Wheee! Time!
Well, not really. Ton of appointments in the morning, and I have to be up super early, but if I don't stay up and do this, it won't get done before the day ends. I think... *checks vote board* Yeah, no way I'll have the time. I don't even guarantee I'll get through everything, but I'll try.
PPE: Insomnia is magical... also, wall of text.
Hapah:makeinu: You seem pretty clever, and this worries me. I'm going to have to be more critical of your posts, and this will take me a little time.
Flattery will get you nowhere. I don't even kiss on the first date.
Elephant Parade:No time to add parsing your post onto this. I'll get to that later, hopefully before the day ends.
So, earlier, I said this:
Toony is acting too town for me to think it's an act. On the flip side of that, I'm still not convinced TDS is scum. He's playing what I'm taking as his normal game, and I just can't get a read on him. Not like I did the last game we played together. He hasn't done anything so blatant as he did that game, and I can't decide if it's just bad play, scummy, or scum that I'm getting off him.
Somebody give me arguments I'm wrong either way.
As expected, I see a few arguments both ways, not necessarily directed at me. I mean, I'm vain, sure, isn't everyone a little, but I know I'm not the center of the universe.
On the whole, the arguments presented come down, to my mind, pretty decisively on Toony being town. Jibes with my own thinking based solely on his reactions to the pressure over the Pufferfish vote.
Toony's reactions to the votes and questions is simply too collected. Even the best scum players get rattled, and I'm not seeing any rattling here except on Toony's cage, to which he's simply not reacting. Plus, he's offered up a role-claim if he's lynched, and I've seen Toony do just that before when he wasn't even the lynch target, so I believe he'll do it. A role-claim under those circumstances does scum no good, because... well, because. They're going to flip, and put the lie to the claim immediately. That's serious town action there, and that would make his bluff on Pufferfish even bolder.
Scum rarely play that bold and get away with it. Happens, but rarely.
The arguments against are just...weak. Or not presented at all *cough*SBC*cough*.
There wasn't really anything in defense of TheDarkStar, save his own post, which was surprisingly more wordy than his usual. He tries to give reasons, but they just come across as defensive and deflective of suspicion back to ToonyMan. He even pulls a self-meta with his noted vote flightiness.
And that's where I get stuck with a tunnel vision warning. I always see TDS as flighty and promiscuous with his vote, and so tend to dismiss that as a scum-tell with him. But when he self-metas with it, it's now referential because it becomes WIFOM. Sort of. I think.
And then I go back and have questions about the rest of that post.
Unvote. I can't in good conscience let a tie vote stand, not when I'm not 100% convinced the party I'm voting for is guilty. And Toony is acting too town for me to think it's an act. On the flip side of that, I'm still not convinced TDS is scum. He's playing what I'm taking as his normal game, and I just can't get a read on him. Not like I did the last game we played together. He hasn't done anything so blatant as he did that game, and I can't decide if it's just bad play, scummy, or scum that I'm getting off him.
Somebody give me arguments I'm wrong either way.
Here's a reason: Toony tried to get someone mislynched. While that person might have been able to respond within a short time, almost any denial on their part would have been seen as scum lying. Also, why would he care about a roleclaim as town? He also took a while to reveal that he was lying, but only after drawing questioning.
And then there's what I've done: Responded to criticism after a pressure vote. And yet, I'm the one getting voted for, while he gets to live.
Another reason:
Also, vote DarkStar because I'm not scum and his vote is by far the weakest on me (even Tiruin defends me!).
My votes might be flighty, but that is not a reason to vote for me. I still try to get rid of the scummy people, unlike Toony, who tried to get a random person dead.
Numerous problems I have with this part of this post. Aside from the general defensiveness and deflection.
One. Picking nits, maybe, but why change the color on my quoted Unvote, but not on ToonyMan's vote on you? If I were to speculate, I'd guess afraid that Toaster would have see the red Unvote and think it was your vote, not mine, but would assume you wouldn't vote for yourself. So, why then not just snip it out? Other parts of the post were snipped... I'm treading into WIFOM territory, trying to think what you're thinking when you're doing something.
Two. The use of the phrase "tried to get someone mislynched", just bugs me. There's no proof that Pufferfish/scientist is town, and Toony seemed genuinely suspicious, though I don't really remember if he stated why (not digging back, it's getting late). You seem, with this, dead set that makes ToonyMan scum, not merely scummy, and I ... fear is not quite the right word but it'll have to do for now ... fear certainty in a lynch vote without evidence or at least a strong case to back that certainty up. And you present with certainty that ToonMan is trying to lynch a townie, not just a "random player" as you play it off later.
Three. As I said above, a role-claim done the way Toony presented it is a very solid town tactic. If I'm about to get lynched as town, there's every reason for me to role-claim, especially if I have a power role. That doesn't work for a scum-bluff because they're going to flip on lynch and put the lie to their attempted role-claim.
Four. He explains why he took time in responding, yet you don't acknowledge that. Yes, it might be bullshit, he might've just been attempting to scum-lurk, but coupled with the above bits, I can't see that being the case.
All the evidence I see belies my belief that you're just playing to your meta, and instead points to you being mafia,
TheDarkStar.