4.) Battle Mage
[rep. Smashy (rep. Dead Rikimaru)]Okey doke. DR starts off the game very slowly, but by trying to draw a connection between Glork and Pablito. I remember a few people saying this made him look 'town', but I never really understood those sentiments – drawing connections is easy to do, and the fact that he labels the distancing technique as 'extreme' seems to indicate he knows it will be seen as unlikely, but thought he would throw it out there anyways. Slightly scummier than townie, so far as I'm concerned, but not a big indicator either way.
Guess he kinds of explains it here:
Which I suppose is more fair, but I don't consider that so much of a "distancing technique" as it is a "connection" technique. He then goes on to vote Pablito (from what I assume is this reasoning).DR, his Post 2 wrote:I don't think I promoted a pablito/Glork pairing. I think pablito tryed hard to be paired with him.
DR constantly talks about how little time he has, and does things like *fainting* at 39 pages without offering commentary. Lazy/preoccupied at best, scummy at worst.
Eh, I'll give him
minimal
town points for his Post 8, where he contrasts and compares Yos2 and Pooky, and leans towards the Pooky execution – explaining why he thought Yos2 was likely to be town (based on past games, though the actual explanation for why seems thin) and how he can't read Pooky.And then (I believe) he is made King – where he begins by stating he 'has a strategy', and saying the town should discuss while he's away. At this point, I can't tell if DR was just
really
busy, or if he was thinking "Oh jeez, I better make it sound like what I'm doing – I'll just post as little as often until I can think of something to do". I actually don't think his "everybody list their top 3 scum suspects" was all too
bad of an idea, though he clearly should have been more attentive to the game to make sure this was actually going to happen. Neutral points for his resistance to lynching lurkers – I was originally going to give him slight pro-town points for this, but on reflection, it could be just as easy for this to have been a way to subtly push forcing his execution onto a scum-buddy. If this role dies, I will want to take a more critical look at the following players, since these were the lurkers in question:
{RafK [Mert], Cogito Ergo Sum [Samus/Twomz], Mnowax [CrashTextDummie], Der Hammer [Vaughn], Shanba [Nightfall/Ubertimmy], VitaminR [DragonsofSummer/Phoebus]}
DR asks a few direct questions in very short posts for a while, which I suppose shows he was paying some attention, but on the other hand, it makes me wonder why he didn't really bother to comment on much himself. His 'strategy' seems very self-serving. He does go out of his way a couple times to explain why he doesn't want people saying who they think are 'town', which is a gameplay stance I partially agree with, although I often find myself doing analyses on multiple players and calling others' town regardless.
When he lists the "top 3" for all the players who participated, he doesn't really go into asking questions (which is something he seemed to infer he would be doing for much of the day).
Heehee, I still agree with this comment I made:
... and DR keeps talking about how he doesn't have time, coworkers fired, he has a plan, etc etc. He makes a "map" in his Post 32. Impressive compilation, but I honestly don't care for it if he's not going to makePJ wrote:His posts almost seem to give off the impression that he is trying to make us wait in suspense for something magical. I haven't even decided if I think that is actually scummy or just unusual.
comments
on it. Anybody could summarize a game – what I would rather have seen were some actual opinions. The feeling I'm getting is that he kept asking others' for their opinions without actually giving any of his own, which strikes me as entirely hypocritical and a good way to stay in the shadows while technically being in the "spotlight". And then he is replaced. 
So, onto Smashy. His Post 3 includes opinions. His thoughts on LuckayLuck look fairly legit. His thoughts on MoS seem to be walking-the-line, but for somebody just replacing into the game and seeing MoS's strategy of not voting, I can also see where he got that impression and decided not to put him on the LoE.
Very short comments on everybody else, so those are difficult to analyze for the moment without looking at context. He makes his list between LL and SV; which I find a little odd, given that his comment on SV was:
Very vague, no explanation of 'slips', no big reason for why she was on the LoE at all. Granted, I still would have liked for her to be executed, but his explanations leave something to be desired. I (obviously) did not agree with the LL execution.Smashy, his Post 3 wrote:spectrumvoid: I don't find SV's lack of voting Pooky that scummy given her explaination, except that Glork did give reasons, so out that point goes. There's also been a couple of slips.
And then we get another replacement... Battle Mage.
Question: BM, why did you specifically FoS: Post 371, by Pablito? Of all the posts in the game up until that point, I'm surprised
that's
the one you comment on, especially since I am not seeing anything wrong with it.I see I already asked about how BM could possibly have "disagreed with Smashy's analysis" when BM was not even done reading the game. And I'm not fully satisfied with his response to that, so negative points there – looks to me like he was trying to say something that made it sound like he was putting in thought without having to do so. "I disagree" tells me nothing if you aren't going to point out why or about what.
Not really understanding his positions on SV or VitR, or why he is "against" a Mnowax execution (though I still need to read up on him), and then he suddenly says he prefers a MoS execution over a Mnowax execution. Not much reasoning.
BM, have you finished reading the game? Could you go into more detail?
So, overall. Dead Rikimaru's constant lurking (to the point where his posts weren't even about what he was thinking, but instead explaining why he wasn't posting) is more scummy than townish. His 'strategy' which allowed him to not need to take stances while having everybody else commit to thinks was more scummy than townie, and I'm not overly impressed with his Carnie act. Smashy just looks like he was thrown to the lions – it's difficult to really analyze his posts since he was only in the game for a short while, while in the position of having to make an execution. I would have liked more comments from him. BM has very little I can relate with, since he mostly seems to be taking positions as he deems necessary without really explaining how he came to those positions.
I can easily see him as scum – I wouldn't mind seeing him executed whatsoever.
