Right, Gonna Get This Post Out Here
* before the Hero one because Pesco is actually the lynch for today. Hero is scummy as all hell too and they both need to fry but I feel that Pesco has a lower chance of just being a really awful townie.
Why Pesco and Hero are scum and we should lynch them to win the game Vol 1.: PescoD1: The way he switched from the Schezo wagon to the Dan wagon is suspicious given the flips.
#179 seems like a lack of caring about which of the two actually get lynched combined with a desire to stick around on the Schezo wagon if possible. This fits scum's agenda because they don't care about which townies get lynched and end up producing less votes to be analyzed if they stick to their guns all day, respectively. I'm interpreting
#95 as an attempt to set up a back-up in case the Schezo wagon died out, given that way that Pesco really seemed to have more on Dan than on Schezo in the first place yet clung to Schezo's wagon for a significant time before switching over to the other wagon. I disagree with his response to Dan's point in
#288 because the post made it clear that he intended to switch off of scum!Schezo anyway. This doesn't pressure scum, it just tells them "hey, if you post anything substantial then I'll switch onto this delicious townie wagon".
Pesco's Shadoweh case has been handled rather curiously. Until his voteswitch, he never actually cited genuine reasons for suspecting her - virtually all his interactions were in the form of
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questions or
mudslinging (ctrl+f "prod (0)")
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bad (also she really obviously wasn't voting Serela because he was annoying her, what the fuck, I have no idea how town could get an honest impression of Pesco's accusation from her case) without getting directly involved and attacking her. I'm reading this as another attempt to set up a future wagon jump. By not calling her a suspect or outright referring to her as scummy until he was asked, it would become rather easy for Pesco to not get held to his attacks on her or make a town!Shadoweh feel motivated to start playing better (thus making herself an unlikely mislynch) and yet have something to cite to make himself look consistent when he jumped on her later in the game. Furthermore, the way he seems to egg her on for the sake of reactions in posts like
#441, and
#394,
#98 seems to come from the intent of aggravating her more than the intent of pushing her to play better due to the connotations of his tone. Town has absolutely no reason to act like this - angering players who are townies just causes them to become blinded and irritable and often fills up the thread with time-wasting noise in the form of emotional reactions, and scum typically has no reason to care about trolling attempts because they know you're a silly townie anyway and feel no little-to-no obligation to respond. However, given that the effect anger has on townies is a huge benifit to scum due to the chaos involved, scum!Pesco would actually have
every reason to push Shadoweh's buttons if he knew he could probably anger her.
On the subject of Pesco and Shadoweh interactions,
this post is SO BAD that I can't believe I never thought about it before. Setting up an earlygame plan for who to mislynch in LYLO, much?
Regarding the BT case, it is difficult to believe that Pesco would be so willing to give it up easily early into the day given how much conviction he had regarding the ActionDan case from the previous day. There were still 44 hours left in the day at the time of his post, and the D2 wagons had not even yet started to settle. Some people hadn't even given the impression they were fully set on their suspects, and I had even expressed interest in a potential BT lynch. There was definitely a lot of room for him to push for his case and attempt to convince the other players to see his way, and yet he took the easy way out by prematurely jumping onto the wagon that he had made faux-setups toward in the past when it was only at two votes anyway. This shows a huge lack of conviction. I disagree with his attempt to spin my point against me (which is arguably scummy in itself)
here because I did not give up on getting Hero lynched D1 until the wagons had settled and there was virtually no chance of convincing people to go for that wagon, while Pesco had plenty of time to rally the town up against BT today. My switch off of Hero today doesn't really count as giving up the case, because unlikely Pesco's switch to BT, it wasn't born of compromise so much as having more conviction for the Pesco case (I'd also argue that sticking to my guns on Hero today would have been the easier mislynch but this post doesn't exist to defend myself so yeah).
As I said earlier,
this post is still bad because Shadoweh was easier to push a lynch onto than any of those people, which may possibly have been why she had 3 votes when none of them actually did. <_<
tl;dr Pesco is scum for setting up wagon jumps on people he predicts to become obvious targets and also for aggravating with mudslinging in lieu of actual cases against them. Obviously not expected to convince people on that sentence alone though, so go actually look through those posts yourself instead of skimming my post.
* this phrase ? hanged hourai
