Greetings all. I am Augustus Caesar of Rome. I've been invited to play this online forum mafia game by an old pal of mine, Hectic. Yes, I understand how the internet works despite being born in 63 BC. And
ANYWAY...
me neither tbh
HI. I think you pocketed me as scum once or TWICEIn post 39, petapan wrote:oh man are we actually getting every hectic personality in this game
if so i want to say hi to grumpy cat
Oh my, that's a beautiful signature. I shall treasure it always. I'll place it inside a small locked chest inside a slightly larger chest inside a slightly larger chest continued ad infinitum. I find thieves usually give up when they have to break more than 5 locks.In post 40, Summer Nights wrote:no no, go on with the backstory... it feels like once maybe, in a dream.... we might have spoken of our backstories together. tell me, is there a deep dark story there that only i have the ability to heal?
and i suppose... i'm rather shy about giving it out but for you i'll do it, just this one, do not sell it please
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Don't think Ari likes standing out as scum so I read the declared wagoning as slight +town
Don't think scum!Bulge would care though so prob NAI
This is jokey so NAIIn post 35, Summer Nights wrote:kind of embarassing that my signature didnt attach im kinda self conscious rn so dont ask me anything....... :/
I assume you didn't read it as jokey so I like this vote. Right?
Doesn't feel pressured enough to ask why is slight +townIn post 37, Summer Nights wrote:Thank You.
AHHHHHHIn post 64, Datisi wrote:oh, silly me. apologies, grumpy. *pat*
why do you get the impression that ari doesn't like standing out as scum?
Not even for Team Mafia for an easy townread?In post 48, petapan wrote:my approach is mostly the same. but i'm the worst person to ask that question because my perspective is biased and i don't wanna lay out what i feel my own limitations are. but i'll give the answer i gave in a recent game that i'll probably be more spontaneous as town.
Actually what do I care if he knows I said thisIn post 67, Augustus Caesar wrote:(the guy who's in black and white and always smiling. It's off putting tbh but don't tell him I told you this)
uh don't @ augustus like that okIn post 85, Adorable wrote:@Augustus The slight town read you gave on Ari I wasn't able to see how was that towny. Why do you like #60 from Datisi when you said that's very within their scum range? Since you said that is within their scum range then shouldn't you have been cautious?
puff isn't a fan of itIn post 93, Datisi wrote:who's the limelight? peta?In post 90, Augustus Caesar wrote:not a fan of the limelight
serious post?In post 94, xRECKONERx wrote:I've made the executive decision not to read any of Hectic's posts this game because I fucking hate stupid posting gimmicks
Happy Birthday, xofelf!In post 108, xofelf wrote:Gotta say the multiposting thing is going to kill me. It just feels like noise for the sake of noise and my eyes kinda glaze over as I read it. I also can't keep track of which is which, and who they're supposed to be underneath the alt, which is making that slot so much harder to read.(I also don't remember if it was just one of the public alts hyperposting or both, so that's a bad sign)
This game has only 5 pages and you're complaining about "spamposting"? Also, you could read my posts whileIn post 109, xRECKONERx wrote:the stupid fucking open alts rule is very bad and dumb and creates more legwork for people to open a tab and have to crossreference who is saying what bc of the alts, the spamposting is ridiculous (out of the first ~100 posts nearly HALF of them are solely from ari + hectic), and the forced shtick of posting in character with images at the end of every post or whatever the hell hectic is doing is sapping my will to live
but i signed up to play team mafia, so i will play team mafia. i am just not going to engage with hectic's shtick for my own sanity. if my team wants to read it they can and fill me in. actually ill ask them to do that right now.
Puff loves bringing up stuff like this as both alignments. She talks a lot about theory and how she saw scum do "this one thing one time" and then vaguely fits it to what someone did in the current game. NAI I think.In post 132, Datisi wrote:ok like i think i'm getting pinged more by adorable. 122 is kinda vaguely talking about - oh there was a bad meta read once - that doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than being filler. also the question to hectic in 85 doesn't get answered and i don't think she really cares for it? also like bulge's 127.
I agree regarding Reck, he felt over the top and performative to me, hence my initial vote.In post 140, The Bulge wrote:I don't necessarily disagree but they ping me as unwarranted and performative.
This is fair.In post 152, Datisi wrote:honestly i wasn't thinking if you were asking adorable what she likes vs what she doesn't like or whatever, i just saw you were asking a seemingly random question when you had so far offered no thoughts so i was curious to see if there is anything happening back thereIn post 150, Summer Nights wrote:also, also, also, why did you ask me my takes like... hm. i guess piggybacking off of me trying to engage w adorable to get her to say something she does like this game versus her saying she dislikes a ton of other things? the word that popped into my head was 'deflecting' though idk off of what?
Ah, vibes. Delightful.In post 153, Summer Nights wrote:okay i can vibe with that wrt hot take
I find this to be very town-indicative for Summer. The way she articulates her thoughts in-real-time versus manufacturing them is something she does often as town, but never as scum - or rarely ever, I don't recall a time.In post 155, Summer Nights wrote:i feel more sure abt hectic right now than i do reck i guess? like all i know about reck is that he's uh... angry. that's what i've heard and i feel bad saying that LMAO but that sort of ate up my perception of him so far this game
I think players like Sirius have their alignments made a lot more clear with pressure. If scum, he'll crack, if town, he'll be forced to react and post content, which might prove useful.In post 164, Summer Nights wrote:yes it was abt you trying to throw down pressure on sirius to get him like, stressed early bc he as a player like... no offense sirius i love u but i feel like you'd be one of the players at this table who is like. prone to getting scumreads thrown on you easily
but then i saw you make that post about it being a pseudo-ico vote so like.. maybe i am insane
Good vibes from this. Like when you devour a really nice roast salmon.
Why do you think Datisi would see you as an achievable misdrown? I don't think scum!Datisi would be particularly worried about lining up potential misdrowns at such an early stage, rather, he'd be concentrating on taking the towniest takes possible to appear town, like 95% of people do when playing scum.In post 171, DeasVail wrote:I like Datisi townreading me in 60. Datisi-scum would be under the impression that I'm an achievable mislynch and I could see scum being more tempted to twist it as scum tryharding off the bat (which is an easy interpretation to make). No one else had commented on my entrance and so the freshness of the take adds weight here.
I explained why I asked this in 144.In post 171, DeasVail wrote:Strange that you would be asking this question of someone who has only just begun engaging with the game in a meaningful way.
The justifying of regular scumhunting with "silly" or "bored" feels off.In post 171, DeasVail wrote:Adorable made a vote which looked like RVS. When I asked about it, Adorable indicated that it was based on nothing., Adorable said that in fact it was based on something. The "reason" for the vote changed after Adorable was pressured on it. Dismissing it merely as NAI without further reason is not enough for me. Why is it NAI?When I applied some silly pressure because I was feeling bored
Eh. This one's rough, like going boating down river rapids.In post 180, DeasVail wrote:This feels like panic asking a team-mate to help fake reads to look town.
Vibes were fine, joking about the scumrange thing because he said the same thing.In post 197, Adorable wrote:Also, you never answered my first question.
I heard other listmods are removing empty contentless pagetop posts, Isis. You better watch yourself. I might just invite you to a tragic boating trip with me if you don't.In post 250, Isis wrote:pagetop?
Good post for actually trying to resolve it.In post 209, petapan wrote:bulge townie
adorable in 56 you said the vote wasn't based on anything, but in 58 you said it was because of how augustus gave a fast town read. that's what people are getting on your case about. can you address this?
Worse post because clearly Puff doesn't see the problem at this point, so this probably won't prompt her to.
Nah, disagree. I think scum care far more about appearing logically consistent. Contradicting yourself is slight +town on average. If she's being coached, she doesn't take 100 posts to finally clear up such a small thing.In post 224, xRECKONERx wrote:this is bad though bc adorable is acting self-contradictory and i think that's town or scum indicative! i think scum, especially those unfamiliar or newer, will have a harder time staying logically consistent
they'll blurt out whatever
adorable just seems to act in a weird manner and has now stumbled over herself to re-explain why she's so contradictory
like, the idea is... "i voted someone, said it was based on nothing when asked, then retroactively gave a justification for it... then got called out on giving a retroactive justification for it, and took 100 posts to get coached by my scumteam on how to respond to it"
idk man i feel like i see people in the current site meta trying to trip over themselves to explain how scum dumbfuckery is actually to dumbfuck to be scum and the fact of the matter is uh it gets caught like that for a reason
Greetings, my friend.In post 246, beeboy wrote:Oh no i didn't realize the game started.
Hello friends.
After clash tonight I'll read up. <3
this phrasing feels off for you Adorable. particularly the part i've highlighted. oh wait, i already quoted just the part i was talking about so don't need to highlight it. anyway, did you get this exact phrasing from a teammate or write it yourself?In post 272, Adorable wrote:I don't like your attitude and it comes off to me as performative and over the top.
yes, yes, and yesIn post 229, Datisi wrote:ok. my issue is that you're talking pure "theory". "scum can easily call a player fake." "scum can easily (fake) solve." "scum can make gut reads." those are things that are, in of itself, true. but you're taking them and applying them into "datisi is scum because of those things." (i assume you think i am, considering your vote is on a player that you supposedly townread.) you're talking theory, saying scum "can" do those things - sure, they *can* - and translating that into suspicion on me without looking at things in the context of this game.In post 206, Adorable wrote:I was not satisfied with your answer and it didn't make sense to me.
the issue is that is a really easy way to fake a scumread. almost anything that people have done so far *can* be done by scum. i feel like you're not looking into ~why~ i did things or how they relate to me in this game or what they actually mean wrt my alignment, you're just slapping on a blanket "oh scum can do these things" read.
In post 265, Adorable wrote:Hectic I see you are also town reading Summer and what do you think of xof's post when they mentioned Summer and me?
like the fact she values my opinion here makes me feel warm and fuzzy, but is there an eye of SAURON underneath that puffy puff who knows what she's doing by trying to pocket me like this?"!?$?RIn post 266, Adorable wrote:On b) you said two buddies go hard to get pressure off scum so what you're saying here is 2 scum in Hectic, Ari, petapan are scum.In post 239, xRECKONERx wrote:b/c i don't see any universe where
a) two scum white knight the same townie off of such little pressure early d1
b) two buddies go hard to get pressure off of adorable d1 when it's so early
so at most, one of them is scum IMO
I'm curious to hear from Hectic, Ari, and petapan what they have to say about this post.
oh god, I almost forgot about this one. you've never ever complimented me like this before PuffIn post 283, Adorable wrote:Hectic said he has a tinfoil reason to townlean you and I'll trust him on this. I have been town reading Hectic and he is a really good scum hunter. There are 3 games I played with Hectic where he correctly called out a scum player.
this part i don't like as much because specifics would be very helpful rather than a vague assessment.In post 262, xofelf wrote:Like in one post she's talking about how she really likes how one person is doing, and then the very next about them is talking about how she doesn't feel good about them. And that's hella sus.
Does Puff seem like the type of player who would thank someone defending her, or just let them? because i don't think she's the formerIn post 262, xofelf wrote:But also, Summer did an awful lot of defending or explaining for adorable(ctrl-f has adorable show up 20 times in that iso, some of which are quotes, but most are Summer herself), and yet adorable has only talked to or about Summer once, and it was just a direct question that Summer asked her about what she liked in the game. It felt like a softball you'd throw to a scumpartner to set them up for a read or misdirection. I just don't think that a town player would just completely ignore someone who is talking for them that much. Even just a thank you or acknowledgement post, but there's nothing.
however, Reck never expressed a scumread on me, in fact, he's only had me as a varying level of ~town~In post 287, Aristophanes wrote:I'm not sure I understand the question. I think his response to my response probably showed that the raging is genuine, but I hope he's done more since then and isn't just raging for the sake of it so he looks like he's contributing without giving any content and having an.easy slot to tunnel
I was busy yesterday and work 12h today but if I get a lunch break I'll be back to catch up! Otherwise it will be mostly tomorrow, for which I apologize.
this should be strongest scumreads, not townreadsIn post 298, Augustus Caesar wrote:being the slot that people have had the strongest townreads on