i did some combing through sword's town games and something that caught my eye is how flippant he usually is when referring to his low weekend activity... stuff like this:
he doesn't act as if his weekly v/la's are a big deal and he seems to know that they are expected from him. and more inmportantly, in none of these games does he ever reference the fact that he's going to take v/la weekends BEFORE he asks to go on v/la. he simply states that he's going on v/la and uses words like "as per the usual," "shenanigans," and "my normal V/LA." He is very casual about it and offers no apology for his 'shenanigans.'
Then we have the start of this game where he announces:
In post 182, sword_of_omens wrote:Also, just a quick note on my sched...i am V/LA on weekends and i only have my phone...
i do not have good reception at my house as it pretty much is a black hole...
So if i post on weekends , it will usually be at night from a coffee shop on my phone...so it won't be much...
i will make time when needed for deadlines, etc)
During the week i can post from work and usually don't have a prob posting every day (except when shit gets nuts)
so there shouldn't be any issues...
So yeh:
@MOD: V/LA for the weekend I’ll pop in when and if I can…
Why is he suddenly acting so guilty about a thing that normally he's quite casual about?
And then I looked at the scum game he linked me. Admittedly it's from a long time ago but it's the only thing I've got to look at.
In post 363, sword_of_omens wrote:
Hey all, sorry for not piping in, weekends are usually bad for me cause I only have phone access..
Tomorrow at my computer i promise to do some reads and be more active
and that thread is locked so the quote feature doesnt work so you're not gonna get fancy quote tags from here out:
"ok, took awhile but i am mostly caught up...
i apologize for the weekend..it's harder for me to sign on during the weekend..
that said, during the week i'll be posting daily.."
oh look, here's something interesting.....
"alright, work is killing me and i'll be gone for the weekend except by phone so i am limitted til monday..
so not sure how much i can pop in or not...
if i cant afford any decent time to this game by monday i might have to ask for a replacement.."
and he replaced out that game. Notice any similarities between his play in that game and this one? Tons of apologizing and looking like he feels guilty for his weekend absences, and replacing or posturing (in this game) to replace out because he can't deal with the speed of the thread. And then you compare all that to the quotes I posted from his town games where he not only doesn't bother writing a sob story about how he's gonna be V/LA on weekends, he simply goes into V/LA and acts very casual about it.
So, sword, I'd be interested if you can provide me with a few things because I haven't been able to find them yet:
-some town games where you replaced out due to not being able to keep up
-some recent (important that they are recent) town games where you give big explanations about your V/LA adventures at the start of the game
Adding to that is how amazingly content, or lazy he's been with his vote. His first reads list was NOT very good. It's already been pointed out earlier in the thread that he kinda attacks people of things, doesn't come to conclusions about those things, and then ends up with a town read on them. The major exception to that was his attack on drpepper which looks alright. But the problem with that is that he placed his vote on DRP, the afk'd out of the thread for a pretty long time, came back right before lynch and is still ok with having his vote on the drp/vegita slot. Here he is when he came back into the thread:
In post 611, sword_of_omens wrote:just got back in with lots of reading and not much time left...
quick ISO shows the VC about 4 pages back?
gonna try and read real quick, but what are the standing options right now?
So it's established that he's not caught up with reading the thread. He asks if TNE was a recent last minute wagon, that's how clueless about the thread he was at the time. Yet he's still ok with voting for either of vegita or TNE? The fuck? All that could be understandable in light of the lynch deadline quickly approaching and him feeling the need to avoid a no lynch, but he just recently came back into the thread with this:
In post 727, sword_of_omens wrote:Unvote:
have to run now, so i'll go into the details tomorrow, but i wouldn't mind lynching Bungles today and I still think DrP/Vegito is scum...
what? he 'still thinks drp/veg is scum'... you kidding me? first, nowhere has he said anything about getting scum vibes from vegito and we already know he hasn't been reading the thread so how could he have a scum read on veg? and why on earth is he unvoting vegita, who is his MAIN SCUMREAD who he still wants to lynch? is it because... there's been a lot of anti vegita lynch sentiment lately and he's worried about being on the wagon?
so sword in addition to the meta stuff I asked you for, I also want you to tell me exactly how much of the thread you've read, and why, if you had not read the thread, you were/are still ok with lynching vegita who is someone you haven't spoken a word about.
and please don't replace out, that is
i replaced in yesterday and I'm already caught up and posting so i don't feel any sympathy for you