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Krazy, Taly, Ankamius, Enter.In post 24, implosion wrote:Who's in it? i don't know all the headsShame on a martyr claiming friends
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At first I thought I didn't like that response, either.
But I thought about it a bit and I actually think it's perfectly reasonable.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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In post 62, Team STRQ wrote:Why is pops scum?It wasn't my finest work, I get it.
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Amrun. 53 doesn't sound S -> T, and her page 4 content is solving-oriented.In post 98, Team STRQ wrote:Give me a townread S_S
Homura leans town for being casual, and no opinion on the other three.and perhaps some thoughts over less vocal people {Looker, Elmo, Homura, Phi Kappa Phi}Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Really weird, not enough data, ask again later.In post 112, Team STRQ wrote:Thoughts on implosion?Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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In post 133, Looker wrote:Comfortable with being lynched for it, but I need PKP (or their replacement) to post at least once before I take this game seriously. Consider it a safeguard against lurkscum.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Yes I agree, that's why I was careful to note that post was not S -> T.In post 192, Wooper wrote:Homura/Amrun nonzero s/s equity off like the scent of openers
Failing to note that burned me in G&R III when I saw a post that I correctly judged wasn't S -> T and I assumed it was T -> X when it was actually S -> S.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Wooper is absolutely terrible. He's pretty much the worstIn post 280, Team STRQ wrote:also, is wooper an alt? They're sound familiar with everyone in the hydra :OShame on a martyr claiming friends
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I don't think anything in that convo is out of the question as S/S.In post 284, Team STRQ wrote:do you think it's particularly likely that the engagement with wooper would've gone the way it did if they were both scum?Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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I don't see town pops yet. Doesn't mean I won't, but afaik scum-pops is defined as "lack of town-pops" so scumlean I guess?
Wooper doesn't seem to be caring about how he's perceived, which is towny.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Oh. It's really brazen for scum to call out a townie who may or may not be a newbie for a greeting tell, which could easily blow up in your face if they aren't a newbie, or even if they are but people think it looked opportunistic.In post 291, Amrun wrote:What was this based on?
On the other hand, it's a reasonable way to distance and play dumb with a partner.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Was at a game night yesterday. What's up?In post 324, Elmo TeH AzN wrote:Where's S_S been btw.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Hmm.In post 307, Team STRQ wrote:But if you're going to say S/S is a possibility, then explain how and what defines "town pops" since you're more confident with wooper
I mean, it's tricky.
Probably the best thing I can say is that pops as town tries to provoke people to get information out of them and work with people to sync up reads with them. Pops as scum just kinda treads water? In my experience she tends to banter and deflect attention rather than diving into stuff.
But like I said, it's always possible she just hasn't had the time or the motivation to do what I consider diving in. And pops, this doesn't mean I think you haven't been solving at all, I just think most of what you've said is shallow enough that it would be pretty easy to produce as scum.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Say what now?In post 328, Elmo TeH AzN wrote:I'm not defending you. Honestly I'd rather you sent to hell.
But your obv town.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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In post 340, Elmo TeH AzN wrote:Who said Im not standing by that? Just because I say something is possible doesn't mean I'm not saying it can't happen.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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It's absolutely based on personal experience. I don't know that I've heard anything secondhand about what your scumgame is like.In post 353, popsofctown wrote:He seems to be using a site reputation basis for my scumrange instead of a personal experience basis for my scumrange, having played in two of my most sloppily played scumgames and none of my stronger performances but still stating a strong belief I can fake good shallow analysis as scum.
I don't think your analysis this game is deep, and you can fake shallow analysis as scum, because that's extremely easy.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Okay but like it's not like you're just gonna roll over and die. In both of those games you made a token effort; in G&R II you actually made more than a token effort and avoided being caught reasonably effectively.In post 359, popsofctown wrote:When I roll scum I don't find asking the mod for a VC easy, let alone shallow analysis.
To play scum is to endure pain.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Along with half the rest of the game. You weren't shot because you were scummy.In post 362, popsofctown wrote:night 2 I was shot.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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In post 427, Wooper wrote:going to sleep now. if I'm hammered overnight gl town. idk who to heaven tomorrowShame on a martyr claiming friends
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I don't want that to be a town post because like, come on man. You can do better than playing the victim and shitty unhelpful AtE.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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2In post 399, Ame wrote:On a scale of 0 to 10, how clearly are you able to visualize images in your mind's eye?
4On a scale of 0 to 10, how clearly can you hear with your mind's ear?
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Many factors are converging to make me believe there is at least one scum in {pops, wooper}. One such reason is that it's taken this long for someone to FoS me for being noncommittal, meaning scum haven't wanted to do it for some reason.
There are many possible reasons but the easiest one is that they (or at least some of them) know me too well to be able to get away with that.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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I kinda think I'd prefer to see STRQ go one way or the other before wooper does. Leaning toward pops atm but it would be nice to see STRQ and wooper put together a summary of their arguments against each other.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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It will happen, don't worry. We still have 2 days.In post 439, Elmo TeH AzN wrote:S_S I would like to see place a vote sometime in this game.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Firstly, glad that you weren't talking about implosion.
Secondly, mildly surprised? I thought I did shenanigans like that in PYP and AvP.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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You see a scum agenda from Elmo? Where?In post 480, Looker wrote:Because no one wants to help me lynch Elmo. Would you be interested?Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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I have no issue with being OMGUS'd as long as you back it up with reasoning. Why do you think that?In post 484, Wooper wrote:Ironically I feel like there might be one scum in {you,pops} but that has a lot of "no youuuuu" about it and is very much a cursory feelingShame on a martyr claiming friends
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Go on...In post 485, Wooper wrote:she's like kinda wolfyShame on a martyr claiming friends
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{Usually I can at least place people on a scale of how agenda-driven they look, and Elmo looks pretty non-agenda-driven to me. It looks like she's just saying whatever she happens to think at the time which is highly correlated with being town. / Thanks. / Correct. I'm not worried about Elmo at the moment, and I'd much rather sort out this pops/wooper/STRQ/S_S mess that's starting to spring up.}In post 493, Looker wrote:Pick as many as you want {You can make out agendas this early? / Very polished response. / I'll take that as a no.}Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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You said basically nothing besides "gut" though. I should hope that you can at least pinpoint what your gut thinks scum-me is trying to accomplish there that town-me would not be?In post 489, Wooper wrote:Exactly what I said. My stomach is funny about your post and I still don't know whether I dislike that it came from you, or dislike that it jars with a read I'm kind of biasing. like if I had to reflexively vig one of you, last night I would've reflexively vigged you. Right now I have no idea which way I'd go.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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She seems to be pretty much playing in an ideal town way so far? Commenting, questioning, providing reads with reasons, not trying to control the game or provoke people, and encouraging cooperation.In post 488, Wooper wrote:what's your take on amrun?
Obviously scum are capable of playing that way, but I don't really see how she's scummy.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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I probably should have said this before, but I was seeing TvT archetypes coming from the Ank/wooper argument. Obviously this is an extremely holistic impression, I wouldn't even call it a read, but I can follow the trajectory of that conflict very easily if it's TvT. This was before this page, and the posts on this page have reinforced it somewhat. This is one reason I'm more interested in pops today.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Ank probably has played the most games with me. I would say her I guess since she seems to be pretty good at sorting through the things that aren't alignment indicative for me, even if she isn't great at reading me overall.In post 504, Amrun wrote:@S_S: who do you think has the best handle on your meta, of this player list?Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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...No? You must be misunderstanding.In post 505, popsofctown wrote:You feel certain that scum!pops knows where she should calibrate her tolerance for votelessness for you and your playstyle, and knows you know and others know, and is therefore sticking to it, but town!pops doesn't know where to calibrate it?
I think Looker, Ame, Elmo, and arguably Amrun and implosion are more likely to push my lack of voting as scum, so since that hasn't happened much, it vaguely raises the chance of each of those players being town. As I said it's not a strong reason and it's not the only reason I thought one of you and wooper was scum.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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It is interesting that you act as though you are the sole objective judge of what is scummy.In post 506, popsofctown wrote:It is interesting that you view your scummiest post as the exit of your scumrange.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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My scumgame is remarkably inconsistent. You might have the right upper bound in your mind, but your lower bound is probably too high.In post 513, Wooper wrote:Do I hold your scumgame in too high regard?
I haven't played enough scumgames recently to really know for sure what it would look like, actually. I think baton pass was my last scumgame?? and it was quite different from any other I've played.
(And before you go omg how did he know he exited his scumrange, I know what went through my head in that post is not what would have gone through my head as scum.)Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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I mean even if you don't trust my introspection, I have a leg up in knowing the color of my role PM...In post 554, popsofctown wrote:I'm not, but I am a cynic on the validity of introspection in mafia in general, so I will give my read trumping priority over your own guesses about yourself, and I promise to give you the same right in discussing features of my own play.Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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Probably. Only if I actually felt I accomplished a level of genuineness I hadn't done as scum before. (See: baton pass where I said I was out of my scumrange constantly)In post 521, implosion wrote:@S_S: would you say that, generally, it is within your scumrange to make a post where you describe exactly where you exited your scumrange?Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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But surely if I can't confidently say what I would or wouldn't post as town or scum, then YOU can't confidently say what I would or wouldn't post as town or scum, no?Shame on a martyr claiming friends
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