AladdinSane wrote:degaston wrote:I think the townies are afraid of making the wrong move, so they follow the herd and look for safe options. I feel like I have to make my case as strongly as I can, because otherwise we will continue to lynch VT's until it's too late.
It has not escaped my notice that you came to his defense as soon as I started asking questions about the gun. First, you provided speculative answers to the questions I was asking him, then you tried to shut me down by saying that it didn't matter, and that I was just trying to generate noise.
Do you see teh contradickshun here? You accuze peepul of following teh herd, but wen i don't imediately agree wit yer case aginst Ragian and ask qwestjuns and want you to eggsplain yore thery ferther, I'm "defending him".
It's not that you disagreed with my case, it's that you started defending him before I had even started to make a case. Let's go to the transcript, shall we?
Some time after Ragian claimed and said that the kill option on the gun would have been suicidal, it started to bother me that he would give that kind of invention to someone who he thought was town. Since I still didn't know exactly what the gun was supposed to do, I decided to ask him.degaston on Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:07 am wrote:What was I supposed to conclude from that quote even if I had realized it was by Lincoln, and I was "thinking Star Trek"?
Would the kill option also have killed the target?
After almost a full day, this was his response:Ragian on Sun Jan 31, 2016 7:00 am wrote:It was a quote meant to indicate that using the kill option meant your own death. The "gun" would have exploded in your hand and killed you.
I'm hung over. Will read closer later today.
Which basically answered nothing. It didn't say how I was supposed to come to the correct conclusion from that quote, or what Star Trek had to do with it, and it did not answer my very simple and direct question of whether my target would also have been killed. I hadn't expected it to be a difficult question to answer, but I didn't get all huffy about it. I just rephrased it, dropped the part about the quote to focus just on the facts of the matter, and added a question about the paralyze option because I had meant to ask about it earlier.degaston on Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:13 am wrote:I understand that it would have killed me. Would it have killed my target?
What would paralyze have done?
So, as you can see, I'm just asking very simple, fact based questions about the nature of his invention. But for some reason, you decided that you needed to add your own speculation about it.AladdinSane on Sun Jan 31, 2016 9:49 am wrote:Just a wild gess, but maybe it wood have stopped him frum posting. I'm orso going too gess dat teh "woond" setting stops its target frum performing eny ackshuns there roll mite grant dem.
Why would you feel that you needed to do this? He claimed to be the inventor of it, so he should have known exactly what it did, and should be able to tell me. You should not know anything about it, so your speculation adds nothing. Still, I think I was being resonably polite by updating you on something you may have missed, and reminding you that you really don't need to intrude on this.degaston on Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:01 am wrote:Ragian already answered the part about wounding:
Ragian wrote:Obviously, wounding wouldn't wesult in killing as the thiwd option would have been wedundant then. By wounding mitch, you jailed him.
But there's no reason for you to speculate about what it did, is there? He can answer it for himself.
But here's where it starts to get more interesting to me.AladdinSane on Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:51 am wrote:I'm assuming dat, if he knew, he wood have told us awreddy.
But at this point, he had not told us, therefore, by your logic, you are assuming that he did not know what his own invention did. Can you explain why you would assume that? I kind of doubt that you can. What it looks like to me, is that you are defending Ragian from these questions by suggesting that he doesn't know the answer, and therefore, your speculation is as valid as anyone else's.AladdinSane on Sun Jan 31, 2016 10:57 am wrote:Besides, "woonding" isent teh same as "jailing" becorse it lacks teh pertecktive aspect (persumably).
degaston on Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:02 am wrote:He made the damn thing. He'd better know what it was supposed to do.
AladdinSane on Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:01 pm wrote:Well, he hasent been very forthcoming about it so far, has he? Wot does it matter wot teh "paralize" setting wood have dun anyway? How is knowing dat going to move tings forward? Looks like a line of enkwiry desined to genarate noise rather than identify scum.
degaston on Sun Jan 31, 2016 12:29 pm wrote:Correct, so why are you covering for him by speculating on things that should be easy for him to answer?
I don't know if it matters what paralyze did. Why do you have a problem with me asking a question about it?
AladdinSane on Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:30 pm wrote:Okay, well if you tink it's going to leed sumwear, carry on.
Ragian on Mon Feb 01, 2016 4:47 am wrote:degaston wrote:I understand that it would have killed me. Would it have killed my target?
What would paralyze have done?
No, it would have only killed you. Pawalyse was woleblocking. Wound was jailing. Also, if Benga hasn't used his thing yet, thewe's no weason for him to claim its abilities.
AladdinSane wrote:Besides, "woonding" isent teh same as "jailing" becorse it lacks teh pertecktive aspect (persumably).
Stop this now. I invented the damn thing. You have zewo to add.
When I started asking Ragian questions about the gun, I was not accusing him of anything. I was not making a case, so there shouldn't have been anything for you
AladdinSane wrote:I'm not defending him, it's just dat yer case, as orijinally stated, dident seem convincing to me, hense I am raising qwestjuns. Did is precisely why I say 39 hours isent enuf. Dese qwestjuns need to be asked and ansered, and dat takes time.
I agree wit you dat teh Falko linch was teh groop looking fer the safe opshun (I corled it teh "eesy linch" at teh time) but - I'm tired of repeeting dis - time was short. Maybe we shood aim at geting the next vote together ahed of teh dedline so their isent a mad scrambul at teh end.
Enyway, wen I provided spekulative ansers to yer qwestjuns, I was only trying to be helpful. Wot other motive cood I posibly have had, wen the man himself cood (and did) orso anser at eny time? I don't see eny harm in speckulashun.
As fer accusing you of generating noise, I just dident see wear you were going wit teh line of qwestjuning. And I still don't tink it is a line of enquiry likely to bare much froot, but dat's just my opinyun.
Look, Ragian mite well be scum, but teh qwestjuns I am asking have to be asked, by sumwun. We don't want to be linching peepul just becorse wun playa points a finger and says "He's scum". That wood be a shore way to lose qwikly.