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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief:
Winston: You might be right, I don't usually play 72/24, but can you explain how this is a Bad Thing?
Fred: My concern is still your wording, if you were fine with both wagons then I think you would have just left it at that.
So now you're trying to direct what my response should have been? Saying that I have sympathy, something that I stated within the meat of the post, so it wasn't that much of an inference that the unfortunately meant that despite my humanity I'm likely to vote him. The wording is only misleading because you're actively altering the meaning.Winston: You might be right, I don't usually play 72/24, but can you explain how this is a Bad Thing?
Fred: My concern is still your wording, if you were fine with both wagons then I think you would have just left it at that.
Either way, I posted it because I felt like it and wanted people to know where I was at.
Couple that with your inference that I should not vote Logic because he's consensus and lolconensusisneverrightyouguyslol, then calling me lazy for not "voting" my top scumread (when Logic is a relatively top scum read)...tis strange.
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief:
Can you elaborate?
Town's job is to use the time available to rebalance the information equation in its favour. Can you elaborate?
Scum's job is to ensure town guesses wrong at eod.
Originally Posted by Xiahou:
I'm still comfortable with my vote, but GH is giving me a scummy vibe too.
Zack is a bad vote.I'm still comfortable with my vote, but GH is giving me a scummy vibe too.
Join me on GH.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Town's job is to use the time available to rebalance the information equation in its favour.
Scum's job is to ensure town guesses wrong at eod.
For the town part you're generally correct, but I think you're oversimplifying the mafia's job. There's a lot more nuance to it, working on multiple levels to ensure both short and longterm success.Town's job is to use the time available to rebalance the information equation in its favour.
Scum's job is to ensure town guesses wrong at eod.
Luckily all I have to do is just say what's on my mind this game.
Show me the good stuff, GH.
Exciting stuff is happening. Catching only snippets Fredwood came out townie and GH came out awkward. Not sure if scummy though.
I can understand someone not voting their top scumread. For example logic has at least one "pseudo-vote" from Winston and I wouldn't mind going there myself. But I want to see a counterwagon and see how it develops and who's on it. Even though I haven't felt great about zack I can say that his 3 person wagon is not cool.
@GeneralHanderkerchief
Whom are your scumspects from strongest to weakest?
I can understand someone not voting their top scumread. For example logic has at least one "pseudo-vote" from Winston and I wouldn't mind going there myself. But I want to see a counterwagon and see how it develops and who's on it. Even though I haven't felt great about zack I can say that his 3 person wagon is not cool.
@GeneralHanderkerchief
Whom are your scumspects from strongest to weakest?
Zack
pizza
Monty
Fredwood
Dp101
Townpile.
pizza
Monty
Fredwood
Dp101
Townpile.
GH
Logic
El Barto
Manasi
choxorn
scumpile
Logic
El Barto
Manasi
choxorn
scumpile
Slaan
Csargo
Kage
Cuth
reinoe
Xiahou
remainder
Csargo
Kage
Cuth
reinoe
Xiahou
remainder
Originally Posted by Xiahou:
I'm still comfortable with my vote, but GH is giving me a scummy vibe too.
I don't care for this either.
Hi.I'm still comfortable with my vote, but GH is giving me a scummy vibe too.
I don't care for this either.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
GH
Logic
El Barto
Manasi
choxorn
scumpile
What do you think of Choxorn?GH
Logic
El Barto
Manasi
choxorn
scumpile
Can you clarify the ordering in those piles, if they are ordered?
Originally Posted by Montmorency:
What do you think of Choxorn?
Conservative, lacks juice.What do you think of Choxorn?
Originally Posted by Montmorency:
Can you clarify the ordering in those piles, if they are ordered?
Townpile order was deliberate, others were in order of recollection.Can you clarify the ordering in those piles, if they are ordered?
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Conservative, lacks juice.
He has two distinct blocks of three posts. First set of 3 posts is a joke and a few low-impact reads, standard Choxorn. Conservative, lacks juice.
Second set of 3 posts is shading a few people (Zack and Xiahou), recreating a case against Logic to sheep Pizza (who is looking like town but you can never be sure).
It's the second block, right?
Order as in top-bottom or.
Originally Posted by Montmorency:
He has two distinct blocks of three posts. First set of 3 posts is a joke and a few low-impact reads, standard Choxorn.
Second set of 3 posts is shading a few people (Zack and Xiahou), recreating a case against Logic to sheep Pizza (who is looking like town but you can never be sure).
It's the second block, right?
Order as in top-bottom or.
He's not left scumhooks, except by omission.He has two distinct blocks of three posts. First set of 3 posts is a joke and a few low-impact reads, standard Choxorn.
Second set of 3 posts is shading a few people (Zack and Xiahou), recreating a case against Logic to sheep Pizza (who is looking like town but you can never be sure).
It's the second block, right?
Order as in top-bottom or.
Originally Posted by Montmorency:
Order as in top-bottom or.
Townpile is most townie at top.Order as in top-bottom or.
You're making me feel you should be even higher.
Very nice work if you're scum.
Very nice work if you're scum.
Originally Posted by Xiahou:
I'm still comfortable with my vote, but GH is giving me a scummy vibe too.
I don't care for this either.
Why?I'm still comfortable with my vote, but GH is giving me a scummy vibe too.
I don't care for this either.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
He's not left scumhooks, except by omission.
Here's his full ISO: He's not left scumhooks, except by omission.
1-3
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
4-6
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
What pinged me is the compartmentalized shade and sheeping without venturing anything new or evaluating players broadly on balance. What is the omission from your POV?
I looked at town Choxorn in Swords and Sorcery, where I recall him being fairly good. 4 evenly spaced few-liner posts, shift in earnest attacking and voting DP for a scummy thing he did, responding to DP's challenge with analysis of DP alone and DP-Winston, absenting himself for the second half of the day then popping back in during night to offer a fair contribution of analysis on day's events. I think one way to put the difference is that Choxorn was more precise and focused in that D1, in the one instance he addressed the game course. What Choxorn did here in his second block of posts was spreading himself thinner.
So if you want to diversify wagons,
Unvote: Zack
Vote: Choxorn
might be a better shot than Barto or Manasi.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Don't like this post.
Feels like Fredwood's playing 72/24, while GH is looking to eod.
Don't like this post.
Feels like Fredwood's playing 72/24, while GH is looking to eod.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Town play the day, scum play for the deadliine.
Town play the day, scum play for the deadliine.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Town's job is to use the time available to rebalance the information equation in its favour.
Scum's job is to ensure town guesses wrong at eod.
This progression seems off to me. It reads like you were trying to insert an opportunity to grandstand about that, because I've squinted my eyes in confusion a few times to try and find the relevance to the argument between GH and Fred, and it's not there.Town's job is to use the time available to rebalance the information equation in its favour.
Scum's job is to ensure town guesses wrong at eod.
On that point, I think they both come out of it looking good, actually.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
GH's big post looks townie in itself, but it feels a little scummy to me that he'd make that his main engagement with the thread at this stage.
Where's the chat, GH?
This post got me thinking about one thing that bugged me about GH in pokemon. I had him near the top of my reads lists almost the whole time I was alive, embarrassingly, but I remember still being frustrated that he wasn't engaging with me more in the thread. He seemed to pop in and out, and if he didn't want to answer a question, he'd leave the thread and ignore it. In contrast, so far that hasn't been the case (even as I know he's busy with another game). Winston was on the right track in that, if GH is a wolf he probably just drops that text bomb and leaves. But he stuck around and picked fights. And I think he really did see things in Fred's post that bothered him, and he wanted to dig in.GH's big post looks townie in itself, but it feels a little scummy to me that he'd make that his main engagement with the thread at this stage.
Where's the chat, GH?
Fred's side looks really pure -- dunno if as a wolf he's capable of taking that criticism so easily in stride like that. Fred's back up again, but I still think that post is problematic if one of Barto and Logic is a wolf.
Upon reflection, Winston probably good too -- I think he'd be more content to stay in the background a bit more if he was scum.
Csargo responding to the Xiahou post with a simple, "why?" is EXACTLY how I was going to respond to it. X only voted me because I had a lot of posts (even though he thanked one of them, so clearly he didn't really mind that much), he never said I was scummy that I remember, but he seems to be implying that he did find something legitimately wolfy about me. I've only played with him in Pirate Ship Mafia, don't remember his behavior at all outside of the 200 gold fiasco, which I don't think is relevant here. In any case, not enough of an issue yet for me to go digging through past games for clues.
Monty -- I think the push on choxorn has merit (certainly more than the one on me 
).
He seems to be riding / piggybacking on Pizzaguy.
).He seems to be riding / piggybacking on Pizzaguy.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Slaan
Csargo
Kage
Cuth
reinoe
Xiahou
remainder
I think you and logic are the only ones that low on Kage. Anything specific there?Slaan
Csargo
Kage
Cuth
reinoe
Xiahou
remainder
Oh, I just realized that was the null pile.
but still
but still
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Kage is 90% town here.
Originally Posted by Montmorency:
You and others have contested this (mostly indirectly), but Zack feels too free-spirited. He's committing to trivial things, but gliding about the agendas of the day. Only Csargo agrees AFAIK. If Zack flips scum I think it spews you as scum-risk, but if not I think you're a solid town read. Pizza for one believes this kind of calculation only has a place later in the game.
You and others have contested this (mostly indirectly), but Zack feels too free-spirited. He's committing to trivial things, but gliding about the agendas of the day. Only Csargo agrees AFAIK. If Zack flips scum I think it spews you as scum-risk, but if not I think you're a solid town read. Pizza for one believes this kind of calculation only has a place later in the game.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
I like this. It speaks to my residual doubt on Zack.
I have residual doubt on Zack, too, might just be paranoia but might not be. And I still think it's weird that he'd call out Pizza for going after what he calls "low hanging fruit" in Logic and Csargo, and then Zack proceeds to, 2 pages later, start going hard after El Barto, the lowest possible hanging of low hanging fruit.I like this. It speaks to my residual doubt on Zack.
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief:
Winston: You might be right, I don't usually play 72/24, but can you explain how this is a Bad Thing?
Fred: My concern is still your wording, if you were fine with both wagons then I think you would have just left it at that.
The townies have control of the day. It's generally a good idea to let it last as long as possible, to get the most information you can.Winston: You might be right, I don't usually play 72/24, but can you explain how this is a Bad Thing?
Fred: My concern is still your wording, if you were fine with both wagons then I think you would have just left it at that.
Originally Posted by Montmorency:
I looked at town Choxorn in Swords and Sorcery, where I recall him being fairly good. 4 evenly spaced few-liner posts, shift in earnest attacking and voting DP for a scummy thing he did, responding to DP's challenge with analysis of DP alone and DP-Winston, absenting himself for the second half of the day then popping back in during night to offer a fair contribution of analysis on day's events. I think one way to put the difference is that Choxorn was more precise and focused in that D1, in the one instance he addressed the game course. What Choxorn did here in his second block of posts was spreading himself thinner.
Well, yeah, but that was pretty atypical for me- it was a game where DP and Al Sips stood out to me as really scummy, pretty much right from the start. Usually I don't play very well on Day 1 and get better as the game goes on. Case in point: This game, and my game in the mafia championships where I guessed horribly wrong the first two days and went really hard after a scummy townie instead of an actual mafia.I looked at town Choxorn in Swords and Sorcery, where I recall him being fairly good. 4 evenly spaced few-liner posts, shift in earnest attacking and voting DP for a scummy thing he did, responding to DP's challenge with analysis of DP alone and DP-Winston, absenting himself for the second half of the day then popping back in during night to offer a fair contribution of analysis on day's events. I think one way to put the difference is that Choxorn was more precise and focused in that D1, in the one instance he addressed the game course. What Choxorn did here in his second block of posts was spreading himself thinner.
Also, I had a lot fewer RL commitments back in February than I do right now, which is why I'm only just briefly popping in and out- that's all I really have time to do.
Originally Posted by :
I have residual doubt on Zack, too, might just be paranoia but might not be. And I still think it's weird that he'd call out Pizza for going after what he calls "low hanging fruit" in Logic and Csargo, and then Zack proceeds to, 2 pages later, start going hard after El Barto, the lowest possible hanging of low hanging fruit.
did you read my posts on el barto?I have residual doubt on Zack, too, might just be paranoia but might not be. And I still think it's weird that he'd call out Pizza for going after what he calls "low hanging fruit" in Logic and Csargo, and then Zack proceeds to, 2 pages later, start going hard after El Barto, the lowest possible hanging of low hanging fruit.
I'll be around for the next 40-60 minutes and I'll try to read the last ~250 posts. If anyone wants to ask anything during that time, go ahead.
I really don't like Xiahou's vote on Zack on #729. I usually employ the O.M.G.U.S. algorithm on Day One, but that reads like trying to form a counterwaggon for Logic's benefit.
vote: Xiahou
vote: Xiahou
Originally Posted by Dp101:
Firstly, I wouldn’t exactly describe my r actions towards logic and Barto tearing st their throats, but anyway, I feel that out of those 3, the lynch order should be Logic > Barto > Manasi, with manasi basically being my null benchmark at this point. Barto’s outright refusal to read the thread feels like a new level of anti-town behaviour from him, and I’m starting to agree with Pizza on Logic. However, I want to emphasise here that I am not entirely sure how to read logic, and so my vote is more sheeping than anything else. Could you elaborate as to what you mean by “Logic the round before his lynch”? Are you referring to a past game here? Or do you think logic is playling like this because he thinks he is going to get lynched? I really can’t parse your statement.
It's not an outright refusal; I said I might read it if/when I had the time. Which, having a 72-hour phase, isn't that much of a stretch.Firstly, I wouldn’t exactly describe my r actions towards logic and Barto tearing st their throats, but anyway, I feel that out of those 3, the lynch order should be Logic > Barto > Manasi, with manasi basically being my null benchmark at this point. Barto’s outright refusal to read the thread feels like a new level of anti-town behaviour from him, and I’m starting to agree with Pizza on Logic. However, I want to emphasise here that I am not entirely sure how to read logic, and so my vote is more sheeping than anything else. Could you elaborate as to what you mean by “Logic the round before his lynch”? Are you referring to a past game here? Or do you think logic is playling like this because he thinks he is going to get lynched? I really can’t parse your statement.
Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief:
I thought Reinoe's entrance was fine. Why didn't you like it?
Didn't he vote for me?I thought Reinoe's entrance was fine. Why didn't you like it?
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
I'm bored with being townread.
Tell me why I'm scum.
'cos you voted for me.I'm bored with being townread.
Tell me why I'm scum.
Originally Posted by Zack:
Also, anyone who is riding the train of "Logic is scum here, because he is noticeably and explicitly different from XCOM mafia, where he was town."
Read Barto in that game, read Logic in that game. Read them both in this game.
There's a stark difference in one of them, and it's not Logic.
How did I behave in Day One in that game?Also, anyone who is riding the train of "Logic is scum here, because he is noticeably and explicitly different from XCOM mafia, where he was town."
Read Barto in that game, read Logic in that game. Read them both in this game.
There's a stark difference in one of them, and it's not Logic.
Originally Posted by Zack:
In the CFC/MTGS game on MU, I defended him for days before finally giving up. He was town.
I don't remember the game it was, but he was worried with fixing votecounts or something while having zero interest in the actual thread. I called him out on it as being wolfy, and got a mixture of scorn and ambivalence.
In Sooh's last game, I called him out as a probable wolf again. He was scum. I barely escaped getting mislynche d1, and got immediately killed by the town vigilante.
In Representative Democracy, as my teammate, I was literally begging him in our scum chat to please, post and do something. He did nothing but occasionally pop in to complain about the number of posts and do not really anything, pretty much what he's done here.
Look at XCOM. How much time does he spend complaining about having to read the thread? Does he make thoughtless OMGUS votes then peace out?
Nope.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Convince me to vote Tak, Zack.
People refuse to read him, because he's barto. But it's not that hard.Convince me to vote Tak, Zack.
In the CFC/MTGS game on MU, I defended him for days before finally giving up. He was town.
I don't remember the game it was, but he was worried with fixing votecounts or something while having zero interest in the actual thread. I called him out on it as being wolfy, and got a mixture of scorn and ambivalence.
In Sooh's last game, I called him out as a probable wolf again. He was scum. I barely escaped getting mislynche d1, and got immediately killed by the town vigilante.
In Representative Democracy, as my teammate, I was literally begging him in our scum chat to please, post and do something. He did nothing but occasionally pop in to complain about the number of posts and do not really anything, pretty much what he's done here.
Look at XCOM. How much time does he spend complaining about having to read the thread? Does he make thoughtless OMGUS votes then peace out?
Nope.
Originally Posted by Zack:
Alternate theory: the mafioso knows the two leading bandwaggons are on people not his faction. Thus he makes a post where he faffs about, muses a bit, and contradicts himself. When one flips town he will say he really should have gone with his conscience and votes the other one.Originally Posted by Fredwood:
As a recipient of Barto's unique version of the welcoming committee and me getting a bug in my bonnet about it, he does feel different. I feel a demonstrable difference between Bart in Xcom as opposed to Logic in XCom. Unfortunately most of Logic's play has been off the back foot so even if I did sense a change in playstyle.
I agree with Monty in the sense that Logic feels like the "correct" lynch today, but illogical me would like to vote Bart here.
Anyway fatigue etc etc etc neither have been here defending themselves etc etc etc.
this post feels like a wolf prepping for a wolf flipAs a recipient of Barto's unique version of the welcoming committee and me getting a bug in my bonnet about it, he does feel different. I feel a demonstrable difference between Bart in Xcom as opposed to Logic in XCom. Unfortunately most of Logic's play has been off the back foot so even if I did sense a change in playstyle.
I agree with Monty in the sense that Logic feels like the "correct" lynch today, but illogical me would like to vote Bart here.
Anyway fatigue etc etc etc neither have been here defending themselves etc etc etc.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
Zack is a bad vote.
Join me on GH.
Give me a bit more justification and I might bite. At worst we'll just have given him more time in which to prepare the fourth edition of Pirate Ship Mafia (this is a good reason to lynch him, incidentally).Zack is a bad vote.
Join me on GH.
Originally Posted by Winston Hughes:
GH
Logic
El Barto
Manasi
choxorn
scumpile
Two-fingered salute it is.GH
Logic
El Barto
Manasi
choxorn
scumpile
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