LogFAQs > #971547773

UltimaterializerX posted...

Ben claiming a conditional flavor scanner, as scum, based on one flip is asinine. Peaf has the situation correct.

Forget flavor meta. Look at behavior. There is no scum equity in such a blatant look-at-me fake claim. Its like me thinking Justin was scum recruiter like a doofus because he claimed he would die on day four.

Occulams Razor. Ben is just telling the truth here I think.

My Occulam's Razor says that Ben goes for the crazy role claims when he's forced to claim as scum :P

I remember in Yu-Gi-Oh Mafia when Hb got a guilty scan on Ben. None of us were prepared for it, and Ben was saying he couldn't be there to defend himself because of work. So what did he do? Claimed Watcher as a defense and then left.

He didn't consult us to make sure the claim looked good and didn't have contradictions (it was very contradictory and ended up sealing his fate further). I told him he could have claimed vanilla. He didn't and claimed power to seem more convincing.

Ben makes botched flavor claims all the time when his back is against the wall.

This has nothing to do with flavor meta. Frankly, I don't buy this "sealed Star Spirit powers" nonsense that Ben started.

I am looking at this as "everything Ben has claimed has very conveniently lined up to make himself appear as town, to an uncanny degree, and this reminds me more of wolf-is-cornered Ben than genuine town Ben."

The scum equity for "such a blatant look-at-me fake claim" is to get people off his back lest he gets mislynched. There is absolutely scum equity from a desperation claim if the worst that happens is that their goose gets cooked anyway.

Ben had the choice to either claim and possibly weasel his way out, or he could not claim and die.