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Post Post #850 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:14 am

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In post 847, Chip Butty wrote:
In post 843, PantherPunt wrote: Chip- you can read someone town even if they incorrectly read you as scum. you just have to determine if you think they believe, truly believe, what they are selling. Having original points and perspectives that show critical thinking rather than parroting what others have already said is a component of that. 841 is a silly post
Would it have hurt so very much to let the guy answer for himself? This looks like scum jumping in to save a scumbuddy before he says something stupid.
:lol: Oh Chip.

I just want to see what Ranger says before I consider IF I will support her wagon. I can get behind Kuroi's now based on his posts, I can't fully get behind Ranger's yet.
Better to be read dumb than scum.

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Post Post #851 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:14 am

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In post 846, ploben wrote:
In post 843, PantherPunt wrote:825 gives me some pause on ploben bc he was voting and scum reading chip and says that. Then decides to shelf him (not town read him) so 825 is weird.
You're town reading Chip therefore Chip is town in your final 3 scenario. I know I'm town so therefore a ploben, Panther, Chip final 3 = town win.
Oh I made the mistake of thinking you were speaking from your own POV in your own post. rather than speaking from my POV

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Post Post #852 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:16 am

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Woohoo. I have a handful of page tops this game.
Better to be read dumb than scum.

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Post Post #853 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:17 am

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I might vig chip just bc he's annoying me
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Post Post #854 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:18 am

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In post 853, PantherPunt wrote:I might vig chip just bc he's annoying me
Yahtzee! Serious?
Better to be read dumb than scum.

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Post Post #855 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:18 am

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Jokeclaim^

Inb4 I'm lock scum for chip and karnos
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Post Post #856 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:20 am

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Damn Panther, you almost just made the top of the D1 highlights.
Better to be read dumb than scum.

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Post Post #857 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:25 am

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On my home site when there's an open or semi open w vig potential we all hypo claim vig d1. Figured since that's not meta here I should clarify that wasn't real very quickly lol
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Post Post #858 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:35 am

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People are posting so much in this game I almost suspect scum spamming.

Anyway, I will be free on Saturday (GMT) to do a full in-depth analysis of everyone's posts.
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Post Post #859 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:38 am

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In post 858, BTD6_maker wrote:People are posting so much in this game I almost suspect scum spamming.
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Post Post #860 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:39 am

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In post 858, BTD6_maker wrote:People are posting so much in this game I almost suspect scum spamming.

Anyway, I will be free on Saturday (GMT) to do a full in-depth analysis of everyone's posts.
Well then there will be plenty to analyze.

Sorry, by the way if it's making the game unreadable for any townies. I'm used to 12/12 and 36/12
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Post Post #861 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:40 am

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My only worry is that when I am actually analysing, pages of content will turn up during my analysis. I will have to restrict it to only posts up to a certain page number.
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Post Post #862 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:11 am

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Alright I'm here, allow me to catch up
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Post Post #863 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:14 am

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In post 862, duppin wrote:Alright I'm here, allow me to catch up
Let me know what you think of Ranger and Kuroi please as you catch up
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Post Post #864 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:18 am

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PantherPunt wrote:She acknowledges that there are pages worth of content since then. She doesn't acknowledge that she's using that information to inform her reads. She said she had me and Dunn near the bottom earlier on, and she is going to make cases on us when she's in the mood (assumingly off of content that causes her to put as that bottom as well as the "pages worth of content" since she made the read).
Your point being?

When I make a case, I make a case off of all (or at least, most--sometimes I exclude content which I have gone into great length in my commentaries, as it'd be redundant) content, past (prior to stating a read), present (during the time of the read), and relative-future (content given after the read). This gives the full portrait of the player. I explain what caused the read. I explain why that read continued to exist. I then also explain why I continue to uphold it. Or, in the rare cases where I've had a change of opinion off of the content posted between my reads and my case (it
does
happen!), I explain why I'm
not
continuing that read.

This is, frankly, the one and only logical way to present a case.
1) You say you provide reasons when asked. You were asked and you didn't.
I provided most of my reasons when asked, along with a promise to deliver the other asked reasons at a later date. A delay in giving content is not an absence of ability to produce content.
2) I am aware that you have, in the past, posted read lists with no thought process as town, yes. You are construing this into a logical fallacy whereby I called you lock scum for that reason. When you, yourself, acknowledge that you open games that way as both town and scum.

You scumreading ME on the basis that I should KNOW you're CAPABLE of posting read lists without thought processes as town is, simply put, laughable
Again, you're misconstruing the point I'm making.

The entirety of your push against me was "Ranger has not produced content".
This was your stated reason for suspecting me.
Inherent to that is a necessity, a MUST, that you then HAVE to believe
the act of not giving content is scummy
. This is a simple truth.

My point is that you have
seen me not giving content as town
, and therefore the basis of your read is BS that you KNOW is BS. You pushed something you know is a nulltell, as if it were a scumtell.
How would you expect me to read you as town when you devote time to fluffing it up but you won't devote time to solving the game.
One, prior to giving my reasons for most of my reads, off of my lists. I am held accountable for every read I make, be it town or scum. This is one reason why Florestan is basically the only player attacking/voting me that I
don't
hold issue with, because this is what Florestan did: looked at my readslist, disagreed with the reads, and come to the conclusion I must be scum because of them.

Two, after giving my reasons for most of my reads, off of them.
I have not explained a grand total of six reads:
One, Chip Butty, wasted effort given the near-universal townread on him, yet who I specifically said I'd explain if I was asked to anyway. Nobody has.
Two, BTD6, a nulltownread, who I specifically say there's not much TO read. I also said I'd explain if I was asked to.
Three, duppin, a nullread, who I went into the generals of by pointing out the basis of my read, but not the specifics. I also offered to explain if I was asked to. As per the above two, nobody has.
Four, five, and six, my three scumreads, who I deliberately held off on explaining.

That's five reads I've gone into lengths about you can read me on, three reads you can ASK me to go on about, one which I already half-explained and a second which I partially-explained. In short, basically almost every player, except for three. You can read me off of all of that.

You're choosing not to.
Kuroi wrote:If she nailed all scum, then everyone else is scum by elimination, and she only mentioned me.
The reason for this is simple: I'm
not
scumreading the other players. (Save Scott, who is nullscum.) The other players were also not relevant to the current discussion, whereas you were. And you are a scumread. I just don't think you're actually scum, because there can be only three scum. If I was wrong on any of my core three, I'd immediately be looking into their interactions with you and vice-versa to see if you fit as a scumbuddy.
PantherPunt wrote:Are you even reading posts prior to giving your made up interpretations?
I do admit I skim a little, and did not see the second-to-last line. I skipped straight from the paragraph to the conclusion, missing that line altogether. The other line you highlight I do not see as saying ploben must be town, because it still follows from his prior statement and point.

Regardless, this is now irrelevant. I stand by my statement on Shadow being town, and I stand by my assessment of liking his push on Alpaca (now Kuroi). This is not diminished by his apparently townread on ploben. He does not need to see everything I see, have every read I do, in order for me to think that his push is immensely town.
Quite the RANGE.
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Post Post #865 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:22 am

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@Panther

By the way I'm seeing what you mean with Shadow being town
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Post Post #866 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:26 am

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ploben wrote:Actually, going back and ISO'ing Ranger, I found her vote on me in a extremely odd place:
I had yet to place my vote on somebody.

I was catching up.

At that point, I was almost finished catching up.

So I cast my vote.

There was no reasoning attached because there was never intended to be. The two halves of the post (commentary towards BTD6, the vote) are entirely separate and could easily have been split into two posts. I decided for efficiency to merge the two. This is not at all an uncommon trait of mine. I will attach two entirely-unrelated concepts together in a post, for instance, making a post that responds to a player where I defend someone, and then randomly, without explanation, attaching onto the end, "Also, X, Y, and Z are all scum". I've no reason to lie about this trait, though if you say I would, I can track down examples from any number of recently-completed games, as either alignment.
ploben wrote:It's a crap case.
And now we have the complete circle.
Where all three of my core scumreads have said, "your scum case is terrible", when I've explicitly said, "I haven't given a scum case yet, this is just commentary".
Quite the RANGE.
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Post Post #867 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:26 am

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I said I would check out Ranger, and I have. If you want to skip the wall, just scroll to the bottom and I'll give you my read:
In post 168, Ranger wrote:
Dunnstral wrote:How did you get a read on Shadow_Step on page 1?
Two sources.
First, mod error. Shadow_step replaced in for a slot who, as Persivul explicitly said, did not pick up their role PMs. If the slot were scum, then we wouldn't have had scum choose the setup.
Second, and using less controversial logic, didn't look like an RVS vote on a scumbuddy.
Going through again, this is the first thing that I've read that I've had an opinion on, and I agree.

*snip*
VOTE: ploben.
In this entire post, you haven't spoken to or about Ploben, yet it ends with a vote. You can see how it throws me off balance.
In post 455, Ranger wrote:
PantherPunt wrote:ranger has given no content. she will argue that her read lists are content. I will argue that that's bullshit because she has failed to show her thought process behind any of those reads
You of ALL people know this.
As in.
Of every player in the game.
No player knows this better than PantherPunt thanks to his Ranger experience.
That a lack of explanation is not an absence of ability to show explanation.
It is a willing choice, to put off explaining until a time of my choosing.

Why do I say he of all people knows this?
Because he was the victim of my vengekill in Longnight.
I did basically zero explaining of my reads while alive.
I even self-voted.
After I was hammered, I gave some, but not much.
Most of my commentary was in the vengeful/twilight/dead thread of that game, where I went into
extensive
length in my analysis, and why I believed what I did.

This is no different, and if he were town, he would
know
it was no different.
I actually agree with Panther on this one. Looking through Ranger's ISO, she's not done as much scum hunting as I'd hope she would - as she usually does. Either, She even admits it. It's scummy or she's having a off game. (And I get it, I'm having an off game, myself. Maybe it's because I'm not good at replacing into games.)
In post 469, Ranger wrote:Okay, let's start with karnos.
Compare his iso this game to two isos:
this game,
And this game.

Which of those two games does his iso look closer to?

Now, don't cheat and look at his alignments in those games. One's a town game, another a scum game. Tell me, which do you think is which, and which do you think his play is closer to this game?

Done that?

Okay.

Now.

I'm about to give you the answer.

So absolutely don't read this far into my post until you've done the above exercise.

Now, having settled that...

What was his alignment?




Spoiler: Well...
In the first game, Friends and Enemies and Enemies, he was scum.
In the second game, his first game on site, he was town.
And there you have it.

And let me tell you.

To me, this matches the town game to a T.

For a start, while I don't think ploben's scum for that reason, I do think ploben is scum, so his really spoke out as being good insight. is not scum bravado. It is town playing nonchalantly, unafraid of what others will say. / (especially 134) is
closer
to my reason for scumreading ploben than anyone else has gotten. It's not so much the act itself, but the way it was done (I'll talk about that more when I do my ploben case) plus the follow-through, and karnos there is beginning to latch onto that. is correct: anyone, at any point in the game, can claim, "but my scummy behavior was to catch scum in a trap!". latched onto some of my initial issues with Dunnstral. (As per the trend, more on that when I make my Dunnstral case.)

Around /, karnos comes under some fire, and there he manages to defend himself well. karnos was far from the only player to go after ploben, but he decided instead, in , to pursue BTD6. Though I disagree with his read there, that move was undeniably town. is dead on the money. was town in how he continued his ploben push, but is not dropping BTD6. is dead on the money about Dunnstral. (Again, more on that later.) was also a valid point. karnos was building a Dunnstral-ploben scumteam, without even realizing he was building a Dunnstral-ploben scumteam. does use emotional feelings on players a little more than hard reasoning...but that is ALSO something that
is incredibly hard to fake
for scum. Instead, it is FAR more likely to come from town, not realizing they're doing this.

The bitterness in is tangible, and also raises a valid point about ploben's push. I understand perfectly his feelings in : while not a problem for me this game, there have been plenty of town games where I've struggled to get
any
townreads, with most players as varying degrees of scumreads. I understand the thought, then, of "these players look more scum to me than this player, so if this player is scum, we lose". He also defended himself VERY well from duppin's attack. is also a post I don't see a player making as scum. He explained how he's approaching the game very well in , and again, that's not a post you see often from scum. is another great explanatory post.

All of the people on the karnos wagon I feel have skimmed his posts, looked at them on the surface, picked up on trivial details, and gone "oh, must be scummy". But I feel like none of them have actually
looked
at the posts, and tried
understanding
the posts. When you do that, I find it hard to see anything OTHER than town.
First off, I don't trust Ranger's meta - at least the way she presents them. She's a lot of things, a lot I don't like about her, but she's not dumb and I won't believe for a second that she plays games one game at a time. I feel that she forges her meta by using different play styles each game

No, I can't prove that and it's all gut.

The only thing I can prove is her play in Open 638 - Friends and Enemies (And Enemies.) She's been a lot less out aggressive and a lot more agreeable. I find her play similar this game. In Open 638, she was scum. I'm having a scummy vibe on her.

HOWEVER, I do actually all of her reads, because if I was ever scum with Ranger, I'd expect her to read me the exact way she'd read me if she were town. This means that I'd expect her to bus me if I fucked up.

Tl;dr, Lean scum on Ranger, but I have harder scum reads.

My hope is tomorrow that I'll do some re-reading before I post my read list.
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Post Post #868 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:36 am

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PantherPunt wrote:bit stale, but are these the reads that coincide with yours Chip?
They are in fact stale. The updated list would look more like this.
{Shadow_step, Chip Butty, Florestan, karnos}
{BTD6}
{duppin}
{Scott Brosius}
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{Dunnstral, PantherPunt, ploben}
BTD6 is nulltown, duppin is null, Scott Brosius is nullscum (emphasis
null
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scum
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Post Post #869 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:38 am

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I'm sure you just flipped me upside down, Ranger. Didn't you just say it was impossible for me to be scum?
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Post Post #870 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:39 am

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@Ranger
May I ask what you do for a living?

You seem to share a scum read on Kuroi as a handful of us do. Would you consider voting that wagon instead of mine ,
Better to be read dumb than scum.

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Post Post #871 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:41 am

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In post 521, karnos wrote: Interesting duppin also carefully checked the role in this setup also, almost like he was also in on a pre-game plan.
This is a joke right? You honestly think that if we were scum we would come up with a pre-game plan to have someone claim IC, only for the rest of us to later defend it and claim it was a joke and then push on the players pushing on it? What's the endgame plan? Sure, sure WIFOM. This discussion is obviously not going anywhere, I just thought it was a bit funnny.

But yes I did indeed check the setup, I always do.
In post 521, karnos wrote:
Another odd thing I notice re-reading the early pages, is the constant support and buddying between Dunnstral, ploben, and duppin generally goes unacknowledged, but when someone outside of the scum circle vouches for one of them, they turn on that player as if that player is a scum seeking town cred, such as alpaca or florestan.
I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that I am calling the people calling me town scum? And are you saying that is a scum tell?
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Post Post #872 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:42 am

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In post 870, ploben wrote:@Ranger
May I ask what you do for a living?

You seem to share a scum read on Kuroi as a handful of us do. Would you consider voting that wagon instead of mine ,
She's not going to, just like kuroi isn't willing to vote ranger. Funny how kuroi comes in and talks only about ranger as ranger shows up, too.

Can I convince you to vote for Ranger?
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Post Post #873 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:43 am

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In post 871, duppin wrote:I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that I am calling the people calling me town scum? And are you saying that is a scum tell?
He's saying you're defending me (?) And following my push on Karnos to defend Ploben (?)
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Post Post #874 (ISO) » Thu Jun 09, 2016 11:44 am

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In post 872, Dunnstral wrote:
In post 870, ploben wrote:@Ranger
May I ask what you do for a living?

You seem to share a scum read on Kuroi as a handful of us do. Would you consider voting that wagon instead of mine ,
She's not going to, just like kuroi isn't willing to vote ranger. Funny how kuroi comes in and talks only about ranger as ranger shows up, too.

Can I convince you to vote for Ranger?
What makes you think I'm not willing to vote Ranger? Because I didn't jump on it early this morning? I didn't have time to do an ISO, just like I didn't have time to completely reread and do a readlist.

I said I'd do the ISO first, which I just did. I had questions to ask Ranger. I still await those answers.

If I'm not satisfied with those answers, less satisfied with Chip's answers, I'll vote Ranger.
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