Lets get right down to it.
vote: RoxPSI
During my little mafia-catch-up, I read over a handful of RoxPSI's posts that sent my scum sense a'tinglin like no ones business. Some people have replied to them, but no one really commented on what I was concerned with. Lets start with this little interaction:
@mod: request votecount
@RoxPSI: if DatHydra were lynched and turned out to be Tidus, Town One-shot Watcher, would you agree that would make you look pretty damn scummy?
Right off the bat, things are looking odd to me.
If RoxPSI were town, I would have expected an answer along the lines of "No it would not make me look scummy, and here's why" or "yes it would make me look scummy, but here's why it shouldn't be enough to kill me"
Instead, we get "I'm not scum, and here's why." Now I'm sure someone is going to read this, mentally note that Glyph is bad at mafia, and move on their merry way. But you're not considering MOTIVE.
Why would rPSI lead off his defense with such a phrase if he were town? Oh, and that question was quoted in the post, meaning I won't be buying a "I just misread the question" defense.
It would be an error on in my part to have thought that he was town, but I'm not just going to sheep behind someone else. Wouldn't you say that if player X were on the wagon with us and Hydra flipped Town One-shot Watcher that player X would also look scummy? Because you know, I don't control who gets lynched in this game. The majority of town does. Note that I am not controling town, but simply making my thoughts about DatHydra clear rather than pushing his lynch.
I get the feeling that you're going through a lot of trouble to stress that this lynch won't make you look bad if it turns up sour. Except it would, and that's the risk you assume when you vote for someone. Your case against them should be reason enough to keep you safe...right?
If people agree with me and elaborate on it, great. If people disagree with me and say why, that is great. We need these opinions and motivations out on the field so we can evaluate this game and determine people's alignments.
Laying out the basic premise of a mafia game sounds town, but it feels tacked on here.
Oh, and its also not a town thing to do in a game like this where everyone clearly at least gets the ropes. (Cept maybe RR but I'll comment on that later)
I'm also not pushing this lynch as hard as everyone may think I'm "pushing" the lynch.
"Oh don't mind me I don't really care much if the person I'm voting for lives or dies! The important thing here is that you don't trace the lynch back to me because I wasn't pushing it very hard."
If you look at when I posted the comic, it was people attacking my comic saying that "that's not true." Is it wrong for me to defend my posts and thoughts.
Only if they're wrong!
I would like to know what you planned to say here.
@Gheb - you seem you think that me stating that his claim is scummy is in terrible logic. In normal circumstances, I would agree with this. However, me and Roxy both feel that in the context of the claim, combined with our personal thoughts on DatHydra makes it seem like a scum claim to us.
I'm also pretty annoyed at people who are attacking us rather than our basis behind our vote. Stop trying to make our case go away via attacking the Ethos of the argument, but rather prove through Logos that our argument is bad.
-rPSI
And I actually feel like Gheb did a nice job with this last paragraph here, so I'm going to move on to the next thing I found odd.
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=12296227&postcount=685
Gee, awful helpful of ya mister! You want to know what I think is going on with this post? You saw a chance to get RR killed, and you build your "own" case against him by cobbling together other people's arguments and peppering the post with comments about what the posts are doing.
Lets lynch RoxPSI today.
Now the other major thing that happened was this whole RR fiasco of straight up refusing to give information.
Red Ryu, listen, I've looked over the interactions you've had during the course of the game and I wouldn't blame you if you were a bit pissed off. But if you truly are town, you've got to give us
something to work with. Some scum picks with some support would be a great start.
also
FoS Glyph
Where you at? You even posted yesterday that we can expect a post from you soon, but we have yet to see anything.
unless your definition of soon is
http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon
I'm going to use you as a blanket to cover all the posts in regards to my activity. I had school and I put that above mafia. I'm on spring break now so I should be significantly better as far as posting goes (when I'm sober awwwwwww yeeeeee).
As a more direct reply to JTB, really man? Soon may not mean 10 minutes later, and in the grand scope of mafia games 24 hours is not exactly unheard of.