staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:35 pm
fwiw im having trouble finding my footing in this game. there's a lot of meta so it makes it harder to jump into my scumhunting, and i also don't feel particularly inclined to sort all 20+ players like i would in a normal game
i'm probably just going to hang out in this thread until i find something worth talking about, and also ISO people of interest that im trying to read more carefully. something about tim's tone earlier in the thread bothered me quite and i wanna figure out why
What’s your favorite soup and why is it chicken corn chowder?
it's actually lobster bisque, but i'm not a big soup person. i absolutely hate french onion soup
I have played the mow intensity goof off game I wanted to play, but now it is three hours to the midpoint of the day, where I post my day one reads, and I got nothin' in particular and haven't taken any notes from which to come up with anything.
Low intensity goofing off turns out to just be procrastination and now I have to make up for it.
staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:35 pm
fwiw im having trouble finding my footing in this game. there's a lot of meta so it makes it harder to jump into my scumhunting, and i also don't feel particularly inclined to sort all 20+ players like i would in a normal game
i'm probably just going to hang out in this thread until i find something worth talking about, and also ISO people of interest that im trying to read more carefully. something about tim's tone earlier in the thread bothered me quite and i wanna figure out why
What’s your favorite soup and why is it chicken corn chowder?
it's actually lobster bisque, but i'm not a big soup person. i absolutely hate french onion soup
Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:45 pm
Well, heck.
I have played the mow intensity goof off game I wanted to play, but now it is three hours to the midpoint of the day, where I post my day one reads, and I got nothin' in particular and haven't taken any notes from which to come up with anything.
Low intensity goofing off turns out to just be procrastination and now I have to make up for it.
Not amused.
Come sheep my wagon on Samu! I have actual reasons!
There's nothing that says a fake can't surpass the real thing.
staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:35 pm
fwiw im having trouble finding my footing in this game. there's a lot of meta so it makes it harder to jump into my scumhunting, and i also don't feel particularly inclined to sort all 20+ players like i would in a normal game
i'm probably just going to hang out in this thread until i find something worth talking about, and also ISO people of interest that im trying to read more carefully. something about tim's tone earlier in the thread bothered me quite and i wanna figure out why
What’s your favorite soup and why is it chicken corn chowder?
it's actually lobster bisque, but i'm not a big soup person. i absolutely hate french onion soup
wolfy af
are u going mask off as a french onion soup lover? im about to vote u and never unvote
French onion is pretty GOAT. But lobster bisque is really good too. I like most soups that don't involve large amounts of green or leafy vegetables tbh
There's nothing that says a fake can't surpass the real thing.
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 5:37 pm
Idk dude usually sprit is a hard read but this game he feels super townie to me
Especially his interaction with broseph earlier it just reeked of tired townieness
This was addressed to SPF fwiw
i have zero meta on spirit but i thought the way he handled mac's fos on him was pretty awkward
With the knowledge they have a bit of a history
To me it felt like “I’m tired of doing this with joe every time I roll town, I’m gonna try something else this time”
i could see that being the case, but it bothered me that their reaction to joe scumreading them was to appeal to joe like they knew for sure joe was town. scum have a tendency to do that unconsciously and i noticed a similar vibe from spirit
Alison wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:21 pm
@juliets Where did you go? Are you still catching up?
Yes, but I'm tired of catching up so I'm reading the current discussion. I have some people I'm leaning town on right now and they are in no order:
Mac
sprityo
Alison
tutuu
Dizzy
I can probably name some more tonight as I read more or look at some iso.s These are mostly tone reads except for Alison who I find myself shaking my head in understanding/agreement with for many of her posts.
I'm also feeling better about ted. He has a particular tell I look for when he's wolf that I will watch for (I won't share it unless I see it).
i dont exactly love you coming back from your catch-up to echo the consensus townreads with no reasoning beyond "tone". it's fine if you tr these people but i hope to see more thoughtful analysis/reasoning from u
I will identify some things for each of them but not right this minute. I want to keep reading the current discussion for the moment and add more names if I can.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:24 pmAlways good to remember that there is no such thing as a Mafia circumstance that is worth real human emotion. Sometimes it will naturally come out, but it can be contained if we just remember that this is a game on a message board forum that 99.99% of the population of the Earth has never heard of before. No matter how successful anyone is, it means just about nothing.
I'm concerned because he's been catching up that your read on him thinking about the rogue may not be as pertinent as it would be to a player who started on d0? It might still be fresh for samu
I see you are taking the "hard claim mafia" defensive strategy.
Nevermind mac. there was nothing interesting. nothing youve said is interesting. It's 100% entirely you. I was hoping since i head read ahead you mightve actually been productive but all we have to go off of is your good word which is bullocks.
But I'll do as you requested. Better to have a vote in play than to not [VOTE:
JPIC] aubergine
Will I actually go ISO JPIC to see if I think he's scummy? nah not now at least. Day 1 and all. I should just sheep and slank
Alison wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:33 pm[VOTE:
Samusamu] aubergine
let's go
what he's so pure though
I stanned him in g9 and I'm stanning him now
I actually agree! It was why I was townreading him at first!
But, like, his reads are so bad and disagreeable, and then there was that really, really weird accusation that came totally out of the blue of Mac being Rogue.
Has anyone else even mentioned Rogue besides that joke claim at the very start of the game? No, we've all forgotten that the 3P exists. We're focused on the town vs mafia aspect of the game. Not Samu though! He remembers Rogue exists. Rogue is on his mind, to the point where he rejects much more natural conclusions ("Mac is a mixed bag" "Mac is null" "I can't sort Mac") in favor of a real reach to call Mac 3P. I genuinely believe that this is a >>rand 3P tell, and I can show you a game where 3P outed their alignment exactly like this.
It would explain all the stuff I found confusing about him. He seems so agenda-less and his tone is so pure because he really doesn't have an agenda (or at least not the kind of agenda we expect from scum), and he really isn't trying to manipulate anyone. He's doing something completely different from the war between town and scum. He's giving reads like they're obligatory, because he isn't really invested in solving. They're bad reads because he doesn't put thought into them and he doesn't follow up on them, but they aren't constructed to feed a certain narrative or undermine certain players because he genuinely doesn't care.
To me this read makes a lot of sense and it ties all the threads of Samu's behavior together neatly. I'd really like to sit on this wagon and see how far I can ride it.
i actually like this read because it's incredibly common for mafia/3p to project their roles onto other players without realizing it
I'm concerned because he's been catching up that your read on him thinking about the rogue may not be as pertinent as it would be to a player who started on d0? It might still be fresh for samu
Hmm, I guess that theory makes sense.
*pouts* I'll sleep on it. Good night.
There's nothing that says a fake can't surpass the real thing.
also i was going to wait to out this but i actually scumread hally's content so far. if they are town then they will almost definitely towntell a lot but i was underwhelmed with their catch-up posts. don't @ me
staypositivefriend wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:55 pm
also i was going to wait to out this but i actually scumread hally's content so far. if they are town then they will almost definitely towntell a lot but i was underwhelmed with their catch-up posts. don't @ me
Timsup2nothin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:45 pm
Well, heck.
I have played the mow intensity goof off game I wanted to play, but now it is three hours to the midpoint of the day, where I post my day one reads, and I got nothin' in particular and haven't taken any notes from which to come up with anything.
Low intensity goofing off turns out to just be procrastination and now I have to make up for it.
Not amused.
Come sheep my wagon on Samu! I have actual reasons!
Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 11:46 pm
You all are terrible at this.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:How does it feel to be the Best Civilian Player on the Syndicate?
Alison wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:14 am
Okay JPIC, here's the good news. I think sprit and you both look bad but I also don't think you can be wolves together and the way sprit tried to turn the subject to you when under pressure indicates that you're the town of that pair. Here's your chance to show me you're town. Tell me where your head is at with the gamestate atm. Do you feel optimistic about the mass of people all heavily townreading each other? Do you have any reads you feel strongly about?
Ankward.
What is this about inviting jpic to read it as town?
What do you expect from that kind of bait, what answer would make you see them as partners?
Alison wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:33 pm[VOTE:
Samusamu] aubergine
let's go
what he's so pure though
I stanned him in g9 and I'm stanning him now
I actually agree! It was why I was townreading him at first!
But, like, his reads are so bad and disagreeable, and then there was that really, really weird accusation that came totally out of the blue of Mac being Rogue.
Has anyone else even mentioned Rogue besides that joke claim at the very start of the game? No, we've all forgotten that the 3P exists. We're focused on the town vs mafia aspect of the game. Not Samu though! He remembers Rogue exists. Rogue is on his mind, to the point where he rejects much more natural conclusions ("Mac is a mixed bag" "Mac is null" "I can't sort Mac") in favor of a real reach to call Mac 3P. I genuinely believe that this is a >>rand 3P tell, and I can show you a game where 3P outed their alignment exactly like this.
It would explain all the stuff I found confusing about him. He seems so agenda-less and his tone is so pure because he really doesn't have an agenda (or at least not the kind of agenda we expect from scum), and he really isn't trying to manipulate anyone. He's doing something completely different from the war between town and scum. He's giving reads like they're obligatory, because he isn't really invested in solving. They're bad reads because he doesn't put thought into them and he doesn't follow up on them, but they aren't constructed to feed a certain narrative or undermine certain players because he genuinely doesn't care.
To me this read makes a lot of sense and it ties all the threads of Samu's behavior together neatly. I'd really like to sit on this wagon and see how far I can ride it.
i actually like this read because it's incredibly common for mafia/3p to project their roles onto other players without realizing it
really? I was gonna say it was another reach tbh. Then again I haven't paid much attention to samu either so maybe i should go see these "bad reads" alison is talking about
Epignosis wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 11:46 pm
You all are terrible at this.
JaggedJimmyJay wrote:How does it feel to be the Best Civilian Player on the Syndicate?
MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 6:28 pm
A butt load of people have town cleared themselves. Its fine for there to be a lot of town reads. The town that are relatively inclined to vanity hunt should reserve their desire to do so for day 1.
Alison wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:14 am
Okay JPIC, here's the good news. I think sprit and you both look bad but I also don't think you can be wolves together and the way sprit tried to turn the subject to you when under pressure indicates that you're the town of that pair. Here's your chance to show me you're town. Tell me where your head is at with the gamestate atm. Do you feel optimistic about the mass of people all heavily townreading each other? Do you have any reads you feel strongly about?
/looking at powerwolfing article from thingy
*ahem*
Spirit is clearly a wolf. I see the wolves have no shame and once again are trying to get me mislynched like U-Pick. Disgraceful behaviour.
Do I feel optimistic about everyone townreading each other? Not really. My strongest townread is myself.
Self declared to be playing a town core/POE boxing game, and has followed through on it. This is a hard way to win as a wolf.
While she doesn't harp on it in her lists, in her ISO she is making clear the reads she is personally making as distinct from her statements of 'town core consensus reads' that she is going along with. I think as a wolf there would be more intentional blurring here so that when things go wrong accountability would be easier to avoid.
She has stepped in and mixed it up with both sides in every significant clash so far, with a consistent stance. She maintained that stance even with regards to her own clash with Sprityo.
I buy it for day one, and unless real events at EoD tilt against this primarily tone/feelie read will continue it forward.
tutuu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 1:30 amRe: Wilgy: I dunno. They could be town who disagrees with me or something, they could be mafia, like, it would be reaching too thin if I try to force a read here just cuz u ask me MacDougall-sama. Sorry!
Lol tutuu is actually scum.
That's Nanook and Tutuu down.
If tuutuu is scum.for u, is he pocketing alison or are they openwolfing for you?
ISO consists of nothing but reactionary posts and nonsense.
Uses day zero fluff to slide in. Seriously, "hey Hally, they might be open wolfing just to trick you" is mostly ridiculous. Taking that whole exchange as any sort of serious indicator is beyond reach but can be looked at as having something safe to talk about.
Builds onto that with the safe site mechanics "help me with my avatar."
Continues easy road challenging Mac when he reads me town. Continuing a policy of "pick a joke to take seriously as basis for a "read."
Never actually gives much of an opinion on anyone but me other than in relation to me; like he draws on Ted a lot after I compare him to Ted.
Finally challenged directly with "those were just jokes" by Tutuu he just dips.
