Oh ugh. And then there were three.
Also, scumhunter, Arcee suspected Mike and to an extent myself at the beginning of the game for rather minor, trivial reasons. How exactly is that relevant right now in the slightest?
Vote: Hiplop
I did a reread during the night, and realized that hiplop is really quite scummy. For one thing, he feels the need to
justify having a town read on Arcee, despite no one really finding him scummy in the first place, aside from Mike. Then he
theorizes that arcee cracked under pressure (again, what pressure?) but then
states Arcee's town "despite the wagon/bunch of pursuers." So what was it, Hiplop? Was Arcee scum cracking under the all-mighty pressure of Mike Wigan, scum hunter extraordinaire, or was Arcee town being bandwagoned and bullied by... all of Mike. Why were you trying so hard to push your opinion away from Mike's?
Then, rather than do any real scumhunting, hiplop focuses entirely on
me because I'm not
here. Protip: lurkerhunting is what scum do day 1 to look productive
without actually doing anything productive.
If someone's not here, they'll either come back or get replaced out. Focusing entirely on them isn't going to change that, or make it happen faster. What it does do is make you look active and scumhunting without actually commenting on anything that's happening.
Oh, and what's
this? You know what it is? Evidence that Hiplop is making this up as he goes. Suddenly one person having suspicion on you doesn't mean anything? So then what was all the whiteknighting of Arcee about? Were you just trying to look town by having a townread on someone basically everyone else thought was town, too? Moreover, he justifies his two main reads as simply "they lurk too much." Apparently he also suspected San, but that read seemed to come and go out of the blue, without any real justification.
This I don't understand. Hiplop's number one suspect is Zach, who is being town but replaced Lolly, and Hiplop's only case on Lolly was that Lolly was lurking. Moreover, he even said earlier on that he thought Lolly was probably just newbtown. And yet despite having a very poor opinion on Taz, Hip decides that Taz and all his legitimate scumminess is second only to... what? Lolly's lurking? Hiplop is not scumhunting here, he's keeping options open. He's never really made a case on Zach or Lolly, yet kept them as his number one suspect because they had a lot of suspicion on them. The most he
says on the subject is that " Lollybear left a sour taste in my mouth which Zach hasnt fully diminished," and that "i would be perfectly fine with a ta vote, but i still like where my vote is atm." This reeks of scum trying to keep their options open through vague statements of general scumminess.
But then he drops all of this to
vote Forest? This is sheepy scummy bandwagoning at its finest, folks. It also completely contradicts what Hiplop said earlier about not changing his vote unless he's sure the bandwagon's gone. The lolly/zach suspicions might have lowered, but Taz was still very much in the hotseat, so why the sudden switch to Forest instead? Was it because you knew Taz would flip town, and you didn't want to be associated with the Taz wagon through vote-count-analysis? Hiplop was steadily pushing for a Taz lynch for most of the day without ever actually voting for him, then says he was "upset, not concerned" that Taz was lynched. The whole scenario is scummy, but the last comment, "upset, not concerned," just doesn't sit well with me. It's like he's trying to express that Taz's lynch is a bad thing, but secretly is kinda glad because he knows Taz'll flip town.
Basically, Hiplop's scum because of lurkerhunting and talking mechanics instead of scumhunting, overly defending townies/attacking lurkers to make sure people know he's being active without actually doing anything, keeping his options open by keeping his vote on lolly/zach for no real reason while vocally pushing for a Taz lynch, then abandoning all that to mindlessly sheep onto a fast-growing wagon. Not to mention the fact that he contradicts himself a few times, going against what he claimed was his own personal moral structure. This is not town, this is scum siding with whatever voice happens to be the strongest at the moment.
