Paperblade said:
Walrein's reasoning for switching to Snaq was fucking awful and he never really explained why.
It was mainly because there was no way that Zyph was getting lynched that day and I wanted to make sure there wasn't a tie (remember, at this point most of us thought both of them were mafia).
Jalmont said:
I also feel like I read every game Walrein in as scum
its k everyone does
Jalmont said:
but I haven’t liked his posts. A lot of one liners, not really saying much summarizing etc. Around post #660 this is best evidenced. His read list on #542 is exactly the sort of post that makes me feel a user is scum. There is no real substance there and I urge you all to take a look and see how lacking his “reads” are. The main thing is, he's got lots of posts which gives the illusion of being active and being helpful, when in reality he is not offering any of his real opinions on the game.
First off, there seems to be a misconception in this game that I like to call UncleSam syndrome - "if a person posts 5 paragraph essays he's clearly town, and if his posts are short he's clearly scum". This isn't always the case, though I will admit that SOME of my posts have been a bit lacking in exaggeration. I just don't think we should be tossing around the phrase "one-liners" as a condemnation.
Regarding #542: I had just subbed in a few hours previously IIRC (might be wrong but it was pretty recent) and wasn't all that familiar with the game. I called them QUICK reads because I was basically just stating whether I thought a user was town or scum. Could I have backed up my claims a little better? Probably, but that wasn't the original intent of the post.
I will try to make my posts longer if that's what you guys really want, but short posts is the way I play in basically every NOC (come to think of it, maybe that's why Jalmont always reads me as scum).
A couple of reads that I'd like to throw out there: (yes, I'm still a believer in the "list of reads" format as it helps me organize my thoughts)
Jalmont: I'm a believer in using the past behavior of individuals to analyze their play, and Jalmont has a very distinctive playstyle when he's town. Early on he doesn't contribute much, making a couple of short nothings and a couple of troll posts, but later on he comes out and throws down reads left and right, actually contributing a shitton. And that's exactly what he's done this game. Obviously, consistency of playstyle doesn't outright decide whether or not a person is town or scum, but it helps.
As to the content of his posts, I'm a fan of how he seems to be actively hunting scummy behavior rather than just pointing out random observations and not saying much about them (which I am often guilty of:/). In particular, I find it very townlike of him to call Blackhawk out on his flip-floppery (something I will be discussing). Overall,
town
Paperblade: As usual, Paperblade favors shorter posts like myself. I don't have a problem with this. However, reading back, there's one thing that's irked me about his D2 in particular. Though he seems to be tunneling Zyphirex hardcore - he voted Zyph in IIRC his first post of the day and hasn't removed it since - he hasn't posted much reasoning as to why he finds Zyph scum other than "he backpedals a lot". Yes, this is a good reason, but is that the ONLY reason you find him to be scummy. In addition, I find this quote from post #825 suspicious:
Paperblade said:
tbh I would rather just end the day now since I don't think the lynch will realistically swing to someone other than Zyphir.
Though there are a lot of votes on Zyph, we've still got a few days left. If we find someone else more suspicious, we have plenty of time to switch the lynch - this is far from a sure thing. Why are you refusing to acknowledge any other valid targets.
Coupled with Solar Vapor's lack of opinions, only really posting to bitch at someone or defend himself (and even then only barely), I'll give PB a
null-scum
Metal Sonic: Has become my top scum read for the following reasons:
-his complete ignoring of Zyph's scathing attack on him, which makes me consider the possibility of a Zyph-MS scumteam. After all, wouldn't you tend to naturally disregard/skim past reads made on you by a teammate (outside of an organized bus attempt, that is)
In fact, I wonder if this is some sort of organized bus attempt, as MS, despite ignoring Zyph's assault on him, has been tunneling him all day [/speculation]
-MS posts absolutely no reasoning for his opinions. None. Even less than I have been. He has given zero reason for anyone on his list of "confirmed town" and the only argument he's given in his tunneling of Zyph is "it wasn't Snaq so it must be Zyph!!1!111!!!!1!1!!"
Those are the three main people who I wanted to share my observations on, as my opinion on them has gained more formation.
If anyone feels I did not satisfactorily answer to the accusations against me, lemme know and I'll get back to you with that.