Turnip Head & Friends
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:59 am
Ts latching onto sloon for discussing mechanics felt a bit opportunist and now that they're actually discussing reads he's sinking his teeth in deeper
Good look for ts account.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:48 am
Funnygurl555 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 2:59 am
ok i gotta ask what's up with radish and turnip accs viewing the thread
at first i saw a turnip and was like "cool" but now there's also a radish and does the syndicate have a root vegetable fetish?
I'm named after a quote from the television show
LOST. I actually have no idea where Master Radishes came from, though I did catch him as scum from like his second post in the last game
Generic banter with funnygurl. I might be inclined to say that this exchange doesn't exist at all if they're partners, but that's not a strong conviction.
ts account continues to have his chops busted by TH. +1 mikey
+1 Long Con
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:42 pm
ts account wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:54 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:28 pm
@ts account right off the bat 2.0, yeah, I am spinning everything negatively. That is the point of the exercise. It's not a nefarious agenda. When I make a case like that, I am asking myself whether or not I can see the player as mafia in each post. If the answer is yes, I share my interpretation of their possible mafia motives. That is what I did with your posts. I acknowledged in the post that there are other explanations. But I have concerns and I voiced them.
You do not seem interested in pursuing these other possibilities, therefore you do not seem interested in truly scumhunting.
I feel like you're talking about yourself. You don't seem interested in pursuing anything other than Sloonei being scum which has snowballed from the beginning of the game
If these two are partners then TH embarked on a one-sided distancing act. ts account didn't really reciprocate this oppositional attitude, from what I remember. A quick scan of his posts shows ts mostly just swatting TH away at the time. Later he would make
this post as a standalone thing. I'm not inclined to view any of this as distancing and/or bussing. It does not look coordinated or fabricated, TH's push in particular looks a little bloodthirsty.
Another +1 for LC
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:19 pm
The hell is Epignosis? I thought he was made of free time right now
Look at this post. It exists. This post is absolutely and without a shadow of a doubt contained in this game thread. Unfortunately it doesn't say anything. -1 for Epi.
Turnip Head spent some time
entertaining the possibility of a tinfoil theory about ts account and I being partners. I feel it is safe to say that ts account is not bad.
Token pressure and softball question for Epignosis.
Immediate qualifier. Maybe this is TH being nervous that a civilian Epignosis is about to turn his question against him. Maybe it's TH trying to avoid a situation where he and his partner accidentally butt heads.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:35 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:13 pm
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:57 pm
LC playing scummy on purpose is not his civ MO
Disagree.
Care to elaborate? I'm actually pretty good at reading him, probably the best at it, if I'm being honest
This is now a string of posts interacting with Epi. My immediate observation is that TH's tone is different in dealing with Epi than anyone else. He comes off a bit more hostile in other interactions (ts account most notably), but in dealing with Epi, TH is more passive. He's asking open ended questions that go nowhere. He's not digging his nails in. I've already stated my two possible interpretations of this: TH could be acting cautious around an experienced civilian player who knows him well, or TH could be acting a bit awkwardly around his partner. I'm not sure which way I'd lean just yet.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 11:36 am
Epi is bringing an unnecessarily hostile tone to an otherwise reasonable thread, idk what that means really just an observation
I'm still not sure. This is a more critical stance against Epignosis, but TH still is not really pouncing. "idk what that means really just an observation" is as much a verbal shrug as any sentence fragment I've ever read. Does TH want us to look into Epi, or is TH just vomiting words about Epi?
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:24 pm
Something is wrong with Long Con. He doesn't usually play with this tight of a grip. Like a rattlesnake getting all coiled up. He often gets suspected early and I'm one of the first to rush to his defense because I recognize his town game but this is off-meta for him and I think he knows it
Interesting. This post just flicked a light switch in my mind. Context: at the end of Day 1, Long Con and leetic were tied at 4 votes each. Turnip Head was present, but his vote was on ted, who was at 3 votes. I criticized TH earlier for not stepping up to break the tie one way or another. We now know that leetic and ted were both town. LC is the one name left.
TH has plenty of demonstrated suspicion against LC on Day 1. This post is the latest of a few posts that are anti-LC. But when TH had the chance to get rid of LC, he didn't. At the same time, however, LC was self-voting. One might think that's an indication that he's comfortable to be bussed (unless we had unknown vote shenanigans at play, in which case

), and TH was the one person above all others who was primed to step up and claim credit for the lynch result. If LC is his partner, then the self-vote gambit sets up a stellar opportunity for TH to ride his town cred to the end of the game. He didn't take it. I am inclined to believe, as I did earlier, that all three of the wagons on Day 1 were civilians and that the mafia team didn't care which one got lynched.
After typing all of that, TH's
very next post walks the suspicion back a bit. Ugh. Lame.
The ensuing exchange looks spontaneous enough that I feel alright about it, at least. I dunno. If they're partners then Day 1 was convoluted as hell.
Goofy late-day shade at ts account
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:14 pm
I think funnygurl has too much town cred compared to her contributions. I
can tone-read her as town but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Her defense of tedextr doesn't come across as completely genuine to me, either
I have no trouble viewing this as an opportunistic push against a civilian. funnygurl was a polarizing figure on Day 1 (and still is, it seems), and around this time we had certain people (namely Mac) declaring her a strong civilian read, while others were pushing her as a viable suspect. TH doesn't need to chime in at all, but he does, and his stance adds nothing but skepticism to the justifications given to town read her. +1 funnygurl
For context,
Turnip Head deliberately justified having a town read on leetic towards the end of Day 1. He is pushing hard against ted at this point and has not followed through at all on his LC suspicion from earlier.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:31 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:22 pm
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:14 pm
I think funnygurl has too much town cred compared to her contributions. I
can tone-read her as town but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Her defense of tedextr doesn't come across as completely genuine to me, either
So what are you going to do about it?
Well ideally we lynch ted first
Holy cow! Another exchange with Epignosis that accomplishes nothing.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:53 pm
This kind of defeatism always ends in a civilian lynch
This post is in reference to LC's self vote, and this was what prompted my TH vote at the start of Day 2. TH did nothing while two supposed civilian reads were getting lynched. There were some phantom attempts to drum up support for ted, but it didn't look energized in the way that I'd expect from a civilian who sees two bad wagons in the lead. I still
think this looks good for LC, but the self vote was so bizarre that I can't look at it too confidently. TH also said this at the start of Day 2:
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:21 am
Feels like LC knew he would survive, or else why do that? The lynch was almost over
So
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:42 am
Scum team could be Mikey, funny girl and tedextr as far as I'm concerned
Evidence elsewhere in this ISO suggests these are three civilians.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:40 am
I think we lost our momentum after the weird end to the lynch and then 24 hours of radio silence.
Something I wanted to mention was TonyStarkPrime, none of us have discussed him. He was around at the end of the lynch but most of his contributions were about the hammer. Not much actual gamesolving from TSP yet which is quite different from what I remember in GoC where he was flinging out reads with a high degree of proficiency. He was never the loudest voice in the room in that game, but he did enough for other towns to know he was there and doing his best.
First time tony has made an appearance and it's an implicitly negative post. Not firm enough for me to award Tony major points, but it certainly looks like an attempt to draw attention to him as a suspect.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:46 am
Why is FG scum?
Funnygurl's received a flurry of votes mid-day. I assume this is a question about that. Generic. Doesn't tell me much.
Turnip really wants people to talk about ts account. Also bonus negative point for speedchuck for making his first appearance in this ISO as the victim of a "phoned in" vote from Mac.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Apr 05, 2020 9:56 pm
Probably Epi. He usually does a better job of pushing his thoughts and stating his cases even when no one agrees with him
In response to "who would you be voting for if not Mikey/ts account?" Okay. Keeping an open mind, but I'd be willing to bet that this goes absolutely nowhere.
Look at that, less than 24 hours later Turnip Head votes for someone other than ts account and it's
not Epi! Wild.
Turnip Head wrote: ↑Mon Apr 06, 2020 6:30 pm
That was an awful lot of waffling from master radishes re: leetic for someone who never ended up actually changing his vote
Generic support for Epi's case against Radishes, which is then apparently used to justify
a vote. Bonus negative point for speedchuck for making his second appearance in this ISO as the person saved by Turnip Head at the end of Day 2.
Epi looks the worst here. speedchuck is barely present. ts account is town. Tony is probably town. I think LC and funnygurl are town here as well, but there's room for alternative interpretations.
[VOTE:
epignosis] aubergine as an extra gut punch once he's reached the end of my latest novel.