The Syndicate

speedchuck wrote:Soooo SVS, were you not around when DF got lynched? You and Dom could've coordinated to lynch me instead at the last second, ending the game right there. Dom was here, and you had been present a lot.

Spacedaisy wrote:I was pretty confident in SVS being civ until the following post. But I didn't read it until we got home from Austin, and neither did Austin. That said, I was pretty sure Epi was bad too, from the time just before I died on. I wouldn't have called Dom, but that is because frankly Dom, you are so far off your norm I couldn't figure you out and it wasn't like a meta change, I just chalked it up to real life stuff or something.

S~V~S wrote:I got stuck late at work.

Speedchuck, you are doing a super job of being sincere. I am having a hard time thinking you could be bad.

So at this time I am gonna vote for Sorsha, becasue I honestly don't think Epi or Dom are bad. If one of them is, it is more likely to be Dom, though. But I feel better about him than about Sorsha, I guess.

So I am gonna vote now, after I walk the dog I will eat in front of the computer.

Golden wrote:

Quin wrote:I could have put more effort into this game, I admit. Sorry for that Golden - I'd just hit sort of a mafia slump of sorts.

Everyone agreed to vomp it lol. That's going to lead to town losses.

Everyone needs games where they don't play as hard though. I tend to get lynched when I have mine.

Also, another note. Dom had no warning that I was going to do what I did with DF. It was only briefly and was just fun on my part. So good on him for running with it.

speedchuck wrote:

Dom wrote: If Epi is who he says he is, then he isn't teamed with Sorsha. That leaves:
Dom and Sorsha
Epi and Dom
In your view.
So why vote Dom?
It doesn't really add up because you skipped the part of the logic where you decided I'm the biggest threat of the three. Tha'ts because you don't have any logic to get you there.

Threat? I don't care who the biggest threat is. You all have one nightkill. As you say, I have:

Dom and Sorsha
Epi and Dom

If Dom is on both lists, then he has a higher chance of being scum that Sorsha or Epi. It's not about threat. It's about hitting probable scum.
Every scum is an equal threat to the town. They have one kill, and one vote. I have one vote.

linki:
If you did force the tie, there was 3/8 chance that scum dies. 1/4 chance that the death was scum and NOT df, outing a lot of information and giving town another free lynch.
Why would a scum person play with those odds rather than lynching DF and putting themselves in an excellent endgame position?

To be fair, what I and you would do in that position may be quite different. I'd have offed DF unless I could coordinate with other scum to break the tie. I wouldn't have tied it.

speedchuck wrote:DOM
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If Dom is bad, he may have known that DF would have a momentary fake flip, and have planned a towny-looking response. I'm not sure what was with the fake flip. It also makes sense that he dropped in, tried not to lynch DF, and saw that voting me would end in a tie OR Epi/SVS told him not to make a tie in scumchat. Sorsha wasn't here, I don't think.

For some reason, about halfway through the game, Dom stopped being as coherent, with his writing style AND with his post content. He's perfectly coherent still in other games. I'm not sure why he's throwing people off like that, but it's probably indicative of something.

If Dom is good, he's putting in low effort and hopting we take up the slack. His response to DF's fake flip was genuine, despite that the game should have ended there if it was so. Since the Mass Effect mafia game started, he's been throwing little bits into the thread when he can, giveing Mass Effect priority. Just little bits of spam thoughts and reads.

Dom's votes:
1. none
2. Nutella
3. Nutella
4. DF

Absent D1, sticks to his guns on D2 and 3, already discussed D4.

speedchuck wrote:That last line of my post does, actually.

speedchuck wrote:I thought about something and came back:

speedchuck wrote:

Marmot wrote:And for my next trick, I'll do a Sockface impersonation.
Dyslexicon
Epignosis
FZ.
DrWilgy
Elohcin
insertnamehere
JaggedJimmyJay
Long Con
Luke11646
MovingPictures07
speedchuck
nutella

Does the order of the yellows matter?

This is a quote from Currents Mafia, Dom, a towngame of mine.

Dom, I'm voting you because, FMPOV, it's either you and Epi, you and Sorsha, or Sorsha and Epi. If Epi is really the player he says he is (and if not I have a whole day to change), then he is not teamed with sorsha. That leaves...

speedchuck wrote:

Dom wrote:why do you care who looks worse to MP?

MP provided two rainbows, a single and a dual one. In context, I was trying to understand the state of the game from his perspective. Nothing more. What are you looking for?

speedchuck wrote:So does Dom look worse than me, or? ...

MP, do you have any questions for me that can clarify my situation? I'd rather not lose us the game just because of some super low early game effort.

speedchuck wrote:I can see why you are top FEB, Epi

You play a bad guy like I do.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Dom, if it's not me and not you, then which combination of Epi, speedchuck, Sorsha, and S~V~S makes sense to you? I know you seem disengaged with the game, so don't feel like it has to be an even remotely informed decision. Just your gut evaluation.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Dom wrote:

Epignosis wrote:G-Man is one of the coolest people I know.

this..



mp i have no idea what i'm doing
i'm sorry.

Dude, it's cool, it's just a game. I know you've been having a lot going on lately. Whatever you can do will assist.

Can you maybe walk me through what your thoughts were on speedchuck whenever you get the chance?

Epignosis wrote:G-Man is one of the coolest people I know.

Quin wrote:

DFaraday wrote:Baddies are Quin, SVS, and either Chuck or Dom. *is strangled*

If you're town then the game is over so there was no need to say this. Eagerly awaiting a baddie flip.

Epignosis wrote:

nutella wrote:I agree that it's just a tool, but it's one that's deeply ingrained in societal institutions and many people are raised to accept it as divinely, indisputably "correct" rather than a tool to use and adapt to different contexts. It would take a lot of work to undo the widespread biases that prescriptive attitudes toward grammar perpetuate, but it's spreading this kind of work that much of the field of sociolinguistics seeks to accomplish.

When you call proper grammar "racist," however, I take issue.

nutella wrote:As I said earlier, he's usually a much lower poster, though I suppose he does occasionally get invested in discussion (I don't specifically remember any alignment-based meta differences tbh). Something about his engagement in this feels insincere and/or overblown.

nutella wrote:Hm, I wonder if Juliet is a regular civ this game or not. In season 3 she pretty much started out as one of the bad guys and then defected to the losties. My instinct is to trust Epi and assume Juliet is a civ role, since it would be a weird/less "safe" role to set up as a fake claim.

nutella wrote:

Dom wrote:For a linguist, nutella didn't choose her words carefully

First of all, I don't know what you mean by this or why you think this. Second of all, if you think this, do you think that means I'm bad? Or do you think I would be more careful about words if I was bad?

G-Man wrote:Fancy an alternate target, Dom?

speedchuck wrote:Eh. Voting Dom.

DFaraday wrote:

Dom wrote:

S~V~S wrote:

G-Man wrote:Further more, why wouldn't Nikki/Paulo be just as likely to be a cover as anyone else? If Golden randomized the cover roles again this game, then there's no need to dismiss the notion that Nikki/Paulo could be baddie covers. It would just be a cruel twist of fate that one or two of the most despised characters on Lost got used as cover roles. In fact, it adds a level of meta-WIFOM to it all, now doesn't it?

Hey, being bossy is fun. Maybe we should let Jack and Locke hog all the fun from now on.

Exactly.

You seem to be the one who thinks people are suspect based on their roleplay claims. It seems that you are trying to suspectpeople BASED on their covers, when you say yourself:

If Golden randomized the cover roles again this game

You seem to be the one pushing the thought that this matters. And if Golden randomized it, it doesn't.

Why are you going after G?

DFaraday wrote:

notsawyer540 wrote:About what? I didn't have any suspicions, so I said I was considering voting for INH just because we have differing opinions on aspects of the show. I was mostly dicking around. As far as Quin, that bit's covered in the part you quoted. I misread what Quin wrote and thought that he had said that his role PM didn't specify an alignment because I have a terrible habit of skim reading sometimes.

I do find you suspicious now, however, because of the way your post is addressed toward everyone except me. Seems to me you're trying to convince people to vote for me. If you really had any interest in my response, you would've directed your inquiry about me to me.

Vote DFaraday

Overreaction much? I expressed my thoughts on the subject, then explicitly said I wanted to hear from you. I haven't even voted for you. It was your phrasing more than anything, that whole, "Then I'm definitely considering INH" bit. It made it sound as if you put in more thought than what was essentially a joke vote.

As a side note, lately I've been seeing a lot of "if you were civvie you wouldn't do x" or "a civvie never does y". I'm not a fan.

How do we feel about this?

Not great on my end!

Why's that? He interpreted my statements in the worst light and voted me in the same post.

S~V~S wrote:

Dom wrote:

S~V~S wrote:

G-Man wrote:Further more, why wouldn't Nikki/Paulo be just as likely to be a cover as anyone else? If Golden randomized the cover roles again this game, then there's no need to dismiss the notion that Nikki/Paulo could be baddie covers. It would just be a cruel twist of fate that one or two of the most despised characters on Lost got used as cover roles. In fact, it adds a level of meta-WIFOM to it all, now doesn't it?

Hey, being bossy is fun. Maybe we should let Jack and Locke hog all the fun from now on.

Exactly.

You seem to be the one who thinks people are suspect based on their roleplay claims. It seems that you are trying to suspectpeople BASED on their covers, when you say yourself:

If Golden randomized the cover roles again this game

You seem to be the one pushing the thought that this matters. And if Golden randomized it, it doesn't.

Why are you going after G?

I'm not. I was asking him a question. Question =/= "Going After". His line of suspicion was starting to feel wild tangentish to me.

Although in any case, I also did not realize that that part of the OP was about him, I thought it was flavor until I realized he was not on the poll and Golden explained.

You saw this post but missed that one?

I will prolly vote early since I don't expect to be around tonight.

S~V~S wrote:

G-Man wrote:Further more, why wouldn't Nikki/Paulo be just as likely to be a cover as anyone else? If Golden randomized the cover roles again this game, then there's no need to dismiss the notion that Nikki/Paulo could be baddie covers. It would just be a cruel twist of fate that one or two of the most despised characters on Lost got used as cover roles. In fact, it adds a level of meta-WIFOM to it all, now doesn't it?

Hey, being bossy is fun. Maybe we should let Jack and Locke hog all the fun from now on.

Exactly.

You seem to be the one who thinks people are suspect based on their roleplay claims. It seems that you are trying to suspectpeople BASED on their covers, when you say yourself:

If Golden randomized the cover roles again this game

You seem to be the one pushing the thought that this matters. And if Golden randomized it, it doesn't.

DFaraday wrote:

notsawyer540 wrote:About what? I didn't have any suspicions, so I said I was considering voting for INH just because we have differing opinions on aspects of the show. I was mostly dicking around. As far as Quin, that bit's covered in the part you quoted. I misread what Quin wrote and thought that he had said that his role PM didn't specify an alignment because I have a terrible habit of skim reading sometimes.

I do find you suspicious now, however, because of the way your post is addressed toward everyone except me. Seems to me you're trying to convince people to vote for me. If you really had any interest in my response, you would've directed your inquiry about me to me.

Vote DFaraday

Overreaction much? I expressed my thoughts on the subject, then explicitly said I wanted to hear from you. I haven't even voted for you. It was your phrasing more than anything, that whole, "Then I'm definitely considering INH" bit. It made it sound as if you put in more thought than what was essentially a joke vote.

As a side note, lately I've been seeing a lot of "if you were civvie you wouldn't do x" or "a civvie never does y". I'm not a fan.

nutella wrote:I just realized the marmot isn't playing this one. Can't remember the last time he wasn't in a game I played and I've gotten used to his presence being more or less a constant (ha, Lost reference unintentional). Feels weird, man.

G-Man wrote:Frustration is setting in. I haven't felt this twitchy since I kicked heroin. Four players haven't voted yet and they are all among the bottom five in post count. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them is a baddie, mates.

Dom, INH, notsawyer, Daisy- guys, where are you?

nutella wrote:Get rekt Widmore lol
RIP-in-a-neutral-way INH


Dom never showed up again yesterday did he? He was there at the beginning chatting about the show but never really participated in game discussion and instead seemed to disappear/maybe forgot about the game?

G-Man wrote:Fancy you showing up, Dom. Thoughts?

You all, everybody...

Quin wrote:

Dom wrote:but exposé was a good episode tbh

My favourite part was when they died.