You don't need to respond to the case if you don't want to, Generic. The entire point of the exchange is to hear your side a bit more, to address some of my concerns about you. It's generally my method when dealing with fights like these to read the party I'm more confident in reading (in this case, it's Mara), extend to them a little trust if I read them as town and then make an attempt to sort out the other side. So first, my read on Marangal.
In post 25, Ms Marangal wrote:Hi Gengen!
I'm happy to announce that I'm town this time around, though can I say the same for you?
I mean, have you even touched a town PM since you've joined the site old man?
She starts out the game with a reach-out to her mentor, who I'm presuming is someone who can read her well. This is a good sign. Whenever you can read someone well, you have a certain power over them, and they have to adjust their natural play to something completely different just to dodge the instant catch-out that will come with a normal read, meaning that the resulting scum play will be awkward and less impressive than her scumgame against players that aren't familiar with her. But wait, wait:
In post 25, Ms Marangal wrote:@Nacho, I don't see anything wrong with Empire not knowing Tammy was in this game? I find nothing wrong with his reason, and I have similar thoughts to him RE Tammy. I, at the very least, expected the mod to let us know who is replacing who. I think you are reaching
She also opens up the game with a vote against me, and I have a pretty decent track record in reading her as well. Sometimes I let her dodge me as scum by ignoring her, sometimes I get false positives. But whenever I've scumread her, she's pretty much died instantly. This means I'm a threat to her, and the fact that she's reaching out to both of us right off the bat is a good sign. It's a very natural move as town; if we are town, we are the people she will connect with the easiest. If there's scum in our duo, she will be one of the first to root them out.
In post 92, Ms Marangal wrote:Every post up-til page ~10?
the naked reads, and the trolling, and random lists of reads with nothing attached to them, and me staying under the radar?
But hey, if we're gonna pretend that Mara somehow got some magical scum Role PM, then she opened up her play attacking one person who can read her. Then, when both threats link up and begin to band against her, she has a dismissive tone against the threat she didn't intend to attack; this is a strange move for Marangal scum because she NEEDS me on her side if she's going to push something like this. But instead of linking up to me, she dismisses my attacks as weak and stays focused in on the mentor who, if town, should be shredding her into pitiful little pieces by now. This tells me her conviction is genuine because it makes absolutely no fucking sense as scum.
In post 115, Ms Marangal wrote:Generic isn't town Desp and I havn't been wrong on a scum-gen Read in the 10+ games I have had with him.
In post 120, Ms Marangal wrote:as for the two consecutive votes on me, Nacho is wrong, but town and he'll eventually come to his senses and, he will eventually see that I am making sense and that I am town
Two more statements unlikely to be coming from Mara-scum. The first sets her up pretty shittily if you flip town and she has no real guarantee anyone will defend her when that happens. In the second, she's gambitting that I'll read her town this game? Yeah, she might be playing an amazing scumgame but even then I don't think that it's likely that she'd gambit on me townreading her eventually or that she somehow carried a delusion that she could make me townread her with the "he'll see what's going on if he's town". No, it's because Mara sometimes is obviously and powerfully town in every post she makes. This is one of those times.
So the first red flag comes up on you when you don't see what I'm seeing since you sure as hell don't have an excuse for reading her as scum when she so obviously is not. The second HUGE red flag comes when we start talking about meta. Marangal brings up that she hasn't called town Generic scum in all of her game with you. You do not call her out for being a liar (which would be extraordinarily easy) by referencing a game. You do not say "you're right. there's another reason why you're scum!". You call her out for making a case that isn't confirmable, for not having a good enough case and say that she's trying to say she always catches you out as scum (she didn't), and make a reference to a game where she called you scum when you were a jester to discredit her, even though you know damn well that does nothing to weaken her statement.
The third red flag is with your misreps, and how you handle being called out on them. I'm not a nitpicky guy. Hell, some of my cases in games boil down to "lynch him cuz he's scum", I have no problem with changing reads, etc. But there's a certain way that town handles misreps, and there's a certain way scum handles misreps. When I call you out on a misrep, you literally do not address them. It took me forever in order to get you to admit that you fucked up in regards to the Desperado accusation and you didn't even fully admit that when it happened. You misrepped Marangal earlier when she said she hadn't been wrong with a scumread on you in the games she's played with you. You're misrepping me when you say that I'm auto-clearing everyone I call town. You said this was your scum meta, so I'm assuming you would be extra cautious in clearing things up when these things happen, but you aren't and don't address them until I push you hard to. And then you accuse me of side-stepping when I'm clearly trying to get you to answer my question? Hypocrisy at its finest.
And now, there's this whole "Nacho and Mara are done when I flip town" shtick you keep pushing. I've had many people threaten that I would be damned after I lynched the fuck out of him. I, as scum and town, have tossed scum and town into the void as hard as I possibly could and never looked back. At the moment, your case on me is weak, your case on Mara is weak. I have concerns that are not hard to address. And not to mention it makes absolutely no sense for you to shut down when you think you have two scum pegged. But if for some ungodly reason you are town, I am telling you that you need to reach out to me, take a step back, and give me something I can work with. I can take a step back, I'm still willing to work with you, but holy shit please respond to my points on you without trying to throw dirt back. It's a convenient position to paint the people pushing you as scum and you prove that you're attempting to scumread me when your reasons start out as one thing and slowly morph to another when I call you out on your bullshit.
"Playing with Nacho is like playing with a religious conservative." ~UncertainKitten
-- Fate, Vanilla Townie, was brutally stabbed by a throwing sword in endgame.