Oook here we go. This is going to be spaghetti, but there's nothing for it.
Because I went to bed shortly before the game started. Comi's game start post was 1:04 AM my time; I went to bed a bit before 1 AM last night. Then I went to work, and had several meetings in the morning. I saw AL's (the final) confirmation before I hit the hay, so I figured I would be missing the first several hours of the game - but there was nothing for it.
(Preventing this kind of situation, for myself and as much as possible for my players, is why I set the start/end times in The Rumor the way I did, with zero allowance to float.)
All there was to talk about there, had already been talked about from my point of view. I saw nothing further to contribute.
The first part isn't your fault. I get that.
However, the idea that everything had been talked about and therefore you had nothing to contribute is asinine. You can always give your take on events- your take is inherently going to be independent from other people's takes, because you yourself are gving them and you have a different perspective. Everything is going to get commented on by a party; that doesn't mean that another party might not have a perspective on it worth sharing. Otherwise we'd just look at an interaction and go- yep! Nothing else to say about this one, since both parties commented! We're going to cover this again, I know. But I thought I'd point it out now.
LMBF had given a defense and it had been accepted (at least by Riki) before I even made my first after-game-start post. Yes I had no analysis because I saw nothing worth analyzing yet. Notice that I was also lightly arguing against the point of D1 lynch "pressure", because I perceived no such point. Your accusation has revealed a flaw worth analyzing, though.
I find it fascinating that you can talk about not having anything to analyze when you yourself note something that you could analyze. What do you think about the defense? What do you think about people's reactions to it? Overall,
what is your take on the game as it is?
So far these are just cheap excuses, to be frank. "Everything had been talked about by someone". "The event had already well occurred". Neither of these are reasons for another player to not comment on them. Everything should be open for comment in this game by all parties; you're a veteran to this game, I feel like you should realize this. That content analysis isn't somehow isolated or contained or guarded to a select few. It's wide open, baby.
You say there's a lot of content - enough that for a player to have not commented on it makes them worth lynching. I have just reread the same thread you have, from start of game until now, and I call you a liar on that point.
For evidence, one need look no further than to see that most of the other players have not yet given extensive commentary either, and we can presume (based on balance calculations, that scum typically auto-win once they are majority, and on prior games here) that most of the players are not scum. You cite the LMBF wagon, which appears to have been resolved (just waiting on people to find someone else to vote for; Cyricubed and Ellf voted for afterward but did not seem to notice that LMBF had given a defense). Your poking Lizard Knight and Nictis is something for them, not me, to respond to. And so on.
lol
First of all, I might be willing to grant your point. However, that doesn't actually make me a liar? It means that those players also had posts worth commenting. So! I decided to check the players that had more posts than yours, or the same.
Nictis: Has commented on the LMBF affair, has engaged in a response to me in a moment of minor scumhunting. (I would give the same to you but you really aren't scumhunting at all lol)
Terrabrand: Hasn't commented on as much as I'd like, but did comment on the LMBF affair.
Lizard Knight: Has engaged with me regarding LMBF, commented on LMBF independently, commented on my mild pressure on cake, and other matters.
Rikimaru: Has commented on LMBF, and defend Lizard Knight from my attacks.
Pawn Lelouch: Has not commented on the relevant events I cited.
letmebeefree: Has commented on own lynch, obviously. In depth. I'm also willing to give lmbf a little wiggle room due to how they play.
So you have 1 example out of 6 users that have contributed around as much as you. Not less, really, given that this is pure deflection onto me and your Nictis vote is nothing, but around as much. However, Pawn's whole contribution doesn't even equal 100-150 words, let alone the 300 you racked up in your two content posts. To compare the two of you would be absurd.
So there is nobody that is comparable. Nobody that has posted roughly as much as you have (Pawn has posted less), and has contributed the same amount. Many of these players did only comment on the LMBF incident, but at least they commented on it. They provided their views on the game. They actually engaged and did something. You didn't even do that. You have done absolutely nothing, while given plenty of opportunity. You could have easily done more than poke at Nictis.
Do you have absolutely no reads in the game before you deflected onto me? Absolutely none? Because it isn't just commenting on events, you know, you could also comment on reads. You chose to not do that. You chose to not reveal how you felt about any players in the game, instead focusing on Nictis for garbage reasons.
As further evidence: we're barely on page 6, after starting on page 3. Only 5 players have 10 or more posts in the entire thread by now, and quite a few have still only made signup and confirmation posts. A lot of the conversation has been on meta issues - what you call "no content" since they don't directly relate to suspicion on people in this particular game. Even aside from whether there's content worth commenting on, there simply isn't that much content to comment on, period.
I listed potential content. You acknowledge that it is content, you just handwave it for reasons. Also I apologize, you're right. You were bombarding the posts with theory, not meta issues. Meta issues can lead to valid discussion, theory is just filler, though admittedly warranted in this case, at least in the first post (especially since I said I didn't want to debate the issue). Call this lying or goalpost shifting if you want, it's a legitimate terminology error i've been making in this game before now, and I apologize for that.
And a lot of players not having a lot of posts is not an excuse to not have any thoughts on the game, I'm sorry. You don't need to have a lot of posts to leave an impression. Even if you do want a lot of posts, as you yourself admit, there are players with a decent post count (and I think 10 is a bit deceptively high.) You have no thoughts on them other than your Nictis spite vote? You think these players have been posting about literally nothing, and therefore you have no way to generate thoughts on them? You don't think they've been engaging in things that might be worthy of comment, when there are five players with over 10 posts? Really?
I'm repeating myself, but you have literally no reads? None? Aside from the read on me which is just LAL which is based on deflection because nowhere in my post did I lie?
You have no case. Your case is largely composed of excuses, and arguments that collapse under scrutiny. You accuse me of lying but nowhere did I lie. In fact, if I had wanted, I could have argued I made a mistake. But I didn't do that. Because I genuinely believe you're deflecting hard right now, and I find my vote all the more justified.
