And the game "started" the second Capslock confirmed.
Cause you didn't RVS in the first post of the game
No because scum have reason not to confirm (if 7/9 confirm game starts so unless all townies confirm then the game won't start)In post 18, Kueshina wrote: david, I was in bed when my role pm arrived, and checking mafiascum is not the first thing I do when I get up. Besides, wouldn't it make sense for the last people to confirm to be the people with the least exciting roles, e.g. Vanilla Townie? (Not that I'm saying what role I am, except that I win with the town)
I'll VOTE: Vote:imkingdavid because this seems like bad logic.
You just earned yourself a fucking rage post and you will see whyIn post 63, cAPSLOCK wrote:So far you came roaring out of the gate swinging about noobs and RVS. But since then you have just skated along. Kinda scummy to tell the truth. So far the only statement you've made has been more or less: "I am opposed to players who on their first post here do not follow convention".In post 57, JasonWazza wrote:I will be here in 6-7 hours to answer the questions (i saw someone direct me to some)
Kinda weak. Hello?
You've made a great show of principal and voting. Where's the content?
Iso #4/Post 20 wrote:Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:23 pm
FOR FUCKS SAKE DON'T EXPECT ME TO POST WHILE I'M FUCKING SLEEPING.Iso #5/Post 57 wrote:Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:44 am
(because everyone else RVS's and starts the game for you )In post 21, fferyllt wrote:Day 1s always start fine without me RVSing.In post 14, imkingdavid wrote:Well would you look at that? It's my scum day! Four years ago today I made the decision to never trust anyone ever again.
VOTE: Kueshina
Last to confirm. Obvscum. Die.
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btw fferyllt - lacking RVS, what is your plan for starting Day 1? RQS?
Reasoning for RVS is simpleIn post 27, cAPSLOCK wrote:For me its just a distaste for the arbitrary. All the logic behind random voting seems extinguished even on the newbie side here. Then again we need fodder to get started.
Why is the buddying coming from scum over town?In post 31, Kueshina wrote: I'll VOTE: fferyllt because he seems like he might be buddying sikon327.
If i haven't answered it in the rest of the post, ask it again, but i think i answered everything that needed it.In post 32, likeabauss wrote: JasonWazza - Not to put you on the spot, but I'd like your insights on my questions above.
Depends on a lot of things really, like how quickly content starts to build up, if someone just is plain scummy, if town is kinda 2 sided about an argument.In post 38, cAPSLOCK wrote:In these games, and particularly the newbie section how much of the three weeks do the players tend to use on average before reaching consensus?
Why is that suspicious when he hasn't put a vote down at all?In post 41, sikon327 wrote:Actually, come to think of it, likeabauss, I just noticed something seriously wrong about your post. I initially didn't notice because I was too busy attempting to address the questions you raised about my behaviour, but... let's put it like this.
In your post, you had questions for a few people, but the majority of your post was directed towards me. You formed a clear, concise case with a rather plausible narrative for why my behaviour was scummy. Your post was probably the first legitimate content forming a case for one of the players actually being scum.
But you didn't vote for me. You don't think your narrative justifies putting your vote on me. Why not? Seems to me when you make a claim like that, you accompany it with a vote, but here, you don't seem to have the guts to actually take responsibility for leading a wagon on me.
Nowthatis suspicious.
UNVOTE: cAPSLOCK
VOTE: likeabauss
I'm terribly sorry for jumping from one vote to another so quickly, but... I think I'm onto something here.
The problem is that not all people think this is useful, i agree with you wholeheartedly that you should use your vote for pressure and on those you think are scum, however other people don't always follow this train of thought.In post 72, sikon327 wrote: With regards to likeabauss:
The problem I have with his lack of voting is that, it seems to me, when a townie thinks someone is scum, they place their vote on them, because frankly, why not do that? But likeabauss's play has been unusually hesitant to actually place a vote. At all. He has not voted for one single person throughout the game thus far.
It seems to me that he knows that when a mislynch happens, the people on that person's wagon will be the first to come under fire. Knowing this, he hopes that by pointing out errors, inconsistencies, and strange behaviour in others' play, he may cause townies to become suspicious, and to form a wagon on them of their own accord. When the person flips town, he escapes scrutiny because he never actually voted for the person, or so he hopes.
I've had a look through his previous games -- there are two of them, one newbie, one mini normal, and in both of them, he's town. And in neither of those games does he display the hesitance to vote for possible scum that is present in this game. So why has he suddenly become cautious about voting? The way I see it, he either had some kind of epiphany in-between his previous game and this one, or he is merely playing differently now because he now has a different role -- that of the town's enemy.
There is a lot less TOWN motivation to be defensive, vote "lurkers" and not scumhunt.In post 67, JasonWazza wrote: I'm gonna keep my vote on cAPSLOCK because he is trying to push suspicion based on not being online for 24 hours, that is actually a normal thing, if someone hasn't posted for a few days then MAYBE you have a case.
But here is another thing, he is mostly coming off very defensive, his sitting on his hands, voting "lurkers" (quote's cause they aren't lurkers he is just pushing that reason) and he isn't doing any scumhunting whatsoever.
MASS CLAIMING IN A SEMI-OPEN SETUP WITH A MAX OF 2 TOWN PR'S IS NOT PRO-TOWNIn post 79, Kueshina wrote:If the setup has lots of different town roles, massclaiming d1 can be a good strategy. As an extreme case, if every townie has a different role then each scum can only counterclaim 1 townie, and all uncced townies are clear (if the setup isn't randomized). In setups where private communication is allowed, if massclaiming would be an advantage except mafia would gain too much from knowing who the powerroles are, having a confirmed innocent to massclaim to can be worth losing the doc.
On meta here is one thing i find to be true.In post 101, likeabauss wrote: I don't put much stock into meta reads (I know lots of people here do though.) I just prefer to focus the discussion/energy elsewhere. You can dig into old games of all the players all you want. I don't think it matters much, for the reason I posted above. A good player can/will adjust their meta or maintain it as they see fit.
I RVS'd cAPSLOCK correct, but that is a real vote now, if you haven't been keeping track.In post 168, likeabauss wrote: I was hoping for more insights from you... there have been a number of new angles developed since you RVS'd cAPSLOCK and just left your vote there. I'd love for you to share your "list" or maybe explore some of the observations that are being discussed.
The game may be "meh to read" because you aren't adding enough of your flavor to it. Try that and see if it helps?
TL;DR of this post is
Yeah without RQS and everything as well would be interestingIn post 183, Cheery Dog wrote:Only if they also avoid RQS and bold statements about how they're going to play the game.In post 67, JasonWazza wrote: Some day i want to see a game with all the people that refuse to RVS and see how slow it starts off.RVS usually produces a heap of fluff itself. (RQS is obviously the worst offender)In post 67, JasonWazza wrote:The other ways to start the game are less effective (General conversation, RQS, No Lynching for examples that i can think of.) and generally all end up producing a lot of fluff or useless content that is alignment null.
I was saying it because it's right at this time.This seems oddly familiar. (with something that's only valid day 1 - which at least we're in day 1 when you're yelling at people this game)In post 80, JasonWazza wrote: MASS CLAIMING IN A SEMI-OPEN SETUP WITH A MAX OF 2 TOWN PR'S IS NOT PRO-TOWN
I mean only use it to rule out something that is a playstyle tell (quick example is Nacho and giving fuck all in reads which is where i had to meta to disprove tells) it really shouldn't be used as a way to make someone scum (as it's likely wrong)That form of meta use sucks as well - players won't correct their play if they keep being cleared by others meta.In post 102, JasonWazza wrote: On meta here is one thing i find to be true.
Only Ever Use Meta To Disprove A Scum Tell
Meaning don't use meta to make someone scummy, only use it to disprove someone being scummy.
Cause usually when you use meta to make scummy it ends up being wrong.
I will catch up on this game in a minute.
Meta is only a tool to ice cases and still then only to be used sparingly.
Is your own vote just based on a vote based on lurking?In post 151, JasonWazza wrote: However cAPSLOCK is still a good vote, he's vote is based on lurking, not based on scumhunting.
*suspecting me, same fucking difference.In post 203, Cheery Dog wrote:No one else has voted you?In post 202, JasonWazza wrote:The fact is this, you having to wait for someone else to vote, to vote me, is scummy and opportunistic as fuck.
Hi appeal to emotion, nice to see you again.In post 204, cAPSLOCK wrote: Since the crash ive been thinking... Bottom line, if you are town your obsession is a mistake. This is the only part that still gives me pause. If you are scum you are playing a fairly bad game by doing this. Unfortunately, even though this greatly supports an asshole read it is not as supportive of a scum read as I wish it was...
UNVOTE:
It's rare i disappear, it was more out of not wanting to read/not having enough time to read, and i am fixing that at this point and time.In post 224, Cheery Dog wrote: I haven't done anything about your meta this game or even looked at your styles from the two games. (I try not to use meta from hydra posting ever anyway - unless it's for the same hydra, separating who posted what is annoying for meta purposes even when you are signing your posts)
I've been trying to work out if Jason is just being slightly inactive regardless of alignment since seeing him disappear and lose vengeball, but in all the recent completed games I found of his he'd died night 1, which was before the disappearing spree.
When you assume you make an ass out of uIn post 242, fferyllt wrote:Jason's last post in this game was on Monday. He has made about 100 posts since then elsewhere on the site, with the majority in other games.In post 202, JasonWazza wrote:Lol, yes i stuck to an RVS vote cause it landed on a scum but.
I did reply but that crash.
The fact is this, you having to wait for someone else to vote, to vote me, is scummy and opportunistic as fuck.
Game states have a lot to do with activity levels when people are playing more than one game, but to me this looks like he's ignoring this game.And I'll speculate that he's not posting because he's been happy with the current gamestate.
In ISO the posts he's made don't look too bad, aside from his hyperfocus on cAPSLOCK, so I'm not going to quote or link to them.
Leaning scum
Yeah this is bad, i love being scum, i thrive on it generally, some of my best games are based with me being scum. (vengeball is an odd one of me being scum)In post 250, fferyllt wrote:IME demotivation and lack of involvement is more often scummy than towny. Jason's early activity level wasn't bad. He raged about getting called out for not making a post overnight, but nearly 5 days without a post is ridiculous. He should have been prodded 2 days ago, but with all the confusion after the site crash, a lot of stuff is slipping through the cracks.In post 247, likeabauss wrote:In post 242, fferyllt wrote: JasonwazzaHow does this fit in with your activity observation?In post 151, JasonWazza wrote:I'll be honest there is something about this game that just makes it meh to read.
Ummmmm sleep?In post 298, fferyllt wrote:Hey, where'd you go?In post 286, JasonWazza wrote:Not for long that i can remember.
What are your thoughts on my sikon vote?
P-Edit: Why is it newb town over newb scum?
39 i can see scum doing.In post 295, likeabauss wrote: What do you make of my questions for him in post 32, his responses and what ensued there? It turned my read to town... just wondering if my compass is off kilter.
The first bolded is bad reasoning/wording that i don't think a townie would use, there is no need to be civil in finding scum.In post 39, sikon327 wrote:Ah, didn't occur to me it could be viewed that way. My vote on fferyllt was just me trying to go for an RVS vote. After that, I asked her a question about her refusal to take part in the RVS, because I'm new and don't fully understand how some things work. Her answer to my question satisfied me, andIn post 32, likeabauss wrote:sikon327 - I'm interested in why your first substantial post of the thread has you leaning town on 2 folks, and then "opening a door" on your RVS fferyllt but subsequently clarifying that you are non-committal. I often find that scum opens the door without committing, and lets townies walk through. I also find quite often that scum likes to lean town or confirm town to build allegiance early in the game. Nobody walked through your open door, and you then retracted your vote. I find this intriguing.I figured I ought to take my vote off of her, if only to be, I dunno, civil(?), since I didn't have a real reason to suspect her just yet, and the RVS stage seemed to have petered out somewhat, so why hold onto an RVS vote? I never said she was town, necessarily. I just don't actually think she's the most likely to be scum right now. Although concerns about her behaviour being "buddying" are intriguing.
As for your mention of only having townreads...wouldn't a scum player be LESS likely to have townreads?It seems to me that by declaring a player to be town as a scum player, I'd be closing off potential avenues of people to lynch.
But I guess unvoting this early in the game is also a bit stifling, considering my own belief that seeing who everyone votes for is important. With that in mind...
Since most of the discussion right now seems to be around how the early game should function rather than scumhunting, and, well, these are questions whose answers don't depend on whether one is scum or not. If I wanted to, I could say, ohhhh, he's twisting my actions or whatever, but I can't honestly say you're suspicious, likeabauss, because you're scumhunting, scumhunting IS generally pro-town, and I guess my opening moves were a bit scummy, which helps no one, really. so... hm....
VOTE: cAPSLOCK
You said if people weren't RVSing, you'd "probably try to start something." I think RVS is over at this point, and your posts still don't seem to have a whole lot of content with regards to the current game.
I'd also like to hear from Lynx_Shine and Morthas, who haven't posted since confirmation.
I'm pretty sure i as newb scum got very butthurt over being ignored, i also don't believe that is a reason to town read a newb.In post 288, fferyllt wrote:newbscum don't get butthurt over their cases being ignored.In post 286, JasonWazza wrote:Not for long that i can remember.
What are your thoughts on my sikon vote?
P-Edit: Why is it newb town over newb scum?
Someone's a liar, 268 is extremely apologetic.In post 304, sikon327 wrote: Firstly: Not a she. Not sure where that came from.
The first point you bolded, you highlight the point about "being civil" while ignoring the place where I said that I did not think fferyllt was scum. I had no reason to believe she was scum at this point, my vote on her was an RVS vote. And as with my apologetic-ness in the early game, this was born of still settling into the game. You'll notice the "apologeticness" and "civility" wears off once I start rolling with my case on likeabauss.
That's not the point, it's the point you are screaming "i'm town because i did this"The second point: I legitimately did not understand what was scummy about having townreads at this specific point in time. I explained why I believed it was not scummy. He explained why it was scummy. Now I know.
It's still scummyThe fourth paragraph was me thinking out loud. I believed that clearly expressing my thought process was the best thing to do, and my thought process went in a little circle there.
Yeah the above is crap, you flip-floped, plain and simple, one second cAPS was scum, the next Bauss was, and this was during a conversation with him, the fact that it happened to be during a single posting time doesn't make it any more town.The flip-flop after the initial vote on cAPS (why was that fake scumhunting, by the way?) was simply the fact that I hadn't noticed until after I posted my first post that he hadn't actually voted for me. I'd intended for that to be a double post, but posts came in-between the two. I did not actually read these posts, as for some reason the forum failed to tell me that posts had been made since I started the post. I believed that he was actually trying to accuse me of being scum, due to the scum narrative he appeared to be building, and I believed that to be incongruous.
"I know i seemed scummy to start off, but i'm pro-town now right? RIGHT?"And just in general, my play in the beginning was, I will freely admit, a little bit unsteady. I was trying to settle into the swing of things at this point. You can call that "playing the newbie card" if you want, but... well, what else am I supposed to tell you? That's just what happened.
I like to think my play after this point showed a more pro-town attitude, even if it was a bit reckless.
It's basically the same thing, you may have had me down as town but the suspicion is what sparked cAPS, that's not a town thing for cAPS to do.In post 305, Cheery Dog wrote:No it's not. When other than me questioning, I still had you as a town read at the time.In post 280, JasonWazza wrote:*suspecting me, same fucking difference.In post 203, Cheery Dog wrote:No one else has voted you?In post 202, JasonWazza wrote:The fact is this, you having to wait for someone else to vote, to vote me, is scummy and opportunistic as fuck.
I wasn't paying attention here, shit happened, i ISO'd Sik.So I assume cAPS isn't as good a vote now? What changed since then?
Easy;Please explain why all these are apparently made my scum with the scum motivation behind them.In post 282, JasonWazza wrote:VOTE: sikon327
Things of interest;
Way to fucking apologetic.
Plays the newb card a fair amount.
too much AtE
A lot of sitting the vote in the unvote area.
267 seems like some crap.
Because while 267 probably won't help the game progress much, just calling it crap means crap.
*bzzt*In post 313, likeabauss wrote: For a comparison analysis, hanging Fferyllt over Kue is advantageous because:
Fferyllt is a more experienced player. Better/more experienced players hide their scum game well. An experienced player as scum, in a game of this size with waning involvement, can easily control the flow of info and conversation. Basically an experienced scum player is more dangerous to noob town than an experienced townie is helpful to a noob town. I'm thinking we have a mostly noob town here, and the mafia will be killing off any experienced town players in short order.
Does that make me scum now?In post 482, fferyllt wrote:VOTE: jasonwazzaIn post 479, JasonWazza wrote:Grim baby, you don't need to convince the scum they are scum.
Because you are not doing shit in this game.
Keep your fucking pants on.In post 504, fferyllt wrote:Lack of answer to 2nd prompt is noted.
This reaction From CD seems very Town CD rather then Scum CDIn post 508, Cheery Dog wrote:I thought you were calling yourself a mislynch before - now there's something about you not having me as a partner.In post 497, fferyllt wrote: Cheery isn't my partner
I am wanting to L-1 you with all this WIFOM about you being a mislynch and not actual defence though, except that I'm not having doing that when Kues hasn't posted yet today and not much else from Trollie (not really surprising) or Lynx.
Opposite side of the spectrum, this is terrible, this is scum.fferyllt wrote: I knew that would get your attention. Now, why are you reading me as scum? You never went into detail on day 1.
Fucking read, maybe.In post 512, JasonWazza wrote: I will re-read soonish.
It's quit accepting your lynch if your actually town and start fucking scumhunting PROPERLY.In post 527, fferyllt wrote:What is this?In post 525, JasonWazza wrote:BUT WE CAN'T READ YOUR ALIGNMENT QUIT PLAYING THAT SHIT AND START PLAYING LIKE TOWN THAT WANT'S TO LYNCH SCUM
Fucking hell woman.
Grim do you think this post comes from town or scum?In post 508, Cheery Dog wrote:I thought you were calling yourself a mislynch before - now there's something about you not having me as a partner.In post 497, fferyllt wrote: Cheery isn't my partner
I am wanting to L-1 you with all this WIFOM about you being a mislynch and not actual defence though, except that I'm not having doing that when Kues hasn't posted yet today and not much else from Trollie (not really surprising) or Lynx.
Yeah but you haven't even properly addressed it other then calling it biased (which is a piss poor defense), and not scumhunted AT ALL.Cheery Dog wrote:When I have no idea why this is actually scummy, or knowledge of this apparent "plan" I had, then yes your whole thing is bias.In post 575, Grimgroove wrote:If you read my posts, you know very well what caused my attention to be put on you. There's nothing "biassed" about it.
Can't we just lynch him? This game is dragging on and nothing new has been presented.
Bold = not scumhunting, and not to mention not town motivated.In post 580, Cheery Dog wrote:I guess I better also give some reasons for doing that (besides wanting to rage at shit),as I'm not entirely sure Jason is scum or not, but he's just provoking me into doing that by not going into more details of which parts of Grimm's confirmation bias case he is actually sheeping.
From what I understand of Grim's actual case(s) is that he found something which is apparently textbook distancing (and who the fuck uses textbooks nowadays?)
and is then finding evidence to back it up re: what I'm currently talking to him about.
Yes this game is still got crap out with the Kues/TIP slot needing a lot more content posted and with people like Trollie fluffing a majority of the time, I'm not convinced of my reads at all and haven't been all game besides when Sikon became obvtown.
Get Off Your Fucking High Horse.In post 646, Cheery Dog wrote: I still do think you're possibly scum with the statements I made at the start of the day about you calling the day-1 lynch obv town as buying town-credit. I am happy leaving that for today though, with what may happen tonight and that Jason actually avoiding stating reasons other than sheeping ofr his voting. (Plus the horrible vote staying on capslock day 1)