Mini 2250: Role-A-Pair Mafia (Game Over)
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What do posting patterns have to do with alignment? Especially in an anonymous game, with anonymous time zones?In post 7, Color Purple wrote: And a question to all, what do you think of players who have unusual posting patterns? For example, posting near midnight, writing in an unorderly fashion, you name it.- Color Green
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So my reasoning was, if town gets it, they can choose not to trigger it because it's non-compulsive. But if the person who sits out is also the D1 elim, then it's either we lose a townie and we don't have a delayed PR, or we get rid of one scum at the cost of a delayed PR. I can get behind that.In post 13, Circle Shape wrote:
the delayer power seems to be almost entirely pro-scumIn post 9, Color Green wrote:Is it better for us to let town or scum be unpaired? Discuss.
i dont see a town benefit in having it
ideally the unpaired player is the day 1 lim because otherwise youre breaking up a pair and taking a pr out of the game before it has a chance to be used
but ive seen how these games go
and you dont really have control over who pairs with who
if someone pairs with a scummy scumfuck who is obvious that doesnt mean you should lim them because of prs or whatever- Color Green
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If not used by the end of D1, it never gets used.In post 22, Color Orange wrote:I feel like I'd rather leave a town unpaired because even if delayer is anti-town, I'd rather have it in town's hands. I think a good strategy might be to never use it until 2 scum are dead?- Color Green
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Tell me how you really feel...In post 44, Arrow Shape wrote:I wanna kill green.- Color Green
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Might need a translation for this though...In post 49, Arrow Shape wrote:Koto warau?- Color Green
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Interesting takeaway, considering a) one partner's death doesn't kill the other partner in this game (not a lovers dance game), b) if you did have a vig shot, it would require your partner's consent, and your partner knows your true ability. But also, if you thought I was scum and we were partnered, wouldn't that basically just be the same as walking out to take down a scum dance partner? (which admittedly, walking out also isn't in this game)
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I think scum are more likely to be careful, though.In post 61, Arrow Shape wrote:Pretty sure reading is not exclusively a scum trait.- Color Green
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If arrow = vig then green could = loyal. Which would be an awful pairing.In post 58, Arrow Shape wrote:I did say I was probably a vig right?I'm sure that's how the roles were rolled.
I wish I could say it's as strong as a tunnel town read. But I'm ok with looking at other slots for now.Arrow Shape wrote:In post 62, Color Green wrote: If you must tunnel town read me, could you please do it in a corner.- Color Green
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I think I'm focused way too much on trying to figure out Blue and not enough on sorting the shapes. Refocusing as I type.
re:Blue - her entrance with the early reads made me think either Blue is way better than I am, or those reads are really premature. 116 suggests the latter. Her catch-up is largely a bunch of likes/dislikes with no context (for example, what does Blue see in 113 that I don't?). And the "way too early readlist" didn't feel too early, compared to their very early reads.
re:Shapes - I don't feel equal to the task of being the one to share a PT with Triangle's plaintext messages and trying to sort that slot. I can probably count on one hand the number of text messages I have sent in my life, so that's a tough gimmick for me to parse through. As for the rest, I'm a bit nervous about Star trying to go for the Delayer. And, like, if Star is scum, we really can't stop them from getting the delayer, right? If the Delay lands on something like a doc or a jailkeeper, it would be pretty difficult to prove that the delayer was holstered if we leave the unpaired slot alive. And also, Star hasn't really posted much except to talk about or defend that plan. I can support Purple+Heart. I think I would be ok with pairing with Diamond (or Circle, but I think someone more widely townread would make a better pair with Circle).- Color Green
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Your posts just kind of stick out, so as I'm trying to solve they just draw my attention? Like, they just seem weird to me coming from a town POV.In post 315, Color Blue wrote:
Mmm while I am somewhat flattered by the attention, why are you so interested in figuring me out ?In post 309, Color Green wrote:I think I'm focused way too much on trying to figure out Blue and not enough on sorting the shapes. Refocusing as I type.
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What does this even mean? Like, if you think it's artificial, why do you think they are being artificial, and why is that townie?In post 408, Arrow Shape wrote:I've caught up.Blue seems townie. They're a bit artificial, but I don't find it being used to much advantage other than being inoffensive to reduce scum reads/suspicion.
They don't feel like passive scum to me, due to some of their suggestions.- Color Green
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I have been sitting outside the fog of war, following along since the beginning.
Here are my reads prior to replacing in. (Obviously, this ignores my own role PM, but I was fairly confident it was a town slot)
Extremely Town:
Color Blue
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Circle Shape
Town:
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Triangle Shape
Color Orange
Arrow Shape
Pentagon Shape
Could Go Either Way:
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Diamond Shape
Star Shape
Please Deny Endgame:
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Kill As Soon As Able:
Color Red
I do believe all remaining unpaired folks are town, and that the delayer is going to be town as such. Damn the torpedo(s), we eliminate scum, not drag our heels at what could have been with all PR pairings being intact.
I explicitly chose not to replace into the red slot as I felt the posts that caused it to be replaced were extremely scum indicative, even in a vacuum of a general unnamed player.- Color Green
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Tell me more?In post 614, Diamond Shape wrote:Wait your reads are kind of cute though.- Color Green
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Yep!In post 622, Color Blue wrote:In post 611, Color Green wrote:I do believe all remaining unpaired folks are town, and that the delayer is going to be town as such. Damn the torpedo(s), we eliminate scum, not drag our heels at what could have been with all PR pairings being intact.
But you say Star/Diamond could go either way?
Gutread based upon game state. Scum paired off early, often, and soon to be dead.- Color Green
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Are you scumreading Triangle, then?In post 631, Star Shape wrote:I'd like to lim whoever is taken out.- Color Green
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(And this is why people should be declaring their scumreads NOW so that such consensus is unambiguous)In post 640, Star Shape wrote:It's going to be used for town benefit, town should have a say in how it's used.- Color Green
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Probably because there's a gap the size of the marinas trench between red and everyone above them!In post 650, Color Blue wrote:It's certainly very bold!
The sooner we pair up the sooner I can murder heart and then red!- Color Green
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In post 656, Arrow Shape wrote:
Nailed it.In post 652, Color Green wrote:
Probably because there's a gap the size of the marinas trench between red and everyone above them!In post 650, Color Blue wrote:It's certainly very bold!
The sooner we pair up the sooner I can murder heart and then red!
Well if you're trying to kill me via trajectory whiplash you're off to a good start?In post 658, Arrow Shape wrote:I wanna kill green real bad.- Color Green
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Mafia is a textual game but I'd still hardly qualify my response as awkward. Overeager perhaps. Or maybe even bloodthirsty.In post 661, Arrow Shape wrote:I was being sarcastic. Your response to Blue was awkward as heck.- Color Green
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It is not.In post 705, Color Purple wrote:
Is it 608 or am I wrong?In post 704, Color Green wrote:Reading is clearly too hard for some of you.
Everyone else
Literal ocean trench
Red
Smaller gap
Heart
I'm at least a little shocked nobody else sees the glaring perspective slip from heart....
Don't everyone post at once?- Color Green
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This then gets immediately dropped but...In post 573, Heart Shape wrote:I admit I didn't read every word but I didn't get much out of ORange v Pentagonother than the obvious they're not TvS.
A: How is that "obvious"
B: If you're ruling T-S out somehow, why not do partner analysis to sort between S-S/T-T?
It's a throwaway statement that shows a mindset of not actually caring, and I'm gonna bet that it's because they're T-T but subconsciously Heart avoided closing the door entirely with a committed read.- Color Green
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Also I lied I have a third scum read but only if red flips red.
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It should be noted that partnering with a scummy scumfuck still allows the you to essentially Roleblock the PR since both parties must agree to use the ability.In post 13, Circle Shape wrote:if someone pairs with a scummy scumfuck who is obvious that doesnt mean you should lim them because of prs or whatever
In regards to pairing, I want to be picky with my partner. As a modifier, I feel it's my right to be so since powers need me and not the other way around.In post 20, Color Yellow wrote:Ideally we would leave scum out of the pairs. Having a delayed PR is bad, but denying scum a PR is worth the tradeoff imo.In post 21, Color Yellow wrote:
Picking out midnight posting is very strange to me; we don't know anyone's schedules or timezones, so how would we even judge something like that? Why would it matter even if we could?In post 7, Color Purple wrote:And a question to all, what do you think of players who have unusual posting patterns? For example, posting near midnight, writing in an unorderly fashion, you name it.
"Town walk into a thread with fresh eyes, Scum walk into a thread having already talked amongst themselves" -something like that, Thor, a long time ago.
No quote-introduction-etc to red, but one to purple.- Color Green
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Are you going for the "I read the least actual posts this game" award, or?In post 754, Arrow Shape wrote:they're voting Heart and not Red right now
In post 704, Color Green wrote:Reading is clearly too hard for some of you.
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Arrow, you're treating pairings like a dance game. This is NOT a dance game, pairings in a vacuum mean nothing, as we don't know our own roles/modifiers in advance.
I know you're clearly not reading posts fully and processing them, but for the love of ~deity~ stop and think about how this changes things from a setup look.
Partnering just gives you a 1 on 1 sorting or snowing room if town or scum, alongside a "work together" role to do interesting things with.
You are so blind to the game state that you weren't able to see that the game was stagnating with the inability to form wagons while waiting for a few low-content slots to form up in pairs?- Color Green
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I still don't think willingly shoving his head into the obtuse sands time and time again while also admitting fault comes from scum, like, ever, though.In post 777, Star Shape wrote:Arrow feels rather stagnant, if you will?
His reads come across the same since the beginning of the game regarding green, pent, and orange. It doesn't feel like he's evolving that much throughout the game.- Color Green
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Please let heart answer the questions on their own, and stop trampling on the pressure and lines of questioning. You are literally harming the game state no matter heart's alignment here.In post 782, Color Purple wrote:
It makes sense.In post 779, Star Shape wrote:
I feel Heart is getting scumread based off playstyle n not content, if that makes senseIn post 580, Heart Shape wrote:
Take it any way you want. Doesn't make my thinking on this any less valid. I don't know how anyone can have anything but tentative positions until we actually know what's what. Right now people, including myself, are developing reads based on what exactly. We don't even really know what's going on yet.In post 579, Circle Shape wrote:
i did not ask you to locktown or lockscum anyoneIn post 577, Heart Shape wrote:
I don't have a whole lot yet. I think this preliminary stage isn't necessarily the best way to locktown or lockscum anyone.In post 575, Circle Shape wrote:what are your actual reads heart
the only opinions i can seem to find from you is that you think purple and arrow are town
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I swear to ~Deity~ if one me person asks about the fucking trajectory "issues" when my single focus since replacing in is to murder the shit out of Heart and Red.
Red-1's posting that was IMO manipulative being an alt-slip doesn't mean it was intended as one, so you take it as if it had been posted as red directly, and that was a tug at emotion, is the last line:
To me this reads as trying to make you (yes you, the person behind the screen) feel sorry for not liking their approach to the game.In post 150, Toogeloo wrote:The reason I thought Diamond TMI'd was because as far as I know, we don't know what our powers or modifiers are. So when he claimed that Mafia would have a Roleblock, I assumed he was talking about one of their powers and not the delay action (which isn't a Roleblock).
Shortly after, Pentagon states he didn't like Diamond, which is why I considered Pentagon a good spot to pair with.
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This is the hop off the bus btw~In post 819, Color Red wrote:I think the problem isn't really trajectory so much as you have very palpable reads that were supposedly made pre-getting your role and then you don't seem to be following them afterward. You are giving the impression you changed some of your reads before your first post.
Wonder why that could be?
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A very strange look indeed.In post 907, Color Blue wrote:Is a very strange look.- Color Green
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How many times do I have to re-iterate that I entered the game hating heart and red, and STILL hate heart and red, will it take to make people stop stating they know my mentality better than I do?
Like Talokfuckingchrist, Pentagon is here asking questions LITERALLY answered in my ISO. Why is it shocking that I can have two scumreads, and a wagon is already joined and viable on one of them so I vote it AND for bonus it's more than my scumread on red was.
(Although Blue nailed it, we're in "chainsaw cross-attack Green" territory from two scum here)- Color Green
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Answering this in specific detail would be practically main-claiming, but please chalk it up to you misreading my phrasing. "Never make endgame" to me means "murder it and if people won't let me murder it, at least have them agree to not let it to endgame"In post 948, Color Orange wrote:
Did you ever respond to this, Green?In post 893, Color Orange wrote:The way you expressed your desire to murder Heart initially doesn't make sense to me. Calling for someone to "never make endgame" seems more like you find them not towny but also not a pressing elimination.- Color Green
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If only I had been stating that time and time again in my posts, to the point of getting quite irate about it.In post 950, Color Purple wrote:misinterpreting you this whole time
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Meh?In post 1019, Pentagon Shape wrote:
What do you think of Star’s wanting to lim you?In post 1010, Color Green wrote:We're at the "pasta" stage of the Heart elimination, folks.
Aka "throw shit to the wall and hope it sticks"
Hence why past-heart and current-heart disagree so visibly about nolim.
I think Star is suffering openly from apathy and just kind of going with feel instead of reading the thread logically. If that was outright scum indicative, I'd be dead a lot more often.- Color Green
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Yes. But only if you still feel it's needed after you've fully read the thread.In post 1043, Color Yellow wrote:Green can you make a succinct post on why Heart is scum?- Color Green
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