Yellow, on Oct 21 2008, 11:53 PM, said:
Tapper, just do it now. Otherwise there will six pages of crap for you to wade through. I'd rather you didn't wait for the attention on you to dissipate, thanks.
I would rather hear your defence now.
Bloody hell. I'd really rather not, but since you ask nicely I'll adress it now. I know it might be used as an argument against me; panicking and thus replying, sacrificing night time. Everything I quote here is Morgoth.
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Now, there's a problem here and I hope you forgive me for this. I am too used to being able to access all people's posts in thread it never occured to me to do as I do in westeros game and copy posts that catch my eye into word. As a result, I have no direct links to posts and no direct quotes in this case for the simple reason that it's 23 and something pm and I'm not about to search through the 51 pages of thread just to find the few posts I want. Soo, you'll have to make do with my impressions and second hand descriptions, and hopefully your recolections will be enough to make you judge whether you find that I am onto something, or way out in happypappy land.
Fair enough, and since it is midnight, I'll do the same.
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Ever since DiBs (ironically enough) made me consider exactly why I thought Tapper to be innocent, my suspicion of Tapper has grown quite substansially. As I mentioned earlier, he seemed to have been caught up in DiBs the whirlwind for sticking out for me, which made me very sympathetic. He's the only player of yet I've named PI in one of my spoiler messages. An opinion I no longer hold as I'm sure you understand.
naturally.
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I thougt Tapper was innocent because he was snuggled quite comfortably in the shadow of the day one and parts of the day two case on me. If I was his symp, that would've been pretty much exactly where I would've wanted him to be. In a position that, if I died, would be strenghtened substansially. It seemed, even to me, that whatever case there was against Tapper rested solely on my alignment. I'm innocent so I assumed he was innocent too.
You mentioned this on topic, aye.
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It's a big risk to take though. How could Tapper have known I was innocent? Only a couple of players so far have voiced strong convictions of just that. So why did he risk it? Perhaps he did indeed feel that the case on me was too weak, and so symped me unwittingly. I know I've done that on occasions. I even got poor Piper lynched for it at one time, but that's another story.
Heh. I didn't. I actually thought that what Dib threw against you wasn't lynchworthy, but neither were you defending yourself very well. It was my hope you'd step out of it now that your attacker has gone (and yeah, DiBs did slap me around earlier) and it seems you did.
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So, let's give him the benefit of the doubt on that one. But what about Gem then? And the other times he defended without taking a real stand? Did he unwittingly symp them too?
Who is them? The Gem thing: it's been even highlighted by me and Lace was doing a fine job of it, too. In this case, I really need examples to answer adequately, it's too vague otherwise.
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It's quite possible. Again, I've never been a supporter of the theory that defence=symp so I didn't think much of it at the time. Yet, I did feel more suspicious of Tapper simply because I was earlier convinced for no good reason of his innocence.
Not my bad, and actually, a lot of people weren't exactly convinced of my good intentions after the weekend break. So, let's treat this all like an introduction (apart from the unwittingly defense part, which I'll be happy to adress if you or anyone else passes me solid examples).
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what's interesting is what happened when people started calling Tapper out on his play. Several people bring up the possibility of Tapper doing this on purpose to seem innocent. There's no real pressure yet, no risk of Tapper being lynched. There are far too many candidates with lynch mobs waiting with torches in their hands and blood burning in their eyes. All of this is obvious yet Tapper does not calmly rebute this, or even ignore it. No, he panics. He panics like Bent discovering he's not in a NRA rally but at a conference for gay liberals and communists. You all know of which post I speak. The long post that in essence just summarizes the game before it finaly makes a few comments about the case.
Oki. Now, you may have skipped over it since you felt I was inno up until the post, but I said out loud, on topic, after being swung around by the ankle by Dibs, that I felt I had lost control of the game and needed a re-read.
I started that re-read at page 20, where the train on you on day 1 builds, and is then overtaken by the alt146 one. I then compared what i saw there to what was distilled out of it in the game during and after the weekend break.
Now, it was probably a bad move to mix in the Gem and me similarities and the day 2 events, for it constructed the post as a defense, when it was anything but. It wasn't an attack either, it was calling attention to details that to my mind were relevant (I shall mention it again; the two seperate lynch trains). My interest was in the first part of the second lynch train: Gavin, J_slr, the Dude, etc.
Now, probably, there is something wrong with my posting style or with how I wrote that post, cause it took me 6-8 posts to get across to Dkt in Night 2 that I was calling attention to the start of the second train straight up to where it overtook the one on you.
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I imediatly noticed it as to my mind it oozed panic. And it doesn't stop there. For several pages Tapper hammers at the alegations against him. Alegations that were not alltogether organiced or threatening. He's overreacting badly and one has to question why that is.
yeah, sure. There was the misunderstanding of what 'the long post' was about, so i took the better part of 2 pages to explain that. Then there was dkt asking why i was jumping at shadows, i asked for an example, didn't get any cause it was rhetorical. Took some time to make sure he at the least understood what it was all about.
he didn't see anything in it, fair enough.
diBs misunderstood the long post as a case on himself, when I discuss the part where he was still believing in you, so the misunderstanding was spread wide out over the place.
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QUOTE (Tapper @ Oct 21 2008, 09:27 PM) *
I'd be really happy to vote for Gavin.
He's been influential through his actions but has offered very little of his own insight into the game. If we let him, he will always be a low poster this game. if we then all reason like JA (let's lynch someone with more content) then low posting and not offering insight into actions and motives is a) getting rewarded, cool.gif your own go-out-of-jail-card for as long as you keep it up.
However, seeing that Silencer has received votes, has done drive-by-voting without explaining himself (which is a good ground for asking the why and how), and seems to be online every now and then without posting (it's an art, I can't do it), I'm perfectly happy with voting for him to pressure him into talking. Not sure I want to keep my vote on him until lynch, though.
Vote Silencer.
That all being said, I'm looking forward to see Morgoth post now that his main tormentor is dead.
This is a post that stands out in regards to Tapper because here he takes a stand. We've reached the point now where people have to make their opinions show or risk being lynched for being too carefull. But up until this point Tapper have been a very helpfull, polite and easy going player that have just not offended or truly argued against anyone in particular.
So, now that it is time to take a stand, I get snubbed for doing so. Very consistent from you. That personal remark aside, let's move onto your view of me, and combine it with facts.
The weird thing is; helpful, polite, easy going... and then panic? Huh? Doesn't mesh. It just doesn't.
As it stands, i had two votes against me in the whole game, max. In the end, it is the votes that do the reckoning. You know it as well as I do. I'm perfectly happy being third in place on scum radars (also said elsewhere), since it is usually a safe position, so why should I panic?
So, maybe you should question your reasoning, or at the least come up with an explanation for it.
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Now, all of these factors, individually, do not constitue a killer. Combined however, they paint a much darker picture.
Tapper snuggled up to a number of players early and tied his fate to my CF result in the begining even though he could by no means know of my allegiance.
His style of play has been one that makes it easy to like him, and thus trust him.
There have been several mentions of how I rub people the wrong way in ways they can't express, i.e. gutfeeling. It's something that's inherent to my playstyle, I always see such arguments around day 2-3-4 in alted games as well. I've grown used to it.
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He's stayed away from conflcit
Except for a rub with Lace.
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He paniced completly upon receiving the slightest of pressure.
depends on what you read into the long post. You read defense, I intended to point out the development of 2 fast lynch trains as a diversion away from you. Now, it's either my writing style, or it's you using a very convenient argument because it has been mentioned by dkt as well for the better part of a page.
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This combined makes Tapper my favourite for killer. I think he's teamed up with Gavin, though that is mostly based on gut I do admitt. I don't know who their symps are, and really do not wish to speculate about that as of yet.
Funny, that. In the one post you quote, I mention a willingness to vote for Gavin, which i have been expressing for the better part of the late afternoon up until now. Since he and I haven't been in touch/asked each other a single question
during the entire game, there was absolutely no need for distancing that way, was there? You conveniently step over it but it was a development going on before you logged on and made this post.
So, here's my somewhat hurried defense because I want my bed:
1) you mostly base your attack on one (long) post, which you (and several others, so I can't directly blame you for it) misinterpreted or in which I didn't make my general intentions clear.
2) you easily admit a sense of: tapper is a likely inno and then feeling... not betrayed, but maybe that you made a wrong judgment? Your statement is that vague, and making someone PI on day 1 or 2 based on little but a feeling is not on the skill-level I associate you with.
3) you can't be arsed due to time to come up with other examples (understandable given the time, I want to sleep as well), but none the less call upon them to convey a general feeling/mood that should help sway others to vote for me. I hope those who agree with you are willing to submit quotes, cause right now, I'm disagreeing against a feeling/memory you have on what happened on this and neither is very substantial, i'm sure you'll agree to that.
Let's face that come the morning.
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Well, you reasoned things out pretty well, but I think there are 3 defining characteristics of this case.
1) 'the long post.' I'm pretty certain I'm to blame for not making exactly clear in the post itself what it's intention was, but when questioned about it, I tried to make it abundantly clear. Happy to go quote hunting tomorrow if you want a whole list filled with: "it's about the traaa-aaa-aains."
2) your assumption that i was PI from the start that probably gave you a nice, rosy feeling and thus sharpened your disappointment
3) the lack of direct reference. It could be time, if so, be my guest and search for those quotes tomorrow, or maybe people will bring them on themselves if they think you've got a point. Right now, your whole case is based on 'the long post' and a description of your feelings for me.
Everyone is entitled to his own wrong opinion. - Lizrad