Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:35 pm
Vote Seniors bros
↑ Friendless Seniors wrote:hello, this is EP.
something very emotionally difficult has happened to me and I hope you understand that I don't think i'll be able to really spend time on mafia for the time being.
thank you for being understanding, especially to hiplop.
I will be more than willing to do an awesome catchup when I get back.
Basically, that was at the time a barely-above-null tier. Axelrod's song was amusing, though the mention of a serial killer raised my eyebrow as a detail which seems unusual for a town player to include. dramonic's vote was okay, but his posting did not send off strong town vibes.The Pied Piper wrote:Why were dramonic and axel sharing a tier on page 1?
Actually, it was 13. Post 14 also wasn't the best, but 13 was the real "hmmmmmm..."-inducer.Was Seniors so low because they suggested a policy lynch or for some other reason?
It was actually mainly because of the delayed RVS. I felt that Spiffeh, as town, would have been RVSing in his first post or not voting at all. His question to Cakez, and then the vote in the post after, read as being scum messing around in the RVS, and then thinking, "oh, crud, I probably should cast a vote, it might be suspicious if I don't". However, you're not wrong, either: it wasn't so much the declaration of being town as the bad gut feeling tonality-wise I got fromWas Spiffeh on the bottom for claiming town or some other reason?
You linked to the post in question. Her enthusiasm did not feel sincere.What was wrong with Mala's posting on page 2?
My read on Sakura Hana at that point was weakly town, but in the position where she could have been scum faking things for town credit. So, it was mainly actually 44/48 (the posts which looked like potential scumhunting, yet also potentially being scum faking it), with 41 being the strongest town indicator at that point.Is Sakura's postition primarily based on 38 or a different one?
No. I liked 54. It felt lighthearted and yet still relevant. This was significantly amplified by 55, where the statement of him being serious felt like town naturally working their way out of the RVS. 58 continued the trend. Basically one of the only reasons he didn't rise even higher by that point is that the line "votes plz" didn't feel as sincere as the rest. Same for 62; it almost feltIs beeboy rising because he was making so much noise?
That was in fact the reason, yes. I did not think it was a characteristic Sakura Hana would have as scum, and yet I'msakura goes up a notch for questioning a townread on her or something else?
I'm pretty sure it was me becoming more hesitant about davesaz, but looking at his posts on the page, I can't actually tell you why. If I had to guess, maybe 90, but I honestly don't know. Something he said pinged, but not enough to significantly demote him, just enough to push him slightly down. As for why davesaz went higher than Mirhawk, I absolutelydavesaz is falling a little due to other people being rearranged or some other reason?
You have to understand that at the time, I did not know True Ogre was an alt. I saw someone who I was under the impression was inexperienced, posting in a way that looked incredibly odd. The second line in particular felt out of place, and also how they didn't vote Friendless Seniors in spite of liking the push. The rest of the post was also full of fence-sitting: no hard stance on Wrong Lynch, no hard stance on your slot, and random questions that didn't seem to have a purpose. So, in short: basically the entirety of 123, and how it seemingly had no content for a slot entering the game so late, so...kind-of, yes.Is True Ogre at the bottom because of how late their entrance was?
Nah. I voted True Ogre to get a vote on the board that wasn't on a townread. At the time, he was at the bottom of my list, thus, vote.True Ogre vote because of their vote at the top of page 6 or?
Everything about 128 was good. The answer, the depth, the counter-questioning, and the tone. It all felt incredibly town.Skybird is towner because of her questioning of Ogre or?
I hated the defense of Friendless Seniors in 138. The question to Ogre looked fake. Overall the post just gave bad gut feelings, too. The other posts did nothing to change my read either way. This lasted until 174: I thought it was an actually-good defense of his stances, and while I didn'tis tictac scummy for the things they're missing in 138 or the things they're noticing?
Oh,seniors a little scummier for errant's wall?
205 was actually the start, but yes, the interactions with you felt incredibly sincere.Because of his interactions with us or something else?
What would have changed? beeboy was a top townread and continued towning it up. SirCakez was a top townread and continued towning it up. You remained pretty town. davesaz, Sakura Hana, and dramonic were the only possible read changes, and dramonic's post was nothing, Sakura's was something I couldn't lock down one way or another, and for whatever reason davesaz didn't change.Nothing else on page 9 affected your reads on any other slots?
This was an error in my reads list, one that lasted until the correction I posted in 1281. TrueOgre did not belong that low at that stage, and it was a mistake that I didn't think about fixing until later. They were still a scumread, but my Friendless Seniors scumread was much stronger.You're voting Seniors but you still have Ogre beneath them in your readslist.
No, it was due to the miller counterclaim causing pistachi0n's wagon to grow as it did. The claim itself was null. How peopleIs pistachi0n's place here solely due to her miller claim?
Apparently not, but looking at his posting, I don't know why? Reading what he says on that page, I totally agree with you, it looks more town. It could also, however, be part of the error I fixed later; that'd actually make more sense.I feel like Spiffeh got towner on page 11. You didn't?
If I had to guess, it was the error in the reads list. I was literally copy-pasting and making changes as I thought to make them when reading the thread, but at around this point, that meant I often was not making the changes be as strong as they should have been. That's most evident with Friendless Seniors being above TrueOgre in spite of being my strongest scumread, but is elsewhere in there, too.Why is Mirhawk's position unchanged? There's very little motion in your readslist around this time.
I can tell it was hiplop because Errant almost never casts naked votes. When I think of Errant, I always think, "they vote with a reason". That's my mental picture of them. As for why hiplop's naked vote was bad, it wasn't "naked vote = bad!". It was naked voting pistachi0n. If hiplop were town, I would expect one of two things. Either 1: he wouldn't vote pistachi0n at all, or 2: if he did, like all the other town players at that stage, he would have some dialog about it.This is partially answered in your 1278 but why are naked votes from hiplop surprising to you? If you can tell that the naked voter was hiplop, and I agree that was almost certainly him, that means that naked voting isn't surprising from hiplop except in this case it is?
Maybe in hindsight, but at the time? Naturally. Mirhawk's posting before that did not seem alarming with what I had read at the time. 349 was just soOkay, so Mirhawk got a little worse in 349, but they didn't get worse before that?
I can talk about the SirCakez read...but doing so is literally quoting almost his entire iso. His posting started strong. It has only gotten stronger as the game has continued. Why would the read change? He made himself known as town early. He has done absolutely nothing to change that, in fact cementing it with his continuously-strong play.Can you talk some about your Cakez read? I realise it hasn't changed since page 1 but that's part of the problem I'm having with it.
At that point, no. I simply didn't have him in my mind to be honest.Snarky isn't falling a little?
It did nothing.I know that Cerberus is a rogue tier but did his predecessor's "18 pages holy moly" affect your read in any direction?
453 was a solid entrance into the game, but the rest of his posting was not strong enough to mean anything.Is your town read on podoboq partially based on how cute he is?
It's partially taking people's word for it that this is normal for him, and partially gut behind the tone of his pushes. He's pushing only a few players, and giving almost nothing behind the pushes, so objectively that's not very good, but in spite of that heIs your dramonic read meta based or?
Well, I know I'm town and I understood his suspicion on pistachi0n, even though I disagreed. But Mirhawk was a fine scumread to have.You pointed at his 475 and said what you thought of them but he was also considering pistachi0n, mirhawk, and you.
That would be why, yes. 484 was also good.Is podoboq improving because of posts like 477 where he's looking past things he doesn't like to townread people in spite of antitown behaviour? Because of the jester questions on page 21?
It looked decent, but by itself, wasn't enough. Basically, if goodmorning was posting like that every time and every day I'd probably have a stronger townread there, but since it was a one-off post, it didn't make a notable impression. I know, they're V/LA so it's unfair to ask that level of content from them, yet that's what I feel like I need in order to have a stronger read: more posting.What did you think of goodmorning's entrance? I notice it didn't leave a mark on your readslist.
I think it was about this time that SnarkySnowman was beginning to slowly creep in and replace Cerberus as my rogue townread: someone I didn't know what to think of exactly, but someone I didn't think was scum nor definitively town.What did you think of snarky chiming in to the jester conversation and continuing to ignore everything going on in the thread?
The wagon you next ask about. Bluntly, the only names on there I wouldn't lynch are Sakura and pobodoq. I think it waspistachi0n: Sakura Hana, Friendless Seniors, Mirhawk, tictac, Axelrod, podoboq (6)
It was the revelation that he's an alt, actually. That was information I needed to have. Given the revelation he's an alt, his interactions suddenly made a lot more sense, namely, how he is treating major players he most likely has much experience with (e.g. Nacho, Wrong Lynch). I did like his response to tictac, too.Is Ogre looking better for mixing up the heads in my hydra on page 22 or something else?
It did nothing. Null. Not a game-changer. pistachi0n has posts which increased the townread from interaction-based to play-based, but those come later.What did you think of pistachi0n's 550?
652, actually.Was 670 a large part of why podoboq moved up?
Kind-of? I don't have any reason for Tammy being town. Never did. She just popped into my head as a townread, and I haven't let that go.I agree that Tammy's town but it feels like you've written her off as town.
The answer to both is yes.Have you played with scumCerberus before? Is he that bad at it?
13, 50, 96, and ESPECIALLY 190 for a start.tictac wrote:Why was Seniors obvscum on page 9?
The relevant tiers as of 1519 are: {untouchable town (Pied Piper has moved here), strong town, fairly town, null town, null scum, slightly scum, basically-confirmed-scum}.What are the relevant tiers?
The vote in 74 matches my expectation of SnarkySnowman as town. I also liked 409. That was basically all of what can be called SnarkySnowman's early posting. Both good, but not enough.The Pied Piper wrote:What about Snarky's early posting did you like?
Something else. I'm actually not sure. Just, not what he did.What kind of posting would you have expected from scumSnarky early on?
Well, mostly, they're scumreads individually. ThereHave you talked about why they're scum together at any point?
Not from memory, no. Believe it or not, the posts I find least-memorable in a game are my own; I tend to forget what I've said even before the game has finished, yet alone a couple months later. I'd have to look that up, but I don't have time for that right now. Maybe tomorrow I could get back to you about that.Ranger, this is reminding me of something you said in Blitz 19. Can you tell me what that thing was and why it is reminding me of that thing?
↑ True Ogre wrote:VOTE: Ranger
I believe that's onlyL-2surprisingly enough. As far as I can tell there are now 9 votes on Ranger and 6 on Seniors with 11 to lynch.
Actually I think it's more like:
Cakez went to Mirhawk in 1904 and Pied Piper went to Ranger in 1919.
But yes the people who need to vote or indicate a preference one way or another are:
TWL, Cerberus, Cakez, Tammy, pistachion, dramonic
Or explain why they'd prefer to force no-lynch.
Actually, four: Mirhawk, Friendless Seniors, Spiffeh, and beeboy.Sakura Hana wrote:3 more ppl asking for votes on Ranger and i dont even understand why...
Which I responded to, and you never countered.Spiffeh wrote:ISO me to find all my reasons why in a spoiler
This game is absolutelyFriendless Seniors wrote:shes exactly like mafiaception
For someone claiming they're not trying to discredit SirCakez.Friendless Seniors wrote:I don't mean to discredit you here, but that scumpool you just mentioned, is the easiest, least unique one presented thus far.
Pot, kettle, black. Maybe not from your half of the hydra (would have to check), but guess what your slot's been doing most of the game? Guess what they've also been avoiding? There was actual pressure mounting on tictac, such that I was interested in switching. That pressure has vanished, in large part because you switched your vote just as momentum was building, effectively killing the wagon before it could really get going.Her pushing tictac hard and completely avoiding actual pressure on that slot is SERIOUSLY scummy.
Honestly would not object to either.Spiffeh wrote:I'd be willing to flash wagon Axelrod and maaaaaaaayybe tictac
I don't know, you tell me!The Pied Piper wrote:Why are we voting Ranger?
On that front, I can tell you I absolutely have no fear of pushing a universal townread. Machina Mafia should have told you that much. It's utter BS to think I'dThe Pied Piper wrote:Other thing is I can't imagine Ranger as scum scumreading a universal townread and not expecting pushback
<3Friendless Seniors wrote:hello, this is EP. something very emotionally difficult has happened to me and I hope you understand that I don't think i'll be able to really spend time on mafia for the time being. thank you for being understanding, especially to hiplop. I will be more than willing to do an awesome catchup when I get back.
Not happening.Tammy wrote:Gonna sleep on it, and yeah a claim from either would be nice.
Eh, maybe I was a bit too harsh.Cerberus v666 wrote:Also, ranger, I'm sad that you think I'm so bad at scum that I couldn't fake 875.
Make sure you're around at deadline, then. Unfortunately I don't think my schedule works out that way (I'll still be stuck at work, too busy to use the internet and besides I'd rather not risk losing my job over a game anyway), so I can't, but you need to be.I believe ranger is town. I lack sufficient cause to believe FS is scum. That's a very important distinction to make.
Ahg. If you had asked this earlier, I would have done it, but I don't have the time anymore. :(Cerberus v666 wrote:Oh, also, ranger...please explain what about the posts of FS you've seen makes you feel they're scum.