Ok, I'm going to get my work in for this thread before I participate in ANOTHER event (flashmob in Paris, woo)
Mac:
also i've only skimmed so far but, @mccloud: whats wrong with asking riddle for his input? I'm not infallible lol i cud be wrong. I'm giving him the chance to prove to me that he's not scum. I'm also having doubts just cuz. and yes, you are giving favor to those who are articulate in their posts. and yea, that's a terrible mentality. These players will be articulate whether or not they are scum or town.
It seemed like you were backing out of the push on Riddle. Being articulate is a necessary part of intelligent and reasonable mafia play. You're doing it right now by slowing down your post to word ratio. And it helps to contribute actual discussion. So kudos
Everything you said about chaco in your statement, I agree with. It doesn't make him automatically town.
I post impulsively. That's just what I do. I think it is absurd to think most of my posts don't have merit or that only 20% of them do. I spend most of the time asking questions or providing my own insight which is valuable in and of itself. The fact that i post so much should lead you to think that i'm being honest, since there would be no reason for me to post alot as scum cuz it just provides more opportunities to slip up. ANd people think i'm scum anyways. So as scum it would be pointless to keep this up, and in alot of games where I am scum, I don't post like this because of this.
Don't you think its funny that you're suspicious of the person whose posted most in the game as opposed to those who went inactive for long periods of time? Not saying that posting alot makes me more town, because it doesn't but the way you think just promotes people to want to lurk more simply because people like you won't give them **** for it.
I don't think it's suspicious that I'm suspecting the most frequent poster. Post count means little without substance, and it bothers me when people post a lot without adding much substance. It's not to say that I won't give lurkers **** for lurking, but if you lurk and then post lengthy messages, I'm more inclined to forgive than the opposite condition.
OK, as I said I don't consider myself to be antitown. Posting alot, let alone generating discussion isn't antitown in the slightest. But i'm gonna explain how antitown is different from scummy. Antitown is when you post things that are against the town's best interests. Things like, not posting alot, ignoring people's arguments or other content, trying to stray away from finding scum in your posts, etc, are antitown.
Of course, scum are aware of this. They're goal is to pretend to be part of the town and useful so that town doesn't lynch them. So by nature, scum will tend to stay away from doing things that may seem antitown because that is against what their goal is.
anyways, i def didn't plan on this post being long at all. I'll go back and look through what other people said. Specifically summoner, riddle and chaco.
Scum are definitely aware of this, and want to appear town, but what we have to go on is the implied intentions inherent in their syntax, grammatical structures, tone, activity, etc. That's what makes the difference.
You should plan on your posts being longer, as they have been of late.
What bothers me now is Xonar replacing your playstyle. Very little of substance as of late.
from adum:
I like macman (active, liberal application of pressure)
I'm unsure about Xonar
I don't like Summoner and Kirby for the same reasons (little activity, little content, seems to be attempting to blend in)
I sort of dislike McCloud (doubts from the beginning, and hasn't been showing a good pressure game to alleviate it, if he wants to be off my potential scum list, he needs to be pro-town).
You're unsure about Xonar, who has little content and who I would lump in with the other two? And a pressure game to get off your potential scum list? Youse silly. I don't need to be pro-town. I am pro-town. You're the one not recognizing it.
I honestly am not understanding the whole modkill argument continuing. I've never seen it before in a game, so I don't know what it entails other than we don't pick who we lynch. Off that basis alone I don't like it, because as I stated previously, pushing for someone actually gives us information. Wrong or right is how we interpret that info.
Here's my biggest problem with Chaco (I'm on pg 8) You repeatedly reference other mafia games as reasoning for various things, and that is incredibly scummy to me. I find meta scummy for offense or defense and especially when the defense has a holier-than-thou attitude. I honestly couldn't figure out what the hell you were trying to argue by the time I finished reading several of your posts.
I feel a need to come back to Xonar, who has been consistently scummy to me from pg 7 onward. But what I really don't like is the sudden Chaco bandwagon. It's like everyone forgot about Riddle, which he of course happily accepted. Both of them are fidgeting about, but Riddle remains more scummy to me. I don't mind the Chaco lynch, but we'd better get more discussion in first. Lynching Riddle yields more information at this point in my mind.
OS: no moar meta from you either, please.
unvote: Macman
vote: Xonar
Seriously, I'm gonna need you to say something other than "I agree." Though that vote should probably be on Riddle to keep sufficient pressure.
In case I die, my fos stand on
Riddle
Xonar
Chaco
Macman's ridiculous balancing act worked out, after all. -_-