zomara:I present, to your eye of suspicion, this one and only fact that might keep me from getting lynched my first day.
So, you've got one thing, which will probably fit neatly within a few sentences, and one thing only that might prevent you from being immediately lynched, which you'd like to express now in a desperate attempt to not get lynched.
This seems awfully desperate and scummy for someone with only one vote. If you were leading in votes, or I had some serious fuckup on you, or if I had even given you some serious reason to think I was dead-set on lynching you regardless, I could maybe see jumping to "Er, before you lynch me, consider the following:"
As it stands, though, it seems a lot like you're expecting to get lynched for some reason, which reads a lot like the usual "I'm scum, therefore IO's found me out, therefore play Noob Card to Not Die." Otherwise I don't see why you'd be so jumpy, or explain your noobishness in such a... well, I don't know, but something about it seems off. Prepared, almost? It's a fairly formal, elaborate explanation for what basically amounts to "Oh that, I'm a noob so please don't kill me."
Also, if nothing else I believe this adequately displays the power a vote can have. At least, I hope you wouldn't have responded that way to just the questions; I'd have probably called for your lynch immediately for something like that.
I am new at this, and have been familiar with this type of forum gaming for less than a week. If you were throwing yourself into a situation, would you not wait and watch and see were to turn, first, before casting yourself to the ever undecided waves of change?
As McFry has mentioned, we're over the drop site so get out of the plane. Yeah, maybe you'll land on a tree. That'll teach you to land on trees less next time, which is more than you're going to learn peering cautiously at said trees.
More specifically, playing all passively isn't going to help you learn unless you intend to learn to play passively, which is a bad idea. It's a lot more instructive to jump out, do stuff, and then hopefully be informed of where you were wrong than tiptoe out and hope the next step keeps revealing itself.
Dariush. But only because, all I have read points him out to be a major dick. I don't really have much more concrete reason than that. It all follows Dr.P's train of thought.
Phibes:
You don't mind if I call you that, do you?
Nobadwrong. Are you trying to hunt scum or hunt dicks? Because if your only case on Dariush is "He's a dick," you're not hunting scum, you're hunting dicks.
Also, copying Dr.P's train of thought is generally a bad thing, because it implies you're just pointing at someone else's case and saying "Yeah, that." Which in turn implies that you don't care about hunting scum and are being lazy scum yourself. At the very least, you should really explain Dr.P's train of thought in more detail, so we know that it's either something you came up with on your own that happens to be the same, or something you think makes a lot of sense for the following reasons.
Finally, you should be actively hunting, not just voting. I know you've got a question out to Dariush or somesuch, but you still don't look like you're getting a good read on the situation or anyone in it. Don't you have questions? Don't you have people you want to know more about?
McFry:Strategia:
My favourite scumtell is people not being constructively active when they could be. Dariush is not constructively active at all, but he's clearly in this thread frequently.
Currently, my second scumpick is Scelly. He's posting in the forum games forum for about 10 hours non-stop every day. Last BM, he had a completely different attitude that even made him get NK'd on N1 (I know that reading the NK is WIFOM, but I don't think that he would have even been considered as NK if he'd shown his current behaviour in the last BM). His behaviour clearly doesn't match up, and it has no reason not to, since he obviously has lots of time on his hands.
I tend to be wary of meta/activity tells like this, but I still like where you're going with it. I know you've been questioning Dariush a bunch, but haven't noticed what's come of it; has anything? I'm less certain I've seen you questioning Scelly, so I'm curious what your read on him other than lurking is.
Also I am not Strategia. Why'd you say I was Strategia?
My favourite scumtell is people not being constructively active when they could be. Dariush is not constructively active at all, but he's clearly in this thread frequently.
Currently, my second scumpick is Scelly. He's posting in the forum games forum for about 10 hours non-stop every day. Last BM, he had a completely different attitude that even made him get NK'd on N1 (I know that reading the NK is WIFOM, but I don't think that he would have even been considered as NK if he'd shown his current behaviour in the last BM). His behaviour clearly doesn't match up, and it has no reason not to, since he obviously has lots of time on his hands.
You can change your vote anytime you want. So it does not hurt at all to just vote somebody for pressure, and vote somebody else later because he's more suspicious. RVS is all about this, and even though you can't just choose your vote randomly at this stage, you can at least indicate who you currently find suspicious, and you can do it with a vote to apply pressure. Just like IronyOwl said.
Why is your own image so important to you? You're not voting because you think it could look bad on you if you do (even though you should vote). You're explaining your actions with newbieness, yet you do nothing to correct your actions, instead you're congratulating yourself on your relatively well-written posts (that show that you are a newb).
Do you remember this:
I would care to withhold my vote to the very end. As a new guy, I don't want to make my first choice a bad one.
That was your first choice, and it was a bad one.
I'm becoming less and less convinced you needed another BM. I'm not even sure I would suspect Darvi of feeding you these.
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