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adaliabooks: [...] I'm not sure I've done anything particularly scummy though? [...]
Yet.


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adaliabooks: [...] Are you trying to suggest I've purposely thrown every game I've played as scum so far to make it all the more surprising when I do finally play well? :P
(that's a rhetorical question, I know you're not really suggesting that)
Well, I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mentioned it...
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drealmer7: not scum, as much as HSL wants me to be (or wants to paint it to be that I am...)

I'll get to his WOTs at somepoint and the whatever else, I haven't read page 2 yet, I just see all the posts and I feel like playing Planescape: Torment sooo, off to do that

maybe you all can find something to focus on in the meantime aside from me? it's not like I'm floating and not like we don't have the time to pursue multiple lines of thought, I highly advise that because

remember, scum wants you wasting time focusing on me and then letting enough shite build to then be like "well he did it to himself" so they don't have to be accountable if I get MLed
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adaliabooks: Yeah... cause that's really filling me with confidence in your townieness.

Do you know who often makes excuses for not reading the thread and says they're playing games instead?
Scum.

Krypsyn used to do it quite a bit. I'm fairly sure I've done it at least once. Vitek comes to mind too, though I can't actually recall playing a game where he was scum so I may have that wrong.

I think we should just kill you now to get it out of the way, right now there's a fairly high chance you are actually scum, and if not at least we all won't spend the next three (in game) days wondering whether to lynch you or not.

So, who else is interested in a drealmer lynch?
Remember how I said serious consideration?
I feel it's cool. I'm not impressed by being blown off by drealmerz, since on MS he doesn't really exhibit this behavior.

However, RWarehall looks to be spewing HARD. First the drealmerz pick thing and then "people who didn't repeat are scummier than repeaters". You trying to say scum are faking non-repeats, RW?
Do you guys do reads lists often? Might as well.
Town
Hunter
adalia
trent
gogtrial
lift
HSL
drealmerz
RWarehall
Scum
HSL still feels a little scummy but my main issue was address with the timing of his post being counter to my original thoughts, so he's higher than drealmerz. Lift is my "straight null" line. Adalia does not really seem to be trying to deceive, so I feel he is town. A lot of the things people seem to be pinged by for adalia don't really ring scummy to me.
I really don't like how Gamma is coat-tailing Drealmer's argument. I made my point. How scum might react to the reveal may vary. I'm not sure if they might intentionally avoid dups to look more lownly or try to dupe to reveal less info. Strangely Gamma seems not to talk about my reasons, but instead just fallback to a claim of "it's scummy".

Now both Drealmer and Gamma seemed to be trying to put off reveals which I find a bit scummy as establishing a position early helps avoid "convenient" later claims to steer the lynch. Of the two, while I find Drealmer quite scummy as posted. I can't help but feel his play is consistent with his usual play. Also of note, pointed out earlier, that the two cannot be teammates.

Hence, at this point, I find Gamma the scummier of the two and I get the sense he(she?) is trying too hard. I don't really find Hyper scummy at all. I'd have to believe by double duping, he's doing that solely for a WIFOM play as scum which seems quite problematic this early and prone to backfire. I wouldn't risk it, so I'd believe Hyper wouldn't either.

I'm just not seeing a lot of solid reasoning and that list doesn't seem to jive with what reasoning I've seen.

Vote GammaEmerald
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adaliabooks: Bah. We've almost reached 100 posts and no one has even placed a proper vote yet (in fact I'm fairly sure Lift's vote is the only vote all game)

This just won't do...

My gut says drealmer is genuinely scum this time.

Vote drealmer7
Almost on the verge of voting myself, just waiting to see drealmer's reaction to HSL post above to confirm since I fear he could be a misguided townie again.
End of (real life) day - 3/5/17

Votecount
drealmer7 (1): adaliabooks
GammaEmerald (1): RWarehall

Not Voting: drealmer7, GammaEmerald, gogtrial34987, Hunter65536, HypersomiacLive, Lifthrasil, trentonlf

At L-4, drealmer7 and GammaEmerald are closest to being lynched.
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GammaEmerald: Scum
HSL still feels a little scummy but my main issue was address with the timing of his post being counter to my original thoughts, so he's higher than drealmerz. Lift is my "straight null" line. Adalia does not really seem to be trying to deceive, so I feel he is town. A lot of the things people seem to be pinged by for adalia don't really ring scummy to me.
Can you explain the bold part further? I don't see anything that Hyper has done as scummy and would like clarification on exactly what you mean.
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GammaEmerald: However, RWarehall looks to be spewing HARD. First the drealmerz pick thing and then "people who didn't repeat are scummier than repeaters". You trying to say scum are faking non-repeats, RW?
Except that's just numbers and even he said it's not substitute for scum hunting. He had a hypothesis and tested it with numbers IMO, that's all there is to take away from it.

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GammaEmerald: Scum
HSL still feels a little scummy but my main issue was address with the timing of his post being counter to my original thoughts, so he's higher than drealmerz. Lift is my "straight null" line. Adalia does not really seem to be trying to deceive, so I feel he is town. A lot of the things people seem to be pinged by for adalia don't really ring scummy to me.
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trentonlf: Can you explain the bold part further? I don't see anything that Hyper has done as scummy and would like clarification on exactly what you mean.
Think he means duplicate picks by HSL, HSL going after drealmer and misquoted part by drealmer about adalia. None of these seem scummy to me as well.
On the other hand gamma does seem to be trying too hard to get others lynched. So I'll go with RW on this and place my vote there
Vote Gamma
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drealmer7: I'll get to his WOTs at somepoint and the whatever else, I haven't read page 2 yet, I just see all the posts and I feel like playing Planescape: Torment sooo, off to do that

maybe you all can find something to focus on in the meantime aside from me? it's not like I'm floating and not like we don't have the time to pursue multiple lines of thought, I highly advise that because
So, let me get this straight: you're not invested in the game, you aren't even to page 2 in this game and yet you throw around strong statements about other people's scumminess? And you have the nerve to call for others not to focus on just one player, but do it yourself all the time? That is very scummy!

IF you are town, you really need to clean up your act. Instead of complaining that scum profits from you doing yourself in, how about stopping to do yourself in?

And no, the chance that you're scum is not 0%. That would only be the case if all combinations including you would have been excluded. But that wasn't the case - and if we had followed your 'advice' the excluded combinations wouldn't even be on the table.

I see RW's and Hunter's reasons for voting Gamma and I agree that (s)he seems a bit scummy and needs watching (just as gogtrial and HSL, though HSL doesn't feel scummy). But for the moment and with the last posts you definitely top the scum list. Yes, the drealmer I know does strange things. But he was always invested in the game. That you aren't now might be a very good tell that you are scum.

Therefore: vote drealmer7

And let me repeat this: IF you are town (and that's a big IF), please clean up your act and start focusing on the game in total, not just on HSL. Or in other words: start to try helping town instead of pushing your own personal agenda - and playing PS:T (I know that game is awesome. But if you're so caught up in it that you can't really participate in this game, that's hardly fair on the other players. So if you prefer to focus on PS:T, please ask for replacement).
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Lifthrasil: I see RW's and Hunter's reasons for voting Gamma and I agree that (s)he seems a bit scummy and needs watching (just as gogtrial and HSL, though HSL doesn't feel scummy). But for the moment and with the last posts you definitely top the scum list. Yes, the drealmer I know does strange things. But he was always invested in the game. That you aren't now might be a very good tell that you are scum.

Therefore: vote drealmer7
This is what is really not rubbing me right. I may not agree with drealmer most of the time and find him scummy, but usually he's in the game shouting his head off. It feels like he's trying to avoid posting so he doesn't have to commit to anything or get himself in trouble.

As scum in the past I have often played that way, and see my team mates play that way, so it's a huge red flag.

Coupled with the fact he was in favour of not revealing picks (with no straight answer as to why) and I do think he might be scum this game.

I can see why others are voting Gamma, but I've had a couple of town pings from him and as it's one or the other I find drealmer the better target.
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gogtrial34987: Btw, given your history with always reading trent the opposite of his true alignment, and him starting off the game interacting (and agreeing!) with you quite a bit, do you have an early read for him?
nope but any time he doesn't ping me as scummy makes me wary of him, but I know better than to form a read off of that at this point

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HypersomniacLive: 1st pair: Since scum have day chat, breaking up pairs of players in the same timezone was something I took into account. GammaEmerald is an unknown, to us, player but who knows and has played with drealmer7, so I chose to break them up.
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GammaEmerald: We do have similar active hours, from my SHORT time with drealmerz in Flip Flop.
my active hours shift all of the time lately because of having trouble sleeping (anxiety)

I sleep when I can sleep, I slept a lot of yesterday

so adalia goes from this:
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adaliabooks: Woo, someone picked me!

Yeah, I agree the matrix and picks are of limited use, but they are more useful out in the open. Basically it's handy to look at a pair and know they can't possibly be scum, as it limits the conspiracy theories and doubts.

So far drealmer and gamma are the most suspicious for not wanting to share picks, but we know they can't be team mates so it's one of them at best.

I'll have to look properly at the order of declared picks to see who claimed a duplicate as I think there is reason to suspect them (though only a little)
to this:

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adaliabooks: Unfortunately the overlapping picks don't seem to be much use, Hyper comes off most suspicious for having two duplicates while only being the third pick, but as there are more people who chose duplicate pairs than not I don't think it really says much about any of them.
rather quickly

and then this:

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GammaEmerald: Part of me feels unsettled by the fact Hyper put in explanations with his and he repeated people that came before him with both picks.
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adaliabooks: I have to say this concerned me a little too. Not sure what to make of it really...
are you scum with HSL?

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GammaEmerald: As for the purpose in this game, it would necessarily serve any purpose THIS game, but it would help with game theory for this setup.

Part of me feels unsettled by the fact Hyper put in explanations with his and he repeated people that came before him with both picks.
that's pretty scummy!!! you know and we all know that this is the game that matters and each game you should be dedicated to your wincon not mafiatheory exploration

I'm very unsettled that HSL has repeat claims as the 3rd claimer, and his reasons for picking them seem like they were typed out hastily rather than what I'd figure HSL to give us (something more 1.) elaborate and 2.) pointed.) - like he wanted to do it as fast as possible to try and seem less suspicious intentionally

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Lifthrasil: Yes. I noticed you all skipped RVS.

unvote drealmer7

...but I don't have any non-RVS suspect yet. Sure, duplicates in pair selection might be scum trying not to give us any more information than we already have. But statistics dictates that there will be some duplicates. So this is nothing strong. But the pairings made public is useful in one respect: As soon as we get one scum, all players that were in an excluded pairing with him are automatically certified town. So it will be very useful to find the second scum.
whoawhoawhoawhoa

this is all you have for us up to this point?!?! and it is just repetition / stating the obvious from what has already been said/deduced! hugepings from lift, I want more from him at this point...a lot more, as it sounds like he's just playing it safe/reserved

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HypersomniacLive: Let me see if I got everything straight.

In a game setup where we, as town, need more than ever to work together to weed out scum, you, allegedly as town, chose to suggest something, not having town's best interest in mind but as an experiment to compare two different approaches to this setup because it would help with game theory for said setup.
ahhh, HSL, twisting things into more scumminess than they really are, how comforting!

in your opinion it doesn't have town's best interest - in gamma's argument, he says it doesn't NECESSARILY, and goes on to explain why HE'S NOT CERTAIN and hence the experiment in the first place - you're acting as if he's already performed the experiment he was desiring and should have come to the same conclusion you did about what is best

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HypersomniacLive: You then go on to shed suspicion on me, trying to exploit the fact that my picks were repeats, and using against me the fact that I did the town thing and volunteered my thinking behind the choices I made. Because as town, the normal course would be to roll a die; absolutely no need to try and strategise a bit, or make the most possible out of this. Also, no need to get everyone on record early on as to why they made the choices they did.
shed suspicion, exploit, using against me - you're twisting what is going on to make it more severe than it was, as you do

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HypersomniacLive: Do you think that as scum, and with day chat at my disposal, I'd reveal this early (third) and make both my pairs repeats of the two players that proceeded me? Do you think that I wouldn't have thought that out a bit better as to avoid getting under scrutiny this early on? Give me a little more credit than that.
YES and nice WIFOM there, and then adding the "give me alittle more credit than that" is some AtE rhetoric pushing it even more - scumposts galore from HSL, but, he's like that as town too so...tempering the read

I can totally see you (or any number of us) doing exactly that as a valid strategy, that you try to argue that it wouldn't be a good, usable, workable one, is suspect

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Hunter65536: My initial reaction as well but then he posted very quickly within span of 10 minutes after my pick reveal post so I think it is less likely he could frame the reasons as well in such short time, could be mistaken though.
I think he could very well frame reasons, especially if he thought about it ahead of time (at least on an individual player basis), and it'd be no sweat for him to do what he did in a span of 10 minutes, at all, and I get the sense that is possible he did rush it a bit given how he did it (they just don't seem like normal HSL sentences or phrasings to me), and the only reason to rush would be to "get in to look less suspicious" and only scum would care about that.

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Lifthrasil: drealmer, however, seems to be trying too hard to make HSL scum. And RW.
I'm trying too hard? where exactly does it look like I'm "trying hard" - I'm just pointing out things like I do that strike me to point out, and I always come off as pushing someone as scum than I intend to - I don't have a confident SR/scumlean on anyone at this point

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Lifthrasil: Being at odd so obviously that no one thinks of them as pair?
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Hunter65536: Highly unlikely so early into the game, since that would draw attention to them both and also it doesn't put them any closer to win.
I disagree. It's never too early to associate with a scumbuddy to start building the WIFOM.

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RWarehall: Actually, given that there was quite a bit of discussion of scum duplicating picks to their advantage and that one extra pairing isn't so significant, I'm inclined to put a little more scrutiny on those who didn't duplicate which puts Trent, Hunter, Adalia and Gamma on the watch list.

But I am curious, how many duplicates should be expected. I'll get back to you on that.
PING

this just sounds to me like you're making sure to leave the door open to SR ppl who didn't duplicate or to steer ppl away from those that have duplicates

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RWarehall: But it is far enough over the average of 4 that I'm not sure my idea that scum might lie to avoid dups seems a reasonable hypothesis.
uhhuh...

so you're saying a bunch of nothing that isnot helpful...thanks!
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drealmer7: so adalia goes from this:
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adaliabooks: I'll have to look properly at the order of declared picks to see who claimed a duplicate as I think there is reason to suspect them (though only a little)
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drealmer7: to this:

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adaliabooks: Unfortunately the overlapping picks don't seem to be much use, Hyper comes off most suspicious for having two duplicates while only being the third pick, but as there are more people who chose duplicate pairs than not I don't think it really says much about any of them.
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drealmer7: rather quickly

and then this:

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adaliabooks: I have to say this concerned me a little too. Not sure what to make of it really...
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drealmer7: are you scum with HSL?
And the problem with that is?

In between me saying I'd have to look at the order of the duplicate picks to see what I could learn both trial and Hyper posted the list with details of duplicates. Seeing that only me, gamma and the first two picks actually managed to pick unique pairings made any attempt to use it for scum hunting mostly pointless.
You'll notice I did point out that Hyper came off worst from the list before I made the second point expressing my concern about it.

There are other things that concern me about Hyper, but as of now I don't think they are worth pursuing.
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drealmer7: after a good amount of contemplation I think I would have liked to wait until D2 when we had 2 kills on the table and a good amount of scumhunting done and then made D2s leading wagon (after 4 days into the Day) reveal their picks first
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gogtrial34987: As Gamma also pointed out, not revealing until D2 would've lost us the knowledge of up to four pairs.
Did you not consider that, or do you really feel D2 reveals would've been more beneficial despite that? (If so, I'd really like to understand your reasoning for that, so please do say a bit more on this subject.)
clarification:

mass reveal

obviously anyone brough to L-1 on D1 should claim their picks and I didn't mean to suggest otherwise - always claim at L-1, of course!!!

we'd only lose the NK reveal potentially, and yes, I think it COULD have served town better to wait - we'll never know

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gogtrial34987: This part I fully believe.
But y'know, drealmer, no one has claimed anything else. I'd accuse you of putting up a strawman, except I think that you genuinely seem to be under the impression that there's people around who're trying to go the puzzle-solving route, and that they need to be convinced otherwise. Pretty much everyone here has been expressing that of course we still have to scum hunt. Actually... *checks* Yeah, 7 out of 9 players have said to relatively explicitly. (The two exceptions - on a quick scan - were adalia and Lift.)
it's not that they're going the puzzle-solving route, it's that, at almost 100 posts, people are still using it as content to post about MORE than other stuff - RW more than anyone, as if he's making sure to set up his positions for later validation. Of course scum are going to say "of course we stil need to scumhunt primarily" as cover and, while yes lift/adalia could be scum, it's not smart to use that as an idicator one way or another

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drealmer7: nice! thanks for volunteering, very scumtelling of you
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gogtrial34987: Is this an actual ping? Something about adalia is bothering me a bit (feels kinda... floaty, maybe?) - but I haven't been able to put my finger on anything definite, and the one time I've seen adalia play in 1 night wasn't really a good comparison.
"Though I suppose I couldn't fault the logic of lynching me D1 if I'm statistically the most likely to be scum." is the part that specifically pings me, and yes, absolutely a ping to me to say he'd not fault ppl for pushing his lynch due to statistics - like WHAT?!?!?! I'd fault you all if you lynched someone based on statistics, and I can't believe adalia wouldn't also, as town, but as scum I can see him saying this to try and get townpoints for "being okay with his lynch"

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RWarehall: @gogtrial I've already answered this. At the time I thought it would be a waste because I expected Drealmer to gather suspicion and get lynched early, probably as town. I felt the real value of the picks would come toward endgame and picking someone more likely to get lynched day 1 out of habit seemed to be a wasted pick to me.

It's nothing more than that.
this just totally reeks of pooooo - especially now that you've added the "probably as town" addendum to your original statement to avoid addressing my likelihood of getting lynched early as scum

you "expected" my early lynch, but as I said, I haven't been MLed early as town in a while, and even then my lynches didn't exactly come easy for scum

there's just all sorts of wrong with this statement

and now I'm up to HSL's lovely attack-post at me and I'm going to post this and maybe hopefully get to that and the rest before long
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drealmer7: ....
I think I finally figured out my issue with you. You irk me when you start making the game personal. You might not think you are making it personal, but as I read your posts that's how it feels. For me I don't see how Hyper has twisted anything you've said or done or anyone else for that matter. All he has done is question everyone to gauge reactions and make sure he has a reference point to come back to later if someone tries changing their story. To me it seems you don't like it that Hyper questioned yours and gamma's play and you lash out.

The only way we are going to win this is by questioning and pushing, and if you can't see that then you might want to really think about what this game is about.
I think it is possible that it starts to sound like I make it personal when I feel like I'm being misrepresented or misunderstood. I have trouble parsing the argument that is being given from how I perceive it is being given.

With HSL, in regards to me and to others, I regularly feel like he exaggerates, twists, and dramatizes even at times, the points he is bringing up about others. Like a yellowjournalist looking to spread propaganda rather than make sure they have an exact grasp of the facts (the facts in mafia being the actual positions people hold) - like his goal is to not understand what was said, but to take what was said and try to make it understood by others as suspect as possible while making it look like he's doing "solid journalism." and I just go "omg that's not solid journalism that's misrepped propaganda!!"