Open 148: Jungle Republic (Game over) before 800

[OhGodMyLife]

I don't usually play the math game, but this time things seem pretty straightforward. Knowing my own alignment, any other given player has a 5 in 11 chance of being scum of some sort. Therefore, I shall make a random vote, and only change my vote if I deem someone else to be more than 50% likely to be scum.

Vote: Korejora

<3s

[Wulfy]

Actually, that'd be a 45% chance of being scum, so when someone is 45.5% scum, you should change your vote.

[Datadanne]

Votecount:

Wulfy - 1
CjMiller - 1
Mastin - 2
sotty7 - 1
iamausername - 1
khamisa -1
korejora - 1

6 To lynch.

Not voting:

Caboose
CjMiller
Yosarian2
Korejora

[OhGodMyLife]

Actually, that'd be a 45% chance of being scum, so when someone is 45.5% scum, you should change your vote.

Well, now you know there's a reason I don't usually play the maths game. 50% is just easier to grok with than 45.5%, but I'll keep that in mind.

[Yosarian2]

Vote:fallen angel

[iamausername]

NOT SCUM!

Unvote, Vote: Mastin

He voted Sotty, but Sotty said she isn't scum.

Plus

[Tarballs]

Real townies don't need to prove their alignment by doing silly things like touching their nose. Only weak and desperate scum would do that. Oh, and look at that! There are exactly five people on the "NOT SCUM" bandwagon.

Unvote, Vote: Yosarian2
Pre-Vote for day 2: Sotty7
Pre-Vote for day 3: Caboose
Pre-Vote for day 4: Korejora
Pre-Vote for day 5: iamausername

Gah!

[Yosarian2]

Real townies don't need to prove their alignment by doing silly things like touching their nose.

Of coure not. But I did catch a scum with that little trick, if you noticed.

[fallen angel]

How? Seems to me it was a joke some people followed and others didn't.

[Yosarian2]

Right. My theory was that scum would be all paranoid about responding to something like that, in any way, for fear it would look scummy; I know I would feel wierd about blatently yelling "NOT TOWN!" as scum, whereas as town I might be more likely to just play along and have fun. So once it got going, my plan was to vote the first person who completly ignored the whole thing, on the theory that that was the most likely way for scum to respond to it; I'd expect town would either play along with it, or attack it, but scum would try to ignore it completly. And you were the first to not mention it at all.

(I have no idea if that's anything like a reliable scumtell, but who cares, it's better then a random vote.)

[Caboose]

Mastin is usually every third post. I know he's posting in another game I'm in...

[Mastin]

Prodding inactive players.

Hopefully not me.

(Uhg. I've played games modded by a good portion of the people playing, yet have rarely actually seen [yet alone been with them] them play before, and Datadanne, someone who I've played with multiple times, is the mod. Reversal of roles, much?)

Hi, sorry I'm late, forgot this game till a lovely pm.

PM'd by partners, perhaps?

Obvscum.

That's Mascum, to you. If you think of me as town, it's Mastown. Which I am. (OMG! He claimed scum earlier, and has changed his claim! Lynch the liar with the inconsistent story! ) See, my name's easy to be made into both town and scum, further proof of why I'm a hard read.

I, like everyone else, have a life, and 1/48th of that life is devoted to MafiaScum. Now, I don't know about you, but that's a pretty big chunk, eh?

I have a post count of over three per day, despite long periods of not posting for days/weeks/months. So, uh, no, not a big chunk, in my opinion.
Lynch the person with the lack of devotion?

(On a side note, I had names which I find initially hard to abbreviate. Kham? Misa? Kha? You get the idea.)

Random vote: iamausername

That isn't random.
That's based off of my fos earlier.

With the above and this,

Mastin Unvotes: Sotty7,
Mastin votes: Khamisa

.

Die scum die!

Khamisa is just pretending to be a cute little pussy cat

I'm an AE-fan. So, having read many issues of the Zardian, I know that Cats Are Evil. (Click on the Conspiracy Corner: Cats link, a nice article by Cow Face, a fellow writer.)

More reason to vote for Khamisa.

but I saw her chasing some big knotted dog...

Dogs are even more evil than cats. I mean, I have two in comparison to three cats, and guess which is easier to manage?

*barks* I'm the good kind of wolf!

Nah. You're Khamisa's partner, hoping to out Kham in order to look extremely pro-town. It'll work against everyone but me, so feel free to night-kill me when you lynch your partner.

I'll hunt out that mafia

Like all good werewolves, you want 'em dead.

and wolves if it's the last thing I do!

Yea, werewolves dislike regular wolves, you know.

Look how pretty his avatar is.

The reason he's being shown mercy.

And he barks.

True, true, werewolves howl instead. But they can fake a bark, I imagine.

And he said so. Duh.

These days, I'm beginning to honestly believe that honesty is a scum tell, with how people say they honestly react to honest people. Honest.

I don't usually play the math game

I suck at math. It takes days for me to calculate all the possible setups.
(Ack. I hate role reversals. :/ [mainly due to how, in many of my stories {not joking}, this happens way too often. ])

but this time things seem pretty straightforward.

Random lynches based off of chance are always bad. They never end well, and are extremely scummy. We do have good odds of hitting scum, though.

Knowing my own alignment, any other given player has a 5 in 11 chance of being scum of some sort.

Quoting for truth is a scum tell, for it's using another's logic instead of your own, but I can indulge myself every once and a while.

Therefore, I shall make a random vote, and only change my vote if I deem someone else to be more than 50% likely to be scum.

You voted for the last person before you to post. Interesting...

Unvote, Vote: Mastin

(D*censored* IT! Not again... :/)

Yay, bandwagons are fun!

Real townies don't need to prove their alignment by doing silly things like touching their nose. Only weak and desperate scum would do that. Oh, and look at that! There are exactly five people on the "NOT SCUM" bandwagon.

This is an interesting fact, Tarb.

Unvote, Vote: Yosarian2
Pre-Vote for day 2: Sotty7
Pre-Vote for day 3: Caboose
Pre-Vote for day 4: Korejora
Pre-Vote for day 5: iamausername

Gah!

XP

My theory was that scum would be all paranoid about responding to something like that, in any way, for fear it would look scummy

(G*censored* D*censored* IT TO H*censored*! Not again...)
What about those who respond, but don't participate?
I believe I said that there was no point, as I had already said what my alignment was...

Mastin is usually every third post.

(Ack. Wrong game... )

Eh, usually only in newly beginning games.

I know he's posting in another game I'm in...

I have to alternate, you know. I'm in ten games, including this one (...Of which, I am dead in two, though... :/ Okay, so that's eight, but still, a great deal of games to post in). Two more (total of twelve, it was) just ended. Can't post in 'em all every day. In fact, I am amazed I get a post in every other day in most.

[Mastin]

Typos...
:/

(On a side note, I had names which I find initially hard to abbreviate

Had-->Hate.

That isn't random.
That's based off of my fos earlier.

AKA, bandwagonning off of my gut feeling alone.

Yay, bandwagons are fun!

I also forgot to mention how Iamausername's vote is omgus, based off of my finger pointed at our good friend, which was off of gut. And bandwagoning...

[Mastin]

It's pathetic, how I've lowered my standards so. I used to be one of the best people around at catching typos. A friend of mine on the battleon forums gave me a title there that I use all the time, "The Typo Master"--not master of making typos, master of catching/destroying typos.

I've made a few over the years, but the number I made skyrocketed once I joined MS.net. No, not due to the edit button. I think it's due to the length. By making my posts longer, it's harder to proof-read. By making a post harder to proof-read, it's harder to catch typos.
Especially with a lack of an edit button.

At least, an edit button you can use. I imagine eventually, you gain that as well, if you mod a game. Yet still, you can't use it that often, anyway. It's saddening, really, for things such as that to happen. I dislike seeing such a cruel fate befall upon a post.

Heck, on epicmafia, I've had typos determine the outcome of a game--
Typos in a cop report, for example.

After investigations, you (suspect vs. believe/belief; two of these are typos) that *player* is sided with the mafia. Or typing it correctly, but blundering the name. Under my alt, I've seen people constantly make one typo that few noticed. (I sure did. Hey, it's MY alternate username, after all!)

Or when trying to be kind about gender, by using just their names.

"While Mastin has been pro-town, Data has been more pro-town, and as I know I'm innocent, I'm going to vote for Data"
^
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Imagine a player saying that in a three-person endgame.

Whoops

. Especially since they meant to say
"While Mastin has been pro-town, Data has been more pro-town, and as I know I'm innocent, I'm going to vote for Mastin".

Seriously, I hate typos of that nature. Typo'ing full names?!? That's just insane. (Worse, I WAS mafia that game and got lynched due to typo'ing one name into another. :/)

Ah, well.
Not much I can do to stop them.

typos will always rule the world, no matter what i do to stop them, no matter what kind of "typo armor" I have equipped to my level umpteen battle mage in any give naction game.
(If it wasn't obvious, I was trying to make typos in the above. What's sad is that when I try to make typos, it's hard to do it, yet when I'm not, I make twenty. I've hit backspace over twenty times already in this parenthesis statement due to typos. Yet I hit it less than ten when trying to make the typos above. The irony of it all...)

[/ramble]

That felt good. The last time I did a good ramble, people built a "ramble shelter" to avoid it.

[Mastin]

In the words of our mod...

OMG POST MOAR!

Obey.

[Mastin]

By the way, if it wasn't obvious, I'm spamming 'til someone replies, in order to get discussion going.

(In other words, I want to increase my post count and am too selfish to admit it out loud. )

[Mastin]

PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: 14

Half a page of posts already...

In a 3-page game...

Logically, that means I own a sixth of the posts in this game.

With twelve players, that means I make up double that of any individual player, by this logic.

Dang, I'm good.

[Korejora]

tl;dr

[Yosarian2]

(G*censored* D*censored* IT TO H*censored*! Not again...)

Huh? "Not again"?

What about those who respond, but don't participate?

Well, I didn't think that was a scummy response.

[Mastin]

tl;dr

I get that a lot.

Huh? "Not again"?

Not the best demonstration, but the following should answer your question. Pay attention to code inside of author (of quote tags) tags.

wrote:

wrote:

wrote:

And, lastly,

wrote:

Now, this makes more sense if you pay attention and read the whole thing:

(Uhg.

I've played games modded by a good portion of the people playing

, yet have rarely actually seen [yet alone been with them] them play before,

and Datadanne, someone who I've played with multiple times, is the mod

. Reversal of roles, much?)

Well, I didn't think that was a scummy response.

...Claiming scum isn't a scummy response?

Dang, I need to refine my technique. It's not working, anymore. :/

[Datadanne]

*Data Faints*

[Caboose]

tl;dr

[Yosarian2]

Oh, yeah, that's the other reason fallen angel is scum, almost forgot; I dislike the mastin vote. Between ignoring the nose touching thing and voting for mastin, I like my fallen angel wagon.

[fallen angel]

Why do you dislike the mastin vote? Did I nail your scumbuddy?

[fallen angel]

I voted him for voting himself and because he freaking said he was scum! Then he recanted. Inconsistency is anti-town, unless it is for a good reason (IMO).