Matt F wrote:So check it out. Strawhenge doesn't want to vote for Diiny or Mac because he doesn't have a strong read on either, and yet he is going to accuse a few players of trying to get him to save their "scum buddy". If Straw really wasn't "buying it", and thought you all were trying to get him to save your "scum buddy", then why didn't he simply vote for Mac?
It was a whole twisted know of me just not feeling sure about Mac. I'll break it down:
1. I wasn't sure about Mac. He'd pinged on my scumdar a few significant times. But not enough to pull my vote away from Marsh.
2. I wasn't sure about Diiny. Same story.
3. I was presented with the choice: 1) stay with Marsh... 2) Vote Diiny to try to save Mac... 3) Vote Mac to further ensure his lynch.
4. Without being sure about either of them, that was a hard choice.
5. Then comes the pressure from Jay and motel room. I kept thinking, 'Why are they trying so hard to pull my vote away from Marsh and vote for Diiny?' Do they really feel
that confident about Mac being town,
and that confident about Diiny scum? Felt just strange as balls. Strangeballs.
6. Then it hit me: Oh my god, is Jay, or motel, or
both trying to save a scumbuddy?
7. In still being unsure of what to do, I threw out the scum-callout to see what they would say. motel's reaction was more of a 'Whoa, whoa, whoa, not what I meant, bruv. It's just weird you're not on a bandwagon.' Whereas Jay's reaction was to cry scum back at me for saying that. The latter seems scummy.
8. By that point, I still felt unsure about Mac. The possibility that Jay—an extremely confident and attentive player who will go to extremes to win a town game—could have just been trying to save someone he thought was town, stuck in my mind. That possibility still exists.
9. Ultimately, the incongruity from previous RYM games stuck with me, and I've mentioned as much: Never in my memory has anybody with an outlier vote on somebody been pressured so hard to change their vote. The whole ordeal felt weird and uncomfortable to me, and I simply wasn't confident enough to make the choice between Diiny and Mac.
Sorry to number the list; I have the habit of complicating and elongating my posts.