In post 1083, Ankamius wrote:My playstyle is basically the scientific method; start with the conclusion and test it until I either disprove it or reach a point where I won't be able to anymore and need to confirm it completely via flips to continue
The goal isn't to lynch scum every day but to give myself enough information to properly narrow down who CAN be scum to put town in an unloseable situation
This is exactly how I played starry night
In post 3783, Aristophanes wrote:As I say, I quoted this one for 2 reasons. First was that I thought maybe Starty Night might have been a crumb. I checked and found nk shenanigans in that game so threw it out.
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The second is what I meant earlier with the xof reasoning. Ank knows how to play and wasn't gunning for scum with this shot! They were aiming to "properly narrow down who can be scum" and got unlucky. Picking a dead null slot is a really good place to start on that front as town and scumreads both present problems, like death and redundancy. Picking xof makes so much sense and it is explained to us right here why they did so! Scientific method ftw!
In post 4326, popsofctown wrote:Ank said she wanted to set up town to win Starry Night, then die, because she thought getting paranoia mislynched was inevitable. MariaR was a good partner for that because she wouldn't be as flighty as, like, Creature ended up being, and probably jammed with her some in the PT, I believe that was part of it. MariaR would increase the chances of getting paranoia mislynched but that wouldn't matter with regards to the strategy she was planning to follow.
I have no idea where you're going with this question but there you go. MariaR understood her reasons in the first instance and remembered them better, I'm sure.
Well I'm thinking about
1083 and how Ari chose to interpret
1083. My first thought was that 1083 has some things that could maybe go either way. But Ari seems to think 1083 is basically a slam dunk for it not being Mena --
Like "extremely misguided" is interesting language mostly because I've never seen Ari be this feisty before. Like, he feels a bit different here than Story Revisited, but that was long enough ago that maybe his playstyle changed. But this also is the second time Ari has started really pushing back against someone I scumread this game so I'm cautious.
In any case, what I don't get is why if Ari thinks 1083 was a kind of crumb then why would he write off Starry Night? Like if you think 1083 is a crumb, why would you write off what happened in the game? Like, Ank danced with Maria. If nothing else, given the whole point of Ari's
3783 is to assess every possible crumb target. So if Ari is going to make the point that 1083 is a crumb, direct or indirect, why would he not conclude that it was Maria, who Ank danced with in Starry Night? I'm not saying I think that's what happened, I'm just saying Ari's argument is kinda sketch in looking at 1083 and then going to "Ank wasn't gunning for scum!" without really thinking about Starry Night beyond a superficial level.
Basically I think Ari's argument here is, in terms of its content, kinda scummy. But the way he's saying it (kinda passive aggressive and outspoken) doesn't really gel with my recollection of how he plays scum. So either he's like, really certain in a very shaky hypothesis and being kinda aggressive in that certainty as town, or he's kinda open wolfing, and I'm trying to decide which.