Acosmist wrote:Hiplop wrote:i could paraphrase if you wish, though i dont see the point. His point I agree with, simply as that.
I'm kinda burnt out of mafia, but i dont want to leave my games because replacing out would be a d*** move, so im trying to muscle through it
So you recognize that when you could either paraphrase what someone else said or just quote it and say "thanks for posting, now I don't have to," you're sheeping? Yes?
Also, first Baseline and now hiplop basically saying they don't even want to play this game. :/
Haschel Cedricson wrote:Unvote: Acosmosist
. I disagree with a few of his points, but for the most part I like how he's handling himself now.
I'm gonna reread everything much more closely after dinner, but Soda is making some crappy arguments, particularly in regard to FuDuzn. On the other hand, I like what Baseline is saying about FuDuzn.
More from me later.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/acosmist
It's an honest-to-goodness real word!
Ranmaru wrote:What do you think of this:
It's painful to read. Baseline and FuDuzn are both arguing that the other is misrepresenting a third party's vote for a fourth party.
Here's the definitive story: Soda made a point of random-voting Haschel based on his name length. In the same post, he pointed out that he equally could have voted Greypatch on that basis. Thus, the random vote came with some reason.
DrDolittle pointed out the strained attempt to justify the vote (and, as I would like to remind people, a strained attempt to justify not voting CG). DrDolittle made a random vote without providing a reason. FuDuzn thinks he detects a contradiction! If you don't need a reason for random-voting, then why are you jumping on Soda for giving a reason? Having a reason or lacking a reason in RVS can't correlate with alignment, according to this argument.
Well, that's not how I read DrDolittle's logic. You don't need a reason, but there are certain ways of giving a reason that can subtly indicate your motivations. DrDolittle was precisely saying "Sure, you don't need a reason - so why was Soda so quick to give one?" That's a legit insight.
FuDuzn's interpretation was flawed. DrDolittle did not engage in contradictory behavior. However, the logic leading one to this conclusion is difficult. I am not drawing a negative inference against FuDuzn for that.
Baseline is similarly making a too-fine distinction between "giving or not-giving a reason" and "being forced, unnatural, and over-the-top." Giving a reason can be forced and unnatural. I think that is what DrDolittle was saying.
This entire affair reads as an instance of poor critical thinking skills and poor interpretation. That having been said, we'll see what the participants do now that they've had it explained for them.
Captain Greypatch wrote:You'll like this content Ranmaru
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I don't see why anyone has a town read on Ran. Yes, he's technically active(unlike everyone else including me
) but Ranmaru is making too much of a point of being the "town-hero". He ignores the crux of my arguements(just comes up with invalid response) then suddenly turns into a lurker hunting hero and stops responding, even though I posted a few questions(evasiveness). He even twisted me saying I didn't think I could lead a lynch
THEN
(still early days) into how "bad dumb greypatch isn't trying and isn't confident", even though that is how you would talk about a townie, after all from a suspicious pov I could be scum who is posting enough to not get lynched. I'm "dumb null-scum" but he's hasn't pushed it, almost as if he needed to test the waters first(which I think he did, have a look). This might sound funny at first, but calling me stupid IS a scumtell and it's used to damage a players credibility.
He might have posted questions and had arguements, but they've been as useful as a fake doorhandle. It's always the scum who like to talk about trivial bollocks, it's a not so subtle way of trying to appear useful. His lurker hunting is part of this, he's constantly making a point of how "no one is helping as much as me". "This/your play could have been better" all day is not scumhunting.
Someone said they didn't like the Acosmist bandwagon and I'm going to have to agree, I doubt that's a wagon on scum that got 4 townies. We're not even near the dealine and there isn't much on him.
Part of this spoke to me. I mean, FuDuzn, Baseline, and DrDolittle don't even seem to be on the same page. How about telling them "Hey, you misread the other guy" instead of opening a bag of popcorn and asking other players to comment on the ensuing chaos?