I spent a decent amount of time yesterday rereading all of FML's posts, and honestly this is a pretty good summary.
I think his push on Ruy was ********, I think outside of that he's not done anything overly memorable.
Like, rereading all of his posts, I still get the same impression I had when I voted him on D2. Its like FML is part of the peanut gallery watching our game, and only deigning to step in when there's something easy to jump on, or they feel like they have a particularly witty remark. So, maybe this is just a playstyle difference, but you read that and say "Nothing scummy to see here". While I read that as "Nothing towny to see here", which comes off as especially scummy in a game where we're looking for the scumteam that has sat back and laughed as we've gone after townie after townie.
Bardull has kept making this ineffectual point about how FML was wrong and that makes him scum. And you're correct to say that its a **** argument that's playing more on AtE than anything else. But let's take a moment to look at /when/ and /how/ FML was in the wrong place, before we dismiss it as an innocent townie that in the wrong play at the wrong time.
So the votal at the time of his first vote is:
J (1): DtJGlyphmoney (#296)
Spak (1): Soup (#315)
MoosyDoosy (1): RedRyu (#403)
RedRyu (1): FullMetalLynch (#481)
Zaixl (4): J (#266), mallorean_thug (#300), BarDuIL (#349), Spak (#357)
Abstaining (7): Maven, Raziek, Fandangox, MoosyDoosy, Zaixl, Laundry, SlickWylde
And his vote is only in response to pressure from J about why he hasn't voted yet. He's voting Ryu for being "lazy", and he also has this to say at the time:
and as for Zaixl, someone needss to give me a solid one liner of how he and Ryu are all that different and why I should want to lynch a doing buttkiss Zaixl over a "doing things but not truly contributing" Ryu
Right after that, Zaixl voted Glyph, and then FML is happy to jump aboard.
To me, this entire sequence is super sketchy. He's not willing to commit a vote until somebody pushes him for it, and specifically gives a line trying to justify why he's looking places other than the current wagon leader. But then he's very willing to put Zaixl to 5. To me, it feels like he wanted to get on that wagon for buss points before it was too late, and after Soup's wall putting Zaixl at the bottom, he was worried that he was out of time.
His next vote movement is here with an unvote:
DtJGlyphmoney (1): MoosyDoosy (#552)
RedRyu (1): J (#769)
Zaixl (2): Spak (#357), SlickWylde (#561)
J (2): DtJGlyphmoney (#296), Soup (#648)
Maven (3): Raziek (#754), Laundry (#853), RedRyu (#870)
Abstaining (6): Fandangox, mallorean_thug, Zaixl, Maven, BarDuIL, FullMetalLynch
With this to say:
Man i disappear for one night and yall explode.
Will catch up through the morning/hit anything asked of me.
Unvote
The two big things to note here is that he doesn't vote again until 12 hours and 100 posts later (and only 3 hours before deadline) and that his unvote here is actually what made the Maven wagon the largest wagon. And arguably what crushed the Zaixl possibility.
This is why I hate abstaining, because it helps hides stuff like this (unless you have access to a votal machine like me). Where FML is directly responsible for finishing off the possibility of Zaixl happening on D1, and making Maven seem the most inevitable. Yet, because he's just unvoting due to not being caught up, it isn't that scummy. Umm, yeah right. I definitely think its scummy, especially given the circumstances of his next vote:
J (1): DtJGlyphmoney (#296)
Soup (1): mallorean_thug (#911)
Zaixl (2): SlickWylde (#561), Soup (#909)
DtJGlyphmoney (4): MoosyDoosy (#552), Fandangox (#892), Spak (#896), J (#970)
Maven (4): Raziek (#754), Laundry (#853), RedRyu (#870), FullMetalLynch (#977)
Abstaining (3): Zaixl, Maven, BarDuIL
Well, unfortunately for FML, in his absence, the Glyph wagon resurfaced. So when he makes the vote that ties the Maven and the Glyph wagons, he comments on that , right?
Vote: Maven
Like I just said I'm not doing this soup thing today and Maven was already in my pool. I'm not gonna get bardull with this crowd or with the fact my arguement can be handwaved as wifom by even the laziest of the laze.
Nope, instead he wants to talk about how my Soup wagon obviously wasn't happening, and why he wasn't starting a new wagon 3 hours before deadline with no case.
That vote is what actually swung Maven happening instead of Glyph. The next 3 votes in the thread are all people joining him. Remember that the scumteam definitely wanted to save the Glyph lynch for another day to continue ****ting up the thread. And you'll note, that unlike D2, FML isn't even thinking about voting Glyph here for avoid NL, despite Glyph being the larger wagon at the time.
On D2, FML's first vote was on Bard:
MoosyDoosy (1): RedRyu (#1161)
BarDuIL (2): J (#1101), FullMetalLynch (#1232)
Fandangox (2): BarDuIL (#1103), Spak (#1123)
DtJGlyphmoney (2): Fandangox (#1125), MoosyDoosy (#1126)
If it was explicitly for the same reasons as J, or for some reasons left over from D1, he certainly didn't say them. Instead he gave us:
But wtf bardull? "Having similar reads is good because it lets me push my agenda"
Is onebkf the scummiest things ive ever ****ing seen stated in a thread
He then parks his vote there for the entire rest of the day until he's "forced" to consolidate onto Glyph.
Laundry (1): Soup (#1361)
J (1): DtJGlyphmoney (#1451)
FullMetalLynch (1): mallorean_thug (#1519)
Zaixl (1): BarDuIL (#1557)
BarDuIL (2): Laundry (#1308), SlickWylde (#1551)
DtJGlyphmoney (6): Fandangox (#1125), MoosyDoosy (#1126), Spak (#1413), Zaixl (#1445), J (#1520), FullMetalLynch (#1631)
Abstaining (2): Raziek, RedRyu
This day isnt gonna end anynother way
Vote: glyph
Its funny, because the biggest thing I remember about FML from yesterday was his continuing argument with RR. Yet, that's never really represented in any of the votals. Instead its just him parking his vote on Bard, and then complaining that his wagon never found enough traction to happen yesterday.
SlickWylde
MoosyDoosy
:Was any of this helpful? Can you understand why I might think FML is pretty damn scummy after staring at these votals trying to solve the game?