Honestly? My outside shot was and has been Orbo, but as D2 has gone on I haven't sincerely liked almost anything J has done and in the reverse, I have the disconnective fiber I feel I found with orbo/kaladin, while orbo's been...... Difficult to wrangle, but his answers line up with what ive expected from a mediocre town player that hasn't been able to stay active. As things stand the one and only thing that makes kaladorbo work for me is their complete lack of interaction -- somethin I consider pretty important obviously
I feel like J's been makin a lot of weak soup posts for this entire game and Ive literally lost count of the number of times she pointed to something important and either 1. Put off giving a hard opinion on it and/or 2. Sittin so hard on the fence she's gettin sodomized by the planks. Raise your hand if you haven't noticed that so I can show ya how dumb and unobservant y'are.
I'm ambivalent of the latest wall cuz while it showed some insights I enjoyed reading, I gotta hard time believing she... Well, came to the conclusion of backin off orbo on her own
Heres my synopsis of "2nd Day" byJ feat. Del, from the Walls Upon Walls album:
J continues to tunnel maven until he claims. D'oh! Expresses confusion. Waffles back to Orbo. This is somethin I accepted, as J consistently questioned orbo all D1 pretty well
But I dont feel like she asked much of pretty much anyone to get a read on em. A lot of the active questioning she's done has related to telling players what they do or dont or should or shouldn't think, and a lot of staging about how the game is going that may not reflect reality. For example, peckin at orbo's thoughts on you a couple pages back while talkin to me. I didn't get an investigative vibe, more of a "tear down that town read" vibe. I seen town do that plenty so I didnt dwell, but frankly... I'VE tried harder to interrogate orbo than J has been, regardless of alignments
I tried to rustle up activity (and LIVE THREAD INTERACTION, independent of my pre-replace.ent thoughts -- somethin I keep getting knocked down a peg for not havin) and j asks me to dance a little. But I get hit with stuff like phrasing, feels, "you can't take credit for this or that", and so on. The whole time I was wonderin why I was havin that conversation. I dont have a scum read offered? Yeah, and? I wanted to play around and see what people do before takin the same gad dang samey "this guy or I guess this guy" stances as everybody else, knowin damn well that all that passivity wasn't gonna find scum. I didn't see much of an effort to read me (in fact j bristled when I called out her bad play and leading town in bad directions, going into justification and "I'm not as serious as you might think" mode), and to boot she even flat out said she didn't see a value in continuing the conversation outside of gettin a read on me, somethin she now bemoans as some Impossible task. She's been talkin about and around but not TO me ever since.
After semi-forcin out my read before I wanted, I had no choice but to commit. J says dietzamar will clear up the question marks and opts to stay back until after, even when I asked her to reread and analyze and look at my thoughts on you or bring up somethin unique about orbo
We dust it up a bit. J comes back and... Well, offers up the same old same old. Still likes you, still thinks I'm some enigmatic rubiks cube, still wants orbo and for all the identical reasons as last time in way more words. I call this out.
Then J gives us a much much, much, much longer post where suddenly she has seen the light. Perhaps Dietz DOES need another looking over! Perhaps we have been clearin him on feels and gut instead of hard evidence and facts! Perhaps she should look at the game! Oh right, I asked the varmint to do that half a week ago, and maven already said literally alla that.
J also goes at lengths with this orbo analysis where she suddenly doesn't see the scum motive for the long con and admits that his content hasn't been scummy, which is a 180 from the last wall where he was "scummy orbo" and "not hunting scum while we are all making our own pushes". Where did that come from? J doesn't mention any of my own extensive questioning of orbo when condemning him as scummy in wall 1 or flopping back off of him in wall 2, and I find it baffling as its the most content orbo has given the game. Ever. WHY AM I PULLING BETTER MATERIAL OUT OF HER SCUMPICK THAN SHE IS, AND TRYING HARDER TO DO SO? Meanwhile I can't help but notice the fact that maven had flatly stated "his content hasn't been scummy" and id put it on paper more than once that id noticed things that made me lean away from orbo as a play.
I dunno. I said it before, she seems to be spendin a lot of time driftin in the breeze. Some of the thoughts in that wall are good but I dont understand or buy where the sudden changes of heart come, nor do I like how it keeps her options COMPLETELY open.
Ive been givin her a hard pass because kaladin often engaged her with questions while leavin the cyber/dietz and orbo slots almost completely alone. Consistency in her narrative has been another big one -- lots of unnecessary posts, lots of bad reasons to question people, but the SAME people, consistently. I also just... Kinda had this vibe that she's one of those folks that dont like takin a hard stance and bein wrong, and could understand the confusion at times (maven/soup remains a whopper of a thing to read).
And sorry but sayin I'm the grayest gray null that ever was gray and null, somehow more so than a slot that produced next to nothing, seems like lunacy to me. It just reeks of tryin to poison the watering hole with good old fashioned FUD -- wanting to keep me as an option, but not havin the femsticles to incur my wrath while it has another target.
I find it extremely suspect that her read on me has moved to a firm statement of "he's not honest", yet I am null and my points against someone everybody thought was town (for some reason cited as a point against me more than once prior to that) are now worth consideration. And can I just reiterate that I got no idea who the hell this strumpet thinks I am and I hate to high hell that "he's some other guy, and he should be coming across more townie than he is so he's not!!!!!" is being used against me
Jdietz43
my answer should now be obvious. The honest fact (and tldr) is that j's play has been real bad this entire game. I was hoping one of my "concern posts" about j manipulatin me would get parroted by you or orbo and help bolster my convictions and it never happened. I hoped to see a more proactive, less wifflewaffle side of J and if anything got the total opposite
Honestly that long ass post just didn't feel altogether genuine to me when it was basically restated a buncha conclusions already drawn by people in the thread. The iota of town I see in it is that j's been thinkin on long cons and endgame, which might trigger new thoughts.
But hell. In wall 1 she lambasts usin raw vote analysis, and in this one it drives a lot of her thinkin. Why the change? Why do my thoughts now bear more consideration, and yet so little thought on the DelTown side of the analysis and a college essay about "but he COULD be doing this as scum". The town side had all of a couple sentences when there is PLENTY to say there. The idea ive set up some great lylo for myself as scum is an idea borne of NEEDING that to be the case cuz I ain't gettin lynched toDay imo. I dare one of yall to say you'd wanna do what I have rather than just steamroll over orbo or j and get the other. It just don't click. Yeah yeah yeah, WIFOM, but come the **** on.
Basically I expected you to play/answer worse than you have and j to play/answer better than she has. Christ, after wall 2 and then your push and vote (which had your own thoughts and not ONE of mine parroted) I was SERIOUSLY considering a reread and a changeup. The instant deflation, eh, null but it took away that feelin of "****, maybe I'm wrong and this really is it"