In post 198, Dean Harper wrote: In post 195, Kublai Khan wrote:Actually, need to clarify something first....
@Dean Harper - What is your opinion of Bert? Why unvote Bert after shewrf votes for him? What is your take on the Bert/shewrf relationship?
First, before I answer, I still do not see my unvote of Aisa as appeasement. I was satisfied with her answers to my questions. I told you the truth behind my reasoning.
My opinion of Bert is that he isn't contributing enough to the game per post. Looking at many other of his posts in other threads, a majority of them lack a large amount of content or discussion. However, they're often discussion starting points. They've been about half and half discussion points and fluff in this game.
The biggest alarm is that Bert's posts have also been half defense of shewrf. I've been checking how often he does that, and it's almost every time someone discusses shewrf's behavior. They're fairly buddied (almost solely by Bert's actions).
But, I would rather lynch shewrf. Because if he does come up scum, then we have ample reason to lynch Bert afterward: He has constantly defended shewrf's actions and not really shown much willingness to vote him, while not providing an even close to acceptable amount of discussion to the thread (after promising to do so).
So I took my vote off of Bert and didn't put it on shewrf immediately to see how Bert would react. But he hasn't reacted so far, and I need to explain myself now.
Before anyone points it out, I exaggerated greatly in my wording about the amount of posts Bert made regarding defense of shewrf during the bolded part of this post. However, my intention was still the same: he made several attempts at defending shewrf during a discussion with me, then dropped it and threw out random accusations at me and TSO. He has had erratic behavior and minimal content in his posts so far. I do not trust him and think he is very likely scum for the following reasons:
1. Lack of content when promising to post more content.
2. Defense of shewrf for no reason.
3. Flip flop in his opinion of how much he was contributing to the game.
4. Saying he needed to give the game more attention and then in his next post not providing really ANYthing of value.
However, again, I am more ready to lynch shewrf for THESE reasons:
1. Buddied with Bert (Bert's defense of him)
2. Non-existent and not helping town in ANY way (at least Bert has SOME posts that give us information)
3. Will likely not be replaced or lynched by Malakittens
4. To me seems like a win for town whether he flips scum or not:
- Although I said previously that a town flip is still a townie lost, no matter what shewrf flips, it will give us loads of information regarding the people who defended or aimed for his lynch (myself included)
5. If he flips scum, there is more of a reason to suspect Bert
That is where my head is at.
As for every other player:
Aisa: town because she has been helping ask questions and has given me no reason to doubt her as that alignment.
Kublai: Null. I cannot say whether his motivations for throwing his vote at me are scum-motivated or just simply he doesn't like my play. We'll see if/when he posts about me. I do think his few posts have been analytical, but I'm not certain I can say they're helping the town. We'll see after a lynch happens.
Drake Crusader: Town-ish. Very disorganized thought processes but I think they come from a town mindset.
Quill: Town. Seems to be legitimately (if infrequently) scum hunting.
T S O: Scummy. I'm not convinced that he's playing for the town. I think he has had some good posts but recent activity is making me look back to see whether he legitimately is missing things or whether he's being careless scum. Keeping an eye on it.
Zekrom: Noob town. I think he's just trying to play the game as best he can and TRYING to make good posts, but not always living up to it.
"If you say live together, die alone to me Jack, I'm gonna punch you in your face."
-- Rose Nadler, 'Through the Looking Glass' (Lost)
