In post 276, scotpgot wrote:Well, now that I know I'm not alone.
VOTE: The Acting Method
In post 231, The Acting Method wrote:
It could, Obviously Scum found Aphix to be a threat of some kind. That or he may have thought them town and they felt it worth it to kill him to give them town cred. It's a two sided sword.
I'd also like to say that it clears me more likely than not. Because for what reason would I want to kill Aphix dead.
I'd have to question why the scum kept me alive though. As the IC in theory they would want me dead more than the others. So that is why I lean to an advantage for them from it.
That^^^ always struck me as wrong. WiFoM, yes. But...I don't know...forced, somehow. Not natural. How does the aphix murder clear you?
I was confused for a good number of days by the aphix murder. But I've thought of a possibility: It seems to me the aphix murder had less to do with aphix and more to do with everyone's reads on aphix. Rather than murdering a clear townie, scum murders the person who almost certainly would have been the next "on the block", with the single goal of creating confusion. That's a smart play by a smart player.
It doesn't and I never said it did, at least not completely.
Look at who my vote was on at the end of day 1. Aphix. I had been ranting about how he was scum and building a case when the lynch happened.
So according to your logic, why would I kill someone that I could have easily gotten lynched today? He was scummy, I had outlined a scum case on him, there were better choices out there for a scum lynch for aphix.
I actually discussed some of them. As I recall, my current list of top scum reads have something in common. They were all people who Aphix found scummy. Aphix is confirmed town. No one else is.
Speaking of which
@Peabody: I noticed the soft claim later. After I had unvoted, . (Also for the record, I did manage to weedle from Naio what he was trying to say and that answered my question about his original post.) Which by the way, leads me to ask "Why did smudger choose to investigate Naio?" And furthermore Why did he decide to reveal it so quickly.
Also how does the bolded on post 224 seem to be hinting that I saw his soft claim? The post as I recall is referring to the fact that I felt that the n00b mistake could be coming from scum and why.
249: Again how does the bolded hint that I saw his soft claim? I'm literally asking him "Hey, this is why I'm not taking your hyperbole read for granted and actually looking through the situation. Can you see where this is coming from?"
Notice that he refuses to actually answer that question.
258: Still don't see me showing the soft claim recognition yet... I'm directly responding to his next post.
262: Here's where I actually realize the soft claim. And again, The bolded doesn't quick pick up on the fact that I have my reasons for thinking it. I also point out that I don't fully believe his soft claim.
AND NOWHERE DO I SEE MYSELF ACTUALLY PUSHING HIM TO CLAIM!!!!
Hell if anything, you could see me as yelling at him for soft claiming when he did. Honestly, only two people had voted Naio, One of whom made a point of trying to get what Naio was trying to actually say understood. (Trust me, he does answer the question I posed to him.) He probably would have been better off making the soft claim. And just making it seem like a really powerful unchanging read for him. He could have done that by acknowledging my reasons for not instantly considering it a n00b mistake. (which more than just Naio who has spoken did.)
(Disclaimer: This is coming from someone who in their second game on site claimed cop day one after reaching L-1 twice in the same day. The rest of that game has been lost to history but as memory serves, Town won by following the cop.)
Smudger, if you are really the cop, and I hope for you're sake we are in a row, not a collum if you are, I would recommend A: Investigating me. (Since I will support a Slimer lynch since I feel that slot is more likely to be scum with Mollie.) And B: Praying that Slimer doesn't turn out to be a PR either.
Also Peabody: What speculation are you asking me about please?
I want you guys to think about this, with a bit of logic. Which makes more sense to you? Scum killing Aphix because he had figured out they were scum? or Scum killing Aphix to cause confusion when they could easily use him as lynch bait? If you think the former, you won't vote me, because Aphix never thought I was scum. If you think the latter, keep in mind that I didn't see that when I did my analysis, and generally when nk analysis that features scum me is done, I ALWAYS include the reason I did it. But I didn't do it, and I see no reason why I would do it.
I said at the beginning that I have two focuses. I am here to play to win, and I am here to teach. And I go out of my way to teach something in as many posts as I can. Perhaps scot you should have read my analysis post more throughly and you could see the reason I felt it cleared me. Because the logic you proposed doesn't work for me. Slimer would have been the night kill if that was the case. Aphix I would have wanted alive to lynch. Smudger also would have been my choice for a night kill. Since it would have been even easier to get an Aphix lynch.
So, therefore, by my logic (and you will find if you do the research scum me posting similar logic for kills) There was no reason for me to night kill Aphix.