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I really like the posts you return, perhaps you want to switch over to the nice guy again?
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What does this even mean?I really like the posts you return, perhaps you want to switch over to the nice guy again?
Nice quick edit.Another thing, even though your vote isn't on me, you know you cannot vote me, because i am against you at this point AND YOURSELF will look scum.
even your first post was
"if you cross You're scum."
so why haven't you, i have voted you, have i not, afraid to cross, chum?
Jeez.Or maybe I am not voting you because I am not convinced you're scum yet. In fact, as I said before, i had a town read on you.
I don't think it's fair to say I've "focused" on JTB at all. I've been looking at RFiction's interaction with him as a base from which to attack RFiction.Both Vult and Hydra have focused on JTB from now on, just for something silly as a misread, and now we have all took out attention off of kuz/seik.
By voting no lynch, we are unable to get reactions from people we are voting, so it's pretty difficult to get reads if no one is being pressured.
Vote Soupamario
Since you just mentioned it: You play Epic Mafia? Thanks for telling us because I used to play myself and I know that No Lynching on Day 1 is standard but [etc. etc.]
It just seems really wrong in a lot of ways.unvote
Soupamario, you posted that you play Epic Mafia while I was making my post, so I hadn't seen it when I posted. I hope you can see why I jumped on you.
I find it hard to imagine Town players saying this.......
did you just claim scum?
I elaborated on my mistake because that's just the kind of person I am. I didn't know it was a mistake that anyone could've made since I am a new player, so I didn't see anyone reason not to explain my actions.One is the reason RFiction brought up: that it's unusually and unnecessarily defensive. He didn't need to elaborate on his mistake because it was a mistake that anyone would have made had they not known your history. It's a situation where as a Town-aligned player you could have assumed that the other person would empathize with the error. But JTB covers his bases preemptively, as if he's expecting Soup to attack him, which I think is a scum-tell that is especially accurate for newer players (thought process: "I have to be ready to defend myself when the Townies come after me").
Let me tell you what happened in page 2, to clear things up.Another thing is that he credits the correction of his error to the fact that Soup mentioned Epic Mafia -- I think that, to the average person, this means nothing. Gheb just happened to know that environment and be able to explain the norms of that site. The fact that he overlooked Gheb's explanation (which was necessary to understand why Epic Mafia was relevant) to say "Oh! Oops! You're from Epic Mafia! My bad!" to cover his mistake when he didn't know why Epic Mafia's norms related to his accusation being null.
I didn't see it as necessary to keep my vote on him, so I took it off. In my eyes, I saw voting someone as a means to apply pressure, so perhaps I was careless with my first few posts and a vote wasn't necessary to understand why he voted NL.ANOTHER thing is that his accusation could very well stand without the Epic Mafia revelation in the first place. It IS true that voting No Lynch inhibits gaining reactions from specific players, regardless of player history. Not many people would have given him a hard time if he'd left his vote where it was, but he was all too ready to take it off the second it looked like the base for the vote might crack.
Gheb was not suggesting that I check out his Epic Mafia background, did you read his whole post?One last issue I have is that it looks like his 70 was a reaction to Gheb's comment in #58, where Gheb criticizes him for eagerly jumping on his No Lynch suggestion without examining his Epic Mafia background... which is entirely too much for Gheb to ask of someone (I'm certainly not going to go investigate some site's norms in order to maybe get a read on one player). But JTB doesn't bring that up to Gheb and it looks like he'd rather turn around, unvote, and apologize rather than face an argumentative exchange with the game's "leader". Avoiding conflict.
He made this posted based on the assumption that I had seen Soupamario's post in which he stated he had a background in Epic Mafia. Once again, just because I didn't credit Gheb with drawing attention to the post I missed doesn't mean I completely ignored his post.Familiarize yourself with the background of players before making sweeping statements. Soupamario has clearly mentioned that his mafia experience is based on Epic Mafia, where no lynching on Day 1 is not uncommon. A bandwagon on Day 1 is fine but you're ought to provide better reasoning than that.
I've linked you to a post where I openly call Soup a townie based on his well explained null-read on me. That was post 63, which I specifically linked you to read up. There is no excuse for you missing it this time. You only continue my point that you've been skimming, now even more so than before.So you acknowledge that you only have one stance thus far? Why null on Gheb, if I got anything out of the first few pages, it was that you had a town read on him.
He points out that certain fact, and now it seems he is gonna keep close tabs on him, yet..he is quite silent, and posts rarely, usually pr's stay low as possible.
I know it only was a small exchange but can we please avoid discussion like this? I remember calling out JTB earlier for speculating about roles based on Radical's "restriction" and now you continue to do it anyway. We don't want to give hints on who could have which PR, when the mafia can obtain this information as well.Not always. A townie with little connections going into the Night gets killed just as much as the one that is extremely vocal about his opinions.
I think "really good" is definitely an exaggeration. At that time it was probably the strongest tell we've had but it doesn't bother me nearly as much as DatHydra's play. I'm not going to hastily judge a new player based on two posts in RVS let alone try to find viable *connections* to other players already. I think it's pretty clear that JTB is trying to find a way into the game at the moment and has yet to realize a bunch of things about mafia - if he is scum it'll most likely become clear sooner or later so I'm not too worried about him at the moment.Does anyone else feel like Radical Fiction latched onto something really good with JTB [see posts 70 and 84], but wasn't thorough with his attack at all and dropped it really quickly to jump on DatHydra without any sort of explanation (earlier in the game he was consistent with giving his stances though humor/pictures).
Same request to you - please explain how Radical is a better vote than JTB from your point of view. You even went out of your way to make a bigger post on how you think JTB's behavior is suspicious but leave your vote on Radical anyway. You take a somewhat strange approach to this issue and I consider it a possible contradiction unless you explain why your vote is not where your mouth is.It is easy to assume that I'm new and that I think that Gheb is Town because he can IC well and criticize that, isn't it?
Could you explain why DatHydra is a better vote than JTB?
Vote: Radical Fiction
As pointed out above, I don't think JTB is particularly suspect at the moment. His play at the beginning of toDay could be newbie scum or newbie town; I really can't tell. I'm not going to be that lenient with him all game but for the moment I'd rather give him an opportunity to find a way into the game than to already holding common newbie tells against him.@Asdioh, Tandora, Gheb - thoughts on JTB
Justifying your actions is OK but also only a small part of playing mafia. The other is finding scum and convincing the town that your reads are correct. You've told us so far which actions you chose for what reasons but I think it's time to go a step ahead and get your impressions of other players now.I called you out because I thought it was odd that you voted no lynch. The point of me voting you was to find out why and you gave an answer that satisfied me, so I unvoted. I felt like it was too early to take a strong stance on someone, especially with very little information to go off of.
Just because I didn't "directly" state it doesn't mean it's not obvious. If I say "I think a scumbag would've done the opposite of what you did" then there's literally no other conclusion than that I do *not* think of him as a scumbag. I expect everybody to have that much common sense to grasp this. There's absolutely no ambiguity or room for misinterpretation in this sentence. Just getting this out of the way.The main reason for Gheb's push was for Kuz skimming. I personally (Roxy PoV) don't see how Kuz's first question was vocally explained, considering the main basis of your conversation was with Soupamario, it seems a great deal of your views are indirect, and clarification would need to be made in them; Post 63 especially. You say this is something that mafia would do, and Soupamario didn't do it, so indirectly this is a town tell in your eyes correct; you never directly said this, and it's easy to see how Kuz could've missed this.
Are you even aware of how scummy you are? Not only do you commit to lynch a player you openly state to not have a scum read on but you also use some extremely weak justification.Soupamario bugs us, no offence, but it's clear to us that he is not a player we would want end game. He has a a lot of habits that are common with Epic Mafia players. No lynching day is the most common, but other ones are being easily moved and lead by calm players (gheb), and strongly disgusted by pushy players (kuz). Unless someone really pushes up red flags, we feel that at this time he is the play.
vote: Soupamario
Our read on him is null, considering he could be playing noob town, scum acting as noob town, etc. However in the end he will be a detriment.
I'd like you to answer the questions I asked JTB earlier as well. This post shows partly strong partly timid judgment. If you agree with RoxPSI I'd like to know which parts and why.Ok, I didn't expect it to happen, but I really agree with RoxPSI on most points. If he (they) keeps playing like this I'm going to like him a lot more than his performance in other games.
The only thing I don't like is trying to make him the play so early. The reason I don't like it is because we have what, 3 players that haven't posted yet? I don't want them to come in late and see a bandwagon well underway and be able to join it without having to give their own opinions so that we can get reads on them.
Hi, I live in Europe and I wrote most of my posts way past midnight. Going to sleep and lurking are two very, very different things. If you actually think I'm lurking I suggest you're going to read through the thread again and re-evaluate your opinion on that.Gheb has no longer said anything and i feel he is playing the lurking card now himself because he knows he has pointed me at you, yet i am hesistant to fire.
Gheb just happened to know that environment and be able to explain the norms of that site. The fact that he overlooked Gheb's explanation (which was necessary to understand why Epic Mafia was relevant) to say "Oh! Oops! You're from Epic Mafia! My bad!" to cover his mistake when he didn't know why Epic Mafia's norms related to his accusation being null.
It seems as if you like mentioning my name a lot and I'd prefer if you wouldn't. I am my own person and I'd rather be the one talking my mind instead of you. Especially when the words you put in my mouth aren't the one's I would use.One last issue I have is that it looks like his 70 was a reaction to Gheb's comment in #58, where Gheb criticizes him for eagerly jumping on his No Lynch suggestion without examining his Epic Mafia background... which is entirely too much for Gheb to ask of someone (I'm certainly not going to go investigate some site's norms in order to maybe get a read on one player). But JTB doesn't bring that up to Gheb and it looks like he'd rather turn around, unvote, and apologize rather than face an argumentative exchange with the game's "leader". Avoiding conflict.
These have all been hilarious, but I still have to wonder what's up with this. A posting restriction? Or trying to avoid deep discussion by convincing the rest of us you have a posting restriction?
Was the quote I was referencing from Soup something a town player would say? What is soup's alignment?Vult said:I find it hard to imagine Town players saying this.
I let my hydra partner craft the first few posts of this game, and I tried to let him do as much of it as possible. However, I did not appreciate the flack dealt to him for mostly wrong reasoning and the abrasive language used by Soup so I stepped in to play hardball. The type of experience bullying Soup is saying I am now doing to him was exactly the same thing he was doing to my partner during early game, and that's why I came in a little strong.Hida said:Also, it seems to me that DatHydra is pounding on Soupamario pretty hard, even after accepting that he has solid (if newbie) reasons for making his posts. Is it an attempt to teach a new forum mafia player through hardship, or is it tunneling without voting? I could see "I'm not voting you and I think you might be town... but here are all these reasons why you're playing badly and anyone else should think you're hiding something" go either way.
WOAH, YOU SKIMMIN BRAH?!?!?!?!?I've linked you to a post where I openly call Soup a townie based on his well explained null-read on me. That was post 63, which I specifically linked you to read up. There is no excuse for you missing it this time. You only continue my point that you've been skimming, now even more so than before.
I'm fine with where my vote is at the moment.
Oh really. Earlier this game (before your quote) Soup made an inference that Ryker had a PR because he was playing fairly quiet. Why did you not call him out for this sentiment? Instead, you chastised me for saying there was no content despite Soup taking lots of stances. Apparently this type of speculation is a stance when Soup says it, but its dumb conversation when I bring it up.I know it only was a small exchange but can we please avoid discussion like this? I remember calling out JTB earlier for speculating about roles based on Radical's "restriction" and now you continue to do it anyway. We don't want to give hints on who could have which PR, when the mafia can obtain this information as well.
Things like that make me think it was for the better to play IC.
Fair enough. Thoughts on Radical?As pointed out above, I don't think JTB is particularly suspect at the moment. His play at the beginning of toDay could be newbie scum or newbie town; I really can't tell. I'm not going to be that lenient with him all game but for the moment I'd rather give him an opportunity to find a way into the game than to already holding common newbie tells against him.
Agreed. Specially that part about him not finding Soup scummy, but still vehemently supporting his lynch. Regardless, you seem to have a pretty good list of valid reasoning for voting RoxPSI, yet your vote continues to remain on me. Am I still scummier than RoxyPSI, despite all that reasoning?Gheb said:FoS RoxPSI
Gheb you seem like a leader, or perhaps just a fairly nice person in general, i cannot simply put it into my mind that you are offically town, and i would like to test you thus i have voted you.
or perhaps just a fairly nice person in general
Just a note Gheb, I've played in about 4 or 5 games now. I won't be playing the noob card.
I will note that I disagree that a long case is inherently bad though, same with occasionally holding off on pointing out posts you take issue with. A scum member who believes they are doing well is more likely to slip up, and give us more reliable reads based off their posts with other players (well, less WIFOM at least).
Asdioh, this is your first game outside the DR if I'm not mistaken. How does the change in scenery and players make you feel? What changes are you going to make?
Nice rebuttal Gheb, i like you, you make valid points to all of my assertions.
sounds more like a cover-up to your folly, but people have their ways of outting scum.
Yes, because less posting = no posting at all.
Wonderful deduction skills.
Tell me Soup, what have you discerned from your questioning? You like Gheb. Is he town? I am apparently playing the big bad villain. Am I scum?
He points out that certain fact, and now it seems he is gonna keep close tabs on him, yet..he is quite silent, and posts rarely, usually pr's stay low as possible.
Soupa, you really need to stop editing your posts, even if you make an error in them. Just correct yourself in your next post or else you are going to get punished by the mod.
Barely skimmed jack s***. But hey. That's why I'm a hydra, right?
I don't care what alignment Swiker is. He's staying in the game cuz he makes me lol with his little pics. Def Moriarty status.
I'll read tomorrow and come up with something that'll make you go woah look at dat mang he's so town I just want em till the end.
Yea. I'm bored. Sue me.
Oh, and I was gonna say something along the lines of on my d***, but I remembered that my hydra has a d*** and a p****... So.
Oh, and nice censor dodge Radial. Contacting Sold2 as I type.
You thought this post would have something useful? You were wrong.
Till tomorrow, good fellas. Good night.
no in my head it was "i see Gheb's points, and i don't like the way he posted, i'm going to vote him."
and then i was like
"but this could bite me in the ***..."
"i need to be careful, if i were to bw mafia can just call me scum on it by saying i was quick to bw.."
"i feel strong about this though, and i'm going with it."
Yeah.
Oh god, don't get touchy with me. My vote is not even on you are at L-5, don't start using the "I am unexperienced, you are bullying me" card already.
I am fairly certain that kuz was just messing around with Roxy, lol
Swiss, you should really stop trying to be funny. First of all you're quite the opposite of it and second you're really fluffing up the input which I assume is coming from Ryker. It's easy for an inexperienced player to miss some of his points if he skips Radical's posts out of annoyance.
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No need to overreact or ridicule thing. You're not even waiting for a response and are already discrediting my case?WOAH, YOU SKIMMIN BRAH?!?!?!?!?
And once again, you're not reading things right. It's really silly how I have to show you everything step by step but I gladly repeat myself when I say that you continue to prove my point. Let me show you how:The question this quote responded to was directed at Soup asking why he had a null read on you, Gheb, not asking you about your read on Soup. "You only continue my point that you've been skimming blah blah blah."
Maybe if I mark important things in glaring red you will see them? Yes, it explains my townie read on Soup but it also shows where the root of the answer to your question lies. I mean you directly ask about his null read one me but when I proceed to show you you're missing it?Me said:I've linked you to a post where I openly call Soup a townie based on his well explained null-read on me. That was post 63, which I specifically linked you to read up. There is no excuse for you missing it this time. You only continue my point that you've been skimming, now even more so than before.
In case you missed it [wouldn't be a surprise anywayOh really. Earlier this game (before your quote) Soup made an inference that Ryker had a PR because he was playing fairly quiet. Why did you not call him out for this sentiment? Instead, you chastised me for saying there was no content despite Soup taking lots of stances. Apparently this type of speculation is a stance when Soup says it, but its dumb conversation when I bring it up.
Don't get me wrong. I agree its dumb conversation but you seem to be specifically highlighting my faults when others are doing the same.
How about this: Read through everything *carefully* and then summarize the impressions you have on what I think of Radical. Maybe you will pick up the things you've missed that wayFair enough. Thoughts on Radical?
Obviously, you are. Otherwise my vote wouldn't be at you right now.Agreed. Specially that part about him not finding Soup scummy, but still vehemently supporting his lynch. Regardless, you seem to have a pretty good list of valid reasoning for voting RoxPSI, yet your vote continues to remain on me. Am I still scummier than RoxyPSI, despite all that reasoning?
Obvious, fake overreaction is obvious.No need to overreact or ridicule thing. You're not even waiting for a response and are already discrediting my case?
Granted, I misread your quote. Apologies etc. Still, this is the post where soup called you null.And once again, you're not reading things right. It's really silly how I have to show you everything step by step but I gladly repeat myself when I say that you continue to prove my point. Let me show you how:
Maybe if I mark important things in glaring red you will see them? Yes, it explains my townie read on Soup but it also shows where the root of the answer to your question lies. I mean you directly ask about his null read one me but when I proceed to show you you're missing it?
You're making yourself look silly now with your overreactions. I mean REALLY? @ first quote? You either didn't even understand / read my explanation or you misconstrued it on purpose. You have no business playing the "no u" card in that situation.
This was post 62. From that point on he made several posts saying he liked you and that he thought your rebuttals were nice, hinting that he had gotten a further town read on you. His view of your alignment could obviously have changed since then, and don't even try to tell me that i should have just accepted that as a static null read. Furthermore, the post about one stance was directed at Soup, not you, so I don't see why you feel the need to step in and tell me that Soup has a null read on you. Let him answer his own questions.Gheb you seem like a leader, or perhaps just a fairly nice person in general, i cannot simply put it into my mind that you are offically town, and i would like to test you thus i have voted you.
No. You havn't. Here was the post I was talking about.In case you missed it [wouldn't be a surprise anyway] I've quoted precisely the one post of Soup you mentioned right above yours. The last paragraph in that quote is almost comical because you complain about me doing something when I actually did exactly what you wanted me to do.
and this received no chastisement from you.Soup said:i think (and it's just a theory) that Radical is an important role, limited to his imagination for challenge.
Now, when he brings up the same post again later and I comment on it, it is not fair game.Gheb said:There was plenty of content to comment on, otherwise there would've no way for soup to even give us that many stances
You think that Radical is getting his points off clear enough, despite the pictures. However, you think it could be a detriment to inexperienced players who choose to skip over his posts. Thoughts on his alignment.How about this: Read through everything *carefully* and then summarize the impressions you have on what I think of Radical. Maybe you will pick up the things you've missed that way
I never said I agreed with all your points, mostly the one about voting Soup despite thinking he is town, and just wanting to get him gone because of him being a detriment in lylo.Obviously, you are. Otherwise my vote wouldn't be at you right now.
And if you think my reasoning is so valid why aren't *you* voting him?
FMPOV, Radical has had interaction with most of the players, posting those rage comics of his/hers.I don't think it's fair to say I've "focused" on JTB at all. I've been looking at RFiction's interaction with him as a base from which to attack RFiction.
Also the thing about JTB isn't "something silly as a misread". Look at the exchange more closely:
It's a good point, but these are all "What Ifs."It just seems really wrong in a lot of ways.
One is the reason RFiction brought up: that it's unusually and unnecessarily defensive. He didn't need to elaborate on his mistake because it was a mistake that anyone would have made had they not known your history. It's a situation where as a Town-aligned player you could have assumed that the other person would empathize with the error. But JTB covers his bases preemptively, as if he's expecting Soup to attack him, which I think is a scum-tell that is especially accurate for newer players (thought process: "I have to be ready to defend myself when the Townies come after me").
I find it hard to imagine Town players saying this.DatHydra said:did you just claim scum?