Going by memory, I am not taking the time to revisit my first newbie game and do a post by post comparison.In post 245, innocentvillager wrote: So my question here is, why does ironstove look like you in your first newbie game (I'm assuming you were town in that game)? I'm assuming you're referring to his later D1 play since you said it recently, which I can reconcile with newbscum play. I'm trying to figure out if ironstove actually has scum!motivation behind these posts or is just confused accusatory townie.
I came to play here after playing the game on another forum (anandtech) which occasionally ran a game. On that forum, it was essentially what is called a "blitz" game over here, each game day was 24-48 hours. Lynches were usually whoever had the most votes at deadline (majority did not end the day early), and nights were short as well. Lots of crazy power roles. Very quick, random games. Reads were a minor part of the game compared to here.
So for my first newbie game, I was in a huge rush to lynch someone, I jumped to conclusions, I assumed any shady behavior was scum (when it can also be gambiting town, or town trying to get a reaction), and ultimately I helped scum win by lynching town.
From what I read, it sounds like ironstove came from a similiar environment of faster paced games, and his style just reminds me of mine.
Now, it could be scum ironstove, sure. But the determining factor to me is what he actually does, not what he says he does.
i.e., acting reckless and voting around wildly and threatening to quick hammer looks scummy, but if he doesn't actually quick hammer, maybe it's just what he considers to be some sort of reaction test. If he *actually did* quick hammer, then I'd have to revise my read and say it does look a lot more like a scum play style.
