I'll do a summary of epi's suspicion on me, btw, for those who want to judge my reasons for suspecting him. I suspect him because I believe his suspicion of me is false, and that he's had to design reasons to find me as bad rather than coming to a genuine assessment.
Day 1 - epi
calls me bad for 'lecturing Jack every which way from Sunday' and asks what the point of it is? Even Jack sees the point. Epi does not ever return to my response or Jack's perspective on it. He just leaves it as is, a
Day 3 - Epi says 'I suspect golden' out of the blue and asks others for their view. He says it's about
this post that I made to justify my vote on soneji on day two. I note that Epi never actually asked me to clarify why I thought the sprit vote made soneji look worse. He just decided to hang me for it, on what basis? I even said I would have voted sprit over DDL if I had been around with a vote up my sleeve at deadline, so it's not that I thought ANY vote on sprit was bad.
It should be noted that when I voted, sprit was the only person with two votes, and soneji had spent much more of the day talking about mechanics than suspects. The only person he even really discussed was a couple of throwaway comments about glorf being unwilling to comment on his affiliation (something that sig's case was
despite, not because of). I didn't find soneji's vote indicative of someone trying to find baddies, but just someone taking an easy vote. It would even have been an easy bus (and perfect timing for one). If epi had asked, he would have had a response like that.
Instead, he just allowed others to think negatively about me and threw some heat at me without actually trying to get to the bottom of my mindset.
Night 3 - Epi accuses me of calling him out - he says that
this post is me
'turning things around on him'. Even in that same post he says all I'm doing is 'bitching at DDL'. Which is true, because I'm pointing out the inconsistency of DDL's mindset and wasn't expressing any suspicion of epi at all (read the post, and read the context around it - not once do I say or imply that I thought DDL and epi were teammates. At the very same time I also called out his omission of soneji and
expressly linked them as being teammates. Yet somehow, what epi takes out of this is that I was turning it around on to him.
But when I
said I didn't turn it around on him, he just replied with a
deaf ear.
Once again, it appears of more interest to epi to smear me than to invest in finding out what's going on in my head.
It's at about this time (because three times is enough) that I start feeling as though I should push epi and we begin to get into some real discussion. I'm not sure I need to recap it as closely because it's fresh, but lets just point out the highlights of epi's suspicion:
He calls me bad in capitals but then says I should chill about it because I'm third on the list. Once again, it feels to me like a way to discredit me without ever having to worry about looking bad for it.
He spends pages claiming he is not making a case about my schedule while doing timestamps and listing all the posts I've made within a time period to refute my statements about my schedule. He holds it together by having a go at my use of the word 'literally'. Let's be clear, this entire part of the case was epi saying 'why didn't you defend Snow Dog when it mattered' (something you can only possibly do if you are around reading the thread to do), refusing to accept over and over my answer that was I wasn't around to do it, and then claimed again and again that the case wasn't about my schedule even though the whole basis of his case was why I didn't do something
at a particular point in time.
I'll also note that during that period he used sentences like this... the kind I find baddies like to use to appear certain:
Epignosis wrote:But if you're good as you pretend to be...
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Having done all that - epi's willigness to change tack on me finally is interesting. Interesting enough that I'd probably have chosen to go eloh now just to see how it develops.