This is the most indecisive, rudderless town ever. It's hilarious. We're all waiting for someone to turn the game around with a brilliant piece of analysis so we can blindly sheep him or her. Or for all the unconfirmed townies to act townish. Seriously, is it
that
hard to look town when you're town?
hascow, just a note about xvart: he'd actually proxied his vote to Locke, who made xvart vote Rifka. xvart himself said he'd prefer to lynch Unsight to Rifka. IMO, that's probably
more
of a point against Unsight (considering that xvart would have wanted to look like his scumbuddy's enemy), because xvart claimed out of the blue to suspect Unsight most, but then instead of casting his vote for a suspect, proxied his vote to someone who was critical of Unsight's wagon. I'll be kind of annoyed if it turns out that xvart and Unsight are scumbuddies and he was allowed to cop out of making a decision (although admittedly, that makes me biased
).
Gah. I've been up until 6 AM, and the Internet keeps distracting me from Mafia. I can't think straight right now. Um...I'm too tired to go into everything that bugged me about Magna and respond to stuff I didn't like in his defence (like where did I ever twist the facts against him to simultaneously accuse him of "master distancing" and "working obviously with Mikujin"? All I said is that he seemed to make weird assumptions that were similar to other weird assumptions made by flipped Greyjoys. And you
still
haven't given a good reason for why you thought Greyjoys were more likely to be on the early dana mob than the early SSBF mob. And I don't buy your explanation for your flip-flop on putting Axelrod at L-1.) But for now, here's part of what I'd written on Tuesday.
Except I'm already doubting myself. Because 1) he's put effort into rereads and partnership analysis, which is a towntell for all but the strongest players, 2) it's mostly his behaviour today that's bugged me, and 3) *twitch* CSL, you realize that you flip-flopped on
Macavitar
, and not on Unsight...and people have asked you five hundred times why you said you believed his claim mere hours after saying you'd hammer him...and...and....
My God, CSL.
Why are you doing this
? Why, dammit?
WHY
? *sobs* How can
scum
look this scummy? This game has made me a supporter of early policy lynches.
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So I think I can finally pin down what's been bugging me about Magna.
You know what I think it is? How MagnaofIllusion keeps on reiterating that his suspect list is diddin/Mina = Lannister and Unsight = Greyjoy, that his suspect list has always been diddin/Mina and Unsight, that he is 100% consistent in his suspicions of diddin/Mina/Unsight, and his reasoning for suspecting diddin/Mina/Unsight had been clearly explained in ISO X on Day 4, so back off.
Seriously, if someone wants me to quote every time he does this today, I will. It's almost once or twice a post.
Not only does he use this as a defence every time someone looks at him funny (even when his suspicions of diddin/me/Unsight are barely related to the accusation against him), but he helpfully reminds us all that he's always suspected Y (as clearly laid out in ISO X on Day 4) every time he attacks Y.
It's like the flipside of the joke that inconsistency is a towntell.
Rather than worry about such details as, you know,
whether diddin, Unsight, and I are actually scum
, he's more interested in proving the consistency of his reads.
Because maybe I'm just assuming everyone else is as neurotic as I am, but right now is when town should be
floundering
. Not saying, "I solved the game on Day 4, so here is my scum list."
MagnaofIllusion wrote:If you want to address that you think my suspicions that Unsight and diddin / Mina are scum is suddenly a new position please do so. Otherwise you are throwing around generalities. I also find the unspoken assumption that I am hunting Town by not suspecting you is not a thought process I would expect to be coming from Town. Now you are making me paranoid about my read on you.
See, this is probably the only time Magna shows
doubt
in his kneejerk certainty that Mac is telling the truth. And I
sort
of see where Magna is coming from--yeah,
technically
, scum would be more likely to attribute this to scum--although I can also see town!Mac thinking that the evidence against him looks bad. But his "now you are making me paranoid" is one line tacked on to the end. Call it gut, but it rings false. I don't feel that Magna is really a paranoid innocent second-guessing himself.
