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there are no nightkillsIn post 7142, the worst wrote:I'm also very wary of skitter's scum ability and deliberately spewing a lategame carry is a LOT more valuable than pocketing someone like ydrasse who is just a completely reasonable nightkill if town.free crypto- petapan
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which is why i'm still here
but the point in particular is that you could claim the skitter interactions might be trying to distance from ydrasse
but that doesn't really fit with how she was treated by the other flipped scum, at all
and if ydrasse is scum she has actively done almostnothingto further her endgame potential and i don't think you can write it off as laziness. she's said stuff that i don't believe comes from an informed perspective, because it was too subtle for most people to notice and wouldn't have been likely to be seen positively.
but i don't particularly care to impress that upon you at this point in time
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see e.g. popcorn where (as vulture) she tried to distance herself from enchant/lukewarm to set herself up to endgame: https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=87343
very standard stuff
here she didn't really claim any pelts and was just kind of weak toward skitter
and the whole dynamic between her and skitter was off, it was atypical or scum distancing. most scum play it very vanilla, you push me, i push you back type stuff, e.g. the skitter/dunn interactions, which i eventually realized weren't clearing. here ydrasse basically doesn't punch back at skitter at all. were it a different player doing it i wouldn't consider that clearing but i don't think they'd be likely to fabricate that particular interactionfree crypto- petapan
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i guess it's time to write
the skidderpost
skitter is very obviously a skilled scum player, although she's had a rough go of it as scum this year outside of Deja Vu. (one of those is my fault (sorry skitter)). but we can look into her past games to see if she has tendencies toward her teammates and preferences on how to play. i want to look at stuff that is relatively recent, because i don't think old wallposty semi-lurky skitter is that relevant to decoding 2021-skitter, but also want something where she had something of a gameplan going, no unusual setups where bussing was strongly discouraged if not outright forbidden (e.g. Silent Star, Deja Vu). Deja Vu didn't even have daytalk so it's not like there was a ton of gameplanning, anyway.
so let's find something more conventional
Team Mafia 2020 Normal Game
teammates in this one: tris/saudade, xtoxm
choice quotes from the scum PT:
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key takeaways:
- in this game she had to deal with two teammates who were both lurkerish and under heavy suspicion early. she urges them to not get themselves yeeted and displays a preference against bussing, but a willingness to do so as a last resort
- this is reflected in the game thread in this way: she defends tris against attacks early, says xtoxm's posts are bad and continually foses him but avoids actually voting him or even pushing him.
- asks her teammate if they'd be willing to surprise hammer on day 1
- tries to play by understanding the gamestate and controlling it, kind of a go with the flow mentality, take what town gives her, predict the opinions people will have
- although she's gotten good at, scum is still not skitter's preferred alignment. she prefers to keep her team with her rather than solo carry as she tends to lose energy in late game. "demotivated/not high energy is historically a scumtell for me" (i was aware of this)
([bane voice]she merely adopted the dark, i was born in it)
the sentiment about not wanting to solo carry is a consistent one she says in multiple games, she said the same in Deja Vu when i more or less predicted everything that would happen after night 1, i said she would always win in f4 but she preferred not to go there if possible
- feels like she gets stuck on Saudade and can't logically justify moving off him, is afraid the associatives will come back to bite her if she backs off him and he flips first, believes it's "inevitable" and so prefers to stay on for the credit
- after Saudade gets flipped, there's a lot of soft defending of Xtoxm, the things good scum players do, say his posts are bad but make excuses for him, lean on mechanics as a reason to clear him. does wagon him at one point but pulls off and finds an excuse to vote elsewhere while town talks themselves out of voting him
- tries to avoid answering things if someone is on the right track (this was similar to how she handled Morning Tweet in Deja Vu)
so this helps us build a general profile, will tend to distance from teammates but general preference is anti-bus, doesn't like having to solo carry, busses when she feels it's inevitable/can't justify not doing it. pretty standard play, really, not that there's anything wrong with that, standard scum play is good enough to win most games if you can post well.
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let's look through other games now to see if we can find some behavior patterns:
Micro 930: Neon Mafia
teammate: nomnomnom
choice quotes from the scum pt:
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key takeaways:
- skitter tried to distance from her teammate because she felt it was the most realistic view for her to have. ultimately this trapped her into bussing
- this wasn't a planned thing, it was a consequence of her teammate catching heat in the main thread and her reacting to it
- even so, she expressed regret and a desire to avoid flipping her teammate day 1, but was too nervous to back down
- the way their interactions ingame play out is like this:
skitter expresses disagreement with an early scumread nom pushes, calls it "bad"
says nom isnt out of scumrange when menalque expresses that nom's push might be too bad for him to make as scum
goes against nom in his arguments, accuses him of things like AtE, misrep, disagrees with the premises of his argument
hedges the read slightly by using meta as a crutch
choice quote from the game thread:
Subject: Micro 930: Neon Mafia (Game over!)
this is positioning herself to distance with a "nuanced" sort of read, sides against nom but tempers it by saying some of the points against him are NAIskitter30 wrote:ok i don't think a post-by-post is going to happen and i want to get caught up, so just key thoughts as i read through.
- while i think nom's part of the argument was p bad,i think that at least some of the things luca is scumreading her for is nai; the 1v1 i can see her doing as either alignment, and unfortunately some of the ate too
the stuff she brought up about me was weird tho
- puts nom 1 slot above the bottom in her reads list (lol, lmao)
- continues to call out his posts
- preflip associates him with a townie
- tries to subtly make an excuse to not flip nom that day:
Subject: Micro 930: Neon Mafia (Game over!)
- nom swings back and accuses skitter of being manipulativeskitter30 wrote:
i guess i'm not sure why scum!nom decides to just make a thing about not voting the popular town!quag mislynch rnIn post 714, Luca Blight wrote:I feel Nom/Quags could be S/S, but I also feel Nom could be white-knighting.
I’d feel happier with a Nom lynch today.
in the current gamestate it's fairly popular and people are starting to want eod so i don't think it would be questioned that much
whereas by taking this route she's making a big stink that is getting pushback
and i don't know why she picks the harder route as scum here
- doesn't actually throw a vote on nom until significantly later in the day when she finds there's no good way to deescalate
- keeps arguing with nom, again and again, constant taking swipes at each other
- when the main driver of the nom wagon unvotes she tries to de-escalate, but gets stuck there when there's no alternate wagon and the player nom was pushing on claims bodyguard
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moving on. here's a game that i believe is very instructive.
Mini 2136 | City That Never Sleeps
teammate: The Limit Does Not Exist (Something_Smart + lilith2013)
Notably, this was a game where skitter was struggling, and was trying to position her teammate to go deep, rather than having her carry.
choice quotes from the scum pt:
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key takeaways:
- again reiterates, would much rather have a 5 way than a 3 way
- cautious with who she votes/pushes for fear of reprisal
- says she's struggling to come up with things to say, offers to be bussed if she has an off game
- decides to pick a fight with TLDNE in order to distance. this manifests itself in-thread in a pretty typical way:
accuses Limit of strawmanning people
says they're shading a group of people you'd expect to be town based on setup mechanics
says they're following a double standard by jumping to conclusions when they're accusing someone else of doing so
says they're being disingenuous "and ate-y"
limit responds to this with classic aggression, dumps on her repeatedly with quote walls, really tries to bury skitter, the whole nine yards. skitter never actually votes limit but, limit drops a vote on skitter, only to back down when the town decides it does not want to kill skitter, does so by lilith saying she let the anger get the best of her
- says she's trying to build associatives between her and sausasaurusrex/titus in the event she does flip, again this is in a pretty basic fashion, she hard defends rex/titus and continually makes excuses for them
(probably should have read this game before i let cakez die)
- says to bus her hard if it looks like things are starting to turn against her
- starts planning and setting up for lylo in advance looking for who will vote who
so, again, this is the basic sort of expected play from scum who think they might go down and want to protect their partner. they pull back on the read town shows no interest in killing skitter and most people rule them out as being SvS, limit continually leaves themselves open to skitter being scum, expresses skepticism of her, but doesn't actually vote her. skitter questions limit back and expresses uncertainty on them, but waffles back and forth on the read and ends up back at town for a while, finally hedges on their alignment in ELO and expresses skepticism againfree crypto- petapan
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so, hypothetically, there's a world where skitter, feeling the heat in the Pink Room, starts to feel her enthusiasm for the game dropping and tells her teammate to bus her so they can endgame. it's not an implausible narrative at all. so, gammagooey's immediate case on skitter isn't really as clearing as i thought.
but is that the most likely scenario? i'm still not sure about that. there are other factors that have to be considered.free crypto- Taly
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See?Petarealizes that I have a fucking third eye and sees shit none of you commoners can"Taly is going to be a hot mess all game and I am entertained" ~ Gammagooey
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In post 7052, Taly wrote:Wow I actually am a pretty aggressive player"Taly is going to be a hot mess all game and I am entertained" ~ Gammagooey
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"Taly I knew your slot was scum and I still struggled to find arguments to SR your play lol" ~Infinity 324
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I'm honestly posting for comical relief purposes at this point."Taly is going to be a hot mess all game and I am entertained" ~ Gammagooey
"The human race is bad at reading Taly." ~the worst
"Taly I knew your slot was scum and I still struggled to find arguments to SR your play lol" ~Infinity 324
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now, clearly, out of everyone alive, i would quite obviously be the best suited to endgame as last scum! however, there's a couple good reasons why it's not me:
- i could easily have avoided dunnstral being in the duel if i wanted to yet got him put there anyway with the last second hop; at any rate my progression on him was too messy for me to be scum, if i was aware of his alignment i'd start pushing against him sooner because he'd have no endgame potential
- skitter was very obviously struggling to come up with arguments against me when she had nominated me, this is because she knows i'm town and couldn't find real reasons to attack me. as her teammate i'd be more cognizant of giving her something to work with so we could actually have a strong 1v1, and i think she'd probably have an easier time finding somethingrealto respond to me with
- saber/HQ blew it by spewing me town, scum don't getthatmad at being bussedfree crypto- petapan
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*hisses and claws at peta again*"Taly is going to be a hot mess all game and I am entertained" ~ Gammagooey
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"Taly I knew your slot was scum and I still struggled to find arguments to SR your play lol" ~Infinity 324
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Subject: Mini 2247: Mountain Dew Mafia - Mafia PT
loooolskitter30 wrote:Ya
Hmm kinda wondering if i should go for a hard defense, t'would be ant-meta
Dunn is eventually gonna get flipped now
on the one hand, a complicating factor
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Subject: Mini 2247: Mountain Dew Mafia - Mafia PT
still trying to stay away from the D1 bus thoughVenus Fly Trap wrote::doffs jester hat:
gonna push you a bit and loudly complain i think you're scum but when your wagon fails to materialize i'm gonna hop onto emmi while complaining about how you lot are getting away with itfree crypto- petapan
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Subject: Mini 2247: Mountain Dew Mafia (Game Over)
Subject: Mini 2247: Mountain Dew Mafia (Game Over)Venus Fly Trap wrote:i've got dnd momentarily but i'll be around some more this afternoon
gonna start by voting here:
VOTE: mm/bears
the other person i'd want to vote is emmi
~ skitter
show this vote count to prism to make her die instantlyCabd wrote:Vote Count 1-9
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Subject: Mini 2247: Mountain Dew Mafia (Game Over)
classic tmi scumbuddy read. useful to note.Venus Fly Trap wrote:i think you should have stayed on bears but this is a decent alternativefree crypto- petapan
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