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In a time long ago, before I took my long break, I got ripped up after a game because I "let the scum win".
Because the scum opted
to play the game
instead of being a pile of lurkaderps. I said it right then, that I would rather lose to someone playing the drag them to victory.
AND SO IT HAPPENED *gasp*
Esp is playin (don't take an affront there) but I literally have no faith in a town that will not purge that with fire. Immediately.
So, bet your ass I'll comment on other things, but if it makes you feel better I'm now a tree stump and he's hated.
And yes, I'm making it very, VERY clear I dont even necessarily think scum there - there'd be actual thought and process behind that claim as scum at this juncture and it SHOULD require mad huevos because it SHOULD be lynched.
In post 49, Espeonage wrote:I get your premise. And I definitely understand your process.
I can't say I agree with the premise though. It works under the assumption that the claim HAS to be lynched for town to be playing correctly. Then you say I SHOULD be lynched.
Those aren't equatable terms. Not to mention that you are going against your own premise, mainly because it can easily be argued that vote parking isn't 'playing'.
If you're going to argleblargle about semantics and then be as wrong as humanly possible in your final statement, welp, g to the mothafuckin' g. We're done here.
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I have to assume this is lol rvs time.
(assume any words don't count ESP because I'm not bothering to preface anything with the * that is HE SHOULD BE DEAD)
However, if I could I'd have already shot shos in the face. I didn't "mind" the Tierce et Reck saga except for the throwaway "large themes for flavor" which bothers me infinitely more than reck saying anything about not knowing said flavor.
However Reck could be being a hero right now instead of voting for himself so sadness abounds.
I really want an explanation why. So...explain why please.
Sure thing.
Assuming we're not up against some dream team unable to screw up scumgroup the road to victory for scum lies in two general categories:
1.) Sweet gambits
2.) Lobotomize the town.
#2 is done in two fashions: 1.) Kill strong players and leave dregs. 2.) Find and kill PRs.
So, method 1 is a more natural occurring kind of thing, but 2 usually requires help from the town.
All claiming VT does there is:
1.) Help solidify never dying (see #2)
2.) Help retarget whatever is at scum disposal at other targets.
3.) Create lolreaction gambits like this.
WHICH YEE HAW SUCCESSFUL
Much like shos masterful piece of voting and calling them town, it doesn't actually
do anything useful
.
So, to ye both
Or, lets go about this a different way.
What would you do if I claimed scum right now?
I mean, scum wouldn't do it so its a town thing to do right?
NOPE
YOU KILL ME BECAUSE IF THE SCUMS JOB IS TO KILL STRONG PLAYERS, THE TOWNS JOB NEEDS TO BE TO KILL THE WEAK. Unless there's something actually useful, thats the default. Somewhere along the way its been lost.
Now sirdan is pushing the "totally scum esp" angle waaaay too hard and I'm not necessarily a fan, but like the posts you quoted:
In post 67, Espeonage wrote:t was in relation to your, it'll be funny comment.
Why is it a stupid claim? No one is addressing this, and unless someone gives me reason to think otherwise it's unfounded.
I did it because I wanted to see where it would run, and figured it would shake things up. As a vanilla there isn't much weird about it. The assumption is that a majority of the playerlist will be vanilla given that this is specifically non-bastard. So therfore I figured it'd be a nice little shake up type action.
How does any of that equate to stupid claim?
In post 69, Espeonage wrote:Alternatively, it means that should I make myself appear unlikely to be lynched, I then force them into a dilemma. As an example.
In post 70, Espeonage wrote:You're also assuming I'm making sane and logical choices, something many people in this game will tell you is categorically not the case.
He went "no I have totally valid (re bad) reasons" to monkey cheese bananas in less than 15 minutes.
I'm not saying thats scum found TM. I'm saying thats a fine lynch and aaaa fine way to rock this party.
Did you honestly think I was just being obstinate?
Claiming VT is a 0 net positive gain.
Much like claiming scum would be.
Or the myriad of "lol reactions" nonsense we normally see.
This is why I hate lolreactions.
Reck saying well this is how it is is why I hate meta.
And yes I'm being pissy leaving my vote there but its all I got at the mo. If I don't stand my damn ground then it just turns into lurkaderpa 9000 AGAIN.
In post 203, PeregrineV wrote:Sprye I wanted to say "Town!" at his early posting. But, I think he is fully capable of vote parking and then justifying it as scum. So, one null it is.
This is what honestly bothers me about SpyreX here.
He seems to be trying WAY too hard to justify voteparking early D1. That doesn't seem like town SpyreX. Town SpyreX just
IS
was
and requires minimal effort to effect the gamestate. Going "bawwww gonna votepark to make a point and then spend a few posts justifying it with too many words" doesn't seem like townSpy.
FTFY.
You have any idea how badly I wish I could just go LYNCH THIS SHIT and it would get lynched?
That doesn't happen anymore. Burnout then time off then only getting to post at night makes it an uphill struggle. I literally
had to explain
why the VT nonsense is the kind of nonsense that needs to be killed AND EVEN THEN there's like one ohhh yea moment.
1) Provokes reactions
2) Introduces WIFOM for the scum, making them less sure of NK targets.
Ohh I guess there was something 'useful' there.
So lolreactions and WIFOM
AWESOME SAUCE
Ready for an awesome SpyreX prediction:
Esp will never be NK'd by scum. Never ever ever. They could find out he was a three shot per day davig that kills an extra scum if he shoots scum and wont happen
but the important part there is that he's committing to things hard and fast that actually have some weight instead of fumbling around like a drunk teen at prom.
Honestly, I didn't read the code select *gasp*. I have little patience for those kind of teeheegames.
Now that you made me go back and actually read it I'm not surprised at it bodes well for the future.
However actually trying to engage in something in this morass is a good sign.
Chamber taking the time to go meta as scum at this point looking for a bite under what would have been the strangest pretenses ever is waay more likely town and scum.
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Its ~meta~ but Desp is off by a wide margin. I don't like that.
TIP bluster and, well, pretty much everything there would make him someone I'd shoot right in the face.
We're starting to slowly get places, but there's still an amazing amount of dead weight.
In post 351, SpyreX wrote:Now that you made me go back and actually read it I'm not surprised at it bodes well for the future.
However actually trying to engage in something in this morass is a good sign.
Chamber taking the time to go meta as scum at this point looking for a bite under what would have been the strangest pretenses ever is waay more likely town and scum.
The English-Ur-quan translator failed in these sentences, I suspect. I think I know what you mean in each, but could you just clarify them?
The chamber/ces nonsense had a VT claim in it that I didn't see because I wasn't reading it. Seeing it makes me sad inside (and, if i had the druthers, I think there may be some parsing against that one versus the esp one that could be interesting later).
However chamber reading Els's games and noticing a different in style of posting and then probing to see why feels waay more town motivated then scum mostly because, even if he did find something, scum-chamber trying to push a lynch through on HE TYPE DIFFERENT would be the most uphill and eye pulling kind of thing ever.
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I'm not sure why the hell I'm seeing so many OMG NO CONTENTS posts but lets round this up so you guys can get a new drum to bang on:
Tierce is town.
Sirdan is town.
PV is town.
Chamber is town.
Els is probably town.
Shadoweh's latest posts give a good solid feeling.
Shos is town and probably the one that will lose this at lylo.
I liked Reck. I'm not stoked about TIP.
JacobSavage is..strange and I can't tell if its due to being nabbed or just weird brain to keyboard circuits.
Esp needs to die.
Nat is actively doing nothing and thats awesome.
Desp is my gut pick for scum at the moment.
In post 426, TheIrishPope wrote:If Esp is town, he won't be doing anything bad at night.
If Esp is scum, he won't be contributing much to the scum team since he's so useless.
It's clear that Nat is a much stronger player, thus a better target for this lynch.
Get what I'm saying dawg?
If Esp is town, it still has to be dealt with and it will happen when we dont have the luxury to let it.
If Esp is scum, he is still a body and could damn well be sweet sweet candy.
More important if esp is scum, unless you think this is the dumbest bus ever, I might have enough cred to actually start to forge the iron-hot spear of hate and death to purge this game. I'm not the best at finding scum, but I'm pretty damn good at finding town. And, I'd have to be dealt with at that point.
It takes a lot of stones to say stronger and clear and scum for Nat all together when he's a fat ball of nothing that will have to be dealt with and has people hopping all over him.
And Desp this is D1 of a large. You bet your ass scum are "reading" jic there's 3rd party or other scum or anything else. Shit, that was my scum MO for forever.
I'd also love something to happen. In my heart of hearts losing steam looking for the perfect lynch instead of being happy with a good lynch is the mindkiller.
I thought yesterday was a scum flip too. I saw godfather, blocked everything else out. I'm pretty sure that as much as OMG SCUM FOUND some people are trying to pull that's going to be a rabbit hole that isn't going to be very useful.
Chamber kill yesterday means *gasp* there's some older folk in the scum. I'm not ~meta~ but I don't think chamber got swiped on simple merits from yesterday.
More importantly and this is going to take some time:
At least one major wagon yesterday was on scum.
That ebb and flow and the inability for anything to really push through until the deadline looming power dive means ~something~ was stopping the others from going through.
Its gonna take me time I dont have in spades to get there but if someone enterprising would like to setup the VCA I think we can actually pull some delicious nuggets from it.
Ok this kind of sucks, but for some mystic reason I can't post the full set of VC's and get 503'd.
So, I'm starting to look through this a little closer and theres some weird shit going on:
Thats in..4? pages. Off, while a decent post, not enough for me to expect that kind of zoom AND it to land on the same person. I can't finish parsing out what that means, but there is something super ass fishy there and I want another set of eyes on it.
Line 141: Espeonage - 7 - SpyreX, Shadoweh, Natirasha, Cogito Ergo Sum, sirdanilot, MafiaSSK, ActionDan
Line 173: JacobSavage - 7 - Tierce, Desperado, sirdanilot, shos, Albert B. Rampage, MafiaSSK,
Aegor
So, despite all the flippy floppin around, we only had a few wagons EVER hit a point of actual real traction. But, again, there's some weird shit going on.
CES is on most of these with the exception of Jacob ever and Nat's. The saving grace is he wanted the wagons to grow which goes a long way for me. Still weird though.
With all the hoppin around, the last two are a very interesting split. 5/7 unique and the pair are... sirdan and SSK.
Of course, there's the other side of this. Two names NEVER show up on a real wagon:
JacobSavage
PeregrineV
I dont know what it means yet, but someday. Someday I will. It really, REALLY makes me want to kill SSK though.
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That aside I'm still really unexcited by Desp and in a different better world I'd probably be willing to vote there.
Tierce makes it hard because I just want to love her and sometimes I do but then it floats away again.
More than that this game has the floatits really bad. I'm not sure if its just we've got a majority of scum playing the field or if people just don't want to commit to anything but its ridiculous. In my heart of hearts there's scum in JS/Esp and if there ISNT scum in JS/Esp/TIP/SSK we're in deep, deep shit.
SSK being the target of wolves scattering makes the paranoid part of my brain go he's a lowlevel scum that was getting the push JIC for cred and at the first excuse they scattered to the winds. Tie that to being on both wagons and I get waay paranoid.
I see that the same mistakes made are destined to be repeated.
Desperado - 4 - Cogito Ergo Sum, sirdanilot, Shadoweh, Albert B. Rampage
PeregrineV - 5 - shos, Majiffy, Shadoweh, sirdanilot, Albert B. Rampage
I think PV is a bad lynch right now and if it was time for a lurkerin the guy who flat out said he wouldn't be here is a strange choice.
The bigger problem is, STILL, there's not really an attempt to start to move in a direction with a purpose. The fragmentation is going to be worse.
Its not OMG SCUM WIN like some would suggest but shove it through and, assuming this is a failure, someone come out the gates and shove the wolves in a direction under real reasons. Right or wrong, that's what this game needs.
And I freely say that chances are high its not gonna be me to even try it.
You know my vote isn't moving. Not even for a deadline. You know the key to unlock my chains.
It's happening again all over. My weird feelings over SSK are reinforced tenfold watching these wagon shifts. Esp is literally double talking at this point and isn't getting taken to task for it. ABR is at a point where he
doesn't even have to pretend
to invest anything into this game and is getting protected by a great meta shield.
There is no reason why that group should still exist. And the wagon is somehow on sirdan. Which, while I understand the gnashing at teeth still feels like the town gorilla beating at the bars.
The one in my gut of guts though is still Desp.
But, this game still isn't going to congeal. My faith is limited and I'm already pre-irritated with how the rest of this day is going to go.
AND, just in case it wasn't clear:
I'm working 12-14 hour days minimum lately. It will be that way for a while. I am still reading and keeping up, but I am not in a position to do the heavy lifting. Its almost like I'd need...a...team to get something useful done here.
Ohh we both know I'm not going anywhere and there's been too much background noise for me to be worried about you. So we can, tomorrow.
And for a little ~meta~ you know I'm a stubborn asshole and I have put my foot in the sand. You know the price, and ultimately its not a big one.
I really think the VCA with the weird popups is going to tell a story, but I can't see it yet.
And, as a friend, get some sleep. I know first hand how easy it is to toss that away when things get busy, and I know how damaging and bad it is in the long run.
As well you should. I'll admit seeing majiffy town and the trigger not being pulled yesterday is an interesting combination because that was a low-risk high-reward lynch for scum there.
Lets play pretend and say I was willing to move my vote. What's in it for me?
That said:
Sirdan is 100% town and I'm sad at how busy I've been that it took me this long to realize it.
JacobSavage is waaay more likely town than not now.
Scum probably have a rolecop.
I want someone who can decipher shadoweh to go a huntin. I know people say I'm hard to follow, but shit. The only one that really makes me nervous is the CES hate but SSK's 180 I'd HOPE was related to his role somehow.
I'll be happily wrong because sirDans crusade is at the point where hes not even reading the words to bang the 2008 drum, but I really don't think I am.
Jiffy is a lot of things, but there's pretty much one reason why I can see a weak doctor not hammering at all.
Of that group I'd put heaver money on scum in the center then the ends. Tierce runnin the train and then killing ABR doesn't make a lot of sense as scum and I still like PV although I'd like more.
Spyrex, I'm getting rea good townvibes from you. can you please explain me in one good post why you think Esp is scum?
I could fake it or even add to it with the VCA's and the bridesmaid but never the bride party but I won't. It still comes back to the beginning:
That VT claim is negative usefulness for town. It is useful for scum because we've got apparently the slenderest girly fingers and wouldn't dare breaking a nail on taking out the trash.
Esp is a fart in the wind and has been and we're well past the time for that to be ok. There was hurf durf D1 with "OMG LOOK SPYREX IS GONNA SAY ESP WILL BE HERE ALL GAME AND SHOCK AND AWE"
And, here we are.
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Shieldrender strikes me as "rending a shield" which would be very much a strongman.
AD - scum means JS tossed him out in his nonsense night action claims which I have a hard time buying assuming rationality but..JS so maybe.
But then PV is the one who insta-votes him for it?
One man down, another on the block and two others (more likely than not the entire rest of the scumteam) throw themselves out in a way that isn't gonna stop that lynch or even really make them look better for it?
I have a hard time choking that down.
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But, your exchange today feels good and right, especially with AD. I'm still not thrilled about xRECKx early and doubly so on ABR which served as an esp shield.
Guess its a good thing I don't have to think about it too hard *rimshot*
In post 1999, sirdanilot wrote:Spyrex I said multiple times that I am willing to vote Esp. But if nobody is following, Tierce is the way to go.
No.
Its not like this is a 400 person game where its literally impossible to shift a wagon.
You vote Esp, its 2-3. If Tierce decides she wants to, you know, live she'll get on for selfish reasons at minimum.
Thats all it takes for a tie. Then the party really starts. Because at that point you bet your ass everyone. EVERYONE is committing or the rest of the game will be spent blind voting every spot not on one of those wagons.
I'd also like to, ONCE AGAIN, say that I've asked, and asked and asked for why is Esp town and I get nothing. No one bats a god damn eye at "lynch tierce for free lynch lollz" or anything else he's done.
I'm not saying build a case on Esp scum because
when people dont play the game its kinda hard to build cases.
And I think it illustrates how retarded ass this game is being.
Lets play: Its almost deadline and we need something to actually happen or we're going to nolynch again and that is primo awesome.
Espeonage has been covered and I am
still waiting
for someone to use their words to explain why he is town.
Desperado wouldn't make me cry except for the fact Esp is there. Which also served to make the Tierce wagon weaker soo I'm not sure how that plays out.
Tierce never was for today and watching in the 11th hour that finally dissemble is both good and unbelievably irritating.
Sirdan isn't getting lynched today. Not on the back of "well maaaybe Majiffy just opted to let it live for shits and giggles"
Even if PV and/or AD were viable wagons they're still not good. Those votes are going to shift everything and need to happen.
@shos:
I'll barter. I'll go through and do a full analysis on sirdan with what you're looking at tomorrow if you help me lynch esp today and he's town.
@tierce:
You know how this is going to play out. Come help me or don't be shocked when its you or nolynch. Both of which are stupid.
@CES:
Your heart is in the right place, but lets negotiate. I'll give you my vote tomorrow if you give me yours today.
Seriously I will write poems or sing songs or whatever else you want in the damn universe to get this done. Today.
You know there's a reason why I didn't even try to play ball with you.
In post 2055, Elscouta wrote:Sirdan has not been the n1 target of Majiffy, you are the only one still believing this absurdity.
There's one scenario where it makes sense to opt to not lynch if you're the decider at that point: if you are 100% sure that the person you are lynching is town. At that point, there is no gain from a dead body. Majiffy and I don't see eye to eye on a lot of things, but that one I'm fine with rolling with.
So, when the cop hesitates on the lynch, I'm not about to just roll over and go well maaybbeee herrrrfff.
On the other hand, we are still waiting for you to explain why he is scum.
Well you can wait forever, because like I said: you're not getting a case on lurking.
You want the bullet list? He claimed VT then put on the shades and has cruised controlled from then on. He promised content today and lo and fuckin behold we've seen a lot of it. He aoked the Tierce lynch under welp we can afford it when if that's the stand someone was going to use welp there's not a better slot that than to be send to the hells where it belongs.
You want a more pragmatic answer? If Esp and I are both town, we will lose this game if we are both here at lylo. Period. Full stop. I, literally, will feel no tears or loss at that point and for every whine in the endgame I will point back to the fact you were explicitly told what was going to happen and then chose to put your heads in the sand about it.
So, before that point if you're town you better stone up and make one of us go.
- This game is fully stoked with arrogant <censored> that believe they are scumhunting gods. Are you aware that there in this game someone that is voteparking since day 1 just by a matter of principle? So yeah, this kind of behavior is independant of investigations.
In post 2062, Elscouta wrote:Esp has reasonable odds to be scum. He is far from being town. But he is just that: a potential compromise wagon.
On the other hand, you have someone that seems to believe Majiffy didn't investigate Shadoweh
but let a full game pass ending with Shadow lynch without even giving this opinion, while everyone was lynching Shadoweh because of the crumb
(except sirdan, but it is because he lives (fakes to live?) in his little dream world where he was sooo sure she was scum).
What the christ are you on about now?
Majiffy investigated Shadow N2 and that is why he died
.
4. Aegor - Maeglin, House of the Mole, Gondolin Godfather - Lynched Day 1
6. chamber - Egalmoth, House of the Heavenly Arch, Gondolin Vanilla - Removed from Gondolin Night 1
17. TheIrishPope (replacing xRECKONERx) - Voronwë, Gondolin Vanilla - Removed From Gondolin Night 2
5. Majiffy (replacing Natirasha) - Pengolodh, Gondolin Weak Doctor - Died Night 2
18. Shadoweh - Galdor, House of the Tree, Secret Way Conspiracy Shieldrender - Lynched Day 3
And in no universe is "I am able to read SSK well because we play a million games together" = "I am going to investigate SSK"
And Nat posted D2 so if you think somehow they just went "ehh fuck it, not doing an action well" I have no words.
Nat didn't say anything D2 about his action that I can see. However, Majiffy sure as hell did. In both his initial reads and not letting that wagon go through.
This is no one's fault but yours and Espeonage's if you're both Town. It's the same game all over again and I'm out of fucks to give about apologizing when you're turning around and doing it again.
Thats fine because I never asked for the apology.
The fact it takes
that kind of declaration
to make something happen on a slot like that pisses me off to no end. If I remember in the way back machine after all that me-being-trash talk it was you that talked about combating apathy.
THIS IS HOW YOU COMBAT IT. YOU KILL IT DEAD. YOU DONT BARGAIN WITH IT. YOU DONT HOPE THAT MYSTERIOUSLY ON DAY FUCKING FIVE ITS GOING TO START PLAYING.
And finger point all you want about this being my fault and woebegons but when out of the gate I say thats going to happen, its whats going to happen unless other people decide to make it not happen. If I was "apathetic" about this I'd have just let them lynch you.
Ohh I think thats pure raw nonsense from PV. After this flip I'll reread and really delve into it. PV I've liked up until this Tierce case so its going to require actually rereading the whole game I think.