In post 222, UnrealSeal wrote:Your looking way too far into what's very obviously stungun trying to joke around, his "silly things" are just filler for his posts. Other than that, I'll have to look through RC's ISO again to get a feel for how aggressive he was actually being.
Also, and I know this sounds kinda shitty, but I think the replace out is pretty town. I can't imagine scum getting that frustrated at another player for scum-reading them.
The NSG stuff was not filler. I see how it might seem filler, but he had to acknowledge her response willy-nilly, so
something
had to be there in that post anyway. (As a sidenote, I'm honestly not sure if it was meant as a joke.) The RC part is debatable, but consider that the post already had enough content to fly under the radar. I personally wouldn't have called him out for lurking if his post was half as short as it was. What I mean is that he didn't need filler.
Looking at replacing out as a towntell is bad. There are two scenarios: the one you're proposing is that the RC slot is town, but even though he's been playing games for years (based on his wiki a lot of games), the notion of someone else scumreading him, & that he needs to defend himself is so alien to him that he has no means to cope with it. He even fails to comprehend words directed to him, so when the question is whether posting about being drunk is scummy, his input is that getting drunk isn't scummy (which is true, for the record, but irrelevant), & when he's criticised for his lack of explaining his reads, he explains instead the concept of changing them over time (thanks for nothing.) He's asked to do some extremely basic things, in this case providing the evolution of one of his reads & also providing evidence to support his claims (from his own meta.) He refuses to comply, he also refuses to play. Now, in this scenario he isn't doing anything to change the situation, so he shouldn't expect to change it, yet he doesn't replace out until much later.
That was scenario 1, the one you seem to be advocating. Here's scenario 2: the slot is mafia. RC gets some attention, & long story short he needs to come up with some believable context for his reads, which he doesn't have, so he tries some (meant-to-be) subtle misrepresentation the push on him, in hopes it'd be dropped. It's not dropped. So he tries non-compliance, in hopes it'd be dropped. It's not dropped. Then he throws a temper tantrum, in hopes it'd be dropped. It's still not dropped. So as a last resort he strategically replaces out. It's (probably) against the rules (depends on the mod, I assume), but we wouldn't know because the game would be otherwise compromised.
Scenario 1 seems cartoonish to me. I can see a player doing that, sure, but not one that's been apparently around for years. If someone really can't take pretty much any pressure in this game, I don't think they'd hang around here for years.
(I'm all about sidenotes, it seems, but imo nightfall would be the healthiest thing that could happen to town right now. Please refrain from extending the deadline, pretty please, sugar on top.)
What sets SG apart from the other two then?