1237: The Orange Box - OVER

[Alabaska J]

/confirming in thread

[Alabaska J]

Alright, well, to get the ball rolling. Some Random questions!!!!
1. What is your favorite animal?
2. What timezone are you in? And if not too prying, where you from?
3. Are you excited about this game?
4. If I say Tornado, whats the first thing to come to your mind?
5. Do you prefer scum, town, or third party? Also, whats your favorite role?
6. Whats your favorite Orange Box character?

1. cheetah
2. central, houston texas
3. yes i am!
4. that movie twister
5. third party is always such a challenge and an interesting experience. gotta go with that. and i like any role that is out of the ordinary, really.
6. i've recently fell in love with the engineer on TF2, so i'm gonna have to go with him

[Alabaska J]

It was a pro-town way of getting discussion going. Robo's questions are more null to me because they were less game-centric and more random. CC's questions were an attempt to start serious discussion about the game going.

So defensive, Bub?
VOTE: Bub

whoa slow down!

[Alabaska J]

Vote: Haoala

I'll answer the questions in a sec, just wanted this vote out there because it's so obvious.

How so?

I don't see any scumminess in his phrasing. Explain please.

His last sentence reeks of cautiousness.
VOTE: numberQ

just trust me

Any reason why I should?
Also, how was Bub not being defensive? He responded to your vote with a length explanation.

Yep, my vote is awesome.

I'm not sure if Reck is town, but I do know haoala is definitely 100% scum and that little bit of pressure crushed him.

saying things like this implies you have a guilty on him or something. you can't be 100% sure all ready. your hyperbole bothers me, like you are trying to force a wagon

[Alabaska J]

saying things like this implies you have a guilty on him or something. you can't be 100% sure all ready. your hyperbole bothers me, like you are trying to force a wagon

today i saw a cool cheeky scumbag try to take hyperbole and turn it into a case on someone

i didn't even fos him. where did i say i was making a case? i was criticizing him on his choice of words. today i saw a cool cheeky scumbag try to take someone's words and twist them to make a case on someone.

unvote, vote: xRECKONERx

[Alabaska J]

If you think hiplop is scum why not vote him? If he flips scum -> lynch me. If he flips town -> I'm town.

When I flip town -> hiplop might still be scum.

i think you have something backwards in this post?

[Alabaska J]

will post after my test tomorrow!

[Alabaska J]

unvote

time to reread. not sure if i'll finish my post before i leave so i'll get the unvote out of the way

[Alabaska J]

okay. so after rereading, i still am getting fishy vibes from xRECKONERx, but from a quick meta, he plays like he does now throughout games. he is still pushing these two lynches really hard, which is what i would expect from scum in a position where two wagons are alive and well. however, it gets complicated, as both of the wagons are on pretty scummy people. yeah i know nothing new, but this game is only nine pages long. i doubt reposting evidence that has been beaten to death will help, so i'll stick to more recent posts that aren't as analyzed.

hiplop:

dont havve much to say...

really? how about trying to defend yourself from a wagon????

Even if I/they were scum, your cases are beyond awful. Its complete nitpicking, like look at that last post. you're not trying to find scum, you're trying to establish an ego.

at this stage, is it really nitpicking? we are scavenging for evidence early on…we don't have much to work with.

quick aside:

You guys started this game really badly.

How so?

As in, it's boring.

No fun.

Yawn.

No, RedPanda. It's not random.

HIPLOP WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED

Way to pay attention. Redpanda got one too.

these are important posts. i'll spell it out if i have to, but yeah. read them.

hiplop's 196 is not gelling with me. He admits the first point is right, counters that the second is semantics (i regard that as a weak defense, unless it is an obvious misunderstanding, which doesn't seem to be the case here), i don't understand his defense of the third point (if it's pretty obvious the lynch isn't gonna happen, why invest so much into it? you seem to imply that scum will get panicky if they are quickwagonned at the beginning, but i don't see why a townie wouldn't panic), straight up refuses to answer the fourth (red flag), (i am confused by his response to the fifth one; was that post by numberq or robo?), and the establish and ego comment is still not explained well. the assertion that he is town DEFINITELY doesn't help is case, as a cursory glance at that post can certainly confuse people who aren't as active.

if you honestly think I'm scum, do a ridiculouly quick meta on me, I told you, I'm confirmed town o_o

this one has already been addressed, but srsly, self-meta???? come on man

haola at this point has been fairly absent, just one post from page seven (when the wagon on hiplop really starts up) until this one, which i actually like, although it is fairly ominous timing. definitely seems opportunistic to attack hiplop right then and go back to bub, who he voted with an early serious vote that attracted a lot of suspicion. however, if the main case against this post is its timing, well that's a bit weak for me. xRECKONERx obviously doesn't share my read on this post, but i'm not sure why. is the timing the main thing for you as well? i know it DOES seem pretty convenient for him to come out right now with those suspects, but if haola was town i would expect him to find those two people suspicious (the obviously suspicious guy and the dude you voted for early on). the rest of the page is him frantically defending this assertion, which seem pretty null to me, as i would expect town haola to do the same thing.

right now i feel comfortable saying

vote: hiplop

as it seems pretty evident to me (and xRECKONERx, ironically enough) voting outside of hiplop and haola will just stall our day (although i am going to review Red Panda). one last closing thought:

Hiraki also might be scum FYI.

xRECKONERx also might be scum FYI. <-- see how easy it is? wanna try and elaborate? hopefully my aside earlier exonerates him in your eyes.

[Alabaska J]

Indeed I have been.

--

Nothing has convinced me otherwise; One of Hiplop or Haoala should meet the hangman.

VOTE: Haoala

people please be more careful when voting…you just may hammer

[Alabaska J]

vote: Chronopie

[Alabaska J]

hmm. robocop posted maybe two posts before you replaced him, Umbrage.

unvote

would faction claims help at all? i'm not really sure…i think our factions (the different games) are just cosmetic and that simply being the protagonist in your game is good enough, and we are all on the same side. flavor-wise, our pms will be different BUT factions won't tell us anything about our motives.

unfortunately, it appears we won't get to here more elaboration on the hammer since the mod has taken this time to replace chronopie. shoot.

first glance, i feel redpanda is a good choice to focus today. gonna do a reread before my vote to confirm this

[Alabaska J]

I am here. 'More reason to fear.

Right now I see Hiraki's response to Chronopies mission. Evidently a scum slip. Catching him like this seems iffy for my standards.

Kinda sucks because he should have been told about win cons for town in a sample town PM.

So pretty much you all should be voting Hiraki. Per the current Chrono situation, I haven't totally read up yet. All of that is for later. Right now I want some sleep. Though I should be able to get something done tomorrow. No lynching anybody till I'm back, kay? Every one who does is getting mocked.

Right now is sleeptime.

VOTE: Hiraki

just noticed this (emphasis mine). there is no sample town pm, probably because the town will all have differently phrased conditions. more credence to the theory

[Alabaska J]

@alabaska why do you think i should be the focus today?

sorry, focus for me. not necessarily naming a lynch target yet lol

[Alabaska J]

There are piston traps in Portal. (More in the back route, rather than the test chambers, I think)

So it makes sense to me that...

Backstabbing = TF2 Spy
Crushed = Portal (GLaDOS?)
Bullets = Combine HL2

someone technically just replied to themselves

mod what exactly is going on

[Alabaska J]

due to midterms,

V/LA until saturday

[Alabaska J]

okay so after reading an iso of RedPanda, i have a null-town read on him. not much content (we are all guilty of that though) and the big thing that happened to him was the hiraki vote (which hiraki seems to be realllllllly holding on to for some reason). i don't think he was in the right necessarily to vote hiraki for that reason but because of how it occurred (it seemed like a gut reaction to a possible inconsistency in pms) seems pro-town in my eyes. i'd like to see what hiraki has because while he's low on content RedPanda just doesn't have enough scuminess to go after like he is. time for a look at hiraki…

[Alabaska J]

dammit ok robo are you in this game or not i'm so confused

[Alabaska J]

nvm you are

[Alabaska J]

also a quick aside as to why my vote is still on pinkfloyd (aka chronopie)

why does no one think that fakeclaims may be available to mafia to prevent this kind of thing from happening and breaking the game? fakeclaims are fairly common and CAN be flavorfully important players. i was mario game once and the mafia had a fakeclaim that was like mario or something (i dunno point is it was an important character that was given as a fakeclaim and worked well because of it) we shouldn't rule out pinkfloyd yet guys

[Alabaska J]

also a quick aside as to why my vote is still on pinkfloyd (aka chronopie)

why does no one think that fakeclaims may be available to mafia to prevent this kind of thing from happening and breaking the game? fakeclaims are fairly common and CAN be flavorfully important players. i was mario game once and the mafia had a fakeclaim that was like mario or something (i dunno point is it was an important character that was given as a fakeclaim and worked well because of it) we shouldn't rule out pinkfloyd yet guys

ANY responses to this???

[Alabaska J]

Ugh.

I really want numberq dead now.

Tomorrow.

how about today?

unvote, vote: numberq

[Alabaska J]

disappointing ending but fun while it lasted