Seeing as I'm up for lynch, I'll start by defending, and then see if I've got enough to make a case on somebody else.
Let's review
NNR's case.
NNR's case is a fairly blatant misrep because he cherry picks from my posts, deliberately highlights things out of context, and selectively ignores what I did do.
Point 1:
Blithely ignored the CF7 wagon yesterday, most mentions of it were second-hand (referring to people who were voting CF7)
My vote on King was
my second post of the game. I was asleep when the CF7/BT thing went down, and I was suspicious of Rawr and BT because of the flavor overstep. I was also suspicious of SB's self vote apparently for misreading his role pm. How do you misread your role pm? At the time I figured, well, maybe his role was posted in the scum quicktopic next to Kingaults, and SB read Kingault's by mistake. Both players self voted during RVS. That's the main reason for not focusing on the CF7 wagon. I already had my target and I didn't want to waste time by pursuing some other case, especially when I had very little time to begin with. I first picked up CF7 in my
notes as "I feel like his address of NNR's weak vote is scumtwitch and his complaint against Conq is more of a 'its not fair' than anything else."
However, NNR neglected to include this.
I then, later,
posted a second post because I was getting pressure for voting Kingault. In this post, I made some key statements about my stance on CF7, which are completely in line with everything I did day 1.
Kingault's vote on CF7 was really bad so I voted him for it.
Nobody has said that Kingault's vote was great. Several people said his vote was awful.
The main reason I didn't buy the case on CF7 was because "I'm seeing...I guess, I think BT is throwing out a lot of WIFOMing over the CF7 situation." I didn't understand the case and BT's reasoning looked like WIFOM to me. A little later, BT asked me to clarify why it was WIFOM, and I did
clarify this.
NNR actually quotes me on "I think there is some reason for people to vote CF7 this game (last game I defended him because there was no case); I just think Kingault's reason was truly awful and he's done literally nothing to either improve his vote or defend his current vote," which just restated why I was voting for Kingault over CF7. Nobody is arguing that Kingault's vote is great. Why, then, are you pinging me for challenging him on it? I had no idea that Kingault was going to do literally nothing for the rest of the game (except OMGUS vote me in day 2, I should mention).
Lastly, in my
final main post, I said:
King voted CF7 so for this story to make any sense at all, CF7 is probably town, and Shadoweh/Serela are probably also town.
There's no reason for me to say such an idiot thing if scum!CF7 was at L-2 and 99% likely to be lynched in a scenario where I am also scum.
In the previous game, I defended CF7 quite heavily and even refused to vote alongside town to lynch him. The case on CF7 was non-existent; in this game I conceded there probably was a case. SB made an argument early today that if it wasn't for him, CF7 wouldn't have been lynched, which I have to query because isn't that the case for me also? I didn't have to vote CF7; I could have camped on my quite justified Kingault vote.
TL;DR I didn't pursue CF7 because I thought I had a better target and I didn't understand the case on CF7.
NNR's actual case against me is misrep:
"Meanwhile, he, of course, votes Kingault, mostly known as The Easiest Player To Vote In The Universe, basically decrying the evils of a newbie who really needs to just switch out from the game if he can't find the will to play. "
No, CF7 was the easiest player to vote in the Universe. I could have done so without trouble and put CF7 at L-1, thus earning myself an easy slice of town cred had I voted for CF7 earlier in the day. CF7 was probably going to be lynched so there was no reason for scum!Sky to avoid that wagon.
It's a misrep because NNR presents a fake situation (that Kingault was the easiest vote) and that my vote was because Kingault is apparently a newbie. I stated consistently that Kingault's vote was scummy and it was, in fact, the easiest vote in the Universe. It's doubly misrep because NNR made this point out to be bigger than it really is.
An he does so basically the whole day! At one point he switches to Alternate Wagon Lynch Serela, buuut eventually he goes back to Kingault despite there being basically no ground gaining on getting him lynched.
I stated the reasons for my Serela vote switch was because I was suspicious of the Hikari/Kingault interaction. It's relevant because he is painting a picture of me hopping on to a wagon for no reason, intending to discredit my vote even more. When I highlight this to NNR (that he completely ignored what I had done and why I had done it) he ignored what I had to say. It's confirmation bias.
At the end of deadline he FINALLY switched to CF7, mostly probably because if he didn't he'd look like obvscum who would rather no lynch then get on his buddy.
It's misrep because NNR is stating that my reason was probably to avoid looking like obvscum. I stated that it was more valuable for a towny mislynch than a no-vote (which seemed possible, we only had the numbers very late in the phase). NNR is only assuming scenarios where I am scum and ignoring the reality: I thought Kingault was scum.
NNR's summary is now pretty shaky so let's dismantle it completely.
-Sky Paladin avoided the CF7 wagon because he didn't want to bus his buddy on D1.
It would have been easier and strategically more sound for scum!Sky to have bussed CF7, so this point doesn't hold water.
-Sky Paladin sat on the Kingault vote because it's an ~easy~ and ~original~ case to make on a player who basically is playing the apathy game.
I voted in my second post for Kingault because he made a bad vote (which most players agree with); I had no way of knowing that King was going to apathy out the rest of the day, so this is an invalid argument.
-Sky Paladin briefly switched to Serela because of ~role shenanigans~ being an equally easy mislynch to make.
-Sky Paladin attacks Sacchi for basically calling his bluff to smear his only vocal detractor.
These are related.
NNR acknowledges here that my reason for vote switch was not actually to wagon Serela, despite saying that this was the reason for my vote, earlier. In fact, this last throwaway line is the only time NNR actually mentions my play of the day, which was to test out of Sacchi was counter-voting me to defend Kingault, or not. The answer appears to be a 'likely yes', indicating some kind of relationship between the two. If you do consider that Kingault was bussing his scumbuddy, which is the best explanation for his awful vote, then that relationship is 'they are scumbuddies'. Otherwise, I probably found the Masons again.
Anyway, I just can't see how you can wrap your head to say "Sky's vote on Kingault was to save a scumbuddy" but won't consider "Kingault's bad vote was bussing a scum buddy."
TL;DRNNR's case is filled with misrep and confirmation bias. It is baloney. If you take any of his points and compare them to *what actually happened* it falls apart under inspection.
