it was that icky post I quoted when I voted for her. The one asking for Townie Cred for being right about Kelly as well as saying that she moved her voted because she’s powerless Town, oh and by the way, she’s Vanilla Town
I believed Silver Jan’s claim yesterday after Normal backed it up with her own. I still believe it toDay. I think her play style of OMGUS voting and towniness proclaiming is not pro-town, but I believe her. If she just claimed to have some method in her madness and a way far better opinion of herself, she could give PizzaGuy a run for his money.
I was suspicious yesterDay of Ed. When Kelly tried to handshake, I thought WTF, didn’t he have this whole discussion of handshaking with Ed, and didn’t Ed tell him that it wasn’t possible in this game. When I got ready to vote for Kelly and actually looked back at the posts, I discovered that Ed didn’t mention that fact at all. Posts starting here and continuing a little ways. He certainly jumped on Kelly after the handshake attempt, but did little to prevent it. Was he setting Kelly up?
ToDay, I have not liked the way that Ed has chided Silver Jan at every opportunity, but seems to be waiting for someone else to make the case and start voting her. Since I think Silver Jan is town, this looks to me like scum Ed is looking for an easy town lynch.
None of these reasons are definitive, but my gut is telling me that Ed is scum.
Someone claims with Vanilla with a PM that is different from your Vanilla PM but identical to the sample one (aside from the order of info).
You don’t notice the glaring difference between your Character Class and his.
Then, it’s pointed out to you.
You say you didn’t notice, but you believed the claim anyway.
Another player claims with a PM very similar to yours to back you up, but different from the other player.
Much suspicion is cast on the other player for this glaring difference. he, in fact, gets lynched.
You still don’t comment on the glaring difference, but attempt to get Townie cred because you were right.
So, in short, I would have expected her to, at some point, at least make a comment on the difference in the PMs. She just completely ignored the topic (as far as I can tell. I didn't find any comments on it other than that she didn't notice it)
As a fellow helpless on the chopping block with a lethal case of talks-too-much syndrome, I’d first like to offer you my special hugs and sympathies.
Secondly, thank you for looking for people who need lynching rather than just trying to spare yourself. I appreciate it, although like I said I feel like giving relief to some of the people crying out for a break from pizza wouldn’t be a horrible outcome.
Thirdly, believe me I know it is frustrating. You’ve already claimed VT so think of this as a less than great way to keep town power roles alive. Lynching a doctor or whatever just to try to spare oneself would be a worse outcome than dying. We’re cannon fodder and that’s what we do. As long as we exist, we can either assist with lynching the scums, or unfortunately, provide cover for them to hide in.
Don’t let it get to you, even if you get lynched early here, it’s not a pattern people like to repeat often. I went through a few games at another site where I was lynched early so often that I just started voting myself D1 every game until they stopped. They’ll get bored with it. So it’s just a temporary setback. Most everyone gets a turn to have fun and be the hero if they play in enough games. It took me 80 games or so just to have a couple dozen where I put on a performance I could be proud of. The key is patience.
(You mean like voting septimus again on gut-reflex for pressure, locking it in early? Yeah… do as I say, not as I do.)
You’re an active poster who is usually quite fun to talk to, I can already say. You try, and you seem to care. That’s all people really ask for. There’s a thread I posted about what makes a good player, on another site… and it just boils down to showing up and trying. Then, having a good attitude really. That’s all!
No one is going to blame you if YOU get lynched and you turn up townie. I’ll personally congratulate you for fooling the bejeezus out of me if you get lynched and you turn up scum. No one would hold a grudge if in your zeal to lynch scums you hit a doctor. I’ve lost tons of games, some I can blame squarely on me alone. But I was trying.
Just take a deep breath. You *did *try. Win or lose, you put out the effort for your team. If you get lynched as townie it’s the team letting you down, not the other way around. Unless you’re pizza and you make yourself a tempting target, then it’s partly my bad.
and, obviously, I must be sticking my neck out to prevent a lynch of…? someone else?
It is true, I never said handshaking wasn’t going to work.
So, was my devious plan to encourage a known Town player to handshake so that I could jump out and attempt to stop any one from commenting on the handshake and also attempt to put an end to it.
How devious of me to answer Kelly’s questions in such a way to encourage him to actually try to handshake. That’s it! My role must be Scum Brainwasher!
I admit I’ve been lost in my own side quest versus septimus and others. I guess I can not be lazy and I’ll go back and see all the reasons why special ed is being voted.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been reading most of ed’s posts though, nothing jumped out and bit me, but maybe a re-read.
Hmm. Well, let me take a look back at what you claim is plenty of analysis, votes and concrete opinions. (spoilered, so It doesn’t take up a whole damn page).
Noise, but it was early in day 1.
Discussing the double vote mechanism. Signal.
Anecdote about possibility of pre-dead line. Signal
Agreeing with ed that people think justifying votes is being said too much. Pizza’s vote is terrible, but you want to review case against Kelly. Noise.
Continued poking of Pizza. But prefaced with you think Pizza is town.
First paragraph is noise. Kelly is playing like a newb. You are leaning town, still voting for Kelly. Second paragraph: Pizza still town. So 50/50.
Clarification question, noise.
Unvote’s Kelly. Despite leaning town for quite a bit. Switches to Silver town. Signal.
Noise.
Your opinion is that it’s a janitor type role. Also, you state that we know nothing new. 50/50.
Noise.
Noise.
Sophistry, and noise. BTW, your original statement is not true. We know at that point that scathach was the victim of some sort of killing action during night 1.
Fishing for info. Noise. I fail to see the relevance of your question, other than a thinly veiled attempt to get Lightfoot to change their mind.
A detailed explanation of why you were fishing. Signal. Although, you’ve taken two sides of the coin here. Either you think power roles should do what they deem best, or you think that they should be open to suggestions.
I’m not sure why you are giving credit for unvoting a bad vote. If it was a legit mistake like someone counting wrong or something, then maybe. But I don’t get this idea at all. Also, cheerleading. Signal + noise at the end.
Pizza is no longer town. I’m confused by this line of reasoning as well. His excuses toDay aren’t that different from yesterday. Why are they less convincing?
Possibility of foreshadowing a move to Pizza. Signal.
Correcting a misconception. Signal.
Defense against my vote. Now that I’ve gone through and reread your posts up to this point, I see you do have plenty of signal to go along with your noise. The ratio at this point is neither flattering nor damning.
A quick break in the review, just to jot down my thoughts.
You spent enough of day 1 thinking that pizza was town that you felt the need to distance yourself from that position today.
You say you think Kelly is leaning town at one point, but keep your vote on him anyways.
You try to take both sides on whether Lightfoot should reveal results. I see some possiblities for this:
Lightfoot may not understand implications, so you are trying to encourage good play.
You are trying to defuse your own attempt to change Lightfoot’s mind.
Side note: Personally, I am of the opinion that Lightfoot should reveal results on the outside chance that Lightfoot is scum, and gets caught in a lie. Posting results at end of night seems to alleviate this. Especially since I believe there to be third parties in this game. In a game with no third parties, it’s possible for scum to claim cop, and give truthful results. It’s much harder if there’s third parties floating around. I do however, think that Lightfoot’s claim is unlikely if Lightfoot is scum, since it would be a very risky play indeed.
You have made a couple of posts which the entire point seems to be to make yourself look more like town directly (as opposed to indirectly, by simply doing townie things). You have gone far enough to imply that both doing what you suggest is pro-town, and suggesting what you suggested is also pro-town.
Then there is this post:
Considering that I’m pretty convinced that SJ is scum, I don’t think Scum would unvote a vote leading Scum at this point in the day. It just doesn’t fit. The unvote itself comes into question (especially given the distancing and undistancing from pizza), plus any later votes would be super suspect. I just don’t see scum making this kind of risky play this early in the game. Plus it would be hugely inconsistent with the other pieces that seem scummy to me that you have posted.
On SilverJan: After her reply to ed (that Kelly’s PM wasn’t different to hers) Scathach and Suburban Plankton both point out to her that her class is different. She doesn’t respond to that, though she does respond to Scathach’s comment about her familiarity with D&D. Then Normal Phase shuts down discussion (or provides an excuse to at least) and Day ends. So Jan did avoid the issue a couple of times.
Furthermore, there is this:
Kelly’s PM said NPC townsperson but SilverJan never connects ‘NPC’ to him. It’s like she didn’t even look at his PM. She just knew he was Town.
Hey, been busy, just now reviewing the game… I’m on post 257 of 794… so have a while to go… I see that my predecessor has already placed his two votes for the day… My question is, am I up against a deadline? When is this day scheduled to end (assuming no hammer[unless of course we are close to the hammer])? Do I need to rush to the end, or do I have time to finish reviewing properly?
Thank y’all, I was a little confused by Astral’s vote count, when I glanced at it I thought the votes against me were really the votes my predecessor placed… That’s what I get for skimming for mentions of me after the announcement I took over before studying the thread.
Well, back to reviewing the thread, hope I can get through it before the wife comes and yells at me to get to bed
Does the vote by Spetimus count? Even with correct spelling I’d want to change my SDMB user name. I was ready to switch to Dr. Strangelove (my name in Halloween Mafia!), but some SDMB newcomer grabbed the name as I was about to. :smack:
There has been a lot of discussion here recently, good cases being made, and I have some suspicions of my own. Real life is using up my time, however, and I’ll need some time to evaluate the cases. I’m rushing out the door right now, but I’ll force myself to make some time later on my “graveyard” shift.
I’d like to defend myself from the charges against me, but I don’t understand them. Was there an element of OMGUS in my vote against Pizza ? Probably, I see errors most clearly when they’re directed against me. Some of my posts were misinterpreted. When I said I “liked” choie’s post, I was speaking more of the type of post, rather than any strong Townie smell. Many of you prefer short cryptic posts; I can’t gauge the sincerity of a post I don’t even understand.
I’ll leave one vote on Pizza for now, but hope to get a large block of time for study later.