On reflection, about the only time it is a good solution is when it is a clear game winner (or at least clearly the way to forestall a game loss, like if this game comes down to 1v1v1).

Yeah, I saw that after I posted. I got ninja'd by 4 different people in that 6 minutes, too. It feels very, very odd to have this much activity at this time of day. Usually I'd just be talking to myself if I were posting now (or responding to posts from last night).

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I will not be voting for Adalia today, unless he manages to do something outrageously scummy.

Yeah, that's part of it too. Both scum teams will be actively hunting for the other (as even if they do ignore each other at first they will need to identify and kill the other team at some point) which means it should be slightly easier for them to blend in with town then usual.

But I'm going to go with my gut and place an actual vote;

Vote mchack

He's the one currently setting my spidey sense tingling. I have reservations about a few other players, but nothing major yet so I'm just keeping an eye on them.

ah thanks for that (no thanks to bookwyrm who wanted me to work for it - I'm on sick leave you know!)
anyway, can't really say it's a townie thing to do, as in what if "everyone" did it that way? scum would have an easy time controlling the vote since they know exactly who not to vote for and the rest is fair game.
on the other hand it would be quite telling if "everyone" did it and then someone deviates from that practice (for instance because the scumbuddy is the princess for once) so I guess it goes both ways.

There's still time, we've only just started ;)


Just be glad he's not posting only in video links...
If he persists for more than 1 day then I'd definitely vote him, but on day 1 I'll let him have his fun as at least it keeps the game moving.

Is flubbucket getting yours? If so, what for?



Because the game progress and current state is chock-full of things that should have gotten my attention and comments, eh?



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Can you point to something specific about his posts that reads scummy?


Is he? I agree that he's not all over the place, but is he really just merely voting whoever has the most votes?



Not sure I follow, why out of 11?


Reason(s)?



Regarding ZFR and the last couple of comments about him, I'm just going to say this for now - BlueMooner, game #30.

So, that means, you won't nk me tonight? :) thx

anyway, since my spidey sense is not tingling for you, you won't get any omgus vote from me. I think you're on my good side for the day (which might be differently tomorrow since scum might convert but I guess we'll see that by the number of nightkills)

tbh, my spidey sense is not tingling at all so I'm going for the good old "kill the use... I mean the ones not contributing enough"

vote sage

whaddup? what's your spideysense doing?

My vote on flub was pure RVS. He mentioned that no one had voted him yet and I didn’t want him to feel left out ;-)

Well, you're not going to vote for yourself.

_My first gut feeling. Based on my experience with Resistance, you talk a lot you're scum. Adalia seems to talk a lot. Really nothing solid against him, but:
_No-lynch is worse then lynch. Someone has to be lynched. At this moment for me adaliabooks is as good as any.

heh. I remember that. He was scum and gotten a pass day 1 for being new, right? but iirc he went mia and then even came out, so not much damage done (other than to scum)... also wasn't he scumbuddy with adalia?

Agree with most of your assessment but that bold part may not necessarily be true since scum would have a vested interest in ensuring that its lynch is either a hacker or other scum team member as it would reduce their own chances of dying by conversion at night. On the other hand a town mislynch is also undesirable(though may not be completely unwanted) to them as it would increase their failure chances at night. So even scum will not know who exactly to not vote for.

@hsl That out of 11 could be that he’s counted himself out since he’s talking from a personal perspective I guess. Seems like a subtle LAMIST.

He's giving me antsy-scum vibes.

It's not OMGUS, but make of it what you will.


Ah, that's the one I was thinking of.

I actually ran a game of that on here once. It was... interesting. It came to a rather anti-climactic ending when scum double failed the 3rd mission. Strategies are similar, but certainly not the same.

Completely agree with adaliabooks here.

Interesting vote.

I seem to vaguely recall something about that game, but please refresh my memory.

Ahh, it's coming back to me. Didn't he just completely disappear and only showed up after the game was over?

can be, haven't looked it up. point being, not lynching a new player day 1 hasn't hurt that game, even when it was scum...

That kind of implies we should give ZFR a free pass day 1...

I don't see how that's not terrible in our setup - we don't have any form of investigation, so we can't count on new non-death related information to work with Tomorrow and we'll most likely be fewer in numbers (the scum may have increased in addition to that). Also, the non-lynched player is actually increasing scum's chances of hitting correct Tonight since the target pool is diluted by the survivor.

(pre-post edit: I see most of this has been touched on already, but anyway...)

The people who seem less active are usually like this on D1, so I can't tell yet. What stood out a bit was mchack's #174. Up until then he was mostly talking funny stuff but after adalia (jokingly?) called him scum mchack reacted with a juicier serious post with reads on players. That's not AI on it's own of course, but it may have been the self-preservation instict kicking in to not stick out. After adalia voted him mchack made sure to not put an OMGUS vote and inform us about it which is also somewhat odd.


Speaking of adalia, he seems to be accumulating a record number of votes most of which are unexplained?!

(pre-post edit: some "explanations" were provided after all, but meh)


@Wyrm, adalia hinted to what I meant. If it's still unclear let me know.

oh, if he claims scum or at least does more serious scummy stuff than rookie mistakes, then of course I'll consider voting him. but not for what he posted up until now.
we do have to keep new players interested and killing them day 1 (the most boring day) is just bad form and will hurt us all in the long run (trying to fill up a 12 player game, even now took breaking fingers and stuff...)