Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 10:59 pm
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You're right, that's the simple explanation. But it also could indicate that you knew no scum were in that group. Cases are built on such small things.In post 222, pitoli wrote:If the "slip" is about me calling the players on Fear's list "town" then I think that's slightly ridiculous.
It should have been obvious that I wasn't calling their alignment, I was using town in the sense of "this game's group of players".
Flay seems to be trying to remove any suspicion for jon, but tries to hide this in a reproach about putting Xiao into L-1 (note that is was actually Jerry who put Xiao in L-1). Something also bothers me about this remark in #212 (pitoli is talking about Fear in her comment):In post 104, Mr. Flay wrote: jon is reading as eager town to me now, but the L-1 vote is worth noting. Be more careful in the future.
Flay is really making something out of nothing here, which seems pointless. The only rational motive I can see is to heap unnecessary suspicion onto Fear to further Flay's Xiao/Fear scumbuddies case. Also look at Flay's comments about Jerry at the end of #212. It looks to me like he's trying to get a lynch moving, but he doesn't provide any info which supports his assertion that Jerry is scum other than this:In post 212, Mr. Flay wrote:Possible scum slip.In post 210, pitoli wrote:It looks like your lynch candidates are the half of town with less posts lol.
That says almost nothing about Jerry's scum character, but lays the groundwork for his later vote for Jerry in #229 which was again done without any reason why Jerry is mafioso. If Mr. Flay flips scum it would be very interesting - could basically assume that Jerry, Xiao, NQT and Fear (myself) are all town, given what he has said about them.In post 212, Mr. Flay wrote:Of the other three,I think JerryArr stands the most chance of being scum, with notquitethere close behind. I can see a non-Scum motivation for nqt's obsession with hypotheticals, but it's also a REALLY easy way to look like you're generating content and participating without actually taking any stands or moving the game forward. lortaku on the other hand is just largely absent, so hard to read.
Jerry, on the other hand, seems to have a fairly good grasp of the game, but he Freaked Out when called on the L-1 vote. He's been gunshy with his vote ever since which, given his past site's history with NL on D1, might be understandable, but it's past the useful stage now. He needs to vote ASAP, because soon we're going to get to the "clock is running out we have to lynch Someone" stage of D1, and that's when scum can really shine in a game this small.
You say Mr Flay is scummiest, and that we are in cahoots. But you'd rather lynch Xiao? You do realize there are only two scum, I'm sure. So lynching someone who you say is Town is awfully scummie IMO.In post 232, Kattaze wrote:tl:dr: I think Mr. Flay is the most scummy player so far, and wouldn't be surprised if he and jon were in cahoots. I would be comfortable lynching Xiao because so much has been said about him and knowing his status would reveal a lot more about all of those comments.
That's not very fair. I never said I'd rather lynch Xiao, I just said Xiao might be a good lynch because a lot has been said about him and we could look at those comments in a new light when we know his status (plus he hasn't been very helpful to the town so far and acted pretty obstructive early on in the game).In post 233, jon_h61 wrote:You say Mr Flay is scummiest, and that we are in cahoots. But you'd rather lynch Xiao? You do realize there are only two scum, I'm sure. So lynching someone who you say is Town is awfully scummie IMO.In post 232, Kattaze wrote:tl:dr: I think Mr. Flay is the most scummy player so far, and wouldn't be surprised if he and jon were in cahoots. I would be comfortable lynching Xiao because so much has been said about him and knowing his status would reveal a lot more about all of those comments.
UNVOTE:
VOTE: Kattaze
That's a fair point, maybe I was too hasty in saying that he was defending a scumbuddy. I still think it's worth noting though, and remember this is a newbie game so players will probably make some mistakes, also I think jon mentioned that he was pretty inexperienced.Mr. Flay wrote:That would be an incredibly dense/obvious defense of a scumbuddy. "roll: Whatmotivationwould SE-scum-jon have for defending IC-scum-Flay from a single vote? Bonus points for talking "to town" as if the two of us were known to be excluded from that group.
That's usually called "Twilight" here, and yes, unless the rules state otherwise the lynched can keep talking as much as they want (still understanding that they can't direct-quote their Role PM, etc). Mod is under no obligation toIn post 237, Kattaze wrote:I also wanted to know, say someone receives enough votes to be lynched, but the mod doesn't check the thread for a while, is that person allowed to keep talking?
Can they tell everyone their role, who they suspect, etc? Obviously scum wouldn't do this but if a townie gets lynched it would be in their interest to spill the beans about everything and voice all of their suspicions.
Not really. As Fear mentioned earlier, Xiao didn't cow into line earlier when put at L-1, and he's been the vote leader or tied leader for most of Day One so far. The Town-Xiao explanation of that is that either he finally got enough reads on people to start to work together better, or that other people started acting scummier. The Scum-Xiao explanation would be that either his partner deflected enough attention somewhere else, or that other people started acting scummier.rmpeacoc wrote:@Flay Do you think Xiao could have changed his play style due to the fact that he had so many votes on him?
I was pointing out that Fear's logic wasn't sound and was poor town-play. Right now I don't know for certain if anyone is scum-- merely your general surliness has led me to hold you as the highest candidate. You've got to understand that I'm not sitting my vote on you for convenience or an easy lynch: by your actions you have been the most uncooperative player-- either you're scum or the one town player we can most afford to mislynch. That said, I'd rather not mislynch you so if you can give me, through your actions, valid reason to think you more likely town, then I'll vote someone else.In post 203, Xiao Long wrote:Which would mean I'm town, yet you have your vote on me and still claim I'm the scummiest in the game.In post 199, notquitethere wrote:Not true. I could very well believe you being scum and setting up a situation here where you can say 'I told you so!' after town is lynched-- a classic scum tactic.In post 126, Fear the poster wrote:I'm the only player who isn't content with this lynch so either I am scum with Xiao or Xiao is town.
You do realise that this is a suspect tactic: allowing people to choose from a set of guilty candidates that you've already preselected? I'll entertain the notion that you're not scum for a moment and say that Lork for his hyper-lurking strikes me as most suspicious of the four, but elsewise, Xiao is the most suspicious. Why do you think his refusal to answer simple questions is acceptable?In post 209, Fear the poster wrote:I'm watching my stories right now and I'd like to hear more from Flay, jerr, quite and Lork before I come back. Those are the four players I am interested in lynching/think might be scum.
I strongly oppose a lynch outside of those players. Except for Jon. I only weakly oppose a lynch on him.
Everyone: I'd like your comments on the above players and which you think we should lynch, which you think we should not consider and which are stupid.
And a sensible answer it was-- I didn't see it the first time I read through (hence why I always embolden people's names so that when I direct something towards them, it's easy to spot).In post 200, pitoli wrote:Notquitethere, I answered it in #130. Now are you just skimming the thread or what?
In post 222, pitoli wrote:agree with Flay on:
- a likely scum motivation for NQT's hypothetical questions
In post 212, Mr. Flay wrote:I can see a non-Scum motivation for nqt's obsession with hypotheticals, but it's also a REALLY easy way to look like you're generating content and participating without actually taking any stands or moving the game forward.
Regarding the hypothetical stuff-- it might be worth point out that most of my Mafia experience is on another site (Bay12) where discussing game style and hypothetical situations is the normal way for starting a game. This isn't some weird NQT-specific tic (I recall it frustrated Mafiascum regular Edosurist when he came and played on Bay12). Any given site will have their institutional habits, and it's possible it's a bad habit to have picked up. The general motivation for it is sound: ask questions until someone slips up. In my eyes, Xiao's complete and utter refusal to engage counts as a slip up.In post 232, Kattaze wrote:notquitethere
Not sure what to make of all of his hypotheticals - seems a bit fluffy.
Six days is a long time-- what's wrong with a pressure vote with six days left? (To be honest, I'm more used to to 4-day long days-- I don't really get the rationale for these super-long days.)In post 229, Mr. Flay wrote:Jerry on the other hand is voting for pressure with 6 days left. WTF??
There's the better part of a week left-- this seems a tad alarmist, but I assume it's justified by experience. In any case, Lortaku/Xiao are still my top scum picks for now.In post 239, Mr. Flay wrote:With that in mind,EVERYBODY needs to at least post who their top two scum reads are in their next post. We're running out of time for dithering, folks.
Terrible, terrible move here. You've been a bit inactive lately and this vote seems extremely reactionary. I had you as town before, but with this you're down to null-scum.In post 233, jon_h61 wrote:You say Mr Flay is scummiest, and that we are in cahoots. But you'd rather lynch Xiao? You do realize there are only two scum, I'm sure. So lynching someone who you say is Town is awfully scummie IMO.In post 232, Kattaze wrote:tl:dr: I think Mr. Flay is the most scummy player so far, and wouldn't be surprised if he and jon were in cahoots. I would be comfortable lynching Xiao because so much has been said about him and knowing his status would reveal a lot more about all of those comments.
UNVOTE:
VOTE: Kattaze
People keep saying I've changed my posting style, but I haven't tried to change it at all. I'm still posting from the same mind-set as I have been, but I've do have more information now to work with.In post 239, Mr. Flay wrote: The recent posting has definitely been better, but I still think he was way too calm and antagonistic earlier, and the way he defended himself (or didn't) reeks of scum with a strong partner to me).
My top two? Notquitethere and Lortaku have become my top two. I'll explain further down the post.With that in mind,EVERYBODY needs to at least post who their top two scum reads are in their next post. We're running out of time for dithering, folks.
So everything you have that you're using to say I'm scum has to do with my playstyle? Do you have nothing legitimately scummy on me? Also, your vote on my is a fucking RVS vote, you haven't even tried voting for someone else this entire match.In post 242, notquitethere wrote:XiaoI was pointing out that Fear's logic wasn't sound and was poor town-play. Right now I don't know for certain if anyone is scum-- merely your general surliness has led me to hold you as the highest candidate. You've got to understand that I'm not sitting my vote on you for convenience or an easy lynch: by your actions you have been the most uncooperative player-- either you're scum or the one town player we can most afford to mislynch. That said, I'd rather not mislynch you so if you can give me, through your actions, valid reason to think you more likely town, then I'll vote someone else.In post 203, Xiao Long wrote:Which would mean I'm town, yet you have your vote on me and still claim I'm the scummiest in the game.In post 199, notquitethere wrote:Not true. I could very well believe you being scum and setting up a situation here where you can say 'I told you so!' after town is lynched-- a classic scum tactic.In post 126, Fear the poster wrote:I'm the only player who isn't content with this lynch so either I am scum with Xiao or Xiao is town.
Oh look, this argument again. Why don't you ISO me and look at all the questions I've refused to answer. Notice something? They're all your pointless hypotheticals. I've answered everyone else's questions that have been directed at me that were relevant to the game.Xiao is the most suspicious. Why do you think his refusal to answer simple questions is acceptable?
Which means you're applying your homesite's mindset to this game which is already faulty because more than one person in this game have said your hypotheticals are fluff.In my eyes, Xiao's complete and utter refusal to engage counts as a slip up.
So why wouldn't you just vote Jon instead since his reactionary vote against Kattaze was scummier than anything Flay has done. Just seems like you're sheeping.In post 243, lortaku wrote:Like I said earlier, I think that one of the people voting for Xiao are scum. Because rmp seemed genuine town for me from the heated exchange before, and Kattaze seems to be contributing as town, I'm gonna go with VOTE: Mr. Flay
His vote has been on Xiao for some time, even though Xiao doesn't seem like scum. Also, it would provide some information on jon_h61, whether he's town or scum. Since they're defending each other.
What about it was town?In post 244, JerryArr wrote:Do you have anything else to say about him besides this?lortaku
Still would like more from him.
notquitethere
His most recent post 242 bought him up into null-town territory. Still not a lot of posts, though.
Am I not supposed to draw attention to things I think are scummie? Sorry gonna do it anyway. Another thing I really don't like is this associative tell you and Kattaze seemed to have latched onto. Just because I flip Town is no reason to assume someone else's alignment. You two yelling defense is strange. Maybe later in the game (if you're Town) you can look back and see I'm pointing out bad logic. But that's up for everyone to decide individually.In post 244, JerryArr wrote:jon_h61
Stressing teamwork in 85 and 97 is good. I'd like to know what his promised ISO (177) found about me. I think he twisted Kattaze's words a bit in 233, although the point made was valid. Didn't like the Kattaze vote. Not fully sold on him.
Although a Xiao lynch would provide a lot of information, he's not in my top two, so my current scum top two are jon_h61 and lortaku. I will
VOTE: jon_h61 due to his vote on what has been the towniest slot in the game and a general lack of substance IMO.
Jerry is the only person Kattaze asks their opinion of.In post 236, Kattaze wrote:I also would like to hear more from Jerry, do you have any thoughts about who we should lynch?
LOL, I blame this one on my wife, she wanted me to word it this way. She doesn't play Mafia AT ALL. But I'll go ahead and take the heat. It got reactions at least.In post 246, Xiao Long wrote:Terrible, terrible move here. You've been a bit inactive lately and this vote seems extremely reactionary. I had you as town before, but with this you're down to null-scum.
You won't see me posting Walls of Text just to make you happy. And um, someone please explain why I'm getting singled out for content?In post 241, rmpeacoc wrote:Pitoli I still want to see more content from you. I'm seeing a few lines in each post, not that much content.
In post 248, jon_h61 wrote:LOL, I blame this one on my wife, she wanted me to word it this way. She doesn't play Mafia AT ALL. But I'll go ahead and take the heat. It got reactions at least.In post 246, Xiao Long wrote:Terrible, terrible move here. You've been a bit inactive lately and this vote seems extremely reactionary. I had you as town before, but with this you're down to null-scum.