The Fifth Fortnight (Game Over!)

[kuribo]

DGB, kuribo, and UT will complain about those damned kids these days and their spam postigns

At least two of those people were in a hydra that shitposted so incessantly that the town wished for their death whether they were town or scum.

Two of those players have an alt which posts entirely via erotic fiction.

I don't think you're getting a complaint from any of us about spam posting

[kuribo]

SPiffeh is town.

what makes you feel that way?

What scum solicits attention to their posting?

Benmage in the first fortnight.

I still maintain that openly trolling just because he intended to flee was what cost us the win in that one.

That and my god-awful post-lynch post.

[kuribo]

p-edit: I haven't bothered reading any of the other fortnight games, but that's a clever strategy, and I don't think scum would bring that up.

Nah, it was dumb as all hell and I told him that repeatedly in the scum PT as well as in the post game. He figured if he trolled endlessly he could flee and leave zero associative tells for people to link me to. The idea being that I looked town enough to carry the team at the end.


The problem ended up being that he looked so incredibly scummy that even if we had wanted to flee me, we didn't have the option. He basically ensured from his first post that he'd be the one to flee. And so, when I fucked up hard after his flee, we were screwed.

[kuribo]

Hey kuribo, any thoughts on this game?

I want to unpack Cakez' response to the wagon on him, but it'll require more in-depth look than I have right this second.

Still too early for me to judge DGB. She wasn't in the other two fortnights I played, so I'm kinda excited for the chance to figure her out under this setup.

[kuribo]

I also think scum are more likely to be among the less active players in a game like this, since they'd be trying to avoid attracting the suspicion of even a single townie.

Do you not feel that lurking would in and of itself draw attention? Because I feel it would. Especially with a player list like this, I don't see inactive players not getting called out.


I'd argue that scum would avoid attracting suspicion by playing to their known town metas.

[kuribo]

Do you not feel that lurking would in and of itself draw attention? Because I feel it would. Especially with a player list like this, I don't see inactive players not getting called out.

Depends on the playerlist. My sense is that inactive scum would thrive here, given the way that most players in this game seem to be scumhunting...

In that case I'd say you're naive as to the nature of this player list.

At least the ones I've had experience with. The game is less than 24 hours old.

[kuribo]

Gorkington's case is outstanding bus'ing. Both are scum.

God you're getting better and better at drawing town reads from me


Next time see if you can get me to read you town during the sign-ups

[kuribo]

To be fair, I haven't had experience with anyone here except Errant & SirCakez. Just speaking from what I've seen so far, so what I'm saying is obviously subject to change.

Then allow me to introduce myself:

I am kuribo the Unlynched, the Angry Serene, Wielder of the Murdercock, Scourge of Towns, Mastina's Bane, Keeper of the Cockdragon, the devil here to do the devil's business, a certified G and bonafide stud, the Harbinger of War, your favorite mafia player's favorite mafia player, He Who Walks Among the Nooses, The Commonwealth's Ruin, the Ender of Scum, the Vodka in Your Orange Juice, the Bringer of Death, the Harvester of Sorrow, and I'm REALLY good at Twitter.

[kuribo]

Gorkington's case is outstanding bus'ing. Both are scum.

God you're getting better and better at drawing town reads from me


Next time see if you can get me to read you town during the sign-ups

Actually in a game where scum immediately lose the game if their partner gets lynched I’d argue that’s probably the worst observation she’s made so far.

What do you town read about this (and please elaborate beyond “I know DGB”)

Whether I agree with her on it is immaterial, (and once I read Cakez, I may not) the point is I believe SHE believes it. Her activity level in early game is already what I expect from town-DGB, the He game is young but we're also on a shorter timeframe in Fortnight. Further, she's already willing to put her neck out with a strongish read. She's not sitting at the sidelines; she isn't internally moping that she's scum. Town DGB is far more aggressive than scum-DGB.

[kuribo]

I think kuribo is scum with spiffey and ramcius

Discuss.

I think you should learn how to count, hoss

[kuribo]

WRT Cakez, I feel like the pace of the game threw him off. I think he expected the usual large-game bullshitting around for twenty pages, and was taken aback when he felt like people were calling him out for not scumhunting.

His anger toward bowing out feels genuine to me. I do somewhat lean toward it being town-indicative because frankly, it's not the presumptive HOW DARE YOU of caught scum, but more the "oh fuck this" exasperation.

I just don't think Cakez is scum in this exchange.

[kuribo]

BrightEyedFish, you haven't actually given any explanation of why you find DGB scummy. could you provide that? right now it feels

super

arbitrary.

Well it is arbitrary. What's wrong with that?

we're on page 10, and you could have some real reads for which you offer specific evidence.

Don't hate on my vote. Join me in getting information out of Goofball.

Please please please tell me you're voting DGB to try and "apply pressure" on her.

I would literally sell my soul to be able to watch how that plays out.

Just let me know so I can grab some popcorn first.

[kuribo]

Hey by the way, when you openly state you're only voting someone to get information out of them, you immediately remove any and all leverage you have over them.

They have to know you're willing to lynch them and not let up. Wagoning someone for info, and telling them that, is so beyond useless that it may as well be a third nipple.

[kuribo]

it's not the presumptive HOW DARE YOU of caught scum, but more the "oh fuck this" exasperation.

can i get more words on this?
i feel like the exact opposite would be more likely in the case of cake
where a really convincingly angry reaction would make sense from townhim being pushed in a way he sees as unfair,
rather than a "this is bs these reasons for scumreading me are the wrong reasons people should be scumreading me this is all so unfair" reaction which just feels like scum squirming to me?

Okay, granted I don't know Cakez as well as I know some other players, and I might even be rusty considering I haven't finished a game on this site in almost eighteen months. But my playstyle is very emotional, and more than that its reading the emotional responses of the other players. I do feel like walking away to calm things down isnt necessarily beneficial to scum in this setup. It's just his tone, I guess, more than anything. I feel like he was starting to take the push personally, and rather than defending himself decided he needed a breather.

Can that come from scum? Sure. God knows we've seen it before. My gut feeling says it's not, though.

[kuribo]

***rethinking***

Hey come back I only signed up for this to make it up to you for ragequitting Destiny Mafia III

[kuribo]

Actually I have a super secret scum read on someone but I don't think a Lynch on this person is realistic at this time (or maybe ever!) so that's fun I guess

That's the great thing about this setup; if they don't flee you just accuse them and laugh at them after you ruin their game

[kuribo]

i have plan for round 2 - we all roll 1d14 and accuse whoever we get, so someone very likely will hit scum

I'm almost 100% sure that provable randomness is a site-bannable offense, and frankly getting banned three times in the past year is already plenty for me.

[kuribo]

im telling kuribo that if he manages to derail cakez's wagon onto town he should bribe me so we can share the win

Nah you don't have to worry about me derailing anything


I'm working way too many more hours than I anticipated this week and we have an an immediate termination policy for cellphone use, so I can't play at work like I did back in the day

so I'm just gonna let someone from the replacement list play while the game is still early

[kuribo]

xRECKONERx ( 3 ) Untrod Tripod Spiffeh Errantparabola (E - 6 )3 ) Untrod Tripod Spiffeh Errantparabola (E - 6 )

Dummies.

I'm especially disappointed in 1/3 of the three pronged trouser god.


Sorry I had to replace out. I took a look at my schedule for the next two weeks and realized I'd never get around to paying attention to the game.


PS- Still 100% at reading DGB correctly after all these years