my main thing on bulge is there's some early game stuff that just looks weird but i'm *assuming* some of that is bc i don't follow meta or whatever
like, out of nowhere asking pooky if gamma is town. why pooky's read on gamma, specifically?
then he questions gamma on the noraa obvtown read.
In post 660, The Bulge wrote:as for the group of 4 iirc I was feeling a little sketchy about gamma the other day but all his recent posts were pretty townie. A few people called out Noraa's gamma vote but for me it's the timing of it. Looks like she saw the numbers dwindling and was scared of the wagon dissipating and moving elsewhere. pooky seems townie but I don't trust myself to read pooky at all, I'm extremely inconsistent in my accuracy. vpb seems pretty transparently town to me in a way I'm not sure how to briefly summarize
this post feels like a lot of preamble to retroactively justify joining the noraa wagon without looking bad. like honestly it feels like fishing for a reason so he isn't viewed poorly for the jump as opposed to just... voting noraa. bulge had been completely disengaged w/ the game thus far, literally nothing on noraa, and i think if he was town, he probably would've just joined the wagon here
bulge was also the first one to show concern over my "super secret scumread" and then like keeps going on trying to get UT to give hints ab what it is/what he thinks of it...idk why bulge was so obsessed over who i was secretly reading unless he was paranoid. then like after pinging him about it multiple times bulge is just like "oh i wasn't asking you to spill anything". like what? then why were you hammering on it?
just the way bulge is approaching questioning things it feels sorta like agar's "questioning to question not to catch scum or sort people" thing that he was doing. like
what does this help solve? how the fuck should i know how many scum we missed on d1? and what does my response do to
help bulge figure out the game
?
he mostly ignores agar until this moment:
In post 1276, The Bulge wrote: In post 1257, AGar wrote:Spent 11.5 hours and so far almost every waking minute staring at 600 acres worth of utility maps today. Going to go for a run to reset my brain/create a divide in the day for my own sanity, then I'll deal with some of the garbage in here, but boy do I have some fucking takes.
were you in prodrange before you made this post?
which gives me extreme pause. i don't kno why agar's buddy would like, call him out for posting outside of prod range or whatevver? it's really weird and i dont know how to view this at all.
In post 1341, The Bulge wrote:I want to do some deeper reading. Agar has always been hard for me to read or even to posture against as scum. but I want to trust notty there. so it's like
lilith
Agar?
starbuck
I don't want to yeet cakez (which is probably a surprise to him
)
at least he's consistent ab wanting to yeet lillith? but the whole "idk agar oh gosh i cant read him" is v weird (also like not sure what history agar/bulge even have meta-wise for him to have the authority to make the claim he can "never read him"?)
once i called out bulge as my secret scumread in 1347, he snap votes me back angrily.
so i guess my slam dunk read on bulge is not that i can draw specific scum motivations for his posts, it's that i can't find specific town motivation. i find a lot of "look engaged for the sake of looking engaged" but not much questioning to try to actually like solve the game and find the baddies and that's a problem for me
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@VPB: given gamma flipped green, does this associative tell of yours change at all?
what were the reasons behind it and how is it affected now post-gamma flip?
