to me tunneling is nai. I was trying to understand where you were coming from when you said HOW he tunneled was some saving grace, and you just continue to describe tunneling.
And I'm ignoring parts of your posts because it would just create noise, that wouldn't help me solve the game.
Okay then, lets start from the top.
Stu is an emotional guy (this may sound mean, i do not at all mean it that way and i hate that calling someone emotional tends to come with such negative connotations), he was acting emotional yesterday. i do not believe he would be able to fake such transparently emotional behavior.
The fact that this resulted in tunnels isnt the point, as a general rule i also think a tunnel on its own is nai. The tunnel was the result, but what i care about here is what caused the tunnel and how it was expressed, by him, emotionally.
It was caused by his sincere belief that wee was scum and malus was town, and his frustration at his inability to convincingly articulate why he believed it in a way that would convince anyway.
A situation i know very damn well that hes been in before, and i get the sense that history apparently repeating itself (i mean we know NOW that thats not the case, but he didnt then) compounded the feeling and made him act on it sooner than that time.
Point is iv seen it before, so i have a baseline to compare this exact scenario with, i didnt see any reason to doubt what happened their with what happened here.
The clearest example of what im mean is what we brought up before with him saying he was going to give up on this path, only to immediately continue it. Same as he did in ....uhhh
....uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
i have completely blanked on the name of the mafia game, but its the recent one where i got in trouble for telling stu to shut the fuck up about the exact behavior im reffering to here.
There Stu had correctly identified a scum player that through game mechanic bullshit that i am still mad about had everyone else pretty damn convinced he was town. There was a key detail that stu wasnt really able to come up with a convincing counter to (through no fault of his own mind), but he still made like 400 posts imploring everyone to follow his lead anyway, and he was certainly not cold about it.
Any way this kind of fluctuating behavior is i think the result of this being a frustrating compulsion bourne of knowing what needs to happen but not being able to make it happen, and realizing that his efforts arnt working and the effort is only stressing him the fuck out, trying to give it up only for the frustration immediately drawing him back in.
This kind of emotional expression is fucking complicated and it would take a fair amount of calm introspection to identify the mix enough to know what needs to be replicated, let alone the acting skill to convincingly pull it off in as freewheeling a manor as stu was posting yesterday.
And i just dont think Stu has that in him, hell i dont think anyone here does.
So yeah thats why i think stu was probably town.
i really hope im correct about this else ill probably look like a fucking psychopath with all of this.
