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Re: M72 - “Echoes of Evelyn” - Game Thread [HIDDEN]

#4761 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:07 pm

Maniac m8t, dis contractions thing is rubbish n yki. Stop bng silly.
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#4762 Post by Chaqa » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:09 pm

kgray wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:04 pm
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Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:54 pm
I don't understand the contraction thing. It seems kinda silly.
is this a joke
That's a question for Jamie or Durga
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#4763 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:11 pm

abt eod, I thnk if ne1 din't already hv DemonRHK as town, we'd hve 2 townread him now. His demand we gt on Vecna w'd be some xtreme bussing.
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#4764 Post by Maniac » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:18 pm

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I don't understand the contraction thing. It seems kinda silly.
We’re at the beginning of seeing if it’s a thing. I brought this up because I’m interested in trying to identify if people are lying in oral speech or written speech. The proposition is that people who lie by try to sound more authoritative by not using contractions.

Here are some real world examples.

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman… Miss Lewinsky” – Pres. Bill Clinton 1998
“”I want to officially and for the record state the following facts: My husband [Guy Ritchie] and I are not planning on getting a divorce. …. I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. – Madonna 2008
“I can emphatically say I am not on drugs.” “I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.” – Lance Armstrong 1999, 2004
“I say that I am innocent of those charges.” – Jerry Sandusky 2004
“No, no. I did not and I had absolutely nothing to do with her disappearance.” – Scott Peterson when Dianne Sawyer asked if he murdered his life, Laci. 2003
“In all of my years of public service, I have never obstructed justice.” – Pres. Richard Nixon 1973

As Jamie said earlier in mafia sometimes scum tell the trust and town lie. But I would suggest that scum lie every game just by pointing the finger at someone they know isn’t scum. To test this we could first look at every instance in the last 71 games where contractions have been avoided and see if overall scum avoid contractions more than town. We could then break that down player by player to see if the theory holds for every player. Perhaps it’s pronounced for some and for others it’s negligible. We also need to look at if English is the second language for some players and if that has an impact. Perhaps we could also look at age ranges and gender to look for patterns. Mafia is an
Ideal game to test this theory and we probably have enough data to make a start.

I’d also like to look at words per post in detail. Do scum keep posts short to look busy? Perhaps we could even look at average word length for every player when they are town and scum. Perhaps scum become more formal and use longer words. The differences may be tiny.

If we could prove any of this, it would be interesting even if people then start to adjust how they play in future.

So, in summary, it may be silly, but it’s the kind of silliness I like. I don’t have the skills to bot-read the previous games, but I know you guys are a clever bunch.
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#4765 Post by Maniac » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:22 pm

Also pretty sure GodfatherJ’99 is trying to draw a cop scan.
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#4766 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:42 pm

Maniac wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:18 pm
The proposition is that people who lie by try to sound more authoritative by not using contractions.
This basic proposition is undermined by the fact that some people tend to use a more verbose writing style than others. Some people tend to use shortened forms and abbreviations more often than some other people. I purport that you know perfectly well, that I am one of the people who tends towards being somewhat more verbose.

Look at Bozo's D1 language as another example:
bozotheclown wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:41 am
It looks like we are all on the same team again.
bozotheclown wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:29 am
I am going to assume that everyone who has posted so far is town, so the mafia team must be celaph, HR, Jamie, Maniac, and rdrivera.
bozotheclown wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 8:02 pm
Here is a list of players that have yet to post anything that seem to me to be town motivated:
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bozotheclown wrote:
Mon Jan 17, 2022 9:55 pm
It is 11 players, and I never said they have all done something "super town-ish" yet, I only implied they have posted at least one thing that seemed to me to have a town motivation. That is a significant mischaracterization when you are trying to start a wagon on me.
^ Those examples are just from the first 19 pages of the game.

Bozo was town, in fact a Town PR, as we now know. He wasn't speaking/typing in that formal tone because he was lying scum, he was writing like that because that is just how he uses language.

Your theory is nonsense.
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#4767 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:43 pm

Maniac wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:22 pm
Also pretty sure GodfatherJ’99 is trying to draw a cop scan.
The cop will not be scanning me tonight, that's for sure.
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#4768 Post by ghug » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:44 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:17 pm
@Maniac:

WHO DO YOU CLAIM HAVE INNOCENT SCANS ON?

There's no benefit to keeping this information a secret, since scum already know who is town and there's an outside chance you'd have scanned the GodFather.
He just needs to post this at EoN
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#4769 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:44 pm

You are full of Jordan B. Peterson-level shit, Maniac.
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#4770 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:45 pm

ghug wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:44 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:17 pm
@Maniac:

WHO DO YOU CLAIM HAVE INNOCENT SCANS ON?

There's no benefit to keeping this information a secret, since scum already know who is town and there's an outside chance you'd have scanned the GodFather.
He just needs to post this at EoN
Yeah we'v moved on from this now, Ghug m8, try 2 keep up.
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#4771 Post by ghug » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:48 pm

DemonRHK wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:37 pm
Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:33 pm
DemonRHK wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:31 pm


kgray. Phone autocorrect. Hard to type with a cat on my arm.
2 (or maybe 3) out of 3 scum so far have been cat people.

This doesn't look good for you.
I would own a Corgi, but a dog in an apartment with no room to run is inhumane imo.
Corgis are the worst dogs
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#4772 Post by ghug » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:51 pm

Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:45 pm
ghug wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:44 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 12:17 pm
@Maniac:

WHO DO YOU CLAIM HAVE INNOCENT SCANS ON?

There's no benefit to keeping this information a secret, since scum already know who is town and there's an outside chance you'd have scanned the GodFather.
He just needs to post this at EoN
Yeah we'v moved on from this now, Ghug m8, try 2 keep up.
Maybe you try to not make bad suggestions.
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#4773 Post by Jamiet99uk » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:53 pm

greg wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:51 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:45 pm
greg wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:44 pm

He just needs to post this at EoN
Yeah we'v moved on from this now, Ghug m8, try 2 keep up.
Maybe you try to not make bad suggestions.
Ok yes, it was a bad thought. I was cross. Maniac should've still declared his inno scans (if indeed he had any) when he claimed, and I still think it was sketchy of him not to do so, not to mention he was under no real pressure to need to claim in the first place.
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#4774 Post by kgray » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:55 pm

ghug wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:48 pm
DemonRHK wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:37 pm
Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:33 pm


2 (or maybe 3) out of 3 scum so far have been cat people.

This doesn't look good for you.
I would own a Corgi, but a dog in an apartment with no room to run is inhumane imo.
Corgis are the worst dogs
idk they're not great but they're not the *worst.* Chinese crested dogs are awful. Pugs are hideous and sad. At least corgi puppies are cute
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#4775 Post by Chaqa » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:56 pm

ghug wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:48 pm
DemonRHK wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:37 pm
Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 3:33 pm


2 (or maybe 3) out of 3 scum so far have been cat people.

This doesn't look good for you.
I would own a Corgi, but a dog in an apartment with no room to run is inhumane imo.
Corgis are the worst dogs
Them’s fighting words.
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#4776 Post by Chaqa » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:56 pm

Australian Shepherds are of course the best dogs
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#4777 Post by kgray » Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:58 pm

Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:56 pm
Australian Shepherds are of course the best dogs
idk they're pretty great but they're not the *best.* Labs and huskies are amazing. Retrievers are fun and sweet. Huge fan of shepherds, pitties and border collies. Mutts are the best though.
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#4778 Post by ghug » Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:05 pm

kgray wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:58 pm
Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:56 pm
Australian Shepherds are of course the best dogs
idk they're pretty great but they're not the *best.* Labs and huskies are amazing. Retrievers are fun and sweet. Huge fan of shepherds, pitties and border collies. Mutts are the best though.
Agreed with this in full.

I think I have it out for corgis because I knew a family growing up with the sweetest pit bull in the world and it always annoyed me that everyone loved their stupid, obnoxious corgi more.
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#4779 Post by Chaqa » Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:08 pm

kgray wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:58 pm
Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:56 pm
Australian Shepherds are of course the best dogs
idk they're pretty great but they're not the *best.* Labs and huskies are amazing. Retrievers are fun and sweet. Huge fan of shepherds, pitties and border collies. Mutts are the best though.
My family has a whole pack of huskies. I love them, and my dog is a husky/aussie mix, but they are fucking crazy dogs 🤣🤣

Labs are pretty amazing too
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#4780 Post by rdrivera2005 » Fri Jan 28, 2022 5:35 pm

kgray wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:58 pm
Chaqa wrote:
Fri Jan 28, 2022 4:56 pm
Australian Shepherds are of course the best dogs
idk they're pretty great but they're not the *best.* Labs and huskies are amazing. Retrievers are fun and sweet. Huge fan of shepherds, pitties and border collies. Mutts are the best though.
You are officially back to be my spokesperson. I have two rescued Mutts and they are the best.
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