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Title: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Bardiche on October 27, 2010, 02:06:49 PM
VANILLA MAFIA
Where your role is a guaranteed fact, but your alignment a surprise!



Ladies, gentlemen, huh what. Welcome to Vanilla Mafia. I am your gamehost, Bardiche, benevolent on his throne up high and justice with his hammer fine.
You are no longer forum goers on Maidens of the Kaleidoscope. Now that this game has begun, you are all secret agents for SPOON, the Secure Police Of Oblique Nefariousness. Our goal is to secure world peace through singing jaunty tunes in the streets everywhere.
You have received an envelope with a most divine acceptance of your application.
However, there are those among you who are not, in fact, members of SPOON. They are members of the most nefarious Mafia to date, with the sole desire to spread Love and Joy. We cannot accept this.

Find the liars in your midst, and eliminate them.

Godspeed, agents.



RULES:

1) Play to win.
2) Don't be lame. I consider flaming others to be lame. Don't do it. Be nice.
3) If you do not post within 24 hours, I will send you a mod prod. If I have to send you a mod prod more than three times, I will be very cross.
4) Town may No Lynch if a majority consents to it. Should a deadline hit and Town has two victims at equal votes, No Lynch will occur.
5) Scum must kill every night.
6) Day 1 will last 48 hours. Every day afterwards lasts 72 hours. Once during the game, a majority may vote for an Extension through ##EXTENSION. This extends a Day phase by 24 hours. It may not be used again after that.
7) Nights last 24 hours. I may decide on a whim to shorten these if all night actions are in, but I do not guarantee it.
8) Have fun.

PS: Kiro and I reserve the right to change these rules as is necessary to ensure a fun game. ( ?・‿-)~



IN ATTENDANCE:
Neo Serela
Solf J. Kimblee Roukanken
Zakeri
Huh what
Polly



NO LONGER IN ATTENDANCE:
Affinity
Inaba Tewi
PX
Nobuko






Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Bardiche on October 27, 2010, 02:11:54 PM
All PMs have been sent and we are now awaiting confirmation of receipt. If you have NOT received a PM, I blame your silly usernameholler and I'll send one post-haste. Otherwise, confirm receipt, gentlemen, ladies and huh what.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 27, 2010, 02:19:08 PM
Confirm~
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Pesco on October 27, 2010, 02:37:05 PM
/confirm
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Nobu on October 27, 2010, 02:43:46 PM
I love jaunty tunes!

/confirm
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Affinity on October 27, 2010, 02:44:31 PM
/confirmed
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 27, 2010, 03:51:07 PM
Confirmation.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Kiro on October 27, 2010, 04:10:22 PM
I demand a pink name to match my glorious pink co-mod text!

P.S. I'm sure Bardiche wants Godmother powers too. Thanks!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Edible on October 27, 2010, 04:12:30 PM
P.S. I'm sure Bardiche wants Godmother powers too. Thanks!

Confirmed.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 27, 2010, 06:49:47 PM
Confirmed.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Serela on October 27, 2010, 08:07:46 PM
Quote
Ladies, gentlemen, huh what.
Does this mean huhwhat is neither a gentleman or a lady?

Anyhows, confirmation~
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Polaris on October 27, 2010, 10:33:01 PM
Confirming.

Also school + sleep only gives me a 7 hour timespan for mafia and stuff starting from this point so :ohdear:
Just thought I should clarify
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: PX on October 27, 2010, 11:38:26 PM
Super electromagnetic shrapnel cannon voltage... Confirmed!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Kiro on October 27, 2010, 11:41:10 PM
All players have confirmed and all Night 0 actions have been processed
hint: it's a joke
. Day 1 begins now! It takes 5 to lycnh. You have 48 hours.[/color]
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Polaris on October 27, 2010, 11:41:52 PM
##Vote: NeoSerela

Revenge for being bastard mod
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 27, 2010, 11:42:38 PM
So guys, I think the best course of action at this point in the game would be to start off with a massclaim.

I'm a self-reviving fullcop with a single vig shot. How about you people?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: PX on October 27, 2010, 11:46:01 PM
##Vote: PX

2nd one to jump on this train is scum :D
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: Serela on October 27, 2010, 11:48:22 PM
I'm a self-reviving fullcop with a single vig shot. How about you people?
Infinite-use FakeNeighbor Serial Killer with bulletproof vest.

##Vote:Huhwhat because I think you're holding back some of your role info!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 27, 2010, 11:49:55 PM
##Vote: PX

2nd one to jump on this train is scum :D
So your role alters the alignment of the second person to vote you to scum?

That is incredibly anti-town role.

##Vote PX

(Also because self-votes are silly, largely unnecessary and usually cause pointless shenanigans.)
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Confirmation Phase)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 27, 2010, 11:51:30 PM
There was supposed to be an "an" in between is and incredibly. Don't mind me, I'm just idiot.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 28, 2010, 01:01:47 AM
Are you just mad that I didn't send you PMs?

##Unvote: PX
##Vote: huh what
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 28, 2010, 01:24:33 AM
Quote from: Bardiche
If I have to send you a mod prod more than three times, I will be very cross.

Quote from: SPOON's Name
Secure Police Of Oblique Nefariousness

Quote from: Oblique's Definition
Lines that are neither perpendicular, nor parallel.

##:Vote Bardiche
You've basically admitted you weren't part of the town. You might have fooled the others, but I won't let your slip fall away so easily.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Affinity on October 28, 2010, 02:18:27 AM
##Vote: PX

Oh gosh, PX might have nailed two scum already!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 28, 2010, 02:42:44 AM
##Unvote ##Vote:Affinity

Why would you vote someone for nailing two scum?  :3

Well, superbussing, but I highly doubt that in this specific situation, so whatever.

And if PX flips town, then Affinity is suspicious because PX said second on his wagon would be scum!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 28, 2010, 02:53:23 AM
And if PX flips town, then Affinity is suspicious because PX said second on his wagon would be scum!

Could you explain how that logically follows? "It's True because PX can predict the future!" doesn't seem like a sound argument to me.

##Vote: NeoSerela

This is ignoring the semantics behind whether PX was "first" on the PX wagon or not.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 02:54:53 AM
I don't really like how Serela is bringing up the possibility of bussing over an ED1 jokevote where the two other voters haven't flipped. Seems a bit unnecessary.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 02:59:16 AM
Oh wait. I do not, however, see this as a reason to vote him over the person being anti-town with pointless self-vote shenanigans. Just saying this as well in case anybody gets anal over me not putting my vote down on Serela after that post.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 28, 2010, 02:59:53 AM
And I don't like how Huhwhat is being (apparently) srsbznz dislike over what is obv. rvs jokeyness. Although it IS the internet so it's kinda hard to tell but w/e, as far as RVS cases go, I think I quite like my new vote of

##Unvote ##Vote:Huhwhat
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 28, 2010, 03:01:09 AM
Okay after the post that ninjaed me I guess I don't feel quite as strongly about it anymore, but I think I'll leave my vote on huhwhat for now.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 03:01:21 AM
Being srsbiz over RVS shenanigans is how serious discussion gets started in the first place. And if that's the case, why not vote Zakeri instead of me, when he's being just a serious?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 03:02:28 AM
That's supposed to say just as serious. I cannot type, wow.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 03:04:04 AM
Just pointing out that you didn't answer Zakeri's question either. Did you completely miss his post?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 28, 2010, 03:08:23 AM
Zak's question, yeah I kind of forgot. Answer:RVS shenanigans. It doesn't follow logically and wasn't supposed to.

Huhwhat's question:Zak was being fakesrs-getting-out-of-rvs or w/e. You seemed to actually be doing it more in a manner that made me look genuinely bad over rvs shenanigans, so I thought voting you was better then a randomvote. Or, well, my previous vote wasn't completely random (That could totally be a scumslip Affinity made, although it probably isn't, regardless of his alignment), but you know.

Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 03:11:31 AM
Huh, what? I really don't see the difference in what Zak is doing from what I am doing, though I suspect this may just be because of the way I'm reading his post. And I don't see what's wrong with pointing out something in a RVS post that I consider "genuinely bad", unless you are accusing me of trying to portray you in a negative light.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 28, 2010, 03:17:42 AM
Quote
unless you are accusing me of trying to portray you in a negative light.
yessir
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 03:22:58 AM
Blar. On further rereading, I'd rather my vote be parked on Serela right now. As I interpret it, he is essentially voting me for pointing out something bad that he did, which is ridiculous in itself. I also don't like him suggesting that what Affinity said could be a scum slip then immediately going back on it. If it probably is not a scum slip, why suggest it could be? He is essentially promoting paranoia over Affinity's post. Also note that the notion of Affinity superbussing is pretty much ridiculous because it would require there to be 3 scum.

##Unvote
##Vote NeoSerela

Ninja'd by Serela. I honestly don't agree with you, because of course I'm going to point out something about you that seems bad if I see it, and I am afraid I do not see what about my action comes across more as an attempt of me as scum trying to set up a Serela lynch rather than just me pointing out something I dislike about a post, which it actually was.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Polaris on October 28, 2010, 03:29:43 AM
Looking at this exchange I want to say that Serela needs to not suck during RVS. We get that it's supposed to be a nonsense phase, but can't you at least be logically nonsensical? ???
I mean, even if the reasoning sucks, at least follow a coherent line of thought instead of posting randomly and relying on the RVS excuse to cover it up.

Cut by huh what and I agree the point on Serela's paranoia around Affinity. Nothing wrong with keeping my vote, I guess.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 03:31:50 AM
Also, question for mod.

Quote
7) Nights last 24 hours. I may decide on a whim to shorten these if all night actions are in, but I do not guarantee it.
This is making me a little worried. If it's vanilla mafia, shouldn't there only be one night action?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Kiro on October 28, 2010, 04:54:45 AM
Protip: As clandestine members of SPOON, please do not include "Secret Agent Man" as one of your jaunty tunes to be sung in the streets.

---
CO-MOD'S VOTECOUNT:

NeoSerela (3): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
huh what (2): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela
PX (1): PX, huh what, Affinity
Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri

Not voting: Inaba Tewi, Solf J. Kimblee, Nobua

NeoSerela is at L-2

Don't forget to ##Unvote people when changing your votes. I let Zakeri's go by because his vote before that was on the mod.

There are under 43 hours left in the day.


Also, question for mod.
This is making me a little worried. If it's vanilla mafia, shouldn't there only be one night action?

Yes, there is only one night action in a vanilla game, the Scum NK. And all you Townies are POWERLESS TO STOP IT TONIGHT!!! Wallow in despair!!!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 05:02:28 AM
Serela is still voting me. He took his vote off to revote me when he made it serious.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Kiro on October 28, 2010, 05:07:55 AM
Serela is still voting me. He took his vote off to revote me when he made it serious.

Just realized I fouled up the votecount in more spots than that. Sec.

Should be all fixed now.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 05:49:34 AM
##Vote Kiro

Pink does not suit you. In fact I want to take Godmother away from you for that. And FPMH.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 28, 2010, 06:06:39 AM
There's scumhunting to do, so chop chop!

Re: Huhwhat - With what little experience I've had of his play (i.e. Sakana's Werewolf game), he seems to get srs bsns sooner than others, and ends up drawing a bunch of flak for criticizing people RVS/jokevotes excessively as Town. So I consider his activity nulltells, and not feeling a vote on him right now.

Serela: As satisfying it would be to hang you from a tree after the last game >>;, I can actually see why you have issue with huhwhat in #32. Not feeling a vote on you either.

That said,

##Vote: Polly

I really, really dislike this (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471061.html#msg471061) post, #36. Criticizing someone for 'sucking at RVS'?  Though, what bothered me more was the "Nothing wrong with keeping my vote, I guess" justification to turning your vote serious, which is very non-committal and sounds more like you're just leaving your vote on Neo because a bandwagon convieniently sprung up on him.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 28, 2010, 06:07:00 AM
Derp.

##Vote: Polly
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 06:23:31 AM
Pesco: Um, really? We have serious votes on the table and you're voting the co-mod? If you disagree with the current cases and consider them to be frivolous, the least you could do would be to state that. :|

Nobu: Personally not seeing the non-commital point on Polly. He did at least try to state his reasons for turning his vote serious, even if they were fairly awkward, and note his agreement with what had already been stated. It's not an especially good wagon hop or anything, but I think you might be overexaggerating his post a little, so better clarification on why it comes off so non-commital would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 06:25:39 AM
You guys post too much.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 28, 2010, 06:32:29 AM
so better clarification on why it comes off so non-commital would be appreciated.

Nothing wrong with keeping my vote, I guess.

Better?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Affinity on October 28, 2010, 09:53:43 AM
huhwhat is defending other people which is uncalled for!  Again!  Especially since Polly was voting for the other party!  Chensaw!  Love and joy!

##Unvote
##Vote: huhwhat

Why do you love Polly when you guys hardly know each other?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 28, 2010, 01:59:57 PM
Quote from: NeoSerela 32
...wasn't supposed to.
That actually didn't occur to me until I went to bed. Still, the whole posts seems scummy, even with the excuse of you getting way too into RVS.

I'm keeping my vote however. Huhwhat gives a legitimate opinion on who he thinks is scum, and the target is voting Huhwhat for "putting a negative spin on their action." That line of thinking only works if the action in question can be put into a positive light, which I don't see. NeoSerela is voting with the most serious looking OMGUS vote I have ever seen. That's the combination of self-preservation and poor logic one should expect from floundering scum.

Polly's post says nothing and means nothing. It also just parrots huhwh-oh, wait, parrot. A ha ha, I get it.

@Affinity: Defending and Asking someone to clarify their case are not the same thing, Affinity.

Quote from: Pesco 45
You guys post too much.
You're not allowed to say that until page 5.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 28, 2010, 02:07:32 PM
Edit:
Quote
Still, the whole posts seems scummy, even with the excuse of you getting way too into RVS.

To clarify, the post (23) is too random, and filled with such anti-logic that nearly everyone who takes a look at it will find at least one thing wrong with it. You're voting on the principle that huhwhat should not have been able to find anything wrong with it, when two people within fifteen minutes of posting it have found two different things they felt needed pointing out. Even worse, you're voting huhwhat because his prod was the more likely of the two to stick to you, rather than me for voting based on poor reasoning.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Affinity on October 28, 2010, 02:25:34 PM
It's always better to let the person the statement was intended for to ask and answer the questions. 
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 05:29:46 PM
Affinity: Uh, how is that a chainsaw? I'm not attacking Nobu for the vote, I'm asking him for clarification on his accusation of Polly being "non-commital" since I did not really see that. I wasn't even defending Polly, it just seems odd to me that Nobu is stressing what seems to be a semantics issue as the main point of his case, while leaving the actual bad wagon jump as a secondary reason for voting.



Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 28, 2010, 05:58:27 PM
Just popping in to let y'all know I'm still alive.

Gentlemen.
You speak of this thing called "Logic". Though I don't see this "Logic" in arguing over something meant as a joke. Unless this argument isn't a real argument. But what do I know, I have no clue on what goes on in everyones heads.
Because if I did, then I wouldn't be sitting here trying to figure this out.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 06:20:11 PM
##Unvote
##Vote Kimblee


Interesting posts have been made. I think you could do a lot better than that. HW and Neo have posted enough times for you to draw some idea about them. Let's see a stance on it. Zak's been pretty clear. What about his logic are you not seeing?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 06:29:49 PM
##Unvote
##Vote Pesco
This is not to say I don't still feel bad about Serela, but um wow. You just voted a player for not taking a stance on an argument that you yourself have not yet taken a stance on. Blatant hypocrisy right there. Combine this with how you were clearly around earlier to provide one and you just look opportunistic, as if you were waiting around for an easy target to jump on.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 06:31:15 PM
I did take a stance

You guys post too much.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 06:34:21 PM
Not a proper one that actually contributes to the discussion. Be honest, if Solf had said that and proceeded not to vote anyone or state her suspicions, wouldn't your vote still be on her for not taking a stance?

Also, I'm mildly irritated at PX for making a self-vote, switching to me and then disappearing completely. Shouldn't he have had the time to come back with something worthwhile by now? Ugh.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 06:54:03 PM
Depends how she says it. There's no point in entertaining the what-if when her post this far into srsbsns (as you were (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471175.html#msg471175) taking it) is so lacking.

And chainsaws.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 28, 2010, 07:00:53 PM
Interesting posts have been made. I think you could do a lot better than that. HW and Neo have posted enough times for you to draw some idea about them. Let's see a stance on it. Zak's been pretty clear. What about his logic are you not seeing?

You think I could, but you're probably wrong about that. I'm thinking, and I'd like to have a proper argument and something that will actually contribute.
This contradicts my first post. However, I posted it just to let you know that I hadn't ditched you.

While Zakeri did also participate in said argument(And pretty much everyone else), I didn't mean exactly him, nor really anyone else in particular.
What strikes me as illogical is the arguing itself. Which is still over something that is a joke.

I'll think about this over the night.

Also; Don't overestimate me, I'm half your age and you shouldn't expect me to be as skilled as you.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 07:09:52 PM
Also; Don't overestimate me, I'm half your age and you shouldn't expect me to be as skilled as you.

Die :V

Doesn't matter how old or young you claim to be. That's still no excuse.

Getting into the game is when someone takes a joke too seriously. Who reads to you as taking things too seriously and who reads as not taking anything seriously?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Bardiche on October 28, 2010, 07:18:31 PM
Did he just call Pesco old? Because I think he called Pesco old! Ha ha, old chap. :derp: Now on to the soup du-- wait, what? I'm not playing this game, Kiro? Damn you!

---
OFFICIAL MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (better than Kiro's!)

NeoSerela (2): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
huh what (3): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela, Affinity
PX (0): PX, huh what, Affinity
Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri
Kiro (0): Inaba Tewi
Polly (1): Nobuko
Kimblee (1): Inaba Tewi
Inaba Tewi (1): Huh what

Not voting: Solf J. Kimblee

Five votes make a majority with nine alive.

By my count, about 29 hours left in this day.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 28, 2010, 07:34:57 PM
Affinity: Uh, how is that a chainsaw? I'm not attacking Nobu for the vote, I'm asking him for clarification on his accusation of Polly being "non-commital" since I did not really see that. I wasn't even defending Polly, it just seems odd to me that Nobu is stressing what seems to be a semantics issue as the main point of his case, while leaving the actual bad wagon jump as a secondary reason for voting.

Calling something a 'semantics issue' is a great way to try and discredit what someone is saying without actually saying anything meaningful. It means absolutely nothing most of the time. I'm getting the feeling like you just criticize anything and everything that crosses your path, based on your activity so far.

And I really don't know how to break it down any further. "There's nothing wrong with keeping my vote on him, I guess." is not a strong statement. It's a wishy-washy statement. The difference is indeed as you say, a 'semantic issue', but that makes all the difference here. The wishy-washiness is a large part of what makes this a bad wagon jump, so how is this a "secondary reason for voting"?

Die :V

What are you complaining about? Tewi is oooooooooooold. :derp:

Though I will him agree that being old or young is no excuse. It honestly strikes me as odd that you'd bring up age differences as the excuse as opposed to experience differences, which should be all that matters here. Though, I will give you that the idea of logical cases coming out of the mess of the RVS phase seems hard to think about, but it happens. Gotta start somewhere, after all.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 07:53:19 PM
Nobu: Bah. What I'm saying is that I personally did not read Polly's post in the way you did, but I can see what you mean a bit better now. I probably wouldn't vote him over Serela or Pesco, though.

On the other hand. If you're implying my criticisms on people so far have been unfounded, then what exactly makes the actions of Pesco and Serela seem reasonable to you? I suppose my complaint about PX might have not been necessary, but I think it is reasonable for me to be nervous about somebody continously keeping me at L-2 over a RVS OMGUS. Also note that I was not criticizing your vote or trying to call you scummy so much as having confusion towards what you were doing. I might not have expressed myself very well.


Pesco: So are you going to talk about somebody other than Solf ever? :| While I agree that Solf's posts have essentially been absolutely nothing so far, your pursuit of her seems worse than that for the reasons I stated when voting you, and you have still not attempted to solve this somewhat by talking about other people.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 08:25:08 PM
Nobu: Experience differences are not an excuse either. You're an example of that yourself.

HW: Perhaps tomorrow when we have flips to work with. I like Zak's 49. The other people who have posted stuff haven't allowed Mindhax(TM) to form alignment judgements on them. And then there's the people who simply haven't posted. Lurkscum! Kill them all! :V
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 08:31:13 PM
Cutting HW's post becuase he's just mashing F5. :V
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 08:35:02 PM
What :s

I'm massively bored right now and have nothing better to do than wait for somebody to post in a mafia thread. I wasn't actually working on a post, but if you wanted a response, then uh.

I don't really have much to say to your post, personally I think sitting back and waiting for town to lynch somebody for a flip isn't the greatest course of action for a townie to do, but I can see where you're coming from as well at least. Doesn't change my stance on you either way.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 08:37:58 PM
Wait, how do you even know I'm refreshing constantly? Are you abusing modpowers to stalk me on the online list or something? <_<
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 28, 2010, 08:40:40 PM
MindHax(TM)

There was a time when people could use those 'mod powers' but my skill doesn't even need those tricks :V
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 28, 2010, 08:42:04 PM
Your MindHax is faulty, I was not spamming F5 but instead clicking on RPG to check for posts then returning to the forum index and repeating when I got bored enough to do it again.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 28, 2010, 08:45:09 PM
The online list puts you at the top each time you do something, so if you're consistently high on the list, you're consistently doing something. Lack of posts happening elsewhere and quick responses in mafia can lead to a conclusion of "Huhwhat is making f5 his bitch" or refreshing rpg or indexing or w/e

real post coming after I reread and if my internet doesn't die, suddenly it's being slow as a sack of bricks ;_;

oh hi ninja
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 28, 2010, 10:27:07 PM
On the other hand. If you're implying my criticisms on people so far have been unfounded, then what exactly makes the actions of Pesco and Serela seem reasonable to you? I suppose my complaint about PX might have not been necessary, but I think it is reasonable for me to be nervous about somebody continously keeping me at L-2 over a RVS OMGUS. Also note that I was not criticizing your vote or trying to call you scummy so much as having confusion towards what you were doing. I might not have expressed myself very well.

It probably has to do with the oversaturation of your posts so far. It's not really a stretch to call you out for F5 mashing when 20 of the 47 posts (now 48!) since the day started are from you. :derp: It's good to be active, but there can be such a thing as too much. It gets harder to gauge the relative participatory level of the other players, and it becomes much harder to catch up.

Re: Pesco - I do agree that Pesco's criticism of #53 is pretty hypocritical, and that he can do better than 'you guys post too much' if he expects others to do the same. Not sure if that's scumminess or egoism at this point; would like to see more out of him right now.

Re: Serela - Looking forward to that reread, because there's not much here aside from an OMGUS vote + "oops I missed such and such, hold on while I promise to post a reread and big post someday in the future gaiz ;_;". It's characteristically Serela, I can say that much. :V
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Polaris on October 28, 2010, 10:55:38 PM
Sorry, but I really don't see anything noncommittal about that? It's supposed to be saying something like "[I guess there is nothing wrong] with me keeping my vote." Was I supposed to do something different? It's not like I would have unvoted, considering I acknowledged his suspiciousness. And if I just left it as a joke vote after acknowledging his suspiciousness, then that would... just be odd. Would you have said anything differently had I not added "I guess" to the end of that statement?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 28, 2010, 11:22:12 PM
Would you have said anything differently had I not added "I guess" to the end of that statement?

Yes, that contributed a lot to the wishy-washiness, with the 'nothing wrong' contributing the rest. Here, let me illustrate the difference with some examples:

"I'm voting for Polly."
"I guess i'm voting for Polly."
"I guess there'd be nothing wrong with me leaving my vote on Polly."

Notice how big of a difference there is between the first and the last. Since I don't want to tunnel and I think this is already been beaten into the ground, I'll move on for now.

##Unvote
##Vote: PX

Is it too early for a prod?

Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 29, 2010, 01:26:39 AM
Hm... Neo takes a joke in RVS, then posts a rather ambiguous as to whether it's a joke or serious post, but it just leads to some back and forth arguing that goes nowhere.

Then Solf comes in, says nothing, and Pesco jumps on him for not taking a stance. While still not saying anything about his stance. Definitely just jumping on the first person he can jump on. And he still hasn't provided anything.

##Unvote: huh what
##Vote: Pesco
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 29, 2010, 01:26:59 AM
Also, I've been busy all day! Leave me alone for not posting for 24 hours.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 29, 2010, 01:40:24 AM
Quote from: Pesco
I did take a stance
I already countered that stance, and you didn't argue back. You can't even stand up for your own stances.

I know we only have 48 hours, but it's still unreasonable to yell at people for being gone for 18 or so hours. We'll have more time when we have more use for time, anyway.

Neo Serela: A tip for future games. Always provide, never promise. Vote stays.

Points to Nobu for catching subtle distinctions and demonstrating them. I wouldn't mind a Polly lynch happening if not Serela or Pesco. It's easy to overlook at "Someone overthinking it." but keep in mind, that scum would be much more iffy keeping their votes on town, since they don't want to be the ones looked at on a wagon. Of course, I'll have to take those points away for switching off of Polly and onto a lurker.

Quote from: PX
Hm... Neo takes a joke in RVS, then posts a rather ambiguous as to whether it's a joke or serious post, but it just leads to some back and forth arguing that goes nowhere.
You forgot to tell everyone if you think this makes Neo Serela Scum or not. Do you?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 29, 2010, 01:55:36 AM
Well it just ends off, and it makes him look bad, trying to make huh what look bad and hiding behind RVS for bad moves, but it's inconclusive right now, but he'd be near the top of the scum chart currently.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 29, 2010, 01:58:54 AM
Been trying to see how long I could go without posting something else, but wow I'm bad at that.

I don't like Nobu letting up his pressure on Polaris so easily, especially considering how weak Polaris defended himself. It comes off as if he's just giving up because people disagree with it, and the fact that his solution is to change his vote to a prod vote does not help. Prod votes are not in town's best interest, as they essentially allow scum to place down a vote without having adding a proper case to the table. While I'm not going to deny PX's move in the RVS wasn't the greatest, Nobu... said nothing about that. His entire vote is just based on inactivity.

This pretty much reads to me as scum not wanting to have to keep up pressure on somebody and therefore moving to an inactive target, since nothing actually changed to make Nobu want to unvote Polly. Actually might prefer a Nobu lynch over a Serela lynch for this (though Pesco is still top priority imo), but I can't really tell because Serela still hasn't delivered his promised post, ugh.


PX Ninja: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Seriously though, please rephrase that. I can't tell what you're trying to get across here.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 29, 2010, 02:16:24 AM
@Huh what, give yourself a time based restriction, such as "2 posts per 24 hour period". It really trains you to wait for enough information to make a goodpost(tm).

inconclusive, but near the top

Thank you, PX.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 29, 2010, 02:57:34 AM
PX Ninja: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Seriously though, please rephrase that. I can't tell what you're trying to get across here.

What? I'm scratching my brain just trying to figure out exactly what you said here.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 29, 2010, 03:01:44 AM
Actually, I think I just got the point.

The case on NeoSerela just ends off in the middle of D1. From what he's done before that though, he moves towards the top of the scum chart, based on what he's said such as

Zak's question, yeah I kind of forgot. Answer:RVS shenanigans. It doesn't follow logically and wasn't supposed to.

yessir

to

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unless you are accusing me of trying to portray you in a negative light.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Kiro on October 29, 2010, 03:08:53 AM
♪Oh I don't know
Why you're not there
I gave you my prod
But you don't declare

So who is Town
And who is Scum
Give me a sign...

WoT is love
Baby don't vote me
Don't vote me
No more

Yeah-h-h!

---
CO-MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (sprightlier than Bardiche's)

NeoSerela (2): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
huh what (2): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela, Affinity
Inaba Tewi (2): Huh what, PX
PX (1): PX, huh what, Affinity, Nobuko
Kimblee (1): Inaba Tewi

Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri
Kiro (0): Inaba Tewi
Polly (0): Nobuko

Not voting: Solf J. Kimblee

Five votes make a majority with nine alive.

There are about 20.5 hours left in this day.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 29, 2010, 04:19:45 AM
I never said "I'm dropping the case on Polly", I said that I was moving on for now. Again, subtle differences. After the lurkfest that was MotK Psycho Plot Mafia D1, I've really lost my patience for lurkers. Seeing as how PX is with us now and making an effort to contribute now, ##Unvote

 
I don't like Nobu letting up his pressure on Polaris so easily, especially considering how weak Polaris defended himself. It comes off as if he's just giving up because people disagree with it, and the fact that his solution is to change his vote to a prod vote does not help. Prod votes are not in town's best interest, as they essentially allow scum to place down a vote without having adding a proper case to the table.

While I'm not going to deny PX's move in the RVS wasn't the greatest, Nobu... said nothing about that. His entire vote is just based on inactivity.

...."giving up because people disagree with it"? How did you even arrive to that conclusion? And that whole "Prod votes are not in town's best interest", I can't help but read that as "Prod votes are as scummy as I feel like interpreting them at the time". My vote on PX was indeed entirely based on inactivity. I'm not about to pretend that I care about PX self-voting himself then OMGUSing you in his first two posts. During RVS. What I'm more interested in is the fact that he posted twice and then disappeared for the next 18 hours.

Fake edit: This is doubly odd coming from you, seeing as you expressed irritation back in #56 for PX having disappeared on us. And yet its unbelievable that I'd have a problem with PX not being around?

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This pretty much reads to me as scum not wanting to have to keep up pressure on somebody and therefore moving to an inactive target, since nothing actually changed to make Nobu want to unvote Polly.

Despite 4 of my 5 content posts so far dealing with Polly in one way or another?  What changed is that Polly actually responded this time, where before then I had just been going back and forth with you. I would much rather make the most of D1 and address things that haven't been addressed yet, than tunnel on Polly all day and expect it to help Town somehow.  With that said,

##Vote: huh what

Your current play puts me on edge. Heaping excessive criticism and suspicion every which way seems like a great way for scum to leave his options without looking too impulsive or eager if he has to bandwagon hop later. You've added me to your alternative acceptable-lynch-pool for shoddy reasoning, and based on your statement in #65 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471439.html#msg471439), it seems like you even added Polly to the pool as well. Despite not seeing things the same way I do regarding his wishy-washiness.  And while I was *just* about to say that your redeeming quality was that you were sticking to your guns regarding Pesco and expressing a strong opinion about someone at least, I'm even leery of that much now.

I don't really have much to say to your post, personally I think sitting back and waiting for town to lynch somebody for a flip isn't the greatest course of action for a townie to do, but I can see where you're coming from as well at least. Doesn't change my stance on you either way.

The bolded part reminds me of your criticism of my prod vote. These statements are weak to the point that you might as well not be saying anything. You're basically saying, "This is not necessarily scummy... but it's not perfect Town play either." Don't beat around the bush. Both here and in #62 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471439.html#msg471439) you qualify your criticism of Pesco with concurrence. Here with 'I can see where you're coming from', and there with "While I agree that..".


At this point, still waiting to hear on Neo, would like to hear more from Pesco (less MindHax(TM) and more content plz), and am hoping that Affinity will grace us with his presence soon.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 29, 2010, 04:55:32 AM
hurrdurr d1 walls. I'm just going to leave all the quotes after the first out of this for the sake of everyone's sanity.

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How did you even arrive to that conclusion? And that whole "Prod votes are not in town's best interest", I can't help but read that as "Prod votes are as scummy as I feel like interpreting them at the time".

Okay, you know what? Since you seem to interpret anything that is not stated as if it is an absolute fact as wishy-washyness (which is largely irritating to me because I tend to word things this way a lot), let me rephrase that.

Prod votes are scummy because they allow scum to place their vote on a player without giving out a proper case on them or holding onto opinions. They are not even proper methods of pressure because when the target returns you're obligated to remove your vote and have effectively just gone through a stretch of time without doing anything of note.

Your prod vote in particular reads like a textbook example of that. You dropped your previous case and had nobody else to vote, so you placed your vote on a lurker only to take it away as soon as they responded. Was there really any point in voting them in the first place? No, because it's just a trick to make you look like you're doing something when you aren't. Just because there were lots of lurkers last game does not mean D1 LALu is a valid tactic.

You dropping the case on Polly is just what I gathered from your post, since you unvoted him in exchange for a much weaker case. If you still think Polly looks like scum, then that technically makes your exchange for a lurker prodvote even worse.

Yes, I expressed irritation with PX disappearing. Did I vote him? No, because his disappearance wasn't actually scummy so much as annoying. Not seeing a problem here, since I was going after who I believed to be scum rather than parking my vote on him until I could think of something better. The issue with you is not that you disliked him not being around, it's with your vote on him because of that.

Not agreeing that my reasoning is shoddy, otherwise I wouldn't be voting you. See above paragraphs for defense on it. The Polaris point is silly considering in that post I had just said that I understood what you meant at that time.

Oh yes, about what I said in regards to Pesco. That... is not even my main reason for voting him, in fact I probably would not have brought that up had he not pressed me for a response after he said that (or at least I felt his post was pressing me for a response). The "while I agree that" is not wishy-washy in the context of the post because it is not something that would make him look less scummy based on whether I agreed on it or not. Do I need to restate my case on him the same manner as I did above for you to buy that I am being sincere with my vote?

If it seems like I'm criticizing everybody, then that's because, to be honest, most people do not look that great to me right now. The exception to this would be Zakeri, since his posts have come across clear and reasonable to me. I do not have an issue with Affinity from his vote on me, but he has not posted since so it is hard to judge. I'm not even sure about what I think of Serela now either, my case on him was mostly ED1 and I'm willing to drop it provided he can give out something reasonable enough to make him look better in my eyes once he comes back. PX and Solf don't look good but I don't think I would want them lynched yet since I'm just reading newbtells from them.

Not impressed with the OMGUS, honestly. I don't really see your case on me beyond "he's criticizing lots of people and used indecisive wording like twice!!!". This may be because I do not believe my reasoning against you to be weak, but eh.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 29, 2010, 04:55:59 AM
...Wow, I did not realize how long that was. :s
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: PX on October 29, 2010, 05:17:25 AM
I've seen these words thrown in the last game, but can someone tell me what they mean?

Bussing
WIFOM
OMGUS
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Kiro on October 29, 2010, 05:19:20 AM
I've seen these words thrown in the last game, but can someone tell me what they mean?

Bussing
WIFOM
OMGUS

I'll explain it to you in PM.

To any other players, feel free to message Bardiche or me if you have any questions.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 29, 2010, 07:05:23 AM
Quote from: Nobu 70
Re: Pesco - I do agree that Pesco's criticism of #53 is pretty hypocritical, and that he can do better than 'you guys post too much' if he expects others to do the same. Not sure if that's scumminess or egoism at this point; would like to see more out of him right now.

Why would it be scummy? Neo/HW ED1 was a pretty stupid thing to be making so many posts about.

Quote from: PX 73
Then Solf comes in, says nothing, and Pesco jumps on him for not taking a stance. While still not saying anything about his stance. Definitely just jumping on the first person he can jump on. And he still hasn't provided anything.

You haven't provided anything that shows you're actually thinking and neither has Kimblee.

HW's 77 and 83 are pretty bad. If you put aside that Polly has no new opinions, he's consistent in how he responded. I don't think that makes him scummy to warrant staying on. Can you give any reasons why Nobu should be holding onto his Polly case over anyone else?

Prodvoting is scummy when the person is going to be dead no matter what anyone else in the game does, or said vote stays on with the inactivity reason as the main thrust. PX responded, they weren't good responses, but since a better case than everything before came out from the prodvote, there is no fault with it.

Quote from: HW 83
Not agreeing that my reasoning is shoddy, otherwise I wouldn't be voting you.

Less double negatives please because while the whole post's 'you' is referring to Nobu, I am confused by what you are saying here.

Quote from: HW 83
You dropping the case on Polly is just what I gathered from your post, since you unvoted him in exchange for a much weaker case. If you still think Polly looks like scum, then that technically makes your exchange for a lurker prodvote even worse.

You know quite well that Nobu made a prodvote, but you're calling it a case. If Nobu was going to vote PX to lynch, then it would be a case. This is just horribly bad backwards logic to paint someone scummy.

Quote from: HW 83
Oh yes, about what I said in regards to Pesco. That... is not even my main reason for voting him, in fact I probably would not have brought that up had he not pressed me for a response after he said that (or at least I felt his post was pressing me for a response).

I wasn't pressing you for a response. I was voting Kimblee, why would I be asking you? In fact, why would you have thought it was necessary for you to answer for Kimblee? As I said in 57, chainsaws. What's it to you to defend other people?

Quote from: HW 83
Not impressed with the OMGUS, honestly. I don't really see your case on me beyond "he's criticizing lots of people and used indecisive wording like twice!!!". This may be because I do not believe my reasoning against you to be weak, but eh.

That was a lot of words to only end up as a n OMGUS case. I believe you should be voting Nobu if you have this much conviction behind it. Remind us why you're voting me over him again.

##Unvote
##Vote HW
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 29, 2010, 07:28:13 AM
Also leaving out the quotestripping for sanity's sake. I'll try to be as succinct as possible, as I have less time than I like.

- I don't think prod votes are as bad as you do. Does my activity really seem so minimal that the prod vote looks like its covering up for it?
- In the future, please make a better distinction between something that is just 'annoying' and something that is 'scummy', like how you're doing now. If I see someone griping about someone and it's not because of something like obvnoob stuff, then I assume its because of the person's behavior being interpreted as scummy.
- Not OMGUS. I gave my reasons why I voted you, and it'd be peculiar not to have voted you after saying all that I did.
- Echoing Pesco's sentiment about the conspicuous absence of a vote after all you had to say about me.

Damn, even with bullet points this post was still time-consuming.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 29, 2010, 07:53:29 AM
@ Pesco: I believe Nobu should have held to his Polly case instead of voting PX because when Nobu responded to Polaris' defense, he did not note any sort of satisfaction with Polaris' defense and seemed to keep up his attack on the wishywashyness by pointing out why he thought Polly's post came off that way, but then said he thought the case had been beaten into the ground and switched to his PX vote, which came off inconsistant to me.

Plus, Nobu originally voted Polaris for both criticizing Serela for 'sucking at RVS' and being non-commital. What happened to the first point? I know he did not prioritize is as much as the latter, but it pretty much disappeared into thin air when Nobu switched his vote.

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I wasn't pressing you for a response. I was voting Kimblee, why would I be asking you? In fact, why would you have thought it was necessary for you to answer for Kimblee? As I said in 57, chainsaws. What's it to you to defend other people?
I think we're talking about different things here :s I'm talking about when you called me out for "mashing F5" expecting me to post. I got the impression that you wanted a post from me when you said that, was I wrong?

How was I defending Solf? The "Be honest, if Solf had said that and proceeded not to vote anyone or state her suspicions, wouldn't your vote still be on her for not taking a stance?" was an attempt to press you over how awkward you defending yourself with "people post too much" was, because it was not truly much better than Solf taking no stance without that excuse. Not sure how you interpreted it as defense.

Also, if you are accusing me of defending Solf while chainsawing you, then why are you essentially attacking me while answering attacks for Nobu (read: defending him)? It's pretty much the same thing. <_<

About what you said about Nobu not voting PX for a lynch: From what Nobu said in #82, I got the impression he would have been content with PX getting lynched over inactivity (when Nobu said "What I'm more interested in is the fact that he posted twice and then disappeared for the next 18 hours.", it came off to me as if he thought PX's absence was scummy. Additionally, his apparent dissatisfaction with lurkers that he noted came off like he wanted to attack them to me.)


@Nobu: I never said your PX vote was covering up for inactivity so much as covering up for the lack of a case when you unvoted Polaris.

As for why I'm voting Pesco over Nobu. Pesco made a hypocritical and opportunistic vote without providing any real stances prior despite a chance to do so, which reads worse to me than Nobu's action dropping a case to prodvote another player instead, personally. Pesco accusing me of chainsaws when he is essentially doing the same thing by defending Nobu while voting me over attacking Nobu does not help.

Also, just saying this in advance: I probably won't be online tomorrow until a couple hours before deadline. If anybody else has something to say to me, it's best to get it out now.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 29, 2010, 08:49:57 AM
Blatant hypocrisy right there. Combine this with how you were clearly around earlier to provide one and you just look opportunistic, as if you were waiting around for an easy target to jump on.

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Pesco made a hypocritical and opportunistic vote without providing any real stances prior despite a chance to do so

Your original vote indicated uncertainty. If we look over what was happening at the time, it's possible that you also made an opportunistic jump onto me. You were also 'around' to start something on me. Your first post calling me on my ED1 posts were clear in that you didn't like my activity. The other cases at the time were no better than mine on Kimblee. Why is nailing Kimblee's first post with a vote scummy? I didn't drop one case for another. There was no objection to my reasoning. I developed my stance on Kimblee from the first post, how is that scummy?

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I think we're talking about different things here :s I'm talking about when you called me out for "mashing F5" expecting me to post. I got the impression that you wanted a post from me when you said that, was I wrong?

Wasn't expecting a response, but I did expect a post because you were being predictable that you would reply to anything that got posted in thread. That does kinda make you sound like you're waiting for people to jump on for anything.

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Not sure how you interpreted it as defense.

Because you voted me.

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Also, if you are accusing me of defending Solf while chainsawing you, then why are you essentially attacking me while answering attacks for Nobu (read: defending him)? It's pretty much the same thing. <_<

Nobu answered for himself. I'm giving my reading AFTER he's done defending himself.

Still no content from Kimblee or PX. Is there any reason why I should not be considering one of them as lurkscum?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 29, 2010, 09:16:40 AM
Just wanted to point it out:
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Neo/HW ED1 was a pretty stupid thing to be making so many posts about.
If it was a stupid thing to be making so many posts about and you did not want to add to it, then encouraging another player (Kimblee) to do so or blaming them for not adding to it themselves is essentially inconsistant with what you yourself are showing through your actions. Why would you openly encourage another player to engage in a debate you believe to be unnecessary?

Your original vote indicated uncertainty. If we look over what was happening at the time, it's possible that you also made an opportunistic jump onto me. You were also 'around' to start something on me. Your first post calling me on my ED1 posts were clear in that you didn't like my activity. The other cases at the time were no better than mine on Kimblee. Why is nailing Kimblee's first post with a vote scummy? I didn't drop one case for another. There was no objection to my reasoning. I developed my stance on Kimblee from the first post, how is that scummy?
Your vote came off as an opportunistic usage of Kimblee's post because you had not given a set of opinions on the other current cases when prodded, and when you had a chance to do so in your following post, you instead jumped on the player who had most recently posted. It comes across as if that post had not popped up, you would have continued to avoid responding and had absolutely nothing to say about what was currently happening in the game. It also seems to lead towards the "lurk thread, wait for people who can be jumped on" playstyle that you just accused me of.

I do not view my vote on you as opportunistic because I already had given my personal stances on what was going on in the thread at the time and was content with my vote on Serela until you appeared and struck me as worse than him. I was not using my vote on you as a springboard to attempt to make up for a lack of anything else for town to work with, which I believe you were doing when voting Kimblee.

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Nobu answered for himself. I'm giving my reading AFTER he's done defending himself.
Not to 83, which your post responded to a lot more than 77.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 29, 2010, 09:32:06 AM
Commenting on Neo/HW does not require one to get into arguing with either of you.

If Kimblee didn't post, I would have carried on waiting. Voting before any post arrived would be a prodvote that tended towards the scummy variety. As town, why should I go and do something scummy like that?

I definitely responded more to 83 than 77.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 29, 2010, 11:00:12 AM
Let me start by saying that my reasoning about age differences and such was pretty akward and overall bad. I can only say that it was a mistake, and that I probably shouldn't have written that.

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Still no content from Kimblee or PX. Is there any reason why I should not be considering one of them as lurkscum?
Timezones. I was asleep.

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Getting into the game is when someone takes a joke too seriously. Who reads to you as taking things too seriously and who reads as not taking anything seriously?
At that point in time, I thought HW was taking it too seriously, and you were not.
But right now, no one. Seriousness is fine now. Yes, my opinion varies a lot.

Oh, and you said you wanted a stance on this?
I'll do my best.

Affinity; THIS. Is what I would call "lurking". So far I've only seen two posts(Not counting the joke-vote PX one), each of them with little to no content at all. Sure "quality before quantity", but that's just taking it too far.

PX; I can't exactly say how I feel. Even if it was just a joke, self-votes aren't smart or appreciated, but then again. Jokes and stuff.

huh what; I'll have to say that he has provided the majority of information and that he really is on the look-out for scum.
imo, I wouldn't call him that suspicious. More like that he's very, very active.

More coming after school.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 29, 2010, 11:46:33 AM
Continuing...

NeoSerela; What. It might be just me, but reading this guy is... "The border of srs and joke just broke" is honestly the best way I can explain it. I find myself wondering if he actually is serious half of the time. I'd say something about him just disappearing, but I've been doing it too.
"The border of scum and town" is beginning to look more like "Suspicion Spark". I can't say he's looking good.

Zakeri; The first person who got srs. And very suddenly, too. Despite this, he seems like he's doing some good scum-hunting, and presents good, working arguments.
Pretty much the same as huhwhat, with less obnixous activity.

Polly; I haven't got much to say about this guy. I don't mind him, nor do I suspect him more than anyone else, since he did say his reason for voting, even if it wasn't so clear.

Pesco; He says that HW jumped him as much as he jumped me, but HW had a better reason for it than "stance nao". This was what Pesco wanted from me, even if he hadn't got one himself.
It's not good. Not in my eyes anyway.

Nobu; He does point out important facts and can hold his own opinions well(70, 61). He hasn't really said anything scummy as far as I know, so I don't have reasons to suspect him more than anyone else.


There, my opinions on everyone. Now excuse me while I go grab a snack.

( Expect more activity from me next week, since I won't be at school. )
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 29, 2010, 12:13:43 PM
EBWOP; I wasn't saying you were old, Pesco. Sorry for offending you, but what I said was the truth.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Bardiche on October 29, 2010, 01:54:06 PM
We're all no strangers to votes, oh oh~♪
You know the rules, and so do I~♫
A full lynch train is what I'm talking of~♪
You wouldn't get this from any other guy~♫

I~~ just want to tell you who I'm voting~♪
Gotta make you~ understand~♫

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OFFICIAL MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (Bard was here, Kiro's a loser!)

NeoSerela (2): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
huh what (4): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela, Affinity, Nobuko, Inaba Tewi
Inaba Tewi (2): Huh what, PX

PX (0): PX, huh what, Affinity, Nobuko
Kimblee (0): Inaba Tewi
Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri
Kiro (0): Inaba Tewi
Polly (0): Nobuko

Not voting: Solf J. Kimblee

There are nine votes to go around, so five cinch a lynch!

There are just about 10 hours left in this day. A lynch will occur when someone receives five votes or deadline falls and there is a clear leading person. Remember: a tie results in a No Lynch.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Affinity on October 29, 2010, 01:58:50 PM
Solf's reporter-style thingy isn't very satisfying.  A vote will tell us more than what a breakdown of players and your opinions will do at this stage of the game.  E.g from your list everyone seems scummy except huhwhat and Nobu (which is odd because they are the two in the spotlight now), which seems like an attempt to wait for a chance to hammer someone, really.  Also, with huge emphasis on activity levels and adjectives like 'good', 'decent', and not what they are saying, that doesn't make your presence really felt here.  Really, without a vote, at this stage, you are the most scummy person in the entire game, especially if you are able to point out stuff that don't mean much without context (e.g a vote)

##Unvote
##Vote: Kimblee

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As usual, I don't agree with huhwhat's style of play.  Things like "omigosh, a single vote placed by scum as a prod on someone will automatically lead to a lynch because everyone will agree with him and vote!  Scummy!" and "OMGUS!" aren't even that jaunty anymore, by now,  And of course, all your supposed 'content' you mentioned is useless because most of it was severely out of context on posts that were clearly in spirit of RVS.  And how do you, uhh, press something like that on Polly even further?  What's there is there, and there's nothing else to it, move on.  It would look rather silly after all (like going on about the defense thing, which is irrelevant now).  And i don't know how 'opportunistic' an L-4 vote can really be.  It's like his entire voting structure is messed up and not very easily agreed with.  This will be irritating if this goes on.

But of course, the above isn't really scummy on it's own as opposed to misguided, for now.  All in all, he does have a valid case on pesco on unsound propositions (e.g prodvotes being automatically scummy!), and a bad case is better than no case, which is more than what people like Polly and Kimblee can say.  Lastly, he seems as if he's trying, and things fold logically on incorrect premises. and so I'm not willing to lynch him on D1.  In short, the argument seems to be a town-town one to me due to differing scumhunting philosophies. 

PX thinking Serela is scummy for 'hiding behind RVS' is... questionable, but it shows that he's trying,   I definitely don't agree with his pesco vote but I can see the reasoning behind it (e.g trying to mask having not a stance by having a stance on people who don't have a stance'.)

Thus, Serela, Polly and Kimbalee are the top of my list for now due to lack of concrete stances.  If Polly is waiting on Serela, I can understand, but the ball's on Kimbalee for above reasons.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 29, 2010, 03:03:19 PM
Wait, let me just get this straight...
I'm scummy because I try to be helpful with my opinions on this(Which I probably failed on), and because I haven't voted?

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Also, with huge emphasis on activity levels and adjectives like 'good', 'decent'
Huge emphasis? I said it in your case, in Serelas', in HWs', and a vauge mention in Zakeris'. How is that huge?
Also, I said good four times, and not once did I say decent. Don't question me on this, I checked. And anyway, I don't see why I shouldn't use words like good and decent.

##Vote: Inaba Tewi
Happy now?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Affinity on October 29, 2010, 03:13:50 PM
As in, why are they good and decent and all that?  You did not elaborate at all, which is why those did not mean anything.

And why vote pesco instead of Serela?  Do you think he still does not have a stance?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 29, 2010, 03:35:29 PM
Oh, sweet Merciful Kanako, did you guys honestly put the person who is attempting the most scumhunting at L-1? Neo Serela voted him for making a decent ED1 case on him, and now we have Nobu voting huhwhat for "Heaping excessive criticism and suspicion every which way ..." which to me translates as "pointing out everything that he finds scummy." I can understand voting him on wavering between his opinion of Polly like he did, but this is just so backwards that I almost want to call Nobu out on voting Huhwhat for being town.

Quote from: Pesco 87
If you put aside that Polly has no new opinions, he's consistent in how he responded.
Except, when someone provides no new opinions, you're suppose to punish them into providing, not switch to someone else who has even less of a chance to defend themselves. Nobu's switch has proper scum motivation for happening, and unless Polly is slightly confirmed town, little town motivation.

I also like how you end the same paragraph by saying "the ends justifies the means." As if scumbussing wasn't done with that same philosophy in mind. If you let everyone get away with just the results, and not showing their work, then every game where Scum voted one another would end with a town loss. I'm not saying Huh what and Nobu are scumpartners, here, I'm just saying how flawed that line of reasoning is.

Also, Ironically, for the person who apparently has taken the stance that people post too much, your post is unnecessarily huge. Why is that?

I'm having a very hard time deciding if Nobu is more scum for copying Serela's OMGUS argument, and putting a more involved spin on it, or if Pesco is more scum for not having an opinion except for people who have also not provided or have attacked Nobu.

I'm glad Affinity has let up, because even though I don't think he's completely scummy, his vote reason for Huhwhat also had me pulling my hair out: "You asked someone to clearify their case on another person! I CAUGHT BOTH SCUM, it's these two, Town wins, GG everyone, let's go home." I do agree with Affinity's new vote. I let it slide before because you (Kimblee) did take a stance that voting for a current case would be useless (Even though that's objectively wrong, that just means you're new, not scum) But at this late in the stage, there's been a lot more activity, and there's no reason why you shouldn't be voting for Pesco, Neo Serela, PX or Polly. I don't even know which of those four are more scummy to you. You don't need to provide an opinion on everybody, you just need to provide opinions on people you think are scum, and vote them.

I'm frusterated the Serela's complete lack of responding. Even if you don't read the entire thread, at least just read the parts you missed. Unfortunately, my scumlist has managed to change by leaps and bounds despite this. Nobu and Pesco need to be lynched and found out first, then Kimblee needs to get his butt kicked into gear, which puts NeoSerela, surprisingly, in the fourth slot.

##Unvote: NeoSerela
##Vote: Nobu


Edit: Cut by Kimblee
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 29, 2010, 03:49:53 PM
Looked over Kimblee's posts again, and very little of my opinion has changed. Affinity's already got a handle on this, So I'll just wait for Nobu and Serela.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 29, 2010, 05:35:31 PM
@ Pesco: I believe Nobu should have held to his Polly case instead of voting PX because when Nobu responded to Polaris' defense, he did not note any sort of satisfaction with Polaris' defense and seemed to keep up his attack on the wishywashyness by pointing out why he thought Polly's post came off that way, but then said he thought the case had been beaten into the ground and switched to his PX vote, which came off inconsistant to me.

Plus, Nobu originally voted Polaris for both criticizing Serela for 'sucking at RVS' and being non-commital. What happened to the first point? I know he did not prioritize is as much as the latter, but it pretty much disappeared into thin air when Nobu switched his vote.

It's as Affinity says in #97, how do I press something like that on Polly further? What's done is done I had spent the entire game so far talking about the same statement, and I'd rather turn my attention to something else catching my eye than beating it further into the ground.



It did not take 4 posts to clarify how Polaris was saying Serela sucked at RVS. Also, in vacuum of content that is ED1 the comment was worth mentioning, but I really didn't see the point in waving that over Polly's head as well in my last post dealing with him.

Oh, sweet Merciful Kanako, did you guys honestly put the person who is attempting the most scumhunting at L-1? Neo Serela voted him for making a decent ED1 case on him, and now we have Nobu voting huhwhat for "Heaping excessive criticism and suspicion every which way ..." which to me translates as "pointing out everything that he finds scummy."

"Excessive" is the key word here. And that translation is off, since the exchange between me and huh what in #82-83 illustrates that he doesn't necessarily think everything he's been pointing out is scummy. He wasn't making the distinction clear until I criticized him for it. And an OMGUS argument this is not. >_>

Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 29, 2010, 06:33:15 PM
Quote from: Nobu, just above
huh what in #82-83 illustrates that ...

Illustrates where? I can't see anything other than:

Quote from: Huhwhat Post 83
Yes, I expressed irritation with PX disappearing. Did I vote him? No, because his disappearance wasn't actually scummy so much as annoying.

I don't see how this is consistent with the way you're trying to portray huhwhat as "Scum trying to keep tabs on several bandwagons at once." This goes against that idea, since huhwhat is basically saying "No, Polly is not worth voting." Shouldn't, by your theory, huhwhat actually try to waffle on polly while still using your lurker vote against you?

The more I think about it, the more backwards the logic sounds. If you provide more examples where Huhwhat is saying "No, that's not scummy, I just wanted to point it out." That disproves your logic because he's closing off these options. If you don't provide more examples, that basically admits that most of what Huhwhat is pointing out is legitimate scumhunting, which helps dispute the idea that he's scum in the first place. Unless you can provide points where huhwhat is directly saying "I don't want to put my vote here, but it would be really neat if others did" or other such cheerleads and fence sits, than your argument about Huhwhat being too "excessive" is completely flawed.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Kiro on October 29, 2010, 06:46:03 PM
"Remember people, there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and USO DA! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mp9rhtudaE)"

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CO-MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (More philosophical than Bard's)

huh what (3): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela, Affinity, Nobuko, Inaba Tewi
Inaba Tewi (3): Huh what, PX, Solf J. Kimblee
NeoSerela (1): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
Solf J. Kimblee (1): Inaba Tewi, Affinity
Nobuko (1): Zakeri

PX (0): PX, huh what, Affinity, Nobuko
Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri
Kiro (0): Inaba Tewi
Polly (0): Nobuko

There are nine votes to go around, so five cinch a lynch!

huh what and Inaba Tewi are both at L-2!

There are under 5 hours left in this day. A lynch will occur when someone receives five votes or deadline falls and there is a clear leading person. Remember: a tie results in a No Lynch.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 29, 2010, 07:44:26 PM
Kimblee's waffle certainly hasn't been productive to town. Affinity covered it all already. Kimblee and PX's votes on me are really parked votes given they post a bunch of nothing and follow blindly. And Kimblee's wagon swing vote on me is pretty scummy from my seat.

Zak's not going to switch to HW and I don't think Affinity will be around in time. I doubt HW getting lynched at this rate, but I'm willing to switch back if it happens.

##Unvote
##Vote Kimblee
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on October 29, 2010, 07:59:45 PM
The more I think about it, the more backwards the logic sounds. If you provide more examples where Huhwhat is saying "No, that's not scummy, I just wanted to point it out." That disproves your logic because he's closing off these options. If you don't provide more examples, that basically admits that most of what Huhwhat is pointing out is legitimate scumhunting, which helps dispute the idea that he's scum in the first place. Unless you can provide points where huhwhat is directly saying "I don't want to put my vote here, but it would be really neat if others did" or other such cheerleads and fence sits, than your argument about Huhwhat being too "excessive" is completely flawed.

What I had in mind was huhwhat's early suspicion of Serela for silly ED1 shenanigans, #44 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471175.html#msg471175) and our back and forth regarding the semantics of Polly's statement, along with that PX quote you pointed out when I gave him a reread. I will admit that on a full night's sleep, looking back over things and seeing what you, Affinity, and Huhwhat had to say, that our back and forth regarding Polly were less accusatory than I had taken them at first, and my perception of 'excess criticism' be that he's practically every other post. ;; I'm feeling like it could be just a play-style difference after all.

I pointed out early on in #43 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471168.html#msg471168) that I thought his activities might have just been playstyle after all, but I didn't want to just be clearing him on meta and I put down what I had been thinking about.

As I definitely don't want to see a huh what lynch over a Pesco lynch now (or a no-lynch over a Pesco lynch), I'm going to:

##Unvote
##Vote: Polly
.



My criticism of Polly still holds, and although he responded to his criticism he doesn't have any other activity of note aside from his intro post and the response. Then there's Serela who has disappeared on us after promising a reread. Pesco has the whole non-stance stance part from his earlier posts, and to add to that he defends my type of prodvote in #87 as not-scummy while attacking huh what, then he seems to turn around to say he thinks that style of prodvote is scummy in #92:

Prodvoting is scummy when the person is going to be dead no matter what anyone else in the game does, or said vote stays on with the inactivity reason as the main thrust. PX responded, they weren't good responses, but since a better case than everything before came out from the prodvote, there is no fault with it.

If Kimblee didn't post, I would have carried on waiting. Voting before any post arrived would be a prodvote that tended towards the scummy variety. As town, why should I go and do something scummy like that?

If I had to rank my top three scumpicks right now, it'd be Polly, Pesco, and Neo. In all likelihood my vote's going to end up on Pesco, and i'll move it to him in a couple hours unless other people are also going to be putting Polly over him as we get closer to the end of the day.


Ninja'd by Pesco: I need to put Kimblee and PX under closer scrutiny later, but I got more of a 'new' read over a scum vibe from them from the first-ver. Though I agree with Affinity's earlier statement about witholding one's vote until so late being scummy, but not enough to put them over my top three.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Serela on October 29, 2010, 09:04:17 PM
My internet died. Although, to be honest, I can't say I wasn't kind of happy to have an excuse to not post. I'm such a horrible person ;_; Anyway, back now!

At first read catching up on what I missed, I think it's strange how Pesco is jumping on Kimblee who kind of screams obv.nub to me, and adding that onto his complete lack of effort earlier in the day (He outright said he wasn't going to bother with much until we have flips, if I remember right; which I may not be, though), well, I don't like him at all right now. Completely agreeing with the likely-looking lynch on Pesco today.

But before I came to that, I thought Affinity's post looked off too!
Quote from: Affinity
E.g from your list everyone seems scummy except huhwhat and Nobu
This is in reference to Kimblee's 93~94. I don't see how you reached this conclusion, Affinity.

To sum it up, he says Affinity is lurky, he's on the fence about PX, and then Pesco/Serela look bad. Town read on Huhwhat and neutral on Nobu/Polly. His conclusions seem fairly clear, and a Fency/Lurky with two scummy reads doesn't sound like making everyone look scummy.

I think I'll revisit Affinity when there's more stuff from him to read and we have flips. I don't feel like I have enough at the moment to decide him as scummy, but enough to entertain a suspicion D2 depending on how things go.

Polly kind of doesn't exist, but that's not really anything new in Pollyland, I suppose. Null read.

Huhwhat is :effort:, which is usually a townie thing. I might have simply overreacted with lolRVS flailing. I kind of dislike RVS, but whatever, moving on. Oh yeah, and I should ##Unvote him while I'm at it. I'm certainly not clearing him as town yet, but I also certainly don't think he's someone to pursue over others.

Kimblee is lurky nib so far IMO, I don't have any problems with the logic or conclusions on the list he posted, so I'm neutral towards him atm.

...who else is playing? Oh yeah, PX. Weird self-vote in RVS. His play since then checks out fine IMO. I want more information before I can form an opinion, like, maybe a Pesco flip. D1 info vacuum is bleh.

Anyway, ##Vote:Pesco (Unvoted earlier in the post when I blurbed huhwhat), he's definitely the person I feel most likely to be scum right now, and the two flips we'll have at D2 start should help me form/refine my opinions on everyone else. I feel quite comfortable with my vote.


Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Pesco on October 29, 2010, 09:24:09 PM
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I think it's strange how Pesco is jumping on Kimblee who kind of screams obv.nub to me, and adding that onto his complete lack of effort earlier in the day (He outright said he wasn't going to bother with much until we have flips,

How is it a bad thing that I'm putting effort BEFORE we get any flips?

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Kimblee is lurky nib so far IMO, I don't have any problems with the logic or conclusions on the list he posted, so I'm neutral towards him atm.

What logic or conclusions has Kimblee posted?

Betting Pesco's balls that both scum have voted me.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Bardiche on October 29, 2010, 09:58:44 PM
What is a Mafia game? A miserable heap of lies. But enough votes, have at you!

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OFFICIAL MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (Nine out of ten scientists agree, Kiro's senseless)

Inaba Tewi (4): Huh what, PX, Solf J. Kimblee, NeoSerela
NeoSerela (1): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
Solf J. Kimblee (2): Inaba Tewi, Affinity, Inaba Tewi
Nobuko (1): Zakeri
Polly (1): Nobuko, Nobuko

huh what (0): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela, Affinity, Nobuko, Inaba Tewi
PX (0): PX, huh what, Affinity, Nobuko
Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri
Kiro (0): Inaba Tewi

You have nine warriors, but a party of five needs to gang together to PK another!

INABA TEWI IS AT L-1

You have about one hour and forty minutes left to make a decision.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 29, 2010, 10:30:47 PM
I've gotten everything I wanted out of Nobu's posts. ##Unvote: Nobuko

Pesco is the clear leader here, and is the lynch I most prefer right now. I'll wait until tomorrow to continue my analysis of Nobu.

NeoSerela's post seems a little bare considering what I had hoped for, but fortunately it's not a worse case scenario reply. Bringing up the interesting point that Affinity really Misrepped the opinion reads of Kimblee. I'll need to reread Affinity and Kimblee over the night again- largely because my read of Kimblee will be heavily affected by Pesco's flip.

Announcing intent to hammer. Or rather, intent to not support anymore bandwagoning, since we have lax deadline rules.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Kiro on October 29, 2010, 10:41:26 PM
F5F5F5 []s[] []/s[] []b[] []/b[] ctrl-x preview ctrl-v crtl-t, check... oops... edit edit edit... preview...

Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.

GODDAMNIT BARD!!!

VOTECOUNT DELETE!!! :(

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*1 HOUR LATER*
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Votes are unchanged. Actually, Zakeri unvoted Nobuko, so Nobuko is at 0 votes, and Zakeri has no vote placed anywhere. -Bardiche

Inaba Tewi is at L-1!

There is about 1 hour left.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Bardiche on October 29, 2010, 11:12:47 PM
This is your friendly 30-minute warning before we end the discussion phase and move on to Mission: Sing Jaunty Tunes in the streets of Las Vegas. (read: Night phase)
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Polaris on October 29, 2010, 11:24:02 PM
Oh, hey, I made it before the deadline. Thanks to school I have to deal with a whole page of content at once instead of gradually working my way through it. >_>;

I wasn't feeling too sure about Pesco, but now that I pay close attention to him it looks like he was spending a lot of time defending himself and then making his case against huh what using that. (So, kind of like an OMGUS, but... not really? ???) Considering he'll be lynched regardless, this doesn't really change anything.

...I wanted to spend some time looking at Affinity and Nobu but I have a piano lesson so I don't have too much time.

##Vote: Pesco Hammering.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Bardiche on October 29, 2010, 11:27:54 PM
So then, gentlemen. I have overseen your discussion process, and I know already that you have designated Inaba Tewi as a traitor.

We've already taken the liberty of disposing of Inaba Tewi's personal belongings, and his cat. Don't worry, the cat's fine. He's in a box right now. Or maybe he isn't.

Ah, just a note, though. Inaba Tewi was Town, as a perusal of his documents learns us.

Well now! Time to grab your instruments and prepare! It's time for singing jaunty tunes in the streets!

You now have 24 hours to send in any night actions, by which I mean scum has 24 hours to deliberate and send in their Night Kill to me, or Kiro.



End of day votecount:


Inaba Tewi (5): Huh what, PX, Solf J. Kimblee, NeoSerela, Polly
Solf J. Kimblee (2): Inaba Tewi, Affinity, Inaba Tewi
Polly (1): Nobuko, Nobuko

NeoSerela (0): Polly, Zakeri, huh what
Nobuko (0): Zakeri
huh what (0): NeoSerela, PX, NeoSerela, Affinity, Nobuko, Inaba Tewi
PX (0): PX, huh what, Affinity, Nobuko
Affinity (0): NeoSerela
Bardiche (0): Zakeri
Kiro (0): Inaba Tewi

Not voting: Zakeri

Friendly reminder to unvote before voting. I'm not going to be anal about it a lot, but it helps in the future, okay?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Edible on October 30, 2010, 03:41:11 AM

Well now! Time to grab your instruments and prepare! It's time for singing jaunty tunes in the streets!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDdlHmzIdn8

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWW
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Bardiche on October 30, 2010, 01:25:29 PM
Welcome back. Gentlemen. Ladies. Kiro.

I've heard good things about you folks! People dancing to Cotton Eye Joe is the joyest view one can have in the morning, and it's all thanks to you.

Well, not all of you. For one, Affinity seems to have lost it and never returned to base.

He was Town, according to our papers. What a shame, deserters. Or maybe the Mafia got to him?

With only seven alive, it takes four to secure a lynch!

You have 72 hours to deliberate and decide on a lynch target.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on October 30, 2010, 06:14:35 PM
Affinity's response to Kimblee's post are spot on, and I agree to what Affinity has said about him. And Kimblee only voted after being prodded for one by Affinity, who flipped Town, and he just jumped on a wagon.

##Vote: Kimblee
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Kilgamayan on October 30, 2010, 06:19:04 PM
Please do not edit your post for any reason while you are playing.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 30, 2010, 07:05:02 PM
##Vote Polaris
He pretty much got through the entire D1 without having an opinion beyond "Serela sucks at RVS", and most of his following posts were just him defending himself. His reasons for hammering a townie wagon on his return at the end of the day were pretty flimsy too. Want to see some real content from him today.

Kimblee cheerleading a townie wagon and only voting when prodded on it doesn't look that great either. Probably would be my second choice at this point. Although I disagree with PX using Affinity's townie flip to make the case more credible, as somebody flipping town only tells us that their posts really do reflect their opinions, not whether their posts are true or not.

Nobu feels a bit better to me after #106. Even though he was about to jump on a townie wagon, his reasons for doing so were sound imo and it does not feel forced (although is is rather unchoreographed). Plus the odds of him being scum with Polly are really low (bussing somebody D1 in a game with only two scum would really really hurt the number advantage).

Probably need to do a proper reread though, since I was a useless piece of shit all nightphase and playing all these games and never actually got to it.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 30, 2010, 07:54:27 PM
Pretty much out of all the people who voted Pesco yesterday, Polaris is the one that least likely deserves to live for it. Granted, that's not saying much, since it's voting Pesco, but you get what I mean. It's nothing personal, but seeing Polly's hammer just hits me somewhere. I can really see where Nobu was coming from when Polly was being voted for Insincerity.

Quote from: Polly
I wasn't feeling too sure about Pesco, but now that I pay close attention to him
This is the kind of thing a person knowing they were voting town would say when making a hammer. The whole post just feels like he's trying to say "Okay, guys, don't blame me if this doesn't work out."

Like, argh, you get what I'm saying?
##Vote: Polaris

@Huhwhat: I disagree about the bussing point you make. Nobu's jump off onto PX does seem to signal that He didn't want to be on the Polly wagon anymore (The reason given was because "he didn't want to look like he's tunnling" But that really didn't necessitate a vote change). And when you started poking him for that, He switched his vote to you, and didn't bring it back to Polly until late enough in the day that only one of you or Pesco would be lynched.

I'm also still annoyed by Kimblee. In the (admittedly likely) Chance that Nobu isn't Polly's scum partner, than I'm certain Kimblee is. I'm specifically talking about his response to Affinity, where he had to be prodded to vote, and ended up on the Pesco Wagon.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: IBakaChan on October 30, 2010, 07:58:40 PM
My sudden Pesco-vote is pretty much the result of me being uncertain and just picking one out of the people that seemed scummy.

The reason for me voting so late is because I wanted to place one vote, and then rather not change unless it was absolutely needed. That's how I play.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 30, 2010, 08:10:52 PM
You can't act with uncertainty and hesitation. Even though your heart may be clouded by lies, it is your duty to strike through the lies, and bring the true to light. The reason you should vote is because you are uncertain. If you do nothing, you will learn nothing, and remain confused. That does not lead to a town win. That only leads to lost time. And lost time is what make for a scum win.

That is why your actions are anti-town, and why your need to be prodded for a vote is scummy.

This also probably explains my case on Polly better than I made it in my previous post as well. You can't stride forth with uncertainty, confusion and insincerity in your posts. If you aren't willing to take a bold step to the truth, then there is no chance you'll be able to find it.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Polaris on October 30, 2010, 08:44:32 PM
fffff forgetting to unvote how embarrassing ;_;

Kimblee does feel like scum with his vague (?) posts and the noncommittal (?) vote. However, those are also the characteristics of a cautious newbie (something I can relate to), so I'm going to wait for some more posts before I make a proper decision. At the moment he's only second on my scum list.

...of course as cautious newbscum he may have nightkilled Affinity for putting the most pressure on him, but that's slightly on the edge of a WIFOM argument so I'll stop there.

Serela feels more suspicious because his vote on Pesco seems more like a bandwagon than anything else. His opinion on Kimblee feels kind of watery with "obv.nub" changing to "lurky nib(...)neutral" in the same post, but idk is that just reading too far into it? (and then there's Zakeri with the "don't be uncertain" post so ;_; ) ##Vote: NeoSerela

PeX is borderline because it looks like he's trying, but at the same time he doesn't say much. But I guess that would be hypocritical of me as I haven't done too much either.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Bardiche on October 30, 2010, 08:50:36 PM
Kiro's been lurking all of D1, never once providing input or original opinions. He's stayed to the side-- sigh, I know, I can't lynch him.

#

OFFICIAL MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (With more flavour than Kiro!)
Solf J. Kimblee (1): PX
Polly (2): Huh what, Zakeri
NeoSerela (1): Polly

Not voting: Solf J. Kimblee, NeoSerela, Nobuko

With seven musicians, you need four to jam someone in the slammer.

About 65 hours, give or take, remain.

#

A stern reminder that editing of posts is not permitted in this game. I will be lenient and let it off with a warning this one time, however, the next person to edit their post will be modkilled. It does not matter whether the post was edited accidentally, intentionally or due to their little nine-year-old niece who doesn't speak English hijacking the computer and editing your Mafier post in jest. I will also not hold regard for whether you've never done it before or not; this warning is readable by all and thus counts as a warning to all.

You have been warned sternly, with as stern a face as I can muster.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on October 31, 2010, 02:04:15 AM
Uh... Hello?

*prods everyone*
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Nobu on October 31, 2010, 03:10:35 AM
Just wanted to give the heads up that I won't really have time to do proper Mafier until tomorrow evening most likely. I want to make a post before bed, but my ability to do so is kinda up in the air right now and i'm not sure if i'll be able to.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: WHMZakeri on October 31, 2010, 02:53:09 PM
It's been over 20 hours, and my opinion has barely changed. All of you are bad people.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Bardiche on October 31, 2010, 03:08:53 PM
Daylight savings? So, like, that means they get an extra hour, right? I have no idea.

#

OFFICIAL MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (With more flavour than Kiro!)
Solf J. Kimblee (1): PX
Polly (2): Huh what, Zakeri
NeoSerela (1): Polly

Not voting: Solf J. Kimblee, NeoSerela, Nobuko

Seven alive, so four make a lynch.

Around 46 hours remain in this day.

#

I will prod whenever someone passes 24 hours with no post. Relevant prods have been sent, with the eye on others. Please try not to let it come to me sending mass prods out.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on October 31, 2010, 08:32:07 PM
It's been over 20 hours, and my opinion has barely changed. All of you are bad people.
Same here, pretty much. Polly's new post has not done anything to make me feel any better about him, as all his opinions remain indecisive ("Kimblee could be scum oh but he could also be newb but I'm not going to decide yet oh but he's still second on my scum list" in particular seems waffly to me) and I am having trouble seeing his Serela case at all because of this.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Polaris on October 31, 2010, 08:42:08 PM
Well if I vote him for making newb mistakes then I'd feel like a hypocrite since I've also made newb mistakes :ohdear:
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 01, 2010, 01:13:16 AM
Prod repellent post
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Serela on November 01, 2010, 01:32:07 AM
Okay, uh, I can kind of understand why you would make a flat out Prod-Avoidance post considering the extreme low activity today (It doesn't help that MotK was broken for like half the day), but do you really have NOTHING else to say PX? You offered a short blurb about Solf on d2 start, and that's about it.

...come to think of it, you did quite little on D1 as well! Self-vote in rvs shenanigans, A short blurb on RVS shenanigans after rvs ends (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471683.html#msg471683), and then you answered Nobu's question on how you feel about me.

And that's about it. And yet you very blatantly show you have nothing else to say about all of D1 except for a tiny blurb on Solf. I know there's a lot of lurking going on this game (And yes, I'm a part of it, oh well), but even when you are here you seem to be making a point of doing as little as possible. I find it hard to believe this is just because you're new, as last game you showed that you could certainly make decent posts and cases. What I'm seeing is lurky scum trying to breeze through.

##Vote:PX

Polly looks quite normal townie Polly to me atm, yes I know that's kind of vague and undescriptive and laced with meta, but I feel Polly is town and trying to do a good job.

Need to reread everyone else still.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 01, 2010, 01:49:42 AM
yes I know that's kind of vague and undescriptive and laced with meta
If you're going to give Polly a pass over his townie meta, I'd just like to point out that he doesn't even have scum meta to compare it to right now. :x
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 1 has begun)
Post by: Nobu on November 01, 2010, 02:14:49 AM
Can't always explain away scummy behavior as noob behavior though Polly. We've all done scummy things in the past, but it doesn't mean we should avoid voting for it if we see it. :P

Sorry for being away, whee party/convention/halloween shenanigans. Surprised there isn't more to look through, but I'm probably not the only one with the busy weekend. I don't expect any major interruptions from here on out at least.



##Vote: Polly

My top candidate is Polly with Serela tagging closely behind, and feeling a good likelihood of them being scumpartners. Confident enough in Polly's scummitude to put him at L-1. Unlike Zakeri, it seems more likely to me that Polly/Serela are the scumpartners as opposed to Polly/Kimblee. Aside from being the scummiest in my eyes, none of the attention that Polly's focused on Serela thus far seem to have any backbone. Here's my elaboration and catch-up post:


Polly:

Agreeing with Zakeri's point of Polly's hammer being suspicious, for one. Also,

Kimblee does feel like scum with his vague (?) posts and the noncommittal (?) vote. However, those are also the characteristics of a cautious newbie (something I can relate to), so I'm going to wait for some more posts before I make a proper decision. At the moment he's only second on my scum list.

...of course as cautious newbscum he may have nightkilled Affinity for putting the most pressure on him, but that's slightly on the edge of a WIFOM argument so I'll stop there.

What are those question marks about, Polly? That you're not sure Kimblee is being vague or non-commital, or what? And that second line: "slightly on the edge of a WIFOM argument so I'll stop there". Stop? You've already gone and said it. And I don't like this whole 'I'm only putting him second because he might be cautious newbie', then immediately going 'Well, newbiescum would do the same thing' the next line. You've essentially said nothing about Kimblee here, but you still managed to say more (or imply more at least, compared to Serela who you voted.

And plainly put, your vote on Serela doesn't feel like it has any backbone. Nor do any of your statements for that matter. And you've only ever mentioned PX, Serela, Kimblee and Pesco this game so far in the few posts you've made. With two of the major bandwagons for D1 being me and huhwhat, that's pretty weird to me.


Serela:

Serela's long-awaited #107 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg472185.html#msg472185) did bring up a good point about Affinity, misrepping Kimblee's reporter-esque #93-94. However, when you actually take a closer look at the post, Serela hardly said a thing. The ONLY thing that wasn't blatantly obvious from a first read is pointing out Affinity's #93-94 as somewhat misrepping Kimblee's reporter-esque views. Even this seems forced, like Neo gave up after finding the first thing that stood out and gave up, delegating everything else to those rereads he's so fond of. If I could vote for both you and Polly right now, I would. But since this is boring vanilla mafia jk ilu Bard I can't do that, and put Polly slightly above you.


The Rest:

PX hasn't given us much to work with, and has been lurking fairly hard. I'd put him above Kimblee here because at least Kimblee has been giving us *something*. Kimblee's #93-94, though a bit superfluous with all the 'good's that Affinity pointed out, gives more real input than PX and Serela combined so far. Compare Kimblee's #93-94 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471923.html#msg471923) and Serela's #107 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg472185.html#msg472185): at least Kimblee mentions some specifics despite not elaborating on why they're good or bad. I get the impression that she's a newer player that's trying, as opposed to a scummy player trying to avoid specifics.


Zakeri: God damn that Puyo Fever Orin tugs on my heartstrings every time I see it. I love PPF-style art too much. Sorry, but I just had to get that out. Anyway...  You sorta scare me because I can tell how good your Mafia skills are, which makes me worry since if you were scum I might never be able to tell. :derp: But I've seen nothing that would make me suspect you at this point.

Huh what: Honestly feeling a bit sheepish about turning my guns on you D1, since now I feel like you're the strongest candidate for Town behind Zakeri.


Ninja'd by Serela + PX: This... doesn't really change anything except make me feel like it's slightly more likely Serela/Polly are the scum team. Of course, Lazy!Serela would probably comment on the current bandwagon leader regardless of alignment, but it seems perfectly plausible for Scum!Lazy!Serela to give a pass to his scumbuddy that's at L-2, build up a counterwagon on the easiest target, and save everyone else for later.

Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Polaris on November 01, 2010, 03:11:06 AM
Question marks are word choice. I wasn't sure if there was a better word for it, but either way I should've clarified that.

I didn't feel that either you or huh what was scummy at all, considering you two were pretty actively participating and scumhunting.

With the current people alive so far, if I put down you two and Zakeri as town, then we have Serela, Pex, and Solf (not Kimblee anymore since he's changing names all over the place) as the remaining.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 01, 2010, 04:37:27 AM
A Serela/Polly scumteam is fairly illogical, imo, on the basis that Serela looked a lot better than Polly at the start of today and therefore Polly attempting to bus Serela like he would be right now would be a fairly poor move for scum compared to having Serela bus Polly, assuming they wanted to bus somebody.

Anyway, I did a re-read. First of all, I was wrong about what I said Nobu's Pesco near-jump being unchoreographed, since he previously talked about Pesco in #70. Apologizing for the forgetful misrep. Not understanding why PX is randomly getting so much grace on further review, the post where he jumped on Pesco was essentially just IIoA and parroting me, and yet Kimblee's Pesco jump has gotten more flak because she delayed it. It doesn't help that PX was waffly-acting about the Serela IIoA in #76 when Zakeri pressed him, and when I press him again he says that Serela is near the top of his chart despite previously saying he felt inconclusive about Serela (more waffling). He pretty much had no presence for the rest of the day either... you know, actually, PX looks like major lurkscum to me. I'm liking Serela a bit more for being the only person to actually pursue him.

##Unvote
##Vote PX

Will switch back to Polly to avoid nl if necessary, but PX looks the worst to me now. I think he should be getting more attention than Kimblee, even.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 01, 2010, 04:41:08 AM
Also, his activity today is bad for reasons I shouldn't even need to explain. The least he could do would be to give opinions on somebody other than Kimblee rather than making a post with nothing in it to dodge prods.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 01, 2010, 05:56:10 AM
Serious Time

NeoSerela: You seriously do suck at RVS. I cannot tell if post #23 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471011.html#msg471011) is supposed to be serihttp://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=7485.100;num_replies=137ous or joke. Hm... after reading your follow up post (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg472185.html#msg472185), you definitely look much better. At least you admitted you sucked.

huh what: Town

Zakeri: Your experience shows in your posts, and you've showed nothing but solid advice and cases. Definitely Town. If you end up scum, I'm going to be scared of you.

Sleep time, more to come when I wake up and after school.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Kiro on November 01, 2010, 09:34:50 AM
Shut up, I don't know what to write here. I'm too high to care.

CO-MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (way higher than Bard!)
Polly (2): Huh what, Zakeri, Nobuko
PX (2): NeoSerela, huh what
Solf J. Kimblee (1): PX
NeoSerela (1): Polly

Not voting: Solf J. Kimblee

Seven alive, so four make a lynch.

Around 28 hours remain in this day.

EDIT: Solf J. Kimblee has been prodded.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: IBakaChan on November 01, 2010, 10:07:03 AM
Gaaahh, why do I keep forgetting about this ; n;

Sorry guys, but real life is calling. I thought I would be able to be more active here because it's autumn break, but apparantly not.

I quit. My apologies.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Bardiche on November 01, 2010, 04:46:09 PM
Roukanken will be substituting for Kimblee. I apologise for the situation guys, and hope it won't negatively affect play.
If anyone has issues with this, take 'em up with me in private.

OFFICIAL MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (Tired of one-upping you, Kiro :<)
Polly (2): Huh what, Zakeri, Nobuko
PX (2): NeoSerela, huh what
Solf J. Kimblee (1): PX
NeoSerela (1): Polly

Not voting: Solf J. KimbleeRoukanken, PX

Four votes are required to achieve majority. There should be seven votes to go around.

Around 21 hours remain in this day.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Nobu on November 01, 2010, 05:05:04 PM
I suppose you're right about the logical bussing scenario Huhwhat, and this latest post by PX just seems to drive your point home. What possible use is there to state "Hey Serela you suck at RVS btw" at this point, aside from padding your post/word count? :/

And I can't help but wonder if he just completely lifted what he had to say about Zakeri and Huhwhat from my last post. Even went so far as to say "I'd be scared if Zakeri is scum because he's good" in the same way that I did, and conspicuously leaving any reasoning as to why huhwhat was town the same way I did.

In light of this I think I'll have to switch Serela and PX on my tier list, to make it Polly, PX, Serela as my top three picks. I'm hesitant to put PX over Polly at this point, but that might change after I compare the two of them a little later on. At the moment though, keeping my vote where it is.


As for Kimblee, I have no idea. Doubly unsure of how to even scrutinize a replacement, but I guess the only thing to do is wait to see what Rou has to produce.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 01, 2010, 05:30:59 PM
Alright people, the day has been saved. It's time to read this topic and figure out what the hell is going on. Apologies for wordswordswords - I was trying to work on NaNoWriMo when I got told to replace, so I'm in a rambling mood. :V

Immediately reading over D1, I'm very confused by the interactions between Neo and HW. In 25 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471019.html#msg471019) HW basically rages at Neo about bussing way too early and then doesn't actually drop a vote, instead keeping it on PX (who from what I've read thus far looks like the obligatory clueless newcomer). Saying words and not actually staking a claim to them with a vote = scummy. It doesn't help that in 29 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471027.html#msg471027) he states again that he's being serious with the accusation...but evidently not serious enough to be worth a vote. He changes later, but only after a long, convoluted argument with Neo which basically gives him no choice but to hang on.

Then what happens? He drops the case and jumps on Pesco (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471391.html#msg471391) for hypocrisy. Hypocrisy which, really, I'm not seeing - Pesco said that the Neo/HW argument was useless fluff with the 'you guys post too much' point, so this just feels like a bad excuse to jump away from Neo. I'm wondering about a Neo/HW pair here based on the way they sort of swerve around each other here.

Next post of note to me is PX's 73 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471683.html#msg471683), for being very unoriginal and copycopycopypeoplearevotingPescosolet'svotePesco. Then later he explains why Neo is the scummiest player around (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471752.html#msg471752) and, uh...keeps his vote on Pesco?

HW throws out some nice hypocrisy in 83.
Quote from: huh what
Prod votes are scummy because they allow scum to place their vote on a player without giving out a proper case on them or holding onto opinions. They are not even proper methods of pressure because when the target returns you're obligated to remove your vote and have effectively just gone through a stretch of time without doing anything of note.
So what exactly does your vote on Pesco count as, then? You were effectively prodding him for his lack of contribution, while moving away from your earlier 'serious' Neo case.

OK, looking over the current cases on Polly/PX. Firstly, if I have learned anything from Kefit and Alice screaming at me when Town loses for the umpteenth time because we lynched a 'lurker', it's that lurking on D1 is not in and of itself bad. The only problem I have with him is in his hammer post, when after his explanation for why he suddenly doesn't like Pesco he says
Quote from: Polly
Considering he'll be lynched regardless, this doesn't really change anything.
Then why did you say it? If you think he's scum, surely this line is totally unnecessary for you to write. It's a semantics point, though, and IMO not enough to really earn him a vote.

Of the two cases tied up front right now, I prefer PX based on 73 which is blatant I THINK NEO IS WORSE THAN PESCO BUT I WILL VOTE PESCO ANYWAY. What has me cautious, though, is that Neo and HW have both dropped votes on him, because I am still very uncomfortable with their interactions early D1 and their movements afterward.

HW: ATTACK FOR JOKEVOTE BECAUSE I AM SERIOUS EXCEPT APPARENTLY NOT SERIOUS ENOUGH TO VOTE AND OH LOOK PESCO DID SOMETHING PETTY BETTER DISREGARD THIS ENTIRELY.

Neo: JOKEVOTE, GET CAUGHT UP IN PETTY DEBATE, PROCEED TO DO NOTHING FOR ALMOST THE ENTIRE DAY, JUMP ON POPULAR WAGON AT END OF DAY, THEN JUMP ON NEWBIE FOR LURKING WHEN ALMOST EVERYONE ELSE IS LURKING AS WELL.

Since it's already late in the day and I want to get a lynch from this, ##Vote: NeoSerela. I'd like HW, but I'm not sure how likely it is given the current rate of activity. :|
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 01, 2010, 05:42:50 PM
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It doesn't help that in 29 he states again that he's being serious with the accusation...but evidently not serious enough to be worth a vote.
I thought I was pretty clear that I did not vote Serela because I thought PX's selfvote was more anti-town than what Serela was doing at that point. (Also Kimblee was the clueless newbie here, PX has at least been in another game before.)

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Pesco said that the Neo/HW argument was useless fluff with the 'you guys post too much' point, so this just feels like a bad excuse to jump away from Neo.
I gathered that he was saying that we posted too much and he didn't want to read it rather than that it was fluff. If he actually meant what you were saying, he should have worded it more clearly.

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So what exactly does your vote on Pesco count as, then? You were effectively prodding him for his lack of contribution, while moving away from your earlier 'serious' Neo case.
That's a misrep. I mainly voted Pesco for hypocrisy and seeming opportunistic. The prod on him for pretty much doing nothing came a while before I actually voted him and was primarily out of irritation.

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Firstly, if I have learned anything from Kefit and Alice screaming at me when Town loses for the umpteenth time because we lynched a 'lurker', it's that lurking on D1 is not in and of itself bad.
Isn't that only supposed to apply if they actually had good content when they did post? PX and Polly most certainly did not.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 01, 2010, 06:57:10 PM
That's a misrep. I mainly voted Pesco for hypocrisy and seeming opportunistic. The prod on him for pretty much doing nothing came a while before I actually voted him and was primarily out of irritation.
From how I read your 54 (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471391.html#msg471391) the main point seemed to be the fact he hadn't posted based on the use of bold. I did sort of read the entire topic in one run to try and get a good idea of what's going on, so the bold caught my eye there, and I thought your hypocrisy was a lurker calling out a lurker for lurking (which apparently seems to be a case of differing opinions when it comes to Pesco and his clarity).

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Isn't that only supposed to apply if they actually had good content when they did post? PX and Polly most certainly did not.
Quote from: Kefit
You guys should be figuring out by now that I only post when I have something meaningful to say. This means that I generally avoid the crapshoot that is day one.
This is Kefit talking postgame after Haruhi Mafia, where his only contribution to the entire D1 was this. (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,5363.msg286669.html#msg286669) Now, I'm willing to agree that if lurkers proceed to offer nothing of use when D2 comes around then it's time to start getting suspicious, but Polly has been trying (albeit poorly) and honestly even if you say PX has been in one previous game terms like 'YOU SUCK AT RVS' don't really sound like they're coming from an experienced player.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Serela on November 01, 2010, 08:25:37 PM
Quote from: Rou
Now, I'm willing to agree that if lurkers proceed to offer nothing of use when D2 comes around then it's time to start getting suspicious
And this is exactly what's going on right now, really.

Oh, PX has a new post! Lets see.

"Neo you suck at RVS"

"Huhwhat: Town" <--- And that's not even shorthand, that's literally all he said.

"Zak:Town because etc. insert reasons here that are fine"

The Zak part is like, the only good part of that post. And if you're scum, it's not like it's hard to say someone is towny. He didn't even give anything about WHY he thinks Huhwhat is town, he just went... yeah.

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erms like 'YOU SUCK AT RVS' don't really sound like they're coming from an experienced player.
As I said, judging from last game, I think PX has the ability to contribute a lot more then he is now. He's inexperienced, yes, but he's shown before that he's able to do a lot more then he's putting out right now.

If PX flips scum, this will pretty much confirm Huhwhat as town to me, and then with knowledge of my own/PX's alignment and a good case on huhwhat's, I definitely think Rou is scum (Suggesting me/huhwhat scumteam and chainsaw defending PX against us while saying he doesn't like PX, or something like that, that's what I get if I try to put my feelings into words). But that's only if PX flips scum so this paragraph is all just whateverthewordforitis so w/e I'll deal with that d3
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 02, 2010, 01:25:42 AM
Quote from: PX
Dear Scum,

          I think you should try to Lynch NeoSerela while people are still confused on his alignment.
Also, Please nightkill Zakeri and Huhwhat, okay?

Love, Your Buddy

That's nice, PX, but who do you think we should try to lynch?
I didn't consider you an option between Kimblee and Polly today, but I just noticed you do need a solid prod as well.

I'll admit that I skipped Nobu's post 134 and read only that he voted Polly, but his 142 did bring the rest of the post to attention. I reread this page again, and I do think it's highly suspect the way PX seemed to try and copy Nobu on his non-scum reads. that post is nothing more than a useless anti-prod post that tries (and fails) to imitate the idea of being an active participant in conversation. This isn't just scummy. This isn't just newbie scum either. This is full blown lazyscum.

I'm slightly more confident that there wouldn't be a Polly/Nobu scumteam now. That doesn't mean I don't think Polly is scum, though. He and PX Both seem to be doing whatever they can to fly under the radar, picking up the prods whenever someone hands them out. I definitely think we've had sufficient Lurker Scum this game. I'm not just throwing that term around solely because I want people to talk post more content (Though, I really do.)

As for Rou's case on huhwhat, I don't really see how huhwhat demonstrated inconsistency with a town-mindset in the first part of day one (With the minor exception of PX possibly being an opportunistic vote.) I went back to reread Pesco's 55 with the explanation you gave us, and it surprised me how well it connected. I had completely missed that, and I even attempted to address it in my posts. It's possible that his vote on Pesco was another opportunistic vote, but I still think town and scum alike would have jumped all over him if they didn't make the connection (I know I wanted to). Kimblee also stated that he didn't believe there was anyone worth voting at the beginning of the game, which meant that he at the time held the exact same opinion Pesco did.

The case on NeoSerela as far as I can see it is the same case on PX and Polaris, except that NeoSerela looks better than them. There's also Rou's scumpairs theory, except that I don't like the idea of deciding on scumpairs and then going "Since I think they're both scum, it doesn't matter which one I vote." That's putting a little too much faith into cardflips that we haven't gotten yet. Right now the only reason to consider scumpairs is to figure out which of the more likely options gives us the most information.

In short, I'd rather see a lynch of PX or Polly over that of NeoSerela, but only just barely.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Kiro on November 02, 2010, 01:26:07 AM
Exercise your rights people! Remember, tomorrow is Voting Day. And your say will have an enormous impact on fiscal and public policy and... wait... am I at the right rally? This is only about Vanilla Mafia? Oh well, uh... whatever you 7 are arguing about, I don't really care. But yea, rock the vote!

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CO-MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (Sponsored by Netizens for Yes on Prop 19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19_%282010%29))

Polly (2): Huh what, Zakeri, Nobuko
PX (2): NeoSerela, huh what
NeoSerela (2): Polly, Roukanken
Solf J. Kimblee (0): PX

Not voting: PX

PX: Looks like Bardiche removed your vote when Roukanken replaced Kimblee. You need to recast your vote.

A simple majority of 4 is needed for a lynch.
Unless you want to be like California with a 2/3 majority requirement to pass a budget unless Prop 25 (http://www.ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_25,_Majority_Vote_for_Legislature_to_Pass_the_Budget_%282010%29) passes.

Around 12 hours remain in this day.[/color]
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Nobu on November 02, 2010, 03:36:12 AM
Honestly, at this point i'm seeing a PX lynch slightly over a Polly lynch, as both are looking pretty scummy here what with providing zero real content in their posts, and his flip seems like it would give us more to work with regardless of alignment.

##Unvote
##Vote: PX


I don't think Scum!PX would make Rou the clear-cut scum choice like Serela's last post would want us to believe though. Serela 146 last post still contributes nothing but rehashing the situation, although 132 would be a point in his favor.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 02, 2010, 03:51:00 AM
Okay, can I finish my post?  :o

Rereading the topic again for the umpteenth time.

NeoSerela: Post 23, completely illogical nonsense. 32, you do look bad. Disappear and lurk for most of D1.

huh what: I can see what Neo was saying  at 32 though. Wait, you're letting Polly slide for parroting? Actually, I'm going to take a line from Nobuko here.
Quote from: Nobuko 82
Your current play puts me on edge. Heaping excessive criticism and suspicion every which way seems like a great way for scum to leave his options without looking too impulsive or eager if he has to bandwagon hop later. You've added me to your alternative acceptable-lynch-pool for shoddy reasoning, and based on your statement in #65, it seems like you even added Polly to the pool as well. Despite not seeing things the same way I do regarding his wishy-washiness.  And while I was *just* about to say that your redeeming quality was that you were sticking to your guns regarding Pesco and expressing a strong opinion about someone at least, I'm even leery of that much now.
Reading through, you've basically showed a disliking to just about anything and everything, and jumped all over the place.

Zakeri: No change

Nobuko: You've given good statements, cases, and followed through with them throughout day 1, so you look positively good for me.

Polly: As Zakeri said,
Quote from: Zakeri 48
Polly's post (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg471061.html#msg471061) says nothing and means nothing. It also just parrots huhwh-oh, wait, parrot. A ha ha, I get it.
Hell, I agree with this post (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg472870.html#msg472870)

New guy: Too new for me to form ideas right now.

And a ninja, so I pretty much have to post this before I eat a hammer to the face.

##Vote: huh what
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 02, 2010, 03:52:09 AM
Holy crap, that post took 2 and a half hours? I gotta stop getting distracted.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Polaris on November 02, 2010, 04:40:16 AM
So, uh, PX, what happened to this post?

huh what: Town

Suddenly changing your opinion on huh what seems more like an act out of desperation than an attempt at scumhunting, which is pretty poor. And I don't see the logic in parroting someone else's accusation of parroting. Kind of waffling (?) with the "Neo's post 32 looks bad" and then going "I can see what he was saying though" right after it. (I think I'm using the word waffle correctly)

There's still some time left in the day, though, so I probably won't be hammering unless we aren't going to discuss any more. (I'm going to miss the deadline due to school anyway, so ehhhh.) I'll check back before I have to go to sleep.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 02, 2010, 05:06:55 AM
##Unvote: Polly

Yeah, before I was pretty much halfway on deciding between Polly and PX being scum, but I definitely think PX would be the better lynch after that switch on huhwhat, it's pretty obvious PX is just phoning it in. The only thing that changed between PX posting "Town" and what he posted just recently was the fact that Rou made a convincing enough case on him.

Not hammering yet, and I'll probably be asleep when the deadline rolls around. As far as the rules concern deadline, however, unvoting at this point would be just as good as hammering, theoretically.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 02, 2010, 05:09:14 AM
Edit: ...convincing enough case on Huhwhat.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 02, 2010, 05:15:53 AM
@Polly

That's what happens when I fail to read the topic
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 02, 2010, 05:16:17 AM
EBWOP:

Thread, not topic
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Kiro on November 02, 2010, 07:17:20 AM
 :wikipedia:

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CO-MOD'S VOTECOUNT: (Sponsored by Netizens for Yes on Prop 19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19_%282010%29))

PX (3): NeoSerela, huh what, Nobuko
NeoSerela (2): Polly, Roukanken
huh what (1): PX
Polly (0): Huh what, Zakeri, Nobuko

Solf J. Kimblee (0): PX

Not voting: Zakeri

PX is at L-1!

Around 6 hours remain in this day. Remember, if none of the mods are immediately around for the deadline, votes after xx:25 6 hours from now will not be counted. Also, a tie at deadline will result in No Lynch.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 02, 2010, 08:16:05 AM
OK, so. I planned to read through PX's last game when I got up this morning, to check on what HW said about 'PX was a lot better in his last game'. This very nearly led me to start a case saying 'wait a minute, looking at PX's posts he's never played a game here before, or linked a game anywhere else! What the hell are you two trying to pull!?'

That was before I remembered Psycho Plot was an anonymous game and so I had to first figure out whether he was playing (he was), and who he was (Trance). I'm sort of irritated because I thought I'd caught something there. :|

Anyway, reading the old game for the first time, I'm...not seeing why everyone gives PX so much credit as scum. Let's look at PX's scum game:
Jumping on Pesco wagon after it's clear his buddy's going to die (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7309.msg458942.html#msg458942)
Jumping onto the Sana case along with 3 other people (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7309.msg460256.html#msg460256)
Cheerleading the emerging Valentia case without actually voting/producing anything new (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7309.msg461625.html#msg461625)
And Day 3 is pretty much nothing but rolemetarolemetarolemeta so doesn't really have any relevance this game.

In my honest opinion, PX's only ability as scum was his secret technique of Copying Everyone Else's Cases And Copying Them To Look Verbose. Now that he isn't doing that and is trying to instead give his own opinions - even if they're lousy ones like HW SUCKS AT RVS - I'm personally thinking the 'but PX is a good player!' case is EXTREMELY overrated.

Staying on Neo.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 02, 2010, 08:30:01 AM
That's... kind of an overexaggeration of that particular part of the case on PX. Nobody stated that he was a good player, just that he was capable of more than this.

Blargh, is it just me or is Rou pretty much either overexaggerating or underrepresenting all the cases he's mentioning (all of them) to some extent? This has kind of been bugging me, as he is essentially using it to paint them in a worse light than they should be painted in.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 02, 2010, 08:31:30 AM
In fact, when did I even say "PX was a lot better in his last game"? All I recall stating is that he had been in another game before. Unless I'm forgetting something.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 02, 2010, 09:45:41 AM
In fact, when did I even say "PX was a lot better in his last game"? All I recall stating is that he had been in another game before. Unless I'm forgetting something.
I was responding to Neo (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg474393.html#msg474393) there.

And my point is that I don't see PX as having been capable of anything noteworthy during Psycho Plot. No offense to the guy, but I don't know exactly what he produced then that he isn't now.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: PX on November 02, 2010, 01:32:28 PM
Am I allowed to hammer? Times up, everyone shut up.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (It Can Be D2 Naow)
Post by: Bardiche on November 02, 2010, 03:48:06 PM
Boy, I just flew back from school and are my arms tired! But who cares about that! Better late than never─terribly sorry, I hadn't thought I actually couldn't get back on time, but hey, you've all been good kids in my absense.

Not everyone was good, even though everyone tried. And so we'll wish you a merry halloween, and wish you'd been around because [message redacted]. That's why we now bid adieu to PX, the Town defender of justice. And administration. Kiro, you're promoted to accountant!

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CO-MOD'S END OF DAY VOTECOUNT: (Sponsored by Netizens for Yes on Prop 19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_19_%282010%29))

PX (3): NeoSerela, huh what, Nobuko
NeoSerela (2): Polly, Roukanken
huh what (1): PX
Polly (0): Huh what, Zakeri, Nobuko

Solf J. Kimblee (0): PX

Not voting: Zakeri

Scum, get me your NK for the night! Town, go sing jaunty tunes in the streets! Might I nominate this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_-8Iv_Bk8)?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Ceilingcat c u NK @ Night2)
Post by: Kiro on November 03, 2010, 04:04:45 PM
Oh hey, good morning people! The accountant is reporting in. But I guess the duty of electoral official was also dumped on me as well. More paperwork... *sigh*.

Anyways, the votes are in and... the measure was won by a landslide! In an electorate of 2, 2 votes were cast last night to send Nobuko, one of our prized Town members of SPOON on an extended vacation to the Dead Zone. I had 3 extra forms to fill out due to these extra shennanigans. :(

Meh, another day is once again upon us. But, the lack of Mafia elimination has cast doubt on the future of SPOON. Today is a LYLO day! But don't fear, there is still hope. The Mafia cannot eliminate you as fast as you can eliminate them. Don't mess up this chance. Godspeed.

You have 72 hours. With 5 alive, it takes 3 to force someone out of office.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Ceilingcat c u NK @ Night2)
Post by: Serela on November 03, 2010, 04:14:03 PM
):???

Okay, so, uh, there's Huhwhat, Rou, Polly, and Zak... I still don't feel Polly is scum, but I wouldn't be horribly surprised if he was. Would not be my choice for a lynch today at all, barring him doing something really scummy suddenly. Huhwhat or Rou, I can certainly see them as being scum right now, although if Huhwhat is scum I must say he's done a very good job of it. Zak I definitely need to reread since he's kind of slipped under my radar. Then with that, and the D3 start reactions from people, I can make a (hopefully) good decision (complete with reasoning unlike this post, of course) on who to vote today :3

I'm totally supposed to be at school right now. Crap. Why did I sleep till 12 ;_;

...also, goddamn, D2 was so tiny.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 03, 2010, 05:08:26 PM
OK, keeping this nice and simple. Looking over everyone in turn.

Zak: The only thing that disturbs me about Zak is that he's made it to Lylo without so much as a scratch on him. He's been listed as obvtown by maybe half the players, which raises concerns of potential distancing. That's very much a case of serious meta reading, though, and it's hard to connect him to a potential buddy, so I'd prefer to get that out of the way before I risk voting and running into the Too Townie fallacy.
The only other thing I can see that's relevant to Zak is that he's declared intent to hammer twice, but both times never followed through.

Polly: I am...really not feeling the case on Polly, honestly. Yes, he hasn't posted much, but what he's posted feels mostly sincere and genuine. I've already expressed my disapproval with his sudden hammer vote on Pesco, but given that Pesco had absolutely no competition in terms of votes at the end of D1 it feels like an unnecessary risk on the part of scum!Polly. Honestly, given that, I'm feeling he's the towniest player around right now.
The only thing is that I can link him to my main suspect (Neo) much easier than I can with Zak. Definitely not enough to be worth lynching him today, but something to keep in mind for later days.

HW: Nothing has happened to change my opinion of huhwhat. His wordswordswords debate with Neo D1 reeks of scum trying to derail the first day into useless bickering, a feeling that only gets stronger given that HW turned and attacked Pesco the first chance he got - all while never actually putting a vote to his suspicions of Neo. Mostly, though, my disapproval of him is based on the interaction with the Moon Princess, and the way the two of them went from bickering like kids in D1 to conveniently jumping on PX one after the other D2.

Which leaves us, of course, with:

Neo: In my opinion, the scummiest player still in the running. The aforemented useless bickering with Huh What D1, disappearing for most of the day only to return and basically put the last nail in Pesco's coffin, jumping on a new player for making newb mistakes and not being the epitome of activity in D1 (Where the D Stands For Derp!), and keeping comments on most other players to a vague wall of text consisting mostly of null reads (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7485.msg472185.html#msg472185).
Really, his D3 opening post takes the cake for me. Polly may or may not be scum, HW may or may not be scum, I may or may not be scum, and Zak may or may not be scum. There are almost no opinions here beyond a vague 'HW is a good player if he is scum' and 'Polly might be scum BUT I STILL WOULDN'T VOTE HIM!'. Neo seems to have mastered the art of talking without saying anything.

So in short, current ranking of suspicion is Neo >> HW >>> Zak =? Polly. For the most part, HW is up there for his lousy D1 play and his behaviour alongside Neo. Neo/Zak is unlikely given how hard Zak chased Neo for most of D1. Neo/Polly has some potential behind it based on the fact that Neo decided 'Lurker!Polly is okay, but Lurker!PX isn't!', but again I have no reason to lynch Polly ahead of Neo in that instance.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 03, 2010, 05:39:28 PM
EBWOP: Also WHAT HAPPENED WHY DID MY [N] FALL OVER HOW DO I PICK IT UP ;_;
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 03, 2010, 05:42:47 PM
Reread Zak. Looks perfectly fine, other then tiny thing here or there that rubs me wrong but nothing significant. Negligible worries.

That leaves Huhwhat and Rou on my list, so by process of elimination, that makes them the ones I want to vote today!

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Really, his D3 opening post takes the cake for me. Polly may or may not be scum, HW may or may not be scum, I may or may not be scum, and Zak may or may not be scum.
More like "Polly may be scum but I wouldn't bet on it so -scratch off scumlist-", "Huhwhat and Rou look scummy", and "Need to read Zak to form opinion". And then my read of Zak turned up town, so I end up with exactly two people I'd like to vote, when we know there is two scum left. The problem, of course, is the lack of reasoning, but I'll get around to that.

...soon. Probably.

Okay, maybe a short list right now.

Huhwhat:
Okay I reread Huhwhat and I wonder where my case on him actually is. I know there was SOMETHING, but... I can't seem to remember what it was. Maybe it was all the Huhwhat-Rou discussioning D2 and Rou attacking Huhwhat seeming like a hard bus for ++cred to whichever was lynched first if they were a scumteam.

But that relies totally on Rou being scum, so. I could have sworn I had some kind of other case in mind yesterday QQ

Fine, that leaves me with Rou, then.

Rou:
Hardbussing HW for ++cred as said earlier relies on HW/Rou scumteam so I'll be quiet about that. I know I'm town, so being his super top suspect doesn't help him look better to me, although I can definitely understand his case on me so that doesn't make it a good reason to have him as scummy.

Oh, but he did go for the town!PX lynch on D2 in his opening post despite saying he dislikes either(as in Polly/PX wagons) and later saying he didn't like the PX case at all.

Hmm... actually, for avoiding the Polly case in favor of PX's while saying he dislikes either, even though I don't agree with the Polly anyway, well, if Polly flipped scum I'd think Rou as his partner. But I don't really want to lynch Polly so oh well. I guess that'd be more of a "Is Polly or Huhwhat Rou's scumpartner" if Rou flipped scum today. W/e, getting into futuretheories now, which are silly.

...okay I forgot what I'm talking about. Oh yeah. Why Rou is scum. I guess I have his D3 post now. Hmm. This one only makes me more thinking that Rou is either chainsaw defending Pollypartner (Or maybe that's not what a chainsaw is, I'm not entirely sure) or hardbussing HW.

Oh, oh, I just remembered a reason that actually isn't ridiculous about why huhwhat would be scum, and that's for bandwagoning onto my PX case. I liked that at first since I thought PX was scum, but then he flipped town, so...

...yeah.

Okay, I can't think in a straight line anymore, I need to have a break and then come back to this later with a fresh mind to sort through all this dribble I just barfed onto the page. This probably needs to be revised and sorted and redacted all over into a cool shiny case on someone. But it's certainly better then nothing in the state it's in now, I guess.

sorry4textwall? >:


Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 03, 2010, 05:43:43 PM
Quote from: Me
Okay, maybe a short list right now.
That was so not a short list ;_;
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 03, 2010, 06:04:44 PM
Quote
all while never actually putting a vote to his suspicions of Neo.
Uh, you do realize my vote was on Serela when I changed it to Pesco, right? <_<

Ugh I don't feel like wading through Serela's textwall and doing a reread right now. Will make a real post later.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 03, 2010, 06:34:30 PM
Okay, uh. Would place my vote on Serela if it were not LYLO. His content today has been absolutely nothing so far and all of it has really bugged me. There's a bit of waffling back and forth but other than that it's just a bunch of suggestions of chainsaws and scumbuddying even though WE HAVE NO SCUMFLIPS TO WORK OFF OF. There are no real "cases", so to speak, just mindless conspiracy theories. He is being indecisive and not getting anything across. Also, voting you should not really count as a proper case, because hey guess what, townies can think other townies are scum (see Nobu intending to vote Pesco D1, both of which now being flipped townies).

Other than that, he has done very little other than essentially putting the final nail in Pesco's coffin and starting the wagon on PX for what was pretty much a super duper lurker prod. I know I said Serela looked better to me for starting the PX case yesterday, but now that I think about it pretty much everything that looked bad about PX to me was not brought up by Serela, just accusations of lurking and not trying hard enough, so yeah those points are gone. (PX flipping scum does not help.)

Zak's suspicions were not very solid yesterday, IMO. Notably how he said he was suspecting a Polly/Nobu scumteam at the start of the day and then suddenly drops the Nobu case halfway through, when the closest thing to elaborating why he did this is the implication that PX looks worse to him. What made Nobu look better to the point where he stopped acting suspicious towards him at all? Also, suggesting "I think we have lurkerscum" is a good way to get townies to turn their heads away from active players, ie Zak himself, so that kind of bugged me as well. His blurb about Serela seems to for the most part defend against the Serela case, but then at the end of the post he claims Serela is his third choice even though he never really attacked Serela. Pretty inconsistent, and his case on Nobu has still vanished. Zak would probably be my second choice after Serela, honestly.

I'd be lying if I said I thought Polly looked pro-town after all his waffliness over the past few days, but I can at least see genuine effort coming from him, which is more than I can say about Serela's posts of nothing.

I still feel like Rou was misrepping a lot yesterday, but considering he has not really done anything else to make himself look scummy to me and that could have easily been explained by him just skimming the thread when he replaced, I don't really mind him too much. One thing though. Rou, what makes you think my argument with Serela was a scum/scum argument rather than town/scum or town/town? I never really got that, since what you said about me never placing a vote down on Serela was wrong.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 03, 2010, 06:42:29 PM
Also of note about Zak is that on both D1 and D2, he cheerleaded votes on Serela while never actually placing Serela higher than third on his scum list, which would be a pretty scummy form of action if the two were buddies. Zak would essentially be acting suspicious of his scumbuddy but leaving him low on his list so he doesn't have to actually bus him, while if things go wrong and Serela DOES get lynched he can look a bit townier for openly suspecting him.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 03, 2010, 07:01:09 PM
Quote from: Huhwhat
but now that I think about it pretty much everything that looked bad about PX to me was not brought up by Serela
Elaborate, please.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 03, 2010, 07:21:30 PM
Uh, what really need to be elaborated? I voted PX because I felt he was scum over waffling about his stance on Serela while keeping his vote (which was parroted from me) on Pesco, and then lurking it out for the rest of the day. Your vote just came off as a prod on him for being a little inactive and not playing as well as you felt he could.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 03, 2010, 11:21:29 PM
One thing though. Rou, what makes you think my argument with Serela was a scum/scum argument rather than town/scum or town/town? I never really got that, since what you said about me never placing a vote down on Serela was wrong.
The entire thing felt overplayed, exaggerated almost. I know that it's necessary to take a non-srs vote srsly in order to kick off the actual discussion, but then things don't add up. If you wanted to start discussion, why did you leave your vote on the person who'd made the self-vote which honestly doesn't achieve much either way because it's a lousy pile of WIFOM and doesn't achieve anything for Town/Scum? What discussion can you generate from a self-vote beyond Fong's Gambit, which is honestly bullshit and not worth bringing up? You spent half a dozen posts bickering with one another about minor points that achieved nothing - points that were quickly dropped when the Pesco vote turned up. Non-productive posting/bickering = scummy play.

I wrote that wall up at university while in a rush to get it out before a Warhammer game and forgot that you'd voted Neo. It didn't help that very soon after you did so you jumped onto Pesco, in my defense. >_>

Again, though, the main thing I have against you is the way your actions and Neo's combine wonderfully to make a scum team. Bickering, OMGUS voting, and obscene amounts of distancing that get promptly dropped when another case comes up. In terms of individual scumminess, Neo wins out by a country mile, but you're currently my top candidate for his buddy. I'm in a state where I could potentially be convinced by pairings with Polly and Zak, but only with something particularly decisive.

Speaking of Neo, his latest post further demonstrates exactly what I find scummiest about his play in this game. There is so. Much. Waffling.

Honestly, this post would have been just as productive and convincing if Neo had simply said something like 'I see no problems with Zak or Polly, so I'm thinking we have a Rou/HW scumteam'. Instead, we get a stream-of-consciousness text wall of incomprehensible garbage that achieves nothing, contradicts itself, comes to no useful conclusion,  and is generally a waste of everyone's time.

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This probably needs to be revised and sorted and redacted all over into a cool shiny case on someone.
Yes, Neo. Yes it does.

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But it's certainly better then nothing in the state it's in now, I guess.
No, Neo. No it isn't. Really.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Bardiche on November 04, 2010, 12:09:41 AM
Here I was looking at Day Opening, leave for a few minutes to write NaNo, and Kiro snatches it away! Oh well, it was totally worth it, officers of SPOON. Totally.

No one cast a vote yet!

With five alive, it takes three to make a majority!

There are about 64 hours remaining before we punch in the deadline clock.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 04, 2010, 06:26:38 AM
EBWOP: Also WHAT HAPPENED WHY DID MY [N] FALL OVER HOW DO I PICK IT UP ;_;
It's all ... falling ... into place!
Bwa ha ha~!

Quote from: Huhwhat 171
Zak's suspicions were not very solid yesterday, IMO. Notably how he said he was suspecting a Polly/Nobu scumteam at the start of the day and then suddenly drops the Nobu case halfway through, when the closest thing to elaborating why he did this is the implication that PX looks worse to him.

My Case on Nobu was "Polly is Scum, and Nobu wasn't voting Polly at a time where the Polly wagon could go somewhere." That fell to the wayside by the time I made my post 147, where I said I believed "A Polly/Nobu wagon is less likely now." due to the fact that Nobu was continuing the case against him. That case was completely abandoned in my post 153 where I just sort of lost it when PX Proved at some point he wasn't putting any effort into the game other than to survive. I admit my switch to PX at the last moment was very reactionary, and as a result lead to bad town play on my part, but the Nobu part of your accusation is a misrep.

Polly isn't the sort of person I wanted to survive to Lylo, but then again neither were half of the people walking into day 2. I don't see where people are pulling these clears on him from, other than the desperate hopes that our scum is actually a pair of people who we can actually make full cases and opinions on.

NeoSerela I am giving a semi-clear in my reread. It's true that He often tries to post more content than he has with him, but I can see to beads of effort and personal opinion forming in his posts. Plus, whenever I see someone attacking Serela for having posts filled to the brim with waffles, I often see a lot of Misrepping in that direction. The most recent example being Rou's 166, which NeoSerela has taken the time to correct in his next post.

Huh what somehow manages to be the worst in my reread. I know I defended him before because I developed a bias against lurkers and he was being the exact opposite, but I'm starting to see a few holes in his playstyle. He starts out by voting PX for the Selfvote, and then Switches to NeoSerela for the argument between them. Then, once Pesco shows up, HW switches over in the very next post. Both this vote and the PX vote were reactionary, almost opportunistic. The vote on NeoSerela was good, but you dropped the case and point against him(Post 54) long before Neo actually went back to discuss it (post 107). Later in 77, he puts pressure on Nobu for giving up the vote on Polaris to go for PX, and says that this actually makes Nobu worse than Serela, even though he still hadn't received any word from Neo Serela since he started voting for him.

Huhwhat starts off day 2 by moving onto Polaris for mainly lurking and not giving opinions worth reading. Also blames Kimblee for Cheerleading a town wagon and not voting until prodded. This was actually a good point, as oppose to starting out of the gate voting for a lurker. Why did you think Polaris was worse than Kimblee at the time?

Following that, in post 133, you give NeoSerela resistance for giving a semi-clear to Polly, then you suddenly jump onto PX With NeoSerela. You don't give any basis for why you're no longer as bothered by Polly, except to say that "A Polly/Serela Scumteam doesn't work." I also notice the post seems to be trying to curve away from Slof. You mention that PX's parroting your vote is worse than when Slof had to have her vote ripped out like a wisdom tooth. I also notice the way you worded it at the end of your post:

Quote from: Huh what, post 133
Will switch back to Polly to avoid nl if necessary, but PX looks the worst to me now. I think he should be getting more attention than Kimblee, even.
So you're voting polly. You switch to PX, and say "PX should be getting even more attention than Kimblee". Does that mean Polly should not have been getting more attention than Kimblee?

Huhwhat's votes almost the entire game long have been thrown away more often than they've been resolved. He doesn't bother with the follow-through of his votes, and instead just double-checks to make certain he's keeping his vote in the perceived "correct" place. He's done a good job not falling for the obvious traps (And he even punished Nobu for falling into one of those traps himself), but the question is really thrown into the air whether he's honestly scumhunting or not. There's also the fact that Huhwhat has basically voted and attacked everyone in the game, with the exception of Affinity (Night one kill), and Roukanken/Kimblee.

As for Rou, I'm not as certain he's scum based on his own merits, but it certainly adds up when you look at Huhwhat's posts. I think I'm with NeoSerela on this actually. I don't put it past Roukan to make an attempt at superbussing Huhwhat starting with his replacement. He did, after all, replace a girl who posted almost nothing except for a vote on the day one wagon that was proven town. Rou would need some serious town points even if everyone decided to give him a null read in the middle of day 2 when he came in.

My vote would be on Huhwhat right now.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Kiro on November 04, 2010, 04:12:42 PM
Oh hey, we're still on page 6! I guess Vanilla is indeed the most straightforward flavour and not as exciting to discuss as say Planeteer Gravy. Anyways, go Pinkberry strawberry! And wtf is a blue flavoured ice cream?

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There are no votes at this time.

With 5 alive, it takes 3 to force someone to treat us to ice cream.

There are 48 hours left in Day 3.

Polly has been prodded for inactivity.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 04, 2010, 10:38:48 PM
Wow, I got a prod and I was just kind of like "It's really been long enough for a prod?". Lo and behold, it has been! There was only 3~4 non-mod posts since my last one, though... ;_;

Anyway, can I say ZAK HAS TOUCHED MY HEA)ry? It's like he has (mostly) my opinion on people, except he's actually been able to make cool shiny cases on them that aren't made of ridiculous. Unfortunately, I don't really know anything else to add to the conversation other then brb love affair with Zak and death to Rou/Huhwhat, so let's just sum up everything else I could possibly have to say with a lovely picture!

(http://puu.sh/nQ3)

Mmm, waffles.



Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Bardiche on November 04, 2010, 10:45:22 PM
Waffles are accepted as substantial contribution to the day. This time.

No votes have been cast.

Five are alive, so three need to jam to get a record album.

There are 42 hours left to make a decision.

Mod prods have been sent where necessary.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 05, 2010, 12:04:02 AM
Agh, sorry. I was at uni, then at dinner with my dad because his birthday is tomorrow, then had to go take my bed apart because I'm getting a new one delivered tomorrow morning, then PANICPANICPANIC I HAVE LIKE AN HOUR TO FINISH MY NANOWRIMO CONTRIBUTION FFFFFFF oh yeah mafia.

Polly, please exist. This is the last time we can have people not contributing at all. I'm not feeling you as scum right now, but we can't exactly hope to make a majority if people don't show up.

One thing I don't get - Neo and Zak have both accused me of superbussing Huhwhat as my scumbuddy. Where exactly is this accusation coming from, given that I haven't placed a vote on HW at all and have been chasing Neo pretty much since I replaced into the game?

Speaking of which, Neo has basically contributed nothing but 'yeah whatever Zak said kthxbyeWAFFLES', and I don't understand why Zak is clearing him for 'effort'. Where exactly is it clear that Neo is trying to be useful?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 12:14:35 AM
One thing I don't get - Neo and Zak have both accused me of superbussing Huhwhat as my scumbuddy. Where exactly is this accusation coming from, given that I haven't placed a vote on HW at all and have been chasing Neo pretty much since I replaced into the game?
Well, you HAVE kind of also been chasing HW the entire game too, just only as being overshadowed by how I'm even worse to you. This isn't rocket science, you've been saying quite clearly all along you think HW is scum.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 05, 2010, 12:41:09 AM
Not much to change my opinions from my original post, honestly. Serela still isn't solid in his opinions and is basically using Zak to speak for him, which is not exactly making me feel any better about either.  Also of note is him essentially dropping his suspicion of Rou/Polly in that post since Zak never went over the potential for that and Serela is now focussing entirely on Rou/HW. My gut is telling me he is attempting to overplay his meta as well, especially after his post with that giant image.

Serela - If Rou and I were scum together, that would not be an attempt to superbus me considering he was giving a strong push towards a Serela lynch rather than a HW lynch.

Zak - I don't see what you mean by people misrepping Serela, examples please. Actually I don't get your defense of Serela in general beyond "he seems to be putting out townie effort", and I honestly disbelieve that townie effort results in posts mainly made up of circular logic (#168's "rou is scummy if huhwhat is scummy who is scummy if rou is scummy because SUPERBUSSING"), indecisiveness ("rou voting me could be scummy but i can understand his reasoning so it's not a good reason to call him scummy yet I'll bring it up anyway") and poorly-explained scumpair accusations (pretty much everywhere in that post).

As for the rest of your post -

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Later in 77, he puts pressure on Nobu for giving up the vote on Polaris to go for PX, and says that this actually makes Nobu worse than Serela, even though he still hadn't received any word from Neo Serela since he started voting for him.
I had pretty much categorized the argument with Serela as a (likely townie vs townie) RVS mishap at that point and it seemed to me that Nobu's prodvote with no other substance was worse because, you know, Nobu looked bad for an actual vote while the game was srs while Serela looked bad over a joke that was posted as soon as the game started.

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Huhwhat starts off day 2 by moving onto Polaris for mainly lurking and not giving opinions worth reading. Also blames Kimblee for Cheerleading a town wagon and not voting until prodded. This was actually a good point, as oppose to starting out of the gate voting for a lurker. Why did you think Polaris was worse than Kimblee at the time?
Probably didn't explain this very well when voting him, but I read into Polaris' posting habits as an attempt to scoot by D1 without taking an actual stance through a constant defense, which seemed pretty bad to me. Kimblee was not actually that much lower than Polly in terms of my voting priorities, though her being lower was probably affected by me giving her a bit of a newb pass, since posting a wall of stuff then not actually topping it with a vote seems like newbie play to me.

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So you're voting polly. You switch to PX, and say "PX should be getting even more attention than Kimblee". Does that mean Polly should not have been getting more attention than Kimblee?
Out of the two newbies, I felt that it was odd that people were complaining about Kimblee more than they were complaining about PX. Polly is not PX or Kimblee, so I'm not sure why you're asking me this question (or I'm having trouble understanding it). Basically I felt Polly was scummier than Kimblee, and that PX was scummier than both, and did not understand why people gave PX passes while having Kimblee as their first or second voting choice.

If you want proper follow-ups for my votes, point out specific examples of where I did not give them and I'll do my best to respond

How was swinging over to PX an attempt to keep my vote in the "correct" place? Most people thought Polly was scum at that point, so how would PX be considered any more correct?
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Polaris on November 05, 2010, 12:55:07 AM
Okay got my prod earlier but I had a piano lesson and I was spending some time trying to put together a post but then I realized that it was taking too long and by the time I actually made the post it would've been like three more hours. Or something.

So, uh, this post is just to tell you guys that I exist while I make an actual post. :ohdear:
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 01:00:04 AM
Okay, this is going to be kind of stupid, but it also makes sense!

Quote from: Huhwhat
rou is scummy if huhwhat is scummy who is scummy if rou is scummy
With knowledge of my own alignment and there being two scum, this means everyone else, if considering only pure probabilities, has a 50% chance of being scum. That would mean a 75% chance that at least one out of either Rou or Huhwhat is scum, which, by my circular logic, means a 75% chance that both Rou and Huhwhat are scummy together!

I enjoy these odds.

...actual cases (like Zak's) are far better then probabilities, of course, but it doesn't hurt. It's not like I don't believe they look scummy without considering the probabilities.

ninjaed by polly oh jesus thank god we really don't need a polly modkill. Unless Polly actually ended up being scum since I don't see a Polly lynch happening.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 05, 2010, 01:02:26 AM
... I may be horribad at statistics, but even then I'm pretty sure they do not work that way.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 05, 2010, 01:02:37 AM
Probabilities, not statistics. <_<
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Polaris on November 05, 2010, 01:17:23 AM
Assuming we're still looking at this from Serela's standpoint, there are only six possible pairs.

Roukan + Zakeri
Roukan + huh what
Roukan + Polly
Zakeri + huh what
Zakeri + Polly
huh what + Polly

This is actually an 83.3% chance that at least one of Roukan or huh what is scum, but only 16.7% chance of them being scum together.

We can look at this from an objective standpoint, which means we add Serela:

Serela + Roukan
Serela + Zakeri
Serela + huh what
Serela + Polly

Then we have a total of ten pairs, cutting it down to only 70% chance that at least one of the two is scum, and 10% chance that they are scum together.

ITT Serela makes himself look like an idiot by admitting to his own bad logic. and also using lame probabilities which pretty much don't change anything at all.

...sorry I couldn't help but make a point. But anyway I have to eat dinner so I'll work on my actual post a bit more >_>;
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 01:25:37 AM
This is actually an 83.3% chance that at least one of Roukan or huh what is scum
And then, the information ingame and not a probability, means that if one of them is scum, the other one is suddenly much more subjectively likely to be scum, which...

kind of makes my head hurt from the obfuscating combination of probability+subjectivity, and I suppose there's a good chance I'm using the word subjective wrong, but whatever.

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and also using lame probabilities which pretty much don't change anything at all.
This part is kind of true, I guess. It's a weird way of justifying circular logic which in itself is ridiculous. I was being a little silly, which is fun, but not really productive I suppose.

Maybe in the future I should make a quicktopic of silly posts to reveal postgame without actually posting them.



Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Polaris on November 05, 2010, 02:44:26 AM
Okay, let's do this.

Zakeri: He's still the most likely town due to the obvious sensible posts and general town effort and whatnot. Though I'm beginning to wonder with him tying himself too close to Serela, so ???

The only other thing I can see that's relevant to Zak is that he's declared intent to hammer twice, but both times never followed through.
The first time he probably would have hammered had I not gotten there before him :V

Sweet Rou: Forgetting about himself making a case on huh what is awkwardly inconsistent, which has him lose a few points.

Of course he could be going insane.
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<NaNoPhweeMo> since i guess no-one is thinking proofreading is a goodidea
<NaNoPhweeMo> iwa will nslsepp
Kids, sleep earlier or you'll become a senile writer who makes crazy dolphin sounds like Rou. This public service announcement is brought to you by the members of #scarlet-library.[/s]

Serela Jeff: I'm kind of obligated to mention Serela's bad logic starting from D1 RVS all the way up to probability-subjectivity shenanigans he's been spouting. There's also the waffling that everyone's pointed out, along with literal waffling by, uh, posting pictures of waffles. (I think Serela is implying something here)

That other guy huh, what?: I have to admit that Zakeri provides an interesting and logical case on huh what and I really have nothing to add to it. At this point it just boils down to Serela vs. huh what.

So the count is basically

Serela (2): Roukan, huh what
huh what (2): Serela, Zakeri

So it would logically boil down to a Roukan + huh what scumpair vs. a Serela + Zakeri scumpair. Assuming it isn't something radically different like Roukan + Zakeri in which case well played, you two. :V

But I'm honestly leaning toward Roukan + huh what mainly because I doubt Zakeri, as Serela's scumpartner, would have ever let him play this... pathetically. But is this even allowed to be used as an argument? :/

Er, sorry for this post, it was kind of stream-of-consciousness writing and then trying to smooth it out a little afterwards but failing. But I hope I made my thoughts clear to everyone ;_;
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Kiro on November 05, 2010, 06:57:36 AM
Too many words in NaNoWriMo... not enough in Vanilla Mafia.

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Still no votes.

There are about 33 hours left in Day 3.

Zakeri has been prodded.

Not so fun fact: Every player alive in Day 3 has been prodded at least once in Day 3 by the mods.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 05, 2010, 07:47:50 AM
Well, you HAVE kind of also been chasing HW the entire game too, just only as being overshadowed by how I'm even worse to you. This isn't rocket science, you've been saying quite clearly all along you think HW is scum.
Uh...last I checked, that wasn't superbussing. Superbussing would be pressing the HELL out of a buddy and refusing to place my vote elsewhere. I have been arguing and voting Neo since the beginning of the replacement, so claiming I was superbussing HW is blatant misrep. Especially considering that HW!Scum mostly depends on Neo!Scum from where I'm standing.

Quote from: Polly
Sweet Rou: Forgetting about himself making a case on huh what is awkwardly inconsistent, which has him lose a few points.
Wait, what? When did I forget my case on HW? If this is from the superbussing point again then I'm seriously getting annoyed with how people are accusing me of doing something I didn't. At no point did I 'forget' my case on HW; the whole thing relies on Neo's flip, because it's HW's interactions with Scum!Neo that have me most suspicious.

Neo is spouting bad statistics in an attempt to look like he's contributing. They're not working.

OK, that does it. Nothing is happening, no-one is speaking, and Neo's play is just driving me up the wall. The fact that Polly is clearing him for being too terrible when everything about his modus operandi screams scum play just makes my blood boil. If this goes horribly wrong, GGs, but I reserve the right to tell Neo he played REEEEEEEEEEALLY badly.

##Vote: NeoSerela
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 05, 2010, 09:51:49 AM
Polly~ Buddy~ You're going to be our tie breaker here, apparently. So who do you want to vote for most? (Try to avoid going into scumpair theories, even though that's the popular thing right now.)

@Rou: I admit that superbusing isn't really the term I should have used. It's true that you've not once voted for huhwhat. Even still, you've put the most effort into making and resulting the case on him, and voted Serela based on *-scumpair theories-* due to the unlikely nature of the huh-what lynch. Then, suddenly at the start of day 3, you decide to make a case on NeoSerela, and officially put Huhwhat second on your list, even though "Nothing has happened to change you opinion of huhwhat." The only thing that Neo did between your first post and your first post of day 3 was his own opening post of day 3, which you misrepped. It's not busing in a strict sense, but It does smell like distancing somehow. The thing about Lylo however is that scum can put whoever they want for their second to lynch as long as the first to lynch is a townie.

Also, since Rou's asking for it: My anti-case on NeoSerela.

Quote from: NeoSerela 107
This is in reference to Kimblee's 93~94. I don't see how you reached this conclusion, Affinity.

To sum it up, he says Affinity is lurky, he's on the fence about PX, and then Pesco/Serela look bad. Town read on Huhwhat and neutral on Nobu/Polly. His conclusions seem fairly clear, and a Fency/Lurky with two scummy reads doesn't sound like making everyone look scummy.

Serela brings up an interesting point, here. It's a shame he doesn't get the chance to see this through, since Affinity was nightkilled. I don't think Serela would have killed someone that he came up with an original basis of suspicion on. Especially since NeoSerela didn't have anything else prepared, which was apparent from his post 132 - a lurker prod.

Neoserela spends all of day 2 pressing his case on PX as PX grows more and more worse over the day. There was really no reason for anyone to move from the PX wagon yesterday, whether they were town or scum. In fact, moving away from PX would probably have been more scummy, since it would singal that they knew he was town. NeoSerela stays on him the whole days, and continues to believe he's scum with conviction.

Then, of course, there's the opinion misrep that Rou seems to still be trying to capitalize on.

The post that sells me the most on Serela's townieness is 168. NeoSerela starts by figuring out scum based on process of elimination (It's never a good idea to admit that, even if it's true.) Then he proceeds to attempt making a case, but talks himself into a circle. He started out by saying he knew it Rou and Huhwhat have to be scum together, then discards his case because it relies on the fact that he thinks Huhwhat and Rou are scum together. This then kind of spirals downward until he's confused. The thing is, Scum normally wouldn't be confused about who's scum and who's town, because they already know. The fact that he confused himself while trying to figure out who's scum reads to me that NeoSerela is town. Just that he doesn't have the knowledge or experience needed to know how to make a well-thought out argument.

Suddenly knowing that puts a gobstopper on the whole "NeoSerela is waffling" Argument. Anyone voting for NeoSerela at this point is trying to push a newbie case over a scum case in lylo. With that, I'm content to believe Huhwhat and Rou are the pair we've been looking for.

##Vote: Huhwhat
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 02:29:32 PM
Voting time? Oh boy!

##Vote:Huhwhat
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 05, 2010, 02:36:46 PM
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The thing is, Scum normally wouldn't be confused about who's scum and who's town, because they already know. The fact that he confused himself while trying to figure out who's scum reads to me that NeoSerela is town. Just that he doesn't have the knowledge or experience needed to know how to make a well-thought out argument.
I personally read into that as if he was attempting to overplay his meta as derpy. Also, it's not like scum can't pretend to be a confused townie for the sake of trying to get cleared.

##vote NeoSerela
Nothing more to say since I just skimmed the posts, gotta hurry to school right now.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 02:48:06 PM
On the offchance that I might get nightkilled (which I doubt, especially considering what I'll say next), I should say some things!

Okay, I know I'm town, scum of course knows too. Rou votes me, Huhwhat votes me, Zak/Me vote Huhwhat. Polly looks like he will surely vote Huhwhat when he arrives. This logically means that, knowing my alignment, Rou and Huhwhat are DEFINITELY the scum, unless Polly shows up and votes me to end the game. Either one of Zak or Polly would/will be voting me if Rou/Huhwhat are not scum, since lynching me would win the game, they don't need to bother being consistent with previous opinions as long as they don't give a chance for the townie voting me to change their mind.

So, if Huhwhat flips scum, Rou is scumconfirmed pretty much (And I'll likely just drop my vote on him at the start of D4 since instantly winning the game >>> weird scum gambit that could make this logic wrong, unless there's some logical hole here). I see Zak being nightkilled since he firmly believes in my townieness, and Rou will obviously vote me, so that'll leave endgame up to Polly (Hey, wait, that's what's going on now too :V)

If Huhwhat is lynched and is scum, this post is totally relevant. If Huhwhat is town or I'm lynched (Both of which I find unlikely unless Polly is scum out of nowhere), then the game is over anyway so whatever.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 02:53:37 PM
...actually, I didn't even need to bother typing all that up. It can be explained much more simply. If Polly votes Huhwhat now and Huhwhat flips scum, then I know Polly/Zak is definitely town and Rou is definitely scum, which is a much shorter way to explain, even if not quite as clear, plus I know Polly would still most likely be voting Rou tomorrow (Or Zak, if Polly was NK'd, and if I was nk'd Rou would be scumconfirmed to everyone so).

wheeeeee I probably didn't even need to bother saying this stuff since I'm sure whoever lives to D4 is going to end up lynching Rou anyway
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 05, 2010, 03:19:48 PM
Quote from: NeoSerela
Either one of Zak or Polly would/will be voting me if Rou/Huhwhat are not scum, since lynching me would win the game, they don't need to bother being consistent with previous opinions as long as they don't give a chance for the townie voting me to change their mind.

Oh, that reminds me.

##Unvote: Huhwhat
##Vote: NeoSerela


:toot:
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 03:23:13 PM
GDI WHAT.

...hammer shut up? >:

Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Kiro on November 05, 2010, 04:16:19 PM
 ??? ??? ??? Is that a quickhammer I see?  :o

---

NeoSerela has been lynched. 3 people slammed their fist down on poor NeoSerela and the pea on the edge of his Townie SPOON shot forward and beaned Bardiche in the head knocking him unconscious.

Kiro cried out with joy.  "I am FREE! Free from Bardiche's tyranny and his insistence in eating with spoons!" Kiro then produced a set of chopsticks from his pocket.

But two of the remaining 4 players threateningly stepped up to Kiro. "I'm sorry,"  Roukanken said. "We also cannot allow chopsticks in our domain." Producing a silver FORK, he stabbed Kiro in the chest.

"A new age is upon us,"  Zakeri solemnly declared as he produced a FORK of his own and charge  Huh what and Polly . The two tried to valiantly defend against the brutal assault, but alas, their instruments of war had no pointy ends and they were soundly eliminated.

---

The "Federation Of Random Kindness" a Mafia group has declared victory. The thread is now open to everyone.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Kiro on November 05, 2010, 04:25:14 PM
Quicktopics:

Scum (http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/rruQ4ix6Cfv4X)
Mod (http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/D7fVRxSixyeE4)
Dead Zone (http://www.quicktopic.com/45/H/36PXq8STcqUy)
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 04:25:46 PM
gdi zak

wtf
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: FinnKaenbyou on November 05, 2010, 04:29:39 PM
FUCK CHOPSTICKS. (http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm114/Roukanken/chopsticks.jpg)

OK seriously all I can say is NEO WHAT HAPPENED. I can't say I wouldn't have been on you if I was Town because you had such an uncanny way to say a lot without actually saying anything of worth. Zak (who is definite scum MVP, went through the whole game posting decently enough to avoid suspicion) didn't really convince me with the 'but being confused and inconsistent = GOOD!' train of thought.

And to an extent my suspicion held a degree of truth - Town didn't do enough productive talking this game to come to any useful conclusion. If Neo had been speaking coherently it's very possible I would have been up on the chopping block instead, but even then I'd tried to link myself as closely to HW as possible so Zak didn't die. :P

Good game, guys. Fun to be back, even if it didn't last for very long. :3
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Kilgamayan on November 05, 2010, 04:40:30 PM
Didn't follow the game very closely but I look at this page and see the two LYLO trains both flipped town so kudos to scum for that.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Pesco on November 05, 2010, 04:43:46 PM
FPMH is always right. Screw your textbook logics.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Chaore on November 05, 2010, 04:53:11 PM
Zakeri didn't die N1. Ofcourse he was scum.

Really folks, how did you not catch that.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Serela on November 05, 2010, 04:56:46 PM
This game was such an incredible drought of posting. ;_;
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Kiro on November 05, 2010, 05:09:37 PM
I think the one thing I was most surprised was how much of a pass Kimblee got Day 1. There were lots of people saying he was bad, but letting him off for newbness. But the fact he waffled so hard and didn't vote should have made him a policy LAL on Day 1 over Pesco who was an active poster. While Pesco is usually a bit abrasive with his explanations and what not, he had the right reasons going and at least Affinity was solidly on Kimblee as well. Day 2 start was more of the same too and up until Kimblee asked to replace out, he wasn't given nearly enough attention.

This game was such an incredible drought of posting. ;_;

That's up to the Townies to fix. I don't blame the Scum for lurking through, that's one of the tried and true ways for them to win. In LYLO, each individual Townie should be trying to keep discussion going looking for more certainty in their top suspect. Also, the tendency to think in scumpairs in Day 3 slowed things down a lot and the scumpairs were wrong too. Rou and Zakeri counted on that as early as Day 2 and just cruised along even more. Not sure what else to say for suggestions; a few other thoughts of mine are already in the QT.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Nobu on November 05, 2010, 06:39:03 PM
Congrats on a game well-played, scumteam. I still hold out hope for a SPORK alliance however.


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I and Huh what are basically obvtown right now, while everyone else is either lurkerscum, or Nobu.

So I ended up the NK because I talk to much, basically? :V

Quote from: Zakeri
Hey, Nobu said the same thing first.

I'm sorry nobu! I didn't mean to ignore you. Wait, yes I did. It was just wrong of me to ignore you. I'm still apologizing.

I couldn't figure out what you were referring to here. >_o
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Kilgamayan on November 05, 2010, 06:43:04 PM
In a game with little activity, killing the talkers is an excellent gameplan.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Nobu on November 05, 2010, 06:48:48 PM
More curious about why I was killed over someone 'obvtown' like Huh what or Zakeri
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Bardiche on November 05, 2010, 06:58:26 PM
Kudos to scum indeed. They're lucky Rou took Kimblee's spot; I don't think the victory would've been this easy otherwise.

Kudos to Pesco for figuring out the scum team pretty early. He declared from the start Kimblee was scum, and he was!

This is another lesson to Town that they really must actively participate in the game and force Scum to post more so they have opportunities to slip up. There wasn't a single day that passed without Kiro or I sending mod prods, and in that regard I have to say, Son, I am disappoint.

It's a testament, though, that role-crazy games seem to have less difficulty keeping people interested; it's a shame, I think that if discussion was more heated, then it'd have been a lot more difficult for scum to maintain their flawless victory. Rou in particular was in danger as many people correctly thought he was being scummy; at one point I think someone said ROu was acting scummy, but used Meta to dismiss that idea.

I chuckled.

GG to all, though.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 05, 2010, 09:20:24 PM
Oh ffs Serela.

More curious about why I was killed over someone 'obvtown' like Huh what or Zakeri
You're better than me at this game tbh :s
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 05, 2010, 09:22:23 PM
The thing about NeoSerela I posted wasn't just about "Being confused =obvtown". It was the fact that it was Genuine confusion. The kind that you can't, or won't attempt to mimic. The kind of confusion HW and Rou both dismissed was the typical "I'm pretending I don't know who town already is, so null read on x, y, and z." But what NeoSerela was demonstrating was the useless, talking-in-circles, scum-would-instantly-delete-the-entire-post-when-they-proof-read-it-to-make-sure-they-didn't-out-themselves kind of bad logic. The post I'm talking about is honestly NeoSerela going "Well, the shape is round, and the hole I'm suppose to fit it in is round, but I'm not sure how it would exactly fit together if I were to try and put the shape into the hole." And the only missing connection I saw in that post was that He didn't have enough experience to be able to look at a person's past actions, and say "Okay, this furthers the potential scum agenda, ergo, this is a reason why you should be voted for."

Congrats on a game well-played, scumteam. I still hold out hope for a SPORK alliance however.


So I ended up the NK because I talk to much, basically? :V

I couldn't figure out what you were referring to here. >_o

-Like I said, there is no common political ground between two parties who want to kill each other. Well, unless you count NeoSerela and Huhwhat.
-I didn't know why you ended up the nightkill to be honest, since Rou just suddenly came in and suspected it was since he made the case on huhwhat. In hindsight, I think you were a much better kill than HW could have been.
-It refers to the previous post in the topic, where I quoted PX going "If Zak is scum, I'll be scared." I didn't realize you actually said that first and PX Copied you.

Quote from: Slabes
My guess is Zakeri (definitely) and Serela for now. The jump on pesco was so sudden and misdirected that I was shocked when I woke up to it. I even thought that pesco was playing *well*.
Why did nobody else catch this? I threw my full weight behind the Pesco lynch (Well, as much as I was could throw) as a complete obvlynch, and when he came up town, no one even bothered to glance in my direction. Despite the fact that I know Pesco's meta well enough to know that as town I would want to keep him around more than, say, someone who was lurking or waffling on opinions.

A major problem this game was that people couldn't stop thinking about scumpairs, the obvious two people to lynch. Even if you've got a scumpair in mind, it's always a bad idea to mention it unless one of the two in the scumpair are dead and have flipped scum. Even throwing around accusations of "Chainsaw attacks" and other suspected scumminess between two living players. The reason why you should avoid this, is because if you're wrong, then town paints themselves into a corner like they did today, where "If they lynch this guy and he flips scum, then lynch this guy who'll flip town, but of the other scum is lynched and flip, then we'll lynch this other guy who will flip town." Once a townie starts thinking in terms like that, it's just a snowball down a hill call "Scum Victory." This is a large reason why the game ended with both scum alive and had lylo decided between two town wagons.

And finally, it's important for anyone playing a game to be able to state their convictions as if they were actually convictions. This is mainly the reason why HW and Rou were both voting NeoSerela, even after the whole asspull I went through to try and prove he was town. The ability to say something like you believe in will help people think that you're a townie who doesn't know better. This is true whether you're town or scum, or third party. I gave this advice on day 2, and I was disappointed when only one person even referenced it the rest of the game.
When the most town looking person gives you advice on how to look town, you listen to that advice.
When the most town looking person is scum, you double listen to that advice.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (Day 3: Scum lay low for LYLO)
Post by: Polaris on November 05, 2010, 10:35:05 PM
Assuming it isn't something radically different like Roukan + Zakeri in which case well played, you two. :V

:V
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: PX on November 05, 2010, 10:38:13 PM
Zakeri, be my mentor <3
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Affinity on November 06, 2010, 12:08:08 AM
Interesting game.  Typically, Vanilla Mafia takes a lot of skill and patience for town to win, and with all the experienced people being scum, I think it was a very hard battle for town.  Nobu, while good, fell into the trap of newbie hunting and huhwhat basically (good D3 though) had his scumhunting principles wrong and Serela was all OMGUS.  PX and Polly seem to have improved a little bit through this game though ,and I think they could be even better in the next few.

One thing I could not understand at all was why pesco was being lynched on D1 precisely for voting Kimbalee as a 'prodvote'.  His posts against huhwhat were mostly solid, and I actually had to double check whether it was pesco playing because I didn't know he could do that well.  I suppose the tone of voice thing > waffling, which should not have been the case.  Also, towards the end of the game, looking for scumpairs when both scum are living is a no-no, as Zakeri has said before.  It's like hoping for a running straight in Poker.  Pretty much all scum have to do is to talk badly about each other or pretend to vote each other and they'll avoid the discussion.  It's always best to lynch scum one at a time, especially in Vanilla Mafia.

Good job for FORK having a monopoly on content posts and being all around solid on first appearance.  Zakeri looked suspicious for his Kimbalee waffle at the end of the day (a little bit) and Roukanken's posts were strange, but both bounced off each other well quite legitimately. 
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Nobu on November 06, 2010, 12:33:25 AM
I'll say it again, Zak hit upon my weakness for Puyo Puyo Fever style art. How am I supposed to suspect someone with an avatar so adorable ;_;

But really.. yeah, I was facepalming hard after I got NKed, because I knew I hadn't put Zakeri under closer scrutiny like I should have done. I was too much on the defensive for D1, and I couldn't do much at all for a good chunk of D2 because last weekend was Halloween party + anime convention. And I might have been a little more leery about suspecting the "star townie" after the last game with me suspecting Purvis!Kilga.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Bardiche on November 06, 2010, 12:35:52 AM
That at least explains where everyone went.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Nobu on November 06, 2010, 12:38:36 AM
I'm pretty sure I was the only one of your players that went to said anime con, so not completely. :derp: Still, holiday weekends tend to be busier than most. I would have really liked to post in the early game, but fuck making substantial Mafier posts on a phone, ESPECIALLY if you want to quote or link anything.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em on November 06, 2010, 01:02:31 AM
(good D3 though)
Would like elaboration on this so I know what I'm doing right for the future, as I personally thought I did fairly poorly D3 from my maybe two posts.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: Affinity on November 06, 2010, 01:21:50 AM
You did look at Zakeri for all the right reasons, and if the game did not have newbies distracting town left and right, I think you would have gotten on him pretty nicely.  The vote on Serela before going to school was a little eh, but other than that it was a good look at an 'obvtown' that sadly, no townie really wanted to follow.
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: WHMZakeri on November 06, 2010, 01:55:31 AM
Even though Huhwhat caught me red handed, I didn't feel any pressure. I felt like I had it too easy, and in truth, I did. Even though he caught me, and made a case, I had nothing to worry about because he relegated his case to the backburner as if he was certain we would have another day to discuss it. It was the first time anyone all game has given me any sort of pressure, and it wasn't even going to be put into any use until after the game had ended. That's why it's always to address new stuff first - because the old stuff has already been addressed and no new information could come out of it.

You made an excellent first step. The problem has that it never went past that first step.

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I'll say it again, Zak hit upon my weakness for Puyo Puyo Fever style art. How am I supposed to suspect someone with an avatar so adorable ;_;

Nya!
Nya ha ha!
Be of ...
Good Cheer!

Cat's walk!
Possessed Fairy~
Vengeful Cannibal Spirit!
Small demon's revival!
Blazing Wheel!

9xChain!
Title: Re: Bardiche's Vanilla Mafia Thread (FORK > SPOON, Mafia win)
Post by: FFMaster on November 06, 2010, 02:22:24 AM
I kept saying that Zakeri was mafia since he survived N1. I guess I was right... gogo learning the good players from Bro.