Percy 308 wrote:I think it's strange that Vi admonished the town thusly:
Vi 212 wrote:"Town Fragmented And Useless; Petition Signed For Fewer, Larger Bandwagons", end quote.
...yet votes for someone without any votes on them two days later, four days before deadline. Also, the admonishment comes just after I first posted my case on hohum, and I thought it smelt a little like a chainsaw behind "Pro-Town Advice". I've already noted the interaction between hohum and Vi, and this isn't making me feel any better.
FoS: Vi
At the time I said that, there were a lot of two-person and one-person bandwagons and everyone was split up doing their own thing, and I felt nothing was getting done. However, I thought I had come across a legitimate lie from kyle99, plus the wagon was directly tied to xRx (who had the largest bandwagon at the time), plus ekiM's support. In other words, it was a new bandwagon that had potential.
I understand that my moves today have made me look like hohum's partner. Oh well. After reading through hohum's posts, I don't know if he is actually scum or just crude and single-minded. I'm fairly confident in saying that hohum and xRx are not both scum, what with hohum's locked-on xRx vote.
ortolan's reasons for voting Jack are really not good. Jack most definitely explained that FoS, and at first blush that reason was valid - ortolan jumped on kyle99 for replacing out here, but Jack with the knowledge that kyle99 replaced out everywhere would see that the replacement was not as likely to be malicious, and therefore that accusation was more likely bogus. I have no interest in lynching Jack today and would actually prefer that everyone else didn't. I think the claim that flinter *could* have been scum would be giving her a bit too much credit for being cunning.
The Sotty7 wagon would almost be a thoughtful choice if it weren't for how the wagon isn't all that viable right now due to xRx and Locke Lamora not doing anything with their votes. A lot has gone on over the weekend and Sotty not being here to comment on it isn't helping her image - I know she may not be able to help that (for a few more hours at least) but I'm saying it so it's out there. The rest of the things I don't like include her hard push on Locke Lamora (which was in large part completely overblown) without particularly trying to convince anyone to join her. I do still agree with xRx that 190 felt like fluff, especially the last two questions. Her next post on flinter seemed like putting the punishment on a bad/inexperienced player, which is how I'm reading flinter anyway, and the rest seems like bullying her around. It's not often that I have to say I'm relying on intuition because I can usually clearly identify what I don't like, but there's something I can't put my finger on about her that I feel isn't genuine.
After some reading, I think I'm going to flop on xRx. I did think his early posts were more likely to come from misunderstood Town, and he's not really playing at all like he did in his two very recent scum games. I'm willing to believe that xRx and kyle share the same alignment, and for purposes of today's lynch I'll put him down where flinter was - less likely scum so much as a giant target and arguably a liability. If that giant target gets lynched, I don't think I would gain but hopefully others (in the Town) will.
I think it would be easier for me to make a decision about xRx by looking at Jahudo, who had best tread carefully and come out with a post Really Soon Now. While it's certainly possible that kyle's lie was unintentional, etc., I'm not quick to consider that route. I would rather lynch kyle than xRx, but that's not happening Today.
DDD is hopping wagons like crazy and just told me in a no-longer-ongoing game that that's what he does as scum (and possibly D1 as well). This is simply a call-out not to let him continue this through D2.
ortolan has been playing what seems to be a very passive game so far, and he's found easy reasons to be on easy wagons all the way down (as evidenced by 313 in particular, but read for yourself!).
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The only one of the four wagons going on right now that I particularly like is Sotty7, and that's where I'm going to vote. If I had to vote a different existing wagon, it would be hohum. If an ortolan wagon came up, I would consider that too. DDD is better left until D2 IMO.
Unvote: kyle99
Vote: Sotty7
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