S~V~S wrote:insertnamehere wrote:S~V~S wrote:And looking at the poll, why is INH taking all of those votes? Can I get a Cliffs notes?
People think I'm parroting others opinions and avoiding having actual thoughts on the game.
Here's an actual thought and opinion: Those people are dum dums.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:S~V~S wrote:And looking at the poll, why is INH taking all of those votes? Can I get a Cliffs notes?
I'll try to summarize for Sloonei while he isn't here (I might not have a full grasp).
He felt INH was being disingenuous in his treatment of Ricochet and his interactions with motel room and Sloonei himself. LoRab seemed to agree, I don't quite remember exactly her reasoning though. Rico's vote is self-pres.
Thank you & Thank you.
Since based on Day 1 (i am not caught up enough to go any farther) I would be putting Sloonei in the orange if I were a rainbow lister, which I emphatically am NOT. So I won't be replacing my feelings about INH with Slooneis.
I am OK leaving my vote where it is. I feel bad about both Rico & Eloh tbh.
MovingPictures07 wrote:INH and zebra (and Mac for that matter as well), thanks for trying to elaborate further on your views regarding Rico and others, even though I know you've spoken on this stuff to some degree earlier too. It's helpful that you all seem committed to hunting and engaging with me and others on your perceptions of the thread. I think we have some really good baddie hunting going around this thread, even if there's a lot of disagreement going around. There's a lot to be proud of with respect to effort too.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:insertnamehere wrote:It feels like he decided to back away from his initial "FUCK MAC" stance only after others called him out on it.
I feel like we're reading different threads.
Yeah, same here. I guess I can see that perspective, but I don't even remotely agree with it, and I think Rico's done plenty that is easily compatible with a town-minded outlook, even if initially a very salty one.
But you can reconcile that irrational mindset he clung to on day one with civ Rico, who is not irrational, like, at all?
Can you elaborate on your Sloonei thoughts? He's my top town read right now, so I'm incredibly intrigued in your perspective.
I can absolutely reconcile it. Ricochet (and I mean this with the utmost respect when I say this, Rico, especially since you've been a great friend of mine for yours) has a tendency to get hyper-obsessed with perspectives he doesn't understand, even worse for perspectives he thinks are unfair. I think that extends even beyond this game, but it is especially relevant within this game. I've seen and gotten involved with extensive backs-and-forth with him where he seemed to nitpick over the most minute detail. Furthermore, Rico puts an immense amount of effort into playing this game; even though many of us at this site do that, I think hardly anyone would disagree that Rico puts a LOT of effort into this game. And it's clear from past experiences that Rico gets really frustrated when he spends an immense amount of effort in a game for perceived little or no benefit -- because people suspect him for it, kill him for it, etc. I can understand this feeling very well because I've felt the same way many times in the past. And I think Mac's revelation that he killed Rico because he didn't want to deal with him not only bothered Rico on all of these levels but came across as strictly personal and thus even more bothersome.
I mean, mafia is an inevitably intense game, and I know all of us have had moments where we took something personally when perhaps we shouldn't have. I think Rico's saltyness, even if it was inappropriate to bring into a fresh game especially in the manner in which he sustained his policy lynch position, is completely understandable and in fact more compatible with a town-minded Rico than a baddie-minded one. It's way too much risk for a mafia Rico to undertake; he put himself in the limelight not only immediately, but that incident will follow him for the rest of the game. A rationally-minded baddie Rico would never purposefully undergo such a strategy, but a still-bothered salty civilian Rico would.
Rico can clarify whether my perspective is at all accurate, but even though many of us may struggle to understand why he did it, I think it's totally understandable. Rico isn't a robot, even if he is a generally very rational person. I think he honestly got his feelings hurt about the whole thing, and in combination with the feeling that he gets really bothered at himself and others (in this case, Mac) for investing so much time in a game only to be taken out immediately precisely for it, it seems completely town-compatible and even town-indicative to me, and naturally understandable so to me precisely because I've felt that way so many times myself.
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