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Cabd · Post Post #300 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:49 am

Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.

fferyllt · Post Post #301 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:54 am

In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.

borkthoughts?

Syryana · Post Post #302 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 11:56 am

In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.

Are you now. What courses did the happy couple order?

Cabd · Post Post #303 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:01 pm

In post 301, fferyllt wrote:
In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.
borkthoughts?

Nah.

Really don't want to pick at either bork or prism rn.

More interested in hecticalt and vax homework for tonight's insomnia dose.

Mod Pizza · Post Post #304 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:19 pm

In post 303, Cabd wrote:More interested in hecticalt and vax homework for tonight's insomnia dose.

anything in particular you wanted to talk about?

Cabd · Post Post #305 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:22 pm

I was hoping to get your vax read in more depth. I understand we're a slow moving game-whale so "I don't really have enough data besides elements said to" is fine for now if not.

ISO · Post Post #306 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:35 pm

In post 281, Syryana wrote:Pedit: Bork, if you think I haven't done anything and moved on from shitposting since then, you're not reading closely enough.

maybe i'm being uncharitable, but I'm seeing an ISO that is heavy on playful interactions and light on analysis. Why did you not like the Vax post in particular that you quoted?

ISO · Post Post #307 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:39 pm

In post 301, fferyllt wrote:
In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.
borkthoughts?

In post 303, Cabd wrote:
In post 301, fferyllt wrote:
In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.
borkthoughts?

Nah.

Really don't want to pick at either bork or prism rn.

More interested in hecticalt and vax homework for tonight's insomnia dose.

this is...not really what i expect from either of you after last game

Mod Pizza · Post Post #308 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:41 pm

In post 156, Vaxkiller wrote:A page 6 reads list? lol!

VOTE: elements

I may unvote if that reads list a joke or something.

Lets wagon this instead. ffiellt wasnt anything anyway.

In post 193, Vaxkiller wrote:
In post 160, Elements wrote:
In post 156, Vaxkiller wrote:A page 6 reads list? lol!
what's wrong with a page 6 read list

In post 174, Elements wrote:
In post 173, borkjerfkin wrote:
In post 166, Elements wrote:is how I read 126. It's so obviously sarcastic that it fells forced and as if it's trying to get people to join in "for the meme" as it were
i get what you're saying but i feel it's pretty innocuous
it is a page 7 read list
So, you act like there's nothing wrong with a reads list this early and also shrug it off at the same time.

I like my vote more now.

I don’t like his take on the readslist thing and it feels like he’s shading elements who I think is town.

I specifically didn’t like the “I may unvote if that readslists a joke or something” which just felt... highly performative I guess? And like a way to try and get elements to back off, which is bad because scumreads at that point didn’t mean much

In post 202, Vaxkiller wrote:
In post 198, Prism wrote:Vax is weird. Overly aggressive and positioning for its own sake can work if you have the right idea/it's a weak table.

I shrugged off the early disconnect but the positioning above just seems clueless. Going out of their way to show bravado and be aggressive while also being sure to hedge w/ letting us know it's a phone post.
Maybe you just don't know me. We all have our own style.

Did the mentioning that these are phone posts come off as "hedging my reads" to you? That seems like a stretch. It was really just a comment on probably misspelling or typing or formatting.

This also comes across as overly defensive imo

Mod Pizza · Post Post #309 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:41 pm

Also, elements specifically didn’t tell me to if you check her posts. I voted of my own volition

Cabd · Post Post #310 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:42 pm

I feel like I should address the elephant-sized missing data point in the room and point out that prior to signing up for this game, I spoke at length with a few folks about how I have a desire to play more "conventionally" in normals/newbies and keep my chaotic self constrained to themes.

The whiplash you're feeling is probably trying to place that and weight is vs. "Is this just scum cabd trying to look for a way to excuse treading new ground instead of his 2020 town game he knows he cannot keep up with" but obviously, you have to answer that for yourself.

Cabd · Post Post #311 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:43 pm

In post 309, Mod Pizza wrote:Also, elements specifically didn’t tell me to if you check her posts. I voted of my own volition

Yes, I sit corrected.

fferyllt · Post Post #312 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:44 pm

In post 307, borkjerfkin wrote:
In post 301, fferyllt wrote:
In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.
borkthoughts?

In post 303, Cabd wrote:
In post 301, fferyllt wrote:
In post 300, Cabd wrote:Forget bridesmaid. I'm just here as the wedding caterer this time.
borkthoughts?

Nah.

Really don't want to pick at either bork or prism rn.

More interested in hecticalt and vax homework for tonight's insomnia dose.
this is...not really what i expect from either of you after last game

What were your expectations?

ISO · Post Post #313 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:50 pm

engagement / attempt to wade through your initial wariness / pinging off each other

Syryana · Post Post #314 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:51 pm

In post 306, borkjerfkin wrote:
In post 281, Syryana wrote:Pedit: Bork, if you think I haven't done anything and moved on from shitposting since then, you're not reading closely enough.
maybe i'm being uncharitable, but I'm seeing an ISO that is heavy on playful interactions and light on analysis. Why did you not like the Vax post in particular that you quoted?

I mean yeah, I've been heavily shitposting, but more recently there's a townread on Mod, a townread on prism, and I'm working my way towards townreads on several others. I don't find Vax's progression on elements believable or natural; it feels like he's just cottoning onto something (namely, elements' readslist) for the sake of formulating a scumread. Early readslists are not a scumtell. Vax's 193 hardened that feeling because he's now doubling down on elements scum because elements is not hard defending a gut reads list he made on page 6.

Cabd · Post Post #315 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:53 pm

In post 313, borkjerfkin wrote:engagement / attempt to wade through your initial wariness / pinging off each other

This risks too much leaving slots behind that don't need to be left behind.

And for what gain? Another dumb chapter in the dumpster fire twenty book series that is our meta dances? Not worth losing out on interaction with new faces and old friends.

ISO · Post Post #316 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:56 pm

UNVOTE:

ISO · Post Post #317 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:57 pm

In post 315, Cabd wrote:Another dumb chapter in the dumpster fire twenty book series that is our meta dances?

I feel like there is a happy medium between this game and Illicit Substances, no?

fferyllt · Post Post #318 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:57 pm

In post 313, borkjerfkin wrote:engagement / attempt to wade through your initial wariness / pinging off each other

I'd love to outsource my read of you but that's probably not going to be possible. Probably not optimal either.

Cabd · Post Post #319 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 12:59 pm

In post 317, borkjerfkin wrote:
In post 315, Cabd wrote:Another dumb chapter in the dumpster fire twenty book series that is our meta dances?
I feel like there is a happy medium between this game and Illicit Substances, no?

None of the 2020 comparables are good game states for this player list.

Really don't want to make the thread about this either right now.

Want more fresh data from fresher faces.

Mod Pizza · Post Post #320 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:07 pm

In post 319, Cabd wrote:None of the 2020 comparables are good game states for this player list

Sorry, what does this mean? Also, I’m having a memory — did you play in the anon wolfdance, Cabd?

Cabd · Post Post #321 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:19 pm

In post 320, Mod Pizza wrote:
In post 319, Cabd wrote:None of the 2020 comparables are good game states for this player list
Sorry, what does this mean? Also, I’m having a memory — did you play in the anon wolfdance, Cabd?

I was gentleman the 6th, chaos gent, indeed.

To unpack the top part a bit more...

Often times when ffery and myself are in a list and not a hydra together, day one becomes completely dominated by our posting and prodding at each other, an eternal arms race between us that's been going on seven years now.

We both semi-unretired this year. none of the games that have take place in 2020 have had a version of that dance that I would consider healthy for this player list, nor the kind of play I want to be having this game. It's not that I can't dance with her and spam it up. It's that I won't. I want to enjoy players like Prism that see a 150 page day one and nope the fuck out.

Prism · Post Post #322 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:23 pm

I want to take this moment to note that the pace was not even close to related to me replacing our of Illicit, and pacing is not an issue for me even if I have a preference.

Prism · Post Post #323 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:26 pm

I encourage the change but it was really annoying watching

literally zero

correct statements made about my preferences all game and it was the torture I deserved for replacing our to begin with, so I have to take this chance to set that record straight even if I totally agree with your point.

Mod Pizza · Post Post #324 (ISO) » Sat Nov 28, 2020 1:27 pm

In post 321, Cabd wrote:
In post 320, Mod Pizza wrote:
In post 319, Cabd wrote:None of the 2020 comparables are good game states for this player list
Sorry, what does this mean? Also, I’m having a memory — did you play in the anon wolfdance, Cabd?
1I was gentleman the 6th, chaos gent, indeed.

To unpack the top part a bit more...

2
Often times when ffery and myself are in a list and not a hydra together, day one becomes completely dominated by our posting and prodding at each other, an eternal arms race between us that's been going on seven years now.

3We both semi-unretired this year. none of the games that have take place in 2020 have had a version of that dance that I would consider healthy for this player list, nor the kind of play I want to be having this game. It's not that I can't dance with her and spam it up. It's that I won't. I want to enjoy players like Prism that see a 150 page day one and nope the fuck out.

(1) ah, we are acquainted a little then — I was Lady 5, Earth

(2) oh, uh. How fortunate that I don’t have a relationship like that with anyone in this PL either then. Nobody at all, nuh-uh <.< >.>

(3) thank you for the clarification. I’m also planning to try to keep it reigned in both on an individual level and in.. relations with others, let’s say