Here's one thing that's been bothering me, Kash.
You ask Ice to elaborate his ideas so you can build on them when you get "stuck with the stupid gun". I have to question anyone asking the GS to blatantly out their thoughts when the merits of keeping those thoughts closely kept have been stated. But I can see the logic in an innocent wanting to know. Though it seems odd that elsewhere you go far enough to say that you're no longer intimidated by Ice. This would lead me to believe his input wouldn't be as important as you seem to make it here.
Ice's reply to Kash's questioning.
Kash's response to Ice's answer is where my problem really lies. I would expect Kash to want to talk more about the ideas put forth, or reasons for believing things, etc. I would expect her to be looking for these things, but she just seems to accept it. It just seems... odd. Granted, I haven't played a ton of games with Kash...
Obviously, none of this really means anything, but it's what's bothering me at the moment. I have to wonder though about people who are trying to draw information out of the GS, as opposed to giving the information and perspective we can gather.
I'll be back with more along these lines.
You ask Ice to elaborate his ideas...
No JB... I did not ask Ice to elaborate. I asked him to cover the bases with a single, direct question. Ice intended to shoot me and talked about the "what if's"...
if I was mafia. But Ice hadn't said anything about the possibility that I might be innocent. I wanted to make sure he looked at both sides of that coin before he shot me... and leave me with something to go on before he fired the gun at me.
I expected Ice to shoot me and that meant it'd be up to me to figure out what to do
without benefit of picking his brain anymore after that. Ice had just posted who he would shoot next
if I was mafia. What Ice didn't address was what he would recommend to me before dying...
if he was wrong about me...
if I was innocent.
We can't communicate directly outside the thread, so I asked him directly in the thread to tell me whatever he wanted to. And however he decided to answer that question out in the open was up to him. Ice isn't stupid.. he's not going to reveal anything he doesn't want to post openly. It was entirely his choice to decide whether to suggest something like.... "focus on such and such..." or "look at the big picture instead of details..." or "go after [player 1] and [player 2]" or anything else he could think of that would be useful to me
if those were his last words before dying.
Under the circumstances... I had no other choice but to ask that question. Ice could also have opted to not answer it and leave me to figure this out for myself.
Ice posted his answer as he saw fit and I accepted it without further question. I would love to ask him a hundred other questions, but because this has to be done here... I had no intention of pressing him to explain further.
you're no longer intimidated by Ice...
That's correct. Ice doesn't scare me anymore
as an opponent. There was a time while I was still new to this game when a lot of players scared the bejeesus out of me... Ice, Mad, JL, Coler, Dawg.. and a few others. I've since learned enough as I kept playing game after game to hold my own against anyone when they're mafia and I'm innocent or when they're innocent and I'm mafia. Sometimes I do very well... other times, I mess it all up and get myself killed.
WTF has THAT got to do with asking Ice for advice or accepting his answer at face value???
We're on the same side. Ice may not know this yet, but I do.