Skill006 wrote:I'll answer the last portion in my next post, because I don't want just jammer to get attacked for this. I didn't look at that argument in depth before, and I didn't realize something very odd...
I look forward to seeing what you have to say in regards to that, Skill.
Now, to my content-filled (hopefully) post, firstly, to respond to Ray,
this
was fabulous:
RayFrost wrote:Guy who caused a problem (me): *stands in front of the mob*
Mob that's pissed off (the town): *wonders if they should attack*
Mayor that's selfish and devious (apathy): *sneaks by* 'it's all his fault, get him' *leaves*
Mob: *attacks*
Guy: *defends*
Person in the mob: Guys, you know, maybe it's not entirely his fault.
Mob: *calms the fook down*
Mayor: why were you guys all rioting and getting worked up? you were being ridiculous, now settle down and work o fixing the problem, don't pass the blame to others.
I think that this quite summed up what happened nicely.
To go in to more of what Ray said, I agree with quite a lot of his points, particularly his read on Apathy's attack on Phaen. While I don't fully agree with all of Phaen's argument (acknowledging that at that point, Phaen had not finished reading all of the thread, or, as Prana put it:
PranaDevil wrote:Phaen's defense of Ray was from specific pages too, it wasn't based on the entire game, thus far he's not truly gotten to the meat and veg of the situation, and in fact has only just begun to put the knife into the pasty to get at the pie filled goodness, let alone taste it. So I fail to see where he was quick to jump at Ray's defense.
), I think that Apathy was way off with his argument.
He says,
Apathy wrote:You only decided to elaborate on 1 of my several points, and yet you heaped them all together at the beginning of your statement by saying "terribad string of posts". The over-repeating of town claim was only a small part of my argument, and I find it very fishy how you wholly avoid all of my other points (including the ones from the first post in which I provoked ray) and yet still feel justified in calling my WHOLE string of posts 'terribad'. Your willingness to ignore several arguments while dedicating an entire paragraph to the only relatively bad one is noted.
Who are you to speak for his actions, anyways? According to you, he was play-acting, but isnt the role of scum essentially being able to do exactly that for the duration of the game?
Who were the 5 people putting pressure on ray before my first post directed at him? If you had read, you would notice that it was before most players had even touched on him.
You say that he has had a more substantial defense, why dont you elaborate on that?
Also noted, NOT ONLY the fact that phaen, after having just come into the game, is so quick to jump to Ray's defense, but also his lack of any expounding on this fact. Also noted is Ray's quick confirmation of Phaens ability by saying mentioning that he likes him already. A subliminal move to confirm the entirety of phaen's post as well as his ability in a quick, smooth motion? Feels like it to me.
.
This entire argument seems very forced to me. Yes, Phaen focused on only one point, and it was a weak one at the time, but flipping from simply stating that Phaen didn't point out your other arguments to then asking her who she is to speak for his actions, and then accusing her of defending Ray...that logic doesn't make sense to me. It seems like a very defensive argument, which is understandable to an extent, though it should be noted that Phaen had only gotten through
page 4
by that point, and given as we're up to 17 pages now, I don't think jumping down her throat was necessary in any way, shape, or form.
And I would like to reiterate Ray's points:
RayFrost wrote:you say phaen should elaborate more on his points. maybe you should do the same, considering that many of your points are on a lesser level of detail than phaen's statement.
...
Why do you feel that you can just vanish for great periods of time and then blame other players for talking a lot about something you, yourself, seem to take great claim in saying you helped cause it when it is convenient for you to do so yet you shouldn't be suspected? (note: this is a deliberate loaded question, much like the one asked of phaen)
I also want to agree with Prana when he said,
PranaDevil wrote:As it stands, that last post comes across severely like trying to shift the attention onto a few people and away from yourself, which is weird as I don't think much attention has been on you beyond "Get Apathy in here to post", so I wonder why?
Totally agree with this. Up until that point, before you leaped on Phaen,
was voting for you or even had said much against you. Fuzzy had said,
fuzzylightning wrote:Apathy really has to do with a lack of doing anything in this game. He made the one case against RF and hasn't been seen or heard from since, it just doesn't sit well with me.
which I think at that point wasn't sitting well with any of us because we wanted you to come pack in and post more.
And then, of course, there's the fact that after that long post after days of not posting, you seem to once again have disappeared. This is enough for me to say
FoS: Apathy
.
I do want to steal one more thing from Ray:
RayFrost wrote:'you are not scumhunting enough' (imo, this is a rather weak attack very early in the game in which virtually no scumhunting has been done by
anybody
. it's a catch-all accusation that could be used about virtually anybody)
If it's a catch-all accusation (which at this point I completely agree that no one seems to be doing much of it {with a few possible exceptions}), then I'm claiming it as a catch-all defense for everyone who, thus far in the game, have been accused of not scumhunting enough.
To respond to both Skill and Phaen, which came up after I started this point, what I said in regards to defensiveness and scum was:
jmurph3 wrote:As I've stated before (namely in my pseudo-accusation of Ray - ironic, given as he is now defending me), I consider over defense and over talking to be scumtell, in my real life experience, hence why I'm not doing either of those.
I consider
over-defensiveness
to be a scumtell. Defending oneself is absolutely a natural part of this game. But freaking out and randomly pointing fingers still seems scummy to me.