PBP Review of Xylthixlm
{View is of Xy in isolation, oldest first}
0: Bandwagon vote on OGML
1: “We're bandwagoning YOU, not ME.” To OGML after OGML OMGUSed Xy
2: Opposes NL.
3: Set-up speculation (“I would assume 4 mafia + a serial killer, myself.”)
4: Calls for votes on OGML
5: Attacks liamcool for trying to appear protown. Votes liam.
6: It was actually egruntz. Votes egruntz
7: “egruntz is trying very hard to be helpful to the town.”
8: Translates something snaps said into: “So in summary: You think egruntz really is trying to help the town, but you also think he might be mafia.”
9: Tag fix
10: “Bandwagoning is a null tell until we know some alignments.”
11: “By the way, where did the other votes on egruntz go?” He sure is paying a lot of attention to egruntz
12: “DS and Mills, stop fighting each other and vote egruntz.” More on egruntz
13: Doesn’t want to rush a deadline lynch
14: “Oh, and I'm also really curious to see if DS and/or Mills will do what I tell them.”
15: Says that in 13 he didn’t mean that he wants a rushed lynch now
16: Admits he could be wrong about a rushed lynch being bad
17: Asks Mills to explain why he said he needs to reread in light of learning that this game isn’t restricted to the newbie roles
18: Wonders how to get info without a wagon
19: Asks for the suspicions of DE and Sangy
20: Votes DS for wagoning
21: “egruntz, do you think we should ever lynch without certain information that someone is mafia? If so, when? If not, how do you expect to win?”
22: Posts probability of town winning by random lynches
23: “Sufficiently bad idiots can be antitown without being scum.”
24: Scumdar post.
Egruntz:
Newbie tells. But giving off newbie tells as experienced player is scummy. His defensiveness is weird. (What’s interesting here is that he expresses a negative opinion of Egruntz without making any actual argument. A distancing tell)
DS:
Lurker
Mills:
“Seems townish”
Snaps:
Posts too much
Fonz and Bookitty
Competent players
Would be happy to vote DS or Egruntz.
25: Criticises Snaps’ verbosity
26: Advocates lynch of the antitown
27: Panzer hasn’t made an impression
28: “Phate, only if they contain useful content rather than saying the same thing three times.”
29: Refers to another post of snaps where he says too much
30: Snarky post at OGML who criticised Xy’s lack of content
31: Continues advocating the lynch of the antitown who are not scum
32: “Mills, that isn't what you said in post 192.”
33: Is sure DS will show up and defend
34: Pushes a DS lynch
35: Ditto
36: FoSes CKD
37: Asks DE what probability he thinks DS is scum.
38: “Any act that hurts the town is scummy”
39: Gives a scumlist:
Disciple Slayer
curiouskarmadog, for voting Mills for a scummy reason then not saying what it is
Dark Ermac, for suggesting random voting then arguing against voting the scummiest people
egruntz, for advocating nolynch and general strange play
It is quite likely, given the pervasiveness of distancing, that at least one other scumbag is in this list. Of those listed, we can rule out DS and CKD (both have died and came up as town). That leaves us with DE and egruntz. Of those two, his comments towards egruntz look most like distancing, since the arguments given against egr are the most flimsy (though the DE arguments aren’t much better).
40: Pushes DS
41: Ditto
42: Explains that scum will push NL more than town
43: “If scum never do it, then it is not a tell. If it's not a tell, there is no penalty for doing it. If there is a benefit and no penalty, then scum will do it.”
44: “The benefit of pushing nolynch is extremely small, so the associated tell is also extremely small... with optimal play. Real scum don't play optimally.”
45: Defends Mills against Boo
46: Puts that logic on hold after Mills
47: His read on Mills has become undecided. Starts attacking Book
48: “Whether you think it's a major issue depends on how you interpret Dark Ermac's post. "Semantics issues" are like that.”
49: Thinks Mills’ defence of DE was semantics
50: Asks why Mills is more inconsistent than Bookitty
51: Sees and accepts Book’s point
52: Asks what time zone the deadline is
53: Reiterates a call by Mills for DS to post
54: Calls for content
55: Questions Eteo’s lurking
56: Confirms vote on Eteo
57: 3 days to deadline
58: FoSes panzer
59: Accuses Panzer of distancing from DS
60: “I know the argument against Panzer is weak. Still, I've got my eye on her.”
61: Asks why some people are not voting
62: Keeps pushing the non-voters to vote
63: Points out mod error
64: Thinks DS might have forgotten his role
65: Doesn’t like DE not revealing suspicions
66: “I plan to take a hard look at Dark Ermac, egruntz, and Panzerjager tomorrow.”
I’m in agreement with Bookitty that Xyl was probably distancing against egruntz. DE is also a possibility.
Needless to say, I shall be giving both of them a thorough review in my future posts.
