what do you mean by the "pushing the right slots for scum"? Like, if he is scum, he is pushing slots that benefit him the most? Or he is pushing slots that you think are most likely to be scum?
I think you mean the latter but I want to be sure I'm understanding you
"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"
In post 250, GuiltyLion wrote:what do you mean by the "pushing the right slots for scum"? Like, if he is scum, he is pushing slots that benefit him the most? Or he is pushing slots that you think are most likely to be scum?
I think you mean the latter but I want to be sure I'm understanding you
No the former. Both of you seem to be townread to some degree, getting you both off the list leaves more room for scum assuming you're both town.
I will admit I was a little paranoid of an Iverson/GL team
And it's still possible that Pooky has taken the route of hard distancing instead, but I think you past scumgames have a different tone to here so I'll roll with that.
~ C
if I'm wrong on Coalition it is definitely going to bork my view of the game at this point and probably means a deepwolf has a path into my coalition, but I'm not going to be able to re-evaluate them until/unless they treat me in good faith and so far all they've done is discredit me at every turn, and a few of their arguments have been brazenly disingenuous (GL manufacturing reads, GL targeted me bc he was threatened by my coalition) in a way that I'm struggling to convince myself comes from town
"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"
"I hope one day I can openly play as wolfy as Pooky and get zero pressure for it grumble grumble."
-MariaR
"I can't even look at the game anymore.
That evil teddy bear has got everyone twirling by his thumb.
It's like witnessing an slow but unavoidable train crash you can't stop."
It's okay we have time. Coalition kinda bleeds town to me because their strat of yelling about GL being a wolf isn't going to benefit them as scum and that frustration only makes sense if they're town.
~ C
if Coalition has a big ego and hasn't played with me or read my games before, I feel like they might think they can bury me, the first/main voice speaking against them, and then not suffer any consequences afterwards
"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"
In post 184, The Coalition wrote:my method of scumhunting has always been "analyze the thought process not the content" so fuck off <3
In post 185, The Coalition wrote:im gonna come back later when I am not at risk of saying something that will get me banned
also, @Cheek why does a town!Coalition get this pissed off if they think I'm scum? I was pushing on their early posts but I wasn't insulting them as a person or being toxic (I would hope...), so the "fuck off" and the worry about saying something ban-worthy feels a lil extreme to me if they really think I'm just caught scum trying to push them
"I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen now I believe the only real monsters might be the type of liar where there's simply no way to tell. The ones who give nothing away"
I quite do not buy GL hard scum right now. The thing koba pointed out (i'm just going to say koba bc it's annoying to say coalition in this game) in 187 is a bit bad but I think his play over the last page or so is pretty town and I generally like his takes on the game. I don't necessarily buy koba as scum (or at least I don't feel strongly that they are); I thought they were townish early on but not for any real substantive reason. I do lean toward Iverson having been town but I don't think they really proved themself to be town either, at least not in like the day they were here. I think Pooky could be scum certainly. I have like
an
idea how to read pooky but it's almost certainly wrong and I'd be curious if others have more of a general sense of how to read them, because I historically (in like 2 games i think) have not been able to see any real way to read them.
Gamma townreading me is probably a good sign in principle.
I quite do not buy GL hard scum right now. The thing koba pointed out (i'm just going to say koba bc it's annoying to say coalition in this game) in 187 is a bit bad but I think his play over the last page or so is pretty town and I generally like his takes on the game. I don't necessarily buy koba as scum (or at least I don't feel strongly that they are); I thought they were townish early on but not for any real substantive reason. I do lean toward Iverson having been town but I don't think they really proved themself to be town either, at least not in like the day they were here. I think Pooky could be scum certainly. I have like
an
idea how to read pooky but it's almost certainly wrong and I'd be curious if others have more of a general sense of how to read them, because I historically (in like 2 games i think) have not been able to see any real way to read them.
Gamma townreading me is probably a good sign in principle.
In post 255, The Cheek of Gamma wrote:It's okay we have time. Coalition kinda bleeds town to me because their strat of yelling about GL being a wolf isn't going to benefit them as scum and that frustration only makes sense if they're town.
~ C
Why doesn't it benefit them as scum? Isn't like, the #1 thing scum have to do in this setup to stop, y'know, coalitions of townies from forming?
In post 255, The Cheek of Gamma wrote:It's okay we have time. Coalition kinda bleeds town to me because their strat of yelling about GL being a wolf isn't going to benefit them as scum and that frustration only makes sense if they're town.
~ C
Why doesn't it benefit them as scum? Isn't like, the #1 thing scum have to do in this setup to stop, y'know, coalitions of townies from forming?
Sorry, not what they're doing, but how they're doing it
Like how are they going to progress a scum agenda going about things the way they are? Has coalition persuaded you that GL shouldn't be in your coalition?
Right now I generally think GL's takes are mostly good or at least fine and like I personally don't want to jump to any conclusions in a setup like this while two slots have contributed 0 and another has contributed very little (tbh shelby's probably posted enough to try to read him off of, i could certainly imagine him being scum w his current iso).
i read the first 4 pages and only managed to get a townread on imp
simply because i really hated post 27. it looked like a giant spotlight saying, "hey, there's scum in here". when you point at one person it's tough to have something stick but when you spotlight two players it's a lot easier to have criticism to be valid for at least one of them. based on the state of this page i'd say it had an effect.
HEAL: implosion HEAL: Uncle Shelby HEAL: Black Ranger
In post 128, The Coalition wrote:this is basically a main claim, but I randed scum with gamma and their usual weaknesses I've seen in the past were not present anymore.
There’s like 2 people this can be, and Iverson named one of them
And Iverson was probably right since just looking at posting style it looks more like DkKoba than the other person I had in mind
-G
In post 138, implosion wrote:the coalition's read on me is really interesting because I'm not sure if that kind of reasoning is something I'm bad at faking as scum; I'd like to think it isn't, but it might be.
...incredibly once again, I typed this sentence before seeing 135
I think i'm kind of bad at scum tbh. I sort of focus on mimicing town thought in general, or at least my overall approach historically has been to try to do things that I think I'd be doing as town/read people based on the reads I think I'd be getting on them. Since it's most of what I focus on in principle I'm better at it than I am at other aspects of scum play. I don't think I'm an especially good scum player though.
I’m not sure on the finer details but I think implo is low-key obvscum when he’s scum from last time I remember him randing scum, and this also feels like a vaguely honest description of his scumplay, which are +town for implo
-G
In post 154, The Coalition wrote:iverson, even if you don't townread implo yet, at least take the gas off and try elsewhere. I don't think you're SvT at all and definitely not SvS.
I have outed two townreads-one with extended justification, the other denied it by meta-elsewhere while you townread implosion for not being a potato and tunnel GuiltyLion for incoherent nonsense.
If implosion is town all you have to do is get out of the way.
It took a second but Iverson kinda misread my post
I wasn’t denying the read so much as being like “hey you’re underrating me and in a way that feels diminutive”
Although whether I would sit out the opening as scum is like, entirely dependent on my partners, since having come off the aforementioned scum streak, my big takeaway is to not get bogged down trying to carry weaker teammates
-G
Also, I think it would be reckless to have an elimination happen immediately after the coalition check occurs without taking time to evaluate why the coalition failed (since the only time the following elim would be relevant would be if the coalition fails)
-G
(FYI I’m trying to consistently tag my posts so C doesn’t have to be consistent. I also probably won’t be doing the “guess who” stuff I like to do since a) I don’t feel like that fits the vibe of this game and b) it pretty much always results in people not getting it)