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[Errantparabola]

*shrug*
what I'm doing here is way more of a towntell than shoving walls down your face.

just because it's a towntell doesn't mean I should reply to it.

i will give you credit, your opinion that interacting with scumreads doesn't matter as much as interacting with townreads is consistent with your behavior right now.

[Errantparabola]

it's that this is not how I would approach the game as scum.
as scum I favour wallposting and arguing because i'm damn good at selling garbage cases and taking a few slight errors all the way to the bank
but I see the limitations of that when I'm actually town and play a lot quieter.

I know full well that my scum game is virtually indistinguishable from my town game

RC question for you.
You recognize that there is this difference between your scum and town play
So as scum, why wouldn't you emulate what you described as your town play?

[RadiantCowbells]

In fairness, I don't like to manipulate people emotionally.
I just felt the need to do it this one game.
I will never play the way I did this way again. The only game I've played to be emotionally manipulative to this extent was 184.
It's both too easy and too unpleasant, I think.

Manipulating people's emotions in this way makes me feel dirty.
I only do it when I'm super invested in winning a game or super pissed off.
And to 'act' resigned/frustrated like I am now requires me to make myself feel resigned/frustrated which doesn't feel good and so I avoid it.

It's hard to put into words but it just feels manipulative in a more horrible way than just winning, and after 558 which ripped me apart on the inside, it's eh.

then again I'm just a hyper emotional person and maybe not everyone would have it be as big of a deal for them: but that's sort of where I stand on the issue.
and frankly I can win games without trying to make people feel like shit for scumreading me as scum.

[Marquis]

DAY 03, VOTECOUNT 06

[0]

Apricity

—
[0]

Ranger

—
[0]

RadiantCowbells

—

[1]

Errantparabola

— Ranger

[L-2]

[3]

NOT VOTING

— Apricity, RadiantCowbells, Errantparabola

With

[4]

alive, it takes

[3]

to lynch.

Deadline is in

(expired on 2016-03-06 23:00:00)

(Sun Mar 6 @ 11:00:00 PM EST).

NOTES

Laser Cannon

Apricity has already fired.

[RadiantCowbells]

Apri, need you here.

[Apricity]

I am here. Was busy this morning. Let me catch up.

[Apricity]

So EP--you'll likely be voting Ranger? And Ranger, are you still set on voting RC?

[Apricity]

Hm, wait. RC--you still have your shield or no?

[RadiantCowbells]

I'm mid reread right now.

I don't like EP's play today. I agree with Ranger that it feels like he's been trying to play both sides.
He claims to be scumreading me but hasn't at all tried to convince me to vote elsewhere nor basically talked to me at all.
His ridiculously strong townread on me that mysteriously disappeared was also pretty unsupported.
He's been saying that he thinks I'm town and Ranger is scum but he's been trying to get Ranger to vote me, which doesn't jive at all.

What are your thoughts?

And no, I do not. I used it last night.

[Ranger]

So EP--you'll likely be voting Ranger? And Ranger, are you still set on voting RC?

Actually...it might be the opposite.

[RadiantCowbells]

Nor would it be a good idea even if I did.

Even if all 3 of us did, we can't know for sure that scum wouldn't have double shot and managed to wring out a win by sniping bunkers.

We lynch today.

[Apricity]

You're claiming that you townread me and scumread her and yet you're talking to Ranger and not me.

why?

because you're not producing content that I deem reply worthy.
UNVOTE:

Why the unvote here?

[RadiantCowbells]

I think that scum were not expecting NM to survive from the get go. Associatives there hold little value, though I note Soren's were really bad.
I do think that Ranger's vote switch felt sort of bad. Not sure what to do about that. Doesn't outweigh the rest of what I have at the moment.

[Apricity]

So EP--you'll likely be voting Ranger? And Ranger, are you still set on voting RC?

Actually...it might be the opposite.

On what basis?

[Apricity]

I'm mid reread right now.

I don't like EP's play today. I agree with Ranger that it feels like he's been trying to play both sides.
He claims to be scumreading me but hasn't at all tried to convince me to vote elsewhere nor basically talked to me at all.
His ridiculously strong townread on me that mysteriously disappeared was also pretty unsupported.
He's been saying that he thinks I'm town and Ranger is scum but he's been trying to get Ranger to vote me, which doesn't jive at all.

What are your thoughts?

And no, I do not. I used it last night.

I was of the impression that EP still greatly townreads you and as a consequence scumreads Ranger. When did that change?

[RadiantCowbells]

That's what he claims.

His play doesn't mesh with that.

[Ranger]

Also, I realize this is bad timing, but for some UNGODLY reason, my internet picked

now

of

all

freakin days to go on the fritz. I'm dealing with the lag from hell. Half the time I'm not even sure my post will go through, and the method I use is a painstaking workaround.

So most likely, I will unfortunately not be able to contribute much. Barely post, barely read, it's inconvenient I know, but there's literally nothing I can do about it.

[Apricity]

And as for EP getting Ranger to vote you, wasn't he already doing that?

pedit: Specifically where?

[Apricity]

Also, I realize this is bad timing, but for some UNGODLY reason, my internet picked

now

of

all

freakin days to go on the fritz. I'm dealing with the lag from hell. Half the time I'm not even sure my post will go through, and the method I use is a painstaking workaround.

So most likely, I will unfortunately not be able to contribute much. Barely post, barely read, it's inconvenient I know, but there's literally nothing I can do about it.

Will you be able to vote? We haven't got much time left.

[RadiantCowbells]

5. Say you're town. Would town you really be convinced by the shit that's RC is pulling right now? I say no.

because you're not producing content that I deem reply worthy.
UNVOTE:

and that he's generally attacking me more than Ranger while declaring me a townread.
little explanation of where townread originates, etc.

[RadiantCowbells]

I'd like to actually talk to EP but I'm not sure if he'll be on.

[Errantparabola]

His ridiculously strong townread on me that mysteriously disappeared was also pretty unsupported.

he's generally attacking me more than Ranger

contradiction

He's been saying that he thinks I'm town and Ranger is scum but he's been trying to get Ranger to vote me, which doesn't jive at all.

where have I been trying to do this

I was of the impression that EP still greatly townreads you and as a consequence scumreads Ranger. When did that change?

it changed when RC started scumming it up.
like I said, one of Ranger and RC is town. one of them noticed that I was "playing both sides" because I noticed that both people were doing things that I believed to be scummy and I decided to point them out. Instead of, you know, ignore them and hurt town. And the other is jumping on that opportunity to get me killed.

while declaring me a townread.

this is just a blatant lie.
if i had to evaluate both of Ranger's and RC's recent plays, they would both be scummy to some degree. I said earlier that my vote on Ranger was founded on the belief that RC had early play that I believed came from town. I unvoted because the townread I had on RC could have possibly been coming from scum, knowing RC's capabilities of being universally townread quickly (a possibility that I refused to consider until RC's abysmal late game play).

Let me make this 100% clear.
I don't give a shit if anyone here thinks i'm scummy because I'm "playing both sides." scum is guaranteed to be attacking me right now because of it.
I'm not going to just ignore the fact that two people are acting some degrees of terrible because I don't want to be seen as doing such.

[Errantparabola]

I'd like to actually talk to EP but I'm not sure if he'll be on.

talk with me baby

[Apricity]

Do you still have your shield or not EP?

[Errantparabola]

I used my protection