DemonHybrid: A Life
PART 1
I first became irked with DemonHybrid in the very early pages of this game. It started with
this post, in which DH defends my RVS actions against hiplop and votes him for having “the sketchiest vote of everyone.” Now, this first post isn’t particularly scummy on its own, but it IS weird, for two reasons:
1) He acts as if Hiplop’s vote on me is serious, which it clearly isn’t.
2) He defends my play, which is clearly not necessary.
The first thing I ask of everyone is to reread the first three pages of this game in its entirety, to get an intuitive feel for how everything looked then. Posts were short then, so it should take very little time. The important thing is to try and imagine that you are seeing it for the first time. As we go through the rest of his play, imagine that you are DemonHybrid, and that you are town. In doing so, try to build an image of what your personality is, how you see things, and what your motivation is for each post.
In post 54, I vote jilynne without explaining myself at all. Immediately after, nintendo
FoSes me because he doesn’t like the fact that I’m sheeping Barry Allen. Now look at DH’s response to this in post 56:
DemonHybrid wrote:FoS: Everyone who is against bob for not realizing how town the guy is
Try and erase from your memory the majority of this game, and just look at the first few pages. It’s hard for me to picture why I, as Demon Hybrid, would feel the need to write this. Let’s assume for a moment that I, a town player, have seen players like archaebob before. In my experience, players that do what he is doing are usually town, and their play is very helpful. Therefore, I am annoyed at nintendoaddict for accusing him of being a sheep…and I’m going to make sure the rest of the town
stops suspecting archaebob
(because we CAN'T have that) by joke FoSing them.
Does that feel like town to you? It really doesn't to me.
Town doesn’t know the roles, and most of you were very wary of me, at least in the beginning. How is it that DH was so confident that he felt comfortable not only assuming I was town, but also proactively derailing any suspicions of me as soon as people posted them? This was page
3
people. Town has no reason to buddy that hard.
And DH was totally serious about defending me too, as evidenced in his next post:
DemonHybrid wrote:archaebob wrote: unvote vote jilynne1991
Nintendo/hiplop, do you really think this post has scum motivation? If so, why?
Also, there's valid suspicion against jilynne1991. Nintendo's FoS may have just been a townie mistake; hiplop is definitely scum, but jilynne1991 is worth looking into.
This whole post bespeaks of someone whose mind is racing to uncover the reasons for everything archaebob does and appear perceptive and towny by sharing them with everyone. Let's take a look:
DemonHybrid wrote:Nintendo’s FoS may have just been a townie mistake;
um, okay…what are you saying here exactly? I guess this is a description of my thought process, and why I moved my vote off of nintendo? Why are you even sharing speculations like this?
DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop is definitely scum, but jilynne1991 is worth looking into.
I doubt he means the bit about hiplop seriously at this stage, but either way, it feels really weird. DH is in the process of defending me, and he seems to be pretty serious about it. So, saying that hiplop is “definitely scum” is a really weird assertion to insert into the middle of that sentence, isn’t it? Read the whole post again, in its entirety. In fact, it feels to me like he’s trying to explain ahead of time why he isn’t himself moving his vote over to jilynne.
"I want everyone to know that I agree with archaebob and think he's town, but BEFORE YOU ACCUSE ME OF CONTRADICTING MYSELF, I'm going to keep my vote where it is anyways because hiplop is
definitely
scum. That's noNOT to say I don't agree with archaebob though! Honest! I think hiplop is scum, but I can think that and STILL think that archaebob is doing the right thing by looking into jilynne! Do you guys all understand what I'm saying???? Good, I'm glad you all think I'm town."
This is
way too much explanation and qualification to becoming from town at this point in the game.
Why is he posting like this? He's not even being attacked!
Meh, whatever the hell it is, it’s nervous and awkward, and doesn’t sit with me at all.
Think about it. You are DemonHybrid. Why are you choosing to defend archaebob, and come up with these super specific hypothetical explanations of his thought process? Aren’t you at all curious about what this guy is doing, and if his intentions are true? Why do you want to be his friend so badly?
This is all gut, but I really think he would have been more rebellious and even-handed with me if he were town. It's not adding up.
In any case, even if you find nothing damning yet, we're getting a very strange and very specific image of who he would have to be if he were town.
Next post, DemonHybrid outs my pressure vote. Why?
Why is his top agenda explaining everything that I’m doing to the town? If he was town, and he thought my vote was a pressure vote, he’d be curious to see what came of it, not give away the answer. From my experience, it’s scum who is most interested in identifying pressure votes, and this looks to me like another part of his subconscious effort to be ultra-logical, and to neutralize my play. Why would a town player analyze my pressure vote like that to
make sure
nobody suspected me unfairly? It doesn’t add up.
He
keeps doing it, too. I don’t understand how he’s so confident in his opinion of what I’m doing! And it’s not just that he seems to somehow know for a fact that I’m town...he feels completely comfortable
saying
it too! Put yourself in his shoes. If you were town, wouldn’t you feel awkward explaining someone else’s play this proactively in the first few pages of the game? What could his motivation be for doing it? And I haven’t even gotten into the biggest problem here, which is that if he genuinely understands that my vote is a pressure vote, w
hy is he doing everything in his power to make it worthless
? If he’s familiar with players like me, he also knows that we don’t need his help defending ourselves.
This isn't town thinking, period.
DemonHybrid wrote:Wow. Smh.
Also,
Unvote, Vote: jilynne1991
. My vote seems to be decaying on hiplop and jilynne is still very likely scum. Heliman and Barry Allen have it right on.
It’s just...weird. His explanation for his vote shift is weird. Nothing has happened yet, so how is his hiplop vote "decaying"? He seems to be serious here about jilynne being “very likely scum”, and I just don’t see how that’s possible. If he was legit town joining my wagon to help me pressure jil...it would look different, wouldn't it? And even if we accept that he believes jil is "still very likely scum", the phrasing of it as a justification for his belated vote switch is weaksauce and reminds me on every level of how I think about things when I'm scum. It’s just too
nervous
. The whole thing. And why the mention of Heliman and Barry Allen at the end?
"Just want to make sure no one accuses me of sheeping them, which they totally can't do if I say their names."
Read the quote again in its entirety. It reeks of a scum mindset. He’s logical, amicable, and makes every machination of his thought process transparent to the town so there’s nothing to attack him with later.
This post is also weird, but I’m not going to spend time on it.
Soon, Hiplop votes DemonHybrid, and gets this response:
DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop wrote: unvote, vote demonhybrid[/vote]
calling someone definite scum o n the second page, over a RV. Plus blindly following bobby
Yes, you stay in your little dream world where you can sit back and not make any accusations. I'll be here scumhunting.
This whole response is trying too hard.
“I’m going to show you just how
totally not scared
I am of your vote by making this clever comeback LOOK HOW TOWN I AM BITCH”
So far, I’m getting two distinct DemonHybrid’s in this game:
1) Assertive, sarcastic, aggressive; archaebob wannabe - This is the real DemonHybrid, and it’s the inner townie that comes out in a lot of his posts when he’s confident in what he’s lying about. He's glib, sometimes clever, and an intelligent and direct poster.
2) Over explaining, nervous, buddying scumbag - You guys see it right? This side of him always comes out in the same moments, which is when he's fabricating one of the fundamentally town behaviors, such as changing your mind about who to vote, or suspecting someone for reasons that aren't all completely logical.
More weirdness. He’s now defending his buddying of me to hiplop and telling him to “be more serious.” This seems to suggest that he’s not all that confident in his scum read of hiplop. I assumed that his whole “hiplop is definitely scum” thing was a deliberate exaggeration, similar to what I was doing. That would make sense, right? But then DemonHybrid posts this sequence of posts:
DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop wrote:unvote
vote archaebob
for taking everything too seriously
This was a joke vote?
THIS IS THE PART WHERE YOU ACTUALLY PAY ATTENTION
DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop wrote:DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop wrote:unvote
vote archaebob
for taking everything too seriously
This was a joke vote?
yea
Okay, so again, the fact that you're taking nothing seriously shows a lack of scumhunting if that is true (as well as the fact that you completely went pages misleading people without saying anything). If it's not true, there's that whole lying thing, as well as the fact that you, again, take nothing seriously, and therefore aren't scumhunting.
Yes, this is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation, but you deserve it.
People, this is
textbook
scum. I mean, look at this!
DemonHybrid wrote:Okay, so again, the fact that you're taking nothing seriously shows a lack of scumhunting
if that is true
...
What do you mean “if that is true”??? Listen buddy, I
might
be willing to buy that you misinterpreted his vote the first time around, but there is no chance in hell that town-DemonHybrid is still making an issue out of this after hiplop
explains
that it was a joke.
DemonHybrid wrote:...(as well as the fact that you completely went pages misleading people without saying anything).”
No. He didn’t mislead anyone. You tunneled on bullshit. And in any case, this is no different from you pretending that you thought he was “definitely scum.”
DemonHybrid wrote:...If it's not true, there's that whole lying thing, as well as the fact that you, again, take nothing seriously, and therefore aren't scumhunting…
Are you serious right now? You are positing as a hypothetical the possibility that hiplop is lying...and then saying that he would still be scummy in that case...because he was lying?
I’m glad you have all your bases covered.
DemonHybrid wrote: Yes, this is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation, but you deserve it.
You guys, this last sentence is like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. How much more obvscum can you get?
Reasons why this statement can only come from scum:
1) Sincere town players typically don’t notice when they are putting their targets in abstract bullshit concepts like “damned if you do damned if you don’t situations.”
2) A sincere town player who did happen notice in one instance would probably just decide to exclude that argument, because they would recognize that it is flawed/less persuasive.
3) A sincere town player who both noticed the flaw AND decided (for some obscure strategic purpose) to still include it would probably not identify the flaw themselves and give some weaksauce justification for it. It’s obvious what you are doing. “Let me bring up the flaw so I can show everyone that I noticed it myself and nobody can attack me.”
4) He really doesn’t deserve it. And if you really thought he did, if you REALLY thought he was SO scummy that he deserved a flawed argument even though you KNEW it was flawed beforehand, then you would have been voting
him
instead of the thirteen year old who wasn’t doing anything.
*cue DemonHybrid dedicating his whole defense to attacking the very last line above this one
You guys, look at this whole post in its entirety again:
DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop wrote:DemonHybrid wrote:hiplop wrote:unvote
vote archaebob
for taking everything too seriously
This was a joke vote?
yea
Okay, so again, the fact that you're taking nothing seriously shows a lack of scumhunting if that is true (as well as the fact that you completely went pages misleading people without saying anything). If it's not true, there's that whole lying thing, as well as the fact that you, again, take nothing seriously, and therefore aren't scumhunting.
Yes, this is a damned if you do damned if you don't situation, but you deserve it.
DemonHybrid is smart enough to know that this argument is BS. It sounds SO stretched. Just read it to yourself and imagine writing it.
This is SCUM who is trying to justify suspicions on somebody that aren't genuine, and doing a hack job of it.
Anyways, this is all of DH’s play up to my FoS of him, and I already think it’s more than enough. Depending on the reaction to this, and how much time I have, I'll try and do some more.