This post is easier to understand and read if you open up Ari's ISO alongside it, and then read it while using this as reference.
o is null
+ means slight townping
++ is moderate townping
+++ is strong townping
= means slight scumping
and so on
11 + unafraid to jump on/how that looks
15 o
19 o
20 o
21 o
23 == fillery question
28 o
65 = he can look this up easily himself
71 o
It is at this point I realise there is absolutely no use of including the posts that are null. Only including posts which give town/scumpings from this point onward
79 + pointing me straight to his best scumgame in recent memory
103 = hmm, multiple arguments have been put forth on Puff being both towny and scummy, so this feels odd
113 == dislike the wording of "keep an eye on you". last part of that post really doesn't make sense. Ari is saying Puff is strange and easy to vote, and reck's vote shows what he means, therefore, reck is scummy for it. isn't that argument self-fulfilling? or something like that. i don't know the term for it.
287 = "easy slot to tunnel" is a misrep of Reck's approach towards me at this point, he doesn't think I'm scum
367 and
371 - Breaking this up into segments, since they're meaty ones
In post 367, Aristophanes wrote:The earlywagon on Sirius seems NAI entirely as it happened far too quickly to mean anything. I think the staying power of the votes might say something though.
+= Interesting assessment, but what does the staying power say
In post 367, Aristophanes wrote:The Hectic intro was obviously a prewrite and the gimmick in the first few posts is to establish it.
I'm not putting weight into them and will be disregarding the gimmick for the most part, as I have been when reading their posts.
= This isn't true, given
73 75 105 2284. potentially sounds more like something Dannflor would tell him to say
In post 367, Aristophanes wrote:Oh dear lord I'd actually not read Ydrasse/Hectic doing whatever it was they did with their alt storytelling interactions on pg 2 and I guess I actually owe Reck an apology.
= this made up a large part of page 2, if Ari isn't really reading properly, why say this:
In post 367, Aristophanes wrote:That said pg 3 Hectic is towny and I think he has a good handle on the earlygame here. Switching abruptly from the blatant altposting to the actual game content posts is +town and I think it says a lot. Scum Hectic could easily have kept up the games and not said anything helpful there.
+ decent reasoning
In post 367, Aristophanes wrote:This interaction, or lack thereof, gives me partner vibes on Datisi and Bulge, though we all know how reliable preflip associatives are especially this early in the game. I'll be keeping an eye on them regardless.
= oof, both Datisi and The Bulge were joking there and obviously not being serious. I don't like the attempt to form reads off of this
In post 367, Aristophanes wrote:I know I'm questioned later on my wording in response to my response to this response, but what I meant by Reck using this to tunnel them, as I believe I put it, is that if Reck sticks to the rage or commentary about this slot and thefact that Alts shouldn't be in this game and gimmicks are dumb rather than providing content I think that is scum indicative and a way to look busy without actually contributing. I haven't read what they've said after that response but I'm hoping they're *doing things* because otherwise this could indicate scum!Reck. I hope that makes things clearer here.
= mm, is that really likely considering Reck just said he wasn't going to read ANY of my posts? how would he keep up rage/commentary about a player he isn't reading?
In post 371, Aristophanes wrote:Adorable did a contradiction in RVS and followed it up with a flimsy reason based on their personal abilities and expectations within the game. I think that's fine tbh. I didn't read malice or intention to lie within the stream of posting. Is this a case of LAL? Because that's super weak, especially at such an early point in the game.
+ matches my thoughts about Puff at this point
= don't like the comparison to LAL
+ fair prodding at this interaction
In post 371, Aristophanes wrote:Reck, like, what do you expect as an answer here? "Yep, I guess I did have a reason. Oops" is about all I can see them saying in response to that and like, who cares at this point? There's a lot more to comment on and question and being hung up on an omitted answer that can only really be one thing and was done during the RVS stages of the game is just too much man.
== mm, don't like this. why can't she give that reason? I think it's completely fair to prod Puff for this given she hasn't acknowledged the question or attempted to answer it, or given a reason for why she can't answer it. feels whiteknighty
That's the end of those meaty posts. By this point, I'm scumreading/disliking a lot of what Ari is posting, but also I'm actively worried that I'm confbiasing myself. I'm glad I'm doing this though. My previous read on Ari was literally "he's doing a lot of solving, scum!Ari does not solve to this extent at all. He must be town", so uh yeah, that was dumb.
372 = peta and Datisi both point out why Ari's partner read is dumb and he doubles down rather than seeing their point, don't like
yeah, that's exactly what it feels like, peta
374 ++ this LEGENDARY post. the one where Ari talks directly about beeboy and soft defends him. if he's scum here, he's making himself look terrible with this defence. I just feel like scum are so much less likely to defend a completely inactive partner in this fashion. your argument is unlikely to convicne people otherwise when the partner is inactive, and it makes you look terrible if that person goes down. is this too scummy to be scum? idk. I still think this is more likely to come from ignorant town than bold scum. if Ari is scum, he was very careless in making this post, and cared more about making himself look towny with reasonable takes, rather than caring about how this made him look in terms of associations. maybe he expected beeboy to be replaced and the slot to be turned around and not launched day 1? who knows
I'm taking a break at this point