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As an addendum to the previous post for Elephant Parade: since you seem to have thought ATH and Vector were scum through lack of activity I shall share with you the maxim I live by in games of mafia:

Activity is not indicative of alignment (you are welcome, OSG)

Also, what does the game having been going on for two days have to do with your inability to have even tentative reads on the other players? You don't seem to have followed up on any of your initial concerns on people.

I find it very difficult to accept that you don't have an inkling one way or the other on any of the other eight players in the game. Heck, even if you only have some town-leans on people, that eliminates them from being in the scum pool. You honestly have no impressions on anyone else?

PPE: it was a big deal at the time, losing my post. I had just spent an hour pissing about in my phone looking for the evidence of what I was saying and then typing it up and accidentally closed the tab :'

As for your explanation re: game progress: as the active post leader, I would hope that you'd have done the most scumhunting, rather than contenting yourself with having done as much as everyone else.

As side note, not saying these things to be mean (though some things were kinda like that, for which I'm sorry) but to get you to think about your game. One thing I learned quite recently was you need to form fast opinions in mafia, and then your goal is to confirm or reject those opinions (which are changing all the time) so you can make new ones. It has it's drawbacks (I am way more sensitive to confirmation bias, specifically) but it's a good starting point. This is not a game to be tentative in; get fackin' stuck in

I will extend too; weekends aren't the best time for me to catch up on even the few pages in this. I haven't paid much attention to anything that wasn't specifically directed at me since the 5F post, and that probably won't change 'til Tuesday (perhaps Monday evening)

Rob Ford

I was making a post (with phone) to explain that vote and accidentally closed the tab. Vector more or less said everything but to recap:

EP is most active player, but hasn't progressed the game beyond RVS

Has "touched base" with everyone, but apparently hasn't got a clue who might be town or scum. Fackin' mind-boggling.

A specific thing was voting Vector and thinking her vote on snow dwarf (ostensibly for an OMGUS) is somehow scummy despite Vector not having been on to unvote in the day or so preceding the question. How do you expect someone to Unvote without posting?

Also, I don't think EP is voting me so... how's it an OMGUS? AFAIK, ATH is the only one voting me. Haven't read the game too well beyond EP's posts (in that no reads on other people yet) so... perhaps I'm mistaken.

PPE: amused by people misconstruing my swearing. The lulz, brah, the lulz.

Not trying to get a reaction, EP, genuinely think you're scummy at this point.

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