The Syndicate

TonyStarkPrime wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:53 pm Funnygurl earlier said that Ted was townish for voting Leetic because the vote was spicy. I like the reasoning. But I don’t like that for 2 reasons:
1) Leetic was one of only four people who had votes already
2) thats it

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:37 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:32 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:25 pm My brain is trying to process the fact that Mac just announced an “exceptionally confident” town read on me on April 1st.

So when I started the game I immediately voted for Tedxtr for the kek. I later realised that Master Radishes voted for him and I observed that Radishes at that time had no votes. Given that Radishes was lynched as scum very early in the GOC I figured that he must have done something very towny to be skating, so I read his ISO and ... well found very little. But what I did find was a strong read that you are Sloonei the town as opposed to Sloonei the scum. I know Radishes is an exceptionally insightful civilian so either;

a) He is a civilian and made an insightful as fuck town read that I should probably assume is correct
or
b) He is scum and trying to pocket you

I then cast a cursory glance at your ISO in the few fleeting moments I had to do so yesterday and saw what he meant.

I was going to sheep your vote at the time, I truly don't remember where it was ... I think maybe on ts account? But while this was unfolding I also made a snap read that Tedxtr is likely town because he has a similar gear shift here to you, so I decided to sheep him instead.

Not April Fools.

I believe you. I also think I feel similarly about ted. Master's team about to take back-to-back games.

leetic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:34 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:33 pm

Long Con wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:19 pm ... or possibly a distancing act?

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:15 pm Like if the idea was for Sloonei to get involved re: mechanics and then for Mikey to engage him, and then for them to one up each other ad infinitum

Golden and I actually did that in Firefly mafia and neither of us got lynched

This seems like a bit of a backflip.

Dragomir wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:32 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:25 pm My brain is trying to process the fact that Mac just announced an “exceptionally confident” town read on me on April 1st.

I thought you lived in US. It should still March 31st for you.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:25 pm My brain is trying to process the fact that Mac just announced an “exceptionally confident” town read on me on April 1st.

ts account wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:17 pm Post #342 and #346 seem to be confirmation bias because they show turnip is starting with the conclusion- Sloonei is scum- and then seeing the play fit into that pattern, rather than looking at the play and deciding that they are scum because xyz.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:36 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:26 pm I'm mad ama.

Is drago town or scum?

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:36 pm Please answer twice.

tedxtr wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:00 am Sounds like scum mac so far. When is drunk mac gonna post? :P

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:27 am Let us review:

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ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:38 pm I have a soft mindmeld with leetic re: sloonei. However, I'm more suspicious of it because I do not think speculation of sloonei's nature is pro-town in any way. Since it is early enough in the game, this read is more of a town read on leetic than a condemnation of sloonei. I also want to point out TonyStarkPrime's callout of LongCon (and sloonei's somewhat, but Tony was not involved before this) which I think is not justified.

Defers to another player's initial suspicion before tacking on his own bogus justification.

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ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:45 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:40 pm To be clear: my entry posts were not intended as “mechanical speculation”, or at least that was not my primary mindset in making them. I was genuinely concerned that the host had made a mistake.

It's a problem, because you were framing it as a potential game mechanic, when I do not think discussion of that avenue is fruitful for town.

Pursues bogus justification further when confronted with alternative explanation. Fails to elaborate.

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ts account wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 11:53 pm If you say this was not your intent, then what exactly did you mean by this? I can't interpret it as anything else.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:30 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:28 pm i'm genuinely unsure what's going on. We have two players who signed up for this game that aren't listed on the roster or the poll.

could there be a thematic reason for this? @ anyone who's familiar with the games? We waited a few extra days to get to exactly 15 players. I don't think it's likely that nanook would simply forget to include two people.

Ignores crucial context in first part of Sloonei's posts (highlighted).

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ts account wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:08 am

leetic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:06 am Y'know, this post is a bit weird. Mikey is calling out Sloonei for setup speculation, yet when you look at the first paragraph, that's exactly what he's doing here

Care to explain?

It is a hypothetical pointing out just how useless it is to seek clarification on whatever is going on. If it turns out to be a game mechanic, it's not like we can use that to our advantage, so we should rather focus on generating content and interacting with each other.

Awkward backtracking and re-justification.

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ts account wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:17 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:12 am Suspecting people for talking about mechanics is more suspicious than talking about mechanics.

[VOTE: Ts account] aubergine

This is a lazy read and weak justification for not really anything at all. Will omgus you later.

Calls Sloonei lazy for doing the exact thing he was advocating for one post earlier.