I am about halfway through my promised re-read, expect my post by the end of the night. Sorry again I had to delay it
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I think that Frozenflame is pushing waaaay too hard on this Xonar lynch. All he did was bring up some options, and I don't see what's really scummy about that. Maybe if someone could explain the apparentely scummy things he did lately.
better yet maybe you can reread and 1) see frozen explain the scummy things youre curious about and 2) pick up on my breadcrumbsAlso not liking Marshy. All he's doing is parroting and following around people.
Wouldn't oppose it.hey chaco. down to go scumnar?
Are you honestly telling me that seeing Macman and Cacti talking about their willingness to switch to Scumfever was enough to stop you when your two towniest reads were full-blown VOTING him? Barring the last link, which is Macman actually voting for Scumfever, none of those posts mean squat. Even if you did think Cacti and Macman were most likely to be scum, why would their claims of being willing to lynch Scumfever while specifically avoiding doing so make you hesitant about lynching Scumfever? Why would that make Scumfever less likely to be scum in your eyes?Nice job tunneling on just the vote count, and not actually reading the thread.
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=9102506&postcount=470
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=9092069&postcount=444
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=9096749&postcount=459
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=9102604&postcount=471
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=9103567&postcount=476
FIVE instances of Macman and Cacti openly expressing their contentedness with lynching Scumfever. I never changed my mind about anything. When I said too many people I'm getting not-so-town reads on wanted to lynch scumfever, I meant it. Just because people i happened to think were pro-town ALSO wanted to lynch him is irrelevant. Macman and Cacti were two of my top 3 suspects at the time, and as such, seeing them BOTH willing to lynch scumfever made me uneasy.
I'm simply saying that you are being far too persistent about Chaco being cleared cop. Despite your claimed open-mindedness, you are not considering the option that Chaco could be scum at all. You have cleared him already; that much is apparent. The connections between Chaco and Scumfever are there, but you ignore them, contending that Chaco's claim is too likely to be false. You are allowing a mafia game precedent to outweigh interpersonal relationships. This is specifically troubling because Chaco's claim will not be able to be verified unless he dies or we lynch a roleblocker that might not even exist. If we assume Chaco's claim to be true now, he could skate to the end of the game without us ever being the wiser. This is not the kind of situation you brush off with "scum wouldn't gambit like that; move on." And the fact that your current top suspects are the two people who simply disagree with you most strongly is quite telling, whether you like it or not. It seems to be very important to you that everyone should agree that Chaco is truly what he claims to be.Where the hell did this come from? Are you seriously trying to contend that there is a solid enough connection in place bewteen Chaco and someone else that suggests that he's mafia falseclaiming cop in a game with no cops? Unless you can provide me with that solid of a case, you trying to contend that I'm prioritizing flavor over relationship analysis (which is BS anyway, since this has NOTHING to do with flavor, but rather, a VERY REAL A PRESENT CLAIM and reasonable speculation as to the game's setup) is complete and total crock.
Or you don't have an adequate rebuttal. How is an audience to know which is the case? You either back yourself up or you concede; flippant responses like that do not win arguments. And remember, I'm not the only person you're talking to.I say "what a joke" because it should be very obvious why the points are ridiculous.
Allow me to rephrase then, since your interpretation of my statement is not at all what I meant.You're suggesting that the existence of MULTIPLE COPS in a game is a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER. Where in the world did you get that from?! That isn't a clear and present danger at all! There's nothing that even remotely suggests that we might have multiple cops. In fact, everything we have in front of us suggests otherwise!
I'm not aware that I've played any past games with you...You specifically said that I always reek of scum to you. That heavily implies past games.
Looking at Xonar as I have today, this post stood out more to me. This came very early in the game referring to Gheb's posting restriction, and seemed very much like early rolefishing.I think everyone knew that by now. We can safely assume he has some kind of role to make up for it too! Like being able to do more RAWRs or something
We should chill down with quick lynch, no need to kill Blue_Yoshi yet, if we kill to fast we might miss out on evidence that would lead to a mafia lynch d1 (although I honestly doubt it)
As I re-read, Chibo stood out to me at points as well, especially during D1, this being one of the bigger ones. Discussion of a posting restriction doesn't help us scumhunt at all, and he seems to be shocked that someone would suggest scumhunting instead of talking about a restriction, a discussion which in no way leads us to finding scum.and why shouldnt we speculate on ur posting restriction? yes we have to scumhunt but we should also make an effort to find out everything about the game. a posting restriction is sorta a big thing, and certainly a topic of disucssion imo.
the fact that you're trying to dismiss this focus on you and tell us to scumhunt instead is a huge blip on my radar.
Definitely didn't like this post by Xonar either, he essentially writes off his pseudo-rolefishing saying it was due to... Annoyance over font size? Not sure how that would lead to making it reasonable to fish for roles. The second paragraph just looks bad to me, although some of my thoughts on him may be tainted from my thoughts from today causing me to tunnel a bit.Yeah man, trying to make you not focus on us is done by me commenting about something obvious and un-ignore able done by him. It was gonna get commented on anyway sooner or later. I just stated my thoughts. I still think he's kinda avoiding it but explaining it could put him out in the open for the mafia.
and my comment about multiple RAWRs was just an overstatement because of the irritation caused by the small font (which is why its followed by a laughing smiley), we all know multiRAWRing is overpowered when combined with mafia.
I'll try to stop RAWRing so vague
This is him responding to Cacti telling him to stop talking about the doublevoter. Once again I find Xonar(on this one definitely, somewhat about Gheb's restriction) pushing discussion on a topic which can in no way lead to finding scum, and only waste towns time.Ok, it just seemed I was highest.
Why stop talking about it? It's an active part of the game. The first time it could've also been a passive effect in your role. People can easily skim over it. It's not NEGATIVE for town to point it out, it can only be POSITIVE. Stop complaining.
This post just confuses me. Starts out saying that we can lynch Chibo if we haven't found any scum, because he's anti-town, not scum. First of all not sure how that distinction was made, second of all it seems to be based on responses to Macman's 269, which in no way implied Chibo as anti-town, in fact said that Macman thought he was just playing stupid.We can always keep Chibo in the back of our heads when we need to lynch and we haven't unraveled any scum yet. Anti-town deserves a lynch only after scum.
For now let's focus on the inactive people as I'm sure they are rational human beings too, they must have some sort of view/opinion on the whole situation :D No RAWRs from me atm
Post from Gheb that pretty much summed up everything I was thinking as I re-read D1 when it comes to Xonar. Not to mention, some of this(introducing/pushing discussion that has no solid basis) has continued into today. Just really thought Gheb hit the nail on the head here.im starting to get you as scummy. youd always say things like 'youre scummy because you post in a scum way' but you never substantiate these claims and you never explain where and why the person you mention is posting 'in a scum way'. as long as you fail to do so *you* are the one whos posting in a scum way because you introduce discussion that leads nowhere and has no solid basis. thats the conformist approach of a scumbag who is pseudo scumhunting to look credible.
additionally you are awfully defensive. when you have been asked questions you dont seem to like you were acusing the person asking of trying to make you look like a black sheep. by saying this you not only avoid the actual question but also seem to avoid legitimate discussion - which you have done quite a lot thus far. depending on toDays flip youll probably rise on my scumlist.
While in the middle of analysis, he has quoted, I believe, almost every post of Tiger's. Then all the sudden he drops in "skip a few normal posts" referring to posts which apparently he couldn't find anything suspicious with. It makes his case look stronger if you aren't reading carefully, and more importantly makes it seem like he's actively trying to find scumminess in Tiger's posts, not trying to form a complete opinion. Considering Tiger was one of the top contests for Scumfever's lynch yesterday, and this was made as the deadline was approaching, it seems almost as if he was trying to put Tiger in the worst light possible, potentially to lower chances of Scumfever getting lynched.Skip a few normal posts:
I really don't like this defense. I don't think of Blue as being very scummy, but I also feel that this post was terrible. He is openly stating that instead of thinking for himself, he wanted someone to decide for him, and when no one would he felt he would make a 3 way tie in the votes presumably to force someone to decide for him.To answer Chibo's question:
I was constantly asking what the plan was, and no one was answering. From what I read, my order for more suspiscious people went Tiger/Scum tie, then Macman (of the three with the most votes). I wasn't sure who to vote for exactly, and actually completely mis-counted Scum's vote (one person I thought voted for him actually voted for Xiivi), and completely forgot the double-voter. I had assumed there was still 40 minutes left of voting (got my timezones wrong), so I decided to vote for Tiger, point out that they were all tied, and hope that people discuss at the last minute for who they believe is most likely scum... but no one posted until smashman did.
So basically, in short, I thought there was still 40 minutes left for voting, and I wanted people to discuss in that time who they believed was more like scum (and scumfever/tiger were the two I considered most scum). So that is why I tried to make it a tie... last minute discussion. If you check my posts before as well, I ask (I believe three times in the last 3 hours of voting) who we are lynching.
This piece of Frozen's post really, really sounds stupid to me. He sounds like he's trying to make Marshy suspect over the worst point ever. Especially the bolded(emphasis mine). If he was bussing the GF day 1, he would obviously know about the roleblocker because only scum can bus other scum. I'd really like this explained by FF, because this reminds me of some of the things I've seen him do to discredit as scum. So, FF, why is it suspicious that he would say such a thing when talking about BUSSING(which means he is mafia, and therefore WOULD know those facts in the hypothetical that was presented at the time), especially considering by the time these posts were referred to Chaco had already claimed role-blocked so even town would see it as likely?I I don't see the logic in this. Why would you immediately bus your GF after a cop claim? Why would you want to bus your ace in the hole against cops when you've got a confirmed cop out in the open (who will likely draw the doc if one exists, thus preventing you from killing him)? Unless you are privvy to information the town wouldn't necessarily know until AFTER N1 (i.e. that a maf. roleblocker exists), bussing your GF is NOT a prudent move. If you can keep the cop locked down it is, but otherwise, bad idea. So what's the deal with this then? I'd like to believe you're beyond making a dumb slip up like suggesting you knew about the maf. roleblocker before Day 1, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
I don't get you guys pushing a lynch based on me presenting a possibility :/
This is a lot like what Gheb mentioned in his post I quoted above. Talking about how people are presenting you in a negative light and how you "don't get it" when the reason isn't presenting the possibility, but your incessant pushing of it instead of saying "well, just keep it in mind and let's look around."Meh let me rephrase that:
I don't get why you people put me in a negative light for presenting a possibility.
A little something that bugs me about this post: He calls out Chaco for calling out people other than scumfever who was "staring us right in the face from the beginning," yet then continues to say that we couldn't act on it because he was V/LA and neglecting the fact that Circus predominately ignored Scumfever as well. Seems like he's casting suspicion on someone for something that he both gives a reason for it to not be nearly as suspicious, and something in which he was as bad or worse than the person he's calling out. Not to mention the fact that Scumfever wasn't "staring us right in the face" because if he was, I'm pretty sure there would have been more than four votes to his lynch.Scum wasn't openly buddying you. He was very subtly defending you. And that alone is not why I find you scummy; it is compounded by the fact that you've been dumbhunting this whole game by calling out people like Blue Yoshi and Chibo when Scumfever was staring us right in the face from the beginning. We just couldn't act on it immediately because he was V/LA for a while and other suspects got picked up. You picked Blue Yoshi as a suspect based on nulltells that you and Scum agreed upon would be good to try and exploit to the town. That's the only way I could see you two voting him.
Agree with this pretty much.rawr: xonar
yea you can die, not liking any of your recent posts.
Still think circus v chaco is TvS.
so i'm still looking at circus for scum too. Esp if xonar flips scum.
Cacti, this has been explained several times, it's not the fact that he "presented the possibility" it's that he felt the need to constantly push the idea instead of presenting it and leaving it be. Hopefully added to my post and the stuff I brought up that I now noticed, you can see where people would be suspicious of him.I think that Frozenflame is pushing waaaay too hard on this Xonar lynch. All he did was bring up some options, and I don't see what's really scummy about that. Maybe if someone could explain the apparentely scummy things he did lately. Circus' case on FF has merit though, and he's just seemingly dismissing the case away.
Also not liking Marshy. All he's doing is parroting and following around people.
Are you honestly telling me that not being cautious who OPENLY STATED THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SWITCH THEIR VOTE IF THE OTHER WAGONS WEREN'T MOVING IN A NEAR DEADLINE SITUATION was an unreasonable thing to do? Really dude? Also, who are you to tell me what I should and should not be comfortable doing? Furthermore, of course I weigh the opinions of those I think who are scum more than those who I think are town. Town players can be mistaken and often are. Scum players KNOW who is town and who isn't, and therefore, are often much more deliberate with their votes. You can learn a LOT more from a confirmed scum than you can from a confirmed townie. Obviously, if two scummy players are willing to lynch someone in the early game, that person is MUCH more likely to be town than in the late game. Bussing someone day one is really, really dumb IMO. It's the easiest day to cause a mislynch and it's tough to build cases from the material that usually does get discussed. So yeah, obviously if I thought Macman and Cacti were scum, I would be VERY hesitant to lynch who they were ok lynching. How does that not make sense to you?Are you honestly telling me that seeing Macman and Cacti talking about their willingness to switch to Scumfever was enough to stop you when your two towniest reads were full-blown VOTING him? Barring the last link, which is Macman actually voting for Scumfever, none of those posts mean squat. Even if you did think Cacti and Macman were most likely to be scum, why would their claims of being willing to lynch Scumfever while specifically avoiding doing so make you hesitant about lynching Scumfever? Why would that make Scumfever less likely to be scum in your eyes?
I never said Chaco was 100% clear. Never said that once. And how do you know I'm not considering him as potential scum at all? Nothing I've posted suggests that I've ruled it out entirely. My entire point was that we shouldn't be constantly reconsidering his status and bringing it in to question over and over again. Right now, we should accept his claim and play with the POSSIBILITY IT MIGHT NOT TRUE IN MIND, but not as a major focus of discussion. Obviously, if Chaco remains constantly roleblocked into late game, isn't being productive, and other things don't match up, then his legitimacy would come into question. Better yet, we get the alleged mafia roleblocker killed and force chaco to produce to verify the claim. Point is, I'm not saying his claim CAN'T be wrong, I'm saying that right now, there's absolutely no reason to be over scrutinizing it and muddling other productive discussion by constantly questioning what should be easily accept atm.I'm simply saying that you are being far too persistent about Chaco being cleared cop. Despite your claimed open-mindedness, you are not considering the option that Chaco could be scum at all. You have cleared him already; that much is apparent. The connections between Chaco and Scumfever are there, but you ignore them, contending that Chaco's claim is too likely to be false. You are allowing a mafia game precedent to outweigh interpersonal relationships. This is specifically troubling because Chaco's claim will not be able to be verified unless he dies or we lynch a roleblocker that might not even exist. If we assume Chaco's claim to be true now, he could skate to the end of the game without us ever being the wiser. This is not the kind of situation you brush off with "scum wouldn't gambit like that; move on." And the fact that your current top suspects are the two people who simply disagree with you most strongly is quite telling, whether you like it or not. It seems to be very important to you that everyone should agree that Chaco is truly what he claims to be.
If it's NOT obvious to people, they can simply ask for elaboration. If it's not obvious to you, ask for elaboration. I can easily provide it. Are you seriously trying to accuse me of dodging questions when I've answered everything you've posed thus far?Or you don't have an adequate rebuttal. How is an audience to know which is the case? You either back yourself up or you concede; flippant responses like that do not win arguments. And remember, I'm not the only person you're talking to.
Where are you getting your statistics from? How many large games have you been in with multiple cops. In fact, how many games TOTAL have you been in with multiple cops? I personally have ever been in ONE. Let me tell you, multiple cops is NOT a common setup.Allow me to rephrase then, since your interpretation of my statement is not at all what I meant.
While it is not at all known or suggested that we likely have multiple cops (indeed, I've been partially arguing a scenario in which we have NO cops), the idea of having multiple cops is not unheard of and, in fact, seems to be rather common in larger games. Because of that, Macman was right to suggest that a second cop not CC Chaco. If we have another cop and he were to CC town-Chaco, then we would have been presented with the false dichotomy of choosing either Chaco or his CC-er in order to lynch scum, possibly resulting in the lynches of both. That's a lot of unnecessary town death for little to no information. Macman was right, and your suspicion of him based on that was beyond reaching.
I didn't skim at all. I saw you linked two posts 160 posts apart and your point was "inconsistency". It doesn't matter what you linked, the point was obviously faulty. And plus, I know what I've said, and I knew that you were completely incorrect in your assertions. So no, I didn't go back and re-read all of my old posts. Why would I waste my time? The way you tried to preset your point was absurd at best.Frozen, here's something I noticed shortly after I made my last post. The reason you mistook your contradictory posts as being 306 and 477 instead of 429 and 477 is because I actually made the same mistake back in my 683. While I take full blame for being the first to make this mix up and now understand why you thought there were roughly 160 posts separating your contradictory posts rather than 48, this does tell me something—you are the one who is skimming. It seems that you didn't actually read the posts that I linked to in my 683 and merely glazed over my own text. Confirm/deny?
Stupid? More like entirely logical. Obviously bussing your GF in a game where you have a roleblocker is a prudent move. Thus, when Marshy was trying to argue that bussing the GF WOULDN'T be one, I argued the contrary. If you were mafia and there was a roleblocker in your group, you KNOW it would be safe to bus your GF. Thus, Marshy's willingness to bus JF doesn't buy him townie points. Not sure what your point is here.Mentosman8 said:This piece of Frozen's post really, really sounds stupid to me. He sounds like he's trying to make Marshy suspect over the worst point ever. Especially the bolded(emphasis mine). If he was bussing the GF day 1, he would obviously know about the roleblocker because only scum can bus other scum. I'd really like this explained by FF, because this reminds me of some of the things I've seen him do to discredit as scum. So, FF, why is it suspicious that he would say such a thing when talking about BUSSING(which means he is mafia, and therefore WOULD know those facts in the hypothetical that was presented at the time), especially considering by the time these posts were referred to Chaco had already claimed role-blocked so even town would see it as likely?
...Stupid? More like entirely logical. Obviously bussing your GF in a game where you have a roleblocker is a prudent move. Thus, when Marshy was trying to argue that bussing the GF WOULDN'T be one, I argued the contrary. If you were mafia and there was a roleblocker in your group, you KNOW it would be safe to bus your GF. Thus, Marshy's willingness to bus JF doesn't buy him townie points. Not sure what your point is here.
Here you subtly push suspicion on Marshy or saying this, saying he is suggesting he knew about the roleblocker before D1... What? His post was made after Chaco had claimed roleblocked. Marshy's comment(which remember, Frozen now apparently agrees with, and came up with the idea) was based on publicly available info(as I said, Chaco had already claimed roleblocked, way back in 496 a full 60 posts before Marshy's comment), and completely reasonable, yet FF clearly puts a subtle push of suspicion on him over it.I'd like to believe you're beyond making a dumb slip up like suggesting you knew about the maf. roleblocker before Day 1, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Well, early rolefishing is (almost) never effective, not even for scum. Yeah you can see it as a minor form of rolefishing. but honestly, taking it that serious with a superhappy smiley in the post? Meh, maybe I shouldn't john with smileysLooking at Xonar as I have today, this post stood out more to me. This came very early in the game referring to Gheb's posting restriction, and seemed very much like early rolefishing.
I wrote off the 'rolefishing' (I didn't see it like that back then, but looking back at it I can see why it's considered rolefishing) by saying that there would be comments on it sooner or later, I'd rather have it sooner then later, especially because later might end up being rather inconvenient.Definitely didn't like this post by Xonar either, he essentially writes off his pseudo-rolefishing saying it was due to... Annoyance over font size? Not sure how that would lead to making it reasonable to fish for roles. The second paragraph just looks bad to me, although some of my thoughts on him may be tainted from my thoughts from today causing me to tunnel a bit.
You're misunderstanding the post, I wasn't pushing discussion, I was elaborating on my point, for people to discuss it is their decision. it was true, too, pointing it out can't be negative.This is him responding to Cacti telling him to stop talking about the doublevoter. Once again I find Xonar(on this one definitely, somewhat about Gheb's restriction) pushing discussion on a topic which can in no way lead to finding scum, and only waste towns time.
It wasn't really a reaction to 269, more a reaction to Chibos posts. I thought at the time that Chibo was anti-town, don't know why I noted that he ain't scum though, eheh...This post just confuses me. Starts out saying that we can lynch Chibo if we haven't found any scum, because he's anti-town, not scum. First of all not sure how that distinction was made, second of all it seems to be based on responses to Macman's 269, which in no way implied Chibo as anti-town, in fact said that Macman thought he was just playing stupid.
He then goes on to say that we should focus on the inactive people... Not sure why we would focus on people who are not likely to give us any good reads. Get them to post? Yes. But focusing on them not so much. He also doesn't vote, so I'm not sure how he expected to pressure anyone into posting here.
yea, i dont think id wanna waste a lynch on him, but vig shooting him wud be cool.what do people think of chibo? had a town read earlier but his play today makes me think that he badly deserves to just be vigged
Agree with this fully. This is what I meant with my final conclusions in that large post about depending on Xonar's flip we should look strongly at Circus or FF tomorrow. Xonar's still my primary lynch choice however I'm pretty sure. Frozen's last post is making me question it though.for the record i think if one of frozen/scumnar is scum then the other is not scum with them cuz frozen doesnt bus like this
Elaborate please?Chibo is so neutral right now it hurts.
I would suggest that Marshy, Frozen, Mentos, and Chaco please stop bickering. I don't want any TvTvTvT arguments, ok?
Xonar or Circus is def the play for toDay.
I don't understand this at all, pretty much all 3 parts of it lolChibo is so neutral right now it hurts.
I would suggest that Marshy, Frozen, Mentos, and Chaco please stop bickering. I don't want any TvTvTvT arguments, ok?
Xonar or Circus is def the play for toDay.
Read: Last time Blue posted, it was quarter of 4 Saturday morning, EST (it's now noon on Thursday).I know it probably hasn't been that long in RL, but it's been several pages since Blue posted, hasn't it?