Micro 1076: Divide and Conquer [game over]

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doctor doctor! my hood, it is so small

VOTE: dr drew

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im reporting osuka to the hoa

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vt with a posting restriction

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New Ark

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havent the british endured enough

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dearest friends and neighbours, good evening,

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drew's push is bad but doesn't make sense from scum if osuka is town, no real sense that he's trying to convince anyone to wagon up it's just a lot of emotions

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wording is sorta confusing there, **i don't get the sense that he's trying to convince anyone etc

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had osuka backed off of krile upon learning their main thatd be +town but he didn't really just got distracted by the doctor

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that's not as stupid of a post as you might think though. it's a strategy that actually sounds
reasonable by virtue of being adjacent to another that actually is
viable (that is, to choose the execution in the small hood)

This strategy sounds kind of bad and also not fun to play. Is there something I am misunderstanding about it

if we correctly lim from the tiny hood we have a conftown tomorrow

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firebringer and osuka cannot both be scum

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and i have only the most boring scumreads, gn

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and i have only the most boring scumreads, gn

boooo
i want to hear ur boring reads

one im on the fence about but its boring both ways because it's just PoE and nothing that should really be called a scumread. osuka is giving readable content while you are not so much but that's like your whole thing im p sure. so when im feeling fine about osuka your null dips into plausible scum territory, and when im feeling paranoid about osuka you're back in my good boy books. overall i have been feeling mostly fine with the occasional pang of paranoia, but if anything is going to push me off the fence today it hasn't been posted yet. i like your plan in 209, think that's where i'm at as well.

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oh my other one was patchwork, stilted entrance + nervous lmao's

tho since people have mentioned it i've taken a closer look at walter's iso (who wasn't on my radar upon first read) and i don't like how he has been shading osuka all game only to vote fb w some imo shaky reasoning

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do u see the shade tho

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Spoiler:

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nothing personnel....kid....

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yeah i really don't have much to say but now i'm tinfoiling (drew osuka)

say more ab this?

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mb had a busy couple nights

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i dont like the krile votes and feel justified in knowing it is 50% scum led

could certainly do patchwork, their drew/osuka thing is textbook forced content. i do sometimes see newer players feeling compelled to share thoughts when they have none, and oftentimes this results in awful or even contradictory logic like we're seeing here. but i think odds are this is just newbiescum.

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motionless?? i hereby deny all accusations thereof

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had osuka backed off of krile upon learning their main thatd be +town but he didn't really just got distracted by the doctor

explain? ive never played with her

realize i missed this. ig it was just a little scenario in my head as i was reading, tho your reaction had me believe you were familiar w isis

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fma brotherhood is my favourite anime (read: i am conftown)

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the content is garbage but i don't think you're stupid. you're posting stupid things but you're clearly not an idiot, hence the frustration.

How would you describe the quality of your own content? What I've gathered from re-reading the thread is that

Doctor Drew

made more effort into building an actual case.

Also I would like to point out that osuka asked if anyone is familiar with me(insinuating that they have never played with me) but this quoted post from them hints that they are familiar with me and my playstyle. Wanted to make that point awhile ago, but needed to step away for a bit, thanks for bringing it back up.

what does this imply

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oh hi krile

question still stands drew im not satisfied w that answer

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in essence i want to go for the easy scum but focus on everyone else first. end the day on 3p hood cause 50/50 odds is just too good

realizing that this may involve preflip associatives based on how the day has been going. so eh idk maybe we just try for most scummy today?

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unless

VOTE: firebringer ?

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are you being deliberately obtuse about what krile means by you knowing who scum is

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sorry is that mean

it is a serious question tho

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VOTE: patchwork

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its ok us little hood folks are tough as nails

what do u mean by playing around patchwork's posting?

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scum motivation implies strategy but i am talking about a pattern of nervous behaviour and what i perceive as feigned ignorance (given the benefit of the doubt)

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youre missing my point, im not saying theres thought behind it, the behaviour im describing is not something one does intentionally.

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Like to me it just seems like you're more focused on things that are wrong and pushable than like finding the scum and stuff

should i be pushing on things that are right? if there's an inconsistency itt that catches my eye i will comment to look for clarification and try to glean more information, and ill be especially pushy if i think the player in question is scum. not sure how else you think i should be scumhunting

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Like to me it just seems like you're more focused on things that are wrong and pushable than like finding the scum and stuff

like i get what youre saying but i dont think its a good assessment of how im playing

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i dont like the krile votes and feel justified in knowing it is 50% scum led

could certainly do patchwork, their drew/osuka thing is textbook forced content. i do sometimes see newer players feeling compelled to share thoughts when they have none, and oftentimes this results in awful or even contradictory logic like we're seeing here. but i think odds are this is just newbiescum.

apocalyptically bad take

who are you saying it's noobscum between me/drew? because he's got a 4-yo join date and i'm pretty sure i know how to play scum thank you very much

lol i was talking about patchwork's tinfoil theory being forced, not your spat w drew

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in essence i want to go for the easy scum but focus on everyone else first. end the day on 3p hood cause 50/50 odds is just too good

realizing that this may involve preflip associatives based on how the day has been going. so eh idk maybe we just try for most scummy today?

explain?

there hasnt been much effort from the the thread to sort you or firebringer compared to members of the large hood, so if we spend all day deciding who is scum in big hood and then switch to vote for small hood for the mechanical advantage, i see that leading to a lot of preassoc speculation based on what has been the bulk of the day's discussion

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Like to me it just seems like you're more focused on things that are wrong and pushable than like finding the scum and stuff

should i be pushing on things that are right? if there's an inconsistency itt that catches my eye i will comment to look for clarification and try to glean more information, and ill be especially pushy if i think the player in question is scum. not sure how else you think i should be scumhunting

how was my misunderstanding an "inconsistency"? smh

inconsistency = "something wrong", in this case. i dont mean self-contradictory. inconsistent with the truth? with reality? etc

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what stood out to you about their play in the previous game

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I still don't love patches slot but I don't get why bulge thought their last string of posts was scum indicative.
Then since all small hood players are so likely to be scum that feels spooky!
I have agreed with almost nothing ausuka has posted all game

not so much a tipping point for my read, i think tbh it was just enough to get me off of firebringer (no wagon) and onto patchwork (2 top trs were on them at the time)

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like nothing changed about my thoughts on patchwork's slot w that string of posts, just made me change my mind about my vote

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patchwork's tinfoil theory being forced

How

you provided a controversial theory about an argument which by your own admission you hadnt even read

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catching up when im home

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And now I have doubts with drew!

Wow super exciting

Does scum drew just openly buddy like this

was thinking this too wrt gimli+patchwork

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I find the bulge voting firebringer just to go ahead and vote someone else a few posts later to be a little artificial

also I feel that firebringer is showing more real signs of understanding we're flipping inside the small hood than bulge, who sorta plays around it and 'i can do patchwork' etc posts

I voted fber but I'm leaning bulge more atm

games moving slowly and i stand by the fact that osuka and fb havent gotten the scrutiny other players have this game (tho maybe atp i have), even with the better odds, a last minute swing off a big hood member onto a lil hood member could end poorly and leaves us in kind of a shit gamestate tomorrow if we miss.

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when have I buddied up to patchwork? or the other way around?

drew->patchwork and also drew->gimli

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in essence i want to go for the easy scum but focus on everyone else first. end the day on 3p hood cause 50/50 odds is just too good

realizing that this may involve preflip associatives based on how the day has been going. so eh idk maybe we just try for most scummy today?

explain?

there hasnt been much effort from the the thread to sort you or firebringer compared to members of the large hood, so if we spend all day deciding who is scum in big hood and then switch to vote for small hood for the mechanical advantage, i see that leading to a lot of preassoc speculation based on what has been the bulk of the day's discussion

VOTE: the bulge

of course, the scum in the small hood dont wanna flip the small hood. of course, they'll try to argue for something else, as long as there's the opportunity for it. I think this is another tell that bulge recognises that its clearly beneficial for town to flip in small hood, so he acts around accordingly and doesn't show his hand, but he is always hinting at downplaying town's advantage here.

from his position this makes no sense even. he needs to be brutally sorting between FBer and osuka and he is just like arguing 'since we're not gonna talk about small hood lets just flip big hood'. I don't think that's the townie in the hood atm.

this is actually a solid theory lol prob how i'd play it if i were scum

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like nothing changed about my thoughts on patchwork's slot w that string of posts, just made me change my mind about my vote

if your thoughts on the slot didn't change, then what did? what pushed you over the edge to vote there?

frustration maybe ?? i was posting from work the last few days and things havent been great there

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+

(2 top trs were on them at the time)

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this is odd. of all the things in that iso, this is the one that sounds wrong to you?

like i don't necessarily disagree with your take but 396 looks completely fine to me and it does bring up a good point about post-flip assoc reads on d2. what's wrong with it?

of course, the important part of what I'm quoting is the fact that bulge is arguing for flipping outside of small hood. 396 is not completely fine, it's a bad post because it's taking firebringer's 'lets talk about big hood but flip small hood' post and assuming that's what's going on in this game, which is not the case at all. it's then making an argument around it that may appear reasonable and provide an easy 'lets just flip the scummiest slot' solution, when that's also the worst possible thing we could do as town.

the most important thing that this and other posts from bulge denounce is that he is not actively hunting inside of the (you, fb) pool. that makes me feel like he is the scum between the 3 of you.

i wasnt providing solutions, more thinking aloud

i havent been sorting between my hoodmates cuz im lazy and nothing has jumped out at me but i still like osuka for town

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also yeah gimli is def town

whys that

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(i dont disagree but lets hear it)

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not loving greeting's contributions, extremely surface-level so far

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it’s even weirder she likes it considering just how shit that post is

I think it's green shit, but there is a soft correlation between shit and red so this is more reasonable

i had an iced matcha the other day on an empty stomach and had vibrant green shits that evening, truly a confounding experience

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date night tn keep me alive and ill be more useful d2 prmise <33
VOTE: firebringer

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boring take