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This is actually so rightIn post 1173, Ban Hydras wrote:Maybe DDL actually just rolled scum again and this is how he copes.
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Shit i forgot about that thanks for the reminderIn post 1170, Menalque wrote:Hey superbowl, just wanted to give you a reminder that you thought every reason for town reading me was weak and that my votes have been poor and show a lack of scumhunting so that you can go through why that is for me- Ban Hydras
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Diamond is going to hate us for this, but hopefully he warms up and becomes a more fun loving, chill person and forgives us eventually.In post 1161, superbowl9 wrote:
I’ll start by defining mean:In post 1148, Ban Hydras wrote:
Ooh, then we'll be even more incentivized to post more later, I love the idea friendIn post 1146, superbowl9 wrote:
Yes if you agree to let me have 8/10 pages so I can beat you in postcountIn post 1144, Ban Hydras wrote:
Anyone want to start a 10 page debate with us about how this kind of language is meanIn post 964, Christøpher wrote:I'm still down to lynch the hydras
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We shouldn't use mean language that makes people feel bad because then we're themeaniesand being a meanie is nasty and might make people feel sad.
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“ the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average.”
Webster's dictionary defines 'mean' as: 'to have in the mind as a purpose'.
As I said before, we shouldn't use language which has in the mind as a purpose that makes people feel bad because then we're the people who have in the mind as a purpose to be the people who have in a mind as a purpose and that might make people feel sad.
The entomology of the word is interesting, but from the absolute mess of a sentence that creates from replacing the word 'mean' with it's true definition we can start to see why the word 'mean' took on negative connotations over time - it makes things messy and bad and generally just less fun to engage with. Let's review what I said earlier but just taking 'mean' to be defined asBAD. I'm going to use this shade of pink/purple instead of the actual word because I think it gets the message across better.
We shouldn't uselanguagethat makes people feel bad because then we'retheand being a(sentiment)is nasty and might make people feel sad.
That's looking a bit better, but I think we can simplify this a bit. Let's change anything negative that's negative because of being objectively a bad concept rather than just beingmessy and confusinglike the other word we were talking about. We'll usethishere.
We shouldn't uselanguagethat makes peoplefeelbecause thenwe're theand that'sand mightmake people feel.
Let's trim that down a bit because atm it's a bit too personal with the weand instead get something more objective. We'll also remove the wordsthat come across asdue to redactions (i.e. ') That leaves us with:
PrefaceConcept A-->(emotional output (base))>(concept B)->(emotion output B)
Does this all seem reasonable to you?
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probably the best bit of the postIn post 1178, Ban Hydras wrote: The entomology of the word is interesting- DiamondSentinel
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I have, actually.In post 1167, superbowl9 wrote:
I don’t think you have but that’s not really my point. Think about this: if you don’t understand what I’m doing or think I’m keeping info from you, think about WHY I’m doing that. If it’s because I benefit as scum by not putting that info out, then why are you not pressuring me to put it out there?In post 1150, DiamondSentinel wrote:
Never said I have. But the fact remains that you have over 6x my posts and yet I've contributed almost as much as you have.In post 1145, superbowl9 wrote:
I make plenty of content. I would challenge you to show me how you've helped move this game forward more than I have. If you don't understand why I'm taking a certain approach I'm happy to explain it to you unless doing so would hurt town. But saying that I don't explain why I do what I do is different from saying I'm not doing anything at all.In post 1136, DiamondSentinel wrote:I shouldn't have to ask people to make content.
You and others have stated that you don’t like my lack of transparency, but you never seem to think about why i’m doing it.
Scum thrive by having as little information in the hands of the town as possible, either through half-truths, untruths, or just vagueness. Odds are, your lack of transparency is to allow yourself to point at "content", while still being noncommittal about it. By not giving any hard answers or explaining why your answers are the way they are, you're able to adjust your "stance" to best suit the situation at hand.
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why would you not just post this in your ptIn post 1128, Ban Hydras wrote:My townpool right now is something like this:
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that's so fucking narcissistic given the quantity of posts. not sure if this is troll or lamistyIn post 1159, Ban Hydras wrote:I'm Hopkirk. I made a whole intro post about why each of us are which powerpuff girl
Fine, I'll make room on the couch for now. Any thoughts on Plus? They're a null for me but I feel like I'd like a read there.In post 1155, Ban Hydras wrote:
That, and he started this game off chill and normal, and you can kinda seem him get more and more riled up through his ISO. The anger progression is there. Also, the kind of vote he laid down on Echo where he voted because he was annoying him almost always comes from town.In post 1147, Ban Hydras wrote:Which bit reads as genuine from Diamond's anger, I thought it felt kind of overblown. Maybe given he doesn't like the hydras specifically it might make a bit more sense as townmindset- is that what you were thinking?
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while it does clutter the thread a bit i like that theyre sharing publicly. it reads as genuine to me more than chaotic.In post 1183, PlusJOYED wrote:
why would you not just post this in your ptIn post 1128, Ban Hydras wrote:My townpool right now is something like this:
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If you do mean the first bit, because I wanted the whole thread to get my reads, not just the hydra. I feel like if I never posted my reads then people would complain I'm not posting reads so don't see an issue here.In post 1183, PlusJOYED wrote:
why would you not just post this in your ptIn post 1128, Ban Hydras wrote:My townpool right now is something like this:
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If you mean the second part I just like talking it out in thread (and Hectic wants to sleep now). If you look care enough to check then look for @Hectic posted by me in Hoptic 's post history you'll see I do it as town so it's NAI at worst.
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So why do you not ask me about it and get me to clarify my position?? I’m not going to willing give up a strategical advantage that keeping info to myself gives me (and believe it or not town does get an advantage from witholding info, i know it may hurt your brain a little to comprehend this) unless you press me to prove that I have towny intentions for what I do. As I said I’m willing to explain my thought process, but you seem to just want to shade me for playing the game instead of having a genuine concern that this information gets out.In post 1181, DiamondSentinel wrote:
I have, actually.In post 1167, superbowl9 wrote:
I don’t think you have but that’s not really my point. Think about this: if you don’t understand what I’m doing or think I’m keeping info from you, think about WHY I’m doing that. If it’s because I benefit as scum by not putting that info out, then why are you not pressuring me to put it out there?In post 1150, DiamondSentinel wrote:
Never said I have. But the fact remains that you have over 6x my posts and yet I've contributed almost as much as you have.In post 1145, superbowl9 wrote:
I make plenty of content. I would challenge you to show me how you've helped move this game forward more than I have. If you don't understand why I'm taking a certain approach I'm happy to explain it to you unless doing so would hurt town. But saying that I don't explain why I do what I do is different from saying I'm not doing anything at all.In post 1136, DiamondSentinel wrote:I shouldn't have to ask people to make content.
You and others have stated that you don’t like my lack of transparency, but you never seem to think about why i’m doing it.
Scum thrive by having as little information in the hands of the town as possible, either through half-truths, untruths, or just vagueness. Odds are, your lack of transparency is to allow yourself to point at "content", while still being noncommittal about it. By not giving any hard answers or explaining why your answers are the way they are, you're able to adjust your "stance" to best suit the situation at hand.
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What do you mean?In post 1185, PlusJOYED wrote:
that's so fucking narcissistic given the quantity of posts. not sure if this is troll or lamistyIn post 1159, Ban Hydras wrote:I'm Hopkirk. I made a whole intro post about why each of us are which powerpuff girl
Fine, I'll make room on the couch for now. Any thoughts on Plus? They're a null for me but I feel like I'd like a read there.In post 1155, Ban Hydras wrote:
That, and he started this game off chill and normal, and you can kinda seem him get more and more riled up through his ISO. The anger progression is there. Also, the kind of vote he laid down on Echo where he voted because he was annoying him almost always comes from town.In post 1147, Ban Hydras wrote:Which bit reads as genuine from Diamond's anger, I thought it felt kind of overblown. Maybe given he doesn't like the hydras specifically it might make a bit more sense as townmindset- is that what you were thinking?
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Drunk Hopkirk getting angry with townies with bad reads is a good towntell on Hopkirk. Anything like that on drunk Titus?In post 1187, Titus wrote:Drunk Titus may or may not make an appearance this game. I don't let her out as much as I used to.
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it doesn't to me. seems like an easy way to get towncredIn post 1186, Tayl0r Swift wrote:
while it does clutter the thread a bit i like that theyre sharing publicly. it reads as genuine to me more than chaotic.In post 1183, PlusJOYED wrote:
why would you not just post this in your ptIn post 1128, Ban Hydras wrote:My townpool right now is something like this:
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@Buttercup - thoughts?
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Nero seems fairly townie and we can paint him as a bad person if we keep being nice to him instead of doing meanie things like night killing him. If we don't kill him in the night and stop the other townies killing him in the day then he'll have to play what, eight days with us? At that point we'll have easily cleared 1000 posts and by then I'm sure we'll have converted him with the power of hugs and niceness
Flopz isn't posting but he's a great guy and I'm sure he's just busy. Really looking forward to you posting pal
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Which players in the game are you saying are bad enough at mafia to think 'oh, Ban Hydras posted some of their reads, they must be town huh huh'.In post 1192, PlusJOYED wrote:
it doesn't to me. seems like an easy way to get towncredIn post 1186, Tayl0r Swift wrote:
while it does clutter the thread a bit i like that theyre sharing publicly. it reads as genuine to me more than chaotic.In post 1183, PlusJOYED wrote:
why would you not just post this in your ptIn post 1128, Ban Hydras wrote:My townpool right now is something like this:
Nero
Vecna
TGP
Mastina
Superbowl
Taylor
@Buttercup - thoughts?
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me. i assumed you were town when you started posting thoIn post 1194, Ban Hydras wrote:
Which players in the game are you saying are bad enough at mafia to think 'oh, Ban Hydras posted some of their reads, they must be town huh huh'.In post 1192, PlusJOYED wrote:
it doesn't to me. seems like an easy way to get towncredIn post 1186, Tayl0r Swift wrote:
while it does clutter the thread a bit i like that theyre sharing publicly. it reads as genuine to me more than chaotic.In post 1183, PlusJOYED wrote:
why would you not just post this in your ptIn post 1128, Ban Hydras wrote:My townpool right now is something like this:
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@Buttercup - thoughts?
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So I'm guessing you skipped over the bit where I showed proof that it's completely NAI for me?In post 1196, PlusJOYED wrote:its not the readlist itself
it's that you talked to your other heads in thread to emulate a stream of consciousness. That seemed fake to me.
VOTE: ban hydras
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Oh are we finally considering banning this clownslot? Yeet
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