OK, Let’s do Freudian Slit. I think I made note of all her substantive posts, but I don’t have time to double-check.
Day One
Post 215, she calls the George lynching “bizarre” (no argument there) and votes for Chronos for “being weird for stirring the pot too soon”, a vote neither changed nor further explained during the remainder of the Day.
In 218, she says that Chronos was voting “blindly” for Spurious G (actually, it seemed to me that Chronos had by far the best-reasoned argument of the **Spurious **voters). She also comes out strongly against Execution. Thus supporting the main argument for the **Spurious **bandwagon (execution is baaad!) while at the same time distancing herself from it and casting a safe one-off vote.
In 257, she says that she doesn’t think editing is anti-Town.
263, more on editing.
That’s basically it for Day One, she asks some rules questions, etc.
My Post 501 from Night One, noting that all of the above seemed weird.
I’m just going to quote post 670 in its entirety:
[**I]Sorry I’ve been off and on thus far–it’s hard to keep up with games, esp. in the beginning.
To those who were saying my posts were mostly drive by and not substantive, deal. That was my style in the last game and even though it got me killed, I was Town in the last game too.
So far I don’t have any suspects because at this point, percentages say we pretty much will just lynch Town. And I don’t think this is the type of game where just lynching or ostracizing or whatnot for the sake of doing so will get us anywhere. ***
Well, yeah, if lynching won’t do anything for us, that would be a good reason to not think too hard about who to lynch, wouldn’t it?:rolleyes:
Or as** paul Mark I** said in post 672 **"*So basically what you’re saying is… not being helpful at all is how you play town?
I’ve always been kinda skeptical of people who say “I posted this way last game, and I was town then… ergo I am town now as well” without being confronted about their post style meaning they are scummy. It kind of smells like someone making an effort to do something, and it going unnoticed… so they bring it up themselves. ***
Freudian replies in 676[**I]No. I’m just saying that at this point in the game, there is really very little to go on, is all. So far I’m skeptical of people who focus on one person with no evidence–so, I voted on Chronos last time and I’m focusing on you now. ***
“Skeptical of people who focus on one person?” peeker notwithstanding, that’s all we can vote for! And if she can’t come up with any evidence for someone being scum, how can she complain when someone gets lynched on flimsy evidence?
Then there’s the classic 681**,* “Are those votes to ostracize or to kill?”***
Chronos gently replied in 684[I**],"Um, didn’t you get the memo, Freudian? It was kind of hard to miss, a couple of pages ago. There’s no such thing as executing any more. "***
I mean, really, I’m not so big on the “skimming is a huge scumtell” thing, but
This is ridiculous!!!
Herein a brief exchange with **Special Ed **in which she ends up reduced to saying
“***So let’s just let this talk of “scum tells” go, okay?”[/**I]
690, 692, [B]699**, 700
708,still lamenting the lack of any possible way to tell who might be scum.
721, joining in the chorus asking **paul **what the hell he is up to.
(Brief non-FS interlude)
723, ** Rysto** votes for paul saying that his claimed powers seemed implausible. I actually don’t really agree with this, although clearly if paul’s PM was real, which it presumably was,** Paul** used his power very unwisely. I myself voted for paul because I didn’t believe his claim at all, given its timing and circumstances, and he didn’t say up front that he would agree to allow his claimed power to be tested.
But if you think he* might *be a real power role, shouldn’t you give him constructive criticism instead of lynching a Town power role just for playing badly?
The vote is now three for paul, none for anybody else.
Our old friend Freudian Slit jumps in three minutes later to vote for paul, too in 724 with the immortal words "Even if he is town, he’s a risky townie to have around."Nice to see she finally resolved that crushing indecision!
And that’s about it for meaningful participation from Freudian. In 997, she asked for a sub, but her vote remained in place until the end of the Day.
So, in two days she contributed to the lynching of Town in what I would describe as sneaky way, gently encouraging a bandwagon without actually riding it on Day One, then jumping onto a seemingly safe bandwagon on Day Two based on bogus, me-too, anti-Town reasoning, then vanishing (though obviously there were some real-life issues involved).
Speaking of real-life issues, I spent way too much time on that! But hopefully it will help us out. I will try to do a Day Three reread, but I think I know where my vote is likely going Tomorrow.
