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Originally Posted by Riki
i think there are two separate ideas here
1) you think mafia are more likely to push easy wagons
2) you think mafia have difficulty replicating their town play
my problem is that you think slendy is town because of 2) while completely ignoring 1)
Ah. I believe I literally gave slendy "a point in his favor," which is a pretty weak townread from me, and it was for replicating his town play, and thus your point 2. Point 1 is a generality to use when unfamiliar with someone. Experience with a person's playstyle (which I've already said that I know one game isn't much, but all I have to work with), trumps generalities like that.
For example, we have a couple of players on our site that say and do the dumbest, scummiest stuff all the time. They used to get lynched for it all the time. They were inevitably not mafia. So now when they do that stuff that most of us think is scummy, most of us know that it's a sign that they're more likely innocent, because their playstyle trumps the generality.
It's why a game like this is so tough: most of us have little to no experience with each others' playstyles.
I notice you avoided my question about whether you think that we're all so good that our scum play should be indistinguishable from our town play. Even if that's not the conclusion you were trying to get me to admit, the question still stands.
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Originally Posted by cue5c
And then Dorian mentioned someone viewed him as town so the most logical response would be to view that person as town, too?
No, I said the gut response would be to view that person as town. The logical thing, which I said I would be doing, is waiting to see how the votes play out so I could try to make a more informed, less gut-based decision.
Watching the cue/fontisian interaction has been helpful in that regard. Cue's joking style is tough for me to parse, but it's very obvious that behind it is someone who very much knows what they're doing. fontisian's initial reason for the vote seems fairly thin to me, as some people will make jokes no matter their affiliation. Cue's response, while a lot less jokey, was to suddenly start asking a whole lot of questions to a whole bunch of people, many of which didn't seem that didn't seem that difficult to answer. As if she(?) was trying to suddenly look active. I don't think they're both scum, but if one is, I'm still trying to work out which I think it is.
I like bhuber's entrance, just as an initial impression.