This is, at the very least, not a reason to consider DV town over me. I was Klick's professed strongest townread (which also implies Klick wasn't certain on DV) and DV as scum has plenty of reason to shoot Klick if DV thinks Klick can read him, because he'd be afraid of Klick reading him right in eLo.
- my approach to this day would be much higher risk if scum. In a world where I am scum and implosion is town, it makes more sense for me to rely on implosion voting you than relying on you voting implosion.
This is in some sense fair (and why I don't blame Appearance if he gets it wrong). DV is, I would guess, afraid of me close-reading things and changing my mind, given that I've been reading and evaluating and (as I said) I wasn't sold on DV being town initially. I mean, it's very good play. But it does make sense from scum because it gives him the upper hand in the 1v1. Actually there's a good chance he just came into today with this as his plan and is just following through on that. I don't claim to know exactly why he's playing the way he is but it's definitely sensible to do as scum
In post 1564, DeasVail wrote:
For example the day where fire was eliminated, he kept saying that fire was the best elim but did nothing to help push that through as if he was hoping for something else to emerge, but he also did not push an alternative… he was just… there!
This is like, extremely not how I would play there as scum. If I wanted to bus, I'd have bussed. Compare my other recent coalition game where I wound up hard bussing my partner d1 after we were both on coalition; obviously, different circumstances, but yeah, in practice in this setup when I was scum and decided I wanted to bus (and probably in a gamestate where it was much less clear that my scum partner was going to be the lim, if anything) I hard bussed. I think my play this game probably looks almost nothing like that game, and for reasons that are largely alignment; in that game I had an intricate plan spanning several days I was trying to execute. My towngame is much less like that, as illustrated by me not really actually trying to push things through (like the fire lim), because, well, I've felt pretty bad about my reads for most of this game and even fire I felt very very bad about flipping scum, in the way of like, I felt like there was some doom in the air if he did flip town and that there were pretty good odds of it even if I felt like it was the best lim.
DV wrote:I also think a lot of the play since I voted for him has kind of been performance, which is why I didn’t unvote! The whole thing about egg on his face, struck me as something town wouldn’t naturally think, because I thought they would be more immediately worried about you hammering than me being scum. It was like he was preparing for the 1v1 with me before you had even posted.
I mean I think DV could say this about literally anything I had posted after he voted me lol
It's also just a misrepresentation of what happened, I was worried about Appearance hammering... which is why I asked DV to unvote. I was literally immediately worried about Appearance hammering. And then DV doubled down, and so yeah, I was being somewhat performative at that point because I thought him voting me was losing the game and it didn't seem like I could convince him otherwise and I didn't have the energy to like, launch a wall of text at it. In retrospect DV seemed like he wasn't going to be convinced because he's scum and thought he needed to commit to this tact.
