Monster Mash WW - Sign Ups and Game Thread

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I can think of two reasons for you to do this. Without giving them to you, what is your reason for this vote?
I stated one reason with my lynch, and that is because players who do not contribute much to the thread will not have many posts for others to analyze or look for inconsistencies/holes. Lurking is a strategy that allows for them to infrequently with less risk that they will slip up, say something inconsistent, or reveal too much information. This is the big reason why I voted for her. And as I type this, she has still yet to show up to the thread (I know it's still early). Cray just mentioned that she believes Stella is trying her hardest to play these games, and that may be true, but that doesn't mean it's still not a strategy some wolves use.

No actually, she hasn't been a woof yet. Now I'm looking at you a little funny.
Went back and looked at the whisk and noob games and you're right. Although the above strategy was used by Sky in the last game (whether Sky was actually busy or just lurking or both we won't know).

No, she was never a wolf, and never lived past 2 days. Lynch her if you want. Just, please, when she posts, just try to be kind with your words, just at first. She's feeling like she can't even get a post in without being totally jumped on (I know that's WW), after having to work really hard to even type at all. I just think if she could have a little positive reinforcement for like 3 posts before getting jumped on, it would help her become the player I hope she will become.
Yeah I was wrong. I don't think I am usually too mean with my words unless someone is trying to twist them, but noted. This vote will likely be waffled later, I'm just going off of what posts are/are not on thread right now.
 
Correction to last post since we can't edit:
infrequently post with less risk they will slip up.
 
I believe when Nutmeg first introduced WW to the lounge he ran games with open setups. So I can't take complete credit but I believe it's been quite a long time since a game was run this way.

Gotta find a way to have a modding experiment even with a basics game 😀

I thought vhawk got the gold bust in the hall of fame for that one?
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what is RVS?
Random Voting Stage. Basically the first part of D1 when everyone is throwing out joke votes.

This post:
lynch karab

Nobody else set off any D1 alarms, so I'm gonna roll with Mel's observation, even though it's weak as hell.
Seems too hedgey to me. Yeah my reasoning was weak and I brought it up to see what Kara's response would be, but LIS jumping on it while setting himself up to waffle off just isn't sitting right with me. Granted, I haven't played a game where LIS was a wolf, but he usually has more conviction.

Will reevaluate when I come back to the game later today. For now
Lynch LIS
 
I thought vhawk got the gold bust in the hall of fame for that one?
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Hmm. Maybe? Either way it was before my time but i thought i'd heard it was nutmeg. Sadly the lounge doesn't have a record of all their games.
 
The RVS is my least fave too. But it does seem to work to catch wolves sometimes, and often, the man behind that is LIS.

But today LIS' vote kinda wigged me out.

But now I'm getting paranoid of LIS, you, Mel, and Kara. Which I think was the exact tunneling I had in MI but Pippy isn't playing this time. And also had me defending a sketchy noob. Sigh.

I'm trying really hard not to get uber paranoid of AM and Coopah. Coop is reading village to me, for the first time ever. I think I'm just reading her better now. But I'm not sure I've seen her as a wolf.

There the wash cycle of paranoia begins.
 
You said that was MJ, didn't you?

I might have. I get people confused. *shrug*

I hope this wasn't about Stella.

I'm the first one to say that I don't like the coasting style of play, but I can tell you right now, Stella is really doing her damndest to play these last 3 games. If you actually knew the effort she was going to... I'm sad that isn't immediately apparent to the thread.

I don't care if y'all want to to find it all sketchy and vote her, that's not my issue. She's trying.

It wasn't about Stella. Like I said, it was about people coasting to wins. Not any one person in particular. I just don't think it makes for a fun game.

No, she was never a wolf, and never lived past 2 days. Lynch her if you want. Just, please, when she posts, just try to be kind with your words, just at first. She's feeling like she can't even get a post in without being totally jumped on (I know that's WW), after having to work really hard to even type at all. I just think if she could have a little positive reinforcement for like 3 posts before getting jumped on, it would help her become the player I hope she will become.

Look. I know you love the touchey feeling we're-all-friends be-nice-to-each-other stuff, but this is WW. It's ALL ABOUT CONFLICT. So cut it with the "be kind" and "positive reinforcement" stuff. It's a game about knocking each other off, ok? People need to bring a little bit of thick skin. N00bs get killed. Vets get killed. It's the way of the game.

lynch coop

Care to say more? I'm about to switch to Coop (in fact, I had already typed it), but I want to hear your reasoning before I post my own and give you something to ride.

Mel's wrong in his vote for me, but I like his reasoning, at least. It's good D1 stuff.
 
Random Voting Stage. Basically the first part of D1 when everyone is throwing out joke votes.

This post:

Seems too hedgey to me. Yeah my reasoning was weak and I brought it up to see what Kara's response would be, but LIS jumping on it while setting himself up to waffle off just isn't sitting right with me. Granted, I haven't played a game where LIS was a wolf, but he usually has more conviction.

Will reevaluate when I come back to the game later today. For now
Lynch LIS

For the record, I wasn't setting myself up to waffle. I was just calling it like it is - your reason was weak as hell. Just like almost every D1 vote. That's just me being blunt.

I can see your point, though. I go pretty hard with my votes. It's not quite conviction, though - you're misinterpreting. It's more .... well, we have to vote, so I'm not gonna sit here and second guess myself all day long and fret, I'm just gonna go with the vote and let the chips fall.
 
No, she was never a wolf, and never lived past 2 days. Lynch her if you want. Just, please, when she posts, just try to be kind with your words, just at first. She's feeling like she can't even get a post in without being totally jumped on (I know that's WW), after having to work really hard to even type at all. I just think if she could have a little positive reinforcement for like 3 posts before getting jumped on, it would help her become the player I hope she will become.
I get that you want Stella to play, but if she can’t if you jump in and defend her every time. She has to stand up for herself. If we let noobs sit back and say nothing, we’ll end up with Lawpy the sequel (quiet noob wolves).
 
I don't want to be trying to get the wrong person to answer what question,
but I'm dying to know, what the two reasons for why whoever voted whatever voted that way, or why someone thought there was two, and if there are two, what are the 2?????

Am I the only one confused and wanting answers??
 
Care to say more? I'm about to switch to Coop (in fact, I had already typed it), but I want to hear your reasoning before I post my own and give you something to ride.

I basically already gave my reason by quoting Coop's post involving Bryndy, but it's because Bryndy gave what I found to be a suitable D1 reason for lynching someone (albeit wrong in her stella wolf statement) and Coop pressed for further reasoning. Also called Mel out for "throwing shade early" and then Coop proceeds to do exactly that as well. Just hard to tell if this is village play coming out swinging or a wolf trying too hard to find reasons to lynch people. Nothing major but in the interest of voting often and early, Coop stood out most to me.
 
I basically already gave my reason by quoting Coop's post involving Bryndy, but it's because Bryndy gave what I found to be a suitable D1 reason for lynching someone (albeit wrong in her stella wolf statement) and Coop pressed for further reasoning. Also called Mel out for "throwing shade early" and then Coop proceeds to do exactly that as well. Just hard to tell if this is village play coming out swinging or a wolf trying too hard to find reasons to lynch people. Nothing major but in the interest of voting often and early, Coop stood out most to me.

I buy it. I really disliked the interaction with bryndiana considering it was a pretty strong early attack for someone who hasn't bothered to actually vote.

I didn't like the Mel/shade comment, either. Nothing wrong with throwing shade early on. Everyone knows it's weak. So what?
 
I don't want to be trying to get the wrong person to answer what question,
but I'm dying to know, what the two reasons for why whoever voted whatever voted that way, or why someone thought there was two, and if there are two, what are the 2?????

Am I the only one confused and wanting answers??
I might need a translation for that post, Cray. Are you asking what Coop’s 2 reasons were?
 
Oops. I already broke the rules. Edited that last post. Didn't change anything, just added the second line. Forgot we can't edit, since lately we've been able to.

But I'll own the infraction.
 
D1 Unofficial Tally

Yk (1) - mixy
Mel (2) - karabou, Cray
Coop (3) - am, allie, LIS
Mixy (1) - genny
AM (1) - jboo
bryndy - (1) yk
Karabou () -
Stella (1) - bryndy
MJ (1) - Coffee
LIS (1) - Mel

12/17

Deadline: 10 pm est (~7 hours)
 
Yeah I didn't like that coop/bryndy interaction from either of them, but since coop is already in the lead and is good at talking herself into a D1 lynch, I'll lynch my mantee for now. Not feeling that strongly about either so might change my vote if I can get on later today.

lynch bryndy
 
I stated one reason with my lynch, and that is because players who do not contribute much to the thread will not have many posts for others to analyze or look for inconsistencies/holes. Lurking is a strategy that allows for them to infrequently with less risk that they will slip up, say something inconsistent, or reveal too much information. This is the big reason why I voted for her. And as I type this, she has still yet to show up to the thread (I know it's still early). Cray just mentioned that she believes Stella is trying her hardest to play these games, and that may be true, but that doesn't mean it's still not a strategy some wolves use.


Went back and looked at the whisk and noob games and you're right. Although the above strategy was used by Sky in the last game (whether Sky was actually busy or just lurking or both we won't know).


Yeah I was wrong. I don't think I am usually too mean with my words unless someone is trying to twist them, but noted. This vote will likely be waffled later, I'm just going off of what posts are/are not on thread right now.
Ok I see your point, it's valid but also not indicative of a wolf. There are players like Nyanko who use this strategy as a wolf or a villager and there's simply no way to distinguish them. I think it's a bit unfair to target quiet people because they're quiet until mid-game where they've at least proven to have nothing to contribute. If the vote was to encourage her to talk more I'd be more ok with it, but as of now it's kinda a dick move. Last game is a bad example but there has been plenty of times when Nyanko is a super helpful villager but is still quiet. Just pointing out a potential flaw with your logic.
 
^This strikes me as odd, since bryndy gave a reason in her vote. Not sure whether this was wolfy trying too hard yet.

That's nice, considering you haven't graced us with a vote of your own.

She gave a reason for this vote already..
My two reasons were to
1) Either she's trying to get stella to talk more OR
2) Wolf going for an easy lynch

I didn't want to spell it out in case she didn't have a great answer. So far the only thing I understand from her is I lynched her because she's historically quiet, which is kinda stupid imo.

Also I didn't vote because I was in class (on lunch now) and didn't have time to type up reasoning or look all that hard. The only votes out there at that point were bryn and joke votes. I dislike joke votes because I've had my ass kicked a few times putting one of those out there. Hell, one time I got lynched for tagging someone too early.

So yeah lynching someone cause they're quiet isn't valid D1 lynch in my book so

Lynch Bryn
 
Ok I see your point, it's valid but also not indicative of a wolf. There are players like Nyanko who use this strategy as a wolf or a villager and there's simply no way to distinguish them. I think it's a bit unfair to target quiet people because they're quiet until mid-game where they've at least proven to have nothing to contribute. If the vote was to encourage her to talk more I'd be more ok with it, but as of now it's kinda a dick move. Last game is a bad example but there has been plenty of times when Nyanko is a super helpful villager but is still quiet. Just pointing out a potential flaw with your logic.
Fair enough, just from past games she is typically a pretty quiet player so I wanted to push her to talk a bit more today. As I said in an above post, I likely won't keep my vote here unless she raises red flags from her posts.

@bryndiana.jones do you have anything to say about Stella coming on and posting? Still planning to stay there?
I'm probably not going to keep my vote here, but it depends on how Stella contributes. Coming on and saying "hey I'm still here" kinda give participation points, but not for adding their thoughts on the game. So if she can give some of her thoughts on who she thinks is a good lynch (and she has reasonable explanation), then I'll likely back off.

I didn't want to spell it out in case she didn't have a great answer. So far the only thing I understand from her is I lynched her because she's historically quiet, which is kinda stupid imo.

Also I didn't vote because I was in class (on lunch now) and didn't have time to type up reasoning or look all that hard. The only votes out there at that point were bryn and joke votes. I dislike joke votes because I've had my ass kicked a few times putting one of those out there. Hell, one time I got lynched for tagging someone too early.

So yeah lynching someone cause they're quiet isn't valid D1 lynch in my book so

Lynch Bryn
Call it what you want, there are some who still have joke lynches out, and instead you're going to lynch me who provides actual reasoning for my vote. You may think it's stupid and that's fine, but it is a strategy that wolves sometimes use. I could put out a joke vote, but that doesn't seem very useful. I would rather have players who actually post so I can look for inconsistencies in the information they provide, as opposed to those who barely post, and skate their way to end game.
 
Fair enough, just from past games she is typically a pretty quiet player so I wanted to push her to talk a bit more today. As I said in an above post, I likely won't keep my vote here unless she raises red flags from her posts.


I'm probably not going to keep my vote here, but it depends on how Stella contributes. Coming on and saying "hey I'm still here" kinda give participation points, but not for adding their thoughts on the game. So if she can give some of her thoughts on who she thinks is a good lynch (and she has reasonable explanation), then I'll likely back off.


Call it what you want, there are some who still have joke lynches out, and instead you're going to lynch me who provides actual reasoning for my vote. You may think it's stupid and that's fine, but it is a strategy that wolves sometimes use. I could put out a joke vote, but that doesn't seem very useful. I would rather have players who actually post so I can look for inconsistencies in the information they provide, as opposed to those who barely post, and skate their way to end game.
That's my point, there was nothing else to analyse which is why I was focusing on you, the reason my vote is where it is is because you didn't defend your reasoning. I'm not saying you're stupid either, I just think that reasoning as a serious reason D1 isn't the smartest. It is a strategy wolves use, and I'm not saying she isn't a wolf, I don't know that. I'm just saying voting for someone because of their play style isn't a useful way to vote. I'm sure you'll switch your vote because there's no way you'd allow yourself to end up in a tie with me at the end. I'm just trying to flush out my logic for you, and others.
 
###lynch bryndy###

For all the talk I hear about wolves not talking much in order to avoid mistakes, I tend to notice over-explaining as a particularly wolfy trait in order to try to seem legit.
 
That's my point, there was nothing else to analyse which is why I was focusing on you, the reason my vote is where it is is because you didn't defend your reasoning. I'm not saying you're stupid either, I just think that reasoning as a serious reason D1 isn't the smartest. It is a strategy wolves use, and I'm not saying she isn't a wolf, I don't know that. I'm just saying voting for someone because of their play style isn't a useful way to vote. I'm sure you'll switch your vote because there's no way you'd allow yourself to end up in a tie with me at the end. I'm just trying to flush out my logic for you, and others.
Which is it then? Did I not defend my reasoning or do you just not like my reasoning for that vote? Because you can't have both. I have been defending my reasoning since I voted for Stella. If you don't see that then you need to go back and reread the thread. I don't think justifying voting for me by saying my vote isn't the "smartest" is a pretty weak vote, and seems almost sketch since I just want her to share her thoughts on this thread a bit more. Voting for people to get them to talk seems to be a pretty common thing in the games I have played.
 
Yo @Animal Midwife do you think I'm wolfy? Or are you just gonna sit on that joke vote forever? I'd like some reasoning there because I am in the lead 😉

Anyways, I'll be back in a couple of hours

I mean, there's still six hours in the cycle. Why are you just singling out me?
 
lynch Stella

because of her "sit back" style. In the games I've played with her she barely posts and that makes it hard to pick up on her sketch level.

I also had Stella on my original watch list however because I know Cray has been trying to help her out more and get her to post and play more I wasn’t going after this one today. I know she hasn’t been a wolf but I think even with that said and if the wolves were picked I dont think she would be playing as one yet, but I could be completely wrong. Just want to have my thoughts out there. I will give her some time to open up and join in on the WW fun!
 
Addition to last post:

I was aiming at people I know have played and haven’t been wolves yet (to my knowledge, I didn’t search too hard for this). That’s why I was picking BJones and Stella.
 
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