Newbie 2016: Snapdragons (Game Over)

[Homura]

Hello.

VOTE: LuckyLuciano

[Homura]

Are you actually unironically pushing that angle?

[Homura]

It depends heavily on context. I'm onsite often playing in multiple games. Sometimes I post in all of them actively. Sometimes I'm focused on one game because it's in a critical state. Sometimes I'm just taking a step back from a particular game to let the thread breathe and see what directions other players are looking to take the game in.

I think dipping the moment a non-RVS wagon starts up on you, despite posting after the wagon started (in other words, knowing that the wagon is there), is sketchy. I'm also confused as to how people don't read the deletion of her profile pic as conceding. She deliberately logged on to delete her profile pic. Not to post, not to lurk, but to

delete

her pic. She didn't replace it, she

deleted

it and left again. That seems to be as close as you can get to closing your account on this site. Does newbie town effectively delete their account when called scum?

But why did you assume that it was scum!Blopp essentially ragequitting after the game has progressed two pages over... literally any other explanation?

[Homura]

Like, speaking as someone who's played and spectated in Newbie games for almost a year — I've never seen newbscum just flat-out throw because they were caught. They might lurk out of the game or forget the site exists, but you're making an absurd leap of logic to assume that the removal of their avatar was because they were caught scum making a concession. You're missing me with how you correlated that.

[Homura]

I do find activity on this site by a player which does not occur in the thread(s) in which they are playing to be scum-indicative. In other words, if you're here doing stuff (on Mafiascum) but not posting in the game you're in I find that suspicious. I hate to keep referencing my last game, but it's my only frame of reference. In my last game there was a player whose activity/behavior outside of our game thread was distinctly different than it was inside it. I voted for that player, the wagon got to L-1, and then the player was replaced. That slot ended up being scum.

In my own last game a player was wagoned for being active on their alt while ignoring the game itself. They were town.

Like the absence of evidence as evidence tell, I dislike this activity tell as the sole basis of a scumread unless in complement with other more concrete scumtells. Maybe I'm biased, though, as someone who prefers spectating games over playing in them myself.

[Homura]

Why does a player log back into the site, delete their avatar, and log off? We're working off theories here, give me an alternative theory. If you are going to dismiss my theory, provide one of your own. If you don't think this is a topic worth talking about, pick something that is worth talking about and bring it to the forefront.

I don't have one. Just think you're reading too much into something that could have a non-game-related reason for occurring.

[Homura]

72, what's your reasoning behind your vote on Blopp?

[Homura]

Says the pot to the kettle.

[Homura]

I guess Homura is too cool to answer my questions or respond to my vote.

87

[Homura]

That's exactly why I tone read you as town. The flow of ideas sounds natural

See this as well.

[Homura]

It is all well and good to try to be the cool 500IQ anime protagonist, Detective Conan level scumhunter. However, what is much cooler, much more respectable, would be to actually help town. A mysterious, secretive, low impact town member might aswell not be town but have an entirely neutral role.

I know this is referring to Raya, but I feel called out myself.

This is more of an unrelated note, but I think my recent play has been a lot more reticent partly due to the image I wanted to project on this account and partly because of the stifling impact the pandemic had on me mentally. Like to start being more proactive like my earlier games.

[Homura]

Might be applicable to half the playerlist at this rate.

[Homura]

72, what's your reasoning behind your vote on Blopp?