*points at edit*
Bit of a pain.
If it's all subjective anyways, or the important bits at least, what's the point? Especially since, as I've repeatedly pointed out, everything can be a scumtell.
Generalizing again!~~
We're talking about a general guide. The points made within are
meant to be generalized.
Meaning: Those things require context to be understood, and at a glance may look contradictory, but are not. It's like that Astrology thing you're criticizing. The subject is highly questionable due to you/your mind not having been exposed to it, but rather only the superficial articles about it via crude observation.
Alright, first off,
that was an analogy, and do you honestly believe in astrology?
Second off, what "context" do I need? I hate always comparing people I'm arguing with to fundies, but it's reminding me of people responding to my complaints about the Bible being contradictory or the actions of saints being horrible by simply saying I'm taking them out of context...without adequately explaining what context I'm missing.
There's a 'because' behind all those reasons. Good townies don't mind being lynched because they'd be scumhunting as their goal--if they get lynched, they try their best in getting as much info from their pursuers that they can, and mostly this overturns the lynch.
Your "a good townie tries not to be lynched" is badly paraphrased from the original statement.
How would you paraphrase it?
And, as I've noted,
my problem is with the reasoning. The
conclusions aren't contradictory, the
reasoning is.
Your concept of 'loss' ignores the gain by said loss. Your concept of loss focuses purely only that the member is dead, and not what the member has done--the generalization to your statements and the objective conclusion afterwards which I'm poking.
The OP doesn't make any considerations for that. And besides, I'm still confused...how can a mislynch help the town?
Said quote seems to be taken out of context from a rather distinct area there. Mind to quote it?
ctl-f, it's not that hard.
Second frequently asked question.
Fight them with your own arguments, and search for people you may think are scum, and try to turn the votes against them. About the worst thing you can do is give up, whether you are town or scum; you are harming the town by making it lose another member, distracting them from hunts for the true scum, and worsening your own game as well.
I dunno about you, but when I read that, I see that as saying "you should try not to be lynched, because that will always hurt your team".
1. Prove. Note: "Trying" = actively doing. As in, it can be sensed. Your example does NOT (@orange) take that up. This requires context to specify.
2. Prove. There are underlying reasons why a scumtell is a scumtell and not a towntell or a newbietell.
3. Prove. Generally everyone will fight the lynch, but also will fight according to their principle.
All of such are guides and not laws. :V
1. Alright, how do you tell that someone's
trying to hide their scumtells, as opposed to someone who just doesn't have them? Wouldn't the most logical way to hide them be to know what they are and
not do them at all, rather than...I dunno, how are you supposed to hide scumtells in some other way?
2. So, either scum leave no scumtells, or a lot? There's no middle ground? B.S. Not to mention the idea that scum will give off a whole lot of scumtells is not only BS, it's BS that could easily lead to mislynches if the mafia doesn't but enough players, trying to find all the scumtells, finds a bunch of alleged scumtells in a random (probably town) player's posts.
3. How does the "principle" affect how they will fight? Do mafias' principles force them to bold their arguments or something?
Remember, we don't have telepathy, or even the ability to see each others' faces. All we have are text, text freely given and, if the player is a mafia, almost certainly carefully thought-out.
...What happened in your BM Sprint!? You should be acquainted with the game already due to it being a BM! (though fast paced :v)
You were there, weren't you? You saw what happened.