mail-mi.
105 posts.
Starts with a discussion of irl stuff and an RVS on Robz. Nothing there.
This is a classic early mail-mi post, and for some reason I want to give it town points:
So, WestCoast, DatSwan, hypercube, and Glooble, what's your mafia playing experience?
I played in this forum years and years ago. I stopped because I was taking it too seriously and it was stressing me out.
cool
are you scum?
That's not exactly hard to emulate I guess.
Here's some weird super-early
something re Space:
Townread on space. I remember him usually doing all this setup and stuff like this as town
Or maybe it's just a spaceread on space.
Man, this is such a crappy wagon. Let's join a different one.
Vote: Galzria
ok vote: galzria
Like, either this is weeeeirrrddd hedgey white-knighting or it's scum trying to subliminally make people feel good about their partner. Or it's just mail-mi being mail-mi, I dunno. It's bizarre though, and I don't like it. Like, really. Surely everyone discusses the setup early in the game, there's nothing else to talk about. How do you give townpoints for this? Meh.
Also an RVS vote for [me], fair enough.
This is interesting:
I remember him usually doing all this setup and stuff like this as town
Okay, let's get this out of the way: I AM NOT, AND NEVER HAVE BEEN, A "HE"!!! Sorry for being shouty, but while you've been gone, the whole forum has got a lot more progressive about respecting people's gender presentation and pronouns, and I'd really like to keep that progress!
My preferred pronoun is they/them, and it's even in my sig line to help people remember. I'll settle for she/her in general, and especially for this game, since it's very in keeping for the flavour.
WOOPS sorry about that.
Townread on space, I remember her doing this setup stuff as town
I would be willing to exclude the possibility of
both mail-mi and Space being scum based on this interaction alone. If they have a shared QT then mail-mi already knows Space's gender. And I don't see scum!Space being willing to fake something like this.
This gives me scumvibes:
ah, a day 1 wagon on me. some things never change
vote: mail-mi
Mass claims on day one are always a bad idea.
You're probably right. I guess a better question would be, are there obvious flavor names that would be scum?
"Oh, yeah, I'm always seen as scummy D1, hawhaw" is a classic scum ploy to try to discredit the wagon. I should know, I've used it a hell of a lot.
Scumvibes here too:
Vote: Jotheonah
This felt like pouncing on mail-mi for something that might very well be wrong but was not especially likely to come from scum. (Town needs no help tricking itself into mass claiming.)
When does scum ever actually do this? Scum doesn't need to pounce at this juncture. Scum just needs to wait for a good-looking town wagon and slide onboard.
Well, scum wants to look like they're.scumhunting.
vote: joth
vote: hypercube
This is exactly the position scum wants to be on the wagon. Voting for someone who already has votes, and turning a couple votes into an actual wagon
I know that didn't make much sense, I'm having a hard time putting my thoughts into words. I hope you (meaning the general populus)understands what I'm trying to say
This is mail-mi's first real vote, and it's on a conf!townie. Also note that mail-mi's post here is casually based on the assumption that joth is town, without even mentioning it, implying mail-mi might know something we don't.
In light of that, this:
Vote: hypercube
Why?
Is hypercube your scumbuddy?
Nope I'm just trying to create conversation. I know why I'm voting for him (the main reason is wagon placement as explained) but I'm wondering why e is voting for him
Looks a lot like scum fishing for reasons to push a wagon, when they don't really have good ones themselves.
Suddenly pivots round onto joth, joining the very wagon he was voting hyper for joining earlier (he states multiple times that that's his only reason for voting hyper).
Then that doesn't work so he goes back to hyper again:
Looks like joth isnt happening right now so I'll go back to vote: hypercube
once e posts a case.
Then posts a reads list:
1. SpaceAnemone - is doing regular SpaceAnemone things, from what I remember. Slight town read.
2. jotheonah - Still seems a little too flippant. Scum read
3. LaLight - Um... don't remember anything in particular right now, null read
4. DatSwan - same as above, though I suppose if everyone decided to sheep Awaclus I could join
5. mail-mi - is me
6. Awaclus - is Awaclus. As always, slight scum read
7. 2.71828..... - seems to be good. Wouldn't prefer to lynch today
8. WestCoastDidds - seems townie to me, wouldn't prefer to lynch
9. Robz888 - is in robz's d1 laze. Eh, null read
10. hypercube - preferred lynch
11. mcmcsalot - lurking, but I agree with e's and ash's posts though. Less sure about lynching him
12. ashersky - null read
13. Galzria - Lurking, but is a vet. Would also lynch him, probably over mcmc
14. Glooble - want to give him a d1 pass, but if everyone wants to lynch him I will
Think someone's already brought this up: the stance on LL sucks, the stance on hyper sucks and the stance on mcmc sucks. Everyone else, who the hell knows - except I have a townread on Glooble so I don't like the hedge there either.
This is a genuinely towny post:
I just reread hypercube, and I am no longer satisfied with my vote on her unvote. She hasn't really responded to the wagon on her, which is would be odd scum behavior to me. I feel like scum!hypercube would react more.
and he sticks with that position even when given an opportunity to get back in there.
I just reread hypercube, and I am no longer satisfied with my vote on her unvote. She hasn't really responded to the wagon on her, which is would be odd scum behavior to me. I feel like scum!hypercube would react more.
I actually disagree with this, town defends wagons on themselves very strongly, they don’t mind getting embroiled in controversy. Scum really wants their wagon to just die down and go away.
that's a good point, however, I still feel like she's less scummy than I at first thought. If she ends up being the lynch for the day, I'll join, but she's no longer my preferred lynch.
Yeah that's townier stuff.
This also feels pretty genuine:
Galzria has 8 total posts, 3 of which are pregame. His vote is still on an RVS wagon on Robz.
vote: galzria
oh duh, this also appears to be a lurker lynch. As I said I dislike that instead of people strongly going "i don't like the hyper wagon" we are just going maybe we should lynch player x or y who has posted no content.
he's basically a placeholder for my vote until I can do a proper reread and find someone better
or until someone else presents a good case. the only case I remember off the top of my head right now is the one on hypercube
How about the case on mcmcsalot I made just moments ago?
i only skimmed over it, now I'm gonna go look at it.
I’m going to go ahead and say it: I strongly dislike the cube wagon. Everything about it feels scummy and bad. I’m going to move my vote to vote: mcmc. Not because of lurking, because of the posting she’s done since she stopped lurking.
I think describing the hypercube wagon as stalled while hypercube was the leading wagon, after saying she just caught up, is a scumslip. Someone who just caught up wouldn’t make that mistake. Someone who was reading along and not posting and decided to make an appearance when the heat started getting on them might.
I know that when I’m scum it’s hard to get myself to actually reread since I’m not actually looking for information.
Even if the mistake isn’t a scum slip, “sorry I’ve been lurking, I’m going to reread and conclude that the best lynch happens to also be the person with the most votes on her already” doesn’t look great on its own.
I'm not sure what I think about this. On the one hand, I like it, because I think it's scummy that mcmc came back right after we started putting pressure on her. I also like the last paragraph of this case.
On the other, the hyper wagon was stalling--it wasn't growing in votes or declining in votes. It was just kinda stagnant. I also still scumread you a little bit, so I don't trust this case quite as much.
conclusion: mcmc is a little scummier to me now
Oh no
Coming from lots of people this is slightly scummy; it's probably a bit towny coming from mail-mi.
She then has a whole bunch of long posts and I don't know what to make of them. It's mostly a fight with joth, and since I definitely found joth scummy at the time I can totally understand why mail-mi pushes back there as well. But now if I am leaning towards town!joth... I dunno any more.
This is quite sheepy in a way I don't like:
i like glooble's thoughts about lalight and joth so far. Need to take some time to put my own thoughts together about non-joth, non-ash, and non-e people.
especially since mail-mi never actually goes on to vote Lalight, just sticking with the joth tunnel
Oof, followed by this:
My question is just, what motivation does scum!LL have to claim that? Yes, there is wifom, but saying "I may eventually betray town so go ahead and lynch me" just does NOT sound like a good scum tactic.
Ash (I think it was ash?) pointing out how adding the "Oh yeah I get to choose if I switch alignments" after the initial claim is a good point. However, I still don't see the benefit (as scum) to making a claim like that.
Except it worked. It stalled the wagon. Precisely because it doesn't make sense.
I leave it to people who know LaLight better than I do- is this the kind of moved she would pull? Claim something that seems like it would make the town more likely to lynch her than act all contrite?
Again, like I said, wifom. I think LL is town and we should look elsewhere for scum
Bad-bad
Then some super-hedgey posts where he hedges on practically every player in the game:
starting my reread with hyper's claim. this post will collect my thoughts as I read.
I'm honestly not sure how much I like space's reply to it, though there's nothing I can pick out. Just a feeling.
Space also continues to push ash/e, which is a pretty unlikely thing to do. I think it makes her a little more townie.
not sure how I feel about WCD.
there's a lot of talk about hypercube's claim, none of which I find particularly towny or scummy. so that's unfortunate
I think haddock is pretty towny.
I also think glooble is pretty towny. Lalight is looking worse to me as I read
i am now out of time. we shall see what happens later today. Still comfortable with my vote where it is at, but I definitely can move it to lalight right now. Also currently might be willing to vote space if that ends up going anywhere. And Datswan, haven't seem much of her so far in my read, would be willing to vote
Okay, I'm not sure how much time I'll have right now. I'm going to go do a reread, but let me pencil down some pre-reread thoughts just in case I can't finish.
- wagon on me is bad, nobody should join it
- Space doing mathy things seems like both town!space and scum!space. Doesn't change my read on her. Although I didn't like her criticism of glooble's logic, as haddock pointed out. Maybe slight scum read?
- my read on joth has not changed so far
- I still think LL is telling the truth, though I'm gonna go reread her. I've been mulling over Ash's point about her retconning her claim, and I think he has a point.
um... that's pretty much what I'm thinking right now
The claim has been done to death but absolutely looks bad to me.
Oh also as I pass it:
I get a hard time making a case based on someone's votes for me, actually. I think both scum and town would vote me after my claim, because claim is not exactly townie. The only person acting really weird about my claim is mail-mi. This is also self-preservation, so vote: mail-mi
One more thing: if you do not lynch me, at one point I will be able to prove the claim (unless scum targets me every night just to get my lynch through which is a waste of shots, better for us as well), either declining the offer faust gave me and possibly dying? being hated? Hopefully something that will be obvious in thread or if you won't believe me on D4 that I am still alive therefore must be scum, you can lynch me then.
How about that?
This could be a desperate attempt at distancing.
mail-mi then contributes almost nothing today, except some defensiveness, and eventually this:
Day 2 Final Vote Count
jotheonah (1): mail-mi
LaLight (7): Haddock, hypercube, jotheonah, Glooble, ashersky, 2.71828....., LaLight
DatSwan (1): Awaclus
Awaclus (1): DatSwan
mail-mi (2): WestCoastDidds, SpaceAnemone
Not Voting (1): Robz888
With 13 alive, it took 7 to lynch.
Time for some good old-fashioned wagon analysis!
On-wagon: Haddock, joth, glooble, ash, e
Off-wagon: me, awaclus, WCD, Space, Robz/UoS
So other than Joth (fully willing to admit I probably have tunnel vision) I have townreads on everyone that is on wagon. That's convenient. I would narrow onwagon scum down right now to {joth, haddock}
Off wagon are all the possibly scummy folk (Robz doesn't really count because he was gone) However scum did kill off-wagon, so that's a point to consider. Despite that, I think our lynch today should be off wagon. My current candidates are, therefore, {awaclus, WCD, space, UoS} and right now I think space comes out on top of that in scumminess, followed in some order by awaclus and WCD, then at the bottom is UoS. that is, of course, barring a reread.
Which, eh. It's fine. Pretty much following general consensus.
That's it.
Man, I dunno what to say. My gut says scummy (though it said towny when I first did my catch-up reread in D1), and I see nothing to really overwrite that. Maybe he's weak-to-moderate scum rather than moderate-strong scum. Still scummy overall though.