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very floofy game opening

In post 179, Ydrasse wrote:i've come out of the last page or two townreading clidd + menalque. mt to a lesser degree but still in my townreads. i think that the back and forth between the former was maneuvered in a way that settled some of the weird feelings i had towards the line of question from mena, of which mt voiced. also this is because i am tired and only really looking over the last few pages now. :>

i liked gamma's opening (it made me feel special... and also it was super bold) and i don't remember anything about farren right now or much of the others right now but that is an issue for after i sleep.

while it's hypocritical to say that like... activity =/= alignment it does feel like the towniest people right now are the people posting the most right now?

I agree

In post 283, Ydrasse wrote:i think that morning tweet is town!

I AGREE

In post 285, Ydrasse wrote:the reason for that townread in particular is that i think her open-mindedness this game thus far feels townier than not? like, i don't think she's hedging when she says she doesn't know something and isn't looking for someone to supply her the answers so much as wanting to collaborate with everyone if that makes sense?

Maybe. It's very game-to-game how difficult it is for me to get reads. It's probably a tad more difficult for me to get reads as a whole as scum, but I would say I scumread better as scum. I think

In post 379, Ydrasse wrote:i like farren quite a bit. :> am adding him to my townpile.

Townread without giving extensive reasoning, more than "I like him". I wonder, does Ydrasse give naked reads as scum? I'm in the mood to check

She wrote an ESSAY on every player in the game in this scum game. EVERYTHING was preplanned by her huge read posts, she always had large walls to contribute before she'd move on to voting. She never opens herself up to getting attacked through opportunism, or anything else, because she gives off the appearance of actively reading every slot in the thread.

Let me check and see if Ydrasse ever elaborates this hard on her reads in town games she played at a similar time to this one (Newbie 2012)

Game of Ydrasse replacing into a terrible town slot and getting eliminated in 12 posts -> Newbie 2014

She certainly tried. But not nearly as much as she did in her scum game. That could just because she was screwed, moving on

Another town game -> Secrets of Anuket Topaz

She votes every other post for the first 12. She seems to be letting others sway her more. She's voting low-energy/activity slots. In 953 here comes a serious vote for wagon starter attempt. It's a lot of effort.. she has a lot of decent follow-up posts as well. I can tell her posting frequency is quite low though

I see that she got somewhat frustrated under pressure. I can tell Ydrasse fights really hard to not be eliminated. Not only that, she had the scum correct the whole way through. Looks like she basically saved the game to me cause she didn't die and did get her target eliminated

I wonder, does Ydrasse fight back hardest when she knows her elimination will result in a loss for herself and her team? I suppose it'd only make sense that way. That's as much meta as I have. This has been an in the mood for meta game for me

My running theory is that Ydrasse plays the hardest when she's under the most pressure, and that pressure can come from either A.) being on a scumteam where the game likely results in your loss upon getting eliminated or B.) being town getting pushed in a situation where your death means a likely loss for your team

Right now the only way Ydrasse could be feeling that pressure is if she's an arsonist. Haven't seen it yet. Lemme go back to why I'm bothering to do this... this game is a first for Ydrasse. I don't think she's written a single wall. She doesn't even feel the need to go deeply into her reads or explain herself much (like that Farren read above for example). If this isn't an external circumstance or something otherwise unrelated, I do believe this makes her town. There is also the possibility Ydrasse is consciously flipping the switch in order to distance herself from her scum meta.. but like why would you do that? Who is gonna get tripped up other than the 1-2 ppl who do meta analysis

Back to the game!

In post 516, Ydrasse wrote:hi i have not been very active lately and i am sorry for that!

uh, to explain why i might feel/be acting different: it's more of a comfort thing than anything else? i feel at ease with the playerlist + the game as a whole right now so i'm more prone to like... be sort of chit-chatty and easygoing. it's probably not the best for like, finding scum but i'm also prioritizing my own enjoyment lmao. that and not having as much time as i would like to really go through this.

I just somewhat feel like scum!Ydrasse would be more concerned abt looking like a scumhunter

Okay her ISO is actually continuing to be fluff. I will note her votes don't seem very calculated to me, and if she's scum, she is making no attempt to steel herself as an endgame player. I get that she probably has less access than normal, but i would expect scum!Ydrasse to at least be really good at one thing (Like just read 1 player extensively at least, to look like she's really interesting in solving something).

I feel like she'd feel some sort of pressure to effort at least just a little, just so she can stay in the game longer and not have a chance at abandoning her arso buddy prematurely.

I would instead say we got tictactoe and cat pictures. Which i LOVE, but it definitely isn't helping an arsonist agenda.