The main topic of the Day seems to have been BlaM.
Firstly, I understand BlaM’s motivation in changing his playstyle from game to game. He’s doing it not for the benefit it brings to a single game, but to the benefit it brings to the games he participates in; he enjoys it more if he’s doing different stuff, and so far (at least not in my memory) no-one’s called his variations anti-Town before.
Whether this particular style is anti-Town or not I’m not sure; it certainly attracted a lot of attention and a significant number of votes, stirring the pot somewhat. BlaM’s explanations are plausible, but in all honesty I don’t think it tells us anything. I suspect players who wish to can behave like that whatever their alignment, even scum.
What did catch my eye though, was BlaM trying to skate round a straightforward assertion that he is a Townsperson. It’s been on my mind a bit recently, you’ll understand. It’s not that I didn’t understand the prhrase “that goes without saying” is an indirect agreement; it’s that NAF was fairly clear [post=10633236]in his roleclaim[/post] that the statement he tests must have “an absolute truth value” or he gets “WOOF” back. Now, BlaM has been lurking (ie reading but not posting), and is a fairly sharp cookie besides; he should have known why NAF wanted an explicit statement, but he skated round it twice.
On the other hand, when he did finally say it, he didn’t try and hide it or throw out a high volume of testable statements in the hope that NAF picks one that he can explain away as and when NAF gets a bad reading.
Then we come to [post=10667983]post 132[/post]. Again, my teeth itch. BlaM says, in the context of replying to Jsexton’s challenge about whether there is a scum benefit to the way he changes playstyles :
Here we part company over the definition of lurker; a player who reads the thread but doesn’t post is pretty much the definition of lurker around here nowadays. Of course, this could be a case of differing definitions, so maybe we need to check understandings.
BlaM, what is your definition of “lurker?”
I’m going to read the rest of the thread before deciidng who to vote for. I still have 2 hours.