In post 962, TwoFace wrote: In post 39, MagnaofIllusion wrote:If you were as good as you seem to think you are you'd understand the process of what I am doing.
This is really all I need to confirm what I was saying. When you are "reaction testing" you tell people to back off in a manner like this.
the issue is as I have already stated before, he was defending his reasons for pushing matt which implies he was serious.
Reaction testing requires you to defend your stance also though, and it does not show your claim that he didn't believe in the tell.
In fact to really push the scum claim you're obligated to functionally prove he was serious and wasn't reaction testing.
In post 962, TwoFace wrote:This is basically admitting
23 is a lie. You don't declare "scum found" and later say oops I wasn't being serious about that when he was getting negative attention. (remember Magna was at L-2 when his stance on matt changed from a scum read to a "I was not being serious and i'm going to discredit you for thinking it was in post
176)
I can follow your logic, but I do agree with Magna that it is a stretch - like, let's say for the sake of argument that Magna becomes confirmed town.
He presented a scum read "scum found even"
He intimated it as a reaction test (which justifies saying 'scum found' and also then dropping the read later as more info arises)
He later said he believed in the tell but didn't consider it rock solid (which supports his prior actions suggesting it was a reaction test)
The scum narrative, to my mind, is literally just that he felt he was getting called scum for pushing on Matt and backed off of it to try to paint a serious push as a reaction push - and if that's really your case I can see and follow it, but the evidence appears to equally support a town narrative as it is not my experience that town Magna doesn't reaction push, and, frankly, that scum Magna reaction pushes.