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Sure, when I've slept. I'll be around likely late tonight.#HBC | Ryker can you expand on your town read of Laundry?
Gheb I'll sleep on your #353. I don't think your reasoning is off and I do recognize I've been giving Laundry a pretty big pass.
Going to bed now.
I scumread you both because of both of your D0s were bad in my eyes for varying reasons (your oddass push for the Tailor, Soup's lack of commitment to anything and dropped attempts at interacting with me), not because you scumread me. I put both of those reads in the thread prior to D1 ever starting. Both of you wandering into D1 with scumreads on me read as indirect OMGUS and both of your votes on me were suspect, but this only added to the fire, not started it.Laundry's townread on Ryker seems fabricated because it's unnecesarily complicated. Laundry has the tendency to throw shade at pretty much everybody who suspects him but arguing that Ryker is town because he backed off of reading him as scum looks like an attempt to justify his stance on soup and myself by feigning consistency as much as an attempt to actually take a stance on Ryker himself. He honestly didn't even have to justify a whole lot about reading Ryker as town in the first place. If I had to guess I'd say that Laundry is mafia trying his hardest to not antagonize Ryker and fabricating a reason to openly call him town for his own benefit.
Every game I play with Orbo, he always ends up with a giant amount of scrutiny and at least a few people calling him scum for doing exactly what he's doing now. Every game I end up taking the position I'm currently taking on him because I feel it's unnecessary flak a lot of the time. Half the time I'm right and he's town and this is all bogus. Half the time I'm wrong and he's scum and I look like a fool. You'd think I'd learn to stop taking this position but you'd think people would learn to look a little deeper at Orbo beyond his playstyle. "Poking from the side" is such a halfassed take on Orbo because that's how Orbo plays the game. He's not adamant, he's not active, and he doesn't make long posts. Being in the military tends to do that to people. By default, I tend to take umbrage with wagons on him because half the time they're easy wagons to make and often don't result in much, just a coinflip on whether or not he rolled scum.Yep yep. Was just waiting to get to a computer.
As opposed to Ryker/others, I actually feel Orbo is scummy. You stated that he was scumhunting day 0, but I didn't get that at all. His holding off the day was awkward to me and did not feel like townie trying to get to the bottom of things, but rather scum trying to play pro-town. Calling to not end the day yet is a generic pro-town thing to say, but I didn't feel like he actually had any town intent behind it, especially when he was for the choice being made. There was nothing more to be gained from you v Ryker that couldn't have been as or more fruitful going into d1 and if he really felt there was something to be gained from Maven I feel he would have asked again for us to wait rather than giving in when you (or whoever did) called for hammer.
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I can see at least three reasons for this:
1. The one I stated above. He felt it was a pro-town thing to do.
2. He was actually aiming for something other than his stated choices. We were settling on detective. Continuing the day only served against that. Also both you v Ryker and Maven's voice/vote were both geared towards pushing something else (tailor and poisoner).
3. PR hunting. I actually think that the theory behind this game (pyp) is opposite of its effect and that Day 0 serves scum far more than it serves town. The more people discuss their picks, the easier it is for scum to pinpoint the pr(s), because they know which pr(s) are out there. In marshy's pyp we (scum) were able to determine each of the pr slots and which was which all on D0 by stirring up controversy and getting everyone to commit to firm stances.
I should say at this point that my thought process is not that "orbo tried to delay the end of day 0 ; therefore one of these must be true", but I felt it relevant to diverge into this to show why his delaying in no way indicates that he is town as you suggested. Though I do get the vibe of #1 from his posts and lack thereof.
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All of Orbo's posts have felt incredibly awkward, the kind of awkward that spawns from scum trying to force content and I feel no scumhunting intent behind behind them.
I've changed my mind before this point but this is why I thought he was scummy:I still can't see exactly what all the posts you make about soup boil down to. All your summary of soup's play tells us is that you think his push against you is unjustified because he - perhaps unexpectedly to you - interpreted your play as scummy when you felt that couldn't possibly the case. At this rate I'll probably have to read through all of that crap anyway but suffice it to say for now that I'm not convinced. If contradicting your view of what's going on is all it takes for you to be alerted then it's no surprise that you always scumread the same people that happen to scumread you.
This olive branch just seems fake. First you trying to lynch me, now you're trying to work with me? I still don't buy it.Also, I'd just like to remind you that keeping things concise in very much in your own interest and you should do it regardless of whether I ask you to or not. You actually do want soup to get lynched, right? 'Cause right now you're not doing a very good job at convincing people. Consider this me trying to cooperate with you, I'm offering you a chance that nobody else seems to be willing to.
I agree with others, particularly your point about his swap between calling the decoy pushers scummy to me being scum, that his recent posts have been somewhat scummy. Opportunistic is probably the most accurate word. Despite this, I have this weird PoV about the tailor push recently that I want to go back and confirm. I think Zen's right, I think mafia knows who our PR is. It's just dependent on what they gave us. If they gave us Bus Driver like I think they might've, then Maven being the first to push for Tailor doesn't look right for Mafia. Yes there's the argument that mafia would do that for town points but as their first push in the thread? I doubt that. The other interesting thing is if both Soup and I are town, then the poisoner push was town-fueled. I'm pretty sure that is the case, which makes it far more interesting.Developing. I agree with you Ryker needs to do more work before I can give a solid conclusion on him. Instead of asking for more from me you should talk to me about Maven. I think that's a better starting point. I will discuss your wagon in a bit.
I already explained why I played bully but now I have the capability to grab quotes:Don't be an asscake.
This is a reason he used for voting me.His push against soup is bad.
Because if he had reached a conclusion, he had to have read it, right? Otherwise that opinion (and the use of it to justify mafia) is completely meritless and, therefore, justification his vote sucked.Justify this rather than saying it's bad. I'm one of the few people in this game that is justifying my reads beyond simple generalizations. You're in a bad light now and I want more from you.
That's not at all what I expected. It soured my take on his vote even more--he was using something he hadn't read to justify I was mafia.Laundry, can you summarize the issue you have with soup in a sentence or two? I'm not sure if I'll have the time to dig into your whole exchange in the next few days.
Because I didn't like the answer. I wanted more from him than a bad generalization and it felt like answering that would've been giving him the cheat sheet with which he would try to lynch me. It comes to no surprise of mine that he's using what I said against me later in the thread but I honestly feel that no matter what I said he would have done that, just with less "walls suck" and more "this soup read is unfounded and laundry is scum making up bad reads". He wasn't trying to offer me an olive branch, he was offering me a trap. Sue me for not wanting to fall for it.Definitely not. You don't get to call a case bad and then ask me to summarize it if you've somehow already reached an opinion. Flesh out why it's bad and I'll do this for you.
Let me give you some history so you understand why I reacted in this way:Calm. The ****. Down.
You're leaping to conclusions faster than I ever have. Trust the voice of experience and realize that you've centered the thread around yourself and you're looking through the lens of your own slot. I think you're town who is amazed that people can't see that you're town. Take a step back and reread your own posts in the thread.
This is a hell of a good reason to lynch Maven and it's why I've been saying I think he might be scum.Maven is still suspicious to me. Here are his original scumpicks: "Gheb, Soup, Ranmaru." Now Maven pushes Laundry. His reasoning to even have Gheb as a scumpick is very weak, and I find it as posturing to seem like he has something. (Which he reverses) He also states he hasn't seen anything from Soup that seems pro-scum yet had him as a scumpick. Now he uses that against Laundry, and I find this inconsistent. I would understand his feelings if he stated this in that very post, because Soup was coming off the same way as he did after that page. (Lazy, reactive) Yet he hadn't. I am also not convinced by his reasoning that Laundry's post about Orbo is fake, and I find that (Maven stating that's really fake) to be the most malicious thing I've seen from anyone. My vote stays on him.
He started the game on Tailor, when did he ever say he wanted Poisoner?@Gheb How do you feel about Maven preferring Poisoner? How do you feel about Maven not even stating a role preference about that until after D0? Can you elaborate your read on Ryu (null town as always doesn't cut it for me)? Elaborate your read on me?
Not sure of what to make of it. Calling it lazy gives a concise answer to all of my issues with Soup's play. His recent outburst shows frustration that I think is typical of town Soup who has reached in limit in how much **** he can take. That said, he's fallen off the face of the planet once his wagon fell apart and that is a concern given that most of his input in the thread has been about me.#HBC | Laundry Talk to me about Soup. I'm getting the feel that Soup was more anti-town then actually malicious. To me a scum Soup is a posturing Soup, and I don't feel that here. I will give you the point that Soup was not proactive, but what would you expect of a Town Soup in this same scenario? You state that he's playing safely and that is what you'd expect of a scumSoup, and again, I want you to explain what you'd expect a TownSoup to do here. I think I can tell when Soup is scum. (Sometimes) Do you think this is more of a case of a misunderstanding between the two of you? (It seems like that to me) I would ask for you to sit back, and re-read your exchange with Soup.
Question: How does Maven set up an expectation to call you scum?
Then who is scum if Maven flips it? Normally I wouldn't care about it but my point of view goes right back to the Gheb/Zen part of the game. I don't think the 3 R's or Soup hold mafia at the moment and I'm not scum. That leaves a pool of Orbo/Gheb/Zen/Maven and Maven has given me reason to think he's not scum with Orbo.That's fine. I'm not shipping Orbo with Maven atm anyway.
I don't like this post because I don't get this feeling at all and Ran is the only one digging into Maven and getting more out of him than letting him go would produce.Ran, I feel like you're tunneling Maven at this point. Remember how you said you'd never do what you did to me in Wal-mart again? You're doing that. I do agree with some of your points but it's like you're not even looking at the other side. Like I completely agree with his point against Laundry in #287. How is calling that out malicious?
T H E O L I V E B R A N C H W A S F A K EI strongly agree with both of these statements, they match my impression of Laundry's play and both are things that if not straight-up scummy are at least anti-town.
Some of you may remember way back in the day where I tried to establish some sort of "walls are inherently anti-town" attitude among the dGames community. The first statement perfectly illustrates why I was - and to an extent still am - supportive of it. By breaking a relatively simple point down to a 'microscopic level' as soup accurately describes it, Laundry has achieved a lot of things that serve nobody's interests but his own.
- soup's initially simple statement looks like an inflated case now with loose points that seem random and incoherent.
- by watering down soup's arguments Laundry got away without actually having to prove soup's point wrong.
- when I asked for a simple summary of Laundry's points he outright refused to do so even though he is 'supposed' to want soup lynched.
- the summary he eventually gave me did not stand up to my counter-argument which he also ultimately did not tackle.
- soup has now engaged in a walling battle with a scumread of his, something we all know players should avoid
- this is also where Maven's point that Laundry has baited soup at least as much as vice versa comes into play big time for me
Alright, look. I've been an asshole in the past. I was trying not to be an asshole in this game but it seems that I've failed on that to some level. Why on God's green earth is it sensible to be an asshole back? Especially when I have a long history of responding very poorly to that? Stop this, it will not help under any circumstance.Also, I have just decided to arbitrarily define your reactions as outburst and hold them against you regardless of content 'cause that's apparently how we hunt scum and win games in 2016.
I'm interested in finding scum. I think you're scum. I think the combination of Maven/Gheb/Orbo/Zen has, by PoE, the entirety of the scumteam. Originally I thought it was Gheb/Zen/Soup/Orbo/Maven (if the first three didn't hold it), but this day phase has helped me narrow down that pool and better define it with more than just weakish reads from D0. I have a 50/50 shot of finding scum if I lynch in that pool, even better if Orbo isn't scum (which I'm thinking he may not be as the people railing me on that front continue to find ways to keep themselves in the scumpool).I sincerely apologize if me trying to be cooperative with you goes beyond your comprehension.
Next time I'll just be the same snarky, impossible to argue with, not actually interested in finding scum brickwall you're being right now if it makes you feel better.
I noticed this day 0 a little bit, will work on day 1 then look at this point.Interesting realization : I think we have no bus driver in this game, based on how the early pushes went. If we had it, I figure there would have been more casual support for the poisoner. Instead, we had the tailor wagon instead. I wanna look at that.
ranmaru #HBC | Red Ryu help me out
For this part because I love Lufia.Also, it's Maxim. Protagonist of the SNES RPG Lufia II and its hack-and-slash reimagining for the DS.
My issue isn't you activity, it's your flip flop mentality that I noticed during day 0 where you would make a stance then immediately within 4 posts flip on it.The disparity between dropping of activity and being able to be active can't be regulated when I have a fluctuating schedule. When I post, I want it to be meaningful and not just overwrought. I never understood people who think the thread needs to be pushing 1000 by the end of D1 because less to read means it's easier, which leads to more concrete statements instead of having to sift through bs. Not using that as excuse but it's generally how I feel.
It's certain things I care about, not that I suddenly just started to care. People were sharing their thoughts on roles and what to do with them and once the poisoner deal died out I just complied with the notion of whatever town wanted at that rate, all the while still voicing my opinion on what I believe would be best.Red Ryu said:Is Soup putting a front on for a front's sake? His #127 seems to 180 his stance on not caring then he suddenly does again? Why is he suddenly invested in role talk? The later on he goes along with the plan after being affirmatively not caring without anyone pressuring him on the matter between his claim and his previous "idgaf" post?