@Reinforce Thoughts on Day 1 before the lynch please.
Some have pointed to this as buddying, but personally I don't think that really constitutes that. Maybe I'm wrong, but buddying is more agreeing with another player or actively defending any criticism, consistently throughout a game. This is just acknowledging possible flaws in an argument.As for the Wailord case: I think that when scums want to jump on a wagon they indeed feel like justifying their vote by echoing, but townies can do that too. Same thing goes when scums try to hop off a dead wagon, only here, it is more common for scum, imo, than town to echo when they unvote. Not sure if that's the main point of your case, but it is not something I feel that is stronger than the points on Robin and Jesi.
So, I feel like scattered mind isn't really a valid lynch candidate at this point. His questions seem to be logical and are a good way of engaging with other players and making sure they can give actual evidence, which is a good thing.
I would really appreciate if you don't insult people at all, whether you have "backup" or not.
My role is gay and if yours is too, you can be part of my neighborhood.
Now, @Robin Asiga, why didn't you reveal this information immediately when PP claimed to have a gay role?
I'd like to see if some of the other experienced players agree with me here. Because PP is also experienced enough to know playstyles.
Noted, will keep in mind for future games....
Meh, I'm going to stop the act now. I thought it would be an interesting approach to take an offensive stance and make matters personal. It's just a game after all. But a jerk is still a jerk is how I feel about it so I'm going to stop. Though, It's really nice to see that players do use some of their feelings for their decisions.
Now for some contribution, I could've showed it earlier today but that may have prevented discussion. I received a random ability, though a name is not included. This ability is either from Palutena or another member of the Mafia Team.
Active: Gaydar
Drama is a stereotypically “gay” activity, and though stereotypes are usually totally wrong, in this case you really are fabulous. Being gay in school is a minefield, and you’ve been separated from the only other gay in school! Every night, including night 0, until you find your partner, please PM Celever “Night X -- Ask [user1] if they’re gay”. If you correctly identify your partner, a mason chat will be initiated between you. Your partner will be part of the mafia team.
##UNVOTE
##VOTE: PROFESSOR PALUTENA
I don't think there's much more to it... I could argue how Palutena lied about there being multiple gays, but simply being part of the mafia should suffice. I know this info comes a little late but my Lynch is absolute nonsense. You won't get any good information from my dead, I can tell. And people are confused about my allignement? Seriously like we cleared anyone town or scum...
Your partner will be part of the mafia team.
Did PP just claim this ability? There is no way that it belongs to a town aligned player.
##UNVOTE
##VOTE: Professor Palutena
K here's scattered mind's ISO.
First thing I want to point out is that he hasn't voted at all today, despite all the posting he's done. Think of that what you will, but I find it suspicious with how much he's talked about stuff. I actually had to check the vote count on page 18 to make sure I didn't miss any posts.
scattered mind has also rarely offered his opinions and stances on today's events. Instead, he's been trying to prod more info out of people, which feigns participation in my opinion. This can be seen through
This wall of quotes is a collection of sm's oneliners. It's barely anything.
While all of this questioning is fine, there's something missing here that I find quite interesting. Like I alluded to above, sm hasn't offered his thoughts on the game yet, yet he's highly fascinated by what other players think. This reads to me like he's afraid of participating, and instead is more interested in what everyone else thinks. It's like he's trying to hide.
This doesn't fit with the one liners in terms of length, but it's the same general thing. This is classic sm commentating on someone else's actions, which is what he's done in the above quotes. He's yet to actually say anything of substance, because he's so focused on Jesi's play comparing it from last game.
So we have thoughts on the game finally, but I really don't know how to read it. It's so entrenched in the last game that I don't feel confident in calling it his thoughts on the current game. With the above post, I really want to know why sm is so concerned about Jesi's meta.
FYI, the quote above where he asks Jesi about the points on Robin is from here. I moved it up there because it better fit, but that's why it's link won't work up there.
This is SM trying to explain the game to someone, and it's finally his thoughts on the current game. It only took 15 posts!! We finally learn that he's leaning towards Robin and Jesi, but not Wailord. And apparently the cases aren't strong enough for him to vote on them, which is odd as I've stated above.
The question about indies fits into the questioning oneliners. sm really seems to care about what other people are saying.
And now we have sm concerned about role fishing. It's like we get close to thinking what he thinks, but isn't actually willing to say anything. Why so overly cautious?
When you take away the one liners and barrage of questioning, sm is very narrowly focused on Jesi. I don't think that's inarguable given that it's the only name he's repeatedly mentioned.
So, tl; dr version of the sm case:
- hasn't voted yet; you guys know my philosophy on voting by now and why I find this so problematic
- the lack of a vote is especially peculiar when it comes to how much he's posted today
- a barrage of one liners that are just prods trying to poke info out of people; these are so close to fluff that I struggle to call them participation
- when you take away the one liners, you have solid Jesi tunneling that is especially focused on her play in the last game
- I didn't mention it in the ISO, but his posts reek of Devil's Advocate. This is especially true with the one liners.
Right now I'm conflicted with my vote. I like both cases on Robin and scattered. Robin has been fairly scummy all day and has been very obvious about it. sm hasn't been directly as scummy (in terms of being in your face about it), but I have to award scum points for how he's been hiding it. I'll keep my vote on Robin for now for the sake of getting a lynch in today as I don't know if we have time to entirely jump ship on sm, but I'm entirely willing to do so if the situation arises.
Hmm... what's the point of the Mason chat? If PP were town then as soon as He found his scum partner he would logically step call him out and get him lynched.
Unless PP's role is designed to be this games "cop" I don't see the point of the Mason chat.
You never believe anything a confoscum member would post so it seems dumb
##unvote Wailord
##vote Professor Palutena
The host gives safeclaims though...
If you correctly identify your partner, a mason chat will be initiated between you. Your partner will be part of the mafia team.
Yep, that's my role.
Seems I missed the part about there being only one gay though (not like anyone would believe it at this point though). This does check a few things for me though, namely that the other gay is likely scum (why would they be neighbors as opposed to masons then?)
I had seen many roles like this before where the number of correct targets for neighborizing was 2 or more, so my assumption was the same here (which is what I get for reading my role PM while studying for midterms; I literally just looked at a syntax). To be fair, I did ask Celever if there were multiple correct targets for Gaydar and was given a "I can't comment" answer even though the role PM had the answer in it for me, so I'm personally confused here. I'd like to think that if there was just one Gaydar target, he would've told me to read the PM harder.
Lets backpedal then.
You already identified the difference....
Mason= players that knows each other's alignment (both town) by definition. Neighbors do not. It just doesn't make sense. After all, what's the difference between a mason and a neighbor?