Holy shit balls people. Take a little while to look at the rest of the Board and three pages fly by!
:smack: Yes. I had a really long post that quoted each post where the player in question stated their reason, then I just shortened the whole thing, because I thought it would be kinder. I also thought maybe I was over-analyzing. Looking at all of this, I can see that I should just lay it all out there in future.
This was meant to a be summary of Septimus’s stated reason for moving, I’m having trouble with the many layers of multi-quoting:
Post 231, Septimus quotes
The bolded bit appeared to be why Septimus un-voted Colby. My interpretation of the bolded remark is that only scum would vote based on a slip. I found that strange. And I find the justification for the un-vote also strange. Septimus has claimed, and no one has counter-claimed, but I find I have a niggling doubt about Septimus. I hope I’m wrong.
post 264 DiggitCamara
Here, my reading of the bolded portion is that DiggitCamara is stating that defense of another player would only occur if you knew something others didn’t. On Day 1 there aren’t very many sources of information. I may have read too much into this, but I don’t think so, so that means that you are therefore scum if you defend. Between the first two arguments, you are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Also, I note that DiggitCamara still has his (her) eye on Colby, but they are moving their vote anyway. This starts to be a theme.
Candidly, taking a quick detour here, Colby’s “slip” on its own, is not to me what is damning. What is damning is the larger context, especially as the week goes on and he says very little. If he had followed up his initial explanation with normal game play, he could have made a case for an honest slip of the tongue. Now, it’s hard to see it that way. I return to the comments.
Yes, sort of. That is what they stated. It seemed weak to me. Let’s look at it. The final vote change. Suburban Plankton, Post 541. This was a very long post. He did go and look at the entire posting history, and list it, of PlumPudding. There was a longer bit preceding this that pertained to other posts, so this is a shortened post.
This post really nags at me. Suburban Plankton states that he still thinks that Colby is scum, but he’s moving his vote anyway. He’s moving it to a person who almost certainly will not get enough votes to actually get lynched. I am new at this but the very elaborate nature of this vote move struck me as most likely to be scum trying to protect a teammate, while hiding behind numbers and statistics.
My gut call here now is that Colby and Suburban Plankton are both scum. It wouldn’t surprise me if Plumpudding was too.
I did a bit above. The slip in phrasing with “team” which has been followed by almost total absence of Colby. I would guess that many people started the week thinking that the slip was as good a reason as any on DAY ONE (I will get this, I will get this) to place a vote. Colby himself never gave them a reason to change it. Septimus was a contender, but he has claimed. Unless that claim is proved false, the cheese stands alone. (I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
Hopefully, I’ve expanded enough above that my statement is clearer. Let me know if not, and I will.
True, thank you. I’m learning as I go.
Thank you for bringing this up/expanding on this. I have been wondering what happens with a fake claim. Wouldn’t the real EMT say something though? Or does that expose the real EMT to un-necessary risk too early in the game?
Oh yes, really my first. I watched the last one here. There were what, 10 players? I thought, oh, I can do that. Looks like fun. (Really, it is fun. But just reading this thread is a full time job!)
Day One (I am spelling these out so I stop fucking them up) is closing. I am torn. I am still convinced by my ToeJam vote. ToeJam will not swing this time unless something drastic happens. I am more and more convinced that Colby is also scum.
I ask you, my brothers and sisters, what to do? Should I move my vote to Colby? It’s not needed, but it won’t be useful where it is now. Or should I leave it on ToeJam in order to keep in place a solid second candidate in case something strange happens late in the Day?
