Zak - Strange unvote/revote on Pesco, but I'm reading it as RVS. Then REALLY votes Pesco for throwing around insults left, right and centre. By next post has switched to NF and is now reprimanding me for pushing the Pesco case. Uh...what?
Despite his earlier claims that Donut is just rusty he switches to him over the other lynches in late D1. His reasoning for clearing Pesco is 'scum Pesco would have given up by now', which makes me very sad.
Fearmongering questions to Donut, Carth and Serp which seem intended to instill doubt rather than test faith. Don't see what they'd achieve, since scum typically know better than to go for a case they can't argue legitimately.
D2, begins engaging in meta reading. Suspects that the setup is F11, but then has no complaint with voting the copclaim. Contradiction, anyone?
Engages in Donut bandwagon analysis which achieves absolutely nothing.
Then attempts to analyse Pesco's crumbs, saying absolutely nothing that anyone couldn't figure out from the first read of it.
On D3, back to attacking Pesco for his meta vote on Kiro. Makes sense to me, to be honest.
But in most cases, he seems to be trying to look like he's contributing when really he's saying nothing useful. Whether that's because he's trying to waffle or he just can't think of anything useful to say is open for debate, but I'm very iffy about him.
Affinity - Immediate press on NF for not liking weak reasoning, and not putting votes behind his suspicions. Comments that Pesco isn't responding to his accusations.
Pushes NF harder on this point in later posts, then brings out the point on clearing Serp.
After the copclaim comes out, though, switches to Donut, mentioning him for the first time in his voting post. This is despite having questioned Pesco several times over his previous posts.
Clears Dorian for raising an original point against Donut (contradiction on his opinion on effort), meaning he 'did more hunting than NF ever did'. Doesn't make any comments about his lurkiness, though, or indeed any of the other iffy statements Dorian made (NF getting a pass for being too suspicious for example). Finally,
I can't actually make out the point that DOrian supposedly made in his own post.Attacks NF on D2, but doesn't vote based on the CC and instead aims for Zakeri for retreating too hastily from the Donut flip. Admits later he will vote when Zak responds, but by D3 seems to have disregarded his case altogether, going for me instead for tunnelling Pesco. Why didn't he move his vote to Zakeri even after he got his response?
I want to see how Affinity responds to this WoT before I give a more precise opinion of him, but I'll note on D1 he jumped from NF to Donut surprisingly hastily, and he heralded Dorian's innocence a littler too fiercely for my liking.
Finally, Dorian/Potassium Benzoate - Dorian really didn't have a clue what the hell he was doing here. Too Townie fallacy in reverse, not responding to attacks on himself, generally being kinda useless...feels quite like a new guy, but now we have Sodium Oxide to consider too.
In his first post, Ferryl Oxide accuses NF of being a suspicious confirmed Townie (>________>), IIoAs Donut and puts out a pointless PesRou conspiracy theory. Let me quote this for emphasis:
Roukan and Pesco:For some reason, I have a theory that they're pretending to argue(as usual) in order to distract town.
'As usual'? Did Magnesium even consider this before he posted it?
Starts D2 with a semi-clear of Pesco through the logic of 'You're always scummy'. Excuse me while I dip my head in some cement.
Then votes Nietz for being unoriginal throughout D1, and after ONE POINT takes it back and goes back to Pesco.
Pulls out a WoT on Zakeri which is massively IIoA and suddenly wants to vote him for moving onto Donut. His point on Zak clearing Pesco feels notably iffy:
Also, Zak says Pesco is good for stating his thought process, although I find that this is ironic. Zakeri(well, everyone pretty much) disliked NF's "effort=clear", and yet he himself was doing the same with Pesco, and how he liked Pesco was explaining his thought process.
No, these are not the same thing. Zak is saying here 'you've explained your reasoning thoroughly, so I trust you'. NF said 'you used a lot of words, so I trust you'. No-where near the same.
He seems very, very reluctant to comment on Dorian's play.
On Day 3, Caesium Hydroxide drops Zakeri as well and moves back to Pesco.
I will admit I was thinking of a different game in terms of alert, though - I was thinking of the F/SN round where he was Rider.
All in all, Plutonium Permanganate is more scummy than Dorian was. He refuses to comment on the latter's play, switches cases with reckless abandon and has IIoA thrown all over the shop.
TL;DR, YOU CAN START READING NOW
I will agree that I was far too focused on my Pesco case yesterday, but I hope this post is enough proof that given enough time I'd have looked at other people.
Currently I still have a good deal of suspicion of him, but other candidates that are acting notably scummy were more or less ignored. Carthrat was too insistent on NF being scum despite the copclaim, and in general Professor Utonium (I'm running out of elements here) is all over the place - refusing to give HIS OWN OPINION on Dorian's posts, tons of IIoA, jumping between cases like a frog across lilypads...(I'm so clever.)
My opinions on other players are probably dependent on later flips: Kiro needs to start making solid cases rather than jumping all over the shop. Serp seems alright but has pretty much no opinion on Phlebotinum despite his suspicions of Dorian. Affinity preached Dorian's innocence a little too hard, which'll reflect badly on him if Platinum flips scum. Zak needs to start producing genuine analysis and stop being a hypocrite ('I think this game is F11, but I don't mind voting the sole copclaim!'), but a lot of what he says seems more misguided rather than scummy.
In conclusion, my current suspects for scum are Pesco, Unobtanium and Carthrat in that order. Since we still don't actually have a votecount (>_>) I'm gonna make the move that avoids a quicklynch.
##Vote: EX Na2O2
