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DGames Summer Mafia Bash - Day 2 Begins. Deadline Day 2 begins - Deadline 8:00 A.M. CST Monday 6/24

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I can’t believe I’m 900% confirmed town and I’ve got to deal with asking people to kill rockin d0 in a 50 man game. 2019 is wild.
 

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I don't understand how you re-read Maven's only post and changed your read completely.
Kary I think you would understand it better if you read my posts more thoroughly. I have listed a quote below. This is the second time you seem to be missing posts. (First time you missed Uto's post) What's up with that? (Also, the most important factor for me to change my read was the passage of time, and I also wanted to see if Marshy and others would join, etc)

It's a ***** to find these nowadays, especially since Maven isn't in the archive. (Someone should update that) Basically, Maven has a tendency to lurk as mafia, I'm not sure it's commonly known but he does it more so than his town games. (I have misread his town games when he lurked too) After seeing his vote on Marshy, and a reasoning that I couldn't really see, and no follow up, I realized he actually may be scum here, and I thought wagoning him would be of utmost importance. Now in his town game, rarely I see him do this but in this particular one, he was obvious town, and actually finding mafia earlier than anyone else. (A wall post, but a good wall post calling people out) So this is why I'm running him up with only little posts to read him by. If it weren't for his meta, I would not be running him up nor would I pay too much mind to his post, I would still think of him as more of a question mark as I said in my original reads.

Mafia Maven: Gun Mini Game
Mafia Maven: Death Note Mafia
Town Maven: Crossover Mafia
Ran what do you think of Nabe? Because frankly you are tunneling on Maven right now.
I'm actually null on Nabe because I have seen times where he has done exactly this, as town. Usually when he replaces into slots. Totally fine with him dying as a back burner lynch if he doesn't step up to play this game phase.

I don't know if that's because you're town and you're just being daft, or because you were in the spotlight earlier and you need to push on someone else.
Kary, this is the first time you have actually interacted with me in thread, why is this? Why have you not talked to me until now?
 

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you literally hav the towniest ppl (besides kevin) in me, frozen, ryker as scum and jtb as top town is top 2 worst reads in the game

you are essentially another member of the scumteam and this is a repeat of last years game where your reads were the worst in the game. amazing how you do not learn, sincerely
I take back what I said about scum you saying that. I just looked at Civ 5 Mafia and you said *that's bad* but this reflects more of your town game last time I think. I'm sure this is not out of your range though, you out played me as scum last in Civ 5 so I'm keeping my eyes on you. I think part of my problem with you was I didn't really have any idea of where you were looking. Why did you vote Maven with me? I'll re-read JTB and give my conclusion on him later. You said 'in due time' when I asked you to talk to me. So, is it finally time, or what?
 

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Yea I totally feel like Ran's reread is waaaaaaaaay too dependent on material that just straight up doesn't hold weight man! I really don't feel killing my high like poking every hole possible, but just for a few:

-Your marshy tells are founded on a meta that involves how he deals with you, TvT. This is, like, with the confirmation bias of knowing you were both town after the games were done. You, like, admit to having a slow start, and just to play the meta game, isn't that contradictory to your town meta? Why should marshy read you as town for reasons you base your whole game on: meta?
-You say he's playing on the armchair or like an IC and watching the game go by. Yet you neglect the post where his contributions actively push narratives and develop connections. This is a six day Day. If people wanna watch what's unfolding, let them watch what's unfolding. This is almost the exact same thing we can say about Ryker, but he's doing it more actively. Why does Ryker need to pioneer cases that he isn't passionate about while being passionate about various other contributions in the thread? Just because they're not loud, doesn't mean they're scum, man. We don't live in a freakin vacuum!
-Your FF read is 100% contingent on associations that don't matter yet because we don't have a flip on players that you have paper thin cases on.
-Your Maven read is 100% contingent on meta that doesn't apply because he's not lurking, he's just not playing.

And to answer Macman's question, the worst part about this is that this riddled with examples of you being almost too dumb to be scum moreso than its scumminess. Like, I can't imagine feeling like you need to contrive reads and thinking these are good ones. But I can wifom the mess out of myself into thinking it shouldn't matter, take it for what it is, and what it is is not ****ing scumhunting. It's playwriting. It's a soap opera. And that's really really pathetic because instead of lynching you, everybody is going to think you're too stupid to be scum. Your reads are based on ****ing nothing. It's meta you've framed in your own head, contingent on your vantage point, and associations that you hope exist.

Mac, I got bored of pushing Ran. Doop is a way more interesting push to me and I'd like to see where him vs Pythag vs Rockin goes. If I had to order those three, I'd say Doop >>>>> Rockin > Pythag
First, my scum tell for that one, was based on what I did as scum, you forgot to talk about that. I do think it's more likely if a person isn't stepping up for their town reads as much can be more likely scum than not, since it's easy to omit that and let a lynch go through, keeping their hands clean. It's not contradictory to my town meta. I have already stated that I have had very similar games to this one, including Mafia Sleep Over 3, and Dr. Who Mafia. So, to answer this, it was half meta, and half scum tell that I have found usually works. Question: When you were saying that your read topped off because he wasn't stopping your push, were you thinking it was a possible buddy connection, or more confirmation of me being scum to you in your POV because Marshy saw no reason to defend me, therefore TvS in your eyes?

Which post was driving connections and pushing narratives? Please link me, help me understand. What I can certainly say, is they are playing differently than what I'd expect from their town games. I feel like I have been initiating things more than them. Fine, maybe loudness doesn't = Town, but would you be surprised that I would be wary due to this?

Fair enough on this point, I did say it was weak and I didn't like that one paragraph, but contingent on my Ryker and Marshy read, which I was more confident in. I did mention it was weak, but I put it all out there because I want people to consider it, today of all days when everyone is present.

I'd have to disagree. He already made an intro post which includes game content.

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Finally, I thinks it's unfair for you to call my analysis as *all meta*, it was partially meta, but also scum tells as well. I notice you say UP has had more weight with their logic, so I'm wondering what about my logic you feel is faulty. If you feel it's me using too much meta, I'll try my bestest to strip my reads of meta. Also, after Ryker responds to Kary, I'd like for you to compare Kary's analysis of Ryker and my reads, and just your opinion of it.
 

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tbh it reeks of a distraction wagon with the goal of derailing JTB pressure, ****in narcs might be afoot here
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That would be because that's what it is.

I'm not sold on a JTB lynch. I knew this one had some weight, so I moved to a something that could be a competitor. I'd have moved to Rockin if I thought three quarters of the cast wouldn't roll their eyes and ignore that wagon unless it had seven votes.
 

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my final thoughts regarding the status of jtbs alignment are complex to summarize. it would be disingenuous of myself to not recognize some quality moments from the earlier part of the game coming from him, and recognizing patterns of consistency that would lead me to believe that he is more of an innocent party that is short to speak. his rhetoric has been at least slightly overexaggerated by marshy, but it is understandable given the perception through which marshy sees jtb. as the game progresses, however, his willingness to pad out his play becomes more and more apparent, and a lack of scumhunting does find its way through. i have it in me to suspend my disbelief well enough to consider that he might be wanting to hold some cards closer to his chest (evidenced by how he develops some of his earlier reads), but his expounding on his marshy read is littered with proof of selling a narrative, rather than scumhunting.

if, out of the 5 people on the wagon currently, theres scum on the wagon, its ff. in short, ff's history of expressing his read on jtb throughout the game is incredibly inconsistent with how he has done so with the rest of his play. i do not think that he is the play toDay by any means but, upon a scumflip, he becomes the #1 player i want to further dissect.

i would say jtb is a good candidate for lynch, but i am not as convinced on him being the play as i am doop.
 

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Thanks for that post, Gorf. The big one full of quotes because that helps me reanalyze my own read, which still stands. I don't really put stock in that "takes everything as a negative interpretation" because it's Day 1. That was my go to strategy as town for years on Day 1 and the only reason I stopped is because it's a ***** to do every game and you run out of half baked things to string people up for. I think, in general, a reaching point is better than no point on Day 1.

The FF line is intersting, because before reaching your posts, I was trying to think of what FF has actually "said" about JTB other than him just being icky. "His posts all give off scum vibes" I think is the case I remember and I need to go look at it.
 

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These are all 5 of FF's posts that include JTB in them.

3. JeXs
5. #HBC | Gorf
6. #HBC | Nabe
7. #HBC | Kary
13. Maven89
14. Rockin
16. JTB

All these people can be plays today imo
JTB on the **** list. Simple.

Nah you didnt miss a JTB read, and if you asked for one earlier I missed it so if I did my b

JTB is in my "can die" pile but dont have any kind of strong read. Just skimmed all his posts and like what has he given us? A grand total of two reads, one null and one townlean, and a townlean with hedging language like "I cant believe Im townreading this slot so early?! lolteehee"? Other than that I just see a lot of criticizing other slots and asking halfassed questions. So yeah, this slot can go.
This one is in response to me, I think.

#HBC | Gorf #HBC | Gorf having just gone through JTB's posts, is that an accurate summary of JTB's reads from the thread at this point?

So I left on on page 14 and yall have no ****ing idea how happy I was to get to page 20/21 and see people moving to JTB. I get the grimiest ****ing vibe every time I read one of his posts

Jexs still seems to be wayyyy over accommodating and afraid to offend or put anyone off. Which is funny because I remember a post Jex made saying they were reading some slot as town because that slot was unafraid of offending people. Kind of ironic.

For all the people out there scratching their heads over why I moved from Jexs to Maven, it was because I agreed with ryker that we needed to actually have some meaningful wagons. Yeah I had a light scumlean on Jex but it wasn't some crazy ****ing conviction lmao. Maven's slot is in my "can go pile" as is Jex. Jex wagon wasn't getting any traction so my vote was better used elsewhere. I didn't just abandon my belief that Jex was a decent play today.

Really liking Kevin's slight pull pack on his confidence re: Mac town. He had no reason to share those thoughts other than being fully transparent. Like there's no pressure on Mac at all and no one was questioning his townlean on the slot. Kevmo lookin real brownie townie

Ran don't replace out man you're playing fine. Its D1, people are gonna have wildy different reads. I don't know the full context as to why marshy is so frustrated but I think that was just like an off the cuff remark ya know? I mean I followed your reasoning for why you think me/ryker/marshy are scummy but obviously I don't agree with it. But the logic of associating me with them is clear to me based on what you're saying you thought was scummy. So like yeah I mean I agree with marshy I think your reads are pretty off man but it didn't need to be that harsh of a criticism

How quickly are we gonna get an update from mods re: whether or not we can get replacement(s) in quick before deadline? I appreciate maven showing up to formally bow out so we can move along but damn thats frustrating with the clock ticking away and the slot essentially remaining silent.

Unvote: Maven

Vote: JTB
No cropping on this post so that I can show there isn't further explanation other than grimy vibes.

Updated can go pool:

3. JeXs
6. #HBC | Nabe
13. Maven89
16. JTB


Kary and gorf are putting in enough effort and havent really set off any alarm bells for me so they left the pool. JTB just comes off scummier to me every post. Jexs can still go imo, narrowly behind JTB for top scumpick. Mavens slot is obviously a big fat question mark/liability which is lame. Nabe I don't really have a good reason to want gone but I'm essentially trying to signal that I'd be willing to pressure the slot
Just ISO'd pythag to try to figure out whats up with that wagon and frankly idk wtf yall are on. Pythags posts all seem fine to me. Funnily enough, even though I disagree with him, his final line from #778 re: JTB suspicions is exactly how I feel about pythag suspicions lmao "Can someone tell me why they think JTB is scummy? Or at least lynchworthy? Nothing I saw really struck me; I'm not convinced." Like just swap JTB for pythag and that's like verbatim what I was thinking when I saw votes shifting onto pythag

tbh it reeks of a distraction wagon with the goal of derailing JTB pressure, ****in narcs might be afoot here

but seriously if someone has a legitimately good reason to think pythag is a strong scum read I'd love to hear it

but even more seriously people should get on the JTB wagon

and even more more seriously this is legit the most fun but also chill mafia game I've played in in like a long *** time. I'm really like the general tenor of the discourse. obviously playing with the ****in homies is biasing me to the Nth degree but still like this is just a chill af game and I'm likin it
And derailing JTB wagon is bad and wagoning JTB is good.
 

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FF said:
JTB is in my "can die" pile but dont have any kind of strong read. Just skimmed all his posts and like what has he given us? A grand total of two reads, one null and one townlean, and a townlean with hedging language like "I cant believe Im townreading this slot so early?! lolteehee"? Other than that I just see a lot of criticizing other slots and asking halfassed questions. So yeah, this slot can go.
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FF said:
I get the grimiest ****ing vibe every time I read one of his posts
Are the only explanation I have of his JTB stance.
 

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The others on that wagon are (in order from latest join time to earliest)

UP - who I doubt I'll be lynching at the moment, and the only one who voted after FF.
Mac
JeXs
and Marshy

I want to run through each of them.
 

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#HBC | Mac #HBC | Mac has been poking at JTB all day. It seems he's had an itch to scratch with that slot since early on because he thought the Ran wagon was gross and never got the correct response he wanted to scratch it. There's not much explanation of a JTB read from him, but it's obviously something he's been working on all phase.
 

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First, my scum tell for that one, was based on what I did as scum, you forgot to talk about that. I do think it's more likely if a person isn't stepping up for their town reads as much can be more likely scum than not, since it's easy to omit that and let a lynch go through, keeping their hands clean. It's not contradictory to my town meta. I have already stated that I have had very similar games to this one, including Mafia Sleep Over 3, and Dr. Who Mafia. So, to answer this, it was half meta, and half scum tell that I have found usually works. Question: When you were saying that your read topped off because he wasn't stopping your push, were you thinking it was a possible buddy connection, or more confirmation of me being scum to you in your POV because Marshy saw no reason to defend me, therefore TvS in your eyes?

Which post was driving connections and pushing narratives? Please link me, help me understand. What I can certainly say, is they are playing differently than what I'd expect from their town games. I feel like I have been initiating things more than them. Fine, maybe loudness doesn't = Town, but would you be surprised that I would be wary due to this?

Fair enough on this point, I did say it was weak and I didn't like that one paragraph, but contingent on my Ryker and Marshy read, which I was more confident in. I did mention it was weak, but I put it all out there because I want people to consider it, today of all days when everyone is present.

I'd have to disagree. He already made an intro post which includes game content.

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Finally, I thinks it's unfair for you to call my analysis as *all meta*, it was partially meta, but also scum tells as well. I notice you say UP has had more weight with their logic, so I'm wondering what about my logic you feel is faulty. If you feel it's me using too much meta, I'll try my bestest to strip my reads of meta. Also, after Ryker responds to Kary, I'd like for you to compare Kary's analysis of Ryker and my reads, and just your opinion of it.
i notice that you have yet to reiterate your concurrent (at least I assume they are because youre still talking about them) case with 0% meta and 0% associative tells. can you go ahead and do that for me?

re para 1: it is imperative that i ignore the meta talk you bring up, so this is me actively doing that. in isolation, not defending your town tells is a great way of assessing your town tells. and on Day 1, thats like the best time to do it. its almost like, if youre wrong about that town tell, youre doing scums work for them by defending them haphazardly. plus, it looks like a chainsaw defense if you were to flip scum, when it doesnt have to if you just step out of it. and sometimes there are just better things to focus on. to answer your question, id say the latter, but i dont know what youre refering to as being tvs. i saw him not defending you as kind of a go ahead to me by him to push you because he wanted to see how it unfolded. historically, if he didnt feel like watching it unfold, hed tell me. thats not a scumtell for him, thats a he-wants-to-watch-where-it-goes tell. i have full confidence that if i kept pushing you, hed tell me to put effort in better places.

re para 2: ehh i dont really feel like digging through marshys post to show you how hes driving connections and pushing narratives. its just been, like, a passive approach and nudging at interesting places that get people (like jex, for example) talking. i dont think its a towntell, but im not pedaling marshy as hard town.

re final para: a lot has to do with the reliance on meta, but it feels like your reads are spun in such a way where you have a scum read, and EVERYTHING that player does is now officially a scumtell. when you lambast a player so hard to the point where obscuring what the player is actually doing becomes the centerfold, you lessen the weight of your read. thats what i meant before when i said your case reads like a soap opera. its too dramatic.
 

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#HBC | Mac #HBC | Mac has been poking at JTB all day. It seems he's had an itch to scratch with that slot since early on because he thought the Ran wagon was gross and never got the correct response he wanted to scratch it. There's not much explanation of a JTB read from him, but it's obviously something he's been working on all phase.
importantly, its also consistent with how macs approached the game thus far
 

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Can go:
Rockin
Nabe
Maven

Would be ok with going:
Pythag
Doop

Not the play:
JeXs
Tom
KevinM
Ranmaru
Marshy
Gorf
Kary
Mac
Ryker
Poyzin
FrozenFlame
JTB
Notably, JTB has moved from not the play to the play in the last 24 hours.
 

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During my reread yesterday, I gave more attention to Kary and JTB, as they were 2 slots that I felt I liked some stuff, but had no real impression of whatsoever. I came out of it liking Kary more, and JTB not so much. I don't like that he immediately came to the conclusion that I was attempting to justify a scum read on Poyzin with meta, I don't like how he took issues with you saying a simple no to being called scum.
Quoted to continue my chronicle.
 

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transcendence is inevitable. release inhibitions and let the universe run its course. once you strip your mind of the shackles, inner peace can be achieved.
 

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Vote: JTB

Wanted to let my questions pan out first but I'm onboard this.
Then the vote.


JeXs disagrees with JTB on the value of meta and how to approach Ranmaru. Then moves on to not liking JTB for wanting meta with which to evaluate Poyzin.

This is ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. If this was a less popular wagon or a player I thought more likely to be independent, I really wouldn't like this. Especially the last point, but I expect JeXs to be a follower and not a leader (which isn't inherently a bad thing) and I HAVE been railing that people should be on wagons that matter, so it's hard to hold him accountable.

But it's still so ehhhhhhhhhh.
 

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I need to actual go through Poyzin too, I guess. I could be wrong there, but god I don't want to.

UtopianPoyzin UtopianPoyzin

Explain to me the progression of your JTB read so I have it in one place and only have to read to doublecheck instead of proving a dozen quotes as context.
 

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I'm currently on page 9 and I don't agree with your Marshy read, Ran. Did you consider that he could merely be reading you wrongly? I concede that I wrongly remembered most of what he has done, in my memory he was actively engaging people and putting out new thoughts and discussions. Most of what he has done at that point was his interaction with Doop. It brings him down to mild town, I can still see him actively trying to read players. I find his reeling me into the game to be a slight town tell and I don't see him asking this to you as scum. It feels genuine to me.
 

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**** I don't wanna do marshy. I don't want to do marshy. I don't want to do marshy.


OK, so I'm gonna do marshy. I'm gonna predict what is going to happen. I'm going to read it. I'm going to be unsatisfied with it. I'm going to want to shoot him. This is ALWAYS what happens when I try and read motivation into Day 1 Marshy. Tom Tom I'm putting this read on you. Give me a bunch of it. I'm gonna read it and talk with you about it, but I'm gonna let you take the lead on it.
 

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Then the vote.


JeXs disagrees with JTB on the value of meta and how to approach Ranmaru. Then moves on to not liking JTB for wanting meta with which to evaluate Poyzin.

This is ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. If this was a less popular wagon or a player I thought more likely to be independent, I really wouldn't like this. Especially the last point, but I expect JeXs to be a follower and not a leader (which isn't inherently a bad thing) and I HAVE been railing that people should be on wagons that matter, so it's hard to hold him accountable.

But it's still so ehhhhhhhhhh.
is the reasoning or the way jexs jtb read progressed ehh
 

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Vote FrozenFlame

This can be a fun wagon for a little while.

Gorf and Ran, if there's more you want me to look at, let me know.
 

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is the reasoning or the way jexs jtb read progressed ehh
The reasoning. He's constantly poking around JTB, partly because JTB is constantly poking him and hounding him about the Ran thing.

The only part I really don't like the progression is the Poyzin meta thing and I guess I don't see the reasoning there either. It's the same thing. I really don't like how that seems to be a major shift (I think it's just additional justification to join a forming wagon) from this slot's ok enough to keep around to can be the play today. It's just so weak I have trouble thinking it should actually effect something.
 

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That quote with the red, I dislike. That stands out to me, that Jex wanted to slap a town read on Marshy and throw out some bogus explanation for what he was doing. JTB asks Jex what he has done to progress the game, and that in the red seems more like a backpedal.
 

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I think a major reason JeXs finds fault with JTB is that JTB has actively put himself in JeXs path and is poking and prodding at him.

I may have the context wrong given that I am only reading JeXs posts with JTB in them.

Can you confirm #HBC | Gorf #HBC | Gorf ?
 

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pinky promise youll engage me on my doop read when i deep dive on it and you have my support
I'm fine with going into Doop, but, full disclosure, I don't hate his opening like a lot of people did. He is very far removed from the old DGames culture and his lawyery attitude matches what I imagine he'd play like even know based on what I knew of him as a person like a decade ago.

However, I do need to revisit my read.
 

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The reasoning. He's constantly poking around JTB, partly because JTB is constantly poking him and hounding him about the Ran thing.

The only part I really don't like the progression is the Poyzin meta thing and I guess I don't see the reasoning there either. It's the same thing. I really don't like how that seems to be a major shift (I think it's just additional justification to join a forming wagon) from this slot's ok enough to keep around to can be the play today. It's just so weak I have trouble thinking it should actually effect something.
I don't like what he was doing with Ran and myself. It came off as him slinging mud at our slots and attempting to slowly form a scum read on us. He'll tell you he had me as null, but I don't believe that at all. If he had the conclusion that I'm asking for meta with scummy intent, he should have had me as a scum lean, at the very least.
 

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Pythag vs Doop were just two slots I thought I could generate something with because they'd posted stuff that had caused some people to react. I'm fine with JTB vs FF or something. I think that what we're getting right now is super interesting and what I was hoping I could start last night.
 

JeXs

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That quote with the red, I dislike. That stands out to me, that Jex wanted to slap a town read on Marshy and throw out some bogus explanation for what he was doing. JTB asks Jex what he has done to progress the game, and that in the red seems more like a backpedal.
My memory was fuzzy, I did a reread and corrected what I thought wrongly.
 

#HBC | Ryker

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I don't like what he was doing with Ran and myself. It came off as him slinging mud at our slots and attempting to slowly form a scum read on us. He'll tell you he had me as null, but I don't believe that at all. If he had the conclusion that I'm asking for meta with scummy intent, he should have had me as a scum lean, at the very least.
Cool!

JTB JTB response?



Also, JeXs, while I have you, can you elaborate on the Poyzin thing with JTB so I'm not misconstruing you. I'm somewhat afraid that I've read your take wrong.
 

#HBC | Gorf

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The reasoning. He's constantly poking around JTB, partly because JTB is constantly poking him and hounding him about the Ran thing.

The only part I really don't like the progression is the Poyzin meta thing and I guess I don't see the reasoning there either. It's the same thing. I really don't like how that seems to be a major shift (I think it's just additional justification to join a forming wagon) from this slot's ok enough to keep around to can be the play today. It's just so weak I have trouble thinking it should actually effect something.
thats fair

im mostly good with jexs progression onto the wagon for now because of how consistent considering jtbs play has been for him (i keep asking myself as scum!jex why would he keep doing that, especially when jtb had no heat on him?), and because i can totally gel with him seeing marshys case and feeling confident going down that route. only semblance of foul play i can see is if there was something fishy going on while marshy was prodding him on his jtb read and how that progressed, and on gut, i doubt theres foul play there.
 

#HBC | Ryker

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Hmm.

Working on a reads list on the side.

Ya know, I don't know where JTB goes on it right now. It's gonna look really funny when I go down each member of his wagon, vote someone on it, then put him in null.
 

#HBC | Gorf

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I'm fine with going into Doop, but, full disclosure, I don't hate his opening like a lot of people did. He is very far removed from the old DGames culture and his lawyery attitude matches what I imagine he'd play like even know based on what I knew of him as a person like a decade ago.

However, I do need to revisit my read.
well save the talk for when we revisit him.

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