@bo et al, as promised:
REASONS TO LYNCH OB
1)His first post in the game (page 16) boils down to this quote: "I really like ghug's notion of the vig day shot taking out the lead vote-getter late in the day. Can't wait to watch the mafia scramble after that happens." Two things are happening here: he's putting ghug in a positive light; AND he's contrasting ghug's contribution against a "mafia scramble"; a clever structuring that makes it seem like the mafia scramble will be caused by ghug's townie play. Ghug is of course one of OB's top town reads, as he goes on to express.
2) His second post was a reads list and the reads of each player were almost entirely meaningless and nonsense, or personal without developing any useful lines of enquiry related to the actual game in progress.
3) Consider his read of y2k:
QUOTE: "1. y2kjbk - a bit bull-doggish on DO early on. also makes a lot of reads based on some really thin information (e.g.uclabb). something feels off with this guy. His fight with Balki seems choreographed. Getting a strong scum smell off this one."
Look at the way OB refers to y2 in animalistic language, calling him both "bull-doggish" and that he "smells". I think this is intentional manipulation of language to malign y2 in a subtle way, using negative connotations but offering us very little actual substance or argument, i.e., all OB can actually say is "something feels off with this guy". This is meaningless.
4) His read on ghug is similarly problematic:
QUOTE :"2. ghug - feels like town guhg to me. interesting idea of vig killing leading vote getter with 60 min left. Didn’t vote for uclabb immediately - scum buddies fer sher. Rethinking, I fucking love the vig day shot idea. It’s better if fewer people are online when it happens, because scum will intensify their activity to try to get town lynched. Scum will almost certainly put forth the greatest effort to be online at EOD. They have more to lose if they are not."
OB refers to ghug again, quite emphatically, as town and references again the "interesting idea" and supposedly positive contribution to town, and this is apparently the only reason ghug is town read. There is a large bulk of text for the read on ghug, but when you read through it's surprisingly low on content that's actually about ghug; so on first appearance OB's paragraph seems like a substantial town read but it equates to nothing more than fluff and discussion of the day vig shot.
5) OB's reads of the top lynch candidates all allowed OB to position himself in a positive light if any of them were lynched: he gives scum-indicative reads of Yoyoyozo, Balki, and damian.
6) Other than that, his reads list was almost entirely hedgey and non-commital, apart from reads that were repeating the words of others or reads that could be easily dismissed, such as his town read on meme, which consists of this particularly unhelpful one-liner: QUOTE "11. captainmeme - I think town right now. lurkish,of course, but helpful when intermittently not lurking."
7. OB is trying to criticise my reads by saying that I "always" take an OMGUS approach and vote for people that vote for me -- but he is *massively contradicting himself* by saying this. I haven't mentioned it until now because I wanted him to keep doing it, to keep digging that hole; because, actually, he town read me in his reads, so my vote on him is not motivated in the way he's trying to dismiss it.
But it's interesting to note that he wants to town read me while also completely rubbishing my contributions to the game, contrast these two quotes from his first 2 posts:
QUOTE: "The only town-leans I have are ghug, wjessop and DO."
QUOTE: "12. wjessop - maybe he’s just that obnoxious. As scum he was always turning accusations around on his accusers and then asking for explanations from them. Here he’s only defending himself."
So on the one hand he's saying I'm only one of three players he can town read but at the same time he wants to provide a clear character assault and an inaccurate portrayal of my contribution to the game, similar to the way he attacked and debased y2k, in an attempt to invalidate our reads.
8. There is an odd relationship between DO, who has been very keen to jump on vote wagons (such as wjessop and Balki), and OB, both of whom have been on in the last hour backing up each other's arguments. OB's reads list also makes a decisive attempt at clearing DO:
QUOTE: "18. DemonOverlord - townslip “bus” - mafia would never make that mistake. But then she uses a WIFOM argument to justify it’s use."
This is one of the few unequivocal reads of OB's entire list -- we are being told in no uncertain terms that "mafia would never make" the mistake that DO did in relation to the bus comment. He doesn't even address her joke posts and then quick vote on me to try and flash up a wagon after damian's scum read on me in the 2nd hour of the game. This is very odd. There's no doubt that DO has been controversial so far in her contributions; and she's promised more input after "catching up with the thread" and this has NOT manifested (where is DO's reads list, for example?). I think DO is being told to keep a low profile by her mafia teammates, while they iron over her scumreads.
9. OB has not been helpful at all in this game -- and has spent his time:
a) producing a meaningless, obfuscative reads list -- his reads list has been widely panned as unhelpful to town.
b) chasing and questioning only one person, someone that he supposedly town read.
c) not questioning any of his actual scum reads or contributing to other discussions.
d) not following up any cases or lines of enquiry
e) the only helpful thing he's done is clearly answer the questions set to him by myself and HR.
This is Day 1. Our lynch options will not be perfect -- I stand by my argument that OB has a valid case against him for a Day 1 lynch, considering his unhelpful play.
##Vote OB
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