In post 906, Kitty Trauma Team wrote: In post 900, sangres wrote:My Kitty Trauma Team worries are growing. I like some of what they've posted. I'm surprised mala hasn't tried to connect with us more. Nacho has some concerns, too, partly to do with kuribo. Not sure I can do them justice for him in his absence, so they can wait until Nacho's around.
Nachos just gonna have to get over it, it's not like I'm in the middle of moving and working 70 hours a week and hate being town and presently having Covid vaccine side effects like a mother or slipped last night in a puddle of dog piss and busted my bad knee. I mean obviously I'm just so active all over the site, that's why I post nightly in my NES thread. Oh no wait I haven't even had time for that in over a week.
Turns out a hydra consisting of two retired players working in Covid hotspot fields aren't the most active posters
I mean who knew
And since y'all always hate on hydras who have dissonance between them, Mala gets my reads first. Love it or don't, idgaf, imma go throw up now. Deuces.
I'm sorry things aren't going great and I'll try to factor in your and Mala's time constraints. I'm not trying to piss you off. I'm trying to read you. We both have to read you guys somehow or other, based on what you post.
Personally, I don't get worked up about dissonance as long is I can see that the individual reads are internally consistent.
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In post 940, Kitty Trauma Team wrote:Was skimming the thread yesterday in between calls and then having a major freak out because I didn’t have just vomit on one piece of clothing, but two after my patient decided to leave me that present.
So the whole LLD v Math v Dunn is kinda taking up majority of the thread and I think right now scum are hiding in that distraction. I have a strong townread on 2/3 of those players. Kuribo actually agrees with me on that as well. For Dunn I’m more or less reading null on him. I’m not 100% following the scum read on him, but the last time I had a decent vibe on him it turned out to be wrong.
Who do you think is hiding in the distraction?
@Fery: Part of the reason why I haven’t connected was the last game I played with a few familiar faces I got snowed really hard by them. So I’m trying to disconnect the buddying approach as it majority fucked me last game I was in.
How does your non-buddying approach work? I'm really not sure how to go about reading 2021-Mala.
I don’t think both twins are the same alignment. I actually happen to believe that Titus will have a decent chance at flipping scum, whereas, Math will most likely flip town.
This is a point of agreement.
I’m currently liking Mastina’s posting. She can go in my townbin for now.
What is it you like about Mastina's posting?
VOTE: SirCakez
Kuribo has a gut feeling that this slot is prob scum. I have to agree with it. Between the whole trying to paint a picture with the whole wording over a “meltdown” that wasn’t really a “meltdown”.
Even tho I been at work for an hour I’m not fully awake so give me a bit of time to let my antimurder juice kick in and I’ll try to post something more of a better read list
-M
That's an interesting trajectory. Am I getting tangled up in dissonance?
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In post 989, Tammy wrote:I don't have a read on Dunn myself. I didn't think he'd done anything overly scummy in his first few posts and his posts read okay to me? That is not saying much. In popcorn his posts read okay to me? but in Popcorn there were a couple small things that bugged me that I let go/ignored which I shouldn't have. I know that you guys are starting to lean town on him now, but I'm still in eh his posts are fine, but I don't have an actual read there. I just reread through his iso and yeah, I just don't know.
I'm starting to lean a little town on him based partly on our interaction, even though it reminds me a little bit of the go-around that skitter had in 2181 with scum-me, and I'm not sure why. I leaned into that interaction, and Dunn seemed to be trying to disengage, kinda?
You might have said this before, but are you guys leaning/still leaning town on math blade? Or do you guys have any issue with the people I've thought are town? Something feels off for me this game, and I'm not sure if it's the reads I'm approaching at or if it's the game state. I think I have the most concerns about Titus, Mastina, Cakez, Pooky and quiet but it doesn't feel right that it's the scum team.
We're leaning town on Math. I think I mentioned some discomfort with his page 30 posts. In some ways the situation is a lot like Dunn. Both got jumped on early and maybe knocked a little off balance? It can be hard to rebalance as any alignment. I feel like Math went paranoid some, started trying to scumhunt in the reactions and interactions, and flashed through a series of mental states based on feeling like he was getting elimed and like he had no footing really to fight back at LLD's push, especially. flail or lack thereof is more a personality marker than an alignment marker, I think? But, alignment does filter things. Townflail is a thing.
Of those four, the one we feel best about is Pooky. For me, it's contingent on other stuff in the gamestate, and I think for Nacho, too.
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In post 996, Prism wrote: In post 318, sangres wrote:Yes. It was. I want to see more. insert paragraph about rapidly evolving new players here.
This was about quiet's opening post. What's your current thinking on the slot/what made you iffy on the start? I know you didn't want to reveal fully what you're expecting, but I suspect you can go a bit deeper here.
I thought Quiet might be a little less heart-on-sleeve after Iceland, so the reserve isn't surprising. but I feel like his posts are more self-contained? Not as much reaction/replying. It's hard to say for sure with just 8 posts to look at.
In general, big drop-off in activity from one game to the next in a new player gives me strong scum-vibes. Right now, I'm thinking he's scum even though what content he's put down, on the face of it doesn't scream scum.
More content, and soon is what I need here.
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In post 1007, borkjerfkin wrote: In post 900, sangres wrote:Me? I was a mason. I can spend day 1 trolling random people, refuse to give reasoning for my reads, generally annoy people, and make it look like I'm a possible mislynch. I can start a random pissing contest with Deacon Blues, even though I'm 90% on them being town. I was literally lynch-proof (seriously, on day 2 I was confirmed town to 4 of the 10 players. 6 were needed for lynch).
i'm not sure i ever internalized that post when it was originally made. point taken i guess; i still don't love the "town for being reasonable" take as it seems too, sigh, "surface level" in that i find it hard to believe it comes from someone who actually gives a shit about getting the right answer
Yeah I'm not trying to bolster Math's point there. I just felt like you had a slightly skewed view of Grey's townplay based on that one game, especially given the post I highlighted.
It was a deacon blues shared experience, and for me it was a slightly misleading one when it came to playing with Grey again.
I think also from non-experiential meta that "let LLD and Grey sort each other out" has some utility, though the possibility they're both scum can't be totally dismissed at least in the general case, which this game isn't.
Apropos of nothing,
Unless you're scum with Prism, which I doubt, I feel like your game-design thoughts look pretty town.
It makes more sense to me than your spec in Illicit did. I hope I'm not setting my feet on the garden path here.
