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In post 1425, fireisredsir wrote:
so uh actually i think this is a metric ive had a lot of success with. i can't even remember a time that ive misread you (or if i was conflicted, pushed for your lim) when we're both town once it gets into mid/late game
Quoting to facilitate access to page 58 from my phone
In post 1431, Menalque wrote:
To those who worried the wagon on enchant was too easy yesterday — look how much more difficult the fire wagon is proving to be and there is a more meaningful effort to counterwagon onto skitt
still reading but I think this is an unfair point to make as fire is playing the game while enchant did something other than that
I mean I’m reading fire but idk why you asked me to go back when this… does not look good for you
I spent the rest of 58->60 looking for egix posts and saw nothing so… I have no idea how this is meant to lead me to ydra!scum when there’s no posts by the slot? Or are you saying sheep posts spew the slot scum?
FYI for thread I just got to the summer camp I’m working at so… i will be posting when I can but please ping me in specific things I need to see
I still feel like fire is a good vote for reasons previously mentioned, @aisa in particular lmk if you’re leaning elsewhere as you’re my most solid TR
@aureal also ping me if you want me to look at stuff
@ceph I guess if you have a case or specific stuff you think spews aureal scum tell me where to look and I’ll try to
I’m kinda sorry I’m so lazy this game but it’s also been somewhat out of my control and when I have had time to play I just haven’t super been eager to spend it reading back
So while I still think fire is on balance the right play I don’t want to force that through if there’s a good argument for someone else esp given 2 scum world
I’m not VLAing bc I can prob get on within prod range but consider my overall activity and how much I’m likely to do when online each time to be approx at a VLA level
In post 2363, Menalque wrote:
Aisa is definitely town, aureal is v likely town by virtue of being the CW, it’s possible ydra is scum who bussed but more likely is that both scum were defending sheep I think
Which makes it fire + (ceph/dunn)
The fact that ceph is trying to angle for a lim on aureal here instead of limming on the CW to sheep makes me think it’s more likely him vs dunn but I need to read them both in ISO to check that
Also while I think fire is the absolute right play for today we shouldn’t rush day
You need a way better reason to clear aureal
Do I? Cause I really think “was on scum wagon while flipped scum was on her wagon” is a pretty strong argument for not killing her
When the scum wagon was pretty heavily town driven, unless you want to argue that both aureal and ydrasse are scum in which case go ahead but it’d better be incredibly compelling
yeah that's not compelling at all sometimes scum lose control of a day and what are they gonna do when that happens, not crossvote and just claim scum?
Are you saying aureal/sheep just shit bussed each other? If so where?
In post 2363, Menalque wrote:
Aisa is definitely town, aureal is v likely town by virtue of being the CW, it’s possible ydra is scum who bussed but more likely is that both scum were defending sheep I think
Which makes it fire + (ceph/dunn)
The fact that ceph is trying to angle for a lim on aureal here instead of limming on the CW to sheep makes me think it’s more likely him vs dunn but I need to read them both in ISO to check that
Also while I think fire is the absolute right play for today we shouldn’t rush day
You need a way better reason to clear aureal
Do I? Cause I really think “was on scum wagon while flipped scum was on her wagon” is a pretty strong argument for not killing her
When the scum wagon was pretty heavily town driven, unless you want to argue that both aureal and ydrasse are scum in which case go ahead but it’d better be incredibly compelling
yeah that's not compelling at all sometimes scum lose control of a day and what are they gonna do when that happens, not crossvote and just claim scum?
Are you saying aureal/sheep just shit bussed each other? If so where?
im just saying that i don't think it's impossible they were forced into voting for each other
In post 2533, Menalque wrote:I still feel like fire is a good vote for reasons previously mentioned, @aisa in particular lmk if you’re leaning elsewhere as you’re my most solid TR
Yeah I’m leaning fire or Ydra at the moment not sure where the decision’s gonna land
I think I’m basically at the same point I was a couple days ago, where I feel fairly good that flipping {fire, Ydra, Dunn} ends the game but trying to choose the exact yeet causes much anguish
In post 2533, Menalque wrote:
FYI for thread I just got to the summer camp I’m working at so… i will be posting when I can but please ping me in specific things I need to see
I still feel like fire is a good vote for reasons previously mentioned, @aisa in particular lmk if you’re leaning elsewhere as you’re my most solid TR
@aureal also ping me if you want me to look at stuff
What do you think of how sheep tries to keep up the fire wagon as pressure starts to come towards him? About here through page 86
he looks a little closer to the town game here? I have very low confidence in this conclusion but it is a conclusion nonetheless.
I'd describe the difference between the two games as: in the town game it feels like he has more posts where he is "thinking out loud" or presenting half-baked musings ("I wonder if this means that X is town", "one idea I had was that..."). In the scum game he was (imo) more likely to just state a conclusion ("I think this makes [player] scum").
(Idk what I was expecting but the difference ended up being simpler than I thought.)
In post 2504, Aisa wrote:
I had some sort of epiphany yesterday that allowed me to townlean Dunn. I wish I could remember what the epiphany was
I remembered btw but in hindsight it was not based on much
In post 2445, fireisredsir wrote:
i think CSF's positioning around enchant is fairly scummy actually in hindsight around post 850 and i think sheep may have kinda noticed and tmi'd it a bit in 875 (and then never really revisited this take)
This seems a bit tinfoil-y, I think 875 is one of those fairly boilerplate posts scum make to justify jumping on a wagon and I don’t think it tells you much about what sheep’s partner must have been thinking or doing at the time
maybe its bc 875 was like one of the key posts that made me townread sheep every time i came back to it, idk
i think it just felt like a really good take and it felt accurate and i was thinking the same thing. didn't feel boilerplate at all to me, it seemed like there was real insight there
and so i was thinking that insight could have come from knowing it was true
i think CSF kinda being hesitant to find enchant scummy in the way she did was lightly scummy bc most of town did find enchant scummy and did find implosion's case convincing. i also think that trying to mostly focus elsewhere and push a different read is where i think scum might try to look busy and position around a town led wagon. i think sheep had the right of it actually in allowing himself to get swept up in the enchant suspicion, because that's what most of town was doing. but i don't think it's a particularly natural or comfortable thing for scum to do. scum often feel that hesitation around that type of situation because they know that it's wrong and it's hard for them to see why town is suspicious of a slot that looks like low hanging fruit to them
In post 1431, Menalque wrote:
To those who worried the wagon on enchant was too easy yesterday — look how much more difficult the fire wagon is proving to be and there is a more meaningful effort to counterwagon onto skitt
still reading but I think this is an unfair point to make as fire is playing the game while enchant did something other than that
I mean I’m reading fire but idk why you asked me to go back when this… does not look good for you
mostly its just a really significant portion of the game where things are loosely starting to shift away from the tvt of me vs skitter and people are opening up to the possibility of limming sheep, murmurings are building from multiple town angles, and it isn't ever really fully shut down until implosion shows back up basically like "ok we're doing fire or skitter"
i think in that time in between, the gamestate was kinda up in the air, and seeing how everyone responded to that shift in the game and how they may have tried in influence it or react to it is really telling
and i think notably ceph and aureal responded in a towny way and then i think egix showed up with one of the scummiest possible reactions to the situation imo
i guess maybe its less significant without knowing my alignment lole but idk just flip me and then look at it afterwards
In post 2539, Aisa wrote:
I think I’m basically at the same point I was a couple days ago, where I feel fairly good that flipping {fire, Ydra, Dunn} ends the game but trying to choose the exact yeet causes much anguish
In post 2445, fireisredsir wrote:
i think CSF's positioning around enchant is fairly scummy actually in hindsight around post 850 and i think sheep may have kinda noticed and tmi'd it a bit in 875 (and then never really revisited this take)
This seems a bit tinfoil-y, I think 875 is one of those fairly boilerplate posts scum make to justify jumping on a wagon and I don’t think it tells you much about what sheep’s partner must have been thinking or doing at the time
maybe its bc 875 was like one of the key posts that made me townread sheep every time i came back to it, idk
i think it just felt like a really good take and it felt accurate and i was thinking the same thing. didn't feel boilerplate at all to me, it seemed like there was real insight there
and so i was thinking that insight could have come from knowing it was true
i think CSF kinda being hesitant to find enchant scummy in the way she did was lightly scummy bc most of town did find enchant scummy and did find implosion's case convincing. i also think that trying to mostly focus elsewhere and push a different read is where i think scum might try to look busy and position around a town led wagon. i think sheep had the right of it actually in allowing himself to get swept up in the enchant suspicion, because that's what most of town was doing. but i don't think it's a particularly natural or comfortable thing for scum to do. scum often feel that hesitation around that type of situation because they know that it's wrong and it's hard for them to see why town is suspicious of a slot that looks like low hanging fruit to them
This is useful context.
I agree that was a good move on sheep's end.
To me "stay off the town miselimination" and "jump on the obvious townie miselimination" are both fairly popular and well-understood scripts for scum. I agree that staying off would be maybe ever so slightly easier psychologically, but town can be off wagon as well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
In post 1528, Menalque wrote:
I would kill sheep > aureal, if that's the direction we're going in then I'll stop pushing fire because I think we should only have one more slot claim today at most
I agree with the first bit, but unless you now think that fire v skitter is tvt then I don't see why we shouldn't just stay the course.
ok sorry yea everyone please like read pages 58 to 61 or so
VOTE: ydrasse
In post 2544, fireisredsir wrote:
mostly its just a really significant portion of the game where things are loosely starting to shift away from the tvt of me vs skitter and people are opening up to the possibility of limming sheep, murmurings are building from multiple town angles, and it isn't ever really fully shut down until implosion shows back up basically like "ok we're doing fire or skitter"
i think in that time in between, the gamestate was kinda up in the air, and seeing how everyone responded to that shift in the game and how they may have tried in influence it or react to it is really telling
and i think notably ceph and aureal responded in a towny way and then i think egix showed up with one of the scummiest possible reactions to the situation imo
i guess maybe its less significant without knowing my alignment lole but idk just flip me and then look at it afterwards
However this has finally sunk in for me and I cannot overemphasise how not-great that one specific Egix post you quoted looks.
I think the first time I saw that Egix post we didn't know sheep was scum so I didn't really care about it
But wow ok, I don't know why it took me so long to see, but that is one heck of a coincidentally-extremely-scummy post if Egix was town