Newbie 2038: Elements [Game Over]

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Post Post #25 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:38 am

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Vote Count 1.1
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Helium, 2He
— noble gas, standard atomic weight 4.003, group 18, period 1, s-block


AGamblingPig
(2): ,
72offsuit
(2): ,
hunterr
(1):
c4e5g3d5
(1):

Not voting
(3): BipolarType2, hunterr, cylstar

With 9 alive, it takes 5 votes to eliminate.

Deadline:
(expired on 2020-11-06 06:30:00)
Last edited by Umlaut on Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:35 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Post Post #26 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:08 am

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In post 21, AGamblingPig wrote:I hate to do this, but I have to VOTE: Hunter

Hunting is violent and I don't like violence.
If you're scum I expect a pacifist game then :)
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Post Post #27 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:12 am

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In post 24, Mizzytastic wrote:A trio of questions.


For everyone, what's your experience with mafia?

I've been into social deduction games for a while. I've played in about 8 games on site over 4 years but gotten burnt out a lot due to stress/mental health. I'm love modding and think I'm good at mechanical stuff and picking up theory quickly, but I suck at the social and emotional side and I've decided to play out my remaining newbie games before I go back to other queues.
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Post Post #28 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:14 am

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In post 20, c4e5g3d5 wrote:VOTE: 72offsuit spam bad
Piggy-backing off of Egix? Why spam bad? VOTE: chess moves
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Post Post #29 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:44 am

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Mainly because, uh, it's spam. Also RVS.
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Post Post #30 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:05 am

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Ok, lets phrase this another way. Do you think spam is alignment indicative?
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Post Post #31 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:05 am

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Not particularly.
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Post Post #32 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:12 am

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So if it's just RVS is there a reason you created a second wagon instead of joining the existing one?
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Post Post #33 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:22 am

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In post 31, c4e5g3d5 wrote:Not particularly.
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Post Post #34 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:31 am

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In post 13, 72offsuit wrote:Why?
(...)
In post 17, 72offsuit wrote:to spam the thread?
Not only is it annoying, but perhaps more importantly, it wastes thread space and is generally just bad forum etiquette.
In post 19, 72offsuit wrote:
In post 12, Egix96 wrote:VOTE: 72offsuit

No need to spam the thread, we can already see you're here!
Y and W effectively function as vowels in Polish.
Close.
In post 24, Mizzytastic wrote:For everyone, what's your experience with mafia?
*Checks own page quickly*

I count about 40 games played on MS. That doesn't include any from other sites though.
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Post Post #35 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:56 am

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In post 24, Mizzytastic wrote:
For everyone, what's your experience with mafia?
I haven't played any mafia beyond a handful of in person werewolf games in like 7 years. Before that I was on this site under a different name but don't have access to the account any longer (stopped using the old email address). I played here off and on from 2003 to 2013. But as I said I haven't played in the better part of a decade so I'm fairly certain I have lost any all all knowledge I have of the game and certainly have no idea about the meta.
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Post Post #36 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:35 am

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I've played some irl mafia/werewolf and some online games. I suck at it though.
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Post Post #37 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:40 am

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I think c4's response is +town (not worried about defending self, comfortable with rvs being a good enough reason).

I took a peek at some of 72's games and he seems to post a lot. I think activity is NAI and spam is anti-town in general but his reaction to being called on it feels +town. Scum are less comfy expressing that sort of frustration.

hunterr feels like he voted something he thought would be easy and other people were already expressing thoughts about. It's light but VOTE: hunterr
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Post Post #38 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:41 am

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@cylstar, any reason you decided not to vote?
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Post Post #39 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:31 am

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In post 37, Mizzytastic wrote: hunterr feels like he voted something he thought would be easy and other people were already expressing thoughts about. It's light but VOTE: hunterr
I shouldn't state my thoughts about the only significant thing that's happened in RVS because others have already expressed their's... uh okay?
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Post Post #40 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:34 am

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Curious to know why you asked only c4 why spam is bad when he piggy-backed off of Egix.
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Post Post #41 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:40 am

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Expressing your thoughts is fine and NAI (well, depends on the thoughts). I think your intent was manoeuvring early onto what could be an easy wagon based on stuff you knew other people were thinking about too.

I also just like to play the early game aggro cos I think making noise is good to get the game moving as town, and easy town points to claim as scum.

pedit: cos Egix asked before 72's 'no u' of a response. And his reasoning sounded more obviously RVS whereas c4 sounded like he could be making a legit vote.
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Post Post #42 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:10 pm

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Also, I thought he could be doing the same thing I think you were doing, but his later responses suggested he wasn't.

You also didn't ask Egix, what's your reason?
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Post Post #43 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:27 pm

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Because my issue wasn't with the spam = bad sentiment, but rather the piggy-back c4 did with little substance. I also think if you play the early game aggressively you shouldn't let c4 go so easily. RVS cop-out is not unlikely for scum getting pushed.
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Post Post #44 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:34 pm

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My read is he was being very terse with me and scum don't want to be confrontational like that. If he was claiming RVS in a softer more buddy buddy way I'd be more suspicious.

Also you literally asked "Why spam bad?"
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Post Post #45 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:59 pm

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Fishing for elaboration, instead it was just simply him piggy-backing using RVS as a reason.
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Post Post #46 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:38 pm

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Ok, and if you are unsatisfied with his responses instead of (or in addition to, I'm flexible) saying you don't think I pushed hard enough why don't you push there more?
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Post Post #47 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:55 pm

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In post 37, Mizzytastic wrote:
hunterr feels like he voted something he thought would be easy and other people were already expressing thoughts about. It's light but VOTE: hunterr
Because this is more important to address. I also don't play aggressive in RVS, but you said that you did. If someone is apathetic about the game I would expect someone that supposedly plays "aggressive" to target them.
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Post Post #48 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 3:56 pm

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But yes, I do think that "cus RVS lol" is a cop-out from c4 and my votes stays on him.
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Post Post #49 (ISO) » Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:14 pm

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In post 24, Mizzytastic wrote:For everyone, what's your experience with mafia?
Even though my account is from 2009, I'm not super experienced with Mafia. I've been pretty on and off over the last couple of years. The only reason why I got back in now is because I started playing Among Us which reminded me of this site and I started back. I played a couple games around 2 years ago but I've forgotten a lot of things.

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