In post 472, Egg wrote:Mastin, so are you assuming that with two scum teams, Rhaego would scum hunt more as scum?
Stop misrepping. I meant what I said. Rhageo's action looked vaguely pro-town because when going beneath shallow surface-level play, there was a hint of a potential townposting that I latched onto. Multiball makes that more sketchy, because scum have the ability to, and early-game are practically near-guaranteed to be, legitimately scumhunting. Which makes the action harder to pin down. It's either town scumhunting or scum scumhunting, but while I overall lean the former, it's a tough call to make.
Is his lack of scumhunting town to you?
There is no lack of scumhunting. If you see a lack of scumhunting in Rhageo, you're an idiot, alignment-regardless. Because his alignment regardless, Rhageo has been scumhunting quite blatantly in his posts, just subtly. To answer, I haven't been able to lock down one way or the other whether it's town or not, but with the slightest of leans towards town. Basically, I feel that going for subtle-scumhunting has very little payoff for scum in comparison to more obvious tactics. Shallow play, deeper play. Rhageo's closer to the latter. Which has more reward as town than as scum.
And no. Your read on me in that game was NOT legitimate.
Yeahno. Bluntly, you know nothing of my psyche if you think what I said about you that game was something I would not have said about you as town. Of course I was scum and knew you were town. Of course my read on you is going to be influenced by knowing you're town. My reasoning for the read was not. I am a STRONG advocate of the truth being the ultimate weapon for a scum player. And bluntly, that is, plain, simply, the truth of the matter: I saw your play being the same.
I saw it as being the same in ways that maybe you didn't realize were there.
Because reading players, my alignment regardless, is something I am good at doing.
And picking up on their subtleties is a specialty as a result.
So when I said that I saw the same thing.
And that I would have seen the same thing if I was town.
I fucking mean that I would have seen the same damn thing if I was town.
No hypothetical.
No lie.
Simple fact.
Nobody knows me better than I know myself. Objectively proven, as shown by people's crap ability to read me aside from two players, AND my CONSISTENT ability (aside from 172, in which the only reason I wasn't able to was because I focused too heavily on a town game, Tales of You) to manipulate my own play to be not what people expected of me when I am scum, so that they draw all the wrong conclusions in a way immensely beneficial to my alignment. (a-la-L4D.)
I, however, often know other people better than they know themselves.
A bit more difficult to say objectively true, but I have the history to show it. My near-perfect predictions of the future based off of my understanding of players. My ability to lock down EXACTLY the type of thing someone is going through. My ability to read the strengths of players and weaknesses. My ability to understand them. My ability to instinctively feel out players and know what's right and wrong about them. (Mainly for the same two players who can read me, AP and zMuffinman, but to a lesser extent, everyone in my circle-of-friends.) I read people.
People suck at reading me.
Just truth.
Enter this fight, you will lose it, Egg. Because if you enter it, you're fighting me as a person, not a player.
Drop it.
Here, you townread me when I hadn't even posted. I know we aren't masons so tell me how that is possible. How can you possibly townread me before I've even posted? Seriously, I'm dying to know.
Same way I scumread Birds of Prey before they posted.
Same way I've got a minor read on the Sakura slot.
It's just what I do.
As far as your kilck and shos reads, I was asking specifically about you townreading their opening posts, not updated reads. Same with Iec and Abomination.
I'll get around to this in a bit. Running short on time. Short version, posts I quote aren't necessarily the basis of the read; they
can
be, but could be earlier or later, depending on when I hit submit.
/Gotta leave.
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