Open 905: Pick Your Power X/Y S/S [game over!]

[Firebringer]

aren't u just gonna work of mechanics anyways davesaz

[Jake The Wolfie]

I am voting for the wrong person it seems.

VOTE: NotAScum

Is a relative of our behated Miltank?

[June]

the draft has answers if we are willing to hear its whispers

You have the same name as my cat although just her first name

your cat has a powerful name

She’s a pretty powerful cat. She has yellow eyes. Her fur is super soft too. Softest/smoothest of any cat ive pet, not even exaggerating.

Is she a tabby
a gray cat

I think if she was a warrior cat they would regret naming her before her eyes changed color because yellow is a historically good prefix for cats imo but she'd be something dumb and new age like softpelt or whatever. what does that say about a cat's abilities? nothing.

She is a calico. Black mainly, orange (mainly on her chest its cute) and then some gray and white and brown

Shes a real cutie. My sister’s cat looks similar too. Calico with same colors. Green eyes though.

Im quite the fan of cats.

she would have a good suffix maybe then. I think like a dapple-. leaf- is used a lot for those cats too because they are many colors like leaves can be. those prefixes are a bit better

i think dapplecloud is a good name

[gob]

I can see a headache coming in this game from trying to read words that don't fit my language map.

Davesaz just admitted theyre wolfing everyone

[Dunnstral]

I am voting for the wrong person it seems.

VOTE: NotAScum

It is interested in the why behind this statement, if you could indulge it?

I wanted to move my vote off of you because I liked your opening.

[Firebringer]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

[gob]

the draft has answers if we are willing to hear its whispers

You have the same name as my cat although just her first name

your cat has a powerful name

She’s a pretty powerful cat. She has yellow eyes. Her fur is super soft too. Softest/smoothest of any cat ive pet, not even exaggerating.

Is she a tabby
a gray cat

I think if she was a warrior cat they would regret naming her before her eyes changed color because yellow is a historically good prefix for cats imo but she'd be something dumb and new age like softpelt or whatever. what does that say about a cat's abilities? nothing.

She is a calico. Black mainly, orange (mainly on her chest its cute) and then some gray and white and brown

Shes a real cutie. My sister’s cat looks similar too. Calico with same colors. Green eyes though.

Im quite the fan of cats.

she would have a good suffix maybe then. I think like a dapple-. leaf- is used a lot for those cats too because they are many colors like leaves can be. those prefixes are a bit better

i think dapplecloud is a good name

Ooooh i see the warrior cat names. I loved those books. I read up to the fourth series. And a lot of the big super editions.
Dapplecloud would fit her. I feel like shadow-somethjng or maybe pumpkin- (she reminds me a lot of halloween) would fit her

Dapplecloud is good though. Cloud is a good warrior name addon thing for her. She likes going up high

[gob]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

ur smokin crack June is town

[June]

i wish i was a wolf i don't want to solve

[Dunnstral]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

I think June is town so far.

[June]

the draft has answers if we are willing to hear its whispers

You have the same name as my cat although just her first name

your cat has a powerful name

She’s a pretty powerful cat. She has yellow eyes. Her fur is super soft too. Softest/smoothest of any cat ive pet, not even exaggerating.

Is she a tabby
a gray cat

I think if she was a warrior cat they would regret naming her before her eyes changed color because yellow is a historically good prefix for cats imo but she'd be something dumb and new age like softpelt or whatever. what does that say about a cat's abilities? nothing.

She is a calico. Black mainly, orange (mainly on her chest its cute) and then some gray and white and brown

Shes a real cutie. My sister’s cat looks similar too. Calico with same colors. Green eyes though.

Im quite the fan of cats.

she would have a good suffix maybe then. I think like a dapple-. leaf- is used a lot for those cats too because they are many colors like leaves can be. those prefixes are a bit better

i think dapplecloud is a good name

Ooooh i see the warrior cat names. I loved those books. I read up to the fourth series. And a lot of the big super editions.
Dapplecloud would fit her. I feel like shadow-somethjng or maybe pumpkin- (she reminds me a lot of halloween) would fit her

Dapplecloud is good though. Cloud is a good warrior name addon thing for her. She likes going up high

I am the number one warrior cats fan on this entire website
pumpkin is good but i dont think the cats were ever canonically exposed to them. when i was a kid i was a real stickler for the original era of names but i think it would be nice too. shadow would be okay in a fanon setting without the existence of shadowclan but i think the new books dont care about that but i am the old guard

She would be a good tree climber she catches squirrels a lot and leads hunting patrols

[Oblivion]

I am voting for the wrong person it seems.

VOTE: NotAScum

It is interested in the why behind this statement, if you could indulge it?

I wanted to move my vote off of you because I liked your opening.

It, uh, understood that much from context. Perhaps it should have been more clear, can you explain what it was about its opening that you liked?

For the sake of full transparency, it is attempting to build a mental model of you as a player to be able to determine if and when you become different and interrogate those moments. It plans to try and do this for all those in this game it can, but it has a particular interest in why people decide to see it as town, because it has a fear of the feelings of InGroup and Belonging that can come with that declaration.

As a fact, just hearing that you viewed me positively, it could feel its own desire to work with you sliding up, so it is using this as an attempt to counterbalance against that, if that is okay?

[Firebringer]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

ur smokin crack June is town

I only vape nowadays, no more crack for me.

[June]

I don't think any of my cats would be good warrior cats but maybe one. she's small. i had a warrior cats oc named tinyfrost who was a medicine cat so maybe she could be her

the other two would be kittypets though they would offer the warrior cats shelter one night while they were traveling to fulfill a prophecy

[Oblivion]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

ur smokin crack June is town

This level of confidence is interesting to me. For what reasons do you find June so overwhelmingly town that you would respond to another's suspicion in this way? Why not allow the suspicion to play out for more information, then assert your read and reasoning?

[Oblivion]

I can see a headache coming in this game from trying to read words that don't fit my language map.

It has two concerns with this post, both stemming from an assumption this is directed at it and it's post talking about you.

Firstly, it wants to allow for others to understand it and how it speaks. If it is not being understood, that is concerning for it. It can try its best to help you, but it speaks as it is because it is who it is.

Secondly, it wonders, perhaps from a place of deeper paranoia, if this isn't intended to discredit what we've said or choose not to engage with our concerns with you. It feels like you could likely erase those concerns by answering our questions we directed towards you, but for the moment we are a little... put off by this.

[PenguinPower]

WHY WOULDNT U WANT TO BE NUKE PENGUIN.

U HAD SUCH GOOD SHOTS IN DEFCON

I used all my luck getting the top pick and got scared.

[gob]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

ur smokin crack June is town

This level of confidence is interesting to me. For what reasons do you find June so overwhelmingly town that you would respond to another's suspicion in this way? Why not allow the suspicion to play out for more information, then assert your read and reasoning?

June seems cool. Its also unlikely she would lost some of her posts if she is mafia.

No gurrenter though but im not limming her todya

[gob]

I don't think any of my cats would be good warrior cats but maybe one. she's small. i had a warrior cats oc named tinyfrost who was a medicine cat so maybe she could be her

the other two would be kittypets though they would offer the warrior cats shelter one night while they were traveling to fulfill a prophecy

Dude there was an outdoor cat that was around last summer. He was so big. I have 2 female cats so i really want a HUGE male cat. Like $15 pounds

[PenguinPower]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

ur smokin crack June is town

This level of confidence is interesting to me. For what reasons do you find June so overwhelmingly town that you would respond to another's suspicion in this way? Why not allow the suspicion to play out for more information, then assert your read and reasoning?

June seems cool. Its also unlikely she would lost some of her posts if she is mafia.

No gurrenter though but im not limming her todya

Everyone knows that scum can’t be cool and experience technical issues. Duh.

[gob]

if i was pretending to solve the game, I would go with June as one scum.
But I am not pretending to solve right now.

I am too busy chilling in the PT with penguinpower, talking about anime

ur smokin crack June is town

This level of confidence is interesting to me. For what reasons do you find June so overwhelmingly town that you would respond to another's suspicion in this way? Why not allow the suspicion to play out for more information, then assert your read and reasoning?

June seems cool. Its also unlikely she would lost some of her posts if she is mafia.

No gurrenter though but im not limming her todya

Everyone knows that scum can’t be cool and experience technical issues. Duh.

What does that have to do with what i was talking about?

[gob]

like technical issues. I dont get it

[PenguinPower]

Lost some of her posts? Usually you lose posts due to technical issues…

It’s ruins the sarcasm if you make me explain it.

[gob]

oh i see

my bad sorry. I turned off autocorrect i need to turn it back on tbh

[davesaz]

I think reading too much into the draft would be a mistake. You have to go pretty deep into my history, given it's been ages since I played this (modded it a lot), but it will be clear I've always had this position.

It is of the opinion that this is a very defensive post that doesn't seem to have a prediction for how on guard it is. Yes, can you explain to it why you felt the need to bring up and defend yourself from an attack that hasn't even been levied?

Further, it thinks that the major element of this game is draft speculation and reading into player mentality for the choices that are made. Why shut that down?

There is a difference between using draft information as just information, and using it to predict alignments or team composition in the absence of other more important things like the actual posts and votes in the game. In prior games of this family of setups, I have seen players say things like "x and y can't possibly be scum together because they picked the same number", where in fact scum who are very confident in their discussion abilities might actually choose the same number specifically to be ruled out as teammates. Separately, the concept that x and y are more likely to be s/t than t/t picking the same number is also dangerous, as it is no more or less likely that scum would want to keep a PR out of town's hands than it is that two town really want a PR.

So I strongly recommend thinking first about what people say. That doesn't mean that the draft numbers should be ignored, I just don't think they're the first or only way to sort people.