The scope of this post is everything I missed or didn't get to follow up on after going out. There should be an extra post after the next going into a deep character reading of FoU/DA/naturegirl/persus but I don't think I'll have time to do that before N2
D1:Naturegrill2000: why are you still fielding questions without any questions of your own? I'm really not down with your passivity and lack of apparent desire to know more about the roles and alignment of other players. If TricMagic had posted literally anything, I'd be voting you now.
NG still needs to get way more active. They haven't done anything but lean weakly on and vote TricMagic and then Shadowclaw, both really weak players. Very little work or content
ex nihilo.
It blows my mind that you apparently are willing to give a town read to a player who has admitted to not knowing what side they're playing for.
That's cos I'm town. See, I don't actually know the alignments of other players. So when a player acts like they're town, I'm inclined to believe that they're going to continue to
act like they're town. Leaving aside the fact that I literally made that read conditional under the condition for which that was the only possible correct read, I've got no way of knowing whether or not ICT has read his rolePM. I could
to this day not have read my rolePM. I'm trying really hard to tease out this point, but basically, it scans as scummy to my eyes the fact that you're unwilling to claim any sort of opinion on highly active players under the presumption (for which you have no evidence) that their role is unknowable. It implies that you don't want to give away that the reads you
state won't line up with your actual beliefs i.e. that you're holding out on us with alignment information.
Besides the fact that there's more anecdotal evidence of this than literally any other claim that has ever been made about tells/slips in mafia, it's also obvious from first principles. Town players can optimize their play for maximum volume of work without reducing their ability to be townread 'per unit work', whereas scum can't because they can't write stream-of-consicousness like town can.This will always be true and will always be what matters. Sure, relative to other players activity might not mean much if you're physically or psychologically unable (or unwilling) to devote more than a given amount of time or can't produce as much work per unit time as another player, but activity relative to a given player is always relevant and you, in particular, have given no reason why your established metagame can't be used to evaluate you without at least relatively high efficacy.
I have, actually. Your implication was that my activity is noticeable lower as scum than as town, which is blatantly untrue.
My
assertion was that your activity would
have to be noticeably lower as scum than as town if you had any sort of functional towngame.
It's your implication that you're not as active as town as you could be. Are you stung because you feel guilty about throwing games as town, or are you trying to deflect away from the fact that you're worried that you're easily identifiable as scum?
If anything, a good scum player should be one with higher activity, since the optimal play for scum is both to appear to be town and to direct the town into pursuing bad lynches, which would both be aided by high activity under your assertions.
Sure, and an optimal town would just silently quickhammer scum every day and take their night actions in perfect miraculous coordination, but that's hardly realisitic, is it?
It is
easier to put out work as town, which means that the
maximum work you can put out as town is higher than the maximum work you can put out as scum. Appearing as town is explictly
not aided by high activity. We lynched
TricMagic D1 because we believed that. Players who don't post anything are lynched because they are
unable to be read. The reasoning is that, if you post, you are more likely to be read as your alignment than you are based on purely random chance. There's no fucking way you don't know this.
And if you're writing stream of consciousness, you're not optimising your work in the first place, you're just spamming everyone else with more stuff they have to sift through to find what you're actually trying to say.
There is no "actually trying to say". "Actually trying to say" is a purely scum concept. Why are you thinking it? If I can bare my entire mind to you, you know my alignment. The less composed I am, the more likely you are to get a true read of my alignment, free of my interference. My interference will
always be to your detriment if I am scum and you are not.
I'll put something together to try to
convince other players of something as town. But this is a dishonest act. If I just posted my gut reads naked on the actual basis of why they're there and what they are, I'd be a lot less successful in getting other players lynched. But you'd always know when I'm town. I'm not really in danger of being lynched, so that's why I don't do that. The whole point of pressure is to get players
to do that, because their alignment is in doubt.
The reason for voting for FoU, the aggressive Pack wolf play seems averse and he hasn’t made any point why he be useful for town rather then these claims but idk
Vote FallacyOfUrist
Shadowclaw will vote fucking
anyone over this shit, which means that it's very likely unironic and so not alignment indicative.
D2:DA fields questions (a total of three, with one line answers) for two posts and leans weakly on shadowclaw in a way that was covered D1. Doesn't vote anyone or make any sort of case, despite not asking questions of his own. Really got me wondering how he plans on finding scum as opposed to, say, lynching an exceptionally weak town player like we did on D1.
Superdorf was town, and now I'm partly regretting pointing out the danger his abilities created to the mafia - after all, he is now dead. If I didn't make him seem so useful perhaps he wouldn't have been targeted. I would rather have been killed myself to be honest, in his place.
Apparently you could only afford to post two lines, and you posted
this. There's nothing possibly more valuable you could do with your time, player who asks no questions opening D2?
IcyTea31 is still a valid vote for the moment, however.
Fucking
how. YOU NEVER EXPLAIN THIS SHIT.
You said that you thought he was doing something anti-town D1. Even if that were true: he also stopped doing it D1, and you don't actually know his alignment. You could at least ask some questions to him if you're going to blow off D2 as well D1 for a policy lynch based on something he explictly isn't guilty of anymore. How can you argue that it's
hard to get a read on him so he should be lynched when you've done
nothing to get a read on him this entire game.
I don't like how he considers me to be a town player.
me 2 buddi
...
This joke is never going to get old
Currently my logic goes to voting IceyTea31
This is technically correct, even if shadowclaw's logic has literally positive impact on attempts to win mafia. I don't think he's ever lied to us, I'll have to check this later. There might actually be a strong case for town!shadowclaw.
If this is some 4000IQ scum play there's not much we can do without material to compare it to anyway. Still an alignment-neutral antitown read from me though, I'm never going to be caught endorsing this.
Holy shit. After complaining that you don't want the lynch to be random, you use a random nightkill? In what world is that a sensible pro-town move?
Lynches block actions (for the following action), you get two night actions before prime/ignite kills you (and one from regular nightkills). If you assume that it's only possible to win games as town through night actions, it's easy to deduce that lynches would be the last alternative.
It's the dumbest shit I've ever fucking heard but I can actually buy that that's how he's thinking.
naturegirl1999 I'm of the mind that shadowclaw777 is more likely to be bad than scum. Who are you suspicious of besides them? You haven't been asking many questions, so you must have a relatively good idea of at least one other player as scum.
2/3, surprisingly little that had to be followed up on (besides FoU which I'm coming to)