Overkill 2: A Blood-Thirsty Stallone Themed Game
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I feel like some of you missed the part where like 5 people in the signup thread asked for a chill game.
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I mean we could just like randomly quicklynch someone, get all that murder happening asap?In post 38, RCEnigma wrote:We signed up for murder. It was promised.
One sec, lemme go to a random number generator and see who we're gonna lynch today.
Came up with 21(naturally I removed myself, and I'm in the list prior to that point, so that's actually 22), so RIP hebichan.
I <3 you, you're adorable, but RNGesus, who is superior in scumhunting skill to this playerlist, has determined you should die.
VOTE: hebichan
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I like searching in the active poster pool.In post 54, hebichan wrote:
Based on site meta, a bunch of people who haven't posted yet and possibly one who has.In post 53, pinturicchio wrote:I have a riddle for y'all:
I am as old as Almost50 was when I was half the age I will be en 25 years from now.
The question is, who is the scumteam?
Which one of us is actually scum?
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hebichan, who was Bandit, and Town Desperado, was killed in Night 2.In post 47, hebichan wrote:Can I not be the day one lynch again? Please. I want to play a game one of these months.
VOTE: RCE
15. hebichan, Human Wiretapper, Lynched Day Four.
hebichan, an Aspiring Hero, was lynched Day 5
???
VOTE: hebichan harder for unwarranted AtE in response to a meaningless push, which she used a lie to support.
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The AtE that is, not the lynch. ^^In post 57, Reasonably Rational wrote:
hebichan, who was Bandit, and Town Desperado, was killed in Night 2.In post 47, hebichan wrote:Can I not be the day one lynch again? Please. I want to play a game one of these months.
VOTE: RCE
15. hebichan, Human Wiretapper, Lynched Day Four.
hebichan, an Aspiring Hero, was lynched Day 5
???
VOTE: hebichan harder for unwarranted AtE in response to a meaningless push, which she used a lie to support.
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I looked at her games in the order they appear in her ego, excluding ongoing.In post 59, Flavor Leaf wrote:Were those recently?
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RRIn post 62, hebichan wrote:
Where did I ever say that?In post 56, davesaz wrote:VOTE: DrippingGoofball
One of the l's failed to confirm.
@hebichan you think jokesters can't be scum? Especially those particular jokesters?
I said there was probably one active scum.
Flavor Leaf
pituricchio
Varsoon
profii
RCEnigma
Malakitty
Chickadee
Hebichan, which of these is the scum you were referring to, or is most likely to be that scum, based on your knowledge of their play?
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1) I've never done anything randomly as scum. Actually, I've never done something randomly in a game of mafia, ever. At least, this head hasn't.In post 141, BrightEyedFish wrote:
Nice try to look all random an casualIn post 40, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Came up with 21(naturally I removed myself, and I'm in the list prior to that point, so that's actually 22), so RIP hebichan.In post 38, RCEnigma wrote:We signed up for murder. It was promised.but you did what you did as scum.Post 57 doesn’t help either.
I expected more from Profii, RCE, and FL at this stage, off in the scum bucket. You can get out when you say nice things about me.
This post is towniness overload.In post 47, hebichan wrote:Can I not be the day one lynch again? Please. I want to play a game one of these months.
VOTE: RCE
Let's go with the only reasonable and rational vote I can come up with right now:
VOTE: Reasonably Rational
2) If I *had* done something randomly as scum, then my choice to do so now would have been specifically to see if people who I expected to catch it caught it(something I could do as either alignment, honestly.), as you'll see below.
Like so. +1 to farside for, in spite of not having played with us in a good while, still immediately catching and pouncing on the change in playstyle, which Varsoon(and others, who should know better) did not do.In post 170, farside wrote:Hey kid.
I didnt finish reading but I hope things won't be this active all game.
I forgot how spammy these games get from the word go.
Anyways so far I have a scum read on RR and cherkteeky.
RR typically cerb is the wise and much more thoughtful of the hydra. His random vote and rational for his vote comes across as fake.
Cheekteeky looks like surface scum hunting. Basically asking questions that give nothing and read as oh I'm going to ask this because i can, not because i want a response.
VOTE: RR
If *this* is detective work, and deserving of sheeping, and also deserving of (essentially) some degree of town credit(since otherwise you wouldn't be sheeping it)
How is *this* not?In post 192, BrightEyedFish wrote:
OhhhhhhhIn post 182, pinturicchio wrote:So, there are 26 of us. Game started with 22 of us confirming our roles. Now everyone confirmed their role, but only 22 have commented in this thread. I'm almost sure the four players who confirmed last, meaning that the game started before they confirmed their roles, were Wisdom, BuJaber, BrightEyedFish and DrewVa. That means that DrewVa saw that the game already started, but didn't come to say hi. That's rude.
VOTE: DrewVa
The first little bit of detective work I've seen so far, keep it up. I want to join!
VOTE: DrewVa
In post 57, Reasonably Rational wrote:
hebichan, who was Bandit, and Town Desperado, was killed in Night 2.In post 47, hebichan wrote:Can I not be the day one lynch again? Please. I want to play a game one of these months.
VOTE: RCE
15. hebichan, Human Wiretapper, Lynched Day Four.
hebichan, an Aspiring Hero, was lynched Day 5
???
VOTE: hebichan harder for unwarranted AtE in response to a meaningless push, which she used a lie to support.
-Cerb
Please elaborate on the differences between the two points made regarding why one course of action is deserving of sheeping, while the other is the act of scum.
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Also, BrightEyedFish, I've never played with you before under this name. If you're a public alt can you tell me who you are so I can figure out the experiences behind the points you're making?
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We were very vote happy in our last overkill game(for us at least, lots of D1 wagon hopping to build momentum), which, if anyone actually read our PT, they would know was a deliberate change in playstyle to see what happened and who noticed. I'm unsure if there was another game where I/we were vote happy, but if so it wasn't a deliberate style change, more likely something about the game made it easier for us to reach the level of certainty we typically wait for before voting.In post 198, Varsoon wrote:You are right, usually RR hold their votes close to the chest.
Though I think I did recently (by which I mean in the last year or so) see a game where Cerb was way more vote-happy and it tripped me up
Though, thinking back, maybe that was Cerb out of hydra?
Cerb, do you know what game I'm taking about?
My memory is garbage though, so I could just be wrong. :/
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Hi Farside. You should know that I actually agree with Cerb. The ATE that was also a blatant lie by Hebi in response to a legitimate random vote is pretty bad.In post 170, farside wrote:Hey kid.
I didnt finish reading but I hope things won't be this active all game.
I forgot how spammy these games get from the word go.
Anyways so far I have a scum read on RR and cherkteeky.
RR typically cerb is the wise and much more thoughtful of the hydra. His random vote and rational for his vote comes across as fake.
Cheekteeky looks like surface scum hunting. Basically asking questions that give nothing and read as oh I'm going to ask this because i can, not because i want a response.
VOTE: RR
Also I think you were looking for "rationale" there. ;p
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Also ... vendetta for saying Cerb is "The" wise "one". It's on.In post 200, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Hi Farside. You should know that I actually agree with Cerb. The ATE that was also a blatant lie by Hebi in response to a legitimate random vote is pretty bad.In post 170, farside wrote:Hey kid.
I didnt finish reading but I hope things won't be this active all game.
I forgot how spammy these games get from the word go.
Anyways so far I have a scum read on RR and cherkteeky.
RR typically cerb is the wise and much more thoughtful of the hydra. His random vote and rational for his vote comes across as fake.
Cheekteeky looks like surface scum hunting. Basically asking questions that give nothing and read as oh I'm going to ask this because i can, not because i want a response.
VOTE: RR
Also I think you were looking for "rationale" there. ;p
~D
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It's easy to verify. Go look at our overkill 1 PT and confirm we discussed changing things up and why. Don't just hand wave it away. Bad look buddy.In post 202, Varsoon wrote:I only read your PT in games I moderate. D:
I think it might've been Overkill but I remember going "Shit that's weird Cerb is vote hopping and voting like... a normal mafiascum player."
Also ... I second Cerb's questioning about why noting someone hasn't posted is "detective" work (and supposedly the first bit), but Cerb going through Hebi's ego and pointing out the last few completed games do NOT feature any day/night 1 deaths, nor a pattern of such deaths which would precipitate the response Hebi gave to an astonishingly small amount of pressure.
That was gross ATE and slipping all over the place.
Also ... just LOL @ Tails. I'm wondering if you rolled scum again this game and you're just milking the crap out of the last one for effect. Either way that "2" post was genius.
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Yay nepotism!In post 205, Amzela wrote:It’s probably time I introduce myself to the group, just so people aren’t wondering and to give some general context.
Hi all! I’m Amz. As you may guess by the lack of history, the inability to navigate the forum, and the join date of this account, I’m new here.
But why would Almost let a completely new person into a game?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It probably has to do with RR. I’m dating the half of RR that isn’t married.
So hello!
Though to be fair, I did vouch for you and your experience with mafia irl and forum games in general, so you kinda have to be at least semi-competent at whatever you ended up being.
Also, I highly recommend that everyone sheep whatever my read on this woman is, whenever I develop one. I've played exactly one social deduction game with her(Bang!), and determined she was the renegade from a single question she asked before the game properly started, so yeah! Sheep me!
@BEF: Care to share where you got the information you used to draw those conclusions about our slot then, if I at least have never played with you and you do not have any alts?
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This:
does not explain *this*:In post 208, BrightEyedFish wrote:
40 is a post where you talk about randomly selecting someone to lynch. I just pointed it out. So regardless of your alignment you said you used a random force to select your lynching target.In post 194, Reasonably Rational wrote:
1) I've never done anything randomly as scum. Actually, I've never done something randomly in a game of mafia, ever. At least, this head hasn't.
2) If I *had* done something randomly as scum, then my choice to do so now would have been specifically to see if people who I expected to catch it caught it(something I could do as either alignment, honestly.), as you'll see below.
Also, I don't believe I have played with either of the heads before so my comment was based solely on the above mentioned post.
You didn't just say "OH SUPER LITERALLY CLAIMED AS PURELY RANDOM VOTE IS SCUMMY BECAUSE OF PREEMPTIVE DEFENSE OF THE VOTE BY FRAMING IT AS RANDOM". No, you said that "you did what you did as scum". You CLEARLY had SOMETHING in mind, some behavior that we were duplicating, from a time we were scum.In post 141, BrightEyedFish wrote:
Nice try to look all random an casualIn post 40, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Came up with 21(naturally I removed myself, and I'm in the list prior to that point, so that's actually 22), so RIP hebichan.In post 38, RCEnigma wrote:We signed up for murder. It was promised.but you did what you did as scum.Post 57 doesn’t help either.
I expected more from Profii, RCE, and FL at this stage, off in the scum bucket. You can get out when you say nice things about me.
This post is towniness overload.In post 47, hebichan wrote:Can I not be the day one lynch again? Please. I want to play a game one of these months.
VOTE: RCE
Let's go with the only reasonable and rational vote I can come up with right now:
VOTE: Reasonably Rational
So, explain.
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I love how our decision to play macho Stallone is playing out.
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Aren't all Stallone's macho Stallone?In post 211, Reasonably Rational wrote:I love how our decision to play macho Stallone is playing out.
~D
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Shit. You're right.In post 212, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Aren't all Stallone's macho Stallone?In post 211, Reasonably Rational wrote:I love how our decision to play macho Stallone is playing out.
~D
-Cerb
I feel like we're "arm wrestling to win a truck so we can take care of our kid" Stallone here.
And no ... that's not a crumb, lol.
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I'll be back later. I gotta go find cash and my wife and I are taking 4 nieces to see Grindewald.
Have fun getting beat up by Creed, whomever got Rocky.
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We left RVS here, as soon as someone used one of those votes to question the motivation/reasoning someone else used.In post 48, profii wrote:
How come you picked RCE out of all the people on this mini wagon - despite us messing around I assume you picked someone on wagon intentionallyIn post 47, hebichan wrote:Can I not be the day one lynch again? Please. I want to play a game one of these months.
VOTE: RCE
No post or vote made after this point should be considered RVS, ESPECIALLY not votes that are supported with verbiage that certainly seems to indicate a real reason to suspect someone.
So no, you were not acting in RVS with that vote, and it *will* be considered as a significant vote where you failed to provide sufficient reasoning, and apparently lied about your experience with the meta of our slots.
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Unnecessary back and forth? You're certainly thinking of the ND39 hydrae, or another hydra. Drixx and I almost never have conversations in thread, or express dissonance in thread, for that exact reason. I believe my little exchange with him right now is the first time I've ever made a post specifically to address a silly, non-game related, thing he said. I've made posts before correcting mistakes, if it's critical and I don't think he'll be around to make the correction that I messaged him about in slack, but it's very rare, and it certainly didn't happen to any notable degree in Overkill 1.In post 219, BuJaber wrote:@RR - can you tell me what each potential reaction to you "changing things up" would mean? I fail to see the benefit.
It sounds like you're creating an agenda for yourself without clear motive, which by default is nefarious.
For example, just from my experience with y'all in the last game, I am noticing a lot of unnecessary back and forth between your two heads in-thread, when I know that y'all usually converse -quite heavily- on discord. I didn't read your PT but I did scroll through it out of curiosity at how 2 halves of a hydra communicate.
What does someone noticing a change in your behavior tell you about them?
To answer your actual question: It depends on the player, largely? We have different expectations for different individuals. There are some people who I would expect to notice a change without mentioning it, but it would change their behavior and how they react to us. There are others who it would be weird(like Varsoon/Farside) for them to not call us out on something as soon as they saw it. How they react, or fail to react, is not in and of itself a strong enough reason to identify someone as town or scum, but like any reaction test it can be used to supplement other evidence, or help guide where our focus and questioning should be directed towards.
In post 218, BrightEyedFish wrote:
I was still in RVS because I had just started reading the thread. I can't help it you got a 7 hour head start on me and used up your RVS mentality before I had a chance to even dip my toes in.In post 216, Reasonably Rational wrote:
So no, you were not acting in RVS with that vote, and it *will* be considered as a significant vote where you failed to provide sufficient reasoning, and apparently lied about your experience with the meta of our slots.
-Cerb
Also, when did I lie about meta? I said you voted hebasscum because it was the first post that came across as scummy to me. I never mentioned anything about meta. I don't where you pulled that from.
What Bujaber said. Perhaps this is purely a situation where you phrased things poorly and created unintended implications, but it certainly read as though you were someone who had experience with us and had previously seen us use RNG to determine who scum was on D1, as scum.In post 220, BuJaber wrote:In post 218, BrightEyedFish wrote:
I was still in RVS because I had just started reading the thread. I can't help it you got a 7 hour head start on me and used up your RVS mentality before I had a chance to even dip my toes in.In post 216, Reasonably Rational wrote:
So no, you were not acting in RVS with that vote, and it *will* be considered as a significant vote where you failed to provide sufficient reasoning, and apparently lied about your experience with the meta of our slots.
-Cerb
Also, when did I lie about meta? I said you voted hebasscum because it was the first post that came across as scummy to me. I never mentioned anything about meta. I don't where you pulled that from.
Your wording... "you did x as scum" implies that you saw them do x previously in a game where they were scum.
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Ah yes. *nods*In post 225, BuJaber wrote:I can see that RCE. Interesting.
Though I'm pretty sure RR read it like I did, and my intention was to get that across to BEF. He sounded believable to me but RR's point made more logical sense. Figured if they understood each other better the argument would be more fruitful.
Pedit - RR you misunderstood. I was referring to this little back and forth you just had here, which was not something you did in overkill 1. It was me giving an example of someone noticing a behavior and commenting on it.
We don't have the experience with you necessary to really...attribute significance to the fact that you noticed that, but there is certainly significance to it. ^^
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Also we're still voting Hebichan and you should feel bad if you're not voting Hebichan until Hebichan explains wtf she was talking about.
kthxbai.
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Nope, not that. The part you already engaged with me about, where she AtE'd with a woe is me I keep dying D1 story when she hasn't been dying D1 lately.
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Went right over your head bud.
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For your enjoyment, Toogeloo, from our PT in Heroes Wanted:In post 239, Toogeloo wrote:
Whether or not true, that wouldn't even be a crumb but a full on claim of flavor anyways .In post 213, Reasonably Rational wrote:I feel like we're "arm wrestling to win a truck so we can take care of our kid" Stallone here.
And no ... that's not a crumb, lol.
Just from my own assumption, I doubt flavor even matters since we are all incarnations of Stallone, which means that Lincoln Hawk could be mafia or town, or SK, or whatever else hell the mod decided to go with. However, if I were to be a mod with Lincoln Hawk as a flavor, it'd be perfect for a "Strongman" claim I think (or at least some kind of "Strong Arm" role) .
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That notion above aside, I'm not really liking that R-Cerb-R patted someone on the back for good investigative journalism in pointing out that Cerb isn't acting like himself. Read like, "Oops, they noticed, but we'll cover our tracks."
Hurt: RR
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*shrug* View it however you want, but it's a thing we do.
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PT in Firefly, not Heroes Wanted, sorry!In post 244, Reasonably Rational wrote:
For your enjoyment, Toogeloo, from our PT in Heroes Wanted:In post 239, Toogeloo wrote:
Whether or not true, that wouldn't even be a crumb but a full on claim of flavor anyways .In post 213, Reasonably Rational wrote:I feel like we're "arm wrestling to win a truck so we can take care of our kid" Stallone here.
And no ... that's not a crumb, lol.
Just from my own assumption, I doubt flavor even matters since we are all incarnations of Stallone, which means that Lincoln Hawk could be mafia or town, or SK, or whatever else hell the mod decided to go with. However, if I were to be a mod with Lincoln Hawk as a flavor, it'd be perfect for a "Strongman" claim I think (or at least some kind of "Strong Arm" role) .
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That notion above aside, I'm not really liking that R-Cerb-R patted someone on the back for good investigative journalism in pointing out that Cerb isn't acting like himself. Read like, "Oops, they noticed, but we'll cover our tracks."
Hurt: RR
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*shrug* View it however you want, but it's a thing we do.
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QFT.In post 350, Chickadee wrote:Nancy, you're clearly aware of your meta, so everything you're saying is NAI right now.
Though with the caveat that she DOES have limited scum time on this site, so her ability to hide the minor differences between her groupscum and town metas might be limited...but she's definitely self aware enough to at least attempt to replicate her town meta as scum.
Fair warning though Nancy, blowing up whenever someone votes you as town is simply going to get you 1)vigged an unreasonable amount of the time, and 2) lynched D1 because who the fuck wants to deal with that?
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In post 365, Varsoon wrote:I vomited up blood this morning!
Anyway I'll be fine, just have had a really painful cough and infection.
I dunno why people think I'm town based on what I've posted so far especially in light of BoR which was a setup with TONS OF KILLS where I intentionally kept a low profile to try to duck shots.
DrewVa--what makes me inactive garbage play here town compared to my inactive garbage play in BoR?
Also yeah I truly did forgetand screw up how desperado workedlike 4 times publicly in that setup so I should be ashamed of myself because it wasn't even a rhetorical ploy it was just me loud-derping.
This is disappointing Varsoon, and your shame is warranted. I still love you, but yeah.
So, can someone tell me why people actually trying to play the game makes them more likely to be town than scum, in an objective way where(like Alchemist21 with Farside, and with whoever liked our slot for the same thing) just the fact that they did it gives them town credit? It feels like something that's super meta based...not everyone who plays scum tries to let town fumble around for as long as possible before getting into the game, and assuming that moving the game out of RVS is a town thing to do is essentially assuming that all scum play that way.
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Fuck yeah.In post 369, Varsoon wrote:I went doctor without insurance, just visiting cost 128 bucks.
I'll pick up my prescriptions tonight and let ya'll know the damage.
It wasn't like gallons of blood or anything and I've been coughing up blood in the morning too.
It's a really bad cough. I mean, bad enough to induce vomiting, which is pretty bad.
Anyway.
I think that it's mostly that this is a setup with a lot of potential kills in it so people don't wanna stick their neck out too far out of concern of catching a bullet. Given how A50's approached role design before, it's safe to say a lot of people are PRs that they feel could help solve the game--or they're literally a role that needs to survive--or they're scum. So it makes sense from a survival standpoint that people wanna kinda keep from dedicating to anything too hard in case they offend the wrong person and catch lead for it, but it's not like BoR where literally 2/3 the playerbase could day-shoot you so I don't agree with the hesitation to just town hard in the paint and not solvegame. I get it, like, people don't wanna die and, typically, not wanting to die is seen as a scum trait, but I disagree with it entirely.This is a Stallone game. We're meant to jump into this guns blazing, right?
So where's your conviction? Where are your pushes? Go go Varsoon, venture forth and catch the scum!
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@Farside: Amzela is my gf, not Drixxs, and I think I would rather let her answer any questions directed at her. With regards to the playstyle change, it's experimental, and recent.
I mean, Hebi is still questionable imo. Bef is town if we believe they weren't making a meta comment on our slot. All the thoughts I have!
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It did read as serious, but I don't really see scum taking that line because it really does have terrible optics. Perhaps I'm giving them too much credit, but yeah.In post 446, farside wrote:
I know they didn't. There vote read as serious.In post 443, Reasonably Rational wrote:@Farside: Amzela is my gf, not Drixxs, and I think I would rather let her answer any questions directed at her. With regards to the playstyle change, it's experimental, and recent.
I mean, Hebi is still questionable imo. Bef is town if we believe they weren't making a meta comment on our slot. All the thoughts I have!
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If you disagree with that, explain to me how it wasn't a serious vote
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Honestly, I read your posts and was like hmm, that's more substance than most d1 pushes, I'll look into it when I have time,and also damn I enjoy player Varsoons posting style.In post 457, Varsoon wrote:I'm glad that both RR and RCE had nothing to say in response to me.
Wild.
The looking into it just hasn't happened yet.
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Still catching up on the overnight posts, but its early and I'll forget this if i don't respond now.In post 483, Tails wrote:@RR: How would you feel if I got Amzela lynched?
@Wisdom: Why are you townreading Amzela?
I would feel the same way i would if Varsoon, or Chickadee, or anyone else I've chatted with enough to grow fond of were to be lynched this early: sad that I don't get to play with them more, relieved that I won't have to deal with the mental strain of being objective about someone I actively want to remain in the game, but also disappointed in the survival skills of anyone who can't avoid being lynched on D1. Also a little guilty for throwing her into the deep end of this particular forum.
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Yeah, Tails shouldn't actually have any idea of what my scum range is....BUT that's not what he said, I don't believe. He seems more certain that we're in our town range, than out of our scum range, which is a position he can have given that he *has* seen us as town. With that said, the actual answer to your question is: I'm fairly unaware of any difference between town meta and scum meta. I'm hyper-self-aware of my posting as both town and scum. I'm more likely to be sloppy and say something that will stir up shit I don't want to stir up as scum(that is, I'll probably review a post more before making it, and/or run controversial things by my partners/other head if hydraing) than I will as town, but I am still pretty damn aware of those things. It's sort of like as town I'll notice something while posting, and post it anyways because fuck it...while as scum I will probably still post it, but I might tweak/polish it a bit depending on feedback. Scum!me does a lot to actively help town solve the game(which is why I've been quite successful in my limited time as 3p here I imagine), and comes up with plans and shit to solve the game, the same way town me does...but those plans don't work because of information only scum are privy to, or because of fundamental flaws in reasoning that town is making that I don't correct, which I would correct as town.In post 4, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Well, I was going to say that I'm not going to speak with her with regards to her activity/play/what you should expect from her, but it seems she showed up to say things.In post 571, BuJaber wrote:The amount of people SK-reading people is staggering.
Why do you care? Without any scum flips anybody scummy is scum. Only when groupscum flips you can then say something like "This guy is scummy but because of reason x he is not groupscum with flipped scum, he might be scum of a different faction or SK"
Even if you are right about someone being SK you are helping scum by pointing out 3p. You shouldn't care about SK at this stage. Scumhunt.
I can give you at least two examples where scum v SK ended up helping town that I witnessed myself. I'm sure most of you have examples also.
@Cerb - how shy is amz? At what point should we consider inactivity to be AI?.
In post 603, BuJaber wrote:@RR and anyone else who thinks they know:
What is your scum range? How would you characterize the difference between your town meta and scum meta?
It occurs to me that for someone like you (someone whose posts are kinda emotionless) the line becomes rather blurry.
But tails here claims you're already out of your scum range.
So, honestly: The best way to tell if I'm out of my town range is probably to massively BoP me(if i'm engaged and paying attention) with regards to mechanical gamesolving things. There's always subjective bits to such discussions, like the fundamental setup spec someone has might be flawed in my opinion, but if everything mechanically seems to go a certain direction, and I'm not agreeing with a guaranteed win type scenario, that doesn't require assuming unproven things are true(because I will never simply accept that a mason pair is a mason pair, for example, until one flips/mod confirmation comes in some way or another), or I'm resistant about the evident flaws in a plan...then you might be looking at a scum!me.
Of course, to find that you need to be at least as good at finding mechanically optimal solutions to games as I am, and as good at arguing in favor of your purely logical position as I am, because otherwise it's unlikely you'll actually realize the path I'm leading town down doesn't actually work if assumption x y or z is incorrect, and I'm too certain those things are true....and there really aren't very many people I've played with(if any) who pair those two things as well as I do.
@Amz: Real talk though, Wisdom asked you a specific question about your read on DrewVa, and you ignored it. Why no response at all ,not even a "i'm too busy to actually have an opinion on them yet." All you did was back off the vote on Wisdom, but gave no content.
I'm pretty sure you're really just a bit lost right now, but I don't know if it's because you're completely clueless town or newbscum too afraid to actually push anything.
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Posts from 14 hours prior are "old posts"? You flew off the handle at like less than 25% of the votes needed to be lynched and demanded to be hard town read by people because you flew off the handle. Those willIn post 565, DrewVa wrote:BEF, when you manage to get caught up, talk to me. I’m not discussing old posts.be "old posts" for as long as you remain alive in this game.NEVER
At this point if you actuallyAREtown, you should be trying to figure out how to get yourself night killed because you are a walking "Leave me till M/LYLO so you can win" sign for scum.
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<3 Farside, I hope things get better for you.In post 743, farside wrote:Im really sorry to do this but
mod please replace me
I joined this for selfish reasons and I realized today I'm using this as a crux to avoid doing things IRL.
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To be more exact, Drixx noted that Thor was being scummy because of some obvious insincere posting/BoP type posting on Thor's part, where he pushed things that he really should have known better than to push were he town. I haven't seen scum!thor outside of that game though, I don't believe, so this head at least can't say whether the rest of his play was in line with what we should expect from scum!thor.In post 825, Tails wrote:RR made note that Thor was acting more like his scum self in that game, so maybe not? Also, I think we have a few more strong personalities in this game.
With regards to having less presence than I did in Overkill 1...that might be accurate? I've been reading a lot while not at a PC, and haven't seen many things that needed to be commented on, so I just haven't bothered. *shrug*
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We always take a commanding role, regardless of alignment. We don't always do it in the early parts of day one in a very large game. We also don't always ignore relatives in town for major holidays (I've had family over for a week already, for example).In post 823, BuJaber wrote:
They both took a commanding role in overkill 1.In post 804, Tails wrote:Both Thor and RR have posted every day. Was there more you were expecting there? Were you expecting uber posting?
Granted Thor was SK so perhaps not the best comparison but I assume he was playing similar to how he would as town. I've never been SK just seems like the right way to play it.
Also ... we've already put out at least two solid rationales for why Hebichan and Drewva are looking quite bad from things they posted this game. I'm not sure how much more other people are "commanding" the game atm? I see a lot of people ignoring or hand waving away Hebichan's lying and by some bizarre twist of reasoning, nearly everyone seems to think Nancy's histrionics and circular reasoning are a reason to town read the Drewva hydra.
Not sure what more you want here bud. Maybe be a bit more specific?
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LOL. No. I flat out told the game that Thor was scum and Thor was scum. All you need to read Thor is experience playing against him if you are scum and he isn't. Modding a game he plays in will probably help also since you get the outside view. He's terrifying if you're scum and he's town but he has some really deep grooves he tends to stick to as well.In post 825, Tails wrote:RR made note that Thor was acting more like his scum self in that game, so maybe not? Also, I think we have a few more strong personalities in this game.
Also maybe I'm giving everyone a really high BoP here because I think somehow nobody else really saw it in OK1? It seems pretty straightforward to me though. He's a bit less active this game than I'd like, but the early trend seems very much town on him, if you're wondering. I still have him in the null stack in my mind though. Waiting to see something specific in his posting.
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You're wrong. Mafia is a game of rhetoric. If you can't handle peopleIn post 857, DrewVa wrote:P.edit Drixx, I think you’re being kind of mean to me here. Please stop it. Thanks.accuratelydescribing your posting/actions, then that's on you ... not on us/them. Only YOU can control your behavior. Trying to bully other people into pretending you are not doing the bad things you are doing is actually evenworsethan what you did in the first place. You need to engage in some self reflection, especially if you think that I, of all people, am having a personal go at you.
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That's what I'm doing mate. Nobody gets to make posts and then try and bully other people into ignoring those posts or pretending they don't exist. Nancy is basically saying this:In post 861, pinturicchio wrote:Awww this is the part that I didn't miss from this place. Shut the hell up both of you and@Nancy I believe you when you say you're not faking your emotions, that has nothing to do with the game itself, you could be frustrated either as town or as scum. But Drixx is not saying the oppositefocus on the game.
"I made bad posts. You aren't allowed to talk about them because it hurts my feelings."
That's just not acceptable. Trying to angle shoot and tell someone they are mean or bad or wrong for just talking about what exists is ridiculous and awful. I am not going out of my way to attack or even saying things unpleasantly here. At the same time, I'm simply not willing to pretend someone (anyone really; doesn't matter to me who it is) didn't do something because they drop ATE in the thread and threaten to replace out if I don't pretend they didn't say/do what they did.
I mean ... Tails waged a "You guys just hate me personally" campaign against Cerb and I in OK1 because he was dead to rights nailed as scum (and neither of us had any prior games with Tails, to our knowledge). People frequently try to make things "personal" on this site in order to try and claim that the person or people suspicious of them are really "out of bounds" because it's "personal" and "mean". It is also worth noting that I've been playing with scum!Nancy quite a lot in the past couple months (Hero's Wanted; Overkill 1 Serenity) and this kind of posting is spot on what she did in both those games.
Now ... as much as I abhor the idea of adults actually believing they are entitled to a "safe space" from WORDS ... and as much as I find that idea patently ridiculous in FORUM MAFIA, a game which gets notoriously heated and emotional at times and which canthrough the use of words (formally: Rhetoric) ... I'm really not the type to go out of my way to poke at someone.ONLY BE PLAYED
@Nancy - I assign a base line Burden of Proficiency to everyone. I also apply the same social contract to everyone. I'm not going to treat you any differently than someone else. This is a game, and if you cannot deal with the consequences of your posts and actions in the game, then I feel really bad about that but I'm not going to further handicap myself by trying to walk on egg shells with you. My sincere advice to you is that you find a way to avoid becoming that emotionally invested. Easier said than done, I know, but necessary not only for forum mafia, but also other endeavors. I sincerely hope you don't run yourself out of this game (because I see nobody else asking you to go or suggesting you should go or be forcibly removed or anything at all to do with you not continuing in fact), but I'm not going to just ignore your play. That is a short path to ruin for this kind of game. We might as well just roll dice and declare winners if we're going to ignore what people do when those same people then dislike the consequences of their words and actions.
That said: Nothing obligates you to keep being obsessed about it. Ignore it and post about other stuff. The only way you get beyond the impact of that earlier posting is to move on. I'm going to continue to be curious why so few people have engaged with it, either way, but that doesn't obligate you to obsess over it. You already responded to me pointing out that your earlier posts employed circular reasoning.
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P-Edit: The word histrionics means the following: "exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention." -- You certainly demonstrated exaggerated and dramatic behavior which attracted attention earlier when you were first at L-10 or so. Those words don't mean that you were not being genuine, and I haven't expressed any belief over whether or not you were. What Ididdo is point out that you employed circular reasoning; to wit:
P1: You should be able to hard townread me!
P2: I only overreact to votes when I'm town!
The problem is that you hadn't yet overreacted to the votes at the time the person you claimed should town read you for overreacting voted for you. It just goes in a circle. And you're quite smart enough to know that you have a reputation for dramatic posts when you are being voted ... so there's a legitimate concern when you employ circular reasoning demonstrating your clear awareness of your own meta.Show"We'll see who is bad at mafia after I've lynched you." - RadiantCowbells
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At this point, you had better damn well be town, because if you're pulling this shit AGAIN as scum, you are getting reported this time.In post 870, DrewVa wrote:
He thinks just because this is a game, it somehow justifies him acting like a dick to me and it doesn’t. Scumreading me is a part of the game, abusing me isn’t and his most recent post is very close to bordering on that. If I wasn’t in a hydra, I would replace out over this but I made a commitment to DVa. A50 probably can’t do anything to stop it. I keep trying to as nicely as possible, to get through to him why his treatment of me is unacceptable and he just keeps doubling down and misconstruing what I’m saying. I never ever said, a single one of my posts were untouchable, only for him to stop being such a jerk to me.In post 865, pinturicchio wrote:
Maybe we understand differently the word "histrionic" in this context. What do you feel he's saying with that word? 'Cause, as far as I know, being histrionic is not intrinsically badIn post 863, DrewVa wrote: I know he’s not scumreading me based on that but that isn’t the point. I don’t appreciate him using terms like “histrionics” to describe my feelings. Yes, I am not suggesting that I should automatically be townread for that, only that my emotions are always genuine.
p-edit: yeah RR defined histrionics as I know it is, and being dramatic is a personality treat, not a disorder or anything like that. My girlfriend is the most dramatic person I've ever known and it's fun, it's like living in a movie
Like there is a way to discuss my posts, without deliberately being an ass about it, is my point.
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There's nothing inherently abusive in what my other head said, nor is he being a dick to you. He's certainly not being NICE to you, but he's not being a dick. There is nothing wrong or abusive with stating that he expects you, and everyone else ,to behave to a certain standard, and point out that you're not, in his opinion, living up to that standard. *shrug* If he were to say that there's something inherently flawed or otherwise wrong with you for not living up to that standard, I could see you viewing his statement as abusive, but given that he's expressing a fundamental opinion he has of your play in this game and not of your character, your reaction is out of proportion to the events that spurred it in you. I get that from your perspective, emotionally speaking, they are not, and he's treating you this way...but I'm informing you that from the perspective of at least *this* other person who isn't Drixx, you are taking things far too personally.In post 870, DrewVa wrote:
He thinks just because this is a game, it somehow justifies him acting like a dick to me and it doesn’t. Scumreading me is a part of the game, abusing me isn’t and his most recent post is very close to bordering on that. If I wasn’t in a hydra, I would replace out over this but I made a commitment to DVa. A50 probably can’t do anything to stop it. I keep trying to as nicely as possible, to get through to him why his treatment of me is unacceptable and he just keeps doubling down and misconstruing what I’m saying. I never ever said, a single one of my posts were untouchable, only for him to stop being such a jerk to me.In post 865, pinturicchio wrote:
Maybe we understand differently the word "histrionic" in this context. What do you feel he's saying with that word? 'Cause, as far as I know, being histrionic is not intrinsically badIn post 863, DrewVa wrote: I know he’s not scumreading me based on that but that isn’t the point. I don’t appreciate him using terms like “histrionics” to describe my feelings. Yes, I am not suggesting that I should automatically be townread for that, only that my emotions are always genuine.
p-edit: yeah RR defined histrionics as I know it is, and being dramatic is a personality treat, not a disorder or anything like that. My girlfriend is the most dramatic person I've ever known and it's fun, it's like living in a movie
Like there is a way to discuss my posts, without deliberately being an ass about it, is my point.
In addition, this entire exchange, except insofar as we find it more likely that you're engaging in scum theatre than being sincere, is irrelevant to the game of mafia. You obviously can't prove to us that you're being sincere, and thus your focus on attempting to do so is essentially a waste of your energy, while your expectation that we should automatically believe you while playing a game focused on uncovering deception is unreasonable.
With regards to the question of whether or not there is a way to discuss your posts without being a dick: Yes, there likely exists some way to do so, but considering how broad your definition of being a dick appears to be, I am uncertain if one could be critical of your posts without coming across as a dick to you.
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Also ... I find it amusing that I'm supposedly being awful by using words which mean what I mean to say and which arealsoan accurate description of your play ... but you see no problem in slinging names at me and presupposing that I have malicious intent. Pot ... meet Kettle. (In case it's not clear; we aren't kettles. Well ... can't speak for Cerb. I'm a tea cozy).
Also ... if I was actually trying to attack you personally you would certainly know it. Please trust me when I say this because if you push much further, I'm going to demonstrate. I don't pick fights in these games, but when someone starts attacking my personal character and slinging names at me, IDOtake the gloves off and FINISH the fight. You have been warned. Continue with the name calling and personal attacks and you will find out what it looks like when I (Drixx) actually want to go after you.
I don't know any way to make myself more clear. Stop or don't cry when you provoke a response with intent.
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P-Edit: A remarkably on spot post by Cerb there.
P-Edit^2: Are you serious? The word "Histrionic" is verboten because it's attached to some "radical political philosophy"? Or did you mean the NEXT post I made after you started calling me names and accusing me of attacking you personally because I used a word to describe your earlier ATE filled posts ... and that word was accurate ... and you tried to bully me and tell me that I can't have that opinion of your earlier posts ... because the WORD I used somehow hurt your feeling. I mean ... that's what "Safe Spaces" are right? A place where you get to tell someone they can't use certain words or have certain opinions because those words and opinions offend you? I haven't felt the need for such a space, so please feel free to tell me if I misunderstand the idea.
Because if I do NOT misunderstand the idea, I'm pretty sure it's a very accurate description of what you tried to do. You literally tried to bully me into ignoring bad play on your part because talking about it offended you.
I'm sorry you feel I was making some kind of political connection. That's on you. YOU made that comparison. I simply pointed out that trying to bully someone into silence is not okay and drew a comparison to make my point. I never mentioned politics. You did.
You are literally a thin thread away from me going back and quoting what I've already said and then posting how I would have said it if I want to have a go at you. Please stop.Show"We'll see who is bad at mafia after I've lynched you." - RadiantCowbells
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We gotta find you an avatar.In post 875, Amzela wrote:*blushes* senpai noticed me
Also ... please elaborate on your suspicion that Cerb and I are scum. I need to see this thought process written down.
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P-Edit: Nope. Nancy decided to wade further into troubled waters and suggest I was making political statements ... after the bullying and name calling didn't browbeat me into silence and obedience.Show"We'll see who is bad at mafia after I've lynched you." - RadiantCowbells
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I don't think you need to read OK1 if you weren't in it. People might keep referring to it though, given that a large part of this playerlist was in that game.In post 872, Amzela wrote:
@RR;Drixx, if we weren't in OK1, should we read OK1?In post 852, Reasonably Rational wrote:
LOL. No. I flat out told the game that Thor was scum and Thor was scum. All you need to read Thor is experience playing against him if you are scum and he isn't. Modding a game he plays in will probably help also since you get the outside view. He's terrifying if you're scum and he's town but he has some really deep grooves he tends to stick to as well.In post 825, Tails wrote:RR made note that Thor was acting more like his scum self in that game, so maybe not? Also, I think we have a few more strong personalities in this game.
Also maybe I'm giving everyone a really high BoP here because I think somehow nobody else really saw it in OK1? It seems pretty straightforward to me though. He's a bit less active this game than I'd like, but the early trend seems very much town on him, if you're wondering. I still have him in the null stack in my mind though. Waiting to see something specific in his posting.
~D
I personally don't read the abusiveness of the post, as Drixx was using histrionic in context of the descriptive word and he did make a point that we seem to be townreading you for those things. I don't think he was going after you necessarily but going after us for letting you all off the hook. And we have, to some extent.In post 870, DrewVa wrote:
He thinks just because this is a game, it somehow justifies him acting like a dick to me and it doesn’t. Scumreading me is a part of the game, abusing me isn’t and his most recent post is very close to bordering on that. If I wasn’t in a hydra, I would replace out over this but I made a commitment to DVa. A50 probably can’t do anything to stop it. I keep trying to as nicely as possible, to get through to him why his treatment of me is unacceptable and he just keeps doubling down and misconstruing what I’m saying. I never ever said, a single one of my posts were untouchable, only for him to stop being such a jerk to me.In post 865, pinturicchio wrote:
Maybe we understand differently the word "histrionic" in this context. What do you feel he's saying with that word? 'Cause, as far as I know, being histrionic is not intrinsically badIn post 863, DrewVa wrote: I know he’s not scumreading me based on that but that isn’t the point. I don’t appreciate him using terms like “histrionics” to describe my feelings. Yes, I am not suggesting that I should automatically be townread for that, only that my emotions are always genuine.
p-edit: yeah RR defined histrionics as I know it is, and being dramatic is a personality treat, not a disorder or anything like that. My girlfriend is the most dramatic person I've ever known and it's fun, it's like living in a movie
Like there is a way to discuss my posts, without deliberately being an ass about it, is my point.
(I don't trust you but the people you've both called out as Town/Scum are confusing me and I don't want to sort through that mess on Turkey Day.)
(Trust issues ftw)
Also RR;Drixx, this isn't just a game of rhetoric fite me.
That being said, I also heavily think that RR is scum, possibly due to knowing Cerb a little more and their original randomeness, and for you two to "seem to get into a genuine fight" is throwing me off and I am just confused. You do seem Town and I don't think scum would infight like that, unless this is an elaborate ploy to get us all confused.
Also @pintu I just realized that you're from Chile! Come up and eat turkey with us.
Also, I do not think this game is multiball and if so *throws hands up in the air and jumps out a window*.
Okay Amzela, let's break down your reason for thinking we're scum.
1) We did a thing that you fail to see a town motivation for, in spite of us(or me, at least) explaining what the intent was.
2) ????
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Does that about sum it up? If so, let's look at 1 then. Two lines here, we're either doing/did this change in play as a deliberate scum ploy, or a deliberate town one.
If it was a deliberate scum ploy, where's the scum motivation in changing our playstyle deliberately(you don't have experience with us, but you can ask Varsoon and...well, mainly Varsoon, I guess, how consistent our overall approach to the game has been historically regardless of alignment), ESPECIALLY considering that I(and we, together), have *NEVER* been lynched as scum prior to LYLO.
Never.
That is, our approach to the game, as scum, from our perspective, GUARANTEES we will make it to endgame.
Why change that?
Now, let's say it's a town ploy intended to do what we said we wanted it to do, namely, give us some reactions to use to gauge the alignment of those players who have experience with us in the game, but which you simply don't see as functioning that way.
Is it more likely that we chose to discard a very successful survival strategy as scum and draw this attention to ourselves, or that we sincerely believe that our methodology could help us in scumhunting?
-Cerb
@DrewVa: It inherently implies that what you're doing is *designed*. This is a game where people attempt AtE all the time. As a result, literally every time someone is emotional, there will be at least one person in the game who believes it's just AtE. That is something you will have to get used to if you want to continue playing mafia through this medium at least. It is unfortunate that people attempt emotional manipulation, but they do, and it prevents people from simply taking emotional displays at face value. Drixx's safe space comment was unnecessarily inflammatory, yes, but I believe it was a valid rhetorical tool to draw parallels between something those here would be familiar with, and what he perceived you to be doing: Attempting to insulate yourself from critical rhetoric through the use of an emotional outburst. One could do that as town to get some space to breathe, but it's more likely to be done *deliberately* by scum.Show"We'll see who is bad at mafia after I've lynched you." - RadiantCowbells
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So you believe that Drixx and I are "winding" DrewVa up? To what end?In post 881, profii wrote:
Further to the side note there is a lot of language in the posts that one could argue is obviously going to upset someone you have identified as “emotional about being scum read” or whateverIn post 868, Amzela wrote:
Outside of this:In post 846, DrewVa wrote:
Why is Thor scum here? I think I will probably anti-sheep any of your votes in this game.
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It's coming from early posts and his defensiveness, which I do believe got called out by Cheeky.In post 825, Tails wrote:RR made note that Thor was acting more like his scum self in that game, so maybe not? Also, I think we have a few more strong personalities in this game.
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Sidenote, not game related, histrionic is not inherently bad but has been used historically as a way to invalidate the concerns/feelings/treatment of women. This comes from the Renaissance and hysteria has typically been used as an excuse to mark women as irrational and, therefore, inferior as it was said to be only related to the uterus. I believe that might be the reason why Nancy doesn't like the usage of the word, and though it may not inherently be offensive, it could be argued that it implies something.
And I think it’s being masked under the guise of “I’m just being matter of fact about things”
I kinda think it’s a shading tactic tbh
And please don't say anything about spamming the game and distractions and all that shit. 1v1'ing Wisdom would be the absolute best way to accomplish that goal if we were scum.
-Cerb
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Has DrewVa been successful at making anyone agree with them so far? No? So what would be the motivation for shading them, rather than letting them just continue digging the hole they were already busy with.In post 885, profii wrote:
you're either shading DrewVa up because she is pushing something that doesnt help your win con.In post 884, Reasonably Rational wrote:So you believe that Drixx and I are "winding" DrewVa up? To what end?
or if you are "winding DrewVa up" apparently to no end then it's just unpleasantness for unpleasantness' sake
VOTE: Reasonably Rational
The second possiblity, of just winding her up for no reason, is, again, something that would be better accomplished by going after other individuals in the game; that is, if one assumes that we'd even do that, which we never have felt the urge to do in the past. *shrug* Obviously you can't assume that we're not doing it this time, but again, where's the scum motivation?
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In post 880, DrewVa wrote: How many times do I have to repeat thatI don’t expect to be townread for having genuine emotions?In post 341, DrewVa wrote: You find even one single town game of mine, where I haven’t freaked out at getting voted. You can’t because it doesn’t fucking exist.
Please do tell me how you saying that youalways"freak out" at getting voted (and "freak out" certainly implies emotion, yes?) when town and going so far as to say there is no town game of yours in existence where you got voted but DID NOT "freak out" ... is compatible with the first quoted statement where you try to say you don't expect to be townread because of said earlier emotional "freak out"?
Because if I want to be pedantic I suppose I could carefully parse what you said in #341 as youjust pointing outthat you always do that when you are town butnot actually SAYINGyou should be town read in this game for doing it ... but everyone who reads your ISO is going to realize you are making that pointBECAUSEyou "freaked out" in this game, emotionally, and you therefore are pointing at your own meta in order to get a town read.
Furthermore ... you should perhaps evaluate yourself a bit. You're walking pretty close to Trust Tell territory here. If you're not familiar: A Trust Tell comes in two parts. First ... you set up a behavior that you always do as one alignment (and generally one alignment only, which is what I think saves you from having pulled a Trust Tell in this case). Then ... you mention it in order to gain advantage in a game.
I said CLOSE to and not actually a TT (at least, not in my view). It's close though. I figured you'd want to be aware so you don't accidentally leverage meta too far.
~D
P.S. - Please go back and look at this exchange. The thing you are claiming to be most offended by didn't get said untilAFTERyou attempted to bully me and called me names. I think I'm okay in having employed rhetoric lightly back at you. I honestly don't know what else to say to you here. I could, I suppose, point you to some places where you could see what it looks like if I'm actually irritated at someone and want to attack them, so you can know for sure that what you're seeing in this game is NOT that. I don't know if that will help. LMK.
I'm going to go enjoy thanksgiving now. I hope everyone has an awesome day
@amzela - I don't believe in "gut". A "gut feeling" is just your brain notifying you that you missed something.
P-edit: Ooh ... Profii finally found some reason to vote us. That took awhile. LOL.
P-edit^2: I didn't edit this post Nancy ... but I did see your last couple posts. Hopefully we can just move on from here.Show"We'll see who is bad at mafia after I've lynched you." - RadiantCowbells
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No. You've been looking for an excuse to vote us all game. Jumping into a minor personal dispute to have an excuse is pretty bad man.In post 890, profii wrote:
I'm trying to be polite here and say if there is no reason to this why is it dragging on. It's a bit lame.In post 888, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Has DrewVa been successful at making anyone agree with them so far? No? So what would be the motivation for shading them, rather than letting them just continue digging the hole they were already busy with.In post 885, profii wrote:
you're either shading DrewVa up because she is pushing something that doesnt help your win con.In post 884, Reasonably Rational wrote:So you believe that Drixx and I are "winding" DrewVa up? To what end?
or if you are "winding DrewVa up" apparently to no end then it's just unpleasantness for unpleasantness' sake
VOTE: Reasonably Rational
The second possiblity, of just winding her up for no reason, is, again, something that would be better accomplished by going after other individuals in the game; that is, if one assumes that we'd even do that, which we never have felt the urge to do in the past. *shrug* Obviously you can't assume that we're not doing it this time, but again, where's the scum motivation?
-Cerb
For the record (for the people who know us): I've been side eyeing Profii since that really bad "reads" list earlier. I wonder who else saw what I saw in the reactions to that. I suspect Thor, Varsoon and Tails all caught it.
VOTE: profii
I'm comfortable here. Too much baggage and noise on the DVA slot to have any certainty and nobody else seems to believe lying with ATE is indicative of anything so ... here we are.
~D
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Agree to disagree I suppose. Telling someone that a large post (without any specifics) is "mean" and then putting emotional leverage ("I'll replace out if you don't stop") is definitely bullying. Any time someone tries to use his presence or participation for leverage, they are bullying the person whom they are attempting to leverage. It's one of the oldest tactics on both the internet and in the school yard. "Do what I say or else I take my marbles and go home" is a rough example.In post 926, Varsoon wrote:So like, from Drixx's PoV your play is still rhetorical/game-based and him sticking to his convictions of a scumread isn't intended as disrespect
Which becomes more of an issue because he takes a harder rhetorical stance that feels like it invalidates your feelings or twists them in some way/makes you out as some emotional bully which, imo, you're not.
Nope. I gave you the precise definition I have for the word. Your posting which I was referring to definitely fits that bill, with the only "grey area" being whether or not you are being honest. I believe the circular logic you used (and your continued denial that you tried to leverage meta into a town read, even when I went and dug it up for you) makes me believe that it is more likely that you are using your meta and posts here for leverage.In post 927, DrewVa wrote:
I didn’t appreciate the term, “histrionics”. I found it disrespectful. Again, overkill. Gamma’s “high strung” OTOH isn’t. Do you see my point yet?In post 918, Varsoon wrote:
If I'm reading correctly, the above ^ is a response to the belowIn post 857, DrewVa wrote:P.edit Drixx, I think you’re being kind of mean to me here. Please stop it. Thanks.
I don't really get what's mean about this post.In post 851, Reasonably Rational wrote:
We always take a commanding role, regardless of alignment. We don't always do it in the early parts of day one in a very large game. We also don't always ignore relatives in town for major holidays (I've had family over for a week already, for example).In post 823, BuJaber wrote:
They both took a commanding role in overkill 1.In post 804, Tails wrote:Both Thor and RR have posted every day. Was there more you were expecting there? Were you expecting uber posting?
Granted Thor was SK so perhaps not the best comparison but I assume he was playing similar to how he would as town. I've never been SK just seems like the right way to play it.
Also ... we've already put out at least two solid rationales for why Hebichan and Drewva are looking quite bad from things they posted this game. I'm not sure how much more other people are "commanding" the game atm? I see a lot of people ignoring or hand waving away Hebichan's lying and by some bizarre twist of reasoning, nearly everyone seems to think Nancy's histrionics and circular reasoning are a reason to town read the Drewva hydra.
Not sure what more you want here bud. Maybe be a bit more specific?
~D
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Like ... that's one of the main parts of this game. Figure out who is being sincere and who isn't. You are almost certainly genuinely upset but you can be genuinely upset and also be !town.
BTW - If someone quoted me and referred to an ATE post (which I do make from time to time, unlike Cerb) as "histrionics" ... I wouldn't be the least bit offended. That would be describing my play/actions/words and NOT labeling ME the person. On the other hand, if someone put a label on ME the person ... for example: "Drixx is really high strung" ... then I would be more likely to be irritated by that. That's the line in mafia. Go after play not people.
So you are taking a commentary about your play ... a THING you DID ... as offensive but don't seem to be bothered by someone giving you the real person a personal label based upon that play.
So yeah ... I don't see your point. One is against the spirit of the game and one is precisely the spirit of the game.
~D
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I'm really torn by this post Scat Man. Like ... I totally had my strongest scum read on profii and the only rational response to an apparent day kill is to say whatever you need to say and disappearing is generally the act of scum who don't trust themselves with WINE but ... man this is so much gloating on your part.In post 930, Varsoon wrote:Also havin a laff that profii straight ghosted.
Probably to go tell scumbuddies what to do post-flip.
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Here you go:In post 946, DrewVa wrote:
That is a complete lie. When did I ever threaten to replace out because of what you or anyone else said? Find me the quotes. I’m waiting.In post 939, CheekyTeeky wrote:Oh god please let it just be this page that you people are garbaging with your irrelevant posts. Drewva needs to get over themselves and is probably scum because Nancy pulled the same AtE garbage on me last game. Anyway sifting through more isos now.
This is a pretty clear ultimatum by you. You threatened that if I didn't do the following things:In post 860, DrewVa wrote:If you won’t stop this particular line of criticism or let Cerb deal with me, I will replace out. I’m not going to continue to put up with that.
1.) Stop criticizing your earlier posts for being circular reasoning and appearing to attempt to leverage meta and emotion into a town read (And I proved this already by quoting you, so stop lying and forcing me to quote your own posts back to you please).
2.) Stop talking to you at all
With the penalty for me refusing to do those things given as: "I will replace out."
Nothing I've said to you has been anywhere evencloseto the line. I've consistently addressed what you are saying and doing and made no commentary about YOU except to call you friend and let you know that I am absolutely not going after you personally. I even offered to show you a place where someone provoked me into going after them which would be me bringing up something uncomfortable and unpleasant and bringing attention to it solely so that you can feel better knowing that I really and legitimately am just talking about what you are SAYING and DOING and making no statements about you personally.
Because ... Mafia is a game of rhetoric and, at least on this site, many people use emotion as a battering ram to leverage people. I simply don't try to make people feel bad and while a game goes on I'm not going to allow any appeals to emotion, no matter whether or not I believe they are completely genuine and sincere, impact me. Too many people have taken advantage of making things "personal" for gain.
And yes ... I do believe that making a scene and threatening to replace out absolutely is browbeating and bullying. You are putting social pressure on me to shut up and stop calling attention to your behavior. If I give in to that pressure, then the heat comes off you and you have successfully used some arbitrary "You offended me" statement to leverage your way out of the hole you dug for yourself. If I don't (which I simply don't submit to that kind of pressure; I think it's really bad form and so I will always always always double down when presented with it), then you make a further scene and replace out, which I view as an attempt to get people to take sides.
It's really quite dramatic. Which is ironic.
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P-Edit: You really think you're some kind of clean and innocent dove here Nancy? You've slung the following personal attacks, at the least: Jerk, ass(hole?), wrong-headed, obtuse. All of them are PERSONAL CHARACTER JUDGMENTS. In contrast, I've been very careful to interact with your behavior without casting stones at you. A large part of that is the benefit of the doubt. I've only really seen you as scum that I can recall, so I am basically just assuming you are scum here and you don't actually behave this way all the time.
I'm sorry but you're just flat out wrong. I'm well on the right side of the written rules and the spirit of those rules. You are the one who is way over the line and you need to stop. I'm seriously losing my patience with your behavior. This is threeconsecutivegames now where you have pulled this kind of behavior. Furthermore ... you need to adult a bit and take ownership of your reactions. I have no control over how you take things and you are literally putting an absurd burden of politeness on me. I couldn't possibly be critical of your play and meet the standard you are trying to set.
I'm not trying to be mean here but you need to hear these two things badly:
1.) If you really cannot handle people suspecting you and being critical of your PLAY, then you probably need to work on that. I don't know any nicer way to say this and know that you'll understand.
2.) If your slot is scum, I am absolutely going to report you after this game. That would make 3 consecutive games that you were in with me where you were scum and used dirty emotional manipulation to further your win con, including personal attacks in each game. That's not okay.Show"We'll see who is bad at mafia after I've lynched you." - RadiantCowbells
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So I'm going to try this and hope it works. This is for youNancy:
Fundamental Attribution Error:I believe you are falling prey to this particular cognitive bias when it comes to interacting with me. (This is giving you a gigantic benefit of the doubt, but that seems reasonable to me at this juncture). I can provide you with links to studies and in depth evidence of this, but I'll start with a quote from a fantastic bit of writing which gives a fairly decent basic summary of the bias:
Suppose you come into work and see your colleague kicking his desk. You think, 'what an angry person he must be'. Your colleague is thinking about how someone bumped him into a wall on the way to work and then shouted at him.Anyonewould be angry at that, he thinks. When we look at others we see personality traits that explain their behaviour, but when we look at ourselves we see circumstances that explain our behaviour. People's stories make internal sense to them, from the inside, but we don't see people's histories trailing behind them in the air. We only see them in one situation, and we don't see what they would be like in a different situation. So the fundamental attribution error is that we explain by permanent, enduring traits what would be better explained by circumstance and context.
Understanding this is one of the bedrock foundations of rationalism and interacting with other rational agents.
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This is a bad look man. Disappearing and then beetlejuiceing back in with this "just in case it was a reaction test" post. Eww.In post 948, profii wrote:Btw I’m about to head off but if Varsoon is not a day vig then we should lynch him - will explain when I arrive and can get access to a keyboard... 110 miles to go do couple hours
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Why is your read on her controlled by whether or not she finds prood that satisfies you?In post 971, DrewVa wrote:
How am I being nasty? You shade me suspiciously and when I ask you to back that up, you freak out about it. You accused me of doing the exact same thing in this game as in the last one. If you find me proof, I’ll take my vote off of you. I’m not upset with you at all, I just think you might have rolled scum here.In post 962, CheekyTeeky wrote:Zzz. This is an exact repeat of last game. You misunderstand me, get nasty and make me back off just by flipping everything on me. I'm sorry you rolled scum/SK again.
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I'd be happy to talk after game. I'm sure A50 would make a PT for us and make sure we don't go off the rails.In post 967, DrewVa wrote:
Um Drixx, my response to Cheeky was requesting she back up her bs accusation from Overkill 1, not THIS game. I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings, I tried to get through to you and you wouldn’t listen. I am not scum and you were really freaking me out. When someone begs you to stop doing something that’s legit hurting them - irrespective whether or not you think their reaction makes sense to you, you need to stop and consider if there was a less upsetting way to get that same point across. If you want to discuss it sometime PRIVATELY post-game, I guarantee I can make you understand but it’s not something I care to get into here.In post 960, Reasonably Rational wrote:
Here you go:In post 946, DrewVa wrote:
That is a complete lie. When did I ever threaten to replace out because of what you or anyone else said? Find me the quotes. I’m waiting.In post 939, CheekyTeeky wrote:Oh god please let it just be this page that you people are garbaging with your irrelevant posts. Drewva needs to get over themselves and is probably scum because Nancy pulled the same AtE garbage on me last game. Anyway sifting through more isos now.
This is a pretty clear ultimatum by you. You threatened that if I didn't do the following things:In post 860, DrewVa wrote:If you won’t stop this particular line of criticism or let Cerb deal with me, I will replace out. I’m not going to continue to put up with that.
1.) Stop criticizing your earlier posts for being circular reasoning and appearing to attempt to leverage meta and emotion into a town read (And I proved this already by quoting you, so stop lying and forcing me to quote your own posts back to you please).
2.) Stop talking to you at all
With the penalty for me refusing to do those things given as: "I will replace out."
Nothing I've said to you has been anywhere evencloseto the line. I've consistently addressed what you are saying and doing and made no commentary about YOU except to call you friend and let you know that I am absolutely not going after you personally. I even offered to show you a place where someone provoked me into going after them which would be me bringing up something uncomfortable and unpleasant and bringing attention to it solely so that you can feel better knowing that I really and legitimately am just talking about what you are SAYING and DOING and making no statements about you personally.
Because ... Mafia is a game of rhetoric and, at least on this site, many people use emotion as a battering ram to leverage people. I simply don't try to make people feel bad and while a game goes on I'm not going to allow any appeals to emotion, no matter whether or not I believe they are completely genuine and sincere, impact me. Too many people have taken advantage of making things "personal" for gain.
And yes ... I do believe that making a scene and threatening to replace out absolutely is browbeating and bullying. You are putting social pressure on me to shut up and stop calling attention to your behavior. If I give in to that pressure, then the heat comes off you and you have successfully used some arbitrary "You offended me" statement to leverage your way out of the hole you dug for yourself. If I don't (which I simply don't submit to that kind of pressure; I think it's really bad form and so I will always always always double down when presented with it), then you make a further scene and replace out, which I view as an attempt to get people to take sides.
It's really quite dramatic. Which is ironic.
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P-Edit: You really think you're some kind of clean and innocent dove here Nancy? You've slung the following personal attacks, at the least: Jerk, ass(hole?), wrong-headed, obtuse. All of them are PERSONAL CHARACTER JUDGMENTS. In contrast, I've been very careful to interact with your behavior without casting stones at you. A large part of that is the benefit of the doubt. I've only really seen you as scum that I can recall, so I am basically just assuming you are scum here and you don't actually behave this way all the time.
I'm sorry but you're just flat out wrong. I'm well on the right side of the written rules and the spirit of those rules. You are the one who is way over the line and you need to stop. I'm seriously losing my patience with your behavior. This is threeconsecutivegames now where you have pulled this kind of behavior. Furthermore ... you need to adult a bit and take ownership of your reactions. I have no control over how you take things and you are literally putting an absurd burden of politeness on me. I couldn't possibly be critical of your play and meet the standard you are trying to set.
I'm not trying to be mean here but you need to hear these two things badly:
1.) If you really cannot handle people suspecting you and being critical of your PLAY, then you probably need to work on that. I don't know any nicer way to say this and know that you'll understand.
2.) If your slot is scum, I am absolutely going to report you after this game. That would make 3 consecutive games that you were in with me where you were scum and used dirty emotional manipulation to further your win con, including personal attacks in each game. That's not okay.
What I really need you to understand in the time between now and then is this: You are setting way to wide and unreasonable an expectation. Sometimes people will say something that impacts you in an unusually hard manner which they cannot anticipate. You have said that's what happened here. Also please notice that I haven't gone back to the two specific things you pointed out since you pointed them out. The line, for me, is the actual things that I know will inflict hurt for no good reason (and there's few to no good reasons to hurt someone over a forum mafia game). That's the line. You can't block off entire portions of a game because something tangential to them was uncomfortable.
Obviously I don't go around trying to hurt people. Anyone who has played with me or talked to me at all will vouch. I view personal attacks as a measure of absolute last resort, and then only to get someone's attention. They serve no other useful function. Nobody gains a benefit from it.
Anyway ... I think we're reasonably well of the same viewpoint here. We understand one another and can continue and work it out after the game.
Now ... back to our regularly schedule massacre of the scums.
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Winner, winner; chicken dinner!In post 969, Majiffy wrote:Drixx you're being a grade-A asshole here and it's definitely crossed from unintentional slight to willingly disrespectful and distracting to the game. Stand down on the attacks.
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Qft atm, with notice to not be swayed if he suddenly starts posting and shit.In post 981, CheekyTeeky wrote:
Actually Creature can be scum btw.In post 947, CheekyTeeky wrote:Ok prepare to be amazed:
{Farside/Alonzo, Fortain, Profii}
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FTR, everything is in Varsoons scum range
The man is insane.
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