Alright, here's the deal, I have not been on a computer in the last 24 hours, and this is just a quick check to see what's up before I go to sleep. So, I will have jack all for new material, and no RP in this post. I just want to quickly address a few points and then sleep.
First point, the whole how was I able to post three times without presenting the new case I promised.
That's pretty simple actually. The price of being able to post from work is that I have work where I have to be able to drop what I'm doing and deal with stuff on the fly. After the first half of the shift this happens fairly often. This means that brainless things I already have a position on where it's just explaining stuff I already have a handle on is easy. But doing things that actually take brain power, like figuring out exactly what I think about Almaz, is a lot trickier, and requires a certain amount of time where I can actually just let everything stew as I slowly read over his posts. This was not to be, and still has not been.
To whoever it was that said that I brushed off my own not being around. I didn't, not really. I do agree my voting record is shit, and I'm actually pretty annoyed that both times I left I came back to find that things had turned sideways on me. Granted, we got scum, yay! But the fact that most of my suspicions have been untested and that I haven't had a chance to freaking vote based off of the information available at day's end, and that I have no choice but to look bad because of that, yeah, that's annoying.
But, that's not what interests you. What interests you is how I'm not making light of the fact that I'm not around. And that's simple. It's because it's a fact that I'm not around, and that I'm specifically not around because of issues relating to work. There's nothing more to it than that. Which means my absenses would look exactly the same regardless of what Role PM I was given.
Next up, why didn't the Scum go after me on Day 1? Probably because Flay looked like a better lynch for a lot of reasons. Remember, when they did their jump, the case on me was pretty much dead. I don't have time to go looking for quotes, but I'm pretty sure someone mentioned that one of the reasons they thought Flay looked funny was because he voted for a dead train, aka me. Dead trains don't save scum. Not to mention Flay's random jumping did make him look good. And I'm all but certain that the first vote for him was a legit Townie vote, which meant there was something that looked like they could latch onto there.
Random other observations.
People arguing that Bats can't be scum because there's no way in hell scum would rapid vote three times in succession because it doesn't make sense. Honestly, I think that's a very bad argument, because it makes almost as little sense for scum to rapidly doublevote someone as well, and we have proof they did that on Day 1. So, as much as it offends my instincts, we have proof that rapid multivoting is something that this scum team does when they think they can get away with it. Which means that any argument to clear someone that relies on an argument that scum does not do that is, in this game, demonstrably false.
Almaz and Middleman cannot both be scum. They might both be town, but they can't both be scum. Almaz's Day 1 choice for Middleman and the loss of cred that came with it, and his subsequent attempt to argue in favor of a Middleman lynch today doesn't make sense if they are both scum. Currently inclined to say this favors Almaz, but my read on him is incomplete, and I know part of that is my bias due to believing Middleman to be scum.
Hmm... is there anything else? Not that I can recall. Still leaning Middleman, though my reread on Almaz did get me one thing. Comedian is playing a lot like scum Rat. Not sure enough of identity to vote solely on that, especially when I can't get my head around exactly what each lynch means...
Oh, right! The argument about my wanting to lynch Middleman for info. Utterly false. Bats was the guy I wanted to lynch for info, and that was mostly because I didn't think Planet was scum on Day 2. Planet's flip and his claim kinda got most of the info I wanted from the Bats lynch into the open, which killed that motive. Middleman I'm on mostly just because I want to lynch him, since I think he's the best case as of 24 hours ago.
Hmm, one other thing about my tunnel vision. Day 1 it was because I was busy, Day 2, probably because that's the way the conversation went for me, and where I noticed points to make. As of Day 3, it's because there's only 4 or 5 people I really feel there's any point in talking about anymore. And of those five, I haven't had time to read up on two of them as much as I'd like (Almaz and Hazel), the Comedian there actually isn't anything to talk about, and the other two are my good friends Bats and Middleman. I suppose Gordon's also probably worth talking about, but right now I have a hard time seeing him as scum, which means he's not a high priority to reread, or to talk about really.
And now to close. Yeah, I'm gonna be kinda useless for the rest of today between sleep and work, but if I do survive, the first bit of Day 4 will come during my weekend, so I'll actually be able to post and give reasoning for all of those things you want me to answer.
