In post 1010, Thestatusquo wrote:
And in my last scum game I was the highest post count player by a lot.
See this is a disingenuous argument. You're trying to tell half narratives to paint some kind of story that I'm scum in this game but your facts are either cherry picked or just wrong.
tbh this seems just kinda inaccurate, even/odd micro shea felt dead inside as scum and tried to self-meta as town lol
i did have this thought too but idk if it really matters to me
i felt like you weren't performing early or really trying to get townread particularly
the way you approached things seemed more like you were uninformed and confused and figuring things out and not like you were positioning and forcing reads for the sake of it
its not super strong bc maybe you just weren't in a rush to do that and only started picking up the pace recently but idk
i did believe what i said in the sk game, i townread you pretty strongly, and i was right, and it feels similar enough to me
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Post #1339 (isolation #208) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 5:23 am
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1337, Isis wrote:
If shea is scum I think it's pretty gutsy to advocate for townbulge rn
If shea is not scum shea is a decent player bet it's a good read
On average the 7 slots that are not bulge or best lulu NA have more scum equity amongst them than feels average for a game and therefore the afk player is above rand to be town
i don't like this and the reasoning doesn't check out imo
in shea town world: shea townread bulge for being on his side in the shea vs ari debate. if ari is town, bulge scum equity goes way up. it doesn't make sense for you to make a coalition with ari and bulge if it's partially based on shea's townread because if ari is town then shea's basis for his worldview is wrong
in shea scum world: idk why it being gutsy for shea to advocate for town bulge has an effect on your perception bulge's alignment. it sounds like it would have an effect on your perception of shea's alignment, but you didn't include him, you included bulge. you'd have to be saying that scum shea is significantly more likely to push for town bulge being town than he is to push for scum bulge being town and im just not really sure why that would be the case? both are arguably gutsy and only one of them potentially helps him
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Post #1383 (isolation #213) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 6:06 am
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1375, Isis wrote:
I feel sad I have bared my soul to this game and literally nobody values me
I feel like if was scum I would like have at least one synthetic read a couple people half agree with and I would be participating in the board meeting
I've never felt so on the margins with this amount of participation
i value your presence
i don't know what you mean by bared your soul and nobody values you. from the other bits of the post it sounds like you're saying that nobody values your reads. which reads do you feel like you have bared your soul on? i can look over them again if you want
In post 797, Isis wrote:
The universe doesn't have enough cruelty for skitter to be scum the first time she agreed with me ever
Esp since buttering me up when I have no thread control is mid
In post 879, Isis wrote:
I think Ari, skitter, and hellbooks could have more thread control if they wanted it. I think shea isn't lying about being frustrated about the social graph of this playerlist regardless his alignment so that would reduce his ability to control the thread or at least the wisdom of forcibly doing so.
In post 962, Isis wrote:
Aristeia and skitter
I think skitter does not know who is important to push because she doesnt know who the mafia is
these are the posts i can find with reasoning about skitter (3rd one loosely implies reasoning since it's a response to some skitter posting)
i think these are like, okay takes. i think the "doesn't have a plan and doesn't know who to push" is a decent metric for reading but im not sure why it applies to skitter above other people. i think the only people who have felt like they really fit the description of "they know who to push" this game have been ari and shea
i don't mean to diminish the value of your reads or your feelings anything but this doesn't really feel like the kind of thing where you poured your heart out onto the page and then got ignored at least from what i see
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Post #1406 (isolation #216) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 6:24 am
Postby fireisredsir »
i think that once i stopped townreading hellbooks, ever since then it became hard not to see her tossing little crumbs of game content out into the void as scum trying to re-engage and establish self and thats pretty unfair bc she'd probably have to do similar as town too
In post 1409, Isis wrote:
2:7 vanilla is really hard for town and setup is massively easier if you pick a 5 with only one scum and then divide and conquer
i think the way this setup usually gets played is you try to get 5 obvtown and just win that way but this game doesnt feel that easy because some people enjoy shitposting or dont even exist so I'm going the route of crossing as many teams out as I can and then deathmatching the leftovers
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Post #1464 (isolation #223) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 7:04 am
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1461, Isis wrote:
I think skitter pushing a tris scumread that is probably right, to the exclusion of accomplishing anything to pick the winners of any of the spotlighted conflicts, but without feeling uncomfortable interacting with the spotlighted conflicts really points to her being town.
im pretty sure tris is skitter's strongest townread?
In post 1463, Isis wrote:
Focusing on sheep also does not advance her agenda with like any partner
in terms of normal forum mafia outside of coalition I tend to be a very good option to mislim mid-later game so I can technically seeee the scum purpose
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Post #1564 (isolation #226) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 8:37 am
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1537, skitter30 wrote:
I think scum doesnt particularly care abt who's in the coalition until it starts to coalesce, at whicu point they really care
I think it's better 1in 1out but idk if i've ever played a run where scum were purposefully aiming for that outcome, i think it's normally just trying for at least one getting in
i think this was a strategy point in the datisi/std team when they played
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Post #1586 (isolation #229) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 10:22 am
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1583, Isis wrote:
I guess when I say the game has lots of scum equity I doubt basically all my townreads sometimes even Ari
I don't have good scumreads.
Maybe I should be defaulting bulge then idk
i sort of agree with this which is why i was confused by your previous conclusion from this similar premise of "everyone has scum equity so bulge town"
How would town Isis look different
I'm pretending to ask to sort you but secretly I want to start doing those things.
Hm if I'm trying to emulate someone else's characterization of my town game as town and am more interested in that than finding scum things aren't going well
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Post #1625 (isolation #232) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 12:13 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1606, Thestatusquo wrote:
I find it very hard to believe that bulge has any more scum equity than anyone else and hes a very convenient name to point to for someone who wants a non-controversial take.
it works sometimes in coalition. sometimes scum just get kinda left behind
In post 1606, Thestatusquo wrote:
I find it very hard to believe that bulge has any more scum equity than anyone else and hes a very convenient name to point to for someone who wants a non-controversial take.
it works sometimes in coalition. sometimes scum just get kinda left behind
I'm not saying that bulge is never scum, though I think I listed some reasons why I independently found him to be kinda townie when he was here.
yea ik, your reasons are dependent on ari scum tho and if ari is town then i think the same post you townread looks really scummy
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Post #1635 (isolation #234) » Fri Jul 21, 2023 12:21 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1159, Thestatusquo wrote:
The remaining two in my coalition are weaker. Tris because I kinda do think she got tmi'd and the bulge because he seems to be willing to let me cook.
In post 1197, Thestatusquo wrote:
In particular I think bulge could be scum but the way he's approached the thread hasn't felt like someone who was trying to accomplish scum goals to me, especially from my pov of knowing I'm town. Would have been pretty easy for scum bulge to come in here and lightly shade me and given that else was going on thread momentum wise it basically would have gotten rid of any chance of me ever being in a coalition at very little cost to him.
He didn't do that he instead expressed mild support. I'm not sure why he does that as his main thread contribution as scum.
these are the reasons you gave and my understanding is that they are referring to post 1000 which is lightly propping himself up behind you in the shea vs ari argument
In post 1636, fireisredsir wrote:
i think that if you vs ari is tvs then thats a towny post and if you vs ari is tvt then its a scummy post but maybe you disagree i guess
I'd like the reason for why its a townie post or a scummy post in those worlds pls and thank you.
if ari is scum then i think scum bulge almost never makes that post bc it pushes ari a little further away from coalition and he's not exactly trying to make it in himself. i don't think the distancing is worth it. so if ari is scum then the bulge making that post is more likely to be a town one
but if ari is town and you're also town, then i think lightly taking a side and hiding behind someone else's read is pretty scummy bc it is pushing out a town and also making an ally of a town. i think it would be nearly as scummy if he hid behind ari instead, but i think there were more people at the time who townread you than townread ari (or at least i did lol and maybe that warps my perspective) and so getting on your side seems natural for scum to do there. you're also probably more likely to be receptive to someone joining your side since you seem to have felt a lot of the time like the world is against you here
if ari is town and you're scum then idk it's also lightly scummy due to supporting a partner weakly etc but it doesn't really feel like that is the world here
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Post #1681 (isolation #238) » Sat Jul 22, 2023 3:38 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1663, sheepsaysmeep wrote:
this person is definitely in her town meta according to peoples descriptions of her meta right
i think so although i don't have like an extensive catalog of meta knowledge for her
i like most her of thoughts when catching up tho but i guess thats probably easier to do from the position of most townread person in the game. there's not really ever any need to push an agenda
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Post #1682 (isolation #239) » Sat Jul 22, 2023 3:40 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
i don't really have a lot to say rn im mostly just trying not to spampost too much so that tris can eventually succeed in her catchup mission and maybe bulge can do the same if he ever retrieves his phone from the sea or whatever
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Post #1683 (isolation #240) » Sat Jul 22, 2023 3:50 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
HURT: all HEAL: tris, sheep, thestatusquo, skitter, fireisredsir
i don't really want this hammered rn but it is my current favorite coalition
im wavering on ari and isis which makes me hesitant bc it's probably not just bulge/hellbooks (that is, it could be, but i don't want to assume it is bc easy answer usually wrong etc) and so im not really convinced that im not misreading someone in tris/sheep/skitter
In post 1683, fireisredsir wrote:
HURT: all HEAL: tris, sheep, thestatusquo, skitter, fireisredsir
i don't really want this hammered rn but it is my current favorite coalition
im wavering on ari and isis which makes me hesitant bc it's probably not just bulge/hellbooks (that is, it could be, but i don't want to assume it is bc easy answer usually wrong etc) and so im not really convinced that im not misreading someone in tris/sheep/skitter
It could just be isis/hellbooks. This is a perspective slip or something. Like the way you're trying to build your readstate and logically proceed to an optimal coalition is messed up
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Post #1739 (isolation #247) » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:11 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
im assuming you aren't saying im scum bc i didn't list every possible combination of scum teams outside the coalition but i don't understand what else you mean
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Post #1759 (isolation #252) » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:30 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1753, Isis wrote:
Also why is your Isis read wavering. Do you not understand how to strike when the fire is hot? Do I need to post all of Hephaestus's boons from Hades
the bit about you realizing you didn't post as much about your reads as you thought felt towny and also some of the emotion
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Post #1760 (isolation #253) » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:35 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1755, Isis wrote:
I think since Ari and I are townreading eachother you'd more naturally think we are snowing eachother if we are both independently suspicious
maybe im sleepy (i am) but im confused again im not sure what your issue is here
it sounds like you're saying "no you shouldn't be thinking about Possible World A you should be thinking about Possible World B" when like. i am thinking about all of them. i just happened to talk about one of them bc it was on my mind at the time
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Post #1768 (isolation #255) » Sun Jul 23, 2023 8:53 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
In post 1765, Isis wrote:
I think the town is adopting a throwalition and maybe I'm working backwards trying to find the person corrupting logic to create a throw and maybe you get "forcedness" when I'm like this post is a mess is fire is red sir the reason we can have nice things and do I think he's bad enough that this is his nat pov
rn I kind of think it's bulge and someone else but I'm more interested in getting to 5 townreads
i was hoping that more would come of this
in her previous (town) coalition game i think ari was a lot more eager to push for and case townreads and shut down what she saw as bad scumreads on slots she saw as town. and just generally work towards pro-town goals of helping other people find town and find a winning coalition
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Post #1776 (isolation #258) » Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:13 pm
Postby fireisredsir »
i have generally been townreading ari more lately than i used to and there have been some places that i think feel more like town!ari but that aspect still makes me unsure