After the shock of having ousted a true, albeit lecherous, Catholic, the discussion picks up again slowly. But everyone seems to be cautious with electing and voting.

ELECTION:
Yogs Up 2 - Fark 147 and self

Everyone else is self-electing


INVESTIGATION:
yogs 1 - bucktooth 142
Fark 1 - catventurer 165

no one but buck and cat are voting so far.

Hehe, just as I said (tried to at least) in post 163 it's something I do instead of just reading the posts and forming opinions about players based on that which is what I should do instead. No what I'm doing is much less useful but at the same time very time consuming. I write (and when I say write it's actually claude-3.5-sonnet doing the writing but I'm prodding it to do it for me and that has to count for something) a scraper script that puts all the posts of this thread into a text file for me in .json format for easy readability. And then I "write" another script that analyzes said text file for me, so that I can find out something about the players Alignment by looking at how they interact. Problem is, can't see anything. The thinking behind it is, since scum have a day chat they have little incentive to engage with each other in the forum and maybe do so less than others? The only thing I see clearly is that I haven't engaged much at all yet. But since I already "did" the work, I thought I might as well share the result (as they are as of now) Hence you got two pictures with colorful dots and lines. :) Well done, mchack, I say.

Anyhow right now I'm trying it to make me a vote count, but that takes some debugging. Doesn't work as well as lift's yet. (although I found a little error in the final vote count as trents vote against Fark was actually in post 105 not 108) ah well.

McHack, if you were on Mafia Universe I would yeet you out a 30-story window like you stole money from Putin's piggyback for wasting your time with that

But here on GOG...

I'm not sure that meta would hold true.

Um, no?

I'm not currently voting for or against anybody.

I don't think so, anyway.

brzzzzzzzt zzzzzzzzzzzrt

that's the election mechanic, you know as pope. The game ending one? you remember. Fark wants you for presi... I mean Pope.

The Election has reset. Everyone is self-electing until they say otherwise. That means you can't not elect. The only way not to elect yourself is to ELECT someone else.

Just watched a few scenes from the films. Seeing as the character's role fit my own I decided to add it into my reply. Mister yogsloth seemed to be acting rather jocular in a few posts so I thinking maybe they are the prankster and thus townie. It wasn't until user Catventurer posted in #165 that some roles including mine can be any faction that I now see I rushed to elect. Still maybe my gut is right so I will leave my election for now until something changes my mind.

Apologies, I have had to switch accounts as gog doesn't like my style of posting and considers me a pest. Again it is being true that messenger can be any alignment, I now see that due to posting #165. Speaking of, our Cardinal Justice seems awfully set on getting me voted off priest island. I wonder if that is townie tunneling or a scum looking for an easy mark. Hard to tell, but leaning them slightly more town than scum for now.

@Catventurer Post #165: Funny you bring up peoples not reading the opening post. I only skimmed the opening posting, so I lost the chance to send anyone a message during the first phase.

Ohhhh

Makes sense

I still think cat would make a good pope, I think?

There are no nightkills so it's tough to figure what to do

That also means basically nothing changes, other than trying to look at the wagon and do some sort of analysis

But cat started that wagon... and I guess that doesn't really move the needle either direction, since anyone can place a first vote on anyone

I'm happy to be pope but I don't think anybody's ever gonna trust me so I was trying to find someone that seemed to be acting reasonably

I've just stabbed trent in the face too many times

Yog’s I love your style and your gameplay, but there’s not a chance in hell I would elect you LOL. Every game I play with you my back feels a sharp pain of remembrance….

You are right too, this is way different in that not much really changes day to day since no one is actually out of the game. What are your thoughts on Farky?

That being said, tell me are you referencing Terminator with the Future death robot thing or is it another metal band? You’ve posted several metal band references and I can’t figure that one out?

That's an understatement. Besides not really engaging, your posts lack readability. I feel like the only thing that you're doing is spewing out a pile of words that say absolutely nothing... like maybe you're trying really hard to give the appearance of participating where you're spewing out nonsense that nobody will want to respond to so that we know you're here but disengaged with you.

I really do think that you are trying really hard to keep a low profile, appear present, and not rock any boats.

Why is that I wonder?


You have not seen me when I'm "awfully set on getting [someone] voted off. If/When that happens, I will be relentlessly calling the person scum literally every post and may even bring out visual aids.


I approve of this message.

That's a bit hurtful. I'm doing my best to write readable. I could use AI to make my posts more readable but then they wouldn't be _my_ posts anymore. So I don't. See it as a way to recognize that I'm an actual person you are talking to. Someone who isn't writing in their native tongue (Though I guess writing in my native tongue doesn't look any better. Guess I just never bothered with grammer and punctuation and stuff like that. Once I read Ulysses and there's one chapter where molly's thought train is written up without any punctuation. Really hard to read. Probably exactly what my mind does. Guess my mind isn't very readable so my written words aren't either.) Anywho, guess I'm saying: This is how I can communicate, can't do better than that. But I don't make my posts less readable on purpose, if that's what you're implying. Probably won't be a writer any time soon.

I'm not trying anything. Not keeping a low profile, not trying not to rock boats. It's just that I haven't found anything worth pointing out, yet. I did point out the messenger thingie about an hour before you did the same and simply ignoring what I had written. So there's that. And I put a lot of effort into visualizing meta data. not that it helps, but it's something. Maybe someone with a sharper mind than mine, can see something helpful there. Can update the images anytime with the newer data if anyone asks. Else I'll just keep it as a pet project. I can also ISO people's posts now, but the .json doesn't work with nested quoting yet, so that's what I'm debugging now.

i don't have many thoughts on Farky tbh

Just getting to know some new people, and it's tough to do with the slow pace!

I'd like to think his town read on me is coming from a genuine place

His admitting to only skim the opening post is... probably townie-ish too

And I'm not referencing anything in particular

I just think death robots from the future are cool

REALLY REALLY COOL

But then again, I've got to find some scum somewhere

Hunh

somebody do some shady sh$% would you

Nothing I say is meant as a personal attack. I specifically mean what you post about, not punctuation or sentence structure.

Day 1
Post #126 - You finally show up for the first time.
Post #133 - You give a halfhearted vote for Micro, which is understandable - no time to vote someone else.

Day 2
Post #161 - You say that you're going to be more involved, then you post two flow charts.
Post #163 - You mention voting for Micro because no time to wagon someone else; then you spend more time talking about a scraper.
Post #167 - More talk about the scrapper and wanting to make a vote count.
Post #170 - Explaining game mechanics.
Post #177 - Now you're talking about what I assume is the James Joyce novel Ulysses; then talk about how you're not keeping a low profile.

This is exactly what I meant when I said that you say absolutely nothing because it feels like the bulk of your posts don't contribute anything at all and end up feeling like a deliberate effort to not interact with anyone. They lack substance in terms of the game in terms of trying to figure out what team everyone is on.

I'm sorry if you feel like this is a personal attack because really it's not. It just feels like you're posting for the sake of maintaining a presence in the thread while giving people nothing to respond to.

vote mchack