Wall is approaching. I built it with tender loving care... ahahahahaha, no. There was a shit-ton to read and I started glazing over from Page 18 and on. So, no, I didn't even finish the reread and you're going to get a ton more to read. TL:DR: Cage definitely first, want opinions on Protoman due to some things I noticed. May lean Protoman over Crocker as secondary pick. Mai is not on my suspicion list due to actions of the 2 confirmed Scum.
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John Cage: Interesting dynamic in that you didn't really bother to read the first 5 pages of the game, then came out with your ability on N1 and start reading then. Why'd you bother with all the angst in Day 1 with Protoman? Argh, I just remembered you're also a replacement too so you can't really answer that... Cage didn't like Kyon in Day 2 with mention of the exchange with Comedian so that looks bad. #267 has Cage wanting Kyon to go for somebody other than Sailor Moon and Light. Why is Kyon compelled to search for people other than the "popular wagons?" Especially when John Cage starts to feel convinced that Sailor Moon could be Scum in the next paragraph. Bad reason to go after Kyon. And then brings up the NK analysis WIFOM. In hindsight, that post is pretty terrible. Your #348 was inconclusive on your analysis of Gumshoe's case on Chitose, saying it wasn't half bad and you could see a few things wrong with it, but didn't clarify what. Also: "Mm, pretty sure Chitose is misrepping Mai, but I'm not certain. It'd be better to let Mai prove her wrong anyway." So another post that looks bad after Chitose's flip. There's continued indecision about Chitose in Day 3. And Comedian defends you a little in #532. Skipping ahead to your Night 4 post, it looks like you set up Crocker to be your primary lynch over Chitose.
Goddamnit, another thing about you replacing in is that oldJohnCage at least stated who he would like lynched before the Day began. NewJohnCage doesn't do that, it's a more passive style casting suspicion on 2 people: Crocker and Chitose in N4, Crocker and Monoe in N5. This lack of announcement of a top pick also bugs me. Assuming if you're Town, you never know when your final post at Night could be your last in the game. I would imagine you'd at least firmly declare what your intentions were at Night before we see Night results. You leaving your opinions more fluid and inconclusive fits more with Scum play waiting to see what the best option for the new Day would be. Even now, you look like you're resigning yourself to defeat, not even picking a scum target and that bugs me as a player regardless of your alignment.
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Crocker: Very quiet Day 1 with a vote on Prinny. Wasn't correct, but your reasoning was better than a lot of the other D1 votes I read. In Day 2, didn't like Kyon for his vote on Comedian, so a possible passive defense of Comedian, but went for Light. He does push Light in a respectable manner though. Ah... I see, the Day 2 hammer with 22 hours left in the Day. I can see how that fits with your attitude in Day 4. And very quiet Day 3. I actually need to reread you again because Day 3 was too loud with the other 3 players. But I got an impression that your posts seemed alright overall even if you were wrong like most everyone else was.
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Protoman: All the good stuff about you is known by everyone else here. So let's get to the parts I don't feel so good about. And wow, there's a lot more than I expected. You didn't immediately acknowledge Gumshoe's case on Chitose in your #289 or for several posts after that. That's quite the miss for someone who was actively reading, responding, and asking good questions throughout the game. Gumshoe calls out the "Protoman misreps Monoe" in #317 even though you clarified you dropped it afterwards. Then in #343 is your case on CATS. And it's actually pretty bad. Going on CATS for bad posting is ok, but tacking on that he forgot to mention Chitose after Chitose made a case on CATS is a scumslip?
The passing off of having others make cases for you is SERIOUSLY BAD no matter how badly Town was playing the first 2 days. If you're indeed the so-called Town-God, then put forth the cases you have yourself and judge who agrees/disagrees/parrots you after. You were never correct in your early cases and no one could have known whether you'd be correct or not so doing this feels manipulative in a scummy way. The fact that you chose Anonymous, a person who hadn't been voted, is a little surprising, but it was wrong and you also made the same mistake like Mai does in saying "Anony's words sounds like he knows Sailor Moon is going to flip Town."
Ugh, now I see your thing about having people name 3 scumpicks when at the time, everyone thought there would be 4. Why are you dabbling in such shenanigans? It's amusing that Chitose's #448 actually just highlighted a lot of my misgivings on the Protoman reread. Page 17 and 18 is full of all this craziness along with Mai suspecting a scumslip in #519.
Here's the most unusual thing you've done in a series of unusual things. In Day 5, you first decide to vote Cage, then kinda going "psyche," you unvote with an intent to pursue Chitose instead. Why did you do this series of moves? This happened when the Cage and Chitose wagons were even at 2:2. In between your unvote post and your previous post before isn't a whole lot, but amongst them is Crocker's first Day 5 post signalling intent to vote Chitose. That effectively puts the momentum on Chitose. Why does this matter? It matters if John Cage is Town. If Proto is Scum and needed to switch from a Cage mislynch to a Chitose bus, that would be one opportunity to do so. If Cage doesn't flip Scum, I do think you need to be considered seriously still in true LYLO. Explain why you decided to vote Cage first then made the change?
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I guess one could conclude that with Crocker going for Light on Day 2 and Day 3, the Scum NK of Light on Night 3 makes Crocker look bad and to some extent, John Cage. So I would wonder why Scum Crocker would advocate that. Furthermore, the Light NK makes Protoman look ok-to-good because it would show he was correct on Light. So the N3 NK choice makes more sense for a team that has ScumProto rather than ScumCrocker.
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Argh, Mai. These "obvScum" cases like Sailor Moon on Day 2 are too authoritative to my liking. Why you gotta put so much of your own reputation on the line by being so confident? Mai: in your #263, you said you would note a post of Protoman's. Please tell me for what reason? Noticed you also didn't pay Gumshoe's case on Chitose much notice either. And the Day 3 Kyon switch is terrible. But you know what, you're the most likely to be Town out of everyone left. Chitose attacked you in Day 2 and on, you had a very close wagon in Day 3 which wasn't saved by either Chitose or Comedian, but by Anonymous, and Comedian was suspicious of you from Day 3 onwards.
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CONCLUSION:
John Cage has tons of things going wrong for him and he's gotta go today. But we've got time to discuss. Maybe John Cage should spend time looking over Crocker and Protoman more. If Cage is Town, he will do us a favor to look for things the rest of us might have missed. Augh, I need oldJohnCage here to bounce ideas off about Cage's interactions with Protoman on Day 1 and Day 3. I will be continuing my reread tomorrow, produce more content about Crocker, along with another look at Protoman introducing the Comedian wagon.
For Crocker, I don't want him to be lazy either. If Cage flips Town, you are likely the next hot target and if you're also Town, you might be caught with your pants down. Do your homework as well Teach and think about Protoman, Mai, and myself.
P.S. Fuck, there's 2 red eyes on Sailor Moon's head like Punta and her hair parts like a heart. goddamnit