1. Mudslinging.
He spent day 1 looking for an easy mislynch. His serious votes day 1 were for:
SSK/Beli,
me,
buck, and finally
JKLM. What do all those votes have in common? Each was on a player who looked at the time like they couldn't or wouldn't defend themselves. Today, we've had a vote on varsoon, then an unvote when varsoon started arguing,
then a revote based on varsoon's actions once he had been replaced
. Now, Varsoon was scummy as shit. But why unvote when he started fighting back? And why are those reasons suddenly strong enough again as soon as Thor joins the game? Maybe because pasch's reasons for voting Thor
cannot be defended against
. No matter what Thor says, pasch can come back with "sorry bro, varsoon screwed your slot." It's a comfortable place to park his vote without having to do any work.
tl;dr pasch hit every wagon that looked easy on day 1, then immediately dived onto the easy wagon day 2. He's not looking for scum, he's looking for a wagon that will end in a lynch.
2. Keeping his options open.
If we look at pasch's expressed suspicions day 1, we meet
me and splintered, then (in post
164) JKLM, Grim, Buck, Varsoon, and FNL, then
Majiffy and Varsoon, then
Grim again,
Beli,
Beauties, JKLM, darthe and buck. That's like, what, 11/13? I'm almost surprised to not see him FOS-ing himself in there. He keeps saying Grim is town,
except when he's not saying that. The only consistent town read he has is AP.
The only consistent town read he has is AP.
conclusion: Pasch is not narrowing down to scum. He's keeping his options open, and keeping his support for any wagon plausible. Plus, delicious waffles.
3. His adorable townread on Grim.
Pasch's slapfight with Grim yesterday was very interesting. Of particular note are three things he did. First, he ignored grim's case. This is not particularly indicative, I do it all the time as both alignments. If a case sucks, I'm not going to waste time on it unless multiple dumb somebodies are getting dragged along. But when Grim pushed, pasch resorted to reductio ad absurdiam in his own defense. Note that he didn't try to explain himself first or defend the reasoning that was being attacked, he just dived straight into "your argument is too stupid to respond to." When pushed on this, rather than even acknowledge grim's points, he reduces them to semantics. When grim fell into the semantic-argument trap, pasch pushed that even harder before accusing grim of confirmation bias. Fun fact: confirmation bias on the part of an investigator cannot be reliably determined by the person being investigated, as they
also
suffer from inherent bias when examining the evidence. Additionally, confirmation bias as used here can be applied to any evidence, and confirmation bias does not imply that the case is unsound. I find the cry of "confirmation bias!" in self-defense to be incredibly scummy.
Finally, and most importantly, when Grim would not back down pasch declared him town and simply wrong. This has two notable benefits for scum: first, they can discredit the town player completely without attempting to get a universal townread lynched, and second, it allows them to defend that person without repercussion, even potentially resulting in towncred with their accuser's death.
result: Pasch's townread on grim appears to be based on Grim's scumread of him. Before grim was pushing him, pasch had him as an FOS (along with ~everyone else), but once it was clear that Grim wasn't going to be fallacied into submission, he suddenly listed him as town.
4. (the painkillers and whiskey I ingested are starting to do their thing, and the cello music I'm listening to is not helping much. I'm trying to stay coherent, bear with me) The Bitching
Pasch had a
couple of
posts yesterday complaining about how much he disliked that day phase. I've gone over most of that
before, but it's still scummy. Particularly, instead of generating content and scumhunting, pasch has been playing extremely reactively, commenting on other people's points and defending himself only when absolutely necessary. I am sure that he found that a very boring way to play the game (hence whining), and such a conservative style points to a desire to play the night game at the expense of the day game, which is a scumtell. He displayed
excitement when it was time to hammer because he wanted to get to night and he tried to stay out of the spotlight as much as possible during the day. He then opened today with (surprise!) a poorly justified sheep vote.
:. This reads indicative of scum to me. He wants to be analyzing the thread after the lynch so that he can make his night kill choice with complete information.
5. Repeated ad Lapidem
Pasch's actual arguments (of which there have been very few) have consisted almost entirely of various ad lapidem arguments. See: his argument for Thor as scum ( because obvscum) his argument against his lynch (because retarded) and his repeated assertion that I haven't done anything this game (because I want him lynched, apparently). This is easily the weakest of the arguments, but this suggests to me that pasch both doesn't have any legitimate argument on those points, and that he doesn't want his in-thread opinions scrutinized.
