In post 81, a plain farmer wrote:OK. Not for-the-lulz. My rather by the book response is that a VT should probably hush up and keep the scum in the dark.
Read this:
In post 226, Wisdom wrote:In general, you seem to have fixed ideas about how town think and act. You have to let them go. People can act in the scummiest of ways (and this example is not scummy at all, mind you) and still be town. People rarely do what you think they should be doing, what you expect them to do.
Now understand your stupid playbook means nothing to me. How you say you would play a VT, how you would play a VT; none of it matters to me. Deal with it. Move along. And find an actual reason to vote me. (tl;dr Get in line)
But that's no longer what most concerns me. You say you did it for the following reasons:
1) "out of frustration"
2) "It was a serious claim" made "because I knew it would give me something to work with RIGHT out of the gate"
[...] These two dissonant reasons somehow found their way into the same sentence, as if you were subconsciously hoping readers would find one explanation they liked and ignore the other one.
Rearranging your thought process here because it's more coherent this way. Nice attempt at a minor misrep. I don't usually subconsciously hope anything when I post, and those two trains of thought / paths of reasoning are not mutually exclusive, and I'm sure you know that. I can be frustrated about X and KNOW with certainty that saying something about X will give me material to work with right out of the gate. That would make me more likely to say something about X, not less likely. The reasons aren't dissonant at all. What makes you think they are?
The second implies that it was a calculated move.
People's behavior when frustrated typically isn't strategic or rational.
Again:
In post 226, Wisdom wrote:In general, you seem to have fixed ideas about how town think and act. You have to let them go. People can act in the scummiest of ways (and this example is not scummy at all, mind you) and still be town. People rarely do what you think they should be doing, what you expect them to do.
I do not have to accommodate your expectations for what a frustrated person should or shouldn't do. I do X and I am frustrated, therefore frustrated people can do X. Period. You don't expect frustrated people to do X? Who gives a shit? I am and I just did.
My behavior most of the time isn't strategic or rational. Things are more fun that way.
Not to mention the fact that the second reason you've labeled doesn't imply anything about "calculation" - "calculation" puts a needlessly negative spin on me simply taking a moment to think and realize (with a chuckle) "hey, I bet I know a way to shake shit up Day 1 - CLAIM VT", two seconds later, BAM, posted and confirmed. But no, because I dislike RVS and would rather just skip to the part where people sit votes on me all day, I instead become a criminal mastermind (and an idiot at the same time?) on page 1 in my first post. You give me too much credit.
In post 81, a plain farmer wrote:
If any of those votes were scummy, it's more likely to be the later votes than the earlier ones (due to the speed of the wagon). But I'm not inclined to think any of them were scummy atm.
In a case of aggression vs. opportunism, you think opportunism is more likely to be Scum, yes? That seems to be what this implies. Why?
In post 89, Killthestory wrote:basically it hinders more than helps, to elaborate, just because it gives scum more chance to hit a PR than a VT. regardless of his reasoning, it's probably not going to work as he intended, and if it was calculated it was stoopid bro
Maybe it hinders you more than it helps, but I see it differently. I could easily be lying. Scum will have definitely thought of this. Basically, what Aristotle said: it's Wine, like I said when I first claimed. It's working well at giving me something to work off of, which was all I wanted. You're also giving me too much credit by assuming I put so much thought into this.
KEEP 'EM COMIN' BABES
@Jake from State Farm: where you at, bish? You're 1/3 of the reason I signed up. Come dance with me.
PEDIT:"Bad play =/= scummy play. Always remember that."
...That's fuckin' rude, bro. And based on an opinion, and therefore not necessarily objectively true. And a bit pretentious, Mr.
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