Zdenek wrote:I'd rather if you explained it to me.
I liked his response to my pushback. And, wrt to the discrepancy in his stance, AP gift-wrapped an explanation for it, and he didn't take it up. Nor did he try to paint it as something else, himself. He's owned the discrepancy unapologetically. That's the most town response I think I can expect from the exchange.
There are some philosophical things involved in my read change as well, but I doubt it makes sense outside my approach to mafia. There's an entire way of looking at the game that is sort of like air to me. I walk through it, I can see that other people see stuff in a person's posts that resonates for them, and to me whatever it is, it's completely invisible. I've learned to derive some of it by looking at other players' reactions to a resonance that I simply don't see or hear.
The befuddlement tends to be mutual, and I see players who work entirely in that game-space that virtually doesn't exist for me as scummy. It takes a long time to build a decent model of their play. bulba is one of those players for me. And I'm coming to accept that my approach to the game is as tenuous to him as his approach is to me.
