Open 268: Raise the White Flag (Game Over)

[Equinox]

Vote Count 1.01

andrew94 (2) - rekirtS, bvoigt
drmyshottyizsik (2) - Cookie_of_Death, andrew94
bvoigt (1) - yabbaguy
Cookie_of_Death (1) - Stefunny
rekirtS (1) - chkflip
silverbullet999 (1) - Chaotic Neutrality

Not Voting (3) - drmyshottyizsik, silverbullet999, werewolf555

With 11 alive, it's 6 to lynch.

The deadline is Tuesday, December 21, 11:59 PM EST (UTC-5).

Looks like I forgot to insert a link to the game thread in your role PMs. Sorry about that. Friendly reminders sent to drmyshottyizsik and werewolf555.

EDIT: I'm putting wagons in order of number of votes. If this is a problem, holler.

[yabbaguy]

Thanks for not starting RQS everyone. Much appreciated.

^I like you^
Reason: ...

Unvote, Vote: silverbullet

more seriously. Why the urge to explicitly explain yourself?

[silverbullet999]

-yababababa

Unvote, Vote: silverbullet more seriously. Why the urge to explicitly explain yourself?

Erm... so he knows that I like that he said ninehundred and ninety nine. I think it'd be a bit awkward if I just said

^I like you^
or in your case

^I'm starting to find you interesting.. and also hating you^

[chkflip]

-yababababa

Hi, silverbullet. How do you usually approach D1?

I approach it with four paws, snarl a little and howl once in awhile.

- I request a serious answer to this, please.

[andrew94]

guys, more activity + more votes on shotty

[chkflip]

He hasn't even shown up yet, why would we do that?

UNVOTE: rekirtS
VOTE: andrew94

Insider information? Did you see his white flag poking from his trousers?

[Equinox]

Vote Count 1.02

andrew94 (3) - rekirtS, bvoigt, chkflip
drmyshottyizsik (2) - Cookie_of_Death, andrew94
silverbullet999 (2) - Chaotic Neutrality, yabbaguy
Cookie_of_Death (1) - Stefunny

Not Voting (3) - drmyshottyizsik, silverbullet999, werewolf555

With 11 alive, it's 6 to lynch.

The deadline is Tuesday, December 21, 11:59 PM EST (UTC-5).

Neither drmyshottyizsik nor werewolf555 have picked up their reminders. They will be eligible for prod strikes if they do not post in a few hours.

[Cookie_of_Death]

The glacial pace of this game is maddening.

UNVOTE:

-yababababa

Hi, silverbullet. How do you usually approach D1?

I approach it with four paws, snarl a little and howl once in awhile.

- I request a serious answer to this, please.

Why are you so insistent on this answer? It doesn't seem like it would provide any reliable indications of silver's alignment.

He hasn't even shown up yet, why would we do that?

UNVOTE: rekirtS
VOTE: andrew94

Insider information? Did you see his white flag poking from his trousers?

What are you accusing andrew of? Being shotty's scumbuddy?
This is a pretty poorly thought out attempt at a vote, if you ask me.

VOTE: chkflip

[yabbaguy]

^I'm starting to find you interesting.. and also hating you^

Well

that's

vague on the other hand. You're implying me with this remark, you said?

Why are you so insistent on this answer? It doesn't seem like it would provide any reliable indications of silver's alignment.

I think it would.

What are you accusing andrew of? Being shotty's scumbuddy?
This is a pretty poorly thought out attempt at a vote, if you ask me.

You're completely missing the point here. You complain yourself that the game's started slowly (I agree). The problem here is that you're also squawking at chkflip for shoddy vote reasoning when there's really not a lot to go off of. He's actually doing a brilliant thing by trying to solve the issue you have with the speed of this game (by firing out a vote of some sort), and yet that's the very thing you're voting him over. It makes no sense.

[andrew94]

actually, chkflip used a crappy ass crap reason to put the 3rd vote on me.

and we all know the shotty is the policy lynch

[Cookie_of_Death]

Why are you so insistent on this answer? It doesn't seem like it would provide any reliable indications of silver's alignment.

I think it would.

How?

What are you accusing andrew of? Being shotty's scumbuddy?
This is a pretty poorly thought out attempt at a vote, if you ask me.

You're completely missing the point here. You complain yourself that the game's started slowly (I agree). The problem here is that you're also squawking at chkflip for shoddy vote reasoning when there's really not a lot to go off of. He's actually doing a brilliant thing by trying to solve the issue you have with the speed of this game (by firing out a vote of some sort), and yet that's the very thing you're voting him over. It makes no sense.

Dude, there

are

limits to beginning of game stupidity. I think your reason for the silver questioning was kind of legit, chk's just seemed made up and faked to me.

[Cookie_of_Death]

Ah, wait a second. Upon the time consuming reread I just did, I think my vote is sucky as I don't think scum is likely to be this involved.

UNVOTE:

[Cookie_of_Death]

Ugh, there's not... enough... material!

My vote has to be somewhere, or else I'm not satisfied.

VOTE: Stefunny

For earlier dismissive sarcasm.

[yabbaguy]

andrew, we're not policy lynching. It's categorically dumb.

Cookie, I see your question, and it's all about behavior compared to other games. One of the interesting things I gleam is that silverbullet was lurking through the RVS, hence why I asked the question. It's more a consistency check, because while it's not a surefire indicator, a different start-of-game behavior may possibly suggest a different role. The passage of time or perhaps just the will to experiment are two other confounding variables though, but I wanted to make sure he was involved somehow.

btw, 12 minutes is a nothing interval of time in this game. Don't panic yet.

[Chaotic Neutrality]

You're completely missing the point here. You complain yourself that the game's started slowly (I agree). The problem here is that you're also squawking at chkflip for shoddy vote reasoning when there's really not a lot to go off of. He's actually doing a brilliant thing by trying to solve the issue you have with the speed of this game (by firing out a vote of some sort), and yet that's the very thing you're voting him over. It makes no sense.

The glacial pace of this game is maddening.

Ugh, there's not... enough... material!

I'm about to solve the crisis here. Ready?

1) Vote randomly, and make absurd, illogical accusations
2) Wait for someone to vote you
3) Show how they're scummy for voting you, and vote them back
4) Play the rest of the damn game
5) ???
6) Profit

[Chaotic Neutrality]

-yababababa

Hi, silverbullet. How do you usually approach D1?

I approach it with four paws, snarl a little and howl once in awhile.

- I request a serious answer to this, please.

Why are you so insistent on this answer? It doesn't seem like it would provide any reliable indications of silver's alignment.

Cookie beat me to the punch. Er, I'm late to the party.

FoS: chkflip

^I like you^
Reason: ...

Unvote, Vote: silverbullet

more seriously. Why the urge to explicitly explain yourself?

UNVOTE: VOTE: yabbaguy
If you actually read silver's reasoning, you'd see it actually has nothing to do with the game. You just 'serious' voted someone for no reason.

[rekirtS]

Cant move on in the game until werewolf and dymyshot are at least posting. I dont like lurkers...

[werewolf555]

Confirm

[werewolf555]

oh, and VOTE: drmyshotty
Policy

[yabbaguy]

If you actually read silver's reasoning, you'd see it actually has nothing to do with the game. You just 'serious' voted someone for no reason.

But here's the thing, he says it in a very strange way, saying "Reason: blahblahblah". That's what irked me among the minimalism of the RVS, the fact that he had to somehow explicitly state why he did something, possibly in a bizarre effort to be as openly transparent as possible and cover his tracks. Not a standalone reason, indeed, but it's most certainly worth noting and most certainly relevant. In retrospect, it's not worth holding a vote over silverbullet's head, but I still want to know why he finds me "interesting" (if I'm understanding his post correctly, I think I am).

Unvote

I'll pass Striker as a newbie, but my presumption is that werewolf should know better than to add nothing to the game (notwithstanding the policy vote and not even having the courtesy to explain to me why he's doing it in the face of my outright adversity towards such behavior). Striker, if you insist on making sure everyone takes a turn with the "talking stick" before you get it a second time, the game's activity level is going to plummet and we'll go into apathy mode far too soon since we're going to be waiting on one person all the time. Don't ignore the lurkers, but don't make that the reason you're clamming up now.

[bvoigt]

UNVOTE: andrew94
VOTE: Cookie_of_Death

Even though he wants more people to post, he tries to stop discussion here:

Why are you so insistent on this answer? It doesn't seem like it would provide any reliable indications of silver's alignment.

Plus, after making a semi-serious vote on chkflip, he changes his vote to Stefunny for an RVS-type reason.

[bvoigt]

Wait a second. Did werewolf just breadcrumb cop?

[Chaotic Neutrality]

Did werewolf just breadcrumb cop?

Three people have received:

You are a

mafia goon

Eight people have received:

You are a

townie

.

Could you point once again where the cop is in this setup? I'm having a little trouble finding it.

[yabbaguy]

CN, that's the whole damned issue. Especially with the strange "oh" thrown on at the beginning of the line and the strange "confirm" when it should've been by PM, I'm going to claim that's deliberate. What do you lot reckon?

Vote: werewolf555

[yabbaguy]

Deliberate, yet careless I should've mentioned.