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Speaking of things that don't matter, everyone's vote should be somewhere, because it's one of the best indicators of reads in the game.
I'll start. VOTE: NSG
Discuss something other than meta, pls.
Also doesn't add anything given we're only a day in.In post 67, TonyMontana wrote:I might be biased here, but that’s a terrible theory.northsidegal wrote: just gut i feel like this might be one of those games where most top posters are town and scum are in the lurkers
I'm looking forward to hearing yours. Place a non-RVS vote please, or justify what you have.
In post 88, Enter wrote:
Speaking of things that don't matter, everyone's vote should be somewhere, because it's one of the best indicators of reads in the game.
I'll start. VOTE: NSG
Discuss something other than meta, pls.
This is funny considering your vote is still on Clemency who you voted for because :
In post 28, Trekkie99 wrote:Can we get this party started?
I'm going to VOTE: Clemency because that's just rude.In post 17, Clemency wrote:sounds dumb
Jury, trekkie's play is legitimately detrimental to town. He's distracting, avoiding any actually useful questions.In post 133, Trekkie99 wrote:See this? Stop it. Stop talking about the jury. Stop talking to the jury.
I strongly share your reads.In post 142, Taly wrote:Getting to this question, though, since I saw it yesterday.
(If I missed any direct questioning, please quote.)
Based off skimming:In post 91, Enter wrote:you have two people you can save from being considered for lynch today and we can't talk about them for the rest of the day. Who are they and why?Tonyandapthet (apthet is the stronger thought here)
Tonyis unconfident here, as I haven't dissected his posts much post-Clemflip. But I get the idea that he's evaluating different situations instead of pushing reads, they don't feel forced.
Also, I was questioning my read onNorthwhen he posed his vote. If lynching him went out of the question, I wondered how that would change people's posts.
apthetspills town. I wish I can do a bit better than soul-read, but each post they made is clear, shows them thinking beyond just surface level, and looking at each person. I liked that they proddedxyzzyin 131 and 132, and these posts made me feel more comfortable they're town. They also reevaluate their reads; and if I had to townbloc someone, this would currently be my only choice - but it's something.
These reads may change with a full read, but this is my thinking.
I had already said it in three sentences, and you asked again for my reasoning. Not quite sure what the fuck you're trying to get from me.In post 157, Taly wrote:You could've summarized your scumread onTrekkiein 3 sentences. The anecdote here feels unjustified and too theoretical.
156 seems disingenuous in the fact that you completely dismissTrekkie'sengagement with you in favor of your scumread based off only several pages of gameplay.
Your hard-lined confidence is unwarranted, and geared toward creating a rigid dichotomy between yourself andTrekkie.
VOTE: Enter
Answer their questions.
Explain this, too.In post 155, Enter wrote:I'm not particularly interested in answering his half-assed questions he asks merely for the show of posting content, but if you think it would improve everyone else's chances of seeing where taly fits, I'll do it in a heartbeat.
Scum-buddying isn't even a 50% chance to flip scum and you should know that.In post 158, Taly wrote:Unorganized thoughts...
Like I genuinely see several ofTrekkie'sposts to be parroting another post to an extent in the thread.
But the reach and lack of rationality behind the scumread reasons there don't register as a town-led push at all, and ifTrekkieis scum and everyone whose pushed him is town(North, xyzzy, Enter, apthet)I'm honestly floored because I don't see these types wagons ever flip red.
And I'm really bothered by the fact that I'm highly townread in the sense that "oh, this could beTaly'splaystyle" or "everyone seems to agree this guy is town" - like I'm a 1000% scum-buddying magnet, wtf. (Namely looking atNorthandEnter)
I also keep readingTonyandNorth'sand getting a lot of words but much less content that I can't discern their motives quite effectively.
Xyzzy,apthetboth make the most sense as town... and I likeEntertownbloccing, but I also think the townbloc onapthetandTonybased off solely what I said is odd, considering he hasn't mentioned them in his own reads.
Deepwolfing paranoia suggests I should re-evaluatexyzzysoon too, but a good bit of meta tells me he's town, and I like his posts overall.
*ISO-skim*...Tonycan stick as town for now.
"Subjective" theory in how town and scum will play the game is the ONLY thing that people will ever base their scum and town reads off of, period.In post 169, Taly wrote:More like 3 paragraphs of which 3 reasons were found inEnter wrote: I had already said it in three sentences, and you asked again for my reasoning. Not quite sure what the fuck you're trying to get from me.sincemy inquiry for clarification. 150
Now I'm reiterating asecond timefor you to respond to him since you're so certainTrekkie'sscum. I'm trying to sort you both.
Nice dodge on avoiding the"if it would improve everyone's chances of seeing whereexplanation prompt. Am I his buddy now?talyfits"
I'm not posing rhetorical prompts and questions here.
It can't be scum-buddying if it's town/town are townbloccing. I haven't seen a reason to think your townreads are genuine, since you asked and agreed with my opinion before giving any of your own reads.Enter wrote: Scum-buddying isn't even a 50% chance to flip scum and you should know that.
If theTrekkiescumread truly isn't a reach, then break down your reasons and spell it out to me with bullet points and post links. Not a subjective theory on how you think scum and town would play in this game,
One, I haven't been engaging w/ him recently, and two, didn't you JUST SAY that you engage with your scum reads (namely me?)while you note he's obvscum despite engaging with him.
I haven't cherry picked shit. I just skimmed Trekkie's ISO and I'm almost dead certain you haven't read a single one of Trekkie's posts, but go ahead. Quote a single one of Trekkie's posts where he asks a legitimate question (i.e. "are you implying yesterday's lynch was a bad one?" doesn't count) that you think would be useful to answer.In post 176, Taly wrote:I see no point in a back and forth.
My vote's not moving formEnteruntil he stops cherry-picking what he wants to respond to with my posts, and actually answer my prompts andTrekkie'sassertions/questions.
Which I posted before he asked any of those questions. So since I have a feeling you're going to go back and quote every question he's asked since coming into the game thread and miss the fact that he's asking questions that I answered BEFORE he started asking them, I've quoted the response ahead of time. How does that answer all his questions?In post 88, Enter wrote:
Speaking of things that don't matter, everyone's vote should be somewhere, because it's one of the best indicators of reads in the game.
I'll start. VOTE: NSG
Discuss something other than meta, pls.
It's baffling to me that you flipped your read on me because I won't quote his posts, and you won't quote his posts either. I wouldn't care if I didn't legitimately believe you were defending something that you hadn't read at all.In post 180, Taly wrote:If you're really town then you need to seriously redefine how you determine reads via interactions in games.![]()
It's easy when he hasn't asked any questions that haven't been answered yet.In post 179, Taly wrote:Like any of them? How about you go through all of his questions and say how they confscum him?
I'm taking your failure to respond to my questioning not as you being a hypocrite (by asking me to quote posts and then failing to quote them yourself), but instead as you failing to find any and realizing you fell for the trap that was us discussing questions that haven't been answered when there really were none to begin with.In post 182, Taly wrote:Literally this is what I'm envisioning with the incredible lack of depth in his reads and how he's painting your posts and himself through townbloccing.In post 181, Trekkie99 wrote:I'm curious how scum!Enter would deal with me flipping town if I'm lynched. I guess he would pass me off as a distraction that had to be gotten rid of anyway.
Asks for my thoughts immediately after I posted them, fails to answer the prompts I gave in my opening post, also low effort.
Literally a no effort post/evasive
No effortIn post 94, Trekkie99 wrote:Or a lynch for that matter.In post 92, Enter wrote:The only reason my vote's not on you right now is because I doubt it would have much effect on your response.
No effort, useless.In post 97, Trekkie99 wrote:Basically we play like we would normally, but the jury will have the final say on who is lynched.In post 96, Bambi Jay wrote:I have no idea what's going on, but I hear there's judges around.
If they would like me to preform next, I can juggle, I can make stuff go boom, and I can shitpost.
If you want my townie traits, I guess I can gamesolve on the side.
No effortIn post 104, Trekkie99 wrote:Hi Bambi Jay!OofIn post 100, schadd_ wrote:Bambi Jay has been lynched ! she was atownie
thank u for replacing ! : ^ )
ParrotIn post 123, Trekkie99 wrote:My thoughts exactly.In post 105, TonyMontana wrote:I'm not one to doubt our honorable judges, but this lynch seems peculiar.
Clemency's only activity was an RVS vote back and forth with trekkie, who in contrast with his activity has been the most active player so far.
Was hoping to have something more to go on after a lynch, but this is pretty much a complete zero in the info department.
Not questions asked to me, but I'll answer them anyways, because they're VITAL to sorting me and trekkie, apparently.In post 124, Trekkie99 wrote:Is it just me or do I keep hearing this? Of course the jury is listening to us! What do you think they're doing? Ignoring our discussions and throwing a dart at a board and lynching however the dart lands on? I feel like your upset that you have no control of the situation or the jury. Because as town this shouldn't be a concern knowing the jury is of course town. Do you think the jury has poor judgement?In post 120, northsidegal wrote:i mean, even beyond it being pro-town, i'll still also argue thatit just makes it a more enjoyable game if the jury follows what we're saying
it's really not enjoyable to play a game where there's no connection between what you do in thread and what actually happens, and you don't just have to take it from me:
In post 102, Enter wrote:I feel so weak and powerless
Low effort, practically useless, except it helps me answer one of his gripping and super important questions he asks later.In post 125, Trekkie99 wrote:And yes I do believe that their first lynch choice was semi poor do to the fact that it yielded very little info, but it's not like our fate is in the hands of babys with nuclear launch codes!
At least he's showing one post where he thinks NSG is scum.In post 127, Trekkie99 wrote:Talk about fake stuff.In post 126, Enter wrote:Jury if you're paying attention at all, please just lynch Trekkie. I don't think I've seen anyone add more fake stuff to the game thread, and I honestly feel like I'm being mocked for my frustration in a town lynch via 124.
Same for me. This is the most effort he's put in as far as reads since I've replaced in.In post 128, Trekkie99 wrote:Also that post was meant for northsidedegal, however it could very well apply to you as well.In post 126, Enter wrote:Jury if you're paying attention at all, please just lynch Trekkie. I don't think I've seen anyone add more fake stuff to the game thread, and I honestly feel like I'm being mocked for my frustration in a town lynch via 124.
Completely useless post.In post 133, Trekkie99 wrote:See this? Stop it. Stop talking about the jury. Stop talking to the jury.
I asked for scum pools, he doesn't give reasons, just two names. At least it's something.In post 135, Trekkie99 wrote:Right now my scum reads are you and northsidedegal.In post 129, Enter wrote:Trekkie, pls post your likely scum pools.
xyzzy and tonymontana are town leans for me while apthet and taly are mixed.
Both of these, saying "no one" to the lynch question is such a useless response.In post 136, Trekkie99 wrote:Your not helping town by talking to a one way mirror. Also what "useful questions" have I avoided?In post 134, Enter wrote:Jury, trekkie's play is legitimately detrimental to town. He's distracting, avoiding any actually useful questions.In post 133, Trekkie99 wrote:See this? Stop it. Stop talking about the jury. Stop talking to the jury.
Here I asked you to move your vote of Clemency, which you still haven't done.In post 91, Enter wrote:@Trekkie :Who would you lynch knowing what you know?
I'm looking forward to hearing yours. Place a non-RVS vote please, or justify what you have.
In post 92, Enter wrote:Speaking of things that don't matter, everyone's vote should be somewhere, because it's one of the best indicators of reads in the game.
This is funny considering your vote is still on Clemency who you voted for because :
In post 28, Trekkie99 wrote:Can we get this party started?
I'm going to VOTE: Clemency because that's just rude.In post 17, Clemency wrote:sounds dumb
In post 156, Enter wrote:@Trekkie Please show me how you've been tunneling me or even pushing me in the slightest.
Where have you been tunneling me? You still haven't answered that question.In post 148, Trekkie99 wrote:Tunneling you is spamming and completely useless?In post 144, Enter wrote: Lynch pool I'd say Trekkie/NSG - The former is just spamming the thread and completely useless
Where is this eveasive behavior? Your being evasive by not answering my initial question.In post 144, Enter wrote:even if he flipped town for some reason (I don't think he will, I rarely see play this dodgy andevasivefrom town)
In post 136, Trekkie99 wrote:Your not helping town by talking to a one way mirror.Also what "useful questions" have I avoided?
Yes, I was implying that. Didn't think I had to write that out for you, considering you yourself agreed w/ it.In post 149, Trekkie99 wrote:What does this even mean? Are you saying it was a bad lynch? I wish it had been someone more active, but the chance of a scum being a lurker is there so the lynch wasn't pointless.In post 147, Enter wrote:so I was looking for his help to establish a town pool we could help prevent things like yesterday, where the juryjust lynches someone from out of nowhere.
All you've done so far is talk/complain to the jury, order the jury to lynch me, and more recently you've assembled your own town block, and ordered the jury not to lynch them.
Making cases to the jury is the point of this game, and I'm not in "my town block" so I'm not even certain why you're frustrated w/ this.In post 125, Trekkie99 wrote:And yes I do believe that their first lynch choice was semi poor do to the fact that it yielded very little info, but it's not like our fate is in the hands of babys with nuclear launch codes!
The first question wasn't asked to me, but it's VITAL again, so here goes:In post 152, Trekkie99 wrote:How was I being hypocritical?In post 146, xyzzy wrote:Trekkie's 90 was a comically bad post. speck in my eye, plank in your eye etc etc etc
What question? What answer? Did you mean to link a different post of mine?In post 146, xyzzy wrote:Trekkie's 93 is such a bullshit noncommitalanswer. it's tempting to write off some of Trekkie's scummy behavior as just him being a somewhat new player who hasn't totally found his feet, but being unwilling toanswersuch a directquestionlike that isn't a good look.
Pretty sure he's already explained that he's town hunting. But whatever.In post 153, Trekkie99 wrote:No you just seem too eager too label people town, and not eager enough to label people scum. Basically it looks like your having trouble getting scum reads which is something I tend to have trouble with when I'm scum.
Low effort and useless.
Sure.In post 162, Trekkie99 wrote:Jury please give me a few moments to reply to Enter before you lynch me if you are considering it.In post 161, Taly wrote:Each quote-to-quote post that is being created, the more difficult it is becoming for the jury to filter out bullshit.
We just need another lynch now. We're 5 hours from the deadline if I'm reading the first-lynch timing correctly.
So. We've reached the day when posts can be nullified because they have words that can be classified as "adjectives."In post 163, Trekkie99 wrote:Section one and two of this post are mafia theory.In post 155, Enter wrote:Mafia is a jigsaw puzzle. The players are the pieces, and every piece has a single slot that it fits. The optimal townie wants to put the puzzle together to find out which pieces fit in the mafia slots and which pieces fit in the town slots. To do this, the player will often put different combinations of reads together, push their reads (and push the puzzle pieces together) and look at it to see if they fit. A good townie asks questions, but more importantly, relevant questions, and to put reads together the vt MUST be actively trying to rearrange pieces that don't fit, which is why you often see very reactive play from town, with constantly changing reads.
The mafia have no good reason to do this. They want to look town, but they often forget what it means to be town. Like trekkie, they only partially apply themselves. Instead of pushing pieces together and rearranging them when they don't fit, you will often see them place a piece in a pile of other pieces and then leave it for everyone else to figure out what is going on there. Contrary to a town player, the mafia knows what the completed puzzle looks like, so often you'll see a mafia declare that pieces go together, but rarely will they declare that they SHOULD go together, because they already know the outcome.
Trekkie sits with his pieces in a pile. When prodded strongly, he will take a piece and put it somewhere on the table. Maybe it's in relation to another piece. If it is, it rests gently on top. There is no investigation as to whether or not the pieces actually fit together, just a declaration that he did as he was asked, he helped put the puzzle together. After resting his pieces on top of each other, he sits proudly and points at what he did, and then proceeds to ask the other players inane questions like "why did you pick the red piece?" "why are all the pieces that Enter picks have round edges?" even if all the pieces have round edges. "why is the table so big?" "why is the sky blue?" Every time another player asks a decent question or makes a decent comment "Hmm, what if you used this piece instead of that one?" or "I think this one might fit here," trekkie is always right there to follow up with "why did you ask this question this way?" or "what does it mean to think two pieces fit together?"
I have never seen a player seem so terribly and completely convinced that they look like they're scumhunting or tunneling when it appears to me as if they are doing nothing like it. Nothing about his play seems optimal to town in the slightest.
That's why I have a trekkie scumread. I'm not particularly interested in answering his half-assed questions he asks merely for the show of posting content, but if you think it would improve everyone else's chances of seeing where taly fits, I'll do it in a heartbeat.Null.Trekkie sits with his pieces in a pileAdjectives.When proddedstronglyLoL.he will take a piece and put it somewhere on the table. Maybe it's in relation to another piece. If it is, it restsgentlyon top-----------------------In post 53, Trekkie99 wrote:Ok than, if we can have reads this early in the game I'll give you mine. Apthet is a newbie scum unnecessarily trying to help out her scum mate xyzzy.Null.After resting his pieces on top of each other, he sits proudly and points at what he did,Again, adjectives. This time however the adjective makes this statement completely opinion based.and then proceeds to ask the other playersinsanequestionsName one post I've made which would be comparable to the fictional quotes you say are reputational of my behavior.like "why did you pick the red piece?" "why are all the pieces that Enter picks have round edges?" even if all the pieces have round edges. "why is the table so big?" "why is the sky blue?" Every time another player asks a decent question or makes a decent comment "Hmm, what if you used this piece instead of that one?" or "I think this one might fit here," trekkie is always right there to follow up with "why did you ask this question this way?" or "what does it mean to think two pieces fit together?"Opinion.I have never seen a player seem so terribly and completely convinced that they look like they're scumhunting or tunneling when it appears to me as if they are doing nothing like it. Nothing about his play seems optimal to town in the slightest.It doesn't work that way.That's why I have a trekkie scumread.I'm not particularly interested in answering his half-assed questions he asks merely for the show of posting content
Point me to a question I haven't answered, please.In post 166, Trekkie99 wrote:So basically what your saying is that you can accuse me of something, and when I ask you to explain your reasoning for accusing me, you don't have to answer because you think my questions are half-assed.In post 155, Enter wrote:I'm not particularly interested in answering his half-assed questions he asks merely for the show of posting content
Spoiler:
*to, you use "too" when you are trying to explain something is in excess.In post 172, Trekkie99 wrote:Your defense as too why this post should be considered as townie.In post 167, Enter wrote:Not quite sure what the fuck you're trying to get from me.In post 155, Enter wrote:I'm not particularly interested in answering his half-assed questions he asks merely for the show of posting content
Point to a question you want answered please. Also please answer my questions to you, since it's VITAL for people to be townread for them to answer questionsIn post 173, Trekkie99 wrote:You've answered zero of my questions.In post 171, Enter wrote:asks a question that you think I should answer that I have not already
When did people agree with you and fail to change their stances?In post 175, Taly wrote:There are no invalid questions in Mafia.
Trekkie'sstated a suspicion ofapthetandxyzzy(32 53 73) and even reasoned his uncertainties with me. 74 and 76 135 He even interacted withxyzzy.
Have you even ISOedTrekkie?
You denying all of these posts and misconstruing his questions toward you as tunneling is baffling to me. This is why your scumread on him seems blatantly overconfident and you continuing to drive this point reads as a forced lynch-plea to the juryinsteadof scumhunting.
Only because people want to agree with most things I say in this game but don't change their stances accordingly.Enter wrote:but Trekkie's wagon has stood the test of time, two days specifically, so that should ping you as strange,
Where am I cherry-picking? What questions/assertions from Trekkie am I missing?In post 176, Taly wrote:I see no point in a back and forth.
My vote's not moving formEnteruntil he stops cherry-picking what he wants to respond to with my posts, and actually answer my prompts andTrekkie'sassertions/questions.
My intent w/ the town block isn't to keep those people in it from being suspicion, but to keep the Jury from making mistakes like they did yesterday and to help focus our efforts via minimization of confusion. If we were all talking about everything that seemed scummy to us, it would hard to collect enough data on a single person to have their lynch. Every time anyone made a scummy mistake, someone would be likely to catch it and try to have them lynched for it, and since town makes scummy looking posts all the time, we would never get anywhere. I've found it is much easier to find scum when they feel comfortable and are allowed to have a consistent pattern of posts lacking in town motivation. Very rarely have I seen scum caught off a single post, and very rarely do I see scum make very scummy posts.In post 200, apthet wrote:Taly, what does "soulread" mean?In post 142, Taly wrote:They also reevaluate their reads; and if I had to townbloc someone, this would currently be my only choice - but it's something.
I'm still thinking Enter might be town, especially because he really does seem genuinely convinced of Trekkie being scum. I think his desire to quickly help Taly establish a core of town people is misguided because I don't think that Taly is/should be townread by everybody, and because it seems like he's trying to insert himself into that group of people.
If it were up to me at this point, I'd probably kill in one of xyzzy or northsidegal.
Keep in mind, as far as my experiences have gone, replacing into a game and starting a game result in very different styles of play, and a one game sample is not very large at all, especially since people often intentionally play different from game to game sometimes (I do.)Of those, I feel the most strongly that Trekkie99 is town, especially because he feels different than in Newbie 1901, which is the last game I played, where he replaced into a scum slot.
I tried to avoid this, and people (Taly) yelled at me. :/ Don't read them if you don't want. I've only posted them this game because I'm certain that I willMaybe not huge walls or more than four or five posts in a row (looking at you, Enter), but if everyone could at least have reads lists that they update as they change (even if your list still has nulls or you're not very certain), that would be nice.
Trekkie is being cased as mafia but I’m not seeing it. The big points against him are that his reads are shallow (sure) and that he’s asking useless questions. This isn’t terrible, but it isn’t compelling to me. I thought some of Trekkie’s early posts were pretty bold for a player who’s never been town outside of a three player meme game. 53 was a pretty bold response. 74 and 76 looked pretty town as well to me. nsg’s post about trekkie’s fearlessness in the face of the jury being fake felt shaky. That seems more like a personality thing than a mafia/town thing.
I’m not completely closed off to lynching Trekkie, but the current arguments aren’t doing it for me, sorry.
As per the Trekkie confusion, something people don't seem to understand (or maybe I'm failing to understand people's responses), is that I don't think of Trekkie as scum for being shallow and useless. I think he's scum because he's lacking in motivation. His failure to adequately perform in joke games is a failure on the theory side of mafia, but motivation is relatively universal (as far as I'm aware.)The big points against him are that his reads are shallow (sure) and that he’s asking useless questions.
That was a post about his failure to adequately apply mafia theory to mafia and a spur of the moment attempt to reconcile Taly's apparent surprise at my read/post on Trekkie and my current thoughts on Trekkie. My read on Trekkie is based on a lack of motivation, not his ability.You mentioned earlier that you played with trekkie in the 3p meme lylo game and you clearly don’t have a high opinion of his play. In light of that, it feels like your confidence is forced.
I understand and agree, which is why I made the posts I did.We’re not going to bind ourselves exactly to who town wants to lynch but it factors heavily in our considerations, for what it’s worth.
Keep in mind, as far as my experiences have gone, replacing into a game and starting a game result in very different styles of play, and a one game sample is not very large at all, especially since people often intentionally play different from game to game sometimes (I do.)Of those, I feel the most strongly that Trekkie99 is town, especially because he feels different than in Newbie 1901, which is the last game I played, where he replaced into a scum slot.
I tried to avoid this, and people (Taly) yelled at me. :/ Don't read them if you don't want. I've only posted them this game because I'm certain that I willMaybe not huge walls or more than four or five posts in a row (looking at you, Enter), but if everyone could at least have reads lists that they update as they change (even if your list still has nulls or you're not very certain), that would be nice.
Trekkie is being cased as mafia but I’m not seeing it. The big points against him are that his reads are shallow (sure) and that he’s asking useless questions. This isn’t terrible, but it isn’t compelling to me. I thought some of Trekkie’s early posts were pretty bold for a player who’s never been town outside of a three player meme game. 53 was a pretty bold response. 74 and 76 looked pretty town as well to me. nsg’s post about trekkie’s fearlessness in the face of the jury being fake felt shaky. That seems more like a personality thing than a mafia/town thing.
I’m not completely closed off to lynching Trekkie, but the current arguments aren’t doing it for me, sorry.
As per the Trekkie confusion, something people don't seem to understand (or maybe I'm failing to understand people's responses), is that I don't think of Trekkie as scum for being shallow and useless. I think he's scum because he's lacking in motivation. His failure to adequately perform in joke games is a failure on the theory side of mafia, but motivation is relatively universal (as far as I'm aware.)The big points against him are that his reads are shallow (sure) and that he’s asking useless questions.
That was a post about his failure to adequately apply mafia theory to mafia and a spur of the moment attempt to reconcile Taly's apparent surprise at my read/post on Trekkie and my current thoughts on Trekkie. My read on Trekkie is based on a lack of motivation, not his ability.You mentioned earlier that you played with trekkie in the 3p meme lylo game and you clearly don’t have a high opinion of his play. In light of that, it feels like your confidence is forced.
I understand and agree, which is why I made the posts I did.We’re not going to bind ourselves exactly to who town wants to lynch but it factors heavily in our considerations, for what it’s worth.
Sorry. I write my posts in pieces and incomplete thoughts, and don't review them before I post all the time...I tried to avoid this, and people (Taly) yelled at me. :/ Don't read them if you don't want. I've only posted them this game because I'm certain that I will
In post 146, xyzzy wrote:so before DarkLightA was in my scum reads, but that was pretty much due to him being a lurker; now that he's been replaced, Enter seems a lot townier to me. his entrance was super solid.
Trekkie's 90 was a comically bad post. speck in my eye, plank in your eye etc etc etc
Enter, in 91 you asked Taly which two people he would save from being lynched today given the ability to do so; what prompted you to ask Taly in particular that question and not everyone?
Trekkie's 93 is such a bullshit noncommital answer. it's tempting to write off some of Trekkie's scummy behavior as just him being a somewhat new player who hasn't totally found his feet, but being unwilling to answer such a direct question like that isn't a good look.
TonyMontana's 106 about northsidegal is interesting. I don't totally agree with all of his ideas (the thing about reducing a 2:9 game to 2:6 is just... not really an accurate reflection of anything?), but the whole post seems to come from a very genuine place.
nsg's like 10 posts in a row don't feel good though. that comes off as scum spewing in response to being scumread by TonyMontana.
nsg's 111, I find the assertion that town would become especially freaked out at being scumread kind of weird. like obviously the best way to fulfill your win condition with any alignment is to never die, but the threshold of how many town players can die and still have the town win is much higher than the mafia's threshold.
my TonyMontana town read is just that he's engaging with the game in a way that feels very town to me. not very many posts, but they all feel very genuine to me.
I still feel super neutral on apthet. her 131 just feels like it could come from anyone. I think if she is scum, her partner isn't Taly, though I don't have a strong opinion on who it might be instead.
I don't think the nsg/Tony thing is tvt. I'm deffo leaning toward Tony being town, so an nsg lynch might be the best option, and a Tony lynch if she flips town. I'd prefer Trekkie first because having to argue with him is actively detrimental to the whole town -- I don't think deliberating over just how scummy he is is actually helpful.
TOWN
Taly
TonyMontana
Enter
apthet
northsidegal
Trekkie99
NOT TOWN
In post 131, apthet wrote:To northside: are you acknowledging a bias that you think you shouldn't have or do you believe that this playstyle is more likely to come from town?
I'm kind of thinking that Enter might bemafia. I thought he made a good first few posts that seemed productive and I think trying to make northsidegal post by putting suspicion on her is something I can see from town. But "I feel so weak and powerless" sort of feels like an empty post designed to make himself look more like town. I also think his desire to get Trekkie lynched escalated so fast out of nowhere. I'd imagine town would want to talk and get a read on as many people as possible.
On the other hand, I was thinking TonyMontana was mafia, because his big post justifying voting northside read more to me like he was trying to find a whole bunch of reasons to justify his vote, like going over everything she posted and trying to find something suspicious about it. In the end I'm sort of conflicted on whether or not he's genuine or not, especially after suggesting that "I'm willing for the next lynch to either be me or northside" in his most recent post.
I'm back to thinking that Taly is probably town. I think that he's right that looking for people you can confidently say are town is also useful. He's also been modifying his reads and actively asking questions, so for now I've decided I haven't really seen anything to be suspicious of.
In post 200, apthet wrote:I'mstillthinking Enter might betown, especially because he really does seem genuinely convinced of Trekkie being scum. I think his desire to quickly help Taly establish a core of town people is misguided because I don't think that Taly is/should be townread by everybody, and because it seems like he's trying to insert himself into that group of people.
In post 243, apthet wrote:Jury, in my opinion: Kill xyzzy, then Enter. You can kill me whenever you want to -- arguing against Tony and Enter seems to me like a waste of time (and I'm still on vacation, haha). Would be cool if both of my reads were right though.
If you put a little more effort in than take other people's consensus and post it as your own, it might be a little less indicative of you as scum.In post 244, apthet wrote:Actually scratch both of those. I'll check again tonight. Consider me a blank slate except for Tony as town, Trekkie as secondary town. I'll explain more when I have a computer.
What do you like about it and why do you not think apthet is scum?In post 256, Trekkie99 wrote:Oof. Got quiet around here.
I can see Taly's read has some holes in it, but I like it a lot so I'm all for a xyzzy lynch.
Just going to VOTE: xyzzy so the jury can see.
you talked an awful lot about how bad this lynch was over the days of silence we had.In post 260, xyzzy wrote:apthet was a bad lynch (she wasn't like........ conf town but she was also not obvious scum) but honestly I don't know what the jury are even doing this game
my #1 scum read is still trekkie but pretty much since the end of day 2 message I've been acting under the assumption that that'll never happen. taly's sudden laser-focused tunnel on me feels like it could be scum realizing that he suddenly has to win this whole game alone and trying to find an easy target?
I don't know what to make of enter at all at this point tbh
In post 233, Enter wrote:Xyzzy please post reads. It doesn't have to be long, but when you post, please share reasons for your three strongest reads. Also, if your three strongest reads agree with people who have recently posted/made a case about that person, please share any differences and similarities in your opinion and WHY.
Thank you.
He certainly looks a lot more scummy now.In post 263, Trekkie99 wrote:It makes sense for all the reasons Taly has stated.In post 258, Enter wrote:What do you like about it
I said I thought she was mixed. And she was still mixed due to her hopping around on her read on you.In post 258, Enter wrote:and why do you not think apthet is scum?
Also, I'd like you to clarify your answer to this question.In post 241, Trekkie99 wrote:Erm...In post 237, Enter wrote:Xyzzy is in my town reads because I like what Xyzzy has done this game when xyzzy has been a part of this game.
I want to know why your town reading him. is there a reason he's not at least in your mixed reads?
That's probably the best question to ask right now, TBH.In post 265, Trekkie99 wrote:I'm confused. Everyone still here had NSG to whatever extent in their scum reads.My best guess is at some point NSG's scum mate realized that NSG's lynch was inevitable and they jumped on the wagon. So the question is
who was lateto the party?
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