Newbie 2069: Summertime [game over!]

[sang froid]

grandpamo I will be applying the boring standard to, which is that if I read his ISO and his posts make me want to drink a large quantity of grain alcohol/throw my computer out of the window/have a lobotomy then I will be assuming he's scum

[sang froid]

I'm not going to bother trying to sort cabd bc I'm just going to cop him

[sang froid]

some of cabd's posts make me feel warm and fuzzy inside but I will SQUASH those feelings down very deep and not allow myself to be deceived again

[sang froid]

also grandpamo passes the boring check, congratulations, you get a townpass for today

[sang froid]

I think that just leaves ydra who I will sort in real time bc I'm absolutely not (1) trying to read Noraa's ISO or (2) trying to discern alignment from it

[sang froid]

in conclusion:

Lukewarm -- town
Strange

grandpamo -- eh town enough

Illwei? -- town? (?)

cabd -- these will be sorted later
ydra

bulge -- scum??

bimble -- scum?

[Ydrasse]

Epic one less slot to read will be sad if fake claim

[The Bulge]

if illwei flips scum after Zyla was scum in 2065, I'm never doubting the TBH tell again

The whatnow

Although, this post stood out to me.

I have not looked at Bulge yet - but this felt weird - not because of illwei, because illwei's iso has "tbh" thrown in like 20+times already.

But, I was in 2065, and lead the push against Zyla. The Bulge never mentioned it at all that game. I went back and checked, and by the end of the game Zyla had said tbh 4 times total - and just to compare, I said it 9 times.

Idk, this seems weird for Bulge to reference that other game here

Zyla's iso that game is chock full of "honestly, i'll be honest, to be fair" etc etc. and I didn't mention it then because, well, I doubted it, like I said. it's a bit of a meme-tell and a weak case on its own and I didn't feel it was valid enough to bring up.

[The Bulge]

it was very much in my notes, tho

[The Bulge]

In your first game, you were town - you made 62 posts, and you said "tbh" zero times

In this game, have have made 42 posts, and have said "tbh" 25 times

this is unironically extremely compelling hahahaha

[The Bulge]

That model is going to be incredibly difficult to accurately describe while driving so I'm not going to even try until I'm home and settled in for the night instead I can talk about the bork till which is absolutely easy to describe while driving via voice to text.

The bork tell in its purest form is this: a player who is widely scum red and incredibly likely to be eliminated during the day phase is suddenly revealed to be either confirmed town or incredibly likely town by way of moderator action or some sort of town investigative or by revealing themselves as innocent child or friendly neighbor. The scum player then has visible frustration in the tone of their posting reassurance in the game thread that their scum read was valid. Depending on the personality of the player they may additionally try to salvage the ability to scum read the slot. Regardless the slot never dies and scum stays salty

is this about my reference to the Duchess game?

[The Bulge]

Bulge's read transition on Roden also stood out to me --- Going from "this is what frustrated, caught scum looks like" to "Cabd, did I poke scum to the point of illogical flailing, or just piss off a newbie?" seemed odd, because there was very little indication that anything changed between bulge and Roden - and I am unclear why Cabd replacing in would result in him softening his stance?

my position didnt change or soften between those posts. Cabd was a fresh new voice in the game, one whose outlook I value and respect very much.

[The Bulge]

let's yeet bimblesticks

VOTE: bimble

what are you seeing? I don't think bimble's most recent post is necessary to make as scum vying for the illwei miselim, for instance

[The Bulge]

strange is super fucking town lol, what are you talking about lukewarm

I don't see this either, why do you think so?

Cabd feel free to explain your initial strangematter TR as well? I know it's faltering but what were you picking up on. do they fit some kind of model?

[The Bulge]

bulge might be scum

bulge, do you prefer town or scum, I don't remember? (also, you're indifferent to pronouns used for you (between he/she) iirc?)

I generally prefer scum. indifferent to pronouns but it's usually he or they.

do I know you?

[The Bulge]

the claim's whatever, Cabd is probably the best check so I'm there for that

[The Bulge]

think im sitting somewhere at

grandpamo
sang froid
ydrasse
bimblesticks

lukewarm

cabd

strangematter
illwei

[The Bulge]

yea i like that order.

[The Bulge]

I'm worried cabd is playing a slow game of curating a believable trajectory for his reads. he has talked a lot of Illwei talk but hasn't pushed the push himself up to this point. it's worth noting that a lot of Illwei discussion has been generated as a result, but cabd has done very little as far as direct action. and now with myself and strangematter dropping in his reads, it makes me think Cabd never meant to stick on Illwei til the end after all.

this tinfoily scenario i think allows for the possibility of a Cabd/illwei pairing but I'm getting way ahead of myself. I just didnt want my paranoia to sit idly and fester like it did in illicit substances vs morph.

[Cabd]

cabd has done very little as far as direct action

I did cover this?

[The Bulge]

I know you've been busy, yes

[Cabd]

No, I mean I explicitly stated I wasn't going fire and brimstone because this is a newbie and Xenocabd isn't welcome in this queue.

I had HOPED that ilway would notice I hadn't done much and would engage me on it, but here we are with that blown up by multiple players so whatever.

[The Bulge]

Lady of the Year draw would you mind going ahead and unpacking your case to get me out of what is going to be a very polite but very focused tunnel onto Mr illway here.

what's this alluding to then?

[Cabd]

I was asking yggdrasae to explain why she felt ilway was town. My uh. Syntax is limited when driving. Voice to text tends to butcher a lot of things.

[sang froid]

Epic one less slot to read will be sad if fake claim

i would never