Xanth's not rubbing off on me well. he's playing things fairly light and not venturing too far, if at all, out of his comfort zone of talking about Tonfa and Glen.
lolwut. Accuse me of not posting much if you want, but I think I've covered plenty ground. The
Tonfa/
Glen revisit for my previous point was top priority for the time, given that they were the biggest two at the time and I very much saw (and still see) one but not the other. It makes me boggle just a little bit when the core of your case on
Excal is something picked up from my first proper post.
Smodge, I like your logic. It makes sense, really. (Obviously, I don't agree with the case, but that's not the point.)
Award for worst self-defence goes to
Yoshi. Do I even need to explain this one? Okay, it's not as bad as the quote looks because he defends a key point at the start of the quoted post, but still.
I'm for and against parts of
Smodge's argument. Ignoring the first point, which reads [
Yoshi] as null to me rather than a scum set up, I kinda-sorta feel for the reporter/coasting angle, but don't think it's quite all that bad, and the actual method of jumping to
Tonfa does look bad, happening as it did at the height of the
Tonfa training just prior to
Glen picking up flak again, and I'm not even sure it was for the right reason. The clarification of the switch is also what I called retconning for
Tonfa. Even with the explanation I don't see it that way, and I'm not sure if you're also trying to retcon just how far back your suspicion of
Tonfa went. Just to check, was this:
I didn't say that I didn't agree with those points - all of the points I'd seen raised against Tonfa were things I found suspicious as well.
meant to imply that you held him suspicious before or as of
this post?
I'm incredibly wary of the lurker
Alex case, as I've seen him play too many strange/different openings to second guess it. As I'm relatively happy with the little content that he has posted, and there are other notable other avenues to explore, this is definitely something I'd rather see addressed in day two rather than now. So yeah, this is me giving
Alex something short of carte blanche for the rest of the day if you want to disagree with it. (no, this obviously wouldn't apply if I was getting worse vibes from him than the lurker angle)
Kiro reads slightly better now, although I'm struggling to find recent material that isn't just an echo. It's not non-existent, but it's mostly self-defence.
Mage and
Glen are still null-ish. As wary as I was/am about the lynch pushes against them, I am likewise wary of multiple people putting actively town labels on at least the latter. As an aside, I was wrong when I was comparing
Glen and
Tonfa and saying that
Glen had at least been consistent in some way, as I'd meant that his push on a
Excal/
Rat partnership had been consistent, when he has actually ducked away from that at points along the way.
I need to go off and work on other stuff now, but I'll keep an eye on the thread in case my attention is needed. I will also try to be completely free from as early possible, probably about 3:45pm, 75 minutes from the deadline. Having said that,
Tonfa's the only one I actually feel comfortable on, so unless there's a huge change in the lie of the votes by then I doubt I'll actually be changing it. As
Sopko's presence has increased somewhat my new secondary tier is
Yoshi and
Kiro, but there's no momentum towards either as things stand.
