In post 91, Grendel wrote:Hey, I'm too busy to sit down and write up what I wanted to do yesterday atm.
I just want to say that I have seen what I was looking for, and the first chance I can this evening I will jump into this.
I usually pay attention to people’s reactions. Whenever I try something unconventional there is usually a bit of a stir. And what is left after a topic that people have taken stances on? Things to analyze of course!
What I normally see are people who:
1) try to convince me I'm misguided
2) White knight me
3) scum read me
4) Play along with me
5) Ignore me
Usually one member of the scum will take option 3 or option 2. The rest of the scum team will ignore me (5), or play along (4) depending on whether town had a positive or negative opinions on my opening. Alone I consider (1), (4), and (5) to be null reads, but sometimes (1) is used in conjunction with 3 by a stronger scum player to try and get some sweet town cred for being a voice of skepticism, and getting the game moving via opposing stance. In the instance this happens though scum only created a light push on me, ultimately dropping me for somebody else. Scum who take option (2) are gonna town read me hard, and be staunchly against people who are throwing shade, also are ballzy scum players. This usually happens when one or more of their scum buddies choose option (4). Scum who jump solely on option (3) are usually the more… let’s say impulsive players that play largely on gut reads. Lastly I do take interest in players who start off doing (4), or (5), then switch with no rhyme or reason to the other. I don’t have the experience data to tell if this is a scummy action, but my gut thinks it is.
Looking over the roster I see CCC, Gamma, The Jester, Eagersnake and Manuel all voiced opinions. There is going to be one scum amongst them, possibly two if I’m lucky.
CCC
threw a piecemeal statement of encouragement, which is null. He could do that with either town or maf intent, and is not enough to speculate on.
Out of all of them
Gamma
is easily the most scummy. How he offered to buddy somebody, then once my day start method came under fire he backs off making no mention of it again. So he in effect shifts from (4) to (5) with no explanation. Except that he, as scum, realized that what I was doing wasn’t picking up, and The_Jester was vocally against it. So Gamma’s reaction looks like scum realizing he isn’t in popular opinion and trying to keep that he supported an unconventional idea out of public view. If Gamma is scum then Garry is town, scum don’t buddy each other like that.
The Jester
is interesting. At first I thought that he could be scum, pulling the “1” and “3”. But once I asked him he said he wasn’t actually scum reading me. So I feel pretty null about his slot. I do think it’s interesting though that he didn’t call out Gamma for trying to mimic a opening that he consider “awful”. Then again, I liked that Jester seemed willing to 1vs1 me, don’t think scum would have done that. In the event that Jester is scum Manual is probably town, their interactions early don’t look like scum + scum thread proper discussion.
EagerSnake
is town.
He filled out the correct documents, and has no felonies on his record.
Manuel
looked like he might be a white knight at first, but he didn’t keep the discussion going, and ultimately agreed that Jester had valid points. I think that in this instance him dropping it was more likely town then scum. Unlike Gamma Manuel didn’t try to hide or ignore what he said. Of course The Jester questioned Manuel, and didn’t pay attention to Gamma. Which is why I have this vuage feeling that GammaxJester could be a thing. Also didn’t see any ham fisted town reads being thrown my direction by Manuel. Light town read here.
Quick reads list for my Day start reaction analysis:
Snake
,
The_Jester, Manuel,
CCC,
Gamma
Everybody else opted to not weigh in.
