In Anything uPick and Chromavalon you voted me and you also tried to push me in PYP. Only game you didn’t was Schaad’s game and that’s because you had me pocketed.
I’m not letting you get away without answering both of these questions.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:41 pm
by Enchant
Because BBT!maf would just agree to police me without ANY questions.
You plainly ignored my vote and then suddenly WOW INCREDIBLE SCUMMY VOTE.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:48 pm
by Dancing Puppets
In post 9063, Enchant wrote:Because BBT!maf would just agree to police me without ANY questions.
You plainly ignored my vote and then suddenly WOW INCREDIBLE SCUMMY VOTE.
Yes your vote on me is definitely scummy because you don’t seem to care that you’re wrong.
It’s actually a coin flip as to who’s reasoning for votes is worse: Yours or BBT’s but he at least gave reasons - albeit reasons I’m highly suss about but, you’re just straight up omgussing me.
And you ignored my vote, if you was town you would say "lmao what a bullshit" instantly.
I am town and what’s the difference?
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:59 pm
by Enchant
You are not.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:02 pm
by Bell
Enchant, they've been consistently opposed to a Taly lim, like 98% of the time. This is way above average for a typical player. Saying that because they omitted one opposition that was unlikely to tip the scales, means they're scum is a bad argument.
You’re not going to convince I’m scum when I’m not.
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 3:12 pm
by Lukewarm
In post 9041, butterchurn wrote:Luke, from what I gather, most people seem to think you're town. Can you summarize what your strongest reads are right now, either town or scum? Links or quotes are fine too.
tbh, other then wanting to kill Math, I have been a little lost after my Two Great Scum Reads of Day 1 both flipped town.
Also, I keep having nagging thoughts on slots. So, it feels like if I sit down and actually thought dump my thoughts on slots, I am going to have +town and +scum thoughts on them, and it end up not being all that helpful.
That being said, most confident town read are probably Rad and Bell.
Spoiler: Rad
If Rad is scum, he is doing having a hell of a game. There is constant zeal for solving, what feels like a glaring lack of agenda, and an extreme openness about expressing thoughts about every slot in the game, along side a fluidity in his reads and who he is interacting with.
Spoiler: Bell
Bell has hit all the right notes for me, both on activity, they way he is approaching solving, as well as prickliness.
There was also a small thing that struck me really early day 1, which probably means absolutely nothing to anyone but me, but stood out to me in a way that reminded me of a past game we had. And that was a quietness to him growing a town read on me really early in the game. Like, instead of announcing that he thought I was town, I picked up on in in how he started interacting with me like the had come to the conclusion that I was town. That is both, something that he has done before in a prior game, and something that I doubt he would expect me to be looking for. And also, I felt like as scum, if he was going to fake town reading me, he would have tried to capitalize on it to get me to town read him. And he didn't. (of course, but not trying to do that, he did that, but still)
Other people, I think are town, but am less confident on :
Dancing Puppets, Pooky, Malcolm, Off the Hook, Johnny, CSF, T-Bone, and Taly.
Spoiler: Dancing Puppets
In post 2793, Lukewarm wrote:The way that Nancy is responding to people scum reading her feels in line with how I have seen Nancy respond to people scum reading her as town.
Complete indignation at the idea that someone could think that she is scum, because she is so clearly incredibly town that you must be scum to not see it.
I have not actually read a scum game of hers to compare, but this recent bout of posting from her talking to Pengiun could be copy/pasted from any one of the 4 or 5 town games that I have read that she was in.
And then Nancy's campaign for a no elim yesterday after the gladiate. It feels like there is no reason for scumNancy to make that switch, given she had already been scum reading ceph / there was plenty of other people scumreading ceph. But, given the circumstance, I bought her transition and I bought the emotion behind her choice
There was a bit of posting that made me question it during day 1, prior to the gladiate. but I think that it ended up being that I didn't like it, and not that it made her scum
In post 208, Bell wrote:Malcolm, what's up?
How are you? Are you still getting eliminated every day 1?
How has all of the being eliminated effecting your playstyle this game or how do you predict it will if at all?
I've actually never been eliminated D1! As a general rule when I'm town I manage to get through the first day, but after that I'm sometimes eliminated. Either way I tend not to let it impact my playstyle all that much - I wouldn't even say I have that much of a specific playstyle for the most part, I simply analyse and try to find connections between different players but tend to be pretty uncertain in how I approach the game.
I kinda like this post as coming from a town mindset for Malcolm.
Because several of us here know he was eliminated day 1 as scum in the Web of Lies games (and is what Bell is refering to here I believe).
But he didn't even think of that game. His thoughts went to "I never get
mis
eliminated day 1." And [I'm town this game, so I am immediately comparing this game to my other town games] feels like a genuine thought process. While I would kinda expect scum!Malcolm to be more aware of the scum game where he crashed and burned
That is a big reason behind me feeling so strongly about his alignment with 474. Him not remembering the scum game that he lost because he messed up because of posting in both a scum PT and a neighborhood, in a game where I already knew that he was in a hood felt really ++ town.
There has not been a lot of interest happening in our hood tbh. We are still on page 3 lol.
Spoiler: play by play
-Bit of small talk
-Me explaining my page 1 Mala town read.
-Him agreeing generally, but saying Mala might to it so not sold on it.
-Brief convo about an early scum ping I had on pooky - him asking questions about pooky as a player.
-Him calling out the early Ceph wagon as weird, me agreeing
-Me starting to scum read Rad early day 1
- Him telling me that he is town reading Rad.
-Us both saying that Frog is sus.
- Convo about C/G's Posting restriction, and if we believe it
- Me guessing that there is a Jin/Sun hood.
We start taking turns complaining about how many posts there are.
-He tells me he now thinks that Frog is really likely to be town.
- I say my scum read softened, but I am still leaning scum .
(In the main thread, Malcolm starts getting votes)
-I ask him his thoughts on claiming to be my neighbor.
-He says that if I want to claim, he does not have an issue with it, but does not see why we would.
-I talk about my case on Dunn re:the masons claim
-He says he thinks that Dunn is town despite my case
More of us complaining about the number of pages.
{day end}
I make a case for scum frog.
I get radio silence for long enough that I start wondering if I was wrong, and he is scum, and he is killing me, so he is not trying to post anymore. (Like most of the night phase tbh)
He finally comes back, and tells me that it was a good case, and that he would look back over frog[/s/poiler]
My thoughts: Lean Town
474 thoughts still feel right to me.
I liked his frogster progression, especially given the flip there.
I liked him not jumping at the prospect for me to claim our hood, and further explain why I town read him while under pressure.
Spoiler: Pooky
Overall, I feel like there has been a lot of energy going places that I feel like scum pooky just would not spend energy on.
All of the stuff where he gathered every one's reads list to make a spreadsheet of the reads.
How hard he went on trying to kill Frogster.
The amount of energy at being frustrated over not being able to kill frogster, and disappointment that he was just gonna get a ceph elim lol.
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However, I did feel a little weird about how many times he has posted "ScUm LuKe So ScArY"
To be clear, it was the frequency. When I saw the first one, I rolled my eyes at it, instead of squinting if that makes sense lol.
Pooky has encountered me as scum exactly once, and I believe it was my best scum game ever, so I understood having some hesitancy.
But also... he literally solved that game, called me and my partner both scum and exactly partnered with each other, and promptly defeated me in ritualistic combat.
So, it keeping on coming up has made me feel weird about it, but then it feels like a bad thought, because scum!pooky could just kill me instead lol. So kinda been ignoring it, even though it bothered me
Spoiler: T-Bone
I really
want
to believe that T-Bone is town.
How he described his town read on my read on him pretty well as well. It feels like I keep reading T-Bone posts, and they feel like they make a lot of sense, and even when I don't really agree with him, it feels like he makes sense.
I tend to town read people making sense. Because it feels like we are evaluating from a similar position.
The nagging thought tho, is that he is pocketing me.
Like there is a disproportionate amount of engagement with me? Which if he is town feels like a shitty reason for me to be doubting him, but I have noticed it.
I even did an iso search to see frequency of names to see if it was in my my head.
First comparing myself to his other top town read
"Luke": 159
"Rad": 66
And then comparing myself to the other top posters
"Luke": 159
"Pooky": 131
"Bell" : 116 (after I syphoned off the times he was saying "bella")
And this is the first ever game that I have played with T-Bone (where we were alive at the same time. I repped into a game that he was already dead in once lol). I know that I am more inclined to engage with people I know, so I feel like that should be inflating engagement with Slots That Are Not Luke, but it isn't.
I am getting tired. So am going to stop doing this.
In post 9042, butterchurn wrote:2731 on Corwin/MathBlade slot looks pretty good to me. Math's approach to the replace in feels noticeably different from his approach in NQN2.
NQN2?
Large game hosted by Ceph.
Titus was in that game, so should have also seen the Math rep in if you want to ask her about it