I may have given Neo the benefit of the doubt after his claim on d2, but I sure as hell am not gonna do that now after he's switched his claim like that. The reasons for this lynch are both obvious and have already been covered by everyone, so I won't waste more time here except to say that I'm not at all impressed with his attempt to ignite the case Affinity has started against me without actually adding anything to the case.
##Vote: NeoSerelaBut okay, Kefit, if you consider 'waffling between stances on votes' not to be a scumtell, then why did you agree on Bard's case on Nobu and Nat Tea, when it was primarily made up of this waffling? And why would you have placed them as scummier than Serela yesterday when you made your last post (e.g you said Serela was not that scummy, but you said that you agreed with the Nat Tea and Nobu equally scummy). Again, he does not seem to have a clear hierarchy to who is scum and why; he seems to give people with the same sins to them (in his views) different opinions arbitrarily.
The case against Choja was an active lurking one; the key difference between it and the case on Nobu and Neo was that Choja did not have a vote placed by the end of d1. I thought I had explained strongly enough that this lack of a vote mixed with vaporous posts was key to my thought process, rather than waffling factors, but perhaps we've had a gap in communication. Polaris and Choja both exhibited these issues, which is why I thought they were scummy and in any case needed to be gotten rid of for lack of contribution early on rather than later. I preferred the case on Polaris because I thought the evidence I pointed out
here was stronger, quantitatively if not qualitatively, than the evidence presented in the case against Choja.
I liked Kilga's case against Nobu, which was composed of active lurking/lack of contribution (something I
pointed out against Nobu back on d1!) plus being on the huh what wagon. However, Nobu made a strong showing on d2 with his case against Neo, which subsequently removed him from my priority list. I may not have agreed that the case against Neo was strong, but it was still bona fide contribution on Nobu's part.
You're correct in that I haven't said much about other players. This is because I have been concentrating on players I thought needed to be lynched. This is not an issue anymore since the players in question are now gone. Thus, here are my pertinent thoughts on the playerbase at the moment:
Affinity: Yeah, I mentioned yesterday that I was wary of him. I kind of feel like his continued attack on me is forcing me to repeat myself, which is annoying and perhaps overly aggressive. On the other hand, his vote on Neo until the last second yesterday does make me feel better about him - all it would have taken was one more vote on top of Affinity's to lynch scumclaiming Neo, in a situation where it was very probable that another vote could indeed land on that player. His
misrep of my statements earlier today doesn't reflect too badly on him since he took it back, but it does suggest that he didn't read my posts too carefully before writing up his attack on me, which is a bit disconcerting. Overall, I'm less wary of Affinity than I was on d2 due to Choja and Kilga's flips, but I'm still not hugely fond of him.
NobuKilga: Poor d1 has been beaten to death. Started the wagon against Neo d2, and not much else. Stayed suspiciously far away from Neo's resulting claim (by which I mean he didn't comment on it at all). Still, Neo's claim would have provided a convenient excuse to switch off the wagon against Neo in the event that Nobu had started a case against fellow scum that he hadn't expected to take off. Instead, Nobu remained on Neo until the end of the day, keeping him within one vote of a lynch. NobuKilga hasn't been afraid to keep the pressure going on Neo either. Liking him a lot right now.
UK: Catfight with Bard d1, in my experience catfighting is usually an indicator of towniness, but with UK in particular I'm less inclined to rely on this, especially late in the game. The weak pokes at Kilga
here, along with voting for Neo to "keep things interesting" raises my alarms, especially since UK
immediately unvotes after Neo claimed. What's with the hesitance to place a solid vote on someone? UK's attack on Choja's claim via role name shenanigans also strikes me as particularly senseless. The name of the vanilla villager role had already been revealed via huhwhat's lynching - why try to make use of it in an attack? It's completely illusory. What purpose does it serve when your lynch target is already leading in number of votes? I'm seeing either filler or a gung ho attempt to draw attention away from Neo. Curious to see UK's reactions to today's flips, but I don't like her at all right now.
Chaore: Sat on the Nobu train along with Zak and Neo at the end of d1. That's a bit disconcerting, though the fact that huhwhat flipped town indicates that scum had no reason to try and counter-wagon. His case
on Bardiche d2 is an alright showing, but I think it's fairly obvious that I consider lynching low/no content players on d2 to be a valid strategy so I don't agree much with the crux of the case. Additionally, the case misreps Bard's play by accusing him of railing against Prody for much of d1, when in fact Bard initially voted for Prody
very early on and soon after
switched his vote to Neo before ultimately ending up on huhwhat. Aside from that case, Chaore hasn't done much but post filler both
on d1 and
on d2. His d2 vote was left as the singular vote against Bardiche at the end of the day, nicely avoiding any bandwagon analysis. Feeling very wary here.
Bardiche: I explained some about Bard in my blurb above about Chaore. Suffice it to say, I agree with his methodology so far (even if I preferred one target over another), and his application of this strategy has been consistent. It is unfortunate that my and Bard's cases have been shown to be on townies, but their absence from the game still results in less liabilities for town, which I view as town benefit. Of all the remaining players, I feel the best about him, since I don't see any scum intent in any of his posts so far.
Since Affinity has been bugging me so much for a hierarchy, here you go, from scummiest to least scummy: Neo >>> Chaore > UK > Affinity > NobuKilga > Bardiche. Chaore is worse than UK due to his lack of presence and the weaknesses I've pointed out in his d2 case against Bard. UK is worse than Affinity because Affinity kept the Neo wagon alive until near the end of d2.
