Day 1:
Pushes for both bf and MM, to distance from Aces. Golden calls him on it, this is his response:
MovingPictures07 wrote:
Golden wrote:I'll add to this, because I think I should get this out in case something goes wrong.
Aces was around the thread and on the site plenty after he stopped posting. Eventually he backed off, hoping that suspicion of him died away and if he let it go I would stop posting about him and the lynch would go another way.
Shortly after, MP comes in and starts pushing for an MM lynch. He takes the heat off Golden v Aces (he doesn't see anything there), and makes several pushes to lynch MM. He doesn't vote for MM, but Aces does.
If Aces is bad, I think MP has done a very classic team tactic to get the heat off Aces and put it on someone else. If we were to lynch Aces today and he's bad, we'd do well to back it up with MP tomorrow.
This is an interesting theory, but it's wrong because I'm not bad.
You misunderstand me. I was not pushing an MM lynch. I expressed my thoughts not only about MM but about every other player about whom I had thoughts. I said I intended to vote BF or MM, but I thought my intention was that I was leaning more toward a BF vote because I actually find his behavior more suspect. Re-read what I've said and let me know if you think that was not the case.
You say I saw nothing between you and Aces and that is true. I haven't played with you or Aces in a long time, and I'm accustomed to Aces being quiet and not aggressive. I saw him aggressive in Death Note, and I won't elaborate since the game is ongoing and I have inside knowledge, but inevitably that influences my viewpoint of him. I don't have a read on either of you at the moment. How is that taking the heat off of you and Aces?
Now, with that said, I do find MM's self-vote and leave trick counterproductive, and while I do think a vote for him is based on principle (as rabbit astutely observed), but I also think a vote for him made sense in-game as well. If someone is going to vote out the player on D1 who had contributed little to baddie hunting, surely MM would be a candidate.
I don't understand how I was the one pushing an MM lynch when many players latched onto the comment made by LC. I merely expressed my thoughts about self-voting and MM's lack of baddie hunting.
I am a bit shocked how many folks voted for MM, but I don't see why they shouldn't have. It does make me a bit nervous though, especially Aces, who I was almost certain was going to vote for you.
You'll notice that he sidesteps Golden's (accurate) point that MP's pushing of MM was a way of turning the conversation away from Aces. Cleverly, he instead FURTHER turns the conversation away from Aces by pretending like Aces is some vague and mysterious character that he couldn't possibly have an opinion on, and that also he's hosting him so he shouldn't comment (more on this later), and that what we should REALLY be talking about is MM and how many people are voting for him and who started the train and....Aces, who is Aces??
Soon after, MP (who, you'll recall was previously unable to form an opinion on the mysterious Aces and unwilling to talk about his play in an ongoing game) pops in to drop in this one-liner that is a "casual" and heavily caveated defense of Axes (a defense that is very consciously and carefully worded so, if called on it later, he can deny that it's a defense at all but rather that he was just providing context):
MovingPictures07 wrote:Rabbit, if it helps, Aces played Death Note almost exactly as he has now, and he helped lynch a civilian. He was NKed, so his alignment is unknown.
Hmmmm. It seems MP actually has a pretty precise opinion on Aces (and is totes willing to talk about his ongoing game) when it can be used to help justify Zomb's "huge asset" comment and take Some of the heat of his teamies....
Later (after he's already thrown his vote away on bf), he rabidly jumps on fs in defense of zomba, and then vehemently denies he was defending zomba (lies!):
MovingPictures07 wrote:fingersplints wrote:I'm voting zombrella in case I fall asleep before the lynch is over. I don't see how she could say Aces is a huge asset and is now backpedaling away. I am actually very excited to play with Aces, as I don't think I have in years, but he hasn't posted a lot and I don't see him as contributing significantly more then the other two she mentioned. And I don't see how one civvie death would be more important then another. What if Ace has a lousy ability and llama has a game changing one
I don't know. Something is just not sitting right with me there.
Woah, wait a minute. Didn't you voice some suspicion (differentued from mine) of BF earlier, after previously saying you didn't want to vote for him because it was his first game back in a while, and THEN later say you could see yourself voting MM for his self-vote.
Where does this come from? Why did you not mention either of those previous thoughts of yours at all?
This pinged me.
MovingPictures07 wrote:thellama73 wrote:Geez, MP. If you love Zombrella so much, maybe you should just marry her. Snowman's not around, you know.
I'm not defending Zomba; I'm calling out splintseu for inconsistencies and I would like her to explain. Do you not agree with my observations?
Whoa, nelly!! Llama's post was CLEARLY jokey and light hearted, but MP panics and is all like "I'm not defending zomba, what're you talking about? Why would I defend zomba! It's not like she's on my team and totally just messed up and called our other teammate a huge asset or anything!".
Overreaction much? Llama didn't even use the word "defend". MP freudianly provided that one on his own.
Then we have this last post for the day, in which he once again denies having an opinion on Aces, but again subtly defends him by suggesting that he can't see him as bad because he's too coloured by DN:
MovingPictures07 wrote:Golden wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:fingersplints wrote:I'm voting zombrella in case I fall asleep before the lynch is over. I don't see how she could say Aces is a huge asset and is now backpedaling away. I am actually very excited to play with Aces, as I don't think I have in years, but he hasn't posted a lot and I don't see him as contributing significantly more then the other two she mentioned. And I don't see how one civvie death would be more important then another. What if Ace has a lousy ability and llama has a game changing one
I don't know. Something is just not sitting right with me there.
Woah, wait a minute. Didn't you voice some suspicion (different from mine) of BF earlier, after previously saying you didn't want to vote for him because it was his first game back in a while, and THEN later say you could see yourself voting MM for his self-vote.
Where does this come from? Why did you not mention either of those previous thoughts of yours at all?
This pinged me.
Pinged me too. Once again, if that comment from zombs is suspicious, then it's suspicious to SAVE ACES.
I just feel like the civvies are spreading their votes all over the show and getting played.
I do admit it's weird. I have to head out now, but with time pending, I'll re-read Aces after I let D1 sink in and let you know if I find anything of note. Upon reading his posts in real time, I don't have an opinion, but I suppose that's true of roughly 75% or more of the players right now for me. Maybe my opinion of him is unfairly being painted by DN and trying to compare it with games I played with Aces years ago where he was much quieter.
My current suspect list is as follows:
1) BF
2) MM
3) Splints
4) juliets
....AND THATS JUST DAY 1!!!!
I'm gonna post this now, because it's getting too long to be wieldly on my phone, but next I'm gonna look at the Bass lunch, the Ninja "lynch", and the zomb lynch...
Stay tuned!