In Mafia, I will build my opinion of someone based on their actions, and not someone else's interpretations of those actions. Occasionally I will be moved, but generally I want the person themselves to account for their actions.
Also this isn't just true for Mafia. I will always build my opinion of someone based on their actions, and not what someone tells me about them. If you think that's "punishing for not playing optimally" I think you're horribly disjointing things. Asking someone for an explanation of their actions isn't much of a punishment, and I have given no indication of wanting to lynch Chaotick. I'm just not terribly interested in completely forgoing scumhunting in favour of quicklynching Rawr to end the role shenanigan headache temporarily.
What Rawr wants is to be vigged by Zakeri, to kill me AND Shadoweh AND himself.
This is obviously sub-optimal Town play, I pray the parties involved won't seriously commit to this.
We're burning daylight, so I'm going to say who I feel should be lynched. Feel free to do the same.
Right now, I would like to lynch Serela. I think his play the entire game has been weird and obscure: His dogged insistence on a pet case for the better part of the game while never quite producing reasons to back up that idea, the push several times now to "just lynch someone and get it over with" without really motivating it and the drop that his Night 2 role passed by for extra lulz and shens are things I find scummy. The last one is more of a null tell of acting in a weird way for no real reason, but I think it errs on the scummy side to throw more chaos into a role madness game.
He's scummier than my second choice, SirChaotick, by virtue of active lurking: A lot is said, but how much is really of value?
SirChaotick then requires a more in-depth look since I haven't talked much about him before.
This post and the follow up
here have a few curious lines. In particular I want to call attention to the reason for voting ActionDan in the first post, referring to how "it has nothing to do with the vote being on him" (paraphrased), and the second post has a line involving that it is "risky to vote"... and I notice that he has only been aiming for lurkers there. When he
unvotes, he chooses to remain idle until Shadoweh has said something instead of pro-actively get a suspect. No, I don't count lurkers as suspects.
What he does here is sum up a number of people again, provide a defence for himself (you'll note he's very concerned with how others view him) and then vote the person who voted his Town read. Disagreeing on Town reads isn't exactly Scummy, and it's a chainsaw defence; Voting someone not for errors in their case but for voting someone is almost textbook chainsaw. Just needs more mudslinging and it'd be complete.
What he continues
here is a practised policy of ignoring all active people and going for the weakest people: The 'inactives'. Voting someone for being inactive loses all reason once that person becomes active, but until then it's a pretty safe spot to place your vote. You'll note that all his cases so far have been on people for being inactive and his primary concern has always been people's activity and the amount of stuff they say, but
not their content.
He got called on it and
answers with rhetoric on how a newbieTown would attack the easiest people, and I find it's still overly concerned with how he looks to others. Usually, not always but usually, the ones most concerned with not looking scummy is Scum, so I'm fairly bothered by his intense policy of self-defence combined with only attacking lurkers. (He'd qualify for lurkership.)
Also clearly
calling his mind scumbag is admission of guilt. (This is half-joke, half-serious.) It's a classic Scum strategy of promising reads but never delivering. I'm sad to say that between that post and
this post, he hasn't done anything productive except make excuses for not producing results. There's what LOOKS like a reporter+ some opinions attempt at getting a read, but it's abandoned and doesn't really say much about Raitaki's alignment. Reads more of an attack on me than anything, heh.
His point two
here is again concern with how he appears and it is seriously getting in the way of any scumhunting attempts. There's more of that
here: He does vote me, but with reluctance over how others will view it. After making a huge show and dance about how he needs the analysis, he can really jump to a reason to vote someone there. Incidentally, he jumped third on the bandwagon there when it became fashionable to rage+kneejerk vote me. Third on the bandwagon is Scum (or so the saying goes), and in this case I think there's merit.
There's not much else to say about him except extreme low content and never delivering on Raitaki VS Zakeri. Until Raitaki flipped dead, that is. Red dead, too.
So. tl;dr SirChaotick lurks and never provides content, he's done some scummy shit and even if he's a complete newbie there's still stuff in there newbiescum would do as well. Such as worry overly much about how others would view him, not make cases on anyone and jump a building bandwagon.
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I'm starting to think I should do this instead.
##Vote: Chaotick
