Analysis of Titus's posts
Okay, I know Titus best, so I am the most appropriate person here (Titus expert) to defuse the WIFOM that she would most definitely have laid down in her "defeat" posts.
Firstly, some background for you to understand. Like every situation, this has
two
possibilities: 1)
Titus knows that the game can be won.
2)
Titus knows that the game cannot be won.
I mean, we are the uninformed majority, while Titus team is the informed minority. They know what remaining cool powers they have left, and therefore are able to calculate whether the endgame or a win is attainable or not. We don't. That includes me.
However, let's assume the worst, and assume that in this worst case, Titus has a plan to reach the endgame, and her last few posts were attempting to enact that plan (although she gave up on her slot because it was unwinnable.) In this case, it is
that she left instructions in her scum PT for her members (whoever they are) to follow through. This is a fact that I need to make clear.
Note: we do not assume the best case (as in, the scumteam is going to lose 100%), because then there's nothing for me to do anymore -- just do some turbo lynching action to guarantee our win.
We can wonder how Titus thinks she can win her plan, if she does indeed have a plan. But it means that she has mapped out the mislynches that she needs to win, and probably instructed her teammates to push or allow those wagons to happen. She also probably planned the farside kill, because her death was immediately before it, as well as herself catalyzing her death (Basically, she was alive to leave the instructions in her scum PT.
One thing that is important for us to highlight
is NicCage's revival. I don't think anyone could have expected that, not even scum, unless they received a tip-off. This has definitely thrown the scum's plan off guard.
With all that noted, let's begin detailed analysis.
In post 4232, Trench Warfare wrote:I've looked at this and I've just decided that I'm beyond frustrated. 7 fucking masons versus less scum than that.
This is highly likely to be true. I think it has been established that the Mastin/Xtomx/RR hood is also all town. Even though it was advertised as a neighborhood, I believe Varsoon was expecting them to implode from paranoia. This actually happened with the Beer/Vezok hood, so Varsoon's plan actually worked.
The reason why I believe that Mastin + Xtomx are town is because Titus was pushing them since forever. All the bullshit about "Must be one scum in Mastin/Xtomx". I mean, she could've been bussing, but the fact of the matter is that Titus dodged each and every scum lynch that has happened in the game. Thus, her plan was to
not bus
. We can expect the same behavior being applied to RR's hoodmates. Her attempts to sling mud onto them were pretty obvious.
This is probably fake. Varsoon isn't that dumb. I bet scum have a counter to these masonries.
This is probably true. But there might be more to it. Why was getting beer a "fucking miracle"? Note the word miracle. That means something extraordinary happened. If it was a common word like "was fucking lucky" or similar, I wouldn't have paid much attention to it. I strongly suspect that Titus actually had the fact that the Beer lynch was 100% town in mind -- that was why it was a miracle. All the players who were voting him were town. This would be great for Titus's VCA faking.
This is a half-truth. My pet theory is that scum have an information thief from alliances. So being unable to interfere with
alliance generation
was right, although I think I remember Frogger having that ability? But interfering directly with alliances themselves? Entirely possible.
In post 4232, Trench Warfare wrote:This whole Titus knows too much when I am one of the best role deducers on this site (provided blantant crumbs) is ridiculous.
She was just mad that she was caught for the wrong reasons.
This is misleading. It is true that the "only" way Titus could confirm herself was through the N1 doc, but that doesn't actually say much about the rest of her scumteam, does it?
In post 4232, Trench Warfare wrote:Add in a watcher, lie detector (thus acting as a cop if we ever use our fakeclaims), rolecop (so we can't fake our roles), and the fact that universal backup wasn't believed... jeezus.
The fact that Titus was bitching about the lie detector
suggests that Fuzzy is town.
If Fuzzy was scum, I strongly doubt that she would have added that clause, because technically it wasn't information that she was supposed to have anyway.
In post 4232, Trench Warfare wrote:Plus lighthouse gem was my fucking fake claim. My fake claim... and it's a fucking null at best. I shouldn't give my fake claim and then have town want to lynch me anyway. Seriously, what the bloody fuck? That forced our hand into shooting Ricastle as I would have lied my ass off to me if I still suspected me. Turns out, Ricastle was trusting me but it was too little too late. That kill had to be done. :@ Seriously, this game balance is severely fucked up.
This is probably real, lol. None of these present useful information, except for the last sentence. Which doesn't tell us much anyway.
In post 4232, Trench Warfare wrote:Klingon, at least you get to see me as scum for your files, but someday I want a game where I actually roll scum at the start that you're in. :/
Normally, if I thought I had any shot at not being lynched, I'd keep faking my VCA. At this point, it's too much work. VCA takes awhile as town, even more so when you have to fake it to obscure your buddies. Stalling for my VCA is worthless IMO and just hurts my buddies.
Useless.
In post 4232, Trench Warfare wrote:I'm going to wish my team the best of luck, but I know it's a long shot. If we lose, we did our best against insurmountable odds.
This is probably real. Scum was in a bad position yesterday, and with NicCage alive they are in a
terrible
position now. GG.
This expectation suggests that the remaining scum has a possibility of winning, yet would be difficult when it was left to PoE. Remember, RR was aiming to mislynch me today. I'm part of Titus's plan of chain mislynches, and this is evident because of the suggestion that her team still *had* a shot at winning.
In post 4236, Trench Warfare wrote:Yeah yeah yeah
I was kinda hoping you had guts. You don't. *shrug* It's over for me but you aren't better than me. Don't even go there.
I can beat you as scum. Give me a balanced fucking setup and I can. 7 masons, who gives a shit.
Egoballing.
Baiting me to make a stupid decision at 2 am.
In post 4238, Trench Warfare wrote:You'll be the mislynch if you don't gladiate me. You and I both know this. I've put enough links through to you that there's no way you'd survive if you don't burn your gladiate. You got no choice Sonic.
Baiting me to make a stupid decision at 2 am. Also, RR doing today exactly as Titus says. Despite all protests by his close trustable compatriots. Lol.
Baiting me to make a stupid decision at 2am
In post 4243, Trench Warfare wrote:Are you confused? You're a chicken. Coward. Useless. Easily manipulated. Townbeard. Sorry but you know it's true from Dating Game. Catch one scum and you let all the others go. Sorry.
This is blatantly false. Plus, I caught 3 scum this game. I don't foresee myself "letting all the others go".
Attempting to make me angry/heated through obviously incorrect attacks so that I burn my gladiate and cannot use it against them in later days.
In post 4245, Trench Warfare wrote:Enjoy your mislynch.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
I win either way. You use your ability and thus we burn a town ability or you get mislynched. Total win.
True as fuck. Lol.
In post 4247, Trench Warfare wrote:Or even c) town believe I am pulling a mastina and I don't get lynched because you didn't gladiate me. Hahaha!
Baiting.
In post 4251, Trench Warfare wrote:Go to bed. Sonic. I just won. Then we'll be in lylo after mislynching you.
I love claiming scum. Tis amazing.
That's how you do outed scum.
This post has a piece of vital information -- Titus slipped that she does not know that NicCage would revive.
Implication: Her plan she left in the Dead PT was assuming Nic was dead. She thought that we'd be in lylo after mislynching me. But now that there is one extra mislynch to burn, which is fatal to an already crippled scumteam, her plan busts.
In post 4253, Trench Warfare wrote:You give so much information Sonic. You're like a gold mine. It'll be sad after your lynch because we can't crack the setup through you.
Baiting
In post 4255, Trench Warfare wrote: In post 4222, Sonic X wrote:I win the game when all threats to the Beach City Residents have been defeated and at least one Beach City Resident is alive.
^^ Obvious lie detector post.
Seriously, stop making this so fucking easy Sonic.
Titus proving the powers of her inference skills.
In post 4256, Reasonably Rational wrote:Sonic just gladiate already. You realize we're going to just make you gladiate whomever we collectively believe most likely to be scum tomorrow to prove you weren't lying about it, mostly because you claim to be a special snowflake who doesn't have Steven Universe quotes to activate while everyone else so far has had SU quotes to activate abilities.
This is really bad. Especially when you + Klingon just hammered before I woke up (less than 8 hours of sleep, mind you!). RR plays into Titus's hand to burn my gladiate which, looking at my track record, would be fatal to the scumteam. She wants it removed with 100% certainty, she can't rely on RR's 99% probability of doing the job for her.
Let's remember that Titus is of the same archetype as RR: Logical players.
As can be seen in the thread, your playstyles are eerily parallel (at least, to me). Lecturing us about sound/valid arguments, having a rational conversation about VCA methodologies, etc. RR caught Titus off guard with his 100%-logic case -> Breaks Titus. But Titus, likewise being prepared for this, uses her own scum offense of WIFOM to let RR play into her hand. She also knew that the Doc shot that she gave RR would make him townread her a lot... and it worked too! Temporarily. This shows the parallelisms between Titus and RR.
In post 4267, Trench Warfare wrote:Now here's the part where you don't insult my intelligence.
Beer and Vezok are confirmed to each other by flavor. That was clear the minute Frogger was lynched and scum had to use fakeclaim.
There's the two actual flipped masons.
Then there's the you Xtomx and Mastina getting double confirmation of the innocent child.
Still omitting the highly-salient-hindsight-point about there being a scum role to counter these masonries. Her bitching about it attempts to portray a sense of anger and indignant about 7 masons, almost as if she can't do anything about it, but I believe that this is the expression that she is trying to portray.
Summary:
Titus is probably being honest about there being 7 masons in the game.
Titus might be omitting how scum has its own counter to these 7 masons.
Fuzzylogic is likely a town LD, because he was called out.
Farside kill was probably preplanned by Titus.
My mislynch is necessary for Titus's endgame plan
RR plays into Titus's endgame plan because their playstyles are so similar.
Despite scumteam being an informed minority, even they did not know NicCage would respawn.
My gladiate is an asset and is something that Titus fears and wants to remove from the game.