In post 2206, DodgeTheSaint wrote:The reason I called it out, was because I don't think I made any significant posts in the locker room until it was mostly empty.
And yet you were on my readslist which was locker-room based.
I don't particularly remember the details behind the why of what generated that read.
But I do remember the general feeling.
You had posted but very specifically: NOT left a good impression on me. However much or however little you posted.
The simple fact is.
You HAD posted.
And because you HAD posted.
You were someone I got a read on.
And my read on you was not-great.
Because off of your content, what you presented was "not very great". It was weak at the time. Thus why you were higher up in the list. But it was still to the point where I thought you had a better than random chance of being scum this game. This remained true upon your entrance to the game, too. It's taken your continued posting to essentially step by step slowly change that read.
I don't have a recollection of doing anything serious in the locker room, nor do I have a recollection of you being in the locker room, therefore you having a solid enough read on me, citing vague things like 'Dodge doesn't feel right', doesn't scream genuine to me.
The thing is though:
I was in the locker room.
Once.
Page 8ish I think? Something like that. One post and I was done, I always meant to go back but never did. Butstill. That's my reference frame. There. At that point. I posted. And at that point. You had already posted. You made it onto my list and would not have made it onto my list if you hadn't posted.
And if I were to guess.
It is specifically BECAUSE you did nothing serious in the locker room that I scumread you.
Because the locker room was something which was plenty serious.
My reads were dead serious in there, and so seeing you not do anything serious in the locker room is VERY SPECIFICALLY the thing which made me think you'd be scum. Because you're not timid. You're aggressive. You're blunt, frontal, attacking head-on. Yet there I felt you were just hanging in the background...
...And even back then. I had identified that as a key scum strategy given multiball and Kuroi's announcement of the game being hard to win. (Game being hard to win + multiball = lots of scum = scum are going to try and maximize their chance of winning-->scum use a strategy which maximizes their lifespan-->staying out of the spotlight maximizes their lifespan; you were staying out of the spotlight.)
But I believe that as scum you're going to have to stretch your justifications harder than you would do as town, and that's what this, and a few other things look like to me.
Well then you apparently still don't know me NEARLY as well as you think you do if you'd think this is anything even remotely close to accurate. Because that's rats-ass backwards and if you did understand me you'd know why:
As town I have no fucking clue what it is I see. I just. I have to try and explain it. So I throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. I make shit up. I never lie, per se. I never spew bullshit I don't believe. But I am pushing things beyond the stretch of normal logic because I don't fucking do normal logic. I never have. I've just. Never been able to cross the language barrier. Translate concepts into language.
As scum I know EXACTLY what it is I see. I can explain things in crystal clarity. I can explain things flawlessly, because everything I do is already planned out in my mind. Because I know exactly what to say to manipulate people, I know exactly which words to use, and therefore I can fake logic. I can fake thought processes. I can show a fake train of thought and have it seem genuine because it is solidly based, it is consistent, it is shown over a trend, and it changes with a smooth transition.
Fuck!
These things make up like literally half of my fucking flowchart for a damn-good reason.
Scumastina is logical. Scumastina is precise. Scumastina knows what the hell she is doing. Scumastina has the game under her control. And as a result. Scumastina can present an argument with no flaws in it. Scumastina doesn't do stretched arguments. Because scumastina is streamlined and to the point. She uses ONLY what she needs to: nothing more, nothing less. So she doesn't make grand arguments which have leaps in logic that make sense. She keeps things rational. Because her pragmatism serves her scumgame well.
Town-mastina is the antithesis of that: chaotic. Random. Imprecise. No fucking clue what she's doing, nothing but a guess. She flails wildly with absolutely nothing under her control: not reads, not players. Everything she does is flawed because her perspective is flawed. She rambles. She goes on tangents. She gets distracted. She walls. She churns out endless amounts of things. Because she doesn't know what it is she needs to do in order to lynch the scum. So she's irrational, she leaps from place to place randomly and unpredictably, because she doesn't have the capacity as town to trim things down.
If this is not self-evidently true to you.
Then you're a fucking liar when you said you knew me.
Because the traits I describe? Transcend one game and are self-evidently true across all my games. And literally EVERY player who has played with me knows that to be true, if not at the time then with the benefit of hindsight, "Yeah, now that I think about it, she really was that way during this game".
Of course the flowchart's not the end-all, be-all of games.
There's always outliers here and there.
Butstill. It's a thing because it's a fucking thing for good reason.
I know literally everyone should get it by now, but my main is T-Bone, since apparently, that wasn't clear to you for some reason.
It's one of those "too obvious to be true" things, what with the whole hypnotoad avatar.
