Also, just to put this stupid point to rest, here's the post we were going to make yesterDay:
"aight fine. lemme cut into the meat here.
This is the turning point. This is the post that switches my read on you (AM) from "man, lots of vague things bug me about this play" to "well, THAT'S a red flag."
I mention that your VT claim is rushed and weird and mostly just shouldn't be saving you from the noose because it's a clear grab for town points (you admit this, we agree, cool). However, in the above post, that's not how you justify it. You justify it as being a contingency. That you will ALWAYS claim when you think it's appropriate (I've been arguing that it was not), for the good of the town as a whole, and you specifically mention that if something or someone SOMEHOW hides your role title upon your flip (Janitor, or analogue of same), this way you've claimed so that town has more information.
This is a RIDICULOUS defense.
I claimed in an obvious grab for town points. When does anyone, as any alignment, claim as anything but an obvious grab for town points. The answer is when they're already dead (see: Sokr). You grab 'em when you feel the good it does outweighs the rest. I claimed for the reasons stated because getting the information out there, in the event of my lynch should it be forthcoming, is beneficial to town in case there is something to obstruct that flow of information. We already had a quicklynch and a scare based on another. Everyone was ready for the day to end and you never know what crazy ol' Gorf'll do. I claimed for both of the reasons that you claim in an obvious grab for town points and in an attempt to divert the wagon before it could start. In general, you claim so that town has the information. The entire point of the sentence was to respond to your question of "why would someone claim with" with the obvious answer of "so the information is out there" followed by a question as to how ridiculous you were being. You then twisted it like a screw. I didn't mention that it was an obvious grab for town points because I do value my hide. I said I'd hammer myself but y'know what? I would have, but even that was an attempt to save my hide. What you were trying to do is lynch a townie regardless of your motivation. You admit, right here, that what you were doing was fishing for a reason to lynch me. Because I'm not stupid, you didn't get it; however, you wouldn't be deterred and made that incredible reach proving that what you're doing is trying to get a lynch, not discern my alignment.
When was the last time anybody on Dgames played with a Janitor?
Off the top of my head, reveal obstruction includes: Lost Mafia, where Ryker was the Jan. OS All-Stars, where Ryker and Circus were on the scumteam with reveal obstruction. Elements and Attributes had neighbors whose ability obscured their alignments as a trade-off. Gigabots Mafia, that Alex hosted, where mafia traitor Ryker was janned by his own team that had an abductor in Gova/Xonar as well. Full Life Consequences had an abductor in Kantrip. Majora's Mask hosted by X1 also had an abductor. Pulp Fiction had a one-shot janitor where the Nabe/X1 Hydra janned the Ryker/Ran lovers. This list is long and varied throughout DGames' timeline and I'm certain that other players in this game can add to it and all of Nabe's holiday privates have had obscured flips until certain conditions were met. If you ask anyone in this game sans Scary and maybe Dabuz, I'm pretty sure they can add to this list. The fact that you're saying role obstruction is something DGames is very selectively exposed to is straight up a lie and I'm not going to tolerate using that to justify your leap in logic anymore.
How often has a flip been concealed in a game that does not explicitly state that reveals will be limited in some way or that it is an experimental game, or whatever? Practically never. Not only that, but in the event that such a role exists and did Jan you, it wouldn't ****ing matter because you're claiming VT. No one cares if that role gets hidden. It doesn't deny town much crucial information. Sure, it's an annoying question mark, but it's not like concealing an informative role, nullifying all its crumbs.
You are so incredibly wrong about everything you're trying to assert here. It's downright common in DGames for flip obstruction to occur and it matters to everyone in LyLo with a manipulatable townie, a scumbag is able to convince someone that that VT was a cop and was onto the other guy or even that that VT was a role that makes the other townie's role not fit into the set-up. The whole reason Jan exists as a role is because of what scum can do with that mis-information--Alex knows, he based an entire mafia team off of it (Gigabots Mafia). Do you sincerely expect me to believe that you think a jan on a VT is harmless when it could be avoided?
Now THAT is a ridiculous defense.
This does two things. First, it makes your initially given reason for claiming ring insincere (turns out it was, as you have since amended it). Second, it DOES SUGGEST that you believe this game in particular has a potential for reveals being ****ed with, otherwise you wouldn't have brought it up, as it's not a common enough occurrence for it to just be on your mind all the time, in every game, any time you consider claiming.
On the first point, sure. Now hang me for wanting to live. Do you know who I am? I have claimed governor in order to threaten people off of a scum lynch because I thought he was town. We instead turned around and lynched the governor. In MMX Mafia, there was an entire fiasco where Ryker said literally the other option is me and while I think he's town, I'll vote him because I
know I'm town. Town always wants to live, so if you want to use the fact that I wouldn't hand you my head on a silver platter as a reason to lynch me, be my guest. See how far you get.
As to your second point, I debunked your fact that it's not a common enough occurrence. This means I do have reason to believe that such a role could exist in this game. The tables have turned here. The one who has no backing is you, because I don't believe that you sincerely think that the potential for flip obstruction is so astronomically low that mentioning the possibility of its existence is enough to irrevocably link my slot to the scumteam.
wrt the second thing: If you DO have this extra information, it suggests that either you are the role that Jans, or know that there is a role that Jans, and at least proves that you are not VT.
In case it is not abundantly clear yet, I am a role who happens to know that there is potential for roles to be hidden in this game."
See? It's all the **** I've already been saying, just cleaned up to explain why, specifically, I went full force against you at the end of D2, along with the reveal that I am a role that already knew borked flips were a possibility. That is why your post shook me. I was expecting to see some no reveals because my role implies that they're coming. You, as a VT, should have no such expectations.
I don't buy it. I believe that you are a role who knew the possibility existed because I believe you are mafia. With an admission like that, you're probably indy. Why in the world would you not have claimed this yesterday when you were going hard? You apparently feel that it supports your case and could've reignited the wagon that I averted, avoiding the Frito M/L that, rather than pursue further (in fact, you dropped "long post" when I said was going to bed) and never went back to it other than to throw dirt in my face after you hammered Frito. If you feel so strongly that your role is condemning, why would you not claim that then and there rather than leaving your assumed scumbag AM to use his assumed Jan to bork your flip? Your actions do not line up with your reasoning.