i've started thinking Prism is scum again because the disappointment is hitting that hard. like, i was locktown before, but now all of the progressions Prism said they had no problem with previously are bad. and it looks good and all because they're going through the whole game again and putting in an admirable mountain of effort, but the conclusion is so backwards.
even things like talking about how my redtea suspicion was a "brilliant" move for scum me, and giving this analysis for why. and when pointed out that i don't play the game this way and Prism knows it, they say they still believe in their reasoning and that i must have intuitively made the best choice. where's the basis in my ability to do something as magical as that?
and Prism can say whatever they want about my play, really, and can toss away the ISO that they've admitted is absurdly towny, again by using the prequel game to say that i'm just that good at scum, so any towniness in my posts must be faked.
i'm sure Tanner's fallen into that thinking, he commented that he'd be townreading my ISO but he doesn't think he can read me, and another player (i forget who) says i'm towny but that Prism says i'm capable of faking this.
but i'm not some kind of scum god, and Prism
knows
this.
it's weird that upon reread, it's not that Prism found some things that show i'm actually scum. it's that upon reread, my
entire ISO
is suspect. how is that realistic? surely Prism should be able to recognize some measure of bias from a conclusion like that. not just my beeboy progression, not just my Prism progression, but every stance i've taken is now suspect? Prism even made a comment about how "we both know i'm going to reach your Taylor progression and find more evidence". that's not good-faith hunting, that's looking for evidence that fits me being scum.
it also feels like they're using Puppy scum as an excuse to say that because Puppy was townread and was scum, a towny ISO can be disregarded. Chara can be scum, it could have fooled me this hard because Puppy managed it, right?
when i first read Prism's reread of the first few pages, where they called my interactions with Puppy and Element's hilariously obvious theatre, my first thought was that this was another reaction test, where Prism says something that is untrue in an attempt to get a reaction out of me.
i didn't think they'd do that again, though.
but really, it's nothing. it's fun early-game interaction. i have that sort of back and forth with a lot of people in the early game, i doubt there's anything special directed to Puppy or Elements there, and in fact a lot of those posts were engagement from Puppy towards me, that i then responded to. in what way is that different from how Hectic and i were interacting?