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Post #1025 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:34 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:34 pm
Datisi I think is town
Bell I came around to being town after scumreading his content for a long time. I sorta believe all every time he has been LAMIST which has been like 20 times, all the "no way I could do this as scum" or like "im amazed u think that would come from scum me" (pending at some point in the game I should double check the meta behind this). also like really simplistically I think he is being pro-town in his way, there is like good poking around and clear constantly thinking about things
Aristeia I think is town
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yekaterina I think is town
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Post #1026 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:42 pm
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by Dunnstral » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:42 pm
In post 944 , Doctor Drew wrote:
In post 942 , Dunnstral wrote:
In post 545 , meowmeow wrote: Spoiler:
ok so reads wise, here are my takes on the players in this game :]
Datisi
ok first of all datisi always rolls scum. this is important if you believe in the gambler's fallacy, or its superior equivalent, anti gambler's fallacy, which holds that if someone keeps rolling scum they keep rolling scum. despite my making fun of him - which i hold to be fully justified in every way - he is actually a very good scum player and that needs to be kept in mind
146 feels +town to me. not sure exactly how to verbalise it, but it comes off as like, weirdly sheepy and lacking conviction, which i think is fairly +town because this stuff can just happen as a result of the game being hard as town; whereas scum datisi i think is good at creating options and it's more difficult to see how his thought process gets to the point where he thinks this is a good post to make.
182 is a bit ??? to me because it's like, why would you think i'm not ausuka? i told you i was making an alt in your discord DMs like a couple weeks before the game started and i don't think my posts are that different. i get being like 'oh i didn't think of that' but sheer shock is a bit strange. however unless someone told him beforehand i was ausuka it's probably not ai at all and idk how likely that is
does datisi try and pocket me and then call me stupid? maybe? i think he would know i wouldn't like that and i'm something of an emotional player so maybe it's slightly +town
as scum once, i pushed datisi because he townread someone pushing on him. i accused him of trying to defuse the situation. he was town in that game. i guess that is to say, i don#t really get what's so unnatural about the bulge read or why town datisi wouldn't make it
overall i lean town on datisi so far, i think
Aristeia
she flirts with datisi a lot. that's not ai it just makes me smile
i originally didn't like 206 because speculation about scumteams or whatever that doesn't involve a serious push on one of the people involved has always felt empty to me and makes me go :neutral: but also i can kind of see why she would find that datisi post a bit over-the-top so shrug
the read on bell in 389 is interesting. my instinct is to like it, and i can kind of see where she's coming from if town, even if i'm not sure i 100% get it - maybe partially because i lack context? but it's true that bell lacks bite in this game.
yekaterina
so, i don't think katya is town particularly, which i get is an unusual opinion to have. she was scum in the recently completed micro 1087 and just absolutely swept the game so i don't really think i should buy into the narrative that like, she's obvtown because she posts a lot of stuff that looks vaguely thoughtful. obviously if ppl have more specific reasons to townread her i'm happy to hear it; i don't think we should write off any reason to townread a capable scum player but i think a lot of the more common surface level reasons aren't that valid
obviously, i didn't like 167 - i mean i'm biased because like, it's me, and it did explain the post was trying not to give anything away but... meh, i'm just not a fan of the whole exchange
didn't really like 178 like 'you should expect i'll be obvious town' feels a bit like scum trying to be too cheeky to be scum. idk if that makes sense
i don't know if i need to go through the whole honeypot thing again. i'm not sure if anyone except me actually read that. but like, i basically just don't like how light of a wave katya makes towards shadi, not really doing anything there, and calling it a honeypot because after she did that, people wouldn't 'need' to talk to shadi and therefore anyone who does is probably scum? i think it's possible that there's some playstyle difference there because it is incredibly foreign to how i play mafia. but the thing that really got me is the idea that anyone pushing shadi is necessarily like, influenced by her push and being opportunistic, even though it wasn't really a push and was a light and noncommittal idea about how she doesn't really know who scum is. and it comes without really engaging with the reasons why they were doing that. i do still think there is some partner equity there but that's not important for now. of course, there's the whole deal where she doesn't like votes/wagons and that's obviously genuine but it is obviously also aware that a lot of people do not share this view. so like to review, she is asked who scum is, and instead of answering normally sets up a 'honeypot' except the honey attracts people that disagree with it about how wagons work, which she apparently doesn't want to discuss. not to mention she goes to great lengths to emphasise how much she does not really believe in this read which just seems... incredibly counterproductive to the entire purpose. and obviously if she's scum it's a rather intricate thing, but i really do not see the town thought process here, and i think it's a +scum thing to do.
and yeah idk that is basically my whole read on katya. even in her more recent posts, i still don't really understand it or where it's coming from at all in terms of what she's pushing people for and if she's town, what she's going for, who she might like to eliminate. i don't see the thought process behind any of it. but i think part of that *could* be that i play very differently. i mean, i townread it once before, but maybe that game i wasn't as cautious of being snowed; i should probably go back and check. i lean scum on katya right now
the bulge
the bulge. i vibed him as town early, just based on how he was sharing reads and stuff in what i perceived to be a relaxed way. i liked 223 a bit. and like, the superbowl wagon comments are just... could they be from scum? yeah. but i tend to like proactive stuff like this that shows care for the gamestate, understanding things and parsing them so you can read people, sue me.
281 and 283 i have more mixed feelings about. my instinct is to say that unreasonable isn't scummy and that i don't like the approach but after reading the conversation for a while i get what he's saying better? like, the 'reasonable' word stuck in my brain but i think it might just be a red herring because bulge is saying that he doesn't believe datisi's emotional reaction to the question is genuine because he doesn't seem to actually care about the question itself. which seems like a fairly towny line of thinking actually; it's engaging with the thread on something of a deeper level and i think it's something he's put thought into. if he's scum it's very good scumplay.
uh, his more recent posts are more content-free. i can kind of see the desire behind pushing superbowl/presumably the datisi vote is a continuation of earlier so whatever.
Bell
bell has a lot of posts which i don't take a lot out of. 292 is probably the first interesting post in the entire bell iso. i didn't think datisi's read was bad personally - and as i said, i've pushed him for that as scum before, so i don't want to townread this in itself, but at least it's like making observations and doing something?
i don't hate his counter push on ari? most of his poking and pushing seems to lack edge, in the sense he's not really trying to wagon people or push people at any point. in that sense, i agree with aristeia. i am totally unfamiliar with bell, but i don't really get the sense he's forcing himself to be here tho; he's just around, vibing, but not with a strong sense of purpose? and again, idk him or the meta here, but it feels unfair to pick on him for that when a lot of people feel the same or worse.
i think bell acting like my laptop breaking is some sort of mystery or whatever is weird but probably not ai. same w/ blockgate
overall? shrug, i don't really want to kill him today but i don't particularly think he's town either.
Doctor Drew
drew has kind of dropped off, unfortunately. i thought he was towny early on. as i say in 196 i think 186 is a likely townpost because it's counter-intuitive for scum drew to say that about std, unless he's actually scum with std i guess. i also see how someone would sus the datisi vote on drew, so that part is fine. and the scumread on me is fine, or even good; i get where it's coming from and how it would come to a towny thought process even if i don't agree.
however since then he has just been completely low energy? like he pushes datisi for a while, which is meh but whatever, and then he says the push is becoming less productive - yeah sure that makes sense - but he doesn't really follow through on it and totally deflates.
i think this balances out to a townlean; he's been towny enough that i have no interest in pushing him right now but that's not an iron strong read
Dunnstral
i guess it's not that hard to fake but i did like his early drew push? felt believable. i'm biased but i liked 308 because he was agreeing with me
idk he was pushing me earlier and then called the shadi wagon good and agreed with my comment on ari which feels a bit like towny fluidity. i think the malakittens vote is good. overall, i'm not certain of it but i think dunnstral is town this game
Malakittens
a little background context; i am aware of the malakittens meta. she did some stuff in datisi's cafe and i thought she was probably town because of the meta. she was not town. therefore, i don't really care about the meta.
anyway, her posts are very social, which isn't inherently bad but she does seem to care about that even at the expense of scumhunting. i don't like 373 ; i'm not entirely sure what she's trying to say about bell, but it seems a lot more interesting than 'drew is always scum' - it just feels off to me in terms of thought process. she could easily be scum here. on the other hand, she is a cat, which gets points
shadi1337
well, i think shadi is the player i need to do this for the least, since i've explained my thoughts on him in some depth already. it could come from town but the townread on katya in 63 is probably what i expect scum to say here? saying he's 'not opposed' to voting datisi when asking bulge about his read feels kind of weird, in the sense i'm not sure why it's there and might be self-conscious. he doesn't like alts existing, which is actually the real reason i scumread him. the rest of these posts are a front. as i said, the read on datisi and me is *very* weird to me, and to me it shows a lack of care in solving the both of us which i dislike; i think you get to the conclusion he did if you very briefly skim datisi's post which town can do but if he's doing that, and still refers to the post to explain his decisions, it feels very very off to me.
and again, if he thinks sheep would 'definitely' be more investigative as town, it's just odd that he needs prompting to bring it up - i don't see the town thought process here really.
i think he was asked about it and didn't respond - the 'one scum' thing feels oddly specific. from his perspective, couldn't there be two? there could also be zero even if he's town but i acknowledge a lot of town players will think that is unlikely
the only thing i can really say in his defence is that if he's mafia, he's probably being bussed, because to me it doesn't really feel like they're trying to save him. and it can be difficult to tell between unmotivated town and unmotivated mafia sometimes; if you don't really care about your win condition, it's hard to tell from your actions what your win conditions is
Save the Dragons
i find std hard to sort. the push on datisi had vaguely good vibes, or at least i, uh... idk how to put it into words, but i think scum std makes the points from 327 without prompting more likely, and i think in general it could come from town easily and scum, like, could approach it this way but i'm not sure they would. think 415 is a believable read? the read would have been solidified if he had questioned me townreading him but shrug.
superbowl9
obviously, i didn't like 137 ; both the katya read and the ari thing felt rather empty to me, like just saying things to say things. the rest of his posts are equally empty. with 213 it's like... ok? is it scummy, because you're not really following up on it? i mean, none of it can't come from town, but there's rather a lack of anything interesting or towny in his posts and i'm not a fan of it. i guess to his credit most mafia players are better at pretending to do things, but some of the stuff he does looks like an *attempt* to contribute, i'm just not feeling it at all
sheepsaysmeep
sheepsaysmeep. i mean, he's bell's block buddy i guess, whatever that means? maybe they both live in california. well, i'd like him to elaborate on 297 because that post is just there and i'm not sure what the follow through is.
This is an insightful post; town points.
While I agree this definitely seems like a townie post, it is just a detailed list of reads.
What exactly do you find insightful? Especially when this is like 400 posts ago, her reads may have changed dramatically for all you know.
I don't think that their reads changing after this point changes whether it was an insightful post.
I think there are some good points in here. They have some interesting thoughts on yekaterina, I didn't realize they posted similar to this as mafia. Calling Mala's posts social seems right to me.
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Post #1027 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:45 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:45 pm
Malakittens - meh
meowmeow* - my gut scumreads this hard, but like idk im not really interested in exploring the lim today. I think she had a good nugget about shadi's treatment of me being weird, where when shadi was prompted he was like "sheep is definitely very different than town game" but then why did he need prompting? and then later he was like that thought about sheep wasn't strong at all. idk it was weird and ausuka wrote about it very nicely
Shadi1337 - I think in the end my gut townreads this but like if it dies fine. I think from quite recent experience on MU scumreads about his General overall passivity aren't really accurate. he was like very IIOA-y day 1 and it bugged me and then like suddenly D2 solved the game I guess. I think he had some like non-appeasey comments that seemed slightly +town for him idrk lol I wouldn't actively defend this
Dunnstral - gut scumread. he's fine but like, something feels different from recent towngames with him, he's less like blunt and more trying to be like peppy tonally I guess it feels like abstractly lmao idk
Doctor Drew* - meh
superbowl9 - I think my current inclination is to just vote this? meh and like, ari townread that they were describing felt very fake. im on page 31
The Bulge - idk, meh
Save The Dragons* - gut town lol but idk
no real scum reads that pop out
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Post #1028 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:45 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:45 pm
im not sure that I'll read like the last 5 or 7 pages or whatever today sorry folks
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Post #1029 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:47 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:47 pm
In post 875 , petapan wrote:
Vote Count 1.10
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Back to class, through the hall
superbowl9 (4):
Aristeia, Save The Dragons, Doctor Drew, Datisi
meowmeow (3):
Shadi1337, yekaterina, The Bulge
Shadi1337 (2):
meowmeow, sheepsaysmeep
Doctor Drew (2):
Malakittens, superbowl9
Malakittens (1):
Dunnstral
Datisi (1):
Bell
With 13 alive, it's 7 to eliminate.
Deadline for Day 1 is August 22 at 6:00 PM EST.
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VOTE: superbowl
I think it looked something like ari unvoted, katya moved, whtv
I don't really support the datisi flashwagone effort
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Post #1030 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:48 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:48 pm
I guess from skimming the last pages REALLY roughly it doesn't seem like Super Bowl really was trying to save themself by voting a more-viable counterwagon rather than datisi lol I guess I don't actually rly think this flips scum deep down
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Post #1031 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:56 pm
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by Dunnstral » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:56 pm
In post 746 , Bell wrote:
In post 726 , superbowl9 wrote:
So I can't explain my read and when I do I'm panicking
An OMGUS at the first sign of pressure with 1 day till deadline? Your town game is better than this
In post 728 , Doctor Drew wrote:
In post 726 , superbowl9 wrote:
So I can't explain my read and when I do I'm panicking
An OMGUS at the first sign of pressure with 1 day till deadline? Your town game is better than this
One, literally had no idea you were voting me.
Two, you kept saying you couldn't really describe the town read on ari.......then all of sudden you could.
So ya, phony.
There aren’t many ways to interpret “off” as anything other than to to jump off of and jump onto someone else. Or in this case, switch votes.
In post 755 , Bell wrote:
It was probably just a verbal slip after a poser contest. I lie and scum slip all the time as town.
Worth poking at him just to see what he does tho. You’re a bit too on top of things, but there are decent reasons to be so when the game just kind of dies when left alone.
It is perhaps too charitable to write this off as a verbal slip. If 728 is a lie Doctor Drew does have something to gain from it: not looking like they are OMGUSING superbowl9.
That and I don't think what Doctor Drew is pushing here is particularly strong. It does look opportunistic to me.
VOTE: Doctor Drew
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Post #1032 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:57 pm
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by Dunnstral » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:57 pm
In post 1030 , sheepsaysmeep wrote:
I guess from skimming the last pages REALLY roughly it doesn't seem like Super Bowl really was trying to save themself by voting a more-viable counterwagon rather than datisi lol I guess I don't actually rly think this flips scum deep down
Strange that you are voting them then...
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Post #1033 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:58 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:58 pm
yeah idk man
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Post #1034 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:59 pm
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by Dunnstral » Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:59 pm
All of your reads in
1027 have a 'meh' or 'idk' attached. It is kind of shifty.
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Post #1035 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:00 pm
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by Dunnstral » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:00 pm
In post 1025 , sheepsaysmeep wrote:
Bell I came around to being town after scumreading his content for a long time. I sorta believe all every time he has been LAMIST which has been like 20 times, all the "no way I could do this as scum" or like "im amazed u think that would come from scum me" (pending at some point in the game I should double check the meta behind this). also like really simplistically I think he is being pro-town in his way, there is like good poking around and clear constantly thinking about things
Yeah good point.
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Post #1036 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:09 pm
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by superbowl9 » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:09 pm
Wellllllll if sheep has spoken so be it I guess can't complain
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Post #1037 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:10 pm
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by superbowl9 » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:10 pm
In post 1027 , sheepsaysmeep wrote:
superbowl9 - I think my current inclination is to just vote this? meh and like, ari townread that they were describing felt very fake. im on page 31
Can you tell me why you think ari is town?
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Post #1038 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:10 pm
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by superbowl9 » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:10 pm
That taco bell SCHMACKED btw
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Post #1039 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:17 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:17 pm
I think aristeia being deliberately very passive and relatively silent for like the first half of the game was probably a bit towny
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Post #1040 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:17 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:17 pm
like as scum she would be capable of "agenda-enacting" and would probably be doing something that looked more like that idk
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Post #1041 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:18 pm
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by superbowl9 » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:18 pm
Cool
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Post #1042 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:20 pm
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by sheepsaysmeep » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:20 pm
ok good night open 881 probably
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Post #1043 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:21 pm
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by superbowl9 » Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:21 pm
good night sleep well!
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Post #1044 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:35 pm
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by Datisi » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:35 pm
In post 983 , Aristeia wrote:
do you have feelings about him? i think ive seen him kind of ghost last time i played this setup and he was mafia.
oh hey haha i remember that
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Post #1045 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:43 pm
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In post 946 , superbowl9 wrote:
In post 942 , Dunnstral wrote:
In post 545 , meowmeow wrote: Spoiler:
ok so reads wise, here are my takes on the players in this game
Datisi
ok first of all datisi always rolls scum. this is important if you believe in the gambler's fallacy, or its superior equivalent, anti gambler's fallacy, which holds that if someone keeps rolling scum they keep rolling scum. despite my making fun of him - which i hold to be fully justified in every way - he is actually a very good scum player and that needs to be kept in mind
146 feels +town to me. not sure exactly how to verbalise it, but it comes off as like, weirdly sheepy and lacking conviction, which i think is fairly +town because this stuff can just happen as a result of the game being hard as town; whereas scum datisi i think is good at creating options and it's more difficult to see how his thought process gets to the point where he thinks this is a good post to make.
182 is a bit ??? to me because it's like, why would you think i'm not ausuka? i told you i was making an alt in your discord DMs like a couple weeks before the game started and i don't think my posts are that different. i get being like 'oh i didn't think of that' but sheer shock is a bit strange. however unless someone told him beforehand i was ausuka it's probably not ai at all and idk how likely that is
does datisi try and pocket me and then call me stupid? maybe? i think he would know i wouldn't like that and i'm something of an emotional player so maybe it's slightly +town
as scum once, i pushed datisi because he townread someone pushing on him. i accused him of trying to defuse the situation. he was town in that game. i guess that is to say, i don#t really get what's so unnatural about the bulge read or why town datisi wouldn't make it
overall i lean town on datisi so far, i think
Aristeia
she flirts with datisi a lot. that's not ai it just makes me smile
i originally didn't like 206 because speculation about scumteams or whatever that doesn't involve a serious push on one of the people involved has always felt empty to me and makes me go but also i can kind of see why she would find that datisi post a bit over-the-top so shrug
the read on bell in 389 is interesting. my instinct is to like it, and i can kind of see where she's coming from if town, even if i'm not sure i 100% get it - maybe partially because i lack context? but it's true that bell lacks bite in this game.
yekaterina
so, i don't think katya is town particularly, which i get is an unusual opinion to have. she was scum in the recently completed micro 1087 and just absolutely swept the game so i don't really think i should buy into the narrative that like, she's obvtown because she posts a lot of stuff that looks vaguely thoughtful. obviously if ppl have more specific reasons to townread her i'm happy to hear it; i don't think we should write off any reason to townread a capable scum player but i think a lot of the more common surface level reasons aren't that valid
obviously, i didn't like 167 - i mean i'm biased because like, it's me, and it did explain the post was trying not to give anything away but... meh, i'm just not a fan of the whole exchange
didn't really like 178 like 'you should expect i'll be obvious town' feels a bit like scum trying to be too cheeky to be scum. idk if that makes sense
i don't know if i need to go through the whole honeypot thing again. i'm not sure if anyone except me actually read that. but like, i basically just don't like how light of a wave katya makes towards shadi, not really doing anything there, and calling it a honeypot because after she did that, people wouldn't 'need' to talk to shadi and therefore anyone who does is probably scum? i think it's possible that there's some playstyle difference there because it is incredibly foreign to how i play mafia. but the thing that really got me is the idea that anyone pushing shadi is necessarily like, influenced by her push and being opportunistic, even though it wasn't really a push and was a light and noncommittal idea about how she doesn't really know who scum is. and it comes without really engaging with the reasons why they were doing that. i do still think there is some partner equity there but that's not important for now. of course, there's the whole deal where she doesn't like votes/wagons and that's obviously genuine but it is obviously also aware that a lot of people do not share this view. so like to review, she is asked who scum is, and instead of answering normally sets up a 'honeypot' except the honey attracts people that disagree with it about how wagons work, which she apparently doesn't want to discuss. not to mention she goes to great lengths to emphasise how much she does not really believe in this read which just seems... incredibly counterproductive to the entire purpose. and obviously if she's scum it's a rather intricate thing, but i really do not see the town thought process here, and i think it's a +scum thing to do.
and yeah idk that is basically my whole read on katya. even in her more recent posts, i still don't really understand it or where it's coming from at all in terms of what she's pushing people for and if she's town, what she's going for, who she might like to eliminate. i don't see the thought process behind any of it. but i think part of that *could* be that i play very differently. i mean, i townread it once before, but maybe that game i wasn't as cautious of being snowed; i should probably go back and check. i lean scum on katya right now
the bulge
the bulge. i vibed him as town early, just based on how he was sharing reads and stuff in what i perceived to be a relaxed way. i liked 223 a bit. and like, the superbowl wagon comments are just... could they be from scum? yeah. but i tend to like proactive stuff like this that shows care for the gamestate, understanding things and parsing them so you can read people, sue me.
281 and 283 i have more mixed feelings about. my instinct is to say that unreasonable isn't scummy and that i don't like the approach but after reading the conversation for a while i get what he's saying better? like, the 'reasonable' word stuck in my brain but i think it might just be a red herring because bulge is saying that he doesn't believe datisi's emotional reaction to the question is genuine because he doesn't seem to actually care about the question itself. which seems like a fairly towny line of thinking actually; it's engaging with the thread on something of a deeper level and i think it's something he's put thought into. if he's scum it's very good scumplay.
uh, his more recent posts are more content-free. i can kind of see the desire behind pushing superbowl/presumably the datisi vote is a continuation of earlier so whatever.
Bell
bell has a lot of posts which i don't take a lot out of. 292 is probably the first interesting post in the entire bell iso. i didn't think datisi's read was bad personally - and as i said, i've pushed him for that as scum before, so i don't want to townread this in itself, but at least it's like making observations and doing something?
i don't hate his counter push on ari? most of his poking and pushing seems to lack edge, in the sense he's not really trying to wagon people or push people at any point. in that sense, i agree with aristeia. i am totally unfamiliar with bell, but i don't really get the sense he's forcing himself to be here tho; he's just around, vibing, but not with a strong sense of purpose? and again, idk him or the meta here, but it feels unfair to pick on him for that when a lot of people feel the same or worse.
i think bell acting like my laptop breaking is some sort of mystery or whatever is weird but probably not ai. same w/ blockgate
overall? shrug, i don't really want to kill him today but i don't particularly think he's town either.
Doctor Drew
drew has kind of dropped off, unfortunately. i thought he was towny early on. as i say in 196 i think 186 is a likely townpost because it's counter-intuitive for scum drew to say that about std, unless he's actually scum with std i guess. i also see how someone would sus the datisi vote on drew, so that part is fine. and the scumread on me is fine, or even good; i get where it's coming from and how it would come to a towny thought process even if i don't agree.
however since then he has just been completely low energy? like he pushes datisi for a while, which is meh but whatever, and then he says the push is becoming less productive - yeah sure that makes sense - but he doesn't really follow through on it and totally deflates.
i think this balances out to a townlean; he's been towny enough that i have no interest in pushing him right now but that's not an iron strong read
Dunnstral
i guess it's not that hard to fake but i did like his early drew push? felt believable. i'm biased but i liked 308 because he was agreeing with me
idk he was pushing me earlier and then called the shadi wagon good and agreed with my comment on ari which feels a bit like towny fluidity. i think the malakittens vote is good. overall, i'm not certain of it but i think dunnstral is town this game
Malakittens
a little background context; i am aware of the malakittens meta. she did some stuff in datisi's cafe and i thought she was probably town because of the meta. she was not town. therefore, i don't really care about the meta.
anyway, her posts are very social, which isn't inherently bad but she does seem to care about that even at the expense of scumhunting. i don't like 373 ; i'm not entirely sure what she's trying to say about bell, but it seems a lot more interesting than 'drew is always scum' - it just feels off to me in terms of thought process. she could easily be scum here. on the other hand, she is a cat, which gets points
shadi1337
well, i think shadi is the player i need to do this for the least, since i've explained my thoughts on him in some depth already. it could come from town but the townread on katya in 63 is probably what i expect scum to say here? saying he's 'not opposed' to voting datisi when asking bulge about his read feels kind of weird, in the sense i'm not sure why it's there and might be self-conscious. he doesn't like alts existing, which is actually the real reason i scumread him. the rest of these posts are a front. as i said, the read on datisi and me is *very* weird to me, and to me it shows a lack of care in solving the both of us which i dislike; i think you get to the conclusion he did if you very briefly skim datisi's post which town can do but if he's doing that, and still refers to the post to explain his decisions, it feels very very off to me.
and again, if he thinks sheep would 'definitely' be more investigative as town, it's just odd that he needs prompting to bring it up - i don't see the town thought process here really.
i think he was asked about it and didn't respond - the 'one scum' thing feels oddly specific. from his perspective, couldn't there be two? there could also be zero even if he's town but i acknowledge a lot of town players will think that is unlikely
the only thing i can really say in his defence is that if he's mafia, he's probably being bussed, because to me it doesn't really feel like they're trying to save him. and it can be difficult to tell between unmotivated town and unmotivated mafia sometimes; if you don't really care about your win condition, it's hard to tell from your actions what your win conditions is
Save the Dragons
i find std hard to sort. the push on datisi had vaguely good vibes, or at least i, uh... idk how to put it into words, but i think scum std makes the points from 327 without prompting more likely, and i think in general it could come from town easily and scum, like, could approach it this way but i'm not sure they would. think 415 is a believable read? the read would have been solidified if he had questioned me townreading him but shrug.
superbowl9
obviously, i didn't like 137 ; both the katya read and the ari thing felt rather empty to me, like just saying things to say things. the rest of his posts are equally empty. with 213 it's like... ok? is it scummy, because you're not really following up on it? i mean, none of it can't come from town, but there's rather a lack of anything interesting or towny in his posts and i'm not a fan of it. i guess to his credit most mafia players are better at pretending to do things, but some of the stuff he does looks like an *attempt* to contribute, i'm just not feeling it at all
sheepsaysmeep
sheepsaysmeep. i mean, he's bell's block buddy i guess, whatever that means? maybe they both live in california. well, i'd like him to elaborate on 297 because that post is just there and i'm not sure what the follow through is.
This is an insightful post; town points.
wait you read allat???
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Post #1046 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:45 pm
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by Datisi » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:45 pm
i read your post meowmeow!! i didn't have much to say about it but i did read it
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by meowmeow » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:49 pm
thank you datisi i appreciate it
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by meowmeow » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:50 pm
This is an insightful post; town points.
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Post #1049 (ISO ) » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:52 pm
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by meowmeow » Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:52 pm
In post 1027 , sheepsaysmeep wrote:
Malakittens - meh
meowmeow* - my gut scumreads this hard, but like idk im not really interested in exploring the lim today. I think she had a good nugget about shadi's treatment of me being weird, where when shadi was prompted he was like "sheep is definitely very different than town game" but then why did he need prompting? and then later he was like that thought about sheep wasn't strong at all. idk it was weird and ausuka wrote about it very nicely
Shadi1337 - I think in the end my gut townreads this but like if it dies fine. I think from quite recent experience on MU scumreads about his General overall passivity aren't really accurate. he was like very IIOA-y day 1 and it bugged me and then like suddenly D2 solved the game I guess. I think he had some like non-appeasey comments that seemed slightly +town for him idrk lol I wouldn't actively defend this
Dunnstral - gut scumread. he's fine but like, something feels different from recent towngames with him, he's less like blunt and more trying to be like peppy tonally I guess it feels like abstractly lmao idk
Doctor Drew* - meh
superbowl9 - I think my current inclination is to just vote this? meh and like, ari townread that they were describing felt very fake. im on page 31
The Bulge - idk, meh
Save The Dragons* - gut town lol but idk
no real scum reads that pop out
sheep i don't really feel very carried right now
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