The thing I didn't like about JJD being scum was that Wheme was pushing JJD and JJD was also pushing Wheme. While two scum do tunnel each other sometimes to avoid committing to wagons that will flip scum, I feel like I would see that from JJD but I wouldn't see it from Wheme. I just don't see it when I look at his playstyle. I probably need to reread that section but I want to say JJD struck me as basically being locktown based on how Wheme was acting on him. While scum bus all the time, especially when the wagon won't be likely to develop, I feel like the way Wheme was pushing for JJD seemed more opportunistic and less like a soft bus. In a large normal with no existing scum flips that would slightly surprise me for the bus to be going both ways. Not impossible, just not likely.
Also, based on pure activity, if both GR and JJD are scum town is basically fucked. Between the two, I see it as way more likely that GR would be scum than JJD. I don't think either is the optimal lynch for today.
TBG, can you explain why you see the JJD/Wheme interactions as bussing?
The main thing I dislike about Wavemode being scum is that Dunn spent a lot of time defending the slot. I want to say Dunn had a pretty solid TR on Wave, at least in the early game. I need to reread what Dunn liked about Wavemode/disliked about the wagon on him though.
@Mylon, while you're here, can you answer a simple question. When you say "meta" what do you mean? Do you actually read other games that person has played in?
In post 5204, Krazy wrote:The thing I didn't like about JJD being scum was that Wheme was pushing JJD and JJD was also pushing Wheme. While two scum do tunnel each other sometimes to avoid committing to wagons that will flip scum, I feel like I would see that from JJD but I wouldn't see it from Wheme. I just don't see it when I look at his playstyle. I probably need to reread that section but I want to say JJD struck me as basically being locktown based on how Wheme was acting on him. While scum bus all the time, especially when the wagon won't be likely to develop, I feel like the way Wheme was pushing for JJD seemed more opportunistic and less like a soft bus. In a large normal with no existing scum flips that would slightly surprise me for the bus to be going both ways. Not impossible, just not likely.
Also, based on pure activity, if both GR and JJD are scum town is basically fucked. Between the two, I see it as way more likely that GR would be scum than JJD. I don't think either is the optimal lynch for today.
TBG, can you explain why you see the JJD/Wheme interactions as bussing?
The main thing I dislike about Wavemode being scum is that Dunn spent a lot of time defending the slot. I want to say Dunn had a pretty solid TR on Wave, at least in the early game. I need to reread what Dunn liked about Wavemode/disliked about the wagon on him though.
@Mylon, while you're here, can you answer a simple question. When you say "meta" what do you mean? Do you actually read other games that person has played in?
Sure, I can. First, though, do you agree that in a game this size, it's likely Wheme voted or pushed at least one other scummate once before he died?
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In post 5207, TehBrawlGuy wrote:
Sure, I can. First, though, do you agree that in a game this size, it's likely Wheme voted or pushed at least one other scummate once before he died?
In case my earlier comments on this weren't clear, I think scum have been soft bussing since day 2 and hard bussing since day 3. That being said, I wouldn't say I would go so far as to say I would call it
likely
Wheme was soft bussing on day 2. I think it is
plausible
. But while I do think most of the scum team have been softbussing since day 2, I'm not sure about Wheme in particular. He strikes me as a bit more opportunistic in playstyle and perhaps greedier, so there's a chance he didn't actually bus at all on day 2.
So I guess the question is how hard were Wheme and JJD pushing each other. It didn't look like a soft bus at a glance, but as I said, I need to go back and reread those sections. Why do you think it was a soft bus?
There's a confirmed town alive.
There's likely some sort of protection somewhere.
Yet scum killed the claimed VT.
That has a lot of significance, but I won't have a working theory until I can decipher the gamestate a bit more clearly. The biggest thing that it would most obviously indicate, is... shocker... that town is probably way off in its reads overall!
I had my suspicions anyway, but Wheme ISO really nails it down for me. Wheme only ever votes for 4 people past the early voting chaos. Vax, PP, Flavor Leaf, and JJD.
FL is dead and Town, PP is very likely Town after yesterday. If Wheme did any bussing, it would have to be in Vax or JJD.
Vax he HARD townreads all of D1, until suddenly flipping on him, saying this:
Voting JJD here establishes JJD as the lead wagon, with 4 votes, while voting Vax ties him with JJD and the rest at 3. This looks very much like Wheme!Scum not wanting to put a scumbuddy in peril - if he was setting up a mislynch on JJD, he could just vote JJD and nobody would really question it, since he'd been on JJD D1. It also doesn't make sense for him to flip on Vax if he's a scumbuddy, since he's been hard TRing Vax thus far.
In addition, he makes sure to mention several times just how much he thinks JJD is scum. (besides his votes on him)
It's an obvious, clumsy bus. It's even more damning when you realize JJD is the only bus that makes sense out of Wheme's votes. Wheme's actions show JJD is also Scum.
We now know for certain that PP was Town, so any bus coming from Wheme would have to be Vax or JJD.
Vax bus doesn't make sense - as I say in the post, he was TRing Vax until then, and his vote tied Vax for the lead. It's too aggressive for Wheme, when he could play it safe and continue his TR of Vax.
JJD bus makes a ton of sense. He takes pressure
off
JJDWagon with his vote, but casts shade at JJD verbally (without actually doing anything) so he doesn't look weird for having backed up off his supposed scumread. I would call that a soft bus, wouldn't you? Put another way, if JJD was Town, why would Wheme drop him to 180 on Vax? He wouldn't - sticking on JJD would be the safer push.
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In post 5204, Krazy wrote:
@Mylon, while you're here, can you answer a simple question. When you say "meta" what do you mean? Do you actually read other games that person has played in?
@Mylon Hopkirk basically accused you of being too lazy to do meta reads at the end of last game day, lol. Are you scum because you keep saying you've meta'd people but actually you haven't?
In post 5215, Krazy wrote:@Mylon Hopkirk basically accused you of being too lazy to do meta reads at the end of last game day, lol. Are you scum because you keep saying you've meta'd people but actually you haven't?
The former is fair lol, but if I were actually scum then that would be one of the least scummiest things about me lol.
In post 5216, Myloninja13 wrote:
The former is fair lol, but if I were actually scum then that would be one of the least scummiest things about me lol.
In post 5216, Myloninja13 wrote:
The former is fair lol, but if I were actually scum then that would be one of the least scummiest things about me lol.
You heard it here first, people. Mylon hardclaims
not actually scum
.
Haha, nice lol!
By the way, is there a reason you're calling me "Mylon"? I'm fine with calling me whatever lol, but my name is Mylo Ninja 13.
Hey Mylo, I'm currently reading you as scum who sees he's flying under the radar enough that he can avoid contributing. If you're town, do stuff. Especially want you to respond to this.
In post 5083, Hopkirk wrote:It feels like too many wagons aren't going anywhere. Mylo got like 7 votes earlier then hasn't been discussed since.
-Playing to scum meta. Heavily beetlejuicing. Got worse after he was accused of it like he wasn't doing it super intentionally initially, but after a point it feels forced/intentional. Especially given there's plenty of people arguing against lynching him because of it.
-Off the scum lynch wagon and on the counterwagon.
-Hammer posturing. Says 'oh i could hammer wheme' without having a read on him before then or doing it.
-Would fit the slow wagons.
Something else I'm very concerned about is that his use of meta is horrible. He keeps saying things are based on meta when I'm not convinced he's actually seen that player play before (or if he's been looking at it this game, he's been doing it but not posting here).
In post 4951, Myloninja13 wrote:Not sure if I believe in Scioness!Scum... I might have to do a fancy schmancy meta-check-up read on them.
Not completely sure about texcat!scum either, but I'd be fine to also vote for Gamma.
There's no way that a guy who isn't definitely reading the thread was ever planning to do meta on Scion.
He also allegedly had a meta read on Penguin despite the fact he's literally never used the word Penguin while on mafiascum. Hasn't played with him before, so either he did meta this game and didn't mention it (and did it instead of actual posting) or stumbled across it some time. This feels like it also applies to his other uses of 'meta'.
On the same note, Mylo can you go over briefly which games you looked at from Lelandra and Dunn that made them lean town/scum?
When did you look at Lalendra's meta given you haven't played together before?
Have you played more than one game with Gamma?
In post 5089, Hopkirk wrote:Looking back briefly at Mylo's previous posts on meta:
-Talks about his own meta a lot but not other people's (though also seems very concerned with his meta as scum. To paraphrase 'I don't care about my meta as town'.
-As far as I can tell, he hasn't tried to use meta reads on people before, at one point saying he didn't think they were very useful.
He's thrown like 5 reads down this game - including his Dunn scumread- based on meta. It kind of feels like he's just... pretending to have meta reads as it's an easy way to justify a read and hoping nobody calls him out on it (if Mylo flips scum, slight townpoints to Scion here I guess though).
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