Yeah I haven't been paying this game so much attention recently. Mainly due to KotM and the intense distracting power that only a new VN I actually like can provide. Also another reason I'll go into below.
Unvote.
It was more that I was using your question to him as a segue into a more in depth question to ask you. Which you haven't answered.
That was a question for me? I assumed it was rhetorical. The answer is yes - if someone jumps on someone only after it seems like they're doomed. It's a bit like bussing, but bussing implies that you're the one consigning your partner to death, wheras this is more like damage limitation for an already dying partner.
Leafsnail. You've been gone for a while. . . what do you think of everything that's going on?
I think a lot of this what's going on is intensely irrelevant. This has made the game kindof a chore to read - so much stuff that just doesn't matter bouncing back and forth endlessly. So I'm going to take this back to The Fundamental Question that does matter (and request that everyone else try to think about this question a bit more)
Who in this game is actually scum?I believe I have an answer to this question:
Zrk2.
His entire contribution to this game has been white noise. I cannot see anything of his that has been aimed at answering the fundamental question above. He'll just ask a question and answer a question and get into a minor quibble about mafia theory.
His vote on Alamoes was the one thing he's done that I thought looked ok. But he backed away from it as soon as Captain Ford made a criticism of him (post #210) - apparently the Alamoes vote was "a pressure vote", and Zrk2 doesn't expect Alamoes to get lynched today. There are three issues I see with this:
1. A pressure vote which you call a pressure vote carries no weight at all. This seems very obvious to me, and I don't think Zrk2 would miss this fact.
2. If we are to believe Zrk2's answer to Captain Ford, and the vote on Alamoes isn't a vote against someone he thinks is scum, then Zrk2 has done
nothing to find scum at all for the entire game. This would make it yet another post from Zrk2 that doesn't even try to address the important matters, and which instead makes him look like he's doing something.
3. His initial vote does not actually
look like a pressure vote. Thus, I think there is a strong chance that he was in fact backpeddling in post #210 - he noticed there was a minor contradiction in his earlier actions, so he tried to retroactively change the intended meaning of his Alamoes vote. For me, this retroactive changing of motive is an extremely strong scumtell (I was caught doing it myself a few games ago, even).
My conclusion is that Zrk2 is scum. He's attempting to be seen as an active, contributing player, but his failure to address the important question and his backpedaling over his Alamoes vote exposes the fact that his primary objective is to avoid drawing attention.