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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #375 on: January 04, 2011, 12:48:18 pm »

To Toaster:
You're not going to get anything out of Org. You explained it as a 'rage vote' which, while completely understandable in this case, isn't really helpful.

To Zathras:
Answering your questions, give me another half an hour or so.

To Jokerman-EXE:
You've been lurking the *entire* game. We'd all love it if you actually participated.

Go ahead. Reread the thread and post, but don't deny you have been lurking. The day originally would have ended last night with nothing from you. Right now, it'll end tonight with likely not enough time to read whatever you bring to the table.  If you get another extension, there's nothing that you've done to convince me thus far that you'd actually use it.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #376 on: January 04, 2011, 01:13:12 pm »

1. why did you think MBP was town. Please justify your calling MBP town, with details.
Because his first post of the game was essentially a Kook claim (or possibly Alien), even if not direct. I didn't (still don't) think that he'd make such a claim, especially so early as scum.

2. Why didn't you even consider the "null tell" position? The question made the clear distinction of scum, town, or "null tell" (to be assessed based on other criteria). You saw this, and still called him town. Why not null tell?
I did. But there are only 2/11 scum (plus the distinct possibility of Aliens), so it's statistically likely that at least some people will end up looking scummy without actually being scummy. Continuing the answer the (1), I thought it unlikely enough to put MBP in the town category for the time being.

3. Re: my calling MBP scummy: If you think my logic is faulty when calling him scummy, please point out why/how.
I disagreed with it. It doesn't necessarily mean that it was wrong. Your original case was that his waffling about claiming Kook was scummy (it was, but he essentially claimed it or Alien in the first post) and that he hasn't done anything else (he really hand't, but at least he'd done more than Org/ToonyMan/probably Jokerman-EXE at that point). Later you have more about waffling, arguments about role versus alignment (Kook is one of the very few, possibly the only, non-Alien role variants that can only have one alignment), modwrath (I agree with you), more on useless.

You even say yourself (in the second linked post) "Sure, not an overwhelming case, but just as strong as that on the other top contenders".

4. Why did you take small snippets of questions from the linked posts, specifically the ones with questions you had already answered, and focused on those instead of the intended restated unanswered questions? I find your evasion massively scummy, since you a) know better, and b) intentionally skipped the questions in the post to which you replied.
You have long posts, some I probably just missed. The rest I either didn't think were important or had already been answered. Obviously you and I disagree on that point.

5. You also say "while there were far scummier targets." What targets? Please list them out. Who was scummier than MBP at the time yesterday? You evidently think Arg was, so as I ask above, compare your Arg case to my MBP case, and see if you can honestly say "far scummier targets" were there. Or was it someone else? If so, why didn't you vote them?
Org, essentially unlynchable.  ToonyMan, hoping he'd turn around and be useful. Leafsnail and Jokerman-EXE, lurking but they always do that.

6. Now you think MBP is "scummy," but your case against him is as flimsy as the one on Arg, your "post lists" are worse than useless (they may be useful for you, but they mean nothing to us when you attempt to present them as "evidence"). Please summarise and restate your case.
He is scummy, for essentially the same reasons that you thought he was earlier. I think he's scummy because he's less experienced, not necessarily because he's scum. As I've said before. 

Useless? I obviously disagree, but useless? :( ]url=http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=72923.msg1841448#msg1841448"]Link to "post lists"[/url].  Each comment unless it specifically states otherwise is something that I think is scummy.

Useless RV questions are scummy, albeit minorly. Modwrath for roleclaiming is trying to cover a previous mistake. Extension after enough votes is both not paying close enough attention to the game (actually a minor towntell IMO, unfortunately for the state of the game) but is also a way to buy good will with townies that wanted the extension.  Bringing up the 'saved investigation' is backtracking to cover himself again, unvote without revoting is scummy as he can just 'forget' to revote without much issue. Dragging on the Kook business--especially to the extent he did--is tunneling.

7. You "almost guaranteed MBP wouldn't be guarded, and decent chance of being NK'd". Several people seem[ed] to think [MBP] is town, so why wouldn't them guard him if they can? Wouldn't you guard someone you think is town? And were he town, why would he get nightkilled? The WIFOM is useful for the scum, and it's not like he's is an asset.
He's town, but has a worthless role and hasn't been active enough to make a strong town center. Why would people guard him? I would probably guard someone that is town, but I wouldn't have guarded him. Nightkilled was probably more than expected. You're quite correct, the scum would probably leave him alive both for the Kooky-WIFOM bits and because he's not that dangerous to them.

Your case on Arg was bullshit. Let me summarise:

8. Distracting: if he was doing that instead of content, I'd see it. Otherwise it's a non sequitur, and it's your job not to be distracted. Do you think he was actively and intentionally trying to distract us away from seeing suspicious things by posting a head-explode picture in response to an Org comment? how is "distracting" is a scumtell (while also posting content)?
Minor issue. Probably even more minor that I made it out to be.

9. "Easy Lynches" I want specific answers to your clearly spurious and fallacious comments about how Arg went for "easy lynches". Jumping onto a bandwagon or otherwise getting a free lynch is indeed scummy, but he's not done that; he decided MBP was his target, and he committed to it, even when it was no longer an easy lynch. He was then still voting the same way than when you said he went for the easy lynches. Was he still scummy for it?
"clearly spurious and fallacious comments"? Dude, you've got a clear case of politician's tounge / begging the question.

MBP, I'll give you that he stuck to his guns on that one.

Dariush is just begging to be lynched, has been since Day 1 although it's getting worse. Easy Lynch.

His last choice was Org/Toony. Everyone had Org/Toony on their list. Saying Org was an Easy Lynch was completely wrong, more accurate would be Easy Target To Say Is Scummy. But that's a lot of words. More or less the same for ToonyMan at that point.

10. "Lynch the kook": if it was just for the kook thing, maybe. But the dude is also scummy, and he points it out, yet you completely ignore this. Why?
Because I disagreed with how scummy you and he thought MBP was.  See answer (1).

11. your analysis of him is loaded on the early game. You include more about his RV, Enchanter choice for an answer, or early exchanges with Org/Toony than about his most recent exchanges where he provides more content and context. Why?
Because that's where he looked scummiest, ergo what came up when I was trying to decide if he was scummy.

(I think there are two reasons for this:
- You first decided to vote him, and then set off to find "justifications" for it, starting from the beginning. You latched on whatever low-hanging fruit you found. Oh, look, a youtube link! Shiny!
- It's easier to attack people if you ignore their responses.)
To the first, it's mostly true. It's all I had time for. Didn't get time to do a full read until the beginning of Day 2.

So far as ignoring their responses, if you're talking about responding to your questions, see question (4). If you mean Argembarger, I did. When he asked me to expand on them here, I did here. He responds with his crazy orange post (crazy modifying orange, not post), I respond here. He seems to agree with many of them here, with another question I answer here.

Most of the points that I dropped I agreed with him on, looking back I didn't make that clear. :-\

12. Refute this: Your arguments [were] still way insufficient for a fourth on bandwagon vote, you ignored the most important parts of the situation, you ignored several of my earlier questions, and your "list" is completely made up after the fact to justify your jumping onto the bandwagon instead of an analysis and cause for a vote.
This is contained in the other questions, why I wanted you to make a list in the first place.

Insufficient arguments: I disagree, see answers to (8), (9), and (10).
Ignored the important parts: Which were? Talking with Argembarger about the situation (11), what else did I ignore.
Made up list: No. Not made up. Went back and looked for it after the vote, but I didn't make it up.

13. Answer the freaking questions: why did you lynch Arg based on a bullshit case?
I lynched Argembarger? By myself? What about Leafsnail, Toaster, and ToonyMan. Of the four, it could be argued that I had the least to do with lynching him as I was the 4th (turns out unneccsary) vote. And see the previous answers for the bullshit case claim.

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A misread on someone causing an accidental mislynch is one thing. A case based on bullshit and made up reasons, with clearly fabricated lists of "evidence", about which you refuse to answer questions, on the other hand, is the work of scum. You are scum.
What about this (spoiler), this, and this to a minor extent? I get the feeling that you're just completely ignoring my spoilers... Would you rather I just not use than and wall of text whenever I post?

14. Your linked answers do not address the points about your case being bullshit; So why did you link them? Why evade the questions for the then third, now fourth time?
The bolded question was about which you refuse to answer questions. I answered questions. The bullshit case was explained in the linked posts, at least more or less to Argembarger's satisfaction (the fair enough post).

For the third, now fourth time *I didn't evade them the first time*.

Re: One last, not that important, but telling because I've seen you use it a few times already:
Quote from: Zathras
Quote from: Janus
Mostly through talking with him at the end of the day started to change my mind.  But I've learned not to change my vote that near the end of the day without a *really* good reason (you saw it happen to Zathras in the first Sorcerer's Apprentice), so I stuck with it.
Bullshit. a) you never gave any impression of mind changing, on the contrary; b) a town mislynch is a *really* good reason; and c) your simile doesn't apply: that was mylo, this was D1; that was a decisive vote, yours wasn't; hell if you weren't sure, you would have unvoted and he'd have hung anyway. But no, you wanted to hang him, confident that you'd be able to talk yourself out of it D2. And you nearly had, but we'll nail you now.
a) Answered in (11).
b) A combination of he would have had to be very town contrasting with someone very scummy to get me to change my vote.
c) It's not just a simile for Mafia, it's for life. Unless you have a *damn* good reason to do otherwise, go with your first answer. It's more than likely to be more correct than a changed answer.

I didn't think this would be such a big deal on Day 2. Believe me, I don't want to have to talk my way out of things, does all sorts of unpleasant things to my head. But I'm not just going to give the scum the satisfaction of a free lynch because I screwed up.

15. Why do you bring this up when the case does not apply at all? If you were having second thoughts, why didn't you even acknowledge them instead of insisting? If he'd have hanged even if you unvoted, why didn't you unvote if your mind was changing? Bullshit, all this is made up after the fact, a spurious justification for scummy behaviour.
Why do you repeat your questions?

a) It does. It applies any time you second guess yourself.
b) Answer to question (11) for the third time.
c) 11th hour vote change, wouldn't have helped if I had, was AFK for the last few hours anyways. Why would I unvote?
d) Question (11b).
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #377 on: January 04, 2011, 03:13:52 pm »

Why...what the hell would make you think I was denying lurking?

So you say that you thought Org and ToonyMan were "scummier targets," but that Org was unlynchable and you were hoping Toony would turn around and be useful. A few points: if you thought they were scummy targets, then why haven't you made a case against them? Has Toony satisfied your standards of usefulness?

You're voting Dariush and you say he's been begging to be lynched "since D1." If that's so, why wasn't he on the list of yours that I just mentioned, and why did Argembarger warrant your vote even more, if Dariush was begging for it?
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #378 on: January 04, 2011, 03:23:44 pm »

Why...what the hell would make you think I was denying lurking?
Ok, so you admit it. You should work on it.

So you say that you thought Org and ToonyMan were "scummier targets," but that Org was unlynchable and you were hoping Toony would turn around and be useful. A few points: if you thought they were scummy targets, then why haven't you made a case against them? Has Toony satisfied your standards of usefulness?
What case is there to be made against Org?  I've made all that I could.  ToonyMan was being annoying and anti-useful, I'm not the only person to say it.  He's been much better since then, yes.

You're voting Dariush and you say he's been begging to be lynched "since D1." If that's so, why wasn't he on the list of yours that I just mentioned, and why did Argembarger warrant your vote even more, if Dariush was begging for it?
Begging to be lynched and me personally thinking he's scummy are two different things.  I've changed my mind on him since Day 1.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #379 on: January 04, 2011, 06:06:55 pm »

The Monitor
Dariush: JanusTwoface, Jim Groovester, ToonyMan
JanusTwoface: Dariush, Mysteriousbluepuppet, Org, Zathras
Org: Toaster



Day ends ~5pm Pacific Today

So with ~2 hours to go:
- Jokerman-EXE and Leafsnail have yet to place a vote (or at least a serious one in Jokerman-EXE's case)
- Toaster's vote isn't helping anyone on Org
- I'm about to by lynched by one vote (one of those is Org, and another is pure bandwagoning (see below))

Come on people, play the game... :(



Mysteriousbluepuppet, why are you voting me? 

Your original vote (5th on the me-wagon at the time) votes me for:
- Grasping at straws (how exactly?)
- Deflecting Zathras' questions (just parroting Zathras)
- Object to my claiming I'm being bandwagoned (5/10 total votes? yes, it's a bandwagon)
- Problem with rolefishing (already explained)

So you basically have nothing.

What have you done since then (ignoring busy posts and game mechanic related bits)?
- Take credit for 'noticing' a bandwagon
- Take offence to Zathras' list here and here

No scumhunting, no further justification for you bandwagon vote, basically no participation of any kind.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #380 on: January 04, 2011, 06:29:09 pm »

It's pretty interesting that Toaster changed his vote as soon as it was tied. It's like he wants to see you lynched but doesn't want to vote for you.
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« Reply #381 on: January 04, 2011, 06:51:00 pm »

Mostly, i pointed there was a possible bandwagon at the time, mostly being that you had 2 votes and someone got to vote you for a stupid thing (don't remmeber who exactly, Org is my guess). Your repone was to the whole thing was rather disapointing. Theres also the fact that right now i may cause a no lynch ( wich is not something helpfull) or switch my vote to dariush( whom i get no real scum vibes from)

It's a pragmatic choice. In my case id rather have Org removed once and for all, so it would stop poinsoning the game, But i'll stay my hand. If you are town, then sorry for that. If you are scum, then man you got a talent to pull heart strings.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #382 on: January 04, 2011, 07:09:57 pm »

Sorry I passed out when I got home and it looks like I'm really late to the party.  Deadline in one hour?  Maaan.
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« Reply #383 on: January 04, 2011, 07:10:23 pm »

Extension.

Oh... so.  In spite of my role pm having given no indication that I was so... I'm apparently town.

Right, now I can actually start playing to a win condition.

First of all: ToonyMan.  Hopefully if the time comes you can deduce the meaning of this.

Leafsnail:  ...I see.  Let me ask you this, then- is your role in the role list?  I'm not asking what it is exactly, just if it's in the list.
Yes.

Wait, how does this work?

Does anyone have any questions or anything aimed at me?
Let's say we want to lynch multiple people.

All we have to do is get them to stop posting for a game day.  Means the town gets to choose the kills rather than the mafia.

Mysteriousbluepuppet is scummy. Dariush is much scummier than when I made my previous list.  I'm still inclined to believe that Mysteriousbluepuppet was actually telling the truth when he claimed Kook, so a vote for Dariush it is.
Clarification request: what do you actually mean by "scummy" here?  It seems strange to say that you think someone is scum then go on to say that actually said person is telling the truth (and therefore presumably town).  It's like... a contradiction in your own thoughts.


You know... looking back, I'm confused at the basis of most of the current votes.

ToonyMan voted Dariush for following along with Jim's vote... ages ago.  He didn't explain his reasons very well then ("Yes I'm defending Janus whatever, I'm thinking Dariush is scum") and he hasn't explained them since.

Jim Groovester seemed to make a 180 degree turn since Janus apparently had too big a bandwagon form on him... which seemed enough to erase all suspicion and change his views completely.  He changes to Dariush because... uh... something about hypocrisy?  I don't really get this one either.

Janus changed his vote since Dariush had become "much scummier" which... I guess could be true, but I'm having trouble pinning down the exact reason for the change or the reasoning as to why MBP was scummy but not scum.

Toaster has claimed a rage vote on Org, but not removed it after saying so.  When your vote change is effectively lynching someone, that is NOT acceptable.  Especially when you're refusing to pass any kind of judgement on Janus and voting without trying to push a lynch.

Org's vote is... Org like.  A candidate for inactivity modlynch, I think.

MBP spews a bunch of incoherent rubbish and tacks a vote onto it to save face.  Although the kook claim on day 1 looks better, looking back, it seems like it could've been a ploy to try and dodge my implied lie detecting power.  He then, interestingly enough, leaves his vote on without supporting it much.

Dariush... uh... pretty much OMGUS'd JTF and hasn't looked back since.  Care to explain?  Really, "twisting my words" without explaining how is one of the common ways for scum to dodge an attack.  He also criticises JTF's reason for having lynched Argembarger, but once again I'm left to guess at his reasoning behind this allegation.

Really, I feel like most of these votes require justification (or just clarification, in some cases).

So, finally, the scumlist:

Toaster.  You need to fully justify your Org vote, and why you switched at a time that would untie the vote when you don't seem to have an opinion on the person who would be lynched over it.  Scum because you're effectively sealing the fate of someone you've been mainly ignoring, in a way that seems calculated to avoid drawing attention for it tomorrow.
MBP. Explain your reasons properly.  And, actually, from your most recent post: what do you think about Dariush?  Why vote for someone you don't seem to think is scum?  What is this "pragmatic reason"?  Scum because you seem to be using your vote just to look active and get someone you haven't formed a proper case on lynched.
Dariush.  You need to clarify your reason for voting Janus, and clear up the contradictions that have cropped up in your posts.  I find this particularly interesting:
If you still haven't noticed, my OMGUS was a randomvote which I later supplied with lots of arguments.
Assuming we are to accept this story, why did you make up the reasons for voting AFTER actually voting?
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #384 on: January 04, 2011, 07:15:13 pm »

Extension then.
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« Reply #385 on: January 04, 2011, 07:15:46 pm »

Holy crap a tie again.

Extension most definitely.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #386 on: January 04, 2011, 07:16:10 pm »

Wait, how does this work?
Let's say we want to lynch multiple people.

All we have to do is get them to stop posting for a game day.  Means the town gets to choose the kills rather than the mafia.

NO! You are not allowed to abuse modkilling in this fashion. Try that and you all lose. It's supposed to be a punishment for inaction, not an incentive for it!
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #387 on: January 04, 2011, 07:17:23 pm »

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Dariush: JanusTwoface, Jim Groovester, Leafsnail, ToonyMan
JanusTwoface: Dariush, Mysteriousbluepuppet, Org, Zathras
Org: Toaster



Day has been Extended. It will now end ~5pm Pacific Wednesday. There will be no more extensions.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #388 on: January 04, 2011, 07:41:59 pm »

NO! You are not allowed to abuse modkilling in this fashion. Try that and you all lose. It's supposed to be a punishment for inaction, not an incentive for it!
Oh, I thought it was part of the bastardisation.  Sorry.
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Re: Bastard Paranormal - Day 2 begins quietly
« Reply #389 on: January 04, 2011, 07:42:39 pm »

The reason I like when everybody votes (Jokerman) is so that we have a completeness in the lynching process.  Having people missing creates ties that could easily be broken.
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