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In post 2446, marcistar wrote:Pavowski
The Ugly Fruit**
Isis

isis is spicy, can you spitball a little bit more abt her

the vibes arent there

like seriously tho hold on a sec im TRYIN TO PUT ON SOME MUSIC BUT IT WONT WORK

In post 2446, marcistar wrote: Pavowski
The Ugly Fruit**
Isis

I almost feel like this could be the scum team in spite of my previous feelings

idk how to link videos but everyone needs to listen to this in full or else theyre scum

I was waiting to respond until I had time to sit down and type it all out, thank you for your patience!!

In post 2287, skitter30 wrote:Not sure what the point is here or why this bit is scum-indicative
I thought the way ari was interacting with the gamma wagon was prototypical of her scumgame if gamma was town
She even agreed with me that she was 'vibing and getting thread influence via vibing', which is how she would approach this as scum, ajd she thinks that the way i was worried abt this is town-indicative for me

My point was mostly that it was part of a pattern. I was providing context here for the analysis points that I made later in the thread. I found it strange how you questioned Ari on her Gamma read, and then attacked her shortly after for a point about thread control that was tangentially but not directly related. I felt at the time that this was a way of chainsawing for gamma while not making it about gamma, but to be honest, I'm not as confident in that anymore.

I do think that some of your posts in the later interaction with Ari, such as 1161 are scummy because it feels like you are saying that Ari to vote Gamma unless she has a strong case. It's a standard that you aren't holding most people to, so it feels selective and intentionally chosen.

In post 2287, skitter30 wrote:I mean, i'm not sure why you're reading this as 'punishing players and dismantling credibility' vs 'discussing reads, particularly ones i disagree with'. The former is scum-indicative, but i dont think the latter is, and i'm not sire why you're ascribing the former motivations to me when that's not what i'm doing and not really how i play
I do object to reads i disagree with
I'm not 'punishing' anybody

Because for the most part it doesn't feel like a discussion. I'm not sure how calling Titus' reads weird is starting a discussion. And I think in some places, like I mentioned above with 1161, your focus seems to be primarily on the read and not on why that makes the person more likely to be scum.

In post 2287, skitter30 wrote:I also object to the notion that i'm 'not hunting scum, and that my primary focus is on people's reads and why they shouldnt be having them'
- i have like 8 billion scumreads, and townread very few people
- i cant work through all of them at once, but i have been sharing my suspicions as i have them
- this makes me wary of several of the popular wagons, because i'm p sure that not all of the people who are widely scumread as scum, and idk how to pick the right wagon rn
- trying to understand people's reads: well i need to sort them too, ajd this is mafia, idk what else to talk about and how to do that? Not sure what else i should be focusing on
- and yeah if i think reads are wrong i'll say that. What should i be doing instead?

My issue came from how it didn't feel to me like your goal was understanding people's reads. It felt targeted. Originally I thought that it meant you were defending Gamma as a partner. I'm starting to think that's less likely, but it's still possible, and I think there's still potential scum motivation for taking the action that you have.

wtf this might take awhile actually why does isis have 302 posts-

If you’re taking the link from the web browser url bar, take the portion after the equals sign and put that in the tag
Idk how to describe what to do if using a YouTube sharing link

In post 2452, Gamma Emerald wrote:

In post 2446, marcistar wrote: Pavowski
The Ugly Fruit**
Isis

I almost feel like this could be the scum team in spite of my previous feelings

In post 2432, Pavowski wrote:

In post 2426, skitter30 wrote:

In post 2420, Aristeia wrote:it is actually kind of wild to me that Pavo voted for me and you when we almost threw him off the boat like 2 days ago -.-

Same

I'm weird like that, I don't assume people voting me are evil

Also as you pointed out, it's probably tricky for scum to pull an advantage out of this little plan, so that makes you suggesting it pretty +town

I suggested it..

Waluigi Isis

it confuses me thanks tho

In post 2308, Titus wrote:Interesting. Coral, what do you think of Ari's vote switch off of Pav?

You've realized by now that it was Meuh, but to answer that question, I'm not sure how meaningful it is. My read of things is that if skitter is scum, most likely Meuh is town and kind of pocketed by her. If skitter isn't scum, then Meuh could be, and it may be that she didn't intend to stay on Pav for long. A move onto Ugly Fruit is strange, and feels like an olive branch to Gamma, which could have either town or scum motivation. My heart reads it as town, but I'm not sure.

Oh I had multiquoted gamma's 2452 to say it seemed like DallE wrote it

Loki is licking me how sweet of him

In post 2445, marcistar wrote:yes i dont wanna play this "boost someones ego by letting only them choose the vote" game, if i wanted to play a game like that i wouldve signed up for a game like that.

I don't think this is the case at all. We're running into an issue where conventional voting is unlikely to get results due to a combination of high percentage of scum and also a few people not really participating, some of which have to be town.

The proposed alternative isn't about ego at all, it's about a different approach because the old one is unlikely to catch scum. Making people commit to who they want to appoint as town leader adds information and associative, and it's almost guaranteed that we will end up with town being chosen unless everyone's reads are just wrong.

The idea is that one elected player, regardless of who it is, is more likely to succeed at picking out the scum than our collective, which is currently struggling to move anywhere. You can disagree with that idea if you like, and give reasons, but I don't think you should dismiss it as being about ego.

another benefit is that scum was almost certainly unprepared for this turn of events and it may cause them to stumble!!

it might not be something we notice right away, but since they need to flip 2 of themselves in order to win, we can go back and see how they handled it

Marci please heal some peoples

Pav's heal votes makes weird sense to me btw

Oh phrasing. Make sense. Ironically

In post 2454, Coral wrote:I do think that some of your posts in the later interaction with Ari, such as 1161 are scummy because it feels like you are saying that Ari isn't allowed to vote Gamma unless she has a strong case. It's a standard that you aren't holding most people to, so it feels selective and intentionally chosen.

i mean, yeah, it was. it was ari-specific scumread (which i think is relatively clear from context) - at the time, i thought the way that ari was allowing marci to lead the wagon (while not even having a strong read on gamma) was scummy, for ari in particular, in that she was allowing a probable misflip to happen while keeping her hands clean

(i have since changed my mind on ari)

In post 2454, Coral wrote:Because for the most part it doesn't feel like a discussion. I'm not sure how calling Titus' reads weird is starting a discussion. And I think in some places, like I mentioned above with 1161, your focus seems to be primarily on the read and not on why that makes the person more likely to be scum.

as above, the fact that ari didn't seem to have a strong scumread on gamma is why i thought it was scummy. so i was tryign to understand the read to see if i was missing something
like if gamma is town
and ari is scum
she probably doesn't have a real read on him
but scum-her would be very happy to let marci misflip gamma
and that's the universe i was worried abt
so i was trying to understand the read better / how ari was approaching gamma to understand if she actually wanted him flipped cuz she scumread him or because she's scum and wanted the misflip

so i was focusing on the read

why does loki look like wifi

btw im not electing anyone no matter what u say
it is a game about ego
theres no use for me to play in yalls ego game i dont want it. idc tho do whatever u guys want i just

in case its needed again

marci you don't have to iso isis

just like why do you have bad vibes from her in like a sentence

but dont i need examples??

"who says I have to pretend to be town" has halted my Turing machine

i'd be happy if you just gave a couple of reasons or can reference a couple of things she's done that you think are scummy
depending on what you'd say maybe i'd ask for examples but i really just want ot start there

Oh I misread the post as "but I don't need examples"