monk slot case time!
I'll start with monk posts. Unfortunately, I didn't see it when monk was playing but I can see it looking back at him. Of course there's the obvious bias I have in thinking brokenscraps is scummy so I'm inclined to look back and see his posts as scummy to back myself up.
monk iso 0: I read bits and pieces of mastin's Yoshi case and I think he overhyped the oddness of the way he thinks. It's different from what I've seen before but in no way is it weird, and it makes quite a bit of sense. Tone is always important. And look at mastin's criticism of Yoshi's tone in his RVS vote. monk's tone here is exactly the same. The vote is exactly the same. "It's unnatural, artificial." (This is also why mastin will be more likely to be scum when brokenscraps flips scum)
iso 5: For some reason a lot of players feel like not having their vote on someone at all times is scummy. I consider it town play to have an extended period of time during any day where the player's vote isn't on anyone. It isn't necessarily scummy that monk placed a vote but the fact that he placed it before the game started and then confirmed it like it was serious when it's based on a forced joke about his profile name. Freaking terrible.
iso 9: People are always busy. There's always real life in the way. I'm no stranger to the "hi, I'll catch up soon" post, and it's certainly not a scum tell, but just the number I've seen of these from both players, there's 2 from monk and I wanna say 3 from brokenscraps. Including one specific one I've gotten to and will get to again. It's not necessary. But in a game like this where (mastin is right) we've been mostly lurker hunting, there would be a drive for them, as scum, to remain active and not be seen as scummy because of lurking. Whether it's actually beyond their control or not (I don't believe anybody lurks to hide from the game), the fact that they both commented on multiple occasions to let us know they would be back soon looks like some subconscious (unintentional) need for approval from the town.
iso 10: It works with my other scum reads. Granted, the way brokenscraps reversed his predecessor's read on krew, I'm gonna say that if he's scum, krew is more likely to not be. We'll be lynching them both, of course, but still. mastin is MUCH more likely to be scum with brokenscraps, and alex, of course, is just scum with whoever's scum. scraps' level of noncommittal on alex is fun to watch.
iso 11 and 12: scumhunting as scum is hard, especially since people tend to make it so unnatural. monk is clearly having problems with scumhunting and resorts to lurker hunting early in the game before anyone else actually did it. I think scum have a problem with scumhunting because they know what is and isn't a scum tell. It's easy too fall back on fake but common ones such as lurking to sound as if contribution is actually happening. In actuality, monk didn't contribute a thing except that scum list that can be used to find his buddies on later.
iso 13: Said this before but how the heck does a document go awry?
brokenscraps iso 0 and 11: more of dat appeasing
iso 1: it scares me that nobody cared to mention how terribly scummy all around this post is. He doesn't even deign to comment on that vote in future posts. However, in iso 2 and 3 it becomes clear that he intends to follow monk's precedent in not actually scumhunting, just attacking lurkers. He puts a vig vote on alex but then says the EXACT (down to the same wording) same thing about elsa. I wonder why he chose to vig alex over elsa. His reads on them are apparently for nothing except their play being semi-lurky. Also, notice how absolutely sure he sounds on alex. Never again in his posts does he say anything as convinced as "pretty obviously... scum" as he does about alex's play here. It's common practice for scum to bus their weaker partner. Sounding right is VERY commonly misconstrued as sounding pro-town, so if alex were to flip scum, brokenscraps knows he'd get town points for this post.
p-edit: I take that back. He sounds so sure of himself one more time, which I'll get to in iso 6.
iso 4: more ridiculous focus on lurking. How is lurking scummy? Where is the scum motivation? This isn't scum hunting. Also he seems to be a fan of hopping on the leading wagons. Look at it. focuses on wormykrew when he comes in with a vig vote for alex, and mentions of elsa, then as the TWIE wagon picks up he's right on it. Each time it's for an accusation of lurking except in the case of krew which he couldn't think of a lie for since he's not lurking.
iso 6: Take a look at this
brokenscraps in iso 2 wrote:weirdalexv is pretty obviously a semi-lurking scum
brokenscraps in iso 6 wrote:Case on Wierdalex is clearly garbage. I don't need to explain why.
Ok now that looks bad, right? But it gets worse. Someone take a guess at how many posts are in between his iso 2 and his iso 6.
iso 7, 8, 9, 10: commented on these already, really and they're mostly boring posts about semantics. I love how he is taking so many of my base fake scumhunting tells and giving me perfect examples of them. lurker hunting, inconsistent reads, chivalrous town defending, and arguing semantics for long-winded posts that don't get anybody anywhere but look pretty nice.
Everything you should need to want to lynch him is there. Let's do this.
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