Note that Drixx was looking for the cop.
To be completely fair, I tend to look for indication of power roles in people's posts. I don't see this as something only scum should do. If I can be reasonably certain someone is a pro-town PR, then I'm far less likely to do something silly like start a lynch wagon against them based upon what strikes me as scummy but is in reality just an innocent slip on their part.
Note that Drixx is questioning the cop's claim, looking for more details on his role.
I always doubt claims CG. If I had waited I would have seen Noodle confirm it and the post you are using to try and paint me in scum colors wouldn't exist in the same form it does now. But that's not how it happened. I saw the claim and parts of it struck me as off. I think bringing up the extra investigations was a mistake. I think that prior to Noodle unexpectedly coming in with an admission, questioning such a claim made perfect sense. There was no proof to back BPC's claim up, and I don't believe I've ever seen an investigator of any kind who got multiple investigations each night.
Are you telling me that if the post immediately prior to yours was BPC's claim you would have taken that at face value and absolute believed it? Somehow, I doubt that very much.
I find it interesting that you quoted from my first post right after the claim, but not my later post where I point out that BPC revealing the more investigations than normal mechanic doesn't help town at all but could possibly help the zombies. Are you cherry picking my posts in order to only put things up that make me look bad?
Note that Drixx is suggesting what a specific power role should do tonight.
I did what now? My speculation on how events are likely to proceed is just that: speculation. It's based upon logic and reasoning how the various parties will approach tonight, but I think I came to the best logical conclusions. Every time I speculate on how I expect someone is likely to act, you accuse me of giving that person orders. That's simply not the case, and I should hope that any and all PRs would do their own thinking on what to do with their abilities.
Note that Drixx is suggesting that the cop claim could be false.
Yep. I don't believe in just accepting claims as truth. There were things in BPC's claim post that didn't make sense. You have the benefit of hindsight and Noodle coming forward and basically confirming BPC's claim. I didn't when I made that post.
Note that Drixx believes that Pyro is a power role, and cautions that the the town could be making a mistake while simultaneously participating in said mistake.
It may be helpful for you to re-read my post. I was pointing out the worst case scenario if BPC was scum and the claim was bogus. The worst case is that we would lose a town power role and in exchange tomorrow we would kill BPC for the false claim.
Best case is that BPC's claim is legit (and that BPC is a sane alignment cop) and that BPC gets another night for more investigations. In this case, BPC (a town power role) trades himself for 2+ non-town players.
Middle of the road case is that BPC's claim is legit but he dies tonight and he still trade himself for 2 non-town, which is a good tradeoff.
You don't think through the possible scenarios when you see a claim? As much as you scrutinized and cherry picked from my posting to try and build a case on me, I find it a bit hard to believe that you just take claims at face value.
As for "participating in said mistake.", it's the only rational play. BPC's claim at the time had no evidence or proof aside from his word, and certainly claiming to get more than the usual 1 investigation per night was suspect. It didn't help the town to know that, and it also seems OP. The only way to know for sure; however, is to test the claim. Best test is to kill the named anti-town.
Drixx: You asked a game or two ago why people always think you're scum. Posts like these are a good example of why I constantly get scum vibes off of you.
Or maybe you just used knowledge that came into the game after I made that post and applied that knowledge to my post, as if I could have known. You also seem to be in places putting intent behind something I said that simply wasn't there (my speculation on BPC's chances of surviving the night based upon how I would expect various roles to act).
Finally, you confused my pointing out the worst case scenario still being a win (if Pyro is a town power role we lose a town power role and kill a scum) with me defending Pyro and/or claiming he was a town power role.
One of the biggest problems I have with your wall of quoting me and making me look all sinister is that there was another later post after I saw the Noodle reveal, and also Bad Ash and I argued a bit about whether it was surprising to have an investigator with more than 1 investigation per night. In those posts you can see my point out why I think it was a bad idea for BPC to share that bit. Why didn't you quote those?
In basically all games we play here, it is possible to cherry pick parts of what people say and put sinister motives and suggestions to the quotes. You certainly did a good job making my skepticism of accepting a cop claim at face value and thinking through the implications of it look about as sinister as possible.
Btw, in all of this making me look sinister, I think I missed your thoughts on the implications of a cop who investigates more than one person per night and the implications of what Noodle said about his role. Should we believe Noodle? Should we assume he's only a potential zombie recruit and thus kill him tomorrow, or could there be a pro-town recruiter also? There's an awful lot of interesting things to consider.
In any case, Djmbbandie should be happy now. This certainly should qualify as a wall o' text.