first of all I apologies for the delay... family visiting and organising my wedding devoured my free time in the last two days.
My point was that by continuing to complain about tunneling and whatnot, you are trying to discredit me without advancing the discussion in any way. You've admitted that you see that the scum were strongly motivated to push an alex lynch on D5, and you've said that you strongly wanted to lynch alex on D5 under the claim of "I had town reads on PatB/thil and an SK read on alex" (unprovable), yet you have not conceded that I have legitimate reasons to suspect you because of this. Sure, you "answered" my points in the sense that you gave the answer I would have expected scum to give. Do you at least see where I am coming from here?
The only reason why I did not concede that your reasons are legitimate is that I still have my townread on TMH quite intact, which, if correct, makes you necessarily scum if there are 2 left.
But you are perfectly right on one thing: your case is acceptable. None of your assertions is impossible, but none is conclusive either, and you try to present them as conclusive without the tiniest doubt. Which makes the difference between scum tunneling and town tunneling. Town starts from a hypothesis ad investigates it, especially on possible lylo. Scum starts from a conclusion and push its until they get the mislynch done.
Inferring Samus's flavour was extremely easy, and it only took some common sense and a little googling of the name Samus. Even if the Dark Samus speculation had turned out to be mistaken, Aran Samus was still a bounty killer who claimed to have no killing role. As easy as this.
Let's talk more about your analysis of D5 for the moment. Given that you admitted that the scum would have strongly wanted to lynch alex on D5 (especially if they had inside info that made him more likely to be the SK), do you find TMH scummy because he helped you push that wagon and appears to have the same excuse you do? Why or why not? Given that I was against the alex wagon, and Looker, being a replacement, only threw his vote on at the end when the deadline was an issue, what do you think our motivations were at the time (mine moreso than Looker)? Are those motivations consistent with scum?
No. I did not and do not find him scummy for that. As I said, every half-competent scum would have assumed the existence of a vig. As scum, with a fake-claimed sensor, you cannot just cross-fingers and assume that chk's kill came from a JOAT who had already claimed all his actions and didn't mention a killing power. Therefore, it was extremely likely that the 1vs1 (which scum knew to be real) would have resolved before lylo, and it would have been suicidal for scum to support PaTB's original suggestion of hunting the sk the way he did.
Which also answer your last question: scum-kdub realises that weirdalexv was the big wagon and tried to distance from PaTB. Someone has to hammer: Looker is fosed by some players (one name: bunny), he is more expendable than kdub. [sidenote: before his last posts, I was still able to accept the idea of Looker town... not any longer, tho]
You never did link me to the game where you were an SK and could joint-win with the scum. I want you to do so because I am genuinely curious. It's such an unusual thing to see in a game that I suspect it was a case of a draw scenario or a non-standard SK win condition, obviously different from a joint win in the sense you were talking about. I noticed that you tried to back out of this with your "if I'm stupid for thinking that..." thing, but I think you just don't want to admit that it was a bad excuse. You don't strike me as a dumb player, you actually strike me as a fairly competent one, so excuse me for doubting your claimed thought process there. If the game you played really did allow for this possibility, I'll concede the point.
No. It does not. I have been an idiot. What the game allowed was a
SK SOLO WIN in case of scorched earth. I was completely wrong. Still, I genuinely thought this was an option until I re-read my old PM ten minutes ago. I even celebrated my win as "sk SOLO win" in my wiki page (you can check the versions to see that it was not modified recently)...
I guess I just gave you a further reason to suspect me. Meh. It's just what happened and I cannot change it. I guess I was mislead by the fact that on epicmafia SK can regularly joint with mafia... I regularly played there for over 3 years, my last account is named Temperature and my avatar is identical with my avatar on this site. I guess it's a very weak argument, but unfortunately it's true, and I won't add anything to it.
I concede to you that in BOTH games I played as SK I could not joint win. Still, I thought I could, even when I was playing the game. It's a mere and fortunate coincidence that I decided to eliminate the last scum and keep claiming vig to the final win.
@everyone, but especially esurio. I can guarantee regular activity (although a little delayed) in the next two days; the last day before deadline will be harder for me: weekends suck two weeks before getting married. Consider this as you plan your posting activity.