I'm looking through this again and there are actually two separate things about it that are indicative of scum:
First, as I mentioned, the self-nullifying nature of the statement is not one that is likely to come from a town position. I made note of this same tell from
Mala in Midnight Ops. Basically it's a filler format that scum use to portray a sense of solving. It's displayed in different ways, but it's basically statements that are formed as "
I thought this, but...," "
I agree with this, but...," meant to show a sense of progression. It's not the way that townie players tend to actually communicate their views though. Townies tend to respond in a straightforward manner without the conjunction. So for example, town!darkpit may have said something like "
he went back on it before anyone actually answered though so... eh?"
Darkpit, you said that you made statements like this in the previous game but I don't think you did. Yes, you made statements challenging arguments and reads, but they were in the form such as that of the yellow line, not as conjunctive hedging.
Second, it's the fact that
Darkpit considered the rolefishing (pre-retraction) to be scum indicative in the first place. The fact that
Darkpit thinks it's not scum indicative because
UP went back on it implies that he thinks it would be scum indicative if he didn't. I don't this sort of read comes from someone as intent-minded as
Darkpit. What's the scum motivation behind blatantly rolefishing? Further, if doing so was genuinely scum indicative, would the fact that no one answered really nullify that scumminess? He is implying that the action isn't scummy because it didn't result in a negative outcome. This isn't reasonable to think. An assassin that fails to kill his target is still an assassin.
Ultimately, it looks like
Darkpit was being opportunistic here, playing off of
somi's suspicion while distancing himself from the blood. It's similar to how in Midnight,
Frozen played off of
Chaco's suspicion of me while keeping his hands clean from the actual push.
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Looking at this again as well,
Darkpit's reasoning still does not hold up. Again
Chaco made a statement about the game potentially being a b-game because his role was miller despite the game claiming to be vanilla.
Darkpit showed that his own role was not bast and so concluded that the game was not bast. This doesn't make sense though as it doesn't at all refute
Chaco's point about
Chaco's role.
Look again at the first like "I think if this game was bast, my role would probably be..."
This assumption is not justified. He's completely pulling it out of thin air. What reason would there be for that in order for the game to be bast,
every role would have to be bast?
So what was the purpose behind making the post? We know it wasn't actually to conclude that the game wasn't a b-game because it didn't actually address Chaco's point. This leads me to suspect that the entire purpose of this post was to establish in our mind that he was an innocent child. He went into how we shouldn't conclude he is an IC, but it's not like we were? It's like if you were at a bar and a girl randomly came up to you and was like "I know I don't have corona because I was just tested, but I don't think we should make out with all this corona stuff going on hahaha."
