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Post Post #650 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:26 am

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In post 648, Gamma Emerald wrote:
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Post Post #651 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:47 am

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In post 647, Save The Dragons wrote:
In post 645, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:In Pokemon large theme, I recall he made a few extremely scummy posts then pretty much ghosted the thread.
you...uh...wouldn't classify his posting this game as making scummy posts and ghosting the thread?
To some extent but he was way more obviously scum in that. He might just be playing a lot better here. What is different is he doesn’t sound so off. It’s extremely frustrating to me. I would like Mastina or someone else to explain why Mega > duckling, since we need to pick one.
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Post Post #652 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:50 am

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I was waiting for one or both of them to do something, but if they're not going to, then I guess we do just have to pick. I'd have to read back because right now I don't have much reason to care either way. Maybe I would vote tw right now mainly because post 614 irritates me
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Post Post #653 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:51 am

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In post 651, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:
In post 647, Save The Dragons wrote:
In post 645, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:In Pokemon large theme, I recall he made a few extremely scummy posts then pretty much ghosted the thread.
you...uh...wouldn't classify his posting this game as making scummy posts and ghosting the thread?
To some extent but he was way more obviously scum in that. He might just be playing a lot better here. What is different is he doesn’t sound so off. It’s extremely frustrating to me. I would like Mastina or someone else to explain why Mega > duckling, since we need to pick one.
If this is "a lot better" I'd hate to see the other game
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Post Post #654 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:53 am

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This isn’t even what I’d call a “good” tw scumgame
Read Eurybia’s Curse if you wanna see that
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Post Post #655 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:54 am

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In post 653, Cephrir wrote:
In post 651, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:
In post 647, Save The Dragons wrote:
In post 645, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:In Pokemon large theme, I recall he made a few extremely scummy posts then pretty much ghosted the thread.
you...uh...wouldn't classify his posting this game as making scummy posts and ghosting the thread?
To some extent but he was way more obviously scum in that. He might just be playing a lot better here. What is different is he doesn’t sound so off. It’s extremely frustrating to me. I would like Mastina or someone else to explain why Mega > duckling, since we need to pick one.
If this is "a lot better" I'd hate to see the other game
Same let me pile some more firewood on this
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Post Post #656 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:55 am

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I wanna eliminate Meg first tho because I think tw has provided at least a smidge more of value.
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Post Post #657 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:57 am

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Does town-meg lurk less?
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Post Post #658 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:57 am

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I haven’t done a direct comparison but it’s possible
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Post Post #659 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 6:59 am

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This game nightless right. What if we just voted off everyone apart from me and Aisa
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Post Post #660 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:00 am

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I think I remember lurking being one of the reasons that Meg was shaded in this game
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Post Post #661 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:02 am

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I've been thinking back to diffusion of power where town meg felt, if not super invested, at least present and had opinions
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Post Post #662 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:02 am

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In post 659, furtiveglance wrote:This game nightless right. What if we just voted off everyone apart from me and Aisa
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I don’t feel comfortable enough with y’all to approve of this.
Why not Yume/Mastina or flea/Nancy?
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Post Post #663 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:03 am

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In post 659, furtiveglance wrote:This game nightless right. What if we just voted off everyone apart from me and Aisa
You misspelled "flea and save the dragons"
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Post Post #664 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:04 am

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In post 663, Cephrir wrote:
In post 659, furtiveglance wrote:This game nightless right. What if we just voted off everyone apart from me and Aisa
You misspelled "flea and save the dragons"
That’s very spicy
Why those 2 for you?
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Post Post #665 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:05 am

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I don't think it was a serious suggestion but I don't think it's a good strategy to put blinders on from day 1 anyway. Idk about y'all but I think scumhunting in general improves from flips

Pedit they're just my two best townread atm I think
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Post Post #666 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:05 am

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Post Post #667 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:07 am

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If I had to expand hmm

Fleas tone is good I think fae's really scumhunting, I agree with some of faer reads and I think the linguistic analysis thing in particular vibed town

STD has a lot of thoughts about the game that I perceive as real but also has stuff he can't explain too, which feels legit to me, and I think he is not trying very hard to impress me
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Post Post #668 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:08 am

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im not convinced on flea
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Post Post #669 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:09 am

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You don't have to be, although the fact you're townreading meg and not flea is a head scratcher for me
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Post Post #670 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:12 am

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i'm less sure of meg
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Post Post #671 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:13 am

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In post 667, Cephrir wrote:If I had to expand hmm

Fleas tone is good I think fae's really scumhunting, I agree with some of faer reads and I think the linguistic analysis thing in particular vibed town

STD has a lot of thoughts about the game that I perceive as real but also has stuff he can't explain too, which feels legit to me, and I think he is not trying very hard to impress me
Is this the linguistic analysis? I thought the bolded (below) was a bit of a misrep of my style. But yeah I do townread Flea separately
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In post 217, Aisa wrote:
In post 213, Aisa wrote:Funnily, the word "passive" came to mind before furtive mentioned it. I think "furtive is being a little passive" feels like a more precise read of the situation than "furtive committed a mechanical blunder".
As in, I think his behaviour may be simply be the result of having limited time and not valuing sorting his teammate as much as Nancy or Flea do.

I've touched on this, but I think that there are multiple ways a Townie can make themselves useful in this setup. The neighbourhood is definitely a resource, but having a nullread on your teammate and good reads on the rest of the playerlist would also be very helpful.

In short, I guess that the accusation Flea is levelling here is that furtive doesn't seem to prioritise sorting me, but I don't see how that's scum-indicative.
This is interesting, as this is a 18 minute later clarification and deflection on furtives behalf as well as a nice lil twist on what I've said so far.

A neighbourhood is a powerful tool for both town and scum. if you're both town as well thats even better as you can collab reads and build cases together, thats two voices acting as one.

Nancys been proven an amazing hydra partner many many times in the past, having a neighbourhood with her where I know shes town makes us stupid good.

Now for the twist, you're stating that I believe furtive not prioritising sorting you is scum-indicative.
I haven't said that, at all - though I can see the skimmed milk off hand comment being seen as such.
Where I started was curiosity about furtive seeming to take the team as a single entity, not two entities. Further digging gave the absence of you. No read on you, this seems odd to me so I decided to poke it. Where I stand at the moment is I'm still a bit sus that furtive seems to be secretive.

The word choice and flow is very very short and minimal. It betrays no information beyond simple answers
. How I read people is in how they write.

You, for example are using short, chained statements. You also state something then either give a justification or an excuse for it. You're attempting to be dismissive of this and claiming there's reasons for both. You're using an active defence with indirect defences. Its interesting, and amusingly puts more sus on you from my side.
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Post Post #672 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:14 am

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In post 669, Cephrir wrote:You don't have to be, although the fact you're townreading meg and not flea is a head scratcher for me
In post 670, Save The Dragons wrote:i'm less sure of meg
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Post Post #673 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:14 am

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In post 646, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:
In post 643, furtiveglance wrote:
In post 573, Gamma Emerald wrote:alignments are randomized but S/S teams are possible
I understand this, I think some people misunderstood an earlier post of mine as if I thought the mod chose.

But my point was just that people might think S/S pairs are improbable but they're perfectly possible
I could see a Mega/Duckling S/S pairing.
Given they're both basically meh - I'm starting to struggle to -.-;

annoyingly my reads are stupid weak atm barring one or two
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Post Post #674 (ISO) » Fri Jan 06, 2023 7:15 am

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In post 672, furtiveglance wrote:
In post 669, Cephrir wrote:You don't have to be, although the fact you're townreading meg and not flea is a head scratcher for me
In post 670, Save The Dragons wrote:i'm less sure of meg
Backpedal quick skrrt reverse
im still voting the worst? im just not as convinced meg is town as i was because she's not here

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