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Post Post #125 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:43 am

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In post 118, implosion wrote:Lukewarm, do you think you being in the Keep increases the town's probability of winning? Or is it simply something you want?

If the former why, if the latter then why should we take you at your word here?
Bit of both.

Last game, I was in the Wall. I both did not enjoy it and I lost it, so that was a double no for me.

So that just leaves the Keep or the Gate.

The gate would not have been the end of the world, but the keep still has more going for it.

If I get widely town read, then I win. If the scum in the keep gets scum read, I win. If I get scum read, and given vote power in the Keep, then I functionally become the IC vote at the Gate, but then there is the Real IC that I know that I can trust to talk my decision out with.

There are multiple win states for me, and even in the worst position, it doesn't look bad, and I am happy to work with the IC on who to chose at that point. I like having other people out there that I feel like I can trust to work on things together, and if I were at the Gate then that is not guaranteed the way it is at the Keep
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Post Post #126 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:43 am

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In post 123, imaginality wrote:You're right, by the way - I dug back into my wiki and looks like we were both in One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest (you as scum, me as town) which got abandoned. Back in 2009!
so last game, baltar didn't remember me being scum in a game that happened some... 9? months ago, but remembered playing with imaginality in a game back in
2009
? damn.
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Post Post #127 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:45 am

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In post 123, imaginality wrote:You're right, by the way - I dug back into my wiki and looks like we were both in One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest (you as scum, me as town) which got abandoned. Back in 2009!
Abandoned! Boo.
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Post Post #128 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:47 am

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In post 126, Tanner wrote:
In post 123, imaginality wrote:You're right, by the way - I dug back into my wiki and looks like we were both in One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest (you as scum, me as town) which got abandoned. Back in 2009!
so last game, baltar didn't remember me being scum in a game that happened some... 9? months ago, but remembered playing with imaginality in a game back in
2009
? damn.
Lol well I knew we had played together, just not specifics of the game. It helps imaginality is like me and rarely changes his avi
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Post Post #129 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:48 am

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In post 125, Lukewarm wrote:
In post 118, implosion wrote:Lukewarm, do you think you being in the Keep increases the town's probability of winning? Or is it simply something you want?

If the former why, if the latter then why should we take you at your word here?
Bit of both.

-snip-
I guess what I mean is, what makes you special here? Sure you lost at the wall last game. The wall is the hardest thing for town to win, so that's not surprising. It'll be hard for
whoever
winds up there, and two townies will wind up there (unless we win d1).

If
anyone
gets widely townread at Keep, they win. If the sum in the keep gets scum read,
anyone
will win keep. It seems like your priority is "i win my minigame" rather than "town wins at least 2/3 minigames". Like, no duh you're most likely to win your game if you join the easiest game.
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Post Post #130 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:48 am

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In post 122, implosion wrote:I've generally been of the mind that
first movers are +town
because being a first mover is very conspicuous.

I think it's hard to clearly read in isolation.
In the game I played scum moved 2nd
and 6th (and then the last 3 people including the third scum were locked to the last location).
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Post Post #131 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:49 am

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And to be clear I don't know if this is scum-motivated. Just trying to discern.
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Post Post #132 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:50 am

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In post 126, Tanner wrote:
In post 123, imaginality wrote:You're right, by the way - I dug back into my wiki and looks like we were both in One Flew Over a Cuckoo's Nest (you as scum, me as town) which got abandoned. Back in 2009!
so last game, baltar didn't remember me being scum in a game that happened some... 9? months ago, but remembered playing with imaginality in a game back in
2009
? damn.
and that game had ~15 pages over more than two weeks. holy shit, old ms sounds like a different time.
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Post Post #133 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:50 am

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In post 130, VP Baltar wrote:
In post 122, implosion wrote:I've generally been of the mind that
first movers are +town
because being a first mover is very conspicuous.

I think it's hard to clearly read in isolation.
In the game I played scum moved 2nd
and 6th (and then the last 3 people including the third scum were locked to the last location).
:?
I guess I did say "first movers" but I sort of meant literally first movers, with the plural meaning across multiple runs of the setup. But really the main point was that there are counterbalancing forces, and that a broad statement tying alignment to when-someone-moves is not robust without context of why they moved, with whom, their personality (i.e. whether they're the kind of person who'd tend to move early as town), etc.
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Post Post #134 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:51 am

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only after hitting submit i realized just how utterly stupid that sentence sounds because *of course* it was a different time. should go to bed soon.
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Post Post #135 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:51 am

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(and also... keep in mind that in that game scum moved 2nd yes, but the rest of the first 5 people to move were town)
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Post Post #136 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:52 am

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ooh. just noticed that game was open 820 and this one is open 840. satisfying.
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Post Post #137 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:55 am

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In post 129, implosion wrote:
In post 125, Lukewarm wrote:
In post 118, implosion wrote:Lukewarm, do you think you being in the Keep increases the town's probability of winning? Or is it simply something you want?

If the former why, if the latter then why should we take you at your word here?
Bit of both.

-snip-
I guess what I mean is, what makes you special here? Sure you lost at the wall last game. The wall is the hardest thing for town to win, so that's not surprising. It'll be hard for
whoever
winds up there, and two townies will wind up there (unless we win d1).

If
anyone
gets widely townread at Keep, they win. If the sum in the keep gets scum read,
anyone
will win keep. It seems like your priority is "i win my minigame" rather than "town wins at least 2/3 minigames". Like, no duh you're most likely to win your game if you join the easiest game.
Maybe I am not special here, but winning one game seems likely to help us get to two wins.

I am also not super confident in my Elo ability in general. I don't think I have ever voted correctly in Elo in any agme yet? I know I have voted in correctly in Elo 3 times.so I might be being selfish putting myself in the easier game, but putting myself in the easier game feels like the right play to make
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Post Post #138 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:57 am

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In post 135, implosion wrote:(and also... keep in mind that in that game scum moved 2nd yes, but the rest of the first 5 people to move were town)
My point is there is more likely to be a scum among the first movers due to the desire to prevent a lockout.

I agree first first mover is probably slightly +town.

Of course, now that we have talked about it, it feels like it all means nothing, so...
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Post Post #139 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 9:59 am

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In post 132, Tanner wrote:and that game had ~15 pages over more than two weeks. holy shit, old ms sounds like a different time.
The act of only playing from a computer definitely made the game much more contemplative and very slow. Not sure I would go back to that, but I remember when people would lose their minds about spamming if a game reached page 50.
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Post Post #140 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:04 am

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I voted correctly in melo one game, because we had two players cross vote, clearing me and and another person, and working together we solved it. Which is the worst case scenario for the Keep (working with the IC to solve it).

You might be right tho - I just don't want to be the reason we lose, so I put myself in the game where I was least likely to be the reason for that
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Post Post #141 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:10 am

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i'm starting to wonder why did i even /in into this game, considering i utterly hate lylos as town and have never won one when i was the deciding vote. i think i might really be a masochist.
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Post Post #142 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:12 am

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In post 141, Tanner wrote:i'm starting to wonder why did i even /in into this game, considering i utterly hate lylos as town and have never won one when i was the deciding vote. i think i might really be a masochist.
Going to the gate means you don't have to do that
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Post Post #143 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:15 am

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any scumteam with more than two collective braincells will conftown me if i end up at the gate.
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Post Post #144 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:15 am

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you are adoorbs Tanner
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Post Post #145 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:18 am

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(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)
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Post Post #146 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:31 am

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Post Post #147 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:55 am

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In post 144, Aristeia wrote:you are adoorbs Tanner
Who is pocketing who here?
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Post Post #148 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 12:10 pm

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Post Post #149 (ISO) » Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:41 pm

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In post 101, Lukewarm wrote:
Here is the one I was in
and the scum chat for it

This game was a scum sweep. The won the keep and then won the wall.

Scum locked in pretty early this game, all three scum were in the first 4 vote ins
In post 102, Aristeia wrote:which is why i think your early lock in was quite scummy
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