Looking for an opportunist? Look no further than fingersplints!
splints' vote record (the fractions are when she voted out of numbers of voters):
Day 1 - misses vote
Day 2 - Bass (2/2)
Day 3 - sig (9/11)
Day 4 - G-Man (5/6) --> LC vote
Day 5 - G-Man (7/13)
Day 6 - misses vote
Day 7 - Black Rock (5/7)
Day 8 - misses vote
Day 9 - nijuu (2/5)
splints is an opportunist extraordinaire. Some of these points may have been already pointed out, but this is also for my benefit to organize my own thoughts. Here we go:
She has gunned for Bass since the beginning of the game, citing his asking too many questions for her taste and not answering her fast enough. Bass is an easy target (as I can attest to participating in such in the last lynch
) because of his playstyle and periodic absences. He doesn't answer every question. It's, of course, easy to say this now that we know his alignment, but it does play a role in looking at people who suspected him. I digress.
She guns for Bass but only votes him once on Day 2, when it wasn't catching on. This is the least opportunistic thing she does all game, but the suspicion itself is easy to hold on to for the majority of the game, which she does. Next day, she leaves herself open to vote for Bubbles, Bass, or sig. Bubbles, because she feels her frustration is "genuine," but doesn't necessarily thinks she's good because of it. This is a trend. Bass, because she's been "suspicious" of him for reasons she stated, seeing if it'll catch on. But, realizing it's not, she says
fingersplints wrote:Golden wrote:I think it's really because we are in a bit of a holding pattern. We need a lynch or two to get some info and get us moving again.
This. I will leave my bass suspicion until tomorrow. I'm
voting sig.
and votes 9th out of 11 for sig. Ooh, how lucky! A baddie! FZ mentioned this point on Day 4 too:
fingersplints wrote:FZ. wrote:Great result!
If I had to choose a voter for Sig from his own team, it would be Splints. I read back through the last hours before the post, and she seemed the one leaving the options open. She talked about 3 potential candidates for a vote: Bass, Bubbles and Sig, threw in some few thoughts why Sig would be a good option, but kept her vote until it was basically a done deal. In my eyes, she was leaving open options and was even talking more about Bass, maybe to get people on board, and when nothing changed, she placed the vote on Sig. This to me, was a classic baddie move. Just wanted to get it out there.
The thing about this being a "classic baddie move" is that it is also what civvies do. Discuss their top suspects in the thread and decide who to vote.
I agree the lynch was basically a done deal, but not quite as the day wasn't finished when I voted and it was still fairly close (plus changeable votes).
I don't expect to be in the clear with my vote by any means, but I don't see why FZ finds it so suspicious. She is correct about one thing though. I absolutely would have liked people to get on board with a bass vote because I think he is a baddie. I think his lynch would also have given us a baddie. I'm fairly confident I will be voting either him or Gman today.
The vote wasn't close at all - the person with the second highest number of votes was Bubbles with FOUR. She was 21st to vote, as well. And what happens to FZ? NK'ed.
Next day, she votes G-Man, with no prior mention of
why she suspects him (only that she suspects him along with Bass), but takes time to say "I don't think Bubbles is bad" several times. This is how she defends a G-Man vote over LC:
fingersplints wrote:I'm not convinced LC is a civvie, but I can't see Gman being one at all. I don't have a lot of time tonight and am not sure I will be around much more before the lynch
This isn't even an explanation, but it's a great way to not vote for a teammate by jumping on the next best thing without being noticed. Next day is easy - vote G-Man again. Oh, how lucky! Another baddie!
And now, this, THIS is opportunistic as fuck:
fingersplints wrote:I think Timmers makes a pretty good case on BR. Her response doesn't really make me feel better. I don't think deflecting by accusing Timmer of deflecting is a great defense
I also agree with the points being made on TinyBubbles, and I think the possible connections there are easy to see. I don't see this as the same civvie game I have seen from her before.
I need to reread Dfaraday and MetalMarsh. I felt like MM was a bit aggressive when questioning me earlier about the tie/Epi comment, which struck me as odd at the time, but not enough to be suspicious of.
Dfaraday always sounds a bit suspicious to me, and i am also curious to hear a bit more about his suspicion of me.
I have been reevaluating my suspicion of bass. a lot of my suspicion was based of him being careful about his mentioning LC, but since that team seemed to try and kill him last night I feel a bit better about him. I second (or third or what not) the questioning if he knows how he survived.
She has been defending Bubbles all game. She has been defending BR all game. But suddenly she sees timmer's case as valid? And suddenly Bubbles isn't playing her civvie game? Your game-long Bass suspicion needs "re-evaluation"? And none of these other "suspicions" are committal whatsoever - they're all easy ways to say, "I was suspicious!" if they flip bad or "I wasn't that suspicious!" if they flip civ. They're all fabulous ways to vote wherever the tide takes you and hide in the crowd, whatever happens.
And this is exactly what she does. Votes Bubbles. Votes BR. And gets away with lynching a civilian, while oh! How lucky! Lynching a corrupted civ. Lookin' good, splints!
And let's talk about jumping on me. No prior pings of me. No suspicion. No comment on Sloonei's case or anyone's comments about me while they happen. But boy, when she's directly asked about me:
fingersplints wrote:JaggedJimmyJay wrote:fingersplints wrote:JaggedJimmyJay wrote:fingersplints wrote:@ SVS - I am looking into your ninja points. I think her responses sounded good, but as has been pointed out, they usually do.
what is your stance on ninja right now?
Leaning mafia atm
Why?
Rereading some of her posts, she calls sloonei's case on her nonsensical, but I think that it made sense. It seemed very dismissive. She also mentioned having more time and coming back later, but only has really added to the cobalt train.
The Cobalt train that you didn't bother to vote in. How convenient. And how convenient of you to jump on the first nijuu train a few hours before the poll ends with no prior mention or interaction with me. And what can she do in either case with this lynch? When Bass flips civ, she can say, "Well, I stopped suspecting him
" and when I flip any alignment she can say
fingersplints wrote:
She is very articulate, and can easily sway others with her words. And I think she plays a very good baddie game
Looking for an opportunist? Go for splints.
I will be voting for you now.
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Fiddler on the Roof
. I see many votes are on sig; I will go that way as well, today (I feel better about voting him than TBubbles). I like the cases presented on him from what I last read, and I had some bad feelings come from him, too. Sorry I'm not particularly articulate and for the drive-by vote.
and I think voting for either will give us good info, but I gotta vote some way and LC's been on the chopping block for quite some time.
Bass
) because I actually want to listen to an answer.
