Call it OMGUS or whatever, but this vote is one that sticks out to me with the above in mind. It didn't feel organic at the time, either, but I wasn't here at EoD to complain.
Vere editorialized hard with the reasoning behind this vote, which, alright, but he just threw it out there alongside a weird question and left it there until the day ended.
Here's the editorializing (this post precedes the vote):
It feels like Vere intentionally created this "Isn't it weird that Brazil isn't voting for Natiko?" narrative out of a tale he himself spun ("You seemed more convinced about Natiko than Alexem"), and then used that to justify his vote.
To me this looks like scum looking for an easy vote to sit on top of, and not actual scumhunting, especially with how much pieces moved around near that EoD.
He just latched onto this throughout D1, and when the phase was over, he never brought it up again.
I editorialized hard? Here are your preceding D1 posts
VOTE: Alexem
"I feel ok with them" posts when nothing has happened yet is one of those things.
Verelios Any thoughts on Natiko and Fran following the "Let's discuss whether mechanics talk is good/bad on D1" script to a tee? Are either of them raising any alarms for you?
Yes. There's nothing scum!Natiko likes more than indefinitely latching onto a discussion like that, one in which he knows both players are being reasonable but have a slight difference in perspective.
I also find D1 town!Fran more tunnel vision-y than he is in this game, but that's just a small sidenote thus far.
You're trying to tell me that this doesn't seem like you're scum reading Nat? Not to mention your Alexem vote was pretty much fluff tier, Nat and Fran were basically the only actual reads you gave before slipping into the ether. I gave you the benefit of the doubt when you said I didn't know your read list, because that's true. Look up there and tell me though that based on what you said, your reads weren't what it seems.
This is Vere's D2 vote:
It echoes his D1 vote not only in terms of what he said alongside it, but also in the fact that that was his only vote throughout that phase. He just stuck to it.
With the vote 2-2 between Uzzy and Coolest very early on in that phase, Vere decided that he had to choose between those two, and did so by putting Uzzy in the lead 3-2.
Fast forward to the D2 EoD chaos, and Vere is actively advocating that people should vote for Launch... while still keeping his own vote on Uzzy.
Verelios why didn't you move your own vote, instead of telling Natiko what to do?
You literally said a Launch lynch would be better than the one you were going for, and you even said that we had the time necessary to recover if it ended up as a mislynch.
I didn't want a launch vote because I saw him as town, just as said previously, I've repeatedly said I wanted Uzzy who I stuck with. What I did say is that if Uzzy and Coolest wanted to go for Launch then trying to force Nat's hand to vote there is bullshit. They(whoever wanted to move to launch) should take responsibility in that case. If their vote didn't go through then we would probably have 1/3 of the roster harping on the same shit tomorrow, which made me too tired to deal with that shit.
What I'm going to say now is, if you felt so strongly then why didn't you keep your your vote on Coolest, instead of switching to Uzzy at first light? Your reasoning is that you were convinced on Uzzy's train but you came into D2 with a post thay seemed like you were going to vote for Coolest, with the explanation that Coolest seemed to know the D1 wagons were T/T...but then you just didn't. Reminder that you haven't talked about Uzzy before, almost at all, whereas the majority of your content was spent on Coolest.
I've pointed that post out before, but the "after" is less interesting to me. Trust me when I say the erratic EoD is NAI for Coolest.
What's interesting is figuring out why Coolest thought both were town earlier, since he hadn't talked about Alexem nor about Maol prior to that.
He'd given no indication that he was townreading them prior to or after that post, and we know at least Alexem was town. It sounded like scum distancing themselves from the lynch.
I'd be voting for Coolest now. Don't wanna put him in hammer range.
I didn't get that vibe at all. There's clearly a virtual tie between Uzzy and Coolest, even though the votes weren't equal on practice, and the momentum feels more against mr. self-vote than against Uzzy.
You seemed to imply that no one was opposing Uzzy, but there really wasn't any opposition against Coolest either, and the conversation seemed more focused on the latter even at that point. It didn't seem like a case of "dead air, dead townie" at all because no one knew where things were headed.
What's your take on the move to Launch as the lead, then?
But I'm with you regarding Coolest. If he flips town, we're basically back to square one tomorrow.
Not a particularly bad plan, but Coolest is too much of a low-hanging fruit. Hmmm
You literally start to backpedal on Coolest's vote very close to EOD because of things you already knew.
Now I also can't shake the feeling that Verelios was protecting Coolest.
It started off mild, with Vere opposing Natiko's negative read of Coolest:
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Then he actually posted an early D2 "slight scum read" on Coolest, which is interesting given what he spent the next two phases doing:
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But then
When Vere questioned town!Maol like this, the vote was:
Coolest - 2
Uzzy - 1
Launch - 1
Vere hadn't voted for Uzzy yet.
"Disregard the vote leader, let's talk about the other two options on the table."
There's a very big difference between saying let's talk about the other two options on the table, and asking who they're wary of from the people that scumread him and that he scum reads in turn.
Just a page after that, after Z-Beat votes against Coolest, Vere
actively tries to dissuade Z-Beat from voting there:
"Why vote against vote leader Coolest today when you can vote for someone else?"
Vere just straight up trying to dissuade Z-Beat from voting against Coolest (
Z-Beat any thoughts?).
Read the exchange, you can vote for a wagon while also going after your other reads, which is exactly what I said. Nowhere did I dissuade from a Coolest vote.
Even Uzzy herself pointed out the weird "it's either Uzzy or Coolest" dichotomy that Vere came up with to justify his D2 vote:
Well, that's simply not true. Since we can all read it I'm going to assume you were mistaken but Uzzy doesn't mention that, and furthermore, I didn't create the leading wagons.
If you think this is mylo Brazil, and you're this sloppy with an ISO made after playing three days together then I don't know what to say. There are a lot of legitimate criticisms that I feel can be leveled at me, my reluctance to vote for one, that you never get around to talking about. Your main point boils down to an argument used by many people over the game which is Coolest protection. Not to mention how ridiculous that is, not only have I been consistent on Coolest being erratic since D1 and therefore not helpful in building threads, if you believe this is mylo and that someone is protecting a player,
why would you not go for the player. That's the kind of dissonance I'm talking about. It's a point that's obvious and yet you don't seem to care at all.
Do you really scum read Coolest or is this pretense?