Open 529 -- Picking Simplicity -- Game Over

[Skelda]

Well done Maenara!

[RachMarie]

Great job

YAY MAE you did it for us ♥

Ya all should have killed Dashie sooner though

[RachMarie]

Great job

YAY MAE you did it for us ♥

Ya all should have killed Dashie sooner though

[Rainbowdash]

I actually had it reversed at the end. To me it was no doubt Mae with one of AA/Anti.

JS was town since the RM death though. Nothing short of a scum claim would have changed that one.

[RachMarie]

Dashie got any tips for me so I am not such lynchbait?

Granted in this case I was scum, but most of the time when I am lynched in D 1 or D 2 I am town...

[Rainbowdash]

Dashie got any tips for me so I am not such lynchbait?

Granted in this case I was scum, but most of the time when I am lynched in D 1 or D 2 I am town...

Your content drops off as scum so that's why I started pushing you. Its one of those where I am at the stage where I think I can somewhat accurately meta you at this point.

Content is always good. When content is high its much harder to be lynched (regardless of alignment)

[BoroPhil]

Epic.

[Maenara]

Ya all should have killed Dashie sooner though

Killing the capable town-read people who suspect you? Heresy.

Since we're doing the feedback thing, what could I have done better, y'all? I realize we won, but frankly, that was as much a case of dumb luck with replacements and lurkers as anything.

And the fact that DJ didn't kill me. Grateful, if bemused, about that.

[Wake1]

Yeah, I didn't get why Don just gave up like that, considering how far he got.

I'd say you shouldn't be so mean, but then again you mentioned doing that on purpose to get people mad.

[JacobSavage]

What could I have done?

[Maenara]

@Wake:

Naw, I meant, why he didn't shoot me one of the nights. The gambit made a weird kind of sense, I guess, looking at it in retrospect. I was totally falling for it; it was just that Antihero saved us >_>

As for being mean... Eh, I think the tone was good enough. My alternate tends toward the slightly overly formal, and frankly, people tend to react less than positively to that. Abrasiveness gets you taken somewhat seriously, as people seem to expect you to know what you're doing based upon it, and it also serves well to repel some suspicion. Soft cases (here defined as the ones that just involve, y'know, soft tells) stick better to smooth people than abrasive ones, ironically; if you suspect a 'mean' player based on such things, people tend to just assume you're doing it because you're mad at them, and hence they take it as a town vs. town fight. Really, at my current skill level (i.e. not very good, particularly as town), I tend to aim for this as either alignment - it keeps me alive longer and doesn't really hurt anyone in itself

@JacobSavage:

You could've played the game. Really, I have no respect for what you did. You should've replaced out on Day 1.

[Wake1]

Very interesting. I really liked watching you maneuver through the game. Maybe I should try incorporating a little bit of abrasiveness into my gameplay...

Savage has a tendency to lurk and not really do anything.

[jmo16mla]

that's aggravating.

Bull shit your playstyle could have changed. yeah. OK

[Wake1]

Maenara, would you want to be a Hydra with me sometime?

[Maenara]

Oh gods no, we'd tear each other's head off.

[Wake1]

Oh gods no, we'd tear each other's head off.

I doubt it. When we're both seperate VTs, sure, but heads on the same slot? Not really.

[Wake1]

This game is definitely a lesson for Scum to keep lurkers alive, and for Town to PL lurkers, in my opinion.

[don_johnson]

gg scum. mae, you were so cooperative with me at first. I really thought you were town.

I think I said this in the dead qt: I didn't "give up". I went all in. the self vote was in hopes that "townmae" would rescind his vote. I gambled and lost. I could have not self voted, but it didn't look like there were too many other ways to prevent my lynch if I kept fighting like hell.

[Wake1]

gg scum. mae, you were so cooperative with me at first. I really thought you were town.

I think I said this in the dead qt: I didn't "give up". I went all in. the self vote was in hopes that "townmae" would rescind his vote. I gambled and lost. I could have not self voted, but it didn't look like there were too many other ways to prevent my lynch if I kept fighting like hell.

I don't particularly understand, but then again I wasn't in the position you were in, or knew of all the factors you personally knew.

Do you think a better approach could have been to hold back and play somewhat more defensively, or maybe focus on one/two other players with relatively-grounded Scum cases?

[Loranthaceae]

gg Maenara, I guess the best plant won. I'm curious:

FOS: Maenara

Rainbow, am I BP?

There aren't really any other people starting with a 'B' who have a 'P' in their names, now are there?

In other news Skull and Don are still both town, and Lora still needs to die. They've been way too cautiously probing the situation, trying to avoid attention intentionally.

I think this post came as a logical consequence of Rainbowdash's post:

Manera (until I looked at OP thought he replaced HGH) isn't the worst lynch ever (the reaction to aptil is horrible, TNE wasn't too bad but that just really sets off an alarm), but I would rather lynch stronger scum reads who look like scum with them (elle and Aero)

saying she thought she (Maenera) was HGH's replacement. Therefore she (Maenera) figured RD didn't notice me because of lack of attentionwhoring on my part, so she uses it as an additional reason (along with that incantation) for her vote and to shift attention from her to me.
Panic much?

Did this phase you or was it too out there?

I actually did comment on that, in that I said it's utter bull. I don't care whose replacement RD thought I was - I hadn't even realized who HGH was; there are like 20 players and I'm not about to go combing through inactives when we have perfectly valid issues to focus on here and now - the bit about your trying to avoid attention had already been stated prior to that comment, so it doesn't matter.

by whom?

By me. As in, the post you went "I know what this is" at.

I could've tunneled you further but I felt like nobody got what I was saying anyway.

[Skullduggery]

By the way, what happened with Sven? His ban had something to do with this game, didn't it?

What could I have done?

You could've played the game. Really, I have no respect for what you did. You should've replaced out on Day 1.

Ditto. I figured you were lurking Scum and you thought that replacing out would doom your slot, which is why you clung to it for so long. Now that I know that you're Town, I look back at the way you played and wonder whether you ever actually cared about this game or not. It's like you didn't even try.

By hanging around for so long without actually making an effort to play, all you did was make yourself mislynch bait.

Maybe I should try incorporating a little bit of abrasiveness into my gameplay...

You're already abrasive.

[Wake1]

You're already abrasive.

True, and so are you.

[Wake1]

Anyways, one of the things I do remember enough to regret is quickhammering ABR. Should have waited.

[Nobody Special]

By the way, what happened with Sven? His ban had something to do with this game, didn't it?

I don't know. I just got a PM telling me he had to be replaced (but he had already asked anyway, so I was already looking).

[Maenara]

gg Maenara, I guess the best plant won. I'm curious:

FOS: Maenara

Rainbow, am I BP?

There aren't really any other people starting with a 'B' who have a 'P' in their names, now are there?

In other news Skull and Don are still both town, and Lora still needs to die. They've been way too cautiously probing the situation, trying to avoid attention intentionally.

I think this post came as a logical consequence of Rainbowdash's post:

Manera (until I looked at OP thought he replaced HGH) isn't the worst lynch ever (the reaction to aptil is horrible, TNE wasn't too bad but that just really sets off an alarm), but I would rather lynch stronger scum reads who look like scum with them (elle and Aero)

saying she thought she (Maenera) was HGH's replacement. Therefore she (Maenera) figured RD didn't notice me because of lack of attentionwhoring on my part, so she uses it as an additional reason (along with that incantation) for her vote and to shift attention from her to me.
Panic much?

Did this phase you or was it too out there?

I could've tunneled you further but I felt like nobody got what I was saying anyway.

Naw, these posts just genuinely confused me. Wasn't sure what you were trying to get at. I'd totally forgotten who I'd replaced as well, so what RBD said didn't really bother me much, and you were just as good a target as any at the time.