is it just bcuz she’s confrontational?In post 1123, Lukewarm wrote:Oh look, I think town marci came back to the thread lolIn post 1000, marcistar wrote: i grow increasingly more okay with not listening to people below me in the draft but you dont see me complaining
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The first three paragraphs of this made me questioning if the reason that I originally found greyice's case to be +town to be not valid for him as a playerIn post 1039, Lady Lambdadelta wrote: While i drift to sleep let me do some freestyle rambles about my husband and his alignment.
greyice is a player everyolen should be afraid of because he is adeptly skilled at doing what he does. what he does is a very aggressive attack, good defensive understanding of his positional advantages and weaknesses and utilizing all tools on deck to ensure his wincons are played to.
essentially, he plays mafia like he plays a deckbuilder. reliable is best, replicatable is better and being passive gets you nowhere but a loss.
so it's hard to read him just on what he does because he might be building for a wincon that doesn't involve you having much time alive, or even showing off to you that he's scum.
so i choose to read the negative space around him.
like, if he has good logic, bonus. But what's that logic causing in a ripple efffect around him?
Well, pressuring Unwnd as a primary entry to the game while unwnd is the top wagon doesn't garner him much town cred if unwnd is scum, but loses him a lot if unwnd is town.
so not a bus, it's not svs
so then, what's the goal? if it's unwnd scum GI town, it's simple. He's found a read and is pushing it, correctly.
If both town, same thing but substitute "incorrectly".
But what if GreyICE is scum and Unwnd is town? what does greyice gain here?
he doesn't gain thread control, for sure
he's low on lots of player lists on read wise, so he could easily die from a missed shot
there's not a lot that is gained unless Unwnd was on the right track with Luke.
And this was a follow up to prevent a Luke elimination.
but even then, this is the 5th vote on the wagon? so it's not like he needed to do this to protect anyone really
infact, it almost feels like it would have been better for him to push on someone scummy, who would give some push back to him and let him be townread, but never die today.
Like a cephrir vote with confidence and good logical arguments for why he's scum would have been way more ideal for him as scum, so...
reading the negative space of what he didn't do he feels town?
not that i can be 100%, but that's how i've arrived at this read
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But then the tail end of this ended up with me generally nodding along as I was reading your thoughts
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In post 1125, Ydrasse wrote:
is it just bcuz she’s confrontational?In post 1123, Lukewarm wrote:
Oh look, I think town marci came back to the thread lolIn post 1000, marcistar wrote: i grow increasingly more okay with not listening to people below me in the draft but you dont see me complaining
I feel like that if she was scum strarting to gather suspicion and votes, she would feel the need to do something to turn it around outside of being max confrontational with everyone suspecting her.In post 1126, Ydrasse wrote: like that doesn’t really .... say a lot i guess ai only annoyance to me
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GreyIce is definitely a player you can't read the way you would read an ordinary rando.In post 1122, Lukewarm wrote:
I don't believe I have ever encountered GrayIce before, so no real point of reference. For me, it was more that they were happily flying under the radar, and then skyrocketed them selves into the spot light, when most scum players are kinda happy being under the radarIn post 1120, Bell wrote: I actually find GrayIce’s take over explainy.
But I don’t really recall them being explainy as either alignment. So I dunno what to do with that, if anything. It does bother me though so I guess I lean scum on it."I would prefer not to." --Herman Melville,Bartleby the Scrivener-
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His vote on me was quite literally following STD's vote onto me lmaoIn post 1087, Taly wrote: Even then that feels weak because Ceph is on the smallest wagon, Luke. And has posted since then.
So I don't detect a point at which he intends to go with the crowd.
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Taly, I cannot for the life of me figure out what methodology was used to make these pairings, or what that criteria would need to be for peta to be able to loosely slot into any of them. Elaborate?In post 1095, Taly wrote: Hmm
I don't know either of them enough to discern the significance. But it is a good note to ISO check there if there is time to deep dive.
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What are your thoughts on STD?In post 1098, notscience wrote: I could see an argument that ydra and marci were hyping each other up and then ydra faded followed by marci I suppose?
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I don’t really understand the push on him
I could just have a soft spot for the memeing I suppose? I’m really confused about this whole dynamic between him and unwndShowSTRIKE HARD
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probably because i don't actually have a caseIn post 1137, notscience wrote:I don’t really understand the push on him
and i'm not sure i could construct one
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im disgustingIn post 1136, Ydrasse wrote:im bussingfree crypto-
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Okay, well here are my thoughts. I got two things right now, which are his approach with me, and then his pivot onto unwnd, and my thoughts on the two are kinda linked.In post 1137, notscience wrote: I don’t really understand the push on him
I could just have a soft spot for the memeing I suppose? I’m really confused about this whole dynamic between him and unwnd
Starting with me, I think that he started our dialogue already with the intent on calling me scum and voting me.
Our conversation started hereSpoiler:
You can see that he was already setting up the idea that I was not considering scum unwnd, which ended up being the exact reason he cast his vote onto me.
Which, sure, if he were town with a suspicion that I was tmi'ing him, that could be visable in his initial approach to me, but what stands out to me is actually his responses to me. To answer his question, I spent quite a bit of time explaining why I thought that unwnd's push came from town unwnd
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But in response, he did not actually *engage* with any of that, to see if he bought my town read, to see if it makes sense if I was confidently town reading him in this scenario, or anything. All of which SHOULD matter, if he is trying to figure out if I am treating unwnd like he is town because I am tmi'ing him as town, or if I am treating him as town because I am reading him as town.
Instead of actually engageing with what I am saying to see if my read makes sense, he just keeps pushing forward the idea that he set up, which was "luke is treating unwnd as town, and is therfore scum"
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And even as he does so, he is openly saying that it is a weak read, but it is where he is at at that point
----In post 832, Save The Dragons wrote: my point is you almost act like you know that he is
i dunno it's not a great readbut it's also not a great look
Okay, that is his interaction with me, but then what caught my eye was when he turned on unwnd during their fight, he said this
Unwnd made that post about me in post 308.In post 943, Save The Dragons wrote: i think you're being calculating and performative and that's why i think you're scum. i encourage people to look at your iso and determine for themselves if they agree or not. i would bring examples but i'm too busy being hysterical right now and can't bring myself to do it.
but an example is the "this makes my skin crawl" thing said to luke about his comment on peta and lld solving the game for him.
STD made his case against me as scum elading up to post 832.
STD and Unwnd get into it, and then
STD makes that post saying how bad unwnd's 308 post was so clearly bad and people should look back at it with post 943
That timeline does not make a lot of sense to me, if he really felt that way about unwnd's post when he read unwnds. If he felt like unwnds posts around posts 308 were showing him as "calculating and performative" and while reading those posts, they "made his skin crawl" why was he off focused on me with what he himself described as "it's not a great read." around 832? And conversely, if his case on me was the best scum ping that he had around post 832, what part of his fight with unwnd would make him suddenly *realize* that unwnd's posting in the 300s were so terrible?
It looked to me, like he was getting into it with unwnd, and felt the need to put a vote into it. And that was the first thing that he thought of as an angle to push unwnd. Not that it was a concern about unwnd that existed when he was reading the game prior to getting into that argument.-
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When Lukewarm says "here are my thoughts" and follows with a massive wall post where he digs into something, and he does this multiple times, that's a pretty strong indication that they are town IMO-
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I'm thinking Unwnd and GrayIca are town-
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i'm chewing on it because i want to at least put the feelings into words but i am certainly not completely confident that i wanna grab the steering wheel and hardshove it thru, but then i'm not sure i'm gonna get that type of read day 1In post 1140, notscience wrote:If you can figure it out lemme know thx
what i am confident in is that unwnd is a bad wagon and lld and i are both going to drop the shield there
if i had to guess why it's grown larger than any wagon i would speculate that scum are taking advantage of the overall lack of cohesion elsewhere and a few misguided votes there to make that wagon larger and possibly seem inevitablefree crypto-
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So you think that mafia are voting unwnd right now?In post 1145, petapan wrote: if i had to guess why it's grown larger than any wagon i would speculate that scum are taking advantage of the overall lack of cohesion elsewhere and a few misguided votes there to make that wagon larger and possibly seem inevitable-
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YepIn post 1142, Dunnstral wrote: When Lukewarm says "here are my thoughts" and follows with a massive wall post where he digs into something, and he does this multiple times, that's a pretty strong indication that they are town IMO
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to which he jumped ontoIn post 1133, Lukewarm wrote:
His vote on me was quite literally following STD's vote onto me lmaoIn post 1087, Taly wrote: Even then that feels weak because Ceph is on the smallest wagon, Luke. And has posted since then.
So I don't detect a point at which he intends to go with the crowd.
Talyunwndshortly after
In post 1134, Lukewarm wrote:
Taly, I cannot for the life of me figure out what methodology was used to make these pairings, or what that criteria would need to be for peta to be able to loosely slot into any of them. Elaborate?In post 1095, Taly wrote: Hmm
I don't know either of them enough to discern the significance. But it is a good note to ISO check there if there is time to deep dive.
LLD/Ceph
Marci/Ydra
Luke/unwnd/Dragons
Peta in loose association to any of these groups
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LLD/Cephwas becausenottywas following at their dynamic looked weird so I wanted to see if that had anything juicy
Marci/Ydrabecause there are solid reasons to susYdrabutYdraalso sus'esMarciwho is also pretty suspected, which is worth discerning
Luke/unwnd/Dragonsbecause of the spicy votes yesterday and because my other headmates didnt vibe withunwndsprogression on both of the other slots
petais a good to throw in anywhere here because he is both mindmelding withcephbut also scumreading bothmarci/ydra, and it's interesting contextually given that unwnd is the largest wagon
so yeah
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