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11-30-2014 , 02:38 PM
If Tappo quoted the wrong post after trying to find it, then you should probably go find the one you're talking about for us instead of "I'm done, permavote arcbell" (not actually voting me)
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11-30-2014 , 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Thingyman
Well, yes, but not in the way that you seem to be thinking.

I keep the SAME TYPE of notes in both roles. As a wolf I try to imitate my villager game (or well, I do it to "have reads") by also finding posts that I believe to be villagery.

Which is to say that I would've likely posted very similar notes to those that I posted if I was a wolf this game.
Hm... ok but like... would you, as wolf, have stuff in your notes like:

Villagers:
Thingyman

... you obviously wouldn't need to start a POE list, then abandon it as mafia correct?
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11-30-2014 , 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Thingyman
Well, yes, but not in the way that you seem to be thinking.

I keep the SAME TYPE of notes in both roles. As a wolf I try to imitate my villager game (or well, I do it to "have reads") by also finding posts that I believe to be villagery.

Which is to say that I would've likely posted very similar notes to those that I posted if I was a wolf this game.
Also would you make notes on people you knew you wouldn't need to waste your time making notes on? I mean I just don't see anyone doing that as mafia knowing that the notes will almost certainly never see the light of day.
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11-30-2014 , 02:41 PM
This feels so backwards -- I am literally trying to convince you that you are town.
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11-30-2014 , 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by merk_sa
You and DWetzel made it 5/5 well named/Arcbell yesterday. Murph came in and at one point it was 6/5 Arcbell over well named.
okay

well, whatever

I think it would be poor of you to read anything into whether or not anyone tried to save well named yesterday given that his immediate lynch was very likely no matter what. Plus, you know, he'd given up since the start of day.
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11-30-2014 , 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Arcbell
Hm... ok but like... would you, as wolf, have stuff in your notes like:

Villagers:
Thingyman

... you obviously wouldn't need to start a POE list, then abandon it as mafia correct?
haha

this is actually a super interesting observation

but not 100 % in the way you think

as a wolf I would likely also keep a list in my document, but that's to keep track of my reads and make sure that I'm consistent

whereas this game I didn't really update my list in my document because, well, I just had it in my head, and it's often changing
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11-30-2014 , 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by tappokone
A fun interaction from d1:







In response to Cory voting Yamato.



In response to Tom's "wtf thingy" post.







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I also liked this from the start of d2:









Those posts were made a minute apart. A slight difference in approaches.

I suppose they could have just picked Thingy as an end game wolf and everything is a setup, but it'd be unusually fancy.
this IMO was a very good post and is actually more or less what I was referring to with the "if monstr flips wolf never lynch thingy" note from like three days ago, though I thought there was even more to it than that

it is probably not quite lock clearing (I overbid a bit when I said that) but it's prettay prettay good and thingy if I ever push you you have the right to quote this post right here and say "so, wassup?"
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11-30-2014 , 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Thingyman
haha

this is actually a super interesting observation

but not 100 % in the way you think

as a wolf I would likely also keep a list in my document, but that's to keep track of my reads and make sure that I'm consistent

whereas this game I didn't really update my list in my document because, well, I just had it in my head, and it's often changing
Yea that's what I figured upon seeing it in two seperate iterations of your notes unchanged. Starting a villager list like that with yourself is like.. idk I have a really hard time imagining mafia would do something like that. There were a bunch of other things too I know that part isn't 100% clearing but there were more (like I said about 5 things like that)

I sorta just figured anyone looking at those notes would know they came from town and not from mafia.
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11-30-2014 , 02:51 PM
The thing with the notes, thingy, it's really really easy to read stuff that you know isn't a deliberate show put on. Notes that only you see aren't a show for anyone.
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11-30-2014 , 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by merk_sa
DWetzel and Thingyman trying to move the lynch off of well named yesterday looks questionable on a quick reread of EOD.
I actually don't mind you noting this, but suffice to say that once WN came in and essentially lolcatted, WN was 100% going to get lynched yesterday and my vote was always going to be on him at EOD

it was important to note how arcbell would react to pressure when he might think he could actually get lynched
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11-30-2014 , 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by DWetzel
I actually don't mind you noting this, but suffice to say that once WN came in and essentially lolcatted, WN was 100% going to get lynched yesterday and my vote was always going to be on him at EOD

it was important to note how arcbell would react to pressure when he might think he could actually get lynched
I'd like to note that Moocher mostly spoiled this by explaining why the votes were on me midway through. My reactions after that point should be read in the context of "they may lynch me, but probably know better"
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11-30-2014 , 02:56 PM
I'm not feeling too confident about this Arc lynch. Let's do Merk instead. He's a wolf a lot.
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11-30-2014 , 03:01 PM
arc,

let's play a game for a minute

let's say that you get lynched today and flip villager, and then Moocher gets killed overnight and flips villager, and there's an announcement that there are still two wolves left in the game

can you give me a probability on who those two wolves might be (like X = 75% wolf, Y = 35% wolf, etc)?
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11-30-2014 , 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by tappokone
I'm not feeling too confident about this Arc lynch. Let's do Merk instead. He's a wolf a lot.
I was about to say.. I'm going to vote him (merk_sa) until he comes back and explains himself. Like.. it's hard to explain but when he claimed my push on Moocher was soft in the context of a recent and total reread of me.. first I thought he was just exaggerating how much he reread -- then he tells me to reread something. I said I did (I read the thing you quoted) then he says "no not that" then goes away. I'm not sure if this is genuine stupidity or not. Last game he was pretty smart as my team mate.. if he actually wanted the discrepancy resolved I don't see why he wouldn't help it along by explaining.

Either way if it becomes relevant, make sure he knows my vote is staying until he explains it properly, or the town decides by some miracle to lynch Moocher today. I'll be back in 2-3 hours.
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11-30-2014 , 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by DWetzel
arc,

let's play a game for a minute

let's say that you get lynched today and flip villager, and then Moocher gets killed overnight and flips villager, and there's an announcement that there are still two wolves left in the game

can you give me a probability on who those two wolves might be (like X = 75% wolf, Y = 35% wolf, etc)?
Oh ok sure I'll stick around for a few mins to play then.
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11-30-2014 , 03:06 PM
well I guess you kind of answered it by voting for merk
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11-30-2014 , 03:08 PM
I'd appreciate input from saber, murph and traz

or well, not sure I would appreciate the input we're likely to receive from the latter of those, but I want it nonetheless
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11-30-2014 , 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by DWetzel
arc,

let's play a game for a minute

let's say that you get lynched today and flip villager, and then Moocher gets killed overnight and flips villager, and there's an announcement that there are still two wolves left in the game

can you give me a probability on who those two wolves might be (like X = 75% wolf, Y = 35% wolf, etc)?
Uhh okay. Weird question. But ok.

Saberwolf13 - 1% wolf
Dbmurph - 1% wolf
Thingyman - 5% wolf

merk_sa - 37% wolf
Dwetzel - 34% wolf
LenC - 34% wolf
Crunkus - 20% wolf
traz - 34% wolf
tappokone - 34% wolf

this what you wanted?
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11-30-2014 , 03:16 PM
Also, if you try to interpret those as my actual %s, and not the %s given your hypothetical, I'm going to have a big issue with you >.>
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11-30-2014 , 03:17 PM
Close enough, I suppose.

So you now think merk is a more likely wolf than lenC, or is part of the reason merk is a more likely wolf that you have some associative read between Moocher and lenC that would no longer be valid?
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11-30-2014 , 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by DWetzel
Close enough, I suppose.

So you now think merk is a more likely wolf than lenC, or is part of the reason merk is a more likely wolf that you have some associative read between Moocher and lenC that would no longer be valid?
Yes exactly. If you insist moocher is town then LenC has no special reason (fmpov) to be wolf. The skew on merk_sa is for basically what happened today.
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11-30-2014 , 03:21 PM
Votes from post 9737 to post 9971
Night in 5:39:05

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5 Arcbell Thingyman (13), DWetzel (10), merk_sa (22), saberwolf13 (1), Crunkus (1)
2 tappokone lenC (40), The Moocher (46)
2 merk_sa tappokone (45), Arcbell (43)
2 not voting dbmurph22 (6), traz (0)
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11-30-2014 , 03:25 PM
Am I free to go now? Is the game ended Dwetz? I'll be back in a couple hours in any case.
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11-30-2014 , 03:26 PM
I'm going to take that as a yes.... cya in a bit.
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11-30-2014 , 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by merk_sa
I did an ISO of you yesterday which I commented on. The biggest point is that you didn't do **** this entire game. Your biggest reads were based on logic maps that made no sense (EOD d1, TTT/Gamer) and a light push on Moocher that you backed away from never to be heard from again.

You haven't played mafia at all here. You have done no scum hunting.

If you have some amazing reads at the moment, then give us one. Give us a big case on someone right now.
Posts from Arc mentioning the word "Moocher", for those who want to judge for themselves:

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Gut read on Moocher: overly defensive/self-conscious, indicative of scum. A little.
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Your two most recent posts before I made that comment.
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No, I said they were gut reads... lol.
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The Moocher yea there's no way you actually think I made that read up. That'd be a lie. And a terrible one.
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"i was ****ing with you" - defensive
"what do you expect me to do with" - self centered

Like I said gut read -- those are intuitive. This one is not though: I think there's about a 0% chance you ACTUALLY think I drew that read out of thin air. You said you thought I was making it up and now couldn't justify it. That's a lie, you never thought that. You sir, are my first catch Congrats.
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Yea sorry I sometimes forget not everyone bothers to reread for context when they see something like that.

OK so I mentioned a gut read on Moocher. Moocher asked me to explain it. I told him it was a gut read again, and told him which posts. Moocher then comes back at me claiming to think I made the whole read up, and it's not actually based on anything.



In the top part here he is claiming that he thinks I drew the read out of thin air. He obviously knows I based the read on something, whether I'm town or mafia. No one jumps to the conclusion that a read is totally fabricated to explain why it wasn't justified, since no one totally fabricates reads -- it's always based on something whether correct or not.

His act of claiming he sincerely believes I didn't base the read on anything is a lie, most likely an instinctive one rather than a planned lie. The intent was a simple counter-fos, but he ended up saying he suspects something no thinking villager would ever jump to.

So he's mafia.
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I went away and thought about it for a while, the idea that it can't be anything other than a lie aged well, so I'm going to probably push on Moocher for the remainder of the day unless there's some development.
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So Moocher, were you saying you think I based the read on nothing or were you saying I was forcing a read based on real content. It must be one or the other.
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Ok then correct me if I'm wrong that your claim is that you think I made that read up out of thin air, and did not use any basis for it.

Do you think it's a good strategy to make gut reads up and not be able to explain them? Is that something you've ever seen mafia or town do? No it's not, because it doesn't happen. All specific reads like "this person is doing ___ so he's scum/town" have a handle in reality. The only reads that can ever be totally fictitious are "X is scum/town". No one sits there thinking "ok I'm going to make up a read, I'll say they're scum for something they didn't actually do anything resembling in the slightest.. yes yes that'll work"

You KNOW this at heart, so your claim that you think that of me is a lie. You're maf.
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Forum mafia is even less likely to have players base reads on 0% truth because it's slow paced and everything's gonna get reread and analyzed. Making up a read and throwing a reason on it like "he's maf because he's overly defensive" is going to get caught if you were IN NO WAY CONCEIVABLY BEING DEFENSIVE ... it's not a thing that happens in real time mafia, so I assume it's not a thing that happens in forum mafia. And since you're a "champion" I assume that notion is intuitive to you.
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This has nothing to do with my argument. You're sidetracking. Either there is a perceptible basis for a read or there isn't, and in the case of reads with a partial explanation there is always a perceptible basis for the read whether it's correct or not.
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Originally Posted by Arcbell
Sorry, "lurking" and "absent" are often treated as synonymous on my site. If I was lurking I'd have something for you atm.. I was confident last night, became less confident as I got Moocher's reaction and the reaction of others, has nothing to do with votes.. though I'm obviously pretty harried by that.

It just seemed like what I was saying was poorly understood yesterday, and I didn't think my explanations were inadequate. I'm obviously going to bench that read for now but see... I kind of thought I'd made a good catch there, that it was worth my efforts etc. Then it was called 'insane' among other things when obviously the real read, not being on Moocher thinking the read was wrong but thinking I said that without any basis. So now I've been procrastinating. And here we are.
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Yes I was feeling less confident about him being mafia while I was posting..
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unvote .. this doesn't mean I townread you you're just obviously not going to be today's lynch based on the votes.
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You did the one thing.. which I consider you mafia for, but the read didn't hold up over the course of my confrontation with you. I haven't been able to interact with you since really. I clearly don't have a lot of influence around here, so you wanting to know about my read on you reads lightly town (why would a mafia bother to ask about how someone whose vote isn't important reads them?) but for the most part I've set you aside. Part of me wants to think my gut reaction was right but normally if I come up with some clutch reasoning and the person is indeed mafia, at least a few people back it for fear of being associated. The polar opposite happened -- I said you were mafia and the entire town told me I was stupid. Normally that doesn't happen if the read is right.

I'm just not going to worry about you right now. Even if I thought you were worth pushing on I'm pretty sure I wouldn't get anywhere.

As soon as I can muster the steampower I'm going after merk_sa.
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So.... what does Moocher claim then? And when did this all happen?
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Okay first thing: from what I understand Moocher claimed a wolf peek on lenC, then Murph claimed jailkeeper with a jail on Moocher.

I need to know the following: did Moocher retract his claim, and if so did it happen before or after Murph claimed jailkeep?
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Ok so then why is everyone not voting Moocher??
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Where I come from, if someone retracts a claim after someone claims a role that would prove they're lying, and had no reason to make the claim in the first place other than "reaction test" .. they tend to be mafia 90% of the time.
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Ok. I want everyone's reason for not voting Moocher, right now. This is extremely silly.
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Murph, why are you not voting Moocher.. don't you think it's unlikely that he just so happened to be "reaction testing" with a claim and only retracted after you cc'd him?
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The chances that he happened to fake guilty (low) and that you just so happened to jailkeep him (also low) are VERY LOW. Out of everyone playing he is the only one to make a "fake claim" so far. He didn't retract it until you CC'd him. If he's claiming as wolf, which I think he is, the bus strategy makes the most sense: he wants to clear himself, not get a random towny lynched before being confirmed. If you CC him, he can't clear himself, SO HE RETRACTS.

If it quacks like a duck, etc.

Come on people this is basic ****.

Moocher
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Sadly I can't be here for EOD, I MIGHT be able to make a really brief appearance on my phone but no guarantees.

Before I go, I leave my vote on Moocher for reasons that should be obvious. Honestly if he's not lynched today given what I explained, I formally denounce this game from its "game of champions" status.
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The good news: I might be able to devote a lot more time to this game today than normal, and I'm actually in a pretty good mood today.

The bad news: you didn't lynch Moocher and thus you're all bad :P
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Lol is he really claiming cop again?
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These match my reads with the exception of Thingy. If you thought Moocher/lenC was maf why didn't you try to help me lynch him yesterday?
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If Moocher was doing it as cover, he blew it when he retracted to dmurph's CC. When did he claim a peek on tappokone though? Wouldn't that be 2 peeks in one night. You're not making any sense.
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cory, I think you are town because I've never seen mafia act like you do, but you need to take a long hard look at yourself and consider that maybe your meta reads are actually just ****. Maybe when Moocher claims cop then later retracts he was actually trying to claim cop? Maybe when he said the thing about Tappo being town he knew full well no one in the game would believe it was a cop re-claim given that he was already CC'd by a jailkeep? Maybe, just maybe this has NOTHING TO DO with tappokone's alignment and it's just you ****ing up how basic claim mechanics work for no reason.
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corycurren before you respond to what I just posted, I'd like you to try and fathom a Good Reason that Moocher would try to give the impression he had a report on Tappokone at EOD.
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Cory, on day one here's what you did:

You took the votes off merk_sa and placed them on the JOAT, the only reason given being "trust in the cory". Now you want to lynch merk_sa again. You exude absolute confidence but your reads are no better than random. If you really want to win this game, it's time to take a back seat. If you don't know why Moocher claimed like he did as town, but there's an obvious explanation for why he did it as mafia, he's PROBABLY MAFIA even if your (proven to be unreliable) gut about his meta says otherwise.

On the other hand, if you're mafia, this is really good play by you. I don't expect you are, but this is god tier feigned ignorance if that's the case.
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The Moocher
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I understand why you'd look sideways at that yes, but the thing is (that nobody seems to have read) The Moocher actually confirmed that my specific interpretation of what he was saying was correct. People seem to think that read was stupid and semantic because I was misinterpreting him, but when pressed he admitted that he meant exactly what I was saying he meant.

I didn't (and still have a really hard time believing) someone playing this game can genuinely come to a conclusion like that. It's a razor thin read, yes, but to me it hit the bulls-eye in that I couldn't imagine an intelligent mind drawing that very conclusion in that situation. Further developments w.r.t. The Moocher are, however, even stronger for me, as they're based on what he objectively claimed.
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Doesn't matter. You retracted because you believed the jailkept claim. Obviously. If you're mafia it doesn't matter if you were ACTUALLY jailkept or not. Also where did he retract the jailkeep claim?
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And as for my initial read, honestly I don't get hard reads so quick like that often. I was actually feeling kind of proud of myself for it tbh. Remember I come from Epicmafia though, I'm conservative about reads, but that usually manifests as I don't usually have reads I consider reliable. It doesn't mean they're based on pages and pages of content from that player, because that sort of thing isn't available and I'm not used to working with it.

When something does resonate with me, rare as it is, it's often something small like what I did with the Moocher read on day 1. When I get that feeling of resonance, it's almost always correct as well. And I track my read accuracy.
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You said the read I posed didn't exist. If I posted a read based on nothing, that implies I'm a wolf. Furthermore, you affirmed to me that your intended communication was that I had posted a read with an invented basis.

Do you dispute this?
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I've already made a convincing case as to why Moocher is claimed cop as wolf. I think I made it 3 or 4 times over. He asked me to make such a case, and is now acting like I haven't done so. Just for the record.

He also didn't answer whether or not he disputes my claim of how he rectified the ambiguity in his original statement (the one I read on day 1).

He is also claiming that villagers sometimes announce faked reads, which is pretty much by definition what mafia has to do, and what town has to not do.
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OH so you admit I've already made cases??????
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I say I've already made convincing cases w.r.t. why Moocher would claim cop as a wolf. This is in response to him asking for such a case, and continually claiming that I have not supplied any such thing.

Moocher then pivots this out from the question as to whether I've made the case or not over to whether or not the case convinced anyone, and subsequently accuses me of lying.
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Now he's claiming I have no reads on anyone else in the game, while quoting something where I say exactly what it means for him to have claimed seer as wolf with respect to lenC's role. He also didn't ask for a read on someone else in the game, which is also funny.

Here is is clearly relying on the idea that no one is actually going to read the full discourse between myself and him, and just making snappy one liners that have no bearing on what was actually said in the preceding dialogue. It is a complete departure from reality at this point and I want everyone to recognize this.
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Ok I'm going to go take a break. To summarize: Moocher is mafia, and all he's been doing in interacting with me is throw out smokescreens. If you actually read the dialogue it should be pretty clear Moocher is just trying to discredit me in the conversation we had.

Crunkus I think I've answered all of your questions. Please read them as that took no small effort to put into words, then read my convo with Moocher. I shouldn't need to post where he confirms that my interpretation of what he was saying was correct on d1, as he fails to deny it when asked directly (twice).

Traz yes I confused you and luckbox, but please don't extrapolate that confusion to everything I've said today.

Cory, you remind me of a slightly less insane version of GenocYda from game 3. I think I'm going to stop reading your content. Don't worry though I'll continue to assume you're town during that time.

Mafia:

Moocher - 95%
lenC - 90%

Town:

Crunkus - 85%
Cory - 99%

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All other reads are below 60%, and not really worth posting.
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Sorry I forgot murph. Murph is 95% town pending Moocher's flip as scum, so 90% town.

Now gonna take off. I'll be back either way later tonight or tomorrow morningish/afternoon.
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Ugh just happened to see this while posting -- this is seriously my last post.

Moocher is claiming that I insist he hardclaimed seer, whereas I did no such thing. I insist he claimed seer, then retracted when being CC'd. I claim his strategy involves claiming as seer with a guilty, and either drawing out a PR and retracting, claiming cover or rxn test, OR bussing while keeping the claim, remaining clear. At no point did I imply that my argument hinged on the notion that he hardclaimed, he's just making that up.
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Ok really really last post... I got out of the shower just to say this:

Notice how Moocher does not scumread me. He says "he can't convince himself I'm mafia" yet he keeps saying I'm a liar. He's either working his way around to trying to get me lynched if I don't back off, or he's trying to make a point that he thinks town can lie about reads for no reason. The idea that he wouldn't think this is the basis for my day 1 read.

Either way I'm not fooled, it's deliberate. Look at how many times he says I'm lying. He even asks me to answer "why do you keep lying?" explicitly. Then go and look at the conversation, and note that there is nothing anyone could interpret as a lie.
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NOW YOU'RE CLAIMING YOU DIDN'T CLAIM SEER? THIS IS REDICULOUS... YOU SAID LENC IS MAF AT DAY 2 AND EVERYONE KNOWS THIS

Lynch... this... guy... ffs.
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I'm back.

Okay. Let's go through this one more time. Moocher is a wolf. No he did not hard claim as cop. He claimed a report on lenC, then retracted it when Murph CC'd him.

A couple of you seem to think that there are only two options: a hard claim and a fake claim. NO - a claim which may be retracted (not a hard claim) is still a claim. If all non-hardclaims were to be taken as fake there wouldn't be the slightest point to them.

Telling me I know what a hardclaim is, and therefore I'm playing dumb to think Moocher intended his claim is about as poor an understanding of the situation as you could have. YES I know what a hardclaim is, YES I know Moocher didn't do that, NO this does not mean he didn't claim cop with the intention of carrying through with the claim. Jesus.

Let's run you guys through an example:

I claim cop, but I don't say ##### THIS IS MY FINAL CLAIM ##### or anything. Now if I'd like to retract the claim, I need to have a good reason for making it in the first place, and for retracting. Neither the town nor the mafia knows for sure if I am cop, but I most likely am unless I'm playing at something very special. This is the contract we make with the town when we claim something, Hardclaim or not. It's expected to be true unless it makes an especially great deal of sense that it's not.

Back to this case -- substitute in that reasoning, we have a case where Moocher claimed cop, and there is a strong reason for him to do so as mafia. There is a weak reason for him to do so as town. He only retracted when he was forced to retract by dbmurph (outing a power role is a penalty to doing such a thing as town, but certainly not the only one). You can sit there and say "he didn't hardclaim" as much as you want, that's not a free ticket to worm your way around different claims for any ****ty reason you feel like. Getting lynched? Oh ok I'll softclaim. Fos someone? Oh ok I'll say I'm cop with guilty. ITS OKAY GUYS IT WASNT A HARD CLAIM LOL once you get what you want....

That's not how mafia works. If you still don't understand why Moocher is very likely mafia after reading this, there's no way I can convince you because I don't think in circles, I think in straight lines.
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Yea, I find it pretty funny too. Apparently forum mafia isn't a very good environment for players to learn basic **** like what it means when someone claims and retracts with no townhearted reasoning behind it. Idk.
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What am I wrong about? Hey did you read my latest post? Still wanna keep on the idea that I keep insisting you hard claimed? Do you think claims are 100% meaningless unless they're hard claims? Do you think it's acceptable for town to claim random roles for no reason? Do you think this is something mafia would ever take advantage of?

Please, instead of just trying to take shots at my credibility, just point out exactly what I'm doing wrong here.
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So I see my arguments haven't spawned any new votes on Moocher. Is there anyone who is teetering that I might be able to convince before EOD?

If not I'm just going to pretend he already flipped wolf and work backwards towards you guys lynching him eventually.
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I'm adding Thingyman to my list of lock towns.









If this is a coordinated effort between Thingy and Moocher, it's a very very very good one. Thingy trying to communicate to Moocher in a between-the-lines manner is something that would never happen naturally in scum/scum, so it would need to be basically choreographed -- one of them would have needed to say in scum chat "hey you know what would clear you when I flip scum? If we tried to pass secret notes in the thread!" which I really really doubt, especially since Moocher probably feels safe with me railing on him for all the right reasons and no one else listening to me.

So 99% Thingyman flips town if Moocher flips scum, which is again ~99% by now.
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There is some non-zero chance you could have coordinated that as an act with Moocher. It would take a very creative mind though. Then again you're a pretty smart fellow, so I guess it's possible. I haven't seen your scum game. It'd be just about the most creative mafia/mafia faked interaction I've ever seen in my mafia career -- and I've seen some good ones. Maybe it's because I'm used to being in games where mafia can't plan during the day, only at night, but I don't think so. So yeah my actual percentage is *somewhere in that range* for sure. As for Moocher, I can't fathom him flipping town at this point. I've had 2 strong reasons to read him as scum, and in response he literally spent an afternoon responding sideways to everything I was saying: telling me he townread me, but I was lying constantly, when I didn't lie at all. Twisting my words as if I'd said he hardclaimed etc. If he's doing this as town, I don't even know what to think about him. Then again I've seen some pretty **** tier players in this game. Last game there was Mills and that Genie guy and a bunch of others who just shouldn't be playing mafia at all. I guess he could be a town at that level of play, but I think it's much more likely he's mafia. 99%? Honestly I don't know. It's just a number I throw out to show some idea of my confidence. I'm at the point where I'm willing to just assume he's a wolf and proceed with the game from there.

As for the point you brought up about him doing this as town before -- yes I understand he's a player who fake claims as town... there are lots of those. I'm someone who will fake claim as town. You don't do it for no reason though, and if he fake claims as town, then damn sure it's occurred to him that he could do the same thing as mafia to great effect. It's not a hard idea to come by. In this particular case he had no reason to make the initial claim, and a strong reason to do so as mafia. Add to that my day 1 read on him which I also believe is underrated, and his response strategy yesterday, I think everything matches up with him being wolf, and nothing matches up with him being town.

So you have me talking about Moocher again which is something you told me not to do : /
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Hey earlier you made a post suggesting you thought it was possible Moocher was mafia. I think Moocher is mafia.

You don't think the vote on Tom is good, I, too don't think the vote on Tom is good.

This is the closest to a state of agreement someone has been with me over the entire course of the game.
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So uh... The Moocher one more time with feeling? Crossing my fingers...
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join me on Moocher!! it's never too late to admit our mistakes!
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Self quote FTW. I need to go eat dinner. I'll be back but not long before 8... we please read this, and do it. i wanna lynch Moocher but I'll throw my vote on the top non-Tom/Gamer vote at EOD cause logic.
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Ugh sorry can't respond to you all. Crunkus I did answer your question FFS and again we don't need to decide between Gamer or Tom at all. Just follow my formula. Saberwolf sorry I didn't see your case D and I don't have time to hunt it out.

The only case where NOT LYNCHING tom isn't equal or better than lynching tom is the case where tom is a maf vig, but in that case (call it case E) I don't think Tom claims like that, so the best move is lynching outside Tom. Honestly, Crunkus et all. I don't know who if not Moocher we should lynch, and I'm not gonna pretend to have ideas about it, I'm just literally going to lynch whoever isn't Tom/Gamer I can at EOD. You should too.

Sorry unfortunate timing for dinner.
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So... I have Moocher and LenC still marked wolves. If that's accurate (and I still think it is) that means there's 0 - 1 wolves left outside that.
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My brain looks something like this at the moment:

Mafia:
Moocher
LenC

Town:
Saberwolf13 (clear)
dbmurph (clear)
Gamerdude (clear)
Thingyman (interaction with Moocher)
Crunkus (lol)

Remaining Pool:
Well Named
merk_sa
traz
dwetzel

So if my reads hold true it's 1/4 or 0/4 in the remaining pool.
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By you being mafia.
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Oh by the way, a fun little pattern here:

-> Arcbell is pissed and goes on about how he hasn't been posting due to lack of motivation due to feeling like everyone in the town treats him like an idiot
-> Town thinks Arcbell not posting and not having a lot of energy for the game is scummy.
-> Arcbell starts to post in thread
-> Moocher ignores what he's saying completely and insults him
-> Arcbell ignores the insults and keeps talking about the game
-> Moocher keeps insulting

HMMMMM
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The you and lenc maf doesn't need more explanation I hope. If you claim to not know my explanation again it'll be a lie (:

I've explained thingyman... he had that interaction with you the other day (the secret thing) which to me means he's not partnered with you.

Crunkus is just I've never seen a mafia act like that (have seen town though) no other way to explain it really.
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I'm also going to re-ping that Moocher just asked me my reads on him again. He knows full well I've given them. This is the second time he's been caught asking for explanation he already has.
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Ugh is Moocher really the only one in the thread atm? If so I'm just gonna try back later.
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I don't really care, if he does flip villager I'm going to be very upset with him.
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Well supposing Moocher flips town ... in terms of the game.. it just erases my other reads. I'd have to reread with the specific context in mind of Moocher being town to answer this properly. I guess it's just a scumhunt fmpov where we used a mislynch. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. If you're asking if I'm willing to be lynched if he flips town, absolutely if that's the trade.
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This seems like a waste of time considering I'd need a full reread of everything since day 1. None of my reading has been done from the lens of Moocher being town because he's almost certainly not town as of day 1.
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If Moocher is town, anyone who isn't clear can be mafia fmpov.
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Thingy was right at first. I WAS exaggerating how certain I am of my read on Moocher. No I don't think he's 99% mafia. I do that with ALL OF MY READS EVER I massively exaggerate how certain I am of them. Assuming there are 3 mafia left the random chance of him being mafia is 3/8 = 37%. How sure am I really that he's mafia? Only about 60%. 1.5x the random chance expectation is normally as high as my reads EVER go. If I say I'm 100% certain that someone will flip something and it's based on a read in a game where it's 50/50 ... I'm actually only 80%.

SO WHY DO I LIE LIKE THIS ON A ROUTINE BASIS?

Because everyone thinks their reads are much more accurate than they are. You think you're working with 70% accurate reads.. you're working with maybe 51-53%. If I say I have a 70% read then you will compare it to your own levels of confidence, which is much poorer than you think.

So relative to your guys' terrible intuition based reads that are wrong as often as they are right, I think my Moocher read blows them all out of the water, that's why I focus on it, and that's why I say I'm so sure... because I'm so sure it's the most-likely-accurate read in the entire town.
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If I get lynched I want the town to lynch you, and note the other associative reads. I also think it should trump any random whimsy reads anyone else has. Understand that the alternative to abandoning the notion of getting you lynches is I resort to talking about some reads that are 35-39% this person is town/wolf. This is best.
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I know. That's why I'm trying to reason with them.
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It's how I play as villager in those short games -- don't twist my words I'm talking about how I read in general, and that applies to epicmafia games and apparently forum as well.

You're just taking what I said, adding in something I didn't say (namely that I'm only talking about forum games somehow?) and making it sound like I lied because that thing you added in isn't true.
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You tried to make it sound like I was contradicting myself here as if when I said "plenty of content" I meant plenty of content relative to this game. I've never been villager in a game with as much content as this, that does not mean my other games don't have 'plenty of content' by 45 min standards, which is what I meant and you damn well know it.
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Oh, another thing. If we lynch Moocher and he flips scum I will be cleared correct?
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Because it was important that he not only claimed vig, but a vig that had a shot left, so I did that to emphasize. Normally I'd bold it.



I've mostly been giving conditional reads. LenC is mafia if Moocher is mafia, Thingyman isn't mafia if Moocher is mafia. My day 1 things on merk_sa were weak but I didn't have anything better at the time I made them.

Also just because I like them doesn't mean I always find them.

I've been rereading plenty and when I find something worthy of mention I'll point it out... like I've been doing all game.

LenC by the way.

Also I don't know why thingy is voting me but are we all in agreement that Thingyman is clear if I'm lynched, or do I need to spell it out?
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Also Moocher is still mafia. Notice how he keeps going on about how he townread me, now he's like "welcome to my read on arcbell from the beginning" when dwetzel thinks I'm mafia.

Also notice how he asked for reads on me, then a bunch of them were given, and he says "oh looks like no one has given a read on arcbell" well golly gee.
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I fail at cats. Anyhow I think I win whether you lynch me or not. Get Moocher and LenC when I flip villager. Anyone considering thingyman anything other than clear atm?
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Well you just failed at that then didn't you.
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Yea that's why I'm hesitant to try to chainsaw this. I think LenC is a better pick but only because of the Moocher relation, which you guys don't believe. On the other hand it's not the end of the world if I get lynched, probably better than ML'ing a different villager.

On the other other hand I doubt very much I'll be listened to once I'm dead. I'm pretty sure most of you think I'm town right now despite voting me and you aren't listening to me now.

Up to you guys. If you lynch me just to get my annoying ass out of the village and eliminate the paranoia, then fine. But I demand a lynch on Moocher as final tribute to everything I've stood for this game. It will flip mafia and you will all kick yourselves.
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Meh it's still Moocher/LenC. Mark my words.
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I'm going to laugh at you from spec chat when they confirm for me that Moocher/LenC is indeed the team.
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I'm assuming Moocher and LenC are the wolves because honestly if they aren't I don't care for my reputation among you guys anymore anyways because it's going to be **** no matter what I say. So I just assume the scenario where I'm right.
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So I guess yet again I'm top vote before I even show up in thread. Clever stuff. Well at least I will commend you guys for lynching every last mafia that is not Moocher/LenC.

By popular demand I am now going to assume they're both town and go from there, just for the sake of the case where they're not mafia, because I think we can't win in the case where they are. Please note that they remain my top 2 fos unless I state explicitly otherwise.
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I just reread everything from Moocher. Sad to say I stand by my read 100%. Even if LenC isn't mafia the amount of sideways posting from Moocher can only be interpreted one way.

I'd like to ask, if I may, one last time for people to go back and reread him. Look at how he is pushing on me subtley while claiming to townread me concurrently, and when he switches over. Notice that there isn't a consistant read on me throughout our entire interaction.

Please note the types of questions he's asking me all along, and the way he takes little bits of what I say and forces a completely wrong interpretation on them. Notice how much of the game he spends trying to discredit me.
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I'm not even asking for you to lynch him today, just that you put him in the "lynch rotation" as you call it. If I am lynched, I really do not want to see Moocher alive in the final 2... I will be extremely pissed.
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I'm not, I'm clearing you hardcore based on the notes thing. I WAS clearing you based on the Moocher interaction but after reading the wolf/wolf interactions I wouldn't put anywhere near as much stock in that.
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