I also think that the way he seems to ineffectively white knight every town player that's about to be lynched is weird (with probably the exception of Mirhawk), especially when I don't really understand his reasoning behind any of those townreads. He seemed to be scumreading ranger in 1599 (or, at the very least, having some serious dislike for one of her posts), then calls her wagon terrible in 1672. Posts like 2094 bother me because he's not taking any sort of responsibility for finding scum; he's just townreading people because ??? but for some reason expects other people to do the legwork for him.
There's also this post:
...which sounds like a line that I'd use as scum, which isn't exactly a fantastic scumtell, exactly, but I understand the mindset all too well; as scum, you do things that you wouldn't do as town and wouldn't do as scum just to play different, and you play suboptimally just so you can point back to it later and say that this isn't really something that you'd do as scum.In post 2124, Cerberus v666 wrote:Man. You know me hippy. Like, hard defending someone off a nebulous townread I can't substantiate is NOT something I do. Neither is voting someone without a reason to actually scumread them. Why the fuck would I go out of my way to hard defend ranger right now, when I could just be silent and let you get taken into the night? Knowing that this game does have people who know me, who'll be like oh hey, yeah, Cerb is playing in a wholly unnatural fashion for him!
I think that Cerb-Pip interactions look pretty strange; to the best of my knowledge, Pip is the only one that Cerb encouraged to attack him and is the only person that Cerb got suspicious of for townreading him. This probably isn't relevant to anything since there's not really a definitive thing to draw from it either way, but.In post 2605, Cerberus v666 wrote:Yo pip. Shouldn't you try to get me lynched? It's a golden opportunity. Maybe I'll get out of this state of detachment I'm currently in if you attack me.
And this is probably a point that I've mentioned elsewhere in this post, but I'm not really buying the whole "man, I'm playing so differently, I wish people were seeing that who I wasn't townreading" as a town tell? I don't understand why people scumreading Cerb for playing off would be town; scum and town alike are capable when realizing that a player is playing not as well as they usually do, especially when this is something that they mention many, many times. Again, it feels like these are things that he's mentioning simply because he wouldn't mention them as scum and less because they're a part of his actual thought process.In post 3277, Cerberus v666 wrote:Also, I really wish someone who I wasn't already townreading had been the one to point out that my play isn't up to par for me. Minimal value gained. I guess cakez said it too, but like, his only completed game with me I was scum, and uncharacteristically inactive, so he isn't quite as versed in what normal me is.
I don't think that there's anything else that's significant in his ISO; I'll address Pip's Mirhawk case that seems to be guiding his read in a minute. If he's scum, then he's posturing himself to have as strong a VCA/read record as possible while not pushing cases and votes too much himself, probably to set up to take control late game. If he's town, then he's been having pretty strong reads with no reasons behind them and while being stuck in the ether for pretty much the entirety of the game.
