Shakerag: Do you have any opinion about MrCelt's reasons for voting me, or more accurately, complete lack thereof?
-So in your professional opinion, you think Scottzar's actions (generally speaking, referring to his "case" on me) to be genuinely scummy as opposed to newbing it up?
Yes.
You don't think so? Tell me how the stuff he's done is better explainable by him being a noob than him being scum.
Honestly? Okay, here's how I think it went down. Scottzar looked at my gameplay, couldn't find anything scummy, noted that I was on a scum lynch, and (coupled with being an IC) decided that I must be solidly town. This idea is likely pretty set in his mind. Then when you (as another IC, pillar of mafia gameplay that we are) question him *specifically* to look over my gameplay to see if he can "find anything bad to say" about me it puts him on the spot. Why is the IC asking me to look for something bad about a person I think is solidly town? Did I miss something? Does he see something I don't? There must be something there if the IC is asking me!
And so, when one is trying hard to look for something they presume must be there, they'll find something, anything, and rationalize it to fit with what they're looking for. Hence why it seems that Scottzar "reversed" his opinion.
An experienced player, in my opinion, would stick by thier town analysis if they thought it correct. But a new player being questioned by an IC ... You see where I'm going with this? So I think your jumping on Scottzar for flipping his position is a lame ass reason for voting him. It looks like a newbie bowing under pressure from an IC to deliver something that's being asked for.
Scottzar was no wilting flower. He was someone who entered the game with strong opinions about how it should be played, and players like that are not the type to bend backwards and reverse position from a single question regardless of whether it came from an IC or not. Your characterization is inaccurate because Scottzar was not lacking in confidence in how he played.
He's had cause to argue with me even over my IC opinion so I don't understand how he would suddenly become nervous over what I asked him. Scottzar reacted to my question, but it was not because he suddenly doubted himself because he thought I challenged him.
Sure there's a shift. But there was an external influence (you) between those statements. Newbies "buddying" up to ICs is nothing new or unexpected. The reasons he suddenly think I'm scummy for *are* bad, perhaps, but that's due to a newbie being pressured by an IC, IMO.
Why are you brushing away buddying as if it's no big deal?
Isn't it a big deal? Shouldn't instances of buddying be looked at regardless of how common it is or not?
I don't understand why you're so blase about it.
Fair enough. Too much wine on that point.
Why'd you make it then?
Because they've been absent up until recently and I've had nothing to ask and I've been waiting to see what they produce on their own before I prod them aggressively about it.
Nothing to ask? That seems uncharacteristic of you. Why not prod them aggressively to produce said content?
I thought they'd have the decency to produce content in a timely manner. My mistake.
I can't find it in the rules and I'm not used to votes in text, do you cut the day short with a majority vote? If so I currently have the opportunity to hammer either MrCelt or Jim. I'm leaning towards Jim at the moment, Shakerag why are you so sure he's scum?
Why the hell are you leaning towards me when MrCelt has failed to produce reasons for voting me despite being repeatedly asked and prodded to?
Sure, go after the guy who has a case, not the guy who's deliberately avoiding making one. Because that makes sense.