So I needed a break from studying anyway so I just looked through LC's posts this game. Seems my memory was correct. His baddie hunting is lacking and he doesn't make any definitive questions.
I highlight here which statements he's made that are actually definitive suspicions of his own:
Long Con wrote:I was surprised to come back into the thread and see all the votes on nijuu. The poll looked very different from the one I had last seen. I don't think it looks like a save of Llama though, who only had two votes when nijuu got four in a row.
I don't agree with MP that Snow Dog's case sounds forced at all, it's a possibility. It wouldn't be the first time that I've seen a baddie bring up something in the thread that they were hoping someone else would have noticed. I've done it myself before... a night action or lynch reveals something that the baddies wanted the Civvies to be misled by, but no one brings it up! It's very frustrating.
MP's immediate 'no u' vote is what raises my eyebrow more.

And that's really about it. He doesn't even say he thinks I'm bad, ever. He never makes that statement in this game, except here, ironically:
Long Con wrote:How have I had a lack of baddie hunting?
I thought that MP was seeming like a baddie, so I came after him. I thought a Roxy truster might be bad, so I reread them. I found a connection that Roxy and fingersplints might be baddies, and I brought it up.
This is an untrue accusation of me. You expect more of me, I'm sorry, but I was busy for much of this game. You're just accusing me because I've been busy when you say I haven't baddie hunted enough. If you can't see that, then I don't think anything I can say will convince you, and you're the one(s) with tunnel vision.
First, I will highlight every time LC has mentioned me, except for the times above. He has never really pursued me, just tried pushing the thread in my direction without ever saying I'm bad. Here they are in chronological order:
LC's first post about me was the one I quoted at the top, about my apparent NO U onto Snow Dog (which wasn't a no u):
http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/viewto ... 47#p100247
He then votes me on D2:
http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/viewto ... 65#p100265
Then he says this:
Long Con wrote:
Well, that was something. I doubt a Seemer would choose Guido, since he is likely to have secret BTSC with Luigi. At least that's what I assume, since they're joined at the hip.
It's strange to me that MP's main case was based on a supposed goof-up that Bass made, and yet Bass got no votes and FZ got lynched.
"It's strange" and then he makes an observation. Tons of posts like this that don't really give an opinion on what HE thinks happened. More on that later though and back to mentioning me.
Then he votes me in the night poll:
Long Con wrote:Nothing positive about being caught by Frank. I'm voting MP07 for making me read so many pages just to catch up from being gone a few hours, only to find it was a waste of time.
He then says it's "not a lynch" when I get upset, which is weird upon reflection considering he just voted for me in a lynch the day before and apparently thinks I'm bad even though he's never said it.
Long Con wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:Long Con wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:To be fair, yes, I posted way too much and some of the posts are unnecessary. But I don't see why I deserve to receive a vote merely because I was actively baddie hunting when many others weren't. If you think it's because I wasn't being genuine that's another story.
It's not a lynch.
Well, it appears that way, but we don't really know what's going to happen, and it seems to have negative effects.
If there's negative effects, you should suffer them.

I'd be happy to see you suffer them simply for making a sig bet at all. I'm really against sig bets, that, more than anything, makes me suspicious of you.
Apparently he thinks I should suffer them for making a sig bet at all, but doesn't mention EVER here that he thinks I'm bad.
Long Con wrote:Dom wrote:MP, if you were so sure of Bass and a large part of your suspicion of FZ was predicated on her connection to Bass-- why not lynch bass?
Exactly what I was saying:
Long Con wrote:It's strange to me that MP's main case was based on a supposed goof-up that Bass made, and yet Bass got no votes and FZ got lynched.
Maybe MP was actually
that overconfident that he had magically caught a whole baddie team, but it just smacks of convenience to me. Bass was the one who messed up, but that wasn't as important to MP as the fact that he saw that the thread would more easily go for FZ. The Civvie move would have been to lynch Bass first to be sure, since his alignment is the basis of the whole case, but not even MP voted for Bass.
Worthless rhetoric, he basically doesn't say anything here. Just puts out another possibility without even saying he thinks I'm bad, again.
Long Con wrote:I don't know what to do about MP. It's possible he could be a severely mistaken Civvie, but the way he just threw Bass, FZ., and Roxy into the pot just based on Bass' suppose slip-up is just bizarre. Then the sig bet thing, which always makes me suspicious. S~V~S just made a sig bet over in Monopoly Mafia and turned out to be a baddie. I feel like it's a move designed to make everyone believe that you're Civvie, because
no one would ever make a sig bet as a baddie!
I can see the case about Bass seeming to know that MP and not DF was targeted, has Bass addressed this? The thing is, if MP were the targeter, then that would explain why he would be the one to come up with the accusation. No one else caught it.

Or he could be Chick Hicks, not caring who gets lynched. It would be pretty slick, and if he's not a baddie, I don't see MP getting NK'ed any time soon.
Again more worthless rhetoric. He doesn't actually try to get me lynched or say that I'm bad.
Long Con wrote:"Genuine" baddie hunting... I guess that's classified as hunting a baddie who's not you, right MP?
The vote for Made was not opportunistic, it was made when I thought the lynch was a 24-hour one, and I had run out of time. The only reason I made a weak vote like that was that I really had no idea who the baddies were. I did intend to change it, but I didn't have a chance yesterday, I basically got up, went to work, came home, changed, went out for a birthday dinner for my niece and nephew, and went straight from there to play cards, getting home around 11pm, and the lynch was up.
The fact that would try to build a case against me saying I'm "asking the same questions over and over" just brings back my suspicion of you all over again. It's not even true. I asked Bass one time about his point of view on your out-of-control "case" that got him and FZ. killed. I asked it because I didn't want to wade back into the hundreds of posts you made happen to see if I could find it, figured I could get a fresh answer from him before just condemning him.
And as for my "trust of Roxy" that BR asked... I'm not the one who particularly trusts Roxy, that was half the players in the game. I saw nothing in particular that made me trust her any more than any of you, but apparently a lot of other people did. That kind of thing does affect my opinion of her. Then she came in from being silenced while Bass got lynched, with some angry words and fresh points of view, pointing at Made, Ambray, and... someone else as well I think. Without a solid suspicion of my own, Made got my vote due to his analysis of Dom, combined with the fresh Roxy accusation.
It doesn't mean I have any particular trust for Roxy, it meant I was willing to go with her suspicion because it was a fresh point of view that wasn't MP's death train.
Now apparently he tries to "go back" to the suspicion of me. What suspicion of me? He just keeps making statements about me (and others) and asking meaningless questions. He never actually hunts me. If he thinks I'm bad, why is he behaving like this?
Long Con wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:Lol, well, no that's not baddie hunting anyone that's not me. I just mean your hunting has seemed forced and not genuine a lot of the time. I know that's hard to defend against though.
And it's not exactly because you're asking questions, it's more because you kept asking them without adding any of your own input or opinion on the matter.
I hate to be a broken record, but less input from me coincided with a busy time that we were very up-front about. So I can't help you there, I agree, I have given less input than I would have if it had been a free-time time of the year.
Your elaboration re: your trust of Roxy just doesn't make sense to me and elucidates my point. Do YOU trust Roxy? You sort of skirt the question. You're relying too much on other people's opinions, it's just strange.
I don't trust Roxy more than others, but I do like the fresh perspective she brought to the thread when she got unsilenced. After so much MP07-following wrongness in those lynches, I agreed with looking at another perspective.
And I have tried to to some back-reading to see if I could find a baddie, but the only thing I really see there is that maybe Roxy and fingersplints are baddies together. fingersplints was one of the big Roxy trusters, and I believe it was Roxy who mentioned something about 'trusting because of friendship', which originally led me to disregard splints as a "truspect".
Apparently he doesn't think I'm bad because this is what he says.
Long Con wrote:MP, you are someone who is absolutely stuck inside their own head. Play my playstyle off how you want, you're doing nothing but justifying your pre-existing gut suspicion by interpreting what I'm doing so it fits your ideal vision of the game.
Lemme put it bluntly: you're wrong about me. Lynch me and find out, but I promise you it will just be another Civvie lynch.
Never says he thinks I'm bad.
Long Con wrote:I have seen this accusation before, that someone "seems to not legitimately want to find baddies". It's always a sketchy reason, very gut-based, and I think it's probably really easy to decide like you think someone's bad, and then read their gameplay as illegitimate because of it... instead of the other way around.
Same story.
Then here comes the post I quoted above, the second one:
http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/viewto ... 49#p101949 "I thought MP was seeming baddie, so I came after him". Where did he do that?
Total BS.
And here are his other "contributions" and EXACTLY what I've been talking about. He just constantly raises questions that anyone could glean from reading the thread and never gives his own opinions definitively. He is not trying to catch baddies, he's just trying to get by.
Long Con wrote:birdwithteeth11 wrote:I do find it odd that LC said he'd leave his vote on me because he "didn't feel the need" with Ninja ahead of me in the votes. But I'm more likely to give him a pass on it than sabie.
Yeah, that's all I've got so far.
Thanks for the pass, I don't know why you said you find it odd. Maybe you need me to explain "didn't feel the need" a little better. I threw a vote on you to help prompt you to check in, not because I wanted to see you lynched. If I had checked back in and seen that you were going to be lynched, I would have moved my vote like I said I would, because you gave me a reason to. Since you seemed to be out of lynch-danger, I didn't think there was a point, especially since my catch-up on the thread was a big skim in which I saw some
actual suspicions forming. I didn't have time to weigh in and analyze this new development, so I stayed with what I had.
Maybe I don't find it odd because I lived it, but there's nothing really odd there.

Busy times, busy day today, I'll be more able to participate after the next couple of days are over.
No issuance of opinion about BWT or anyone else.
Long Con wrote:
Well, that was something. I doubt a Seemer would choose Guido, since he is likely to have secret BTSC with Luigi. At least that's what I assume, since they're joined at the hip.
It's strange to me that MP's main case was based on a supposed goof-up that Bass made, and yet Bass got no votes and FZ got lynched.
"Strange"? He doesn't even elaborate here or look into it.
Long Con wrote:Dom wrote:I thought my conversation with myself made it pretty clear why I'm likely wrong about MP -- he was targeted for a NK
Was it confirmed to be MP and not DF?
Long Con wrote:Bass_the_Clever wrote:Well I guess I voting snow dog. I think everyone who is voting for me needs to be looked at next lynch.
Did you speak at all about the accusation MP gave to you? I think you did, but please refresh me: did you know it was MP who was targeted? Did you know DFaraday could have been the target?
Why did he ask these anyway? I questioned him on it here and he said:
Long Con wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:Long Con wrote:Bass_the_Clever wrote:Well I guess I voting snow dog. I think everyone who is voting for me needs to be looked at next lynch.
Did you speak at all about the accusation MP gave to you? I think you did, but please refresh me: did you know it was MP who was targeted? Did you know DFaraday could have been the target?
Like this post.
I already went back and forth on this with Bass for like thirty minutes yesterday.
What does this add? Nothing. Bass just can say whatever he wants to now, it doesn't change how he originally posted.
I read through that dizzying number of posts yesterday only once, due to the massive volume in a short time. Although I could remember a number of people, including yourself, calling out Bass for an explanation, I couldn't remember if he had given one before the lynch just turned on FZ.
I'm not trying to "add" anything, I was trying to decide how I felt about your case on Bass when I knew his side.
Anyways, I voted Bass because there was one minute left and he already has the majority of the votes. His explanation sounds reasonable, but it also sounds like what a baddie would say if he slipped up. So I guess we'll find out.
Never even said he thought Bass was suspicious, ever. This was the only time he even acknowledged him, really.
Long Con wrote:I was thinking back over the game, and recalling a flood of trust for Roxy near the start. I thought it might be beneficial to track that trust a little, and see who fostered it, and who followed it. Seems like the kind of thing the baddies might want to get involved with on some level. It follows something I've been looking at for a few games now, the idea of baddies expressing trust in Civvies to get some cred.
Long Con wrote:I didn't find much I thought too interesting in the Roxy trusters. Two were Bass and FZ., one was MP07, and then there's fingersplints, who is Roxy's friend.
I have to vote now because I have to go to work. I'm going to go with Made, partly because Roxy herself agrees with it, partly because of the strange analysis of Dom's play, which seems pretty normal to me. It's pretty weak.
He didn't find anything from this. Again, empty theories without expounding on them. Appearing to baddie hunt without actually doing so. Then he latches onto a Made vote.
Seriously, folks, listen to this:
Long Con wrote:"Genuine" baddie hunting... I guess that's classified as hunting a baddie who's not you, right MP?
The vote for Made was not opportunistic, it was made when I thought the lynch was a 24-hour one, and I had run out of time. The only reason I made a weak vote like that was that I really had no idea who the baddies were. I did intend to change it, but I didn't have a chance yesterday, I basically got up, went to work, came home, changed, went out for a birthday dinner for my niece and nephew, and went straight from there to play cards, getting home around 11pm, and the lynch was up.
The fact that would try to build a case against me saying I'm "asking the same questions over and over" just brings back my suspicion of you all over again. It's not even true. I asked Bass one time about his point of view on your out-of-control "case" that got him and FZ. killed. I asked it because I didn't want to wade back into the hundreds of posts you made happen to see if I could find it, figured I could get a fresh answer from him before just condemning him.
And as for my "trust of Roxy" that BR asked... I'm not the one who particularly trusts Roxy, that was half the players in the game. I saw nothing in particular that made me trust her any more than any of you, but apparently a lot of other people did. That kind of thing does affect my opinion of her. Then she came in from being silenced while Bass got lynched, with some angry words and fresh points of view, pointing at Made, Ambray, and... someone else as well I think. Without a solid suspicion of my own, Made got my vote due to his analysis of Dom, combined with the fresh Roxy accusation.
It doesn't mean I have any particular trust for Roxy, it meant I was willing to go with her suspicion because it was a fresh point of view that wasn't MP's death train.
That bolded and underlined reasoning is BS. No one knows who the baddies are. LC isn't hunting genuinely because he doesn't have to. He's bad.
Long Con wrote:MovingPictures07 wrote:Lol, well, no that's not baddie hunting anyone that's not me. I just mean your hunting has seemed forced and not genuine a lot of the time. I know that's hard to defend against though.
And it's not exactly because you're asking questions, it's more because you kept asking them without adding any of your own input or opinion on the matter.
I hate to be a broken record, but less input from me coincided with a busy time that we were very up-front about. So I can't help you there, I agree, I have given less input than I would have if it had been a free-time time of the year.
Your elaboration re: your trust of Roxy just doesn't make sense to me and elucidates my point. Do YOU trust Roxy? You sort of skirt the question. You're relying too much on other people's opinions, it's just strange.
I don't trust Roxy more than others, but I do like the fresh perspective she brought to the thread when she got unsilenced. After so much MP07-following wrongness in those lynches, I agreed with looking at another perspective.
And I have tried to to some back-reading to see if I could find a baddie, but the only thing I really see there is that maybe Roxy and fingersplints are baddies together. fingersplints was one of the big Roxy trusters, and I believe it was Roxy who mentioned something about 'trusting because of friendship', which originally led me to disregard splints as a "truspect".
It's interesting he says this now because it's the first I heard of it.
He FINALLY makes an attempt to baddie hunt here:
Long Con wrote:I'm not too suspicious of either Made or Snow Dog at this point. Looking more toward Roxy, fingersplints, and maybe Dom after a reread.
I may have worked out a couple of roles, need to watch and see. As for BR, I'm usually blind to her alignment so

But he NEVER explains why he's eyeing any of those players!
I think LC needs to go. If you actually look at what he's saying, his statements are almost always empty statements. They don't contribute anything, but he tries to make it appear like he is, then gets offended when I say he isn't legitimately baddie hunting. That's because he isn't. He's just making empty statements and asking empty questions, never offering up statements like "I think so and so is bad and this is why". Never.
Linki w/ LC: How convenient. Where's the roll eyes smiley?