Okay, I made it though the game finally and here's what I have...(a two parter)
First off Albert's faking of a post restriction, while funny and entertaining for him has left me pulling my hair out. He pretty much has a clean slate as far as in game actions from the start of day two as we can't really pin him down on anything. We can try and figure out what we thought he meant with his votes, but then he can always come out and be all like... “You're just misrepresenting me and my intentions” and we won't really know if that truly is the case... so yeah, blah to your day one play Albert!
That said, I highly doubt he is apart of the scum group after Fraggle so humorously tried to copy his lyric posting ways. But still...BLAH!
I would like to actually put a
Vote: TrustGossip
and here is why.
He pretty much freaked out at the possibility of getting teffc replaced early on. What the big deal was I don't understand. Okay he had just voted for her, which is a plus point for him but his reaction afterwards just felt more like a he tried to establish some early distancing and then used the replacement as an excuse to get away from his vote.
TrustGossip wrote:Oh wow, I just noticed on the front page. teffc is being replaced? I can't see anything positive coming from this...
TrustGossip wrote:I'm always worried about a replacement for possible mafia. It involves reanalysing a playstyle, and if the replacement is smart, they'll be able to absolve teffc of anything and adopt a fervently pro-town status when it was
obvious teffc couldn't handle her scum role.
It doesn't matter if the replacement is smart, it doesn't matter if they try and establish a pro town stance, it doesn't matter if the replacement has blue hair and a eye patch. If you really found Teffc to be the scummest player at that point in time, then the replacement would inherit that same level of suspicion (or close to it). I'm not saying that you shouldn't give the replacement a chance to talk, but you shouldn't just give up if you think your on to scum... Let them talk and
then
adjust your suspicion accordingly. NOT the other way round.
TrustGossip wrote:And I suppose that I should be the flagbearer for the case against teffc? It's in my best interest to oppose a possible quick lynch of ryan, only because I see
teffc's behavior as a greater evil.
And now she has free license to lurk because she is up for replacement.
Could we get a vote count and the status of the last replacement, mod?
TrustGossip wrote:The case against teffc is that the sum of her testimony is either; worthless (posting just for the sake of activity), vague (innumerable 'too' statements), or nonexistent (the long period of lurking until asking for a replacement).
But like I said earlier, her getting replaced is generally bad because now we have to wait for fraggle to post enough to analyse.
Unvote: teffc/Fragglescum
No you don't have to wait. Pressure is a good thing, unvoting does nothing for nobody here.
After unvoting here, TG does a good job of staying quite well in the middle ground of anything. The main argument is still between Ryan/Jordan and Lowell. TG posts a few times, sometimes wondering about Ryan...
TrustGossip May 25th wrote:ryan, you are seriously hindering me, oh my gosh. In case people haven't noticed this, but I tend to have a bit of an underdog complex. I tend to lean heavily against the first bandwagon being accurate. ryan, you made a few good points in the beginning against Lowell's incendiary and uncooperative playstyle, but your constant misinterpretation of people's posts is eroding my trust in you.
IGMEOY: ryan
TrustGossip about Ryan May 26th wrote:I'm still trying to decide whether or not you're just a little overenthusiastic about finding scum, or you are one. Most of the rest of us *cough* *cough* are also trying to find scum, though maybe not as zealously as you are, to the point of a great deal of misreadings.
The crappy awful thing is that I don't think we'll really get anywhere if we still have those two lurkers and if Fraggle doesn't post more.
And sometimes about Lowell..
TrustGossip also on May 26th wrote:For the first time, I'm considering Lowell as scum.
All without casting another vote or any real hard opinions about either camp. Almost as if he was trying to play both sides of the fence.
TrustGossip wrote:Lowell wrote:Sweenytodd wrote:Lowell wrote:Why isn't Lowell dead yet?
Probably has something to do with him promising to post on Tuesday and most of the town being unimpressed with the case you have made against him...
*clap clap clap*
But seriously, Jordan, if I doubted before, I don't now. Sweeny did an excellent rundown of your insane scum tactics.
@sweeny- It's hard to put my finger on why Aimee's post(s) looks scummy. Here's the best way I can describe it. The "blow-by-blow" post seems a little opinion-dry. As in, heavy on narration, but not really saying anything. The second post, "player-by-player", casts TOO WIDE a net for my taste. She doesn't want to exonerate anyone or implicate anyone. Not really.
It could be that she just doesn't have that many strong opinions. Which is why I didn't vote for her. But I would be remiss if I let that post slide with everyone saying how great it was without me mentioning my little bit of doubt.
It's posts like this that make me doubt my conscience.
On one hand, his reasonings on aimee are very astute and spot-on, indicating a healthy amount of pro-town suspicion on some scummy behavior. On the other hand, this information is only really revealed as Lowell senses that he's on the chopping block, and could be an attempt to throw suspicion on another person. Further more, it's somewhat convenient that he came up to the same opinion/yet non-opinion about aimee as I did.
However, Lowell's lucidity is making him increasingly less suspcious, while Jordan's lynch happy tactics make me decidedly
unhappy
.
Unvote: Vote JordanA24
IGMEOY: Lowell
Things that bug me about this post:
TG spends the whole post talking about Lowell and yet ends up voting Jordan.
He claims that Lowell basically echoed what he had already stated about aimee. Not true!
TrustGossip wrote:aimee, time will tell. I know you had finals and your summary was very helpful, but long summaries with commentary can be a scum tactic to shift suspicions and et. cetera. You're still neutral to me though, leaning towards town.
Does suggest a possible “scum tactic here” but it's hardly what Lowell was describing, in fact TG believes aimee to be more likely town than anything else. Also
TrustGossip wrote:aimee: she's this low on the list mainly because I feel like she'd be a much greater asset if she was just more active. I'm seeing her as a non-entity simply because there isn't that much she's provided that we can draw inferences from.
Suggests, to me at least, that TG actually liked her summery and would want to see more if she posted more. So my point here is that TG seemingly tried to discredit Lowell's opinion of aimee's post by trying to say he had already said it all before. Which not only is pretty much a lie (in my eyes) it also makes me wonder why he didn't just vote Lowell at this point if he truly believed he had said this? Very confusing indeed. Unless of course I'm missing the point where you DID say these things TG, if so please point me that way.
Basically TG gets my vote for his quick distancing from the teffc vote. Being non committal during the Ryan/Jordan/Lowell situation and for adding unneeded/unwarranted fuel to the Lowell fire. He seemed to want to fan the flames rather than really pin them down and go on the attack himself. He seems to be trying to make as few waves as possible, which I believe is a sign that he is just trying to fit in with the rest of the town rather than actively go out looking for scum himself.