Yeah, the thing about tricks is they only work once.
That's my driving scum mantra. Every fucking game is different. I never run the same strategy twice. I change things up, specifically because I know that they won't work again.
The reason Left4Dead worked well is because of two factors:
One, the huge overlap in playerlist between it and The Walking Dead--I knew I was going to be scumread, so I knew a lynch on me was inevitable, because my scumgame was fresh in everyone's minds. That game was recently enough that they knew exactly what to expect...or so they thought.
Two, because I had never pulled the stunt before. It was the first, and only, time I have done it, because I knew that it would work.
Now, people fucking know. I brag about Left4Dead constantly as being one of my elite scumgames among elite scumgames. Prior to Inorganic Chemistry, it was THE elite scumgame of elite scumgames. It is memorable. It is unique. It is a testament to my abilities--but it is also all of these things specifically because it was the first and only time I did it.
EVERYONE knows about the gambit I pulled there--everyone. Literally everyone. Because I constantly tell them about it, as a beacon of situational awareness. That game is a defining example of situational awareness: I knew going in that people would scumread me. I knew that I was going to be lynched. So I knew to call my scumbuddies scum and the town, town, so that when I did die, it would confuse the town especially since I fucking ORDERED my scumbuddies to bus me.
But let's talk about situational awareness! Coming into this game, I replaced into a slot which was pretty damn town! Pretty Princess was obviously town. There might have been one or two sentiments expressed of the contrary, but by and large, there was neutral to positive sentiment about my slot. FURTHERMORE, the last scumgame I had was Green Day--the only player here knowing of that is TellTaleHeart (a slot who was scumreading Pretty Princess anyway), which mind you is a reason Heartless (and NOT Nacho) would've been my N1 nightkill.
It's been ages since anyone here has seen me as scum, and fuck, it's been ages since *I* have played scum--in fact, Green Day was almost a solid year ago if I recall correctly. As a result, nobody knows my "no bussing" rule. Nobody knows that I would buddy and defend my scumbuddies. Nobody knows what to expect of a scumastina, so I could get away with blatantly scummy shit like protecting Pine and protecting my scumbuddies. This is what situational awareness would tell me as scum.
So the fact that I "bussed" Pine...is in fact all the proof you need that I'm not fucking scum.
Yet the fact that you're casting shade like this? Very much did not escape my eyes.
