Alright, sorry for the delay.
I fell asleep on my desk, woke up at 2AM, managed to get back to sleep at 4AM, and lost my post in the process.
I'm here now though!
... With a 40% assignment for one of my courses due tomorrow...
There's a couple of things that stick out to me in
this post of Zakeri's.
The first would be this response to Schezo:
I like your Gusto.
If I don't call somebody out for something, it's because I didn't catch it, not because I'm trying to coast through as scum. I get accused of this in every game that's expected to last beyond a week.
I don't get why the last sentence is necessary at all.
It's like a distraction to add further substance to a response that didn't need one.
What does that particular sentence achieve other than appealing to our emotions in order to try to create a particular image of himself as being a victim?
And then there's also this response:
Also the point about my stance on Raikaria - What's wrong with letting people talk about something just because I don't care? Raikaria's not in danger of getting lynched at the point, so I have no reason to defend him directly.
Firstly, this doesn't even answer Conq's statement, which I'll quote here for convenience.
zakeri continuing to push the "confirmed town" point and choosing to ignore all the everything else that has already happened in the thread is going for refuge in audacity. like, seriously.
The point was originally about Zakeri continuing to press the "confirmed Serela" case on HW, yet Zakeri gives an overly defensive response so as to why he's ignoring Raikaria.
Zakeri does state
here that he has a reason for it, but it still doesn't excuse the fact that he's focussing far too much of his attention to this singular point.
Why is this the case? And why does he even feel the need to defend Raikaria in the first place? I don't get it.
As for Raikaria ... well, I'm getting really sleepy right now and I feel like even if I read him I'd get a null reading since his meta makes him resistant to every reason I remember reading people are suspicious of.
Of course, when Raikaria does start getting more attention, Zakeri really does try to defend him.
Personally, I don't particularly like white-knight-ing.
I'm undecided between Dormio and BT right now. BT would basically be a prodvote to pressure him into finding at least one scum but everyone seems to fall that way already.
I still thank the amount of effort put into Dormio's case on Raikaria is too disproportionate to how town would go about it, but I don't really know what else I'd get out of him other than asking him to make cases on other people.
I guess for day one's sake, BT is the worst one between them.
##Unvote: Huh What
##Vote: BT
I'm working on it. I'm up past my bedtime just like everyone else right now.
My vote on BT was for pressure and I'm pretty sure he's been responding to some things (at least lately) in an information gathering manor. ##Unvote: BT
Cut by BT becoming less of a wagon without my input, I guess.
I don't particularly like this sequence either.
Despite stating earlier that BT is pretty much the scummiest person that he can find, Zakeri later states that his vote on BT was for pressure purposes so that BT could go look for some scum himself.
Isn't this rather contradictory if you consider that Zakeri's strongest scum read at the time to be little more than a prod?
It's amusing to me that the person voting another for not having strong reads doesn't have any strong reads himself.
To me, this looks like an excuse to simply look like he's scumhunting while buying time.
I mean, up until this point he had basically been tunneling HW for a point he gives up quite easily upon being pressed by Conq
here.
I'd like to think the answer to the second question is implicit, but I admit I don't have an answer for that first one since in retrospect the effect of our roles vary slightly.
Uhh, god damn it.
I don't really see a reason why HW's role holder would be scum unless it's to prevent gaming the setup, but to go that route would be completely forced and circular so I don't feel comfortable keeping this vote without a serious reread.
I do agree that the setup for Zakeri's counterclaim on HW looks pretty genuine.
Of course, this could be the product of so many things, so I haven't really been taking this into consideration.
I would also like Zakeri's current opinion on CF7 a lot.
Anyway, more posts whenever I get around to it and I'm not drowning in assignments.
