I have no particular defense for my D1 vote placement, but I will at least address this:
Was there really no time to at least give some sort of comment on the Hourai train?
In my case? Yes. You'll notice the post from Suwako at 5:27 PM Eastern, my first post after the handful of Hourai votes. That was from my second job, my tutoring job, where my shift started at 5:30. I will be glad to link you to my center's page on the company website so you can see I do indeed work there in addition to forwarding you the e-mail with the schedule for this past week if you don't believe me.
By the time I got home and had a chance to sit down and think about the game, I knew time was running out (which you should be able to sympathize with given how you flipped out over the impending deadline
much earlier than that) and I had enough time to skim through the topic and see people accusing each other of lying about their roles. The resolution to all those accusations was unclear to me so I asked if anyone could definitively back up their liar accusation on anyone else because if someone actually got caught lying about there wouldn't be a choice; the liar would need to be voted off the island. In the process of writing up my "hey guyz wats going on" post I got cut off by Shadoweh telling Conqueror to filibust and at that point it didn't matter what I thought about anything.
Regarding my late D1 actions: I wanted PX flipped instead of Hourai because I figured he would become the most obvious target for a D2 lynch provided Conqueror was telling the truth and therefore town (it should be noted that following a Conqueror flip + townie Serela flip, which I was expecting at the time due to a lack of town interest in flipping Hourai, I would have likely pursued PX as my primary target on D2 over Hourai. Colt was not a viable target to me at that point seeing as he had not yet expressed his desire to jump onto Conqueror.) The mention of me thinking things through was because PX had switched from my secondary choice to my primary choice between posts. Naturally, when the day essentially turned into Hourai vs Serela, I returned to Hourai, seeing as he was still fairly high on my scum list. I can understand why this would be interpreted as trying to avoid getting Hourai flipped, but seeing as PX was my second pick for scum at the time, I don't think the choice was exactly unprecedented.
There are two things I find problematic with this.
- That is an awfully presumptive attitude about how Day 2 was going to play out. How often does Day 2 play out the way we expect it to on Day 1 before we even get to see any flips? Less often than not, I imagine. And look at that, it was a bad assumption to make, because PX has not at all been the focus of today. "Well of course he wasn't the focus he wasn't on the bucket list"
which is exactly the point of why we don't make these assumptions because you don't know what's going to happen in the interim. (Never mind that he wasn't getting a whole lot of attention outside of Dormio before the bucket list claim anyway because so much of it focused on Shadoweh instead.) You don't make D1 voting decisions based on who you think will garner the most attention D2, you make D1 voting decisions based on who you read as the scummiest person on D1.
- What is this "lack of town interest in flipping Hourai" to which you refer? At the time you made that post, Hourai had more non-Conqueror votes than anyone else.
Let me repeat that, just so it's clear.
Hourai had more non-Conqueror votes than anyone else.Your claim that town lacked interest in flipping him is bull, because if there really was no interest then he wouldn't have been the filibust vote leader at any point in time. Never mind that basically no one had any
good things to say about the guy.