The Tonkatie was a stupid development, and I say this as a professional el estúpido myself, having pushed for a Spocky lynch, but the Tonkatie shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why and how one should make ties. In situations this dumb, the decision was probably made out of complete and utter incompetence and in the midst of a lapse in brain activity rather than with malicious intent to rescue a packmate, but we can't really be sure. If tonkatoy demonstrates anything more than a cursory understanding of Wolf-hunting, then we should probably take another look at whether it's possible for someone to conceal themselves so horribly that it works.
The kicker here is of course that Tonka knew what the wrong thing to do was:
I almost just got Steve irwined
Vote dexander
Messing with ties always gets me killed so I'm gonna stay out of this one
But did it anyway. Tonka, you're not bad at ties because you're cursed, it's because you don't seem to know the basic rules of tying people.
To be fair Spocky didn't help his own case by revealing his alderman status, he in fact sabotaged his own safety, especially when aldermen aren't restricted to being goodies so there was no point to revealing that information! Both you and Tonka are currently in the running to receive the Hazbot "Dragon's Ass" award for your Day 2 actions.
The Lem case was stupid, in fact, it's barely even a case, because its own conclusion invalidates its axioms, so Capi, knowing that he would be the target of an early lynch because he knew he was scanned, decided that he would vote another wolf in order to make them not seem suspicious, which thereby makes them suspicious. This argument is easily reversed: Capi knew he would be a target of an early lynch, and knew that wolves sometimes vote for wolves to cover their tracks, so he voted for Lem in order to paint suspicion on him, thereby meaning he's a villager. When two opposing conclusions arise from the same argument, that means the reasoning is completely invalid, "Lem can neither be confirmed to be wolf nor villager at the moment" is the most sound statement one can make about him at the moment. The case received a strong backlash, and rightly so, because we live in a partially sane, somewhat logical world.
Canadian's not been participating much, wishing there was more information, while casually putting in a vote into a tie, which you don't go into half-heartedly.
Segway to someone who hasn't been going into the tie half-heartedly: Npstr has done a lot to distance himself from yesterday's tie attempt, despite largely pushing for it, calling the Aziz and Spocky cases "bullshit." If you knew it all along, then the correct path would have been to try get a third candidate in the running, rather than continue advocating a tie for two candidates who you knew had poor cases on them, the tying of whom would probably waste a good day of voting.
Tying two bad candidates is better than just bandwagoning one bad candidate, if you had no better cases to follow on, which props to npstr, he did admit there wasn't at the time, props taken away for calling the village stupid for something he was just as responsible for though:
Now, what does one do, when one finds that the village is full of potatoes and has put up two mediocre players at the top, not even tieing them?
Find a better third candidate and try pushing him, or at least finish the potatoes job and make a tie out of those two and see if that startles anything out of the bushes (and it did).
Npstr is quite happy with being a potato, but if he's so ready to make fun of other people for doing the same thing as he did, then damn it, I should be allowed to do so too! So, with all due respect:
LONG LIVE NPSTR: THE POTATO KING!
More props are taken away for npstr's latest post, which if you haven't read (and trust me, I wouldn't blame you) is downright schizophrenic at times, it answers criticism of his playstyle with complete non-sequitur retorts that I have immense difficulty piecing together what he meant.
One moment, he quotes Aziz asking npstr why he pushed for the tie so hard.
He answers with "Aziz and Spocky were bad candidates!" and goes on a bizarre rant about how the rest of the village are bad and should've gotten behind a third candidate but he wasn't going to because he wanted to humour them and continue with the tie they've made (?) despite allegedly knowing the tie was god-awful from the get-go, but he was going to "make the most of" tying two villagers who wolves would not have rushed out to save, nor are wolves stupid enough to run up a scanned better target because hello, they're god-damn wolves who can do that by hunting at night, and they would have no way of detecting an OEO anyway!
Npstr, I don't believe you're a wolf...
Wait, let me rephrase that.
I don't know if you're a wolf, but nothing you said today has made any sense whatsoever and I fear the possibility of dying (in real life, not in Werewolf) never knowing what the fuck you were even on about, and the possibility of that question hanging over me on my deathbed unresolved is too much of a harrowing thought to allow it to happen.
VOTE NPSTR
Please, I need to now what is it you were actually trying to say before I die or before I kill someone, I'm begging you here...
