Just went back and re-read the point between the Mattimeo lynch and my comment to see how I felt afterwards. Not as much as I originally thought, but here's what I thought tonight:
I've waffled on Pindicator all game, but this post just reeked of justifying, which struck me as an odd reaction at the point. You could feel the emotion pouring out of the thread at that point and this is the part where it breaks. I get feeling guilty you missed it but I was still thinking "this is awesome" while reading even though I wasn't part of it. Dunno, just struck me as odd.
All about me. ME. ME I AM MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE THREAD EVEN THOUGH WE JUST KILLED A MAFIA PR. I don't recall Lewwyn being this self-absorbed.
This bugged me at the time, because Ichabod and I basically said the same thing in the thread. There's a whole sequence of posts overnight though where novice appears an aggressive scumhunter, but really more what he's doing is trying to frame the narrative of the game to reflect him in the best possible light - or otherwise known as what Commodore does in every Civ game when its obvious he's fucked up. :oldwink: Obviously he was doing this to set the next days lynch priorities, as evidenced by his immediate push on me, but I actually don't think it makes a lot of sense when scum-hunting to frame the narrative so tightly - ideally, you want to leave things pretty vague so that the scum will screw up. Again, I've highlighted the part about me but this was pretty much the sum of all novice's conversation that night:
"Here, let me tell you what you should think about today's events."
Need more of a smoking gun for that, I think, like the scooter lynch in WW2 or such.
Anyway, I think novice is mostly just doing that "fall victim to your own success" thing that zak is famous for and I've been known to fall prey to myself. Hopefully he snaps out of it and resumes fruitful scumhunting.
As far as Lewwyn and Pindicator well, probably my top two suspects so I feel good about them being top of the leaderboard right now. I feel pretty good about a wolf from there and 1 from the Selrahc/Molach/Azza group. Lot of candidates for the rest, but hopefully a few more good days will reveal that more easily.
pindicator Wrote:Yeah, I wish I would have put the pieces together before that. I was certainly asked the question time and time again, but you put it together :D So kudos waterbat. Maybe I can take you down off my suspect list now,
But you're right, Mattimeo did a great job of acting the part - I was reading posts 751 & 752 by him at the end of the day and it was a great job acting by him.
I've waffled on Pindicator all game, but this post just reeked of justifying, which struck me as an odd reaction at the point. You could feel the emotion pouring out of the thread at that point and this is the part where it breaks. I get feeling guilty you missed it but I was still thinking "this is awesome" while reading even though I wasn't part of it. Dunno, just struck me as odd.
Lewwyn Wrote:
Posting between classes and my students are reading over my shoulder, but I wante dto quickly chime in:
WOW
also
Called it.
All about me. ME. ME I AM MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE THREAD EVEN THOUGH WE JUST KILLED A MAFIA PR. I don't recall Lewwyn being this self-absorbed.
novice Wrote:Ichabod's reasoning for shutting down the Mattimeo wagon made sense at the time. Gaspar and Pindicator seemed to work against the Mattimeo wagon. Jkaen was hesitant to get on.
This bugged me at the time, because Ichabod and I basically said the same thing in the thread. There's a whole sequence of posts overnight though where novice appears an aggressive scumhunter, but really more what he's doing is trying to frame the narrative of the game to reflect him in the best possible light - or otherwise known as what Commodore does in every Civ game when its obvious he's fucked up. :oldwink: Obviously he was doing this to set the next days lynch priorities, as evidenced by his immediate push on me, but I actually don't think it makes a lot of sense when scum-hunting to frame the narrative so tightly - ideally, you want to leave things pretty vague so that the scum will screw up. Again, I've highlighted the part about me but this was pretty much the sum of all novice's conversation that night:
"Here, let me tell you what you should think about today's events."
Need more of a smoking gun for that, I think, like the scooter lynch in WW2 or such.
Anyway, I think novice is mostly just doing that "fall victim to your own success" thing that zak is famous for and I've been known to fall prey to myself. Hopefully he snaps out of it and resumes fruitful scumhunting.
As far as Lewwyn and Pindicator well, probably my top two suspects so I feel good about them being top of the leaderboard right now. I feel pretty good about a wolf from there and 1 from the Selrahc/Molach/Azza group. Lot of candidates for the rest, but hopefully a few more good days will reveal that more easily.
I've got some dirt on my shoulder, can you brush it off for me?