I just realized after about midnight I won't be around for at all until a couple of hours after deadline. In the future it may be better to place deadlines a bit later than 5 EDT. :(
It's getting clear to me that reads matter far more than anything else that has been said. I could, and probably should, almost ignore much of the stuff that has been said that's mainly psychological tactics.
I'll start with Orcinus Duo because why not... It seems like everybody "important" has been read once, anyway, so it can't hurt to have another... I don't even remember Aura Guardian's read at this point, so it could be interesting, idk.
1. Votes Aura Guardian.
2. Survey. Being more nooby than I thought I was, I didn't think this was an attempt at anything. The main accomplishment is to put pressure on inactives, but it generally establishes paranoia and I think that hurts inexperienced and/or quiet villagers more than anyone. I'd still say this is leaning town if taken at face value.
3. "I had idlers with a passion." lol okay. Otherwise answering his own questions. I'm bolding this because it's pretty much a running theme and I'm starting to think he's contributed less than it looks like. Insisting on lynching inactives is understandable and all, considering the circumstances, but this many times?
4-7. Arguing with Aura Guardian. Establishing personality/playstyle I guess.
8-9. Calls out Itchni and Jalmont for lurking the thread. Tells inspector(s) to inspect inactives. Also calls out coolking. Tells Paperblade not to vote Rediamond.
10. More inactive-bashing.
11. Goes after Walrein and darkpenguin67.
12. Decides on Walrein.
13. "Is voting PokemonRocks for stupidity a valid reason" Kind of being a hypocrite here imo. Voting isn't just to get someone lynched; it's also to pressure them. And he obviously knows this given his behaviour. I get that I didn't explicitly say that back then, but still.
14-15. Calls for getting Walrein to L-1, then suggests PokemonRocks?
16. Criticizes Rediamond's scum faction hypothesis, and quite aggressively at that. Notable since he's part of said hypothesis. Also criticizes the case against PokemonRocks.
17. Goes all over Rediamond because he defended Walrein. Also goes all over Itchni.
18. Something about Jalmont talking about PokemonRocks.
19. "Can I get some opinions on red and Itchni" Man why did I have to pick this guy...?
20. Something about agreeing with darkpenguin67, otherwise more of the same.
21. Vintage Brooks blah blah
22. Starts Itchni wagon, citing his riding the Walrein wagon.
23-24. Seems to demonstrate that he can't read, or at least is pretending he can't. But why would you pretend that?
25. More against Itchni/Walrein.
26. Finally actually votes Itchni.
27. Troll
28-30. lol
31. More inactive callouts.
32. Singles me out for no apparent reason. No, "active lurking" doesn't count. I could have been trying to contribute with, like, a read or something. If I were reading you (like I am now) that would take a long time. And unless you were staring at the thread viewer list and spamming F5, you don't even know if I stopped to attend to other matters on Smogon. I'm kind of a mod, maybe you haven't noticed.
33. lol
34-36. Also antagonizes Itchni because why not, but it's based on Aura Guardian's read so...
37-38. Bangkok stuff. Real nice and hypocritical. Made good his word on the 12 hours thing, though.
39. Above + defends his actions and says shinyskarmory is scum without explanation.
40. Claims he just has strong opinions. No, you're just using a bunch of scare tactics and fishing people with wagons. Either that or you're mafia and actually trying to deceive everyone.
41. Blows off Rediamond's accusation. I guess that's understandable.
42. Starts the inactive callouts again.
43-44. Suggests to have the announcer claim and then to lynch shinyskarmory.
45. More of 41.
46. w/e
47-48. Cute. Honestly, there's nothing to "see through". Any given statement can be rock, paper or scissors. Always assuming someone is playing scissors is probably a bad strategy.
49. Something about Cereza.
50. "And yeah I visited Itchni last night (sounds creepy?). I will not claim, and I may or may not reveal my information gathered, I need to think this through." ...Eh?
51. Doesn't follow Itchni's accusation of him, blows off Rediamond again.
52-54. lol at this point
56. AG/Jalmont stuff.
So basically what I'm getting out of this is:
- He hates inactives. (putting here for posterity because lol like it wasn't obvious)
- Assuming he's town, the D1 wagons were a ploy to point to more people to accuse.
- He really likes to accuse people. No reads, though.
- He doesn't like Rediamond, I guess. Or maybe it's all a ploy and they're both scum!!! ...meh
- 11 is interesting and a possible indicator of town, but then 20...
All he has are suggestions, accusations, and a possible clever mafia-fishing ploy. Putting his uncalled for accusations of me to the side, I'd say this is a null with a slight scum lean. I feel he isn't helping as much as he likes to think, and the posts themselves are painful to read. Scare tactics are great and all, but at one point I genuinely wanted to suicide by godkill. Let's remember the "fun" element that this game is supposed to have, yes?
Also this read took way too long. I was hoping to do more but I just really don't have the time. Perhaps if I were more like Orcinus Duo I'd also blame this on him. It's unfortunate that I have so little to go on in the end but
##Vote Orcinus Duo
I think he just genuinely makes this game frustrating and, if it does come down to this, I'd rather have fun than win. He could be pretty fun to countertroll, though. No strong opinions.
