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Also, the game was actually very active - I believe it had more posts than any other on DCraft thusfar.

That made me curious to check for myself. Here's the list, not that number of forum posts is a perfect measure of activity. It doesn't count, e.g., the Neighbor chats in Retro Mafia.


1514 Heartbreaking Chicago Bears Moments

1428 Ruyi Zhuan

1361 Suikoden

1259 Madoka Magica

1019 90's-00's Nostalgia

923 Alien

675 Barry

670 Retro

593 Deltarune

572 MAGA

452 Ranger's Apprentice

431 Ted Lasso

368 K-Pop Demon Hunters

232 Ryan George Cinematic Universe

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Lastly I mentioned this a bit in the mason PM, but I honestly really really don't understand you always make it 2 v 10 in 12 player games. I ranted and raved at you for this in your last game, it makes it such an uphill battle for mafia.

Instead of Rex, you should rant and rave at Mikal for his bullshit about, "you can't know who is recruitable unless you played Suikoden", and at me for swallowing that bait hook, line, and sinker. Rex clearly designed that game as 3v10.

Thoth

Pinging dead people in the day thread? What do you expect me to do, send you a message through a Ouija board?

Thoth
i dont wanna sound like im parroting a lot of the comments so far, but i understand why im in the poe, i just dont know what to really do about it, im am contributing as much as i am able to and try to post meaningful honest things when i post.

And this is completely fair. Sometimes you just don't have any information to contribute.

Thoth
With less than 24 hours remaining, who do you think we should be lynching and why?

Who we SHOULD be lynching? I don't have any strong choices, but gun to my head, Banana. I feel like she's contributed a lot of text with a relatively low contribution/number of words ratio. But I'd also say it makes sense for me to just vote awesome because that's much more likely to result in a lynch due to inactivity.

Thoth

You've got me there. The reason I prefer playing scum over playing town is the adrenaline rush of not scumslipping.

Thoth
True he is a notorious fluff poster as either affiliation, however looking at his scum and town games, his activity and interest seems higher when he is town, and he seems to be more invested. If he is scum, hes been allowed to skate because the attention has largely been focused on a few people. It's very interesting. If he is town, I think he's having an off game.

I don't have any statistics to back this up, but I make no secret of the fact that I prefer playing scum to playing town, and I would think that my activity level tends to reflect that.

Thoth
I really need to read back through this DP cuz I'm falling behind too, but it is just so tempting to crash for the day... games, TV, a little Dungeon Crawler Carl.

I've heard a lot of people talking about Dungeon Crawler Carl recently. I should probably find out what it is.

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Whiteflame: Gut says he’s town read. He has a scumtell that I picked up on in a previous game. He had the opportunity to do the tell, but he didn’t, so that’s also a plus for him

You aren't going to specify the scumtell? I said something like this in Heartbreaking Chicago Bears Moments, where I was town and whiteflame turned out to be scum, and Mag1c demanded that I reveal my secrets lest games devolve into "orange sus".

Thoth
Both those roles seem to mesh with the game mechanics pretty well also. Do you have a behavioral reason to sus them or is it purely off of their role?

Leaving aside her info, something about Wryly has seemed off this game to me. Shining feels shiny. Not enough to go off of.

Thoth

I’d like to see a flip between Shining and Wryly. I’m unconvinced they could have passives that similar.

Thoth
My reason for thinking you’re scum(my) is that Mafia do like to reveal their investigative results, for towncred and because, who’s gonna kill a Mafia? It’s risk-free.

No good deed goes unpunished

Thoth
4 hours later, this is some hard hitting game analysis

4 hours? I'll have to call a doctor if it lasts longer

Thoth
Your entire argument sounds like some shit like "if I was the murderer I wouldn't do this". I watch interrogations while working sometimes.

The fuck you do for a living

Thoth

For future reference, there is never any need to tag me for activity. If I'm around to be active, I'll be active without being tagged. If I'm not around, I won't see your tag.

Thoth

I haven't even caught up with all of last DP yet, let alone this one, but for now I'm just going to drop in and say this: I played through yesterday thinking that I could use my ability last night, even though I don't think it would have been of much use. I noticed tonight that I did not have enough favor to use it. Rex confirmed that it was a mistake to tell me I could use it.

Thoth

I get your frustration, but being pushed is part of the game. I think the case against your idea is simple: a massclaim will help them play around town’s abilities, and there’s no guarantee that it will get us actionable information, especially since scum have fake-claims.

Thoth

I get your frustration, but being pushed is part of the game. I think the case against your idea is simple: a massclaim will help them play around town’s abilities, and there’s no guarantee that it will get us actionable information, especially since scum have fake-claims.

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The fact that you agree with my points about magoroth but scum read me for them I think is just paranoia. I can see what you and banana are saying that magoroth looks like an easy target, but lets face it, and feel free to prove me wrong, generally people as scum on this site are pretty blatant when they fuck up. I can point to several examples of this.

Selection bias. You can point to the blatant scumslips because those are the ones you noticed and remembered.


I've stopped myself from lynching scum many a time because of that same logic you are using "They are so bad they must be town" when its often just the case that they are... just scum.

Which is meaningless if you don’t factor in how many times they weren’t scum.

Thoth
Til then, the way I will treat him is "If it quacks, waddles, and swims like a duck, it's probably a duck:.

This is litrully what you said before mislynching Wryly over me in Ranger’s Apprentice lol