Sage103082: I bolded. [...]
I see it. ;-P
Sage103082: [...] If you thought yogs to be more likely town why did you vote for him?
You're missing/overlooking the context - at the time I came online there was like half an hour left, IIRC, and I had to make a choice to secure a lynch or let things go to No-Lynch. And after the disaster of game #40, I was not willing to let things go into the No-Lynch direction. But for me, and this is a quite big but, It was not a choice between someone I saw as more likely town and another I saw as more likely scum.
yogsloth was all over the place with his soft and not so soft claims all of D1, which I could quite easily see him do as town; I even considered the case his opening post was a goofy way of soft-claiming Parity Cop to gauge reactions. As the Day progressed, and he kept jumping from role to role, I doubted that he was really any of the Power Roles, but judging from the reactions, he was pretty nicely successful in achieving his goal; he practically confirmed in his post #245 what I was suspecting him to be doing.
Dessimu's play was a lot more reserved than that of his usual vanilla town-self, but lacked the vibe of his scum-play. As I didn't see what made him scummy for others, I checked the previous games during D1, and noticed that Dessimu had not rolled a town-investigative role before. The way he interacted with others, and the way he reacted to trentonlf first, then yougsloth, made me think that he may have rolled the Parity Cop role, and was not all that comfortable with it (rolling Parity Cop as your first investigative role is not exactly ideal, imo).
[Small background parenthesis and related note] Desimu rolled scum in his first game and turned out to be a natural as such, but is quite reserved and a bit lost as town, and as vanilla he comes out and pokes at almost every little thing he sees or "sees". His play this game didn't feel like either of the two to me. Now, you may proclaim that every game is a new game for people to make a new play, but I don't quite believe that we have the ability to reinvent ourselves from scratch with every new game, and that some aspects of one's "standard" play/approach manifest one way or the other.
[/Small background parenthesis and related note] So, when he claimed, I thought it more likely to be true, even though I couldn't rule out that it may be scum false-claiming to stay alive. I was not willing to take the chance to lynch our only investigative role, when we could deal with a potential scum-Dessimu D2, but if he was our Cop, lynching him would not only be doing scum's job for them, but also opening the door for them to take out two more townies during the Night.
To sum it up, between lynching the leaning-town with no Power Role and lynching the not-leaning scum who may be our Parity Cop, or let things go to No-Lynch, I went with voting for the more likely than not Townie. Yes, lynching town is bad, but I have to agree with adaliabooks when talking about D1 - it's better than nothing. Things, however, are different Today, as come D3, we could quite easily find ourselves in LyLo or worse.
And a couple of questions back to you - would you have given Dessimu a chance if you were around at D1's end, or didn't you believe his claim when you saw it? If the latter, what exactly made him so scummy for you that you were willing to risk lynching our Cop? Would you have let it go to No-Lynch D1 if it came down to your vote? If yes, why?
dedoporno: It serves my decision to have them ordered in that specific way. If someone requires the actual sequence of voting/unvoting they will have to do their own research and dig up that information. Fortunately, it's in the public domain and everyone has access to it.
You have been hanging out with JMich too much, me thinks, and have been infected by the
horrible human being virus.