Can you specify how this post answered two of my points? Because like I called you out on, nothing in the post was actually related to my case on you (which is why you haven't been able to repeat anything from that post as I've pressured you further).
Okay, just noticed that two of your points wasn't even part of your argument originally, and got brought in later, meaning my post targetted your "argument" backlash.
Please explain to me in great detail how the following post is about you being scum:
Obviously I missed that, and it doesn't detract from my point.
No no, but you are ignoring other options, because you haven't brought any new ones up DESPITE apparently having one on the backburner. This is tunnelling; there are other options available to you, yet you want to plant your vote and focus all of your attention solely on me as a viable lynch. You expressed that you don't like TGK as an option, and that's fine, but that gives you no excuse to stop talking about other players. Once again, a couple people expressed that they found mordacazir scummy, but you didn't mention him before I called you out on it (and you were active between him being brought into discussion and my calling you out) which is one example of your tunnelling.
Obviously we still have different views on tunneling. I think I'm not, you think you're not, meaning we're just going to continue arguing the validity of each other's points.
No no, you didn't comment on this above. I stated that you have only been paying attention to your arguments and leads about others being scummy, which wouldn't be a bad thing if you didn't just say "I've learned that doing that is a bad thing so I am now giving myself no bias". The one post about TGK is the only post in which you have mentioned anyone else's arguments, so please clarify to me exactly how your statement from earlier is true.
The difference, to be super clear, is that calling you out for tunnelling is you focusing all of your attention on me and not other lynch options. The calling you out here is for a contradiction you made when you talked about how you give your arguments no bias over other people's, despite not reflecting that in your actions.
I'm not understanding this fully, but from what I can interpret, we're still going on about tunneling, what is tunneling and that we think each other is tunneling. I also don't recall saying that "I give my arguments no bias over other people's".
OK, that's fine. You do only have 30 posts now (boy, I sure am making you be much more active by pressuring you here than you otherwise would be!).
Is that a, uh, good thing? It's important that players share their thoughts about every lynch option as they are brought up so people can see what's popular and what isn't.
Here is the huge problem with likes: They are not timestamped, and they are incredibly easy to miss. The people who were actively participating in the thread at the time you went back and liked a load of posts earlier on in the thread will miss your likes, as they had already read the posts without your likes beneath them. This means that if you wait a little while, you can go back and like posts to say that you're contribution while simultaneously flying under the radar hard. I have absolutely no idea what posts you've liked thus far this game, and I have no way to easily check back through the thread and see (whereas with posts I can go on the postings tab on your profile).
Essentially, by liking posts instead of posting a quick one liner saying "this is a really good point and x", you are hiding really hard, trying to fly under the radar, and making it really difficult to see your activity in the game. Common scum tactics.
Firstly, it's not all about the posts. Secondly, I *like* and have been posting less is because I don't want to be the guy that goes around saying "I agree with this" every post. If it makes it easier for you, then sure, I'll do it, but it'll be annoying and cluttery.
Apparently I'm the only important person in this game. D'awww, love you too, bb <3
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Please raise your hand if you pay vast swathes of attention to likes. I think Camo probably does, but that's about it besides. I mean, if I'm reading the thread and notice it, I will most likely make a mental note, but I won't write it down.
I noticed that Athena and Keeper do like posts a lot as part of how they play, but that of course doesn't mean they pay attention.
A large proportion, actually. I'm low on time so I can't go through and check right now, but actually most of your posts in this game are about a paragraph in length, said paragraph being about me (from what I remember from searching through your posts last night).
Most of that proportion is probably me responding to you.
bbninjas, why are you withholding information from the town?
You're gathering reads privately while using that as an excuse to say that you're not tunnelling. We have no way of knowing that you have any reads or any new scum lead because I envision you being stubborn over it and not sharing your lead with any of us, which is so unbelievably anti-town. As shown with
@Squirtle Squad's interest in this discussion and everyone else's silence (no doubt formulating reads on you and I) I think you're going to find a mob at your door pretty soon with all of these inconsistencies and contentless comments you're making in a frantic attempt at defense AND offense. Sharing your lead is also now in your best interests of self-preservation, so I would like to see it ASAP. Maybe I'll even agree with the lead and start pressuring you less. Maybe I'll use it as more ammo against you if it's a poor lead or in any way contradicting to any of the playstyle shifts you've mentioned below. Only the strength of your lead will dictate this.
This is fair, and probably the fairest thing you've said. I actually do have a nasty habit that I've developed that results in me withholding information. I think it is because that if I pressure with an underdeveloped read I am afraid I'd lose information I could've got if I waited a bit longer. Could someone tell me if this is false/necessary fear or not, because it's been playing on my mind recently.
Anyway, that was after the argument had ended -- I even linked the conclusions post in that response to you! I then royally ended it when you tried to continue it in response to what I said by literally saying "the argument has ended, stop talking about it please, I've already talked about the conclusions I've derived from it". That post kickstarted nothing.
Once again, I consider your posting further as arguing, but you apparently do not. So I think we're still saying the same thing and thus arguing opinions.
I think you're saying that discussion about the argument was part of the argument itself. This is untrue, as having the argument but not analysing it would have been a lot of wasted time.
Hmmm, that is a point to think about. However, looking back, I feel like you took it too unnecessary lengths to defend your analysis and were fairly argumentative about it, and that, after thinking about your point, is why I did and still do find you scummy.
This would be fine if many of your posts in this game also don't lack contribution.
I don't think this is a fair assessment as I do feel like I'm trying to contribute through expressing my agreements using likes and giving other opinions through the most of my posts. I'm pretty sure there is a lot of players that are actually not contributing,
especially in comparison to myself.
Who, exactly? Camo? Me? I'm not proficient in pressuring either (though I must say I think I've done a mighty fine job with you here!). Who exactly are you referring to here? It seems like you're just buddying Camo, honestly.
Camo, yes. You, yes. Funnily enough, I do find you a good pressurer in general contrary to what you think of yourself, although I would say that your pressures have been much weaker and more confusing in this game.
Funny that you should say that given the huge amount of contradictions you've had in this discussion with me. You never used to have these loopholes, so I think your playstyle shift has actually been negative for you as far as that's concerned.
I personally would disagree, but that's opinions again.
Ok, so for this whole list of reads I plan on going through and talking about how none of these things are translating in your playstyle, because I fully believe they're not. The only thing you've said which you're doing and that you actually are doing is posting less, which is arguably counterproductive (subjective, I know, but bear with).
I think it is because the vast majority of things I've learnt are related to scumhunting over what I do on Day 1. I do not think that Day 1 is my strong point, thus why it is much different to what you may expect if you played with me before. I do feel like both things that I mentioned I learnt about on Day 1 is accurate.
The reason why I deleted all of the points except for those two is that you've already contradicted those two since the tl;dr here:
I thought that you can't call anyone a lurker on Day 1, and that people who appear to be lurking are in fact a townie gathering reads?
The thing that you missed is that my scum reads that I was referring to have posted a decent amount of stuff. They are
active lurking, meaning they are posting but their posts are mostly fluff.
I will tell you exactly the point of this discussion point:
1) It shows how you are panicking hard under very little pressure (just little ol' me talking to you!). What you say you do and what you actually are doing are directly conflicting, which shows that you are just saying what you think could be good as a means of looking towny and deflecting attention away. If you really were town, you would consider my points more carefully and come up with more objective answers.
I'm not sure if it's just me, but your pressure is never very little. You're quite opinionated, appear absolutely certain and are very stubborn when it comes to stuff like this, which always gets me frustrated (I wouldn't say panicked). I feel like I'm considering your points as carefully as I can considering you're my main scum read.
Your answers are currently full of opinion and fluff.
I actually think that most of your evidence is full of opinion. Perhaps not fluff, but I would say is weak.
2) If I can disprove your actions being this "sparkly new town meta" you apparently have, the only other alternative is that it is your scum meta. A playstyle shift to this degree is very significant, especially for a more experience player, and I'm not willing to just drop it at "amelioration derived from a totally different meta". To me, that's not acceptable.
I actually am very much convinced that PB is like a C-grade place for WW. Experiencing another site of a higher grades makes me learn different and more effective ways of going about these games instead of using the ways that I was taught on PB. FOL was a bit of an eye-opener for me, as it showed me that much of my playstyle was/is highly scummy and my cases were quite flawed.
3) People garner all kinds of different derivations from discussions like this, and it allows everyone reading along to get better reads of you and I. You are classically difficult to read (at least for me) so I only see this as a pro-town ting.
That explains a bit, I guess.
I'm pro-RVS to the extent of "alright, let's just do it unless there's a clear alternative, since arguing about it will get us nowhere". It IS a necessary phase if we are totally uninformed, but the argument about RP makes us not totally uninformed -- in fact, it gave us more leads than RVS ever would have done in a much shorter amount of time.
Once again, I disagree that the argument about RP gave us many leads at all, except for the fact that it was distractive and thus anti-town in the first place.
Your phrasing here makes it sound like I said somewhere "I do tunnel vision a lot". I do not, and never said that.
"In regards to tunnel vision" is basically saying that I think that you have tunneled significantly in past games, so it is not necessarily out of norm for you to be tunneling me now (yes, I know you don't think you're tunneling, but I do).
I think many will agree that the evidence against you here is somewhat significant, so your second point is moot.
I do not see how that relates to my second point.