Yes, I do. Sorry for not showing up for so long... I kept forgetting I hadn't posted here.
Mephansteras, how many scum do you think there are?
Opening with a lame excuse for lurking, followed by a terrible vote+question. You're playing a rather more passive game than usual.
In a more game-related note...
Sorry I've been gone for so long, dudes. Someone I knew for 14 years just committed suicide, and I needed a bit of time to think it over.
Right, "game-related." Note the construction of his paragraph--he's appealing to emotion with emphasis on the number of years, creating a deeper relationship than might necessarily need to be inferred. Further, there's a definite attempt at pathos there: he down-plays the incident with a familiar opener and colloquialisms, continuing with an obvious explanation.
The clear purpose of such an explanation is, again, to "up-play by down-playing."
Thought you could pull one over our eyes, scumbucket? You're wrong. Don't try to pull this sort of shit while I'm around.
Though I will submit here that his meta guarantees a propensity for emotional appeals--see BMI, NSBMI, NSBMII, BYOR Panda. In half of those games he was scum, but in all of them he launched massive emotional-appeal campaigns.Fine. Who, other than Meph, is scum?
This is an obvious attempt to get chain-kills when Toony flips.
POR QUE?!??!?!??
No, seriously. You're being as helpful as a legless kangaroo.
Do you think odd use of language will ingratiate yourself to others, scumbucket? Buddying to your target via dictive parallelism, noted.
If you end up being town, then yes... Meph and ExKirby are in fact quite suspicious. But at the moment, you're saying pretty much nothing of note. I'm trying to shake a read out of you, and you aren't being at all helpful with that endeavor.
More kill-chaining.
Hi vector. Why are you scum?
I'm not. What makes you think I am?
I think this qualifies as the patented "Vector Jump," i.e. "denial and then quick demand of information." Scumbucket.
Good god, people. Don't vote me based on a stretch of silence, but do come vote me if you think I need voting. I've made my peace and recovered, and any further absence is for unrelated reasons.
Yes, I'm serious about this. It sounds ridiculous, but there you go.
Good god, Vector. More emotional appeals? You do the "townie" thing of calling for votes, but then you follow it with a qualifier--"it sounds ridiculous." If you actually meant what you're saying, would you add that imprint of risibility in an effort to sway the audience to your side? Once again, saying the opposite of what you mean in an attempt to garner sympathy.
We don't suffer fools, here, so quit it.
Additionally, there is no good answer to that question, CK. It's the quintessential reaction-testing question, and it's your job to decide whether or not my reaction is scummy or townish. I can only answer with a particular styling of answer, not with anything definitive.
So, why you should think I'm town? There's no reason in particular that you should. I cannot point to a series of posts condemning someone who flipped scum; I cannot say "Hey, I've kicked the town back into action more times than I can count!" It's burden of proof. I wish I could give you a better answer, but I cannot. The most I can do is provide more posts, in the hope that they will allow you to get a solid read on me.
And... you provide a definition of "burden of proof." CK's correct--this is a tautological argument. I also note that you're making a solid attempt at mirroring Dakarian and Jim Groovester when they defended you in BMI. Trying to tap into others' knowledge of your meta? Scummy.
To be honest, you just sound wrong to me. You're usually far more exuberant than this, lively and active, whatever. You also usually don't try so hard to keep information to yourself.
Maybe it's a generalized personality shift. Maybe something else is going on in your life, whatever. In any case, you sound different to the Toony I'm used to, which disorients me, affects my reads, and...
Ninja'd by Meph.
Everything he said, plus what I said right here.
Additionally, Toony... buddying. Buddying with eduren.
Buddying with Meph. Unfounded claims of buddying with eduren. Bandwagoning. Terrible evidence. Are you really trying to kill someone based on "lack of exuberance?" Tomfoolery, this.
That's probably because they're all either lazy, busy, or amused scumbuckets. I don't think Kashyyk's even posted since the game began.
Kill-chaining, defamation, lurker-hunting, and sloppiness.
Good god, can we just kill this man and get going? He's a survivor, end of story. CK and Solifuge are scum. A couple of people need either prods or serious lynch-threats, but mostly we need to move on now that we've found our first anti-townie.
Also, issuing scads of prods is probably a bad idea. They mean a lot more now than they used to, and all that. So... I think we need to bother Kashyyk and Apost in-thread, but otherwise no mod action is required.
First you display impatience to kill the "survivor." Then you lurker-hunt, then you lurker-buddy. Not so shiny.
I feel that I am treating this game like a game. Perhaps that has something to do with how I play games... for me, the game is finding out how to best solve the game. I hear that other people play Tetris for the fun of getting farther each time; I enjoy the iterative optimization problem. Some people read books for the fun of getting caught up in a story. Others find the fun in the expression of narrative structure and literary techniques. What is the purpose of socializing? Is it the joy of carefully constructing a surreal expression that makes others laugh? Is it the pleasure of producing well-formed paragraphs to influence another's mind? Is it the challenge of convincing someone else that you are a person like them? No, it's probably something else that I don't quite understand, as was explained in the above examples. This does not mean that either of us is wrong, but it does mean that we will find ourselves conflicting a bit.
What is enjoyable about making a forum post? The careful employment of syntactic parallelism? The construction of alliteration to enhance said parallelism? The manipulation of size to provide subtle changes in tone? This is what I enjoy, and it is how I "play." Occasional paragraphs about seemingly unrelated subjects also tend to feature prominently.
Emotional appeals, scumbucket. You reveal yourself in hope that someone will understand what you're saying and think more positively of you (as a member of the same group), or with the hope that others will pity you and leave you alone.
"Principle of Unification via Separation?" Nice try. Go jump in a lake.
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You are well aware by now that the cornerstones of that theory are broken in the first place, correct? Generation of pathos by highlighting differences/difficult circumstances works only if a commonality is already established, which cannot be established if you have been thrown in the "irrevocably differentiated" bucket. And so we ask ourselves: what did you think you were doing? Did you think the establishment of emotional appeals by virtue of calling upon that person's death would be enough, despite your other separating endeavors?
I believe that running a positivity-neutral simulation of the standard thought process would inform you otherwise.
Thus, we recognize that your efforts were broken, and that you knew that at the time (fundamentally, if not consciously). Hence, there must have been another reason, which I now remember because I am you. The desire to be known by others in such a manner is perhaps intrinsic to you, but in any case...
Scummy.
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