In post 2567, Spiffybringer wrote:Blake can you explain why you are town reading Black Hole Deflection because I am not seeing it
~Spiffy
First, the trajectory between
1613 and
1623 reflects very similarly to my own trajectory towards the end of this engagement, without directly being affected by my own. At an early point in the engagement this was based around, I initially found problems with John Cena and had an inkling that scum were involved within that engagement somehow. Popsofctown came in and hinted at Pink Ball potentially being scum, perhaps even scum with John Cena. I decided to poke at her to see if she was getting the same weird feeling that I was, despite the fact that she had already stated that John Cena's perspective was the most relateable to her. I was not expecting a response that she suspected there are no scum within that list. This made me wonder, since she had been fairly active throughout this exchange between John Cena, insomnia, and Pink Ball, what exactly she was looking to get out of this as a member of the scumteam. I thought this trajectory was too strange to be likely from a scum mindset.
Then,
1773 happened. Popsofctown went back on this in order to start pushing insomnia as potential scum, which on the surface does put a damper on my analysis. My initial conclusion was that the trajectory was strange since she had to have been looking to take advantage of the chaos building to set it up for something later, but she willingly defused the situation on her own part against what she had already been thinking before that. Her scumgame is strong enough not to just throw random posts out there and I wasn't exactly putting pressure onto her with my question as much as I was simply asking her to further her thoughts, so the most likely possibility is that she was working from an inner thought process and wasn't inherently reacting to try to find a 'correct' answer to my query.
There's also the fact that at the time, I was becoming more curious about insomnia, and that trajectory makes even less sense if she's scum with him. I believe it wouldn't be hard for her to come up with things to say that make more sense as scum, considering that she's had remarkably little issue doing that throughout the rest of the game as well. Functionally, the whole thing doesn't make any sense from a scum mindset in my eyes, and I find that particularly compelling because I believe that section of the game was the most indicative of alignment for the most slots.
-Blake
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