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I do mind. Please call me Bu or Buj. You can capitalize or not capitalize any letter you see fit. I'm used to these shortened versions.
As for why I called you scummy is because your tone seemed unnatural. It was as if someone is trying to talk in as neutral a way as they can. Only scum would feel the need to do so. I only called inferno scummy not james because james hadn't said anything yet at that point.
Your posts have since lost that toneless feel to them. You are now genuinenly frantic and nervous. So far I have to agree that your slot is looking like a very likely scum. Especially that math sounds almost exactly like he did when he replaced in the only game I've played with him. He loves over explaining. He can lose himself in the little things. But more importantly here he is just right about the semantics debate. So please put the whole what does 'scummy' thing to bed. People always have different interpretations of certain words or phrases in every game. Infer what each person means from context. You called him out on him calling you scummy but not calling you scum and he responded and explain what it means from his pov.
Not to mention that this discussion is pretty much what mafia is about. Town players scumhunt and generally don't care about themselves if town can win. They are therefore likely to appear scummy in some instances by saying things and not thinking about how they sound. PR's may also intentionally do scummy things to avoid being NK'd. As for scum they are trying to appear town but if they overdo it it starts to look fake. They also need to lynch tactically to ensure they can win. I can continue but I think the point is clear. There is a lot of overlap between what a town player would do and what a scum player would do. The game boils down to figuring out intentions behind actions.
Very good question. This post is NAI. But your previous post has me slightly townleaning.In post 101, Iconeum wrote:
What makes him more likely scum then math, from your perspective?In post 100, Beefster wrote:If anything IB is the more likely scum.
And math of course I'm townreading if that isn't clear.
I like my vote on I-B.
Pedit - yes icon yes. More good questions. I wanted to talk about the worst too.. I got distracted with the 'scummy' definition topic.
The worst seems to be posting just enough to look active and mainly NAI stuff. Scumlean.- BuJaber
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@all: Who has played with the worst before? I need a sounding board to read him better.
Okay right now I'm feeling IB, mom, one of {sing, LUV, kthx, whoever marshy is supposed to be, alban} as scum.
The worst, acryon, beef are null.
Math, icon, paradox town.
Reasons for IB mentioned before, reasons for mom is because he seems to be coming in with theories first then reading and if I'm honest with myself I didn't like how he accused me. The rest because statistics - too many lurkers - and I didn't want to put them in null list because null list for me is for later analysis as those 3 people seem hard to read and I need more. I want to try and sort the scumlist as soon as possible.
I think that's everyone.
@kthx - sorry to hear that. I wish you and your family strength and patience.- BuJaber
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In post 179, Mathdino wrote:Ironically, I it really weird that you have the exact same PoE pool as I do. TW, acryon, Beef are all townlean to town for me.
I've played with the worst before, as a few have noted. Played his first towngame and I cold meta'd his first scumgame (scumbuddies with someone that I later hydra'd with).
Tbh, I'm nervous to go after Marangal so soon because if we open that floodgate now it's never gonna close. Our playstyles don't mesh so well. I should be able to sort her by associations later on though.
marshy is alban, good to know you're not scum with them.
Regardless, talk to me about your null-list.
Null list is people I'll keep an eye out but can't place. The worst seems like scum to me but it could just be his playstyle. So far I haven't picked up on anything in particular he did. Beef I could see being either alignment. He doesn't seem afraid to accuse people and build cases. Icon does make a point wrt the 180. But then again beef never seemed sure of his math read anyway so I don't know. He's being kinda fence-sitty on math. That might not be a scum thing on its own though. Acryon simply hasn't posted enough for me to learn either way. The first few posts seemed like he's focusing too much on the hydra thing but he did move on and start to offer reads and respond to people.- BuJaber
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@acryon - I'll get to the worst when I can if you want a break down of each of his posts. As for paradox yes gut and some meta of his town intros.
@inferno - I didn't mean to sound aggressive. I wouldn't really get upset if you called me BJ but you asked a question so I responded with my preferred nicknames.
@james - the question you said I did not answer was not difected at me. It was directed at Beef.
Your slot is not just 'sticking to your gut' you seem to feel attacked by everyone. There's a certain come and forth that is expected in a mafia game. Why do you get so defensive whenever anything one of you does is questioned? And why do you attack everyone that votes you?
I'll agree that your continued aggression towards math is more likely to come from town than scum. But if I'm not mistaken most of the argument between you two are about the definition of scummy. So I don't really see town motivation for that. Math has done other things for me to townread him but him overly explaining and arguing about something insignificant is actually a personality trait. Otherwise I'd also call that part of his posts scummy.- BuJaber
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IB my first vote on you was a gut reaction to your opening posts. You sounded like a robot. That is a scum tell because people sound like robots when they are trying to not convey any emotion.
I am well aware that I cannot go through the entire game with my first read but you haven't really done much since that makes me change my mind. You claim you read my ISO. How do you miss that? You can think my reasoning is weak and argue against it but you can't say I didn't give a reason when I did.- BuJaber
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In post 204, InfernoBrafin wrote:In post 202, Momrangal wrote:Buju also said there are to many lurkers.
How can there have been when this game is only two days old if even?Brafin:
This is an interesting point, one I had not considered. Isn't Lurking = NAI?
Sure but my point was that given the game started and there is plenty of things to talk about and posts to get reads from I would expect when there are 4-5 lurkers in a 12 player game one of them would have to be doing it on purpose.- BuJaber
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In post 261, Momrangal wrote:
Yes there is a lot to react to and calling out lurkers now now would be an ok think to maybe do but the game had just gotten out of RVS and there was like one maybe two things to react to.
Why is it insane to believe that there are 5 people who hadn't posted in a >48 hr time frame
So me calling out people for not posting is wrong, but it's perfectly fine for people to say I'm not doing anything useful?
I see
Pot calling the kettle black.
IB of course completely ignored half of my case on them even when they asked me about it and I explained it again. I don't know what I want more. For you to be town and realize that you don't have a clue how to play with fellow townies or for you to be scum so at least it makes sense what you're doing.
Can we lynch either IB or Mom? scum have nobody to go after so they're focusing on me. They know they can't go after someone else. I had an early wagon on me and nobody is townreading me strongly so I'm a good scum target.
Frigging hilarious this. I get called out for not scumhunting in the only game where I am clearly the one doing most of the work. You guys realize post count is not an indication of how much a player is contributing right?
It kinda makes sense to soft-defend lurkers if you are scumpartners with one or more of them.
SO I'm pretty confident there are 2 scum in {IB, Mom, NM, LUV, Sing, acryon, (and paradox though less likely since I'm TR'ing him at the moment)}
If there is a 3rd scum that would be pretty difficult to figure out but if that were the case I'd have to reconsider all my townreads. Though a 3rd scum probably isn't likely because it seems risky to defend a lurking scum partner if you have another one also in the game. Unless of course the game is as easy as it seems and both IB and mom are scum, that leaves one of the lurkers as their final partner. At least that theory would explain why they haven't gone after each other or disagreed. IB agree that mom is confusing, and that asking questions could be scummy but they low-key defend mom early on.
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Regarding IB: Like you asked the question of why I found you scummy, and then Dino is the one that responds not you. You obviously will argue that your neutral tone at start isn't AI and that would be fine, we'll argue back and forth. It's not even hard evidence so I am actually open to changing my mind contrary to what you seem to think. However you didn't do that. You just up and ignored it and went back to frantic and nervous. Which btw you can totally be both. A person can be nervous about getting caught so they frantically try to come up with a way to explain themselves out of a jam.
pedit - NM replaced into a lurker slot. I have no reads on him either way. I'm just drawing conclusions based on my belief that mom or IB or both are scum.- BuJaber
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In post 275, Beefster wrote:I assume you're referring to me, BuJ.
Frantic? I'm always frantic, especially as town. It's when I'm not frantic that you have to watch out for me. Or stated differently, when it looks like I have a plan, I'm probably scum. But eh. Self meta defense. Do what you will with it. I only have 2 recent completed scum games for you to go on anyway.
Nervous? Nah.
I was talking to IB but okay I'll keep that in mind- BuJaber
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What is AoE?
What is there to answer about your question? I think it's insane that 5 townies would miss 48hours of the game after confirming. You clearly don't think it's insane. It's a matter of opinion.
Your other points are just your pov vs my pov. We are both attacking each other so we both hate each other in the game. It's cool. I didn't do any misrepresentation. If you think I did, then please can you explain what the difference is? Because I don't see it.- BuJaber
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Here let me make it clearer, because the way this is going you're just gonna play off my mislynch as "he just sucks at town" and that's worse than getting killed as scum, and if they do give you a pass for lynching me I won't be able to handle it.
You both are basically saying I'm being anti-town right? let's just take it one step at a time. if no, I'll go re read.- BuJaber
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Okay I just washed my face. I'll try to keep emotion out of this one.
Momrangel: Your latest posts, especially 281 show me that you are interpreting literally everything I'm doing and saying as scummy.
No player does everything scummy. It is pretty much impossible. So I can only assume that you are finding everything scummy because this is a case of confirmation bias.
Therefore I really can't see what I can gain by continuing to appeal to you.
Answer me this question though, because I think it's a good one, Why is being reactive even AI? Why wouldn't a townie also play reactively?- BuJaber
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In post 301, Almost50 wrote:
Why? What is/was so important that needs me to read first hand rather than you tell me about it?In post 298, BuJaber wrote:Yes you should read the thread
Because there is heated conflict and I'm involved and you need to form your own opinion.
But basically I think it's obvious it isn't SvS so it's either TvS or TvT and I for one would appreciate the outsider perspective if I am to learn anything from this game after all alignments are revealed.- BuJaber
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Dino the odds of you surviving as town until lylo are near impossible. As in regardless of what people think of you or how they're reading you nobody can deny that you are an influencer and a polarizer. Therefore scum keeping you alive is a risky move as they would a) not guarantee they can manipulate you and b) can't be sure if people will sheep you or go against you with the votes.
Therefore if you somehow do end up alive at lylo you would be the lynch from my pov as the only way to explain your survival would be that you are scum.
Therefore going after Mathdino doesn't make sense imo from a long-term strategy kind of approach. Unless you are sure beyond doubt that dino is scum lynching him here removes an obvious NK from the playerlist and makes scum's job easier.
The other issue would be that analysing a dino wagon would be difficult. I could see all scenarios possible here: scum buddying him, town following him, town going against him, scum going against him, scum faking a fight with a dino partner, scum townreading a dino partner. From my perspective I would have no clue where to start with associatives after dino flips. Like unless someone left a really obvious clue the info we gain from lynching dino is minimal.
As opposed to someone quieter or more newbish where if someone TR's them they'd have to go out of their way to explain why and in that you would have an easier job figuring out their intent.
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Yes obviously but I wasn't trying to sell that MD is town, I'm just trying to show Carrot that he's a bad lynch, and for that purpose I reckon WIFOM is good enough.- BuJaber
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In post 405, InfernoBrafin wrote:In post 339, Momrangal wrote:But I am town!
Why is Buju town and what do you make of me having two followers on Buju?
Also how do you feel about how Buju engages me back?Inferno:
So far, this is what stuck out. I'm having a hard time sorting the last few pages, so I'm probably going to reread... and reread... and reread.
I just want to point out that this is a really weird way to phrase this question. It looks like scum laying a trap.
Also, I would also like to know why all these people are calling this slot obvtown, becasue I can tell where the scumreads on me are coming from. So I don't understand what part of my play is making me obvtown.
This is enough for me to switch my vote to Mom. If you're willing to throw shade at Mom now (with no real pressure on mom), that makes my theory that you two are scum partners a lot weaker. If you are now distancing yourself after you and mom were buddying the whole game then you've outdone yourself and it would be excellent scum play but I just don't think scum would do that.
Plus I've been rereading your slot's posts and I think it would be really weird for the two heads of the hydra to play so differently consistently if you are scum. You're doing way too much weird shit and being all over the place. Scum would probably be more self-conscious about it.
VOTE: Mom
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If these two don't stop arguing we need to policy lynch.
Probably IB because dino is a bad d1 lynch as I explained, but I also don't want to give dino a pass for continuing this. He should and does know better.
IB - I think both heads are making these mistakes, if not sorry but anyway- the fact that you came up with that godfather theory, the mason pair idea, and you coming up with entire scumteams and associations this early on tells me that you are making assumptions then coming up with narratives that make sense.
Now this is just me, it might be not be common, but basically a townie shouldn't be doing this. You scumhunt by reading people. Who makes sense as scum individually? After flips and other information comes to light (from PRs for example) you then start to form links between players.
Moreover I don't think I have ever tried to think of what possible role somebody has to explain their actions. It seems to me like an exercise in futility. Because how do you at day 1 with no information come up with the game setup that the mod has chosen. (Which in the case of non-normal games means sooooo many possible roles and setups) confidently enough that you then begin attributing players to those roles you've imagined.
You know why tunneling is bad right? Because of confirmation bias. Well this reverse scumhunting process you're doing is imo worse as it is even more prone to error.
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Oh right I forgot the second point
Your last argument against dino is rediculous. Town doesn't know who scum is. If I say someone is scummy and I'm town I'd still have to acknowledge whether in my head or in the game that I could be wrong. If you searched the site I am sure you will find thousands of posts where people say "x is scummy for doing y, but if x is town then z". That is a normal thought process.- BuJaber
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Damn it I lost the post. Typing this on phone.
Ahh.. I can't re write it.
Tldr - I'm having a lot on conflicting thoughts about the slot. But:
- don't think they are independently coming up with them
- they are clearly not always communicating before posting
- they feel they have to align their reads
Normally yes this would be a case of scum hydra sticking to one story but I've beeb seeing less and less scum motivation behind literally anything they're doing. Or it's really really bad. They can't really think any of this gets people on their side. What I suspect is happening is they are deciding to stick to an idea and as they move with it they get misleading positive reinforcement from their partner and their own confirmation bias. It becomes something like "well we can't both be so wrong here".
Whereas scum just know they're wrong so I feel like the way scum would try to get out of a bad situation would be different. They're not trying to weasel out here. They are trying to think themselves onto a place where everything makes sense.
I get the feeling I'm starting to ramble and not make much sense so I'll stop.
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@IB - I don't want to continue to talk aout game theory while the game is going on. Do you mind if I respond after the game?
But just as it related to this game the short answer is dino saying he doesn't want to give scum tips and him scum or null reading you are two independent things. It's like hedging your bets. He evaluates that the risk of giving scum you tips is greater than the need to convince town you why he's right. So just in case you are scum he doesn't want to take that risk.
At the same time he has a read on you which us irrelevant. Because he could even be townreading you and the above would apply.
This is all from town pov. His argument was a town pov argument because regardless of his alignment he will always represent himself as town.- BuJaber
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@IB - I don't know we are getting into the deep inner workings of someone's brain here. I honestly haven't paid enough attention to the fight when I saw that it just keeps going. I don't care enough to go back to look at his progression.
Just think about this if he was strongly scumreading you why didn't he try harder to lynch you earlier? Also if he is scum same question. He went back and forth a little and he spent too much effort explaining his perspective and meaning. You two already hihacked most of the threaf. If he were scum it wouldn't look too weird if he just tried to get you lynched without sorting other people.- BuJaber
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Why is day 1 still not over?
Can someone answer me this?
@MD, icon, IB, mastina, TW - Most of your scumreads are active players. How have a scum team of mostly active players not managed to close this day?
I need to do a reread but I am strongly suspecting Beef, mom and kthxbye slot. I need to reread Beef specifically but if I remember correctly he has been fence sitting all game.
My spidey sense is telling me something is off with the way mastina is townreading me. It feels like buddying. Mastina you haven't once interacted directly with me. But again I suspect carrot v MD is TvT yet again. Also because she fucking nails it with all her posts about me. But I'll add that I like to consider myself a student of the game. I am interested in playing the game the best way possible that suits my personality more than I am interested in winning. So If I lose along the way for doing things I haven't done before it is a positive overall outcome. Plus VT is my favorite role so that should give you an insight into my personality. Favorite roles tell you a lot about a person imo.
And btw your explanation of why we won't lynch you makes no sense. "You won't lynch me for mislynching twice because I am more likely to lynch 1 or 2 scum" huh?
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My point was apart from that sense of unease and the strange statement about her not getting lynched I am townreading the slot.
And it's helpful because I want people to start looking at the game differently because I suspect strongly that there is a lot of TvT tunneling and the scumteam have mostly been taken a passive approach. Because otherwise I think we would be at a different game state. There have been like what 4 1v1's that ended up in a stalemate.
Why does it matter how many days we have left? There is so much content already and day 1's have ended on a lot less. Do you find it normal that acryon seems to be the only wagon that more than 3 people would comfortably be willing to vote for?
Do you find it normal that nobody got to L-1 yet ?(haven't actually counted if that's true but I think it is)- BuJaber
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In post 582, Iconeum wrote:Buj, you are 'strongly' suspecting these 3:
-beef
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-kthxbye
Why are you not pushing these slots harder if you scumread them? There's over a whole week left for you to do stuff with.
What has kthxbye posted that makes you strongly scumread him?
If you have such strong reads, why are you not developping them? Instead you want the day to end?
Mom I have pushed but I'm not getting a lot of people to agree on.
Beef I just mentioned why I want to go after him. Nobody offered any opinion yet, and for me to build a real case I need to re-read some stuff and I haven't had the time yet.
Kthxbye is only because of my new theory in 573 that scum haven't ended the day because they couldn't yet. That lead me to think I have to look at the more passive players. Obviously I am not suggesting all the scum will be lurkers, but that's what put kthx on my radar.
Okay MD I'd like to see where the overlap between players is on who they're willing to lynch. So for now you're doing your part.
I would lynch mom without hesitation.
I would lynch beef unless my reread changes my mind.
I suspect kthx but can't just lynch without any real posts from that slot so we'll have to wait.
I would be willing to lynch acryon.
I would be willing to lynch NM or paradox if those are the only wagons the majority agree on.
If I don't like mastina's response to these last few posts then I would put her with NM/paradox.
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Okay I read Beef's ISO.
Not sure I can change my mind based on it. Like he has on occassion made some good points, but his scumhunting isn't very aggressive. He calls some things out but doesn't usually follow through much.
He went back and forth on math a lot but to be fair that in itself isn't AI.
What is he saying in 268
Still not sure why he thought I was referring to him (275).
His strongest push was on mom and obviously I'm biased but it was a good case imo - but then he dropped it really easily.
I dislike his use of meta especially when it doesn't seem to have helped him be more confident in his reads.
He claims he's confused or unsure a lot more than I'd expect for town (the fact he's actually saying it could be a scumtell not that he's unsure).
If you look at his posts a large portion of them are talking about MD in some way, and after the flip flopping it seems he's settled on scumreading MD but then in the end he decides he'll revisit later without explaining why.
Also why vote paradox there? His only case on paradox is paradox defending MD, but if that is the case why not vote MD? He also said he's willing to vote for acryon so why not vote there instead?
pedit - @acryon: you mean you don't see me and icon as scum together? Because you put both of us as scumleans.
FWIW if I do base my opinion on our previous game together then you are probably town. You were confused and unsure how to read me there too. I don't know if you'd imitate that to look like town again here though. I feel like the normal approach for scum!acryon here would be to not bring up the fact he has trouble reading me, but if he's trying to get me to town read him he might.- BuJaber
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@Mom - No I am acknowledging that youcouldbe town. And if I am gonna lose a 1v1 I'd rather not lose it to another townie.
So by asking you to not tunnel you either end up a) letting go or b) you continue to push for my lynch.
If b) and you're town that's the worst case scenario and after the game it'd probably be a good idea for me to go back and analyse what happened.
If b) and you're scum one of us gets lynched. If it's you that's great and if it's me people would be a little more inclined to lynch you next and so it'd be a 1 for 1 trade.
If a) and you're town we can be more productive and perhaps catch an actual scum
If a) and you're scum I admit I wouldn't really know what would happen. I might end up townreading you and that'd be bad or I might think you're buddying me and I'd catch you but at the very least we'd both be posting more about other people and that's good for town anyway.
More importantly though regardless of whether or not you continue to scumread me by asking you this I get more information about your pov that I can use to sort you better and/or we can find another player we are both willing to lynch. The interesting part is that since we are scumreading each other then if we lynch someone else we both agree on and that player flips town, the most likely explanation is that one of us is scum. So town will know who to lynch.
And if the player flips scum it is likely we are both town.
This is because if two townies with a widely different approach or views about what is scummy and what isn't are both scumreading someone that person is probably scum as he would have checked off more 'scumtells' than anyone we could have independently scumread.
And if it's TvS between us it is unlikely that whichever one of us is scum would be buddying up to the player they've more or less been single-handedly going after and butting heads with. It would look too weird. Thus the scum would not point at a scum partner to gain credit in this scenario and instead would lynch one of the other townies. We'd get lynched after. That means one scum dead in 2 or 3 lynches max. Hopefully if it takes 3 lyncges the town would get the associations right and finish the scum off.
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Or if you're town he's scum.In post 602, acryon wrote:
Seems like the only issue you've had with me is 16, which you seem to have held onto. We're both town. Look somewhere else.In post 598, Almost50 wrote:
I've learned the hard way that once you're on a roll there's no changing your mind about it. I don't have the time or the energy to go back on forth with you on your reads.In post 532, Carrot and Stick wrote:For the record Almost50, it has not escaped my notice that you haven't engaged my posts.
I'd be content with an acryon lynch today and we can wait for the night action to give us more clues. acryon happens to be my top SR and I see that we agree on that, so that's fair and I don't feel motivated to consume much effort elsewhere on D1 tbh.
In fact if you're town it makes a lot of sense that he'd be scum.
Who else apart from you would be relatively easy to lynch that almost50 could vote for without putting much effort into explaining why?- BuJaber
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Does that include LUV's posts?
Also what about his inconsistency with dino?
Dino goes from a townread to a scumread (even though he doesn't say it explicitly) because of just one thing he did? One which doesn't even seem that scummy. And then he's just "willing to let dino live"?
While we're talking about him is it normal for almost50 to quote and respond to his own question? It pinged me the first time but I didn't want to form an opinion on just that and I've since focused on other slots but reading his ISO again now I noticed it again.- BuJaber
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In post 373, Almost50 wrote:
Umm.. so am I allowed to drive or not after having that??In post 271, Mathdino wrote:i'd say it's 40% policy 40% reaction/pressure 20% memes
@Math: Did you include Gamma deliberately in your reads? Hmmm.. probably not. I hadn't even joined the game by then so it can't be that you are baiting me.
But still, man.. you know THAT is why I SR'd srceen in the game you were modding, so excuse me if I'm starting to really be wary of you.
GDI! And same excuse too. Now why would you confuse ONLY ONE SLOT and not any other(s)??In post 278, Mathdino wrote:fuck i mixed up my games lolIn post 382, Almost50 wrote:
I know he was, but that's not my point. The point is when I saw that the first thing that jumped into my mind is "Dino is setting this test for me, because he saw what I did with srceen, so he wants to see how I would react here..", but then I realized I was not yet in this game by the time you posted that.In post 376, Mathdino wrote:Also Screenplay was town, lol.
And it's still scummy, mate. Evidently it's not exactly "hard evidence" as I thought it was when I pushed srceen, but still including the MOD in your read list is suspicious unless you make it clear you were joking.
But I will accept your explanation for now.. I know I almost posted in the wrong game thread many times before for similar reasons.
How is this not implying you were scumreading him at some point? You don't even go back to a townread.. the last thing you land on is a null read.In post 507, Almost50 wrote:I think I'm willing to let Dino live for today. Forcing him into defense + The IB issue aren't helping me get a read on him at all.
That said, it's be a farce if all three turned out to be Town, and scum were just watching in amusement. Of the 3 I'd say Mastina comes off townier followed by Dino, while I still have doubts about the IB slot (basically Inferno, which may or may not be just me not liking the play style.)
@Inferno: Can you please remind me of the last game we played together? I mean, I know I've played you before but can't remember anything about it.- BuJaber
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I don't do that either, but when someone does TR me their reasons have to make sense. I might in that case read my ISO to see how it might look liked to an uninformed party.In post 616, Almost50 wrote:
I dunno. Do you?In post 615, BuJaber wrote:Do you think you've done/said enough to be townread?
I don't go like "I'll post this because it makes me townread". I just post my thoughts regardless.
Also, does "I will accept your explanation for now" imply I'm SRing Dino? I don't care how YOU perceive my play/talk. I said to ask Dino himself if he thought I was SRing him. He knows me better, and he is the subject of the this discussion.
As for the last paragraph: Yes it does though. You wouldn't need an explanation if you didn't think what he did was a possible scumtell. And " for now" implies you'd revisit. But okay I'll ask.
MD - was A50 scumreading you?
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Icon what do you suggest we do if he is indeed scum gladiator? We dont't have a choice and I don't see how he would be lying about gladiator.
So between you and math it'll always be you. Like I said I really want math to survive until lylo because then he'd be auto lynch at that point. Obviously with his claim that's not gonna happen anymore, but his claim makes him even worse for a lynch.
And frankly acryon made a plausible case of why you are scum. But unfortunately since you were widely townread your lynch gives us nothing.
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In post 702, Iconeum wrote:That doesn't make sense. Why would my claim not change who to lynch?
Also, if you admit my lynch gives nothing, it's super weird you still chose me.
Don't understand the first question.
Your lynch gives nothing if town but you're still more likely to be scum than MD even if by a little.- BuJaber
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I haven't like LUV anyway.
I am even more sure that at least one lurker is scum now after these claims. It explains the weird trajectory of the day. You leave town to their own devices enough and everyone becomes shady.
Icon was widely townread because he is not a danger to scum. Ie he is scum. This is how my brain is solving this little puzzle.
Also because if acryon is indeed town then he can't be completely wrong on everything.
I never actually asked though.. acryon beef and I are you scumreads but do you think we're a team? Because that's crazy how does your brain even rationalize it.- BuJaber
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I disagree completely with IB's reasoning.
Info is great but it isn't everything. We are primarily concerned with catching scum. And imo icon is more likely to be scum than MD.
Not to mention that yes maybe MD's lynch gives us more info to work with, it isn't impossible to get info from icon's lynch. Scum know alignments. Therefore they sound more sure and their reasoning is generally weaker. Their approach is vague and widens the lynch pool... etc. Etc.- BuJaber
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Okay
@Carrot - I want to agree with you when it comes to acryon, MD, and Icon. Because then we just no lynch and move on to D2 and kill acryon or he gets vigshot. But the problem is specifically that Icon was so widely townread. If acryon is indeed scum, and both MD and Icon are town, then why would scum choose to gladiate these 2? It is insanely difficult to lynch icon, and if they wanted to make it easier scum would have slung a little mud. There was no mud slung on icon. Icon has such a clean image this game that scum would have to NK him. By your own admission acryon has scumclaimed by doing this, so realistically they did all that just to lynch Dino at the cost of losing acryon? No. If acryon was doing this just for survival he could have chosen better options to gladiate. Ones that wouldn't be scrutinized as much. Ones that people could quickly lynch without hesitation. If gladiating at that point was a scumclaim either way he would have done it in a way that ensures it actually works.
@Icon - I was hoping you would argue or scumread mastina. That would make it obvious to me you were town because there is no benefit to scum!icon to townread her.
My case on icon is wifomy but I cannot shake it. He is scum this game.
Summary of it:
- Doesn't make sense imo for acryon to gladiate these 2 players if both are indeed town.
- Icon was too widely townread. Such a strong town player would make scum nervous and they would want to reduce his influence over town. There is no evidence of this happening. As such they probably decided only way to get rid of him is through NK. Another reason why point 1 doesn't make much sense.
- Mastina and MD agree that acryon is not compulsive. If scum I think he'd ask the mod if no lynch was possible. If he did know that no lynch is possible why waste his gladiate on 2 people unlikely to get lynched who he in fact did not strongly scumread? (which is what raised questions in the first place). Just seems too haphazardly of scum!acryon to me. I get there was insane pressure on him but a) he would not be heavily bussed by his buddies if they know he has gladiator (as they know his lynch will stop at any time) b) this is a colossal fuckup for scum!acryon and arguably worse than if he just fell over on his sword. Sure they couldn't have predicted what would happen but it has resulted in all 3 of MD, mastina, and Icon to be TR'd. If all 3 are town game over scum just quit.
- Why were a lot of icon's posts comprised of just asking good questions? Because town was doing his job for him. He just needs to encourage more of these TvTs. And when your scumbuddies are lurking you can act 100% town because it doesn't hurt. Scumhunt the fuck out of town. Don't do anything scummy because you don't need to. (This point ties to my earlier point that I wholeheartedly believe that at least one scum has lurked the entire game)
Anyway I'm voting Icon. I hope I'm wrong. It's better for town if I'm wrong. But I think I'm right.
VOTE: icon
As for reading mastina:
-Leaning town, BUT
-If I'm right about icon and acryon she is more likely to be scum (though not definitely, she could just be wrong )
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Your reaction makes no sense as town either.
If I'm scum like you think who cares if I scumread you.
If I'm town let's face it my influence isn't that big my vote on you is not enough pressure for you to give up.
Plus you invited everyone earlier to make a case on you if they think you're scum and when I do you don't like it and just quit? Why challenge us if you won't offer a rebuttal? - BuJaber
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