(PPE: Are my posts difficult to follow? I often just copy-paste out the bits that I want to address in longer posts but that could make it hard to look at the context around the original. If it's a hassle I can try to work in the links to the originals, if nothing else.)
I always just quote the posts I am replying to and then copy+paste the 'quote header' with the post details, as it were. It depends how you're working what works for you, I guess.
You posts aren't difficult to follow for me. The only time I miss having links is when I'm previewing my own post and I might want to look for a bit more of context for my own post to analyze, and that's about it.
Easy enough solution, little sad I didn't think of it. Thanks doll, if you're still reading the thread.
Re: short one-off posts: I think we're just of a different mind on these sorts of things; I'd call it a playstyle difference. I don't feel like I need to couch my opinion about the game length with real, meaty content, just as I don't expect any game content from people voting for an extend. For the latter, I'm just offering my two cents. He stated he wasn't really having a good time and this game wasn't going like he thought he would, and games are meant to be fun! I can't PM him about it, and no clue if he reads the banter thread, so how else would I convey it? I don't mind shooting a quick one-off response like that during my lunch break or between meetings or whatever.
Something missing here?
You've quoted the summary of the core of my case. Do you agree with it? If not, why not? If so, why aren't you voting 4maskwolf?
Yup, I missed it. I just think you're a lot more confident in your case than you've any real right to be, y'know? What happens if he flips town? Why are you already planning your D2 when you haven't seen the night or the lynch?
I mean, doing that is great and all if all you want is to brag in deadchat or after the thread that 'I totally picked scum I'm such a great player lol' but if you want to actually lynch someone you've got to move the town, and different players in different situations are moved by quite different things. I'm treating roo as nearly confirmed town, and roo seems to think of me quite well, so all I need to move their vote is a decent idea and for them not to be doing anything much with it. On the contrary, to move hector's vote all I needed was the strongest case available to the town - to move johiah's I might need to bully him tangential to the game, to move you I might need to engage with your thoughts as you present them and speak on those topics on which you remain unconvinced, to move TheBiggerFish I might even need to get the rest of the town to be saying certain things. Mafia is quantized, and the basic unit (the vote) is actually rather large. This kind of contemporary, quantum mafia is why 4maskwolf and webadict talk about me like I'm a kawaii Bobby Fischer, but it's really just applying the principles that everybody knows they are supposed to use - if they want to win. (you can see this, again, in Jim's Wild West Mafia, where he effectively controls the lynch the whole game through - by picking what players are able to vote by selecting [as scum] who will die each night and keeping around a group he can control).
This was a very well-thought out response.
FoU: Why do you think roo hasn't pinged you for buddying, but he did ping me?
Arrogant works. Webadict called it confident. The simple fact is that I knew that nobody could push a lynch on me today, and they didn't - because it would cost the town too much to be wrong and nobody has any overwhelming reason to think that they would be right (see: Webadict's commentary on this).
And I would counter that arrogance and confidence are similar but certainly not the same. Wuba is confident, but he's not getting ahead of himself either, I'm sure he will evaluate what happens in the night. You've already made your plans for after the lynch and the night phase: how can you be so certain of your course when the results should be unknown to you? Do you think you will be well-served by having to backpedal the next day if you change your mind?
I honestly can't comment on whether or not my claim that I got the 'wrong' number (which was, as it stands, the right number - for the initial situation described and on which that post was commenting) was actually true because I can't remember if I had actually been thinking of the other case at that time. I do know that the thing which made me comment on my 'wrong maths' was that I had gotten conjugated the live scum and the dead townie as empty points and treated them as only one non-target during my working out - in the later post. This whole chain of reasoning is curious to me (as a useless, academic thing - the whole ordeal seems rather pointless for you to be going through), because your premise is based on my intentionally asking about something which I did the odds on as being a great opportunity to exploit - for me as scum. Asking about this raised awareness, particular among the key 4maskwolf/Webadict/Hapah demographic that I was relying upon to sure up my technical analysis throughout the thread (i.e. to catch me if I ever fuck up my math).
I don't understand how you can dismiss my math out of hand, while with the same breath say that you locked a game up tight with math. As is stands, you did the math wrong
twice (unless a lone mafia rolecop gets both the kill and the inspect in the same night, someone correct me if I'm wrong), and there's no way in hell that a lone scum naked-claiming Cop on D2 has a chance in hell.
I don't understand the bolded bit, unless you're saying it would make sense as scum for you to use that to entrap someone. In which case, it's worth noting that you have already lined me out as your D2 lynch, yeah?
Leng: It looks like ya messed up the spoiler, but I believe I addressed all the bits that were supposed to be in it. Please let me know if there's something I haven't. (PPE: Oh you fixed it next post, why didn't I read ahead lol)
It's tomorrow, and I just read the entire thread in the past few hours, surely the one post isn't too much to ask of you.
God forbid I have something else to do during the workday.
Everybody: Choose two of these.
-What is the use of hypothetical RVS questions?
-Who is the most suspicious player currently? Why do you think that?
-If you were the cop, who would you investigate tonight?
-They can help you get a sense of where players you are unfamiliar with stand or an idea on how they approach the game.
-Doll(which I guess is now you?) for mannerisms and a mindset that is very unusual to me.
Hapah:
do you intend to ever respond to doll's last post directed to you?
Yes? Is there some reason I wouldn't? I was already tired when I saw down and saw that doll has to split into three posts, when the char. limit is 40k on one. I don't mind a little light reading before bed, but there's no way I was gonna be able to slog through that and form a response that night.
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