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    Ignore the bit about me and PMs--I did the PM spidering thing once, tried to do it a couple more times, and honestly it's exhausting. If you PM me this game, I'll respond, but don't expect me to start PMs with you, and I'm not roleclaiming, period. Not after what happened in LG74. No thank you. I would say that at this point I play almost entirely in-thread. I do a lot of short posts but will also put together monstrous analysis posts on occasion, usually around C3, with mixed results (from "guessing the entire elim team" to "literally none of the people I'm sus of are actually elim"). I keep track of votes especially, and base a lot of my analysis off of them, so if you need a VC, the quickest way to get one is to @ me
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    Actual real VC (probably): Dannex (2): Araris, Illwei Randby (1): Ash Jondesu (1): Matrim Araris (1): Quinn Quinn (1): Szeth Illwei (2): Dannex, Archer Szeth (1): Azmine
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    Okay so current VC in case anyone was curious: Dannex (2): Araris, Illwei Randby (1): Ash Jondesu (1): Matrim Araris (1): Quinn Quinn (1): Szeth Illwei (1): Dannex Szeth (1): Azmine Please yell at me if I've missed someone's vote--given the amount of attention I've been paying to this game (not a lot) I would not be surprised if I have. (and yes, for those of you who are new to playing with me, this is what me not paying attention to a game looks like :P). Also @Araris Valerian what do you mean I'm "complicated"???
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    I'm technically in a class and not supposed to be talking, but what I meant was that if it seems like Dannex hasn't talked much in previous games, it's because he tends to die early.
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    lollll wait wait what is Illwei telling you about me??? I wanna know
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    Yes, precisely, it is because "someone has to die" is the primary motivation that I find it odd that you would say it here. It is the primary motivation for everyone to vote, really, and the fact that you're stating it explicitly just looks to me like you're trying to head off any criticism that might come your way. I'd ask why Dannex but since he hasn't really posted yet, I assume there isn't a solid reason.
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    That's because it has a lot of precedent. See LG72 D1, QF50 C1, LG73 D1, or LG75 D1 for a few off-the-top-of-my-head examples : P It's coming from Araris apparently deciding it was necessary to qualify his vote with the obvious statement that someone has to die (which minimizes the vote, provides an (imo) unnecessary explanation for it, and makes it easier to withdraw it all at the same time, all of which make it seem self-conscious/elimmy to me). That wasn't what I thought was weird about it in the first place smh
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    *actually reads your posts carefully* oh. Okay. So I thought you were hard-theorizing 3 elims back when you thought there were 16 players. Which it seems you weren't. 8am!me's reading comprehension is apparently not very good sorry about that Matrim Let's go with Araris instead. The more I think about that post of his the more suspicious it seems to me : P should it concern me that this is exactly how my LG75-Araris-tunnel started? In this case, yes. Ash RPing and Illwei random-voting are definitely normal for them, but I wouldn't call either of those things village indicative (since Illwei random-votes almost more when she's elim, and Ash spent all of AG7 RPing). It's D1, what do you expect smh also I arguably can't read Araris early on either, given that I thought e!him was village on D1 of LG74 (mostly, anyway) and that v!him was elim in LG75. I'm not giving up though Araris always activity-pokes, and encourages activity, and votes inactives. Or, well, almost always anyway it's kind of his thing. Also, Dannex was one of the more active players in QF52 (up until he died) and I think also in LG75 (up until he died), so idk why people still count him as inactive. The main reason he isn't around much is because he tends to be our D1 scapegoat when we're not sure who to vote off. Yes, it's definitely too early remember my team guesses from LG75? It's not a serious guess, really, just... y'know, I want bragging rights if by some miracle I'm right xD Okay yep definitely vil-reading Azmine lol
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    Great @Archer feels weird to me too... and I was hoping this game would be like QF52 which we lost because I got hard-pocketed by an elim Things about Archer: his point about Mat is... well, it doesn't change my mind but I can see how he'd take that stance. Though if Mat flips elim I will definitely look more closely at Archer. I agree with his thoughts on the distribution However, then we get to Araris: Archer says that he agrees that Araris's explanation for his vote is odd, and looks like an elim trying to make a retraction easier, but then doesn't vote him, and instead more or less logics his way out of suspecting Araris at all. And then he tells Azmine that the best way to find elims is to vote someone (as well as commenting that getting votes going early is a good thing), but despite having expressed at least some suspicion of someone (Araris), Archer isn't voting anyone. So uh... yeah now I'm side-eyeing/tinfoiling an Archer/Araris/(Mat?) team Also maybe it's just that Azmine actually knows what they're doing and is talking a fair amount, both of which are pleasant surprises, but I'm gut reading them village at this point Edit: hey wait or maybe the team is Archer/Araris/Azmine/Ash! We could theoretically have the A team for real this game xD
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    Oh c'mon we're not the only active players in this game! Archer's here too! : P
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    Ah, yeah this is a meta thing: generally here, games start with distribution and rules discussion instead of an RQS/RVS stage. It's just a way for us to get reads on each other, based on things like who proposed good plans around mechanics, what everyone thinks the number of elims is, who is avoiding giving hard opinions, and so on.
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    Generally if there are secret roles, we're told that they exist (just not what they are). Even if it is possible that there are secret neutrals, we don't know for sure, and it's dangerous to assume a low number of elims when a higher number is possible. Matrim in particular should know this: in QF48 (my first game) he and I were elims and we won primarily because the village assumed there were fewer of us than there were. Since then, he and I (and most other people) have generally been careful to assume the highest reasonable number of elims, which is why it strikes me as so odd that he's not doing that here.
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    So I somehow forgot this game existed xD Thoughts so far: Maybe this is paranoid but I'm really not liking Matrim right now because he tried (is trying?) to argue for 3 elims. I wouldn't think that was so weird, since we have 15 people and 4/15 is more than 25%, but he started arguing it when he thought there were 16 players--and 4 people is typically the number of elims for a 16 player game, regardless of guaranteed vote-manip roles and things like that. It just feels like a weird attempt to do the same thing that the QF48 team did, especially since it's coming from a player who (as village) should probably know better than to assume the smallest feasible number of elims is the correct one. In case it's not obvious, I'm assuming four elims unless proven otherwise Beyond that, Illwei seems normal (though sorry, voting me is not gonna help with your streak lol) and Ash's only posts were RP and theorizing about secret neutrals, which is... also normal for D1 Ash. So null on both of them. Araris... okay okay so I know that last LG I was super convinced Araris was elim and then it turned out he wasn't, but this time I swear there is actually something off about him. Like, he threw a basically random vote on Dannex (which is fine), but then felt the need to justify it by stating the obvious, that "somebody has to die"? We all know that, and he specifically has expressed that stance so many times before, and nobody was gonna blame him for random-voting when Illwei had already done it twice. It just seems super self-conscious to me. So I have my eye on him as well. No read on Azmine yet : P
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    *really wants to play* *also wants to fulfill informal promise of being a pinch hitter on occasion* uhhhh yeah let's do pinch hitter, since I'm a player in the other game
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    My playstyle, on the other hand, translates perfectly! Just saying
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    Rebuttal: TJ (you named all the other people I was going to ). Edit: @|TJ| you might wanna @ the people you nominated, otherwise they may not see this : P
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    I'll play!
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    If we did that then my score would never stop increasing I think a better way to do this is to just keep track of each player's average number of posts per cycle (using that post-count script that Illwei had in the AG), with maybe differentiations between QFs, MRs, and LGs (so each player has an average number of posts per cycle for each type of game). And then GMs can choose to set a minimum number of posts per cycle for a game if they want to, and only players with averages at or above that number for that type of game can play. That way, it wouldn't be up to the GM themself to keep track of the measurement (someone else could do it), and people's scores wouldn't be dependent on whether the GM had a good idea of where to set the par. Edit: in this case, new players would probably be given a grace period of 3 or 4 games before the restrictions took effect. Also, since people's activity levels change over time, it might only be the last <insert number> games that person played that count for the average.
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    This. If there are two games starting at around the same time, I might sign up for one and choose to be a pinch hitter for the other, from now on. (as I said in the dead doc)
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    I was waiting for permission from Ash, which I never got.
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    Right, but if everyone's required to put their vote in their GM PM in order for it to count, then they can just... not do that, on purpose. Which is what we had here.
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    Yeah but it puts the village at a disadvantage. Because the elims can all just vote how they want for XLo... idk, village loses often enough as it is that I don't really like the idea of permanently implementing mechanics that favor the elims : P
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    lol I mean it was only as quick as QF48. But like... jeez the village really stood no chance after you, me, and Archer all died... Also, sorry to both of you : P Archer for arguing so hard against exeing Tani, Mat for voting him... yeah. But hey, now we know Illwei and I can have a v/v game without thunderdoming, amirite? Edit: oh yeah, and @Tani no need to feel bad about pocketing me I know I said this in our PM, but seriously, no hard feelings
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