For reference, here's the votes for AbsolutBro. I did find it to be a little bandwagon-y, but it was somewhat slow.
It's been a full 36 hours since i called out AbsoluteBro for his inactivity and nothing...
vote: absolutBro
Dusk started the vote, but he's confirmed town.
Batsnacks then does kind of a recap on everyone, including AB:
absolutbro - dusk called him out and catvoca is sheeping dusk. lynching this person we get rid of one of the worst under the radar people and we learn about a lot about dusk and a little about catvoca. absolutbro was giving out newbie advice at the beginning of the game a townie that's doing that should be excited to contribute. the extent of absolutbro's contributions have been the newbie advice and him defending himself.
Crab then votes for AB.
I am content with Hyperactivity, Dusk Soldier, or AbsolutBro. Either of the first two because I want to figure out what was up with the strange interactions between them, AbsolutBro because he's just floating along and it unnerves me. For now:
VOTE: AbsolutBro
Crab vote AB. Gives the justification that it's a vote for inactivity. It's worth noting Crab changes his vote to Splinter pretty quickly, after Splinter encourages people to "pick sides". I think this is justified, was a weird play by Splinter.
Now we get the batsnacks AB vote a few minutes after the crab one.
Vote: AbsolutBro
am happy to consolidate onto TheExodu5 and MattyG.
Batsnacks puts his vote on AB.
Two hours pass until another vote on AB. There's some discussion on what an AB vote gains us, and that he's inactive and probably will be replaced anyway. Exodu5 also reveals he's the bartender, without giving us too much information on it. It's not until Kyan that an AB vote starts gaining traction.
Exo's early posts refer to drink serving and such. Next.
VOTE: AbsolutBro
Or we could kill Retroid.
So Kyan decides AB is the next in line. Not a lot of justification, but seemingly because AB is the next highest voted at this point. This seems to be where the bandwagon truly begins.
Welp I just got into work but I saw Exodu5's claim.
Vote: AbsolutBro
He's my second choice.
Pretty much same fore WAMD. Saw that we were ate Exodu5 vs AB and Exodu5 claimed, so went to AB. Also, very bandwagony.
This is also around the time WAMD gets a bunch of votes. WAMD gets up to 5 (had like 2-3 floating for a while, got two relatively quickly by Barry and Splinter). So then we've got 5 for WAMD and 4 for AB. Exodu5 is pretty much moved off in favor of one of AB (see above votes).
Vote: absolutbro
I'd rather see a tie or see who is brave enough to break the tie.
So now Exodu5 ties it up. He had a vote on batsnacks.
it's 3:59 and I'm scared
VOTE: AbsolutBro
We're still tied 5-5
Not ok with this.
VOTE: AbsolutBro
And then we have Hyper and Splinter voting in the last minute to break the tie. Don't really justify why they are voting for AB over Hyper, but there it is.
So that's what went down. So what does this mean. Well, I'll have some more thoughts tomorrow after because I have to go to sleep right now. But what sticks out to me?
1) Kyan and WAMD's vote for AB in the middle seem strange. There doesn't seem to be a lot of justification for them other than they are moving off of Exodu5 after his roleclaim. Seems like AB is a "safe" vote to move to from Exodu5, since AB is inactive. Could've just unvoted?
2) TheExodu5 purposefully causing a tie seems odd. If AB was some super scummy dude I could see it being justified, but to risk the game and vote AB who, by all accounts is "kind of just floating by" without particularly being a top scum candidate, to me, seems weird.
That's all I got for now.