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My first post 11 could be a chainsaw defense, I guess, if you disregard the attempt at humor.

To answer the question presented in 784 though, why would I defend him so strenuously if he isn't my scum buddy? Well it mostly comes down to who was pushing his lynch. Throughout most of the game, my number two scumread (Transcend) has been pushing IV's lynch, and throughout D1, when I was very confident in scum!enefpe, enefpe was voting for IV (starting in 54) for a full week, changing in 248 where it felt like giving up, before jumping right back on the wagon in 299.

When my two biggest scumreads are pushing a lynch, that person suddenly looks VERY towny. That thought process carried me through up to the point when Enomis claimed doctor, at which point IV went from "almost assuredly town" to "probably town" based on the interactions and as Stove has pointed out, seemingly uncharacteristic posts during that period.

Almost all of the arguments made against IV in the meantime have been resting on assumptions of tells that I either don't see or don't agree with, and I called them out as I saw them. Bad scumhunting is bad.

Transcend is, was, and likely will continue to be pushing IV's lynch and has since become my #1 scumread. If it's a bus, it's a masterful bus and well played sir.

That should cover 784, on to 785!

Either I didn't explain myself throughout D1/early D2 clear enough, it got swept away in confirmation bias, or it was an intentional misrepresentation after being put at L-1. I'm leaning towards the first one honestly.

There was like, a day, where I thought Enefpe/Karnos was a sensible scumteam, but when looking back on 439 reminds me too much of the bad scumhunting I pointed out earlier and rescinded it because it was bad scumhunting. When the pendulum swung back, I thought it swung too far because I had started to look at Karnos as if he could do no wrong, which was almost as bad as before. I'd rather remain suspicious of town than completely overlook scum.

The next few paragraphs are complete misunderstandings of the reasons I changed my vote on Karnos. At that time, I was thinking "eh Karnos miiiiiiiiiight be scum maybe" but I was still thinking Enefpe/Enomis and Transcend was the scumteam. When I discover that "omg Enomis is like almost definitely not scum" the pairing I thought clearly couldn't be accurate. Karnos was my #3 at the time, and when my #1 suddenly becomes conf-town, #3 becomes #2.

You (Karnos) changing your opinion on Enomis, as well as pushing to get Enomis to claim, are hardly why my opinion changed (and tbh it did not change that much, just the rest of the environment changed). Stove pushed for the reveal, I pushed for the reveal, Karnos pushed for the reveal, and even Transcend pushed for the reveal (which in hindsight I probably should have taken into more account). And, whoa, Stove unvoted, I unvoted, and you (Karnos) unvoted. Crazy that this then has nothing to do with why I voted for you is it?

Ultimately, like I said, it has so much more to do with the fact that my #1 dropped out of the scum-race and you as #3 jumped up to #2

Cool, that's done, let's see where we're at now.