Mostly at Sanjay, but for anyone else who might have been wondering.
Why I think Almaster is scum, and the best lynch for today.
Let's start by going way back to the beginning with his accusation of me.
The initial post could have easily been a townie going after someone he thought was scummy, but in the post after it he attacks Mordy for disagreeing with him on whether early bandwagons are good are not.
It is made very clear that Mordy believes what he said about this, and is not a scumbag changing his opinion to suit his win condition.
He then disappears for 6 pages (it was Halloween weekend). In the first post with actual content, he accuses archaebob with a case that I think was at least 75% bullshit, and attacks Mordy again for for his opinion on early bandwagoning. He also states:
AlmasterGM wrote:I just derailed the bandwagon on me
by ignoring it
The fact that he's using it in his case shows that he's somewhat proud of this, but the biggest problem is in italics. You can't ignore something if you don't know it exists, and he is saying that he
did something
. If he wasn't intentionally lurking to get the votes off him, why is he saying that it went away because he ignored it instead of saying something like "The bandwagon disappeared while I was away"? To me his stating that he has done something to cause this indicates that he was aware of what was going on in the thread while all this was happening, and CHOSE not to post, in order to get votes and attention away from him.
When I call him out on his case, he does the following:
Post 1)Say I'm scummy for doing so
Post 2) Refuse to respond to my rebuttal, reiterate that I'm scummy, invoke WIFOM with
AlmasterGM wrote:If I actually wanted to lurk the wagon away, do you really think I would've said so to everyone's face?
Post 3)Ask if I'm joking, among a bunch of other responses to people.
AlmasterGM wrote:
Mordy wrote:
Yet, you end your own post with, "Unexcused badlogic is scummy." THE EXACT CASE I HIT YOU WITH. If attacking someone for apparent badlogic is scummy, then my case on your was excellent! Even if you felt your case wasn't badlogic, you admit in the beginning of your post:
CAPS PLEASE!! The key term is "excused." My initial argument was based on my observations of how I thought people would approach and play the game. After an unofficial poll was taken, I let the argument go because it was clear that my opinion was wrong. I don't see how I can be held accountable for this given that, unless I had done research prior to the game, there would be no other way for me to know whether the argument was wrong or not.
I don't think this is nearly as damning as the earlier stuff, but he states that he can't be held accountable for his actions, even though he could have asked me how I knew what his avatar was instead of jumping to conclusions.
AlmasterGM wrote:
Mordy wrote:
So if you admit the general consensus is that it's not a scumtell, and that general consensus is enough to get you to drop the case (OH MY GOD, BEAR WITH ME, THIS IS ABOUT TO BE AMAZING), then you admit that to a normal member of the general consensus, your case on Gammagooey was bad. If to a normal person (SAY ME, OMG, I HOPE YOU'RE HOLDING ONTO YOUR SOCKS), that case is bad, and as you yourself wrote, "badlogic is scummy," that means (HERE'S THE PITCH) that I was totally justified and validated in your own words for holding you as scummy and voting for you. By your own calculations, my vote on you was completely justified and you deserved it.
OMG MORE CAPS PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Your vote for me and my vote for Gamma are not the same. My vote: There was no way for me to know the truth or falsity of the matter at hand without making the argument in the first place. After the results came in, I let it go. Your vote: 13 pages later, you're clinging to a statement I made on page 1. You have no other arguments against me. LOL.
As in the last post, he defends himself by attacking Mordy's use of capital letters, attacks the argument being late despite that he hadn't been there for half of the pages mentioned, and implies that that the argument is hilarious, keeping in line with suggesting mine was a joke.
In the interests of fairness, in between that and the next quoted he makes a few not-completely-terrible posts.
AlmasterGM wrote:
This game is too complicated. I might go back and re-read, but this thread is more muddled than the original text of Beowulf, so I'm just going to wait for a wagon to formulate and then decide whether I like it or not.
States his intention to stop scumhunting and just vote based on whoever else is being voted. Already got called out on this by others.
AlmasterGM wrote:
I love when people actually take it seriously and are like OMG U R SO SCUMMY IM VOTING 4 U.
More saying that other peoples accusations of him are funny and not to be taken seriously.
There's some more stuff about applying logic retroactively, which he should have had logic for to begin with, but my mind has been made up on him for long enough now that I'm pretty much disregarding it.
He has made terrible, bullshit cases, he lurked the attention away from himself, and stated that accusations against him are jokes, and not to be taken seriously.
He has claimed that he can't be held accountable for his actions.
I disagree.