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Love Boat 2 [Mafia] |OT| Electric Boogalove

at the risk of being derivative, I think this is a good verbalization of how I feel about Muffin; his vote on Ouro right now just closes a loop.

Come on, what Darryl wrote reads like making his mind beforehand about me. So I either do nothing weird and it's scummy because I'm doing justifiable stuff or I do weird things and get inevitably scum read because of that? What are my realistic options in this case?
 

franconp

Member
Well gee I was borderline AFK last day session and most of yesterday, what do you think I'm doing?

I RNG'd because I needed to get off my ass and actually play and picking one group to look at at a time helps me stay focused.



yougotme.gif

Why are you answering to post that are directed to Kitsune?
 
On mobile and slightly drunk, so apologies for any fucked up words or sentences.
Mostly quoting this so I can get your attention more than anything else, but I was still wondering why you just sort of 'sat back' at the end of the last Day Phase and let the vote play out. Instead of arguing for your Scum Lean ( Kark ) to be lynched rather than your Town Lean ( Orb ), you instead worked on a case against Vere. Not to mention you came back in here D2 and criticized what happened.

I'm curious as to why. You just seemed very disinterested in how the vote was going 'in the moment' despite having a Scum Lean v Town Lean ( or Null if you count Kit/Darryl in this race ) for the end there.
I started the Vere reread in the hope that I could finish it in time about 40 minutes to the deadline. The first 10 or 20 minutes I checked the thread for updates regularly but as not much movement happened I assumed Kark would get lynched. That Orb vote kind of came out of nowhere after all. With that assumption I concentrated on the Vere read and didn't check the thread any more. Not the wisest decision I admit but I got kind of absorbed in it.

_____

To the people who think that kits' read of Fran is scummy: what's the difference between a Town newbie under pressure of delivering and a Scum newbie under pressure? Serious question. I have the impression we often mistake general newbie behavior to be scummy newbie behavior. (case in point: Orb) I think I will need a serious read of Fep...

Full disclosure: my slightly drunk brain noped out of the analysis itself once it saw its length. I only really read the reactions to it. Sorry for being a non-entity today, I think tomorrow will be better. Good night.
 

Samuraischnecke

Neo Member
Natiko and Native are next btw.

Who is native? Also are you planning to get all reads done in this day?
Why not start with those who already seem suspicious to you? Seems like you don't have that much time... I would like to hear more about the overall opinion than just RNG scumpicking.
 

franconp

Member
Mostly this:

What I find interesting is that she, in a 2.100 posts game, looked at the first 580 posts, decided that she found scum and said why bother with the rest.

Either she is following an agenda or extremely lazy town.

Well gee I was borderline AFK last day session and most of yesterday, what do you think I'm doing?

I RNG'd because I needed to get off my ass and actually play and picking one group to look at at a time helps me stay focused.

My post was obviously for Kitsune. You answering my post as normal raises all kind of red flags to me.
 

Sorian

Banned
Was out of the house all day today.



But it really was RNG- ugh ok whatever



Well gee I was borderline AFK last day session and most of yesterday, what do you think I'm doing?

I RNG'd because I needed to get off my ass and actually play and picking one group to look at at a time helps me stay focused.




yougotme.gif



Franconp: radiates salt, but seems to be town? Then again I don't like super bitter mafia players so there's a light glare pointed in that direction

Dr. Worm: shitposts everywhere- Ok, joking aside, I actually don't see a lot of shitposts from him? Small question posts, but not really goofing off or anything like that. Where'd this narrative come from, anyway? Anyway, he's town.

You are getting uppity at posts that weren't even directed at you?
 
I'm more concerned about how small and gut-y that read is. Better than nothing though...

Also, how can you not get that native meant nomadic in that context?
 

Ourobolus

Banned
So I just want to say that I've gone over today's posts twice.

There are

so

many

words

but there's nothing of substance anywhere.
 

Ourobolus

Banned
Vote: Dr. Worm

I honestly thought my vote was already here. This team is all over the place and they aren't doing anyone any favors. I'm not saying kitsune's argument is airtight or anything (in fact there's plenty of nonsense and the like), but fran's aggressive schtick is wearing thin and isn't contributing.
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
Come on, what Darryl wrote reads like making his mind beforehand about me. So I either do nothing weird and it's scummy because I'm doing justifiable stuff or I do weird things and get inevitably scum read because of that? What are my realistic options in this case?

Why does this read need to give you "options?" Why should I tell you how to alter your behavior to not appear scummy?
 

Samuraischnecke

Neo Member
So I want to throw something in here.

And I hope this doesn't get ignored because there is some duel going on, becuase that is exactly what I want to talk about:

There were 3 "duels" now. Kitsu vs. Dragonz, Darryl vs. Fat and Kitsu vs. fran.
Each time there was a discussion between mostly just 2 players, it seemes to me like everything else that got mentioned, other discussions that could have expanded, all got immediatly shut down. Because yeah those discussions are just a big blob over more sites.
My problem is, that these discussions may deliver some (over-)reactions, but for me that is just nothing. Nothing at all. Because the more I think about a reaction, the more it feels like that's just personality, experience talking, etc. I want to point out that Royal Flush made me think about that here
I have the impression we often mistake general newbie behavior to be scummy newbie behavior.
I doubt I could tell.

I asked Muffin in our chat about how to speak about that topic, because I can't clearly say what exactly bothers me about this.

Although I doubt it could be the case I want to drop in that it could be arranged.
That discussion between Darryl and Sorian bothered me the most on that thought, because it was so close before day end and we had not that many clear votes yet. And discussion was difficult while there were 2 active topics. And then SUDDENLY the Orb vote came out big. I am still unsure how that escalated so quickly and that is currently my biggest itch. I want to know if others feel like that aswell and if you may have seen a pattern or agree that this is just a conspiracy theory that formed itself in my head.

This is probeably gonna be one of my last posts today and tomorrow I'll be on mobile. Apologies in advance, because I will mess up the quoting shizzle.
 
Why does this read need to give you "options?" Why should I tell you how to alter your behavior to not appear scummy?

Are you serious or is this so hard to understand? What you described is basically that I look scummy regardless what I do. My point is exactly that there's nothing you can tell me I should do that would make me not look scummy in your eyes following your previously used logic.
 

Sophia

Member
My problem is, that these discussions may deliver some (over-)reactions, but for me that is just nothing. Nothing at all. Because the more I think about a reaction, the more it feels like that's just personality, experience talking, etc. I want to point out that Royal Flush made me think about that here

I doubt I could tell.

A lot of times I notice these "duels" just turn into word salad with a side of fallacies. It makes it difficult to follow a bit. Darryl vs Fat/Sorian for example just left me scratching my head and looking for the little details, so I ended up kind of feeling meh about both pairs. I got a similar feel with kitsunelaine's read of Fran/Dr.Worm. A whole lot of fluffy words, not a whole lot of getting to the point. *shrugs*
 

Sorian

Banned
So I want to throw something in here.

And I hope this doesn't get ignored because there is some duel going on, becuase that is exactly what I want to talk about:

There were 3 "duels" now. Kitsu vs. Dragonz, Darryl vs. Fat and Kitsu vs. fran.
Each time there was a discussion between mostly just 2 players, it seemes to me like everything else that got mentioned, other discussions that could have expanded, all got immediatly shut down. Because yeah those discussions are just a big blob over more sites.
My problem is, that these discussions may deliver some (over-)reactions, but for me that is just nothing. Nothing at all. Because the more I think about a reaction, the more it feels like that's just personality, experience talking, etc. I want to point out that Royal Flush made me think about that here

I doubt I could tell.

I asked Muffin in our chat about how to speak about that topic, because I can't clearly say what exactly bothers me about this.

Although I doubt it could be the case I want to drop in that it could be arranged.
That discussion between Darryl and Sorian bothered me the most on that thought, because it was so close before day end and we had not that many clear votes yet. And discussion was difficult while there were 2 active topics. And then SUDDENLY the Orb vote came out big. I am still unsure how that escalated so quickly and that is currently my biggest itch. I want to know if others feel like that aswell and if you may have seen a pattern or agree that this is just a conspiracy theory that formed itself in my head.

This is probeably gonna be one of my last posts today and tomorrow I'll be on mobile. Apologies in advance, because I will mess up the quoting shizzle.

But what is the end goal of the conspiracy theory? Is everyone just scum trying to dominate discussion? Is scum just letting the conversation between town members happen while picking from the sidelines and egging it on?

This is something that happens a lot where two hard heads go at it and, unfortunately, I feel its so common place that the fighting itself isn't even really alignment indicative. It's dividing away the vitriol and seeing where the underlying issue started or what it was leading to that usually got answers.
 

franconp

Member
Why does it raise red flags when Star literally does this on a daily basis?

Is this usual Star behavior? Being defensive about posts that are directed to another players? Because I find it weird that 2 couples of players decided to make a read from us and when one of them failed the other couple, who even posted their reads, got defensive.

Also look at my post. I actually talk about the number of votes and say it was lazy saying that I was scum for that. But after that Star posted her read as townie. That didn't seem weird to her?

Vote: Dr. Worm

I honestly thought my vote was already here. This team is all over the place and they aren't doing anyone any favors. I'm not saying kitsune's argument is airtight or anything (in fact there's plenty of nonsense and the like), but fran's aggressive schtick is wearing thin and isn't contributing.

Null:
6. [m] franconp & [m] Dr. Worm
- fran is all up my ass again and is wrong yet again. Has good intentions, but is way off base. Worm is confused.

So, what changed between D1 and now?
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
Are you serious or is this so hard to understand? What you described is basically that I look scummy regardless what I do. My point is exactly that there's nothing you can tell me I should do that would make me not look scummy in your eyes following your previously used logic.

You seem to have this notion that you should be able to play in a way that is perfectly unimpeachable to everyone, and it's everyone else's fault for not recognizing this play.
 

Xbro

Member
at the risk of being derivative, I think this is a good verbalization of how I feel about Muffin; his vote on Ouro right now just closes a loop.

Could you give your full thoughts as to why you are intent on Muffin? You two didn't really react much during day 1, then at the end you say this:

Muffin and Samurai are both on Xkark, vote Muffin?

Without really elaborating anything. You also dropped this comment without going into detail either.
 

Verelios

Member
So I want to throw something in here.

And I hope this doesn't get ignored because there is some duel going on, becuase that is exactly what I want to talk about:

There were 3 "duels" now. Kitsu vs. Dragonz, Darryl vs. Fat and Kitsu vs. fran.
Each time there was a discussion between mostly just 2 players, it seemes to me like everything else that got mentioned, other discussions that could have expanded, all got immediatly shut down. Because yeah those discussions are just a big blob over more sites.
My problem is, that these discussions may deliver some (over-)reactions, but for me that is just nothing. Nothing at all. Because the more I think about a reaction, the more it feels like that's just personality, experience talking, etc. I want to point out that Royal Flush made me think about that here

I doubt I could tell.

I asked Muffin in our chat about how to speak about that topic, because I can't clearly say what exactly bothers me about this.

Although I doubt it could be the case I want to drop in that it could be arranged.
That discussion between Darryl and Sorian bothered me the most on that thought, because it was so close before day end and we had not that many clear votes yet. And discussion was difficult while there were 2 active topics. And then SUDDENLY the Orb vote came out big. I am still unsure how that escalated so quickly and that is currently my biggest itch. I want to know if others feel like that aswell and if you may have seen a pattern or agree that this is just a conspiracy theory that formed itself in my head.

This is probeably gonna be one of my last posts today and tomorrow I'll be on mobile. Apologies in advance, because I will mess up the quoting shizzle.

A lot of times I notice these "duels" just turn into word salad with a side of fallacies. It makes it difficult to follow a bit. Darryl vs Fat/Sorian for example just left me scratching my head and looking for the little details, so I ended up kind of feeling meh about both pairs. I got a similar feel with kitsunelaine's read of Fran/Dr.Worm. A whole lot of fluffy words, not a whole lot of getting to the point. *shrugs*

But what is the end goal of the conspiracy theory? Is everyone just scum trying to dominate discussion? Is scum just letting the conversation between town members happen while picking from the sidelines and egging it on?

This is something that happens a lot where two hard heads go at it and, unfortunately, I feel its so common place that the fighting itself isn't even really alignment indicative. It's dividing away the vitriol and seeing where the underlying issue started or what it was leading to that usually got answers.
I just disagreed with Sorian's point in that instance. I feel it's easier for scum to blend when they're overly helpful on general problems/widespread discussion than when they're making a specific opinion. But they're both counted as contributing so...
Like clockwork
 

Sorian

Banned
Is this usual Star behavior? Being defensive about posts that are directed to another players? Because I find it weird that 2 couples of players decided to make a read from us and when one of them failed the other couple, who even posted their reads, got defensive.

Also look at my post. I actually talk about the number of votes and say it was lazy saying that I was scum for that. But after that Star posted her read as townie. That didn't seem weird to her?





So, what changed between D1 and now?

Star constantly misreads things and has been since every game I've ever been in. I was hoping to prod more out of Tim as opposed to her because this is pretty much par for her and tells me nothing of her alignment.
 
You seem to have this notion that you should be able to play in a way that is perfectly unimpeachable to everyone, and it's everyone else's fault for not recognizing this play.

That is not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I happen to not have made any major mistakes so far that would needlessly divert suspicion to me, and because of that, the only option you and Darryl seem to have left is to call exactly that scummy. That it's weird that I'm doing that.

At that point you can just say "I have a gut feeling", perfectly acceptable, no need to come up with weird justifications like that.
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
That would fit with you essentially wanting to policy lynch the people making "major mistakes."

How do you propose we win if the mafia plays to your inoffensive ideal?
 

Verelios

Member
Pulling a post from in between two posts where I do make specific reads and saying "like clockwork" is disingenuous.
I don't know if that's true since I haven't actually said anything that wasn't implied. It's true that they were generalities on the game, that's what I wanted to explain.
 

Sorian

Banned
I don't know if that's true since I haven't actually said anything that wasn't implied. It's true that they were generalities on the game, that's what I wanted to explain.

Except I look for the similar thing you are talking about. The issue that your post is doing is making it sound like any general talk is scummy when that's more the nature of the game. It's when a person can only talk in generalities. You quoted Sophia too who has also thrown out specific opinions which is why I call it disingenuous.
 
That would fit with you essentially wanting to policy lynch the people making "major mistakes."

How do you propose we win if the mafia plays to your inoffensive ideal?

You're aware mafia are the ones aware of who is townie and who is not, hence they're lying, which inevitably leads to inconsistensies if they're not careful, right

You're basically accusing me of lynching based on seeing weird plays and posts, as if that would be something bad

You're saying that I'm suspicious because I'm not suspicious

That line of thought is just desperate, tbh. In that case why do we not all just rely on gut?
I'm aware that gut is also a component of making a lynch decision

And in regards to me not making major mistakes: You're trying to frame me as somebody who thinks he's playing perfect, which couldn't be further from the truth. I'm sure I made completely senseless arguments somewhere. I just tend to acknowledge when others call me out on it and take it as a lesson for the future.
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
How would your play be different if you were scum, then?

Surely, scum is conscious of slipping up. If they avoid slipping up, how does town win?

If we need to policy lynch anyone slipping up (which is what your voting pattern suggests), shouldn't townies act the same way as scum, so town doesn't mislynch them?
 
How would your play be different if you were scum, then?

Surely, scum is conscious of slipping up. If they avoid slipping up, how does town win?

If we need to policy lynch anyone slipping up (which is what your voting pattern suggests), shouldn't townies act the same way as scum, so town doesn't mislynch them?

Uhh, we probably don't? What is this discussion about how the general game works suddenly? "What if scum plays good enough to not stand out in a negative way?" We probably lose. As if that would be something weird.

You're making a nonsense argument why I'm looking scummy and now we're talking game theory. You're deflecting from my answer to you. This is going nowhere.
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
Uhh, we probably don't? What is this discussion about how the general game works suddenly? "What if scum plays good enough to not stand out in a negative way?" We probably lose. As if that would be something weird.

So, to be clear:

Your strategy is to leap on everyone making mistakes and hope that they're all scum.

You have not even considered counterplay.
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
And in regards to me not making major mistakes: You're trying to frame me as somebody who thinks he's playing perfect, which couldn't be further from the truth. I'm sure I made completely senseless arguments somewhere. I just tend to acknowledge when others call me out on it and take it as a lesson for the future.

If you've made a mistake, why shouldn't you be lynched under your own logic?
 
Then what's your play to make sure town wins?

If all scum has to do is blend in, what's the counterplay from town?

Worm. I'm going to quote the official Mafia wiki at this point.

Given that the Town starts as the vast majority of the players, this would be a one-sided game were it not for how the Town players are not aware of who the other Townies are. As a result, the Mafia can try to blend in with the Town and sway the majority vote onto Townies, hoping to turn the Town against itself until the Mafia controls the majority vote and therefore the game.

You picked up an argument from someone else that didn't make much sense. We don't need to go over how the game of Mafia works.

If you have a proposal for what I'm supposed to do against perfectly blending in scum instead, I'd be delighted to hear it.
 
I might also want to add that I'm getting accused of "policy lynching" from you.

Both lynch options yesterday were policy lynching. You voted for one of those, Worm. I'm not seeing what you're doing different.
 

Dr. Worm

Banned
Worm. I'm going to quote the official Mafia wiki at this point.

You quoted how mafia can win. You didn't describe the counterplay to that.

That is not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I happen to not have made any major mistakes so far that would needlessly divert suspicion to me, and because of that, the only option you and Darryl seem to have left is to call exactly that scummy. That it's weird that I'm doing that.

Let's try an exercise. Let's say - purely hypothetically - that you're scum.

How can town win the game if we're not supposed to be able lynch you because you haven't made a mistake?

Uhh, we probably don't? What is this discussion about how the general game works suddenly? "What if scum plays good enough to not stand out in a negative way?" We probably lose. As if that would be something weird.

You're following a formula for play that, conveniently, ensures your own victory as scum, as long as everyone agrees with you. We simply lynch anyone who stands out negatively, which is of course not you. When people want to lynch you, you retreat to "well people will scumread me no matter what!" (Everyone in this game has been scumread or voted for at some point, so this is true.) This is frustrating to you, because you would like to play perfectly and remain unimpeachable.

Are you serious or is this so hard to understand? What you described is basically that I look scummy regardless what I do. My point is exactly that there's nothing you can tell me I should do that would make me not look scummy in your eyes following your previously used logic.

You loathe being castigated for not having seemingly done anything wrong. We all do, I can assure you.

You're aware mafia are the ones aware of who is townie and who is not, hence they're lying, which inevitably leads to inconsistensies if they're not careful, right

You're basically accusing me of lynching based on seeing weird plays and posts, as if that would be something bad

You're saying that I'm suspicious because I'm not suspicious

That line of thought is just desperate, tbh. In that case why do we not all just rely on gut?
I'm aware that gut is also a component of making a lynch decision

I'm not trying to lynch you because you're not suspicious.

However, you are overtly trying to avoid suspicion. I agree with you in that this play is scumplay. Maybe it's townplay, but I'm going to go with my gut here and say scumplay.

I know I'm making a mistake, thank you.

VOTE: Muffin1611
 

Verelios

Member
You can feel how you like, but that doesn't necessarily mean your feeling is true or accurate.

But if you feel that way, why not put your vote there?
Because I'm expressing how I feel? Because expression doesn't need to have a purpose or endpoint besides conveying emotion/thought. Because I can?

I love you too Sophia.
Except I look for the similar thing you are talking about. The issue that your post is doing is making it sound like any general talk is scummy when that's more the nature of the game. It's when a person can only talk in generalities. You quoted Sophia too who has also thrown out specific opinions which is why I call it disingenuous.

I feel like you're being purposely obtuse. Sam made a post about generalities and you two immediately followed it and made a thread of conversation. Now it's presence/contribution in the thread. What I wanted you to know is I've noted it for further reading.
 

Ty4on

Member
Ty4on, what was your reasoning for the scumread on kit/fep (I know you already mentioned this, but I'm too lazy to comb through your shitposts and find it) and where do you put that read now
A big part of it was that I had the least reason to town read them of pretty much everyone else in the game maybe except Sketch/Fish pair.

During the Dragonz and kitsune back and forth I started off thinking it was probably town v town. I came into it with a town read on Vere and by extension Dragonz and wrote the stuff (make sure to weed out the townies) hoping Dragonz wouldn't tunnel and see kitsune as town if she reacted well.
Some time later tho (not long before my first kitsune vote, 385 ish I think) I was kinda struck by none of the kitsune posts really doing anything for me apart from being aggressive, but some scum aren't afraid of defending heavily.

I took a short look at her last game and felt like her progression in this game was missing something. She makes a hard scum read of Dragonz, but it just doesn't look natural. Later in the day she's struggling to make any reads which is kinda honest and townie feeling in a way, but I know from my first scum game especially how hard it is to pump out reads.

Full disclosure: my slightly drunk brain noped out of the analysis itself once it saw its length. I only really read the reactions to it. Sorry for being a non-entity today, I think tomorrow will be better. Good night.
I function like that sober -_-

So I just want to say that I've gone over today's posts twice.

There are

so

many

words

but there's nothing of substance anywhere.
I kinda like this?

I was starting to feel bad again about Ouro, but that is kinda how I felt about today. That might have been because I haven't followed very closely...

Ouro just isn't playing very strongly with a lack of, passion, kinda. That's just a bit weird as scum with Ouro being try hard and someone who likes being scum.
 

Sophia

Member
Because I'm expressing how I feel? Because expression doesn't need to have a purpose or endpoint besides conveying emotion/thought. Because I can?

I love you too Sophia.

Yet I don't love you. My eyes see only crimson, not scum such as yourself. </3

Still, it feels like you're just throwing out non-committal shade there.
 
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