This would be the best news to get for 2020.
Hey all. Haven't seen some of you in some time. I already see a few I will have on auto ignore.
VOTE: iamausername
This would be the best news to get for 2020.
In post 35, Starbuck wrote:Wait, is this a thing?In post 33, farside22 wrote:I already see a few I will have on auto ignore.
No. I think that would be a bad feature on MS. Can you imagine as it is the number of people that barely read the game and post made, now just push auto ignore and vote randomly.In post 38, Starbuck wrote:No, I mean like a site feature?In post 37, farside22 wrote:In post 35, Starbuck wrote:Wait, is this a thing?In post 33, farside22 wrote:I already see a few I will have on auto ignore.
It is for me!![]()
In post 39, Morning Tweet wrote:In post 23, Albert B. Rampage wrote:Oh yeah? We're just gonna let anyone in our alliance with no screening?Yes!! --wait. is that a jab at my overwillingness to ally?In post 24, Albert B. Rampage wrote:How about we call our alliance The Welcome Center?oh okay you have a point. Relations are going to become complicated quickly. i still extend an open team invitation to all cute players and will make it my first order of business to unite our many alliancesCantLynchAPuppy wrote:Morning Tweet and I have formed an alliance, Albert and Morning Tweet have formed a separate alliance, trilateral negotiations underway to consolidate our two empires
Can you explain why you think those 3 are scum?In post 69, Llamarble wrote:ABR and Agar and MT are scum; the ABR-MT alliance should be called the half-scumteam alliance.
Blair is town. I kneejerked Baltar as town but he is probably scum too.
Everyone else is town enough so I think we win now.
Well, assuming 13-4.
VOTE: Albert B. Rampage
I know jigsaw game we lynched scum day 1 and it went downhill from there, but how does a no lynch help give any info?In post 70, Auro wrote:Hello! I've heard of a lot of names on this list
As a representative of the "young blood" on this site I feel somewhat obliged to catch y'all up to the latest site meta.
Not too long ago, we discovered that Day 1 scum lynches actually lead to more town losses than town lynches! While it's counter-intuitive, it's been speculated that perhaps town cannot carry the same momentum after the first lynch, and it's harder to catch smaller numbers of scum. The obvious trend then was to lynch townsfolk instead... but someone eventually did point out that it's silly to lose a townsfolk just to increase town's chances of a win. There was a clever solution hiding in plain sight though, which would require no town death...
VOTE: No Lynch
I see I will being doing a lot of this, this game:
I'm taking a lot of these pages as NAI. People look excited to be playing and I know I'm happy to see people I haven't played with in awhile. Also I have seen games where players look to create bonds early but it is scum and town that do it, so I'm not taking much of it seriously.In post 90, Llamarble wrote:ABR's ISO reads like statement of fact -> alliance a buddy -> highly impersonal accusation. Scum like doing all of these things.
Statements of fact feel safe and impersonal accusations feel safe and scum want to feel safe.
Alliancing / early accusations are common motions; scum usually go through common motions rather than exploring.
Scum have trouble evenly mixing interactions with other scum to interactions with town.
Players chatted up or voted by scum at dawn on the first day are therefore more likely to be scum than anyone else.
This applies to Baltar who also has an awkward are-you-scum-welcome, MT with content-free cutification and Agar who did 'vote -> briefly talk to buddy about nothing -> leave for a while.'
I don't like MT's reaction to being caught either.
Auro showed up with a purely distracting composed statement of 'fact' as well, then stuck to it instead of doing anything useful.
Will review a couple of their other games at some point to see if they are a refuge-type.
In post 97, Kmd4390 wrote:Ok I'm rushing this post before my phone dies but
Vote ABR
I feel like he's forcing himself into the alliance. I also don't like farside and Starbuck pushing the "I'm cute" thing. Auto seems to be trying too hard to play up being new but I'm not sure there's really an advantage to it because it's not the VI card. And Porkens' is likely town for the role PM thing. Hoopla also looks town.
I'm pretty sure that was a tongue in cheek comment in regards to how old many of the players in the game are. I didn't take it as a newb comment. Why would you think he could get away from doing that when a players date is available to see?In post 105, Kmd4390 wrote:Oh I missed that post. I thought hoopla had suggested it .In post 99, farside22 wrote:In post 97, Kmd4390 wrote:Ok I'm rushing this post before my phone dies but
Vote ABR
I feel like he's forcing himself into the alliance. I also don't like farside and Starbuck pushing the "I'm cute" thing. Auto seems to be trying too hard to play up being new but I'm not sure there's really an advantage to it because it's not the VI card. And Porkens' is likely town for the role PM thing. Hoopla also looks town.
How is ABR forcing into an alliance? He was the first player to suggest an alliance here.
Where do you see Auro trying to play up being new?
Auro's second line of the game was claiming to be a representative of young blood on the site.
Unvote, Vote Starbuck
In post 107, Llamarble wrote:It's not that town wouldn't say this, but it's definitely exactly what scum would say. Vindicating statements of fact are scum's favorite.In post 103, Albert B. Rampage wrote:Forcing...? I came up with the whole idea!In post 97, Kmd4390 wrote:I feel like he's forcing himself into the alliance.
I'm going to say hard no to this. It's pretty NAI, like if a player says nothing they look scummy, if they do they are scummy? On a personal level I feel a player ignoring me tends to come from scum with something to hide.In post 121, Llamarble wrote:A vindicating statement of fact is both safe and makes them look more town.
So mafia is always going to make that post. Town are going to say something like that too, but it's more likely to branch and have other pieces too than the scum version.
Gotta say this is very reachy.In post 126, Kmd4390 wrote:When you called yourself adorable you don't think that could be taken as wanting to be in the cute alliance? What was the purpose in that post then? Just completely random?In post 111, Starbuck wrote:No, I know abbreviations (I'm actually listed in the official MS one on the Wiki). I'm talking like game specific terms like I know sheeping and pocketing, but wolfing/open wolfing is kinda new to me. I know there's another new term or two that I've seen that I'm not sure of.In post 73, Auro wrote:Do you have any specific terms in mind? I can't recall any which are too recent.
Also, mafia specific, right?
My one post about it is pushing? That's a stretch and a weird one at that. In any case, I was just stating a fact.In post 97, Kmd4390 wrote:I also don't like farside and Starbuck pushing the "I'm cute" thing.
Spoiler: Because I am
Exactly. It seemed like a weird thing to open with when it was going to be obvious anyway. Like I said, I don't see any advantage to be gained from it so it was probably just an elephant in the room kind of comment.farside wrote:
I'm pretty sure that was a tongue in cheek comment in regards to how old many of the players in the game are. I didn't take it as a newb comment. Why would you think he could get away from doing that when a players date is available to see?
I thought about it, then forgot when I was reading kmd.In post 141, Auro wrote:farside, I didn't answer your question: did that not bother you?
Huh, you know at first I was about to disagree and then I realize I'm really bad about reading the whole thread or a whole post from players. I will say that I don't find kmd's follow up really inspiring right now.In post 153, Morning Tweet wrote:LOLIn post 103, Albert B. Rampage wrote:Forcing...? I came up with the whole idea!In post 97, Kmd4390 wrote:I feel like he's forcing himself into the alliance.
I lightly like Kmd just totally missing posts cause i associate not reading the thread carefully more with townThis is a first for me trying to buddy all the cute players, if that's what u mean. it's hard because there's so many!In post 106, Llamarble wrote:I'm at work. I'll do meta when it becomes worth the time.
I have little doubt the cuteness emphasizers tend to do it in other games.
That's why it bothers me that MT is going about their cuteness as if it's a mission, whereas the CLAP cuteness is more 'this is just how this player carries themself.'
I don't get the connection between: "Morning probably does this in other games" therefore -> "This is why it bothers me that she's going about it like a mission"
why? Usually i dont take it this far but i decided this would be my sort of opening gimmick after ABR asked me what our alliance should be themed and i saw Hoopla say she's cute or something
Pedit: Okay, i see now -- i disagree that it's scummy for me though. I like having fun in RVS and i don't usually try to read too closely into the first bunch of pages. I can tell you that my actual readslists aren't going to factor cuteness levels in.... too heavily.....
Why are you voting MT?In post 161, VP Baltar wrote:Posts an entire list of reads in basically RVS. "Scum feel a need to do something"In post 149, Llamarble wrote:Town
Llama
Farside
Porkens
Starbuck
Green Crayons
Blair
Hoopla
CLAP
Reck
UT
iau
MT
Baltar
Agar
Auro
KMD
ABR
The idea is scum feel a need to do something, and being cute is something to do, like a mission. CLAP's version seemed less goal-oriented.
Well here we are!
It didn't read like a joke. Was there a point to it?In post 162, Auro wrote:NL post was a joke, current site meta most definitely doesn't involve D1 NLs.In post 160, farside22 wrote:So apparently it didn't bother me. But since your asking why did you change your mind from NL to voting a player?
ouch.In post 167, Auro wrote:Humor but maybe it was inappropriateIn post 164, farside22 wrote:It didn't read like a joke. Was there a point to it?
I like screwing around at the start of the game, just a thing I do? Mafia is pointless anyway :3
Intrigued.In post 169, Llamarble wrote:Kmd less scummy, reck a bit more.
I must be missing something. All I've seen is MT talk about gathering a cute alliance and then being asked about it. Is that reading contrived for some reason? Am I missing something in that?In post 170, VP Baltar wrote:Because his posting seems the most contrived.In post 164, farside22 wrote:Why are you voting MT?
In post 185, Llamarble wrote:Me too. It's sort of a PoE "one of the players I'll have difficulty reading will probably be scum so I shouldn't have them all as high on the list as I do; Reck fits reasonably well as the scum from those"In post 183, xRECKONERx wrote: @marble: v interested why i'm scummy off 5 RVS joke posts
Just looks like filler. I don't see much that hasn't been said by others so it's just a surface level post. Also Hoopla looks to be budding Llama from that post.In post 198, Kmd4390 wrote:Yall are gonna have to explain why that's a scum post from Hoopla. Looked like she was just posting her thoughts.
I just thought MT was joking. I never took the any of it seriously. I don't even see MT caring on with that thought process as serious.In post 199, VP Baltar wrote:There were like 6 posts on it. Seems very try-hard for a mediocre joke.In post 197, Morning Tweet wrote:Is there something that seems insincere about it?
We were still in RVS, but I can't imagine being THAT committed to that bit.
I'm going to be the hard disagreeing person in this room. I just felt that it was NAI. Till I see something more that gives me insite into Hoolpa I'm not moving just yet.In post 207, Porkens wrote:I like it too.In post 203, Hoopla wrote:one of the lamentable things about intuition is converting those subconscious rumblings into words. here's an attempt:In post 197, Morning Tweet wrote:don't know how to respond to this sort of criticism. Is there something that seems insincere about it? Sure i couuuld be playing a gimmick so i don't have to pretend to scumhunt or so i can "avoid scrutiny", but also i could just as easily try to fake a bunch of reads and put on my towniest face if i were scum
is there a specific reason you think that's what's happening here?
pedit: your intutition is off then !
opening games tend to fragment into themes - jokers/questionnairers/wagoners etc. alliance crafting/cuteness riffing seemed like the dominant theme on page 1. i expect that scum upon observing the main narrative, tend to play along with it, as its the safest entry into the game. the continued adherence to the established running joke being an exercise in avoidance. a shield, if you will.
Now pounce! Who’s going along to get along?
So why not push him if your feeling this way? Or push those you don't have reads on?In post 210, Hoopla wrote:on a reread, i think auro found a comfortable niche in baiting llamarble into theory-based back-and-forths. during the whole sequence, llamarble was posting reads and appearing to improve his interpretation of the game, while auro was pontificating aimlessly.
another shameful display of avoidance. 25 posts in his ISO and i'm still none-the-wiser as to where he stands on anyone.
MTIn post 221, Green Crayons wrote:who started the cuteness thing?
In post 281, Hoopla wrote:this actually may be the first misstep. can you explain this?In post 278, Llamarble wrote:VOTE: Auro
Honestly you have a certain similarity of way of thinking to mine. And 275 is pure early-mid d1 scum me.
on first parse, it read well to me.
In post 297, farside22 wrote:In post 281, Hoopla wrote:this actually may be the first misstep. can you explain this?In post 278, Llamarble wrote:VOTE: Auro
Honestly you have a certain similarity of way of thinking to mine. And 275 is pure early-mid d1 scum me.
on first parse, it read well to me.
Tell me where in that post his vote on gc makes sense.
In post 306, Hoopla wrote:@farside
i have no qualms with auro jumping on the wagon. i mean, he was probably too late to gain any town cred - that was snapped up by the early adopters.
but if you have a problem with it, why aren't you asking him yourself?
That is the strangest list......is that scum to town list?In post 320, Llamarble wrote:I have too many scumreads to do PoE now. Wait I lied I have 4 of them and life is good.
Most probable scumteam:
Auro Reck GC IAAU?
Baltar
UT
MT
ABR
Agar
CLAP
Starbuck
KMD
Blair
Hoopla
Porkens
Farside
Llamarble
Order within groups probably imperfect.
Got to say I'm just not a fan of a few of those on the wagon.In post 321, Llamarble wrote:Well the IAAU one is simple. There are two posts there and his vote is the kind of minor inconsistency scum go for.
GC has a more developed ISO of different stuff, but most recently 305 calls a bunch of people suspicious and disappointing without really doing anything.
Thats hard to even see.In post 333, Blair wrote:It's early to partner hunt him, but if I had to, I would expect at least one on-wagon early bus and at least one off-wagon detractor.In post 330, Llamarble wrote:Blair who are IAAU's buddies? Who definitely isn't IAAU's buddies?
On-wagon: Could be VP Baltar. He felt the need to over explain why he was sheeping me. Could denote self consciousness.
Off-wagon: Porkens or Llamarble. Porkens took a direct stab at the wagon based on IIAU's post count. Llamarble indirectly did the same by bringing it up under the guise of helpfully describing the wagon.
In post 363, iamausername wrote:in fact UNVOTE: VP Baltar
VOTE: Auro
how can it be that he has posted six full length novels in this thread and i still have no idea why he is voting GC?
Thats pretty weak. I remember you as TH having some good views and then in animal upick you hydra in that and pushed scum reads there as well.In post 366, Auro wrote:Primarily because I like adding to wagon momentum. I would have voted Blair earlier instead of the NL if I wasn't making a dumb joke.In post 358, farside22 wrote:Before i forget. Auro why did you vote gc?
In post 373, Auro wrote:Which parts of my views are bad? Just the view that "adding momentum to a growing wagon on early D1 is good", or any of my townreads, or anything else?In post 370, farside22 wrote:Thats pretty weak. I remember you as TH having some good views and then in animal upick you hydra in that and pushed scum reads there as well.
I was a lurker in Animal U-Pick: I called out at least two scum and voted them, but didn't really attempt to gain wagons on either. Do you disagree with this assessment of my play there?
In post 381, Green Crayons wrote:i mean, UT is late to the party, but he's voicing the same suspicion, just not directed at anyone specifically:
In post 359, Untrod Tripod wrote:I'll tell you a secret: a lot of times when people post a lot of words it's because they have nothing to sayIn post 355, CantHateAPuppy wrote:im lurking, mafia philosophy is kinda boring and i don't feel like inventing some strong takes so i can effortpost with the big boysIn post 324, VP Baltar wrote:We caught two scum in the first 10 pages? Well that was easy!In post 321, Llamarble wrote:Well the IAAU one is simple. There are two posts there and his vote is the kind of minor inconsistency scum go for.
GC has a more developed ISO of different stuff, but most recently 305 calls a bunch of people suspicious and disappointing without really doing anything.
I'm kind of surprised Reck and Puppy are such wallpaper this game. Not really what I was expecting from either
there's a fine line to walk between explanation and obfuscation. a lot of the previous pages falls into the latter category
tbf, I think UT's invocation of the suspicion is actually suspicious in itself because of how unobtrusive it is.
In post 390, Starbuck wrote:The whole thing about voting IAUN for only having 2 posts, but simultaneously ignoring UT and AGar. All 3 have less posts than the mod, but it's still early Day 1-ish, so I don't get it.
In post 393, Starbuck wrote:How is Post 338 not policy?In post 389, Blair wrote:My vote on IIAU is pretty clearly not a policy push. You have me confused with someone else.
In post 397, Llamarble wrote:She voted IAAU because IAAU based their vote on the kind of dubious inconsistency scum tend to base their votes on.
Now I get why Blair was frustrated...
I could name about 3 or 4 other players doing just that. I don't see it as a reason to scum read a player. Even Iam said his vote was bad, sooooo????In post 411, Starbuck wrote:I just think assumptions aren't a good premise for scumhunting. It may be a playstyle difference. I feel it's more town to ask someone to elaborate than to just put words in their mouth and cause a ruckus when your concerns could be addressed fairly easily if you ask. Accompany those questions with a vote, absolutely, but the lack of questions is more concerning to me than the vote itself.In post 403, CantHateAPuppy wrote:why is "making an assumption" about IAUN scummy in this case? if you were blair and made posts 244 and 245 wouldn't it be weirder to cast shade and not vote than vote?
That's not the same thing SB is talking about. SB is talking about blair's push on IAM without asking questions.In post 416, Auro wrote:In post 414, farside22 wrote:I could name about 3 or 4 other players doing just that. I don't see it as a reason to scum read a player. Even Iam said his vote was bad, sooooo????
Adding to the momentum of a wagon early D1 doesn't need me to necessarily scumread the person, no?
I expect better from Auro. I've seen him be more serious and less...................VI/gooby in the games I reference. Like I've seen waiting more but again this was him within a hydra.In post 467, Llamarble wrote:The way Auro voted GC and then later repeatedly expressed zero shame about pressure voting also fits that refuge in audacity mold.In post 416, Auro wrote:In post 414, farside22 wrote:I could name about 3 or 4 other players doing just that. I don't see it as a reason to scum read a player. Even Iam said his vote was bad, sooooo????
Adding to the momentum of a wagon early D1 doesn't need me to necessarily scumread the person, no?In post 366, Auro wrote:Primarily because I like adding to wagon momentum. I would have voted Blair earlier instead of the NL if I wasn't making a dumb joke.In post 358, farside22 wrote:Before i forget. Auro why did you vote gc?In post 373, Auro wrote:Which parts of my views are bad? Just the view that "adding momentum to a growing wagon on early D1 is good", or any of my townreads, or anything else?In post 370, farside22 wrote:Thats pretty weak. I remember you as TH having some good views and then in animal upick you hydra in that and pushed scum reads there as well.
I was a lurker in Animal U-Pick: I called out at least two scum and voted them, but didn't really attempt to gain wagons on either. Do you disagree with this assessment of my play there?
Well your post is different. The only reference I have playing with you was when you were in a hydra and I would say you were less spammy in the hydra then you are here. I remember Animal Upick was goofy for a bit but that was the majority being goofy. When Double Day happened that went pretty quickly less goofy. So I typically see you going where the game goes instead of like this.In post 483, Auro wrote:This feels disingenuous when I think more about it:In post 471, farside22 wrote:Like I've seen waiting more but again this was him within a hydra.
You tried to claim or at least implied that that's a good representative of my play and thus different from here. I pointed out that I lurked and didn't do much (I did have my votes consistently on scum, but lalala hindsight).
Your reaction then was to continue to double down on that argument by then treating that game as somewhat similar to my play here but dismissing it as "him within a hydra".
It feels like instead of actually discerning what could cause a change in my style, you're tunneling on the *didn't achieve expectations* argument anyway.
OMG I thought it was just me. I probably should try to read at 5:30am, but I thought about this game last night and today I'm going to get a notebook together like I did before. It seems to help me sort people better.In post 516, Untrod Tripod wrote:I'm having a hard time finding anything to focus on in this game. Can someone offer me some direction in terms of post to read that are especially scummy (inb4 this post). I want to contribute but every time I start reading my eyes cross and I lose consciousness. I just don't even really know where to start
Yeah I forgot about your large post. Sorry.In post 597, Untrod Tripod wrote:how in the fuck am I sheeping
ABR: Can you explain why you found this scummy?In post 329, Albert B. Rampage wrote:This is moderately scummy.In post 324, VP Baltar wrote:We caught two scum in the first 10 pages? Well that was easy!In post 321, Llamarble wrote:Well the IAAU one is simple. There are two posts there and his vote is the kind of minor inconsistency scum go for.
GC has a more developed ISO of different stuff, but most recently 305 calls a bunch of people suspicious and disappointing without really doing anything.
I'm kind of surprised Reck and Puppy are such wallpaper this game. Not really what I was expecting from either
VOTE: VP Baltar
You know I'm the worst when it comes to joining a wagon without a really good reason or I scum read the player.In post 600, Albert B. Rampage wrote:He shouldn't get a pass for day 1 either. VP Balter is an amazing bandwagon.In post 596, farside22 wrote:He only gets a free pass for day 1.
Remember how bad your reads were in all of our recent games.
Listen to me and vote VP Baltar.
In post 616, Hoopla wrote:you've been on my case most of the game - even listing me in your top 3 scumpicks in 360. all of a sudden i am no longer on your radar without any reason why your suspicion has subsided. why?In post 605, farside22 wrote: VOTE: VPB
Completed my iso so I feel better with some reads.
Null to scum:
Agar
UT
Kmd
Auro
Iam
CLP
MT
VPB
you also made these comments about the VPB wagon and its constituents in post 596:
then in post 605, essentially changed your mind;In post 596, farside22 wrote:Some of the votes on VP come from players I haven't seen say much in regards to this game and are sheeping along (like Iam and UT). I'm staying the hell away from it.
I will say within regards to UT if he continues the lurking I would vote for him. He only gets a free pass for day 1.
that was a rather sharp turnabout. can you explain your mindset in further detail given you didn't like the make-up of the wagon to begin with?In post 605, farside22 wrote:Okay so on the ISO of VP I found him to basically just sheep reads and have no follow through with pushing any reads. I don't even know why he voted Auro at this point and he pushed MT and dropped it, which looks for pretty freeking weak reasons.
VOTE: VPB
also, is your lack of suspicion on me now related to this?
In post 637, farside22 wrote:VOTE: AGar
VP Baltar
CantLynchAPuppy*
Auro
Blair
farside22*
Albert B. Rampage
Why is vpb and abr both on this list?
In post 251, VP Baltar wrote:UNVOTE: MT
VOTE: iamausername
I just spent a game as scum fighting against Blair's instincts to save my team. No one in that game would really follow her and she screamed into the void for many pages. She ended up copping two of them.
Blatant sheep here. Come at me if you don't like it.
In post 402, VP Baltar wrote:I stan you and this is your response! rude afIn post 333, Blair wrote:On-wagon: Could be VP Baltar. He felt the need to over explain why he was sheeping me. Could denote self consciousness.
unvote
I got to say, I find this fringing on the point of silly and distracting.In post 348, Llamarble wrote:Agree with VP + IAAU (I think if it's not GC, those two + Reck + Auro is best)
^Town response.In post 355, CantHateAPuppy wrote:im lurking, mafia philosophy is kinda boring and i don't feel like inventing some strong takes so i can effortpost with the big boysIn post 324, VP Baltar wrote:We caught two scum in the first 10 pages? Well that was easy!In post 321, Llamarble wrote:Well the IAAU one is simple. There are two posts there and his vote is the kind of minor inconsistency scum go for.
GC has a more developed ISO of different stuff, but most recently 305 calls a bunch of people suspicious and disappointing without really doing anything.
I'm kind of surprised Reck and Puppy are such wallpaper this game. Not really what I was expecting from either
This fight does strike me as odd.In post 364, Green Crayons wrote:not sure how you could see this as a personal sleight (that I'm somehow calling you an ass?), so inclined to think this is manufacturedIn post 356, Starbuck wrote:I didn't create any sort of "empty calorie" discussion. The fact that you are assuming my motives without talking to me makes you look like an ass, not me.
Starbuck, do you find GC scummy or just irritating?
If i could put a face with a wall, it would be yours <3In post 368, xRECKONERx wrote:i'll have you know some wallpaper is fucking beautiful
huh? explain.
In post 406, VP Baltar wrote:You're gonna have to do better than that.In post 404, Auro wrote:I gut-townread Green Crayons from his posts.In post 402, VP Baltar wrote:huh? explain.
In post 430, VP Baltar wrote:VOTE: auroIn post 408, Auro wrote:Do you want to talk about any of my other reads I've given reasons for?
No. I would think you could actually give even a minor detail about what in your "gut" read pinged for you. I don't like the hand waving when asked a pretty simple question.
Why?In post 626, Hoopla wrote:In post 621, VP Baltar wrote:because there has to be some artificial inflation here in this group (aka, the bad ones, aka, those whose names shall not be spoken, aka SCUM)*gasp*
...
overall, i like your take on your wagon. if you are town, i agree with where you view the potential manipulation has occurred. you also read my vote correctly. you're simply a player i haven't picked up any town tells from yet - this post being the first one i've liked.
thinking...
I haven't really seen anything from you that showed scum hunting. You went into the cute mode and then defended the position. I don't see any scum reads or strong thoughts coming from you like I do others.I'll just ask one question-- is it related to the VP/Auro line you mention at the top?
Vp comment about auro is pretty hypocritical considering he voted auro while his wagon was building.In post 644, Green Crayons wrote:So this piqued my curiosity the most out of your wagon analysis. Can you tease it out more, because Auro jumped on to a VP vote and then seemed to get distracted by farside--rather than it appearing to reflect AI on his VP vote.In post 621, VP Baltar wrote:Now is when things start to get more interesting. Auro's vote and then quick abandonment is a HUGE scumtell. I was a mildly up and coming wagon and he saw that as he was facing pressure. His reason for voting me was "gut" townread on Green Crayons, whose wagon happened to be waning. I took time to give him an opportunity to explain something I was missing there, but clearly my initial twinge was right, hence the vote.
VP was the one who said he was doing that in the first place in another game. So if he is doing it here for the same reason what did he gather from his reaction? Did it read like he saw a reaction that looked similar?In post 654, CantHateAPuppy wrote:i don't really agree with this. saying vpb has to do xyz to "try to figure blair out" makes it sound kind of like a homework assignment. i just played vpb and blair in the same game, i think vpb is approaching with a little caution and common sense, he's probably not working out this read with all the steps shown so the teacher can check for mistakes. so to me it looks like town thinking even if it's quiet thinkingIn post 641, farside22 wrote:Reread vp long post he stated he switched read to follow blair and get a better read.
I dont see from his unvote and attitude towards blair after the sheeping as trying to figure blair out.
Then all vp said about auro was in the 2 quoted post, which is barely a reason to scum read or vote someone. Just looks like voting the next biggest wagon thats not his.
In post 688, VP Baltar wrote:I didn't see this as true at all. I would say Hoopla did more of the push starting here.In post 686, Blair wrote:Is that a defense? I thought he was partnering Blair / ABR
Nope. Point is ABR is reacting to me calling out his lack of scumhunting, so he moved into a more aggressive position. Really only mattered his vote was wasted at that time, not who it was on.
I'm not sure in what world VP thinks he started pushing ABR. I felt ABR started really reading here and imputing from this point and it didn't become a push on VP till his post about the 2 scum being voted on post.In post 287, Albert B. Rampage wrote:I dont even start reading the game until page 25 these days.In post 283, Hoopla wrote:@ABR
do you have any thoughts on our two main wagons? seems weird of you to be posting during the formation of this battle and not bother addressing them at all.
Explain to me what's going on and I'll give you my opinion on it.
In post 760, VP Baltar wrote:Are you asking me in earnest why I'm not questioning MT over the cuteness thing?In post 758, farside22 wrote:Spoiler:
Another thing that I thought about while I was away was that VP never followed back up with MT and there read he had there. He says he is sheeping blair, says maybe that's just how MT is and then mades a comment to ABR that reads like he still finds MT scummy but I see no follow up or push there any more.
Like what happened to that read and why not follow up with it?
This describes perfectly how i feel about auro. I see him asking players about a few people but i don't see anything that looks like an attempt to figure out those he finds scummy.In post 733, Llamarble wrote:I think Auro is confusing people because he's scum playing pretty well.
He kept his vote movement from being too simple, gave reads and reasons and introspection, showed a bit of cheekiness.
The thing that's missing is the underlying attempt to actually figure out the game or signs of caring about directing the lynch toward scum.
And for his defensive methods, there is too much focus on 'your logic is bad or not presented.'
I linked the games I looked at so I can look at them again later if I need to.
I look forward to Auro's solve post.
Funny enough I don't see auro as town doing this. Hes usually more inquisitive and can be quiet rational. So until I see that player in the game my scum read on him stays. I think his push on me is basically omgus.In post 729, Blair wrote:Link please?In post 724, Auro wrote:Morning Tweet & Blair, I'd like it if you both can revisit my earlier push on farside and give me your thoughts on it.I was initially town reading you because I remember thinking we had a lot of similar takes and you seemed to be genuinely engaging with people.In post 725, Auro wrote:Typo. Wanna talk about what makes me so enigmatic?In post 722, Blair wrote:You're not confused. I'm confused about you. As in, I have changed my mind on you a bunch of times.
Then a bunch of people agreed that the posts I liked were the scummiest posts in the game, and I assumed people knew you better than I did so I second guessed and if I squinted and tilted my head a little I could see what they meant.
Then I decided my heart wasn't really in it and I was probably right the first time. But I could still be wrong, for the same reasons.
You haven't pushed anyone so laziness should not be a factor. Hell an attempt to put together a bunch of quote and calling a player some was the biggest thing you did in Animal Upick and you can barely do that without shit posting.In post 789, Auro wrote:Please review my interactions with farside.In post 787, Kmd4390 wrote:I don't know your meta, but if farside is correct she makes a good point against you. Do you have examples of playing this way as town?
And yeah, most of my town games this year
farside was making a reference to a certain game from which I'll paste a selection of quotes:
Spoiler:
I proceeded to vote for someone and give a reason, people sorta ignored it so I also said eff it, and compromised out of laziness.
Soooo it's kind of whack to compare my play here to that game and say I'm showing no attempt to figure out people who are scummy? But I was also a model town player in that^ game?
I'm learning more and more that is NAI. I hate to say that because I found it useful once upon a time but these days it really depends on the player. Like Mastina for sure would be scummy doing that in my eyes. But I do expect some better post to come from pork if he is town. He can be a wide range of different things. I've seen him chill and relax to goofy and spammy and both times that was him as town.In post 798, Llamarble wrote:There is a significant disparity between Porkens' sitewide activity and his activity here.
In post 821, Albert B. Rampage wrote:You know who that player is in this game?In post 820, Hoopla wrote:yes, i think scum have the tendency to do what is required of them, but few will go the extra-mile - so to speak - and attempt to look the most active/obvtown player in the game. there is actually risk in doing so on D1/D2. i used to attempt to play scum that way in my heyday, but if you obvtown too early as scum, then are alive on D4 onwards, you end up becoming a suspect anyway from a "why are you still alive?" angle.
FOS: Morning Tweet
I'm leaning on both.In post 822, iamausername wrote:i think it's Can'tLynchAPuppy, Albert.
I should be put under self destruct. I've been pretty messy IRL so things said in game get me worked up lately.In post 845, Albert B. Rampage wrote:It's easy to be reasonable. You don't have people like AGar up your ass. You appease everyone. People feel bad voting you out.
What I'm interested in, is what do you believe that no one else believes? If you stand alone, what do you stand for?
If I'm scum, the way I would look at this game is who do I have to lynch and NK to achieve my win condition?
Hard to lynch: Albert B. Rampage, Untrod Tripod, farside22, Llamarble, Hoopla, Reck, Morning Tweet, Auro, VP Baltar
Would have difficulty climbing out of pressure: Blair, Green Crayons, Porkens
Would self-destruct under pressure: iamausername, Kmd4390, Starbuck, AGar, CantLynchAPuppy
I can't be lynched day 1 if I'm invested, I'm too strong and aggressive; Reck has a similar playstyle. I look around, and there's other really tough lynches for scum.
MT, Farside, and Blair tend to obvtown over time and easily become unlynchable.
Scum basically have 3 strategies they can use:
1) Going for low hanging fruit. Short term gain, safe option.
2) Go for the middle-of-the-road players to keep the easy mislynches for deeper into the game when they really need it.
3) If they feel extremely confident in their position, they can tunnel on the hard to lynch players while town runs up townies, stay out of the action, and only join the mislynch deep into the game if they have to save a buddy or can take out a threat to them.
I will now explain my counter-strategies. I think that going for an easy mislynch today is a waste. This lines me up in parallel with scum's 2nd and 3rd strategies.
I need the usual ingredients to best cook for you my game-winning solve: pressure, vote consolidation, and danger of reaching an early lynch.
If we run up a few hard to lynch players and gain precious information, we can draw out enough connections to set us up for successful subsequent days.
Why did you decide to vote VP?In post 853, Morning Tweet wrote:I would not be surprised at all if this game is harder to get into for him. I suppose he could be scum but because of the likelihood that this is just a difficult game, it doesn't make me feel like he has any extra chances of being scumIn post 851, Albert B. Rampage wrote:I mean he seems more concerned with looking town. High effort, but not detail-oriented. He's usually a stronger scumhunter than he's here. Could be an off game, could be scum. We need votes to find out.
VOTE: VP l-2
How did I misrepresent it?In post 859, Auro wrote:And my GC vote was admittedly not because of any solid reasons, which I had retracted soon after.In post 856, Albert B. Rampage wrote:Your votes on GC and farside are crap, your unvote on VP is crap.
I didn't unvote VP, I shifted.
I'll bite: why is my farside vote crap? She's pretty clearly misrepresenting meta, at least from her perspective of the games she's played with me.
I said more then that prior to that comment. It's nice to see you take one snippet of convo I said and use it as a platform.In post 866, Auro wrote:I'm not using my wagon as a springboard to scumhunt. I do not think the results are particularly reliable. But: farside, VPB?In post 832, CantHateAPuppy wrote:@auro: who on your wagon is scum?
Calling a townread list fluff is nonsense. Saying I was inquisitive and amazing in that game I played with her is
Your weak is fucking weak as hell. Did you go out of your way to just call one post scummy? Out of everything else said in this game you latch onto one fucking post while you do it shit post this whole game, where as I can link to Animal and DD and yes I realize you were in a hydra but there was a lot more thoughts in both fucking games compared to this. You are holding onto something that is minor and making it something more then it is.In post 871, Auro wrote:I'll offer some free advice to y'all, especially people like AGar: not having committed scumreads is not a scumtell. Townhunting and PoE is a great technique which I've used successfully before, for example viewtopic.php?f=56&t=82629
Looking at who someone's willing to vote/wagon is sufficient. You don't want a town where everyone has their own pet scumread and is in full committed mode; work together.
farside is about as committed a scumread I'll get.
Also, engagement >> analysis at the beginning stages. Question first to get a better grasp of intentions, then use that to refine your read on actions.
(Looooookol @ the idea of lecturing this p-list on mafia play)