Re: Angry Birds [Day 2]
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 10:47 pm
No death night 1? Lynch a nonparticipant.
boo wrote:@Simon and Epi, were there any night action PMs?
We won't say.boo wrote:*missing night action PMs.
You?thellama73 wrote:No death night 1? Lynch a nonparticipant.
Ice Bear feels this message reeks of intentional manipulation of words and meanings. Sure, part of the message could (and probably should) be scrutinized for weak reasoning. Elo from Ice bear's perspective seemed to contrive a reasoning after already deciding to vote boomslang, however Boo's reaction misrepresents Elo's primary reason for voting:boo wrote:*note to self, Eloh votes for someone D0 after they've been away for a while, before they've posted at all, saying she wants to vote for someone she thinks will be active. In a game with friggin' llama and MM in it. Just saying.*Boomslang wrote:Well, I am honored. I do plan to be pretty active in this game, although keeping up with Recruitment as well is going to be a bear... Lucky for me, I at least have today off.Elohcin wrote:Well, I think I will vote for Boomslang. This is his first game in a long time I believe. I was also thinking about giving it to a newbie to make their first experience more interesting, but then again, I want to make sure it goes to someone I am almost sure will be a participating player.
Linki: Hello llama. I'm surprised. I would think you would believe that it would be a better choice than anyone else, not only just as good.
Going to second Elo's vote for Boomslang. I hear he's a pretty stand-up guy :P
*2nd note to self. Both of them make D1 votes I distrusted*
*third note to self: look up self in a dictionary, because I haven't actually heard it both ways.*
Perhaps too meta? Regardless Ice bear does not trust this.Elohcin wrote:Well, I think I will vote for Boomslang. This is his first game in a long time I believe. *snip*
boo wrote:Alright cool.
To expand re:LR: I was getting the feeling Lacey was civ, based on her limited number of posts. I had thought (up until that post from LR), that since she's a first time player, and I am suspicious of almost all hosts (including Epi) that they tend to give new players BTSC (or at least the possibility for it), so I thought maybe, in addition to Scotty, LR (since she's a RL friend of Lacey and I also think that could be a factor, which is increased by what Eloh mentioned about Simon and Epi having let her pick her role) and Lacey were the other two bluebirds.
Then LR made that post, which reads to me like someone who has more insight into the topic, but is trying to mask it. Now, maybe as a bluebird she'd mask it, but I'm not sure more clarification would be given to a civ. That makes me think she might be bad (and by extension, raises concerns about Lacey, since maybe LR just did some of the often-talked-about-but-mostly-imo-made-up coaching of a new player, with two of them being baddies).
Since I was the only person doing much night-talking, I didn't want to post that, in case Mighty Eagle was not inclined to agree with me.
Grateful for it! Glad not to have been lynched for being late, this is fun.LoRab wrote:I have no knowledge of Lacey's role.
My post about her was because we were both mentioned. And I feel protective of her because she's an RL friend and I convinced her to play--and would feel bad if she had been lynched for being late to the game, so to speak.
To clarify, the notion that anyone can gain anyone else's power seems crucial, not just the bluebird. But again, as a newbie, I may be misunderstanding its importance.lipsticklacey wrote:boo wrote:Alright cool.
To expand re:LR: I was getting the feeling Lacey was civ, based on her limited number of posts. I had thought (up until that post from LR), that since she's a first time player, and I am suspicious of almost all hosts (including Epi) that they tend to give new players BTSC (or at least the possibility for it), so I thought maybe, in addition to Scotty, LR (since she's a RL friend of Lacey and I also think that could be a factor, which is increased by what Eloh mentioned about Simon and Epi having let her pick her role) and Lacey were the other two bluebirds.
Then LR made that post, which reads to me like someone who has more insight into the topic, but is trying to mask it. Now, maybe as a bluebird she'd mask it, but I'm not sure more clarification would be given to a civ. That makes me think she might be bad (and by extension, raises concerns about Lacey, since maybe LR just did some of the often-talked-about-but-mostly-imo-made-up coaching of a new player, with two of them being baddies).
Since I was the only person doing much night-talking, I didn't want to post that, in case Mighty Eagle was not inclined to agree with me.
Goodness, I hope it's not the case that more clarification wouldn't be given to a civ. How else would a newbie civ learn about the game? I could be misunderstanding your meaning, though. I'm grateful that people answered my questions about one of the baddies gaining the bluebird's power. That aspect seems crucial, but maybe it doesn't actually come up much?
I won't lie: I haven't been quite as active yet as I'd hoped to be. Recruitment is legitimately bonkers and is absorbing a lot of my mafia time. I also joined my first-ever game of Diplomacy on another site, and that's proving to be a time sink as well.boo wrote:Self-assessment question for Boomslang: Do you think you've managed your plan to be pretty active in this game so far?Boomslang wrote:Well, I am honored. I do plan to be pretty active in this game, although keeping up with Recruitment as well is going to be a bear... Lucky for me, I at least have today off.Elohcin wrote:Well, I think I will vote for Boomslang. This is his first game in a long time I believe. I was also thinking about giving it to a newbie to make their first experience more interesting, but then again, I want to make sure it goes to someone I am almost sure will be a participating player.
Linki: Hello llama. I'm surprised. I would think you would believe that it would be a better choice than anyone else, not only just as good.
Going to second Elo's vote for Boomslang. I hear he's a pretty stand-up guy :P
If you do, can you discuss your vote for MP a bit more? It seems like a rushed/ill-considered vote to me.
No you are correct. One of the baddies gaining a civilian's power is less than ideal since there are already four of them, and they have a few powers already. The good thing is, they only gain the power to use that one night, not for the duration of the game.lipsticklacey wrote:To clarify, the notion that anyone can gain anyone else's power seems crucial, not just the bluebird. But again, as a newbie, I may be misunderstanding its importance.lipsticklacey wrote:boo wrote:Alright cool.
To expand re:LR: I was getting the feeling Lacey was civ, based on her limited number of posts. I had thought (up until that post from LR), that since she's a first time player, and I am suspicious of almost all hosts (including Epi) that they tend to give new players BTSC (or at least the possibility for it), so I thought maybe, in addition to Scotty, LR (since she's a RL friend of Lacey and I also think that could be a factor, which is increased by what Eloh mentioned about Simon and Epi having let her pick her role) and Lacey were the other two bluebirds.
Then LR made that post, which reads to me like someone who has more insight into the topic, but is trying to mask it. Now, maybe as a bluebird she'd mask it, but I'm not sure more clarification would be given to a civ. That makes me think she might be bad (and by extension, raises concerns about Lacey, since maybe LR just did some of the often-talked-about-but-mostly-imo-made-up coaching of a new player, with two of them being baddies).
Since I was the only person doing much night-talking, I didn't want to post that, in case Mighty Eagle was not inclined to agree with me.
Goodness, I hope it's not the case that more clarification wouldn't be given to a civ. How else would a newbie civ learn about the game? I could be misunderstanding your meaning, though. I'm grateful that people answered my questions about one of the baddies gaining the bluebird's power. That aspect seems crucial, but maybe it doesn't actually come up much?
I agree that these two are really good places to start. Daisy's vote on Scotty felt particularly inauthentic. She singled out Scotty's suggestion of Lacey when he had also suggested Lorab and MM, while also phrasing his actions in what I felt was stronger language than merited: "the way he went for Lacey and then immediately backed off when he caught flack for it." Elo also confuses me a bit; she voted Scotty explicitly to tie the vote, but did so very early (vote 6), when there were still plenty of votes to happen.DFaraday wrote:Today I'm primarily looking at the posters who bandwagoned Scotty. Elo and Daisy's votes stood out the most to me as not being grounded in much, and coming after the votes started rolling in.
Am I missing something here? What brought you to this conclusion?boo wrote:FZ. is a civ or the SK. Hrmm.
It was more the feel behind Elo's vote. It came across as, "Well, Scotty is under fire, I might as well throw a vote there" rather than genuine suspicion. It might not be bandwagoning per se, but it felt like she was just latching onto a convenient suspicion.Boomslang wrote: Now that I think about it—DFaraday, you're claiming Elo voted "after the votes started rolling in." She was the second Scotty voter and the sixth overall. I don't think that quite qualifies as "bandwagoning." I agree it wasn't the most well-grounded of votes, but I'm interested in the way you lumped the timing of her vote together with Daisy's (who voted 17th).
I might follow your vote here for his insistence on making this a missed kill, but I hesitate because llama is often mislynched.Metalmarsh89 wrote:By typical Syndicate standards, I feel like we're all off to shoddy starts in this game.
After thinking about it, probability says it is more likely that the Bald Eagle was around to block the piggies last night (assuming he did) than it is for all four piggies to miss their night action. In my mind, it is also logical for the Bald Eagle to use his power early. The piggies would have had all of their powers to use last night in addition to the extra power they picked up from the bluebird. Later in the game, as piggies are lynched, the team roleblock becomes less and less effective (but still mighty powerful). So perhaps he did use the power last night.
No one was removed from the poll either, so that would be at least 2 night actions that the piggies missed if they were not all roleblocked.
I'm voting for llama. I don't like his persistence for consistency between games.
I don't think she has BTSC.Metalmarsh89 wrote:Am I missing something here? What brought you to this conclusion?boo wrote:FZ. is a civ or the SK. Hrmm.
Obviously it was the Mighty Eagle. There's 2 powers that knock people off the poll, but all 16 living players are on it. The baddie power was blocked, and the civvie either missed their PM, or was RBed by another civvie (it's why I wanted to know if there were any missing PMs, if there were none, than our RBer has a confirmed civ already).Metalmarsh89 wrote:Oh, there's also the Might Eagle, who can block all the piggies one night. We have to keep that in mind.
The only other possible factors are that the baddies missed multiple PMs, or one of them sent everything in and got RBed and it blocked both powers that would have had a visible result.LoRab wrote:Hmmm....I've never known Llama to not pay attention. So, that doesn't hold true to me. But he's not screaming out evil to me either. Gah. I don't like votes early in the game.
Also, I don't think it's obvious that it was the eagle. There are enough factors that it could have been any number of things that caused there to be no kill and no one off the poll.
Do we know who holds the baddie kill? I know in many games, the team gets to choose who carries out the kill. What if the person chosen by the team also had the taking off the poll...Did I miss a clarification on that?boo wrote:The only other possible factors are that the baddies missed multiple PMs, or one of them sent everything in and got RBed and it blocked both powers that would have had a visible result.LoRab wrote:Hmmm....I've never known Llama to not pay attention. So, that doesn't hold true to me. But he's not screaming out evil to me either. Gah. I don't like votes early in the game.
Also, I don't think it's obvious that it was the eagle. There are enough factors that it could have been any number of things that caused there to be no kill and no one off the poll.
I've gotta agree with boo's analysis here; the Eagle seems to be the most likely option.LoRab wrote:Hmmm....I've never known Llama to not pay attention. So, that doesn't hold true to me. But he's not screaming out evil to me either. Gah. I don't like votes early in the game.
Also, I don't think it's obvious that it was the eagle. There are enough factors that it could have been any number of things that caused there to be no kill and no one off the poll.
So who do you find the most suspicious?Boomslang wrote:I've gotta agree with boo's analysis here; the Eagle seems to be the most likely option.LoRab wrote:Hmmm....I've never known Llama to not pay attention. So, that doesn't hold true to me. But he's not screaming out evil to me either. Gah. I don't like votes early in the game.
Also, I don't think it's obvious that it was the eagle. There are enough factors that it could have been any number of things that caused there to be no kill and no one off the poll.
Sockface's continued self-voting is just completely out of character. But at least it's a pattern. Daisy's unexplained vote for Made is just weird. Finally, llama's seeming failure to recognize the global roleblock last night is unlike him and was used to justify a tinybubbles vote. So much weirdness in this game.
First off, we can't know what the baddies chose to do, even if it wasn't good strategy. Baddies don't always do what is the "best" choice. Also, if someone on the baddie team has to be chosen to make the kill, which is a frequent set up, then it's not all the eggs in a basket, it's making the choice of which basket to put them in. Regardless, someone can be blocked. Which is why in most games I've played, there is an individual on the baddie team that holds the kill--and usually, in my experience, when that isn't specified as a role, the team chooses who carries out the kill. Are you intentionally missing my point? Or is that not the case on this site (which I find hard to believe).FZ. wrote:I agree with Boo as well. Lorab, a baddie team would be foolish to put all the eggs in one basket just in case that person got blocked, so I think it's a lot more likely that they spread their powers.
What FZ is saying is that it's unlikely that the baddies would put all of their powers on one person. Of course it's not impossible, but I give all of our players more credit than to do something like that. Occam's Razor suggests that, since there haven't been any apparent effects from the Night Phase, the eagle used his power.LoRab wrote:Honesly, no idea whom I find most suspicious.
First off, we can't know what the baddies chose to do, even if it wasn't good strategy. Baddies don't always do what is the "best" choice. Also, if someone on the baddie team has to be chosen to make the kill, which is a frequent set up, then it's not all the eggs in a basket, it's making the choice of which basket to put them in. Regardless, someone can be blocked. Which is why in most games I've played, there is an individual on the baddie team that holds the kill--and usually, in my experience, when that isn't specified as a role, the team chooses who carries out the kill. Are you intentionally missing my point? Or is that not the case on this site (which I find hard to believe).FZ. wrote:I agree with Boo as well. Lorab, a baddie team would be foolish to put all the eggs in one basket just in case that person got blocked, so I think it's a lot more likely that they spread their powers.
In my experience on the site, one person holds the kill, and in Epi's games it's even more strict, where if that person does not send in the kill, the others can't do it for him. Anyone is free to correct me.LoRab wrote:Of course they woulnd't put all their powers in one place. But do we know that anything other than the kill and the taking someone off he poll didn't go through? I feel like I'm missing something, or have jumped a few thoughts ahead of conclusions.
We know the kill didn't succeed.
We know there was no one taken off the poll.
Do we know anything else about the baddie powers?
If not, why not assume that a block could have happened to the player that had both of those (as opposed to the kill and another power that the baddies hold)?
Do baddie kills work differently here tha what I'm used to? Who usually holds the kills?
On further review, I think I find llama most suspicious. He was among the Scotty voters without much justification, and he seems to have deliberately misread the role blocking of last night to justify a vote for tinybubbles. I don't know what to make of Daisy's vote yet, and the possibility that MP is the bomb makes me pause before voting for him again. So I'll go ahead and *vote llama*FZ. wrote: So who do you find the most suspicious? I can see myself voting for either Daisy or llama who have votes. But I'm still hesitant
Boomslang and Daisy, piggy teammate buddies.Boomslang wrote:On further review, I think I find llama most suspicious. He was among the Scotty voters without much justification, and he seems to have deliberately misread the role blocking of last night to justify a vote for tinybubbles. I don't know what to make of Daisy's vote yet, and the possibility that MP is the bomb makes me pause before voting for him again. So I'll go ahead and *vote llama*FZ. wrote: So who do you find the most suspicious? I can see myself voting for either Daisy or llama who have votes. But I'm still hesitant
So what are you saying, you want us to vote for you?MovingPictures07 wrote:I did already state it. My D1 behavior is the sketchiest of anyone here.
Why do you think they are baddies together? I don't think Boomslang is bad. Not sure about Daisy thoughMovingPictures07 wrote:Boomslang and Daisy, piggy teammate buddies.Boomslang wrote:On further review, I think I find llama most suspicious. He was among the Scotty voters without much justification, and he seems to have deliberately misread the role blocking of last night to justify a vote for tinybubbles. I don't know what to make of Daisy's vote yet, and the possibility that MP is the bomb makes me pause before voting for him again. So I'll go ahead and *vote llama*FZ. wrote: So who do you find the most suspicious? I can see myself voting for either Daisy or llama who have votes. But I'm still hesitant
What I am saying is the following:FZ. wrote:So what are you saying, you want us to vote for you?MovingPictures07 wrote:I did already state it. My D1 behavior is the sketchiest of anyone here.
LoRab, to answer your previous inquiry regarding what is typical here, it depends on the host. It seems more common that mafia teams can select the member to carry out the kill, but I've also seen plenty of games where one specific mafia member carries out the kill regardless (Llama tends to do this).LoRab wrote:Could also just ask:
@Hosts: On a baddie team, who holds the kill?