So I want to bring attention to ABR's link again, and do some comparisons between ika-town and ika here.
ika town:
ika wrote:fair warning i will hammer if im around, so bezu should claim now
Gives warning that he will hammer immediately if Baezu is put to L-1 (this is his response to Baezu being put to L-2). This shows that he finds, as town, that getting claims is something that he cares about at least a little bit.
ika wrote:you got about 40 mins before i hammer
And then after Baezu was actually put to L-1 and had already claimed, ika gave her yet another 40 minutes to get any last minute thoughts out on paper, which, again, is a sharp contrast from ika here that just replaced in and quickhammered.
Subject: Robin Williams Mafia - rememberance - game over
ika wrote:
i have seen countless games where a scum gets to l-1 on day 1 jsut to make some shit claim or bs reason only for a counterwagon to form on a town. they then most of the time make endgame and win by coasting.
im a player who puts a stop to that. i will hammer regardless of roleclaim (barring ic/mod-proven role).
plus this just makes me look scummy as hell so if we have a cop/vig/investigative they can target me.
i make myself so scummy that scums will flat outright refuse to kill me and try to myslynch me.
ive notived titus lurking and her trying to ignore me is not a good indicator as well
Here, after ika quickhammered and people started questioning him on it (even though circumstances of hammer were much more reasonable), ika explains why he quickhammered as opposed to just lurking away with one liners. He ended that game with 360 posts as opposed to 7 here, which is sort of a giant red flag that signifies change in mindset: he used that quickhammer as a way to approach the game and "make himself scummier", but after that point, his engagement in game went up dramatically and he certainly didn't repeat the process (since there no longer was any reason to do so).
I find it harder to believe that everything about ika as a player completely changed and that a towngame happening under similar circumstances (ika wants to quickhammer, ika has the chance to quickhammer) could look so different from his towngame here than his partners bussed the hell out of him because he was playing poorly and they really didn't see a chance of him surviving a day or two. I can see a similar thing happening with the Dooku slot just because of the early wagon on him alone: a lot of the time, scum can be intimidated into joining in on a scumbuddy's wagon because they don't want to be the one person left off the wagon while everybody is on it. The weird partner interactions and a vig shot which is equivalent to an extra lynch for us is also why I have been slowrolling this game: I think it's important we hash out second and third scum much more clearly before Riabi has to take his shot.
"Playing with Nacho is like playing with a religious conservative." ~UncertainKitten
-- Fate, Vanilla Townie, was brutally stabbed by a throwing sword in endgame.
