Morning catch up - read though (skimmed the larger reread) posts. Will look in more detail later, but do want to respond to a few things:
So, here we are. It's reread time! At least you seem to have agreed to not exile me, so I don't need to spend time defending.
This is not exactly accurate, at least on my side. I started this day very unsure. I had assumed swowl would still be alive (as either scum!efhw NKs faust* or scum!faust NKs EFHW, and of course scum!swowl doesn't NK himself!), so was quite surprised to see it was the three of us still alive.
* note, that, I now realize why that would not have been a good NK for scum!efhw, see post #1644). There may be a similar type argument for scum!faust, haven't fully processed that yet.
But the quick and confident vote by EFHW also threw me off guard. Which is what made me go back and and look at VCAs with a scum!EFHW filter first. My plan was, and still is, to try to find some time to reread actual posts without any such filter.
faust has already started that, though of course could be coming in with a scum!faust bias.
BUT, I will admit just your doing it makes me less suspicious of you.
scum!faust just needs one other person to vote, and it would be pretty easy to get EFHW to vote for me again:
PPE: I'm not trying to argue for anything. I'm telling you why I did what I did. I couldn't imagine a world where I would faust over you. I unvoted when you asked me to and I'm listening.
So why would scum!faust do all this rereading AND find "strongly favoring an EFHW exile over scola"? Why not just find any reason to vote for me and see if EFHW just follows suit?
(On a side note, I like faust as a verb there.
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The reason I was townreading you was your second vote on Robz. Also there was nothing scummy to attribute to you. I need some reason to vote.
And that convinced you enough to bet the game on it?
Exactly.
So yeah, that's where I'm at now. Before this morning, leaning towards EFHW, but wanting to reread. Now, strongly leaning towards EFHW - I think I'd need to find something damning to switch.
Will still find some time to look over fausts longer posts more closely / do my own reread.
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