The Mafia with the Hydras - Game Over!

[Shanba]

We've been explaining all damn day we think daspot is scummy. Are you even reading our posts any more? We switched because there was a wagon on him.

Gah.

[Shanba]

Ergo, the only way Froggy survives this without a claim is if he's scum. Therefore, I want a claim.

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[Shanba]

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Post #636 » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:56 pm
Copper wrote:
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Fonzi: If I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that any last-minute energy towards daSpot would indicate FES scum (because we're the only voter on the FES wagon who would be similarly happy with a daSpot lynch.) Why wouldn't you want to keep that to yourself, and see if this change in momentum indeed occurs?


Eh? I'm not saying that at all. I was saying there wasn't any chance of that momentum shift actually happening, so we might as well stop going round in circles. I kinda agree with FD here...

Actually this is a massive glaring backtrack and I'm baffled copper didn't call you out on it.

[Shanba]

Yeah, I think CES and I were not a good fit for a hydra partnership, though we got the hang of it in the end. A lot of the things I was instinctively doing, CES was stopping me and asking "why?" and then I'd try and explain and he'd have some good reason why it was a bad idea but then I kinda lost interest anyway.

Towards the end of the game, CES was simply running his posts by me and I'd say "yup looks ok" and then like the last two days he didn't even bother with that any more. I apologise for the lack of activity, it's partly due to playing in a hydra and partly due to the exam period and a new found obsession with LoL.

I remember someone else stating that they were having activity problems because they couldn't contact their hydra buddy - we were actually having the same thing. It basically became us talking to each other once a day and creating a post out of that conversation. You might note that after I lost interest, CES' postin actually

increased

in rate. It seems that the need to communicate in a hydra hugely counteracts the benefit of having an extra head in terms of keeping up activity (subnote: anyone remember that scumchat game with the five headed skype hydra?)

So yeah, scum win thanks ces!

(Also FD's gambit was awful)

[Shanba]

(that said I think the natural instinct to say - OH HES SCUM BACKTRACKING is a trap. This kind of play comes so often from town and not from scum who tend to be more careful with their lives that I think it was worth pausing and reassessing before the whole LYNCHLYNCHLYNCH thing. But I can tell you the gambit was awful because I was scum and it made me happy.)