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I don't like the policy vote backed up with "but not for long" language. If you don't like policy votes, why make one? If this wasn't one, why did you bring it up? If it was a policy vote, what was the purpose if you have 0 intention of following through, especially if you announce that to the thread.Ghostlin wrote:Anyhow, onto random/not so random vote: Vote: Werewolf, you coasted along with one liners and being not so active, which wasn't helpful in our other game. I'm not a huge fan of policy lynch, but until a more serious lynch comes along, that vote will do.
Reads like fluff posting, plus placing a vote because he has to, not because he wants to. BLENDING WITH TOWN.
WrathChild's 23 seems overly concerned with what others think about him. Given his not RVS'ing in his first post, but then RVSing in his second when ani RVS'd him over the lack of a vote only furthers this conclusion.
Odd question considering that plenty of discussion has already occured around who/why to elect. I also don't see any scum hunting potential in the question. Fluff posting.Nexus wrote:Question: Those who are currently electing, are they random votes, or are you actually electing the people you want to send backstage?
SGR's 26 doesn't make sense to me. It's pretty obvious what Ythill is doing, what's the problem?
Considering that the mechanic specifically says we can't use it D1, this is true.LL wrote:I agree with Llama; discussing the possibilities of who to sacrifice/resurrect is pointless when we don't have any flips.
That's odd, I think the question was perfectly valid. The point is that WC seems pretty concerned with what others will think of him. Like he's preemptively avoiding any "why is WC lurking" attacks. Also Ythill and SGR pile on to this. I don't get it, am I missing something? The question looks really good to me.Seacore wrote:Locke Lamora wrote:Is there a particular reason you mentioned this?WrathChild wrote: I just want to add that I'm primarily a 9-5 PST poster on the weekdays and mostly offline on the weekends.unvote. vote Locke
unelect Locke
This post feels... forced. Or phoney. Something along those lines.farside22 wrote:Ythill: Please don't tell me you are referring to the OMGUS vote my wraith as scummy?
Are you a really going to tell me page 1 that scum are going to come in say hi I'm scum and do the most obvious thing?
wait........reads wraith's response.
unvote:
vote: wraith
Disagree. A LOT. Also, what's with the "I know I sound like I'm buddying...". Guilty Conscious?SGR wrote:If you have to suspect someone, it should be Ythill, for:
1) Suspecting WraithChild under no basis (Cause he didn't RV? Doesn't matter. Cause he said "First Post"? Means jackshit. Cause he joked "OMGUS", doesn't mean crap either
2) Thanking WraithChild for a confirmation on being scum, where in the last post he didn't say absolutely anything that would confirm or even slightly give a scum tell (For saying he is inactive at certain parts of the day? Nope, and ythill suspected Locke based on him quoting that. For saying he has victories as Mafia on another game? WIFOM at best, WTH at worst.
So, yeah, I know I sound like I'm buddying, but I have no idea what part of the answer turned you from "What's the pro..." to "WOW, yeah, I see it".
This just reads townie to me. Not sure if I know exactly why. Perhaps the pure openness?Gaggle wrote:Unvote
Vote: SGR
If you'd like to tango, Ythill, we'll be right here.
40 posts in and I already trust people. This "suspect everyone" thinking is from a scum-mindset.WC wrote:There has been like 40 posts how can you base a judgement of trust on that? A lot can happen over the course of a day. You mean to tell me that you want to elect the players you trust the most based on their past performances? How do you trust anyone at this point of the game? Do you have information I don't?
If we can elect during twilight it's a no brainer that we wait until then.
What does random distribution have anything to do with this?WC wrote:I just meant that we need to base these votes off reads and that the people voting already ARE NOT basing their votes off reads, but instead voting on the poster, but this is a pretty bad way to go about considering the whole random distribution thing.
This vote is OPPORTUNISTIC. The reasoning behind it is fail, since Llama did mention it here:Ghostlin wrote:Except...I just read Llama's ISO, and he didn't mention anything like this. Ythill DID mention sacrifices, but he advocated the opposite (sacrificing players that are blatantly VIs). Hence, where are you getting the information from? I'd like you to explain what you meant, because I'm uneasy with the thought that you pulled this from somewhere less public than the normal thread.
Unvote; Vote: LL
The only other post from Ghostlin to this point is the fluff/worthless post mentioned above. Ghostlin sat back, did not engage in the game in any meaningful way, and then engaged the first easy target he saw. I say easy target because this post was preceeded by 3 seperate players attacking LL (SGR, Seacore, and Ythill). So not only does Ghostlin make an opportunistic attack, he completely fails in the execution. SCUMTASTIC.Llama wrote:There is no real point to get into resurect at this point since no one is dead.
Townie.ani wrote:Elect farside22, Ythill, LlamaFluff Because I trust their judgement. Even if Llama is policy voting me. It's an early D1 vote. I'm not worried. Wraith's vote is stupid, and unless I see some underlying scum reason to OMGUS vote a voter who random voted him (extremely unlikely), then I'll ignore it.
I stand by my Wraith vote, however. All Wraith has done so far is explain how many games he's been in, defend himself and give us a very tiny amount of meta.
I'd also be up for an SGR lynch, however. That post on D2 just screams "Hello, I'm here and I'm going to defend Wraith because he's my scum buddy".
WC's 55 is still overly concerned with what others think of him.
Lie.WC wrote:I'm getting voted for no reason
Scum-coaching vibe. Given Seacore's attack against LL, who was pressuring WC, this makes me really nervous. As does this "If you are town, and I have no significant read on you yet..." buisness. SIT THAT FENCE. Major scum points here, conditional on WC scum flip.Seacore wrote:Wrath. Stop defending yourself.
If you are town, and I have no significant read on you yet, but if you are town you are doing no good in defending yourself. You are going to make the next 5 pages all about you and waste our time.
Instead, scum hunt. If you are scum, your scum hunting should suck, and we'll catch you. If you are town, actually do the town some good.
Also, 0/0 is not 100%, but that's a separate issue.
GAH! These elects seem SO BAD to me. Explanation PLEASE.Gaggle wrote: Try 10-20.
Wrath. You've made your point. Please calm down, go for a walk, watch an episode of law and order, etc.
Then come back and make a case on someone. It doesn't have to be airtight (and obviously can't be) (inb4 Saint calls using parenthesis a scumtell), but it should show that you are analyzing the posts in the thread.
In other news,
Elect: Ghostlin
Elect: Seacore
OGML wrote:Guys, SGRaaize is scum, lets get him
Ghostlin abandons his LL position without a single word on the subject, and immediately starts with another sheeping other opinions wagon. GHOSTLIN IS OPPORTUNISTIC SCUM. Oh, and then to top it off, his elects are Self, Buddy, Buddy. GHOSTLIN IS SCUM.Ghostlin wrote:First point: I'm sure we, as town, will somehow incredibly survive if you somehow made it to the gallows. The FOS uses the 'scum wouldn't be so stupid to do that argument,' which is invalid, and illogical, and could lead to WIFOM. AtE noted.SGRaaize wrote:I lol'danimorpherv1 wrote:I'd also be up for an SGR lynch, however. That post on D2 just screams "Hello, I'm here and I'm going to defend Wraith because he's my scum buddy".
I immediatlyFOSyou (Dohohohoh, OMGUS) because you actually think for a second that Scum would not only buddy on their scumpartner, but do it as openly, cleanly and quickly as now.
If I do end up getting lynched... may god have mercy on Town's soul
Its not so much as me defending you as me trying to get the logic behind your lynch so I can kill youAs far as the SGR lynch topic goes, of course this will be biased, but when I see someone defend a player who was not in need of a defense at the time (Yes, I did not need anyone to stick up for me because the votes on me make no sense and I consider them non-threatening at this time), I tend to think it is scum trying to buddy-up with a townie that they see as a likely lynch in an attempt to gain town-points. I think that scum-babying is incredibly obvious and would be avoided at all costs by scum.
Second point: This just sounds scummy. Why not ask the other players for a case? 'Oh, hi, I'm just going to defend you until I can figure out a way to kill you' in the hands of scum is like, 'Hi, I don't want to look like I'm sheeping but I want to find a legit way to throw you under the bus.'
I disliked your first post for being completely devoid of anything useful, and your second post reads like a scummy player.
Unvote. Vote: SGR
What are you, nine? This is puerile and doesn't belong in a defense. Particularly when it's a good point.WrathChild wrote:You're right on the 0/0, I'm gonna fix that. Thanks NERD!IGMEOY: WrathChild
Haven't done this yet.
Elect: Ghostlin: Obv.
Elect: GaggleofGeese: I've played with Chess before, and have been less than impressed, so I'm surprised at this election, HOWEVER, GG has shown remarkably good judgement in the beginning of this game.
Elect: Ythill: Disliking of his Wrath vote or not, the way he's handled himself seems pretty townie in this very early stage. He's kept up the pressure and is actively scumhunting.
QFT. WC's entire play to this point can be sumarised as "overly concerned with what is/isn't scummy, and why others have the opinions of him that they do".Ythill wrote:You seem very interested in learning the meta for what is considered scummy here. Seems like a defensive tactic. Scumpoint three.
I doubt OGML was joking.
Seacore continues in the WC defense/not-really-a-defense sit-the-fence-and-be-prepared-to-come-down-either-way play. THIS IS SCUMMY BEHAVIOR.Seacore wrote:Ythill, I used to get burned like WrathChild is when I first joined MS. MS has it's own memes and differing from them earns you scum points. I was primary lynch target Day 1 in my first several games, and I've yet to be scum on this site. So I'm not too worried about.
But WC has earned scum points for a huge gap of logic in his last post. If I thought those actions were a scum tell, do you think I would just accept it and move on? No, it's a null tell, as I've said it's just a playstyle. If all we had to do to find scum was look for people not even attempting to provide evidence, it would be pretty easy.
Still, Locke is winning in scum points.
THIS THIS THIS. QF FUCKING TRUTH.SGR wrote:Vote Lynch: Ghostlin
WrathChild admitting to trying to sound less suspicious sounds good, but Ghostlin voting me with bad arguments and lack of attention leads me to believe he's just trying to look good while joining a BW he thinks will pick up steam
It's not the bandwagonning that is bad, it's the manner in which he is doing it.Ythill wrote:@SGR: I hope you're not one of those bandwagoning-is-bad players because the opposite is clearly true.
Good posting.farside22 wrote:@Ghostlin: Which of Ythill's 3 of post looked like he handled himself well and kept pressure going?
And why?
In regards to SGR:
I find it odd that SGR would defend Wraith so earnestly. He does state he sucks at mafia so is it far outside the realms for him to defend his scum partner?
Also what the hell is with 2 fos's and no votes? What is the point of an fos? What is the point of not voting?
@SGR: Did you read the book the game is named after?
Why vote for Ghostlin over lets say morph who had poor reasoning to vote for you?
Elect: farside, ythill
Page 6 AGar OGML reads town-town to me. Subject to change.
OMFG EVERYONE ON PAGE 6 IS VOTING ANI INSTEAD OF OBV-SCUM GHOSTLIN. WTF!
Gaggle-Ythill interaction on page 6 is making me doubt my Gaggle town read. Somehow I've got the feeling that this is chess posting and not Faraday.
LOL! This post is so awesome. L O L! The only reason he was electing Ythill in the first place was to blend with the town, who were for the most part electing Ythill.Ghostlin wrote:This interests and concerns me. It interests me because according to this, I'm Ythill's #1 scumtell, full of congitive dissonance and pouplist: and yet he doesn't vote for me. If the point of the day 1 exercise is to get wagons moving and suspect as many people as you can, not voting your biggest scumtell seems...wrong to me. It either says he's not confident on getting a case on me, which hasn't stopped some folks in town or that he feels I'm really not the best lynch for today, which makes no sense if I'm really your number 1 scumtell you should be more than willing to get rid of me.
Sorry, no. I see some of you electing Ythill, I'm questioning his motives in posting a scumlist and not following up on it. It's insincere.
Unelect: Ythill
I need to reread the game, see what people are seeing about Ani, and maybe even decide if Ythill's worth a vote.
Page 7 is turning the game to awesome with the Ghost votes.
Convenient absence was convenient.WC wrote:OK, I'm back, and people saying I dropped off the face of the earth are exactly why I posted my schedule. BRB with comments.
LL-SGR page 7 reads town-town to me.
I bet you don't.WC wrote:7. Ghostlin: Obviously didn't get my nerd joke, sarcasm is hard on the internet. So after I read his ISO, I had to go back and look at the cases being made on him because nothing really jumped out at me. I see Ythill put him at the top of his scumlist, but I see no explanation as to why. When pried further Ythill mentions Too Helpfull in #22 (I don't get this impression at all), Skimming and cognative dissonance in #43 (I do see some evidence of that and I think SGR and Seacore touch on that too) and populist in #76 (I have no clue what that term means in Mafia). Overall I don't get scum-read on Ghost.
When Ghost flips scum I'm calling this a bus. Just FYI. Since I know this wagon falls apart, I'm paying particular scrutiny to where Seacore goes from here.Seacore wrote:I see Locke responded much earlier to my concern about his comment to WC about his schedule. I missed it, and I thought Locke not responding to it was a bigger scum tell than the original comment.
But he did respond, my bad.
as such Unvote. But maintain a slight FOS, I still think it could be scum looking for an easy angle.
Instead, I will jump onboard the Ghostlin train, he looks scummier than he did in No Exit Mafia, where he was town.
Vote Ghostlin
TL;DR
TOWN
Ythill
farside22
SGRaaize
OhGodMyLife
Locke Lamora
Llamafluff
AGar
A Gaggle of Geese (Faraday / chesskid3 hydra)
vezokpiraka
Tasky
animorpherv1
Saint
Apokalyptika
Nexus
Seacore
WrathChild
Ghostlin
SCUM
Vote: Ghostlin
Elect: Ythill, farside, Gaggle
Elect: Ythill, farside, Gaggle
Rest of game catchup to come ASAP.
ALSO, WTF HAPPENED TO GHOSTLIN WAGON, OMFG!!!!