In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
This is the Activity Overview Tool -> http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... rt_order=d
There is a high degree of difference between active lurking which is what several players in this game (some of whom started off okay like the death slot) are doing. Can you tell me the most recent reads and thoughts of Mac, eyestott, Creative, Futan, vonflare, and not to mention the replaces of which neither has really chimed in based on the last few days of the game? I don't care about VLA, the game has been ongoing for 20 days and if your able to post that you are going to post you probably can take the time to actually read and respond to at least the latest game state. Especially when it's close to deadline.
I don't understand why you seem to think I'm not using the Activity Overview tool. Moreover, your attempts to discredit my play through alleged inexperience are tiresome and insulting. Stop. I don't care if you are scum or town; it's rude and is making this game significantly less fun.
Let me clarify that I don't disagree with you about lurking being shitty play. Active lurking moreso. But I disagree that Mac, Creative, and, when not on V/LA, that vonflare are lurking, active or no. Eyestott's activity is low, but he has generated genuine content and analysis. Futan is currently active lurking and needs to get back into the game. As far as recent events go, can you point out significant events that have happened that should be commented upon? If you could bullet-point them, it'd probably make it even easier to respond when our inactive players have caught up again.
Yes, the replacements have not caught up, which sucks. Did you miss that Arcangel9 was on V/LA until today and thus likely hasn't had time to read yet, though?
Finally, a question: Do you (Elusive and Titus, ideally) believe that the scumteam is within the set you provided of lurkers? If so, how do you plan to approach interacting with them, since anger seems not to be working?
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
You seem hyper focused on my three day VLA but ignore the active and contentless lurking of several other players. In fact, let's play a game. If I am conf!town to you for whatever reason, where do you look next?
I think I've already mentioned this, but my first choice would be Vonflare. I find his play scummy in general and I don't like the way he's buddied/sheeped/white knighted all game. Random and pirate mollie/Arcangel9 are the next scummiest players, though I want to give ArcAngel9 a chance to start talking before I take her out of my nullscum bloc.
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
Also, anyone actually going through my games or meta would see clearly that my playstyle gets more and more intense:
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=60510 - Newbie game (I'm not a newbie to mafia, played for 2 years on another site). I needled several players including scum (I did needle the town doc who ended up crumbing to scum but she was being a lurker). I also, with the help of an awesome townie, helped town win the game since on the last two days my vote and scum hunting made the difference.
http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60729 - Super aggressive and aggravating playstyle but I named four of the scum (if I weren't caught in a town vs. town it probably would have been easier). And the SK, who I kept calling scum and who kept trying to project their role on me got seriously annoyed by how they couldn't get town to lynch me. They also self-voted. Nearly flawless town victory. I also really relish that scumfuck player hating me.
The only scum game I have, I blend in and do kind of what Lalaladucks is doing which is sheep other players and be pleasant without much content. That is my scum meta and if you look carefully through my (elusive) ISO you can actually follow it yourself.
Okay, let me break this down as closely as I can to my thought process:
- You are aware of your scum and town metas.
- You are using your alleged town meta in this game, in a way that is meant to be taken as "obvious"
- You are postulating that anyone scumreading you is scum because of your meta
This reads to me like you are using your meta to defend yourself in a fashion that is less than genuine. I too am aware of my own town and scum metas, though I couldn't qualify them nearly as cut-and-dry as you have yours. That being said, the very fact that you are aware of your scum meta and are trying to defend yourself using it makes me believe that you are consciously manipulating it, and thus your defense of your play in this game as being "too aggressive" for your scum game is disingenuous.
Does that make sense?
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
Scripten seems to be trying to make his read fit the content and he ignores most other players in the game in terms of reads. I actually ran into this problem with eystott's game on PlayDip, where the scum continued to shape his scumread to any content I posted regardless of the actual content.
Alright, then. Let's make a deal, shall we? I will let you be for a while and let you generate some content. Come back to me when you feel you have done so, and just list up some pushes and the conclusions you make from them. You can even use past interactions so as to show me that you are actually scumhunting and not just blustering. Do you find this fair?
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
2. Claims to have looked into my meta re the above and yet continues to emphasize this. Town doesn't lynch or vote players who are aggro, its goal is to lynch scum.
I've explained this above, but just so it's clear: I feel that you are using your meta as a crutch and that your aggressive playstyle is a veil.
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
3. random\vonflare interactions which he uses to state that one or both of them must be my buddy. So the logic is that the people I've been pushing, if they flip scum they must be my buddies. If they flip town then I'm also suspect. Either way there seems to be no space for a townread at all based on this illogical reasoning.
You're not paying attention to my posts. I said that the way you and Vonflare interacted with regard to Random was suspect. Please go back and read more carefully through the post you're referencing until you understand it better.
You are correct, though. If you continue to play the same way you are playing, there is not much room for a townread from me. In fact, one might say that I'm scumreading you for your playstyle and content rather than for potential associative reads based on flips that haven't happened yet. I have mentioned where my train of thought will go once those flips have been made, but only improving your play and showing me that you are town will garner a townread from me. Sorry.
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
4. I asked Mac some questions which he apparently isn't going to be able to answer, instead of letting Mac answer himself or deal with the validity of the questions, Scripten interferes with the questions and attacks them. Garcia rule - Don't get in the way of a player pressuring another player.
First of all, Mac did answer your questions. You just didn't accept those answers, which unfortunately for you doesn't mean jack shit to me. Frankly, your attempts to diffuse heat from your slot are lackluster and pathetic. Garcia rule doesn't apply when I didn't actually answer the questions, anyway. Since you're big on reading ISOs, I'm surprised you missed this:
In post 107, Scripten wrote:
While it's fine to comment on questions addressed specifically to other players, I'd appreciate if you didn't answer said question yourself before the player I'm asking is able to respond. Your answers are now going to corrupt the responses that Futan gives me.
Now, you can quit trying to discredit me, because it's not going to work. (Though, since that seems to be your modus operandi, I'm not entertaining much hope in that.)
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
5. Either Scripten is derptown tunneling (which looking at his Wiki, its possible) or he's scum trying to set up mislynches within me, vonflare, and random.
If you can't play with a modicum of basic human decency, then maybe you should let your other head take over until you learn interpersonal skills.
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
Scripten, what are your reads on Mac? Can you ISO him and provide reads?
Mac's entrance to the game was fairly solid. He cast a wide net and interacted with a decent amount of the playerbase. Obviously, I agree with his vote on you slightly into the day, as well as the logic he employed when dealing with Creative, though I am mildly town-reading Creative. Mac's views on the game have aligned well with mine, even when I haven't voiced my own views, which makes me think that he's approaching the game with a logical, town-driven mindset. His recent push on you (which you haven't actually replied to, by the way) was legitimate, despite you using my earlier interaction with you to deflect his questioning.
In post 693, DragonQueen wrote:
What are your thoughts on Lalaladucks flip flopping all over the place like a dying fish?
You're talking about a flip from null-town to null. I actually like that she is working to classify her reads very clearly and distinctly.
I think his play is a bit weird and may look into him more closely after some flips, but right now he sits at null-town.