A Story Revisited (Anything uPick): Day 6

[Invisibility]

...?

[Invisibility]

wait lemme

[Invisibility]

ok done

[Wh4t]

I think you're might just be derpy rather than scummy invis.

[Wh4t]

So I'm still waiting for mastina and gamma to explain their scumreads. Good work today. Adios.

[Gamma Emerald]

for slayers gambit claim

Why is that scummy to you?

Because it’s a fucking retcon

So gamma you scumread me for low posting right?

Yeah. Slayer’s Gambit won’t change that when it could be you’re made it up to cover your ass. It conveniently explains away your scumminess and it’s just a very basic play that you get no towncred for it. You can still change the overall read, but that element of how I perceive you this game is locked in.

[Gamma Emerald]

Lol ok

[Wh4t]

Right well low posting is NAI so your read is more AI than my low posting. Who else are your biggest scumreads and why is Wheme your top town read?

[Gamma Emerald]

Right well low posting is NAI so your read is more AI than my low posting. Who else are your biggest scumreads and why is Wheme your top town read?

I just posted a few reads that mastina’s read explanations gave me so you can check those for scumreads. As for Wheme, I feel like this style of posting is from town him. In his last scum game he was quite lurky and unproductive, which is certainly not the case here. In addition I think his posting is similar to how he was in the last RC UPick, but it doesn’t feel like he meant for that to happen.

[Gamma Emerald]

As for the low posting I guess you aren’t in the camp me, mastina, and NC are in wrt lack of activity meaning different things, so I doubt you’ll ever be satisfied with my explanation. But I just feel like you aren’t playing as well as I think you can, and you don’t feel very driven.

[Wh4t]

I'm lost in such a big game so figured it was easier to wait for people to interact with me to get reads. It's fine I think you might be genuine in your push on me. Currently ISOing people.

Mastina is pretty borderline nullscum so far in that the majority of her posts are fluffy, teach-y, lamisty and discuss her role. Her one post with content - the readslist wall is nothing great either. I really dislike how her chick scumread started as a passing comment to someone else scumreading them which was then followed up by chick being her biggest scumread in her list. When you consider the climate was ripe for a chick quickwagon it looks worse. I noticed IC pointed out the lack of resistance to the chick wagon so I give them slight town points for that.

When we look at mastina's role it would be quite a powerful role as scum in that it ensures a town lynch when used - what confuses this is mastina clarifying that town can no-lynch and use the role as investigative. I don't see why town would be given a gladiate role that ensures a town lynch (or no-lynch) unless the set-up were bastard? So overall the role claim gives me the null-scum lean. When she can explain her read change on me I'll be able to update this.

Chick seems fine? As mentioned her wagon was the first to pop up with little resistance however she hasn't done herself many favours to get town read (which usually points to town imo). I like her confidence in her read on Vax and someone else I can't remember.

[Wh4t]

Oh christ Vax is scum.

VOTE: Vaxkiller

I thought it wouldn't make sense with mastina as SvS as he keeps calling her claim fake but then he goes on about how chick is obv scum and was the best vig. Usually when someone calls a claim fake they are implying that player is scum - half sitting on the fence about mastina's alignment whilst egging her on to use a pro-scum ability does not prevent vax and mastina from being SvS. It's feasible distancing imo.

[Wh4t]

Wheme is ????

Not sure why he points out scummy things about chick but doesn't vote there...he then overconfidently votes invis before randomly voting porkens. Hmmm. No clue what this dude is up to or why.

[WhemeStar]

NICE WHEME DIDNT LAST LONG BUT NICE WHEME IS OVER

BOW BEFORE ME MORTALS AND SHEEP ME IN MY QUEST TO LYNCH SCUM

No u

Talk to me about Vizzy and what the differences are between him in GSGDM and him here, and also why are you basically behaving like the 3p Wheme in the same game

YOU ARE SAYING THERE ARE DIFFERENCES NOT ME

YOU EXPLAIN YOURSELF

[WhemeStar]

Wheme is ????

Not sure why he points out scummy things about chick but doesn't vote there...he then overconfidently votes invis before randomly voting porkens. Hmmm. No clue what this dude is up to or why.

I WASNT CAUGHT UP

[Innocent Children]

I am not completely caught up from yesterday. Can you link or quote this? Thanks.

if u click on the origin quote that u just quoted and then scroll up you'll actually see the offense immediately before the accusation

Thanks, caught your “letters have no case” post.

[Innocent Children]

Nancy Knows how to play as town knows how to play as scum. Nearly outlived people as scum by acting this naive recently and I can't allow anyone to give her credit for this attitude.

nancy says shit like that regardless of alignment.

FA, take note. This is coming from someone who has played 2 other games with me: Minuet and Hourglass. I strongly advise you to ISO me in those games as well as Necromancer.

[Innocent Children]

wanting to look like they're being a townie gamesolving

Like...

your tone here is screaming fake to me. I don't even understand how couldn't more people call you out then

~Sora

Yeah, well I get told that a lot as town, so that’s completely NAi. “More people” actually don’t have a bias based one ONE freaking game. Wtf happened to every single other game I’ve been town in on here or MU. Why don’t you actually familiarize yourself with my meta or is that too much to ask of you?

I played with both town you and scum you. The points I made has nothing to do with your meta. What meta adds to this is that: I saw you faking this attitude as scum once before so if you're town this time and you're doing this, you're faking it for credit and it's still not real.

so which one is it?

~Sora

Could you link me a time when this happened with acknowledgment of it happening as opposed to just general obliviousness

Another FA post, that makes me want to shoot myself. *sigh*

[Wh4t]

Is it bad that I want to vote IC for his nonsensical walls?

Yes. And wt actual f is “nonsensical” about them? Is this even a serious thought?

I wonder if I voted you, would FA consider that a scummy omgus? Lol

Because seriously, you really do look like you’re trying to solve based on little to none content.

Just saw this. Hi. I think you're scummy.

[Wh4t]

wheme that slot could be scum but i'd like to hear a case

What slot could be scum? And why not present your own case instead of waiting for others to create the scumread for you?

Please tell the class about

your

cases.

Feel free to comment on my hard efforting today

[Innocent Children]

Spoiler:

Ginngie
Nero Cain
Gamma Emerald
randomidget
Skygazer
Invisibility
jjh927
Nosferatu
Wh4t
Porkens
Innocent Children (Nancy Drew 39 & Disquieted)
Rylai and Lina (Frozen Angel & Shiro)
Maid Cafe (MariaR & Beeboy)
Whemestar
KuroiXHF
Lady Angel
Vecna
Titus
Vaxkiller
Nicorobin
Chickadee

About this.

The closer to the middle, the more hazy it gets. Note that further north is more strong than further south for this though.

Wanted to start with clarifying these, though.

I had trouble forming separation in them, to give proper tiers.

But I want to explain more where I'm coming from.

This list can be thought of as a mixture of RVS and seriousness, in that it is entirely a serious list--but it involves a lot of guesswork on my part in areas.

The players near the top, there's no guesswork needed; they are actually town for definitive reasons, but it gets hazier the further down you get.

Ginngie is my top townread here because she instantly showed herself to be town. I get that she hasn't played much--I get that I haven't played much with her recently. I get that her scumgame is always getting, progressively, better and better. But in spite of that. There's just no way that her scumgame has improved in the leaps and bounds necessary for her to have so seamlessly hidden her tells. This is her towngame, through-and-through. I'm invoking the soulread privilege here; she's townier than an innocent child, town.

Nero Cain is not far behind. Nero Cain is quite capable of faking individual aspects of his town meta. It's not like he has any singular tell which works on him. He's quite capable of, say, posting up a storm as scum. But when it comes to Nero. There isn't just one aspect of difference between his towngame and his scumgame. There are multiple. And while he's capable of faking one or maybe two aspects of his town meta as scum. He can't fake them ALL. And this game, they are all, strongly, on display; he is town.

Gamma Emerald is actually a much, much easier to read player than people give him credit for. This one's a bit hard for me to explain, but all the promising signs are there. I loved his entrance into the game, and the insights he's been giving have been...well. Insightful, meaningful, and felt gamesolvy, while at the same time having his trademark level of laziness, for lack of a better word. It's casual, effortless, and natural, rather than stilted and artificial.

randomidget is a similar read. He's not that hard to get a good read on. He's always a bit of a "low-key" player, even lower than Gamma, but as town there's a certain level of insight he has even in his more "casual" style of posting. There's aspects of scumhunting and gamesolving to be found, and all the right markers are there.

Skygazer I have extensively witnessed her scumgame and towngame quite a lot (she's been in like literally every single Normal I've been a reviewer of as of late), and this is simply put not her scumgame. Not even remotely close to her scumgame. Immediately it's obvious to anyone with experience with her. The difference between the two is night and day. Even failing meta (which is, admittedly, not as extensive as Nero/Ginngie/Gamma/random metas), there's the content she has given, all of which has been in a direction I felt was distinctly pro-town.

Invisibility, I have basically no experience with whatsoever, but his gamesolving is quite similar to the others above, following the same patterns I've outlined. The insights he's given, the content he's contributed, have all felt natural, casual, and yet been pro-town in nature.

jjh, his mechanical talk I realize people didn't like--but I didn't care for it one way or another. For me, that wasn't really important at all and didn't affect my read on him whatsoever, being thoroughly null; regardless of his alignment, I feel like he'd have said much the same things as he did there. My townread comes from his content

outside

the mechanical talk, which is there if you look for it; all the places he's pushing, I can understand where he's coming from and even agree with a lot of it (see also, my placement of Titus and NicoRobin on my list and his treatment of their slots).

Nosferatu, I realize is a bit of a difficult read but I've had a fair amount of experience with Nos recently. Admittedly, basically all of it as town so I don't quite have the best knowledge of Nosferatu's scumgame, but. Everything I'm seeing matches the towngame performance I'd be expecting. There's the chance that I'm simply seeing NAI stuff across games and considering it town, but I still have liked Nos's content thusfar.

Wh4t and Porkens represent the point of null--but townish null. Herein enters the guesswork. Neither had posted at the time of my list, but the guesswork comes in, of their not having posted being a little town indicative. Not all "lack of posting" is created equal; for some users, it is indicative of town, for some it is indicative of scum, and for most it's just not indicative of anything at all. Differentiating between the three is an artform at best, but my guess here was that their lack of posting was town, more than scum.

Innocent Children had posted a lot, and while I liked what I saw more than I didn't, it wasn't anything I felt was strongly clearing of them.

Rylai and Lina had posted a fair bit, but I was far more ambivalent on their content, with about equal feelings of town/scum on them, but nothing I felt was strongly indicative of alignment.

Maid Cafe had posted a fair bit, but I wasn't that fond of their content, not liking it more than I liked it--yet in spite of disliking their contributions, it didn't feel strongly alignment indicative. Scummy, without necessarily indicating being scum, if that makes sense.

WhemeStar hadn't posted, so he was another guesswork. He's more of a nullish null, in that I thought his lack of posting wasn't really indicative of alignment.

Kuroi did post--once. 285 was something which I could easily see coming from either alignment, but I felt was slightly more likely to come from scum.

Lady Angel also had only one post--47. Similarly, it was something I could see coming from either alignment, but I felt that if Lady Angel were town, it was more likely her RVS would have had interactions with those who had already posted; it did not.

Vecna hadn't posted, so while this is also guesswork, this is a scummish null, because he absolutely

should

be posting, and posting up a storm no less. Vecna's both an incredible wallposter, and incredible spamposter. His post count is always in the hundreds, usually the 300-800 range. And in spite of producing that number of posts, about 33-50% of said posts are wallposts. He is someone I would expect to be incredible active in the game and among the first to be posting in it, so his absence felt strange.

Below that point, you get into actual scumread territory, but admittedly, not strong scumreads.

I hated pretty much everything Titus was doing and felt it was far more likely to be pushing a scum agenda; her one saving grace is that sometimes, a town Titus really does believe in those frankly anti-town things as in her moonlogicky mind being pro-town even though they really aren't. Still. While it

could

come from her as town, it is far more likely to come from her as scum.

Vaxkiller's entrance into the game felt entirely wrong. This is a little hard for me to really explain, but the places he's pushed and what he's doing just feel like...they're lacking something. Vaxkiller has a weird way of being oddly passionate as town, with some strange logic but still being someone with respectable good insights and reads, yet everything he's given has felt...lackluster. Like there was something from it missing.

NicoRobin is a read I am deliberately avoiding explaining for now; I am looking for something quite specific, but with it absent she's scum.

Chickadee's entrance into the game screamed scum, and nothing she's done in the game since then has shown anything else but scum. She's not scumhunting, not really, and is just kinda there, more worried about herself than she is about finding scum, with comments that don't contribute much of anything.

So that's where I was coming from; I need to read and give an update on these.[/spoiler]

I really like this post - not necessarily agree with your reads though but yeah, also think Nos and random are probably town here. I still think you’re wrong about Titus but we’ll see.

[Innocent Children]

Shoot: mastina

Why?

[Innocent Children]

Hi! XD

So some of my reads have changed and I'll need to recompile the readslist to show it but none of them more drastic than this.

VOTE: Wh4t.

What changed? Did Nico actually shoot you or was this another fake daykill?

I like this better then Porkens but I dunno.

[Innocent Children]

Oh just remembered.
Not sure if I actually told you this, but did get the answer from RC.
When I use my ability, town can in fact no-lynch, so.

So, town can actually veto your gladiate?

[Innocent Children]

I am the great Cornholio.
Do you have T.P. for my bunghole? I would hate for my holio to get polio.

So having had a posting restriction in the past I know for a fact RC can give them.

But I'm like 90% sure this is faked.

Idrc if it’s faked, as long as he’s contributory I’m fine. It gives me a chuckle though. Beavis and Butthead has a special place in my heart thanks to it giving rise to Daria, one of my all-time fave shows.

I can 100% confirm RC can give post restrictions, he gave one to AA9 in Labrynth.