BREAK ON THROUGH, TO THE OTHER SIDE.
Okay, so, just to be clear,
this is where I left things with ZV and Sho.
ZV's hydra questions were useless but ultimately innocuous to my eyes. His defensiveness upon his wagon was the head turner.
@ZV: I think 1 out of the 5 questions you asked in your 212 got answered. Is that a problem for you? I haven't seen you come back to that at all.
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Yes it is. Maybe meta tells you that Chibo does these things as town as well, but those are absolutely characteristics that should normally raise red flags.
J, talk to me about this free pass you're giving the ZV slot. Meta weakening a scum read is one thing; letting a slot coast on bad play without so much as inquiring about it is another. It irks me that ZV doesn't irk you at least a little.
Here is how ZV decided to answer my question to him.
It was more than 1. At least two, though I think actually three got answered. I don't really care at this point though, I stopped keeping count. The questions did what I wanted them to, they got some discussion flowing, got us out of RVS, and while I was at it I got some of the questions answered to get a general feel for some of the hydras in the game. If it ever becomes a pressing issue later then I can bring the subject back up.
His answer is basically just "No, I don't care about that. I was just trying to get out of RVS."
But let's examine that. What had ZV claimed was his
specific reasoning for the questions in the first place.
I do not however think that the questions were useless. At least they were about the game and not more random posts with pictures of anime and voting someone with doing nothing else. There's a lot of hydras in the game, and I'm just trying to wrap my mind around that. Get a better feel for the player slots here. See if anyone in particular is in command of each hydra, maybe how the hydra started, gauge their enthusiasm and effort they'll have for the game, etc. Mafia is a game all about knowing who you are playing with, so asking questions like that is really useful imo.
He says he doesn't think his questions were useless. That he indeed asked them not just to try to push us out of RVS (which he should stop taking credit for), but also because he felt legitimately useful information would be brought about from the answers.
But remember, he
doesn't care if they get answered now. He was just asking those questions to ask them. He wanted to
look like he was doing something useful, which is why he keeps clinging to this idea that he singlehandedly rescued us from the burning building that is RVS. What a hero! Give that man all of this city's finest *****s and blow!
Tell me, ZV. You see two, no wait three, or maybe two SOME OF THE QUESTIONS did get answered. You're pretty sure. How are you using those answers? Since you can't even seem to remember how many people actually bothered to get back to you, I'm assuming you also don't know
who those people were. Explain to me how you're going to use that rich information to form your reads, you towny, towny mother ****er, you.
Also, if I may tangent on Sho for a moment:
This is him responding to my 409 (among other things).
EL ZV, I really don't get this because if it is terrible and "really horrible", why are you not voting Krys or even doing anything besides just saying it's terrible. You just seem justified in defending yourself and not doing much else which is a reason why I am content with your wagon happening because you aren't being pro-town.
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Hep, Town and Scum can both act frantically and over-defensive. It is a null-tell that depends on the situation that they are frantic and over-defensive. In Chibo's case, I am starting to see it as more of a scum-tell than an actual null-tell.
Also I am not giving El ZV a free pass nor did I ever say that. I just said I saw more of his play being silly>scummy at the time and thought more people deserved the RVS pressure wagon. I also never said ZV didn't irk me so again "..."
I would like from you some more concrete things because I agreed with Inferno asking you a question about who your scum-reads were because you didn't really flesh out that you had a distaste with Sho/El ZV because you didn't really say as much but then you give a comment that it was "clear" when it really wasn't. Also why is disagreeing with you on El ZV = scummy? What makes you of Krys then?
Notice how he flips on ZV immediately, but cautiously, after I've expressed distaste with his freepass on ZV. He doesn't want to look like he's swinging as hard as he is, but he knows that he does have to cover his ***.
Sho, while you never directly said "I'm giving ZV a free pass," that is what you were doing by being willing to dismiss his scummy play as "silly" before analyzing it any further. The fact that you defended your position while also
changing it to a different, more reasonable one, is evidence that ZV never deserved to be given that benefit of the doubt in the first place. Most other people seemed to see that right away, but you didn't.
Hep, Town and Scum can both act frantically and over-defensive. It is a null-tell that depends on the situation that they are frantic and over-defensive. In Chibo's case, I am starting to see it as more of a scum-tell than an actual null-tell.
^This part in particular is my favorite, because there's just so much nothing in it. You defend your statement that franticness and defensiveness are null-tells (
what? What
isn't a null-tell to you then?). Then call what Chibo was doing a scum-tell, because
for him that's what it is, even though you had dismissed it as a null-tell earlier. With no explanation for any of it.
Vote: ZV
Would be willing to go ZV or Sho for the proper lynch. Might actually prefer Sho on sheer play, but the Setzer thing gives me pause. Inferno wagon doesn't make
any sense. In regards to the Flush, I don't know, figure it out. It's a stupid situation to be placed in right now and I don't really have any way of dealing with it. Only thing stopping me from saying just get rid of Ran for being inactive (and Ran) is that this is an OS game and he'd probably flip Town Super Winner of Profound Truth or something else that we could probably use later.