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Post Post #150 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 1:46 pm

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Sir Hugh Evans and Simple, by Robert Smirke, 1752-1845, and Charles Heath, 1785-1848

Sir Hugh Evans:

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it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.



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(3): Child of Fairies, Dunnstral, Tamora's Angel
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Post Post #151 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:07 pm

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In post 145, Galron wrote:But that seems like reading too much into it, and I end up just thinking is a couplet (if that's what couplet means) that is part of the colour and meaningless for game play.
This is where I'm at, pretty sure it's just flavour

A couplet is two back-to-back rhyming lines
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Post Post #152 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:09 pm

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In post 151, Pavowski wrote:
In post 145, Galron wrote:But that seems like reading too much into it, and I end up just thinking is a couplet (if that's what couplet means) that is part of the colour and meaningless for game play.
This is where I'm at, pretty sure it's just flavour

A couplet is two back-to-back rhyming lines
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Post Post #153 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:13 pm

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VOTE: Juliet Capulet
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Post Post #154 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:22 pm

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Hi Dunnstral

Why?

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Post Post #155 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:41 pm

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In post 143, WhemeStar wrote:A pickle walked into a bar, the bartender says "hey whats the dill, pickle?

Haha.

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Post Post #156 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:03 pm

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In post 133, Child of Fairies wrote:
In post 115, Juliet Capulet wrote:VOTE: GuiltyLion
Any reasoning for this one? GL seems fine to me.
In post 130, DeasVail wrote:
In post 120, GuiltyLion wrote:
In post 113, DeasVail wrote:Bowser Jr., Off The Hook, Child of Fairies, Skybird
Are these scumreads?

If they are, why vote COF over Off the Hook?
Yeah sort of. At this stage it feels a lot like picking names out of a hat and thinking "uhhhh this feels okay", but yes.

Off The Hook is probably the slot I'm least concerned about out of those 4, actually? I'm not sure why I need to be told what Gamma thinks without Gamma actually posting it but apart from that it's just weird appeasement vibes which might not mean much.

Child of Fairies is more interesting to me because of their interpretation that posts are difficult to parse. A very small proportion of posts so far are "Shakespearian" and honestly less than I would have expected going into a Shakespeare-themed game. If anything, the game has been easier to read than most other recent games I've played so it leads me to question where Child of Fairies' post is coming from. Is it an awkward attempt at light banter? Is Child of Fairies scum, feeling uncomfortable about that, and also more uncomfortable about posts that are more difficult to read as a result? I don't know, and I'm eager to find out!
I never said that. I said that I was having difficulty parsing the Shakespeare posts (namely the sonnets, but A for effort) and if anyone else was. All the other posts are pretty standard early-game stuff, which are perfectly readable.
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Post Post #157 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:32 pm

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I want things to happen but I don't have any strong enough opinions to make things happen so I will settle for this:

marci/Gamma and Pavowski feel good
Whemestar and kinda Galron and Child of Fairies feel ungood

Everyone else is irrelevant.

VOTE: Whemestar

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Post Post #158 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:33 pm

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In post 157, Spiffeh wrote:I want things to happen but I don't have any strong enough opinions to make things happen so I will settle for this:

marci/Gamma and Pavowski feel good
Whemestar and kinda Galron and Child of Fairies feel ungood

Everyone else is irrelevant.

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Post Post #159 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:52 pm

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In post 155, Lady Lambdadelta wrote:
In post 143, WhemeStar wrote:A pickle walked into a bar, the bartender says "hey whats the dill, pickle?

Haha.

VOTE: Icebox
Vote: Whemestar
Why this vote LLD?
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Post Post #160 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 3:59 pm

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In post 156, DeasVail wrote:
In post 133, Child of Fairies wrote:
In post 115, Juliet Capulet wrote:VOTE: GuiltyLion
Any reasoning for this one? GL seems fine to me.
In post 130, DeasVail wrote:
In post 120, GuiltyLion wrote:
In post 113, DeasVail wrote:Bowser Jr., Off The Hook, Child of Fairies, Skybird
Are these scumreads?

If they are, why vote COF over Off the Hook?
Yeah sort of. At this stage it feels a lot like picking names out of a hat and thinking "uhhhh this feels okay", but yes.

Off The Hook is probably the slot I'm least concerned about out of those 4, actually? I'm not sure why I need to be told what Gamma thinks without Gamma actually posting it but apart from that it's just weird appeasement vibes which might not mean much.

Child of Fairies is more interesting to me because of their interpretation that posts are difficult to parse. A very small proportion of posts so far are "Shakespearian" and honestly less than I would have expected going into a Shakespeare-themed game. If anything, the game has been easier to read than most other recent games I've played so it leads me to question where Child of Fairies' post is coming from. Is it an awkward attempt at light banter? Is Child of Fairies scum, feeling uncomfortable about that, and also more uncomfortable about posts that are more difficult to read as a result? I don't know, and I'm eager to find out!
I never said that. I said that I was having difficulty parsing the Shakespeare posts (namely the sonnets, but A for effort) and if anyone else was. All the other posts are pretty standard early-game stuff, which are perfectly readable.
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Post Post #161 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:28 pm

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I have very little idea of what you think. You have asked Juliet for reasoning on the GuiltyLion vote, saying that they seem “fine” to you. But what does this mean? Would you expect GL as scum to be not “fine”?
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Post Post #162 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:34 pm

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Spiffeh, votes in quotes don't count.

VOTE: Deasvail
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Post Post #163 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:41 pm

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VOTE: Whemestar

Why DV?

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Post Post #164 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:54 pm

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Why not DV?
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Post Post #165 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 4:55 pm

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Post Post #166 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:31 pm

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VOTE: dunn

Do more than naked votes and fluff
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Post Post #167 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:24 pm

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In post 166, Wisdom wrote:VOTE: dunn

Do more than naked votes and fluff
Where’s his fluff?
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Post Post #168 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:36 pm

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The shakespearian stuff
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Post Post #169 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 6:37 pm

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ok maybe it wasnt that much fluff i was just lazy to parse
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Post Post #170 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:25 pm

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In post 128, Off The Hook wrote:
In post 101, GuiltyLion wrote:
In post 69, Off The Hook wrote:
In post 31, Lady Lambdadelta wrote:
Vote: Galron
good vote
If it's a good vote, why didn't you join it? absent that this kinda just feels like buddying LLD. I like that Dunn called this out as well
yeah im totally trying to buddy lld :D glad u noticed bestie.
In post 85, Off The Hook wrote:hes also saying now he thinks galrons a fine vote :roll: but i do wanna wait a bit, i feel like if galrons scum itll become obv, when i saw scumgalron last he was basically not solving at all : DD (i think our efforts are better used elsewhere for now, and he'll become an obv solve given time)
i wonder what this is...
if you're acting like it's a sufficient explanation, it's not
a) you had to be pushed by Dunn to post it
b) why will it become obvious if Galron is scum? what experiences with him is that based on?
c) you say your "efforts" are better used elsewhere, but you haven't pushed anything or used your vote, so I'm not seeing a lot of effort elsewhere that's preventing you from making a "good vote"

In post 128, Off The Hook wrote:
In post 101, GuiltyLion wrote:
In post 69, Off The Hook wrote:
In post 47, Bowser Jr. wrote:Hello, I am excited to play a fun mafia game with all of you

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In post 48, Bowser Jr. wrote:Anyone find any scum yet?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!!

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have i ever played with u spif? :? i dont remember if i have, but what i do think is that these post have bad vibes!@@!#@!%
:/ I didn't get any bad vibes from those posts
oh really..? do you mind explaining..? cause to me they seem a bit over excitable so they seem like they
could
be faked.
Pretty much any first post in the game
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be faked, I didn't grok why you felt those in particular are more likely than any other post. Do you think scum!Spiff is more likely to use a bunch of question marks/exclamation points to act excited yet town!Spiff is not?
In post 128, Off The Hook wrote:
In post 103, GuiltyLion wrote:VOTE: off the hook

I don't have especially strong scumvibes but claiming to support a vote without sheeping it + shading Bowser Jr slot for posts I find fundamentally NAI + townreading Luke & Pav makes me think my vote is best here
why do u think our townreads on luke & pav are a reason to vote us?
and i wanna know where tf did we townread luke???! i dont remember doing it myself, if anything i remember slightly shading him, and i dont see anything from gamma saying he did... or did u just make this up to push ur point along :-)
the bit about townreads on pav and Luke was referring to my own townreads on them. they both RVS'd you so I figured it was possible you already had multiple votes from other townies and wanted to add fuel to the fire. Though I actually did forget that Pav had moved his vote off of you by that point, I had just gone back and checked VC 1.2

You're really quick here to use your misinterpretation of my post (which admittedly was phrased poorly as it was late and I was tired) to accuse me of making things up, instead of thinking that you might be misunderstanding me instead.
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Post Post #171 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:43 pm

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I get lots of goodfeels from DV's , I had the same issues with COF's (which was what prompted my ), and while my question to DV was meant more in the spirit of "why vanity vote instead of joining my wagon" I totally resonate with his summary of the bad vibe from COF.

DV's follow up is also a super townie post

VOTE: Child of Fairies

I also had a thought that if COF is scum, he might be more likely to say that I "seem fine" if I'm currently pushing on a town!OTS. may be a bit too much of a reach so I'ma sleep on it but the idea has taken hold in my head
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Post Post #172 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:52 pm

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Would you say Off The Hook is...


...


off the hook?




(sorry not sorry)
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Post Post #173 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:06 pm

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In post 152, WhemeStar wrote:
In post 151, Pavowski wrote:
In post 145, Galron wrote:But that seems like reading too much into it, and I end up just thinking is a couplet (if that's what couplet means) that is part of the colour and meaningless for game play.
This is where I'm at, pretty sure it's just flavour

A couplet is two back-to-back rhyming lines
Wtf ur not even voting icebox
I am just here for the wordplay
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Post Post #174 (ISO) » Mon Oct 25, 2021 11:10 pm

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And guiltylion feels town, but I don't think I've crossed swords with him so that's like a 10% confidence read right now.
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