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Murmur Twin
Feb 11, 2003

An ever-honest pacifist with no mind for tricks.

Grandicap posted:

Oh, it is about the MMT thing, I guess I shouldn't be surprised because it was the only thing I've done this game, but that was like a billion years ago now (actually Friday, but who's counting)

I still think MMT is scummy. Joke or not, he has a high draft choice and is directing lynches away from him.

Also and unrelated, consider me surprised the vig hasn't been used.

When you say "I still think MMT is scummy", is this a result of you re-reading the game looking for scum? Do you have opinions on anything that happened since Friday?

Also, the vig is a night action.

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Murmur Twin
Feb 11, 2003

An ever-honest pacifist with no mind for tricks.
Ahhh I missed a few posts that occurred before I posted that.

Kumbamontu posted:

anyway i'm going to bed soon and i think we should all vote birdstrike instead, but i will switch to Grandi before sleeping if that doesn't happen.

Unless there is a very compelling case I'm staying on Grandicap. I don't think he's scumhunting and I think his reads on me are an attempt to keep up appearances.

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

No it is not a result of me rereading the game looking for scum, it is a case of me rereading my interaction with you and still agreeing with my assessment of the situation. I should probably reread the game but with 3 hours to deadline and a whole bunch of people checking out because of a 2am deadline on Sunday I'm not feeling very hopeful.

I mean, I could push a lynch on Kumba because he is the next closest to me in vote count, I should probably do that, but in my read I ddin't really see what was up there. Actually let me do that because a me lynch would make me sad and possibly make me cry.

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

Murmur Twin posted:

Ahhh I missed a few posts that occurred before I posted that.


Unless there is a very compelling case I'm staying on Grandicap. I don't think he's scumhunting and I think his reads on me are an attempt to keep up appearances.

No argument here on the scumhunting thing, but that is because it is a timing thing at the moment rather than a me not going to do scumhunting this game thing.

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

I would definitely switch to Birdstrike before Grandi, would also go for MMT.

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

I see no real case worth voting on Kumba. That is not going to stop me from voting him however. I think the biggest thing against him is that he made a case on bird but had a throwaway thing about me too, a fall back for the vote leader. Giving him the ability to drop a vote on me if the need arises. But d1 and the other option is me, not going to feel bad about ##vote Kumba

kumba
Nov 8, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride

Lipstick Apathy

Hal Incandenza posted:

I would definitely switch to Birdstrike before Grandi, would also go for MMT.

unfortunately I don't think there are enough people around to swing to Birdstrike at this point judging by activity and how late it is already

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

I would do birdstrike if we have the numbers.

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

That is very sensible play Grandicap

kumba
Nov 8, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride

Lipstick Apathy

Grandicap posted:

I would do birdstrike if we have the numbers.

you and hal would make 4, that's halfway there

not sure we have 4 more though

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
I guess it's not just Auspol that's xenophobic :v:

kumba
Nov 8, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride

Lipstick Apathy
this is not a hate crime

Cartridgeblowers
Jan 3, 2006

Super Mario Bros 3

I'm not feeling Grandi or Kumba either. Would vote birdstrike.

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

Let's put some of these would votes into actual votes, ##vote birdstrike

OmegaGoo
Nov 25, 2011

Mediocrity: the standard of survival!
Pray tell, why is the triad of leaders voting each other in a circle?

I'm going to bed shortly, but I'm fine voting any of the three.

What's the case of Birdstrike over Grandi?

Diqnol
May 10, 2010

What the hell is even going on

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

Birdstrike posted:

It's Day 1 and we have virtually no information. The information we do have comes from some educated guesses about the setup but doesn't point to anything about alignment.

In my experience lynching a lurker as a policy lynch has success equal or better than D1 casing in picking scum. I find cases with no data vulnerable to hijacking by scum whereas if you pick someone in objective data you eliminate the interference.

But the most important thing about D1 is to actually lynch so you have some data to test. I don't know why everyone is freaking out about deadline, but I guess I'm used to playing 12 hour days and this seems like a lot of time to me.

##vote Grandicap
Never not lynch.

Birdstrike in this post says nothing and then votes me. Says go for a random vote and hops on the vote leader. Says some anti no lynch stuff when at the time a no lynch was not close to being in the cards. Also birdstrike is not Grandicap so that is another big reason for it being a good vote.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
Please don't tell me that people weren't thinking about deadline when I can quote posts like this:

Hal Incandenza posted:

So yeah , how about that deadline?

EXAKT Science
Aug 14, 2012

8 on the Kinsey scale

OmegaGoo posted:

Pray tell, why is the triad of leaders voting each other in a circle?

I'm going to bed shortly, but I'm fine voting any of the three.

What's the case of Birdstrike over Grandi?

so you think that all three of them are scum? which one do you want to vote most, which one least?

Grandicap
Feb 8, 2006

Birdstrike posted:

Please don't tell me that people weren't thinking about deadline when I can quote posts like this:

THinking about it being a lovely deadline, super late on a weekend is how I interpreted it rather than concern about it's impendingness.

OmegaGoo
Nov 25, 2011

Mediocrity: the standard of survival!

GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

What the hell is even going on

As far as I can tell, three factions popped up in response to MMT's initial probe, and they're all leading a lynch on someone right now. Considering my reads, I'm concerned about all three lynches!

The one thing I can say though, is I agree that birdstrike looks worse than Grandi right now. Little Mac and Opo, while not on the chopping block yet, look the most suspicious to me on the followup, which makes me worried about a birdstrike lynch.

You've got 10 minutes to get my vote, otherwise I'm sleeping and I can't change it. (Not an ultimatum strategy, I literally am going to bed in 10 minutes)

EXAKT Science posted:

so you think that all three of them are scum? which one do you want to vote most, which one least?

Actually, truth be told, I don't like Kumba, but he's actually not on my scum-list right now. I'm "changing" my opinion here because for some reason I thought he had voted Grandi, but I realized I got him mixed up with Opo for some silly reason. I don't like Grandi or Birdstrike.

Birdstrike's posts have been noncommital while still containing votes. In essence, a bunch of words meaning nothing, but still highly effective.

Grandi jumped on an obvious joke and maintained his position for a while. His return has raised his position slightly, but I'm still disliking him.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
I've generally thought claiming d1 is poor form but y'all are weird so: I am town oracle.

Words I am committed to in a post which doesn't contain a vote.

Anomalous Amalgam
Feb 13, 2015

by Nyc_Tattoo
Doctor Rope

OmegaGoo posted:

As far as I can tell, three factions popped up in response to MMT's initial probe, and they're all leading a lynch on someone right now. Considering my reads, I'm concerned about all three lynches!

The one thing I can say though, is I agree that birdstrike looks worse than Grandi right now. Little Mac and Opo, while not on the chopping block yet, look the most suspicious to me on the followup, which makes me worried about a birdstrike lynch.

You've got 10 minutes to get my vote, otherwise I'm sleeping and I can't change it. (Not an ultimatum strategy, I literally am going to bed in 10 minutes)


Actually, truth be told, I don't like Kumba, but he's actually not on my scum-list right now. I'm "changing" my opinion here because for some reason I thought he had voted Grandi, but I realized I got him mixed up with Opo for some silly reason. I don't like Grandi or Birdstrike.

Birdstrike's posts have been noncommital while still containing votes. In essence, a bunch of words meaning nothing, but still highly effective.

Grandi jumped on an obvious joke and maintained his position for a while. His return has raised his position slightly, but I'm still disliking him.

Explain this logic, still highly effective? Blind voting is not highly effective. It actively demonstrates his intent to not get involved in the game and instead make votes based on next to nothing.

OmegaGoo
Nov 25, 2011

Mediocrity: the standard of survival!

Ghastly Gangsta posted:

Explain this logic, still highly effective? Blind voting is not highly effective. It actively demonstrates his intent to not get involved in the game and instead make votes based on next to nothing.

Sorry, a vote on a bandwagon is "highly effective" in that it gets things accomplished. Not necessarily good things, but mechanically speaking, it's important.

Anomalous Amalgam
Feb 13, 2015

by Nyc_Tattoo
Doctor Rope

Birdstrike posted:

I've generally thought claiming d1 is poor form but y'all are weird so: I am town oracle.

Words I am committed to in a post which doesn't contain a vote.

Anyone going to counter claim?

Anomalous Amalgam
Feb 13, 2015

by Nyc_Tattoo
Doctor Rope

Birdstrike posted:

I've generally thought claiming d1 is poor form but y'all are weird so: I am town oracle.

Words I am committed to in a post which doesn't contain a vote.

You only have three votes on you, why did you claim? That's a weird reaction.

Diqnol
May 10, 2010

Nobody agrees with me about oxidation?

Well anyway, I don't care why EXAKT is voting for Kumba. I'm voting for him for the right reasons and you guys should too.

OmegaGoo
Nov 25, 2011

Mediocrity: the standard of survival!

GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

Nobody agrees with me about oxidation?

Well anyway, I don't care why EXAKT is voting for Kumba. I'm voting for him for the right reasons and you guys should too.

Well here's the thing, if I continue to vote for Grandi, I'm agreeing with Oxidation, and therefore disagree with you on Oxi.

I don't disagree with you on Oxi.

I do disagree with you on Kumba.

##unvote

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
No GG, what's weird is being told that the actions one takes on D1 to generate tangible data to be tested - y'know, a voting record, is scummy.

Also, did you not think the rolecop and cop claims which were made without any votes on them were weird? Are you upset that I put a vote on you before?

OmegaGoo
Nov 25, 2011

Mediocrity: the standard of survival!
Dammit, the only logical conclusion I can reach with what just happened there that I am comfortable with and isn't effectively an abstain (which we really don't want) is the following:

##vote Birdstrike

EXAKT Science
Aug 14, 2012

8 on the Kinsey scale

GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

Nobody agrees with me about oxidation?

Well anyway, I don't care why EXAKT is voting for Kumba. I'm voting for him for the right reasons and you guys should too.

I could see oxidation as newbie scum, but regardless, I don't want to vote him today due to his being a newbie. OmegaGoo is also pinging me, but again, newbie and so don't want to vote him today. However, his read on Kumba makes me feel good about where I have my vote.

Anomalous Amalgam
Feb 13, 2015

by Nyc_Tattoo
Doctor Rope

Birdstrike posted:

No GG, what's weird is being told that the actions one takes on D1 to generate tangible data to be tested - y'know, a voting record, is scummy.

Also, did you not think the rolecop and cop claims which were made without any votes on them were weird? Are you upset that I put a vote on you before?

tangible data to be tested??? Let me setup the algorithm to run the computations so we can test your data. Votes don't inherently have to be scummy, it's how they're placed and the motivation behind them that makes the scummy. In your case you place them with little knowledge or conviction and set up a "D1 cases are weird" comment so you can defer to that instead of trying to explain legitimate scummy actions.

kumba
Nov 8, 2003

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

enjoy the ride

Lipstick Apathy
Everyone is tied, I'm going to bed and leaving my vote where it is. Goodnight!

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay

Ghastly Gangsta posted:

tangible data to be tested??? Let me setup the algorithm to run the computations so we can test your data. Votes don't inherently have to be scummy, it's how they're placed and the motivation behind them that makes the scummy. In your case you place them with little knowledge or conviction and set up a "D1 cases are weird" comment so you can defer to that instead of trying to explain legitimate scummy actions.

How do you even play this game? Setting up town to either no-lynch or mislynch is a key part of how scum succeed. You can't determine these things without a voting record.

Voting records aren't perfect and they aren't determinative, but they're a good way of showing who might not be acting in the best interests of town.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
I'm not voting for myself, and I think we should vote for someone.

##vote Kumbamontu

You can vote for me if you want, I just hope that you'll recognise some of the logic in my position regarding d1 when I flip town. The main thing I guess is that scum don't have their governor role.

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:

Nobody agrees with me about oxidation?

Well anyway, I don't care why EXAKT is voting for Kumba. I'm voting for him for the right reasons and you guys should too.

oxidation just seems like someone who isn't comfortable posting yet I don't think there is enough there to say they are scummy

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

Kumba is definitely the best choice of these three options, people should switch to him. My instincts are pretty good about this stuff.

I'm sure Birdstrike is the oracle, and claiming so early felt more town than scum to me.

EXAKT Science
Aug 14, 2012

8 on the Kinsey scale
LM and MMM aren't voting :|

Hal Incandenza
Feb 12, 2004

EXAKT Science posted:

LM and MMM aren't voting :|

They are bad people

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birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
I misread the deadline time - I thought it was 2pm my time (ie now).

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