I'm completely fucking exhausted so I'm cutting this (somewhat) short for tonight unless people want to talk to me about other stuff in the ~1 hour I have left awake.
In post 882, Sixty wrote:But assuming they know the Town color
that is in the very first page
isn't all that nonsensical, yes?
The idea in my head at the time that she just fucked up: when I first read the line, I did a double take because I couldn't believe that had been posted. Her reaction to this whole thing is what made me think I probably jumped the gun on that one and now I'm just not at all as sure as I was before (as an aside, the town color isn't really something I think about or put in effort into trying to remember when I'm scum but that's probably because I'm bad at it, so).
In post 884, sangres wrote:Empire, you remember thinking that my Plum town-case in pennipedum looked too simplistic to be town?
If I had been town and had to explain why I thought Plum was town in that game, the case would have been very similar but I would have gone on a bit more about why the Plum in the On A Boat game was different.
I'm not seeing quite the same level of <I'm looking for a word here but I don't think there's a single word that hits the mark - ambiguity, many words that say not much, off-to-the-side> play, but IMO she's much closer to that than to the open, engaged, in the moment play I saw in Pennipedum.
I can move our vote there. But, I'd much rather be on a wagon that you and F-16 both think are scum if I'm not going to stick with nacho's strongest scum read.
"Passive" might be a decent word there? The thing is she looks like scum particularly because she does remind me of that game in the ways I mentioned but my biggest concern right now is that it might be activity related (since she's been V/LA for a large part of this Day phase). I could vote her but I wouldn't feel confident in it at all.
In post 936, sangres wrote:ha! even as I was answering this with "not at all since our first set of reads lists" I was getting text messages from him <3
I like that you're engaging me about our reads.
He feels pretty strongly about his katsuki read and I'm feeling a little bad about moving our vote rather than trying to push that wagon by proxy.
He feels like Katsuki's push on him in this game feels a lot like his push on kuribo in Anything Goes. And that his reaction to Nacho's push doesn't feel at all as organic as his town reactions usually are.
Basically I think he's calling Empire's meta-town read on Katsuki too shallow.
Uh, I just looked over what Nacho had posted about him in
#295 and he says there that Katsuki as town tends to talk about how Nacho should be able to read him. Is that not what he's doing here (
#626)? What more were you guys expecting from his reaction (I don't think Katsuki really one much for detail when he's town)?
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@Sixty:
I still think Reck is town, in fact even moreso after the series of posts just now. I don't know if you guys have read The Reckoning III and that Mini Theme Fate ran, but if not, you really should (although Reck's effort level when putting forth a defense is more like the former than the latter). In fact, I'd say his play here mirrors The Reckoning III almost exactly...I get why you guys are suspicious of him, I remember having reservations on a townread on him while following it even though he literally townslipped on like page 5 or something of that game because his play felt half-finished/under-construction but I don't think he's scum here. If I had to pick a wagon to compromise on, it'd be Plum, though I have some reservations about going that way especially given that Tim Howard is one of the major proponents of it and every time they post, I get reminded of CDB's townread and then get traumatic flashbacks to the townreads on Andrius from The Game That Won't Be Mentioned.