In post 514, Nibbui wrote:@podoboq imagine there was a player X here that knew you very well. What read do you think he should have on you and why?
Of all of my games on site, this game looks most like
Flavor Mafia (played mostly under the outed alt, Avagantimos).
This was a scum game for me, but not my normal scum game. Usually, as either alignment, I'm extremely involved, in the top 10% of activity. Flavor Mafia happened mostly while I was finishing the hardest semester of my life, so I fell behind and had a hard time catching back up. This game started during a holiday, so I feel like I replaced in. I've never actually replaced into a game because I hate catching up. I like to interact with other people in real time, and I don't get that for most of the game when I replace in. So this game is super off for me at the moment. I think I'll be able to correct it now, because unlike Flavor Mafia, I don't have to worry about slipping or anything. I can just be normal, transparent me.
Assuming there was a player who knew me very well, which I don't think there is (since I haven't played here in nearly two years and I've changed), I think they'd read me as town. I think I'm more transparent with my scumtells and towntells than people think. As scum, I tend to make over the top plays. I soft having mod-confirmed information a lot, and make extremely risky plays to fake towntell. In Flavor Mafia, for example, there were only two candidates for a lynch, myself and Umlaut, and I spent the entire day arguing for Umlaut as town, and not defending myself. They ended up lynching Umlaut, and I got all the town cred for hard defending my counterwagon. If you've ever watched Survivor, I play scum like Russel Hantz. I control the discussion, and use any information I have as leverage to gain trust.
As town, I'm just honest. I tell my reads, even when they suck (which is unfortunately most of the time). When my reads change, I move them around without caring that people will scumread it. Right now, I don't actually scumread anyone. Maybe that's because I read the entire game in the past 24 hours, or more likely it's just that active posters are towny to me. It's part of why I want to force NSG and InfiniteSoda into the thread, because if they read as town to me, I'm gonna be kinda lost.