Figured you'd say as much. I attempt to play every game to survive to endgame, because it's my experience that games in which I survive, my side wins. Games I die, my side loses. So maybe I interpreted your play as survivor as more akin to pro-town Glork than I should have.Glork wrote:1) Ah, I remember now. But the situation in that game was fundamentally different than what we have here.The Central Scrutinizer wrote:I think it was Newbie 290? You replaced gootentag as scum and made some statements rather similar to ones you make here.Glork wrote:TCS: Your gut sucks. Also, what was that game in which I was scum? I'm drawing a complete blank.
I know you can make the argument that you play the same all the time, but that's simply not the case, because you explicitly played differently as a survivor in McDonald's mafia.
--a) It was a Newbie game. I could get a way with a lot more, since newbie players wouldn't be able to see the "he's presenting two players as approximately equal but ultimately shows a preference for a probable mislynch" tell. This game has several experienced (and talented) players. I would not be able to get away with the same maneuver here.
--b) That game was in LyLo. This game is in Day One. Once I "showed a preference for" that mislynch, the game was over. Nobody could come back on a later day and say that I was trying to distance from my scumbuddy. Were I in fact scum with one of the two players you mentioned, I would probably be called on it sooner or later.
2) You've never played a role that requires you to survive, have you? Survivor, SK, role-with-a-Survivor-condition... they require a different style of play altogether. Why? Because no matter what you do, no matter how many correct lynches or mislynhces the town as a whole attains, no matter what plans you lay out to drive yourself to victory -- it all meansnothingif you are killed. Lights Out 1 had a "you must survive to actually win" mechanic for all players, and I freely and readily admitted that I was playing a strategy which I felt would help me survive to the late-game stages. You've tried to pre-empt a possible defense by saying that I've played a different strategy as a Survivor, but you seem to have missed the fact thatplaying a Survivor requires a different strategy altogether.
That being said, your defense is reasoned enough to merit an
unvote
. Yet, have no doubt that should Guardian come up scum at any point, I will be considering the possibility that you simply slipped up. Even the best players screw up sometimes. IGMEOY.
