The Syndicate

Guys how likely it is that a baddie nutella would off Mac to silence him?

WIFOM much?

i call those words weasel words. They are most definitely weasel words...totally

Oh, good. I've had an occupied weekend, thanks for the 48 hour phase.

I'll jump in and see what's up if I have time today between all my prep activities

reywaS wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:03 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 12:17 am [VOTE: reywas] aubergine

Break the cycle

ooohhhhh what cycle are we talking about?

My player slot missed the first two votes.

sabie’s “welcome to the gamd unless you’re bad” greeting felt a little forced. Anyone got things to sY about her?

EBWOP: things to say

do you guys seriously want to lynch me for "weasel words" what is it 2016???

I wonder if DDL really believes what he is saying because he has seen me play a lot in the last couple years and he must know that the "lols" etc are a hallmark of my civ style. He's harping a bit too much on this one thing and then going "well whatever her civ and bad metas are too similar so who knows" like he's soft-pushing an easy target but backing off/not taking responsibility

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:38 pm do you guys seriously want to lynch me for "weasel words" what is it 2016???

I wonder if DDL really believes what he is saying because he has seen me play a lot in the last couple years and he must know that the "lols" etc are a hallmark of my civ style. He's harping a bit too much on this one thing and then going "well whatever her civ and bad metas are too similar so who knows" like he's soft-pushing an easy target but backing off/not taking responsibility

And what is a hallmark of your baddie style, then? Because last I checked you also do all those things when you are bad. Mac is right, you are not that obvious to read.

I'm not soft pushing, I'm putting all possibilities on the table. The way you are acting is perfectly reasonable for a baddie to act.

You say you are always on the fence, which is true, but then you use that as a shield to act the same way as bad and win games because no one wants to lynch "on the fence" nutella anymore.

I feel like people always say this about me but I feel like I acted pretty dang differently when I was bad in Vanilla. But then again Sloonei was so sure I was civ he was willing to die for me so

Anyway I'm pretty sure that I've only invoked my meta as a defense when civ, so take from that what you will. When I'm bad I tend to sit back and let people like Sloonei confidently misread me as my town self. Because that feels really great since it's their idea. Idk, compare to my other town games and see how you feel. I get why you think Mac's case was solid. It's just wrong. I don't look great because I'm not trying to look great.

Nutella is lock town again you guys, trust me

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:29 pm Nutella is lock town again you guys, trust me

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:31 pm Sup I’m here and don’t really know what’s been going on.

G-Man wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:34 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:31 pm Sup I’m here and don’t really know what’s been going on.

Methinks we're getting laughed at. Hard.

[VOTE: sprityo] aubergine

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:03 pm sabie’s “welcome to the gamd unless you’re bad” greeting felt a little forced. Anyone got things to sY about her?

Many people declare their votes with either the vote tag or by mentioning that they are voting in the thread. There are enough votes, however, that did not come with some kind of clear, in-thread declaration, that I can't take my vote analysis and spreadsheeting up to the next level like I used to. I'm trying to piece Day 1's votes back together but I just can't get them all put in order. I'm just going to use tone reads and infer intent from voting history as it's collected. With four confirmed civvies down, it should clear up a few things but I'm far from a confident baddie read on anyone just yet.

colonialbob wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:05 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 2:03 pm sabie’s “welcome to the gamd unless you’re bad” greeting felt a little forced. Anyone got things to sY about her?

Adlai turned out to be a real jerk.

yeah im gonna vote [VOTE: nutella] aubergine

she gives me the "bad vibes" again this game. I started getting the heebeejeebees from her on day one when she said i was misinterpreting what she said but didnt even try to clarify what she was saying. I would have thought she would have gone ahead and tried to clear it up on the spot. Instead she just ignored me. I feel bad for voting for my long time friend/mafia nemesis SVS and not switching to nutella. And now its just post after post of "this is my civvie meta". OMG that is the worst defense possible....seriously.


BTW I'm totes civ guys. I only make these types of posts that end in "LY" when I'm a civ.


Seriously

what was the thing you wanted me to clarify? I must have thought it was either obvious or really not a big deal but I can try to answer it

and how else would you rather I defend myself? I've explained that I don't have the elaborate motives Mac ascribed to me, so I'm not sure what else you want from me but saying that my defense is lame is not helpful

Sloonei wants to accuse me because I said welcome unless you're bad. That's how I always talk. Ive said that before. And you actually said in response to being asked if you're mafia "sure" right at the same time soooo I feel like it was fair of me to say.

sabie12 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:31 pm Sloonei wants to accuse me because I said welcome unless you're bad. That's how I always talk. Ive said that before. And you actually said in response to being asked if you're mafia "sure" right at the same time soooo I feel like it was fair of me to say.

Who’s bad?

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:08 pm and how else would you rather I defend myself? I've explained that I don't have the elaborate motives Mac ascribed to me, so I'm not sure what else you want from me but saying that my defense is lame is not helpful

i want you to be whatever you want to be. I don't want you to be any certain way. I vote on how I perceive you. Currently you feel a lot like you did in vanilla game. I never understand why people invoke "this is my civvie style" as a defense. I understand even less why anyone would by into that as a defense.

I dunno nutella. I'd love to move my vote off of you to be honest. You do seem a little more concerned about how you appear this game. Last game you seemed to really not give a fugg.

Shit, I don't feel as confident in my vote as i did 4 minutes ago.

it's snowing

you know what's wrong with skyrim these days? everyone's obsessed with death

is this a 48 hour day? a gracious gift from a beautiful host-jay?

So glad we have another day to decide who to lynch. I did not have time to mafia today.
Mac's stuff on nutella was pretty convincing, then he died, which is also pretty convincing that nutella might be bad. BUT 1. Her defenses look really genuine, and 2. she actually suspected me day 1 and voted me for a bit. I see no reason for scum nutella to do that.

You don't see what reason a baddie Nutella might have to vote for a civvie (presuming you are one) in a closed set up game where no one knows how many bad teams there are or if there is 3P that kills?

Think about it, if there is only one bad team, they have to either vote for civvies or bus each other. If more than one, they legitimately suspect people just like town.

Is there a special dynamic between you and Nutella that would render normal gameplay moot?

That said, Macs case is compelling, but I waffle on the part where he died immediately after he began talking. Nutella shutting him up, or someone setting Nutella up?

I am off today and have a few errands to run, but should be around most of the day.

Ebwop, and that "render normal gameplay moot" isn't facetious or snarky; there are people I have played with in the past that I had rapport with such that it effected our reads of, and interactions with, each other. We felt the need to sort each other ASAP, and having played several games in a row with you and nutella I got the vibe that you want to sort each other right away.

I gotta say guys, this is not more exciting than the Super Bowl tbh.

I just read over the Macdougall case on Nutella. It's a pretty good run-down. Not perfect, but pretty good. I have half a mind to take Mac's suspicions and coast on them all game, like I did in GoC. Nightkill analysis, baby.

Problem is, this analysis came in on D3, and I had nutella as a semi-strong townread. Let's talk about some of the suspicions.

nutella wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:01 pm This is the second fucking stupid lynch in a row of a cool player who I would have liked to play with just because people are being fucking lazy

I don't really have a beef with this post. It's not so much "Enrique was obviously town, boo to the voters, they all scum, I'm so town dontcha kno" and more genuine to me BECAUSE it isn't lamenting his role or alignment as much as the fact that he was around and interesting.
And she's not even wrong about the laziness. We on page 11, and this is D3. That's insane.

Nutella also doesn't have a reason to put herself out there and agitate the thread/voters with this if she's scum. In a more active game, this kind of talk could shame people and put nutella on a town pedestal. In this game, it just makes her stand out. I posit that, with the flow of the game as is, spurring on this discussion and kicking that hornets' nest is much less scummish than just taking the lynches as they come.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:04 pm

Lunalee wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:19 pmA bit relieved that Enrique flipped town. That makes me look good.
But RIP another townie.

No it doesn't wtf

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:07 pm My whole thing was I thought you had TMI on him so how you think his flip looks good for you is beyond me.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 2:12 pm The same could apply to me then. But you were weirder about it.

Hypocrisy is a staple of the town playbook.

At first glance, these are the only counterarguments I have toward the town nutella that I'm seeing. It comes down to motive, like Mac's post does. He alleged that Nutella is trying to put herself in a good position using TMI. I think it was a mix of nutella being aggressive and waffley. While waffles are not really a town play, regardless of the person, aggression is just not called for at all in this game.

I didn't address all of Mac's points, though. And Nutella believing the truth meta thing is ew, regardless of alignment.

S~V~S wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:46 am I gotta say guys, this is not more exciting than the Super Bowl tbh.

I didn't watch it, but I heard the halftime show was bad.

Then again, what did they expect from Maroon 5?

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:52 am And Nutella believing the truth meta thing is ew, regardless of alignment.

Hey, no. That is uncharitable toward both enri and me. I said I know his character and can tell when he is legit. It's a gut thing from being friends with him for 10 years. Maybe that is unfair to everyone else, I don't mean to exclude people, it's just a specific sense that I have of him and I felt with certainty that he was town. It's not any more "ew" than if you defended Luna more than anyone else for example. It just so happened that it was in the context of a "truth meta" claim, which held water for me due to my understanding of enri's personality.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 12:41 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 11:52 am And Nutella believing the truth meta thing is ew, regardless of alignment.

Hey, no. That is uncharitable toward both enri and me. I said I know his character and can tell when he is legit. It's a gut thing from being friends with him for 10 years. Maybe that is unfair to everyone else, I don't mean to exclude people, it's just a specific sense that I have of him and I felt with certainty that he was town. It's not any more "ew" than if you defended Luna more than anyone else for example. It just so happened that it was in the context of a "truth meta" claim, which held water for me due to my understanding of enri's personality.

No, that's not what I mean.

I mean f*** "truth meta."

To be blunt, every interaction I have had with those two words put together has been negative. So when someone reacts positively to it, I blanch because positive reinforcement is a thing. Nothing to do with you and Enri.
Though, hey, I didn't know you knew him that well. Reinforces my interpretation of your posts.

And I don't defend Luna more than anyone else. Whenever I do, she ends up being scum.

Okay sure. Understood. And lol at Luna always being bad

I just now voted Sprityo. I think he's the quietest of the quiet in this game, and I wanna know why.

Apparently I'm in good company. Hi cbob.

linki: In the game of champions, I was like "I think I've figured her out now, this is it, I finally understand!" Cue scum flip. . . . cue table flip.

I could vote for sprit. Or reywas. I'm a little sketched out by Rey's style this game, not only has he waffled a lot on me but he has this odd air of trying to put in some effort which he definitely didn't do in vanilla lol. I think he's a decent candidate for scum the more I think about it.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:43 pmM Plus 7 - posts

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 9:00 pm Sloonei is replacing M Plus 7.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:43 pm sprityo - posts

i trust nutella. the way she responded to that post i made that one time, with the misunderstanding and all that, seemed like it was coming from a place of honest frustration rather than "it'll look good if i act like this"

S~V~S wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:37 am You don't see what reason a baddie Nutella might have to vote for a civvie (presuming you are one) in a closed set up game where no one knows how many bad teams there are or if there is 3P that kills?

Think about it, if there is only one bad team, they have to either vote for civvies or bus each other. If more than one, they legitimately suspect people just like town.

Is there a special dynamic between you and Nutella that would render normal gameplay moot?

That said, Macs case is compelling, but I waffle on the part where he died immediately after he began talking. Nutella shutting him up, or someone setting Nutella up?

I am off today and have a few errands to run, but should be around most of the day.

So last game I played with nutella I sort of suspected her only because she never once suspected me. And she actually was scum. That's why I mentioned it again here.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 1:23 pm I just now voted Sprityo. I think he's the quietest of the quiet in this game, and I wanna know why.

Apparently I'm in good company. Hi cbob.

linki: In the game of champions, I was like "I think I've figured her out now, this is it, I finally understand!" Cue scum flip. . . . cue table flip.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 1:32 pm I could vote for sprit. Or reywas. I'm a little sketched out by Rey's style this game, not only has he waffled a lot on me but he has this odd air of trying to put in some effort which he definitely didn't do in vanilla lol. I think he's a decent candidate for scum the more I think about it.

haha sure sure, nutella, sure sure. There you go with "definitely" again. I put in a lot of effort in vanilla, but you were a baddie and couldn't be bothered to try to figure out what I was trying to say....and i get it. You had no reason to understand me. It was better for you to dismiss my kanye shtick. Just because I chose to put a posting restriction on myself in my first game back does not mean i wasn't trying. There is no one way a civvie must play in this game of ours. You can't impose your will on how I play. You must not remember my play style at all from before I left the game. I never have and never will play how anyone else wants me to. Im helpful when I want to be. I'm stupid when i want to be. Good or bad or happy or sad.

I really don't understand what you think of me. Like of course I get waffling but you seem to read every new post of mine from a totally new angle. I don't get it. There's zero continuity. I will concede that you put some effort into Kanye posting but it's a different animal in this game and you are not doing anything to convince me you're not faking every reaction to me. The five suspish emojis in a row after what you mostly took as a style discussion are not convincing at all.

speaking of someone not being helpful, i'd still like an explanation on this post tbh:

reywaS wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 6:08 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:37 pm

Lunalee wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:28 pm

nutella wrote: ↑Wed Jan 30, 2019 12:52 pm Oh and in case it wasn't clear I believe that Epi is exhibiting behavior that indicates he received a mafia role card.

Are you and Epi scum mates again?

Of course not. It's the perspective I gained from being scum with him recently that is drawing my attention to some of his behavior here. Maybe there is some element of recency bias, I should admit, but it is based in actual content. Like look at how he deflected the "reading the rules" accusation back onto speed.

ummm....hi there....ummm, excuse for ummm being perhaps a tad pedantic, but you use "recency bias" and "but it's based on actual content" here. That seems redundant to me. Your recency bias is actual content from the previous game, no? So your recency bias is content, yes. That seems like a wasted bullshitty sentence to me. Perhaps I'm missing something?

recency bias based on actual content? The actual content was from the most recent game. recent actual content is recency bias. Why are you trying to argue AGAINST you using recency bias when all you site is the most recent game? It makes no sense. You acknowledge that you made no sense but you never try to clarify. I think you realized you were talking garbage and wanted to just forget about. I would think that a civvie being called out for not making any sense would try to clarify...especially ya know when you go out of your way to make a post about my calling you out. A bad guy would try to just move on. tisk tisk tisk

i mean...am i crazy (dont' answer that)( I am) or is the definition of recency bias, bias based on recent content? LOL "It's not recency bias! It's recent content that is skewing my perception of someone's behavior...but it's most definiteLY not bias. It's fact, yo!"

My apologies. Lunch break was devoted to looking up models and prices of washers and dryers.. I re-read Day 1. I don’t want to start any crazy trains, so I’m going to hold back on too much commentary until I’ve gotten through Day 2 as well.

Nobody makes me feel good, but a few of you make me feel weird. Nutella is the closest thing I have to a civvie read right now. I think she was suffering from recency bias against Epi. She leaned his way for quite some time but Epi’s flip makes her posts about Epi seem too forward to be from a baddie.

reywaS wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 4:21 pm i mean...am i crazy (dont' answer that)( I am) or is the definition of recency bias, bias based on recent content? LOL "It's not recency bias! It's recent content that is skewing my perception of someone's behavior...but it's most definiteLY not bias. It's fact, yo!"

Yeah this is just a verbal misunderstanding. You interpreted it basically the opposite of how I did. Idk if I'm gonna explain this well or maybe I'll sound stupid here but I was arguing that it's not just recency bias since I just saw him as bad but instead it's a more substantial interpretation of his posts that I thought looked bad, though I admitted there was some relation to similarity with that game. I guess you're probably right that I was still biased in my interpretation of his content. Anyway he was civ after all so