Open 857 | Frienemies | Postgame

[Aristeia]

I should make a gif list

[PenguinPower]

I should make a gif list

gif list™

[Aristeia]

Spoiler: Gif List

VP Baltar

Datisi

Aristeia

GeorgeBailey

Gamma Emerald

Malakittens

hutmeil

fireisredsir

Something_Smart

implosion

PenguinPower

Vulture

Andante

[Vulture]

Sorry. I have no energy for playing games lately and it’s kind of left me here like well I joined so I have to play but I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about this.

Annoying to spoon feed me to get interaction etc but my heart really isn’t in it atm.

If you want something to look at, I would like a second opinion on the interaction starting here. Basically, Ari complains that I'm hard to read, and then I make several attempts to start a dialogue with her by interjecting in her conversation with Datisi (390 and 402), and she completely ignores me. It gave me the impression that she was just grandstanding and didn't really care about reading me.

To be frank, I think that the dynamic that Datisi and Aristeia cultivate together (or I guess moreso Ari? This isn't being mean just my pov) kind of blocks out other people at times because they're caught up in their thing at times. Your interjections don't stand out as anything more than the sort of comment someone says and then it's just there, it doesn't feel... compelling in the moment to engage in, especially when they're posting back and forth with each other.

I guess scum!Ari could be losing the threads that she's spinning and letting it go for favor of sweeping up Datisi but I feel she'd make more of an effort, however shallow, to outwardly care about you if she was trying to go somewhere with it intentionally.

[Andante]

Spoiler: Gif List

VP Baltar

Datisi

Aristeia

GeorgeBailey

Gamma Emerald

Malakittens

hutmeil

fireisredsir

Something_Smart

implosion

PenguinPower

Vulture

Andante

THAT GIF LIST IS PRETTY GREAT TOO!!!
hahahaha I LOVE how this became a thing!!

[PenguinPower]

gif list™

[Vulture]

I kind of just felt obligated to post...

Do you think this is a town or scum driven wagon on you?

The only vote that I think could come from scum right now is Gamma. Andante is... inscrutable, which you might not like to hear but I'm fairly null on her right now. I've been mulling over if this should be concerning or not, and I'm saddled with a shrug. Her early game was... stumbling, but she generally just has an energy of "go go go do do do" as town that she has here. I think. Her voting all over the place trying to do something, suggest what she's thinking, is a bit more +town than hunkering down on someone and investing. Maybe this is too much leeway to her playstyle in general but I'm disinterested in voting her right now.

Penguin is also inscrutable but (and this is with the added perspective of recent posts) I liked the gif list. I think his play is generally lazy and hard to read for me but I liked it.

Gamma feels... nyeh? Opportunistic I guess with the vote on me and the interaction with Andante, I think focusing on something like she did is pretty trivial to do and is like, a nitpicky thing that I think you could potentially make people think you believe in without digging deep, you know? I feel like I've seen that sort of commentary from her off the top of my head in other games but I haven't looked back yet to check them, if I will at all tbh. I don't know if it'd be helpful because it's either she's just like that in how she posts (die scum!) or she's emulating it.

[Vulture]

I think I understand the implosion scumreads.

[Vulture]

If anyone wants anything from me Now's The Time.

[Andante]

I think I understand the implosion scumreads.

could you elaborate more on this, and do you agree with them? Or like, where's your stance?

[VP Baltar]

If anyone wants anything from me Now's The Time.

Apart from Gamma, do you have any notable scum reads?

[Vulture]

I think I understand the implosion scumreads.

could you elaborate more on this, and do you agree with them? Or like, where's your stance?

Was kind of there before, on a personally-involved level. It was early on though.

This is a little less logic-y than I want and I'm unsure if it'll really... make sense but I read 751. That's it. I don't know why on a deeper level I dislike it.

I -guess- it feels... hm. I would need to read implosion in full to feel comfortable with saying this with my whole chest but it feels like implo's taking time this game to protect places and explain away pressure/get on good sides, in a way? I remember he did that to me early, engaging with "oh I found you towny before" or something to that note. I understand that like... you have townreads that you want to protect and will explain why you think they're town. But it boils down to "vibes off".

I'll read his iso tomorrow to see if that's a fair assessment because let it be known my vibereads have not been it lately.

[Vulture]

If anyone wants anything from me Now's The Time.

Apart from Gamma, do you have any notable scum reads?

I guess Implo as just explained. I've softened on the "I think there's mafia in this knot of people" but there isn't a discernible reason for it, just don't think it as much after being away from the thread.

[Gamma Emerald]

I might do a gif list^TM
I don't feel like I have enough reads to do it but it seems like having full reads isn't 100% required for it

[Aristeia]

you don't need reads to make a gif list gamma : )

[Vulture]

[Gamma Emerald]

Spoiler: VP Baltar

Spoiler: Datisi

Spoiler: Aristeia

Spoiler: GeorgeBailey

Spoiler: Gamma Emerald

Spoiler: Malakittens

Spoiler: hutmeil

Spoiler: fireisredsir

Spoiler: Something_Smart

Spoiler: implosion

Spoiler: PenguinPower

Spoiler: Vulture

Spoiler: Andante

[implosion]

it feels like implo's taking time this game to protect places and explain away pressure/get on good sides, in a way?

Ah yes, notable Person I Tried to Get on my Good Side by Parking My Vote On Him for Like Half the Game VP Baltar.

[VP Baltar]

Tbf, you could be trying to pocket me. (It's working)


On another note, datisi, what's your read on ari right now?

[Aristeia]

what's your read on me ?

[implosion]

I unsolicitedly think you could be scum.

[Aristeia]

I never roll scum tho :<

[implosion]

I feel very spoiled by how easy you were to read in PYP due to a combination of your HEM/Math/etc interactions and just, the way you were reacting to the particular way in which that game was a shitshow. It feels like there hasn't been anything momentous enough in this game to read you off of.

[Aristeia]

fair,

I guess you just have to convince someone who is mafia to shitpush me with very bad reasoning

[implosion]

can i just cut out the middleman?