Micro 962: Geriatric Trio II (Town Victory)

[Michael Scott]

Ooh, chess! Bring it on!
e4 c5 Ke2

Hullo

-Jimothy

Jimothy, this might be a trap! Didn't Dwight say that Toby's favorite game is chess? I've got a bad feeling about this Bug person!







- Date Mike

[AGar]

hello friends, i am back! seeing how this game is very active and how everyone is so eagar to post, i have decided to make a detailed readslist that will hopefully accurately reflect my current feelings on the gamestate!

Michael Scott (Auro + volxen)

- this slot is locktown in my eyes. their entrance (in post 5) is brimming with a relaxed, confident tone that is never seen in players of the scum alignment. posts like 13 and 20 show a great will to solve the game and a profound analysis of the gamestate that can only come from an uninformed perspective. and the brilliance of 21 can only come from someone pure of heart. if anyone were to ever vote for this slot to be executed, i'd wonder if that person is purposefully trying to throw the game.

Bingle

- bingle is my second most confident townread. his early posts 6 and 15 show a deep interest in this game's mechanical side, which is something i have personally only ever seen from bingle when he was aligned with the town. the confidence and passion with which he presents his reads in 15 make me strongly believe it's coming from a genuine place.

clidd

- while the number of universes in which clidd is aligned with the mafia is non-zero, i highly doubt that we are living in one of them. his opening in post 10 is very very similar to his one of his early posts in Micro 941 in which his slot was aligned with the town. based on what's happened so far, i have no reason to doubt his alignment is not the same this game.

Porkens

- this one is tricky. while post 8 by itself, as funny as it is, is not alignment indicative, when looked at the full picture, i do conclude it is indicative of porkens being town more often than not. what led me to that conclusion is the fact that i can draw some obvious parallels between porkens's play this game and his play in Why Gun?? - namely posting one big "memey" post then disappearing. the reason this is somewhat town!indicative is because porkens was aligned with the mafia in the aforementioned game, and based on what's happened so far, i have no reason to think scum!porkens would repeat the same play.

AGar

- dead null. i have nothing on this guy.

Kmd4390

- looking at their ISO, they're a scumlean of mine. while post 7 is NAI, post 22 reads like blatant fake dumbtelling to me. "what even is this thread", we're playing mafia, silly! i doubt you didn't know that, though.

xReckonerX

- i think it's very likely reckoner is aligned with the mafia. my train of thought is that in 9 he voted against agar with a comment "game's too easy", implying he's already solved agar's slot and that agar is mafia. however, in his next post in 12, he changes his vote to porkens. this makes me think that the earlier confidence and bravado of 9 is fake and fabricated, which is scum!indicative. also, as my hydra partner's already observed, why did you quote the chess post.

bugspray

- unfortunately, i think this is another game where bugs rolled scum against me. post 16 offers nothing game related, and i know scum!bugs struggles to make game-related content. and since then, bugs has suspiciously gone quiet, not even responding to the chess move in 21. i'm sorry you rolled scum again, bugs.

Sou and Kanna (Datisi + Kanna)

- this is obvscum. kill it with fire.

okay, that's all for now! i will be back later!

~sou

They stole my "kill it with fire" line but they do need to die.

VOTE: Sou and Kanna

Choo. Choo. Motherfuckers.

[bugspray]

Michael that is a bold move but it relflects your management style PERFECTLY! You're the king of the office and love to be front and center.
e4 c5 Ke2 Nc6
tr reckoner for hating my really bad chess wallpost

sr datisi for taking the low hanging bugspray sr when we should be fe facto vt masons rn

[bugspray]

VOTE: sou and kanna whoops, forgot to do this as well

@mod does my post limit reset ever 24 hours? im not super familiar with geriatric but playing this hoping it will imrpove my ability to make posts that are more rich in content

i am sorry for wasting a precious move mr scott that SHOULD be used to play chess with you
i hope that we can be in lylo together and just play chess while everyone else loses their minds in the dead thread

[xRECKONERx]

hello friends, i am back! seeing how this game is very active and how everyone is so eagar to post, i have decided to make a detailed readslist that will hopefully accurately reflect my current feelings on the gamestate!

Michael Scott (Auro + volxen)

- this slot is locktown in my eyes. their entrance (in post 5) is brimming with a relaxed, confident tone that is never seen in players of the scum alignment. posts like 13 and 20 show a great will to solve the game and a profound analysis of the gamestate that can only come from an uninformed perspective. and the brilliance of 21 can only come from someone pure of heart. if anyone were to ever vote for this slot to be executed, i'd wonder if that person is purposefully trying to throw the game.

Bingle

- bingle is my second most confident townread. his early posts 6 and 15 show a deep interest in this game's mechanical side, which is something i have personally only ever seen from bingle when he was aligned with the town. the confidence and passion with which he presents his reads in 15 make me strongly believe it's coming from a genuine place.

clidd

- while the number of universes in which clidd is aligned with the mafia is non-zero, i highly doubt that we are living in one of them. his opening in post 10 is very very similar to his one of his early posts in Micro 941 in which his slot was aligned with the town. based on what's happened so far, i have no reason to doubt his alignment is not the same this game.

Porkens

- this one is tricky. while post 8 by itself, as funny as it is, is not alignment indicative, when looked at the full picture, i do conclude it is indicative of porkens being town more often than not. what led me to that conclusion is the fact that i can draw some obvious parallels between porkens's play this game and his play in Why Gun?? - namely posting one big "memey" post then disappearing. the reason this is somewhat town!indicative is because porkens was aligned with the mafia in the aforementioned game, and based on what's happened so far, i have no reason to think scum!porkens would repeat the same play.

AGar

- dead null. i have nothing on this guy.

Kmd4390

- looking at their ISO, they're a scumlean of mine. while post 7 is NAI, post 22 reads like blatant fake dumbtelling to me. "what even is this thread", we're playing mafia, silly! i doubt you didn't know that, though.

xReckonerX

- i think it's very likely reckoner is aligned with the mafia. my train of thought is that in 9 he voted against agar with a comment "game's too easy", implying he's already solved agar's slot and that agar is mafia. however, in his next post in 12, he changes his vote to porkens. this makes me think that the earlier confidence and bravado of 9 is fake and fabricated, which is scum!indicative. also, as my hydra partner's already observed, why did you quote the chess post.

bugspray

- unfortunately, i think this is another game where bugs rolled scum against me. post 16 offers nothing game related, and i know scum!bugs struggles to make game-related content. and since then, bugs has suspiciously gone quiet, not even responding to the chess move in 21. i'm sorry you rolled scum again, bugs.

Sou and Kanna (Datisi + Kanna)

- this is obvscum. kill it with fire.

okay, that's all for now! i will be back later!

~sou

before i care too much how serious are these reads on a scale of 1-10

[Sou and Kanna]

@bugs, how serious are your reads in 27?

@reckoner, deadly serious.

1. Michael Scott (Auro + volxen)
   
2. Bingle
   
3. clidd
   
4. Porkens
   
5. AGar
   
6. Kmd4390
   
7. xReckonerX
   
8. bugspray
   
9. Sou and Kanna (Datisi + Kanna)

~sou

[xRECKONERx]

so ok then

NUMBER ONE:
if u were to read the actual thread, i quoted it to express how much i hate the fact it exists and is being done in this game

VOTE: sou and Kama I'm rvsing datisi. Also I think it would be productive to play chess peppered in to some stuff and to randomize color I will use dice and then basically do my first move if I am white and if I'm black then I'll assume you just go e4 and respond with c5

Original Roll String: 1d2 (STATIC)

1 2-Sided Dice: (1) = 1

1 I'm w and 2 I'm b
d4
e4 c5 so white if it's not e4 then you can choose a different first move if you want and also this should be considered an open chellenge so anyone who wants to battle me chess can

ok well i fucking hate this

it is
LITERALLY
in the post right before you guys questioned me about it???

i'm very confused about this line of questioning???

NUMBER TWO:

game's too easy

VOTE: AGar

u said this post was "fake and fabricated" confidence & bravado
and im...not sure how to break this to u...

...it was a joke RVS post. agar HAD NOT EVEN FUCKING POSTED YET

are you fr right now?

VOTE: S&K

[Aristophanes]

6. If a player has hit the daily limit and depleted their reserve, they are allowed one naked vote change per in-game Day.

@mod

: As written, this means that once your reserve is empty you may only change your vote once for the remainder of the phase. Can you clarify that this is what you intended?

I took that directly from the Geriatric Ruleset, however I believe that it should be a naked vote per post-limit-reset, or every 24 hours.

I will amend the rule in order to clarify that.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

@mod does my post limit reset ever 24 hours? im not super familiar with geriatric but playing this hoping it will imrpove my ability to make posts that are more rich in content

Correct. Your 10 daily posts will reset at the same time every day of that phase, determined by when that phase began. For example, D1 started at 8:30pm EST and thus every day at 8:30pm EST the daily post limit will reset.

If it is the final 24h before deadline, that will be extended to 15 posts.

In the event that you have used your daily posts but still need to post, you have a reserve of 20 posts which will never reset. Once used,they are used.

See the Game Specific/Geriatric Rules in the OP for this same info.

[clidd]

Good impressions

Michael Scott

Sou and Kanna

Null

Bingle
Porkens

Bad impressions

Reckoner
Agar
Kmd
Bugspray

-

I believe that I don't need to go into details about Michael, the charisma and role-playing he's doing seems healthy and fluid, with no indication that he's pushing himself over the limit or uncomfortable with it. It is easier to interpret something with energy and fluidity when you have a clear mind, and I imagine that the cognitive load of being scum, in this context, would affect his performance and make it all stressful and exhausting.

Regarding Sou and Kanna, post 23 contains observations that I sympathize with most (I disagree about Bingle and Porkens in the town zone), so it is likely that the similarity in the line of thought here (that I can see and agree with what he is seeing) is an indication that he is starting from a point of view similar to mine and, therefore, is possibly of the same alignment.

Bingle and Porkens don't have, in my opinion, substantial AI posts that I can look at and say

''I think he's town''

or

''I think he's scum''

, so they're both in the null zone.

Now, going to the recent bad impressions:

Agar / Bugspray -> They ignored post 23 and voted regardless of the observations that SK (I'll use this acronym now) made.

Reckoner -> Ignorance in post 29 when referring to post 23, bad tone in general. I'm evaluating whether this is linked to his profile baseline.

Kmd -> I remember a different start from him in our past game ( https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.p ... ect%5B%5D= 0&user_sort=Go ) where he did not feel the need to justify his absence (take a look at the date/time of the posts on the link) as he did in post 7 here and did not seem confused as in post 22.

-

I want to pressure here:

VOTE: Kmd

There is a significant margin of error in the sequential votes on SK, so I prefer to clarify the slot above in a primary way while these people think ^

[Bingle]

I'd turbowagon the shit out of bugspray in the interest of not having a chess match in the middle of the game, tbh.

If you want to play chess, go to mishmash. Don't clutter up a game with a ruleset that is specifically designed to appeal to people who don't want to clutter up the game.

@S&K, message received. Proceed with the thingy.

Clidd is now my strongest townread.

[Aristophanes]

On the issue of the currently running Chess Minigame, I will allow it to continue if it is done solely within "spoiler=" tabs. It is distracting to the game and has no place in a Geriatric.

Thank you for your cooperation in making this game fun for everyone!

[Aristophanes]

VC 1.1

Sou and Kanna

(3): bugspray 16, AGar 26, xReckonerx 31

clidd

(2): Sou and Kanna 4, Michael Scott 5

Kmd4930

(2): Bingle 15, clidd 33

Bingle

(1): Kmd4930 7

Not Voting

(1): Porkens

Day one ends Tuesday, August 25th at 8:30pm EST, or in (expired on 2020-08-25 20:30:00)

[xRECKONERx]

Reckoner -> Ignorance in post 29 when referring to post 23, bad tone in general. I'm evaluating whether this is linked to his profile baseline.

i dont know who sou & kanna are, and in reading their read on me, it seemed so on-its-face ridiculous that i thought there was a good chance it was a joke

can you elaborate on "bad tone"

[bugspray]

Agar / Bugspray -> They ignored post 23 and voted regardless of the observations that SK (I'll use this acronym now) made.

I voted them BECAUSE of 23. Clumping two people together and making such a blanket read

also now a super tr for reconer because hes totally town

also kinda sr clidd because while its very tonally similar to the clidd~town i know im p sure this is a different one

[Sou and Kanna]

erm... i thought sou's readlist was pretty obviously a joke, especially since he quoted the playerlist afterwards, but i will

begrudgingly

accept clidd's townread on us

@bingle; no? i was really looking forward to this

I believe Agar and Porkens to be slightly more likely to be town than the rest of you.

why is this? i wanna say i agree with Porkens, but i don't see Agar at all

~kanna

~kanna

p-edit: VOTE: bugspray :/

[Sou and Kanna]

I voted them BECAUSE of 23. Clumping two people together and making such a blanket read

also now a super tr for reconer because hes totally town

also kinda sr clidd because while its very tonally similar to the clidd~town i know im p sure this is a different one

can you elaborate on these?

~kanna

[Sou and Kanna]

okay, i'm going to cut this off before it goes too far and becomes a needless distraction.

@reck, i thought the fact i linked

the playerlist

in answering your question about my readslist would be enough of a hint that it's not a serious reading. take a long look at 1, then at 23. you're being awfully defensive very quickly. VOTE: reckoner

@clidd, knowing my readslist in 23 is a joke, how does that influence your read on us?

@bugs, you still haven't answered my question about your reads being serious, but i'm assuming now they are serious. you gonna give that second thought?

~sou

pedit: pedited by my own hydra partner. fine. VOTE: bugspray

[clidd]

i dont know who sou & kanna are, and in reading their read on me, it seemed so on-its-face ridiculous that i thought there was a good chance it was a joke

can you elaborate on "bad tone"

Take a look:

Spoiler:

game's too easy

oh fuck, sorry, you're right

ok well i fucking hate this

before i care too much how serious are these reads on a scale of 1-10

it is
LITERALLY
in the post right before you guys questioned me about it???

i'm very confused about this line of questioning???

u said this post was "fake and fabricated" confidence & bravado
and im...not sure how to break this to u...

...it was a joke RVS post. agar HAD NOT EVEN FUCKING POSTED YET

are you fr right now?

I don't see development in your post sequence.

You start from scratch, change the subject, then change again, change again and finally begin to vandalize your questioning. There are direct/objective playstyles that work, but yours is not one of them. I literally can't understand what's going on in your head because the verbalization of your line of thought is confusing and volatile, compromising the message you are trying to get across, which I classify in this context as a bad tone.

I haven't checked your history yet, but if your profile indicates this type of behavior as default, then I will have to change my approach to read you. It would be good to me if you try to facilitate this process.

I voted them BECAUSE of 23. Clumping two people together and making such a blanket read

also now a super tr for reconer because hes totally town

also kinda sr clidd because while its very tonally similar to the clidd~town i know im p sure this is a different one

I'll give you more time to think.

@clidd, knowing my readslist in 23 is a joke, how does that influence your read on us?

I filtered what you typed in post 23 and I don't think it was entirely a joke. There were exaggerations in the way you expressed the impressions, but the starting point of observation that you used in each of the slots did not seem random/invented but rather genuine (that is, it started from an idea you had about each one and tried to expand). It's basically what I did in my old wallpost playstyle, where I took an idea and converted it into an impression, usually being what I thought about the slot, but with an exaggeration of assumptions to reach a conclusion (as town).

For example:

https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.p ... er_sort=Go
https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.p ... er_sort=Go

In this case, there is no change in my read. I can filter and see what you've seen, so I don't think it's coming from a scum perspective.

-

Waiting for Kmd and to see if more people will get any impressions about what I said here and my last post.

[Porkens]

since putting gifs while on mobile is a pain, please imagine a gif of jim moriarty saying hi to sherlock.

VOTE: clidd

hi.

~sou

This post is a quilt of subtext upon which a close examination reveals the author’s state of mind and intent.

The author was very conscious of the amount of effort they put into this post and wanted us to know why they made that specific level of effort. The post is somewhat self-deprecating, as the author tacitly admits that the value of the message would not be worth the effort to deliver it as described.

On the subject of effort, it is also important to note that the author had at their disposal simpler options, e.g. “moriarti.gif,” which would have conveyed the same basic surface level message.

However, instead, the author engages the reader in at least two functions of discourse: excuse and request. The use of “please” and the excuse for the lack of effort place the reader in a dominant position relative to the author.

The choice of object is also highly significant. The author casts themselves in the role of the villain! This naturally invites the reader to experience a sense of irony and self-awareness, which are both humorous and endearing feelings.

Finally, the post implies a fondness and rivalry with clidd that the author hopes to rekindle in our present game. This functions both as a reason for the vote and an invitation to renew the bond of mutual playfulness.

In summary, the author was consciously aware of the level and nature of attention they would receive as a result of this post. They took active measures to diminish the importance of their message, and assumed a subordinate posture in the discourse.

In my opinion the post is highly contrived and specifically designed to give the impression that the author is town. My hypothesis is that the author is, in fact, scum, and they are trying to pocket clidd.

VOTE: Sou and Kanna

[Aristophanes]

Seeking a replacement for bugspray

[Aristophanes]

Pagetop for VC

[Aristophanes]

Ah shit, I do that at 45 way too often

[clidd]

since putting gifs while on mobile is a pain, please imagine a gif of jim moriarty saying hi to sherlock.

VOTE: clidd

hi.

~sou

This post is a quilt of subtext upon which a close examination reveals the author’s state of mind and intent.

The author was very conscious of the amount of effort they put into this post and wanted us to know why they made that specific level of effort. The post is somewhat self-deprecating, as the author tacitly admits that the value of the message would not be worth the effort to deliver it as described.

On the subject of effort, it is also important to note that the author had at their disposal simpler options, e.g. “moriarti.gif,” which would have conveyed the same basic surface level message.

However, instead, the author engages the reader in at least two functions of discourse: excuse and request. The use of “please” and the excuse for the lack of effort place the reader in a dominant position relative to the author.

The choice of object is also highly significant. The author casts themselves in the role of the villain! This naturally invites the reader to experience a sense of irony and self-awareness, which are both humorous and endearing feelings.

Finally, the post implies a fondness and rivalry with clidd that the author hopes to rekindle in our present game. This functions both as a reason for the vote and an invitation to renew the bond of mutual playfulness.

In summary, the author was consciously aware of the level and nature of attention they would receive as a result of this post. They took active measures to diminish the importance of their message, and assumed a subordinate posture in the discourse.

In my opinion the post is highly contrived and specifically designed to give the impression that the author is town. My hypothesis is that the author is, in fact, scum, and they are trying to pocket clidd.

VOTE: Sou and Kanna

Why did you use "the author" instead of his name/they ?

[Porkens]

Why did you use "the author" instead of his name/they ?

I was writing with a Sigmund Freud voice in my head and "the author" sounded better and fancier than "they."

[Bingle]

Reckoner -> Ignorance in post 29 when referring to post 23, bad tone in general. I'm evaluating whether this is linked to his profile baseline.

i dont know who sou & kanna are, and in reading their read on me, it seemed so on-its-face ridiculous that i thought there was a good chance it was a joke

can you elaborate on "bad tone"

Sou is Datisi, Kanna is Kanna. Both are fairly new, and iirc Datisi was a Paragon contender last year.

I feel less good about Porkens, but will suffer infinite sadness if he's not in the game anymore.

Have a pagetop, Mr. Mod.