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[Battle Mage]

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[Alonzo]

I need some cracking British banter from the Brits, I'd also like to get some time time online with datisi, and one or two others I'm yet to interact with in Realish time.

[Alonzo]

ICo Ico Ico

[Menalque]

you know ico isn't British right

anyway mornings are more his thing

[Menalque]

I think bunno makes sense as scum with exactly noraa, should noraa flip scum later this game

[Menalque]

other than that I feel sort of conflicted in that generally I like bunno's takes and I think they're broadly at a similar place to me but equally I know their scum game and the paranoia is sitting lightly in my stomach

[Alonzo]

you know ico isn't British right

anyway mornings are more his thing

Nonsense, I saw him eating tea and scones just the other day, and I don't mind telling you that idiot put the cream on before the jam.

[Alonzo]

Talking of scummy, how does that manquiro scummer sleep without drugs?

Was this ever addressed? Asking for a friend

[Menalque]

[Menalque]

tell you what, I'll give you the answer if you explain what's up with your read on me?

[Menalque]

also, wanted to make a couple of remarks on bunno for anyone unfamiliar:

bunno is a *very, very competent player*. he's a strong town player, but an exceptionally good scum player -- he's one of the only people I can think of who fully snowed town!RC for an entire game and then won that game. I've played scum with him and he's very good at presence, strategy, and tone. idk if he views my towngame as enough of a threat to eliminate me N1 if he's scum vs just pocketing me, but I wanted this out there. I also wouldn't clear him via bussing, but I would say that if you get to lylo and he hasn't led on scum (and I mean led, not joined a scum wagon late) you should be *very, very, very* wary of him

[Datisi]

it is almost two am, why did this take so long, i want to cry
IS THIS ENOUGH COLOURS?

iconeum

- ico just gives me the same feeling as he did in the last couple of games where we were t/t. i've skimmed autumnal again (the only game where i played against scum!ico), and i just don't think i'm being led astray here?

menalque

- gut-town. if he's scum, i'm likely to get a ~gutping~ in his shitposting with me, and i didn't/don't see it this game. iirc, scum!him also doesn't go "yeah dats is lit just town lol". also, i genuinely smiled when i was typing 452 and thinking how i'm actually scumreading shelly, only to see him vote her in pedits.

bob

- man, rereading bob this game, i'm getting flashbacks to games where my gut was *screaming* at me that bob is town, he started getting shitpushed, i didn't say anything, he got executed, and then he flipped town. and then i felt like a moron.

golden

- he kinda feels like the townie getting scumread for spicy reasons. his posting is fine, his takes are fine. i've read the various cases on him, and just... what? like, do i see a world where golden flips scum? sure. do i think we're likely to be in that world? ...not really, no.

bunno

- i've been trying to be caught up with the new posts as i'm rereading (maybe that's why it's taking me so damn long to write this) and kinda getting mixed vibes from their posts? i like what they're noticing in taylor, i don't get their read on ico because i thought his "read" on menal was clearly a joke?

edit: 1207 just got made. what do you like about his posting on page 32?

edit2: hmm. am i the only one here thinking 832 *really* isn't a post to townread someone over?

battle mage

- i liked the early game ~mindmeld~ on noraa. i don't think i can point to a single post of his and with certainty say "i think this is coming from scum." but the fixation on golden is making me feel... uneasy

noraa

- nada. i just don't know. at moments i feel like they're scum trying to attack me but also being afraid of me (like at the beginning with me not explaining the vote or saying i'm gut scum but that those aren't her actual reads?). at moments they feel like newbtown who doesn't give a damn. at other moments they feel like scum trying to push whatever BS they can.

teacher

- i’m getting the feeling he’s trying to fly under the radar - posts seem like they’re trying really hard to be inoffensive. and I’m also wary of his shade on me/mena reads/interactions.

alonzo

- I really don’t feel good things about his early bob push and/or tunnel, and I’m just confused by the rest of his play? why are you voting BM (who’s a nullread?), and why do you ask people to assume there’s scum on their wagons?

username

- reading through his iso, i actually don't like almost none of his reads? like both golden and bob scumreads feel, er, ~made up~? and the townread on BM for making 832 just feels, for lack of a better word, icky?

taylor

- i realized i've been "waiting" on reading this slot for after her catch up. she said she prefers townhunting to scumhunting, but i'm not sure i'm seeing any? she just feels like throwing shade here and there.

shelly

- fuck me, it's already past one am, i've left rereading this slot last, i do not have the energy for this iso right now
i've already talked about this. other thoughts are that her reads on both me and mena are fishy - town until we start suspecting her. and her reaction to me saying i hadn't asked anyone to vote her just seemed so over the top? and i feel like i can't follow a lot of their thought processes, plus the weird shade on people TRing ico while TRing ico. and calling meta trash when BM was using it to defend taylor but screaming about meta when mena is attacking her.

level-zero-thinking notes being
- shelly/taylor prob not s/s
- shelly/noraa prob not s/s
- actually there's likely a lot of not s/s pairs, what am i doing

[Menalque]

also, i genuinely smiled when i was typing 452 and thinking how i'm actually scumreading shelly, only to see him vote her in pedits.

were you on mobile ooi?

[Menalque]

it is almost two am, why did this take so long, i want to cry
IS THIS ENOUGH COLOURS?

it's very nice and pretty but it needs more cowbell

[Datisi]

at that time, i was not, why?

[Menalque]

iirc, scum!him also doesn't go "yeah dats is lit just town lol"

until this game muahahahahaha

[Menalque]

at that time, i was not, why?

ahh, ya know, just paranoia things

[Datisi]

at that time, i was not, why?

ahh, ya know, just paranoia things

i feel like i'm missing an obvious joke here and now i feel bad

[Menalque]

like the fact that my vote came 6 mins before that and so I was wondering whether it really took you 6 mins to make that post and saw my thing in the pedits or if I'm being pocketed and you're faking a mind meld with me *upside down smiley*

[Tayl0r Swift]

The important ones from the top of my head:

- Don't announce you're replacing out of games or try to get other people to replace. Don't comment on replacements either (I kinda broke it early but...)

- Don't use the L word if possible

- Trust tells

- Don't scumclaim together with someone else, even if it's false. Scum claiming by yourself is fine.

I wouldn't say the above is for the last 7 years though...maybe only for the last 3 - 4 years. I don't think there's anything else important though.

llama

[Menalque]

edit2: hmm. am i the only one here thinking 832 *really* isn't a post to townread someone over?

no

it's an effort-y post in that it's long but it's also the type of thing that makes my eyes glaze over and which prob could have had the same effect in 1/4 of the word count making me think it's at least partly a performative post

[Menalque]

Don't comment on replacements either (I kinda broke it early but...)

I'm p sure this is mod-by-mod not sitewide

also didn't know about the scumclaiming one

[Tayl0r Swift]

I've given up on convincing you guys to vote taylor with logic

what about cookies though?

did i miss the part where you were trying to get people to vote me using logic?

[Bunno]

I know I said I was done for the day but I realized it's way too late to start working on certain stuff right now so I'm taking the day off

I'm here to shitpost

[Menalque]

bunno I would like you to talk more about shelly and what the good!posting is before I consider joining you on Taylor