The Defense[/SIZE]
We now examine Ryker's "case"/anti-case against me.
He begins the day attacking me primarily as a result of PoE and my misguided no-lynch notions.
He refutes my claims of
J, Gorf and Swiss having suspected him. At this point I have dropped J and Gorf from the equation, but I will not drop Swiss. He was essentially unbiased as a result of his slot being cleared and a replacement. Unlike J and Gorf, he was not tainted by "FFFFFF you killed me" emotions, and I believe offers the most valuable opinion of the dead players.
He then
directly attacks me for AtE on a post that wasn't intended to even be part of the argument. He claims it to be against my Town meta, which in turn is calling me scum for it.
He dismisses the Night Kills as pure WIFOM. I don't believe this is appropriate given the context of the game, particularly in the case of the Gorf kill. Swiss you could make a WIFOM case against, but I do not believe you can say the same for Gorf.
In
this post he outright admits that he has nothing redeeming him in the eyes of Town, but claims there is nothing condemning him either. I, obviously, disagree.
His "case" on me consists almost entirely of refuting the weaker parts of my previous case as WIFOM, and dismissing nearly EVERYTHING as WIFOM, arguing that I'm scum simply because it "lines up with my play."
He accuses ME of trying to force him to build a "reaching" case on him (which at the time, it was) yet he himself forced me to do the same. He still lacks any actual case on me even now, and also accuses me in that same paragraph as walling as a desperate means to beat him.
In the only thing actually resembling a "case" he accuses me of:
In my list of issues with Raz, I forgot to bring up the specific points that he:
1.) Tried to push a No Lynch.
2.) Tried to remove motive from discerning alignment.
In this respect, I will admit to pushing a no lynch initially. What has yet to be shown is why exactly this makes me scummy NOW given that I have abandoned the idea and admitted it was a mistake. There has been no reason provided to suggest scum motivation rather than misguided Town. He has accused me of trying to do so to build the best LyLo possible, but ALREADY ADMITTED OPENLY to letting J die so he could do exactly that himself!
In regards to his second point, I argued that he was taking that out of context, given that I had indeed provided a possible motive, however it cannot be proven adequately in either direction. This effectively removes point 2 from his case, as I was not actually trying to do what he accused me of.
He argues that I have been
pushing for mislynches. However, he admits in that very post that I made no effort to be involved in the decision making progress. While mostly true, as a result of inactivity,
how can I be pushing mislynches if I'm not involved? It's not as if Rajam was pushing any mislynches for me, and he's yet to provide any reasoning for why my flip-flopping between him and J was a result of being scum rather than an indecisive Townie. While I did move my votes, I never made any actual effort to PUSH the lynch in either direction, which would be what would suggest a mislynch attempt.
He outright dismisses the Rajam connection case as purely WIFOM, which it is certainly NOT.
He then goes on to
DIRECTLY MISREPRESENT MY ARGUMENT in his immediately following post:
1.) Rajam has been on Ryker's back the entire game.
2.) Rajam has had Raz on his scum list throughout most of the game.
He calls one damning and the other a town tell in his favor. Wtfamireading.jpg
In his first strawman of my "point" he misrepresents my accusation of distancing as the idea that Rajam was just "on his back", which directly detracts from the actual substance of the argument.
And
as I already addressed, he pulled #2 out of the air completely and it was not actually part of my argument at ALL!
Finally, he has challenged me to find posts of him tailoring to Swiss, which I have already openly admitted I cannot do because I don't know what it entails.
TL;DR FOR DEFENSE
- He's misrepresented my points on multiple occasions
- He's directly dismissed the bulk of it as WIFOM despite still holding valuable information.
- The remaining points he has against ME are also things that apply to HIM. He outright admits to being non-contributive in his 1807, and accuses me trying to make him make a reaching case against me, when he forced me to do the same at the start of the day.
- Ultimately, his "case" is essentially defensively dismissing everything as WIFOM, and misrepresenting my case as a means of "attacking" it.
That's all I've got. If this won't convince you, Brosuke, nothing I can do will.
