I guess it is time to post “volumes.” Here is my response to **JB’**s extensive post #283.
This post is a textbook example of what goes wrong when you go looking for evidence to prove a belief instead of looking at the evidence to establish a belief.
++Post #47: Accusation-- I am accused of not correcting Johnny Bravo because I looked up previous Simpletown games and found one where one of four teams were “assassins.” Later** Johnny Bravo**, upon reading that snfaulkner was an “assassin” wonders what that role means…and why I didn’t correct him because I had posted about it on Day 1.
Defense-- By the time I came into the game after work on Saturday, my agenda consisted of combating the two votes already against me, trying to get Fair Rarity to post more than just votes for the players who voted against her, and making the strong case against** septimus**. The **Johnny Bravo **comment on assassins wasn’t on my radar. I barely noticed it and didn’t give it much of a thought. If I was Scum, I probably would have latched on to it and tried to “correct” Johnny Bravo to give me Town Cred.
++Post #51:** septimus** votes and unvotes snfaulkner. No argument from me there. Looks like easy harmless bussing.
++Post #81: Johnny Bravo calls out snfaulkner. No argument from me. Good for you.
++Post: #89: Accusation-- I make my “soapbox” speech but fail to mention the Johnny Bravo/snfaulkner controvery.
Defense-- In that post I mentioned three particular cases. I talked about **Prof. Pepperwinkle **because I had called him out very early on in the game for his response to TexCat, and I was trying to get a read on a discussion I was semi-involved with at the time. In doing so, I used the Precambrianmollusc terse Mahaloth vote post as an example of a player I thought was Town and why— but that comment was intended primarily to get Prof. Pepperwinkle to look for something more than just lurking. It wasn’t part of any rundown of the whole game. I even posted it as an “example.” Finally I commented on the recently-posted vote from Fair Rarity that had raised my eyebrow and had not yet been commented on by others. I am sorry I did not get around to posting about everyone involved in the game at that point. Why does this make me Scum?
++Post 106: No need to comment on this one as I am unsure of the implications.
++Post #159—Fair Rarity makes a baseless vote on snfaulkner. As you say, “hm.” Still it was an important vote in lynching snfaulkne****r so credit where credit is due.
++ Post #163 and #165 Accusation—I made long posts without mentioning snfaulkner.
Defense:-- Huh? Post #163 is a post defending myself against the accusations you, JB, made against me. Why should I be talking about snfaulkner??? Post #165 is a response to septimus for finally not posting in verse. I had been just about ready to vote for him had he continued to post that way. I then asked him specific follow-up questions to his post. Why would this posting have anything to do with snfaulkner? You could just as well ask everyone who was posting, but not posting about snfaulker, why they were not.
++Post #167 Accusation-- I summed up the day making only a “mild” accusation against snfaulkner. I never followed it up.
Defense: I posted the timeline for EOD on Day 1. I thought then as I do now that much more should have been done to stop Prof. Pepperwinkle’s suicide. It was an angry post, but that’s how I felt. snfaulkner showed up conveniently late. I correctly pointed this out as suspicious. However, I was more concerned with the acknowledged people who were online at the time, and I wanted to hear from others who may have been there but did not own up to it. This whole post was me trying to make sense of what happened and wanting answers. At this point I am also agitated with Johnny Bravo, who had been making increasingly baseless accusations against me and I was unfortunately wasting more time becoming fixated with our argument than the game. I did follow up on my thoughts later on snfaulkner in Post #221 where I labelled him as “Scummish.”
++Post 171 and #172: Accusation: I don’t follow up on snfaulkner’s” FOS” on me.
Defense: snfaulkner said I made a great post and then made a half-hearted FOS on me because of my play in a previous game. I didn’t comment on this because at the time I was much more involved in the debate with Johnny Bravo which was not half-hearted. What was there to comment on regarding snfaulkner anyway? I liked my post that he was commenting on, and I was Scum in the previous game. Where’s the debate? Seriously, is this your case on me** Johnny**? To implicate me, you JB, also accuse** snfaulkner** of voting for the same person I had been rightly calling out for lurking. Isn’t that what Scum like SNF do? They latch onto Townie cases where they can hide.
++ Posts #193-194-- snfaulkner unvotes Fair Rarity after her single response. He then joins septimus’ case against Johnny Bravo. He is obviously trying to pick on which Townie case to join and give traction. Yet this…implicates me??
++ Post 196: – Accusation: **TexCat **is lynched partly because she showed up with this post asking snfaulkner about me.
Defense: I believe **TexCat **was lynched because she voted for snfaulkner and thus, like Johnny Bravo and (lesser so) Fair Rarity made a strong case for being Town. Of these, she would likely be the Scum choice because Johnny Bravo would be sure to continue to go after a mislynch of me, and Fair Rarity was hardly playing.
++Post #198-199: Accusation: I am Scum because snfaulkner praised my previous Scum game and does not say I would be Scum if JB flips Town.
Defense: **snfaulkner **is responding to TexCat’s question about me. That’s what Scum do, of course. They praise their Scum buddies. Brilliant! Who could possibly see through that? Sigh. No actually Scum generally do not go out of their way to praise their partners.
Of course, had he not praised me I am sure that would have made **Johnny Bravo’**s list as well. SNF doesn’t say what alliance I might be if Johnny Bravo flips Town, but instead prepares a defense for himself if and when his desired lynch goes through. Why does this make me Scum?
++ Post #212-213: Agreed.
++Post #221: Accusation: I made a half-hearted accusation against SNF and distanced myself from him the whole game.
Defense: Baloney. I rightly labelled his behavior as Scummish.” The only player I gave a higher Scum rating on my player assessment was** Fair Rarity,** the player I was voting for at the time. I felt like I did last game after SNF had been posting a lot but yet I couldn’t remember much of what he had posted. I think in hindsight it is easy to see that a lot more of his postings were scummy, but that’s the value of hindsight. Your accusation of “distancing” is unfair because I had to spend most of my time defending myself from the accusations YOU made against me, Johnny Bravo. Even the people voting for snfaulkner were not out exactly sounding the horn for him to go down. It was not obvious. I didn’t think his case was a slam dunk, and most players at the time must have agreed with me because only three ended up voting for SNF.
Anything else you want me to answer?