Your first paragraph is right on target.Frog Dodging wrote:I'm... hrm. The more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I get with the idea of lynching Raging Wishbone. Yosarian is an experienced player. He knows what people look for, surely he must have known that last minute distancing like that would be very, very unlikely to clear RW. At best, people would discount it, at worst, they would go after him. Like they are doing. Now, I know this is massively speculative, but... what if Yos looked at RW's play and decided to leave a connection to him? I've done that before as scum - deliberately tried to connect myself to a town player by pretending to bus him.
RW is a bit weird. It's really hard to follow the train of their thoughts, since they're playing in a way that goes to neither extreme - they're not signing their posts and they're not playing it as if they were one player (each of them posting different thoughts) so it's a little tricky to work out what's going on. However, there is one thing that bugs me. One half of the hydra thought that Yos was pro-town - fair enough. One half keeps saying that he has no read on Yos and he'll vote for him if the other partner agrees. Do you see the issue here? Why would one half think the other half would want to vote yosariwen when that other half thinks yosariwen is town?
I always thought telling our styles apart was rather easy, but I don't mind signing my posts from now on. Most of my posts either mention I'm RR or talk about Walt in third person anyways.
Regarding the question, Walt knew I was behind at catching up and thought I could easily change my opinion, or if I won't at least explain to him why I think the case doesn't apply.
Now, people seem to regard Walt's flip flop as either a very scummy or very moronic stretch. I think you need to understand that the guy has an unfortunate tendency, which I hope will stop now, to stay online for really long periods of time in the middle of the night while under the influence. That accounts for his weird behavior on two occasions here. I think if you reread these parts in the context of the explanations he later provided, you'll see his thought process might've been weird, but definitely wasn't scummy. Also, people seem to be looking down on the guy. They shouldn't. He has amazing instincts and I already saw him break one game basically on his own.
Yours truely, hammer Death already,
-RR