ika - This will probably come out as funny and anticlimactic, nevertheless to my absolute zero surprise, if I'd split ika's ISO in the point where the two of us started talking, most of what happened before and most of what happened after [ratio right now is 1:3, btw] would (still) not inspire me much towards a definitive read. Before, it was him mostly asking for reads and meta and sharing or questioning some views made by others. Afterwards, meta talk with me, LoRab and LC among others, more reads and a "convo" turned "suss" turned whatever-the-frak-this-is-supposed-to-be on me.
On a personal level, I am dispirited and find it profoundly disagreeable that he won't reason his read/scumcall and he won't clarify what he's labelling me as. I don't tend to accept that from anybody, so I don't see why ika should be the big exception. I don't demand Pulitzer case-making, re: his idea of any case he'd make being "shitty" - although if "shitty" would stand for his reasoning being weaksauce, isn't that self-defeating?
Usually, this resistance to offer a decent reasoning for a read would earn anyone scumpings from me... yet I confess that my perception is becoming tampered by the eternal ika-reads-silver and silver-reads-ika business. I see no signs of either having doubts about their townreads and past games point to this thing usually checking out. He claims he'd stay frak clear of Silver if scum and I see no sign of him finding it even remotely conceivable the thought of cheating your way by the doing the exact thing the other would expect, so... what do I know?
The only distant thought in the back of my head is the variant of both ika and silverwolf being bad, for which I don't recall them ever providing esoteric meta on what happens. If that's in any way true, I could see a lot of linking in them tag teaming to suss the frak out of me.
I have only a few minor issues with ika's ISO, otherwise, but it's not conclusive. I don't get why he felt the need to flub
the voting process, especially after having made a
post in which he seemed cognizant of how said voting process is supposed to work. If the Host wouldn't have pardoned his move, I would have grown quite suspicious of him trying to check out of a Day 1 serious vote. Then again, civ ika did almost every flub in the book in the game I hosted, from sockgaffing to giving no fraks to the terms of being cursed, thusly this angle remains inconclusive.
A second minor thing would be him letting zebra slide from offering reads, whilst treating me like a bull at the rodeo.
Bottom line, if my interaction with ika wouldn't have driven down Insane Lane, reading his ISO right now would have earned no conclusive assessment.
I'm going to call this
null null
let me at least get started.
What's the chances? We can take bets on how this is going to go. I'm confidant on my end.
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