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Post Post #100 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:17 pm

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We went over this, you can still pretend to be Australian or Rory. Tell people about your WIFE
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Post Post #101 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:24 pm

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In post 98, Shadoweh wrote:Being easy to ID is a bad thing and goes against the spirit of anonymous games. :P
>goes to final four with the same person in three different games
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Post Post #102 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:29 pm

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In post 98, Shadoweh wrote:Being easy to ID is a bad thing and goes against the spirit of anonymous games. :P
lol.

This is why I'm a fan of semi-anons, but those are problematic for other reasons.
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Post Post #103 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:32 pm

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Also people are IDable based on what characters they pick for things.
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Post Post #104 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:35 pm

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No I changed my mind, this is a dumb thread to have this argument in.

How would you do a semi-anon? Like what does that mean exactly?
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Post Post #105 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:46 pm

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Everyone's ID is hidden at the start, but you're allowed to talk about IDs/reveal your ID to people.
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Post Post #106 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 12:47 pm

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About 1/2 my games in college were semi-anons.
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Post Post #107 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:05 pm

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In post 101, CuddlyCaucasian wrote:
In post 98, Shadoweh wrote:Being easy to ID is a bad thing and goes against the spirit of anonymous games. :P
>goes to final four with the same person in three different games

hmmm: maybe not quite on topic, and aside from the fact that game one we didn't know each other, game two was more circumstance than anything else and game three was fucking b v w and non anon, people do have types.

When I got booted from lol (i mean, shadoweh has also voted me out twice ;) ) I asked for four ids to be revealed: people I loved in the game. I didn't have a clue who they were, and I'm shitty at id hunting anyway, I just knew I loved them. They ended up being Klick and Jal (chatzy alliance from botb) Shadoweh (my previous game's f2 buddy + chatzy alliance) and hiplop (my starting tribe in both my previous games).

But...is that dangerous to playing. In psv the specs said 'you can't always go to the end with people you love', but how much does that impact how you play? How much does knowing you have a type? We're a tight community in some ways and I wonder if the non anon line isn't more blurred than we'd sometimes like to think: I mean we joke about 'xof hunting', but people are always going to make ID guesses. Some people for sure use it as a strategy.

I guess I'd like wider thoughts on Id hunting, and tips on how to obscure it, especially in the face of obvious things, like timezones or whatever.


tldr: I click with similar people, whether I know them or not, and anon games are slightly less anon than purists would like to think. Also I don't know if I like Bro's hybrid idea.
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Post Post #108 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:17 pm

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Yeah anonymity is often something of a pretense.

It was really dumb being on the LoL jury and having to pretend that me/Matt/Reck/OGML didn't all know who each other were because we'd all had each other ID'd from super, super fucking early (I hadn't even been on a tribe with OGML when I ID'd him because of ~that really great challenge that everyone loved~)
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Post Post #109 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:21 pm

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Pretense matters though. For example: Pikachu's vote for Delphox might have been altered if he knew Delphox was not in fact xofelf as he believed, but that nice guy Zoroark!
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Post Post #110 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:22 pm

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Yeah that's true. Also anonymity at least gives more skilled players the ability to try to hide who they are/how much of a threat they are early.
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Post Post #111 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:51 pm

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In post 109, Shadoweh wrote:Pretense matters though. For example: Pikachu's vote for Delphox might have been altered if he knew Delphox was not in fact xofelf as he believed, but that nice guy Zoroark!
Similarly, my vote may have been altered had I also known who Delphox was.

Not that I've ever been able to successfully identify anybody other than Drench and my brother, so.
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Post Post #112 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:53 pm

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I keep getting lumped in with the "ID'd everyone" crew from LoL but until the actual jury threads I didn't have ID guesses nor was I trying or in any way basing my play on such thing because the rules of these games say HEY DON'T FUCK AROUND WITH IDS and I try to stick to that
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Post Post #113 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:55 pm

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That was more that we all ID'd you :P
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Post Post #114 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:58 pm

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I only guessed your ID because you fucked me. :(
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Post Post #115 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 1:59 pm

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Tbf you were going for his tag team partner.

Talking about things that were ACTUALLY dumb to not be allowed to talk about.
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Post Post #116 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 2:00 pm

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Also guys we could literally just be having this conversation in skype.
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Post Post #117 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:45 pm

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In post 100, Shadoweh wrote:We went over this, you can still pretend to be Australian or Rory. Tell people about your WIFE
and the Australians go around pretending to be American.
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Post Post #118 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:50 pm

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In post 117, Cheery Dog wrote:
In post 100, Shadoweh wrote:We went over this, you can still pretend to be Australian or Rory. Tell people about your WIFE
and the Australians go around pretending to be American.
And then they send PMs at 3am and "yeah no he's Aussie"
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Post Post #119 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:14 pm

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Maybe he's just nocturnal!
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Post Post #120 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:15 pm

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Guys would it be cool if I pretended to be a girl IRL?
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Post Post #121 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:21 pm

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In post 120, BROseidon wrote:Guys would it be cool if I pretended to be a girl IRL?
Is your favourite colour Indigo?
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Post Post #122 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:44 pm

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Uh, no?

My favorite color is actually purple.
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Post Post #123 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:51 pm

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In post 118, D3f3nd3r wrote:
In post 117, Cheery Dog wrote:
In post 100, Shadoweh wrote:We went over this, you can still pretend to be Australian or Rory. Tell people about your WIFE
and the Australians go around pretending to be American.
And then they send PMs at 3am and "yeah no he's Aussie"
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Post Post #124 (ISO) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:53 pm

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In post 122, BROseidon wrote:Uh, no?

My favorite color is actually purple.
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