define "substantive" - if you mean talking about reads, yeah sure, but i quite liked his first (was it his first?) post where he talked about the katsuki stuff and theorised about scum team's size etc - i dunno, it gave me mild town vibesselkies wrote:This was GF's first substantive post
most early game reads are hedged to some degree? and his reasoning may have been somewhat opportunistic, but i'm kinda meh on that. a lot of the stuff about hydras reminded me a little of cash cabd hopefullycynical - i mean, hopefullycynical never voted a hydra for it buttttt the general approach to hydras felt similar. also i'm slightly biased because everything goodfather said about your early game was what i was already thinking - you guys did spam up the first 6 pages with shit that wasn't relevant and no matter what orcinus says about moving out of RVS i don't think it was helpful at allselkies wrote:There's a lot of hedge to some of these reads, and his vote choice (us) looked opportunistic both for the reasoning (including parroting complaints that other players made to get us to change our posting style and frequency, but calling it scummy) and the timing
as for timing, meh
i don't get why it bugged you. if anything, the reaction looks kinda townish to me? it'd be easy for him to just back off and apologise but getting all antsy about it looked kinda townish? at least i think soselkies wrote:This post also bugged me when it hit the thread because of how reactive it was.
i think that's what he was doing? at least his opinion on you looked similar to my own at the time and there was nothing much more to add to it i think.selkies wrote:This is a reaction to orcinus. It looks to me like he knew that the “oooh hydra – unknown = scum” read is weak and shallow. So why not build on the case? And why not work to develop a better read.
i haven't checked how his read on katsuki progressed but given how many people didn't like katsuki's prod dodging i'm not reading too much into it. he may have been sheeping general opinion, or he may not have been. you could make a similar argument for a lot of people being scummy for this, so uh... mehselkies wrote:This once again feels like he was using irritability that others expressed as a leaping-off-point.
people are often ignorant of their own faults (except me because i have none)selkies wrote:his reason for voting Katsuki – that he had been following the crowd wrt to our wagon – was false, and actually fits his own voting behavior better than Katsuki's
i mean... all this said he *might* be scum and i could just be really, really shit at reading him but i don't think he's scum and nothing here would sway me