In post 48, Crescent wrote:My first thought was to distrust Asuka.
My second thought was that I haven't seen such a claim come from scum in a few years.
As such, the claim doesn't really do a lot for me. I need to see their actual play. It's way too early for a blanket judgment,
The reason Marci voted for Asuka is kinda hogwash. The only one that argument might actually be valid on right now is Marci herself.
Town don't usually lay out their logic in this way: "My first thought...," "my second thought...," "as such..."
From what I remember (back when I used to play more), scum tend to overly-justify their behaviors/reads in this way. They sequence their thoughts more often than town, and format posts as logical-sounding arguments. This pings me from Crescent.
I also don't like Crescent's use of "kinda" to soften his posts. In the context of aggressive/confident posting like Crescent's, it feels off.
In post 67, Crescent wrote:Kinda too early to make such a statement.
Three people haven't been in the topic yet, and aside from Shoshin's two contentless votes (The second one being a countervote), there really isn't anyone it would apply to unless you count the guy who said "I feel like marci is being marci" and went VLA.
This post rubs me the wrong way. Throwing shade my way without committing to it.
Crescent also falls into another common scum pattern: lazily attacking lack of justifications, rather than searching for deeper meanings.
Another common scum pattern: Discrediting/dismissing townies and their efforts to scumhunt as non-serious (or not to be taken seriously).
In post 100, Crescent wrote: In post 88, marcistar wrote:why do u immediately jump to shitposting? LOL what if shoshins serious..
Yes, let's seriously come up with a scumteam based solely on a single point of interaction 80 posts into the game. That sure sounds serious~
I am very weary of shitposters right now for reasons I can't get into.
This is more of the same. Crescent portrays himself as experienced, yet acts like he's never seen a townie genuinely scumhunt early or try to figure the game out after 80 posts.
In post 104, Crescent wrote:Oh no, I've drawn aggro from the guy who just expertly avoided actually answering the previous question asked to him.
There's no deeper thinking of alignments here, just mindless dismissal of my play.
This feels like Crescent's trying to hide their frustration that I'm voting them. If you were online at the time and saw Crescent's flurry of posts, it very much felt like Crescent having a "tantrum" (as Marci describes).
In post 109, Crescent wrote:Frankly though, he's already pointed out three people as scum, someone to be scum if we're not, and also said an inactive is probably scum so he's probably wrong on the three of us anyway.
It reeks of flinging poop around and seeing where it sticks. He's pretty well thrown shade at half the players in the game in the first 100 posts.
This is where Crescent loses it entirely.
Nothing about what I did was "flinging poop around." Assuming there's three scum, I'm looking for three scum. I'm considering possible scenarios where one of the players I suspect isn't scum. This is how townies think through the game, which Crescent should know. Instead, Crescent acts like I'm desperately shading half the players, hoping something sticks.
Why would scum ever do this in the beginning of the game with no rhyme or reason? It's an absurd proposition, one that shows a total lack of thought. Crescent's just mindlessly applying a scum behavior ("scum trying to shade enough players to get a mislynch") to a situation where it doesn't apply at all.
I read this (and all the posts about this topic and from this moment) as over-reactions to me voting Crescent.
In post 111, Crescent wrote:Oh and between saying I was scum with those two for no given reason and voting me I don't even appear in a post of his. I commented that he dodged a question and he voted me. Ok then.
So say he's not shitposting? What is he doing then? Blustering at the game in what doesn't resemble any legitimate attempt to scumhunt anyone. All he's trying to do is spread shade to as many people as possible, which is a scum-slanted action.
Again, Crescent suggests I'm spreading shade to as many people as possible, which just isn't true. Again, my take is that Crescent's attacking me because I voted them.
Crescent's simultaneously trying to dismiss/discredit me ("shitposting") while also attacking me as scum ("throwing shade wherever it sticks").
Is anyone else not surprised that Crescent isn't more curious about why I'm voting them? Can anyone point to something from Crescent that shows a genuine attempt to solve my alignment?
Crescent is concerned that I'm serious about my vote on them.
In post 113, Crescent wrote:To sum it up: 3 of his posts are blank votes without a reason. The other 9?
Puts sus on Roden, then on me and Datisi.
Then on Scamper and everyone who hasn't posted yet, which are 3 people.
He then shades Ausuka.
He has shaded
eight players
and voted for three, in the first 104 posts of the game. Doesn't feel genuine at all.
More of the same. Crescent's upset that I'm trying to evaluate alignments in the first 104 posts of the game.
In post 115, Crescent wrote:"Fling poop around and see where it sticks" is a tried and true scum strategy. The issue is, it tends to dilute your actual vote so much that it has no real power. The goal is you're hoping even one of the people you shade takes off as a train - Preferably someone you've never actually voted so it doesn't blow back directly on you.
If he were shitposting it'd be NAI to me. The fact that he voted me for pointing out he dodged a question was a mere continuance of his already anti-town behavior (His previous vote was also a direct countervote).
Anyways, very hard early defense of who's by a fair margin the scummiest player in the early game.. Generally does
not
come from scum.
Marci's way more likely to be town based on that one post.
Crescent assumes I voted them them for reasons that have nothing to do with why I voted them. I suspected Crescent before Crescent asked me any questions. I voted Crescent because I decided Roden was town.
There's just no real thought process here. Very concerning.
I wouldn't want to mislynch Crescent, since they're very engaged and active at the moment. If I'm wrong about this, I need someone to help me reach that understanding.
