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Bookwyrm627: 1) Does the new convert get read access when converted, or can they not see the scum thread at all until they start a night as scum?
This was already covered not long ago by HSL. They get nothing until the next night. You caught up, right?
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dedoporno: If scum targets another scum or a hacker with conversion the actor scum will die. That risk is non-existent if they go for the safe choice which is the Vanilla. Even if both teams try to convert the same Vanilla the only thing they are risking is to kill the target which is still not that bad since it takes them one step closer. Hence teh Vanilla is a safe choice. Does that cover your question or did I not understand what you are asking? [..]
Yes, thanks.



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ZFR: [...] despite that by your own words, adalia was scummy too. [...]
Not "too" - he's pretty sure adaliabooks is scum, and thinks flubbucket is town vanilla.


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ZFR: [...] Yeah. Of all the mafia games I played on GOG, this one is best by far.
I thought this was your first one; which other mafia games have you played on GOG?



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Leonard03: [...] I honestly don't remember anything else about the game. [...]
So, the only memorable thing about the game you're thinking is mchack's verbosity as scum, even though it might be a game you were in? Gotcha.


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Leonard03: [...] Offering oneself up for lynch so as to avoid the possibility of lynching a mason... that's over kill. [...]
That's not exactly what I meant, and I'm pretty sure that's not exactly what flubbucket's doing.
I'd suggest you start using your brain more than your hip, were I not quite certain you already are.


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Leonard03: [...] Because he hadn't given a lot of indication that he was suspicious of adalia beforehand. And it seemed a bit like hopping to the biggest wagon. [...]
Well, you hadn't given much indication, if any at all, when you voted adaliabooks... And yet you didn't care to inquire why he placed his vote on adaliabooks, or if it was as it seemed to you.


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Leonard03: [...] Ah, well I'd like to point you to earlier in the same PM you mentioned to me, where it says "Your weapon is your vote..." [...]
What's the matter, Leonard03, choosing the right night-action turns out harder than you thought?


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Leonard03: [...] To me, a scummy vibe I get from a player is a reason. [...] ~snip for brevity~ [...] avoid the obvious slip-ups. [...]
That's quite the convenient way not to go on record, isn't it?


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Leonard03: [...] And I don't think it's unfair to say that players on here are experienced enough and clever enough to avoid the obvious slip-ups. [...]
They sure as hell try, don't they?


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Leonard03: [...] I'd suggest to everyone that we instead lynch adalia. Reading his posts gives me the feeling of a scum going under and struggling to grab onto anyone else around to push them down instead. Seeing his flip will be useful to look back over this day and see what we can figure out.
[emphasis added]

He made a case for lynching flubbucket, as town vanilla, and one for mchack as his scum-read. I don't see him jumping on people left and right, to try and save his skin. How is he trying to grab onto anyone else?

Also, can you point me to where he fought his own lynch when he was the lading wagon?


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Leonard03: [...] I don't want to lynch flub today, I believe it's better to wait and see what happens N1. [...]
Why do you believe its better?
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dedoporno: .............
So they are priceless, then. Aren't those the best kind?
When I was a kid my mom didn't pay me for being good.



So I was good for nuthin'.
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flubbucket: So I was good for nuthin'.
I took a logic class once. It had this as an example:

"A grilled cheese sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore, a grilled cheese sandwich is better than God."
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Bookwyrm627: 1) Does the new convert get read access when converted, or can they not see the scum thread at all until they start a night as scum?
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dedoporno: This was already covered not long ago by HSL. They get nothing until the next night. You caught up, right?
His question, and the answer to it, are what triggered this question.

-HSL asked whether a Convert has full access to the chat. That could be read as having Read/Write access.
-The answer was that they only get access on the following night. That could be read as they can't even see the thread on the night (and following day) that they get converted.

I want to clarify whether a convert has read access for the Day after being converted. I'd been assuming they'd get the link to the (now closed) QT when they are informed they've been converted; they could read it that Day, but they couldn't post themselves until the following Night.
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HypersomniacLive: *barrage of questions*
Ah, miss being the one being quoted in such posts. I'll need to up my game to be deserving of that I suppose.

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Krypsyn: Trentonlf's voting patterns, as much as his rhetoric, have been giving me a metaphoric headache, and that is a big part of the reason my vote is on him now. However, no, that wasn't the trigger.
Interesting thing to say, but it looks like those Kyrpsyn points won't be mine :(

@bookwyrm What do you make of flub's play in general?

Also thinking further on scum teams actions if flub lives I am not entirely convinced it can bind scum to act in a way. Could post more if people want me to but in short I think it can lead to a scenario where scum would risk being killed to convert others so that flub makes it to d2 and we're not sure if his alignment has stayed the same or changed. Since there are no investigative roles it will be up to flub to convince us that he's not been converted or get lynched on d2 instead. Could be seen as postponing the inevitable and I could be wrong though, willing to hear out what others think of this.

Generally a prisoners dilemma problem as I had referenced in my previous post goes little something like this - there's 2 people caught for a crime but evidence is scant so police will need a confession to really prosecute them. Then they isolate both these prisoners and offer them a deal that if they talk and the other guy talks as well it'll be 1 year prison sentence for both. If you talk and other doesn't, then you'll get no jail time whereas the other gets 3 years jail time and vice versa. Then in final case if both of you don't talk then both of you will have to serve 2 years in prison. I feel that it applies here because both scum teams are being pushed to take a similar action, whereas the payoff in the former example is in terms of prison time here it will be a bit more in terms of risk they have to take by converting an unknown entity or sticking with a known entity with limited lifespan either because of suspicion on d2 or both scum teams choosing flub.
Here is a wikipedia link for the interested ones as I feel I did a shoddy job in terms of applying that concept here.

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Krypsyn: I took a logic class once. It had this as an example:

"A grilled cheese sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Therefore, a grilled cheese sandwich is better than God."
Can't beat that logic
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Hunter65536: Interesting thing to say...
Yes. Although, while my votes may have been no less annoying to certain people, at least they were entirely predictable (until the end condition was met).
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Krypsyn: Yes. Although, while my votes may have been no less annoying to certain people, at least they were entirely predictable (until the end condition was met).
So you have a strong reason to believe that trent is scum? Still isn't very much different from your other votes unless you explain why you'd think that.
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Bookwyrm627: ...
Since conversions make the Cult significantly more powerful already, converts will not get any access to the chat until the following Night. So they have to 'fly blind' the first Day.

vote count will follow in an hour or so.
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Hunter65536: So you have a strong reason to believe that trent is scum? Still isn't very much different from your other votes unless you explain why you'd think that.
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I will not double post again!

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Bookwyrm627: PPE: And Mchack sort of already covered this in 319. Also, that post highlights a somewhat disturbing trend in more than just mchack: an almost assumption that scum will be able to pick which kind of target they're going to hit (mason, vanilla, scum) [Oh good. HSL is on top of this].
where did I say that scum will be able to pick which kind of target they're going to hit?
reread #319 and it's certainly not in there...

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mchack: -the first scenario is better for town I suspect.
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Bookwyrm627: You "suspect" the first scenario is better for town? Is there any case, at all, where the second scenario is better?? I really hope someone else has already commented on this.
yes the first is better, but if you want hypothetical scenarios: if the two nk are masons but the one nk and one conversion is two vanillas, then the second option is better.

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Bookwyrm627: He's not a mason. Some days, that has to be good enough.
I haven't asked that. Never will. But you just know that? how?

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dedoporno: but I don't see how claiming mason is such a good play for scum (well, they will probably avoid the immediate lynch but in the long run they are likely to go down anyway, since there are these new threats for them).
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Bookwyrm627: The long term is irrelevant if they get lynched now.
Trust in masons, is what krypsyn says. They'll know.

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mchack: Yes :) ... I'll call krypsyn and his doll!
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Krypsyn: Very well. I am here with my doll. What now?
Now for something fun :) ... D'n'D? or Cat Videos? oh, I know let's play mafia!

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HypersomniacLive: dedoporno may never have voted flubbucket, but he's not averse to it if need be. Besides, isn't he he scum for you?
his being scum or not, doesn't change anything in that context. But sure, seems he is in the "would lynch townie, if possible" category...

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HypersomniacLive: ZFR changed his vote to trentonlf awaiting the latter's explanations, i.e. if he's satisfied with them he may well go back to flubbucket.
may or not. who knows.

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HypersomniacLive: I've not voted for anyone so far; what does it prove in relation to not having voted flubbucket?
This is a good point. I asked for your reads before. Now I think is a good a time as any to go on record.
Do you think flub is scum or town, right now?
If you think he is town, do you intend to vote for him?
Who do you think is scum this dusk? ... remember you never know what happens at night, you might want to go on record, before night hits, because no one knows who'll wake up again tomorrow...

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HypersomniacLive: Taking things out of context doesn't make your counterargument strong(er), or even stand.
true. don't know that I have though. He lists players as if they are backing his thoughts, but I'm the only one averse to them. I just wanted to show, that their backing doesn't go so far as to vote accordingly.

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mchack: [...] sure he may be converted the next day (again) BOOM dead scum! [...]
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HypersomniacLive: Except that it's going to be one dead scum that didn't exist the Day before.
nope, the recruiter dies. see the setup.

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mchack: [...] Working against your current team on the off chance it may change is not something anyone will do. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: You speak in awfully strong absolutes as to what others would and would never do. Which is doubly noticeable since you were in game #51, and experienced first hand how some people played for that off chance.
to my knowledge no-one did play against his current goal in #51. Do you mean bookwyrm or flubs? they're in this game too, we should ask them.
@flubs, @bookwyrm: Did either of you play against your own win condition last game, in the hopes of acquiring other win conditions someday and to not hurt those?

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mchack: [...] Another Lie! post #406 you'll see my 3rd scumread is bookwyrm. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: Yeah well, being irked by someone and actually scum-reading them is not exactly the same thing. And this is aside the fact that it came later with the sort of preface I always love to see.
true. though there was not much to read from bookwyrm, yet was there? and the truth of it is still, that it's simply false to state, I'd only OMGUSed adalia and dedo all game, wouldn't you say?

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mchack: [...] flubs won't be different from others tomorrow. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: Not exactly.
But mostly. Remember: even, when we have a conversion tonight, you can in no way be sure it was flubs. Could just as well be you getting converted. We'll have to reassert everyone. flubs included, but not only flubs.

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mchack: [...] there is 5 vanillas out there. I have an Idea who some might be. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: But you have an idea as to who the other "5-some" are, eh?
what?

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mchack: [...] You sure have an Idea who some might be and scum definitly also has an Idea who might be a vanilla. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: [emphasis added]

Wait, isn't dedoporno your #2 scum? Why mention him separately from the collective scum that "also" has an idea who a town vanilla might be?
I was talking to him. I feel it brings the point across better. As in: I know something, You know something, other people will know something, too. If he thinks about it and knows something, he'll concede other people probably know something, too.
simply rethoric....

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mchack: [...] scum definitly also has an Idea who might be a vanilla. [...]
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HypersomniacLive: [emphasis added]
Do tell, what makes you so sure that scum definitely have an idea about the vanillas?
They read the thread, same as we do. it doesn't take a genius to form opinions about people from the way they talk. Scum do that. Doesn't make the Ideas correct, but do you really, seriously suggest scums only option is flubs? They won't consider others?

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mchack: c) lynching scum

Guess what, I'm for c!
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Bookwyrm627: C doesn't stop any conversions, and may enable one. Even if we could kill 3 scum on Day 1, that would still leave a conversion open to hit a claimed vanilla.
yes it does. it removes one conversion from the game forever. Only four conversions can happen this game. With adalia dead, it's only 3

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mchack: You think killing town is helping town.
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Bookwyrm627: Mischaracterization.
how so?

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mchack: "Someone targeted by two recruitments at the same time, dies."

flub will simply die. no liability anymore and better yet, two scumshots wasted on one townie.

So who here is really thinking it would be a great thing, to remove this complexity from scum? who here thinks it is townie to do scums work and let scum have a free pick at all the other seven town players tonight?
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Bookwyrm627: I was actually considering moving my vote for precisely this reason. Now that scum have been reminded of this possibility, there is no point in keeping him alive. -.-

At worst, Flub is vanilla town. At best, he's scum. Either way, he needs to die, especially since we don't know if we're actually doing scum's work for them.

Don't worry Flub. If you're town, you can win or lose with me.
*emphasis added*
it is in the gamesetup. My premise is: scum can read. nothing has changed by that comment.

lol, ok good you're enforcing your seat in my scumreadlist #3. How is it that flub needs to die now, that you realized he can trip up scum?
let's say he's scum then scum(teamB) can die by neglecting the possibility. let's say he's town, scum can die by trying to convert him(N2) (or loose their shot for nothing(N1))
How exactly is it that flub has to be lynched now and can't be left for scum to trip over?

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mchack: Even if we lynch flubs, two town vanilla can get converted and we have 6 scum instead of 5 (if we lynch adalia and the same happens).
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Bookwyrm627: Two town vanilla could be converted regardless of whether we lynch scum.
yes, and that makes it better to lynch town how?

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mchack: Second also wrong because, he plays for fun, not to win, he said so himself.
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Bookwyrm627: Both your links show him saying he plays for fun. Neither link shows him saying he does not play to win.
look again! the second one: see what he answers to :

"mchack: ... I think we all play this game to win and that includes flubs, too"
"flubbucket: MOAR BULLSHIT!!!11!!1

This is a game.

I play games for fun."
EBWOP (linking fail)

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Lifthrasil: Yes, it is. And yes this means from Wednesday on, European late morning/noon, Nightfall may happen. I'll be quite busy on Wednesday, so it will probably rather be Wednesday evening (European time). But I will not state a precise deadline.
Well, you could simply say European late afternoon/evening and that still wouldn't be a precise deadline. It is of course up to you, it's just that I'd like to be around for EoD, and European late morning/noon doesn't work for me. May not work for those across the pond either, but not speaking for them.


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Lifthrasil: Since conversions make the Cult significantly more powerful already, converts will not get any access to the chat until the following Night. So they have to 'fly blind' the first Day.

vote count will follow in an hour or so.
Then the Convert's PM in the setup document is misleading, as it currently gives them the link to the QT.
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mchack: ..............
@flubs, @bookwyrm: Did either of you play against your own win condition last game, in the hopes of acquiring other win conditions someday and to not hurt those?
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Why would I ever do such a thing??
I will not double post again!

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Hunter65536: Also thinking further on scum teams actions if flub lives I am not entirely convinced it can bind scum to act in a way. Could post more if people want me to but in short I think it can lead to a scenario where scum would risk being killed to convert others so that flub makes it to d2 and we're not sure if his alignment has stayed the same or changed. Since there are no investigative roles it will be up to flub to convince us that he's not been converted or get lynched on d2 instead. Could be seen as postponing the inevitable and I could be wrong though, willing to hear out what others think of this.
the "get lynched on D2 part" and "could be seen as postponing the inevitable" is what bothers me, sure it may be the case. or not. Maybe the actually converted player slips up. and we lynch him. or we get interesting info by the flips and go after someone revealed by that? there is more than one scum out there and we should go after the scummiest. if that happens to be flubs D2 ok. if not why force it, to make him to lynch? we can't be postponing the inevitable, if nothing in this setup is inevitable. We'll have to go day by day and react, to the new info we get through each lynch and each flip. Everyday trying to hit scum. that's the way to win in my opinion.