Disclaimer: I've had about on average 3-4 hours of sleep the past 3 days, so I'm not confident this isn't incoherent. I'll try to clarify where I can if need be.
So I did go back through to see if I could find the things that were bugging me, and it seems they bother me somehow less in iso than they did when i was reading them in real time. Some it was just one post was a harsh brand of sarcasm followed up by a cheery nice post within like minutes of each other. But these were two that stuck out in particular ways:
In post 322, ItalianoVD wrote:
Why are thinking I should I be voting you?
In post 229, Shirou wrote:
Inactive vs Active suspect dilemma? Welp, he can reply himself I guess
either way, just want to say Ali has said for the fifth time to vote Kowah because she's townleaning most active players
but as I stand here,
I realize,
that I'm gonna bully her again and say no.
Ahhh, don't answer for me.
Oh dang, was it something I said?
You gotta elaborate on this, cause this is just silly.
This one does the normal tone to something harsher than I'm expecting in response, and it ends really dismissively.
In post 460, ItalianoVD wrote:
In post 401, DkKoba wrote:
iirc last night pb said that 375 was bad enough that it should be buried now
Explain. In your own words.
In post 402, DeasVail wrote:
Hey Koba I feel like you ask a fair bit of me but when I try to get an idea of where your thoughts are at, I either get a dismissive response or none at all. It feels as if you’re putting on a show for certain slots that you’re relying on townreads from, while ignoring others.
Welcome to the Koba show.
In post 406, Ausuka wrote:
It was intentional - I don't think going back and forth on it is going to be productive. I don't think if you are town there is anything I could ask that would make what you were saying more believable to me at this point. I'd rather just take it into account and see what you do going forward.
Fair. Same for you.
In post 428, DkKoba wrote:
VOTE: italiano pb saw something and now I want to kill this bc I think it's like 99% flipping scum
Last time I checked Koba was playing this game not pink ball.
But since we're talking teammates, Drixx and Cerb told me DGB is useless and should be scumread for existing, and if she is removed from the game and is town there will be no material loss.
Then this one just has this tone of condescension throughout that I don't particularly love. Like, this is
Team
Mafia, why wouldn't you be relying on your team to back you?? That's the whole point???? And it's not like Koba isn't giving their own thoughts and reads and solely playing as a translator for their teams thoughts and reads. Koba is an acquired taste, and none of that flavour is missing in what they post so I don't get why the undertone to this post is so strong.
Also, the AtE didn't work for me. It did hit all the places that would make me feel guilty or bad for unfairly treating somebody and changing my stance because of those feelings. It read as intentionally trying to get those reactions with the word choices, as well as the tone.
While I think I misread some of the tones in things, I still don't feel great about you. I just feel like I'm missing *something* from you, but I'm not quite sure what it is. Maybe it's like the kind of dialogue between players where there's a genuine attempt to make sure both are on the same page in the same way. Maybe I'm just sleep-deprived, but idk your iso seems to have thoughts and opinions that you want other people to have, not like "hey, i'm seeing this, anybody wanna check that and make sure we've got the same idea about this?". It's that mutual cooperation and information exchanging and co-analysis I'm missing I think.