On April 24 2012 12:18 gonzaw wrote:Is it against the rules to talk in this time?

No, but thanks for helping me read less text. Anyways, I seem to be falling into the red again, so let's get to business.
On April 24 2012 09:16 gonzaw wrote:Sentinel
I think he's
scum.Here is his first "important" post:
(All the ones before that one were just useless filler.)
<<My first important post>>He just posts this to defend himself. All the 1st points of this posts are him making excuses and defending himself against accusations.
Can't argue with that. That's actually the reason I came out of the woodwork in the first place.
He suspects sloosh for some arbitrary reason (sloosh saying "I like Ottoxlul").
Notice how he never mentions his thoughts about sloosh again in the whole game
This is my thought process at the time:
1. Read filters, including sloosh's.
2. Observe that sloosh's is starting out bad because post is scummy.
3. Sloosh makes pretty good argument vs. VE. I buy it and not care about sloosh again.
His next point is an OMGUS against ghost. His reasoning for voting ghost is that ghost thinks he's scum and didn't post "reasoning" behind it, which is bogus since ghost did offer some reasoning behind it here:
<<reasoning behind it here>>
You know what else happens in that post?
Just like I told many other players, he completely ignores the current discussion at hand
He ignores everything about VE, the cases made against him, or the discussion about my "scumslip" and shit.
He ignores the Mattchew vs Paqman deal, and he ignores the BH vs marv deal as well.
His only motivation for making that post is to:
-Defend himself
-Offer a shitty vote on a player that has NOTHING to do with the current discussion
You call that reasoning? I call it a pretty stupid idea to lynch me.
I didn't think enough of VE to address him. All I said is that sloosh's case looks pretty good. Marv (and St. Dan and Brood) I actually get to. And of course I'm going to defend myself, because that's what you're supposed to do when you're under suspicion.
At that point I was more pissed off at ghost than willing to support the town. Otherwise I can't argue with that.
This is the FIRST post in the whole game where he actually
discusses the current events:
Show nested quote +On April 22 2012 11:04 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:Marv, not counting his first 5-10 posts, hasn't actually done anything worth the lynch. I mean, if he was on the guillotine and I had to give ONE reason to lynch him, it would be fluffing. But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt because it pales in comparison to:
+ Show Spoiler +On April 21 2012 20:13 BlazingJitsu wrote:Marvellosity. Let me talk to you. No correction let me talk AT you.
what are you doing this game? Let's look at
your filter+ Show Spoiler +On April 21 2012 09:05 marvellosity wrote:Mattchew, I thought we were gonna have a long, happy, and romp-filled relationship, then you make me click on multiple spoilers.
On April 21 2012 10:23 marvellosity wrote:
I've tried to think of a bunch of different scenarios and I've not yet managed to picture one where mafia couldn't claim the same situation. The only way a vigi really clears himself is by shooting scum :/
On April 21 2012 10:33 marvellosity wrote:
Holy gonzaw post. Nice
^--- These posts are short and worthless.
Show nested quote +On April 21 2012 10:04 marvellosity wrote:On April 21 2012 09:58 Mementoss wrote:
I agree with johnnywup I dont think this is productive or the time to talk about this hypothetical stuff. For all we know there is no vigs or trackers. Ya never know, could be 3 jailkeepers. You can't assume which roles are in the game.
What? The vigilante-godfather-miller-weirdthing is the only strange mechanic in the game. Before things get properly rolling is absolutely the right time to talk about its implications.
^--- this post is actually correct, but interestingly, despite the fact that it's the right time to talk about the game mechanics... you never talk about the game mechanics. You ask some unhelpful questions and echo worthless obvious shit other people have said, but otherwise you're deadweight.
Where's your contributions, Marv? Where's the discussion that it is "absolute the right time" to talk about? or do you only have inane questions?
Show nested quote +On April 21 2012 10:29 marvellosity wrote:On April 21 2012 10:25 VisceraEyes wrote:On April 21 2012 10:23 marvellosity wrote:
I've tried to think of a bunch of different scenarios and I've not yet managed to picture one where mafia couldn't claim the same situation. The only way a vigi really clears himself is by shooting scum :/
Actually, a vigi only really clears himself by shooting a GOON. Hitting a GF will result in WIFOM about what happened to his shot (GFs are night-kill immune).
Right, so scum could claim their shot was blocked on some random townie and WIFOM it up. Gotcha.
So, are there in fact any GOOD circumstances to make a vig shot?
^=== HOLY SHIT this question is bad. holy shit. Of course there's good circumstances to make a vig shot! SHOOT A SCUM GUY. Christ. Even if you shoot a godfather, at least that's a data point (not quite a DT check's worth, because it might hasve been roleblock), and if you shoot a goon, hey, you shot a goon.
Are you TRYING to be as unhelpful as possible? Are you TRYING to actively inhibit our blue roles? Surely if so it's through neither quality of prose nor persistence in communicating the ideas contained therein with your miniscule cumuluative post length.
Typically this is where I say "you can do better, marv" but really, ANYONE could do better. You're shitting on the town and trying to build up a post count without saying ANYTHING.
You're lurking in plain sight.
##vote: marvellosity.
-Blazinghand
Especially the part about a good time to make a vig shot. First off, the tone of BH's post is like sulfuric acid to my lemon juice. I've never, ever, seen him post like that before. Second, BH should have more of a problem with VE. Marv asked a stupid question? Big fucking whoop. We've all done it at one point or another, it's not a death sentence.
Are you TRYING to be as unhelpful as possible? Are you TRYING to actively inhibit our blue roles? Surely if so it's through neither quality of prose nor persistence in communicating the ideas contained therein with your miniscule cumuluative post length.
Unwarranted, this is.
Is wishy washy regarding marv, and here is where the fun begins:
In the next few posts, Sentinel starts into a "suspicion-spree", spouting names of players and players and how he finds them slightly suspicious or is wishy washy regarding them
Here are the posts:
BH: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=329128¤tpage=23#457Daniel: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=329128¤tpage=23#459Brood: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=329128¤tpage=23#460Dan and Brood had shit posts but I gave them the benefit of the doubt since they had so little, and by calling them out for that I would be a hypocrite. Red but redeemable.
He's wishy washy about them or suspicious about them, but doesn't mention them at all later (he only mentions Daniel and Brood one more time, nothing else), or pressure them, or discuss them, or posting more thoughts about them. He just soughts suspicion on those players and then forgets about them.
His initial suspicion of sloosh falls in this category as well.
Erm, sloosh was in my first post?
I actually mentioned them again in my vote on VE:
Now comes his vote on VE:
Show nested quote +On April 22 2012 22:01 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:
Ok. What the hell is a "non-cooperative Jailkeeper"?
Coupled with trying to sway townies so much over the course of this thread, I feel no shame in voting VE.
##Unvote: ghost_403
##Vote: VisceraEyes
St. Dan is next on my list. As for Brood, his last post was fluff but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
Really? Here is his reasoning for voting VE:
Show nested quote +Ok. What the hell is a "non-cooperative Jailkeeper"?
Coupled with trying to sway townies so much over the course of this thread, I feel no shame in voting VE.
Notice how this is
the first time in the game he mentions VEHe never mentioned when VE called me out and started his "lynch gonzaw!" crusades,
I wasn't here for that and skimmed the thread
nor mentioned him when I and sloosh posted cases against him,
I wasn't here for that and skimmed the thread
or when other people mentioned him.
He mentions him only after he claims, and what does he say? Almost nothing.
His "What the hell is a..." statement is useless since it doesn't state anything about his opinion on the matter.
I thought it was pretty obvious that I was indignant at his claim and didn't believe it.
His "Coupled with......" statement is just very vague and doesn't really say anything about VE's alignment.
Apart from that he doesn't say anything else about VE, he doesn't post more thoughts about VE, or about other current discussions about VE either.
You can bust me for lack of content but I think the message was pretty clear. "Bullshit, you're scum and I'm voting you for it. Do I really need to work on my word choice that much?
Oh, yeah he also mentioned my case about Risen a little bit:
Show nested quote +On April 23 2012 06:12 [UoN]Sentinel wrote:I'm reading gonzaw's post and the first two bullets in the end are characteristic of more than one person. Also, since a huge part of the argument is he's not posting like he usually does as town, could you pull some quotes depicting what you think Risen's "normal" posting is like. Or at least link me to the filter of a Mafia game he was in and I'll take a look.
Also switched my vote in the thread because apparently I forgot to do that

...but is completely wishy washy about it, fails to make an actual opinion on it, and only serves to "ask" about Risen's past games.
Then when layabout actually goes through the effort of linking to said games, Sentinel doesn't mention it at all nor mentions Risen at all.
Do you want me to start posting "Oh. Ok. Yeah, that make sense, carry on." every time I've felt that way in the thread? Because really on a lot of things, all I can really start saying is "Yeah, I agree with this." because they've pretty much got the whole subject covered.
Conclusion:
[list]
[*]Sentinel is just posting to avoid the spotlight. When he posts he either just defends himself against accusations, he posts fluff and filler about useless things (like that "QT=/=PM" post), or posts wishy-washy stances on other players
Yeah, I'm guilty of doing that. Can't say anything about that.
[*]He ignores all current discussions and posts things that are irrelevant to them. He talks about players that have nothing to do with the discussion (and like said before in a wishy-washy manner), he talks about current events way too late and doesn't provide any new (or even remotely useful) content regarding it
[*]Starts fighting with ghost to disrupt the thread, starts FoSing him but after they keep fighting he fails to take a stance on the ghost subject, he just argues with him for the sake of arguing.
Again, I was pissed. If I was scum I wouldn't be pissed because ghost would be telling the truth and I would be only bullshitting.
[*]He is "suspicious" and wishy washy about a lot of players and never makes the effort of mentioning them again or contributing more thoughts about them.
My total was three?
[*]He votes VE without any reasoning and only based on VE "trying to sway townies", and nothing else
Yadda yadda yadda end of argument