This is the famed viper post.
ItzViper482 said:
health is not at 100% here but ill try to be available when i get home from school
on a sidenote
apricity
fool me once shame on you
fool me twice shame on me
if you fucking fool me a 3rd time in this game I will have too much shame to place on someone oml
so therefore, if you are scum hal. speak now or forever hold your peace
thank you for your time
This is my famed response to it.
HeaLnDeaL said:
viper's post is interesting in so far as it has multiple short sentences without periods that are on different lines. If his post is from mobile, then this could just be weird mobile formatting, but doing a hard line break like that on a desktop seems like it is giving off a significant cue to his mental behavior. It visually showcases a difference between thoughts, yet those lines are intimately connected and I'm not sure why the enter key was chosen over just a period. The message seems like a slow, methodical thought, almost like a poem. Still not sure what to make of it, but it seems viper is either mimicking a poem to mock himself and his own past failings in a sing-song way, or he's providing a visual pacing that is matching his mental pacing.
Ultimately I believe viper's post to be 100% contentless regarding this current game, and so I was reading into it for tone and mental state rather than content. If references past history, shows that viper is uncomfortable with his past failings, and then it simply asks apricity to claim scum if he's scum. Obviously he's not going to do that, obviously viper didn't expect apricity to do that. This means either viper was going for a weird introductory post that put past history on the table above all else or viper is scum and is trying to throw the target onto apricity because of his past behavior. And well, subsequent viper posts have been trying to do just that. Overall, viper posts identify really only one potential threat, that threat was introduced by him very early on with no reason, and all of his justification has happened after that.
After sleeping on it, this is now leading me to believe that Viper might have had a very early to paint apricity as a target and has been doing so slowly over the course of the thread without paying much attention to other possible leads. I also feel like he's being too favorable to me and could just be trying to pocket me. Viper seems like he has a plan, has been ignoring other possibilities, and as such doesn't seem to be genuinely scumhunting.
If we get to viper L-1 or even L-2, I will switch my vote onto him. I don't trust apricity but I don't trust viper either. apricity's attitude seems like he's not going to be helpful scumhunting in any universe though, and viper is overly fixated, so it's a toss up.
texas - neutral. he's been sort of quiet and hasn't been offering a lot but what he does offer hasn't been hugely objectionable.
nuxl - townlean. active, helpful, cautiously weighing options.
dusk - neutral. He went at viper early but has switched since then. I don't particularly agree with his logic so far, but that might be expected since he's after me right now and disagreeing with mine. Overall we might be on different wavelengths but I don't think this is a huge issue at this stage.
Lazer - earlier I scumleaned him after smogon pointed out the rust comment, he then hit an okay patch, but then seemed to maybe pocket me. Neutral with for now but I think there's bigger fish to catch that will give us more information or confirmation on our reads.
smogon account - be more active please.
caffeineboost - viper recently tried to defend him simply by saying "it's okay for town people to joke about being scum." If viper really is scum and not apricity, caffeine could be his partner. slight scum read. Viper's quote of "sometimes it feels like he is just doing filler posts randomly to get town cred but they are funny filler posts so i get why he posted them if he was town lol" sounds very weird. I don't get why he'd be laughing at caffeine.
viper and apricity - I've talked enough about them already.