In post 1630, Lost Butterfly wrote:Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt the robotic Facebook "I LIKE THIS" type posts that seem to going into excruciatingly unnecessary detail at times but I am curious!
You're still not scumhunting.
Unless by robotic you mean Nacho is robotic scum!!! Which he loves to hear so you should repeat that loudly!!
In post 1639, Lost Butterfly wrote:
The main thing I'm taking away from this is that morph, Banakai, upside down, and to a lesser extent ProHawk (since Gravedigger isn't as unambiguously protown as some of the other abilities) come out looking really good. Given that the advertisement totals are hidden, I don't see scum dropping money on advertising protown abilities on N0. The only way it pays off is if you happen to be the one player in the game who advertises that ability. And morph going the extra mile of advertising abilities that were in danger of being eliminated last night is a major towntell.
Thoughts?
Why not? Scum could have easily advertised things knowing that this would be part of the discussion and they would be coming out looking protown for it. I'm surprised you're just writing it off as a major town tell for experienced scum to do things that would look protown.
For instance, I didn't advertise anything because I wanted all the money I could to bid on something I wanted to have the best chance to keep out of scum's hands. However, if I were scum with a pool of money, I would be more concerned with doing things that looked protown like bidding on items that would make me look more town in the process.
In post 1612, PeregrineV wrote:You're voting him because he's scum. If your not, why are you voting him?
You're calling me scum (stating my "team" could have gotten both NK and neighborizer), but not voting me.
Your conjecturing, but if you conjecture we are both scum, then you either think we are on the same team or opposing teams.
If you have enough information to reach the conclusion that we are both scum, then you should also have reached a conclusion that we are on the same or opposing teams.
So either you don't believe what you are saying, or your making shit up. Which is it?
I'm going to say this one more time, and then either you're going to not believe me and keep your vote. Or you're going to believe me, shut up about this, and then either unvote me or find some other damn reason to vote me. This goes for morph, too.
I. Made. Conjecture. That's. It. Nothing more, nothing less. I didn't call you scum. Even if I did, I sure as hell don't know if you and Nero are same or opposite scum because I just don't know and I don't like to do teams without scumflips. I DID, however, post a theory t hat
involved
positing that you were scum, but did not
call
you scum. Reread that post morph quoted. Note that the entire thing is based on the assumption that you're scum, and then that you and your team won neighborizer and night kill, and THEN wasted that nk for neighbor usage. In retrospect that's not even good conjecture as even seanald wouldn't use it that stupidly if he was scum and was given usage of the nk. Not one person in this game would do that
Now, I think Nero is scum. I'm voting him. I don't know if you're scum, and only have some stupid bit of conjecture that really only works as town's biggest N1 wet dream to think that you're scum. So I'm not voting you. Are we fucking clear, or do I need to yell at you to get that through your thick skull?
We are supposed to interact with Syr? I mean, he's cool and all but, in truth, I hardly know the guy. I don't think Sakura fares much better in that regard. Truthfully I've been willingly avoiding this thread the last day or two(mostly due to information overload+this game's tempo is really wonky) and Sakura distinctly asked me to take the lead for a bit.
Anyways the important thing with Garuda is that he's either scum with one of the people he just did analyses on or town with all of us--I refuse to see any other possibility there, the only scenarios where Nacho makes that series is if he's either trying to obsfucate one of his allies while building towncred with the rest or he's legit trying to help link us all up.
The one thing that is making me doubt my lost butterfly scum read is faraday's absence from the game. He prefers playing scum, so him not doing anything but trolling makes me wonder because I would think he'd make time for it. This isn't really all that strong because he could be legitimately busy and Mina can actually scum hunt, so.
~The level of sarcasm and mocking as a ratio next to the level of "serious" posts is alignment indicative.
~Formality is a scumtell
~Reads lists are shorter and less specific as town
~His reaction to being voted/FOsed is more whismical as town
~Town muffin pushes for answers at a higher degree of strength
~Muffin's scumgames have varying levels of bussing in them
This is probably muffin's towngame. This reminds me of the tell on iecerint hawk and I dug up during AMOL in regards to how apparent it is once you look for it
Peregrine's 6th ability was Watcher
Nero's 6th ability was bulletproof
Spoiler: Individual vote details
Morph's Six Top Townreads
Peregrine
Pie
Pyro
Prohawk
Harakiri
Lost Butterfly
Morph's Abilities to Advertise
Cop
Neighborizer
Doctor
Watcher
Wage Freeze
baldeagle's Six Top Town Reads
Pyro
Pene
morph
pieguyn
ProHawk
LB
baldeagle's Abilities to Advertise
Neighborizer
Cop
Doctor
Wage Freeze
Auction Detective
Voided's Six Top Townreads
Peregrine
maybe banakai maybe pie 1685
Pyro
Prohawk
Harakiri
Lost Butterfly
Lost Butterfly's Top Six Townreads
morph
upside down
Pyrotechnics
Harakiri
Lord Mhork
PeregrineV
Harakiri's Top Six Townreads:
Peregrine
Butterfly
ProHawk OR Morph
Muffin
Pie
Eagle
Muffin's Top Six Townreads:
pyro
harakiri
mhork
zdenek
upsidedown
pieguyn
Lord Mhork's Top Six Townreads:
Voidedmafia
zmuffinman
Lost Butterfly
Pyromaniacs
morph the cat
1baldeagle1
Lord Mhork's Abilities to Advertise:
Cop
Doctor
Auction Detective
Watcher
Neighborizer
pieguyn's Top Six Townreads:
uwop
Zdenek
baldeagle
LB
Pyro
morph
pieguyn's Abilities to Advertise:
cop
watcher
tracker
wage freeze
federal reserve chairman
Pyrotechnic's Top (FIVE) Townreads - choose one more
Voidedmafia
Lord mhork
Muffin
Peregrine
Pro hawk (syry would like to see more from him to be confident)
Seanald's Top Six Town Reads
Morph
Garuda
Lost butterfly
Muffin
Nero
Pieguy
Seanald's Top Five Abilities
Market analyst
coroner
Doctor
Cop
Commuter
Dr Pepper's Top Six Town Reads
LB
Pyro
Zmuffin
Zdnek
Mhork
morph
Dr Pepper's Top Five Abilities
Cop
Doctor
Self Watch
Tracker
Auction Detective
PeregrineV's Top Six Town REads
6. Lost Butterfly (a hydra of Faraday and Mina)
7. Garuda (a hydra of Empire and Nachomamma8)
9. morph the cat (a hydra of Cabd and fferyllt)
11. Ghostly Penguin (a hydra of Ghostlin and penguin_alien) (replaces Banakai)
13. uʍop ǝpısdn (a hydra of N and Quilford)
me - PLZ PICK SOMEONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF AND I'LL ADD IT TO THE COUNT
Peregrine's Top Five Abilities
Doc
Cop
Market Analyst
Wage Freeze
Forensic Accountant
Watcher - This one isn't a vote because top five
Nero Cain's Top Six Town Reads
PeregrineV
pieguyn
Garuda
morph the cat
uʍop ǝpısdn
ProHawk
Nero Cain's Top Five Abilities
cop
doc
watcher
tracker
love potion
bulletproof - this one isn't a vote because top five
20 alive with... 3 scum per left/right makes 14 town alive. Assume the case of all 6 of the for-runners being town, and lynching town today. That leaves 6 fore-runners, 6 scum, and 7 townies that will follow the plan exactly. Assume all 6 scum refuse to go along with this (some of them will go along because we'll check math in the morning from the 5-6 that make it, players not in the 5-6 will NOT be claiming results until after senders mass claim)
This means that any amount they spend per the five abilities can be multiplied by 7. We want an advertisement amount that makes it costly for scum to advertise around us, and weakens the amount they can bid on nightkill and other scum-helpful auctions. Therefore, I'm thinking we have each player spend 5 dollars per each of the 5 items listed above. That means that to get ANYTHING onto the market ahead of the five, scum has to spend 36 dollars. Each town player will be spending 25 dollars and sending the rest on over to one of the six randomly.
20 alive with... 3 scum per left/right makes 14 town alive. Assume the case of all 6 of the for-runners being town, and lynching town today. That leaves 6 fore-runners, 6 scum, and 7 townies that will follow the plan exactly. Assume all 6 scum refuse to go along with this (some of them will go along because we'll check math in the morning from the 5-6 that make it, players not in the 5-6 will NOT be claiming results until after senders mass claim)
This means that any amount they spend per the five abilities can be multiplied by 7. We want an advertisement amount that makes it costly for scum to advertise around us, and weakens the amount they can bid on nightkill and other scum-helpful auctions. Therefore, I'm thinking we have each player spend 5 dollars per each of the 5 items listed above. That means that to get ANYTHING onto the market ahead of the five, scum has to spend 36 dollars. Each town player will be spending 25 dollars and sending the rest on over to one of the six randomly.
I'm not doing quote stripes but for reference here
I *can* see Mina starting the game with gambit to try to trap scum. I can *also* see them coming up with that as scum too.
What bothers me is that Zdenek asked them twice what types of questions they asked Magua before the game started. Even if she thought it was a stupid question or whatever, it should be relatively easy question to answer, but as far as i remember she didn't.
Questioning people's town reads on you being a town tell is fine for inexperienced players, but not for competent ones.
As far as some of your other reads, eh could go either way, I think you're not giving Mina enough credit for actually being a good scum player when she really wants to be, and I actually do think it's weird that there's a "oh we're paranoid of pyro but they should be in the town block". As far as I can tell the paranoia comes from me not having the same tone from the first day in respect to my read on them, but I think that it was pretty clear that we were trying to work out our read on Morph this day phase, and really didn't like the stop in to kind of mock that situation with the "if they weren't so nice they'd be able to reach Tammy-us levels" (not to mention I was barely posting at that point but whatever.) It felt more designed to incite as did the "paranoia" post. I do like her advertising research but it's not accompanied by really any scum hunting, which I know she's capable of as scum. Basically here a lot like Morph we're just going to sit back and observe and if we're all still alive tomorrow then we'll take it from there.
Lost Butterfly
morph
Pyro
Pie
Peregrine
upside down
then tonight you sit down and get money. Bid as you see fit, advertise items not in the five you want to see avaialble, play strategically.
If your name is not on that list and you are town:
Advertise 5 dollars each on these items:
Cop
Doctor
Watcher
Wage Freeze
Tracker
Then roll a 6 sided dice. Keep your roll a secret from any neighbor you might have.
If it is a 1, send all your remaining money to Lost Butterfly
If it is a 2, send all your remaining money to Morph the Cat
If it is a 3, send all your remaining money to Pyrotechnics
If it is a 4, send all your remaining money to Pieguyn
If it is a 5, send all your remaining money to PeregrineV
If it is a 6, send all your remaining money to Upside Down
If you don't have physical dice laying around, then you can roll virtual dice here: http://www.random.org/dice/
NOTE: This process will work best if it works randomly. Please don't pick your personal favorite out of of the Top Townie list. Roll the dice and do what the Goddess of Chaos bids.
In post 1784, Garuda wrote:
I think sitting in the middle of the thread complaining about how stupid everything is was less likely to be coming from a scum Natirasha. Scum usually thrive during times where the gamestate is completely fucked (aka when everyone's fighting) and I know Natirasha is particularly more in tune with the tempo of the thread than most people so it makes a lot of sense that it bothered him so strongly.
You literally got after me in Wingate for getting frustrated at Mara and Generic and their day one fight. Why now do you think scum just thrive during these times?
Top 6 town favs:
6. Lost Butterfly (a hydra of Faraday and Mina)
7. Garuda (a hydra of Empire and Nachomamma8)
9. morph the cat (a hydra of Cabd and fferyllt)
11. Ghostly Penguin (a hydra of Ghostlin and penguin_alien) (replaces Banakai)
13. uʍop ǝpısdn (a hydra of N and Quilford)
me
Because I didn't think I'd get nightkill or cop, but figured if scum wanted to hard-bid on those, then the most I could do would keep the cost of neighborizor high, so they couldn't connect up.
Also hoped to make some QTs where I could get better reads.
In post 1797, morph the cat wrote:
Heh. I suspect Cabd and I have chewed up a similar number of bytes discussing you guys. Well, Syr mostly, because even after our disconnect in Rapture (which was mostly driven by my tentative play, something that is not an issue in this game), I feel like he's been involved in many of the game events that have shaped my current approach to townbloc-building because most of those events happened in Rift games. This game's outcome will probably shape my approach even further, for good or ill.
Observation mode is pretty much where we are at, and that should be pretty obvious to Syr. We want to let you set the pace of interactions.
For now, we'll leave it up to you to define if, how and how much you want our cooperation. And we'll figure out if, how and how much we're willing to accommodate what you come up with.
Couple things. Is cabd not paranoid of me at all? I mean I think my scum game absolutely sucks, but he said in Chef Mafia that he couldn't exactly read me because of him town reading me in Red Wedding when I was scum.
Syr had me re-read mafia.raptured the other night and wants me to read Death's Diner? which I'll do this weekend. But as far as mafia.raptured, you did react a differently to Syry's case on you. I guess for me, I'm going to take that game more seriously because it's a game I played in and one I had a town read on you, no matter how poor or tentative a game you thought you played. I'm a very poor meta-diver
and only do it when empire forces me to
so game experience means more to me. And I'm now rambling; it's late I need sleep. The main point is we're probably spending way too much time trying to figure you guys out. So if you are town, it would be really awesome if you could town tell in a way that Syry would recognize.
I mention this because the fact that three auctions went for $100+ when stated town start with $100 means either mafia got ALOT more money, or there may be a 3rd Party role. I could see a 3P role getting NK and not using it, and scum pooping their pants over thinking they would get it cheap and it being snagged from them.
Cop they would want to keep out of town hands (Seanald-scum used it last game to other-scum hunt), and deadline sucks for town so I think it also went to scum.
In post 1797, morph the cat wrote:
Heh. I suspect Cabd and I have chewed up a similar number of bytes discussing you guys. Well, Syr mostly, because even after our disconnect in Rapture (which was mostly driven by my tentative play, something that is not an issue in this game), I feel like he's been involved in many of the game events that have shaped my current approach to townbloc-building because most of those events happened in Rift games. This game's outcome will probably shape my approach even further, for good or ill.
Observation mode is pretty much where we are at, and that should be pretty obvious to Syr. We want to let you set the pace of interactions.
For now, we'll leave it up to you to define if, how and how much you want our cooperation. And we'll figure out if, how and how much we're willing to accommodate what you come up with.
Couple things. Is cabd not paranoid of me at all? I mean I think my scum game absolutely sucks, but he said in Chef Mafia that he couldn't exactly read me because of him town reading me in Red Wedding when I was scum.
We are both a little paranoid that we're underestimating your scum game here. Cabd is probably better at discounting and working around paranoia than I am, but I think my baseline level of paranoia is lower because I've never played a game with scum-you and I'm not seeing scum motivation in your posts.
Syr had me re-read mafia.raptured the other night and wants me to read Death's Diner? which I'll do this weekend. But as far as mafia.raptured, you did react a differently to Syry's case on you. I guess for me, I'm going to take that game more seriously because it's a game I played in and one I had a town read on you, no matter how poor or tentative a game you thought you played. I'm a very poor meta-diver
and only do it when empire forces me to
so game experience means more to me. And I'm now rambling; it's late I need sleep. The main point is we're probably spending way too much time trying to figure you guys out. So if you are town, it would be really awesome if you could town tell in a way that Syry would recognize.
I reacted differently to Syr's case in Raptured because I knew my play was bad. My play in this game has not been bad. In my opinion my play has been solidly town. I can see why Syr reacted to that one post the way he did, but as far as I know, he wasn't in-the-moment in this game from the start. It really, REALLY worried me that you were scumreading some of my town reads. Day 2, either you've done a better job of getting your reasons across or I've done a better job of receiving the info, or a combination of both, because I can at least see where you are coming from, and in some cases the strength of my own town reads has decreased a little this game day.
As far as towntelling, I have no idea how to do that. I know how to
be
town, do stuff I think will benefit town, find town, find scum. Being read as town just happens as a natural result of me being town. Or it doesn't.
If I'm capable of towntelling, then I've already towntold multiple times in this game, because my behaviors are very purely motivated by my wincon, with an added dollop of relief and delight over Morph finally getting a town role pm.
In post 1709, Voidedmafia wrote:Also, are abilities like doctor and neighborizer being advertised in advance of the next cycle of auctions?
clearance, plz?
In post 1717, DoctorPepper wrote:Read up to page 38, that Hermy wagon was bad for the build up but I guess it was necessary because of lol shortened deadline.
I advertised tracker last night.
scum reads:
ProHawk - not hammering "obv town" after a) proclaiming obv town when person flipped and b) denouncing the hammer AFTER it was a deadline lynch. Your defense of her wasn't pointing out that she was obv town, rather null or not scummy based on inactivity. Huge difference there.
Upside Down - seriously almost nothing coming from this slot. Its like most of the early posts were posts for the sake of posting and looking active
Garuda - Something about the "I like this" list of Voided's posts. He just outlined all the irrelevant, non alignment proving things said by Voided at that point.
Nero - weird push on HaraKiri. Its like the main point of attack is "Sakura is scum for always sheeping Nacho"
Why the hell are you guys so fucking prolific when youre posting??
Nothing about this post really feels right to me. I understand that this is only up to pg. 38, but the reads given and the annoyed last line don't look genuine.
Then let's work on getting this lynched while I'm finishing my holy work.
Why not Bald or UD?
Are you claiming this scumread based on the above reads list?
In post 1729, pieguyn wrote:. if you wanted him to explain itself i feel you'd be less pissed off and you'd at least consider answering the questions he asked
It's hard not to be when as far as you're aware there wasn't any problem.
In post 1729, pieguyn wrote:442. no that's all there was to that it seemed genuine
I was hoping for something more solid than gut behind that. zdenek's post was one that looks like it'd garner reactions, but this still feels rather underwhelming.
In post 1729, pieguyn wrote:982. b. no 189 was not the whole reason I had a scumread on you. it came from everything I quoted about you. 189 didn't "solidify" it per se cause it's the first thing I noticed but I'd still have a scumread on you without 189. you admit this is a possibility but the first thing you think of is that it did just cause 189 came first? when such logic is provably fallacious? seems like scum BS'ing imo
...I'm aware it's not the "whole" reason behind your read. I'm saying that it's where you decided "VM's scum". Where'd that come from?
In post 1747, Zdenek wrote:I don't really feel like reading all of the walls. Is there any reason not to lynch Voided or Mhork that I am unaware of?
Both of these posts feel so wrong but I get the feeling that some people are going to townread him for them.
Why is zmuff scum? And why did you want mhork and I lynched, again?
In post 1764, morph the cat wrote:I told Cabd that I think it kinda does make sense if you view it as a rebuke to the emerging consensus.
If that's the case, though, what does it accomplish, if anything? I don't have much fault with how he got his reads (though I do feel like the mhork read should be sifted a little bit better in light of my (and someone else's who I can't recall) notes on how he seems to be townreading his defenders), and the action does strike me as being on the town side of things, but doing something to go "yeah, well, here's MY reads that aren't like yours!" doesn't strike me as a profitable move at all.
I understand that BB's post count compared to the number of pages is rather low, but this still seems like a very low number of posts to go off of. Is that it, or is it somewhat incomplete?
Also, are you just posting why your townreads are town right now? I keep expecting to see someone you've scumread pop up in these as it's getting a little...dull, for lack of a better word.
In post 1796, Pyrotechnics wrote:Actually, Voided why did you choose to advertise and then go for the extra voter? Last game you went after doctor the first night.
I took stupid pills. That's pretty much it, really. My handle on the daygame is...decent (for varying definitions of "decent" and how you can apply that to me <_<), but I haven't been able to put the time into night stuff.
Under the assumption that I'm getting lynched today (if only for efficiency, as Hara's so succinctly put it <_<), would you like me to do this in advance?
In post 1820, PeregrineV wrote:Also hoped to make some QTs where I could get better reads
Do you feel like the person you neighborized is town?
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