ISO Spectacular, Part III
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populartajo
Hmm. Earns an eyebrow raise right off the bat for
ISO 4, where he votes Baltar in a way that almost looks like a late RVS but that later posts confirm was serious. And yet he doesn't really mention VP in anything he does for a while, and didn't explain anything about his vote. I honestly don't even know what to make of this. His point against VP eventually comes up in ISO 7:
tajo wrote:Dodge, do you think baltar asking a question he didn't answer to a group of people is scummy/irrelevant/protown?
And yet he seems to have more on howard and izzy than VP? (Also tajo, could you quote me the exact question you're referring to? I'm pretty sure I know the one but I don't want to make a post only to learn I picked the wrong VP quote.)
I'm glad to see Tajo try to clear people as town. While I don't put too much stock into early reads it's still good to make the effort because if there's one thing scumbags hate it's watching the lynch candidates dwindle down one by one. I agree with him that Cayke's post demanding recognition did seem pretty earnestly town. I don't know how much I'm going to weight that once I have more cayke-content to work with, but for now it makes me feel a bit more confident in my decision to give her a more-or-less fresh start after the holidays.
I am much less certain about his xd clearing. The idea that 'I want to know if he's careless enough scum to do x' isn't one that I count at all seriously. Anyone can make a stupid.
Unlike Cayke, Tajo went out not with a bang but with a whimper. Most of his later posts are 'too many lurkers don't wanna play Q.Q'. Like Cayke, though, what I see is pretty good and so I'm willing to let Tajo get back on his feet before I start brandishing the active lurker stick. Tajo, you wanted activity, hi, here I am. Content please.
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Porochaz, Saber/Otto
Otto
Otto's
ISO 3 is a huge what the hell thing. You hastily vote BEFORE reading the topic, as though on a scale of minutes it matters?? I'm inclined to chalk it up to scuminess simply because I can't imagine any townie in the history of ever feeling that rushed.
Other than that, it's that weird uber-cautious that can unfortunately be as well attributed to a newbie cop (I am aware saber has played many more games than I, but if you self-hammer in the RVS I am allowed to call you a newbie) as a fearful scumbag. I don't like how he continually defended his viewpoint on xd and never actually did anything else.
Saber
Yes, they are the same person, but he decided to switch accounts to make my ISOing job that much harder.
Saber didn't say anything actually though. Promised to scumhunt about five times, never actually scumhunted. About the only relevant thing he did was claim cop.
Porochaz
Oh man I do not like anything porochaz has posted. His
ISO 6 looks like scumhunting if you're willing to squint really hard but it's such a lackluster pffffftt of a post it's really hard to take him seriously when he goes for, of all things, mostly lurkers.
Apparently he had some rl issues as well. Discounting those posts (it seems that is the kinder thing to do here, even though it sinks his game-related posts into the single digits) his views are basicially a.) jdodge is town and b.) cayke is scum. I obviously like a.); but his rationale for b.) is, as far as I can tell:
chaz ISO 6 wrote:. Cayke, backseat play, aggressive, just above contentless, lurkering now.
Which hilariously can be more or less directly applied to chaz, except that instead of backseat play chaz has apparently decided to get out of the car entirely.
And what's with the no-content unvote? Is cayke suddenly less scummy in your eyes, or is someone else MORE scummy, or...?
But as much as it kills me to say it, a lot of the saber/otto stuff did strike me as cop-tells. So at least for today, I'm not doing a thing against chaz. If he's alive tomorrow, though, I honestly don't know how I'm going to react. Here's hoping that unvote is a harbinger of some actual content coming out of that slot.
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Sotty/Qooq
Qooq
No content to be found here, cap'm. Confusion about the quick-wagon, which I'd expect from someone who joined December 6th. And then...nothing. It's a shame that she apparently picked up a PM and said she'd return and then didn't - this extension let Qooq get away with not posting for a long, long time before replacment.
Sotty7
She just replaced in on the 2nd so I can't expect too much. I'm digging the catch-up post - especially her views on Cat, Izzy, and Roark, any of which I'd feel comfortable being attributed to me.
However, (and I'm very glad to say that Sotty was IN this game and will know exactly what I'm talking about) I was in another game Qooq flaked out of, and her replacement managed to post completely pro town and still win as scum because of that huge gulf of no content. Fortunately we're not facing endgame any time soon, but regardless you'll understand why I'm going to have to be pretty paranoid about your slot for a while after being too lenient on a flaked slot cost me a game.
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Well that was surprisingly short! Tomorrow, be on the lookout for my monster response to who I think are the three most active players in this game.
"Don’t buy a dozen eggs if you just want a hardboiled egg. Don’t buy a head of lettuce if you just want a salad. Don’t buy eggs and lettuce if you want egg salad because those are not the right ingredients." -Julius Bloop