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[Dannflor]

i don't really know where you got that im arguing there are no scummy players in the game?

[meowmeow]

i mean, this stuff happens in mafia games, i don't think it's necessary to apologise or anything

i do think it's kind of scummy considering what happened last time i went up against scum you but shrug

pedit: i mean ok you kind of pushed me. who else is there you think i should be scumreading? like, you made the point yourself that you think there are a bunch of nullish slots which are difficult to sort which is like exactly what i have been saying shrug

[meowmeow]

Baaaa

Oh it’s growing again!

VOTE: drew

I have confidence that after my death you will finally town read me.

do you townread malakittens?

She is pretty null to me, nothing comes off as towny about her, yet I also can't see scum making that comment about Bulge after the flip.

shrug i mean, i think i've seen scum do that before but i can see why someone would townread it i guess

the post i quoted kinda feels like you're talking as if she's town unless there's something i am missing there?

[Dannflor]

I kinda started scum reading dunnstral since i made my last post town reading him lol

I would be curious on any cliffnotes updated thoughts you have there

it is quite possible I am making this game much harder than it needs to be

I don't think there's anyone specific you should be scum reading necessarily, I have just found your motivations kinda opaque to read this game and it loosely reminded me of that one large normal where you were scum and it seemed like you were kinda just hanging back and letting townies beat each other up. but it's also possible any sufficiently active townie would look like that in a game where many slots are Not Posting

[Dannflor]

joined this game so people would mix up Dann and Dunn

reading now

Also just so you know in case you haven't looked at your role PM, but you are probably town.

drew why did you want to let me know you town read me first thing when I came into the game?

[Doctor Drew]

Baaaa

Oh it’s growing again!

VOTE: drew

I have confidence that after my death you will finally town read me.

do you townread malakittens?

She is pretty null to me, nothing comes off as towny about her, yet I also can't see scum making that comment about Bulge after the flip.

shrug i mean, i think i've seen scum do that before but i can see why someone would townread it i guess

the post i quoted kinda feels like you're talking as if she's town unless there's something i am missing there?

No I was making a joke off of them town reading Bulge after they flipped.

[Doctor Drew]

joined this game so people would mix up Dann and Dunn

reading now

Also just so you know in case you haven't looked at your role PM, but you are probably town.

drew why did you want to let me know you town read me first thing when I came into the game?

Wasn't sure who you repped in for initially, then noticed it was Katya.....and then my first thought was basically what you quoted.

[Dannflor]

Spoiler:

ok so reads wise, here are my takes on the players in this game

Datisi

ok first of all datisi always rolls scum. this is important if you believe in the gambler's fallacy, or its superior equivalent, anti gambler's fallacy, which holds that if someone keeps rolling scum they keep rolling scum. despite my making fun of him - which i hold to be fully justified in every way - he is actually a very good scum player and that needs to be kept in mind

146 feels +town to me. not sure exactly how to verbalise it, but it comes off as like, weirdly sheepy and lacking conviction, which i think is fairly +town because this stuff can just happen as a result of the game being hard as town; whereas scum datisi i think is good at creating options and it's more difficult to see how his thought process gets to the point where he thinks this is a good post to make.

182 is a bit ??? to me because it's like, why would you think i'm not ausuka? i told you i was making an alt in your discord DMs like a couple weeks before the game started and i don't think my posts are that different. i get being like 'oh i didn't think of that' but sheer shock is a bit strange. however unless someone told him beforehand i was ausuka it's probably not ai at all and idk how likely that is

does datisi try and pocket me and then call me stupid? maybe? i think he would know i wouldn't like that and i'm something of an emotional player so maybe it's slightly +town

as scum once, i pushed datisi because he townread someone pushing on him. i accused him of trying to defuse the situation. he was town in that game. i guess that is to say, i don#t really get what's so unnatural about the bulge read or why town datisi wouldn't make it

overall i lean town on datisi so far, i think

Aristeia

she flirts with datisi a lot. that's not ai it just makes me smile

i originally didn't like 206 because speculation about scumteams or whatever that doesn't involve a serious push on one of the people involved has always felt empty to me and makes me go but also i can kind of see why she would find that datisi post a bit over-the-top so shrug

the read on bell in 389 is interesting. my instinct is to like it, and i can kind of see where she's coming from if town, even if i'm not sure i 100% get it - maybe partially because i lack context? but it's true that bell lacks bite in this game.

yekaterina

so, i don't think katya is town particularly, which i get is an unusual opinion to have. she was scum in the recently completed micro 1087 and just absolutely swept the game so i don't really think i should buy into the narrative that like, she's obvtown because she posts a lot of stuff that looks vaguely thoughtful. obviously if ppl have more specific reasons to townread her i'm happy to hear it; i don't think we should write off any reason to townread a capable scum player but i think a lot of the more common surface level reasons aren't that valid

obviously, i didn't like 167 - i mean i'm biased because like, it's me, and it did explain the post was trying not to give anything away but... meh, i'm just not a fan of the whole exchange

didn't really like 178 like 'you should expect i'll be obvious town' feels a bit like scum trying to be too cheeky to be scum. idk if that makes sense

i don't know if i need to go through the whole honeypot thing again. i'm not sure if anyone except me actually read that. but like, i basically just don't like how light of a wave katya makes towards shadi, not really doing anything there, and calling it a honeypot because after she did that, people wouldn't 'need' to talk to shadi and therefore anyone who does is probably scum? i think it's possible that there's some playstyle difference there because it is incredibly foreign to how i play mafia. but the thing that really got me is the idea that anyone pushing shadi is necessarily like, influenced by her push and being opportunistic, even though it wasn't really a push and was a light and noncommittal idea about how she doesn't really know who scum is. and it comes without really engaging with the reasons why they were doing that. i do still think there is some partner equity there but that's not important for now. of course, there's the whole deal where she doesn't like votes/wagons and that's obviously genuine but it is obviously also aware that a lot of people do not share this view. so like to review, she is asked who scum is, and instead of answering normally sets up a 'honeypot' except the honey attracts people that disagree with it about how wagons work, which she apparently doesn't want to discuss. not to mention she goes to great lengths to emphasise how much she does not really believe in this read which just seems... incredibly counterproductive to the entire purpose. and obviously if she's scum it's a rather intricate thing, but i really do not see the town thought process here, and i think it's a +scum thing to do.

and yeah idk that is basically my whole read on katya. even in her more recent posts, i still don't really understand it or where it's coming from at all in terms of what she's pushing people for and if she's town, what she's going for, who she might like to eliminate. i don't see the thought process behind any of it. but i think part of that *could* be that i play very differently. i mean, i townread it once before, but maybe that game i wasn't as cautious of being snowed; i should probably go back and check. i lean scum on katya right now

the bulge

the bulge. i vibed him as town early, just based on how he was sharing reads and stuff in what i perceived to be a relaxed way. i liked 223 a bit. and like, the superbowl wagon comments are just... could they be from scum? yeah. but i tend to like proactive stuff like this that shows care for the gamestate, understanding things and parsing them so you can read people, sue me.

281 and 283 i have more mixed feelings about. my instinct is to say that unreasonable isn't scummy and that i don't like the approach but after reading the conversation for a while i get what he's saying better? like, the 'reasonable' word stuck in my brain but i think it might just be a red herring because bulge is saying that he doesn't believe datisi's emotional reaction to the question is genuine because he doesn't seem to actually care about the question itself. which seems like a fairly towny line of thinking actually; it's engaging with the thread on something of a deeper level and i think it's something he's put thought into. if he's scum it's very good scumplay.

uh, his more recent posts are more content-free. i can kind of see the desire behind pushing superbowl/presumably the datisi vote is a continuation of earlier so whatever.

Bell

bell has a lot of posts which i don't take a lot out of. 292 is probably the first interesting post in the entire bell iso. i didn't think datisi's read was bad personally - and as i said, i've pushed him for that as scum before, so i don't want to townread this in itself, but at least it's like making observations and doing something?

i don't hate his counter push on ari? most of his poking and pushing seems to lack edge, in the sense he's not really trying to wagon people or push people at any point. in that sense, i agree with aristeia. i am totally unfamiliar with bell, but i don't really get the sense he's forcing himself to be here tho; he's just around, vibing, but not with a strong sense of purpose? and again, idk him or the meta here, but it feels unfair to pick on him for that when a lot of people feel the same or worse.

i think bell acting like my laptop breaking is some sort of mystery or whatever is weird but probably not ai. same w/ blockgate

overall? shrug, i don't really want to kill him today but i don't particularly think he's town either.

Doctor Drew

drew has kind of dropped off, unfortunately. i thought he was towny early on. as i say in 196 i think 186 is a likely townpost because it's counter-intuitive for scum drew to say that about std, unless he's actually scum with std i guess. i also see how someone would sus the datisi vote on drew, so that part is fine. and the scumread on me is fine, or even good; i get where it's coming from and how it would come to a towny thought process even if i don't agree.

however since then he has just been completely low energy? like he pushes datisi for a while, which is meh but whatever, and then he says the push is becoming less productive - yeah sure that makes sense - but he doesn't really follow through on it and totally deflates.

i think this balances out to a townlean; he's been towny enough that i have no interest in pushing him right now but that's not an iron strong read

Dunnstral

i guess it's not that hard to fake but i did like his early drew push? felt believable. i'm biased but i liked 308 because

he was agreeing with me

idk he was pushing me earlier and then called the shadi wagon good and agreed with my comment on ari which feels a bit like towny fluidity. i think the malakittens vote is good. overall, i'm not certain of it but i think dunnstral is town this game

Malakittens

a little background context; i am aware of the malakittens meta. she did some stuff in datisi's cafe and i thought she was probably town because of the meta. she was not town. therefore, i don't really care about the meta.

anyway, her posts are very social, which isn't inherently bad but she does seem to care about that even at the expense of scumhunting. i don't like 373; i'm not entirely sure what she's trying to say about bell, but it seems a lot more interesting than 'drew is always scum' - it just feels off to me in terms of thought process. she could easily be scum here. on the other hand, she is a cat, which gets points

shadi1337

well, i think shadi is the player i need to do this for the least, since i've explained my thoughts on him in some depth already. it could come from town but the townread on katya in 63 is probably what i expect scum to say here? saying he's 'not opposed' to voting datisi when asking bulge about his read feels kind of weird, in the sense i'm not sure why it's there and might be self-conscious. he doesn't like alts existing, which is actually the real reason i scumread him. the rest of these posts are a front. as i said, the read on datisi and me is *very* weird to me, and to me it shows a lack of care in solving the both of us which i dislike; i think you get to the conclusion he did if you very briefly skim datisi's post which town can do but if he's doing that, and still refers to the post to explain his decisions, it feels very very off to me.

and again, if he thinks sheep would 'definitely' be more investigative as town, it's just odd that he needs prompting to bring it up - i don't see the town thought process here really.

i think he was asked about it and didn't respond - the 'one scum' thing feels oddly specific. from his perspective, couldn't there be two? there could also be zero even if he's town but i acknowledge a lot of town players will think that is unlikely

the only thing i can really say in his defence is that if he's mafia, he's probably being bussed, because to me it doesn't really feel like they're trying to save him. and it can be difficult to tell between unmotivated town and unmotivated mafia sometimes; if you don't really care about your win condition, it's hard to tell from your actions what your win conditions is

Save the Dragons

i find std hard to sort. the push on datisi had vaguely good vibes, or at least i, uh... idk how to put it into words, but i think scum std makes the points from 327 without prompting more likely, and i think in general it could come from town easily and scum, like, could approach it this way but i'm not sure they would. think 415 is a believable read? the read would have been solidified if he had questioned me townreading him but shrug.

superbowl9

obviously, i didn't like 137; both the katya read and the ari thing felt rather empty to me, like just saying things to say things. the rest of his posts are equally empty. with 213 it's like... ok? is it scummy, because you're not really following up on it? i mean, none of it can't come from town, but there's rather a lack of anything interesting or towny in his posts and i'm not a fan of it. i guess to his credit most mafia players are better at pretending to do things, but some of the stuff he does looks like an *attempt* to contribute, i'm just not feeling it at all

sheepsaysmeep

sheepsaysmeep. i mean, he's bell's block buddy i guess, whatever that means? maybe they both live in california. well, i'd like him to elaborate on 297 because that post is just there and i'm not sure what the follow through is.

This is an insightful post; town points.

this post from Dunn kinda rubs me the wrong way because it's kind of a very surface level almost obvious thing to say about a wall post and I just keep thinking why does town!Dunn feel the need to say this? Dunn has never struck me as a very surface level player - albeit it's been a bit since I played with him

[Bell]

Fevers down a bit. Let's jump back in. Thank you for your understanding mod, everybody.
Sorry.

[Bell]

This is a surprisingly modest entrance from Dann. Then again it's been a year.
Then again, again, weren't you a white knight at one point or best replacement or whatever.
...I'm probably confusing him with someone else.
I never said I would be coming back without covid brain.
I know this question wasn't really directed to me, but I really do think SB is town, like, not 100%, more than enough to scratch my head at all the scum reads. Some of his reads are bullshit, sure, but like,
so're everyone's.

[Dannflor]

can you elaborate on the SB town read?

[Bell]

He gets me.

[Bell]

Ah. I did the unintentional crumb thing.again. I mean he made an argument about how Aris was approaching me that captured how I felt about it, if it was a little more critical than I’d have liked.

I say as an extra critical person. So it wasn’t really that critical.
Point being it gave me bright hopes for the future and where’s the scum motivation in that?

[Bell]

I really didn’t expect Aris to change her mind.
Explaining myself almost never works.
But here we are.

[Aristeia]

change my mind about what

[Aristeia]

my biggest hangup with superbowl is that he doesnt sound like he's eager to kill anyone

but then again like nobody is so shrug

[Dannflor]

yeah that’s kind of what has me uneasy about this game

[Dannflor]

Ari do you have a read on Dunnstral

[Bell]

my biggest hangup with superbowl is that he doesnt sound like he's eager to kill anyone

but then again like nobody is so shrug

I feel like I’ve been very warned to kill people. I just caught covid so couldn’t harp on and on and on about it.

[Aristeia]

Ari do you have a read on Dunnstral

not really

[Dannflor]

well that’s one of the reasons you’re town bell

[Aristeia]

I guess my could yeet section of the game is like

shadi
dunnstral
superbowl
drew

[Aristeia]

they kind of just get mixed up in my head tbh

[Aristeia]

i guess i prefer superbowl out of everyone there

[superbowl9]

my biggest hangup with superbowl is that he doesnt sound like he's eager to kill anyone

but then again like nobody is so shrug

?????????????????
I have been demanding shadi blood for days but it's shouting into the void
Which doesn't make me enthusiastic to case drew for the 5th time either