In post 840, CrashTextDummie wrote:
A single post by Kaze was "game-changing" enough for you to reverse an "obvscum" read. 4 pages later, you're confident enough to narrow the scum down to 4 people. I'm finding it very hard to take your reads seriously.
Single posts can be game-changers, yes. Remember that my obvscum-read on Kaze came into existence under circumstances of overestimation of my skills. What Kaze has shown on the top of page 5 completely conflicted with what I thought of him, and was a game-changer. Sorry to hear you don't like it. And even more sorry to hear your reads apparently don't change. Sounds like I'm in a pickle!
You were "almost sold" by his ISO #3 and Fferyllt doubting whether a new player would make such a gambit "sealed the deal". You are now questioning whether he's a new player, which I can see "unsealing the deal", but I don't see how it affects the basis of your alleged read. Please explain your thought process.
My thought process has already been clarified, but I'll humour you:
1. Brian Skies claims Miller : I'm not sure what to think.
2. Brian Skies explains why he claimes Miller: I see his point and thus an argument in favor of believing him.
3. fferyllt says the odds of a new player starting with a gambit like that are very low: I agree with this and thus secure my townread, without putting into question that Brian is indeed a newer player.
Some time passes.
I don't know why, I don't know how, but suddenly I am reminded of the game I linked you to earlier, where someone pretended to be a newbie, made an idiotic claim when he replaced into the game which was either A. a retarded scumclaim, B. an understandable mistake to make for a newbie. Given his newbishness and the general sense he was portraying, we went for option B and never questioned it. He won as scum, and admitted to having played the part of a stupid newbie in order to get out of that pickle.
This dark memory had a certain parallel, where someone being new was read as town, with a big part due to his newbishness. Hence my wonderment.
In post 735, Grimgroove wrote:To be honest I'm really not certain how to undertake this catch-up. I'm in it for fun and browsing through 25 pages and taking miticulous notes on everyone simply isn't going to happen. Normally I like to be precise in communication but it would be too tedious to cover all those pages in my usual style.
What about this game is giving you trouble exactly? This is not a particularly strenuous game to replace into, there's more than plenty of one- and two-line posts to balance out the modest walls.
1. I am not a machine.
2. I want to have fun. (an important rule in the game, if I recall correctly)
The manner in which you've elected to structure your analysis strikes me as dubious. You're moving through the game at a snail's pace, all the while insisting on a deadline extension. I get portioning a read-through upon replacing in, but not in a game of this size. Meticulously giving reads after having read 6 pages of a 30 page game is completely over the top. It screams "look at how comprehensive my thought process is!".
There is very little pro-town benefit to most of what you've contributed so far, because you've demonstrated twice now that even your most strongly worded reads are far from solid.
The only real benefit to your manner of posting is that it tends to garner town reads, providing strong scum motivation to do so. I've used similar tactics as scum in the past and it works remarkably well (and is easy to pull off to boot).
If you are town, you need to stop what you're doing, spend an hour and a half reading the full game and
then
give your reads.
I resent the first part of that which is bolded. My entrance was not up to certain standards, but what I offered was definitely pro-town. If not the reads, then at least the arguments I provided for them. Instead of putting over a blanket over them by this general criticism based on how YOU would play as scum, I would have appreciated a more detailed response that what it was I said.
And the second part you're not being very fair here. The Kaze-read should not be taken into account as you know full-well what the circumstances of that read were, and the doubts I had surrounding Brian never involved a sudden review, just an on-hold for reasons I believe are pretty understandable.
You've got your big head into a tunnel and I fear it's too big to get out of it again. I'll try to find some lubricant but no promises.
"What truffles are to pigs so are these charlatans and pettifoggers to my mental acuity." - Frasier
Funny how you would say I'm appeasing when that's the exact thing I didn't do with you.
