I see this post as most troublesome for three reasons.
1) How can you be 99.99% sure of Bad Ash' truthfulness??
Because Bad Ash revealing Jcakes as a zombie lines up with Jcakes' actions yesterday and today. The only way Jcakes is logically not a zombie is if Bad Ash is lying, but Jcakes isn't trying to discredit Bad Ash. Instead he's tried to come after me and get this to be between me and him, but I'm not the one who brought forward evidence against him. He claims that he's 100% townie (about 10 times in the last 2 pages) but he's acting like scum. Scum try to stay alive at any cost. A townie (especially one whose ability makes almost no sense in the wider context of the game and is no longer useful) would
gladly trade themselves for a scum.
Jcakes should be pleased as punch to die today because if he were telling the truth that would mean his death gets at least 1 scum (Bad Ash) and possibly two (if I were BA's scum partner). Instead he's doing everything he can to stay alive. It's not townie play. Thus, I'm 99.99% sure that BA is telling us the truth, because what he has told us lines up completely with everything we know and with how Jcakes is behaving today.
2) When is alignment ever irrelevant??
In this case, and any case where we have an investigator giving us someone they are confirming as scum, the alignment of the investigator is irrelevant. We cannot afford to let a probable zombie stay alive. He claims to be town but if he really was town he would be happy to be lynched because his "ability" is useless and if he was town and flipped town, it would mean Bad Ash dies and I'm fairly sure me shortly afterward. And yet he's clinging to his undeath with such fervor. It doesn't logically make any sense.
I particularly like the part where he's claimed I'm both scum AND a zombie, since I apparently "dodged" his test of me.
3) The remaining fluffiness in the post seems little more than subterfuge should Jcakes turn up town.
If Jcakes were to flip town, we already know how the next bit plays out. Numbers shoots Bad Ash tonight, the scum kill someone tonight, and then tomorrow I get killed. I'm fully cognizant of the bad turn in store for me if I believed the wrong person.
Jcakes has nothing to do with my vote or reason for posting or thinking on this matter. Only Drixx' scumminess.
Indeed.
Jcakes should have something to do with your vote. Leaving a zombie alive is never wise.