Open 144 - Near-Vanilla - GAME OVER!

[ODDin]

OMGUS so early in the morning?

[hohum]

OMGUS so early in the morning?

That's it. ODDin found the scum.

/game

I tip my hat to your scum hunting abilities, sir.

[hohum]

P.S. We're off to a slow start.

[dejkha]

I'm always amazed at how games come out of the random stage. Apparently we just wait for someone to do something even remotely questionable.

[Khamisa]

vote hohum

for double posting

[hohum]

yeah dejkha? Well I question your.. FACE!

Unvote, Vote: dejkha

eat vote and die, scum.

[dejkha]

I so saw that coming lol.

[ODDin]

dejkha: Yeah, well, that's why I attempted to start up some discussion out of more or less nothing. Thanks for ruining it.

[dejkha]

Nonsense! You don't try to start something and then put an emoticon! That's crazy!

[MadCrawdad]

dejkha: Yeah, well, that's why I attempted to start up some discussion out of more or less nothing. Thanks for ruining it.

@ODDin

In the post above, you claim to have been attempting to start discussion (out of more or less nothing) when you said:

OMGUS so early in the morning?

The thing is, though, what I notice most is the 'winking' smilie... it implies to me that you weren't really being serious. If you were trying to start discussion, doesn't the smilie undermine your attempt?

[hohum]

I like that MadCrawdad guy.

[Cephrir]

That's a contradiction! MadCrawdad has caught scum! Sorry ODDin, nice attempted bus of Zerophear, too bad it backfired. One to go.

[yawetag]

Current Vote Count

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dejkha

- 3 (Cephrir, Pitstop, hohum)

hohum

- 2 (AndyTony, Khamisa)

Zer0ph34r

- 2 (MadCrawdad, The Corporation)

AndyTony

- 1 (Kdub)

Cephrir

- 1 (OccamR)

MadCrawdad

- 1 (ODDin)

Pitstop

- 1 (dejkha)

The Corporation

- 1 (Zer0ph34r)

Not Voting:

hewitt

[AndyTony]

RVS stages have been coming into a lot of question lately - - it's becoming rather trendy for peopl not to be too big fans of it.

I don't think I'm quite there yet - I agree with Dej - always entertaining to see how we end up getting out of it.

[hohum]

it's becoming rather trendy for peopl not to be too big fans of it.

This hasn't been my experience and I'm in at least 4 running games if not more at any given time. People who think the RVS is useless also think mafia is SUCH SRS BSNS. They're also anti-conformists and the problem with anti-conformists is this: If you consistently move in the opposite direction of the herd, then the herd is still dictating your movements.

Policy-lynch one or two of them fuckers and they'll fall right in line.

[hohum]

P.S. We're off to a slow start.

QFT

Why aren't we at each other's throats yet?

[hohum]

Ah, I see what the problem is. Not everyone has checked in yet.

Definitely scum in that group, methinks. No scum no drama.

[AndyTony]

Then again, your multi posting could be compensation to appear as an active town member - which is arguably equally scummy.

In addition to you being all for policy lynching - - very anti town. Policy lynches are seldom beneficial.

[hohum]

Whether or not policy lynches are useful is a matter of debate -- and an endless one at that. Wait until I'm actually targeting someone in specific before jumping down my throat for it.

As for your first comment (the multi-posting comment): People would have to be doing some actual scum hunting in order for me to "appear" active and actually not be contributing. Point in fact, nobody is contributing right now.

Either way I'm glad someone is giving you scum fodder. Someone has to stick their neck out -- might as well be me.

[ODDin]

MadCrawdad: First of all, I put an emoticon on both posts. They both haven't been terribly serious. (:))
That being said, Zer0 has a somewhat dubious record of getting annoyed and claiming scum on D1, so I didn't want to start off on the wrong foot.

[AndyTony]

not jumping down your throat, hohum lol

but utility lynching is indeed the lynching of a player without regard for their status, correct? Bluntly, not lynching scum.

Those who utility lynch always try to argue "They aren't helping the town" and are seldom smart enough to remember that in a game of numbers, they indeed are - it's the narrow mindedness of other players who aren't helping the town.

The players I speak of are those who go into these games all wrong - - I myself have been guilty of it - - going into games wrong, and by wrong I mean:

looking for clever ways to lynch a player by twisting what they say and manufacturing scum out of them - - it seems the mentality of a utility lyncher is one who looks to work very hard at lynching people rather than lynching scum - - - the wrong approach I refer to is the forgetting of a difference in those two things.

So outside of a policy lynch debate - - I'd prefer it if you'd make an effort to lynch scum for us, rather than hunt a lynch....lol

[OccamR]

looking for clever ways to lynch a player by twisting what they say and manufacturing scum out of them - - it seems the mentality of a utility lyncher is one who looks to work very hard at lynching people rather than lynching scum - - - the wrong approach I refer to is the forgetting of a difference in those two things.

Cutting through your quote, isn't sifting through what others say and trying to figure out if others are scum what people are

supposed

to do?

[AndyTony]

Just as a homicide detective doesn't see the forest from the trees and looks at a crime scene as "how can this be homicide",

I'm suggesting that in the process of sifting - one might fall into the (more than understandable) trappings of:

"How can this be scumm"

rather than

"This is scummy more so than innocent"

That's where the difference between hunting scum, and hunting lynches fall.

And I feel the mind of someone who utility lynches relies heavily on those trappings. It's unsafe for town (and a rather unfortunate thing none of us can help at time! Doesn't mean we don't try)

[dejkha]

Not when you're you're trying to make it look like they're scum. Finding evidence and planting evidence are two different things.

[dejkha]

Whoa, that was meant for Occ.