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Theallieza wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 8:29 pm Adum: I seek the finest and the bravest knights in the land to join me in my court at Camelot.

bessie: How long do we have to wait before we know if the miracle works?

Fred: Nobody's perfect.

JC: The Dude abides.

Makhaira: Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

Moody: Round up the usual suspects.

Santy: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

Seven: Wait a minute. If we let it in, the ship could be infected. You know the quarantine procedure... 24 hours for decontamination.

somitomi: Just keeping swimming.

the worst: Show me the money.

Wam: And that is the whole problem with aliens, is you just can't trust them. Occasionally you meet a nice one: Starman, E.T. But usually they turn out to be some kind of big lizard!

Could you try to use movie quotes to give more in depth thoughts about your rationales? We know your position but we don't know why you think that way.

@Mak still would appreciate an answer to that question about why I was stiff before.

vote: thea

i've been a bit preoccupied i'll be annoying tf outta y'all before long

pretty half checked in here, there's a lot of slots i just don't have a strong feeling on yet

i think bessie is cooking but i think jokes aside, her posts could go either way. she is responding to a lot of things and doing the bessie thing [tm]. she's clearly still winding up but we haven't seen her reads like, develop in a particularly noteworthy direction yet. she could either be posting because (1) posting well is her playstyle, and she's prioritising appealing to others (prioritising surviving over solving); or (2) because she's not totally warmed up yet. i really can't call which one it is but a bunch of y'all are townreading bessie for reasons i can't grapple with. if you're town please check yourself on whether you're being lazy here or otherwise just, like, look for two or three things in bessie's posts which you think are actually hard to fake as mafia. she is good at playing both alignments. we don't have to yeet bessie d1, i think that's a terrible idea, but please do not half-ass your read on her, she is far too competent.

every time thea's reads change it follows like some number of other townier people's reads changing first. thea doesn't seem to be able to produce a reason for their reads, so i'm assuming they're just popular reads thea thinks they'll get away with. i don't regret spotlighting that slot earlier and intend to continue to do so.

adum is pretty obviously town imo. i think adum is here to kick mafia butt first, make friends second, and i think this has intesified since people expressed doubts about their alignment. it hasn't felt defensive it's just kinda felt like adum has never been unfocused but has drifted into focus.

wam probably a little less so but on a similar track i think. i like wam's questions and think wam actually cares about them. i think wam feels a tiny bit less obvious than adum does idk. probably town.

i can't really remember why i voted seven but i need seven to do more things too. i actually don't mind their posts too much i just can't remember any off the top of my head lol.

haven't totally worked santy out yet but i think they've been pretty interactive in a way that generally feels like they want to solve, so sure santy can have a lazy townread

moody is doing moody things but in a way that i wanna give more of a pass than e.g. seven doin seven & bessie doing bessie

i'm going to put somi somewhere in my read list based entirely on a whim because i just have this like faintly towny vibe from somi rn. i can interrogate this later i think i just need to start somewhere.

everyone i haven't talked about yet has kinda just not left an impression on me yet sorry!!

varying levels of towny
the worst
adum
wam
santy

somi
santy

seven i guess
seven

varying levels of null
fred
jc
makhaira
bessie (like Actively Null, not passively null lol)

actually wolfy
thea

i'm not super motivated to engage with "the worst is scummy because they aren't here". y'all if people's alignments changed based on their schedules, some of us would be town in every game and half of us would have a new alignment every 3 days. i'm probably the bottom poster, i am the definition of low-hanging fruit so far. this reasoning is lazy and if you're town buying into this, i need you to try harder. i'm not above being scumread or even scumread for silly reasons but like. we also have mafia to find.

anyway definitely keen to engage & try to get more active. i think someone asked for my reads so hopefully those help.

i think i like wam looking for reasons to scumread my memes about being scared of bessie. i liked when someone said "who isn't" that got a smile. i'm struggling with remembering who's posted what so far it'll settle eventually.

the worst wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:07 am i think i'm more scared of rolling opposite alignments to bessie than of like, being read by her. being scumread (especially if it's accurate) only makes me more powerful i'm not like.. that scared of that

@wam why are you conducting your interrogation of me assuming that bessie is town?


i kinda wonder if i actually think thea's reads belong to thea. they're like, a soft reflection of the ~general vibe~ of the thread but i don't feel like they feel that authentic? maybe the somi townread is a little interesting but i think it's fairly easy to find.

maybe i'm interested in more unique perspectives on why people scumread seven. i'm also curious why people other than wam scumread me i guess.

please expand on the bolded in detail

AdumbroDeus wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 8:40 pm Could you try to use movie quotes to give more in depth thoughts about your rationales? We know your position but we don't know why you think that way.

Patience. We must first observe sundown and pray.

Worst if you're low hanging fruit it's your own fucking fault don't you dare come in here and give attitude about it less than half a day to deadline I will yeet you on principle if you try that shit

Life gets busy but communicate that if so. Don't post 4 posts of fluff then fuck off until deadline and claim your3 a victim of LHF thats obnoxious

i have no detail to offer. it was 3/4 joke and that was me expanding on it.

if you're not following i can like, phrase it another way, but that's literally as deep as it gets.

Makhaira wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:29 pm Worst if you're low hanging fruit it's your own fucking fault don't you dare come in here and give attitude about it less than half a day to deadline I will yeet you on principle if you try that shit

Life gets busy but communicate that if so. Don't post 4 posts of fluff then fuck off until deadline and claim your3 a victim of LHF thats obnoxious

yikes

"Do yalls alignments change based on your schedule hurrr durrrr" absolute gtfo of here with this nonsense scum have a built in interest to coast do not be dense. The causal arrow youre being flippant about flows in the opposite direction

the worst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:31 pm
yikes

Vote: the worst

less than half of my posts are fluff. i just have very few, short, posts. if you read those & can't see that they're written by someone who's busy, that's really not on the person who posted them.

you're welcome to call me lazy and i think that's valid. i haven't been that into this game so no, i haven't put a tonne of effort into it. that doesn't invalidate me calling other people lazy too. like yeah the arrow flies both ways. i don't pretend it doesn't.

and like right now you're voting me because you don't like being called out for a half-assed activity read. which is also lazy. lol.

arrows all over.

It's D1 brother and you've spent the last hours of this day phase justifying your inactivity and you have the audacity to call me "lazy"? You wild for that

Unpack the stuff about bessie I quoted and posted above. Give me some real meat to chew on

Makhaira wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:26 pm

the worst wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:07 am i think i'm more scared of rolling opposite alignments to bessie than of like, being read by her. being scumread (especially if it's accurate) only makes me more powerful i'm not like.. that scared of that

@wam why are you conducting your interrogation of me assuming that bessie is town?


i kinda wonder if i actually think thea's reads belong to thea. they're like, a soft reflection of the ~general vibe~ of the thread but i don't feel like they feel that authentic? maybe the somi townread is a little interesting but i think it's fairly easy to find.

maybe i'm interested in more unique perspectives on why people scumread seven. i'm also curious why people other than wam scumread me i guess.

please expand on the bolded in detail

like you're asking me to expand on me expanding on a joke that was kind of a meme what meat are you expecting out of this

- i think the prospect of being town against scum bessie is very scary because she is good at posting and charismatic.
- i think the prospect of being mafia against bessie is very scary because she is good at posting and charismatic.
- i don't really mind if she scumreads me. as either alignment, honestly. being scumread is totally fine by me i just validity check it and move on with my solve.
- so i'm not really scared of the way bessie reads me i'm scared of the notion of having to play against her

critically:
- bessie is wonderful and i wouldn't change her for anything in the world
- this was a response to people taking a joke too seriously without wanting to like, dunk on people for taking a joke too seriously

Makhaira wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:37 pm It's D1 brother and you've spent the last hours of this day phase justifying your inactivity and you have the audacity to call me "lazy"? You wild for that

Unpack the stuff about bessie I quoted and posted above. Give me some real meat to chew on

i mean if you're actively scumreading me for being absent? yes, that's lazy. i don't think anyone would dispute that the lowest poster itt with <200 words is lhf. i also haven't seen a soul make an effort to critically analyse what i'm posting in a meaningful way except wam. so like yeah this is an activity read and activity reads are clumsy and lazy.

idrk if you've been lazy or unlazy towards other slots because this convo is the first memorable thing you've posted imo

but your read on me is lazy. the vote is probably fair enough but it's like clearly tilt because i'm being uncharismatic af

people are also allowed to be lazy. but folks will have to wrangle with the reality that i'm town at some point in this game so. i'd prefer it if people at least tried to read me with a level of sincerity.

the worst wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:11 pm

Wam wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 12:12 pm @the worst because in my head you would only be scared of bessie If you were scum and she wasn't on your team.

fair enough

So was this a joke too?

the worst wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:01 am

Theallieza wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:01 pm

i love this read list style

Wow riveting content what an asset you are we def need you in endgame /s

the worst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:43 pm people are also allowed to be lazy. but folks will have to wrangle with the reality that i'm town at some point in this game so. i'd prefer it if people at least tried to read me with a level of sincerity.

Dont you think you ought to engage with a level of sincerity if you expect to be read as such?

Makhaira wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:43 pm

the worst wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:11 pm

Wam wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 12:12 pm @the worst because in my head you would only be scared of bessie If you were scum and she wasn't on your team.

fair enough

So was this a joke too?

no. i've talked about enjoying the way wam's read was forming, i was curious to check how seriously they were taking this.

Makhaira wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:44 pm

the worst wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2024 11:01 am

Theallieza wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:01 pm

i love this read list style

Wow riveting content what an asset you are we def need you in endgame /s

unambiguously the fluffiest post in my iso

again, low %.

Unofficial votals (assuming Mak was correct with the last one):
the worst - 4 (wam, Somi, Thea, mak)
Wam - 2 (Adum, Seven)
Thea - 1 (the worst)
Fred - 2 (Moody, Santy)

the worst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:29 pm i have no detail to offer. it was 3/4 joke and that was me expanding on it.

if you're not following i can like, phrase it another way, but that's literally as deep as it gets.

If you being scared of bessie was a joke I don't see why you didn't just say that instead of giving an apparently serious answer as to why you'd be scared if you were town.

Makhaira wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:45 pm

the worst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:43 pm people are also allowed to be lazy. but folks will have to wrangle with the reality that i'm town at some point in this game so. i'd prefer it if people at least tried to read me with a level of sincerity.

Dont you think you ought to engage with a level of sincerity if you expect to be read as such?

scroll up... :p

somitomi wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:46 pm Unofficial votals (assuming Mak was correct with the last one):
the worst - 4 (wam, Somi, Thea, mak)
Wam - 2 (Adum, Seven)
Thea - 1 (the worst)
Fred - 2 (Moody, Santy)

the worst wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 10:29 pm i have no detail to offer. it was 3/4 joke and that was me expanding on it.

if you're not following i can like, phrase it another way, but that's literally as deep as it gets.

If you being scared of bessie was a joke I don't see why you didn't just say that instead of giving an apparently serious answer as to why you'd be scared if you were town.

i thought it was funny

wasn't thinking that hard about it