Mini 1349: Words with Scum (Game over!)

[whispersilk]

UNVOTE:
VOTE: IceGuy

[IceGuy]

I do not like the direction this is taking.

[IceGuy]

UNVOTE:
VOTE: vijay2vasandani

whisper, AV, hammer him.

At best we hit scum, at worst we hit an useless lurker.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Vote: IceGuy

[IceGuy]

Guess I picked the wrong useless lurker.

[Quilford]

Game Board

Spoiler: Activity Log

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Voidedmafia flipped tile A4, revealing a D.
AurorusVox flipped tile G6, revealing a W.
IceGuy flipped tile H6, revealing an O.
DLCXVI flipped tile B6, revealing an M.
MagnaofIllusion flipped tile B5, revealing an N.
vijay2vasandani flipped tile I4, revealing a G.
2minds1soul took tile I1, collecting an unknown...
Robocopter87 flipped tile F4, revealing an I. 
Lady Lambdadelta flipped tile D3, revealing an R.
Lady Lambdadelta took tile D3, collecting an R.
Robocopter87 took tile I5, collecting an unknown...
IceGuy took tile F4, collecting an I.
MagnaofIllusion took tile E1, collecting an unknown...
Voidedmafia took tile A4, collecting a D.
AurorusVox took tile I4, collecting a G.
whispersilk flipped tile B3, revealing an H.
DCLXVI took tile B6, collecting an M.
Amrun flipped tile F3, revealing an S.
vijay2vasandani took tile H6, collecting an O.
whispersilk took tile B4, collecting an unknown...
Amrun took tile B3, collecting an H.

MagnaofIllusion has used both his daily flip and collect.
AurorusVox has used both his daily flip and collect.
IceGuy has used both his daily flip and collect.
Lady Lambdadelta has used both her daily flip and collect.
2minds1soul have used their daily collect.
Robocopter87 has used both his daily flip and collect.
whispersilk has used both her daily flip and collect.
DCLXVI has used both his daily flip and collect.
vijay2vasandani has used both his daily flip and collect.
Amrun has used both her daily flip and collect.
Voidedmafia has used both his daily flip and collect. 

--- DAY 1 ------------------------------------------------
MagnaofIllusion flipped tile E5, revealing an R.
Hoopla flipped tile K1, revealing a C.
Voidedmafia flipped tile K6, revealing an X.
Lady Lambdadelta flipped tile D4, revealing an N.
Lady Lambdadelta took tile D4, collecting an N.
Robocopter87 flipped tile J2, revealing a P.
Robocopter87 took tile J2, collecting a P.
IceGuy flipped tile A1, revealing a P.
vijay2vasandani flipped tile C4, revealing an R.
2minds1soul flipped tile H4, revealing a C.
AurorusVox flipped tile A6, revealing a T.
Amrun took tile A2, collecting an unknown...
DLCXVI flipped tile F6, revealing a D.
Amrun flipped tile B2, revealing a V.
Arugula flipped tile D2, revealing an M.
Hoopla took tile E5, collecting an R.
whispersilk flipped tile G2, revealing a Z.
AurorusVox took tile A1, collecting a P.
MagnaofIllusion took tile B2, collecting a V.
Voidedmafia took tile C4, collecting an R.
vijay2vasandani took tile K1, collecting a C.
whispersilk took tile D2, collecting an M.
2minds1soul took tile H4, collecting a C.
Arugula took tile C6, collecting an unknown...
DCLXVI took tile A6, collecting a T.
IceGuy took tile F6, collecting a D.

Day 2

>>>

IceGuy

(6) Voidedmafia, DCLXVI, MagnaofIllusion, Amrun, whispersilk, Lady Lambdadelta

<<<

vijay2vasandani

(3) Robocopter87, AurorusVox, IceGuy

Voidedmafia

(1) PeregrineV

DCLXVI

(1) vijay2vasandani

Not Voting

(0)

At 6 votes, a lynch has been achieved. Mod scene incoming... 

You banked 0 days' worth of time for tomorrow's deadline.

MoI has declared Limited Access during weekends.

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[Quilford]

End of Day 2

You're typing up some really bad flavour for the Mafia game you're modding when your IM icon flashes. You're currently waiting for your opponent to reply to UNDERDOG, a nice tile-clearing word that earnt you a good sum of points, so it's gonna be one of your friends asking for assistance or somesuch. Whatever, you're on a roll with this flavour (meta is, apparently, your forte) and you decide it can wait. When you open the client you see a lot of messages have been posted in your absence. IceGuy has angrily explaining that playing sAID is a much worse idea than playing sAD because it opens up the triple word score for his opponent, regardless of the fact sAID earns more points.

However, nobody else is buying it. Angrily accusing him of being a traitor for not wanting to play the higher-scoring word, everyone is turning against IceGuy and the exchanges are getting very heated, very quickly.

(8:12 PM) IceGuy: funk you guys
(8:12 PM) IceGuy: go suck a clock

It's the last straw. Horrified, you read on to discover that IceGuy has been removed from the group convo and forced to forfeit his game. He's filled a whole tab of apologetic PMs to you, and is clearly just a loyal player who was just trying to do what was best for the cause. Was his expulsion well-intentioned? Or were there traitors fanning the flames? Only time will tell. Your opponent has made their move, so it's time to stop dwelling on IceGuy and return to your game.

>>>

IceGuy,

VNL TWN

, kicked from the chat Day 2!

<<<

It is now Night 2.

All submissions for night actions must be in within (expired on 2012-07-24 09:53:21).

[Quilford]

Night will be extended for 12 hours from now before I get to the thread. Apologies for the inconvenience.

[Quilford]

Start of Day 3

You're studying the game board and your rack of tiles when your device vibrates with the strains of an incoming call. It's from one of your friends, who's been playing Words with Friends with you. You briefly wonder why they're not communicating by IM, and then you pick up the phone.

DCLXVI interrupts you in the middle of your greeting. "They've cut me off."

"What?" You quickly open your IM window. Sure enough, DCLXVI's disappeared off the list of people in the room. You must have been too wrapped up in your game to notice.

"I don't know how, man, but they've cut my connection. I know it was someone playing with or against us, because my homepage has been replaced with a list of insulting words I've been playing in my game."

You groan. "Oh crap. There aren't any unsecured Wi-Fi networks around for you to use or anything?"

"No, man, I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the hardware. The antenna must be bust because I can usually get into my neighbour's network."

"And you don't have any other way to get onto the internet?"

"Well, sure, but I can't play Words with Friends on my laptop. It's only a smartphone app."

"Right."

You scratch your head.

"Well, sorry to hear it. There's not much you can do about it, I guess, so take a rest."

"Sure. Thanks."

"It's a shame you're gonna time out. You were doing pretty well."

"Yeah," DCLXVI murmurs into the phone. "Yeah."

Then he hangs up.

>>>

DCLXVI,

VNL TWN

, timed out from disconnection Night 2!

<<<

It is now Day 3.

Nine players remain.

[Quilford]

Game Board

Spoiler: Activity Log

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MagnaofIllusion has not used either his daily flip or collect.
AurorusVox has not used either his daily flip or collect.
Lady Lambdadelta has not used either her daily flip or collect.
2minds1soul have not used either their daily flip or collect.
Robocopter87 has not used either his daily flip or collect.
whispersilk has not used either her daily flip or collect.
vijay2vasandani has not used either his daily flip or collect.
Amrun has not used either her daily flip or collect.
Voidedmafia has not used either his daily flip or collect.

--- DAY 2 ------------------------------------------------
Voidedmafia flipped tile A4, revealing a D.
AurorusVox flipped tile G6, revealing a W.
IceGuy flipped tile H6, revealing an O.
DLCXVI flipped tile B6, revealing an M.
MagnaofIllusion flipped tile B5, revealing an N.
vijay2vasandani flipped tile I4, revealing a G.
2minds1soul took tile I1, collecting an unknown...
Robocopter87 flipped tile F4, revealing an I. 
Lady Lambdadelta flipped tile D3, revealing an R.
Lady Lambdadelta took tile D3, collecting an R.
Robocopter87 took tile I5, collecting an unknown...
IceGuy took tile F4, collecting an I.
MagnaofIllusion took tile E1, collecting an unknown...
Voidedmafia took tile A4, collecting a D.
AurorusVox took tile I4, collecting a G.
whispersilk flipped tile B3, revealing an H.
DCLXVI took tile B6, collecting an M.
Amrun flipped tile F3, revealing an S.
vijay2vasandani took tile H6, collecting an O.
whispersilk took tile B4, collecting an unknown...
Amrun took tile B3, collecting an H.

--- DAY 1 ------------------------------------------------
MagnaofIllusion flipped tile E5, revealing an R.
Hoopla flipped tile K1, revealing a C.
Voidedmafia flipped tile K6, revealing an X.
Lady Lambdadelta flipped tile D4, revealing an N.
Lady Lambdadelta took tile D4, collecting an N.
Robocopter87 flipped tile J2, revealing a P.
Robocopter87 took tile J2, collecting a P.
IceGuy flipped tile A1, revealing a P.
vijay2vasandani flipped tile C4, revealing an R.
2minds1soul flipped tile H4, revealing a C.
AurorusVox flipped tile A6, revealing a T.
Amrun took tile A2, collecting an unknown...
DLCXVI flipped tile F6, revealing a D.
Amrun flipped tile B2, revealing a V.
Arugula flipped tile D2, revealing an M.
Hoopla took tile E5, collecting an R.
whispersilk flipped tile G2, revealing a Z.
AurorusVox took tile A1, collecting a P.
MagnaofIllusion took tile B2, collecting a V.
Voidedmafia took tile C4, collecting an R.
vijay2vasandani took tile K1, collecting a C.
whispersilk took tile D2, collecting an M.
2minds1soul took tile H4, collecting a C.
Arugula took tile C6, collecting an unknown...
DCLXVI took tile A6, collecting a T.
IceGuy took tile F6, collecting a D.

Day 3

Not Voting

(9) MagnaofIllusion, AurorusVox, Lady Lambdadelta, 2minds1soul, Robocopter87, whispersilk, vijay2vasandani, Amrun, Voidedmafia

With 9 alive, it takes 5 to lynch.

Deadline hits in (expired on 2012-08-06 04:51:15).

MoI has declared Limited Access during weekends.

[Voidedmafia]

...Okay, what the fuck.

[Voidedmafia]

Flip: D6

[AurorusVox]

Told you that both of those players were town

NOW CAN WE FUCKING LYNCH VIJAY

Vote: Vijay

Flip: A1

[MagnaofIllusion]

Flip: E6

Back to re-reading the game, especially Day 1. My reads have been too predicated on Iceguy scum and I need to look back with a fresh perspective ...

[PeregrineV]

Flip H3

[MagnaofIllusion]

So a quick review of DCL’s reads at the end of yesterday had the following scum pool – Vijay / Ice (know is wrong) / Robo with Voided mentioned just on the outside off scummy.

I’m going to start my re-reading in that group of 3.

[MagnaofIllusion]

Vijay

–

As mentioned previously I believe his early focus on “let’s do some draft via lining up players 1 – X to do picks” plan was not Pro-Town. Looking at his ISO his first 10 or so posts are focused on the mechanics of pick as opposed to finding scum. In Post 143 he admits his early Hoopla vote is pure sheeping.

Not sure if Post 430 is coming from a scum perspective. On the scum side his reasoning for the Arugula vote is terrible (bad meta). On the Town side I’m not sure I can see scum posting this – “Gay, everybody is voting him now, I thought I could actually contribute something.”. He’s basically copping completely to his lack of content while hopping on a mislynch.

Hoopla and Arugula were the only votes he made Day 1.

He beings Day 2 with a DCL vote and it stays there the entire day. Never responds to DCL’s questions regarding why it is still on him as deadline approached.

@Peregrine

– interested in what you think about Post 754 and Post 773 …

On July 16th he posted this –

In summary, I don't have good enough reads mostly through my own laziness which I will remedy before Wednesday. Or thursday because I have to do some college thingy. depends.

This catch-up never came. He only posted once more on the 21st to say “busy, let me look at Iceguy later”.

Given Iceguy was Town my belief is scum have been coasting along getting little attention. Vijay has cast 3 votes all game long, seemed determined to not commit to a wagon at the end of Day 2, and really hasn’t done any scum-hunting himself (all his wagons are either weak meta reads or sheeping by his own admission). I can certainly see that as scum behavior given Town has been on the receiving end of all the strong suspicion so far this game.

[MagnaofIllusion]

Robo -

His immediate sheeping of LLD’s “Flip and collect” policy seems like appeasement to me. If Robo is scum he’s not scum with LLD.

Votes Vijay with first non-RVS vote for sheeping onto Hoopla wagon.

Explicitly calls Argugula dumb not scum for a post Arugula made in Post 96. Does some buddying to LLD via attacking Voided in same post.

Finally changes vote from Vijay to Whisper in Post 304. Noteworthy in that he votes Whisper for basically saying “Making a case on me is a waste of time” while he’s had multiple post questioning / criticisng Arugula yet didn’t move his vote.

Post 378 where he apologizes for said post dings my scumdar. At that point he has exactly zero votes and no-one seems to be criticizing his posting in the 2 pages leading up to that as far as I can see. I’m getting ‘self-concious scum’ undertones in this apology.

Votes for Whisper at Post 385 saying Arugula is obviously more scummy. As has been mentioned before – this does not jibe with 382 (just prior) where he lists Whisper as Scum and Arugula as Null-scum. He later justifies that ‘Arugula wagon is better’ when questioned by Voided at Post 400. Strong scum vibes from this post.

Post 527 – Very defensive and scummy reaction to being questioned about why Arugula was scum.

His explanation for why Voided versus Ice was Town versus Town at Post 712 shows Cognitive Dissonance. He attacked DCL for not having good reasons for a TvT read but his explanation is simply “the qualities of their argument indicate them to be Town”. That’s generic fluff … yet DCL was scum for not having concrete reasoning behind his call.

Case on me at Post 874 is further crap. I’m suddenly null-scum and he can ‘see the reasons why ‘we’ want his lynched’. He again actually doesn’t elucidate any such reasons.

Post 951 and Post 952 – Possibly indicate scum lurking out the end of Day 2 (where all significant wagons were on Town).

He gets prodded by Quil at 11:47am and just happens to pick it up 12 minutes later. 9 minutes later he grabs a quote to look active. No comment on anything other than me calling him scum in 930.

I'm seeing some strong scum-motivated posts in his ISO, even without the Iceguy links I thought were there.

[PeregrineV]

Re: Vijay 754 and 773

Another shot of ultra-cautiousness I missed the first time. Same thing Voided did.

However, the random thing threw me. Being cautious for a particular letter is one thing. Cautiousness for a random letter?

And his votes do look bad, but betting his ISO is full of bad.

Want to look over vote counts again and DCL iso.

Still thinking Voided & Robo at this point.

[Voidedmafia]

Flip: A1

A1's already been flipped, Vox.

P-EDIT: Still, Pere?

[MagnaofIllusion]

Flip: A1

A1's already been flipped, Vox.

P-EDIT: Still, Pere?

Voided ... who is scum?

[Voidedmafia]

Still think AVox and Robo are possible. I'm more inclined to think vijay is, too, now.

The thing I just can't wrap my mind around right now is: Why DCL? Why not you, or me, or Whisper? Maybe I shouldn't get too wrapped up in NK WIFOM, but I just can't comprehend why they'd kill him.

[Amrun]

Flip: D1

Vote: whispersilk

None of whispersilk's lines of thought make any sense to me, as covered yesterday.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Vote: MoI

When MoI flips scum I want AV dead.

[Lady Lambdadelta]

Also Robo is 100% town.