Okay, easy part:
FoS: Chaco
I still think there's an extremely good chance of a scum flip here. I had some concerns related to how vacuous Chaco's content was as described in my early case in
#172. I demonstrated later in
#548 that Chaco's subsequent content includes massive hedging and reeks of TMI. Chaco made
no attempt to explain or defend himself, and the main points remain unaddressed by those trying to
defend him. I am deeply frustrated that the EoD yeet came down to the choice between
Chaco's scumreads. I am happy to vote here at any point.
That said, I think I'd rather spend some time today looking at another slot that has been looking very suspicious, namely Synchronicity.
Synchro spends a
lot of time talking about RVS votes, and well beyond when the rest of the thread has moved on. E.g.
#370,
#426,
#428. There is very little substantiated content at any point in this iso that isn't RVS up until the big case on Kary in
#564 is looking at RVS. Now, this isn't necessarily damning, but it does seem to me that Synchro was intentionally avoiding attempt to engage with the thread and focused heavily on issues that, on balance, I feel fairly trivial. Things like
this post where Synchronicity is scumreading Kary for commenting on one reference to an old game but not another strike me as extremely dubious and not the kind of thing that players of Xivii/bessie's caliber would be seriously contemplating several hundred posts later. There's no progression. Everything is very stagnant.
The Kary sandwich post itself is... pretty bad. Kary has kind of already gone through this and explained why most of this does not pass muster. I may go through this at some point in a subsequent post, but what interests me more is how they push this huge case showing Kary to be scum, then immediately jump to
somitomi without really making any serious effort to persuade anyone to join their preferred yeet. I think there's a sort of complacency about this vote as well. Xivii in particular is usually pushing a variety of different wagons and testing people's motivation in EoD, and bessie, as Town, will usually stubbornly vote her strongest scumread regardless of the EoD shenanigans unless it is to avoid a split vote. Other than a few very half-hearted suggestions of lynching a couple of people at random, Sync pretty much just plonks on somitomi and rides it to the end. Kary is never seriously suggested at any later point. This read just does not come across as genuinely motivated.
Moving on to today...
So it seems this is probably Midnight 2.0. The scumteam is within Laser, Mala, Frozen, and Fonti.
What happened to Kary? Interesting. But seriously, this list is sufficiently awful I thought it was a joke. I would probably describe this list, plus Kary (possibly minus fonti who I have a lot of reservations about), as the people who seem to be actively scumhunting and doing the most to move the game forward.
Mala is obvscum from
this post. It's so fake. Along with his inability to follow up properly on his "inaccuracies" statement
here. As opposed to somi who was just like "yea you're right," Mala was scrambling for an answer, and came up with something that makes no sense.
I don't really see anything scummy in terms of Malakandra's reply. Mala also said that he had difficulty digging up quotes on mobile and would get back to this later if it was important, so this comes across as extremely uncharitable (there's a similar example below with me later). Malakandra's struggle to decide between the two wagons at end of day comes across as very genuine, as does Mala's push on Frozen and general temperament.
Frozen is obvscum obvscum. It's actually pretty silly that we didn't yeet him yesterday looking back on it. Frozen has been TMI reading people all over the place. Such as his TMI town read of somi early on and his backtrack.
Thinking through everything, the way Fonti and Frozen have been treating each other is highly buddy indicative. Frozen assigning Fonti as 0% scum and that not drawing any attention to her is incredibly suspect. Additionally, Fonti seems to be blind to how obvscum Frozen is. It's all so fake.
Frozen's townread on fonti is completely irrational, but this interaction does not strike me as a buddy interaction at all. Contrast Frozen's interactions with me, Raxxal, Malakandra and somitomi in his recent scum games. Frozen is much more careful to keep his distance even if he's Townreading his buddies. I think his puppy love of fonti is genuine, but stupid.
Laser's push and tunnel on Chaco is bad.
How so? You haven't commented at all on my case in
#548. You (and bessie, certainly) should also know that tunnels are not scum indicative for me, regardless of how good (or bad) the case may be. I can point you to a LOT of examples. As can bessie.
Didn't like his
brush off of the Kary case either.
As I said,
in that very post, and in a little bit
earlier, I was travelling on Friday and was only able to post sporadically on mobile. As much as I may have wanted to comment on your case in more detail, it wasn't practical for me to do so at the time.
His early premature town reads of Mala and somi were super scummy too.
I do this all the time. We spent the better part of D1 in B99 arguing about my lockTown read on Vicarin off of his confirmation post (I was wrong about Vic but we were both Town, as you'll recall). I dropped Town leans on a bunch of people, including you, Mala and 3DS in the first couple of pages of SS. I'm really struggling to see how the person who wrote the above comments about me is the same person who wrote
this.
tl;dr: Synchronicity has been making some extremely dubious reads that I honestly I struggle to find a sensible Town motivation for. I think it's very likely that this slot is going to flip scum, and this slot is much more dangerous that scum!Chaco, I feel.
Vote: Synchronicity
