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Post Post #1200 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:48 pm

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In post 1197, Tanner wrote:okay, response to ydra wall.
In post 1168, Ydrasse wrote:it's intentional for many reasons but the main for you is because i started off this game really annoyed at you and i thought it better to Not engage like that for everyone's benefit. that and the statement i made earlier about you not reading me correctly was based in the memory of that normal game where you were scum and townread me which like, to me was "why can't he see what he's seeing here"
first, why did you get annoyed at me? and i don't understand what the second part means. when i was scum, i wasn't townreading you. i *said* in the thread of that game that i was townreading you, because i thought that was the best path to take with you, but, uh, that was me bullshitting. i didn't have a read on you, i knew you were town. if i know someone's alignment (e.g. because they're not in the scum pt with me), my brain doesn't even parse through their posts for ai info. like, i'll
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In post 1168, Ydrasse wrote:but i disagree that "everyone sounds town" is a scummy mindset bc i just played a game where... like everyone basically sounded town to me and i was floundering lol.
i think there's a difference between "everyone sounds town, what do i do" and "everyone sounds town, except conveniently these top wagons, i will not put any thought into this at all". like, it feels like the second part.

alright. i think your take on me here is like, much more nuanced than when you were scum vs me, which is also where my scumread stemmed from your read on me sounding like extremely forced paranoia. so by that, i'd say i'm leaning town. however, you also *know* that's what i hated, so if you did roll scum against me again, i imagine you'd be much more careful about your read on me.

also, what's really REALLY worrying me is that you seem to be trying to find every excuse under the sun to not vote robert. like, something just rings extremely
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typing this out reminded me how earlier in the game i said that if robert flipped scum i'd deathtunnel you, and going back to check it out again, that still holds. this doesn't feel right.

so, to answer your question: my read on you is town, if we're going by the depth of your thought processes, the nuance you're showing in your read on me, etc. but uh, the actual things you're pushing are not giving me positive feelings. so i don't know, make of that what you will.
1) whether or not you were genuinely reading me, my experience that game was that i believed you were town, that was townreading me -- and that translated into an instinctual "what the fuck, why can't he read me right" moment for me where i felt that you HAD read me right as town before and just weren't doing it here. it was something that was based on memory that just... wasn't true. but i was annoyed because i had the perception that you should have a basis for reading me and i find it annoying when people are like "ya scum" to me when i'm like... "what am i doing that's scummy." + i just had the same experience in forest fire before i repped out

2) re robert: ...i'm just baffled as fuck by him right now more than anything because i don't understand his thought processes at all, and everything about *him* feels counter intuitive to me, like the ircher vote which i just don't know *why.* it's so... aloof? like "oh am i voting your scumbuddy" that it's hard to process. but there are things about robert that i think like.. him, turning onto his defenders, right. i feel that it's townier to do that and risk alienating them at the risk of solving correctly. or it's too much wifom for scum!robert to bother with in this game, maybe? like earlier i thought that satoru's push on him was weird and lazy and i was like "no, this shouldn't go through" because i was kind of miffed about it coming across as low effort. i wasn't seeing what people were seeing in robert but like... i'm starting to ~get it~ i guess but not to the extent where i want to vote him today. i want to vote satoru and it's not so much that i'm avoiding reasons to vote robert as *i have preferences that are not robert in satoru/infinity and would go on robert, i guess*. my read on satoru is confident where as robert i'm "ehhh".

have you said anything abt why satoru isn't a good vote today? i skimmed over your iso and uh, didn't do as much due diligence on that front but i don't understand why you don't want to go there today
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Post Post #1201 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:49 pm

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ugh, i started thinking about who could be a possible robert partners, and there's actually way too many of them... why is everyone defending him so strongly, he's so goddamn scummy lol

i need to sleep. i hate this ircher wagon it feels like a coinflip. i'm using robert's as another attempt to get him yeeted out of this game.

flea has kinda risen on my list but i'm unsure if that's just because i'm so happy that someone doesn't think i'm insane for scumreading robert.
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Post Post #1202 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:50 pm

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Post Post #1203 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:50 pm

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so i just had the thought related to him being baffling, and the thought is that "i read his posts and feel like he's playing an entirely different game right now"

and in the context of a silent star game i actually dont know what to do with that
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Post Post #1204 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:53 pm

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We could policy-elim Robert, but meh.
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Post Post #1205 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:53 pm

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Nooooooo not the classic silent star fuckery coming innnn its too earlyyyy

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Post Post #1206 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:55 pm

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In post 1204, clidd wrote:We could policy-elim Robert, but meh.
if i'm voting robert it's bc i feel good about him flipping maf not because it's policy. no.
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Post Post #1207 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:57 pm

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I know, I'm just reminding that there is this alternative too.
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Post Post #1208 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:57 pm

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In post 1191, Tanner wrote:
In post 1182, PookyTheMagicalBear wrote:
In post 1153, Tanner wrote:i've not exactly ruled out "lazy scum!pooky whose partners aren't in danger so he's fine chilling and doing nothing" yet. i'll admit there's nothing exactly pointing there yet, but... i'm keeping it in mind.
I disagree about it being a trust tell as its a belief she has of my play.

also if you think its lazy pooky scum with safe partners, who are my partners?
i don't "think" that, i just acknowledge it's a (at the moment unlikely) possibility. and no fucking clue. that would mean this town is full of deepwolves, so it's not something i want to think about on day one.

will respond to other things in a second, but before i do so i wanna point out - robert's ircher vote is disgusting. to the point where i wonder if robert is a jester.
I don't think he's a jester, his reaction to his wagon earlier in the game was too good and doesn't make a lot of sense for someone who would want the wagon to continue

Something being strange about his play is totally possible though
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Post Post #1209 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:58 pm

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(1) yeah, sorry, that's just not the case. i've seen town!you as both a mod and a scumfuck, but neither of those involved trying to read you and those games are not useful to me here.

(2) the part where he started yelling at people defending him is probably the towniest part of his iso to me. but also, i don't think it's enough to offset my read on everything else he's done.

can i call my nakata read gut for now? like, off the top of my head, i don't really have *any* solid reasons to actually think he's town, and i'm not super confident in it anyway. if you want, i can skim through his iso tomorrow to see if i can remember what gave me the townie feelings in the first place, but that's not happening now as it's 3am and i told myself i was gonna go to bed early today and uh.
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Post Post #1210 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:01 pm

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in the interests of not keeping you up if you're wating for a reply i'll write something more succinct if i feel is needed later but please do re nakata so i can try to understand bc im not getting anything like that
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Post Post #1211 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:04 pm

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yeah okay, i just realized that right now, i can't even remember why *you* want to kill nakata, so like. brain dead, going to sleep, see ya tomorrow.
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Post Post #1212 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:05 pm

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if you want tmrw i'll try o write up the case i lost where i went over it in more detail but thinking about rewriting it infuriates me
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Post Post #1213 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:06 pm

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picture: ydra has just spent several hours fretting over her usual laptop being ruined because her cats are chaotic

she breaks out the ol laptop she used before and sits down and sees it has 2 hours of time, thats way more than enough

she spents like 20 or so minutes writing up her thoughts in depth about nakata

she goes to edit in all the links to the post

boom, laptop turns off
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Post Post #1214 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:06 pm

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Post Post #1215 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:07 pm

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In post 738, Robert M Hunter wrote:I'm actually more suspicious of the players defending me, because it's blatantly obvious that I won't survive into the night to use my power, and it's very safe for them to say I'm town when they know I'm town.

I feel shitting scum reading the only players that read me correctly, so I'm very conflicted.

Anyway, if I could be a ghost after I get eliminated, that's where I'd look. The players that defended me.
In post 739, Robert M Hunter wrote:I meant "I feel shitty scum reading" etc.
In post 741, Robert M Hunter wrote:Objectively there are no reasons to town read me that hold water.

But then, the reasons to scum read me seem very opportunistic. Why are players hung up scum-reading me into page 25 or so, because they pretend to be baffled that I didn't know that Datisi = Tanner? They are hanging on to this notion because they know I'm the easy player to eliminate because I work all day long and don't have the leisure to play all day and defend myself immediately, so that false accusations simmer.
In post 746, Robert M Hunter wrote:There's no conflict between being perceived as a threat and being an easy elimination.

You are being disingenuous when you pretend not to understand that I meant to say that there will be scum in both people that defend me or vote forme.

I don't actually believe I am a threat to scum, I was just lashing out.

Here's a read, clidd is scum who refuses to give up on an easy elimination that looks like it could come to fruition soon.

This stretch of posts by Robert reflects as particularly good to me. Something about attacking his defenders and in his mind sealing his fate comes off as towny to me and is a thought i have pretty often as town in that scenario actually.

However, i will grant you that Robert's scumhunting usually seems to be accusing or disagreeing with whoever the biggest wagon at the time is (, , for example), or being like "Scum are killing meee" (, ) which doesnt come across as very deep thinking

Maybe scum Robert got lucky or knew that those posts would reflect as townie, still seems a tad unlikely to me but im considering. There is also clidd's point earlier this game where Robert illogically attacks Tanner out of the gate even though Tanner had townleaned him prior. Yeah scum makes mistakes though

i think if clidd is giving scum a pass for playing suboptimally this game, it's probably for Ircher
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Post Post #1216 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:10 pm

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In post 678, clidd wrote:Not saying that it's +town, but I would really like to know what's the game plan (if any) of scum!Ircher.
Probably like, focus on Yin/Yang and occasionally chip in on the current main suspects without committing much

Like a toned down version of whatever Robert is doing

It's not a conscious plan but one scum could easily fall into yeah. they don't need to be primary wagon drivers, i certainly tend not to be
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Post Post #1217 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:11 pm

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In post 1144, Ircher wrote:
@Yin:
Do you speak Cantonese or Mandarin?
In post 1145, NorwegianboyEE wrote:Ircher instead of asking dumb questions, how about focusing on the actual game?
In post 1146, Ircher wrote:I am to an extent.
this also kinda comes off like "I have a secret plan, it may not make sense but don't worry abt it" which sort of comes off as a bit scummy. Probably getting confirm biased though
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Post Post #1218 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:44 pm

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Ircher could be scum
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Post Post #1219 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:48 pm

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In post 1205, Morning Tweet wrote:Nooooooo not the classic silent star fuckery coming innnn its too earlyyyy

Robert, what is your current read on exactly
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I changed my mind on clidd, I believe he is town. I find Tanner abrasive and it clouds my judgment. I will need more time to sort out this player.
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Post Post #1220 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:57 pm

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In post 1204, clidd wrote:We could policy-elim Robert, but meh.
For violating which policy?
In post 1215, Morning Tweet wrote:This stretch of posts by Robert reflects as particularly good to me. Something about attacking his defenders and in his mind sealing his fate comes off as towny to me and is a thought i have pretty often as town in that scenario actually.
What do you mean by sealing his fate? He hasn't really accepted that he'll be limmed. Also, while it's perhaps less conventional to attack one's attackers, he didn't give off a particularly strong basis for that line of thought. His argument boiled down to a probabilistic one, so I'd be skeptical of giving a player a pass for that.
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Post Post #1221 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:58 pm

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In my heart I feel that Tanner saw me as an easy elimination, he is furious that some players are town-reading me and he irrationally digging his heels in that position.

In light of that, I'd have to say wolf - but he could just be very stubborn and prideful as a player.
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Post Post #1222 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:00 pm

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In post 1220, Ircher wrote:He hasn't really accepted that he'll be limmed.
You'd like me to roll over? My vote on you remains.
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Post Post #1223 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:01 pm

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That's not what I said. I am critiquing Morning Tweet's line of thinking here, and part of that was her "sealing his fate" comment.
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Post Post #1224 (ISO) » Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:03 pm

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Do you have any reads that are not directly based on a player's interactions with yourself? @Robert
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