Open 796: Haunted Village Game Over

[xofelf]

Xof explanations are throughout his ISO.

If you mean me, pronoun is they/them. It's a recent change so not the biggest deal, but he was never the correct choice before either

[Isis]

Noraa has lots of unfairly caught scum vibes, but then I keep changing my mind

I think doing something with my vote is better than nothing so I'll go VOTE: Taylor for now.

Somewhat scummy that she'd warn people her energy was going to be lower instead of waiting to get pressured since she's usually so devil may care.

I'm townreading lots of things

[Cobra Kai]

@xof I was talking about plus joyeds scumread on you being justified throughout his ISO- sorry if it wasn’t clear!

[Jewel Barons]

I wasn't aware xof's pronouns changed, I'll do my best to remember but I can't guarantee anything

-GAMMA

Why is it always the mods/pseudo-mods who I end up with this issue on now

[Jewel Barons]

particular reason you only mentioned Isis? That would still probably come off the same way if you flip green first.

I'd be dead then.

Could be finding something in nothing, but it just bothers me that you said it the way you did, it seems like you're trying to scare BM off.

Join date before yours but after BM, gamma. A good chunk of games.

If I wanted to I could get a good sample of who this might be, but given a) you haven't pissed me off, which is what

generally

drives me to alt-hunt, and b) you seem genuinely interested in remaining secret, I won't.

Particular reason you don't want to vote anywhere else? I don't think we're at the point where consolidation is critical yet, are we?

No, just trying to make things happen

That seems fair, though you also switched votes quite soon after?

Reason you felt like doing this when you did?

It's getting close to do a D1 reread time so I'm trying to get more out of some lurky slots

Is rereading D1 something you always do?

on page 22, noticed a lot of people pushing Dunn, I think he's made some commentary I don't think he would have made at this point as scum
I think scumStral tends to be a bit more sideliney

-GAMMA

This is interesting because I would consider Dunn to be sideliney this game

Lurky yes, but his posting has expressed some pretty substantial opinions I don't think scumStral posts at that stage of the game

What is your read on me presently, MCat?

Ninja-
Whatever you say.

I am glad you are contributing. I think your posts are vaguely towny, but I'm not convinced they are town in a way that can't be faked.

Right now I am feeling like the narwhal really quieted down after early pressure and has been absent

I think the fact Cobra hasn't really tried to establish a lot of thread presence is +town for them rn

Plus' posting on page 20 is awful and he deserves the votes he has

Could you quote one or two posts with why? The only complaint I remember is Noraa wanting people to not develop scumreads that are brickwalled by the ongoing games rule, but I think that's a legitimate thing that happens. I haven't been rereading much this game so I might have missed a more salient point.

Is this an invitation to speak?

Not a very serious thing, just haven't gotten to play with you since the fun of pocketing you in Scumsman, so hi :3

what's with the text garbage on the second line?

It's "tell me, enemy", in spanish, since Noraa said we are not amigas, but interestingly the word for enemy in Spanish is similar to the one for friend, isn't it neat?

I'll pull up the PJ posts I didn't like in a sec, but part of it was due to his SR on Noraa that he wouldn't explain, which is at least

justified

now, so I think the feeling will be a little weaker on review. It's a good thing you asked though or I likely wouldn't have bothered to measure the change myself.
IMO you pocketing me didn't count because the game was abandoned
I was aware the terms for friendly and unfriendly were similar in Spanish but not friend and enemy as well. Probably should have figured out "tell me", though.

-GAMMA

[xofelf]

@xof I was talking about plus joyeds scumread on you being justified throughout his ISO- sorry if it wasn’t clear!

Oh, that's okay! Didn't catch that, there were a lot of posts around it where I couldn't quite follow your train of thought, but I figured just in case it was a slip I should clear that up.

I wasn't aware xof's pronouns changed, I'll do my best to remember but I can't guarantee anything

-GAMMA

Why is it always the mods/pseudo-mods who I end up with this issue on now

It's okay, I appreciate the thought anyways <3

[Cobra Kai]

What are you referring to when you say thread presence, gamma?

[MURDERCAT]

My mind might change as I finish this catchup but I think the scummiest active player left to me is Battle Mage

That one comment BM made about how I assuming one of him/tayl0r was scum is still pinging me and I can't shake it

[Noraa]

Could be finding something in nothing, but it just bothers me that you said it the way you did, it seems like you're trying to scare BM off.

I don't understand this but you do you.

[MURDERCAT]

You have to calibrate for the fact that it's Dunn. I think you haven't played with him much at all, right?

1 game 4 years ago but I remember it ok because I played well

[Jewel Barons]

do you not TR ego? Honestly his whole iso felt towny. If you insist I can pick some but I'd rather not put in the effort since theres no pressure on ego.

another flaw in your idea is that it's a bad idea to draw more attention to myself with say a readlist if I'm being pressured. If I was scum, I'd lurk and have my partners cause a distraction to derail my wagon.

I don't like the way the self-meta is presented here. Might just be personal taste but it seems like something he'd very easily be able to lie about.

I still don't think your push comes from town

Okay so looking back on things Noraa is right to call PJ's leaning on ongoing meta "hiding behind site rules", because she refuted him pretty soundly and then he resorts to this sort of "lalala I can't hear you" posting

I honestly thought there were more Plus posts than there were but I'm the same amount of offset by it, if not more.

-GAMMA

[MURDERCAT]

That seems fair, though you also switched votes quite soon after?

I would argue that was a good switch as cobra is much more active now

[Noraa]

Okay so looking back on things Noraa is right to call PJ's leaning on ongoing meta "hiding behind site rules", because she refuted him pretty soundly and then he resorts to this sort of "lalala I can't hear you" posting

someone finally understands why I'm so annoyed by that?

[MURDERCAT]

Is rereading D1 something you always do?

If the day continues on long enough, yeah.

[Cobra Kai]

I could very easily go back to lurking. I’m posting because I want to.

[MURDERCAT]

Okay so looking back on things Noraa is right to call PJ's leaning on ongoing meta "hiding behind site rules", because she refuted him pretty soundly and then he resorts to this sort of "lalala I can't hear you" posting

someone finally understands why I'm so annoyed by that?

What I don't get it why it warrants a scum read from Noraa

[Jewel Barons]

What are you referring to when you say thread presence, gamma?

I mean you're active but you're not trying to make everyone acknowledge you are being active. You march to your own beat.

Could be finding something in nothing, but it just bothers me that you said it the way you did, it seems like you're trying to scare BM off.

I don't understand this but you do you.

I can explain better I think. Your post essentially came off as, "I'm going to scumread you", not, "this will be a bad look if Isis flips town". It's a little self-centered, which isn't scummy, but isn't really a good move imo, as I feel that would probably set BM against you more?

-GAMMA

[MURDERCAT]

I could very easily go back to lurking. I’m posting because I want to.

If this is a response to me, I believe you and I am glad you are posting more

[Jewel Barons]

That seems fair, though you also switched votes quite soon after?

I would argue that was a good switch as cobra is much more active now

I could very easily go back to lurking. I’m posting because I want to.

Yeah I don't really see it as your vote pressured Cobra into posting, MCat

Okay so looking back on things Noraa is right to call PJ's leaning on ongoing meta "hiding behind site rules", because she refuted him pretty soundly and then he resorts to this sort of "lalala I can't hear you" posting

someone finally understands why I'm so annoyed by that?

What I don't get it why it warrants a scum read from Noraa

Well it's clearly not the entire read
And to talk on Noraa's response to me that is nested in there, yeah I did have that thought of, "so that's what Noraa was talking about!"

-GAMMA

[xofelf]

I just realized that I forgot Exorcists was even in this game when I was looking over people before >.< But after doing an ISO of them, I really like their posting. They feel really solid. I think I may have confused their posting with Canadians while I was reading before, oops.

In general I'm finding hard to really find anybody who doesn't have solid reasons for their posting so far. It all feels like people do have reasons for pushing who they're pushing right now. I know that's not really helpful, but it's kinda where I'm at.

[MURDERCAT]

I think people asked me for reads. Right now I'm looking at something like {xofelf, Narwhal, BM} for SRs. Not my only possible solves, but these are people I'm looking at.

There's posts from all of them that ping scummy to me, but there's some poe as well.

UNVOTE:

still thinking about where to push and how.

[Noraa]

I wish 72 was here ;(

[Tayl0r Swift]

I'm not impressed with her posts myself

well youre wrong. my posts are amazing.

[MURDERCAT]

Ok I'm going to case Battle Mage.

90 misinterps Tayl0r as I pointed out at the time. I think this comes from a fast read of the post looking for something to poke at more often than it comes from town who I think would genuinely read it.

110 feels realllllly weak to me still along with 121

I think all the defeated language around 229 is fake

589 is totally inconsistent with the push on Tayl0r which obviously lost steam.

593 feels like a sheep of Isis and to be honest I don't see it

Including 600 BM just has way too many scum reads and not enough town reads. What really sticks out is how it feels like the Tayl0r push just got totally dropped and Tayl0r did nothing to deserve it being dropped if it was a genuine read.

VOTE: Battle Mage

[MURDERCAT]

Isis come talk to me about this? Are we seeing the same things?