Haven't had the time (well, mostly the patience) to hash out things in full. Pim--stuff about Syryana et al will have to wait, as I really don't think that's an optimal lynch for Today. (Halfway through this post I was reminded you wanted stuff on serra, so let's see if I still have a brain for it when I'm done, otherwise later... today. My sleep schedule is nonexistent.)
On Parama: that self-vote really doesn't benefit him or anyone if he's Town. Self-votes are always things that benefit scum. They stall the game out, make people wary, make people step back and freeze in indecision. What has Parama done with that self-vote that benefits Town? Has he analyzed his wagon and the reactions to his self-vote, and tried to scumhunt through it? No. The only thing the self-vote did was instill doubt in the rest of the players. It's scum motivation, not Town intent.
Look at the post rate, look at how it has been decreasing over D2. It's apathy, and apathy kills Towns. He just needs to wait for the focus to fall on someone else. I didn't let that happen with Grey in Dresdenafia, I'm not about to let it happen here.
A quick aside on the Jester issue: Frankly, I don't give a rat's arse if he's actually a Jester. (He's not.) Jesters are roles that punish Town for doing what they are supposed to do: find scum and lynch them. I will lynch every singly claimed or faked Jester outside an Open Jester setup. If the game actually has one, I'll be happy to get out of such a game. Worst Role Mafia was bad enough in terms of bastardry, and I replaced in knowing this could be unbalanced, but it's the kind of thing that I'll just deal with through lynching and
. tl;dr: Don't give a damn about Jester claims/soft-claims/any such crap, just lynch it.
Now--Parama has no issues with people using meta,
as long as it is actually a decent analysis. In this game, he called my read on him "trash" because it was partially based on meta. The implication is that he's more interested in discrediting the read altogether than in dismantling it. He knows his play is '
uneven', but calling out meta as "trash" doesn't make sense for someone who is aware well-sourced meta reads exist and nail scum/Town.
As Town, Parama cares about the wrong person
not getting lynched. However, in this game, he is voting himself with no regard for the consequences other than "lel there is scum in my wagon".
Compare the previous links (Town) to Parama's play
here. While, in Rarefaction II, he was calling himself lazy and saying he was bored, there is a distinct sense of scumhunting that vanishes very quickly from Micro 73. As scum, Parama gets genuinely
bored
. (Don't I know the feeling...) He doesn't have anything to do other than fool the Town, and he gets apathetic and resorts to trolling with the occasional :eeeeeffort oh christ this is HARD: post.
Look at this
Town game, too. Look at that effort post on #83; it has actual analysis, especially on that bit to TML about thezmon. Contrast with #109 and #252 in
this game, and the lack of scumhunting in his ISO in favor of pointless trolling.
I actually tried this ISO for kicks without looking at the flips and misread him. >.> Uhm. Got a correct if trembling read on
this one. By the way, the moment he did
this, I was reminded of Reck in the aforementioned Destiny Mafia and got the right scumread~
...I am starting to derail a lot in this analysis, and I think it's due to the hour. We don't have a deadline, and I might as well make sure I get things right tomorrow. I'll use the evening to test my meta read on him further (because hey, that's not
such a bad plan
^.^;) and see what final conclusions I come up with. I also see that complaint that I haven't explained why his posts are bad (i.e. scummy), so have to do that too.
Spare me the work and hammer? That'd be a kindness.
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shos's posts above me don't have a lot of scumhunting, but I think it's more that he doesn't know how to properly scumhunt than something coming from a scum PoV. For now, I have a few things to say to the god of Death, and one of them is "bed".
