Titus steps up from her barseat at the particularly loud individual ruining her time at the bar. Little did people know she was stone cold sober, but just not feeling well. Yet, she was annoyed at DS's continual attempts at showmanship and tearing down anyone who ever
dared
to actually begin scumhunting. No, their opinions were "bad" or not real "reasons". Not even her ear plugs were enough to stop the arrogant hypocrisy from the man known as DiamondSentinel. There was a mission going on, but Titus as just fed up.
Getting up from the table, Titus uses her physical adept powers to nerve strike DS. This might paralyze him, but then again that mouth who knows. She grabs his microphone briefly.
"Ok, let's actually talk about this DS guy for a second. His ISO is utter control the game garbage. He's not scumhunting at all but flooding the thread with useless things set to demoralize and diminish anyone who does contribute without taking any hard positions."
*points to 52* "This is where I first highlight DS throwing shade on players like Varsoon while still pushing ABR/Titus for spamming policy lynch. He currently has the second most posts in the game. Only beeboy has more, yet DS has been taking a hard stance defending both Dwlee and Beeboy without taking the position they are hard town. I'll support this conclusion as we go through his ISO."
*points to 75* "DS insults that anyone who agrees with me is because I commanded them to do so in a very authoritative manner, rather than using their own independent thought. It's a common manipulation tactic. Diminish the support by calling the supporters mindless."
*points at 77* "Again, he's now trying to claim that I voted him for "joking". Au contraire, I believe that DS was fully serious in his attempt to throw shade on Varsoon there. Of course if it's DS joking then his scummy behavior can be dismissed."
*points at 87* "DS is essentially saying don't mind me posting and spamming the thread a lot, it's not going to get me reads for another day or so. ABR only posting flavor is fine by him. Yet, the content ABR pushes later is a problem."
*points at 95-99-101* "DS is stubbornly refusing to give anything resembling a read saying he won't "pretend". In 101, he's using self-meta to prop himself up. DS's objective here isn't to develop reads, but to play to his own ego and grand stand."
*points at 103* "DS is spamming and trying to buddy ABR over the flavor."
*points at 112* "DS is buddying the fuck out of Rylai and Lina or spamming."
*points at 118* "DS claims he's doing a new routine right after saying that you can trust he's town due to his own reliance of self-meta in 101. If he's changing his playstyle, the self-meta vouch is worthless. 118 is more about disarming critics than actually proceeding to play the game."
*points at 124* "DS pushes forward attempting to say Dwlee is bad but not necessarily taking a position on him as town or scum. Suggesting a Dwlee policy lynch, yet DS doesn't move his vote. Number of people DS wants to policy lynch or "look scummy without taking a position": US, DS. You should keep a running tally.
*points at 144* "Holy corporate scumminess. Beeboy shouldn't be freaking out about 4 votes on a large theme. It's no big deal. Everyone who started this wagon is also scummy for pushing it. Beeboy, Rylai, Varsoon, and Brian all 'look like scum', but he refuses to state which ones and why. DS is just attacking content as a whole. There's a huge difference between feeling people are unjustly picked on and just defending people because they are noobs. Here, DS is defending Beeboy solely because he's a noob, yet attacking Beeboy at the same time. Just yuck. People who DS wants to policy lynch or "look scummy": BadGirls, Beeboy, Brian Skies, Rylai, and Varsoon."
*points at 150* "I'm going to doubtcast all three people on the Beeboy wagon, state at least one is scum but never make any effort to understand Varsoon's playstyle to see if he actually IS scum on the wagon. DS has zero interest in investigating his assertions at all."
*points at 156* "DS throws a vote on Brian Skies, saying his reasons are shit. This is a control play. No one appointed DS as arbiter of what reasons are valid or invalid. DS is stating Brian's opinions are shit as if it's a matter of fact when he chided Beeboy for their not being facts in the thread in 95. It's more classic double speak from DS and oh shit I have to at least pretend to sort this shit out."
*points at 159* "At the root of every terrible push there's opportunistic scum." This is a policy buzzword that makes people feel good but not always true. It also supposes that a) DS can determine alone which wagons are terrible as well b) that opportunistic scum is exactly who he says in 156.
*points at 163* "Here's why everyone voting Beeboy has shitty reasons. Note: DS still hasn't said Beeboy is town, just that Beeboy's wagon is shit. DS can hop on Beeboy once a magical compelling reason appears or he can say I never got on for shitty reasons. This allows him to prevent taking an opinion on Beeboy entirely.
*points at 166* "DS is talking about the Beeboy push being terrible, not about Brian being scum. He's not talking about his reads but rather talking about acceptable and unacceptable methods of scumhunting, as if he's the sole arbiter. Many players scumhunt differently. One mans reasons are another man's shit."
*points at 169-170* "DS tells me to shut up, while totally unaware that I still was not speaking and hadn't been for awhile. He's stating that all I do is add to the noise. Bah. Again, he's trying to position himself as his being the only loud voice with credibility. He's trying to apologize for the posts being too abrasive when it's the sentiment he should apologize for. It's classic political apology. You don't apologize for the sentiment but for the terrible words used to say it."
*points at 172* "DS is saying that he has a bunch of null reads but for the players who all got together and tried to push a wagon. Yet, he's balls to the wall defending his null reads. It makes me think there's a STRONG possiblity that this is a white knight for credibility. DS wants the Beeboy lynch to go through for the town credit he'd gain. I'm holding off going all the way there yet, but DS has to get something from his self-aggrandizing behavior. It's pretty certain not to catch scum."
*points at 177* "DS again calls me useless and interrupting his train of thought whiteknighting the Dwlee or Beeboy wagons (even though it wasn't me posting {here's a hint, I'm the goodie two shoes}. He also says Drixx's push is terrible. People who DS wants to policy lynch or "look scummy" or just terrible: BadGirls, Beeboy, Brian Skies, Rylai, Varsoon and Drixx."
*points at 180* "DS is unnecessarily antagonistic towards BS when he says that DS doesn't know what his reasons are."
*points at 184* "DS says he's ripe with Boyish attitude. Spam useless posting."
*points at 189* "DS attacks ABR for being a bully generally, again attempting to establish himself as the most important man in the room rather than scumhunting."
*points at 198* "DS supposes we are town. He's saying why does ABR care so much about winning as town. That's one thing ABR and I have in common is we both play to win. I just have personal boundaries that he doesn't. For the record, ABR hasn't been a bully once this game, which is why I didn't interrupt when he was pressuring for reactions on Beeboy and Dwlee. Not once and I'm sensitive to that. DS then proceeds to tell ABR to 'calm the fuck down'. Yeah, you don't get to tell this hydra what to do."
*points at 201* "DS is now claiming he's "starting to do" things. Well, why not actually take firm positions on the wagons in the game... oh wait that's not going to happe."
*points at 241* "DS thinks he can tell me what to do. Hahaha. He's going to tell me what to do. If I had a problem with anything ABR's posted, I'd say so. He attacks all the reasoning on the Dwlee wagon at the moment. Dwlee has eight posts and I cannot remember a one. Ok, so DS is wanting Dwlee to get time to enter the game but then... he votes DGB for lurking. Holy inconsistent positions Batman. People who DS wants to policy lynch or "look scummy" or just terrible: BadGirls, Beeboy, Brian Skies, Rylai, Varsoon, Drixx and DGB."
*points at 246* "DGB lurking is a scumtell according to DS. It's less than 4 days into the game. DS is desperate to create a counterpush. Why? Is he afraid any wagon but one he suggests threatens his cred?
*points at 254* "DS talks about noise making while every single post of his can be characterized as noise. He has more posts than our hydra and has zero solid reads to show for it. Again, he's beating the policy lynch drum on us when he believes he has a scumtell on DGB."
*points at 261* "DS calls Dwlee terrible but makes no attempt to ascertain whether or not Dwlee is terrible town or scum. If a player is terrible early, it's ok to wagon them to form an opinion on them. I just tend to be able (usually) to sort the newer class. Wagons to sort aren't inherently evil. DS is resisting any sort of attempt by the player base to form opinions on Dwlee and Beeboy which is much worse than the possibility of mislynching them. We can move on and have information from it."
*points at 263-265-267* "DS finally stakes a position is that Dwlee is too stupid to be scum. If DS feels this is accurate, calling town stupid doesn't exactly foster town cohesion at all. If you think someone is town, you help them.
*points at 290* "DS retracts is Dwlee is town position by stating he has zero players as town. He's also talking about how much he hates players and nothing is alignment indicative. Again, if nothing's alignment indicative the response is to be the change or to shut up. Not to spam the thread with your proclamations that nothing is legit."
*points at 315* "DS again attempts to diminish the credibility of players who look to be scumhunting. Rylai gets called a "teenage girl" (as if that's supposed to be an insult, but it isn't). Dwlee and BadGirls are bad but not staking a position. He wants both our hydra and Dwlee to get pressure. (Did he not realize Dwlee has already had a pressure wagon and Dwlee didn't start throwing around shit?) Yet, at the same time he bolds DGB committed a scum tell. That's three separate people DS wants voted at the same time. Let's get real here, DS wants a policy lynch on anyone BUT DS."
*points at 334* "DS gives more self-meta."
*points at 340* "DS says OMG DGB arrived and didn't give an epic wall post. Lynch immediately."
*points at 358 - 373* "DS is pushing this tell bullshit non-stop while ATEing about something in the water. Again, the implication is that if it's not what DS wants, it's crazy/worthless/invalid."
*points at 377* "DS says he was joking at Rylai's expense."
*points at 386 - 403* "More trying to say DGB's posts are worthless to gin up support for a policy lynch on DGB."
*points at 404* "DS calling Drixx unreasonable for voting him and basically implying he's the only smart one in the thread. It's more about the perception that DS is smart than actual attempts to persuade."
*points at 406* "DS calls DGB's posts worthless again in a sorry not sorry manner and asks Drixx to reassess."
*points at 409* "DS says 'I can't get my way and insult my way through the game, just lynch me. I don't want to play a game where I can't insult people to get what I want.'"
*points at 411* "DS yelling about DGB obvscum again."
*points at 413* "DS attacks me saying that I'm trying to mold him into a mini him trying to discredit my vote."
*points at 414* "DS again says like he's the professor and grading our work for anyone to produce a "valid" reason to scumread DS. Yet, DS thinks the only valid opinions are the ones that does what he wants. He has no problem reaching out to me to get me to "control my hydra partner" but also then saying our play is shit and we should be policy lynched.
The too long didn't listen verson. DS isn't driving this game forward at all. He's not scumhunting. He's not enquiring or letting others enquire about why they feel the way they do.
We should totally lynch DS."
Titus drops the microphone and looks at DS's collapsed unconscious body on the floor. Her nausea getting the better of her, she accidentally vomits on him.
"Well that's an accurate reflection of what I think of Diamond's scumminess this game."
Titus then freshens up in the bathroom before taking her seat back at the bar.
"Much better." Titus smiles.
actual content later.