Hey look, I did a reread. Eyes did start glazing by page 15, so I was skimming at that point. If/when I do another reread, I'll probably review pages 15+.
@If I Wasn't Voting Tripod, I Would Vote DeathNote:
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DeathNote's
Post 60, which was his first "real" post of the game, strikes me as incoherent. He quotes three posts from Marquis, none of which have any real connection other than the fact that Marquis authored them. His characterization of Marquis's play is "weird," which when stated in the vacuum that is DeathNote's Post 60, makes no goddamn sense.
- Also in Post 60, DeathNote is incredulous that Tripod thinks Marquis is town (questioning Tripod's Marquis-is-town declaration with "HOW?!?!?!?!"), but somehow thinks Marquis is the scummier player coming out of Pages 1-2. This suggests some linkage between DeathNote and Tripod if either flips scum.
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DeathNote's
Post 61 -- which I admit caught my eye because Elyse's criticism of Post 61 was in the back of my mind upon reread -- is equally incoherent as Post 60, but for different reasons. Basically, instead of calling another player's string of unrelated posts as weird, he feigns ignorance about an exchange between Mollie/Elyse while asking about the exchange between Mollie/Elyse. It makes no sense.
- DeathNote's
Post 109 and
Post 257 conveying his inability to understand this point of criticism is unconvincing and strikes me as an evasive tactic to hope the issue just dies.
- DeathNote's
Post 281 is unsatisfactory in answering Elyse's points Elyse initially raised in
Post 98 and restated in
Post 266. In particular, I take issue with: (1) DeathNote handwaves his lack of following up to any real degree as being sidelined by his preoccupation with Marquis, but this suggests that a player can only focus on one thing at a time. (False.) (2) DeathNote fails to explain his nonsensical "I didn't notice this thing that I'm now talking about" segue he utilizes to ask Mollie about her opinion.
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DeathNote's
Post 102 is bad because it justifies the incoherent Post 60 on the basis that Marquis's quoted posts don't include "the intent to scumhunt."
- On its face, this is a bad argument because Marquis's
Post 34 (which was the third target of DeathNote's "weird" commentary) is actually Marquis shifting away from the purely RVS reasoning of her other two quoted posts. (Incidentally, I disagree with Marquis's Post 34 reasoning/vote, but that doesn't mean it lacks "the intent to scumhunt.") So Marquis's posts don't actually validate DeathNote's supposed reasoning.
- Getting past the fact that the argument doesn't hold up on its own terms, there's the fact that DeathNote thinks a lack of "intent to scumhunt" is a valid characterization of posts that clearly reflect the incredibly stupid but inevitable RVS -- seeing as how all of Marquis's "weird" posts were made within the first 35 posts of the game. Most RVS posts don't measure up to such a standard. It's a bad standard to employ, but DeathNote champions it without hesitation.
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DeathNote's
Post 103 is more bad justification of the bad Post 60. Here's the money quote: "All three of those posts that I quoted- 15, 20, and 34 had one common factor and that was him pushing mislynches, even if it was in a joking, "weird" way." NOPE.
- (1) Marquis's
Post 15 is her making a nonsensical comment about Nikanor. Unclear how this is pushing a lynch of any sort.
- (2) Marquis's
Post 20 is what appears to be a RVS vote in light of the reasoning (that Elyse might "power up"). Unclear how this is "pushing mislynches."
- (3) Marquis's
Post 34 is actually moving away from the RVS vote mentality for reasons stated above. Super x2 unclear how this is "pushing mislynches."
- In effect, DeathNote's Post 103 conflates the phrase "pushing mislynches" with "voting another player."
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DeathNote's
Post 113 perpetuates the bad justification of Post 60 by further mischaracterizing Marquis's posts. Here, it's: "No one else who has voted did it with the sarcastic tone of mislynching." Marquis never justified her Post 15, 20, or 34 as being sarcastic mislynches, even though that's exactly what DeathNote is implying here. (She did question why tman had "chosen today's mislynch" in Post 34, but that's not what DeathNote is saying in Post 113.)
- Post 113 can be summed up as "Marquis's RVS behavior is scummy because it is RVS behavior."
- DeathNote ignores the RVS stage component when he further justifies his Post 60 in
Post 257.
- And then in
Post 328 apparently DeathNote's reasoning is that "Not all RVS behavior is scummy, but Marquis's RVS behavior is scummy because it is excessive RVS behavior." Unclear how Marquis's three posts constitutes "excessive" RVS behavior in both the sense that how can three posts of anything be considered "excessive," and the fact that Marquis's three posts are not the unadulterated RVS behavior that DeathNote claims it to be (as discussed above).
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DeathNote's
Post 411 marks where DeathNote finally "lost interest" in Marquis, though it is truly inexplicable why because he has been so adamant about his bad Post 60 logic for so long, and has not repudiated it.
"This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent." In re Davis, 557 U.S. 952, 955 (2009) (Scalia, J., dissenting).