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J has been pretty non-existent pretty much all game if memory serves. I'm still in the middle of catching up tho. Regarding Levi, to be perfectly honest (as it should have been apparent), my vote on him was/is pretty unsubstantiated atm and it's only there because I was throwing Ami my vote to see if they could do anything with it while I was (and still am) considering Jexs. I haven't REALLY looked into him yet. I liked where murderbush was going with the slot regarding Levi's push on Protean being an overextend on Levi's part, which was true. Levi's immediate push towards Dabuz after he realized he wasn't going to get his way with Protean was interesting, but I haven't really decided if this was scum motivated or town motivated. Personally, I think it's kinda grimy to not stick to your guns.Thoughts on Levi and J? They seem to be the top lynch candidates if my mental vote count is right.
i just don't like the slot at all, no offense to jexs himself but everything about it just grinds against me. his willingness to switch votes so quickly between dabuz/levi and then to myself and his willingness to ride coattails is just urghhhhh it can very easily be new scum or new town and it's a damn shame. idk what to say about the AtE either but i'm just going to leave it alone for now.@ Arcane Inferno What do you think about the current wagons?
@ Gova You listed two recent games of J where he played very differently and he was a different alignment in both games, between those games, which compares more to his play toDay if either compares?
@ BarDulL What's your current opinion on Jex?
Looking at Protean's case on J now
Jexs, I looked over you reasoning for why you dislike my slot, but it looks like a classic OMGUS. Have you considered that I might be town simply misreading you?I'm going to go with Bardull. Explained it previously but Protean called it mechanical which I still don't understand. Unless someone convinces me otherwise that answer will be Bardull. Would be fine with lynching J though.
Have a look at post 818.@ #HBC | Leviathan yo so what's up, we haven't talked yet or anything. who do you like and who do you dislike?
I'm always paranoid of Werekill because I don't think too many people - myself included - have a good grasp on how to actually read him. It happened in Monster Mafia where I kept reminding people that he could be scum even though he was appearing as 'obvious' town virtually all game. He really hasn't done anything 'right' or 'wrong' so far in this game but that doesn't mean too much because like who the hell knows what's 'right' and 'wrong' in WK's case. I'm keeping has a null and will try to focus on connections to him once we have flips. If he's scum he'll likely be the last piece of the puzzle if you know what I mean.I wanted to ask you about your reads on Werekill and JexS. I also wanted to ask you about your opinion on Leviathan's recent play.
I do have a read on your slot by now. See above. I just hadn't read too much of what you said then because, like I said earlier, I tend to skip over walls and you were posting a whole lot of nothing tbqh until you started to move to dabuz ... which I believe was your first legit attempt to push the game into a direction. I don't really see how you'd wrangle a scumread out of that though. Sometimes active slots can be read as null because their perceived pro-town actions and their perceived anti-town actions keep each other in balance and add up to a 'neutral' read that can be categorized neither as scummy nor as townie.Arcane, I admit stating that you were setting me up as a scum mate was reaching on my part. That said, that does not change my discomfort with you lacking a read on my slot. I'm unlike Potassium, Bunzy, Gova, and Werekill in that I've had more pressure thrown my way [same with JeXs] and have been vocal; I would expect someone aligned with the Town to have some sort of bead on me at this point. You say you're unconvinced [one half at least] about me being scum but I have yet to see any promising push from you outside of BarDulL, and even that one hasn't seen you come alive like a town-aligned player who thinks he has a scumread that most players aren't noticing would.
I haven't refuted your points because there was nothing to refute. What you're saying essentially boils down to "yeah, I *am* as scummy as I have been in monster but hey, a townie can be scummy too!".He says he thinks I'm scum because I have a similar persona to Monster mafia, which is KINDA true, but I mean how is that an implication that I'm scum? He hasn't really refuted the point I made earlier which is that having a similar persona isn't necessarily an implication of alignment, especially in DGames where we have a TON of people that can emulate their town personas as scum, including me
That's actually one of the main reasons why I feel like Bardull is a better lynch.I am thoroughly concerned with the lack of resistance to a J lynch.
Have I already mentioned that I tend to make things more complicated than needed be? ;Pbtw gbiz i love when you tie most players to your feelings about not being able to read werekill well even though most townies were spot on about him being super obv town in monster
I don't agree with this. Getting people to move votes to J in the first place was a nightmare (my delivery sucks, big whoop, the logic was there) and even now, plenty of people are saying "well I see J but then there's this other guy". It doesn't look like resistance to you but to me it does, simply because it's some weird roundabout way of saying that they won't lynch him. Perfect example is Gova's vote on Levi.I am thoroughly concerned with the lack of resistance to a J lynch.
This screams "I dont want to deal with conflict with this slot so I'll call him bad town and try to sweep it under the rug." Throwing out the "its either bad play or scum play" without any explanation as to why you're even stuck on the question in the first place is just as bad as saying "lol idk about my read on you cuz its either noob/dumb town or scum" without any explanation of what makes the two equally plausible. Cop out response to pressure at its finest.I'm holding you at arm's length because I am trying to differentiate from bad play or scum play. It's truly a toss up at this point.
Tbh I am leaning on bad play of a fiesty WL.
^ couldn't have said it any better, this is on pointNo. You don't go half a phase saying "I'd lynch WL, I'm okay with lynching WL, would you lynch WL?" if you're "trying to differentiate between bad play and scum play." That's not how that works.
again protean on pointAnd no one asks people to lynch a person if they're not pushing them. The fact that he didn't vote for me is even more suspect. It shows his ****ing read is suspect. You don't have to throw a vote to make suspect plays with your lynch "targets".
This coupled with the fact that when confronted with the questionableness of his read, he tries to explain it away with "well its ambiguous whether you're bad town or scum", as I've explained above, is particularly damning.J I have a simple problem with. He simply tries to brush his explanation of the read under the rug. He claims that there are 'subtle differences' in his play from the mini that strike him as 'likelier to come from a Townie than scum'. That is something akin to saying, "I think J is Town, because reasons." Would you be convinced by that? Because I'm not.
I'm here now. Whatever you still need clarification on that I don't hit on in this post, bring it up and tag my ****. I'm gonna watching the thread vigilantly till deadline.@ Arcane Inferno I would like to have a long conversation with you two, particularly Frozenflame.
holy **** this is one of the grimiest anchoring attempts I've ever seen@ Dramatic Flair
@ryker
Let's say you had a daycop ability where you scanned me Town. What effect does this have on your reads?
"**** outta here with that deflective, manipulative bull****. my other reads don't center around you so don't conflate the issues" ~ murderbush not being taken for a ride July, 2014The only change would be you moving to town. The rest of our reads are independent of our read on you and even if we 100% knew you were town, your reads are so colossally bad that they wouldn't make it into our scumlist. We would probably actually try and get you to vote with us instead of ignoring you.
Now, will you please stop being a manipulative ****head? I know you don't think that your comments will be received by Ran and those who view it. Your only purpose is to get a rise and I have made it my mission not to give one this game. Time to change tact, mate.
thumbsup.jpg, see abovewhat the **** is this hypothetical
What the **** kind of a question is this? No seriously like what meaningful analysis did you expect to get from this?As an aside, and I'm really curious, what do you think of a Levi/J/BarDulL scum team? Is it possible? Like, who do you think would be my hypothetical partners at this point in time if I actually was scum? Please elaborate.
I'd be more concerned if J was actually putting up a fight. But he's no where to be found to actually give us a reason why he shouldn't be the play. I've Monster mafia taught me anything, it's that slots behaving like this should NOT be given a pass. Literally like every ****ing scum lynch went down with little resistance simply because the scum had no legitimate defenses for themselves.@ Arcane Inferno Talk to me about the above comment about lack of resistance.
See Gheb was my townbro in Monster and he knows what the ****s up. We literally JUST went through this ****. Lack of resistance here doesn't give me cold feet in the least. Also, Laundry makes a solid point here:I'm actually starting to change my mind on that though. I feel like it's becoming increasingly hard to justify keeping J around at this point. Makes me wonder whether J is town or his scummates have just given up on trying to defend him or deflect the pressure onto somebody else. Either is possible but I think the lack of resistance isn't a strong sign at this point anymore
It's not like the wagon materialized out of ****ing nowhere on one stray comment. There hasn't been a ton of vocal resistance, but it's not like people just instantly jump at the J wagon the moment he was talked about. There were definitely growing pains. Early initial inertia on that wagon's growth for sure.I don't agree with this. Getting people to move votes to J in the first place was a nightmare (my delivery sucks, big whoop, the logic was there) and even now, plenty of people are saying "well I see J but then there's this other guy". It doesn't look like resistance to you but to me it does, simply because it's some weird roundabout way of saying that they won't lynch him. Perfect example is Gova's vote on Levi.
Okay, one at a time.@ Dramatic Flair :
1. Who would you look into upon a Levi Town/Scum flip? (I want to see both directions)
2. What do you think of my concerns with Levi, and the meta I brought up?
3. How does it affect your case? (I'll look at that straight after I post this, but might not need to post a response to it as I may have covered the feels already)
4. You say you find Laundry scum with precision. Can you tell me how to find Laundry Scum? I ask this because I'm not that good at reading him. I also think you read him as town in Time Travellers mafia, but he turned out scum because loljuly hammer. (Iirc) You see, I find concerns with Levi's slot but I'm skeptical because of how you are reading Laundry, and I don't like his interactions with JexS, and his interaction with me wrt Dabuz wall question. (Which is why I asked him a q about it)
5. How are you reading Dabuz so far?
6. Also, as I posted my analysis, I expect you to post your new analysis on JexS.
I probably have a question lingering in the back of my head, but hate that I can't bring it out. Dang it zen I want to post more.... (I'll post anyways once I remember it, or maybe I already did)
Because his scumminess is more subtle than J. Seeing the questionable **** J's done is really easy because his entire gameplay is off. Levi's play on the surface looks fine and you need to look past that to see the incredibly manipulative bull**** that he's done this game. As a result, it doesn't surprise me to see players like Jexs and Werekill or even slots like Ran give him a pass for his play because on the surface, his play seems fine, or not wholly as questionable as J, or Jexs if you're Ran.I literally cannot fathom how you have attained your Leviathan read. Did you not read the two times I posted a case and did you not see him calling me a Machiavellian manipulator when I was trying to get Ran to re-examine a read?
do i just not exist or some **** gorf's already made mention that levi has been practically interchangeable with j as his lynch choice today and we both have mentioned we find him scummy.I was extremely worried about going with a J lynch (or any other lynch), leaving Leviathan in the game with his biggest detractors being slots like Gova, who don't have the power to push him past the 'bleeding hearts club'..
Sorry, I must've just slipped my mind as I was in awe of your stupefying ability to get people to board the J lynch that is so popular right now.Also:
do i just not exist or some ****