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Yeah, except WIP designed the logo an entire five years before that. "RMNv4" means it was the fourth version of the RMN site design. Geodude didn't do the first three (unless he did).

Yeah this revisionist history isn't settling well with me.

#cancel
#lynch InfectionFiles

The fake Merlin claim by PlatinumAshes honestly bothers me a lot too, just as the kind of thing scum might do just in case people believe it. If people assume it's a fake claim or a joke then no harm done, but there's always a chance people will think it's real, or that the real Merlin or Percival will counterclaim.

The self-vote that went along with it calms me down, because that made it super-obviously a joke that nobody could possibly fall for - except multiple people still did. I think that maybe the only reason I find it suspicious is because other people were such numpties about it.

But if it were supposed to obviously be a joke then why was your later explanation that you wanted to "see reactions to it?" Like... the only reactions that would matter would be Merlin and Percival outing themselves. No member of scum is going to react by trying to get you lynched; it's too suspicious and they have a night kill for that. What frickin' "reactions" did you expect exactly, other than town suicide?

A tiny piece of me also wonders if the drama was a planned setup by Demonlord5000 and PlatinumAshes to make people take the fake claim seriously, while simultaneously having the self-vote as a thing Plat could point to and say "no I was obviously joking." This is a very silly conspiracy theory though, mostly because it's such a bad plan.

OK, I'm gonna talk about mission strategy.

I think the ideal mission makeup, for now, consists of one person who we think is very likely or confirmed to be town, and two unknowns. That way, if the mission fails, we have a 50/50 shot at knowing who is scum. If we send two confirmed town with one questionable person, it'll succeed every time, but I think that if we have already confirmed one of the three people then success is actually less useful to town than failure at this stage in the game. Because knowing that one of two people is scum is far more powerful than knowing that one of eleven people isn't Mordred (who might not even exist), and also probably more powerful than preventing scum from narrowing down Merlin by one person (especially since that person might die later anyway).

Late in the game when there are fewer total players, I think that will change, and the knowledge about Mordred and Merlin will be more powerful, just due to the numbers. So starting around day three or so, and definitely from day four onward, IMO we should start trying our hardest to send people who will succeed on missions.

author=psy_wombats
Actually - "99% sure that Mordred exists" and thinking "Merlin is a powerful threat" are both opinions 100% in line with a scared scum mindset.

#lynch Ozzy

Ozzy jumped in on that, but before that, it was mostly demonlord who was insisting that Mordred must exist. Demonlord was the first one to do it at least, from what I see (on page 5).

Also demonlord was the one going on about cancelling the game for no reason, which doesn't seem like deliberate mind games, it just seems like him being a thoughtless asshole. But if it was deliberate mind games, then the goal was probably to make everyone else pay less attention and post less. Which is beneficial for scum. It's much harder to find scum when nobody is talking.

Also something about the way he was writing in some of his posts just rubbed me the wrong way and I can't explain why. So at this point I want to #lynch demonlord5000.