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Car advert in the US told me to support two teams that have already been knocked out of the World Cup.

Further amusing because it’s a car company from one of those countries that has been knocked out.

On policy lynches:

Basically a policy lynch is a lynch based on arbitrary criteria as opposed to the content someone has (or hasn’t) generated in the game. Two common policy lynches are “lynch all liars”, based on the fallacy that a town-aligned player will never lie, and “lynch all lurkers” on the fallacy that only scum will not want to contribute to a game. - green text ends since I’m referring to this game from here now, and thus don’t think it’d be very fair to portray this as unbiased advice

Our issue here is that a Miller is, by definition, town-aligned, and Tric played it right by immediately claiming it in is first post so any investigators (which are likely, given we have a Miller which can throw them off) don’t waste a night on investigating him.

As far as I’m aware, BHK cut his teeth on a site which emphasized the night game, so is more inclined toward analyzing that than the day game. Consequently, a devalued investigator hurts his ability to do that, so a Miller policy lynch makes sense from him. He also kind of has a point that scum might try to fakeclaim it, and that’s not something we want to encourage in the long-term meta.

On the other side of the coin, we can clear Tric in other ways in the night game, or even just the day game. However, his day game play so far has been a bit iffy, tunneling on Moony and BHK, and those wall posts don’t really say anything that hasn’t already been said (though I will admit to skimming them ‘cause wowwalloftext) and the night game clearing requires particular roles, actions and full-claims, which is not at all ideal at this point in the game, but even then could be de-railed by clever scum. Swings and roundabouts, I guess.

Anyhow, I’m more inclined to view BHK’s performance so far with distaste given the majority has been “this is optimal play, anyone not doing it is not town” and not using the time he has to find scum. Optimal play only really works when there are no outliers. Good luck with that in an unknown setup in which everyone has a power role.

One mod I never have trouble accepting is the door/floormats mod that forces people to wipe/clean their feet when they run over it.

That sounds awesome.

I will promptly forget that for the next time I play the game.

Jiminy Cricket, dun, you are a bad man.

Oh hey that makes sense, I never built a floor for my freezer one time and every bugger was getting food poisoning.

I also thought it was because the room was incredibly dirty, given nobody was cleaning.

Moony has a point, Tric. You’ve consistently battered your head against that wall of trying to get him to post, when there are other people to pester.

I mean, you say you’re trying to get him to participate, but you’re not putting any oomph behind those efforts ie voting for him. In my experience, it’s more effective than incessantly posting “talk, please”.

However:

Moony (potentially an interim vote, depending on the response)

Quote from: TricMagic on June 30, 2018, 11:39:15 am

I've been trying to get you to participate. What do you have on me, and can you convince everyone else?

Nothing. Yet...
Like i said, i got the info from you i wanted...

Post edited by me, for relevant bits.

You say you got what it was you wanted from Tric, and evidently that was enough for you to vote for him, yet you don’t think that you have anything to convince other people to go with you on that, correct?

Assuming yes, what was it that you wanted?

What was it that convinced you to break your vow of “wait and see” to drop your vote on him?

If you don’t mind my asking, why are you taking in so few calories?