with as worse.
The bolded is what in my book is the definition on a trap, trying to catch someone offguard into something scummy/contridiction.
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If I understand right this is what you were talking about
This is basically you saying that you wanted a color claim so scum would have to fit their claim to a color later, instead of having both freedoms. I still however fail to see how this small advantage outweighs the fact that if a complete claim went through, that scum would know everyones location.Lord Gurgi wrote:I was pushing for a colour-claim before a Bellhop could claim so that the scum wouldn't alter their claim to fit with the Bellhop's colour. When the Bellhop claimed, that kind of became moot. Since no one was saying anything about it, I figured if I could push it really quickly and get it through, we might just get real claims from people.
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I would assume that. If scum claim green they are really restricting themselves, and if there is a role that can pick up color/movement, its suicidal.Lord Gurgi wrote:
So, if someone claimed green now, would you assume they were locked in for tonight? Tomorrow night? The night after that? It destroys the possibility to actually account for where people are.LlamaFluff wrote:If I understand right this is what you were talking about
This is basically you saying that you wanted a color claim so scum would have to fit their claim to a color later, instead of having both freedoms. I still however fail to see how this small advantage outweighs the fact that if a complete claim went through, that scum would know everyones location.Lord Gurgi wrote:I was pushing for a colour-claim before a Bellhop could claim so that the scum wouldn't alter their claim to fit with the Bellhop's colour. When the Bellhop claimed, that kind of became moot. Since no one was saying anything about it, I figured if I could push it really quickly and get it through, we might just get real claims from people.
Im not sure if im just missing something here or what, but the cons seem to outweigh the pros by a whole lot.
Lets say we mass color claimed and had six green, all other floors at two each. Then what? Any scum fakeclaiming or on green are or claim to of been RBed. Any scum not on green can claim whatever. Scum knows who they can kill.
Even if we had even spread claim, I dont get how its an advantage. One of the best things going for us right now is scum dont know who they can kill at night. If we color claim, any ability to see who is where to limit scum movement is overshadowed by the fact that scum never need to be afraid of having a kill stopped by a locked out floor. They can make the optimal move each night from that point on.
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So you are saying that you have never had a game where player A and B are both scummy, but you dont think they work together?TDC wrote:
So basically both of us are sooo scummy that itLlamaFluff wrote:I can cite reasons that I think that each of you are scummy individually, so its not based off the conversation that I think one of you has to be scum. Its more off the conversation that I think that you cant be scum together. In absence of the conversation I would have each of you down as scum.painsyou that one of must be town (and still playsthisbadly) and that's why the other is still scum if one turns up town?
Kind of yeah. If you are going to bring up the other lurker arguement thing though, Zazie (although very recently) and Elmo both have done something along the lines of commenting on the DDD, or at least expressing some opinions on alignments at this point.
Yes, that's my point. In terms of your suspicion, it would be better for me to post very sporadically. I disagree that that'd be the better course of action, though. Arguably, if a suboptimal course of action lessens your suspicion, something's off.Its part of that you were active and actually keeping up with the game, but still never commented on anything past speculation that was really bothering me.
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This still doesnt mean that exposing where the town is to the scum will in some way trap scum or protect town that I can see.Lord Gurgi wrote:LlamaFluff wrote:Immune to what?LlamaFluff wrote:a role that can pick up color/movement-
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Maybe im overselling this a bit then. You two are my one two suspects at this point. If I had to day vig next post, it would be one of you. If one of you flipped town, I would follow up pushing the next player, but im not going to blindly push them, or would do an immediate day kill, or anything like that.TDC wrote:
Not that I remember, barring setup constraints.LlamaFluff wrote:
So you are saying that you have never had a game where player A and B are both scummy, but you dont think they work together?TDC wrote:
So basically both of us are sooo scummy that itLlamaFluff wrote:I can cite reasons that I think that each of you are scummy individually, so its not based off the conversation that I think one of you has to be scum. Its more off the conversation that I think that you cant be scum together. In absence of the conversation I would have each of you down as scum.painsyou that one of must be town (and still playsthisbadly) and that's why the other is still scum if one turns up town?
I remember once claiming that of two townies, exactly one had to be scum. But I was scum myself in that game. It might be that this makes more sceptic of your opinion than I should be.
Point is, I understand why you think we are not scum together. I don't understand how you could be sure enough of either of our scumminess to set up chain lynches on us, while still thinking one of us is town, though.
I get the feeling that im failing to explain this right, but if I have a 1, 2 that dont work together and I find one to be town, im going to persue my other pick.
Elmo mentioned him a little in his iso-4 seeming to give DDD a slight town read through my interpetation. Zazie has done less, just talking about reasoning behind the random vote which im hoping gets followed up fairly soon.
Elmo hasn't commented on the DDD wagon at all.
Kind of yeah. If you are going to bring up the other lurker arguement thing though, Zazie (although very recently) and Elmo both have done something along the lines of commenting on the DDD, or at least expressing some opinions on alignments at this point.Yes, that's my point. In terms of your suspicion, it would be better for me to post very sporadically. I disagree that that'd be the better course of action, though. Arguably, if a suboptimal course of action lessens your suspicion, something's off.
Zazie has "explained" her random vote on DDD, which is hardly a comment either.
I'm not even sure what you mean with DDD wagon, seeing how he has just one vote, the aforementioned RVS vote by Zazie.
The DDD wagon was the early random wagon we had, it no longer is really existant at this point in the game, although I thought he still had two votes.-
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What role?Lord Gurgi wrote:
Why do you think it's alright to say my idea is terrible because a role might be around, but it's not alright for me to rebutt with another role?LlamaFluff wrote:
This still doesnt mean that exposing where the town is to the scum will in some way trap scum or protect town that I can see.Lord Gurgi wrote:LlamaFluff wrote:Immune to what?LlamaFluff wrote:a role that can pick up color/movement
Lets say town has this magic role that lets them see what floor someone is on. We massclaim color, scum risks getting caught, scum knows who can and cant be killed. I would be willing to take that risk as scum, and probably just claim my real color.
If such roles do exist that stand a small chance of nailing fakecolorclaiming scum, I still think it fails in comparison to scum knowing exactly who is off limits, and who they can take a shot at.-
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That was there as a "The flip would not change my inital read on you" statement.TDC wrote:
I got this impression that you want to chain lynch us, by how you explicitly mentioned I would be scum if Gurgi came up town.LlamaFluff wrote:I get the feeling that im failing to explain this right, but if I have a 1, 2 that dont work together and I find one to be town, im going to persue my other pick.
Surely if I'd be just your next person to look at, there's no reason why you'd put me into the list of people incriminated by Gurgi flipping town.
The reaction of Batt to it was something that came from it that I thought was kind of interesting. A random wagon in its own terms is not worth much, but a vote and two FoSs of players on the wagon certaintly is to me.
You mean the wagon that rolled because he had no spaces in his name? I really don't see how anything about that wagon was worth mentioning. And I think I even said something similar back then.The DDD wagon was the early random wagon we had, it no longer is really existant at this point in the game, although I thought he still had two votes
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You know... the questionTDC wrote:
Come again?(see that I avoided teh question too)
I still say a color claim will hurt the town in almost every concievable situation. The lockdown situations above actually show more scenarios that any benifit of a color claim goes away.Lord Gurgi wrote:
..And then I said, what if there's a role that's immune to this, not to mention that the checker might be locked down, or the checkee might.LlamaFluff wrote:
What role?Lord Gurgi wrote:
Why do you think it's alright to say my idea is terrible because a role might be around, but it's not alright for me to rebutt with another role?LlamaFluff wrote:
This still doesnt mean that exposing where the town is to the scum will in some way trap scum or protect town that I can see.Lord Gurgi wrote:LlamaFluff wrote:Immune to what?LlamaFluff wrote:a role that can pick up color/movement
Lets say town has this magic role that lets them see what floor someone is on. We massclaim color, scum risks getting caught, scum knows who can and cant be killed. I would be willing to take that risk as scum, and probably just claim my real color.
If such roles do exist that stand a small chance of nailing fakecolorclaiming scum, I still think it fails in comparison to scum knowing exactly who is off limits, and who they can take a shot at.-
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Kind of an acceptable deadline lynch, but I have problems with lynching zazie due to lurking. The two times I have gone after him for it he was town, although I dont think I have ever seen zazie-scum.Goatrevolt wrote:LlamaFluff, what do you think of Zazie?
Sorry for that. I tend to get a better handle on what is going on if im in a conversation with someone then if I read it as it happens, or even worse if I read it later.Lord Gurgi wrote:Practically everyone else is having the one argument with me twice or more.-
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So I just realized we have about five days untill deadline.
There are a whole lot of people really not giving hardcore suspicions at this point in the game which is kind of concerning, especially with the votes spread as thin as they currently are.
I guess I will avoid asking the question to TDC as to not continue to beat a dead horse for the time being. Maybe also because im starting to waiver on his alignment a bit too after trying to scrounge up stuff on more players. While zero is still less then almost nothing, almost nothing isnt that much.
So, can I get some clear suspicions from people I cant recall a case on who they are voting from off the top of my head (Batt, Elmo, LG, Spy, Zazie, Patrick). Also can GR and DDD explain if the push on zazie is a lurker lynch, or something else. Im going to try and slog through the whole debate thing again and see if I cant pick anything up.-
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Dont feel quite comfortable enough with my grasp of where most people are to wagon hop right now. Thats what my questions attempt to reread during this last hour or so at the office will hopefully accomplish. Im gone this weekend and with an impending deadline I need to get comfortable fast.Lord Gurgi wrote:Llama, any particular reason you're alone on your wagon rather than getting on a larger one?
With TDC im starting to waiver a bit just due to a step back, he is kind of reacting like I do as town when I feel im getting attacked for weak things, which is getting a mix of indignant and flustered, so it kind of is making me have some second thoughts. With you hell I dunno. The fact that I still dont entirely get why you suggested what you did when it seems based on hypotheticals really sets me off, as understanding someone quickly and the first time I see as a town tell. At the same time though basing an entire case on "I dont understand this" seems to be a bit of an overstep.
More or less its examine my weak gut reads + look at other pushed cases for me right now, in an attempt to get a grip on what is happening, instead of kind of meandering around when there is not time to do so.-
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So was the vote random or serious?ZazieR wrote:I voted him as most players were joking around during the RVS. So what better way to get out of the RVS with a good healthy bandwagon. As there hadn't been anything scummy yet, I went with the bandwagon of a player who at least had shown anti-town behaviour.
So what are you treating this claim as? Miller where if she is scummy you lynch? Policy lynch on day X? Regardless of alignment its a role we can control, forceably. I do not understand what you are trying to suggest the right move here really is.Nuwen wrote:We deal with FL later, her role offers too many town advantages to waste time on her right now, regardless of alignment.
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To me its that Nuwens idea has a chance at working, albiet a long shot (we would need good accuraccy), it can work in the end. I just dont think it has a great shot of doing so. While chances of it working are directly dependent on our ability to scumhunt, or moreso FLs ability, there is no 'horrible downside' to it. We basically are playing a JK and targeting who we think is scum and not town. If we lynch scum, it might even be an optimal move. I do not think its the best move, but its not a bad one.Patrick wrote:Is there something scummier about Gurgi suggesting a sub-optimal strategy than Nuwen suggesting a sub-optimal strategy?
I actually see Nuwens (and others) subtle pushing against FL as scummier then the suggestion of moving scummy players to green.
LGs I just see as much more of a detrement to the town, since scum know the complete setup. They dont know who can be killed at night, if we had a color claim, they now know exactly where everyone is and can plan moves accordingly.
I would actually go for an Elmo lynch before a Zazie lynch at deadline. I have had multiple bad experiences lynching zazie for being a lurker, although I can not remember a game with him where he was scum. I can point to two games where he did disappear (but not get replaced) though as town.Lord Gurgi wrote:Fun time question that Patrick probably should ask: Why are we lynching ZazieR and not Elmo?-
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Can you express it better now then?Elmo wrote:(I don't think my stance on DDD was bad, although maybe I didn't express it well because it was late.)-
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Really? I can think of a few reasons why actually getting a majority lynch, even in face of a deadline, is better then one that just is forced at deadline.Goatrevolt wrote:
I don't understand why this matters. Is there a huge difference between a lynch wagon of 4 votes, and a lynch wagon of 7 votes where the last 3 votes are just people piling on for the purpose of achieving a lynch?SpyreX wrote:As an aside: I'm going to be ultra-pissed if we don't get an actual majority lynch. Seriously angry. As in if someone is awesome enough to not help push a real wagon as we get close or, god forbid, not be voting I will vote for them every day I'm alive.
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I dont expect to have much if any access untill sometime monday, and I know deadline is eminent so am going to do this now. Should be able to get something in today at work explaining my choice, but no promises.-
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So DDD is town because lack of a different wagon appeared when it was dancing the line between random and semi-random?Elmo wrote:@LF: Well, generally if a scumbag's getting wagoned, their buddies tend to try and start a wagon on someone else, especially early on when wagons don't need much to get started, but no-one really seemed interested in trying. (My reasoning here is kinda like JDodge's in Open 55.) But for example, if Zaz and Danny happen to be scum (with 3 scum total), the single leftover mafioso isn't going to have much influence on the voting patterns. So the more it looks like no-one would be wagoning regardless of alignment, the harder it is (or less reliable) to tell why scum aren't wagoning.
Not really. If there are people accusing people of being scum, there is enough information present for a read out there. There may not be enough for you to go "if im a doctor im protecting them" or enough to case a vote of your own, but there is information out there.Elmo wrote:
Why? That's a pretty bizarre statement.Patrick wrote:If the majority of people can get reads, then you certainly can.
Even if you have weak reads, especially at a time like this you need to put them out and at least attempt to explain them. I do not buy that your scum list is neutral-everyone, and thats it.-
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Goat points are good points.
Im interested in hearing why Batt went with Elmo over Zazie as well.
Not going to put a vote on Zazie since this is the last time I expect to be able to post untill Sunday night and putting someone at L-1 and not being around to move a vote if needed is not something im comfortable with.
For all practical purposes though I am voting zazie. I just would rather be around for a claim instead of having my vote sit there.
Zazie needs to claim or die at this point, I will be back Sunday night with intentions of putting my vote on him. He is posting away in another game at this point. as well.-
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Kind of just that the one post that you made early that did seem to be somewhat of an anylasis post really was confusing on a close read, the thought process just seemed a bit convoluted.Elmo wrote:LlamaFluff, I don't think you got round to explaining your vote for me..?
It was between someone who was lurking which from my experience is a town tell, and someone who was V/LA and made a post that never came to a solid conclusion and was a bit confusing.-
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Not going to hammer zazie just because I would like to see something from him before he gets deadline lynched in about 8 hours.
Anyways, not much happened this weekend it seems. It would be nice to hear a bit from LG as why he wants me lynched apart from "what others said" which seems to boil down to "avoidance of setup discussion".-
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I tend to stick to a 'crush any and all suspicion on sight' type defensiveness. It works out pretty well.Lord Gurgi wrote:LF: It boils down to you complaining but not actually scumhunting at the time. If you actually think my suspicion is weak, you wouldn't have to fram it negatively in the question.
Just was trying to see if there was anything new there or if it was just a repition of points that have already been addressed.-
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meh, it works. Only been lynched as town once doing it, and that was mostly due to a massively suboptimal play from scum 'confirming' themLord Gurgi wrote:Feh, good cover. [/sarcasm]-
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Basically thatGoatrevolt wrote:
This makes no sense. If he's town, shutting you out from pressuring him IS conducive to scum hunting, because the idea of scum hunting is to pressure scum, not town.Lord Gurgi wrote:I'm sure you've played many many games. That sort of behaviour shuts me out. You actively repelling me is not conducive to scumhunting. Stop it.
If I dont get lynched, it increases chances of a scum lynch. A critical part of playing town is not getting lynched, I even view having to claim outside of a massclaim situation a sign that I have not played a good game.
Im not going to ignore a case against me, but im going to stop it as quickly as possible.-
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If you have got questions, comments, quotes, anything like that im fine with responding to them. Im going to try to pick apart anything you have against me early on though, instead of just letting a weak case sit on me. You really have not been asking me a whole lot of questions about what you are pressuring me about. It seems to be more of a statement then anything else, and I would like to get to the bottom of it ASAP.Lord Gurgi wrote:Come on, it's fine for yourpersonalrecord, but it screws everyone else.-
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Ive said a few times that for practical purposes im voting zazie. I just didnt want to kill all lines of conversation from him, as no majority is actually needed. If he can get something in before deadline, its benificial regardless of alignment.SpyreX wrote:TDC and LLama have no votes up.
We've got a lot of stragglers that I dont like regardless of Zaz's flip.-
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If you are not going to add anything that hasnt been covered, or even bring those things up really, im going to be somewhat petty about it. If you have new things to talk about, or want to bring up old points im fine with it. Just kind of doing the hand wave "yeah that stuff" thing, is not going to be something I let happen.Lord Gurgi wrote:You purposely framing what I say negatively is not shutting down my case, it's petty. Trying to shut me up is good for you regardless of your alignment, but it stops me from getting a read on you. People I can't read, I lynch. I am not going to stop.-
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Hey all
I got back from visiting friends back at school over the weekend, only to find that friday night there was a fire at my apartment. Right now I can see that my place has no roof on it, and I am not allowed back inside to see what I have lost if anything. I fear that all I own right now is this laptop and few changes of clothes, but hope that its more.
I am living in a hotel right now, and later in the week they are going to try and be moving me to a new apartment that they own. Im going to be trying to take a few days off work to try and get situated with what is going on, and hope that most of my belonging still exist. There is internet in my hotel, so I do have that for now so I should have a way to get to this game, but I have no idea how much time I am really going to be able to commit.
There will be a point where I will likely have no reliable access for a few days once I get a new place, so if the majority of players (or the mod) think that it will be better I will replace out. In the event that there is a replacement that is lined up already, it may be better if they replace in just to avoid the hassle. I can try and keep up the best I can, either way though.-
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Told you more then once that I did not want to hammer when we were lurker lynching when a majority was not needed. Anything zazie would of said could of been helpful.Lord Gurgi wrote:Same. but nonetheless,Vote: LlamaFluff. Not voting at the end of the day is scummy.
On that note I talked to PJ and I am going to replace out due to what is going on.
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So. I should be getting access back in a week, maybe on the weekend if im lucky. If I havent gotten replaced by then I will be back and posting reguarly. Untill then I will try and sneak in what I can at work, but still am going to stay 'on the replace list' untill then, since coming back with three days untill deadline doesnt sound great.
Also its come to my attention that Batt is very likely town. It also would be nice to hear from LG since I addressed what he brought up but its been ignored with no vote movement.-
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I should have full access back monday, so if no one has replaced me by then I will no longer need replacement. Will try and do a little read and catchup in the meantime at work, as if I get back two days to deadline I want to at least be able to contribute immediately