Scummies 2010 Nominations

[Vi]

Nominate Spyrex for

Best Mechanic/Mutation

for the draft feature of Pick your Power.

Nominate same game for

Most enjoyable game

. Was a very fun game as I think everyone involved can attest to (except perhaps some ofn the scum )

Seconding

both of these, but I prefer to

Nominate: Pick Your Power - Best Performance by a Pro-Town team

Five correct lynches in a row is unheard of.

[Vi]

Five correct lynches in a row is unheard of.

Stars Aligned had five correct lynches (and no mislynches).

Granted

although there were more scum in that game to lynch

[Vi]

Second

all that in the above post

[Vi]

Nominate Malthusis for best role, for the Tentaculat in the just-completed X-Com Terror from the Deep mafia.

Basically- it's a cult role that I

don't

hate. That, friends, takes some doing.

Second

It's the sort of role I wish I had come up with, except I think he did it better than I would have :v

[Vi]

Most interesting mechanic/mutation, from last years' thread the options are:
"Vi's Battery Powered Deadline" - Arbitrary deadline creation. Mod directly affecting the play of a game on a whim (which is normally frowned upon)

To the first one, I'm pretty sure there IS a formula used, and it's not really arbitrary

There is a formula. I don't talk about it because
*doing so would open it up to "gaming the system"
*only I can understand it anyway (ask Incognito)

That and every deadline is arbitrary to a degree

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I agree with Ythan. There's a certain amount of critical thinking to go with the Scummies, because ultimately these are the games that get noticed (for whatever reason). On the players' side in particular, people occasionally play fairly impressive games. Not all of them are recognized beyond some words in postgame and maybe a wiki entry or two. The important thing is your overall reputation - people saw you play and liked what they saw, therefore they'll play with you again, other people will like what they see, they'll play with you, and if you keep it up you'll eventually have a

clique

group that mutually likes existing on this site with you. After all, there's something to be said for liking the people you're playing with when you're on a site dedicated to arguing over the Internet.

That, and those tags ARE nifty. Except for the one with the baby carriage. And the one with the long nose.
It's just not well-known that literally everyone will consequently ply Burden of Proficiency and Appeal to Authority arguments on you if you have one.

[Vi]

Is it not possible that, if no-one else in your game thought you were that brilliant, you weren't actually that brilliant?

Naturally. It goes the other way too; there are some Scummy noms that I don't think should be there, but I'm polite enough not to argue.

@Max: You're not very good at buttering people up, considering you just got done putting down my modding in general and in the area you're now interested in.
Also, my games are nowhere near as complex as Tar/Xyl's. I've tried making setups like theirs; they were

terrible

.

[Vi]

Watch this:

Nominate hitogoroshi for funniest player

I usually get a good chuckle out of his posts either in game or not.

Seconded

on condition that he keeps it up.

[Vi]

Percy's

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Robot Unicorn Attack

Simple.

*lie detector goes off*

[Vi]

Nominate Percy's Stars Aligned II for Best Setup and Best Flavor Text.

This was a really epic game and, for a change, an extremely complex one that ran relatively smoothly. Both the town and scum factions played very well at different points in the game and after five months of hard battle it game down to a nail-biting four player mylo.

Seconding

for both, although we're looking at making the setup part even better for next time

[Vi]

Nomininating Mr. Flay for the "Name should be in Orange" award for tireless behind the scenes work involving PHP coding, the Wiki and generally everything else that happens on this site.

That's too easy.

Nominate: "Name Should Be In Orange" Award to be retitled the "Mr. Flay" Award

[Vi]

Nomininating Mr. Flay for the "Name should be in Orange" award for tireless behind the scenes work involving PHP coding, the Wiki and generally everything else that happens on this site.

That's too easy.

Nominate: "Name Should Be In Orange" Award to be retitled the "Mr. Flay" Award

Declined.

I didn't just make that nomination out of adulation.
There's basically no reason for anyone else to be nominated for the award given your work with the move. This isn't the first year you've been the shoe-in for it, either. You may as well just permanently have it.~

[Vi]

Reck, care to explain???

CAPS LOCK =/= an explanation...

You already have an explanation from Robot Unicorn Mafia.

[Vi]

Are you most people, Nik?

I keep confusing him with DTMaster; does that count?

[Vi]

Are we going to invoke nostalgia or call it the

Name Should Be In Red

award now?

I don't see why we should pay homage to phpBB2. >_<

Why pay homage to our

(however-finicky-)

user-unfriendly phpBB3 when we could call it the

Mr. Flay

award?

[Vi]

Alt? What? Nah I just said that so people would respect me with my early join date.

SCUMMY PL0X

>_>b

Denied.

[Vi]

Shifty eyes aside, I'm 100% serious.

Ditto.

[Vi]

I'll have to be honest of all the people I'd expect resistance from I didn't expect Vi.

BTW Vi if you're the master of scummies you missed this nom awhile back:

I respect alts. I don't respect fraud.

I'm not on the Scummies committee.

his first account is new enough to qualify for best new player

One of us is mistaken.

[Vi]

Well I think I'm a trustworthy guy (outside of mafia games, at least), and I wouldn't come forward with this unless I was sure that my information was correct. >_>

Ditto. But it's not implausible that what I have is mistaken. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Vi]

O_O Wtf?

Yep. Jebus used a role like that too for his Mugger role.
Think of it like a Universal Backup that keeps backing players up as they die.

[Vi]

I think it's a bit late ._.

More like we're getting a head start.

Just hope it's not like most award ceremonies where the latecomers usually win because they are still fresh in people's minds...

>.>

This year they actually judged the first half's submissions separately. If it worked, I think they would do it again this time.