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Post Post #2050 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:20 pm

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In post 2048, skitter30 wrote:Also i'm starting to become a wee bit paranoid that i'm being buddied/pocketed given how i think literally everyone is townreading me
And how people are talking to me on this page
I think you should really

Go into TWs individual iso

And look at his read developments including on you.
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Post Post #2051 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:21 pm

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i can see why some combination of {rc,tw} carries optic pocket equity. we've kinda just stopped yelling at each other because it's not going anywhere. both of us either need to solve, or appear that we're solving. you and mathblade are the ones here who are trying to solve and mathblade has gone to sleep; so we probably look like quite cliche pockety.

i'm not going to impose my reads on you so like. in order to have a more productive conversation, i'll try and work outside of us... is there somewhere else where you feel like you have high pocket equity?
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Post Post #2052 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:23 pm

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I can lynch you: you can pretend otherwise if you want to.

I'm choosing not to.
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Post Post #2053 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:26 pm

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I don't doubt it

a lot of my argument is that you CAN lynch me and you're choosing to exercise that at the expense of reading my slot with an open mind dude

i'm saying
let's put that aside
is skitter concerned about being pocketed by anyone who ISN'T us
because we've had our share of the thread
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Post Post #2054 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:27 pm

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Reading slots with an open mind hmm...

Ok I don't even want to start this.
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Post Post #2055 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:28 pm

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let's not
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Post Post #2056 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:29 pm

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Let's start here.

VOTE: Teacher

I promise if there are at least 4 pages of meaningful discussion tomorrow I will not post. If there is a further 4 pages on Saturday I will continue not posting. I will start posting Sunday whenever Ari is around if these conditions are met.
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Post Post #2057 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:33 pm

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would people prefer if i did the same?
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Post Post #2058 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:33 pm

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............

(This post is intentional.)
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Post Post #2059 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:35 pm

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In post 2008, skitter30 wrote:whoo 2000 post-day1
yeah

whoo


also i had a bunch of stuff quoted and ready to be answered but I don't think they'll add that much

UNVOTE:

I'm here for the next hours and after that I have
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Post Post #2060 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:26 pm

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In post 1873, skitter30 wrote:Rc at this point my thouhts are:

I just want this day to be over already if lynching ari is what it takea then fine whateves

I haven't read past here but, hard agree. (There was a lot more nuance to this post, but I'm phone posting and this is easier than bolding)
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Post Post #2061 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:38 pm

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@skitter, JJ has played with me a bunch and should be able to read me.

I'm over this day. Like, Ari isn't here. He said he wouldn't be here. And instead of hunting other scum, rc has again filled up the thread yelling about him. This game would be 80% more readable of people engaged with other slots


My tin hat brain is saying some people "cough* are focusing on Ari to avoid having associatives with anyone else. Like, there is plenty in the thread to talk about..
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Post Post #2062 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:50 pm

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ok i'm caught up but i'm falling asleep. there's alot of players that i need to look at their posts again to read, but i'm way to sleepy to do that.

things i'll say right now,

rc i'll only make effort to read if he doesn't die.
i'll trust rc and nsg so that if rc flips town, i'll accept the worst as scum. i think i'll try to sort him before then anyway.
skitter and math are clearly town.
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Post Post #2063 (ISO) » Thu Jan 09, 2020 10:49 pm

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Spoiler: gryphon anteater
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Vote Count 1.15
Aristophanes
(4): Flopz, MathBlade, teacher, RCEnigma
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teacher
(2): skitter30, RadiantCowbells
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(1): Aristophanes
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(1): Plum

Not voting (3): Bellaphant, tris, Iconeum

With 13 alive, it takes 7 votes to end the day.
Deadline is set to two weeks from day start, in (expired on 2020-01-16 22:00:00).


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Post Post #2064 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:20 am

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I can't play a game at this pace right now. Something close to 15 pages per day is not feasible for me, at least in conjunction with my IRL workload at the moment. It is demoralizing and frustrating. Especially because I would like to hear more and engage more with players who have said less this game, and having more pages of RC arguing with tw is the opposite of that.

I'll try to get real thoughts together today before my weekend V/LA starts, but I need to cook, commute, class, get the last stuff together to respond to reviewers for my paper we're resubmitting. So it may not happen until Saturday night. And if it's another 15 pages by then, I don't know what to say except that I need to go work again Sunday too.

Sorry for being so bitchy here. This game is like wading through jello at this point and I don't think it needs to be that way, which is the frustrating part.
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Post Post #2065 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:35 am

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+1

If work wasn’t slow right now I wouldn’t be able to keep up either. That’s why I am okay with lynching RC if he makes this game more intolerable: Even if we grant his claim, dubious at best, it doesn’t mitigate the fact that no one else can keep up with him. The same goes for the worst.

For fucks sake I have the third/fourth highest posts. This clearly says something is wrong.

Now if you’re RC and are telling us you think the worst is scum, we get it.
If you’re the worst and telling us RC is scum, we get it.

Being repetitive is grounds for your ass being policied.
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Post Post #2066 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:39 am

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Yeah i've only been able to keep up because it's been slow as anything at work recently

I'm kinda at the point where lynching ari is the best way to underail ths gamestate
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Post Post #2067 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:42 am

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In post 2051, the worst wrote:i'm not going to impose my reads on you so like. in order to have a more productive conversation, i'll try and work outside of us... is there somewhere else where you feel like you have high pocket equity?
I mean atm you two, you're both trying to appeal to me to get me to side with u p strongly

And in general i think that town!me is the easiest read rn so i'm a little wary of all the townreads
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Post Post #2068 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:48 am

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In post 2067, skitter30 wrote:
In post 2051, the worst wrote:i'm not going to impose my reads on you so like. in order to have a more productive conversation, i'll try and work outside of us... is there somewhere else where you feel like you have high pocket equity?
I mean atm you two, you're both trying to appeal to me to get me to side with u p strongly

And in general i think that town!me is the easiest read rn so i'm a little wary of all the townreads
Seconded.

This tells me I am super right in my reads or super wrong.

Like the worst thing is I have all these potential teams but RC+TW+? Keep floating to the top because of their bs.

And the best way to sort them is lynch Ari.
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Post Post #2069 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:49 am

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It also indicates strongly teacher town too. Sorry Skitter but Teacher is just a bad wagon.
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Post Post #2070 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 2:57 am

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Assume RC is town. Then RC locked up the entire game thread screaming about Ari. Yet his vote on teacher implies it is an investigative one which means he doesn’t know. He could investigate almost anything else. The fact he didn’t choose Flopz or Tris who have been in his scum pool longer means he’s so frustrated he’s not thinking clearly. In which case the teacher shouldn’t be voted as it doesn’t sort RC and doesn’t help investigate in any way.

Assume RC is scum. He generally has a bussing net and this is one of the few ways I would accept teacher scum. But in that case looking over RC for teacher associatives to see if this is a bus is the best play. Considering RC hasn’t followed his long term scumreads this is more likely RC scum making you feel better.
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Post Post #2071 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:04 am

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In post 573, RadiantCowbells wrote:skitter reaction probtown
already townreading tris
spicy read rc town
also think that rce is town
also think that creature is town

the worst leantown but easily an error vector
bella leantown

xtoxm null, intentionally making themselves unreadable
ico null, unintentionally making themselves unreadable
thilbert?? who? have they posted?

scumreads

ari for reasons given
mathblade tonally plus associatively
plum just isn't doing anything that gives townvibes

i'll continue reading but i'm not gonna post much unless someone asks me for something specific so gl.
See here for an example. He’s had plum deep down on his scum list. But yet has teacher on his town.

RC+Teacher+Bella/Plum (probably Plum) makes sense due to RC meta but it requires RC scum for teacher to be.

And mainly I think we find this out by lynching Ari.

So I am focusing on a few possible worlds (in order of priority)
RC+TW+1 (maybe even Ari)
RC+Teacher+Bella/Plum (more likely Plum)
TW+Ico+?? (Only works if RC is town) ?? Possibility of deep wolf
RC and TW are TvT and have made this game unbearable and scum are lurking and taking advantage
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Post Post #2072 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:06 am

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In post 2061, Bellaphant wrote:@skitter, JJ has played with me a bunch and should be able to read me.

I'm over this day. Like, Ari isn't here. He said he wouldn't be here. And instead of hunting other scum, rc has again filled up the thread yelling about him. This game would be 80% more readable of people engaged with other slots


My tin hat brain is saying some people "cough* are focusing on Ari to avoid having associatives with anyone else. Like, there is plenty in the thread to talk about..
Then start us off.

What’s something of note you see in game thread?
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Post Post #2073 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:47 am

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Post Post #2074 (ISO) » Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:05 am

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That's L2 and I'm not comfortable with it.

Something you should know regarding Mathblade's scumread on me:

1) in our first ever T-T game Mathblade fakeclaimed a guilty on me. I was town. He blamed me for it.
2) after i explicitly off-site told him I didn't want him in my games, he joined everhopetopia whatever it's called. He started screaming that Maria/me were SvS and when I asked him to leave because I clearly informed him that I wanted him to leave me alone, he refused and i had to sub out. We were both town, Maria was also town, I was trying to lead on scum.
We tried a few times long after to make things work, decided they didn't, Math agreed to stop joining my games.
3) Mathblade then joins DnD upick under a secret alt. Insists that Lovebird/RC is scum v scum after I claimed masons with her and that Messiah Complex my preferred lynch was town. We lynched MC, they were scum, Lovebird got NKed and was town. D2: me and gigs said Schadd was 100% town and wanted to lynch Wisdom. Mathblade was screaming that Schadd was scum, MC was a bus, wisdom was town. All 3 reads wrong. This is barely over a year ago. Math also kept insisting that they improved a lot and now were better than they used to be but what they actually are is still same old Mathblade.
4) before all of this, I played Civilization mafia (yes THE civ mafia) with Math where I was scum and she was town. Most town had caught most of my buddies as a group but they weren't sucking up to Math in the right way so she townreads
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5) addendum that there is one and only one time on MS I remember him pushing a correct lead. Shaziro said that he knew someone else wasn't the vig and that a thingy that happened was odd. Math decided that meant he was crumbing odd night jailkeeper who had targeted them????? And when it came to massclaim Math claimed that they were definitely fakeclaiming because they were lying about being odd night jailkeeper. Shaziro did in fact flip serial killer and this is in fact the 1 time to my knowledge that Math pushed scum on MS. But.

Math is my oldest blacklist because I got banned because of him pissing me off not once, not twice, but three times, all in situations where I had politely and repeatedly asked them to me me alone so I didn't get pushed to that point. I'm remaining civil here to the best of my ability however I want to make perfectly clear to y'all that listening to Mathblade is how you lose games horribly. His scumread on me is not a meaningful data point because he simply calls me scum on principle because as he's stated in the past, my way of playing the game is scummy.
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