The Syndicate

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:32 am

KZA wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:44 am It is a known scum strat of Radishes to pocket me so he will need to gain town reads in a different way, if he's town I believe in him

I've already called you town so what does that mean

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:44 am Ted do you want to be masons again


It went really well in GoC

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:46 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:44 am 1 post or less

Creature
sig
falcon45ca
DkKoba
DrWilgy
TonyStarkPrime


Thats all you need to know Radish

Why do I need to know that?

Are those the scum?

Have we solved the game already?

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:46 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:45 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:28 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 3:28 am Im getting antagonistic Im going to dip and chill

Why is it so hard to answer a very basic question man?

Because you want me to answer it I dont want to answer it

Nvm Ted, Rondo can be my mason

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:49 am

tedxtr wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:44 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:43 am But...then we get 15 pages of nothing posts and I remember why I don't bother to invest myself in games this early.

yeah it was actually pretty tough for me to get anything down

the only thing that i feel like is worth reading into is when scotty placed the made vote down and then moved his vote on 2 people just cuz they were questioning him

and i wouldn't know what that means since idk how he plays

I've played 1.5 games with Scotty and seen him in both alignments and came to the correct conclusion each time.

So I am clearly a god at reading him.

I'll let you know.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:47 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:30 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:55 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:30 pm

112 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:30 pm

tutuu wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:23 pm according to master radish 112 only expresses frustration as mafia and she did so a lil bit here (i think) under the guise of humor (at least thats how i interpreted it). so if she's mafia maybe that's the answer - just meta ppl. but i townread that big post of hers, feels sincere and perhaps unnecessary to go so fancy as wolf. she is right that as wolf u can just have a bland opener

100% false as far as I know

@Master Radishes

I don't recall having that opinion tbh.

Ive only seen 112 use AtE as scum - radish, game of champions 2020

Oh, okay, sure. I don't consider 'AtE' and 'frustration' interchangeable.

I don't have much confidence in meta reading 112 because she's erratic regardless of alignment and can easily do things 'scum never do' as scum. (I have a feeling more than once this game someone will say '112 is scummy/towny for saying xyz' and I'll be like 'ehh it's NAI').

I would say 112 showing a bit of frustration would probably be >rand town, whereas trying to 'appeal to emotion' when engaging with her detractors is not.


(Note: I've not read any of 112's posts except the most recent ones, so I don't even know what you're talking about.)

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:50 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:58 am Im not used to high energy competitive KZA. Unsure if it has alignment significance. Probably nil since ive seen her low energy as either alignment

KZA has (last I checked) a pretty notable comfort/presence difference. High energy KZA is town KZA unless there's been a meta-breaking scum game recently that I'm unaware of.

Like I'll keep an open mind but literally my only read right now is KZA = town.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:01 am ^that was a joke, though also not.

I respect 112's scum range enough to think she can make that post.

I also think a lot of what she says about herself in there is accurate, and I think it's *more* likely she is correct that as scum she'd wait out the pressure till focus shifts to new wagons rather than snap a bit now.

I'm not gonna base my read on her off of one post, but in a vacuum, I'd be inclined to read that as town. But I'd need to read the context of it and/or see more of the Day unfold.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:13 pm [VOTE: EnderWiggin] aubergine


Hahaha this is funny

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:29 am

Ruri wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:26 am sig (3): Ender, Mac, KZA
Rondo (3): TSP, Scotty, Urist
Ender (3): Syn, Wilgy, Radishes
Syn (3): Ruri, Made, Michelle
Epignosis (3): Nanook, tutu
112 (2): Epignosis, DkKoba
tutuu (1): Axe
Creature (1): Rondo
Urist (1): 112
Poison (1): tedxtr

Not Voting (4): Creature, Sig, Falcon, Poison





I think this is correct.

This wagon formation always something something

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:42 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:40 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:37 am

Ruri wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 2:49 am Lock V:
MacDougall

Those I know, and probably can read:
Michelle
tedxtr
EnderWiggin

Played with before, don't remember:
Syn
112
NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME

Should be on my radar:
tutuu

The rest:
Creature
NotAnAxehole
sig
falcon45ca
Urist
RondoDimBuckle
Master Radishes
Epignosis
DkKoba
Made
Poison
DrWilgy
Scotty
KZA
TonyStarkPrime

- signed, Ruri

There really are no reads here. I think u might be mafia

I hate agreeing with you because it makes it look like we have equity but It does look like a bunch of nothing with a lot of what town already says? I see syn sneaking up on the list though

Why do you always say scummy things and why am I still not sure you're scum?

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:44 am I don't really have an issue with Ruri's list? Like it's so blatantly not a readslist that I I don't think it was meant to be one.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:45 am This I do sorta get though.

tutuu wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:40 am

Ruri wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:15 am Why's people voting Ender, actually?

I think this is a common post a wolf makes when they see a villager getting voted by other villagers @MacDougall (obviously town can also make it but yaknow)

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:54 am

Poison wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:51 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:48 am

Poison wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:45 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:42 am

RondoDimBuckle wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:40 am
I hate agreeing with you because it makes it look like we have equity but It does look like a bunch of nothing with a lot of what town already says? I see syn sneaking up on the list though

Why do you always say scummy things and why am I still not sure you're scum?

What makes you think it is scummy? I think it's quite opposite

'I hate agreeing with you because it makes it look like we have equity'

That's a textbook mafia thought. It's just...not a textbook mafia post because who tf would say that.

I have said that as a town, I have seen others saying that as a town, as a mafia I'd rather come up with something that looks like I'm disagreeing quite a lot "but I see your point might be right in some world".

Although it depends how you think it is scummy, like from w/w or w/v pov?

I can't say I've ever, as town, worried about how if I agree with someone I'll be seen as having equity with them.

I'm not calling it too scummy to be scum fyi, not just plain 'scummy'. And I'm certainly not playing any 'w/w or w/v' games.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:04 am Took a quick glance at Ruri's iso.

Pretty null tbh. I liked her entrance and general early post. She seemed comfortable. IMO scum tend to prefer to backread or at least delve in to something to look contributive and Ruri essentially just walked in and sat down and waved hello and hasn't left her seat to even get a drink or anything yet. At no point do I really sense her feeling forced or out of place in the thread.

Flipside of that is she hasn't...really done much. I mean, the same can be said of quite a few of us in this game so far tbh. But yeah, a few halfhearted opinions thrown out with little to back them up. On a macro level she's done nothing that really deserves a firm townread. There are maybe a couple posts one could nitpick ala as Tutuu has done.


I was nursing a slight townlean on Ruri from earlier, but maybe that was premature. I don't really see anything better or worse than anyone else though. GTH I still call her town.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:59 am Agree with others that Rondo is likely town. KZA is town unless his meta has changed a lot. Ted I get a good feeling about too in the sense he feels notably different from GoC in a pro-town way.

I don't think there's anyone else I have a particularly strong opinion on. Don't feel like GTHing it.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:18 am [VOTE: Scotty] aubergine

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 4:00 pm

EnderWiggin wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:59 pm

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:58 pm Just got home from a party.

Who am I voting for?

This is wolf

It is not. I've missed 600 posts and didn't know Dya was in the game.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:13 pm

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:09 pm well anyway:

i think michelle is mafia and the poisoner is town-aligned so good job poisoner

let me write up the thing i was finna write

i also thing syn is town and there was nothing but town on town violence day 1, will also write up on that

I thought I was gonna be all edgy coming in here saying Michelle maf and Syn town and tutuu snipes me.


(Not sure on Michelle being mafia anymore though if she's poisoned.)

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:15 pm

Urist wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:11 pm Michelle t

We lost at rand, killing roles are making terrible choices

"Grr you other townies are making such bad choices, it's all your fault."

*proceeds to do nothing to help except*

What a winning approach.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:23 pm

tutuu wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:17 pm i think that @Syn is town due to his lack of self-pres. i have played with both town and mafia syn. if he tryhards its a towntell for him. he can be low energy as either alignment. the thing is, he acknowledged that he is on the chopping block. he saw that he is a top wagon and said "maybe i should go read back". he was online 30 minds before eoD iirc (as in he posted itt). i believe that it is more likely that if he is mafia, he will put the extra effort for his team to leave a self-pres vote. thats how most people feel like, since if they are part of a mafia team on discord it feels more intimate. if you are town you dont know your teammates, you might as well be playing solo.

so i think that syn's complete lack of interest (also the "i just voted for the name closest to mine" stuff are too absurd to come from scum. i think he is town

Agree with this. Also just...I feel like I'm reading my own iso when I read his. Like he hinted he has things irl (deadlines or whatever) and so he's mostly just being sassy, and I just see myself when I'm in the same position. I always get scumread for it too. He doesn't give af in that situation and neither do I.

And like...there are a whole lotta ??s on the Syn wagon fmpov. And that was the wagon that didn’t move much at EoD. Like it was the people who popped off a vote earlier then didn’t stop by for EoD. Unless I am *vastly* wrong on my townreads (most of whom ended up on Dya) then there are scum, and I would think more than one, on Syn.

Whether this in particular makes Syn the bussed wolf or a mischop bait the wolves thought they had nailed down…could go either way actually. But I’m entertaining the latter idea. There’s a whole lot of people who I want to say are town who swapped last minute to Dya, which suggests town were struggling to decide (natural for a large game D1) and scum were content to sit where they were. I haven’t checked everyone on that wagon but I do feel like I didn’t see most of the Syn-voters around at EoD.

So I also want to read Syn as town based on VCA. Which is a stupid and often wrong way to form opinions but I'm doing it anyway.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:26 pm What are people's takes on Ender? Some people seem to know them and I think I saw one or two people give them a townread but they are a blank void for me.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:48 pm

DkKoba wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:46 pm nah come on, whats your stance on it?

who's the scum in the equation?

I wanna know

Don't know.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:33 am I did a speed read catch up of 15 pages and now I don't have time to actually formulate my thoughts.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:46 am Koba probably has to be town because he just wouldn't shut up.

Scotty posted a couple posts that pinged me and I remember now I was supposed to iso him for Ted and never did. Sorry Ted.

Nanook is probably town. There was no discomfort in dropping the gimmick and his case on Epi felt too nuanced to come from town. Not that Nanook isn't a good scum who can fake townie things, but that just felt like it was coming from a perspective that's harder to fake.

Epi is probably town anyway though. Dayvig thing.

I've never seen tutuu wolf and I'm wary of her because of that. She was super whiteknighty in D1 and that pinged me, but her explanations for why she townreads everyone's scumreads make sense and are takes I tend to share. Her gang of six is pretty different to eveyrone else's and scum tend to include a usual suspect or two so they have room to help push a consensus wagon if they want to. So that feels town to me. But then Mac post his 'tutuu is scary' post and now I don't know.



Any other thoughts I had whilst reading have escaped me.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:48 am Rip.

So Scotty cleared then.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:50 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:48 am yall should sheep me

my reads so far pretty accurate :P

Scotty was the only S one I disagreed with you on.

So yeah.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:00 am

Michelle wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:58 am I stay at my impression, wolves weren't in danger at Eod 1

This is how I feel it too. I think a lot of the vote movement was town-led but I think scum were happy to follow.

The Syn wagon was the only stagnant one that grew up gradually and didn't change. If Syn is mafia, it probably means the vote-hoppers were the scumbuddies trying to save him. If Syn is town, I think a few scum probably parked on Syn's wagon and dipped from the thread thinking they had placed themselves well.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:00 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:58 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:57 am michelle is town and she is very confident that Ruri is town, i would like yall to please keep that in mind. ill ping yall and remind u of this eod. i dont want that read to be ignored

I think Michelle and Ruri are town also.

Yeah.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:02 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:00 am

Michelle wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:58 am I stay at my impression, wolves weren't in danger at Eod 1

This is how I feel it too. I think a lot of the vote movement was town-led but I think scum were happy to follow.

The Syn wagon was the only stagnant one that grew up gradually and didn't change. If Syn is mafia, it probably means the vote-hoppers were the scumbuddies trying to save him. If Syn is town, I think a few scum probably parked on Syn's wagon and dipped from the thread thinking they had placed themselves well.

My conclusion to this is that I find the second scenario more in line with how I read the thread. I'd lean Syn being town and mafia were in no real danger and some parked their vote and some hopped around with the town leaders.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:07 am Made was scumread really early on in D1 wasn't he? Why did people decide otherwise? I haven't read his posts much but he's come across as kind of awkward. His shade of Mac at SoD2 where he implied Mac being alive was suss also wasn't great.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:08 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:05 am Epi and Ender both voting 112 is interdasting

Epi probably just town because dayvig thingy.

But Ender I feel has been doing enough to not get called out for slanking whilst not actually achieving much.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:10 pm Not fully sure how to feel tbh...reasons to like but also not fully convinced?
Dkkoba
Poison
DrWilgy

No idea, just...need to see more
Falcon
112

Not a fan
Urist
Ender

This is just a hit
Made



I feel like I have decently strong reasons to townread everyone else.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 7:35 am

Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:19 pm

falcon45ca wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:16 pm

Scotty wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:12 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:09 pm I believe 112 is town tbh. What you are pushing him for is town indicative for 112.

Do you not think that metas can be faked if you know your meta?

112s a better wolf than that. What are you pushing him for is NAI from her

I guess I don’t know what a “better wolf” looks like. The progression isn’t showcased, and so I’m supposed to just shrug and townread them for that?

lol I guess that was what Ted was tunneling me for all the way in the beginning of the game, so whatever

Town 112 often doesn't 'showcase progression'. Scum 112 is more likely to. Town 112 is more likely to make snapreads no one can follow.

This version of 112 is null atm. She's still in her scum range but I've not seen anything I want to point at and call out. Not really worth an immediate chop.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 7:44 am

Michelle wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:50 am They claimed RBer later. Probably a claim close to their real role and they can say it is a way of claiming safe if they are villager to avoid a soup kill. Whether a soup kill exists or not, we don't really know it because 'Role/flavour claiming is allowed but it may not be in your best interests' doesn't imply an anticlaim mechanic that big, but mafia can have a claim vigi for eg.

I was thinking about this earlier. I don't think there's a soup kill mechanic. I know that's the Big Bad Scary Monster of Syndicate games, but it's not actually all that common in games I've been in. I think JPIC's counter to mass claiming is the fact that roles aren't being revealed upon flip. That opens the door for fake claims from scum.

This is not me advocating for a full claim or anything. I hate when games devolve into mech stuff. But I think it's *probably* okay for people to claim if they really want to.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 7:52 am Does anyone want to start a third wagon on Ender with me? I know Rondo did a bigass post but I didn't read any of it.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:00 am As I've read Ender's posts sporadically throughout the game I feel they're /fine/ but he feels very...detached? from the collective. Like he's not truly slanking but I don't feel like his contributions have added much to the direction of the thread, and he doesn't seem bothered by that. (I realise the same criticism can be leveled at me but I *am* bothered by it.)

I haven't opened up his iso and maybe I should. I'd probably end up nitpicking though, and my concern is more on a macro level anyway.

Also when I looked at Dya's wagon earlier I felt there were very few options for an opportunistic scum and it was basically him or Michelle (putting aside certain slots for raisins) and Michelle has been poisoned and so far D2 seems sharp in the way I expect from her.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:25 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:24 am

DkKoba wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 8:23 am i have no hope for this town to even bother sheeping me after i die becauae a vast majority of you have clearly only read ~5% of the game and it shows

I never read dead vills.

(And obviously if you're a wolf I'm definitely not reading you.)

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:07 am

EnderWiggin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:38 am

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 7:52 am Does anyone want to start a third wagon on Ender with me? I know Rondo did a bigass post but I didn't read any of it.

The bigass post was saying I was more town than scum rn. But go off king.

I mean fine but from glancing at the conclusion he doesn't seem entirely sold on it, like not to the point of shielding you or anything.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:21 am Falcon may be scum. That last post did not sit well with me.

Spoiler: show

But uh huge grain of salt here. I've mis-read him twice in a row this month. (Or to be clear the second time I was mafia so it wasn't a misread, but he was being conventionally wolfy and other town chopped him with little help needed from me except voicing my support. I definitely would've misread him had I been town.) I think he's not really been tryharding much in games lately and it's leading him to do standard scummy stuff even as town because he's just not really paying attention or something.

Sorry if this is insulting Falc.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 11:18 am [VOTE: DkKoba] aubergine

Ties make things interesting.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:27 pm

Urist wrote: ↑Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:25 pm if anyone like me was wondering who hasn't voted yet - it's Poison.

I will give this an /interesting/

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:50 pm

Mizery wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:49 pm

Mizery wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:49 pm

Lime Coke wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:46 pm

Mizery wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:45 pm

Lime Coke wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:43 pm

Mizery wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:43 pm Every time I play a game again, I feel as though I forget how to play.

I need to go reread rules or something again. Do I state a vote and then vote in the poll? either way I'm not a huge fan of Lime...

First of all, both.

Second of all, no.

yes
[VOTE: Lime Coke] aubergine

Can I get an explanation why then?

Unfortunately I don't think that's possible right now.

EBWOP

I didn't like that comma

Holy shit I like you even more now.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:30 am Mac did a thing earlier I felt was more on the townside of Mac, but now I don't remember what it was so I guess he's back to null.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:31 am I don't think I've ever seen tutuu as scum so I can't comment on what she's done so far.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:33 am There was a time when tutuu had a bunch of scumreads from people and I bravely defended her and I turned out to be right, so I'm going to trust in myself that I'll either spot town tutuu eventually or I won't.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 8:34 am Oh I remember the Mac thing.

He called Lime Coke 'mafia' first and only explained the rationale when later prompted. That sort of thing tends to be town.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:17 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:00 am I'm down. Let's just use non violent resistance and out the mafia by refusing to play their filthy game.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 10:02 am

'Hm, I should push a bit to look like I'm doing something/see if I can pressure a potential mischop a bit.'

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:45 am Want to hear from dyson and lomo.

'Better make sure everyone knows I'm not *too* serious about this though.'

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:45 am Dyson, what’s the best vaccuum to buy?

'Oh, but I shouldn't be *only* jokey or else people might use that against me too.'

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:45 am Lomo, are you going to slank til you get vigged or are we going to have to lynch you early?

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:33 am

tutuu wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:29 am Also lime plz chill fam i dont think anyone went overboard scumreadin u and shiet the atmosphere is chill af lets keep it that way

Didn't Limey let us known in advance that he gets all aggro as town being misread?

And look, he's getting all sweary and stuff.

Guess this guy must be town.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:54 am Dunya hasn't moved anywhere out of my 'eh I dunno' pile at any point so far, positively or negatively, but I'm not sure I'm on board with voting there today.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:40 am In an admittedly small sample size, Dunya has never townread me regardless of my alignment. Even in CoV D1, when everyone else was doing it, Dunya was basically the only person still hesitant (iirc it was because I was *too* clean or something).

So it was really weirding me out to see her give me such an easy TR in this game. This is much better.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:42 am Scotty feels like he's been posting more to have a presence than because he has a direction to his game. He feels...disconnected, a little bit, from the goings on of the game. I have no qualms about flipping that slot.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:59 am Cool stuff. I have little to add. I had done my own glance through Scotty spew and have come to similar conclusions, so I think the collective PoE is a good one.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:16 pm I know Mac has the ovaries to pull off a fake claim and all that, but it would be a bit...useless?...to claim giving Rondo a role knowing it would be denied. It achieves little for his hypothetical scum team.

Mac is just 'shrug, probs town' until we have anything more to go off of, imo.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:51 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Aug 14, 2021 4:44 pm @Master Radishes got any new reads? I am not sure what to post in this game right now. Maybe you have something.

Not really. Everyone said the things I was gonna say before I could say them. I like our collective PoE. I could...probably write my own words on them, but I'd end up with a lot of hedging and not really advancing things anywhere past where they already are.

For myself, what I should probably do next is iso Falcon. I've deliberately avoided it because he's the player I'm most familiar with and I was waiting to see if something happened to help me read him.

But overall I tend to trust my instinct about the gamestate and right now I'm okay with it? (Question mark added because I think the post cap is inhibiting my sense of things to an extent.) It's hard to truly gauge after one round, but I don't really feel like this is a game where the mafia are running rings around us or anything. I'm content to fire into the PoE once or twice and see what happens.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:38 am The problem with meta is that it evolves. Once upon a time it was easy to read Falcon; then once upon a different time it became harder (for me) as he improved his scum game and could match his tone/style more closely. Recently I felt comfortable reading him again, but less on meta and more so on how he treated me when we were in the same game.

So I hesitate to speak up because I don't want people taking me at my word as if I'm a meta expert. I find when you play *too* many games with someone you begin to see aspects of both their town and scum games in everything they do. I see that here with Falc. On top of that, nearly all our experience has been in the more insular CDC community, and only a handful of games in the last half a year off our home site (here on the Syndicate). Different environments mean changing meta as well, which also makes me hesitant to commit to a meta read.

My main concern here and now with him is that, in my most recent experience, I figured out wolf Falc based on him trying to pocket me, whereas town Falc is usually wary of me at first. In this game, he's...not been blatantly pocketing me, perhaps, but certainly I've seen no attempt to solve me. I feel like town Falcon should've been more reluctant to let me slank my way through the game like I sort of have. I've tried to avoid engaging him beyond non-game stuff to see how that develops and it...hasn't. He's done other little things I associate with town Falc, but big-picture-wise I'm not convinced.

So right now, GTH, I want to call Falcon scum. But if he flips town I'm just going to shrug and re-calibrate my expectations of him for future games together.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:04 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:58 pm My first guess for #3 is Dyson. I am barely here though.

Nah, don't think so - based on a single post Scotty made.

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:45 am Want to hear from dyson and lomo.
Dyson, what’s the best vaccuum to buy?
Lomo, are you going to slank til you get vigged or are we going to have to lynch you early?

Scotty throws two questions at two low posters and handles them completely differently - LoMo(/Alison)'s question is a serious nudge, Dyson's is a pure joke.

This was the post that directed me towards Scotty in the first place, and, without wasting words overexplaining it, I think Scotty's wolfy intentions with this post are crystal clear and I think it clears Dyson.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:10 am

falcon45ca wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:06 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 6:54 pm I wouldn't be surprised if one of the people who got wagoned hard on day 1 or 2 are the last mafia tbh. Feels like that type of game moreso than a deepwolf.

If there's a deepeolf, who's your pick?



I've still got a mild tinfoil of tuutu

Nah, it's not tutuu.

Go pop open Scotty's iso and skim through it. He has way too much interaction with tutuu to be partnered with her. And sure, some scum do that with their partners, but I don't think Scotty does, based on everything else I can glean about him from his iso. At the risk of sounding insulting (which I'm not, because the following basically describes me too) I think Scotty is a fairly conventional wolf in terms of how he's focused on faking solving and nudging along potential mischops and trying to quietly distance from his partners a bit (see the post I quoted in a post above where he handles the LoMo slot). He doesn't treat any other slot the way he treats tutuu.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:12 am Also just throwing it out there but falcon has shifted from an orangey-yellow 'lean scum I guess' to a greeny-yellow 'lean town I guess' in my head and now I feel like a bad friend for daring to call him scum.

Master Radishes wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 9:16 am I don't feel like even trying to parse Alison's iso for potential spew tbh.

I do sort of think that she doesn't throw her partner w!Motel under the bus so quickly and easily though. I don't think she subs into the game to see the state of the scum team and thinks 'I can definitely solo this against Mac, Jay, Nanook, and tutuu.'

I'm not ruling it out, but it just strikes me as unlikely, even for someone confident in their wolfing abilities like Alison is.