The Syndicate

Scotty wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Scotty wrote:I REALLY want to hear more from row 3. So...calling MM, sig, njuu, nutella, and Turnip! Anything to report??

Roger that. I read and re-read your post about the messages, but my eyesight tends to start going double the more tired I get and, therefore, I get lost in longer analysis posts (this might be why I enjoy the G-Man pics - easier to read!). What information/analysis are you requesting, exactly? I'm happy to help where I can.

Cool! It's all good, I know I can zone out from time to time as well. As was said by someone else, I respect the thought put into Sloonei's casing posts, but I will not fully absorb them all until I can get a better perspective on bad/good in the next few days. Rest assured i'll be referencing his list as we go on.

While I have you, did you receive a PM at the end of Day 0? Something probably titled "Day 0 results"? If so, can you post (without quoting or disregarding Dom's rules) some highlights of your PM? I'm quite anxious and beginning to wonder if that 3rd row even received one.

Indeed. Give me a moment.

Sloonei wrote:I don't expect anyone to read all of my big casing posts, but I would really appreciate if people could take a look at those last two (sig and gamer/g-man) and share their thoughts as well. They're the two players who I'm most seriously considering for a lynch, and I obviously think they're very good suspects right now. If other people feel the same way, that'd be great.

any other thoughts about any of my reads are also welcome, of course

I like your sig case. I tend to get lost in large games with so many people to keep track of, especially near the beginning, and I'd forgotten about him. He's been weirding me out with the wishy-washy votes and posts, too.

Long Con wrote:

Canucklehead wrote:

Golden wrote:

Canucklehead wrote:Can I ask ourHOST why G-Man is able to be voted for? I was off limits for the day I subbed in....

I think it's because you subbed in during the day, and G-Man subbed in at the start of the day, but I'm just guessing.

Thanks, Host! :P

WHO'S G-Man's teammate?

I gotta stop doing this to myself. But moving takes so. Much. Time. Here we go.

So I've tabbed quotes from people that I agree with and/or find interesting (I'll make it clear what I think about them as I go). Sometimes I'm sad I wasn't there in real time to respond, but thems the breaks. I'll also comment on general things that have been discussed.

timmer wrote:

Dom wrote:
Coablt's discussion has been totally about role descriptions.... you can choose to believe or disbelieve him.

You obviously have the final say on this, Dom, so I'll move along. I'll just say that I don't like his play, and that if he is a civ, his actions have more likely hurt than helped the cause, imo.

I agree so, so much with this and with your longer post from before. I still think Cobalt is baddie bad bad, but in the offchance in my mind that he is civ, he is NOT playing a very civ-friendly game. His insanified posts are rather amusing, though.

I enjoyed the G-Man pictures (might be because I saw a few of them in Economics but wasn't actually in the game). In fact, I seem to enjoy reading G-Man's posts regardless, especially knowing his identity as Balaam (he humored my request for more ass jokes ). I hope you keep some of your pictures! But speaking of G-Man (or another of his former alter-ego players),

Golden wrote:So I went back to look at timing.

Epi dies. Epi replaces in. Epi has (I think) only two posts - one where he says 'I know who killed me' and one where he says 'my suspicions haven't changed'. Then TGG asks to be subbed out.

I honestly think it's very consistent with someone who was part of a team that killed epi, that they killed them for cause, and was upset when he was able to sub back in and express the particular sentiments that he did. I think G-Man and LC are a team. I feel less sure that bubbles is, but she definitely could be.

Does it suck that someone subbing out on a matter of principle could sink a team? Yes. But this is why you should always keep your cool in mafia. I guarantee you, when people complain about things being unfair in this game, it's almost always mafia. Because they perceive it has harmed their chances. I don't think Epi's views necessarily held great weight, and I think the reaction to him subbing back in provides a whole lot more information about how important they believed killing epi to be.

This is a fascinating analysis and, since Epi seems to be silenced and absent, dare I say interesting thought process. I like the ideas posed here (about TGG perhaps getting frustrated and mafia getting frustrated in general). It's a bit of a stretch but entirely possible. However, I'd like to give G-Man the BOTD for today at least since he's a totally different player than TGG. We'll see how it goes.

Scotty wrote:I REALLY want to hear more from row 3. So...calling MM, sig, njuu, nutella, and Turnip! Anything to report??

Roger that. I read and re-read your post about the messages, but my eyesight tends to start going double the more tired I get and, therefore, I get lost in longer analysis posts (this might be why I enjoy the G-Man pics - easier to read!). What information/analysis are you requesting, exactly? I'm happy to help where I can.

As for suspicions beyond Cobalt, I'm still game for LC (it's been a while and I got super distracted by Cobalt, but I liked and agreed with Epi's suspicion and analysis Day 1). TB (I don't really like calling her that, because it looks like tuberculosis so let's go with TBubbles instead) is an enigma but I'm getting some weird vibes. I keep flip-flopping on how I feel about her, TBH. One moment I was just about to post how I felt she was weird for voting LC instead of Cobalt because she thought the "bandwagon was scummy," and then I re-read that and think, "Oh wait, that's actually logical." So maybe it's just a vibe thing (I'm using that word a lot this game, I notice), although my gut is usually pretty good in mafia. I suppose I should say I have mixed feelings about ol' TBubbles - I feel bad if she's civ and she's feeling so frustrated with this game that she's self-voted, but on the other hand she's been saying "I'm civ! I'm civ!" the entire game without giving us any other reason to believe it beyond that. Plus I don't care for self-votes. But TBubbles, I hope you're not too frustrated, and I'm sorry you're not having much fun - I hope you stay and know that suspicion is nothing personal! Also, nutella seems a lot more serious and a little more biting in this game than I remember, and I'm pretty sure she's been civ in the other games I've played. So there's that. I'll probably give her another good look. Hope you had fun with Blooper stream-of-consciousness hour (and by that I mean I apologize for any discomfort it may have caused). Any questions before we move on?

Metalmarsh89 wrote:Effective immediately, Metalmarsh89 has replaced Metalmarsh89. As a result, Metalmarsh89 cannot be lynched today.

I laughed out loud at this for real

Golden wrote:I don't recognise myself with that avatar. Where is my golden one!

You and me both, buddy. I keep looking for Blooper to see my last post on a page and it's confusing as fuck.

Well, I am late for this party, but I am laughing profusely at the thread

I don't plan on changing my mind about what I believe to be Cobalt's alignment, but I suppose it would be prudent to look at...others. I will determine what others I want to focus on at a later time, as I simply want a placeholder/check-back-in post right now and I'm exhausted from moving boxes up three flights of stairs in nearly 100 degree weather, but I digress. Back later to read back and post in more detail.

Linki - Ohhhh man gotta love the picture posts

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote: As for Sloonei, I agree with the questioning sentiment - I don't at this moment see him as bad for asking the questions, but I would like to see the information he receives from people's answers synthesized in some way in the thread. Dammit, I used "sentiment" twice, but I can't think of a better word to match my...sentiments...

The questions are just a part of the way I'm used to playing. I come from a community that approaches Day 1 much much differently than this one. I am usually recognized for asking a high volume of questions, but I had to double quadruple down on them in this game to make up for those differences in community (This is not a complaint at all. I love being exposed to these new styles of play and I'm just trying, in turn, to expose my own style as well). I am simply accustomed to people being much more forthcoming with their thoughts on a wide range of subjects than they are here, and I've been trying to engage as many people as I can in discussion about a number of topics early on. I believe that the more information that gets out into the thread right away, the harder it is for baddies to hide and the easier it becomes for everyone to scumhunt later on down the line.
I feel like I've made a fair amount of progress, but not enough yet to have gathered all the information I want or need. But it's still early, and I wouldn't expect to. I look forward to more questions and answers as the game progresses

Thanks for responding! I actually do like that you ask direct questions (it's a welcome change of pace for me), but I was curious about where the answers were actually going and how they were being used in analysis. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Sloonei wrote:How many teachers do we have here? I've got one semester left of school before I graduate and start looking for work as an English teacher. Is mafia just the thing all the cool teachers do?

Long Con wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:Exhibit C: Guns hard after LC and gets very, VERY defensive when asked about anything else. Sure, he keeps saying he "doesn't give a fuck" about what others think, but sure seems to get frustrated when people point out the lack of logic/civ behavior behind his voting. He has also many several attempts to claim that lynching him will result in terrible, terrible things, and again, repeating that he "does not give a fuck"

nijuukyugou wrote:He has also many several attempts to claim that lynching him will result in terrible, terrible things

nijuukyugou wrote:He has also many several attempts

nijuukyugou wrote:many several

My grammar done get real poor when I'm not teaching, and it's only been a week.

Whew! Caught up!

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Sloonei wrote:Also would you say things have been made more interesting by your LC vote, Blooperstranger?

Oh, quite! It's garnered some good reactions.

I would like to hear more from nijuukyugou about this. Her entire post history reads as very safe to me, with the one exception being that vote against LC. She never really explained it, but directly expressed suspicion in all three of the popular choices from yesterday's poll. I'd like to know what she thinks of everyone's behavior around yesterday's deadline. She was present for most of it, but has not posted since then.

Can anyone who's familiar with her typical style of play provide some background for those of us who have not played with her before? I'm finding her and Nutella particularly difficult to read right now, for similar reasons. I get more town/civ vibes from Nutella's posts, but that means very little right now.

I am perfect in every way, all the time, in every game My suspicions/thoughts in just a moment.

Canuck, I'm coloring the parts of your post I agree with:

Canucklehead wrote:Stuff I'm thinking:
- I'm down for lynching low posters if they're low posters AND blendy/don't-rock-the-boat-stars. I'm ALWAYS a low poster, but when I'm bad I always try to make my posts boring.
- Why do people keep using "salty" as an adjective to describe other players? Like, I am incapable of imagining what this is trying to connote outside of implying something sexual or some sort of connection to the merchant marine.
- I am not interested in lynching cobalt at this time.
- There are a lot of dudes whose posts are all running together for me (Scotty, sig, bass, DF, maybe a few others I can't recall right now), and I therefore have no reads on any of them.
- Sloonei is still on my list for all the questions which gives the appearance of substance but isn't actually substantive. I'd like to implement a rule where every 5 questions sloonei asks, he has to post a summary of what he's learned by asking those questions and how his opinions have changed. If these questions are actually important to your play, I'd like to see precisely how.
- I'm willing to entertain MM's TB/LC theory for a moment....
- No idea who I'll vote for. Maybe Sloonei or a Golden repeat? Maybe one of the mushy players listed above?

I am also often a low poster (I'm a bit more active in this game because I have a lot more free time during the summer, but I'm still relatively low), and baddies get away with it so, so easily (no one looks at them until it's often very late, almost too late in the game). Epi posted something about this (low posters getting away in mafia, and people being reluctant to vote them, giving the low-posting mafia all the more reason to coast) that matches this sentiment. As for Sloonei, I agree with the questioning sentiment - I don't at this moment see him as bad for asking the questions, but I would like to see the information he receives from people's answers synthesized in some way in the thread. Dammit, I used "sentiment" twice, but I can't think of a better word to match my...sentiments...

Ah, and now to Cobalt. Every move by this guy has only solidified my belief that he is as baddie as baddie can be:

Exhibit A: Goes after LC. Posts suspicion of LC. Even votes for LC at first. Then, switches to SVS, despite having no real personal suspicion of her throughout Day 1 because she's "gaining more traction." Fishy as hell, considering how hard he went after LC and that LC was garnering a lot of suspicion and gaining votes. A lot of them. When the suspicion is brought up about this behavior, he responds, as he had been doing all of Day 0 and 1, that he "doesn't give a fuck" and

Cobalt wrote:I'll vote for him again next day when this SVS mess is out of our way.

Suddenly, it's SVS mess. Why not vote for LC to get "the LC mess" that you brought up out of the way first? This is nonsense.
But hey, people change their minds sometimes. Let me give the BOTD. But wait. Let's go to

Exhibit B: What's really scummy (haven't used that word in a while!) is what happens almost directly after the lynch:

Cobalt wrote:Not a civ. Goodie.

Long Con tomorrow? I had to help my sister put the kids to bed cuz she's really sick, and then I got a little distracted. Wasn't around towards the end, or I probably would have moved my vote back to LC.

Anybody have anything they want me to answer, go for it.

This is posted 7 minutes after the poll ends. I even commented on it later, with no response:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Cobalt wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I'm going to harp on this:

Long Con had three votes: MM, Cobalt, Epi

S~V~S had three votes: MP, nutella, DFaraday

Tied.

S~V~S votes her damn self.

Colby-Jack says the LC vote has lost traction, so he's changing his vote to S~V~S.

Ah, this must have something to do with it.

First of all, I'm named after a hue and an element, not a fucking cheese.

Secondly, I'm not used to people not voting until later in the phase. I'm used to most votes being laid out earlier and then adjusting them over time. To someone like me who is unfamiliar with the style here, it didn't look like LC had any traction when it turns out he did. I was late to the party, my bad. Sue me.

You posted four minutes after the host post was put up (seven minutes after the poll ended), and claimed you would've voted otherwise, and you claim you weren't around at the end to do this? Sorry, but that does look fishy.

It's easy to say you "would have" voted some way when the poll turns out the way it does. You say you were too busy to check and "switch back" at the end because of RL. This sort of argument would also make more sense (although I still wouldn't necessarily buy it, since anyone can post at any time and claim they were somewhere doing something), but it's LESS THAN TEN MINUTES after the poll ends. Not around at the end to check and possibly switch a changeable vote to who you *really* believe is bad? Suuuuure.

Exhibit C: Guns hard after LC and gets very, VERY defensive when asked about anything else. Sure, he keeps saying he "doesn't give a fuck" about what others think, but sure seems to get frustrated when people point out the lack of logic/civ behavior behind his voting. He has also many several attempts to claim that lynching him will result in terrible, terrible things, and again, repeating that he "does not give a fuck":

Cobalt wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Cobalt wrote:I won't be mislynched this game.

I'm sure you won't.

Not because I'm not civilian, but for other reasons. You'll see.

Cobalt wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Cobalt wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Cobalt wrote:I won't be mislynched this game.

I'm sure you won't.

Not because I'm not civilian, but for other reasons. You'll see.

Meh.

S~V~S said she was a civilian too.

She wasn't.

But I'm not saying "I'm civilian" over and over again. I don't need to, because frankly, I don't care if you think I'm scummy or not. I'm going to continue to play and get a rise out of the necessary people to form the right reads.

As I said, roll with it or lynch me.

Cobalt wrote:I'm not unlynchable. It's something MUCH more fun. But it is civilian.

Cobalt wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I just wonder who can taste the salt.

Come on Cobalt. You're not as scary as you sound.

I'm not trying to be scary. Lmao. I just really do not give a fuck.

Here's the thing. You do give a fuck. If you didn't, you wouldn't hint and try to scare civs into not lynching you because you supposedly have an all-important almighty role that either cannot be lynched, is important, or will harm people. You do give a fuck, because you wouldn't be "defending" yourself in this manner, nor in the manner that you have been by claiming that you have been "acting" scummy to see if others will bite. People say that you are usually an aggressive civ, but the way you have been playing hasn't been aggressively finding baddies. It's been aggressively backpedaling and making up excuses for your baddie behavior.

There are others being discussed and worth a look at, but I can't shake this feeling. Others are wary of voting for you because of your threats, but I am not.

Epignosis wrote:

Long Con wrote:Ninjablooper is still a bit of a mystery to me, I have to read her on a game-by-game basis still. Not usually the driving force behind the thread currents, but I wonder whether she posts "safe" posts more as a Civ or baddie?

Ninjablooper is the most consistent player I have ever seen in terms of posting content and tone. To catch her, you will you need to scrutinize her votes, not her posts.

She gets more nervous when it comes down to voting.

Ain't nervous about this one

Cobalt wrote:

Epignosis wrote:I'm going to harp on this:

Long Con had three votes: MM, Cobalt, Epi

S~V~S had three votes: MP, nutella, DFaraday

Tied.

S~V~S votes her damn self.

Colby-Jack says the LC vote has lost traction, so he's changing his vote to S~V~S.

Ah, this must have something to do with it.

First of all, I'm named after a hue and an element, not a fucking cheese.

Secondly, I'm not used to people not voting until later in the phase. I'm used to most votes being laid out earlier and then adjusting them over time. To someone like me who is unfamiliar with the style here, it didn't look like LC had any traction when it turns out he did. I was late to the party, my bad. Sue me.

You posted four minutes after the host post was put up (seven minutes after the poll ended), and claimed you would've voted otherwise, and you claim you weren't around at the end to do this? Sorry, but that does look fishy.

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

sig wrote:@ Sloonei I've played with someone who would always vote for themselves after to many people became suspicious I don't think it is a good mafia method but one person has in the past fooled me bydoing that and I've seen two others do the same, it is a mindgame which always makes me think they are mafia trying to make themselves seem like civilians.


Nijuuk if your wary of SVS why not vote for her? I'm not understanding your vote

Because I wanted to make it interesting. I'm wary of all three of the top candidates and am okay with any and all getting votes. (PS you can call me Nijuu or Blooper if you want)

would you consider changing it if it meant breaking the tie?

Are you really that freaked out by a tie?

a little bit. i come from a community where tied votes = no lynch, so we always avoid them like the plague. But wouldn't you rather the vote is decided by us, the players, rather than a mod's mechanic? Or are you nervous about casting the defisive vote?

Fair enough. I've also seen it result in no lynch, but more often than not I've seen a tie-breaker mechanic (and Dom says he's got a system, so...I trust that means the latter). And look - things have gotten VERY interesting! I leave well enough alone and things go batshit crazy. Love it.

Sloonei wrote:Also would you say things have been made more interesting by your LC vote, Blooperstranger?

Oh, quite! It's garnered some good reactions.

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

sig wrote:@ Sloonei I've played with someone who would always vote for themselves after to many people became suspicious I don't think it is a good mafia method but one person has in the past fooled me bydoing that and I've seen two others do the same, it is a mindgame which always makes me think they are mafia trying to make themselves seem like civilians.


Nijuuk if your wary of SVS why not vote for her? I'm not understanding your vote

Because I wanted to make it interesting. I'm wary of all three of the top candidates and am okay with any and all getting votes. (PS you can call me Nijuu or Blooper if you want)

would you consider changing it if it meant breaking the tie?

Are you really that freaked out by a tie?

sig wrote:@ Sloonei I've played with someone who would always vote for themselves after to many people became suspicious I don't think it is a good mafia method but one person has in the past fooled me bydoing that and I've seen two others do the same, it is a mindgame which always makes me think they are mafia trying to make themselves seem like civilians.


Nijuuk if your wary of SVS why not vote for her? I'm not understanding your vote

Because I wanted to make it interesting. I'm wary of all three of the top candidates and am okay with any and all getting votes. (PS you can call me Nijuu or Blooper if you want)

Epignosis wrote:SAVE OR BUS

Come on Mafia

This is beyond interesting!

Sloonei wrote:

sig wrote:I'm here but I'm unsure to vote for I will wait a few minutes, from my brief experience with CObalt he always seems like mafia to me, I would have gonewith him on a LC vote but his switching votes has given me a pause. I will be voting for Cobalt/SVS/LC SVSvoted forherself she doesn't want to play?

Do you think a mafia member would self-vote like SVS did? What would their reasons be for doing so?

I know you didn't ask me, but I wanna answer anyway. I'm wary when people self-vote at the point she did, because I've seen it done for two major reasons:
1) Civ is frustrated by people not listening to them, accusations, etc.
2) Baddie tries to manipulate others into thinking they're really #1.

So, the behavior is hard to read. But it's not a move I've seen from SVS, not that I remember.

Linki - SVS is still leading.

Epignosis wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Epignosis wrote:You look stupid.

Who?

You bitch.

Your face is stupid.

Epignosis wrote:You look stupid.

Who?

The bad news is, I've been without internet access since last night due to traveling, power outages, and, y'know, socially interacting with people that I've traveled to see in real life (might need to get my priorities in order). This means I haven't had much of a chance to read through the thread as much as I'd like before the poll ends (I am still socializing after all :P ) or go back and look at something like I promised someone (I can't even remember who I promised this to. Long day).

The good news is, for the first time in my mafia-playing career, I have decent suspicion from what I have been able to gather of all three of the top vote-getters in this thread, and I'm okay with voting any of them, which is...a miracle. The question is, who do I want to pick?

I have been able to read a bit. Cobalt's made me itchy, and I read over the last page and the opportunistic vote switch. I'd still like to analyze him more closely if I get the chance. SVS has been highly, HIGHLY defensive and has weirdly voted for herself, which is something I'm not used to (the self-voting, not the defensiveness), so slightly mixed feelings but very much leaning bad. But tonight, I think I want to make things...interesting. I also like Epi's case and interaction with LC - like it in the way that I think it points to LC as a baddie. Epi's a manipulative bastard, but he's a manipulative bastard giving me good vibes, and I wanna see what happens when I press the big red button that no one should press (and by that I mean make the votes closer right now).

So I'm gonna vote LC.

Linki - Silence broken!

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:@Bass I was also a little weirded out by Cobalt implying that because he was super-civ important player in a previous game, then he is totally civ this game, but I forgot to mention it (I knew there was SOMETHING about SOME new person to me that I had seen). But for now I'd just like to keep my eye on him.

Do you believe he was trying to convince he was a civilian, or do you believe what he said about just wanting to let everyone know he's not a new player?

My vibe is that I think he's playing the civ card hard. A little too hard.

Can you point to any examples in his posts besides that one? I felt like his response to my post about whether or not Gumshoe was defending him also seemed a bit overly-defensive, like he was trying hard to distance himself from something. It reminds me of a similar case we saw in the Economics game against a player who would eventually flip scum/bad. I think it was Black Rock.

Sure! I'll have to get to it a little later, however - I'm going out for a bit.

Sloonei wrote:

nijuukyugou wrote:@Bass I was also a little weirded out by Cobalt implying that because he was super-civ important player in a previous game, then he is totally civ this game, but I forgot to mention it (I knew there was SOMETHING about SOME new person to me that I had seen). But for now I'd just like to keep my eye on him.

Do you believe he was trying to convince he was a civilian, or do you believe what he said about just wanting to let everyone know he's not a new player?

My vibe is that I think he's playing the civ card hard. A little too hard.

@Bass I was also a little weirded out by Cobalt implying that because he was super-civ important player in a previous game, then he is totally civ this game, but I forgot to mention it (I knew there was SOMETHING about SOME new person to me that I had seen). But for now I'd just like to keep my eye on him.

Sloonei wrote:Does my gameplay fascinate you, ni... niju, nin... Blooper?

People new to me always fascinate me!

Golden wrote:I can't imagine why people call her blooper

I feel naked without my regular avatar.

Mmmmk somewhat caught up. I'd say remind me not to leave the thread for too long so I don't have 4 pages to read, but I'll inevitably do it again.

nutella wrote:I don't get the Hedgeowl suspicion at all. She posted while catching up and gave her input on a couple main discussions. None of her posts look particularly bad to me, just kind of average minimal-but-sufficient participation. I guess I understood LC's point (though it was regarding SVS) about commenting on issues rather than players, but Hedgie gave her views on LC/Epi/SVS so that doesn't really apply. I don't know, she could be hiding behind that type of participation (I haven't played many games with her but isn't it kind of her norm?) but I just don't really see the reasons for suspecting her, they seem contrived.

I could see SVS as bad. I mean, SVS is always bad

Agreed (at least the part about Hedgeowl suspicion). I think it was good of TH to search her like he did, but I disagree that it's baddie behavior from her. I don't think his suspicion was contrived.

Epignosis wrote:

Sloonei wrote:

Epignosis wrote:

Dom wrote:Dragon D. Luffy has been replaced by Cancucklehead. She cannot be lynched today.

what are you so scared of, little puppy?

You didn't witness the maelstrom of deceit that was Canucklehead in Roger Rabbit.

They still whisper about it in Toontown.

(Just kidding, Canuck - I was actually very excited to see your name!)

MovingPictures07 wrote: Consequently, my mafia game, which is often defined by a high volume of posts, will be affected this game. I will be much more likely to pop in less frequently, which will increase my already notoriously long posts probably much more so, and make my style seem more like a cross of Blooper-esque, Epi-esque, and MP-esque, rather than straight-up MP-esque combination of frequency and volume.

I'm an -esque!! I'm so touched

MovingPictures07 wrote:Blooper, you note in this post multiple "truces", but ask the question whether there is just one thereafter. Devin and I never agreed to a truce. Just wanted to clear that up.

You specifically note you have "no strong opinions". If that is the case, do you have weak opinions? If so, what are they?

Fair enough. I just saw a lot of (mostly jokingly it seems) buddy-buddy Day 0 stuff, so I figured I'd comment on it. I'm notoriously bad at getting lost in the first several days of larger games because of the sheer volume of people, so I'm trying a new thing called "comment about SOMETHING, whatever it is" to at least keep a placeholder. So far, not doing so hot. But hey, here I am!

As for my opinions (and the actual contributory points of this post), I have a few opinions. I never trust Epi, but damn I do love actually playing a game with him, and whatever my vibes are right now, I'm feeling all right about him today. This means that I think he's genuinely baddie hunting, and I think both of his suspicions of LC and SVS are fairly sound (I almost said interesting but I know better than to use that now :P). I think LC's response to Epi's going after him looks too defensive to me. I think my general view of SVS is that she gets defensive regardless of alignment, which makes her hard to read, but I agree with others (can't remember exactly who) that suddenly defending the whole "interesting" argument in the manner she did was suspicious. So, there's that.

I don't have a good read of the new people in here, but I'm glad to see some fresh meat (at least to the Syndicate). It certainly makes for some...fascinating gameplay.

Golden wrote:Are we allowed to speak of our PMs in the thread at all?

Ah shit, probably should've waited for the answer to this. Sorry if I screwed up!

Scotty wrote:Dom, wtf did I just receive. It looks like you had a stroke when writing that. I feel like I'm missing something here...

I got mine thinking the same thing, but I just had a thought - maybe it's every nth letter from a larger text, depending on what number you chose? It certainly looks like a mish-mash of words that might make sense with a lot of words in between. If it's that, then our almighty host just went through a ton of work (or has a sorting method I don't know about). Kudos to him regardless

Oh good god, four pages on Day 0. Already gonna be a lot more talky than in Bible Mafia, I see. And the threat of more technicolor lists. Super :P

Comments on what's been commented on:
Voting newbie players on Day 1? I don't think I have much of an opinion on it. I don't actively avoid it, but I also don't actively go after new people in particular, as I do want them to stay. Hello, new people!
I'd like to see where these buddy-buddy so-called "truces" will end up (or is it just one "truce" between MP and his buddy?), but I personally think it's nothing right now.

That's all I can think of to say at the moment. No strong opinions on anyone just yet.

One number less than my number

Let's go with 19 - it's 10 less than I what I want and an ugly prime.