In post 283, Sonic X wrote:was the answer obvious? i have 0 flavor knowledge. nobody answered my question. please elucidate on this point.
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In what way was your question helpful? Obviously we are in alliance so obviously the answer was obvious.
Not only that, but the main point I was making was that the question you were asking was going nowhere. Asking it would not help you get a better grasp of the situation. Yet you repeated it like there was some merit to the question and it required an answer for some reason. No. No, it didn't, and this is contributory to the overall picture with your play so far; an insincere approach to scum hunting.
In post 283, Sonic X wrote:So your argument is my English redundancy is a scumtell. please go ahead and explain why.
I would hesitate to ever use the term "scum tell", but the way you were phrasing that post (and, in my opinion, most of your other posts) is indicative of a scum mindset. It shows you're overly conscious of how people are reading you and reading into the things you're saying, but not in a good way.
The bolded paragraph would have made sense without that part. That part was unnecessary. In my opinion, so was the "if you are townreading me" part as well (which I also think is a little telling and if you ever claim something that doesn't explain this, then I feel my point about this is even stronger).
I think the reason you phrased it the way you did is because you wanted to come across as a town player who was being reasonable, but the way you wrote it just suggests to me that you weren't thinking like you would have as town.
In post 283, Sonic X wrote:But an overwhelming number of other players also hated #45. a lot. why don't you explain what is "bad" about Z's "underlying tone" and "underlying sentiment" so that he can learn from this?
If by an "overwhelming number" you mean Ricastle and Titus, then you and I seem to have very different ideas about what an overwhelming number looks like. Unlike Ricastle, who is a relative newbie, and Titus, who is a rather... 'unique' player, you guys don't get the same leniency when it comes to reading #45.
The reason I consider your response (and I am grouping you with your hydra partner for ease of referring to you) less than satisfactory is that it shows you are not thinking about things in any sort of objective way - For example, what scum motivation did you actually see in #45? Also, the "lmao" on the end is primarily what I mean when I'm referring to tone. It was out of place. Either he recognised it was a joke post and was laughing at it (in which case, the entire preceding sentiment doesn't fit) or he didn't and was laughing because he thought it was incredibly scummy or something (in which case, my point about how you're post in a way that isn't indicative of a town mindset is strengthened).
In post 283, Sonic X wrote:can you explain what makes it look like a town post? can you explain how you could write it as scum? your point is that #197 "is potentially fake-able", point accepted, but calling out "i don't really like their posts so far" is so subjective i'm laughing.
No, I was saying it
doesn'
look like a town post. The point I was (very clearly) making was that it was the
closest
thing to a town post you've written (i.e. not actually a town post). And the reason it was the closest thing to a town post is because it's arguably the first attempt you'd made at scum hunting (or at least considering the game).
But even then, the things you did there were not, by any stretch of the imagination, hard to write as either alignment. And, in fact, I think the read you gave on Maxwell felt really insincere - like someone specifically going against the tides but in a way that felt way too confident for what it should have been at that point in time. I notice that Pawtucket seems to have had issues with that very same line, but I'm not sure if it is for the same reasons as me.
The way both you and your partner are approaching this game seems overly aggressive in a way that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and the things you're saying are not things I would expect you (or really, any player) to write as town. The way you're responding to me, for example, looks incredibly hollow. This "refutation" of my points isn't even a refutation and most of it fails to even comprehend what I was saying. Not only that, but you keep insisting that I'm obviously scum but you can't seem to make points that explain why you think this. In fact, you end this very post off with trying to suggest that my points are incredibly weak, but... what exactly have your points against me been? This example of hypocrisy is only a minor issue I have with you, when considering your overall approach to the game, which seems to be just throwing dirt at me, throwing out reads that don't look sincere to me in any way and playing with an aggressive nature that is unbefitting for what's actually taking place in this game. Everything you write looks fake.
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