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by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:33 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Boquise wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:09 am So like I could sit here and bs a read on you that looks good on paper because I am aware that I have a good tone. Like just to prove a point I could do that, but that would be a waste of time since it is hollow and not something I am married to. Why am I not bs'ing elegant reads, iyo? Like my Marmot read was based on small feels/vibes + thread state where I localised through PoE who, on D1, that could be the likeliest scum. But that is a read made after not reading much. Had I been online at eod, I would have voted Falcon. I am aware that my Marmot thing is an eyebrow-raiser. Here lies another wifom question: as scum, and regardless of Marmot's alignment, would I let my one vote and one harder d1 scum lean be so underdeveloped and then visibly not care that much about it the next day phase?
I don't quite understand this paragraph. It's a bit all over the place. To answer the orange question: sure, that seems plausible for mafia you. I'm not sure I would give many players that particular brand of credit if anyone. I have to make some generous assumptions to discard you as a suspect on that basis.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:57 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

EnderWiggin wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:55 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:44 pm Would greatly appreciate any perspectives on my Boq review. My present view of the game largely hinges on that.
I'm about to run a D&D session, but after I promise I'll look at it.
Thank you.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:49 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

And regarding you poking me, @Boquise:

The observation about you asking questions instead of overtly scum reading people is fine for the early Day 0/1 period in which I made it. At a certain point these things have to go somewhere though.

You did “poke” me, barely, but I don’t know that you did anything with it until right now. I don’t have the sense that my posts are consequential to you. I am a major presence in the game and wield some influence. You have seemed to allow me to just exist, at an arm’s length, without prioritizing sorting me. To be wary of me is okay, but that seems like a questionable way to handle me as I command some significant portion of game progression if you distrust me.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:39 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I’m sick of hearing about this cop check thing, so I will explain the entire thought process that existed in my brain.

- I answered the question in the first place only because I wanted to respect Boq’s exercise. If he had a reason for asking, then I ought to contribute. So I did.

- I thought about it quite briefly. I looked at my chart, saw that Wilgy had four viable connections, and said “if I had a red on Wilgy it might instantly produce a winning POE”. I could not say the same about anyone else.

- If I had a green on Wilgy, it would give me assurance about my own process when charting (not long after Seanzie had criticized that process). It would also affirm as town the most blatant LHF in the game, one for whom I think insights can be gleaned just for how he is treated. Wilgy has probably been mischopped more than any other player in the history of this website. If I have a green on some other player, it’s not quite the same.

- If Wilgy only had one prospective teammate instead of four or so, I wouldn’t answer that way. He fell in the sweet spot, or at least I thought so in the brief time I dedicated to thinking about the question.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:31 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Regarding your question in your response to my ISO, Boquise: an example token rationale to derive town core suspects from a Seanzie kill would be that he voiced suspicion of us — certainly of me and a little of Alison.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:27 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Boquise wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:57 am This doesn't sound like you? Maybe I have the wrong impression? But you feel like the sort of person who actually wants exchanges?
Not at all. It’s valuable for folks who have received questions or accusations to respond once or twice, to provide basic clarity. It is not ideal for those things to turn into continuous interrogations, back-and-forths, or otherwise consume thread space. That’s what I was referring to. Other people too often have their eyes glaze over at such things and it can stifle the game.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:07 am
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

lucy wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 12:04 am any other iso's or posts you mentioned that you can spam? @JaggedJimmyJay
Yes. Am away from computer atm but will share soon.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:53 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:45 pm You have not analysed the Sean NK to a degree I find satisfying.

Your view of a Wilgy check potentially breaking open the game does not seem to have come to fruition as far as I can tell.

Is that ok phrasing?
1) I think this expectation is unfair but go off
2) It might have. It’s huge in my Boq review. A mafia flip would have broken the game open more, I acknowledge.
3) phrase as you please, poop head

Anyway I’m going to leave this here. I don’t want this argument lording over the thread
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:48 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:44 pm @JaggedJimmyJay However, if you are town, I'm curious what you think of the Boq/Fingers interaction I have previously noted.
If you have specifically theorized why this works already I cannot find it. Otherwise I’ll look at ISOs later when I’m not on mobile. Off-hand I don’t know of a reason to dissociate them.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:44 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Would greatly appreciate any perspectives on my Boq review. My present view of the game largely hinges on that.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:41 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:39 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:36 pm As for Wilgy: I have heavily incorporated Wilgy’s flip into my analyses today. It’s a major recurring theme. I AM using that information. Interact with the walls.
Of course you are. That was not my point.

And yes, I will be reading your walls.

What I will not do is going back and forth in a long discussion with you about this and that which totally misses my points and the game state. I'm sure you can argue till the cows come home, but if I think you are mafia, I'm just going to vote you anyway. Similar to how I do it if I see Hally or anyone else particularly strong as mafia. Which is really unfair if you are town. But a lot of arguing details isn't likely to get you anywhere, but I will read and think about everything.
I’m not asking for an exchange. I don’t want that either. But I do want you to deal with all of my content before you tell me it isn’t there.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:36 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

As for Wilgy: I have heavily incorporated Wilgy’s flip into my analyses today. It’s a major recurring theme. I AM using that information. Interact with the walls.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:34 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dizzy I will answer that stuff later in full, but I want to protest one thing right now. It’s just untrue to say I haven’t looked into the Sean kill at all. I’ve said it’s a major factor in my view of Creature.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:39 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 1]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:37 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:32 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:27 pm I think it's relevant if we're discussing NKA. If you just revived the PoE to discuss it for a different purpose, then it's not relevant. I'm very excited to see your NKA of the Sean kill. Haven't gotten that far yet.
I haven’t performed a dedicated analysis of the Sean kill. I might yet if it seems prudent given the time allotted.

Tell me what the Mac kill means for Marmot.
You haven't? Interesting, since you talked about how you thought NKA was important D2.

I don't know what it means for Marmot. But Mac did say he'd tunnel Marmot if Falcon flipped town. So that's why I think it would be relevant in a NKA of Mac. My point here is not really to talk about Marmot though. But to talk about and with you.
Yes, there is value in NKA. There is value in a lot of analytic methods, many of which I am actively employing in this very day phase. I am one man and cannot do everything.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:37 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

EnderWiggin wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:25 pm Nate is also super sus for the fact that he has no solid decisiveness about his reads.

He provides those lovely scalding hot lists and then is like "But I'm not sure".

I'm ngl I'm trying to remember if he did that in Quals, need to check.
I posted a lengthy take on Nate. You should tell me what you make of it.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:36 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:40 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:39 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:37 pm I'll begin here: I think Boq is strictly town now. I found a general town tell that I've never seen fail before. If he is the first, so be it. That plus the detail of what he's noticing is enough for me.
It is extremely important that you expand on this when you're able. I have a different view.
I won't, because I intend to use it again. I'm interested to hear your view though.
I want feedback on this.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:32 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 1]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:27 pm I think it's relevant if we're discussing NKA. If you just revived the PoE to discuss it for a different purpose, then it's not relevant. I'm very excited to see your NKA of the Sean kill. Haven't gotten that far yet.
I haven’t performed a dedicated analysis of the Sean kill. I might yet if it seems prudent given the time allotted.

Tell me what the Mac kill means for Marmot.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:25 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 1]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:20 pm You are notably not including Marmot here, which Mac promised to tunnel if Falcon was town. Do you not think that is relevant?
He’s certainly not relevant to the post I was discussing. He’s not in it. Hey may or may not be relevant otherwise, but I was speaking specifically of the “auto” POE that Mac posted.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:01 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Sometimes when I put together these walls, they have a paralyzing effect that frustrates me. I understand that sometimes they can be difficult to absorb just for being massive, but I would really appreciate if folks could read them or skim them or look at the conclusions and share your perspectives.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:53 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Alison wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:40 pm There is the question of why Seanzie died over you. One explanation is that you are mafia. There are other explanations, like that Seanzie was onto someone, but it's a possibility I am considering, especially since one of the people Seanzie was "onto" has flipped town and I think another is also town.

The way you and Ender sprang at each other at SOD3, followed by relatively little interaction or pushing after that initial spat, was weird and I said so at the time. You've since clarified that you were scumreading Ender since the day before, but I still think the way you attacked him, calling his posts "fake" etc., smacks of a generic treatment that I don't associate with town you.
Ender hasn't really been around yet since that exchange, so the conversation has not moved. I'd love to hear other folks' perspective about it, and I have called for that -- but at a certain point I need the field to answer those calls. I am not sure where you would get the impression in orange. Saying things seem fake is quite ordinary, for me and probably for anyone.

Were you unaware before I told you this phase that I suspected Ender on Day 2?
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:48 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Let's ISO Boquise

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Boquise wrote:
RondoDimBuckle wrote: The name "Nate the lesser" implies a greater nate out there. Are you afraid of him? @NateTheLesser
This post made me laugh tbh
You can have a town lean
Boquise wrote:
Seanzie wrote: I know it is only day 0 and I know I've not actually seen Jay as scum, but kinda okay calling Jay town right now and not worrying about it for at least like 20 minutes or so.
Gut reading this as town
Boquise wrote:
falcon45ca wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
falcon45ca wrote: JJJ and Sean doing a cute lil' dance around each other here.


69% chance one of em' is Maf
Please tell me more, falcon. Tell me everything.
OK, but it'll cost ya.

If you're good at something, never do it for free
You're quite more jokish than in your quali. Albeit i have only D1 so far tbh

Are you feeling more relaxed or something? Considering this isn't a high stakes game tbh
Boquise wrote:
lucy wrote: I thought we were just talking
I think I want to town read lucy
Boquise wrote:
RondoDimBuckle wrote:
lucy wrote: what did you think it was?
lucy wrote: I thought we were just talking
RondoDimBuckle wrote:
lucy wrote: check out Robert Eggars if you want very good films to make you feel very uncomfortable
trying to get in my pocket are you? Or is it put me in yours? I dont know all the lingo yet but Im watching you
I have had people who I got into a good talk about good tv shows before put a blind spot on me because I didnt want to figure out their slot because we were enjoying each others company. They were wolf and we lost so hard, so I am not letting anything innocent pass
I can possibly town lean this. Scum could go at this approach but I find it likelier to be town tbh
Boquise wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote: I refuse to scumhunt on D0 so enjoy me sitting around memeing and pocketing Rondo
Kinda out of nowhere tbh
Boquise wrote:
lucy wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote:
lucy wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote:
lucy wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote:

I am somewhat familiar with everyone in this lobby.

Including you after speccing your game so much lol
lmao, that’s reassuring
Hi.
hello, how are ya?
Tired and distracted, you?
focused and well rested
Ender, did you write your "I refuse to scum hunt on D0" post because of this Lucy post?
Boquise wrote:
Creature wrote: I'm surprised I wasn't quoted anywhere
Hello Creature tbh
Why are you surprised about this? You were also quoted.
Creature wrote: I have a wolflean already, but maybe I should wait for day 1 to start first
There is a strategic rationale to hide a wolf lean during D0 imo. Why do you think you should wait tbh?

Here's a hodge-podge of Boq vibe reads from the initial Day 0 period. I appreciate the proactivity, though I acknowledge that naked vibe reads like these aren't that hard to post for mafia.

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Boquise wrote: Also, I have become a bit too old and seasoned to be worried on how I come across and whether I fit in in a new community. So if I am being annoying and stuff, just tell me tbh!

Same tbh. When I play somewhere new I just kinda go full Me and let them react to it however they will tbh. Good attitude tbh. This is irrelevant to the ISO I just wanted to say tbh

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Boquise wrote:
Creature wrote: ITT people discuss how to play champs but don't follow their own advices
Who do you think isn't following their advice and why?
Boquise wrote: Regarding the "not say your wolf leans on D0" thing I asked Creature about. I mentioned that there are some reasons and given Creature has now replied, I will say mine.

Scum reads tend to make people defensive/emotional. Since D0 seems to be jokish, I reckon it could from one perspective ruin the "chill phase" and from another perspective, give scum hints on how to act accordingly.

I am not really pro hiding thoughts, but I think it is better to focus on town reads. I did have a dude on my ol' homesite who was great at sniffing out scum in our N1 phases tho (we had N1 starting before D1 and open night chat for everyone) by just looking at how players acted, if they were nervous etc.


Creature's response is lol and creature-esque. I'm not really satisfied, but it is D0 so!

Just logging as a starting point for Boq's take on Creature.

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Boquise wrote: Honestly i don't want to come off as a try-hard tbh! But I am feeling like a race horse just waiting to start galloping! Jurying has made me super excited to play mafia again, and I was going to get that itch in Team Mafia (a game where each player slot consists of multiple players but only one acc can post for each day) and the game got solved before it was my turn to play in the thread!! It was fun solving in our btsc but still

Then I played a gif only game and it was fun and stuff, but limited what I could say and I was also busy at that time.

So I am thinking in five dimensions right now smh tbh!

Boq projects a certain eagerness to get into the thick of the Mafia experience, and I think his play to this point is a decent reflection of that. He took plenty of stances at least.

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Boquise wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote: I have been told by many people about the mythical Creature Spam.

I have yet to see it actually happen.
I think a decent portion of my perspective is derived from recent surfing around MU as I compiled statistics and saw Creature with a million posts in X or Y games. Have you played with him often
Creature definitely posts more as town than scum and had a defeatist persona as scum where he hardly posted. However he has improved a lot during these last years tbh.

Iirc I spearheaded a Creature misyeet in our first game and everyone chastised me on how it was obvious Creature town meta lmao

A few people challenged my meta perspective about Creature, so perhaps it's of note that Boq was one to essentially support it. The meaning of this moment depends mostly on Creature's alignment.

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Boquise wrote:
RondoDimBuckle wrote:
Alison wrote:
RondoDimBuckle wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: @RondoDimBuckle, Alison has placed a vote on your head. Please talk about that and thanks
It is a thing she has done :shrug:. I dont really care too much because I knew it was coming and it makes me happy
Why would someone attacking you make you happy?
Because I am a giant troll and love when I can elicit an emotional reaction from people. Ala, you entering thread and insta voting me. Its predictability is food for the soul. It just makes me happy
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Townie schadenfreude, perhaps.jpeg tbh
Boquise wrote:
MacDougall wrote: hey rondo and boq, do you have anything interesting to say about who is or is not mafia?
Hi tbh
Lucy isn't mafia, Seanze isn't mafia, Alison isn't mafia tbh
Boquise wrote: I read Rondo as town, I think

Just a few more quick takes to throw into the cauldron for Day 0 and early Day 1. Tracking progressions as I go.

One trend I note is that when Boq's vibe read is positive, he tends to voice it concretely as "town" or "isn't mafia". When he is not making a town read on someone else, he tends to ask questions or poke instead of defaulting to "scum read". I like that as a general policy, though it likely doesn't say much about Boq's alignment.

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Boquise wrote: Lmao I think it is fun!

I feel like thread state-wise, Rando is rand>town. Aside from being funny, I feel like they have made some tonally townie posts. Example: the one where they talk about AtE, not wanting to omgus Alison, then votes Alison. I am not sure at all how Rando approaches the game, but I don't think a scum player there would break the "lmao this is so funny that you're tunnelling me" spiel so quickly. I think these are things scum are more interested in keeping consistent.

I did get sad when they refused to help me with reading Ender tho

Alison is someone I have discussed with in MU discord regarding mafia theory, and I have seen her play (but haven't played with). So I know from start that I find her stiff and archaic when it comes to the game. It is easy for me to town read that sort of play when it is probably NAI. I am town reading her for her debacle with Rando. Specifically a post I quoted before saying "mmmm fair observation". My gut says that's townie tbh

Trying to not default to "lmao it is town vs town" though.

What are your thoughts on those two players?

Here's a development of some of those prior vibe reads, on Rondo and Alison. I'm glad that if Boq's inclination is to view both participants in the early Alison/Rondo kerfuffle as town, that he went to the trouble of providing individual, unique perspectives instead of, as he puts it, defaulting to the "lmao t/t".

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Boquise wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote: Jay is absolutely able to replicate his town-leader-yness as wolf. While his content or detail mileage might vary, I find it hard to believe that Jay can be read on "Is he approaching game as a 'make town collaborate' thing?" given that's almost his trademark from all that people have told me in the past.
That's fair tbh
JJJ is a null for me right now tbh

I'm not sure I recall Boq giving a clear read on me in this game (other than null), so that's kind of weird. I have 400 posts, and probably had a solid hundo by this point. I'll see if there's anything in the ISO as I go.

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Boquise wrote:
DrWilgy wrote:
I do not, but I do believe that town Mac would allow for more data before gauging someone he has a track record of reading correctly.

That is what's throwing me off. Your conclusion was drawn far more quickly than I'd expect.

However, the gusto I feel from your posts is in line to how I perceive town Mac. It is quite the contradiction.

Do you, Mac, feel as if your ability to read me has shifted at all in the past year? If so, do you feel it has improved or declined?
Maybe Mac plays differently here, but my expectation of town Mac is that he creates reads by tunnelling a player and looking at what ripples that causes in the thread. Basically going in with a machine gun and "100% sure someone is scum". So your first sentence doesn't really vibe with my experience tbh

Marking this down for the initial interaction of Boq with Wilgy. I want to see how this develops moving forward. This post on its own power means little to me.

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Boquise wrote:
Alison wrote: @Boquise Run me through the reads you feel the strongest about, please.
Lucy - I think the way she approaches the thread and how she responded to my question on her wall to be alike how she played in her quali.

Seanze - I liked the way they started to form reads early on in D0

Mac - Now this one is a bit difficult. I have a few expectations of Mac when he plays as either alignment (and I have rn a 100% accuracy on reading him as both alignments). Rn I think he is checking off the town boxes. He is a bit tunnelly, but the tunnels help him form reads. Still am a bit wary because I am not used to Mac not being the loudest person in the room.


So plenty of my reads are not "strong" - they are feels. I am trying to replicate how I have read the games as a jury member, and add it to my regular repertoire. Which is to just bookmark things that on a first read feels "good" tbh

Alison asked Boq for his strongest reads, and he provided these three answers. It's a little surprising he referenced these lighter vibe-driven impressions of lucy and Seanzie instead of some reads he had developed more concretely. The Mac read is a waffle. Some trepidation is okay, we'll see how it develops.

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Boquise wrote: I think Nate sounds similar to his G1 play tbh
We pretty much have the same poe!

This can serve as a summary of Boq's reads into the first half of Day 1. If his POE was pretty much the same as mine, you can click his post here to see what mine was for context.

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Boquise wrote:
Creature wrote: I could see it being Marmot + NaateTheLesser

Maybe DrWilgy for third
2/3 of those have been fairly quiet. It is sorta typical to scum read the low posters because everyone sounds so townie and solvy. Is there anything on Marmot that you felt, as you wrote this post, was wolfy?

I believe this is Boq's first mention of Marmot, which has importance since that's where his Day 1 vote ended up landing. At this point Marmot had very few if any posts, so the question Boq presents here is pretty token and ~fine.

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Boquise wrote:
Marmot wrote: Hey folks, my allergies have been killing me all evening, and playing mafia doesn't feel feasible. I won't be around until near the deadline. I'll try to catch up and participate at that point.
I was building up to push you but now that feels like morally wrong tbh

Or at least that I have made an assumption that is NAI

Will write something longer soonish and place a vote

I think Creature is town
Boquise wrote: Creature has several strings of posts next to each other containing game related stuff. I am still peeved by him ignoring my question, but I have learned the hard way that someone ignoring you doesn't make them scum.

I lean him town because of the post strings (on phone rn so can't quote them).

I had early misgivings on Falcon due to his change of tone from the quali, but I decided to not push there but read what else he'd produce, since it is a weak thing to scum read someone for. The fact that Falcon got pushed by a few peeps made me think that Falcon could be a set-up for D1 misyeet but I haven't really felt any townie vibes from Falcon so..

Marmot is the player has the most scum equity. He isn't taking part of much discussion, is basically just there trying to stay relevant. However now when I know that he has been away because of allergies, it does feel like my conclusion is made on wrong premises. Again, I am comparing qualis, but I wolf read Marmot that game and he was town. He also contributed a lot to discussion. Now I have felt some of Marmot's posts surface townie but lacking in content. Another thing is Marmot complaining about us posting a lot, when he was a high poster in his quali.

Those are my takes
Boquise wrote: Town:
Mac
Lucy
Alison
Rondo
Seanize
Nate? (Feels like the same approach as in his quali)
JJJ?
Creature?
Ender?

Neutral:
Finger
Wilgy (I respect Alison's take there tho)
Dizzy

Scum leans:
Falcon
Marmot
Boquise wrote: [VOTE: Marmot ] aubergine

This comes about 22 hours later, so clearly in that period Boq found reason to view Marmot with some suspicion. He stated his rationale in the second post here, which I have color coded (this time with colors deliberate -- red reflects an assertion of a scum read, orange reflects suspicion, and yellow reflects null or a caveat). The qualifiers present in this read (and in the falcon read before it) are a bit jarring. I get the sense that Boq doesn't want to scum read either of them but does anyway, and places them both in the bottommost tier of his follow-up reads list. That's a concerning moment from the standpoint of authenticity.

This made Boq the lone voter for Marmot, and it was his final vote of Day 1 about 14 hours prior to the deadline. He remained the lone Marmot voter at the time he departed the thread for the phase.

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Boquise wrote:
Dyslexicon wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: btw Dizzy you're about to hit 10,000 posts, prepare your ceremony
:cloud9:

Also, I wasn't going to say anything. Remember there's not really objective standards for sincerity. But you already know this.
Depending on the alignment of certain players, this game can be very losable in the game state right now. Winnable too, for sure.
I look forward to admire your WIM, and everyone else's too.

Marmot and Alison for town, here. Everything else up in the air.
I was philosophising about Dizzy potentially being with Marmot as scum, and that they are protecting a weaker scum mate, but this post doesn't feel aligned tbh

Unclear why this Dizzy post would be unaligned with Marmot.

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Boquise wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Marmot wrote: Sure
You are appreciated.

The last thing I was hoping to achieve is the classical night kill analysis. Many people balk at the very idea of trying this, and I think they're wrong. Wifom is wifom blah blah, but we're remiss if we don't at least take a look. Moreover, in a mountainous game, at least one of the layers of wifom does not exist -- there are no doctor dodges. So it'd behoove us to review Mac and see where he sat. What we do with that I don't know right now, but we honor his memory enough to give him a voice.

If that's something that tickles you, I'd love to see what you come up with.
I kinda expected to be the kill because I was during D1 consensus town read with no on-going conflicts with other players. Whereas Mac, also highly town read, had a thing with Wilgy that could be exploited and easier to tinfoil because of Falcon and of site history*.

*What I mean with site history is that I am an unknown variable whilst Mac is a tried gun.

This tells me that Mac's reads can have threatened the woofs tbh

:ponder:

Mac was anti-Wilgy on Day 1, so for his read to be "exploited" would imply that Wilgy is town. Perhaps this was Boq's Night 1 mindset or perhaps not, but it's to be considered within his broader Wilgy perspective.

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Boquise wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote: I was memeing before but actually Marmot just wolf.
Yea, Marmot is still a scum lean for me tbh

k why

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Boquise wrote:
Marmot wrote: To anyone who is voting for fingersplints, here's a couple links to recent wolf games from her.

Fargo Mafia - ok this was from a year ago. This is one of fs's most active games I've seen, she spent a lot of time early on talking about pretty much anything but reads, and even her reads were not very strong at the start.
Mafia Syndicate Normal Game - this is from a few months ago, fs barely posted, and her posts were all very short, and she does seem stilted in this one.

I'm not seeing either of these things from her. Yes fingersplints doesn't post a lot, but that is normal for her (and really it's that the rest of us just post way too much). What I have seen here is an almost immediate attempt to generate reads, explain them, and she's also considering how the game will play out based on flips and looking ahead, an approach which appears to be lacking in her scum meta.

I'd call her town right now.
Does Finger tend to use aggressive phrasing as town when questioned?

This is an odd moment that recalls some of lucy's controversies. I don't think fingersplints has used "aggressive phrasing" in this game. Interpretations can vary, so I dunno. Much more recently Boq expanded here (click). I don't think that post is aggressively phrased. :shrug2:

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Boquise wrote:
fingersplints wrote: Also thanks to those who answered my question about Boq. The wording is less weird since they do seem to be considered town, however it does still ping me a little when anyone talks about them myself in terms of being so town.
They are still null for me I guess
Gun to head: scum without much thread control doesn't take issue when a consensus town read townie calls themselves consensus town read. That scum player is likely to sheep the read for the moment and push elsewhere.

It is more town indicative to try to think independently and be paranoid over such statements. It is also pretty town indicative to not be generous with these sort of things. Disliking that someone reiterates town reads on them in a neutral manner is irrational and therefore also townie tbh

It's decent that despite the previous thing Boq ended up town reading fingersplints to some degree. Whatever the interpretation was of aggressive phrasing, the trajectory of that interpretation wasn't one of opportunism.

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Boquise wrote: Ftr Marmot's posts today gives me neither scum reads nor town reads. I haven't really cared I guess tbh

But it is noted that we have the same conclusion on Finger
Boquise wrote: @lucy why is it important in your opinion that Marmot and I today engage with each other?
Boquise wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Boquise wrote: @lucy why is it important in your opinion that Marmot and I today engage with each other?
Because we're both town, and it'd be a neat distraction from finding wolves. :wowee:
Lmao
Are you trying to pocket me

I could argue after a closer look at the first half of this ISO that lucy's concern was at least observant. I wish Boq did more to directly interact with Marmot before this point, because his read wasn't really moving. Marmot was his Day 1 vote after all.

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Boquise wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:
Boquise wrote: Let's have an exercise
If you had an alignment check, who would be your first pick to check and why?
Wilgy

I think that sort would potentially break the game open
Huh hm
In your analysis of interactions, he is in the least amount of worlds though? Wouldn't it be better to pick someone who has equity with plenty of people?

Logging this as concrete that Boq was aware of my interactive analysis chart and Wilgy's place on it. This concerns me, because Boq ended the day with his vote on Wilgy. I will read on and get more context before I take that farther.

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Boquise wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: @Boquise how do you feel about these wagons?
I lean Finger town and whilst I am nervous to call Marmot (I saw that little pocket attempt), I currently wouldn't want to meet him.

And the wagons as a whole:
Finger, Marmot, Creature, Lucy, Dizzy, Ender (tho idr if they are a wagon rn) - all match the "weird player not vibing with the thread atmosphere" archetype. In champs this year, this is the archetype that usually got yeeted and most of them were town that couldn't really get into town. I am not saying that all of these players are town, there were scum in champs that also qualified in this archetype.

But it makes me stop and think.
However, looking at the list I wrote, I would add at least Nate and Rondo too (only that I am currently trying to shield both). This is almost the whole player list so wtf yo?

Eh. Agree or disagree with Boq's premise here (that atypically-styled players are bait), the last sentence tends to invalidate the whole post. The orange thing is also a bit ugly at face value.

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Boquise wrote: Oh yeah Wilgy also qualifies to that archetype

He certainly does, probably more than anyone else. Why vote

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Boquise wrote: But there has been plentiful of reactions when I have shielded LHF

INTERESTIIIIIING
Boquise wrote: Yo @JaggedJimmyJay
since you are much more used at analysing associations, what do you think of this?

[quotes snipped for length]

(which tho is kinda unrelated to what happened in the thread and stuff but still!)

How does this affect their (Nate, Finger, Dizzy) association with Alison?
Does this make them less or more likely, iyo, to be a wolf if Alison is wolf, or if Alison is town?
Boquise wrote: my qualms here with Alison is that she is on paper doing pushes that are easy to vibe with.
However they are textbook

So it depends on how much nuance she has when she towns tbh
Boquise wrote: [VOTE: Alison] aubergine

I wont keep this vote if Alison doesnt come back to the thread. If she is town, she is too valuable.

Over the latter portion of Day 2, Boq began a motion against Alison. It could be called "consistent" with the previous concerns about going after players that aren't "standard" for lack of a better word whereas Alison is by-the-book. I might like this moment more if I had a clearer understanding of where it came from and what Alison content is being described as textbook.

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Boquise wrote: I havent decided what your alignment is yet JJJ, but you get a thumbs up anyway tbh

Why not?

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Boquise wrote: out of the lhf folks, I am the most into voting Wilgy.
Boquise wrote:
MacDougall wrote:
DrWilgy wrote:
MacDougall wrote:
DrWilgy wrote: Ah! An interesting conundrum! *Sits up from study and lifts paper to light*

Seanzie, can be scum in this scenario. When given the opportunity to expand thinking, a joke reply was given not even considering alternatives to the action of voting me.

EnderWiggin I do not have enough data on, this can be either way.

*Brings the paper back down and stands up, beginning to pace around his study*

Macdougall however intrigues me the most here. I do believe that Mac has a good read on me, but is either wrong or is wolf. I do wonder if town Mac pushes on me in effort to solve, but the fervor I see does not seem to indicate that this is in fact fishing. Yes, Mac who is good at reading me, I do not feel would commit this hard to a scum read on me at this point. This is potentially Scum Mac. I will review in the morning as it is time for the doctor to get some well deserved rest.

My studies on Jay the all consuming will continue tomorrow.

*Turns off the lights and exits stage left*
So do you think that town Mac should be townreading you for your play prior to this post? If so can you show me the parts where you've towntold to a degree where you'd expect me to notice?
I do not, but I do believe that town Mac would allow for more data before gauging someone he has a track record of reading correctly.

That is what's throwing me off. Your conclusion was drawn far more quickly than I'd expect.

However, the gusto I feel from your posts is in line to how I perceive town Mac. It is quite the contradiction.

Do you, Mac, feel as if your ability to read me has shifted at all in the past year? If so, do you feel it has improved or declined?
First sentence, since when have you known me to not be bullish with making reads immediately? I don't think my track record of reading you is superb. I've read you wrong quite a lot. I think I read you poorly when we first started playing, went through a patch of reading you really well, and then when you came back from hiatus and started playing more intentionally I lost my ability to read you because you were playing entirely new again.

In this game you just seem to be making posts for the sake of it.
this post makes me think back on my discussion with Wilgys regarding him scum reading Mac for the push tbh
hm.
Boquise wrote: [VOTE: DrWilgy] aubergine
Boquise wrote: i'mma sleep

my vote is on Wilgy because I think a player who has history (according to Marmot iirc) with mac should not crumble at Mac pressure tbh

Here's the final Wilgy progression. This bothers me a lot on a few dimensions.

1) This is another day phase in which Boq's final vote went to a player that, in that moment, had no other votes. Boq's Marmot vote on Day 1 was a similar case, albeit earlier in the phase. This time, Boq's vote made the poll tally 4-2-1-1-1-1-1-1 (fingersplints-Marmot-Ender-Dizzy-Wilgy-lucy-Creature-Alison). As of Boq's final post of Day 2 (8:12 PM EDT, 7:12 PM per Nate's records), the poll tally was 4-3-2-2 (Ender-fingersplints-Marmot-Wilgy). Neither Day 1 nor Day 2 allow me to say with any confidence that Boq is concerned with impacting the final vote.

2) I already mentioned this earlier, but I don't think the orange bit is a terribly fair viewpoint. It's a lot to say that Wilgy "crumbled", and knowing Mac should not make a big difference with respect to how impactful his pressure can be.

3) Boq did not seem to care at all about my interactive reviews or my chart. I already affirmed earlier in this review that he was aware of it, and of Wilgy's posture in it, and it doesn't appear to me that this made any difference to Boq at all when making his voting decision. Perhaps this is my conceit speaking, but I think Boq has more reason than many others would to at least pay some respect to the work I do in that kind of chart. He was in the game where I produced arguably my strongest interaction chart ever (correctly cleared Hally and Phighter, correctly isolated mafia teammates). I'm not saying anyone needs to treat my work like it is infallible, but it shouldn't be ignored outright. Moreover, this plays into a larger trend with Boq -- his treatment of me in this game. I have been a null read all along, or more recently I get a share of his tinfoil over night kill analysis but still without an actual read. I'm not sure Boq is paying much heed if any, or even attention, to the posts I make in this game thread.

Conclusion

This review represents, so far at least, the most significant production of the ISOs I have been doing through Day 3. I have a lot of concerns about Boquise, and that is a stark contrast to the perspective I had of him prior to this stage of the game. Some of these concerns are at a smaller level, and I don't ask that Boq address every single one of them -- that would not be a valuable use of the limited time remaining in the phase. But some of this stuff needs to be addressed, particularly the concerns I expressed about the Wilgy vote. I would really like to hear from other folks beyond Boq about this review as well, or about Boq in general, because this is the first time in the game he has been subjected to serious pressure of any sort. Let's talk about it.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:47 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I'll share my Boq review now while you're around Dizzy.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:42 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:40 pm Why has it not redefined your view on Splints? If Marmot is wrong, would you not care to argue against his town case? Marmot seems sure.
It's a meta-dependent and small-sample viewpoint that I am not sure pays full enough respect to fingersplints' capability as a player. But he can still be right. I have also had some small inklings of town from splints in this game that I have shared independent of Marmot. It's just not a confident matter, and the bar of "what is town" is elevated now.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:39 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:37 pm I'll begin here: I think Boq is strictly town now. I found a general town tell that I've never seen fail before. If he is the first, so be it. That plus the detail of what he's noticing is enough for me.
It is extremely important that you expand on this when you're able. I have a different view.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:38 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:31 pm @JaggedJimmyJay How capable do you think Marmot is of fooling you?

How much did you care about Marmot's defence of Finger, and how did that inform your view of Finger. Cause it looks to me like you didn't care much at all, while being very aware of it.
I think he's reasonably capable of fooling me in the sense that his game should be respected. I'm not sure it's happened that many times though.

Marmot's view of fingersplints has meant something to me. It has not redefined my view of splints, because I think there are still concerns to be addressed with her slot, but perhaps it has made some difference to encourage my voting hands to other people to this point.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:35 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Alison wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:31 pmI have JJJ in my immediate POE
You'd referenced the notion that we've failed to kill mafia and that "arrogantly" you don't think town is here if you/Mac/myself are all town. Is there more to POEing me than that?
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:32 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Creature is a player that I didn't have time to fully review in the same form, so as of right now I am still kind of working on gut impressions of both him and the game state.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:31 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I appreciate the review you did, Nate. I think some key differences for me are that I am higher on both Dizzy and Creature. Some of my other adapted views through the break will be visible soon in my wall posts.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:29 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Let's ISO Marmot

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Marmot wrote:I'm going to slank until at least Day 1 starts

Ture

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Marmot wrote: JJJ is town because he isn't stilted off the face of the earth.

After the events of Philo Mafia 2 and Highway Heist, I may have turbo'd Marmot if he didn't make this read.

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Marmot wrote:
MacDougall wrote: I'd probs bet actual money Rondo is town here.

I do like to gamble though. But I'm pretty confident lol.

I find Mac mildly townie, but he's got a tone this game that I'm not used to that I want to keep an eye on. There are posts like this where he uses "lol" in his statements, something that lightens the conviction he had in them (which I get is an odd observation here given that it's added to a statement where he's talking about confidence), but additionally he's using other sentence add-ons like "though" and "but" back-to-back. I'm used to Mac speaking in facts, not considerations.

Anyway, just a note. I did go back through Ducktales Mafia to compare his posting there (a recent town game), Mac did use "lol" several times so maybe this observation isn't concerning. Also Mac caught falcon as scum Day 1 in that game, so his assertion here has some credibility.

To give the simplest summary of my view of Marmot's meta: when he's town, he makes nuanced reads based upon little details often otherwise overlooked. When he's mafia, his posts are farts. So while this read on Mac could be called a hedge, I like that Marmot is paying attention to little things like "lol" placement.

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Marmot wrote: I glanced at DrWilgy's ISO and have a firm townread there.

I glanced at falcon's too and don't have a firm townread, but I'm not ready to call him scum yet. I'll probably defer to Mac's read since he's so consistent at reading him.
Marmot wrote: I also don't think a team of DrWilgy and falcon would both attempt to simultaneously scumread a town!Mac (in this gamestate).
Marmot wrote:
DrWilgy wrote: Marmot, why am I town?
Because your reads aren't weak (if I may make such a critical statement about your scum game), nor are you making solely peepee poopoo posts.
Marmot wrote:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: I haven’t played much lately but my conception of the Wilgy Experience is that as mafia he’s less peepeepoopoo
I hosted a game with him as mafia semi-recently (Coffia), his Day 1 start included lots of peepee poopoo, but he transitioned to attempting to defend himself when he was put under pressure. He was eventually yeeted Day 1.

In Team Fortress, he quite literally posted nothing but mphhhmpm pmmphmh mphmhp for most of the game as mafia.

In Philo 2 Mafia, Wilgy did have some peepee poopoo, but on Day 2, he made an incredibly astute post summarizing the game state and what we should do, which was enough to (correctly) remove him from the POE, and direct us in the right direction.


This game, I would lean more towards Philo 2 than the others on meta.

Marmot wasted no time in giving the town sticker to DrWilgy, and he presented it with assertiveness. Marmot is probably the player on the roster I would most expect to both give Wilgy special attention and also have good insights about Wilgy's enigmatic ways. So this represents a nice start. It must be stated that in the end Marmot voted Wilgy out on Day 2 -- I'll see how things progress to determine to what extent that is an alarm.

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Marmot wrote:
Creature wrote: I could see it being Marmot + NaateTheLesser

Maybe DrWilgy for third
Ooh yes, do explain this one.
Marmot wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Creature wrote: I could see it being Marmot + NaateTheLesser

Maybe DrWilgy for third
Ooh yes, do explain this one.
Hi Marmot. I was nice and voted you earlier, so can you be nice and let me know if you have any thoughts on alignments thus far?
I'm getting there, this is my first time opening the thread since the first hour or two.
Which is why I'm amazed that I found a read from Creature that slots my name as scum with someone else.
Marmot wrote:
Boquise wrote:
Creature wrote: I could see it being Marmot + NaateTheLesser

Maybe DrWilgy for third
2/3 of those have been fairly quiet. It is sorta typical to scum read the low posters because everyone sounds so townie and solvy. Is there anything on Marmot that you felt, as you wrote this post, was wolfy?

Given that I'd only posted that I was going to slank until Day 1, I'm also curious about this.
Marmot wrote: For the record, I was crying, but I was not frozen.

What else did I miss except for Creature accusing me of being frozen multiple times?
Marmot wrote:
Creature wrote:
Marmot wrote: For the record, I was crying, but I was not frozen.

What else did I miss except for Creature accusing me of being frozen multiple times?
Just stop being frozen.
Why do you read me as frozen?
Marmot wrote:
Creature wrote: Marmot:

[Let It Go image]

Ok but can you answer my question?
Marmot wrote: Anyway, I do think that Creature's argument to elim me because I am frozen is not a good one. If it's a pressure vote to get me to post content, fine, but I hope he's willing to reconsider at least.
Marmot wrote:
Creature wrote:
Marmot wrote: Dizzy is drfunky and gay

Creature is now frozen.
No, I'm bored.
Can you answer my question please?
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: Creature] aubergine
Marmot wrote:
Creature wrote: Oh just noticed Marmot has a wagon
Yeh

This set of posts throws off the timeline of this ISO review slightly, but they all relate to Creature. Creature placed Marmot on an early team of three theory, and this caused Marmot to give Creature a lot of attention thereafter. I appreciate Marmot's persistence here. Small point.

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Marmot wrote: [VOTE: Dizzy] aubergine

We're now the leading wagons :haha:
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: falcon] aubergine

I'm going to read his ISO, but I'm having trouble reading his current behavior as townie.
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: ender] aubergine

Join my Wilgy

Marmot went on a minor vote movement adventure toward EOD1. The vote for Dizzy tied him for the poll lead with falcon, and the vote for falcon gave him a 2-vote lead. In that way each of them could be called moderately consequential toward shaping the EOD scenario. The Ender vote made it Falcon 6 - Ender 2 and accordingly made less of a difference. Marmot's progression in this sequence is nicely laid out in his posts. He explored a falcon elimination here (click) and here (click). He then reviewed Ender's progression on falcon here (click) and decided that he liked it less, hence leading to his final vote. I think that this stuff looks nice for Marmot. Given that falcon was town, Marmot had the ammunition needed to stand pat and let the chop go -- but he continued to work and try to find the best option available.

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Marmot wrote: Tell me you townread me.

This kind of mirrors the second point I made in this thread. While Marmot and I don't quite have a Sloonei/JJJ understanding of each other, by this point our corresponding metas have become reasonably clear to one another as compared to [at least my] experiences with most other Syndicate regulars. So, wifom aside, I appreciate the vibe of this demand.

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Marmot wrote: Currently, I think the following are various shades of town:

Town

Alison - town
Creature - light town
DrWilgy - strong town
Dyslexicon - light town
RondoDimBuckle - light town
fingersplints - light town
JaggedJimmyJay - strong town

Null

Boquise
lucy
NateTheLesser
Seanzie

Scum

EnderWiggin

I've never actually played with Boq, Nate, or lucy, nor have I put much thought into my read of them this game, which is why they are here. Sean, I don't recall having reason to believe is town (actually I did list one, but I no longer feel that reasoning exists), and Ender was the player I think looks most suspicious thus far.

I don't feel comfortable with the state of this read list, so I will put some effort into adjusting this, both in further informing my poor reads and also further pursuing if I still feel that my light town reads are still townie. I do feel confident on Wilgy and Jay at least.

Marmot's initial takes on Day 2. That strong town read on DrWilgy still stands out. This might end up becoming the crux of the Marmot review, but we'll see.

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Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: sean] aubergine
You should tell me about... me.
I found your reaction to Dizzy's vote paltry.

I found your reaction to my vote amusing, but also paltry.
How would you expect town!Sean to react to a naked vote from a player that usually has an okay read on him?
I would expect town!you to have more to say at this point on Day 2 than questioning a vote on you.
Marmot... Marmot marmot marmot...
[VOTE: Ender] aubergine

This exchange made me laugh

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Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Marmot wrote:

It is very real, and can be read in P#1890
You don't believe it. It is BS.

Cool.
Agreed, outing a wolf is pretty cool.

I've changed my mind, but not not for the reason you might think.
On what?
I was reading Mac's ISO and came across an interaction you had with him talking about Creature, and thought it was a very good take, and most likely a townie take. I have a harder time seeing wolf!you bothering to stick your neck out for a player like Creature (who seems to get misread often).

Seanzie took a few bites at Marmot, and it more or less led here. Marmot doesn't seem to care about the suspicion, which I'd call NAI, and found a unique and separate reason to townread Sean, which is decent.

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Marmot wrote: I'm rereading Ender's Day 1 ISO and am feeling less confident that he's actually a hit.

He's shitposted a lot, but there are flashes of opinions that I like. His treating of JJJ's readlist I think is townie. While I don't like his falcon vote, that's not the only vote he made Day 1 that kinda lacked context. He did so with fingersplits as well as Wilgy.

I also read a little bit of his Champs game (where he was wolf), and there was way less shitposting early on. He might have just taken that game more seriously, but the approach is very different here.



Hmmmmm

Marmot had been suspicious of Ender, and that halfway kinda turned here, at least for a time. For the sake of progression it's fine.

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Marmot wrote: To anyone who is voting for fingersplints, here's a couple links to recent wolf games from her.

Fargo Mafia - ok this was from a year ago. This is one of fs's most active games I've seen, she spent a lot of time early on talking about pretty much anything but reads, and even her reads were not very strong at the start.
Mafia Syndicate Normal Game - this is from a few months ago, fs barely posted, and her posts were all very short, and she does seem stilted in this one.

I'm not seeing either of these things from her. Yes fingersplints doesn't post a lot, but that is normal for her (and really it's that the rest of us just post way too much). What I have seen here is an almost immediate attempt to generate reads, explain them, and she's also considering how the game will play out based on flips and looking ahead, an approach which appears to be lacking in her scum meta.

I'd call her town right now.

I'd call this one of Marmot's more important posts. He's not the only one that has stood in fingersplints' corner, but this probably represents the most thorough effort to do so. This is similar to his Day 1 handling of Wilgy, so there's a certain aura of defend-the-low-hanging-fruit that Marmot has adopted. I think he is more likely to bother with this if he is town and legitimately believes it, unless he is exactly mafia with fingersplints.

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Marmot wrote: I'm going to work, have fun peeps.


Jay, can you do a Dizzy/Wilgy pairing?

Maybe this is the first hint of Wilgy suspicion forming.

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Marmot wrote: [VOTE: Wilgy] aubergine

My confidence that Wilgy is town has vanished and I want to try this vote.
Marmot wrote:
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DrWilgy wrote: Been vastly busy today.

See Dizzy as prime target? I accept this.

Ender/Marmot/Seanzie are also acceptable.

What's goin on in the thread?
DrWilgy wrote:
Creature wrote:
DrWilgy wrote:
Creature wrote:
DrWilgy wrote: What's goin on in the thread?
Feels like we're on fire

A fire like this

Image
I see.

Tell me why Dizzy over Seanzie?
Mac's list + I get the feeling Dyslexicon is playing a wolfgame here
Understood. Now how about Wiggin?
DrWilgy wrote: Dizzy, help me yeet [VOTE: Ender] aubergine

The concern I have with Wilgy today is that this is the information he has volunteered, and it consists solely of an intention to kill Ender. It's very singularly-focused.

On a related note, Ender has not mentioned Wilgy yet today, nor responded to his vote. I'm not sure what to make of that (it could be that he just hasn't been around since Wilgy's vote).

Alright, there it is. We're left to take it or leave it. I'm a bit torn. I'll pose a question for Marmot:

Why was it a significant problem, in your view, that Wilgy seemed singularly focused on Ender? How does this differ from your expectation of a town Wilgy?

It should be noted that this was not Marmot's final vote of Day 2, though it did eventually return to Wilgy.

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Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote: Seanzie isn't trying to make friends and all his messages have been game relevant and inquisitive. he hasn't pressed anyone at all yet which is something I want to see, dunno if he ever presses people to begin with though. and I don't see any possible partners for him
Sean hasn't pressed people?
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote:
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote: Seanzie isn't trying to make friends and all his messages have been game relevant and inquisitive. he hasn't pressed anyone at all yet which is something I want to see, dunno if he ever presses people to begin with though. and I don't see any possible partners for him
Sean hasn't pressed people?
only a question or two, if anything further it wasn't game related, ender stuff doesn't count because he never got an answer to begin with. just super inquisitive without the aggression and force I'd usually see from that much attention paid to the game
He had a fairly lengthy back and forth with Jay earlier today?
Marmot wrote: And sean also had one with me early on today.
Marmot wrote: Sorry lucy, I think your perception of sean is way off.

Also, I think he's more likely to fight people than make friends in a mafia game, per your observation of him not making friends.
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote:
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote:
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote: Seanzie isn't trying to make friends and all his messages have been game relevant and inquisitive. he hasn't pressed anyone at all yet which is something I want to see, dunno if he ever presses people to begin with though. and I don't see any possible partners for him
Sean hasn't pressed people?
only a question or two, if anything further it wasn't game related, ender stuff doesn't count because he never got an answer to begin with. just super inquisitive without the aggression and force I'd usually see from that much attention paid to the game
He had a fairly lengthy back and forth with Jay earlier today?
two sided, pressing is one sided
He pressed Jay and he pressed me. I call it a back and forth because two people were involved in the conversation.

But now I'm really confused, what sort of pressing are you looking for from him?
Marmot wrote: I think sean is an aggressive player. Different than Mac, but still agressive, I think he has done that this game.

But I agree with sean, I don't know why you are looking for that specifically from him unless you either knew that was his meta, or are that good at picking up on players' playstyles, or have gathered that meta from the thread.
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: lucy] aubergine
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
lucy wrote:
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote:
Marmot wrote:

Sean hasn't pressed people?
only a question or two, if anything further it wasn't game related, ender stuff doesn't count because he never got an answer to begin with. just super inquisitive without the aggression and force I'd usually see from that much attention paid to the game
He had a fairly lengthy back and forth with Jay earlier today?
two sided, pressing is one sided
Why would you be looking for this behavior specifically for me? Please answer this question, I believe it is important.
because you're reading everything and responding with a fine tooth comb, actually putting a decent amount of work into formulating your own reads and responding to odd messages and getting into arguments based off specific wording. being more aggressive would be relative to the effort a player has put into the game

I think the blue part is accurate, but I don't understand how that isn't already the pink part and why you would expect more.
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote:
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: lucy] aubergine
if I was mafia would I be clumsy enough to make that read when I didn't have to?
I wouldn't call it impossible, but I also unfortunately don't know the answer to that question because I don't know you.

You probably wouldn't, but I've seen extremely skilled players make silly mistakes before so :shrug:
Marmot wrote:
lucy wrote: think about it, the more time you spend doing something the more emotions you put into it, the more feelings you thusly express. simply applied it to what I saw
sean is an entirely emotionless being

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Ok now I'm joking

Here's the Day 2 exchanges with lucy and Seanzie. One might assert that Marmot was too harsh about interpreting meanings like "pushing". I don't really feel that way and found it to be an awkward stretch for lucy myself. He didn't hang on to it anyway (click)

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Marmot wrote: Calling Jay mature is, uh... probably only true inside the game of mafia.

The word "farts" appears in this review.

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Marmot wrote:
Seanzie wrote:
Boquise wrote: ftr i think both finger and marmot are town
I would vote Wilgy with you if there was more of a push for it.
[VOTE: Wilgy] aubergine
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: Creature] aubergine
Marmot wrote: I also think lucy is not compatible with Wilgy based on an early Day 1 post I saw.

Jay is though, and choosing to not consider him a suspect on the pretense that his associations are lacking is a little too convenient.
Marmot wrote: [VOTE: Wilgy] aubergine

Creature didn't even budge lol

The last vote in this string was Marmot's final of Day 2 (made it 5-3-2, Wilgy-fingersplints-Ender). I don't really understand how Marmot has operated with respect to Wilgy and will need clarification on that front. The orange bit irks me a bit given that pretty much every time I do these charts removing suspects with few associations is a premier goal that I make explicit.

Conclusion

Marmot. Marmot Marmot Marmot. I like the majority of his content, and I think that his overarching spirit of play has been of a town appearance. He is generally within my view of his own town game, and his efforts more or less appear authentic. There's just one signficant BUT that complicates the review, and it's Marmot's handling of DrWilgy. I'm not saying this is o u t i n g, it's just something that needs to be hashed out as clearly as possible. Minds are allowed to change as long as it makes sense for them to change. Gun to my head Marmot is town.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:28 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Keep in mind as I post these that quotes are restricted by locked thread limitations, so you don't have direct click access within them. It's basically just read-only.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:28 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I tend to view Marmot as town as well. I think there's one significant question about him that I would call "half" answered at this point, and it will be clearer in my review. I'll just go ahead and post that.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:22 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:19 pm You asked me almost the same question. =)
#slooneistrats
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:17 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

lucy wrote: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:16 pm [VOTE: Sleep] aubergine

I have iso'd marmot, I think he's probably town tbh. I was mad that he was pushing and made a mistake concerning me
Is there any single thing that most sold you on Marmot?
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:10 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I have a number of reviews to share, but I will refrain from spamming them in case folks are around with immediate thoughts. I can stagger their arrival.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:09 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Did we have a nice nap, gang?
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:08 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:07 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:07 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:06 pm this game is so much harder than the qualifier tbh
Welcome to The Syndicate.
Fleabag and Lion King were easy :keys:
:mad:
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:07 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

lucy wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:06 pm this game is so much harder than the qualifier tbh
Welcome to The Syndicate.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:06 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

How to Put the Wolves in a Boq
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 9:04 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I hope we all have a restful break. Analyze the poop out of the game if that's your thing, or chill out and do something else if that's your thing. Whatever allows us to finish strong, k. :nicenod:
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:48 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:46 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:45 pm @Marmot could you quickly describe how your view of Dizzy has changed over this page or two?
I'm pocketing him and it's working.

Your move, Jimmay-boop
Be sure to pocket me at your earliest convenience. :hug:
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:45 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

@Marmot could you quickly describe how your view of Dizzy has changed over this page or two?
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:44 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Maybe breaks should be a regular thing. 72/24 with 24 hours off during the day sounds kind of amazing
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:42 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

The break is a godsend. I ought to be able to keep digging distraction-free. :biggrin:
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:42 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
Replies: 5782
Views: 188323

Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Let's ISO lucy

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lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:19 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:15 pm @lucy, in your Discord Mafia experience, could you describe just briefly how that feels? I have never played a chat Mafia game. Is it a continuously torrent pace? Are there breaks in the action? Do players come and go at their leisure, or do they hover over the chat game all day? Hell, how long is a typical day phase in that style?
the best of them are similar-ish to forum mafia except people aren’t reading the actual actions of other players, lots of PR’s and very little reads that aren’t based off NK’s and other deaths/failed tunnels/cop investigations. it’s live chat but also 24/24 where people are talking (not usually about the actual game though) and eventually some reads do occur out of live chatting and they’re voted on until they claim/fake claim, clusterfucks. most people make themselves available to talk for a bit more than once a day, there are breaks in actions. and at the end of the game all the active players are dead and it’s basically a coin toss of who wins because the alive players haven’t played the game closely at all, since they’re alive

I think that, with lucy, there is value in starting with an understanding of her origins. She comes from a chat mafia landscape, and that likely encourages posts of a certain Discord-friendly structure (one line, sentence > paragraph, stream of thought, real-time > detached). Her games have also largely been very different to mountainous save for champs Game 7. This may or may not prove meaningful, but it's a frame for interpreting lucy.

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lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:07 pm i got warned about this lobby lol, do you reckon it’ll be a casual or very competitive game?
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:11 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:10 pm
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:07 pm i got warned about this lobby lol, do you reckon it’ll be a casual or very competitive game?
if my last game was anything to go by, casual, if Alison is anything to go by, Competitive
will you play casually this game too?
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:15 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:13 pm
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:11 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:10 pm
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:07 pm i got warned about this lobby lol, do you reckon it’ll be a casual or very competitive game?
if my last game was anything to go by, casual, if Alison is anything to go by, Competitive
will you play casually this game too?
I play casually every game, even when I Should be competitive. What about you? You seem to be taking this PREEETY serious
just new and inquisitive, but i’ll certainly try
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:28 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:22 pm
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:19 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:15 pm @lucy, in your Discord Mafia experience, could you describe just briefly how that feels? I have never played a chat Mafia game. Is it a continuously torrent pace? Are there breaks in the action? Do players come and go at their leisure, or do they hover over the chat game all day? Hell, how long is a typical day phase in that style?
the best of them are similar-ish to forum mafia except people aren’t reading the actual actions of other players, lots of PR’s and very little reads that aren’t based off NK’s and other deaths/failed tunnels/cop investigations. it’s live chat but also 24/24 where people are talking (not usually about the actual game though) and eventually some reads do occur out of live chatting and they’re voted on until they claim/fake claim, clusterfucks. most people make themselves available to talk for a bit more than once a day, there are breaks in actions. and at the end of the game all the active players are dead and it’s basically a coin toss of who wins because the alive players haven’t played the game closely at all, since they’re alive
Thanks, lucy. That sounds like... the opposite of forum mountainous. :smile:

Anyway it helps me to have a more complete impression of where you come from.
course, have you ever played live chat mafia or forum mafia since day 1?
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:44 pm so you read people by live chat and are used to short games?
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:45 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:44 pm
NateTheLesser wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:43 pm This is also my second forum game, @lucy . (Well, second solo game. I played a hydra game last year)
Please copypaste my question for lucy and ask yourself it, and then address your answer to me if you would be so kind.
^^
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:48 pm does pretty much everyone in this lobby know one another?
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:34 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:30 pm
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:27 pm what did you think it was?
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:26 pm I thought we were just talking
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:25 pm
lucy wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:24 pm check out Robert Eggars if you want very good films to make you feel very uncomfortable
trying to get in my pocket are you? Or is it put me in yours? I dont know all the lingo yet but Im watching you
I have had people who I got into a good talk about good tv shows before put a blind spot on me because I didnt want to figure out their slot because we were enjoying each others company. They were wolf and we lost so hard, so I am not letting anything innocent pass
don't make that mistake again, but don't be paranoid about it, you're that easily manipulated?
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:57 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:56 pm A few things I wanna say before we get started for those of you who don’t know. Champs, particularly in qualifiers is incredibly scumsided. The current stats are 54 wolf wins to 19 town wins for qualifiers. Not only that but from what I know there has only ever been one town sweep in qualifier game for champs, and my goal is for us to be the second . Few things I’ve picked up from that game and previous champs games this year that I think might be important for us to incorporate and areas where I picked up previous towns went wrong

-This point may already be obvious to some but : the most important thing you can do as a villager is make yourself an obvious villager. The last town that swept was led by Jjj/spf and they encouraged a playstyle that focussed heavily on finding other townies first before hunting for wolves and the best way to facilitate that is by making yourself an obvious townie and taking yourself out of the miselimination pool and working with open communication to find other townies. Champs by nature encourages a glory hunting playstyle where people want to be the one who catches wolves before everyone and be the one to bury wolves but the most successful towns have always been the ones that focussed more on working with each other and finding other townies before trying to bury wolves. If we can all do our part to raise the bar of towniness wolves will eventually out themselves and either be forced to push obvious townies and further out themselves, bus each other or just give up and lolcat.

- if the game starts too feel too easy it probably means there’s something wrong. The stats don’t lie, this is favored for wolves which means it’s not supposed to be easy for us. People often go for the easiest/least accountable votes on d1 but keep in mind wolves have teammates and I’ve rarely seen wolves bus hard d1 in champs. So if the entire lobby is dogpiling on one or two slots d1 don’t get complacent because we could be way off.
im plagiarizing Illario/happy, who was a wolf in my game, but I found this advice pretty good nonetheless
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:37 pm
EnderWiggin wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:36 pm Because I think one specifically of that list is wolf
speak now or forever hold your peace
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:30 pm
Creature wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:27 pm Is it a bad idea to read JJJ based on how eager he seems to be?
he'll do nothing out of his "town range" because he's playing with players who know him very well
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:32 pm
Alison wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:31 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:30 pm
Creature wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:27 pm Is it a bad idea to read JJJ based on how eager he seems to be?
he'll do nothing out of his "town range" because he's playing with players who know him very well
As opposed to games with strangers, where he acts as scummy as possible.
he'd get away with more, therefore he'd act more scummy. implying he'll be less scummy as a wolf with experienced players who know how he plays town/mafia
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:33 pm
Creature wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:31 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:30 pm
Creature wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:27 pm Is it a bad idea to read JJJ based on how eager he seems to be?
he'll do nothing out of his "town range" because he's playing with players who know him very well
and also players who may just wolfread him for being the most experienced.
I dealt with that in my homesite
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:50 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:48 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:46 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:40 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:34 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:30 pm
Creature wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:27 pm Is it a bad idea to read JJJ based on how eager he seems to be?
he'll do nothing out of his "town range" because he's playing with players who know him very well
I actually like this post
Is this a view you could expand on just briefly please and thanks
I don't think he has any further reasoning lol
Oh, well since you noticed.

I didnt like your mech talk and your big old "lets be towny town" post so I have been keeping my eye on your lack of substance but that post was a fair call to a good question. So now I am back to !rand
so you didn't have any reasoning? then why send the message?
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:12 pm
EnderWiggin wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:09 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:08 pm
EnderWiggin wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:05 pm Second strongest is me and you.
Who fits best with Ender?
Probably Lucy for my sideways positioning with her involved without directly providing thoughts on her.
can u elaborate on this read, like i'm not sure how to make this read without an objective being pushed
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:19 pm
EnderWiggin wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:15 pm
lucy wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:12 pm
EnderWiggin wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:09 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:08 pm
EnderWiggin wrote: Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:05 pm Second strongest is me and you.
Who fits best with Ender?
Probably Lucy for my sideways positioning with her involved without directly providing thoughts on her.
can u elaborate on this read, like i'm not sure how to make this read without an objective being pushed
I was asked who I have currently most equity on, and answered.

I didn't put a lot of thought into it tbh.
also doesn't the message imply you have thoughts on me, if so can u share with the class

Lucy started the game with a flurry of posts: 85 during the 24 hours of Day 0. She explicitly indicated that she thought Day 0 was intended as a time for getting to know people more than Being Serious (which, by the way, is a really nice thought for future Days 0 regardless of lucy's alignment). She did not really make reads during this period. Perhaps the Day 0 vibe can be called an excuse. To get a better grip of this I have compiled a bunch of lucy posts from this period that, while not "reads", may reflect some kind of process or effort by lucy to make getting reads possible.

This isn't every such post, but it's many of them. If I double the number to be generous, that gives me 35-40 halfway game-relevant posts out of the 85. That's not a bad rate considering the context of lucy's interpretation of the phase. If that's too generous, I'm not sure the point diminishes much. In any event take this all as a small point, because in the end -- concrete reads have more power.

The content continues through Day 1 and takes on basically the same shape. I could quote all that stuff again, but I don't think it would be an insightful addition to this review. In all, if my counting is accurate, lucy finished Day 1 at 179 posts, which reflects 58% of her current total post count. That's actually lower than I anticipated, because while she has slowed down since the early game, she hasn't fallen off the map. When she is in the thread she seems to make it count at least in terms of being active.

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lucy wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:31 pm properly read falcons iso, it was disgusting, the wording and hesitation of every message is really bad
lucy wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:34 pm [VOTE: @falcon45ca ] aubergine
lucy wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:36 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:33 pm
lucy wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:31 pm properly read falcons iso, it was disgusting, the wording and hesitation of every message is really bad
Lucy at the risk of us miscommunicating again.

It sounds like you were going in with a preconceived outcome and looking for evidence to support that. Or did you approach it from a more holistic point of view?
more of a psychological point of view of the specific thoughts in a message and how bluntly or passively and how long a message took to make, just seeing it like that, if I disliked it (as in I thought he was town) I just would not vote and he'd be lynched regardless

This was the 8th vote on the falcon wagon and the last vote anyone placed on Day 1. That placement doesn't mean a whole lot to me. The severe language of the suspicion is striking though. This first post is rather one-of-a-kind in the lucy ISO so far (and to my immediate memory, in all her posts this game). I can't recall if lucy expanded on this later, so I'll see.

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lucy wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 10:17 pm hello marmot, if you wanna ask me anything I'm here so you can read me better

Perhaps an early Day 2 indicator that lucy is attentive to Marmot specifically (a theme more recently). In context though it just looks like she's talking to someone who's present in the moment. Her next eight posts in a row all address Marmot. This may mean nothing, but it's logged for future reference if appropriate.

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lucy wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 9:32 pm hello, I'm back from work, give me a bit for some thought

This post came 22 hours after her previous post. We all work, so that's okay. I'm just noting the time stamp, because it relates to my off-hand view that lucy's activity fell off. An entire day away from the thread will do that.

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lucy wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:57 pm Seanzie isn't trying to make friends and all his messages have been game relevant and inquisitive. he hasn't pressed anyone at all yet which is something I want to see, dunno if he ever presses people to begin with though. and I don't see any possible partners for him

This is a strange post. I am not surprised it caused a minor kerfuffle at the time. I think the orange bit is a fair assessment of Seanzie, and the green bit is demonstrably untrue. I am not sure what the mafia agenda is to just "lie" about this, but it also seems like lucy was attentive enough to Seanzie's posts to see him pressing people. She may just have a very different notion of what it is to "press". I'm also unclear on why Seanzie, specifically Seanzie, comes with this expectation. It's just kinda :shrug2:

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lucy wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:16 pm
Seanzie wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:13 pm Why would you be looking for this behavior specifically for me? Please answer this question, I believe it is important.
because you're reading everything and responding with a fine tooth comb, actually putting a decent amount of work into formulating your own reads and responding to odd messages and getting into arguments based off specific wording. being more aggressive would be relative to the effort a player has put into the game

Seanzie wondered the same thing I did and lucy provided an answer. I don't really understand it. The description lucy provides for what Seanzie has done seems to be what she said Seanzie has not done. This may be semantic in the end, but I can understand Seanzie's concern in the moment -- that lucy received tips about Seanzie's play outside the game thread. Perhaps that can relate to mafia chat, or perhaps it's part of the warnings she received about the lobby before the game, or perhaps neither.

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lucy wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:18 pm Nate is a scum lean, his read list is exactly what neutral territory is and what someone would put without their own thoughts, entirely public opinion. I don't think he put any effort into that read list himself

Have we ever determined what this was about?

Addendum -- appears to have been this. It strikes me as an uncharitable take.

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lucy wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:20 pm I'm forcing myself to give reads, read your iso in a few minutes. I literally explained my deduction for why I expect more aggression and that you haven't pressed and tunneled was odd

Alright. I don't object to the spirit of the thing. I admire the gusto.

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lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:07 am i assume you’ll withhold reasoning for voting like all your other reads? @EnderWiggin

There've been a couple moments like this one where lucy drops a diss on Ender. Meaning may be Ender-dependent.

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lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 11:11 am
Boquise wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:31 am @lucy why is it important in your opinion that Marmot and I today engage with each other?
Because interactions are positive, and you’ve been actively having minimal conversations/interactions with others, i reckon Marmot is a good place to dip your toes in

Marmot/Boq has clearly been important to lucy for a few days. I think I like that lucy even noticed this dynamic and decided to do something with it.

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lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:04 pm thoughts on jjj? @Seanzie
lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:21 pm
Seanzie wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:12 pm
lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:04 pm thoughts on jjj? @Seanzie
You really should actually read my ISO.

I am wary of them. I have found some of their analysis questionable, and possibly having an agenda. Some of their takes seem overly generous, and early on I got the feeling that they were less worried about my alignment than they were about my reads. Them voting Creature is bad IMO as well, considering that Creature is sometimes an easy miselim, and I don't sense wolf!Creature here.

That being said, I think I am just naturally wary of anyone who has as much threadclout as Jay demands, and in the past it has taken me many days and wolf flips to really come to trust Jay, so I am not confident in pushing him too hard. Besides, it feels a bit moot as even if I wanted to push him, there isn't the threadsupport for that push, so I am more inclined to try to flip another wolf and see if their flip supports a scum!Jay world, in which then there might be threadsupport for it.
i’ll need more time and to not watch kids to articulate what i’m trying to say, if ur not busy look at what marmot and jjj did together

but i found the “if i’m wrong about a top townread it’s lucy” message to be extremely strange

This is something I commented on earlier in the thread. By this point my view of lucy had degraded from a comfortable town read to something less than that, and lucy suspected foul play. I appreciate that she directly addressed Seanzie to hash out this point about Marmot and I. It would have been pretty easy to just lay down some shade, but lucy took enough care to ask for someone's perspective first.

Perhaps I am generous there given that she asked Seanzie, someone who had voiced unease about me. Nonetheless it's something.

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lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 2:45 pm thoughts on marmot? @JaggedJimmyJay
lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 3:38 pm wanna explain your vote? @Marmot

She continued to explore this concern about Marmot and I with direct addresses that, at least in the case of the first post here, get straight to the point. That's a nice thing.

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lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:57 pm
Seanzie wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:56 pm
lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:53 pm
RondoDimBuckle wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:52 pm
lucy wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 8:50 pm @RondoDimBuckle unvote 5 mins from Eod, I'm gonna do the same if nothing changes, and it's plurality? @everyone
lol @everyone, discord slip (NAI?)

Why are you trying to control my vote?
if someone hops on our vote then tie and no Lynch, everyone has dc and that was the most simple way to make it clear I was asking everyone
You can also move your vote to the lead wagon, making it harder to end in a tie.
[VOTE: Sleep] aubergine not in good conscience

There isn't a "sleep" option in the poll, so this can be taken as an "unvote". She'd been on Ender previously, and this made the poll Wilgy 4, fingersplints 3, Ender 2, Creature 2 (per Nate's breakdown) about 25 minutes before the Day 2 poll closed. The rationale is fine. Ties are horrible in this version of the setup and should be avoided. It might have more meaning later with other flips in tow.

That's it through Day 2.

Conclusion

I'm not sure how useful this was to me. As I suggested earlier, the chat Mafia aesthetic is not especially amenable to a forum-styled ISO review. Many of the points I made in this I felt like I had to squeeze harder than I would like to derive a perspective, because it's not hard to see posts through multiple lenses good or bad. There are little tidbits I like, albeit with a low degree of confidence. Holistically I am less sure about the direction of lucy's hunt beyond exactly "attentive to Marmot and Boq". I am still developing my overall view of the game, but I suspect lucy will fall into a fringe POE region.
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:41 pm
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

lucy wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:41 pm because marmot is a 99% scum read for me
I would really love to hear more about that
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:13 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

I'm ISOing lucy now and finding it to be a difficult exercise. ISOing a chat Mafia player feels almost ridiculous (no disrespect intended to lucy or her origins).
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:12 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

ew dream theater
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:54 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 0]

Marmot wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:53 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:46 pm
Marmot wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:33 pm I also think that in a wolf!lucy world, Dizzy is a possible teammate.
I think your viewpoint is technically valid. Those posts are compatible enough. The only one that stands out to me is her response to you about Mac's reads (that's an awkwardly specific moment to bring up Dizzy). How do you feel about PoopGate?
farts
PoopGate is definitely compatible for some people. Not sure lucy is the type. :ponder:
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:52 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Boquise wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:51 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:49 pm Can I get some GTH reads on Nate?
town
Any idea what your favorite thing about Nate is?
by JaggedJimmyJay
Sun Jul 03, 2022 4:49 pm
Forum: Previous Hustles
Topic: Halvøsen Ridge [MAFIA WIN]
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Re: Halvøsen Ridge [DAY 3]

Can I get some GTH reads on Nate?

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