Micro 1089: the coalition, again [game over]

[Infinity 324]

I kind of think if skitter is mafia the partner is fire but I'm not even sure we'll get a red flip here so I'm going to just nod and pretend I know what I'm doing

I was thinking something similar.

!!

[hellbooks]

(nobody ever goes in!!! and nobody ever comes out!!!)

[Infinity 324]

a hellbooks post is like a beautiful song written in a language i don't speak

[hellbooks]

im sealing my brain factory for maybe like 24 hours so i can get on top of this monday work day but who am i kidding i cant stop myself from sipping at the sweet sweet nectar of the post button

[hellbooks]

if you want the directors commentary explanation for any reference i made this game i would literally be overjoyed to give it to you

[Infinity 324]

its probably because my scum partner skitter is in danger of being limmed and im panicking

i think fire played a beautiful scumgame and was betrayed a bit by his emotions

[hellbooks]

asking hellbooks to explain a read: ughhhh no sorry.... my feet hurt too much.... i am going to continue languishing in bed with your other three grand parents....

asking hellbooks to explain a joke: ooh la la! leaps out of bed and does a little dance. its olroight charly i'll explain it to ya

[fireisredsir]

bad kill i was like 90% voting isis here lmao

[fireisredsir]

2 days left

probably prefer a tris yeet

partly bc i don't think i care about skitter's read there since it's a gamestate one based on suspicion of the sheepshea team which i dont really agree on

it's a possible world where that's just a town skitter misreading tris. there are notes of the stubbornness there

it's also possible it's a scum skitter white knighting tris. i guess an argument for this would be that she isn't really pushing much for eliminating the people she thinks are scum so she's kinda doing the willy wonka "nooo don't elim trissss" thing where she doesn't actually really care that much

i might be convinced by that argument actually idk

mm ok this doesn't look great

why? thats the point where i start leaning towards skitter

[Infinity 324]

it feels like a hedging post scum would make when they're not sure whether or not they have to bus

[hellbooks]

if i were skitters partner i would have bussed her and coasted on the cred... o wait

[fireisredsir]

i do think 3291 reads a bit like "if y'all are so undecided why did you have to decide on my scumbuddy"

this is ignoring the context of the posts right before where i say i prefer skitter

tbh the main reason i am hesitating to vote skitter is bc i pushed for her lim last game cause i thought her posting wasn't up to her town standard and then she ended up being just town who was busy

that doesn't mean she can't be scum who is also just busy here but idk some aspects do feel similar

i probably still would vote her in the end but i am slightly less eager to

[Infinity 324]

i didn't ignore that! but it's too hedgy for me to give you credit

[Infinity 324]

like "why did you have to decide on my scumbuddy" applies maybe even more so if you realized you had to bus

[fireisredsir]

it feels like a hedging post scum would make when they're not sure whether or not they have to bus

i don't know why i would be unsure whether i have to bus or not there

the game has been very slow and undecided its not like there's any pressure

i would have had plenty of room to decide on a path forward, and i have learned that sitting on the fence and not giving a solid opinion on a scumbuddy is like the worst thing you can do, so i avoid doing it

[fireisredsir]

like "why did you have to decide on my scumbuddy" applies maybe even more so if you realized you had to bus

i guess maybe i don't understand what you mean by that

[hellbooks]

Sorry Everyone But Something Has Come Up. V/la For (expired on 2023-08-31 19:00:00)

[Infinity 324]

like "why did you have to decide on my scumbuddy" applies maybe even more so if you realized you had to bus

i guess maybe i don't understand what you mean by that

hm it's a bit more nuanced than i thought

does anyone have any strong reasons that they prefer one over the other or are we all just kinda in undecided limbo

feels like you are trying to pull people out of that limbo. but you don't have a strong opinion of which direction to go in yourself. idk it feels weird. it feels like the emotion of someone who is watching their scumbuddy get run up by people who are like "ehh idk kinda prefer this" and you are frustrated by that

[fireisredsir]

tbh i do think hellbooks makes that kill more often than infinity does

[fireisredsir]

like "why did you have to decide on my scumbuddy" applies maybe even more so if you realized you had to bus

i guess maybe i don't understand what you mean by that

hm it's a bit more nuanced than i thought

does anyone have any strong reasons that they prefer one over the other or are we all just kinda in undecided limbo

feels like you are trying to pull people out of that limbo. but you don't have a strong opinion of which direction to go in yourself. idk it feels weird. it feels like the emotion of someone who is watching their scumbuddy get run up by people who are like "ehh idk kinda prefer this" and you are frustrated by that

i think given thread context tho

which is me ari shea all expressing a preference for skitter

i feel like there's no way that the world you're seeing here ever happens? the only direction this would pull people out of limbo is in the direction of skitter

what i was actually doing was trying to tease out possible partner relations. i felt pretty strongly that at least one of tris/skitter was scum. if they were both scum, then it made sense that everyone was in limbo, bc everyone else voting them was uninformed town. if one of them was scum, then scum is under pressure and might try to take a stand to defend whoever is their partner. i wanted to see what people like sheep/brass would do. which. sheep preferred tris lim. brass then put tris on e-1. i found both of those kinda scummy

actually there is a good point in here somewhere which i probably shouldn't make for you but whatever. i think if i were scum making that post, i would be doing it for the sake of trying to get people (sheep, brass, etc) to express a preference and potentially spew them as partnered with skitter. so basically the same thing i did as town but for nefarious purposes

which yea idk i guess i might have done that there. but i don't think i would put myself in that on the fence position in the first place and would have taken a stronger stance

[fireisredsir]

fwiw i don't ever enter this 3p as scum, with 0 people that i have pocketed or am capable of pocketing

i plan things better than that

[Infinity 324]

i worded that badly. i don't think you are trying to pull people out of limbo but i think you want them to be out of limbo

pedit: who could you have pocketed

[hellbooks]

we should all go around and all say who we would have killed as scum

[fireisredsir]

id be more likely to keep people like isis/sheep around (and play more to the goals of pocketing them)

hellbooks is an unpredictable enigma and is immune to any tricks id usually pull. i think a consistent pattern in all of my scumgames is not liking to have unpredictable people in endgame

[hellbooks]

everyone immediately clamors to say "oh i would have killed isis" first to nab the piece of reverse psychology towncred