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hi everyone, both familiar faces and new! I'm excited to play with you all
VOTE: Tamora's Angel
why no vote?"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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If it's a good vote, why didn't you join it? absent that this kinda just feels like buddying LLD. I like that Dunn called this out as well
:/ I didn't get any bad vibes from those postsIn post 69, Off The Hook wrote:have i ever played with u spif? i dont remember if i have, but what i do think is that these post have bad vibes!@@!#@!%
not a fan of your entrance so far here marci/gamma"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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which posts specifically?In post 100, Child of Fairies wrote:anyone else having trouble parsing the shakespeare english?"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Bell, Luke, Pav, Dunn all feel towniest to me so far
I like that Tamora's Angel gave a Pav townread but not enough to feel comfortable about a townerad there
VOTE: off the hook
I don't have especially strong scumvibes but claiming to support a vote without sheeping it + shading Bowser Jr slot for posts I find fundamentally NAI + townreading Luke & Pav makes me think my vote is best here"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I think I wasn't clear there, TA townreading Pav is not enough for me to have a townread on TA, TA's read didn't impact my Pav read"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I'm townreading Pav, I said I have him as town in 103. I don't think scum is as likely to make such comments about keeping Juliet to endgame (92 especially seems to suggest he wasn't even considering that the slot could be NK'd)
my original vote on TA wasn't factored into my reads at all but yes I did want to say my thoughts on them since I was moving my vote off of them"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Are these scumreads?In post 113, DeasVail wrote:Bowser Jr., Off The Hook, Child of Fairies, Skybird
If they are, why vote COF over Off the Hook?"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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if you're acting like it's a sufficient explanation, it's notIn post 128, Off The Hook wrote:
yeah im totally trying to buddy lld glad u noticed bestie.In post 101, GuiltyLion wrote:If it's a good vote, why didn't you join it? absent that this kinda just feels like buddying LLD. I like that Dunn called this out as well
i wonder what this is...In post 85, Off The Hook wrote:hes also saying now he thinks galrons a fine vote but i do wanna wait a bit, i feel like if galrons scum itll become obv, when i saw scumgalron last he was basically not solving at all : DD (i think our efforts are better used elsewhere for now, and he'll become an obv solve given time)
a) you had to be pushed by Dunn to post it
b) why will it become obvious if Galron is scum? what experiences with him is that based on?
c) you say your "efforts" are better used elsewhere, but you haven't pushed anything or used your vote, so I'm not seeing a lot of effort elsewhere that's preventing you from making a "good vote"
Pretty much any first post in the gameIn post 128, Off The Hook wrote:
oh really..? do you mind explaining..? cause to me they seem a bit over excitable so they seem like theyIn post 101, GuiltyLion wrote:
:/ I didn't get any bad vibes from those postsIn post 69, Off The Hook wrote:have i ever played with u spif? i dont remember if i have, but what i do think is that these post have bad vibes!@@!#@!%
couldbe faked.couldbe faked, I didn't grok why you felt those in particular are more likely than any other post. Do you think scum!Spiff is more likely to use a bunch of question marks/exclamation points to act excited yet town!Spiff is not?
the bit about townreads on pav and Luke was referring to my own townreads on them. they both RVS'd you so I figured it was possible you already had multiple votes from other townies and wanted to add fuel to the fire. Though I actually did forget that Pav had moved his vote off of you by that point, I had just gone back and checked VC 1.2In post 128, Off The Hook wrote:
why do u think our townreads on luke & pav are a reason to vote us?In post 103, GuiltyLion wrote:VOTE: off the hook
I don't have especially strong scumvibes but claiming to support a vote without sheeping it + shading Bowser Jr slot for posts I find fundamentally NAI + townreading Luke & Pav makes me think my vote is best here
and i wanna know where tf did we townread luke???! i dont remember doing it myself, if anything i remember slightly shading him, and i dont see anything from gamma saying he did... or did u just make this up to push ur point along
You're really quick here to use your misinterpretation of my post (which admittedly was phrased poorly as it was late and I was tired) to accuse me of making things up, instead of thinking that you might be misunderstanding me instead."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I get lots of goodfeels from DV's 130, I had the same issues with COF's 100 (which was what prompted my 102), and while my question to DV was meant more in the spirit of "why vanity vote instead of joining my wagon" I totally resonate with his summary of the bad vibe from COF.
DV's follow up 161 is also a super townie post
VOTE: Child of Fairies
I also had a thought that if COF is scum, he might be more likely to say that I "seem fine" if I'm currently pushing on a town!OTS. may be a bit too much of a reach so I'ma sleep on it but the idea has taken hold in my head"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Ceph & Bowser Jr, can you give me a reason why you're townreading the Gamma/Marci hydra? doesn't have to be a long explanation or anything but I really don't feel any townvibes from either of them yet and I'm wondering what I'm missing"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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In post 137, WhemeStar wrote:I HAVE NO READS RIGHT NOW AHHHHHIn post 138, WhemeStar wrote:Im probably going to be very lazy this game and thats sadIn post 165, WhemeStar wrote:Votes on me are lazy
wheme, real talk, do you actually feel like the wagon on you can't give you any info? I know there hasn't been a lot of discussion around it but it should also be the one wagon you know for sure is on town and something you can engage with directly (instead of lawyering on another player's behalf, or waiting for them to explain themselves).In post 191, WhemeStar wrote:This wagon doesn’t really give me any info though :/
I also don't like the inconsistency between complaining about lack of info/reads and saying you are going to play lazy / accusing others of being lazy, and I'd appreciate it if you efforted harder cause right now you're basically just acting as a lightning rod for everyone to vote without much consequence"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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what's your current read on WhemeIn post 234, Child of Fairies wrote:also, UNVOTE:
Don't want an early hammer, and my initial vote on this slot was a joke vote.
I realllyyyy don't like that you unvoted without voting elsewhere, all that does is kill pressure/momentum on wheme. especially given you're not chasing another scumread instead, by not voting you're failing to generate any information"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I also feel this post is more likely scum, completely missed the context of Pav's Bowser vote and didn't bother to look into it when asking Pav about itIn post 240, Child of Fairies wrote:
what changed between a single post by neither of these people?In post 235, Pavowski wrote:I enjoyed that
We now resume our regularly scheduled programming
VOTE: Wheme"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I call people slots all the time, I just see it as a game term, hadn't considered whether that could be received as dehumanizing or not no apologies necessary on my end at leastIn post 259, Skybird wrote:@GL, my apologies for calling you a slot. I couldn't remember your pronouns."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I don't really vibe with this, I feel that quite frequently as town I can look at a post like 252 and send that I can understand what the person's reason for voting is. at the very least, you can assume the argument is "this post is a scum post" and agree/disagree with thatIn post 270, Bowser Jr. wrote:your explicitly calling out that you agree with her feels unearned because she hasn’t expressed an opinion to be agreed with outside of what we can assume from her votes."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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No I agree there's not a ton that canIn post 282, WhemeStar wrote:What votes do you think give information when it comes to other people? I racked up a lot of naked votes fast that can come from either alignment so not much to be learned there IMOcurrentlybe learned, but my point is rather you could be trying instead of just complaining about it. like Bowser left their vote on you for quite a long time and just moved off you to DV, we could be asking them about that and if their read on you has developed at all"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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because I am fully aware that nothing is stopping me from also asking Bowser that question about their Wheme read, so if I had said "you" alone I'd feel like a hypocrite even though I really just want Wheme to do the work of interrogating his own wagon since idk if he's town or not
I don't really vibe with the spirit of your question, like do you think if I were scum I'd be more/less likely to say "we"? kinda feels like a semantic nitpick, but at the same time I've seen you do this in both our recent past games together so I get that it's just your style"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I could probably join a Bowser wagon, I like the main voters on it and I feel Bowser's reasoning on DV is convoluted in an uncomfortable way"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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VOTE: Bowser Jr
I have greater confidence in my scumread on COF but I don't have any real reasons to townread Bowser Jr and this wagon is better than the Wheme wagon"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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couple thoughts for you LukeIn post 347, Lukewarm wrote:Hot Takes:
Pav is Town
Icebox is Town
Bowser Jr. is Town
Guilty Lion is giving me mixed signals - I keep seeing things that give me a gut town reaction followed by posts that give me a gut scum reaction.
DeasVail is Scum
Off the Hook is maybe Scum - I wish Marci was posting more as either alignment, because I feel like she can both obvtown and obvscum if she just goes for it.
Child of Fairies is confusing, but has been confusing to me in every game I have encountered them (including a game where they replaced me on a rep out, so while reading along I knew their alignment for a fact)
I have very little thoughts on anyone else yet.
first - I don't agree with your scumread on DV at all - his reasoning seems genuine and transparent to me and I don't sense that he's playing with any kind of agenda. what is it in his posts that you can't see as town-indicative? I can understand Bowser Jr scumreading him (assuming Bowser Jr is town) because DV was pushing their own slot, but the reasons you gave for suspecting him are:
1) his early pushback on your reasoning for your marci scumread
2) saying he "agreed" with LLD
I already voiced my opinion on 2 in 281 and I thought DV's response to you in 255 made sense and deserves a reply. I don't think your reasons to vote him are as convincing as you seem to believe they are, and that disconnect doesn't make me feel good about you.
second - this last bit on COF caught my attention. You aren't committing to a read in any direction, and you didn't mention whether those previous games were COF-town, COF-scum, or a mix of both - what did you want us to take from you calling COF confusing? do you support a wagon there?"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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In post 358, WhemeStar wrote:Wait gif is in this game?
Wheme wagon is dying, but this is another point for town!Wheme - unless he's faking this thought process completely, I think scum would be more likely to pay attention to who is in the game as a hydra than town would. This would also probably spew Icebox as town on a scum!Wheme flip (though I don't think anyone suspects icebox), and generally scum want to keep as many players potentially aligned with them as possible.In post 359, WhemeStar wrote:Ohh icebox nice
@Skybird, since you asked for reasons to townread Wheme"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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why is Skybird town?In post 369, Tamora's Angel wrote: I could go with Pav, Icebox, GuiltyLion, Skybird as town. LLD can be town for the day. Same with Wheme.
Ceph I am warming up to adding to a townblock but not quite there.
I can't get there with Lukewarm."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I'm thinking a lot about this post, dissonance over this point/read on COF strikes me as something that would be quite subtle to fake as scum. Especially since I don't think I can find Spiff mentioning anything in thread about COF or liking that post - I only quick skimmed the ISO but I don't see it there, someone please shout if I missed it.In post 336, Bowser Jr. wrote:
This was the contested read for me and spiffsIn post 323, Icebox wrote:I'd say COF and Skybird has scum in it.
I didn’t like when they asked for clarification from Pavoski about the votes. I felt like it showed them not trying to pay attention which looks weird from someone trying to solve
But spiffs also missed it so no clue. He liked the same post I didn’t like.
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Heh, mentioning the same part
Regardless, I'm going to go back to COF, I think it's a good wagon and I think COF completely missing the context/joke in Pav's Bowser vote is probably the most indicative thing so far. Townies don't tend to misunderstand/miss things like that, whereas scum that's coasting and more focused on finding inconsistencies in people's ISOs or avenues to scumread people can be prone to making such an error. Kinda reminds me of my last scum game where I snip quoted a post and asked the player for a read that fae had given in the very post that I quoted
VOTE: Child of Fairies"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I don't think you could have misrepped me harder if you tried, lolIn post 416, Lukewarm wrote: Re:the bolded #1, this seems to imply that town only build scum reads on people pushing them, which I am sure that you don't mean (right?), but I am not sure how else to that that other then "they are not pushing you, so you should not be scum reading them" which is pretty meh...
Re:the bolded #2, that sure feels like "if your reads are not the same as mine, I am gonna consider scum reading you" which is also pretty meh... Or possibly, "if you don't have a rock solid foundation on your day 1 scum read, then I might start thinking you are scum" which is also meh....
So all in all, not a fan of this post my friend.
1) nowhere did I say "only town build scumreads on people pushing them", what I said was more akin to "I can understand why a townie in their shoes would suspect DV". I didn't say that made them NOT scum, just that I could see it coming from town
2) I mean, if you want to pretend I said those things, go ahead, but that's absolutely not what I said. Where I am coming from is DV is one of my most solid townreads in the game at the moment, and you are suspecting that slot for reasons that strike me as notably flimsy. If you can't understand why that would lead to a decaying read on your own slot, especially when you try to throw it back at me when I give you a genuine reach out, well..."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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actually can you link me to the confirmed town COF ISOs you're thinking of though? If they're historically a careless player (in the sense of missing obvious jokes/context) then that might weaken my readIn post 416, Lukewarm wrote:but also 2)have seen from confined town CoF"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I think you're framing things here like you wanted DV to give an updated read with deeper reasoning on the marci slot, but I see DV's response as more of a challenge to you as to why DV needs to be townreading marci in order to critique your reasons to scumread her. This bit specifically:In post 435, Lukewarm wrote:Side note for Guilty Lion, what in 255 do you think deserved my response? There is still no read on the slot coming from them. Just "I am conflcted" with out any of the reasons that make them conflicted - what made them think it could be town, what makes them think they could be scum? Idk, I just know that they are conflicted. And its like, here I was talking about trying to sort them, they think my reasons are bad, but there was still no hint of "well did you consider X reason to think that they could be [town/scum]"
Do you disagree with this? Did this help you understand why town!DV might write a post like 209? You didn't respond to it and still haven't even when breaking down this post. You say you didn't feel DV was trying to sort you, but it looks quite a lot to me like he was.In post 255, DeasVail wrote:I don't townread the slot, but I don't need to townread the slot to disagree with your reasons for scumreading them
I also think you're exaggerating the disconnect between what you refer to as "Steps 1,2,3". I think both the original "I agree with LLD" and the Step 1 post 344 read like attempts at humor, while there's a consistent train of thought underneath that he did feel he understood LLD about 252.
idk if we're interpreting his tone differently or you just don't seem to grok an attitude of "I think I understand why this player scumreads this post without them explicitly saying it" (something I feel pretty often when I play), but I just don't see your case as all that indicative. It's not hard at all to imagine those posts coming from town, I'm not sure if you genuinely can't or aren't trying to."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Galron, why did you case COF in 448 after you had already voted them? Woosh-gate in particular was already discussed by several players in thread.
It feels kinda performative, like regardless of your alignment you decided to vote COF first without thinking, but 448 rings as if you want to make sure the rest of us know you are evaluating their slot. Gives me "tell" instead of "show" vibes"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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quick hot take reads update
Ceph and LLD are becoming decent D1 townreads for me, not that there's been much if any discussion on wagoning them but I don't think I'd like to elim either currently.
OTH too I think I'm coming around on.
TA I don't understand his/her Skybird townread but feels generally townish (hey look Luke it's me disagreeing with a read without scumreading him/her )
Wisdom and Juliet I don't have any reasons to scumread but more engagement from them would definitely help.
wagons I'm fine with right now is like {COF, Skybird, Galron, Lukewarm}, but I'm really waffley on Luke and Galron. Skybird's definitely flying under the radar too much at this point unless she starts coming in with some fire takes and reads
I need to look through that game Luke sent me, I think I did notice in skimming it that COF missed somebody's claim so TBD on if it changes my mind at all when I have time to do a proper deep dive, which is not now unfortunately"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Again here you are trying to misrep me by turning my points into ridiculously generalized claims that I never made. The last two sentences of your post are absurd. Not even 5 posts ago in my ISO, 421, I was explaining to you how I could imagine how Bowser Jr could scumread DV and still be town.In post 480, Lukewarm wrote:He is your number one top town read, but I still don't know why other then "he seems genuine" but that is apparently enough for you to come out and hard defend him, and even go so far as to scum read people for having a scum read on them. But I am not seeing the work that got you there. What has DV done that not just makes you think he is town, but to think that no town players would be scum reading him right now? Because that is the stance it feels like you are taking.
I have been repeatedly trying to engage with you why I see his posts as genuine and your interpretations as uncharitable. You just don't want to listen, and you're making that clear"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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to add to this, it is the wayIn post 482, GuiltyLion wrote:Again here you are trying to misrep me by turning my points into ridiculously generalized claims that I never made. The last two sentences of your post are absurd. Not even 5 posts ago in my ISO, 421, I was explaining to you how I could imagine how Bowser Jr could scumread DV and still be town.you in particularare scumreading DV that I take issues with, your reasons and your projected confidence in them. That does that mean "no town player could scumread DV""I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Luke you also ignored this and I don't remember you ignoring engagement like this from our last game together - might be just a function of your V/LA, but this was a real question I wanted to hear an answer toIn post 466, GuiltyLion wrote:This bit specifically:
Do you disagree with this? Did this help you understand why town!DV might write a post like 209? You didn't respond to it and still haven't even when breaking down this post. You say you didn't feel DV was trying to sort you, but it looks quite a lot to me like he was.DeasVail wrote: I don't townread the slot, but I don't need to townread the slot to disagree with your reasons for scumreading them"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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maybe this is where the disconnect is. I don't really grasp why you're bothered by 209. You say you're bothered because he wasn't trying to sort OTH, but I have been trying to tell you that I don't think he was trying to sort OTH during that post sequence (or that he necessarily needs to at all), I think he was trying to suss outIn post 489, Lukewarm wrote:To be frank, that point by DV and your follow up point feel alienated from what has been bothering me about DV.
To answer the questions asked of me:
No, I do not disagree with that sentence, but I am not sure what part of that sentence is even supposed to sway my read on them since it is not rooted in the same thing that bothered me.yourreasoning in calling them a scumread, and you seem to want to wholly discount that."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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this is fair, I think I've just been rabbit holed a bit trying to figure out the degree to which you actually believe DV is scum, cause I just don't see it at all. If I'm mistaking you for being more confident than you are / combined with you doubling down that these are actually good reasons to suspect him, then probably there's not much further to go on this line of conversation.In post 491, Lukewarm wrote:GL, you keep saying that you are trying to genuinely engage with me, but it feels like you are approaching me specifically with the goal of getting me to change my mind. I feel like I have pretty clearly outlined what pinged me about their posts, and you are just coming back with "well, it is possible for those posts to come from town too," but it is pretty rare to look at a post and say "that would actually never come from town ever."
And like, who do you even want me to pivot towards? To be real, the easiest way to get my vote to move is to find something scummier and point at it loudly., but I am not getting that.
I feel like you just keep repeatedly telling me that there is a town way to read their posts, and then slowly dropping your read on me because that does not change my read. But, I never said that there was zero chance that town wrote those posts. I said that I find it more likely that a scum mindset leads to those posts then a town mindset.
And I really really can't tell if this is Scum!you trying to push people away from a partner or if you really go this hard to defend a town read day 1 like this or if you are actually informed that DV is town in some way, and that knowledge is keeping you from even considering the things that worry me about DV
I'm not at the point where I'm ready to pound the table for my particular wagon yet, I think Skybird is a good vote right now (I fully vibe with DV's read on her in 379), but I'm still at a stage where I'd rather wait and see where people go of their own accord rather than start trying to corral votes onto my choice. but in general I think it's good play to go to bat for your townreads (as long as you give that player space to defend themselves first). If I'm not cool with someone's vote I'm going to want them to explain it to the fullest degree possible until I'm satisfied I can get where they're coming from"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I had already noticed COF's past game history was sparse, so when you mentioned games together I figured it was a publicly known alt account. Then you linked me to a game where you said COF replaced into your slot, and I saw StrangeMatter replaced into your slot, so I figured it was a StrangeMatter alt. The fact that you might be confused/mistaken didn't even really cross my mind because it's such a massive thing to be mistaken about, I didn't take you to be that careless.In post 541, Lukewarm wrote:
@GuiltyLion, Child of Fairies was not in this game, meaning you could not have seen anything from them on a skim -- care to weigh in?In post 468, GuiltyLion wrote:I need to look through that game Luke sent me,I think I did notice in skimming it that COF missed somebody's claimso TBD on if it changes my mind at all when I have time to do a proper deep dive, which is not now unfortunately
Cause I am having a hard time looking at this, and not thinking "this is a bold faced lie"
VOTE: guiltylion
I had skimmed a bit of the first half of StrangeMatter's ISO but wanted to read the game in context when I had the time/energy for it, but alas that hasn't happened yet because I'm lazy and reading a single game that I'm playing in is hard enough work as it is. Kinda glad I don't need to now For the record, 1) here and 2) here are the posts I had seen and referenced about missing somebody's claim.
The fact that you're quick to just assume that I would boldly lie about that is somewhat representative of my issues with your play this game, Luke. It just feels so surface level, and I don't remember clocking you as a surface-level player in Divide and Conquer. Why on earth would I just make up such a lie if I were scum?
First off, it's just inherently risky to completely make shit up, because people will notice and call you on things if they try to also look at the meta/ISO you're talking about.
But second, in context ofthis gamespecifically, you had said you weren't sure if COF was scum (despite what I see as a fairly scummy instance of completely missing thread context) because you'd seen him similarly miss things as town, and I was thinking I should gather evidence so I could both understand your take better and possibly recalibrate on COF if I'm wrong. If I'm scum and COF is town, they are a classically easy slot to push on D1 and not draw any suspicion, very low activity, already done things that appear scummy, nobody is hard townreading them. Why would I go through the effort to try to give myself reasons to doubt my projected fake scumread and have to move elsewhere? How would making up this "bold faced lie" benefit a scum!GL in any way?
If I were scum and I noticed COF wasn't in that game you linked, I'd honestly probably still make the COF=StrangeMatter assumption but my mindset would be to find reasons to keep my vote on COF, not reasons to move it away. And I probably would want to explicitly confirm that they're the same player cause if they're not then it completely invalidates your pushback on my scumread."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I dunno I kinda would think the StrangeMatter/COF mistake is weird enough to be more likely to come from a town!Lukewarm most of the time... is scum that careless to even link to a game and not confirm it's the same player?, but trying to then accuse me of lying about looking at the game linked when I referenced an easily checkable event is lazy/bad play that I wouldn't expect from town normally.
I'm probably still thinking town!Luke here because I do believe scum is a lot more careful about appearances than that but Luke you gotta get your head in the game man"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I like Wisdom and Skybird a lot more on the past two pages but I'm not sure how that's going to have to impact the state of the rest of my reads
I feel the same as Pav in 551 but I'm not sold on needing to choose a side yet, I can imagine Gamma's play as town
I'm still searching for that one D1 scumread that feels True and Good"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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this in particular feels pure, I think scum would feel more obligated to give some kind of read hereIn post 529, Skybird wrote:DV - I haven't had a chance to really look at this slot yet."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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hmm hmm hmm
VOTE: JulietCapulet
her Bowser Jr scumread feels stale, I feel I've seen at least mixed signals from Bowser Jr that I'd expect other townies to be picking up on, JC do you think my 419 is a bad reason to townread the hydra?"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Mmmm maybe I was preemptive in calling OTH a townread
I need to sleep on it but 604 gives me bad vibes"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Do you have a read on JulietCapulet or an opinion on the wagon on her? In a very quick skim of your ISO with search for 'JC' or 'Juliet' I don't see any mentions of her at all.In post 644, Bowser Jr. wrote:I’d say “it’s a lie” galron. He clearly checked who was involved with this hydra in this post here, so you have three options- he’s lying- which makes him scum. He’s lazy town who has somehow forgot the information he clearly checked in this post. He’s scum so not actually paying attention to solving.
Take your pick, but I find it really hard to believe the town answer here."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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regardless of what JC flips, you'd want to lim Wheme tomorrow? Why not vote Wheme right now, why say this while your vote is on the same wagon he's voting?In post 658, Skybird wrote:I agree Bowser. I think tomorrow's lim should be Wheme."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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revisiting my off hand comment about 604, this is a good summary of similar pings I had as well. Makes me feel a lot better about COF being town.In post 628, Child of Fairies wrote:So maybe I'm reading this wrong, but I said you were scummy for trying to look active without contributing, and your response is just "yeah, that's what I'm doing"? Because that's really not good. This entire thing reads to me like "you're right, but what about it?"
That said, I think I just reflexively scumread marci's tone, whenever I read Gamma posting it gives me townvibes."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I feel Wheme is more likely town than scum, I think town is more likely to not pay attention to hydra members than scum is, and I don't agree with Bowser Jr's assumption that Wheme specifically went to the playerlist in the OP to check who is in which hydra earlier in the game. but I'm not gonna really resist that wagon if people want to go there cause I think there's worlds in which Bowser Jr is right and I'm wrong, and at best Wheme is limbait and disengaged enough so far that I wouldn't trust his play/reads in lategame
I think JC's a better wagon however cause Wheme, as erratic as he's been, has been more present and given more reads than she has"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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mm there's a lot that's happened the past few pages that I should probably be commenting on and digging into but I'm at work and don't have time yet, maybe in a few hours / later today if I can.
I'm not a fan of an IC claim that can't be proven, if you are a town IC and your goal is to bait scum into voting you before revealing you shouldn't be doing that on Day 1 if you can't activate it
and I agree with Bowser that Wheme's play feels more motivated by turning the wagon off of himself than it is finding scum"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I didn't like this post because the onus shouldn't be on me to ask you for specific reads, you should be demonstrating pro-town intent by proactively sharing them and shaping the game in a direction you think will result in scum getting eliminated.In post 696, Juliet Capulet wrote:
Why do you want Skybird to vote Wheme if you want to wagon me?In post 664, GuiltyLion wrote:regardless of what JC flips, you'd want to lim Wheme tomorrow? Why not vote Wheme right now, why say this while your vote is on the same wagon he's voting?
Also which reads are you interested in?
I am happy to provide you with some thoughts but I was honestly feeling quite discouraged from trying because every time I've tried talking to people I just get ignored.
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how do you know scum can fuck with it? is that stated in your role pm?In post 833, WhemeStar wrote:Yeah except scum can fuck with it"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I don't know if scum!wheme makes up an ability to vote from beyond the grave"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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In post 866, WhemeStar wrote: I’m happy with being the vote I don’t do anything besides being able to vote when I die
that said, this inconsistency is confusing, either you're fine with being limmed or you're not, the AtE to live doesn't make me feel good about wanting to keep you aliveIn post 867, WhemeStar wrote: If you guys still vote me out after this ur trolling and idrc anymore"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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VOTE: Galron
Galron, who do you think is scum"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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lol that post restriction is actually really funny, I love it"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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I don't find the speculation around why maf may or may not have killed Whemestar all that productive tbh
let's talk about who we want to elim today, we got a short deadline. I reread ISOs over night and I'm fairly sure Galron is a scummy scum scum"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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You can see Wheme's vote in the VC as Yorick, he's voting Skybird. I think he's wrong there though.In post 1119, Lukewarm wrote:
Maybe wheme is added to the total. 15 alive, but 16 votes.In post 1117, Skybird wrote:
Yeah, I'm thinking that should be 8, but maybe something weird is going on with the shortened day?In post 1116, Bowser Jr. wrote:
Am I missing something? Shouldn't this be 8 votes to lim someone?In post 1075, fferyllt wrote:With 15 alive, it takes 9 to eliminate.
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I am mobile posting and don't have a lot of time right now but I am going to case Galron formally at some point today when I can sit on a computer for a bit."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Let's talk about Galron!!
tl;dr - Galron's play this game lacks any proactive intent to sort other players, he is tentative to give committed reads, and particular stances and posts in his ISO are performative - meant toappearlike he is solving, rather than indicative of genuine solving.he is scum.
The More Thorough Analysis:
Early game - Galron makes 11 posts from 21 to 65, and none of them are game advancing in any meaningful way. I get that many players like to joke around and shoot the shit in RVS, but the sheer quantity of posts without any actual attempt to generate information is problematic. It fits a profile of someone wanting to involve themselves in the game without any urgency or need to start sorting or engaging with players, all these posts are jokes and light hearted banter.
Busywork questions - Next, Galron starts engaging with some players in a surface level questioning manner, but seldom offers any real opinions of his own. 104, 105, 108, 123, 177, all light questions for other players to answer, with many of these it's not clear how these questions will help to inform Galron's reads and there's not much follow up on any of them.
The reads he does give during this phase of the game are all non-offensive, non-controversial townreads. After I reply to his questions he calls me town in 122 - why am I town for my 106, 111, 120? I don't see a train of thought that connects "I need to ask GL more about his Pav/TA reads" -> "GL's answers indicate town alignment". 141 calls Luke/Pav "town recognizing each other" - it's notable that he doesn't use these townreads to direct his attention towards players he thinks might be scum. I also don't really see where Pav actually voiced a townread on Luke, looking back at this. 392 is a very passive "Whemestar might be town", and he doesn't go to bat for Whemestar afterwards despite a multitude of player suspecting him throughout the day.
394 is a strange half-baked meta read on Wisdom. It's not at all a good reason to townread anybody, but especially not someone with a ton of experience like Wis
429 has a classically scum-appeasing kind of vibe. "I still think you're town, but I disagree with you".
448 struck me as a notably scummy post at the time and I called it out in 467. The sequence of: 1) vote COF, 2) decide to ISO COF and call out issues with his posts afterwards does not at all look authentic. I think townies do the evaluation workfirstbefore deciding to vote, and if they're deciding to just sheep or vote somebody without great reasons, they don't then go back to post a lot of reasons to justify it after the fact. The response to me in 469 is quite underwhelming as well.
598 is a very fluffy post that only exists to keep COF suspicious in people's minds. the COF claim is entirely self-resolving and there's no need for anybody to push COF after they claimed it. This post tries to cast doubt on the claim without actually ever calling COF scum or doing the work of explaining why the claim is more likely to come from scum. A textbook scum post.
665 - if Galron thinks Wheme is town, what is he doing to find or pressure scum voting Wheme? why is he not using his vote???
and that's about it for posts with substance/of note for Galron's D1. there's hardly any pressure put on other players, he spent a lot of the day Not Voting, he never vocalizes serious scumreads and only throws out a few token townreads. I have no idea how he felt about many players, there are some he never commented on at all.
Why would anybody townread this? Can people please explicitly give a reason to not lim Galron today if they're against the idea?
I didn't want to write this post at 1am so it's not the best version of itself, but it's the general thrust of points I have against him. And I have some more Important Thoughts that I will share tomorrow, but I want people to engage with my thoughts here first."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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one last thing I forgot - 479 and 598 are very at odds with each other. What were Galron's reasons to believe the claim initially, and why did he later change his mind about them?? It makes me think 479 was BS when he wrote it."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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alright well I don't know if I played this as effectively as I could have, probably if I wasn't out of town last weekend and we had a longer day phase I could have done more but now with fewer than 3 days to go I don't want to delay a lot further. I was hoping to get more in terms of a response from a few players like Wis/Ceph but I don't want to keep withholding.
I have hard info to claim, I am a tracker and last night I tracked Galron to both Whemestar and Skybird. I believe this explains both the Wheme NK and Skybird's claim to lost gold, it is why I am so certain Galron is scum, and I think it's also effectively an inno result on Skybird once we have a scum!Galron flip."I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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Also, I've been thinking about it and I'm not sure I completely buy the argument that Juliet was scum. It's based on the idea that town!Juliet would have addressed the fact that she didn't flip in her last will. I agree it's weird she didn't address that, but in a similar vein, why wouldn't a scum!Juliet mention it either? I think there could exist worlds where Juliet is town and genuinely didn't think she needed to reaffirm her claim despite her not flipping.
She might be scum, but I think it's safer going forward if we don't assume that she was"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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one hypothesis I had is that I think scum would have been more likely to throw some token shade/distancing towards Galron today rather than actually step up to defend him or profess a townread (done by others like Lukewarm, Bell, DV). I didn't like this post because it feels like it's meant to get in my good graces / disassociate from Galron more than it is actually help get him eliminated. OTH has been a target of suspicion and picking up votes and yet they still hadn't voted Galron (or anybody at all) through most of D2, that's a bad lookIn post 1144, Off The Hook wrote:
i think wisdoms townieIn post 1141, Skybird wrote:I'm looking at a couple of spots. TA's posting today has struck me as odd. I also want to look more at Galron and Wisdom. These last two because I really didn't notice them D1 and want to get a better feel for them, make sure they aren't flying under the radar.
i could see galron being scumIn post 1143, GuiltyLion wrote:I am mobile posting and don't have a lot of time right now but I am going to case Galron formally at some point today when I can sit on a computer for a bit.
~M★"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"- GuiltyLion
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