In post 5, acryon wrote:VOTE: InfernoBrafin
Don't like Hydrae. Offer reads with no accountability because "the other head did it".
I've already explained why I'm not scumreading this. I think the tells I use to sort people work for me, so I'm not going to get bogged down in mafia theory with A50/mastina over this. I'll scumread this if/when it flips scum.
In post 11, acryon wrote:
Or maybe the hydras I've played with in the past didn't understand, if that's my experience?
Appreciate the clear representation from both hydras so far though
This at the very least indicates that acryon isn't faking disliking hydrae (contrary to some views I've seen around here). NAI, but genuine.
In post 16, acryon wrote: In post 13, InfernoBrafin wrote:Brafin: I find the whole "I don't like hydras" thing fishy. That seems really biased against hydras, and a great, scummy way for a non-hydra to say "He's scummy because he's not accounting for the other hydra."
Inferno, I'd like to shift our vote to acryon.
That's fair. Although if you look at some of my older games with hydra (only a couple), you'll see a similar sentiment there. I've just had bad experiences playing with hydras because they became lynchbait because the heads had conflicting opinions.
Tbh this should actually indicate that his entire entrance was NAI. His self-awareness and apparent pride in his self-awareness means that the entrance was basically automatic -- he came in and voted a hydra.
I think I could actually argue that acryon/IB aren't scum together from this. It doesn't seem like scum distancing. But other than that, still nothing on acryon's alignment.
In post 121, acryon wrote:
Yikes. I'm usually better with first impressions, but I admit I came on a little strong. Also I'm not "acronym".
Need to go check meta for conviction in acryon's early D1 games.
In post 121, acryon wrote:I take Mathdino's side on the Math v. Inferno debate. In addition to being wrong, Inferno seems to be getting frustrated very quickly. This isn't necessarily a scumtell, but it does rub me the wrong way.
Icon feels like obvtown.
Gut says Math is town.
@Beefster:
I otherwise seem to like your posts, but this ends up feeling like convenient hedging for you:
1. "Leaning scum [on Mathdino]. His posts feel kinda IIOA-ish"
2. "[Math vs. Inferno is] probably not SvS, so I'm likely wrong on at least one of them. I need to wait and see how things develop.
3. "If anything IB is the more likely scum."
So are you more or less saying here you think Mathdino is likely town?
Throwing shade at IB without taking a side... I'm honestly slightly townleaning this for the same reason I'm townleaning Beefster. It would be real easy right now for acryon to double down and be like "Yeah so the guy I'm voting is digging himself into a ditch, he's probably actually scum". TW did that. But instead he's cautioning that some of IB's behaviour isn't actually a scumtell.
So gut says town on that play, but I can try to nullify that tell as well by checking his nuance in his meta.
Gutreading me as town is a common scum play. Slight ping there.
I don't like the push on Beefster. It seems like middle-hanging fruit. Go after a good player with a scummy playstyle instead of a bad player who gets scumread by everyone. Makes you look like you're doing something. Beefster's trajectory is consistent with town there. Need to talk this over with acryon.
In post 142, acryon wrote: In post 141, Momrangal wrote:VOTE: Bujaber
This is a serious vote, and I think this slot should actually get lynched. It feels like he's decided to just piggy back on the hottest topic atm. Possibly to look like he's being active?
It does feel a bit like that. However, the big paragraph to me pings as town-effort. Not that quantity = town, but I feel like we'd see the effort portrayed differently if he were just trying to get credit for activity.
This is honestly just not a really strong or interesting point. It reads as someone who has knowledge of alignments.
In post 186, acryon wrote: In post 156, Mathdino wrote:@All
: Given that LUV is engaging with players and asking fair questions, I feel like I should be townreading him, but I'm really not. A lot of it seems like it could be scum going through the motions. Comfortable with votes on LUV if you don't like the IB push.
FWIW I get what you're saying here, but I think the posts have too much merit for me to disregard them for gut right now.
Throwing me a bone but also not adding anything to that conversation. I don't think my read on LUV was totally gut there.
In post 186, acryon wrote: In post 166, InfernoBrafin wrote:But then, if you look at Iconeum's enterance and how he interacts with Beefster, it doesn't work as a TvS interaction. The back and forth is too strong for a TvS to make sense. So it'd either be TvT or SvS. And if Iconeum is obvtown, Beefster also has to be town.
This is pretty interesting because as I said I also think Icon is obtown, but I'm not sure I buy that it can't be TvS.
Okay this is really bad. Gonna round up questions on acryon's posts later on.
In post 186, acryon wrote:
@Inferno: Ok, how does this vote change your perspective on that situation? Do you still think it's TvT?
Softball. Like, pushing people to update their reads is all well and good but if you're not contributing your own thoughts on things...
In post 186, acryon wrote:
It's interesting you have the worst as null. I feel like he's been one of the most polarizing players so far this game. Are there certain posts that are making you feel one way or the other?
Also why paradox town? Gut?
A good question that would likely lead to an answer that would help the gamestate.
In post 200, acryon wrote: In post 190, InfernoBrafin wrote:@acyron: I still think it could be TvT. Town has the ability to scumread other town members. That's not unheard of. I still think that the entrance exchange just wasn't was too realistic to be scum.
I'm a little confused by this question; it seems to be looking to put me in a hole that isn't there.
I was interested to see what would make you think that Icon vs. Beefster was specifically TvT and not TvS, especially since you didn't necessarily have a townread on Beefster specifically.
ok same thing as before, lol at IB not understanding the question though
In post 200, acryon wrote: In post 196, InfernoBrafin wrote:
wut
the heck
Brafin, you're gathering information on your own partner's read?
I do not agree on Beef.
Question, and this goes back to my (no pun-intended) beef with hydras. How is anyone expected to read your slot if you are offering up conflicting reads that we can't call scummy because they came from two different people?
This is mafia theory discussion. Intelligence-indicative, but not alignment-indicative.
I'm starting to get really concerned.
In post 205, acryon wrote:
That's exactly my point. Two people having conflicting reads is not scummy. If
one
person had conflicting reads, we can question that slot because that's fairly scummy. In your case, because you are two people, we can't question that, making you more or less unreadable because we don't know what your slot really believes.
A useless conversation to be having.
In post 207, acryon wrote:And trust me, I am not interested in having a discussion about hydras themselves.
But if we had a slot being played by someone with severe schizophrenia as the reason for their majorly conflicting reads, surely you could understand how a slot like that would be problematic for town?
Okay so he's self-aware that the discussion is useless, but still isn't giving much else.
In post 400, acryon wrote: In post 235, Beefster wrote:This is a good point, though scum usually tries to avoid confident town reads like this for that very reason.
"Scum usually". I think it's just as likely scum recognizes Math as very "townie" and would like to kill him for towncred.
the fuck is this supposed to mean
In post 400, acryon wrote: In post 313, Almost50 wrote:Scum points awarded. You admit that in your experience "hydrae/hydras are lynchbait" so you
vote
them???
Subsequent votes on the hydra by BuJaber and the worst are a bit worrying, but I'll accept these were RVS votes with a grain of salt (especially the worst who switched his vote quickly. Only if the hydra actually flips scum will I have another "different" look at this switch)
Interesting. So my vote on 16 isn't accepted as RVS, but others are? I would argue mine is better, because it created more discussion and pushed us out of RVS quicker. The only purpose of RVS is to get out of RVS, so I'm not going to apologize for what I do to get us out of it.
Okay this is a pretty LAMISTy defence. I get just saying "yo it was just half RVS" but acryon's trying to take actual credit here, lol.
Again, need to metacheck for "defending oneself by claiming towncred". Usually scum-indicative but can be ego-indicative.
In post 400, acryon wrote:
I have a vested interest in this, but this readlist requires explanation. You're townreading Beefster and BuJaber, who have both gotten heat. You're scumreading half the player list with no explanation. Help me understand.
Meh.
Self-awareness is NAI. Can see anyone asking wtf was up with that reads list.
In post 400, acryon wrote:
Is scum!Dino this blatant about a PL, especially on someone that he would know is town?
I don't know? Is this an opinion? Or is this commenting-without-commenting?
In post 400, acryon wrote:I understand why you would lump us together to an extent, but I also think we've played pretty different games from each other, and my reason for jumping on InfernoBrafin in the first place was RVS. I stayed on because it's produced some good pressure and content I think.
This is fair, and I agree that that initial wagon (and holding course on it for a while) was pro-town.
In post 400, acryon wrote:
Was about to summarize saying I liked IB a good bit more after the weekend, and then was going to vote Carrot and Stick, but the worst has done the work for me.
VOTE: Carrot and Stick
Also Almost50 is town, although wrong.
This is a NAI sheep vote. You can see the trajectory lining up to vote Carrot, that's fine.
Wondering what happened to summarising liking IB more though.
In post 403, acryon wrote: In post 402, BuJaber wrote:@acryon - why did you comment on carrot's first readlist (the one he claims is correct up to page 3), but not the second?
Because I was quoting as I went through, and the initial one was posted for a reason. I was interested in his reasoning for that one, not his toned-down version a few posts later. His second one was a whole 15 minutes later (clearly a good chunk of those minutes spent on posts in-between), so I'm not giving them much credit for an abundance of critical analysis happening between the two.
In post 401, Mathdino wrote:Adding acryon to the growing list of players who won't tell me why IB is town
The thought process doesn't feel scum-motivated.
302 and
315 are prime examples of this I think. I'm not saying the slot is a firm lock for town, but I'm also not comfortable leaving my vote there given how town some of their posts have looked.
Bujaber's question here is meaningless and a bit leading. Any response is gonna be NAI.
And holy shit are the IB townreads poorly explained.
In post 414, acryon wrote:
I think opportunism being scummy requires some amount of trying to look like it's something it's not. I was pretty up-front in my sheeping. I suppose you're welcome to not believe that I actually felt what I felt, but calling it opportunistic when I was so open about it seems
opportunistic
.
I mean I'd agree with this if this weren't a self-defence tactic.
I need to remind myself of my rule to just ignore people's defences altogether. It's 70% of the time completely NAI.
In post 422, acryon wrote:
To go back to the discussion earlier, I think that the self-awareness is what separates between a "scummy" action and and scummy action coming from scum, although I don't get to be the jury on myself.
More theory. Doesn't do anything tbh.
In post 422, acryon wrote: In post 416, InfernoBrafin wrote:
Acron is striking me as scum. His vote seems kind of out there and OMGUS-y. Not much explanation on the vote.
I thought I was clear on this with my sheep of the worst's post, which explained things well on a base level, but I can elaborate.
327 starts with garbage. Saying 4 of the 5 people are scummy as of post 20. This should be the first red flag.
330 I have already commented on, but has fully half the game in scum category. If this isn't building up a massive lynch pool, then I don't know what is.
335 feels like theater, as if they hadn't reviewed the posts of their slot first. Are we really believing that?
342 don't get me started on. the worst already mentioned this, but this is absurd "bow to me, your mafia king" pontificating lacking little real content for the sake of scumhunting other than to tell everyone that they should trust them because "everyone in this game sucks, but thankfully I was able to immediately adjust and I nailed it anyway".
I'll stop here, but especially if they think the overall playerbase in this game is as "sub-par" as they say, their ISO
reeks
of attempts to manipulate through appeals to authority.
In post 423, acryon wrote:I would've loved to have been the first to vote C&S, but unfortunately they were active during times when I don't play.
I mean FWIW I generally agree with this, but this does seem written in a way that absolves acryon of responsibility/accountability for this read. Like this is the kind of case where if mastina flips town, acryon can be like "Hey man she was legitimately dropping scumtells".