To respond to Gova *****ing about me having a null on MSF:
Did some re-reading, and MSF's 299 left a rustling in my jimmies.
MSF, I'd like clear stances from you on Kantrip and Delita, and I want to know why.
Walk me through how those reads evolved for you, if they've changed from 299.
Oh, and Gova, I want to know your current read in MSF, and I want you to specifically read at least his 299 before you give me your opinion on it.
And don't spit me back a null, I want at least a lean in one direction or another.
These questions were asked specifically with the intent of solving that problem.
I wanted Gova to produce some content that would help me read him, and I wanted (as I mentioned), someone to bounce ideas off of with respect to developing my MSF read. Failed on both counts.
Raz, I can do that. First I want you to explain what exactly you don't understand and why.
Hitting this in your following large post.
@raziek - is it safe to assume that Kantrip v. Delita also strengthened your scumDelita feel? Also how does OS play scum? I honestly don't know.
No. Elaborated on in my reads post. OS dies to set up his scumteam. He tried (and failed, hilariously) to do it in FE
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oR when I first came to D-Games, and he has himself spoken of his own meta in postgame discussions.
Raz, how exactly is OS making you hate his slot less, how does that belittle your original reasoning when voting him?
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I don't get it. Can you actually substantiate how Kantrip v Delita strengthened your townread? Do you think his hasty vote on Delita was town mindsided? Can you explain a town mindset with a 'hasty' vote?
@ First Q: Should be covered in reads post. If you need more, ask, and I'll try my best to explain.
@ Second Q: Kantrip v Delita strengthened my Town read on Kantrip largely by meta means. Kantrip was clearly frustrated with Delita's badgering and nitpicking, and after having taken Kantrip's side on that issue, I did not find myself regretting the choice. As I mentioned before, that's part of how I build reads.
I do think his hasty vote was town-minded. Kantrip's been crucified in the past (and present) for crumbling under pressure, and he's fighting his way out. This is strange to say, but I can feel his emotions in the post. I see genuine frustration rather than a flailing scum. A vote on Delita serves little purpose if Kantrip were scum, as I don't see that wagon gaining significant traction without exposing his mates who would likely have to help get it rolling.
Stance Update:
Ryker Town. I agree with his sentiments about the Delita slot, and like his interactions with him and Kevin. I can see that he is trying to understand their motivations, such as KevinM's Inferno Read.
Everyone else null. Where are Kryst/Rainbow/Gova at.
I really don't see how you can be serious on having only one Town read. That's essentially saying the entirety of the active players are scum. No issues with Ryker as Town, but the rest I do have some issues with.
Raz Scum. I don't like that he is also pushing away from Delita due to OS making him like his slot better, without really substantiating the claims. He also does this with his strengthening of his Kantrip town read. He is the slightest scumread I have. I wouldn't look at him until after Kantrip/Delita/Soup.
I think I've covered some of the problems you had at this point. If I didn't, talk to me.
Soup scum. He isn't as erratic as I would expect him to be as scum, yet I have a feeling that this is because his scumteam is a bit more organized than usual. (I'll go into this in the Delita Aisle) The reason why I feel he is scum is that his push and pull on Kantrip doesn't seem genuine to me. He states his opinion of Kantrip as a player and even tells him that he is going to unvote him, and encourages him to prove him wrong on his scumread. This shows he already has no scumread in mind because he's already changing his own mind without the need of an argument to convince him.
This I really disagree with. This was very early on at a point where we lacked content, and it got people to take stances. I believe Soup explained his motivations to some extent later on.
He asks others their opinion on my slot yet he never even states his own on mine,
How is this scummy? There's no mafia law of Equivalent Exchange.
and never gives a conclusion to his 'why did you ignore my list, Ran' interaction. That is the only reason for my scumread on Soup at this time. This is not usual ScumSoup, which is why I feel it's due to him being branched with a stronger scumplayer orchestrating the plays. He is a lower priority to me yet makes sense in association to Kantrip and Delita.
Gonna agree with Delita that this seems very tinfoil hat. You've constructed a very elaborate scenario that forms the basis of all of your scumreads, and it's very reachy. Your entire substantiation falls apart if even one of them is Town.
Kantrip Scum, it seemed like he was trying really hard to be town from early RVS into the exit of RVS. At the time of his wall, I just liked that he didn't back track from it, yet I can see him being told to bus OS and be the 'townie' one, which is why I can see why he would try so hard to be proactive when usually, he wouldn't do so. I also didn't like him trying to rush the Delita wagon, as if he saw ALOT more than meets the eye. His rush and over confidence is what made me re-evaluate my read on him again. He seemed to have a really strong scumread on Delita early on in RVS, yet drops it after Delita's constant walling of calling him stupid and bad town. I also don't like this, it doesn't seem genuine of him to drop it so suddenly. To me it seems manufactured. He then re-votes UTDzac for no reason, and I feel it's just like Delita's Gova vote, a backburner vote to make it seem like he's going to make use of it.
This is probably better responded to by Kantrip himself.
Delita Scum, I feel his gameplan as scum would be to give his team some town credit early on. How would he do this? He would attack soup (his buddy) for doing something anti-town, while Kantrip (other buddy) attacks Delita to gain town cred. I can see this as a possiblity since Kantrip was really trying to run people down as the hall monitor. Raz is a possiblity, he did defend soup but to me it's not as telling. I found his vote on Delita logically sound, yet don't see why exactly he felt Delita (OS) made him feel better. Yet again, I feel the 'push away' was manufactured. Now that's just why I feel some of the most active players may be scum. Now then, I feel Delita as an individual has been very neutral and not doing anything so people can't really see him going in a scum or town direction. I feel this would give his buddies ammo to bus him, yet I feel this backfired, due to Kantrip being really over confident of Delita and even trying to rush it with an obvious sneer that he knows too much. I stated before that Delita stated they felt that Soup was doing what he was doing so he could attack Kantrip for the same thing. I don't get what Delita felt what Soup was doing and never did he explain, it just felt disgusting because it seemed like he was attributing an evil nature to that statement. Like before, I feel OS has been very comforting when interacting with me. Some people might not understand why I find this to be a scumtell of OS, yet do remember I replaced in to FireEmblem, and his interactions here feel the same there. I would ask him questions and he would be 'understanding' "You have to start somewhere, Ran" , "You have to understand, Ran, it's not like this, it's just that... [cushion talk]" which is a very drastic attitude to "Why are you buddying me?" out of no where when I wasn't even buddying, but just agreeing with a statement he made. I also didn't like his #373, it seemed like he was trying to paint Ryker as scum for 'not being interested in Gova or Rainbow Fingers' anymore, when I can see it's that Kantrip/Delita was what caught his attention away [from gova/rain] in the first place.
Essentially, I see that Raz, Kantrip, and Soup made pushes, and all three fell back from them and then didn't do anything else. This is another reason why I feel they are scum, because it seemed like they were doing something but something messed up their plans and just had to go into passive mode. Delita didn't really do this, since he hasn't been making pushes, the only thing that seems like a back track was his unvote of Kantrip, even though there wasn't a point to voting him in the first place. I also don't like that Soup and Raz haven't really interacted with me nor commented on me, yet when they push away from their attacks, they then ask/comment on me.
I feel Kantrip is our very best lynch option today. Then goes Delita, then Soup, then Raz. Kantrip/Delita are my strongest scumreads, while Soup is medicore and Raz is a slight read.
Altogether, your justification for most of your scumreads are very reachy and essentially consist of you thinking you've pinned the entire scumteam on Day 1. I don't see that being very likely, and that's why this post bothers me.
Yo hey! Talk about this vote. Why is it here?
yep mmhmm, Raz. I don't know what to tell you. I like the way he thinks I guess? he seems to be analyzing anything that piques his interest and i especially like his latest wall or whatever even though i don't necessarily agree with it. im having a tough time swallowing that the scum team is contained within the "inactives" which i agree with him on that one of the "active" players is most likely scum. aint no scum team got time to be inactive and expect the game to be won. thats just dumb yo
This is very vague, and yeah, one of the active players is probably scum, simply by numbers. That doesn't mean an inactive is a bad lynch at this stage in the game. Gova's opinions in general have been quite shallow and unsubstantiated.
That should be all I have to say for now.