Posted June 19, 2022

CarnethystPhoenix
New User
Registered: Nov 2020
From United States

dedoporno
A bloody pirate!
Registered: Apr 2012
From Bulgaria
Posted June 19, 2022


Catventurer
Savior of Cats
Registered: Mar 2021
From United States
Posted June 19, 2022
Note - I'm not fully caught up. One of the four cats has kidney failure, and I have to go help deal with administering fluids now. This is going to take a while.
FrostburnPhoenix: Look at Cephy's vote here, look at his reason given, look at the timing, and look at the vote count at the time. Does that not look scummy?
JoeSapphire: I don't think so particularly?
Wanting to eliminate lurkers is fine. Finding you scummy but not voting you because of first-game-priviledge is fine. Not realising babark may also be eligible for vote immunity is fine.
Is it you think he's trying to push an alternative to AZ?
Can you say why this post is more likely from a scum mindset than a town mindset? I think he's just being butthurt because I made a post so large that I had to split it between three posts detailing why I think he isn't as inexperienced as he claimed and also why I think he's mafia.
dedoporno: Sure, I've seen such as well. What does your gut tell you? What is happening here with Frostburn? to long; didn't read - His posts read like someone who is more experienced with the game than what he stated, specially his use of jargon that nobody else in the thread has used (role madness, rolehunter). This makes his comment that he has no prior experience beyond reading the most recent game look like a lie. If you're going to lie about something this stupid, it makes other things look suspicious.
Even without that -
He was quick to read too much into Catte's change to Sanspoof and act like something nefarious was going on.
He was quick to get into an altercation with ZFR when asked what he misread, then spontaneously offers to reveal his role thus implying that he was town when nobody was even trying to vote him off.
He tried to start something with me yesterday after I voted for someone that wasn't even him because they looked like a lurker, which is just more bizarre behavior. Especially since this was after I had pretty much accused him of being mafia. I've since made this post here: (see post 294)
dedoporno: But that should to be automatically assumed, no? Obviously anyone in their right mind is or pretends to be Town. Don't tell me you expect anyone who is Town to state so publicly and if someone doesn't do it then there is a chance they aren't because of it? I'm going to need to refer you back to the incident of the voteless townie: (see post 196)
Hypothetically speaking, let's say that Frost's role function is mafia ninja, which I'm using only because this was the actual role of the voteless townie.
If he comes out and says on day one, "Hey everyone. I'm the mafia ninja. If you try to investigate me, I'll appear to be at home asleep in my bed. Meanwhile I'll send one doppelganger out to for secret mafia meetings and another doppelganger out to perform an additional solo assassination on the side."
Why would you not vote to lynch in this case?
By offering to reveal his role, Frost is implying that he is town because mafia roles would be lynched if revealed. By stating that he has a special role, he's also implying that he's valuable to the town thus should never be lynched.


Wanting to eliminate lurkers is fine. Finding you scummy but not voting you because of first-game-priviledge is fine. Not realising babark may also be eligible for vote immunity is fine.
Is it you think he's trying to push an alternative to AZ?
Can you say why this post is more likely from a scum mindset than a town mindset?

Even without that -
He was quick to read too much into Catte's change to Sanspoof and act like something nefarious was going on.
He was quick to get into an altercation with ZFR when asked what he misread, then spontaneously offers to reveal his role thus implying that he was town when nobody was even trying to vote him off.
He tried to start something with me yesterday after I voted for someone that wasn't even him because they looked like a lurker, which is just more bizarre behavior. Especially since this was after I had pretty much accused him of being mafia. I've since made this post here: (see post 294)

Hypothetically speaking, let's say that Frost's role function is mafia ninja, which I'm using only because this was the actual role of the voteless townie.
If he comes out and says on day one, "Hey everyone. I'm the mafia ninja. If you try to investigate me, I'll appear to be at home asleep in my bed. Meanwhile I'll send one doppelganger out to for secret mafia meetings and another doppelganger out to perform an additional solo assassination on the side."
Why would you not vote to lynch in this case?
By offering to reveal his role, Frost is implying that he is town because mafia roles would be lynched if revealed. By stating that he has a special role, he's also implying that he's valuable to the town thus should never be lynched.

Ambiti0nZ
It's all fun and games until HijacK comes in
Registered: Dec 2020
From United States
Posted June 19, 2022
It's literally man in Spanish. LMFAO
ZFR: No. What you're describing is "selection bias". More specifically making conclusions on anecdotal evidence, a.k.a cherry picking. Survivorship bias is something different. No, I'm describing survivorship bias because you're concentrating on the cases that made it past your selection criteria. Selection bias would've meant you did some sort of statistical analysis and fudged with the numbers, but alas, you did not attempt such a thing and I'd question where you'd even get the data for it.
You just claimed my scenario as unfeasible because of your couple anecdotes. Right. You're right. You didn't say the sky is gray. You just said it ain't blue, though both of us are indoors and don't see it at all.

You just claimed my scenario as unfeasible because of your couple anecdotes. Right. You're right. You didn't say the sky is gray. You just said it ain't blue, though both of us are indoors and don't see it at all.

HypersomniacLive
The Reluctant Voter
Registered: Sep 2011
From Vatican City
Posted June 19, 2022
Going to catch up as much as I can in the time I got now, and will come back later to continue.
Off to read.
Off to read.

my name is catte
i touch your foods
Registered: Mar 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted June 19, 2022
Phew, I'm back. I meant to stick around after my last post but I discovered our fridge-freezer seems to be in trouble so I've been doing an emergency defrost.
Yes, but with less of a Lorne Michaels impression.
Yes, but with less of a Lorne Michaels impression.

dedoporno
A bloody pirate!
Registered: Apr 2012
From Bulgaria
Posted June 19, 2022


If he comes out and says on day one, "Hey everyone. I'm the mafia ninja. If you try to investigate me, I'll appear to be at home asleep in my bed. Meanwhile I'll send one doppelganger out to for secret mafia meetings and another doppelganger out to perform an additional solo assassination on the side."
Why would you not vote to lynch in this case?

I see. Why didn't you make a stronger point about it and/or follow up on it?

my name is catte
i touch your foods
Registered: Mar 2010
From United Kingdom
Posted June 19, 2022

ZFR
I love gold!
Registered: Jan 2010
From Ireland
Posted June 19, 2022
Dude, I know what hombre means.
It's the "chill" part I don't like. Telling someone to chill when having an argument is not cool. Please don't do it.
Ambiti0nZ: It's literally man in Spanish. LMFAO
ZFR: No. What you're describing is "selection bias". More specifically making conclusions on anecdotal evidence, a.k.a cherry picking. Survivorship bias is something different.
Ambiti0nZ: No, I'm describing survivorship bias because you're concentrating on the cases that made it past your selection criteria. Selection bias would've meant you did some sort of statistical analysis and fudged with the numbers, but alas, you did not attempt such a thing and I'd question where you'd even get the data for it. "Selection bias" is a broad term. Cherry picking is specifically what you're accusing me of: selecting specific anecdotal cases and concentrating on them.
Survivorship bias is something else entirely. It's not "you're concentrating on the cases that made it past your selection criteria." as you put it, but it's concentrating on cases that didn't make it past some selection criteria. i.e. they didn't survive some "natural" process.
Survivorship bias is for example someone saying today that video games from the 90s were all nice because, if he looks at those games today he mostly sees nice ones. His population today is mostly those games that survived because they were nice so he's only concetrating on games that passed this process. he doesn't have access to all the crappy games that failed and are not available today.
Cherry picking is saying "video games from the 90s were mostly strategies" because Warcratft, Red Alert and HoMM were all strategies. In this case, even though other games are still readily available, he's only concetrating on games that passed his own hand picked criteria: strategies.
Ambiti0nZ: You just claimed my scenario as unfeasible because of your couple anecdotes. Right. You're right. You didn't say the sky is gray. You just said it ain't blue, though both of us are indoors and don't see it at all. No I didn't. I said that my scenario could happen too, because of couple of anecdotes. Do you see the difference between "my scenario could happen" vs "your scenario is unfeasible"?
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Can you answer a question for me?
My post 176 mentions that Mafia have a choice:
"If Frost is Town, Mafia will have to do something about him at Night, or risk his PR interfering with them."
i.e. They can do A or B. Either one of those cases
Why did you write post 191 concentrating on one case: one where Mafia take the risk of him living? If I already wrote about those two possibilites, why did you feel the need to stress only one of them?
It's the "chill" part I don't like. Telling someone to chill when having an argument is not cool. Please don't do it.



Survivorship bias is something else entirely. It's not "you're concentrating on the cases that made it past your selection criteria." as you put it, but it's concentrating on cases that didn't make it past some selection criteria. i.e. they didn't survive some "natural" process.
Survivorship bias is for example someone saying today that video games from the 90s were all nice because, if he looks at those games today he mostly sees nice ones. His population today is mostly those games that survived because they were nice so he's only concetrating on games that passed this process. he doesn't have access to all the crappy games that failed and are not available today.
Cherry picking is saying "video games from the 90s were mostly strategies" because Warcratft, Red Alert and HoMM were all strategies. In this case, even though other games are still readily available, he's only concetrating on games that passed his own hand picked criteria: strategies.

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Can you answer a question for me?
My post 176 mentions that Mafia have a choice:
"If Frost is Town, Mafia will have to do something about him at Night, or risk his PR interfering with them."
i.e. They can do A or B. Either one of those cases
Why did you write post 191 concentrating on one case: one where Mafia take the risk of him living? If I already wrote about those two possibilites, why did you feel the need to stress only one of them?

HypersomniacLive
The Reluctant Voter
Registered: Sep 2011
From Vatican City
Posted June 19, 2022
I did a quick VC (Vote Count) while reading, and what do I see? I was shot to being the prettiest princess*. And in the span of three hours and five posts, no less.
I'll check the details later, for now - really? I think you lot could use a good whipping to steer you into a different direction, and land some other place. Preferably on your arses.
*grabs Indy's whip; cracks it at the feet of his voters*
* prettiest princess = becoming lead wagon; GOG forum mafia expression.
OK, now that I got that out of my system, here's my first post - I got a bit more, so if anyone's around, give me bump when I post this as to not have to wait around for 10 minutes. Note that I'm grouping replies/comments per player for easier consumption (it sure helps me keep track of things).
FrostburnPhoenix: [...] razza seems scummy but this could very well be because he is a newer player and I'm not going to vote him D1 [...] What about detective_razza do you find scummy? Make your argument.
FrostburnPhoenix: [...] ZFR still easily could be scum, but my read of him is far more town than when I claimed, and if he is town I would expect scum to push his wagon. Earlier I thought Bucktooth was doing something similar but it appears I misunderstood him. But I will keep an eye on AZ. Three things:
1. Your read of ZFR as "far more town than earlier" reads to me like you found him town back then too, and for reasons unstated in-thread, it has now strengthened. But in posts #138 and #148 you said you're scum-reading him, and with quite some confidence. How do you consolidate these?
2. As I didn't find anything in your ISO, can you go into specifics as to what shifted your read on ZFR?
3. Are you saying here that you think that scum!Ambiti0nZ's pushing ZFR's wagon? I'm not sure I see the logical thought process from having misunderstood bucktoothgamer to [emphasis added] "But I will keep an eye on AZ".
FrostburnPhoenix: Big scum read. It also makes sense if you're AZ's buddy because that gives you a very good reason to vote babark so suddenly, as he had the second highest amount of votes. By the same token, one could say that you voted Ambiti0nZ to put him quite ahead of babark at a time when the former was only one vote ahead of the latter. Is there anything else about LordCephy's content that makes you think he's scummy?
And this, in a game where people either are or would say they're town if they aren't, is telling because...? I don't follow why you put weight on it.
You make an interesting case on FrostburnPhoenix. Except for the point about Catte's alignment this game based on his alignment in the previous game, which has been addressed by others already so I'm covered.
I got one follow up question which I"m going to ask you after FrostburnPhoenix's reaction to the next part of this post.
So, reading through the thread, two observations in relation to LordCephy's case of FrostburnPhoenix:
1. FrostburnPhoenix hasn't deemed it worthy to explain/defend themself against any of the things that LordCephy detailed in his posts. The only things they (FrostburnPhoenix) did is to correct a VC, and return the scum-read.
@FrostburnPhoenix, do you have anything to say for yourself against all the things LordCephy's said? Do you have an explanation/rebuttal for any of it?
2. JoeSaphire who was interested in hearing about this (post #234), has absolutely nothing to comment/follow up on except for the totally insignificant content of post #263.
@JoeSaphire, what was the purpose of asking LordCephy to talk about reading FrostburnPhoenix as an experienced player? Did something happen that made you lose interest in what they had to say about the latter?
LordCephy: [...] vote babark
This guy doesn't post much. His first few posts were on the level of "here's my vote" and didn't really go beyond that until detective_razza voted to have him lynched page #12. [...] Do you really think that detective_razza was instrumental (you repeated it in post #285) in babark making post #232? Especially since detective_razza themself framed their vote as "a nudge"?
The way I read it, babark was reacting with great delay (hadn't posted since his post #157) to dedoporno's and ZFR's posts #156 and #158, respectively.
Out of curiosity, who did you think Ambiti0nZ was voting for in this VC?
Posting this, and please bump.
I'll check the details later, for now - really? I think you lot could use a good whipping to steer you into a different direction, and land some other place. Preferably on your arses.
*grabs Indy's whip; cracks it at the feet of his voters*
* prettiest princess = becoming lead wagon; GOG forum mafia expression.
OK, now that I got that out of my system, here's my first post - I got a bit more, so if anyone's around, give me bump when I post this as to not have to wait around for 10 minutes. Note that I'm grouping replies/comments per player for easier consumption (it sure helps me keep track of things).


1. Your read of ZFR as "far more town than earlier" reads to me like you found him town back then too, and for reasons unstated in-thread, it has now strengthened. But in posts #138 and #148 you said you're scum-reading him, and with quite some confidence. How do you consolidate these?
2. As I didn't find anything in your ISO, can you go into specifics as to what shifted your read on ZFR?
3. Are you saying here that you think that scum!Ambiti0nZ's pushing ZFR's wagon? I'm not sure I see the logical thought process from having misunderstood bucktoothgamer to [emphasis added] "But I will keep an eye on AZ".

And this, in a game where people either are or would say they're town if they aren't, is telling because...? I don't follow why you put weight on it.
You make an interesting case on FrostburnPhoenix. Except for the point about Catte's alignment this game based on his alignment in the previous game, which has been addressed by others already so I'm covered.
I got one follow up question which I"m going to ask you after FrostburnPhoenix's reaction to the next part of this post.
So, reading through the thread, two observations in relation to LordCephy's case of FrostburnPhoenix:
1. FrostburnPhoenix hasn't deemed it worthy to explain/defend themself against any of the things that LordCephy detailed in his posts. The only things they (FrostburnPhoenix) did is to correct a VC, and return the scum-read.
@FrostburnPhoenix, do you have anything to say for yourself against all the things LordCephy's said? Do you have an explanation/rebuttal for any of it?
2. JoeSaphire who was interested in hearing about this (post #234), has absolutely nothing to comment/follow up on except for the totally insignificant content of post #263.
@JoeSaphire, what was the purpose of asking LordCephy to talk about reading FrostburnPhoenix as an experienced player? Did something happen that made you lose interest in what they had to say about the latter?

This guy doesn't post much. His first few posts were on the level of "here's my vote" and didn't really go beyond that until detective_razza voted to have him lynched page #12. [...]
The way I read it, babark was reacting with great delay (hadn't posted since his post #157) to dedoporno's and ZFR's posts #156 and #158, respectively.
Out of curiosity, who did you think Ambiti0nZ was voting for in this VC?
Posting this, and please bump.

ZFR
I love gold!
Registered: Jan 2010
From Ireland
Posted June 19, 2022
bump

HypersomniacLive
The Reluctant Voter
Registered: Sep 2011
From Vatican City
Posted June 19, 2022
I noticed that JoeSapphire referred to detective_razza as a "she", so I'll assume it was intentional/correct and use according pronouns.
What about detective_razza, and her 8 posts she had at the time you made this post, makes you scum-read her? Does her vote on me change anything for you?
RWarehall: [...] Of the 3 aforementioned, I'd say Ambiti0nZ seems to be active, posts often, yet actually says very little with most posts reminiscing with only superficial attempts to read the game. Hence...
Unvote Dedoporno
Vote Ambiti0nZ [...]
RWarehall: [...] Ambiti0nZ being my top suspect, can't help but feel if I knew who he was, it might help...but if he wishes to remain anonymous, so be it. Now that he's admitted to being HijacK, does this change anything for you?
RWarehall: [...] You, HSL, just aren't as active as I recall, although I'm not sure you ever were all that active Day 1. I have no scum vibes besides lack of activity, but also very little that says Town. I left forum mafia about three years ago, mostly due to health issues, and unsuccessfully returned for game #75 (had to quit after the first couple of Days due to health problems). I lack the energy due to ongoing health issues, plus don't have as much time as I did in the past due to change of circumstances (I warned about all this in the sign-up thread). So, I don't know what level of activity you expected based on your recollection, but I can assure you that it's not coming back due to the above factors.
As for the last bit - it's ok, I can't say I've seen things to nudge to the town side on you either.
@ZFR and @Ambiti0nZ, after reading your replies to JoeSapphire, I think I get the gist of it, so no need for you to case each other.
ZFR: [...] I asked him a question (#88). He appeared online and posted (#99) but didn't address my question at all (#99). So I repeated my question, in 102 this time with a vote to put more pressure on him.
And now question for you, HSL. Why did you ask me about my 102 vote only now, despite appearing online and addressing posts that I made later (so it can't be a case of you not being caught up). And incidentally, why did you quote 181 to ask about 102? [...] I quoted post #181 because it's relevant to my inquiry within the context of my impression that you were already scum-leaning them.
I'm asking you about your post #102 vote now, after I got a feeling from interacting with your later posts (or am I not allowed to go back multiple times?), because you keep saying that you were just questioning them, but going over your relevant posts again (at the time I read post #181), it still reads like you were looking, or at least hoping, for a reply that would confirm your suspicion of them, especially since you replied to JoeSapphire the way you did in your very next post #105.
If you had a scum lean/read on them, as the sequence of posts #102 and #105 suggest to me, it's ok to admit it, I'm not looking to hang a scum-read on you because of it.
JoeSapphire: 48 - Either catte is simply reminding razza to replace her vote, or catte is curious that razza is not comitted to the failed vote.
187 - I wouldn't have thought of Bucktooth as one of the lurkers, but Babark already had pressure and I can see catte not wanting to push a new player too hard.
That's what I make of them. The Bucktooth lurker vote might be significant, but
But I've been reading Catte as town for a while now. I've noticed that he tends to play Day One more focused as mafia, and more jokey as town, and this seems like a town Catte.
Do you think different? - Post #48: I found the phrasing a bit odd to be a reminder, and if the latter, what was there to commit to? It was RVS, and it felt she chose you because she knows you.
- Post #187: It's not so much the vote, though the phrasing is also odd "I meant to vote for a lurker, and while bucktoothgamer can't be considered one at the moment, I'm going to vote him anyway to give him a prod which I already said he doesn't need" [interpolating], It's more the comment about the ZFR/FrostburnPhoenix exchange - he doesn't get anything from it, yet thinks it's useful, so likes it.
Feels a bit like saying and doing things to be seen saying and doing game-related things. The rest of his posts don't do anything for me one way or another, so I don't know, perhaps I'm nitpicking?
Funny, I was leaning there myself since a couple of days.
JoeSapphire: sure, let's give it a shot.
unvote RWarehall
That stuff about third place on the wagon being scummy is bunk anyhow
vote HypersomniacLive And your reasoning for voting me is...??
Ambiti0nZ: [...] So when my flip comes, there will be a nice treasure trove of interactions with me and it will be delicious. [...] Could you list this treasure trove of interactions if you flipped toDay? I'm not sure I really see it.
Now that we established who you are, have you played any (forum or live) mafia during the time you were absent here?
Before I go for now - @Lifthrasil, wishing a quick recovery to the family member, and thanks @ZFR for the bump.
Note that I'm not fully caught up with the actual sequence of all later posts, but I'll be back, hopefully in a couple of hours at the latest.
What about detective_razza, and her 8 posts she had at the time you made this post, makes you scum-read her? Does her vote on me change anything for you?

Unvote Dedoporno
Vote Ambiti0nZ [...]


As for the last bit - it's ok, I can't say I've seen things to nudge to the town side on you either.
@ZFR and @Ambiti0nZ, after reading your replies to JoeSapphire, I think I get the gist of it, so no need for you to case each other.

And now question for you, HSL. Why did you ask me about my 102 vote only now, despite appearing online and addressing posts that I made later (so it can't be a case of you not being caught up). And incidentally, why did you quote 181 to ask about 102? [...]
I'm asking you about your post #102 vote now, after I got a feeling from interacting with your later posts (or am I not allowed to go back multiple times?), because you keep saying that you were just questioning them, but going over your relevant posts again (at the time I read post #181), it still reads like you were looking, or at least hoping, for a reply that would confirm your suspicion of them, especially since you replied to JoeSapphire the way you did in your very next post #105.
If you had a scum lean/read on them, as the sequence of posts #102 and #105 suggest to me, it's ok to admit it, I'm not looking to hang a scum-read on you because of it.

187 - I wouldn't have thought of Bucktooth as one of the lurkers, but Babark already had pressure and I can see catte not wanting to push a new player too hard.
That's what I make of them. The Bucktooth lurker vote might be significant, but
But I've been reading Catte as town for a while now. I've noticed that he tends to play Day One more focused as mafia, and more jokey as town, and this seems like a town Catte.
Do you think different?
- Post #187: It's not so much the vote, though the phrasing is also odd "I meant to vote for a lurker, and while bucktoothgamer can't be considered one at the moment, I'm going to vote him anyway to give him a prod which I already said he doesn't need" [interpolating], It's more the comment about the ZFR/FrostburnPhoenix exchange - he doesn't get anything from it, yet thinks it's useful, so likes it.
Feels a bit like saying and doing things to be seen saying and doing game-related things. The rest of his posts don't do anything for me one way or another, so I don't know, perhaps I'm nitpicking?
Funny, I was leaning there myself since a couple of days.

unvote RWarehall
That stuff about third place on the wagon being scummy is bunk anyhow
vote HypersomniacLive

Now that we established who you are, have you played any (forum or live) mafia during the time you were absent here?
Before I go for now - @Lifthrasil, wishing a quick recovery to the family member, and thanks @ZFR for the bump.
Note that I'm not fully caught up with the actual sequence of all later posts, but I'll be back, hopefully in a couple of hours at the latest.

dedoporno
A bloody pirate!
Registered: Apr 2012
From Bulgaria
Posted June 19, 2022

This keeps going, huh? I'm starting to get last game Cadaver vibes here. Last time that felt like TvT and turned out to be exactly that.

JoeSapphire
Consultant Liar
Registered: Jun 2011
From United Kingdom

dedoporno
A bloody pirate!
Registered: Apr 2012
From Bulgaria