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Hello everyone.
So after mulling over the player list for hours and using my superb deduction skills, I've come to the conclusion that there is only one person on this list who I can conceivably accuse of being scum at this time.
VOTE: Saladman27
Why Salad you might ask? Well based off of his username, I can only conclude that he enjoys eating salads. Why is this an issue? Because you see, salads consist entirely of products made by plants, which means that this guy is a plant murderer! Do you know what plants do for us? They provide us with the oxygen that we need in order to live. So by eating and killing all these plants, Saladman here is attempting to kill us all by cutting off our oxygen supply.
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Honestly though, 10/10 flavor. Probably my favorite flavor that I've seen on the site so far.In post 7, Saladman27 wrote:You all have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used in my next Mini Normal as flavour.
That being said VOTE: Teacher, you can’t teach newbies.- AaronFrost
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Nope, did not open like that in 1952.
Haven't opened like that in any of my games honestly.- AaronFrost
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Yeah I tend to do that in my writing. Not the first time I've had that pointed out to me.
Writing was never my forte which is why I'm going to school for computer science.- AaronFrost
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Most games on here start off with RVS which is where we all randomly vote someone for bullshit reasons.
It helps to promote discussion and get us talking. Eventually someone is bound to say something scummy or do something to get us out of RVS.
The long deadline is there to account for real life circumstances such as work/school/etc.
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Why do you want teacher to claim? Do you intend on lynching him today?- AaronFrost
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So you'd rather hammer someone on page 2 and somehow hope that produces reads instead of letting your reads develop as the game progresses and deciding on a better lynch that way?In post 38, Spartan117 wrote:
I have no desire for teacher to claim unless he needs to, but I have 0 alignment reads so far, so I have no issue with hammering anyone here provided I think they are scum.In post 37, AaronFrost wrote:Why do you want teacher to claim? Do you intend on lynching him today?
Also your even though it was random, self-voting is usually seen as an anti-town move, even during RVS.
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I was about to say lol. It's all good.In post 41, teacher wrote:
Never mind. Just kinda assumed everyone was on me. Sorry.In post 39, teacher wrote:
This is a terrible response to L-1 from somebody who is on my wagon.In post 37, AaronFrost wrote:Why do you want teacher to claim? Do you intend on lynching him today?- AaronFrost
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It was the user of the word 'here' that led me to believe you were okay with hammering someone on page 2.In post 45, Spartan117 wrote:
Also to point out my use of the world "here" was probably not optimum, as I can see why it may sound like I'm referencing the page we are on while I was referencing the game we are in.In post 38, Spartan117 wrote:
I have no desire for teacher to claim unless he needs to, but I have 0 alignment reads so far, so I have no issue with hammering anyone here provided I think they are scum.In post 37, AaronFrost wrote:Why do you want teacher to claim? Do you intend on lynching him today?- AaronFrost
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I can agree with Salad's vote feeling opportunistic, but what exactly do you expect from him given his status as an SE.In post 48, Spartan117 wrote:Saladmans reaction felt very much like scum trying to hope on a wagon, as an SE I expect more from you than your response in #46, I would have hoped more experienced players would understand the full motive behind that game advancing content, no comments on any of the other people who are on Teachers wagon?
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Sure I'll bite at the questions. Been working on schoolwork all day today so haven't been around much.In post 64, teacher wrote:I’m hating the slowness of the game. I’ve got like 2 reads out of rand and we are a couple days in. Let’s try some getting to know you questions to hopefully start things off into the week. All slots kindly answer.
1. What is your experience at Mafia
A handful of games on MafiaScum. A few irl games of Ultimate Werewolf here and there.
2. How do you play as town
I usually observe, ask questions, pressure those I find scummy and generally obvtown it up. I have yet to roll a PR so no clue how I'd play if I did. Probably try to be less obvtown if I was a PR.
3. How do you play as scum
If my only scum game on here is any indication, badly. But seriously I try to emulate my town playstyle.
4. What do you think gives away a player as scum or town
Scum will tend to push an agenda more than town will since scum already knows everyone's alignment. They'll also appeal to the crowd by posting things that appear townie on the surface, but don't fit the game state or just aren't very helpful. Town players will question and observe and more than likely change their reads often. Townies in general should also be less afraid of how they look and more focused on either hunting scum.
5. Time zone/standard posting times
EST. I'm in university and work part time so whenever I have free time really.- AaronFrost
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The only situation where I'd be concerned about where I'm at is if I was on the teacher wagon, which again, I am not.In post 56, Donempire wrote:teacher is a pretty relaxed player overall so i dont think the response is telling.
Salads response of course views things from a very flat angle, i know that spartan wasnt trying to get a quick mislynch. Though i am happy the game gained traction, i cant townread spartan for it because either faction could do it. I think aarons reaction to the vote is also pretty bad, it reads as though hes more concerned on where he is at when/if a lynch occurs rather than getting a scum lynch through. The whole convo reads like TvS and if i had to pick a side i'd say aarons the goon here.
That being said, I do like Spartan's response to my questions. I had a feeling he was reaction testing and wanted to confirm whether that was true. I also agree with his sentiment of anti-town =/= scum.
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Not really liking Saladman's posts here. In #54 he says that he's concerned about a mislynch happening on Spartan despite the fact that he was nowhere close to being lynched. And if you were concerned about a hypothetical mislynch, then why vote him at all? Early game wagons aren't necessarily a bad thing provided you have a town sensible enough not to quick/self hammer, and Spartan doesn't strike me as the type of person who'd do that.
VOTE: Saladman27- AaronFrost
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Alright, since teacher's questions didn't really spark up activity levels too much, I'll throw in a question of my own and see where it gets us.
If you had to lynch somebody right now, who would it be and why?
I'd probably lynch Salad. Didn't like his quick unvote after voting Spartan and his vote on Spartan seemed very opportunistic to begin with.- AaronFrost
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+1 to this. Pages take forever to load on my end and it's making it very hard to even read the thread right now.In post 107, teacher wrote:Plot, speaking at least for me the site has been down for much of the last two days. If we can extend the day a bit to compensate, i am in favor.- AaronFrost
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Can you elaborate more on this?In post 56, Donempire wrote:I think aarons reaction to the vote is also pretty bad, it reads as though hes more concerned on where he is at when/if a lynch occurs rather than getting a scum lynch through. The whole convo reads like TvS and if i had to pick a side i'd say aarons the goon here.- AaronFrost
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Maybe I'm wrong here, but I legitimately think that teacher thought I was voting for him when I posted 37 so his reaction seemed genuine. He also did explain the implications of L-1 after that. I agree that what I posted there would've been pretty hypocritical if I was voting for teacher at that moment.
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I don't really see where teacher was panicking honestly. I think his response was pretty warranted since Spartan seemed to imply that he was okay with hammering a vote on page 2. I think teacher reacts that way regardless if it was him or someone else being wagoned.- AaronFrost
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Yeah distancing is a pretty common scum tactic but I think it's pretty unlikely that scum would be distancing from each other on Day 1, especially in a Newbie game.- AaronFrost
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Alright so looking through Saladman's meta, so far it does seem pretty consistent with town!Salad. I think my vote is better placed here honestly.
VOTE: Dongempire
Really did not like their case against teacher. teacher wasn't responding to the fact that he was at L-1, he was responding to Spartan when he seemed to imply that he was okay with hammering on page 2 and I think teacher's response is fine because of that. Not necessarily saying it's townie, but it's definitely not scummy.- AaronFrost
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Sure I'll engage.In post 133, teacher wrote:Reads RN. Anyone want to engage me?
Aaron
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Chibi Merfin
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Also, Dong, why not answer the general questions?
Why Yoda as a townlean? Why George as a scumlean?- AaronFrost
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Wouldn't town want to get out if L-1 as quickly as possible too though for fear of being mislynched? I think panicking when you're at L-1 and about to be hammered on page 2 of a game is a pretty natural reaction regardless of alignment. I'd be much more concerned about teacher's reaction if it was later in the game.In post 128, Donempire wrote:
Im pretty sure that teacher actually thought you were voting him. And his reaction is natural.In post 113, AaronFrost wrote:Maybe I'm wrong here, but I legitimately think that teacher thought I was voting for him when I posted 37 so his reaction seemed genuine. He also did explain the implications of L-1 after that. I agree that what I posted there would've been pretty hypocritical if I was voting for teacher at that moment.
What 'bone' do you have to pick with 37?
For scum.
Expanding on post 102 (or perhaps reiterating) an experienced town player would keep calm and explain spartan that this isnt something he should be doing and level with him. A panicking scum tries to get out of l1 as quickly as possible before a lolhammer.- AaronFrost
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"The fuck" seems like the kind of reaction someone would give if they're panicking about being at L-1 on page 2, which is the argument that you're using against teacher here. So why would the reaction be town for me, but scum for teacher?In post 127, Donempire wrote:
Sure can.In post 110, AaronFrost wrote:@Dong
Can you elaborate more on this?In post 56, Donempire wrote:I think aarons reaction to the vote is also pretty bad, it reads as though hes more concerned on where he is at when/if a lynch occurs rather than getting a scum lynch through. The whole convo reads like TvS and if i had to pick a side i'd say aarons the goon here.
At that point i thought town!you would be more concerned with trying to persuade spartan out of l-1ing teacher. Your posts seem more like you're trying to seem reasonable without taking any action, what with asking spartan if he wants a lynch. On surface level it seems like a natural enough question but definitely not the question to be asking at page 2. I think a town response would be more in line with "the fuck?"- AaronFrost
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In post 112, GeorgeBailey wrote:But I don't think teacher is scum just because he panicked at L-1. Wouldn't any role would panick if they're about to be lynched d1 from an RVS?
Here's a nice little contradiction looking through George's ISO. He says that it's perfectly reasonable for teacher to panic when he's put at L-1 but then says that there's no reason for him to be afraid of being hammered on D1.In post 116, GeorgeBailey wrote:But I think that you were just scared of being hammered d1 for no reason.
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You don't like your own post? Or are you referring to 177?
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Teacher pretty much laid out every reason why we should lynch somebody today, and every day going forward. I flip is going to give us more information than just doing nothing and waiting for scum to kill someone. It also increases our odds. We have a 22% chance of lynching scum today. If we don't lynch, and the mafia kills someone, then that chance becomes 25%, which isn't much better odds. If we do lynch, and the mafia kills someone , we have roughly a 28.5% chance of lynching scum the next day which is a little better. That'll turn into a 40% chance on Day 3 assuming we don't lynch scum on either of the previous days. Basically if we no lynch, we only stall the game and sell ourselves short of information. If we do lynch, we have two flips that we can potentially work with plus there is always the chance of catching scum Day 1.- AaronFrost
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That being said, I think Chiibie gets some town points for bringing up the idea. I can see why scum would want to push a no lynch but I think it's more likely that newbie town would think that no lynching is beneficial (heck I had the same thought process in my first game). Chiibie seemed to bring up the idea with good intentions so I don't think it's scum motivated.- AaronFrost
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Apologize for formatting and spelling errors. My internet has been cutting in and out for the past couple days so I'm posting this on mobile.- AaronFrost
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I think Salad mentioned earlier that he's never rolled scum before so he doesn't really have a scum meta. I could see scum Salad playing to his meta of being random and lynchbaity and us shrugging it off as just "that's his meta"In post 182, Spartan117 wrote:It stinks right? or am I just missing some sort of meta where he acts all random looking for a lynch.
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In post 183, Plotinus wrote:Merfin2 has been prodded. They have (expired on 2019-10-04 10:27:19) to post before I start looking for a replacement.- AaronFrost
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Hmm I'm having a hard time getting a read on Salad. I could see him flipping scum but I'm not all that confident that he will.
It does feel a bit like he's playing up his meta which is something I could see scum Salad doing.
I'd rather not lynch the inactive slot personally and just wait for them to come back/be replaced. Inactivity is not a reliable scum tell although I do have yet to actually go though Merfin's posts. I'll probably do that once my internet is back up since I have a guy coming to work on it today.
Dong is probably the best place for my vote right now but with it being V/LA, all we can do is wait for a response from it.- AaronFrost
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I don't really understand this. What about his reaction to my pressure on him stuck out as scum indicative? Anti-town =/= scum and I never accused him of being scum for it, just that it's an anti-town thing to do.In post 228, Gimm1ck wrote:Saying now that Teacher reacted calmly and townie, albeit a tad passively to his wagon; considering it nai on him for the present being.
Reading back over early Spartman wagon here, so sorry for not knowing how to use quotes (you can see how badly I messed it up a few posts up) anyways;
Personally I find spartman to be scummy in that situation. He uses a defensive reply to pressure (think And why does that make me scum?),
"Additionally please tell me what is anti-town about self voting during the RVS on the first page? What does it tell you about my alignment if anything?" (post 44)
and calls out saladman for not contributing to in-game scum hunting.
"Saladmans reaction felt very much like scum trying to hope on a wagon, as an SE I expect more from you than your response in #46, I would have hoped more experienced players would understand the full motive behind that game advancing content, no comments on any of the other people who are on Teachers wagon?"
This earns scum points for Spartan as he - as stated before - calls out Salad for not investing in game related content while defensively replying to pressure.
Saladman's Lynch on Spartan is nai for me as of now. Going over rest of game soon
And what exactly is scummy about Spartan calling out another player's scummy behavior?
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I assume you're talking about the points I made against Saladman here.In post 232, Gimm1ck wrote:
Why do these imply scumminess? Is there a reason that they would act this way If they were scum? Would they act differently if they were town?In post 75, AaronFrost wrote:
The only situation where I'd be concerned about where I'm at is if I was on the teacher wagon, which again, I am not.In post 56, Donempire wrote:teacher is a pretty relaxed player overall so i dont think the response is telling.
Salads response of course views things from a very flat angle, i know that spartan wasnt trying to get a quick mislynch. Though i am happy the game gained traction, i cant townread spartan for it because either faction could do it. I think aarons reaction to the vote is also pretty bad, it reads as though hes more concerned on where he is at when/if a lynch occurs rather than getting a scum lynch through. The whole convo reads like TvS and if i had to pick a side i'd say aarons the goon here.
That being said, I do like Spartan's response to my questions. I had a feeling he was reaction testing and wanted to confirm whether that was true. I also agree with his sentiment of anti-town =/= scum.
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Not really liking Saladman's posts here. In #54 he says that he's concerned about a mislynch happening on Spartan despite the fact that he was nowhere close to being lynched. And if you were concerned about a hypothetical mislynch, then why vote him at all? Early game wagons aren't necessarily a bad thing provided you have a town sensible enough not to quick/self hammer, and Spartan doesn't strike me as the type of person who'd do that.
VOTE: Saladman27
Scum tend to be much more cautious than town do and at the time, it seemed like Salad was attempting to be cautious. Early game wagons are good for reactions and even though there was an early wagon on Spartan, the closest it got was L-2. He was never in danger of being lynched.
Now I can also understand the fear of that happening because of the game he modded that I played in because on Day 1 we had a townie quickhammer with 10 into the deadline and then the next day we had another townie self-hammer, also with 10 days left on the deadline. No one here seems like the type of player who'd do that sort of thing though.- AaronFrost
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So far not really liking his posts all that much. It seemed like he was reaching to find any reason to scum read you and came up with logic that doesn't really make sense. I was already feeling off on the Merfin slot but the replacement has solidified them as a scum read for me.In post 248, Spartan117 wrote:Its official Gimm1ck has as many posts as yoda already, so much content so soon, what do you guys all think..?
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Again, I never really pressured him about the self-vote thing or accused him of scum for it, I just mentioned that it's an anti-town move.In post 251, Gimm1ck wrote:
No. I was saying that I personally find when people respond to pressure by asking someone to elaborate on the reason they are being pressured is generally scummy to me.In post 234, Spartan117 wrote:
You find it scummy that I am trying to understand what someone finds scummy about my play, you're off to a good start.In post 228, Gimm1ck wrote:Personally I find spartman to be scummy in that situation. He uses a defensive reply to pressure (think And why does that make me scum?),
This is especially given the context with Salad lynching you in early game phases - although yes, questioning Salad's viewpoints in early game phases has a place, it should not be a justification for a counterlynch unless you have other reasoning. Which is why I found it scummy.
The main pressure on Spartan was the fact that he put teacher at L-1 and the wording of 38 implied that he was okay with hammering someone on page 2. Any comments on his response to that?- AaronFrost
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I really don't have much to add either. I'm mostly waiting for Dong to respond.- AaronFrost
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Not a fan of that hop on there George, especially since you were defending Dong earlier in the day.- AaronFrost
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I'm personally not a fan considering you're my strongest townread at the moment. I think at least one of the people voting for you right now is scum.In post 304, Spartan117 wrote:
Can you explain my wagon to me from an outside perspective I'm interested to know what you think of it. This isnt just @teacher.In post 299, teacher wrote:
I find the fact I can’t get this wagonned, despite this apathy (and everything else), concerning.In post 291, Donempire wrote:@Georgie im back from v/la, so if you're not voting me based ön that feel free to. Im having a hard time approaching the game is all.
Where did Gimm1ck go anyways? He just kind of disappeared after his catch up post.- AaronFrost
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I'd still like to hear from Dong after they get back from V/LA, but I think my vote is actually better placed here right now.
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Well shit then.
If Dong doesn't respond soon I'll switch back to them.- AaronFrost
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Intent to hammer within 24 hours.
Hopefully Dong actually gets on here and starts playing again.- AaronFrost
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Makes me think that Dong is going to flip town honestly. But that will also give us a chance to sort between those on the Dong wagon.
George's hop on feels scummiest to me right now. Yoda is still a hard null for me, but his vote on Dong also feels pretty sheepy. Salad's is okay because it seems like he had a purpose for putting Dong at L-1 (trying to increase their activity level), but I'm still having a hard time reading that slot. teacher is probably the towniest person on the wagon right now, and of course I'm obviously town
So even though the votes in the last page are troubling, this is fine if we get a town flip. And if Dong flips scum, then that's even better because we can look at who was defending them/trying to bus them at the end of the day.- AaronFrost
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Is this a strategy that you've employed in past games, getting your biggest townreads together to form a voting block? I've never seen that done before so I'm just curious.In post 311, teacher wrote:
See my quote of Dong. Theyre back but not playing. 291.In post 308, AaronFrost wrote:I'd still like to hear from Dong after they get back from V/LA, but I think my vote is actually better placed here right now.
VOTE: Gimm1ck
Agreed w/you on Spartan. I again think the three of us need to get together.
Dong>Salad>George>Gimm1ck for me.- AaronFrost
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Alright I think it's time.
VOTE: Dongempire
I'll have a lot of people to sort between tomorrow. Hopefully we can get some more activity in here.- AaronFrost
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I'm usually one of the less active posters in these games too so you know it's bad when I have the third-most number of posts.- AaronFrost
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Well thanks for narrowing down my scum pool I guess. I was going to push George today because he was playing pretty scummy.- AaronFrost
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So I could think of a couple reasons why George might have been killed.
1) To confuse us. Pretty much everyone expressed some concerns against him during the last day phase, so keeping him alive and having the town pressure and possibly mislynch him would be the optimal choice, but sometimes scum will make sub-optimal choices for the purpose of throwing us off. This seems unlikely to happen, especially in a Newbie game.
2) Scum thought he was PR. PR's tend to play a little bit scummy/low-profile so that scum won't kill them, but not too scummy that they'll get mislynched. This seems the more likely scenario to me since it's important for scum to PR hunt and get rid of any advantage that the town has.
This is the kind of kill I see coming from someone who's experienced with mafia and/or someone who's being coached by an experienced player. I think at least one of our remaining SE (Salad/teacher) players is scum.
teacher is by far the towniest of the two, but I don't want to rule him out completely. I've learned that even the most obvtown players can still turn out to be scum and according to teacher, he obvtowns it up as either alignment. He was also the driving force behind the Dong lynch yesterday, which does concern me a bit. However, Salad is easily the scummier looking of the two. For now...
VOTE: Salad
It might also be worth taking a look at who George (and to a lesser extent, Dong) were scumreading and how the other players interacted with those slots.- AaronFrost
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In post 366, Saladman27 wrote: Aaron - Highlight: 351 and I’d like to know what your reads are now after Dong and George is flippedAaronFrost- Obviously town
Spartan- Biggest town read by a mile. He's questioning, using good logic and generally feels townie.
teacher- I'll admit I feel a bit less confident that teacher is town than I did yesterday mostly because of that NK. Curious to see how he responds.
Gimm1ck- Moving him up to town because I think if he were scum he'd be much more content with lynching Dong than he was. Instead he tried to push the lynch onto Salad.
Chiibie- Everything they've done so far feels like newb-town to me. It's more of a nullish town because I have yet to sort this slot.
Yodavader- PoE. Another slot I need to sort.
Salad- Already explained my stance here.- AaronFrost
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Chiibie Day 1:In post 152, Chibiie wrote:///// Regarding Salad, I' ve stated my reasoning for unvoting him pretty clear... His play shows relationship to me, I want Salad, teacher and Dong (these 3 seem to know each other) alive so they can talk and read eachother, they'll either end up in the same team or different, right? Having a group of players that already have a grasp of each other's playstyles is a strong weapon for us, who didn't played with them before, because we're new and they need time to adjust with our amounts of posts, the level of interest in conversation and strategies overall (I am more of a logical, connect-the-dots type of player, will use any little information, even the order of ideas in one's post, even yours, I take notice of player's order in your post), but they can read each other to a certain level based on previous games... I want to have that, as a new player here, I will honestly abuse this.In post 131, Chibiie wrote:Saladman started strong initiating the RVS and voting against teacher, but that's RVS and he voted teacher probably due to previous encounter in a different game, that's how it looks to me. (ofc, I needed more info which was later revealed, I couldn't assume this based on Salad's first post, so thank you for getting more in-depth with your discussion).
Short about Salad: I believe he had a pretty straight and logical play there, showing that they know each other, so they do have some kind of experience reading each other, therefore I UNVOTE: Salad
Chiibie Day 2:In post 280, Chibiie wrote:IMO, Salad is the most neutral read I have, therefore I gave him towncred. His plays are literally just... I haven't seen him getting too involved and that either because he doesn't want much attention on him (assuming he is PR, anyone can be at this point, we still haven't pushed someone to claim), or he's taking part of this game out of respect (assuming he's just a Vanilla Town with no other power, but to help us solve the puzzle).
I could've also assumed he's scum, however, I trust that a scum will select a target to try and push for a lynch. A specific target, someone that can be read as a big influence for Town... ANYWAY, moving on, I'm getting too much into my head and will end up with another huge post, not all information I'm running through is important, I'm still having trouble organizing the game in my head, too many thoughts on these interactions.In post 362, Chibiie wrote:
Regarding this, I'm not a really big fan of this post...In post 360, Saladman27 wrote:To bring some sort of substance that’s probably been said before, scum probably killed George because his posts sounded PR like.In post 362, Chibiie wrote:As of now, Salad has been pretty chill, which makes me think that he is indeed scum. He's not really sharing full thoughts in-game and just keeps a low-profile. This is kind of a throw off for me since I could also say he's PR then and does not want attention, BUT keeping too low of a profile can backfire...In post 362, Chibiie wrote:Peeps, y'all pushing Salad on the chopping block and I couldn't agree more, but I will abstain from voting until I read everyone's thoughts on this NK..- AaronFrost
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I think the likely explanation for GeorgeBailey's death was that scum thought he was a PR.- AaronFrost
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Think scum may have accidentally done us a favor though since I was going to push him today.- AaronFrost
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I think Salad/Chiibie could be the team. Salad/Yoda is also possible.
I don't think Salad/Gimm1ck are ever a team.- AaronFrost
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In post 385, Chibiie wrote:
If that's the case, I truly believe that none of the SE or experienced with Mafia overall is actually scum. In an earlier post you said that all I did feels like newb!town to you, I would like you to define "newb". Is it platform-wise or general Mafia game-wise?In post 374, AaronFrost wrote:I think the likely explanation for GeorgeBailey's death was that scum thought he was a PR.
Mostly platform-wise. You mentioned you had played social deduction games elsewhere but this was your first time on MS. The reason I say this is because of your idea of no lynching yesterday, which is not the norm on this site.
I'm actually curious because you're also the one who said that this NK was something an SE would do to throw Town off, yet now you say that it is likely that George was read as PR.
Solid misrep. I said it was possible, but unlikely. In the very same post I mention that it's more likely that scum thought he was a PR.
Any experienced Mafia player should be able to see that (and this is my point of view only, as always) George had no PR-hints in his posts, besides the possible Masons (Dong / George), otherwise, I, personally couldn't see any other PR-hints.
That's from your point of view though. Like teacher pointed out, there were some potential indications that George could've been the FN, and that's something that people are likely to miss. Even I'm usually pretty bad at noticing crumbs until they're pointed out to me.
I call this a contradiction, which makes me wanna lower you down on my TL, there are so many games where obvtown is actually scum and plays a perfect Town.
So what is the contradiction? I do agree that I've seen "obvtown" players turn out to be scum pretty often.- AaronFrost
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Yeah I can expand.In post 385, Chibiie wrote:
I would like more info on this. You've already posted your list and then came up with a contradiction, I mean, at the end of my post I've posted what everyone can read in the Mod posts, so don't take my request as FoS. I'm genuinely curious of how you associate me to Salad. What puts me in this light to you?In post 378, AaronFrost wrote:I think Salad/Chiibie could be the team. Salad/Yoda is also possible.
I don't think Salad/Gimm1ck are ever a team.
Basically it's the sudden shift in your read on Salad. I read 280 as you were townreading Salad, and even if the read was neutral at that point, the sudden shift just feels unnatural to me. Seems like you were trying to distance from him on Day 1 and now you have an opportunity on Day 2 to go with the crowd that's scumreading him. Not 100% sure if Chiibie would bus him that quickly into the day though, so for now Chiibie/Salad team is just a theory.- AaronFrost
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But yet you're scumreading Salad now?In post 385, Chibiie wrote:If that's the case, I truly believe that none of the SE or experienced with Mafia overall is actually scum. In an earlier post you said that all I did feels like newb!town to you, I would like you to define "newb". Is it platform-wise or general Mafia game-wise?- AaronFrost
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351 was not a contradiction, just me thinking about possible theories as to why scum went for George.In post 388, Chibiie wrote:To continue this assumption, I would like to say that the contradiction was in one post only actually.
Re-reading these two posts I can see that the contradiction took place in #351 only. I really doubt and SE would have read George as PR, however coming up with this analysis (and I don't wanna be looked at like the black sheep of this game) really lowers you down on my list.
Will I sound like trash? I might be, but I do have a feeling that this might've been your NK and was planned since D1 once George started defending Dong. That was the perfect setup for a scum 200 IQ blackmail NK.
Can I be wrong? Of course. Is this actually an FoS if I think about it? Could be, actually.
Anyway, will count you as neutral for now, Aaron.
Any obvtown can flip scum by the end of a game.
I don't like playing the whole "well I'd do this as scum" card because that gets very WIFOM-y, but I will say one beneficial move for scum here in my eyes is to keep George alive and kill one of the more active players so that this already slow-paced game becomes even more slow paced, which is what's starting to make me think that one of the more active players is potentially scum.
You brought up the possibility of one of the more obv-town players pulling the wool over our eyes. I think teacher is a good candidate in this case and ever since the day start I've been reconsidering my read on him. Not really sure why this is the case and it's mostly a gut feeling. Gonna reread that game I played with him (1954) and see what I can make of it.- AaronFrost
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