...huh? Overreaction, much?
Can I listen to why is such a line really terrible to you? The rest of his post is bland, yes I agree, but it looks like you're throwing fireworks just for that line.
Bragging, or really, even mentioning the previous night's NK is a surprisingly reliable Scumtell. imho, it makes no
sense for it to be one, but in the past someone mentioning this is far more likely to be Scum than Town. I believe it's because Scum wants to call attention to their handiwork, whereas Town would note an NK and move on, especially as it was an NK of a VT.
(Before anyone asks, trying to meta-out information on Scum based off of
who they NK is completely unreliable, don't do it, I will yell at you.)
It wouldn't be that much of an issue if it was an isolated occurence, but it's not as if this is the only point against Sodium Malate.
On the one hand, Serp did have reduced access for a good time period. On the other hand, his only thing to do once he got access again is to post a non-case on me and then vanish? Reading over his past couple posts:
#362 is probably the principal D2 Serp post. FWIW, I'm nocturnal myself, despite this I've done a decent job at posting more than one post/day phase in this game, so that's no excuse. It's interesting that he finds me fine then, when he's pleased that both NEETz and Kanako are going to be lynched, and then switches to a paranoia-based case attacking me today. He also seems to have a strong implication that Zakeri is Scum.
At the same time, he goes for NEETz/Kanako over Zakeri, but I suppose this is slightly understandable. I'm still unconvinced that Zakeri would try to bus fellow Scum in
the first post of the day phase, but it's in theory possible.
Overall, though, he seems quite adamant that both NEETz and Kanako are Scum during D2. That plus his strange attack today makes me wonder...wouldn't Scum-Serp find it a lot easier to find a case that's believable and that stuck, over the one he posted today? Overall I don't get a Scummy feeling from #362, which is in sharp contrast to...
Serpentarius #216: It's possible that he just didn't think Chaore is Scummy. Around the same time, I didn't think so either. However, I'm not really buying his defence. My logic was a Too Scummy to be Scum argument. Serp actually tries to clear Chaore:
Alice produces some great reasoning for why Chaore's logic is bad in post 180, but I'm not seeing any scummy intent in said bad logic. The most suspicious thing I see from Chaore is that he flipflopped on his stance on UD, and that's pretty well justified by the fact that Chaore believed UD's gambit was a townie one, and UD started denying that he had been trying to use a gambit in the first place between posts 113 and 148. If you're looking for scummy opportunistic bandwagoning, I'd say that Kanako is a worse offender.
Really? So what about the flailing, and the nonsense statements, and the proof that Chaore was actually not reading the game?
Again though, it's the timing that bothers me more: after Carth's vote, the Chaore wagon was in full swing, and it was at this time that he tried to move to Kanako.
So...there's a possibility for Scum, yet enough things don't add up here that make me a bit unnerved. Combined with the fact that he did an excellent job tying himself to Zakeri D2 makes me think that optimally we should consider him lynching the next day AFTER the Zakeri flip. At the same time, a lot of Zakeri's actions only make sense as Town, and Serp putting nice and convincing cases on 3 suckers D2 is entirely plausible for a Scum-Serp.
Interestingly, while going over this reread I've become extremely unnerved of Arashi: in post#467 she attempts to tie herself to me a bit, and despite offering more showing that Sodium is Scummy, votes UK principally because UK has more posts! This is kind of...backwards, really. I've already summarized my opinion of her D1 posts, and in general there's just something that unnerves me about her a lot. I'm going to have to keep a
very close eye on Excal once he finally starts posting.
A Jam lynch wouldn't be terrible, but at the same time there's so little content that I'm not sure if she'll go the way of Nietz/Kanako as well. I mean there are so many worthless lurkers in this game that I'm pretty sure at least
one of them is guaranteed to be Scum simply from a statistical viewpoint, but...eh.
Sodium Bicarbonate actually bothers me the most. His latest post is still quite horrible, but at least it provides some semblance of an original case which actually has some small amounts of actual *reasoning*! I'm still not sure if he's trying to contribute more, or if he's realising he's behaving extremely Scummy and attempting to correct that. In any order, Serp flipping Town would be extremely bad news for him, whereas Sodium flipping Town wouldn't do anything for Serp's status (Interestingly enough, however, Serp has not mentioned Sodium as being Scummy in any of his posts, and even goes as far as to defend him D1 from the Kanako template of "worthless poster" principally because of his useless case on Zakeri, and then later in D2 attacks Zakeri: again, is Serp giving Sodium Towniepoints(TM) simply because he thinks Zakeri is Scum, or is he giving him Towniepoints(TM) because they are Scumbuddies?).
Also, his latest post actually reads a lot like a SodiumBus. But if it's a bus, that means that Serp has to be Scum as well.
Hm.
Hmm...
There's enough there to unnerve me of a Serp lynch, and I'd prefer a Sodium one. But as there's really not much time left in the day,
##Vote: SerpentariusBleh, I'm getting GWU Mafia D4 vibes from this entire day phase. But in that case who is the SIFOM? UK? Somehow, I STILL get the feeling I'm missing something obvious here.
