Alright. I'm at the #946:
SangfroidWarrior said:
I dislike it because he assumes we will know when he is serious, and hasn't brought up anything wrt scum teams after that point. Any accusation, even off the top of your head, has to have proof if you're just going to up and post it on the thread. Also, he hasn't really done much up to that point. Most of it was talking about inactives and asking people about how often they're going to post. Again, as with the early thing, he's making extended and overdeveloped excuses and defenses for why he's doing certain things, like making scum team accusations.
The whole Tom|Tandora thing was very distinct that I felt like making a comment wrt to it. I was a bit silly though saying that I would use an asterick for reads. I imagined it would be for something like, Hilt*town, or something along those lines, but I just didn't end up having that conviction. *_*
Point taken though wrt to me not leaving a scum accusation. J even called me out on it D1 that I didn't have a firm scum read. Tbh I didn't have one and it is understandable that you clarify it as anti-town. I was upset with the Dad slot D1 for leaving reads with little to no justification. And also the LST|July slot for going in with the RR-Acro relationship that J was stating earlier. However neither of these two things stuck out to me as being firm indication of them being scum. So you're right, I didn't push on them early enough.
And here we are again. I go V|LA without ending with a firm mafia vote on someone and we end up with a strayed town that is splintered off into three directions. You are right that I haven't taken a firm stance or tried to direct the pace of this game and that I've been defending myself and hoping that someone else takes the reigns. The only thing that I felt sure about were whether two players were or were not in a team together, and even then I wasn't very proactive in that regard.
Based on skimming recent content, I believe that I do have foses that I want to push. Mainly Tandora who I disagree with in regards to AM|Hilt. I will re-read Tandora though to see her reasoning for it. Also traveling_cat who needs to really explain her shift in position today.
My explanations are just my thoughts. If they are overextended and lengthy, then that's the way they come out. Sorry if they are a pain in the *** to read.
SangroidWarrior said:
I also don't like this post because he admits to ignoring JTB, a confirmed town member, because he didn't feel like dealing with him. If you're not scum, why not try to get JTB off your back and try to point people to a real scum pick? Also, he hides behind certain actions of his saying that it's just a playstyle test, like it's going to clear him when he does something scummy. He asks people how they normally play, like that's going to make a difference on how he reads somebody. He jumps on the LST wagon after Dad for all the wrong reasons. His reasons are crappy and full of holes. Reference:
JTB was annoying me for something I had explained many times. A real scum pick? Town was dead and there was no scum for me to pick based on the content that I saw available. I did try to shoot questions though to gauge reads. With regards to the playstyle test, that was my response to Hilt IIRC and it was me trying to stand my ground. I didn't really want to be patronized early on, but I don't think that I have used playstyle as an excuse in any of my latter explanations. When I voted LST, I was aware that Dad had already left and I stated so.
SangfroidWarrior said:
His first reason is lame. Apply pressure to whomever you want. They will get to it when they actually get here. It might make them get here sooner.
Iggy blatantly said, SWF made prodding rules for me. When I grasped that I realized it was dumb to press questions on him because he probably wouldn't answer them in due time. LST trying to push on Iggy suggested to me that they were trying to make a push on someone that wouldn't really give them much in return. I didn't see the point of doing something like that, unless they weren't really interested in getting feedback & returns. So it seemed disgenuine and if you read the comment, LST put the vote based on hydras. So it was a pretty ridiculous start.
SangfroidWarrior said:
The second, up until maybe the last sentence is just digging. Then, he magically unvotes LST because of LST's push on Seikend which, to me, doesn't seem like enough to make somebody think they are town, especially if Acro has as much against them as he says he does.
LST's case on Seikend looked like it had some substance. If you look at the reasons why I had my vote on LST, they were pretty much for him being full of b.s. Writing a post about scumhunting but not doing any scumhunting so on and so forth. Fossing because Ignatius was a hydra. I could have pressured him more, but I had hopes for the LST slot after that post.
SangfroidWarrior said:
Then, he says that Dad is hiding behind the reason of being a hydra to get out of situations, which basically comes out of nowhere, and he argues why it would take Dad 12 hours to respond to something. Then, again, he randomly votes for RR and even claims to have a null-scum read on him here:
I said that about Dad because it is true. There is one post where J asks Soup to explain a read, and he's like, "Because Kooz said so." I mean, wtf. That literally is the justification we are left with for the entire day. The timing of the case was irrelevant. I thought Dad lied about his reason for voting someone and turned out wrong. IIRC I thought Dad said he initially unvoted LST because the wagon wouldn't gain steam. Then I thought he said that his unvote was due to a hydra misunderstanding. So when I read this I voted him, because I thought he was lying. It turns out that I was mistaken.
My vote on RR comes after I found out that Dad wasn't lying. I couldn't have a "changed read" on RR because I never stated my read on RR IIRC. I knew RR fossed me and I addressed his points the day before the vote. He didn't address any of those points and then suddenly switched to Seikend. I touched upon this in my response to July in her
#899.
July said:
Kk but after you drop the Dad vote you put your vote on RR and say the reason is in your #372, which is here: "@RR: RR an explanation to why you decided to transition from me to Seikend would be nice. When I asked you to come at me, I wanted you to come at me so I could see you scumhunting and being pro-town before we decided to lynch. Bleck." This reasoning was weak for you to switch your vote to RR and put him to L-2, from reading this post it didn't seem like your concerns about RR scum were all that strong and you had JUST told Sangfroid to re-read and reassess. After find out that your top scum pick was based off a misunderstanding, you immediately jumped on RR without any further explanation of your scum read on him, and that seemed like you were just trying to get away from the Dad mistake and get on the popular wagon
Going to give you back the same explanation I gave July.
Perhaps you didn't know, but that post is with regards to my posts in #332, and #333. If you read that post alone then you would think it is a weak reason since it is a progression of these two previous posts getting unsatisfactory answers. I told Sangfroid to re-read and reassess because she missed the two posts I probably posted before which I'm assuming you missed as well. I didn't just "hop-on" to the popular wagon, I had a vague feeling that RR could be town and wanted him to "come at me" so he could start showing off his town vibes. I hope this clarifies some things.
#372: [1] RR's lack of explanation for switching from Seikend to me
[2] Lack of rebuttal to #332 and #333.
#384: [1] and [2]
#390: [1]
#508: [1]
Sangfroid said:
Although it doesn't really come from nowhere, his changed read on RR does. He claims he doesn't know why J thinks RR is scum even though he himself has a partial scum read on RR. And then, suddenly, out of the blue, he claims that he knows that RR is going to flip town, like he's giving himself an out for later on in the game so that if people claim he voted for RR he could say that he wasn't comfortable with it, he just wanted a lynch.
Nah. I don't need an out. I already explained myself. Me saying RR was town was a gut-read. J, July, and you were being too mechanical. You were playing logical games that seemed to give me the impression that you found all these holes in RR. Well good job, RR was full of holes. Anyone could look at him and see that he didn't address points well and was a mess. But where are his partners. Who was trying to give him assistance. These things were missing. So yes, you logically demolished RR, but guess what, that didn't indicate jack about his actual alignment. He played poorly as town and in my gut I recognized that. I'm serious, did you think that RR was going to flip scum? I wasn't. I honestly came to the conclusion that you have to be b.s.'ing yourself if you were dead sure that RR was going to flip scum, because the statements at the end of the day indicating to me that this was likely going to be a lynch on a poor-playing townie. And no, I didn't have an elaborate logical argument to back this up. I wanted to make the right call rather than be stuck playing logical crap shoots and having a sound methodology while getting the final answer wrong. Logic is a means to an end, but not the end in and of itself.