14: A true RVS vote. NS has done nothing so far in the game.
26: It's doubtful that Zoidberg is being anything but rhetorical here. Instead, it seems a lot more like he's deflating Psyche's pressure by calling attention to the idea that vote-hopping might not be indicative of alignment. TD and Psyche take this seriously, but Zoidberg doesn't contribute to this conversation.
60: Votes for TIP, which is largely opportunistic, as TIP has just gotten 3 votes put on him in half-a-page's-space.
61: Reiterates that this is a serious vote, as opposed to his earlier RVS vote. Who goes on to explain why this is scummy in
65. What's captivating is that TIP wants TD to explain his vote, but doesn't ask the same of Zoidberg. Zoidberg never explains his vote in 60, despite the discussion it spawned.
125: Zoidberg asks Who why Who hasn't voted him since Who finds his post 60/61 scummy, despite Who fully explaining this in post
83. It's clear that Zoidberg is trying to portray Who is a negative fashion, but hasn't been paying very much attention to the thread. This is especially obvious because he clumps Who on his scumteam. What's really important about this post is that he calls a 3-man scumteam, which, since this is a closed setup with 21 players, is extremely awkward. Most scum-teams are 1/4 of the players, so, in this case, we'd expect 5 or 6 scum--unless we were in a setup with two teams of 3 scum, which is better known as Multiball. Zoid calls a 3-man team despite there being no setup speculation or previous entries on Zoidberg's own part that hint towards him thinking this would be a multiball setup. In this very post, he doesn't even elaborate that he thinks it is a multiball setup, but simply posts that he thinks there's a 3-scum team, which seems like a very poor slip on his part.
126: Setup speculation that speaks towards him thinking there could easily be more than 3 scum, which supports the earlier multiball-related slip (although not by much).
131: Discredits NS as a useless D1 player, using meta to explain why.
132: Explains that NS was town in that game, which might be a slight nudge at him thinking NS is town in this game, but that's just speculation on my end.
133: Finally responds to a vote on him by starting his (still ongoing) tunnel of Roflcopter. Is condescending and doesn't ask any pro-town questions here. Only OMGUS.
136: Tries to take the fire off his back by reiterating to Mr E Roll that he is town, but doesn't give any good reasons for why he is actually town, just says no one will give reasons for why he is scum.
146: Walks away from his earlier 'scumteam guess' by explaining it as trolling. This pings on my radar for a variety of reasons, mostly because trolls are anti-town. More than that, though? He's trying to distance himself from calling only 3 scum, and explain it off as a troll. It's as if he realized that he just softclaimed knowledge of a multiball setup (something only scum would know at this point) and was trying to laugh it off as a 'troll'. He also says he's trying to pressure TIP, while simultaneously writing TIP off as newb-town, and he fence-sits on the roflcopter issue.
147: Even more damage control here. If 125 wasn't a multiball softclaim--this definitely is. NO ONE at this point is giving Zoidberg trouble about his called scum-team, yet he's obsessing over it so much he makes back-to-back posts to explain it away. It seems like a very scum-paranoid thing to say, and I can't find the town motivation in it. ONLY TIP said that the scum-team guess was stupid, but Zoidberg's going above and beyond to be defensive about it.
150: Completely discredits any work TIP has been doing, and goes on to WIFOM about it for awhile in what's probably his biggest, most ironic post so far. He gives TIP a lot of shit for poor articulation on votes, despite Zoidberg's own plays so far.
153: Asks TSO what he thinks of his current two scum-suspects. However, this comes off as fence-sitting, since he hasn't really gone balls-deep on either of them and seems to be gauging who people don't like more. He could have asked TSO anything to further the game, but this post reeks of cynical and opportunistic play.
157: More discrediting of TIP. Doesn't have to explain his own scummy actions unless TIP writes something that makes him want to explain his own scummy actions? What bullshit. He's just scumslipping left and right and because TIP isn't articulating a hard case on him, he's lording it over the dude while devaluing his voice.
158: More discrediting, strawman, bastardizing arguments against TIP. Do you not see the problem with this? TIP asked him to explain the town motivation behind his plays so far, to which he explodes, discredits TIP as much as possible, and doesn't explain anything. This sort of play is highly anti-town and OMGUS-reeking.
161: More of the same TIP discrediting/tunneling/bullshit.
163: Setup speculation, but worth turning an eye to because it establishes that Zoidberg is familiar with games on this site, and even with the common fake-claims given to scum. Since Zoidberg is familiar with games on this site, his earlier multi-ball slip is all that more obvious, since it's not mere speculation, but him asserting that there is a three-man scumteam, and, ergo, a multiball setup. Since this is knowledge only scum would have for sure, it's a scum-slip, rather than null-speculation. Couple that with his insecurities about his slip earlier, and it's easy to see how scummy of a slip it was and how AWARE of it Zoidberg is.
164: Calls for more tunneling, furthers the fence up his ass.
166: Is trying to negotiate himself as town. It's likely that, at this point, he's bussing roflcopter in order to earn towncred. Regardless, this play is entirely cynical, as he's not hunting scum, but simply playing survivalistically.
175: Setting up lynches, trying to make himself a town authority, etc. His case against roflcopter isn't bad, but it doesn't make him any less scummy.
177: Even more discrediting of TIP. Notice that he never makes a case against either, but just says they should be voted because they have poorly articulated cases against him.
179: Pressures Roflcopter for an explanation of his vote, which seems like a town thing to do, but, given the work he's put in so far, this reads as buddying (with MREROLL) and OMGUS play.
201: Trying to put the coffin over TIP's still-breathing head. What a rude dude.
203: Relies on meta to further kick TIP when he's down. It's obvious that TIP isn't going to articulate a huge wall-scroll of why Zoidberg is scum so far.
215: Null.
216: Same as 179.
218: Calls BRO out for being scummy, but doesn't do too good of a reason explaining why. As we all know, BRO flipped town, so Zoidberg was off on this mark.
225: More TIP tunneling.
227: More TIP tunneling.
229: More TIP tunneling. I actually like this series of questions, and it'd be pretty good if Zoid hadn't fence-sat between TIP and Roflcopter all game and spent forever tunneling one or the other.
237: Noticing that the TIP wagon isn't gaining any kinetic force, he decides here to swap to Roflcopter. While his explanation for tunneling TIP is all good and such, it doesn't explain his calls for votes on the guy. What if TIP got lynched for an early day lynch? Zoid wouldn't have to play this "well I was pressuring the noob cus they are hard to read" hand.
269: Fucks up his quote of TD's 258 argument because he was just anxious as hell to bust out his "BUT GUYS I WAS JUST TROLLING" counterpoint. What a farce.
270: Null. Couldn't even preview to get his quotes right, was too quick to try to shut down TD's accusation with his flimsy 'trolling' defense.
280: More irony. Zoidberg gives TIP shit for not building cases, despite the fact Zoid hasn't built a single case yet. He's just played reactively and constantly disenfranchised/OMGUS'd players.
303: Re-caps his wagon. Survivalistic? Check. Cynical? Check. Is doing pro-town work outside of OMGUS'ing? No? Oh, man, Zoid, it's amazing to watch you chase your tail. He's also painting his setup speculation as a response to MS's 114, but the post I have an issue with is the multi-ball soft-claim in 125--not the speculation he had in 126. He's tripping all over himself trying to cover every base he made when he 'trollingly speculated' things about the game. His case on Roflcopter here, though? Terrible. It's filling in the blanks between one point to the next, and making assumptions as to why rofl put an empty vote on him. It's a terrible OMGUS for all the wrong reasons.
304: More of the TIP tunneling sort of action as before, but pointed towards roflcopter.
305: More speculation/lynch-ordering. It's just not that cool, and he doesn't articulate -why- TD would be rofl's partner.
309: A lot of Zoid's posts are like this one from here out. They're largely pulling away from attention in other areas and begging for it in his OMGUS-ridden wagon. It's buddying and cynical, and he doesn't have to do any work, just ask other players what they think until they come up with a plausible case that he can latch on to. From here on out, I'll just flag these posts as 'Zoidberging'. They're usually along the lines of "Hey, vote for roflcopter, please."
314: Zoidberging
317: Zoidberging. To be fair, this is the first worth-while conversation Zoid's had with another player. Too bad it's to support his weak OMGUS maybe-a-bus wagon.
318: Zoidberging
323: Zoidberging. It's also worth noting that he slips here as well, mentioning that Psyche has probably escaped to a QT for help. Except most QTs are only open for scum at night. The fact that he's put this forward, combined with his slip and anxiety from earlier? It can't be a coincidence. He clearly knows this is a multiball, Daytime-QT setup and Zoid flipping scum would confirm it for town, which would be awesome.
326: Zoidberg, always on the defensive, explains that his last large theme game had a daytime QT, so this one could as well. Sure--base everything in this game off of the single other game you played. Or, you know, Zoid actually just slipped.
327: Zoidberging
362: Zoidberging. Also setting up lynches, etc. Also calls a Vig before the shot. Durhurdurhur.
366: Seems like more use of a meta-defense. I hate the thing.
381: Zoidberging.
383: More Vig talk, which is -reaaaaally- strange in retrospect, but I don't know what to make of it. He's committing to nothing here other than his usual "TIP is a shit player" approach.
384: Zoidberging
419: More TIP bashing, Vig speculation, and general zoiberg nonsense.
420 BLAZE IT YOLO
: Zoidberging, doesn't even refer to the 'question' that rofl hasn't answered.
