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NOC Small Street Game Thread - Ended- TOWN wins!

Csyager I'm curious, you have very eloquent reasons for your actions but your argument against DS/former was stilted, like you had difficulty presenting your argument. Can you explain why this might be? Do you have any other reads you can present?
1. Creating a dichotomy between players that one must be scum
2. Setting up an if/then scenario to chain lynch the other player
3. Hedging their choice of lynch
4. Empty calories in fluffing the post of the situation


MewtwoHidden I don't understand how you read this as not understanding the game

(CsYager I don't know if this is your first game or not, if it is and you're town please taking nothing personally and use everything that might happen as a learning experience)

Texas Cloverleaf Did I adequately answer your question earlier? I'm not sure I did, I get distracted easily. Heres my original response to quote 1, if it helps anybody.

When I am reading this thread, or any conversation for that matter, I tend to look at things through many perspectives at once. If I find a perspective that explains the actions of multiple people relatively well, I tend to stick with that perspective while reading the rest of their posts to confirm it. It’s difficult for me to represent the perspectives I see people from in one post without deciding on one entirely, so I tried to represent it by outlining 2 situations I thought were likely. when DS. And Former Hope responded, not only did I feel like their words were genuine, but they presented a perspective I have never thought of. Without prior knowledge of these people, and without hearing tone of voice, it is more difficult than I thought to actually understand where people are coming from.
On the second quote Texas, I would like to address each point you made, labeled below.
1.) I believe the dichotomy already existed, and I was just emphasizing it.
2.) I meant to propose that if we became confident that one of them was a mafia, and then the one we lynch turns out to be town, that we should not lose our confidence and consider lynching the other one to *almost* guarantee a mafia kill. I communicated that thought poorly.
3.) Yeah I thought everyone would already agree with me, and i was just voicing what everyone else was thinking. Apparently no one else was thinking that. I have nothing to rebuttal this one with.
4.) What specifically are my 'empty calories' and 'fluffing'? I tried to shorten the post as much as possible while still having enough details to make an argument.

Please make a case to answer these questions and refute my statements. I would appreciate it. Also, anyone else, feel free to chime in on my rebuttals. Thanks!
 
Side note: What's 'omgus'? I've been wondering for a while.
It's usually "Oh My Gosh Ur Scum/Stupid"
It typically applies when someone starts to scum read someone in response to being scum read by them.

A lot of people fall into the fallacy of thinking its scummy or that scum do it more often. But from my own experience of having omgused plenty of times and having seen it before, I think it has very little to do with alignment and more to do with person. Apricity for example (not to call him out, hes just the first to come to mind) tends to omgus anyone who starts a push on him, regardless of alignment.
 
Can you explain why? Also, are you going to need to be pressured to end up voting?
ive pointed out posts from marth i dislike w/ content and tone and none of his posts hit me as v towny

cs is because of 1/3 sheeping, 1/3 meta, 1/3 tone

w/ me not voting its just that i didnt consider it cause its not important to how i want to play and how im reading marth who i would be voting rn
ill drop it tho cause at worse it starts some fun discussions

vote bluedoom
 
Votecount 1.7

Ds (1):
former hope
Former hope (4): apricity, DS, csyager, mewtwohidden
CsYager (2): Texas cloverleaf, stealthbomber
Bluedoom (1): vooper
Not voting (9): ZestOfLife, Nuxl, tonithetourguide, Drookez, Sanjana, moodycloud, Hannah, bluedoom, samoyed

Deadline: 7pm est, 17th April, approx 22 hours
Hammer: 9
 
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I'm literally just going to do this as a stream of consciousness while rereading the thread so not everything is going to be relevant.

Former iso part 1

then again, maybe we want the vengeful role to claim D1? imo that's the one most likely to be mafia

From town!former perspective this is a decent comment, but scum!former would also know whether vengeful is town or scum. Basically wifom.

vote apricity


scum team is random. If they did buy that 80 point 4th mafia thing, it'll probably become pretty obvious once one or two flip

also I don't think scum hal makes this post, but I'm voting him for the lols
I thought hals post was irritating, so I think I have plenty of justification for that vote
I refuse to respond to anyone who thinks I was seriously pushing for hal on page 3 or that the vote was anything but RVS

tbh I don't like any of this for reasons I've stated before.

I see where you're coming from. But also that's probably the one cheap role the mafia would want to take for the clear.

Furthermore, them reading conversations could also be them in a mafia chat. So like, I get where you're coming from. But I don't think your read is appropriate here.

atp day1 has officially started, and white flag was not officially announced to be on or off. In future posts, you say that when the day started and white flag wasn't announced, you assumed it was off. Idk wheher you reached the conclusion yet that scum doesn't take a 4th member without white flag. Imo, scum only take public vanilla if there are 4 scum, and I don't see a reason why there could be a team of 3, and one of those is vanilla.

imo, if I was mafia I would probably take 2 of the 3 most powerful roles and that role

oh. tbh i see vengeful / double / faith healer or night governor as the correct picks if there are three.

What you guys are saying is exactly why I would put that role on my mafia if I had the ability to pick my mafia team

its kinda suboptimal to pick vanilla unless there are 4, but eh, its all wifom. If cs flips scum I would be incredibly shocked.

I think there's a few likely paths they took

-recruit a 4th member (seems likely)
-recruited 1/2 of the 'strong roles' (very likely)

-recruited a bunch of the middle roles (not really a huge incentive to leaving a bunch of points free as they ultimately don't do that much)

with that, I think the middle path is likely the one they took. It doesn't really do that much now, other than meaning we should never read that person as town for their role alone. But I think

so at this point you think white flag is turned off, but recruiting a 4th is still likely or do you think white flag may or? middle path is possible tbh.
bluedoom is also pinging me (agreed with whoever else said it)

Not sure about this myself. I felt his post #241 wasn't very helpful and nobody was even talking about lynching CS. I don't think anything else he has said has really stood out at this point. I'll investigate this more later. I want your explanation on why he pinged you, and I'll compare it to my findings later.

guys let's wagon apricity just to annoy him
but naw, apricity is acting severely overconfident and pretending they can solve the game all on their own so a wagon would be really fun
nah, I'm not saying hal is scum. But that he's being extremely unhelpful on town and feeding ego so this would be a fun exercise

This is honestly not ai, but not a helpful attitude for town to have imo. I mean, maybe you could've gotten a read on sb/blue/toni from this, but apricity was never going to give you a serious response. Keep in mind, all you've posted to this point is gamespec and the comment on bluedoom which idk if you've ever backed up? Still, fair enough ig.
don't give me this tone on page 13 less than 24 hours into a game
unvote, vote stealthbomber

if ya'll are going to be lame, I'm going to put my vote somewhere more interesting for now

atp stealth seemed a little jumpy so I can see why you would vote him tbh. After reading the thread again, this feels fairly natural. Tbh though, I think its fair for him to ask you reads in a vacuum. I want to know what the goal of this vote was, and what exactly made sb seem scummy, assuming
same difference, regardless, they may as well claim

don't think getting double voter to claim is a good idea, but ig if you still assume white flag is off, this is reasonable.

convince me

also, I'm actually ready for a bluedoom wagon, still do not like the slot atm
I forgot to actually vote

unvote, vote BD

this makes sense with his previous sentiment idk og I agree with it yet. I'll basically have to iso every
people I find scummy: Bluedoom, toni
people I'm leaning scum on: DS./ CS/stealth
not particularly, but I didn't like how you had no scummy reads after 15 or so pages. Feels to me like you could be scum wanting to be non committal.

atp in the game I could agree to a wagon on all except ds/cs tbh. reasonable reads.
two things

1. I'm not liking your tone, it feels really stiff

but more importantly

2. you haven't actually produced any content thus far. You have 3 pages of ISO stuff, but yet not a single read (as far as I could find). The vast majority of your posts thus far have been about game spec or just witty NAI stuff.

So together, it feels to me like you are just scum struggling to interface with the game.
ftr, I was scum leaning on tone. Just did the ISO thing and have upgraded DS to a scum read.
unvote, vote DS
no more fluff

Atp I haven't done a DS. iso or analyzed him particularly closely. I don't see his tone as particularly stiff though. Really want to know what it is that made you upgrade. Not sure I agree, but haven't seen anything particularly unjustifiable so far except you might seem a little opportunistic, but ig that makes coherent sense

I really am not liking your posts. Posts like these are bad imo because they are so incredibly manipulative of the truth.

I'm digging on them for having no scum reads, in part because I want them to start scumreading people. Meanwhile, I have made a scum read. I've even produced town reads. It is incredibly functionally different because I have been actively making reads as I've seen them while DS has been very hesitant to make any reads.

But also your earlier post was attacking me for only having one scum read early on and making the presumption that I should have more than one. Which is just flat out rediculous and like I said, I feel like you are trying to be super manipulative of this game and I'm scum reading you for it.

Stealth's post makes sense to me, and is the type of post I might make if I thought about it tbh. I don't think it warrants this reaction. Up until page 13 you were fixated on hal and didn't produce any actual reads, and while at this point you have voted stealth and blue, you haven't supported those reads with much of anything substantive-something you criticize hal for.
let me be clear. It's perfectly okay not to have confidant reads at this point. But I am trying to get you to at least push reads, even if they are just gut feelings, so there's stuff to go back and read later in the game.
reducing DS back to a scum lean, but leaving the pressure on

okay fair enough. the part about leaving the pressure on is straight up goofy though. I think you have enough s

.
Texas Cloverleaf I actually don't think this defensiveness comes from scum
unvote

also me: idk who I want to solve now, let me randomize ie

thank you list randomzier. You are terrible

2nd time around it gave me csyager

okay 3rd time it gave me Drookez
so hi drook, how's it going vote drookez

Okay, so you change your mind on DS. I can agree with that I suppose. This part about the randomizer is straight up goofy atp the meminess has gone to far.
 
I think even without white flap 4p is still possible. They have 85 points and it costs 80, but there's enough 0 or low cost roles to still make it feasible

also it's just sort of a running joke to use a randomizer to guess the mafia team. It hasn't been yet right, but some day it will be
 
the double voter appears in the VC so it's going to be pretty obvious for the mafia to figure it out/it's going to become obvious. They may as well make sure town knows explicitly.
 
unvote

The reason why I was on Csyager in the first place was because I wanted to see how he was reacting to pressure. That is why I did not explain any of my reasoning (because explaining pressure votes is against the spirit of pressure votes). I am content with how he has responded to the pressure. I am open to other options now.
 
former iso part 2

Ngl, I can see this being hals scum game.
I still think he breaks just slightly towny. But I would like the pressure on him to force him to do stuff and prevent him from thinking people are going to sheep him this game

Back to this? What provoked this in particular. Why aren't you pursuing your other leads like bluedoom or stealth, and instead are focusing on hal who has made only a handful of posts and that you think is towny? If you don't want him to dominate who the town votes for, why not focus on your reads rather than meming against him.
my objective is to communicate to hal that people aren't going to blindly sheep him and if he wants anyone to sheep him, he's going to have to put in some work
context: hal has a problem in that he typically just expects people to blindly sheep him for no reason
I've dealt with this problem before and the answer is to ignore him. I don't know your experiences, but in Mayor Mafia hal tried to do this and me and DS. gamesolved. I don't think what you're doing atp with hal makes much sense at all, when you have other leads (stealth/bluedoom to pursue)
and I think yours is. I'm trying to get someone who is coasting to post more so people (including myself) can ultimately get a better read. So stop resisting this, thank you.
Half the game was idling and still is, so I still don't get this.
Actually legitimately, hal's whole case for me being scum was on the basis that the mafia would recruit a forth person. We're not in white flag, so I think that the chance a 4th was recruited is rather small. The fact he hasn't done anything to adjust his reads with this information or anything at all is really concerning.
I'm rather certain it would be in the OP if it was, is that true Duskfall98
Ehhh I want to say this is legitimate.
Which ngl, despite DS's sillyness, is actually a credible derpclear
nah, I just never bothered to read it that carefully since I knew what white flag was

also this is the first time I've derpcleared so I need to celebrate it (even though I don't really advocate using it as a derp clear)
I don't, on the other hand, think you should be cleared for it.
why do you automatically assume texas is town here? :blobthinking:
I don't see how DS. is saying texas or hal are town, or why you made that assumption? Tunneling is mostly a town thing ig but scum can use it as well.
unvote, vote ds

:blobpex:
I don't see how anything Texas said should make you decide to vote ds
cool, the "I'm feeling pressured so I'm going to join the biggest wagon" move

Texas Cloverleaf you were right, this is scum
Are you the biggest wagon atp? isn't DS.? Either way, the more I think about it the more it feels like doing that iso of me was to try to pocket my vote tbh.
I actually went backed and checked, there are these votes, how does this effect your read?
What he did to me last game seems like what he's doing to you this game. Tbf he was town last game.
if bluedoom is mafia, #709 is clearly an attempt to fake bus
yh I can see this on either sb or toni, assumin
okay cool, mafia is Cs/Ds/Bluedoom
uhhh. CS isn't mafia my dude. Have you read his posts?
bluedoom doesn't have the power to confirm that
bluedoom might not, but in my limited ability to read tone I think DS. has played similarly whether its the noncommittal voting or just his general posting style I can see this being town ds., but I'm gonna iso him too so we'll see if I change my mind.
actually, since we still have a day

unvote, vote drookez

Drookez this vote stays here until you start posting again
uhhh, I feel like you have some vendetta with drookez, esp since there are 3 othe
at this point I really wish I had randed the vengeful role

Then you come along and basically twist it to declare you think I'm lying about derping that way. Which is just ???
uhh from what I read, DS. literally just said you shouldn't get a derpclear which is exactly what you yourself agreed with.
 
Atp I feel like former v ds. is tvt. I'll iso ds. later, but that's my gut atm. I'm honestly more skeptical of what little I've heard from Texas than either of them, and I only voted for Former in the first place bc I was looking at it as a dichotomy.

Either way, I don't support a lynch on either of them right now. I feel like I'm more interested in a Stealth or BD lynch d1.

unvote
 
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