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Post Post #13 (isolation #0) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:20 am

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Hey everybody! It's been a long time since I've played forum mafia, but I look forward to meeting and playing with you! I think the setup is very intuitive and interesting but don't be surprised if it takes me some time to work out how all of this fits together.

I know everyone else has an avatar, I tried to upload one but it wouldn't go so I'll try to work around the dashboard some more and figure it out.

VOTE: Datisi for clearly knowing too much
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Post Post #17 (isolation #1) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:24 am

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You seem a little preemptively concerned about it being read as a pocket attempt, no?
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Post Post #20 (isolation #2) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:34 am

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In post 18, Datisi wrote:yes. part of it is in jest, because i know innocentvillager will match into anything he can to call me scum early (he's a treasure), part of it I s serious as i am not in the mood to listen to arguments about how i'm scum because i offered to help someone.

would you like to declare a scumread on me because of being concerned about my own image?
I want to chew on this and think for awhile, but I think there's a lot wrong with this.
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Post Post #23 (isolation #3) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:36 am

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Size was the issue by the way, so thank you!
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Post Post #26 (isolation #4) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:38 am

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In post 22, marcistar wrote:faker r u nervous or no?
Not really other than if I blow something with the voting system. You're all new to me and I'm nervous about that but I am town, and no one has ever found my skill in mafia lacking even if I expect this site to be a different ballgame.

Excited, though? Oh yeah.
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Post Post #28 (isolation #5) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:42 am

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Why are you worried about that for me and not Datisi, marcistar?

Datisi chose to vote innocentvillager and start talking to him in the very first post of the game. In the next, he's worried about being scumread by innocentvillager specifically. He originally framed it to the entire game before I asked. This is really self-conscious: and about one specific person's perception!
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Post Post #30 (isolation #6) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:48 am

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Do you think Datisi immediately went to interact with innocentvillager with the goal of sorting that player, or with the goal of getting them off of his [Datisi's] back?
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Post Post #34 (isolation #7) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:00 am

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In post 33, Datisi wrote:
In post 30, Faker wrote:Do you think Datisi immediately went to interact with innocentvillager with the goal of sorting that player, or with the goal of getting them off of his [Datisi's] back?
what do you think?
I am currently voting you. I find the interlocking intriguing and definitely scummy, but I am a big fan of the Socratic method.

I wanted to leave off marcistar with the last word, there are plenty of others around to weigh in and I don't want to tunnel you right now.
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Post Post #57 (isolation #8) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:25 am

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In post 41, Datisi wrote:
In post 34, Faker wrote:I am currently voting you. I find the interlocking intriguing and definitely scummy, but I am a big fan of the Socratic method.
sorry, wasn't sure if the vote was rvs or srs.

intriguing and scummy is an interesting combination.
do you think it's likely that i rolled scum, and decided to start seriously getting out of innocentvillager's impending scumread on me on page one, and in that fashion?
It turned serious with the specificity of 18.

I don't know how much outside mafia you have played, but it is extremely typical of most websites to attempt to read people you are familiar with by pressuring them right off the bat, as well as "front run" people you are familiar with as mafia to get ahead of potential scumreads. In Post #18, your selfconcern with innocentvillager's perception of you, rather than waiting to see what happened, pointed to the "front run" theory. This does not mean a master plan but a vague idea of just starting the dance on your own terms.

Let me pose a different question to you: Is my suspicion of this duality unclear or outright unreasonable from your perspective?

I chose to bold your question because it feels as though you are trying to phrase the question to get me to commit to more than I could ever give as either alignment, or trying to dissuade me by being dogged. I don't know you personally, nor innocentvillager. Despite starting on the right foot with "do you believe?", everything about the question doesn't seem interested in the fact that I have made what I found conflicting clear & why it was scummy to me. The diction is much more applying force in the vein of "I don't do this and you better admit it" rather than "That's reasonable for page 1 but you're wrong"
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Post Post #58 (isolation #9) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:29 am

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How much mafia have you played, Datisi? The date given for joining is 2019 but I'm wondering if you have experience that predates it.
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Post Post #61 (isolation #10) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:36 am

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I agree with Datisi that the first page is not a difficult or lengthy read!
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Post Post #65 (isolation #11) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:41 am

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I am very wary of protracting out the conversation. To be blunt, even if I am biased I feel my point is very reasonable and intuitive, if not before than with 57 as a very explicit roadmap. It is not intended to be a mathematical proof to be either proven beyond doubt or dismissed as worthless if it cannot be. If you think it is flatly unreasonable for me to hold it, or that I am scum for doing so, we can switch the topic to that, but I have little interest in the idea that I
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be wrong, as this is not new, and my initial take is not the only one important to the game.
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Post Post #69 (isolation #12) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:09 am

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As succinctly as possible: Datisi's entrance is both eager to interact with innocentvillager and simultaneously worried about innocentvillager's perception of him.

In general, I think this an easier juxtaposition to have as scum than as town, and it makes for a great vote for page 3.
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Post Post #71 (isolation #13) » Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:14 am

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Right now I prefer to be the informed minority. I like staying a step ahead. This changes frequently: at other times I am deeply fascinated by both the alignment and cooperation puzzles presented to the uninformed majority.
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Post Post #166 (isolation #14) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:33 am

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In post 102, marcistar wrote:
In post 87, innocentvillager wrote:
In post 76, marcistar wrote:i think save the dragons = scum
:good:
Y?
he failed the vibe check.

specifically, has nasty nasty vibes
him commenting about how deep it is, but not adding any comment otherwise felt weird imo.
I suspect this is stylistic, but I was also a touch disappointed at the lack of follow through.
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Post Post #167 (isolation #15) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:36 am

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In post 125, NorwegianboyEE wrote:I saw @Datisi out by the park today, feeding birds m&m’s laced with arsenic.
While hopefully fictitious, I think you might enjoy the music of Tom Lehrer. Hopefully this is not blocked in Norway.
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Post Post #168 (isolation #16) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:38 am

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In post 72, Datisi wrote:what i was trying to figure out however was whether you're actually thinking about what you're saying or if you're scum pushing a townie that's making a somewhat scummy play. because sure, the "scum is more likely to be self-conscious" read is maybe correct, on the surface. and you're right in saying that when people roll scum with friends, they're likely to try to front run. what i was looking for were deeper thoughts on my play, because while i can see my posts looking like it on first glance, do you think i believe that "lol iv will scumread me anyway" is likely to genuinely win me any favours?

that said, i somewhat like the last paragraph of 57. i can see the way that my question feels leading to someone who has zero experience with this playerlist, and 65 seems like it cares about the game's overall productivity.
I think we're on the same page about this. One of the key points in Post #65 is that you simply hit foundational bedrock, and that there's no way to really separate the two without more strategic developments/twists over time. We could repartee all day and be tough to follow but any questions would really just get another restatement, which can be valuable if needed for understanding but I didn't think understanding was out issue.
In post 115, Datisi wrote:i actually had that thought process way back before 2207 started. before every game, i have a vague "how to deal with this person if i roll scum against them" plan, and back then i realized that oh fuck, town!iv is gonna be a headache. but then i rolled town so lol
...Again a little less than enthused with this given the ease with which you seem to have understood my point, but I'll circle back when I have more information on the table.
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Post Post #169 (isolation #17) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:46 am

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In post 139, unwnd wrote:Faker started off ready to heckin solve then dropped off after datisi challenged their mettle

Why
My very last post was aimed at providing the simplest statement of my Datisi push, so I'm not sure where you think I "dropped off". If you think I should be more dogged, perhaps this can be a teaching moment and you can walk me through what I should do in the wake of the thoughts and feelings I described having in Post #65 in order to be most effective as town.

"Dropped off" seems to be talking more about my posting rather than strength of read, and if that is true I have a question: I believed the norm was to post at least once every 48 hours — is this only the bare minimum and it is expected that I post with much more regularity? At the risk of giving our opponents ideas, I am almost completely unavailable on weekends, along with the majority of weekday evenings. Weekday afternoons or weekend mornings are really primetime for me before I get too tangled up in other obligations.
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Post Post #170 (isolation #18) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:50 am

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In general, I didn't take a lot out of the last few pages. Understanding IV/Datisi's back and forth is important to my line of thought but seems very history-specific and difficult to understand as someone familiar with neither. Maybe Dragons was ahead of the curve in getting a bit disheartened by it.

Whatever charm the M&Ms's possess to the other players is unfortunately completely lost on me.
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Post Post #171 (isolation #19) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 3:54 am

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It does make me pretty uncomfortable that I have no townreads, but as a player I err more on the side of caution and it is difficult to get certainty with a completely new table. I don't put much weight on things like intuition or vaguely warm feelings.
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Post Post #255 (isolation #20) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:05 pm

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In post 178, Datisi wrote:so, if that's [IV/Datisi interactions] so important to you, and you're finding it difficult (which i can't really blame you for), instead of asking questions about what you don't understand, you will instead drop the whole thing?
The conversation is esoteric and lacking in clear significance throughout. As an example, here was my breakdown of one of the posts.
In post 155, Datisi wrote:
In post 152, innocentvillager wrote:and i think u called my georgebailey townread BS when he hadn't posted anythign at all at that point (when it was , obviously)
[1] i deadass do not remember this, sorry

i can't tell you if i genuinely believed the push i was making there, but it's very likely i did. however, i probably believed it because i knew you were scum and every post you made was A Scum Post, so easy to find the issues. tmi.

[2] i mean i cannot tell you if i genuinely would've found your townread of george in 2175 scummy or not bc i obviously never had a chance to experience it from an uninformed pov

[3] but i think in general i would try to determine whether a read based on low content is real or not on a case-to-case basis, because i sometimes have reads on people for the dumbest shit and i don't like having a blanket read on a situation like that

[4] however, the fact that you reminded me of you townreading someone for empty content as scum is making me not townread you for that anymore

[5] i assume scum!you wouldn't purposefully kill my townread on you but what if that's what you want me to think
[1] revolves around the concrete facts of a previous game. I understand there is some theoretical dispute around the described event. I cannot tell what the significance to this game is whether you genuinely believed the push described. I do not even know if your alignment hinges on the truth value of the statement.

[2] is more of the same, but centers more on IV's read of George than yours of IV in this second game. I again cannot make out the significance other than determining how well you know each other. It is unclear to me if the discussion has any obvious relevance to your alignment this game.

[3] is theoretical. It says something about how you approach the game. Perhaps this will be useful later, but there is no reason to think that this theoretical discussion, without any concrete bearing or application ingame thus far, is alignment-bearing.

[4] is a concrete conclusion. It is essentially that a tell is null. Our investment in this discussion is paying off in spades.

[5] appears to be "Would he or wouldn't he?". You seem to think he wouldn't. If you're not sure, I'm definitely not going to be.

Candidly, I have to understand what the important parts of the discussion are in order to be able to ask the right questions. It is very unlikely that this conversation is worth reading to anyone except yourselves. I am the person most invested in it thus far, and I think that. For all the discussion around my disinterest, no other player has mustered similar faith in its usefulness or attempt to digest it beyond Dragon's "this goes deeper" comment.

I did not seek to curb the discussion entirely because it's your dance and your discussion. I can observe the beginning and vaguely follow. I cannot keep track of the way your feet weave in and out of one another's as the dance goes on, the steps more intricate, and the song changes time signatures and tempos. You place the value on it you want, and if you believe it is a worthwhile endeavor it is my job to stay out of your way. If either of you wind up getting something concrete and persuasive, then you can present the conclusion and brief explanation succinctly without my having to do research on par with a graduate degree for it.
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Post Post #256 (isolation #21) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:11 pm

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I can confidently state that if both my lifespan were infinite, and the game's deadline equally so, I would place the utmost priority on understanding exactly who townread who in that game and what, along with studying and presenting solid foundational conclusions as to its bearing on this game in full, and not simply wait for you to make another mistake as every uninformed minority in history has done. Alas, I must take shortcuts.
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Post Post #257 (isolation #22) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:19 pm

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In post 201, unwnd wrote:I somewhat don't believe fakers motivation yeah
You are voting no one. I should remind you that you have been presented a golden teaching moment around how to effectively scumhunt if you find me worth the time. I can of course press the same point as mafia, but you have presented zero reason that suggests it would not come from town, nor engaged directly with the point itself. This appears to be skepticism for the sake of skepticism, which is nothing novel.
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Post Post #258 (isolation #23) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:22 pm

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Sorry, I am not giving you your due credit. You presented the reason that I was absent yesterday. I am unfortunately unwilling to provide the weekend's itinerary, so this will remain unresolved until postgame.
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Post Post #261 (isolation #24) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:43 pm

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Probably because you spent all of your time smoking weed instead of opening a dictionary or playing the game, but we all have our faults.
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Post Post #263 (isolation #25) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:45 pm

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You have again been presented a golden teaching opportunity, but I apologize for demanding that you deliver on something. I will leave you to your modern bliss.
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Post Post #265 (isolation #26) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:50 pm

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If you want to have a topical discussion over the game at hand, as opposed to taking weirdly out of scope personal shots, let me know. I don't see a reason either of us should continue at the moment.
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Post Post #267 (isolation #27) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:55 pm

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In post 266, unwnd wrote:Then don't point to your own post like a jackass and tote it like a learning opportunity
I'm a true Socratic in the sense that you seemed to think there was a better alternative to the path I took as town. I'm asking you to be my teacher and present one.
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Post Post #270 (isolation #28) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:59 pm

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On a more lighthearted note, maybe that wasn't Republic I read but Don Knuth, always tough to tell and my humanities background is rather lacking. Too much time getting Bs in computer science, probably explains why my sorting algorithms I use in games like these always goes so awry.

If you think I'm lacking in human touch, then fair enough, but there's an object of the game that you presumably share with me.
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Post Post #274 (isolation #29) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:04 pm

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I cannot help but wonder what the implication for who would be lacking in human nuance and touch is in the even that it turns out that I am in fact all natural, but I suppose this can wait for afterwards.
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Post Post #275 (isolation #30) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:15 pm

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The best summary of this argument tbh
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Post Post #278 (isolation #31) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:22 pm

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Real ones know mancloud was the GOAT midlaner
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Post Post #282 (isolation #32) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:30 pm

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As an update I still have no townreads, but I kind of like M&M stepping in to curb this?

Either way it is time for me to trade out my triple A batteries and read some CLSR before bedtime

P-Edit: Why hello, I still just have a scumlean on Datisi
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Post Post #283 (isolation #33) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:31 pm

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I'm going to go ahead and give marcistar credit for that too (stepping in) since I hadn't posted yet. Gold star!
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Post Post #286 (isolation #34) » Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:41 pm

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In post 284, marcistar wrote:so theres nobody else who sticks out even in the slightest bit as "weird" or "worse compared to everyone else" to you?
Nope.

I would really like to go to bed now since I get up very early, but if there is someone you individually want to talk about I would be happy to answer it in the late morning/afternoon my time. I discussed this earlier but balance is really important to me and checking in daily or even multiple times in a day is already more than I expected to take on. If you're worried I will use the time to cook up a response, we can arrange later to again be on simultaneously.
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Post Post #295 (isolation #35) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:52 am

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In post 287, marcistar wrote:im worried about you. you seem biased against datisi, and you seem stubborn.
the stubbornness isn't like really bad, i just think you should open up ur mind and start trying to sort other players as well..

if datisi is scum that would be amazing, but if hes town you're back at 0. its that situation im worried about.

i think you could carry tbhtbh.
I think that's a valid fear. I will always do my best not to tunnel, and in general I think I do a decent job. I'm not really someone that ever beats themselves up for overthinking something or for not trusting my gut, for example. I like to be rigorous, at least within reason.

I'm still voting Datisi for pages 1-3 but there hasn't really been anything else to solidify the read. It would have been easy to take a more negative or "Datisi is scummy for this..." lens to my Post #255. I think Datisi/IV themselves probably get a lot of value out of that discussion and didn't want to get in the way. Datisi just demanded to know why I wasn't asking questions or digging deeper, so I gave a demonstration.

After initially tracking through the game Sunday morning, and finding nothing else to really scumread, turned my attention to townreads, historically more my strongsuit anyway, and was kind of annoyed to find none, either.

I definitely want to read outside Datisi and keep an open mind, both about and him and other players. Nobody took any interest in my initial point against him anyway, so it's unlikely to be persuasive, and I'm content to wait patiently for another mistake if he's mafia, something that makes me think he's town, or something that catches my eye and shifts my attention to another player.
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Post Post #296 (isolation #36) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:54 am

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I don't like the idea of "carrying" despite my League background and much prefer teamwork but I appreciate the qualified vote of confidence.

An interesting question might be: Do you have someone you think I should be looking at more closely?
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Post Post #297 (isolation #37) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 1:59 am

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Going this far out of her way to try to both get in the middle of the unwnd ad hom, and growing concerned about my singular read on Datisi to set me on a more level path, makes me think that marcistar is very likely to be town. While scum will occasionally drop in or lazily call an argument both town, very few make an active attempt to interject and defuse without a more explicit goal in mind (such as selling a specific alternative vote)

Am I wrong? Does anyone scumread the slot or think this is likely null?
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Post Post #299 (isolation #38) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:12 am

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I went and compared two mafia games of marcistar's to this one. In the first, she's surprisingly thorough with her reads, asks good even if leading questions, and there is a fair amount of emotional complexity even if it tends to come more wall-style. In the second, she is voted out rather quickly and basically makes no game related comments. Flicking through a recent game where she played as town, there's a bit more of the leading questions/wall style but nothing clearly parallel or applicable to this game.

That first game definitely has me a bit more onguard, but overall I think the lack of any similarly interjecting way in her history reinforces the townread. There is a very small snippet of this post from her first game as mafia that asks a similar question, but without the background/genuine encouragement behind it.
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Post Post #302 (isolation #39) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 3:40 am

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For all of our sakes, I hope I am correct in that case.
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Post Post #304 (isolation #40) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:03 am

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In post 303, marcistar wrote:i feel like innocentvillager has enough content to have a feeling on, do u have any thoughts on him?
Despite his frequency of posting, I am finding him immensely difficult to read. The most substantive posts come from the historical analysis with Datisi, but beyond that there are only a few reads really worth noting.

His read on unwnd appears to be tonal, maybe grounded in history maybe not. I'm kind of curious if he's kept it to the present because unwnd has said exactly two productive lines all game, one on Dragons and one on me. The one on me he immediately upped and ran/took refuge in ad hominem when challenged to explore it more deeply. The one on Dragons actually got me to think deeply about that post of Dragon's, and I wound up concurring that Dragon's post had a lot going on. I did not wind up shifting either out of the null stack in my mind for it, but it was cool to think about for a bit.

The others (ex. on Norwegian) appear to be both more personal history with a lot of hedging.

2072 you actually do similar interjection with Lukewarm so that read should probably go in the trash. There are still some differences (unwnd's attack was weirdly personal despite the walkback, my contemptuous responses equally so even if I did want him to rise to the occasion) I could cling to out of desperation to be right but I'll see how I feel later...Plus linking this game in light of that is rather bold.
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Post Post #306 (isolation #41) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:51 am

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I gave my thoughts on unwnd in Post 304 immediately above.

I took your linking it as being earnest and without too much thought as to the content in the game, which is vaguely reassuring.
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Post Post #307 (isolation #42) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:55 am

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While the above is true, I thought I included an additional line in Post #304, but did not. "I don't scumread unwnd but I definitely don't townread him" was the line.
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Post Post #311 (isolation #43) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:30 am

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In post 308, Save The Dragons wrote:faker - how come you can come up with a scum read of datisi from 1 post but can't come up with another read either way with multiple posts
Well, it all started when I was born...First it was my elementary school teacher, who praised....And when I was 15, my english teacher held me after class... I'm clearly a great writer, so why is it so lifeless.....Once, while engrossed in a deep conversation with my friend by a fire on spring break: can you guess what he said to me? He said...

The real answer is that it depends on the content and how attuned I am to it.
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In post 307, Faker wrote:While the above is true, I thought I included an additional line in Post #304, but did not. "I don't scumread unwnd but I definitely don't townread him" was the line.
i was looking for a conclusion thanks.
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what do you think about the georgebailey votes?
I tried to figure this out for awhile and it seemed to boil down to lack of activity and perhaps with personal history that is indicative. It was a deadend.
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Post Post #314 (isolation #44) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:36 am

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In post 310, Datisi wrote:255 is probably the post i should have more conclusions on but i'm not sure i do. i'm still off-put by the claim that it's important for him to understand the conversation. not being willing to put effort into it is one thing, hell i'd expect most people as either alignment wouldn't really care since the discussion wasn't *for them* anyway, but. something about the combination of still holding onto his page 1-3 read on me, saying he finds the discussion important, then taking the time to demonstrate at length why it's difficult to understand - dunno, makes me raise an eyebrow. i guess i'd kind of expect the further discussion to have impacted his early read on me, when that doesn't seem to be the case.
Can you elaborate what, in my breakdown where I explicitly tried and failed to make any conclusions about the discussion in that post, should have impacted my read on you? I could attempt to paint them in some scummy (or towny) light if I wished but for something so completely unintelligble and lacking in significance it would have been disingenuous to do so. Perhaps if I had a certain agenda in mind, rather than simply answering your question and letting you/IV sort each other how you wished....
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Post Post #315 (isolation #45) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:37 am

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In post 313, innocentvillager wrote:also STD does Faker remind you a bit of gorilla in defcon or am I just craZy
Was this player town or scum? What do you think about the last page or so?
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Post Post #319 (isolation #46) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:41 am

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In post 316, innocentvillager wrote:Also faker why am I difficult to read? I feel like u talked about my townread on unwnd then just started talking about unwnd
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In post 303, marcistar wrote:i feel like innocentvillager has enough content to have a feeling on, do u have any thoughts on him?
Despite his frequency of posting, I am finding him immensely difficult to read.
The most substantive posts come from the historical analysis with Datisi, but beyond that there are only a few reads really worth noting.


His read on unwnd appears to be tonal, maybe grounded in history maybe not. I'm kind of curious if he's kept it to the present because...

The others (ex. on Norwegian) appear to be both more personal history with a lot of hedging.
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Post Post #323 (isolation #47) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:42 am

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Okay, so given that gorilla was town, does this extend to myself? What is the significance of the resemblance to the player?
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Post Post #332 (isolation #48) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:51 am

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In post 325, Datisi wrote:
In post 314, Faker wrote:Can you elaborate what, in my breakdown where I explicitly tried and failed to make any conclusions about the discussion in that post, should have impacted my read on you?
not sure there's a specific point. it's more that your original read on me seemed to stem form incorrect assumptions about my play, and i imagined that finding out more about my play / history with iv would have leas you to reevaluate.
I tried to take conclusions. I failed. You went after me for failing. I demonstrated where it turned labyrinthine and failed,
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, despite the second pass. I am quickly, quickly losing all patience and will probably leave you to sort it out for yourself very soon if this continues.
In post 325, Datisi wrote:is there a reason why you feel the need to point out multiple times that that there was an opening you could've pushed your agenda in if you'd wanted?
You failed to understand the significance of my choice with how to interact, both without my intervention and with the more explicit poke. I clearly planned this in advance and it is not just a riposte towards the fact you keep trying to assert I am obviously scummy for failing to draw any conclusion from your esoteric bullshit despite wishing that I could.
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Post Post #333 (isolation #49) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:53 am

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I am somewhat tilted by Datisi because I want to call this flagrant OMGUS scummy but I will hold strong and take a breather.
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Post Post #335 (isolation #50) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:57 am

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I don't even fucking know if the wallet is there because neither of you seem to think anything either of you said was strongly representative of alignment. The most fucking concrete conclusion in that wall was something you thought was town was in fact, null. Maybe I can spin the roulette wheel and say that the manner of discussion is scummy but I'm not doing that, and I'm not going to try to put a number to how nervous you are in the interactions because I can't even tell what half the shit was ever about

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Post Post #336 (isolation #51) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:58 am

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In post 334, unwnd wrote:I think datisi/faker has one
Name which one and vote one then.
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Post Post #339 (isolation #52) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:00 am

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In post 337, unwnd wrote:Why are you anxious about my vote
Talk is cheap. Saying scum is somewhere without calling which is a lazy or scum copout.

I would also accept a detailed explanation as to why exactly one of us is scum, but in all my years of playing informed minority games I have never in my life seen one that amounted to more than "It feels like it"
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Post Post #343 (isolation #53) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:05 am

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In post 338, Datisi wrote:i didn't go after you for failing, i went after you for seemingly not trying while putting emphasis on how important it was for you.
the second time, it seemed like there were obvious questions you could've asked (ehat happened in the other game?) that just weren't there.
this isn't omgus, i'm not suspecting you just for voting me.

and i'm not falling for that abrasive emotional fit.
I have absolutely no questions about it and absolutely will not revisit it and put forth more effort there.
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Post Post #344 (isolation #54) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:06 am

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In post 340, unwnd wrote:I gave a general split in a game where there are only two scum

If you didn't think i directly pointed my suspicion then you're not paying attention
And I am challenging you to prove the causal connections, because I don't think that you can. You can't even justify the single scumread other than a vague accusation that I am unnatural.
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Post Post #345 (isolation #55) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:09 am

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In post 338, Datisi wrote:and i'm not falling for that abrasive emotional fit.
Answering this directly, I can be more abrasive as scum. It would be a mistake to not seriously reevaluate whether I can recognize something is likely important, fail to find anything useful in it
TWICE
, and get absolutely infuriated that I am being accused both of not trying and that it is obviously scummy that I did not attempt to paint that failure on my end as either +town or +scum for you.
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Post Post #349 (isolation #56) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:12 am

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In post 346, unwnd wrote:So why do you get heated at the prospectoof ssomeone sussing you out
Is this the only possibility you see here, mind of great human sensitivity, self-awareness, and nuance?
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Post Post #351 (isolation #57) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:14 am

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In post 347, unwnd wrote:Also i said i believe you two have one, not that you're partners lol

So not sure where casual connection comes into play
Exactly one of two boxes contains a cookie.

If the first box is empty, the second one contains...?
If the second box is empty, the first one contains...?
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Post Post #353 (isolation #58) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:16 am

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In post 350, unwnd wrote:Of course the league player would be passive-aggressive
We also shovel glue, if we're keeping track of all of our habits.
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Post Post #356 (isolation #59) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:18 am

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In post 354, unwnd wrote:I have reasons to suspect you both but don't believe you are partners
This is the first time you have said this about Datisi, I believe. It might be helpful both to myself, to understand you, and to yourself, to chew more deeply and challenge yourself, to maybe flesh out your scumread on me more fully than "seems unnatural"
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Post Post #357 (isolation #60) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:20 am

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I don't actually fully expect you to prove the two strict causal connections required, but something more substantial would go a lot further. Perhaps counterintuitively, elaborating on the scumread with something more concrete might also assist you even in a world where I don't have to sort you and am just mafia!
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Post Post #360 (isolation #61) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:22 am

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Sure.

VOTE: unwnd

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Post Post #361 (isolation #62) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:23 am

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I have given you plenty of chances and will gladly call the bluff that you are empty until proven otherwise.
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Post Post #369 (isolation #63) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:32 am

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In post 363, Save The Dragons wrote:faker do you really think unwnd is scum here
I lean that is he is and do not believe I have the information to determine otherwise. I am especially used to "one of" statements from scum players even if it comes from both sides. I do not think there is a town incentive to withhold even trying to give a read, and resorting to perpetual ad hominem over anything substantive.

I have seen players like unwnd flip town before and will likely see it many more times. I have also seen many mafia get a pass for being too blatant or combative to be scum. I have no qualms doing my best to sort them, and rejoicing in my success if I am right or embracing my failure if I am wrong.
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Post Post #371 (isolation #64) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:37 am

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I'm not going to devolve into further pedantry. The floor is all yours.

If you are what you say you are, a superstar, then have no fear. Bury me if I'm scum such that I won't ever challenge you again.
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Post Post #374 (isolation #65) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:39 am

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It's a joke, referencing the song by Lupe Fiasco. Maybe I should have quoted Death Grips instead.
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Post Post #376 (isolation #66) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:41 am

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Probably showing my age and how much of a boomer I am with that one tbh, it's lit up in 2007 fam. That's the lingo kids these days use, right?
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Post Post #379 (isolation #67) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:42 am

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If you actually like Death Grips I will SCREAM
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Post Post #382 (isolation #68) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:42 am

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If you ever played on DLP then maybe? You don't remind me of anyone from there, though, and that was a long, LONG time ago.
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Post Post #387 (isolation #69) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:50 am

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I feel like impersonation is probably breaking site rules otherwise I would go along with it.

I am not that player.
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Post Post #390 (isolation #70) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:52 am

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I do not. I have actually never listened to Death Grips in my life, it's just a complete meme that it's the ultimate super secret band on /mu/ circa 2011/2012. I'm surprised to see they're still going strong.
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Post Post #395 (isolation #71) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:58 am

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I do not know what else was specific to you.. If you feel I'm trying to antagonize you with the Death Grips comment (or other forums) we can hash that out, but I have not intentionally made reference to anything outside of what I have learned of you in this game.
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Post Post #401 (isolation #72) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:07 am

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I don't know how to resolve this. I'm sorry. I don't really feel like this is fair to either of us. I don't know how to disprove the accusation that I am someone else except by giving my personal information to a third party.
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Post Post #407 (isolation #73) » Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:25 am

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I have reached out to the game/site moderators to assure them I am not this person. Reading about this is deplorable.

I cannot reject this in stronger terms and the flippant accusation that I am someone who assists in the grooming of children is disgusting.

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