In post 48, teacher wrote:
1. Pocketing as an actual thing can only come from scum. It means to give town (generally leaders/influences) town reads in the hope of receiving the same. But as you noted later in thread, Clem's explicit use of the word in
40 is "just that blatant." Put another way, it is too blatant to be a scumslip, at least from a player as good as Clem. His use of it here is a NAI joke consistent with the personality in his avatar. I took it as a way of sharing a townread on you and me with the board, but not as informative of his own alignment.
2. I wont get AI indicative data on pressuring Clem. He will just joke it off. Flippy I might learn something from. Clem will join wagons when asked to, but tends to withhold his real views until wagons actually start smelling like they might lead to rope.
1. Well yeah, I interpreted his post also like that, the way he phrased that still strikes me as weird, why even doing it so ambigious? I got by your little interaction with him that this might be his thing in terms of play style, therefore I am hesitating. Guess I will give it the benefit of doubt for now and watch where he goes with that, however personally I am not really fond of the "too scummy to be scum" card as it is a good way to cause confusion.
2. Alright. What you are saying here makes sense in context of Clem's seemingly usual play. But then I wonder why you even voted Clem in the first place? If you know how Clem will behave anyway and that it would lead nowhere (at least only considering Clem himself) why not going for another player you are familiar with? To clarify I get that you going after flippy and randomvoting Clem are two different pair of shoes. But it looks a bit like casually throwing the randomvote away considering your stance on Clem.
@Lich:
Looks like you forgot to answer teacher's other question regarding the vote in #
50?