TWG CLXVIII: Capitalism [Game Thread]

[Starbucks]

Originally Posted by IBM

To Be HoNeSt ThE EfFeCtS ThIs SiMpLe AcT Is HaViNg On ThE GaMe Is FaCiNaTiNg FrO
m A SoCiAl ScIeNcEs StAnDpOiNt , AnD It WiLl Be WoRtH FiNdInG OuT LaTeR If It WaS GeNuInE Or MaNuFaCtUrEd .

Watson is shit

[Apple]

Originally Posted by Verizon

Caught up with the thread.

Looks like most of it was about either:

1. IBM and thE sPOnGebOB mEMe
2. Acquisitioner in general, however mostly relating to IBM.

So, thoughts on the Acquisitioner that were probably already said in some way.

Waiting to see the Acq flip at the end of this cycle is a valid strategy, but puts us on the backfoot as it leads to the inevitable cat-and-mouse where we still can't really find who the Acq is now, because we're constantly spending time looking at what the Acq was doing before. I'd much rather be pro-active about such a thing, but I also hate linguistic analysis so I'm gonna hate myself (nothing unusual then)

Oh, and little gimmicks in your font are fun to do, but definitely not the way to avoid being Acquisitioned. Behaviours > Gimmicks.

I will admit right now I'm taking notes on both behaviors and gimmicks. This is the one time I get to do a linguistic analysis in a game when it might actually matter.

For instance, your British English is showing.

[Disney]

holy shit i fucked up
someone tell me what to post about since i'm incapable of doing anything on my own without throwing the game

[Google]

Originally Posted by Disney

holy shit i fucked up
someone tell me what to post about since i'm incapable of doing anything on my own without throwing the game

Lil B videos

[Apple]

Originally Posted by GE

I like the flow of MickeyDs posting, puts out a towny vibe.

I don't understand how they're reading Amazon or why they're voting there.

[Starbucks]

Originally Posted by McDonalds

Amazon

also when I read this I went "??????????????????????" so this is where I'm leaving my vote now

I could see McDonald's being a wolf here

[Starbucks]

Originally Posted by Apple

I don't understand how they're reading Amazon or why they're voting there.

ninja'd

[Apple]

Originally Posted by GE

Just seeing if calling you out would make you post, and it did. So you're just checking in and posting when you need to instead of when you can and actually try to help us. So in onto something.

Did you mean naming Toyota there as any more than a ping?

Do you agree with what you were responding to when you did that, that Toyota is playing like a townie would, but isn't town?

[GE]

Originally Posted by Apple

I don't understand how they're reading Amazon or why they're voting there.

I don't necessarily agree with their posts, but they seem too flow naturally.

Originally Posted by Apple

Did you mean naming Toyota there as any more than a ping?

Do you agree with what you were responding to when you did that, that Toyota is playing like a townie would, but isn't town?

It was a ping. They only had 3 posts and there wasn't anything to go on. I picked a CEO with little posts to see if they were looking for pings. Which worked.

[Apple]

Originally Posted by Wells Fargo

Starbucks feels town for that last post.
That's a thing that I think is hard for a lot of wolves to pretend to care about.

It's one of those cases where I disagree with what Starbucks' post says but they're going about it like they mean it.

[Apple]

UPS hasn't delivered.

[Shell]

Originally Posted by Disney

holy shit i fucked up
someone tell me what to post about since i'm incapable of doing anything on my own without throwing the game

So... no one else going to comment on this?

Alright.

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[Shell]

What's wrong DJ Disnor?

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[Apple]

Originally Posted by GE

Whether or not they can help with wolves isn't relevant in my opinion. They effect town negatively especially if they get a town power role. And speaking of that, can they use blue roles when they aquire the account? If they can, it's important to find them, if not, still important as we lose our town powers, but not as important solely because they can't use them.

They can't use blue roles, to my understanding. Their original company flips as the blue. The only real thing they have to gain is the wolf quicktopic.

[Shell]

Originally Posted by GE

Whether or not they can help with wolves isn't relevant in my opinion. They effect town negatively especially if they get a town power role. And speaking of that, can they use blue roles when they aquire the account? If they can, it's important to find them, if not, still important as we lose our town powers, but not as important solely because they can't use them.

I'm assuming whomever is infiltrating our assets is not able to make full use of company assets. My educated guess though.

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[Apple]

Originally Posted by Shell

So... no one else going to comment on this?

Alright.

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I read it as a joke on their previous mistake and GE still reading the post with the mistake seriously.

[Shell]

Who even infiltrates honored companies? Only weirdos and creeps!

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[Verizon]

Originally Posted by Apple

I will admit right now I'm taking notes on both behaviors and gimmicks. This is the one time I get to do a linguistic analysis in a game when it might actually matter.

For instance, your British English is showing.

Yeah, Britannia rule the waves!

'Course, I wasn't saying that gimmicks are pointless, 'cause they can clearly work. They're just also way easier for someone to recreate, compared to having to constantly change your behaviour every day and how you go about saying reads etc, and I'm gonna look at the other posts now 'cause this was one I could quickly quote about.

[Shell]

Originally Posted by Apple

I read it as a joke on their previous mistake and GE still reading the post with the mistake seriously.

Feels off the wall to me rather than a joke.

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[Walmart]

Originally Posted by Alibaba Group

"This is a possibility, but it wouldn't be a good play and doesn't make sense" is not a claim you're the Acquisitioner.

Are you saying that you believe IBM is the acquisitioner here? I can't really tell because of the punctuation, or if you were just missing the word "if" after the word claim.

Originally Posted by Facebook

May i reccomend typing in a specific font or something. I would see such a thing fitting, if used with the correct font. Remember to like this post to show support for this idea.

Why are you still on this topic? Why are you so worried about IBM's posting gimmick? What kind of pop in is this

Originally Posted by Disney

yo was ibm scared of apple saying their posting style was actually a possible scumtell using actual goddamn game mechanics to back it up
that's hot
alibaba is semi-ok now
switching to walmart for reasons previously stated

Probably not. IBM knew wholeheartedly that his posting gimmick would draw attention, so unless he's the godfather, he's got some big balls to put himself on the forefront. On reflection, IBM is probably more town than not.

Originally Posted by Wells Fargo

Alright, good plan, chief.
Which one of the 20 of us has been playing exactly the same way a townie would be playing, but isn't town?

I love this post

Originally Posted by GE

Toyota.

why bro

Originally Posted by GE

Just seeing if calling you out would make you post, and it did. So you're just checking in and posting when you need to instead of when you can and actually try to help us. So in onto something.

ok w/e

Originally Posted by Toyota

I can get more involved if you honeys want me to, but I think there's a better chance for us to solve this if I don't disrupt. But do please let me know if there's any way I can assist, I'd love to make this more... fruitful, for us.

??????????????
Is this post literally saying your game solving skills are so bad they'll distract the rest of us from solving the game? How is this line of thought even remotely towny?

toyota

Originally Posted by Google

Along with you not posting anything actually related to the game so far except for when GE threw your name out, this is pretty gross. Toyota

heyo I agree

Originally Posted by Starbucks

I would like to poll the audience on whether or not "posting quirks" like IBM, Shell, or maybe Visa are inherently scummy since the wolves have more to lose by being infiltrated and this have more of a motivation to prevent being targeted

I say general paranoia, so not necessarily. They'll definitely draw attention from power roles of both sides though, since they're bringing themselves to the forefront.

Originally Posted by GE

Whether or not they can help with wolves isn't relevant in my opinion. They effect town negatively especially if they get a town power role. And speaking of that, can they use blue roles when they aquire the account? If they can, it's important to find them, if not, still important as we lose our town powers, but not as important solely because they can't use them.

I don't think they steal their power, just their account. It's probably how janitor works in epicmafia where the acquisitioner's original account flips to what role they killed.



Should be mostly caught up.

Thank you,

Sam Walton