10 Year Reunion: Game Over!

[Amb]

[Internet Stranger]

Wow. Not only are players from 10 years ago, but thestyle of play is 10 years old too.

My vote stays.

* Hey Elayne, what are you wearing? Got any pics?
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[Sofis]

[Elayne]

If I had doubts before, I don't now. IS certainly hasn't changed in 10 years.

I don't have the pics you'd be interested in, L'lanmal does. Good luck getting him to share.

Now back to the game.

I was cutting you some slack CzarJ because you had posted in the restricted access thread but now you say you hadn't posted because you didn't have anything substantive to say. What did you expect? It's day one. We'll never have anything to work with unless people post.

[mith]

Vote Count: 8 to lynch.

Internet Stranger: 4 (Antrax, Courk, HyToFry, firemeboy)
Amb: 3 (Elayne, Dragon Phoenix, Alfie)
Alfie: 2 (Quailman, Luna)
HyToFry: 2 (mole, Amb)
Sofis: 2 (L'lanmal, Internet Stranger)
firemeboy: 1 (CzarJ)

Not Voting: 1 (Sofis)

[L'lanmal]

Lack of anything substantive to say has never been a hindrance before.

I am not Mafia. I have no idea if any of the other players are Mafia. My finger of suspicion is not pointing anywhere.

Unvote: Sofis
I'm not up for Global Thermonuclear War yet either.

[Amb]

[Sofis]

[CzarJ]

Just poking my head in to say something unsubstantive. Insubstantive? Nonsubstantive? Pointless.

[Amb]

Yeah Sofis, I wondered as much. I don't want to be guilty of over reading stuff especially on day 1.

[Courk]

Unvote: IS
*points finger in general direction of fmb*
Just because he placed the 4th vote against IS. Hy's vote I can chalk up to nostalgia and what not, but I'm not sure that's like fmb. But then I don't even remember him playing mafia, so clearly that doesn't mean much.

[Antrax]

I'm unhappy with IS' pre-excuse for not posting when it's uncomfortable for him. It probably checks out (though seriously, "US tour"?), but it'll make proving that he's scum a lot harder. However, as you may have guessed, it wasn't a slip anyone made before the game started that led me to vote IS, so that's it for that vote for now.
unvote: IS
Luckily some new stuff sprang up since. For one, I beat Elayne at banter, which is always nice. I dislike Alfie's "I'm voting amb because of Elayne" for obvious reasons. Sofis is acting very weird, but if my crotchety old memory serves me (and it might not -- I thought the list was mole's gimmick), Sofis always acts weird.
So, after this quality, in-depth analysis, there are only three possible logical moves: I can vote Courk or Czarj so I'll stop getting confused between them, I can vote Luna because nobody is, or I can actually do some good and vote: Dragon Phoenix. The bold tags have spoken. Die die die suck DP scum.

Also, could I have used semicolons in that "logical moves" sentence above? I originally had them but they looked kinda weird so I changed them back to colons.
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[Courk]

[Quailman]

You should edit your post to put the semi-colons back (though it looks like you changed them to commas rather than colons).

[Alfie]

Ah, but editing his post might look suspicious, as it is technically against the rules.

The colon is correct, though I believe you could have separated the clauses with semicolons due to their size. If the logical move clauses had contained commas, you'd have had to use semicolons. Also, you're using the Oxford Comma, which is fine as long as the use is consistent.

I'm going to stop now before people decide to start lynching Grammar Nazis.

As for the game, I'll admit that I'm more than a little rusty. I'm just casting my first vote based on the extremely little information that we have at the moment. Elayne's logic held at least as much water as any of the other arguments, so I'll keep my second. Perhaps a scumlord will let something slip to avoid the statistically probable miscarriage of justice that seems to be required in the first round.

Also, I'll withdraw my fingers of suspicion, though I still don't like logicless bandwagons. I suppose somebody has to vote first.

[HyToFry]

Sticking to my guns.

*unrelated... the other day, I edited a post wordcross made because I wanted to fix his url tags, but there was no indication that I had made the edit. Did we change that when I wasn't looking?

[Amb]

If the post was the last post in the thread at the time, the edit isnt recorded.

[Quailman]

People with l33t powers can edit posts undetectedly. IINM, Hy has such powers.

[HyToFry]

He does.
It wasn't the last post.
I didn't know we'd done it that way.
Learned something new today.

[Internet Stranger]

Why isnt Sofis lynched yet?
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[Sofis]

They like me more than they like you.

[L'lanmal]

A finger of annoyance to Quailman for suggesting that Antrax edit his post.

I'm still sitting here with an unused vote. I admit I'm tempted to vote IS just because people are unvoting him. I'm perverse that way.

Amb certainly has made up for lost time in posting frequency. (Not that it makes him innocent.)

I'm leaning Alfie at the moment, just because his repeated reference to scumlords letting things slip. I can picture him thinking "Don't let anything slip, don't let anything slip" as he types that.

So Vote: Alfie for now.

[Elayne]

My vote for Amb was based on his silence. He's posted now, and quite frequently, though without a lot of content to his posts. This posting streak of his could be over compensation on his part to avoid suspecion, but I thought I remember Amb being a high volume poster in general. For now, I'll choose to accept that he was sick and it kept him from posting early. I am not sure I accept that he is innocent, but for now
Unovte: Amb

I am alternately flattered and annoyed with all these reference's to Elayne's logic. Flattered if they think I am being insightful, annoyed if they can't come up with logic of their own to post, or worse, scum trying to set me up to take the blame when they start a bandwagon for an innocent.

So Alfie, which do you fall into of the above? Let's find out.
Vote Alfie

[HyToFry]

Unvote: IS
Vote: L'lanmal

This is based on a couple of things, but mostly my gut instinct.

L'l said that he wanted to vote for the role of "Sofis" instead of the player Sofis, and I wasn't entirely sure what he meant until tonight when I had some time to do some digging (now that people have posted.) He was the first to mention the players in the old game who were mafia. This tells me that he's researched the old game (which I haven't done), or he has an incredible memory (which I don't, so I don't remember if he does or not.)

Mostly, however, it feels as if L'l is pretty excited about this game. I remember I was more excited about games where I was mafia then games where I was nothing.

And before anyone has a chance to say something, yes I could have stayed my vote until after he's had a chance to answer, but there isn't anyone voting for him yet, and my hopes of a quick IS kill are diminishing.

*Unrelated: I just made the input box that I'm typing on bigger. Is that a GL thing, or is that a Chrome thing? Hmm... seems to work on other sites too. Man Chrome is awesome.

[Amb]

Just a couple of comments.

Firstly, thanks for the unvote.

[Antrax]

I disagree that day 1 is hopelessly random. Often you can end up with the "most informative" lynch, i.e. find out the alignment of whoever acted the weirdest towards specific other people. It's not pure gold, but it's not naive to expect to catch scum on day 1 (or, worst case, as a direct result of day 1 actions).
I also am amused that Hy prefaces his post with "based on gut feeling" and then gives a logical explanation for his actions
And yeah, I meant commas, not colons. The Hebrew word for "semicolon" is literally "dotcomma", so in my head there's the idea that the second half of "semicolon" is "comma".
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[HyToFry]

Technically, the second (bottom) half of a semi-colon is a comma. =D

In fact: I never understood why a colon is not the semi-colon; the semi-colon has more sustenance to it.

Also. I'm glad I amuse you, but a hunch can certainly be logical. =p

[Elayne]

[L'lanmal]

[Elayne]

Posts like this are why I married the man

[Antrax]

Your lifelong dream was to marry a Barney Stinson impersonator?
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[HyToFry]

Firstly at Antrax.
That is all.

[Luna]

I'm in the middle of moving house and don't have regular internet access, but I'm just dropping by to say something unsubstantive and to Unvote: Alfie.

I'll think about who I'm re-assigning my vote to, and let you all know next time I can get online (tomorrow, hopefully).

[Alfie]

[mole]

I don't understand. You agree that the logic for a lynch is going to reveal a lot, but when challenged to explian your own vote you flip back to "it's all arbitrary, so why don't I just vote for you!"?

Anyway, Elayne can't be mafia if Lepton's not in the game.

Unvote: HyToFry

That said, Amb is pushing that "it's only day 1" argument even harder, to the point where he's actively discouraging discussion, so I'll Vote: Amb. How was that vote at all a blatant attempt to start a bandwagon?

[mole]

Also, "die die die suck DP scum", that one is my gimmick. Well, one I stole from mith.

[Alfie]

[Dragon Phoenix]

Unvote amb
Vote czarj

[Luna]

[Antrax]

You always blow me off, DP It's like I'm not cool enough to hang around with you. Of course, that particular indicator has a good success rate at finding out when you're mafia, so anyone who wants to join on the DP wagon, I'd appreciate it. If life were fair I'd have had like five votes in every game and wouldn't need to ask like this, but we live in an imperfect world.
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