Looks like the current VC is something like this:
redcoyote(3): farside, shadow step, infinity
shadow step(4): lane, something smart, Red coyote, fire assassin
Fire Assassin: MM
Not Voting: Wingback
With 5 to lynch and countdown:
(expired on 2016-07-27 01:22:00)
Starting with qubixes, I've played with him before so I know his towngame. Reading through his only scumgame on site, he replaces in
here and spends the rest of the game trying unsuccessfully to catch up. His reads and cases are somewhat weak and flimsy. His play here is nothing like that since he latched onto The MM early in the game and never stopped tunneling him. His points were a lot stronger and I agreed with most of them. It also reminds me of Mini 1800 where we both town. However, he didn't seem to have the time or the motivation in his scumgame to catchup and was already in the hole because of his predecessor.
Moving onto Shadow, I got a chance to look through a scumgame of his (
Newbie 1712). He gets lynched D3 so just reading those six pages or so gives me the impression that he uses a lot of ATE when going down and fakes townie emotions pretty well. That tells me that what I thought were towntells earlier are null at best and his play here does remind me of how he went down as scum. I can't find any distinguishing markers for his play.
ISO'ing Shadow here, I don't like that some of the ATE in
Post 1322 ("
If this is town, we deserve to lose
") seems similar to his scumplay. My biggest issue with him though is that he isn't scumhunting elsewhere besides responding to posts and questions to and about him. That's the biggest difference I noticed in his
ISO in Open 644 where he was town. There was a noticeable focus on scumhunting outside of self-centered responses and aggressively pushing players even when their energies were directed at people other than Shadow. Based on that, I want to vote Shadow but based on Qubixes, I don't. The other thing I've been mulling over is that Shadow's interactions with Infinity fit into the scum-to-scum mold very well. Infinity calling out Shadow to play the game in
Post 1149 reads as "c'mon partner, get in here and play." Shadow has infinity as nullish scum, believes that his result on me is probably fake, pushes The MM more because Infinity is defending him which I don't buy. He should be pushing Infinity here but he never votes him only having him as a latent scumread. I also think his reasoning for suspecting RedCoyote (that RC called Fire vs SS town v town) is weak considering Shadow
did the same in his towngame.
I'm really conflicted. I'll look over how Infinity and qubixes interacted before I lay down a vote.
