Midway through yesterday evening, I was wondering whether I wanted to continue playing or ask to be subbed out. That’s how much the argument of the Day got to me.
Rather than rush into a decision, and also because I was whacked after getting up early, I decided to walk away from the game for the night, and see how I felt after a solid sleep.
It turns out that I feel a lot better, and will continue. Right now, though, I have to do something else. So I’ll start a reread in a couple of hours.
Man, this is a tough game. Having said that, it has had more activity for me to read and try to interpret than any other Day One I’ve had.
I have to say, I’m leaning toward either Chronos, Peeker, or both being scum. I tend to think it’s unlikely both are scum, as they are heading toward ensuring the kill of one of them, which is a pretty foolish move so early in the game. Obviously, it’s possible both are town, as well, but there is no way to tell.
Having said this, I believe Chronos made a very good argument in post #466, where he walked through the timing and motivations of Peeker.
Read it yourself:
Vote Peeker
Now that I’ve previewed, I see that Freudian has made the same observation. I swear I started this post more than an hour ago, but have wandered away and worked on my job in the meantime. Anyway, there it is.
thanks for that post mhaye. i too need to realize that this is not personal. the folks that want to vote me for the way i play have every right to do so. that does not mean that fundamentally they are flawed in their analysis, rather that we come to this endeavor from different directions.
so, i will be very direct. freud, chronos and tex i don’t agree with your conclusions. but it is still your perogative. and if you ever end up in san antone i’ll be the first to buy you a libation of choice.
'course then i will probably give chronos a five star sudoku puzzle and ask him to help me out. and the ladies will definitely get “wanna fuck”?
So, personal animosity toward another player is now openly acknowledged as a partial reason for a vote, then.
Free at last, free at last.
I respectfully submit - again - that it is probably time to shut up collectively about how dashing and insane peeker is or isn’t. Talking about his claim and the timing thereof, and what might have motivated it: good things. Page upon page of whether or not it’s awesome that a lot of people are confused – and I’ll just speak for myself here – is not terribly conducive to scum finding. If you think it’s scummy that peeker does things the way he does them, and you think the resultant tangle of clarification and foot-dragging and hairpulling back and forth is a scum tactic to confuse the discussion, vote him for it (as I can see now a few of you have done). More importantly, though, if that’s your perspective why were you letting it work? He isn’t cluttering up the thread by himself.
Personally I think it would have been a moronic scum maneuver to play the role claim that way, but hey, moronic things happen. I’m not really feeling the vote for the first day, but I’m glad that after all that at least several of us are committing to it.
By the way, thanks for the recap, Tom. It reminded me of something that I wanted to keep track of. It isn’t quite right that KellyCriterion hasn’t been back to the thread at all (post #290), but it is true that after that one brief spurt of activity Kelly has for all intents and purposes vanished. A few other players have done the same, but in Kelly’s case that gung-ho first move followed by the immediate backpedal and disappearance looks like a calculated jump aboard a bandwagon that never materialized, as NAF said all the way back.
There’s also the “I can’t believe the heat” thing that has been bothering me, as well. I think it’s worth backing up.
neta: and sorry freud i support a colony of feral cats so i am not screwing with the kittens. unless it is caging them, getting them snipped and then releasing them to their group.
[oog]they do crack me up however. when i feed them in the morning they are my best buds, kind of like coming over and being kind of affectionate and stuff. but in the afternoon when i am just smoking a squag they react like i am a t rex. it does make for some comical moments[/oog]
but here is the real deal meeko. i was plankton. i am town. certain folks have taken this to a personal rather than a game based level. yaknow, i got caught up in that for a bit. not again.
so if you think i am scum because of the you tube post and subsequent endless iterations go for it. i mean, you will be wrong but for goodness sakes just fracking say it.
Firstly I was voting for him because I saw the misspelling as something he had done, ie made a mistake when composing a fake claim. The number of misspellings elsewhere later made this seem much less likely.
People who have played in games on the dope with me before know I go after perceived slips aggressively, even when it draws me a lot of heat.
Again no. If I am convinced player A & player B are scum, and I am equally sure for each, then under your rationale, because I can’t justify one over the otehr, I should in actuality vote player C. I don’t see it that way myself.
This was your defense against me in Cecil Pond where I was Town. It seems every time someone votes you, you’re going to call them Scum or misguided (I think lazy was your word of choice in Cecil) Townie. But then you call for their lynch ingnoring that you’ve just identified them as potentially Town
Again, you mis-state why most people didn’t like your ‘claim’ It wasn’t that it was in a video (though that can cause problems for some players) but it’s because you did NOT identify it as a claim.
I’m not sure how I can make that more clear. so stop calling it something else.
This is ironic coming from you, Meeko. You;'re the first to complain that almost every vote on you is for personal reasons and is therefore wrong. And now you back up your vote with personal reasons.