Because this is his vote on Dormio. Now for a mental exercise, you go through his posts and tell me why he's voting for Dormio and maintaining his vote. Here's a hint:
That's it. RVS shenanigans and no further attempt to say anything about anything Dormio's posted afterwards, or much of an opinion on anyone else. Did he attach a conclusion to noting both Dormio and Serela claimed scum? No, he noted they both did x, but never said why Dormio is worse than Serela, or what he thinks of Serela for (allegedly) doing it.
I'll bend at this, i forgot he was just holding an RVS vote. honestly i didn't even re-check
What? You have to rephrase this, I don't understand what you're saying. Dormio's saying he'd rather lynch Sky Pal over O4rfish, that's fine. Then he describes regular Sky Paladin actions which are just stupid, but not necessarily scummy. He's voting Sky Paladin for being Sky Paladin, which is about as criminal as stealing candy from a baby. And about as easy, too.
this is the tl;dr i was asking for earlier, and ngl it makes far more sense than what i was thinking
I don't understand why you think my beef with O4rfish is weak. He doesn't even have a Dormio case.
Addressed in first response
I just want to snipe at this: I think this is a hilarious argument. Sky Paladin has made a lot of noise and everyone's looked at him, and you accuse him of being overly cautious when he airs what everyone else is thinking? No one's 100% convinced they've got their vote on scum. Pretending we are is part of the game, but Sky Paladin's Mafia MMR is like, 500. You're putting a lot of weight on a statement that isn't even a tell at all.
I don't care if he types up a fourteen page thesis as to why he thinks somebody is scum, or puts out a fourteen word sentence that explains his case. if he says something suspicious, it's suspicious. You can be careful about how you phrase things, and you can be careful about talking too much. I think he was being careful about how he phrased his justification.
For a comparison, let me offer this analogy. You and your brother, the most popular and sociable guys around, are playing baseball in the neighborhood sandlot and you hit a homerun that goes through somebody's window, breaking it. Now, you can be noisy and obnoxious or you could be shy and subverted, but when you jump out and say "I didn't do it" when somebody asks "do you know what happened to Mr Johnson's window?, rather than saying something like "I didn't see" or "I'm not sure", something just seems off.
This is basically how I'm interpreting skypaladin's "not 100% sure" line. So yes, I am putting a lot of weight on what I believe to be a slip, because i believe it's a slip. I don't know much about Skypaladin and I'm not gonna be assed to research his past seven games; what i see here is what i see
You're portraying a reality where Scum Paladin makes a lot of noise by zealously jumping onto Serela and arguing a lot, and then overly cautiously clarifies he's not 100% convinced. Now, if you say Sky Paladin is backpedalling in a scummy way (note: Townies can wake up with the epiphany that they were wrong), I'll be happy to hear arguments... But at this juncture, if you're going to claim "weak case" in others as significant, you're going to have to put more effort and show me why Sky Paladin is indubitably scum, or more scummy than everyone else.
How does his bickering "seem forced"? Perhaps you can Press a specific statement and show the rest of the gallery what about Sky Paladin's testimony is bogus.
Skypaladin's posts:
#118 looks like a fireprod test rather than anything else
#121 looks like a straw-grasp, because serela responded to the "fake" comment with what he assumed was directed at the only part of his post that actually made any sense and wasn't just filler fluff
#144's first third touches on the 118->121 test, which honestly reads as one of those "damned if you do damned if you don't" tests that Mitsuki pulled earlier in the game in which no matter what the response was, skypaladin would've just pulled the opposite reason out and used it against serela. I can't say this is a fact since what happened has already happened, but my gut is telling me that this was a test with intention of response and that no amount of even passable logic would've changed Skypaladin's pov towards Serela, which just ain't right yo
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nevermind the 6 posts don't change much
