Mass Effect 17er [Game Thread]

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Originally Posted by Dolby

GH's focus on that and straight up going to say that me and Esooa probably aren't teammed feels way to much like the Wazza and TL tunnels in Ice Cream for me to be comfortable with that

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disagree

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Originally Posted by Hally

i don’t really understand the initial read still but i think dolby standing by it and continuing to elaborate after the reaction he got is vaguely villagery

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nod nod

manti v?

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Originally Posted by dyachei

life is exhausting rn

working a busy schedule then coming home to coordinate our bathroom remodel. so i've been playing more mafia to make up for it

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bathroom remodel sounds hype. I hope it turns out great.

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Originally Posted by Visor

manti v?

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nope

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Originally Posted by Visor

manti v?

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Who's Manti?

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Originally Posted by Dolby

Who's Manti?

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idk

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

nope

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i didn't like the forget how to be a villager post

but the other stuff sounded ok

why not

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

hally whatcha thinking about gh's posts atm

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i think he’s maybe a bit too eager

like, i think he’s right that dolby’s post deserved scrutiny but i’m kinda eh about gh jumping on it in the way he did. it felt more demonstrative than it needed to be imo

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Originally Posted by Visor

i didn't like the forget how to be a villager post

but the other stuff sounded ok

why not

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I'm too PERFORMATIVE and using SUPERFLUOUS BUZZWORDS

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Originally Posted by Hally

i think he’s maybe a bit too eager

like, i think he’s right that dolby’s post deserved scrutiny but i’m kinda eh about gh jumping on it in the way he did. it felt more demonstrative than it needed to be imo

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~:cheers:

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Originally Posted by Dolby

GH's focus on that and straight up going to say that me and Esooa probably aren't teammed feels way to much like the Wazza and TL tunnels in Ice Cream for me to be comfortable with that

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I don't know the context of that game. My 2/10 concern was just that I felt a read in a page and a half was assumed to be extremely light and just trying to push the game into content mode. So seeing GH go and quote all of Esooa's posts to highlight that the read wasn't based on much in the game just felt extra to me instead of just shrugging and seeing what else happened/any follow ups/etc. My gut reaction was that it was meant to look good instead of convince us of anything. I don't know how much I still feel that way but that's where my head was at. :toilet:

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Originally Posted by Visor

i didn't like the forget how to be a villager post

but the other stuff sounded ok

why not

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mmm

I'm having some trouble finding the right words to express this but

I think he's trying too hard and it feels unnatural

It's kind of like he's trying to put a different spin to what he was doing in rocks inv while doing the same thing

lolwords

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Originally Posted by Hally

i think he’s maybe a bit too eager

like, i think he’s right that dolby’s post deserved scrutiny but i’m kinda eh about gh jumping on it in the way he did. it felt more demonstrative than it needed to be imo

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Although, GH getting a villa rand and excitedly ready to bite into the thread does explain how that could be the case and not be an issue so I'm just gonna shrug and move off of it

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

mmm

I'm having some trouble finding the right words to express this but

I think he's trying too hard and it feels unnatural

It's kind of like he's trying to put a different spin to what he was doing in rocks inv while doing the same thing

lolwords

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You are on the right track, my child

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

mmm

I'm having some trouble finding the right words to express this but

I think he's trying too hard and it feels unnatural

It's kind of like he's trying to put a different spin to what he was doing in rocks inv while doing the same thing

lolwords

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fair enough

i can dig it

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

I don't know the context of that game. My 2/10 concern was just that I felt a read in a page and a half was assumed to be extremely light and just trying to push the game into content mode. So seeing GH go and quote all of Esooa's posts to highlight that the read wasn't based on much in the game just felt extra to me instead of just shrugging and seeing what else happened/any follow ups/etc. My gut reaction was that it was meant to look good instead of convince us of anything. I don't know how much I still feel that way but that's where my head was at. :toilet:

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lmao amazing emoji usage. I actually found it really surprising how many people immediately were ?'ing Dolby's post. Do you think this has any bearing on what to make of it?

I last played Yugioh 10 to 15 years ago, on one of those browser-based platforms that allowed one to have any card or deck. I checked the state of play recently, and there have been so many new cards and mechanics and metas introduced, most based on the principle of constantly rotating cards through the hand and the deck(s) and the graveyard and back, to the point that a really good deck can deploy for the player at least one mega-powerful monster on the very first turn - while also negating any potential deleterious effects the opponent's cards can muster. Most games end in the equivalent to a fool's mate or scholar's mate in chess.

Contemporary Mafia is not that, but the experience of it has become like facing down one of those optimized new decks. Come kick my ass.


90% chance there turns out to be a scummy entanglement in all the mason fluff, but no one will remember to look until endgame.

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Originally Posted by Hally

powerpuff girls is basically anime so i’m set :happy2:

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Meh, live action in development.

https://i.imgur.com/wj2EOGA.jpg

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Originally Posted by Hally

i couldn’t find a cheers emoji so just use your imagination

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:medievalcheers:
:medievalcheers:

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

These are all the posts that Esooa made before Dolby supposedly called them alignment-indicative and said they didn't match the posts in Esooa's scum game that Dolby read.

This seems like a really fake read on Dolby's part to me.

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I have zeroed out all meta on myself and others by this time, but ngl here GH, this is giving me Pokemon Nuzlocke D1 vibes.

Soul read? Someone verify at endgame.


Vote: Hallia because no one is

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

Although, GH getting a villa rand and excitedly ready to bite into the thread does explain how that could be the case and not be an issue so I'm just gonna shrug and move off of it

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lol. He felt so dejected in ice cream team mafia

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Originally Posted by Esooa

lmao amazing emoji usage. I actually found it really surprising how many people immediately were ?'ing Dolby's post. Do you think this has any bearing on what to make of it?

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No, I think it was the first actual game related post in the thread so it getting a bunch of responses quickly doesn't surprise me

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

Although, GH getting a villa rand and excitedly ready to bite into the thread does explain how that could be the case and not be an issue so I'm just gonna shrug and move off of it

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potentially cromulent

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

potentially cromulent

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I feel like if this one is the answer then it'll be readily apparently in 24-36 hours so I don't need to stress about it for a while

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

Although, GH getting a villa rand and excitedly ready to bite into the thread does explain how that could be the case and not be an issue so I'm just gonna shrug and move off of it

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yeah

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

90% chance there turns out to be a scummy entanglement in all the mason fluff, but no one will remember to look until endgame.

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Is there any specific reason for this?

sunbae is perhaps a villager

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Originally Posted by Esooa

lol. He felt so dejected in ice cream team mafia

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I was pretty disappointed to not enter that one once it started. Seemed like everyone had a good time. My favorite was the "dont bus" chart I saw today in postgame and nodded along to it lol

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

I last played Yugioh 10 to 15 years ago, on one of those browser-based platforms that allowed one to have any card or deck. I checked the state of play recently, and there have been so many new cards and mechanics and metas introduced, most based on the principle of constantly rotating cards through the hand and the deck(s) and the graveyard and back, to the point that a really good deck can deploy for the player at least one mega-powerful monster on the very first turn - while also negating any potential deleterious effects the opponent's cards can muster. Most games end in the equivalent to a fool's mate or scholar's mate in chess.

Contemporary Mafia is not that, but the experience of it has become like facing down one of those optimized new decks. Come kick my ass.


90% chance there turns out to be a scummy entanglement in all the mason fluff, but no one will remember to look until endgame.




Meh, live action in development.

https://i.imgur.com/wj2EOGA.jpg




:medievalcheers:
:medievalcheers:




I have zeroed out all meta on myself and others by this time, but ngl here GH, this is giving me Pokemon Nuzlocke D1 vibes.

Soul read? Someone verify at endgame.


Vote: Hallia because no one is

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hallia is a different person, i’m just hally :tongue:

Sir Montamont seems unironically wolfy

You know part of me scoffs at the constant reboots and live action remakes of my childhood shows that companies are pushing out to make bank off of my nostalgia.

the other part of me is saying OH THERES GONNA BE A LIVE ACTION POWER PUFF GIRLS?! AWESOME

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Originally Posted by Esooa

Is there any specific reason for this?

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Gut feeling, seems apropos

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Originally Posted by Hally

hallia is a different person, i’m just hally :tongue:

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Is this like Maple (or whoever) is or isn't Mantichora, or are you different players?

that powerpuff girls live action pic is so cursed my power went out again

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Originally Posted by Maple

Sir Montamont seems unironically wolfy

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yeh the wolf entanglement thing without any reason given for why that would be the case felt like really shitty shade on a lot of players

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

I feel like if this one is the answer then it'll be readily apparently in 24-36 hours so I don't need to stress about it for a while

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wolfnod.gif

i’m digging eph so far too. his take on manti kinda put into words the vaguely creepy vibes i’m getting from manti

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

Although, GH getting a villa rand and excitedly ready to bite into the thread does explain how that could be the case and not be an issue so I'm just gonna shrug and move off of it

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i think it'd have been better to wait like

36 hours for this one

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

that powerpuff girls live action pic is so cursed my power went out again

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note: post cursed images to remove town!ephemeral as necessary

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Originally Posted by Esooa

lol. He felt so dejected in ice cream team mafia

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ok, this was something that I forgot about his D1. I just remember the TES/TL tunnel and screaming at Ace to shield TL and pressure GH over it

Monty not being noticeably whack in his first post is probably good in and of itself. Last time I saw him as maf he was visibly furry, and this was a multiball game where he could make himself good better by solving for his opponents.

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Originally Posted by Dolby

ok, this was something that I forgot about his D1. I just remember the TES/TL tunnel and screaming at Ace to shield TL and pressure GH over it

Monty not being noticeably whack in his first post is probably good in and of itself. Last time I saw him as maf he was visibly furry, and this was a multiball game where he could make himself good better by solving for his opponents.

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Dolby u gotta chill with the ?? takes

visibly furry

eyes emoji

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

Gut feeling, seems apropos



Is this like Maple (or whoever) is or isn't Mantichora, or are you different players?

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different players!

also can you talk about your gh thing? it sounded like you were referencing a past game but i don’t know what it means

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Originally Posted by Dolby

ok, this was something that I forgot about his D1. I just remember the TES/TL tunnel and screaming at Ace to shield TL and pressure GH over it

Monty not being noticeably whack in his first post is probably good in and of itself. Last time I saw him as maf he was visibly furry, and this was a multiball game where he could make himself good better by solving for his opponents.

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I think you're going to be lynched day one or two.

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Originally Posted by ColonelLubriderm

I'm not sure what this mafia game is about but if you take the exclamation points in the above post and rotate them 90 degrees, it turns into morse code and when you translate it, it reads "mafialol"

Is that pertinent?

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Extremely pertinent, of course!!!!!

Because...

Mafia hype!!!

Monty just pointing to a scrum and saying there's scum in it is normal for him. Move along citizens

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Originally Posted by Maple

i think it'd have been better to wait like

36 hours for this one

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I learned at lot from our team game about playing things closer to the vest but sometimes I still just post the first thing that comes to my mind anyways. It's a hard habit to break

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Originally Posted by Dolby

ok, this was something that I forgot about his D1. I just remember the TES/TL tunnel and screaming at Ace to shield TL and pressure GH over it

Monty not being noticeably whack in his first post is probably good in and of itself. Last time I saw him as maf he was visibly furry, and this was a multiball game where he could make himself good better by solving for his opponents.

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visibly furry

nice

hally
dolby

sunbae and esooa in italics

villagers?

mayhaps

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Originally Posted by Esooa

I will be pocketed by anyone who claims mason with me, and I'm tired of pretending I won't

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Claiming masons with Esooa!!!

Also hi, fun to finally be in a gamethread with you!!

i wish jump was itg so we could have the entirety of amy's pogchamps

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Originally Posted by Dolby

Real talk, I recently read an Esooa wolfgame and I think she's fine_TM

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Is this real real talk, or just real talk?

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

hally
dolby

sunbae and esooa in italics

villagers?

mayhaps

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why esooa? i’m not there on her yet

everyone is so fuckign wolfy

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Originally Posted by Arapocalypse

Claiming masons with Esooa!!!

Also hi, fun to finally be in a gamethread with you!!

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yess I'm very hype

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

hally
dolby

sunbae and esooa in italics

villagers?

mayhaps

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Why Dolby? And what's the italics mean?

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Originally Posted by Hally

why esooa? i’m not there on her yet

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that's why she's in italics

I think tonally she's fairly consistent with what I remember of her Ice Cream d1

It's extremely thin but

it exists

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

These are all the posts that Esooa made before Dolby supposedly called them alignment-indicative and said they didn't match the posts in Esooa's scum game that Dolby read.

This seems like a really fake read on Dolby's part to me.

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I'm mildly irked that you voiced this read right as I was thinking it, before I could voice it!!! :p

But yes!!!!!

:2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Maple

everyone is so fuckign wolfy

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speak for yourself :smart:

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Originally Posted by Esooa

Why Dolby? And what's the italics mean?

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Because he's got no filter

No discomfort over how his takes are being perceived and/or reacted to

dude's just shotgunning his takes

very yeehaw

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Originally Posted by Dolby

Felt that Esooa was trying to be more accomodating to other people to specifically avoid clash based on playstyle between her and other people. Also kinda got the same vibe that I got from 4mask in the light game I played with them that when she's scum she's a bit more mush up to people on an individual level

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Actually, retracted; this feels more like the !!!!!!!! that pings people like me initially, but is probably actually just eager town hyping to solve instead of mafia sticking out randomly!!!

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

i wish jump was itg so we could have the entirety of amy's pogchamps

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i want to be amy's little pogchamp pensive

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

Someone should acknowledge I am out of my wolf range by now, thank you

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Sunbae, you are now out of your wolf range!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

that's why she's in italics

I think tonally she's fairly consistent with what I remember of her Ice Cream d1

It's extremely thin but

it exists

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tbh I'm a little surprised that's the case. I was nervous for this game lol

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

that's why she's in italics

I think tonally she's fairly consistent with what I remember of her Ice Cream d1

It's extremely thin but

it exists

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alright

Vote: Maple

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b6/f3...5be390eaa3.gif

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Originally Posted by Maple

i want to be amy's little pogchamp pensive

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you will always be my little pogchamp if it helps

pensivecowboy

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

I swore I wasn't gonna get into the swing of things until tomorrow.

Let me elaborate: I think Esooa has been ~marginally townie on her own. She's been able to keep up with the volume of :daisy:posting despite a pretty insular playerlist and doesn't seem to be forcing much. Can these things come from a mafioso? Certainly, but they're a) light regardless, and b) not the reason why Dolby was repping his read. Dolby bothered to cite meta, which seems fake and forced, and feels like he did it to acquire credibility. The post sticks out, in a bad way.

I think it's a very viable world that Dolby is scum and TMI'd Esooa as town, just from the way he repped that read and presented it to the thread.

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I disagree; feel like it's just TWTBAW, and that if Dolby were mafia he'd be more self-conscious about it!!!!

Granted I just read the posts in a matter of minutes and not stretched out over what... an hour and a half or something? So maybe I need to go back and look at timestamps because perhaps it feels differently more spread out, but I feel like that's the sort of thing where you just see a towny being !!!!!!!!!!! about solving, which I totally can get!!!

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Originally Posted by Hally

speak for yourself :smart:

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My tone? Perfect.

My reads? Precise.

My jokes? Hilarious.

My vernacular? Robust.

My build? Different.

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Originally Posted by Esooa

tbh I'm a little surprised that's the case. I was nervous for this game lol

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why were you nervous? :stare:

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Originally Posted by Esooa

yeh the wolf entanglement thing without any reason given for why that would be the case felt like really shitty shade on a lot of players

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Tilt noated

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Originally Posted by Dolby

ok, this was something that I forgot about his D1. I just remember the TES/TL tunnel and screaming at Ace to shield TL and pressure GH over it

Monty not being noticeably whack in his first post is probably good in and of itself. Last time I saw him as maf he was visibly furry, and this was a multiball game where he could make himself good better by solving for his opponents.

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But I was outrageously bad at solving for the other team, even compared to town baseline. The failure was perfectly genuine. And I wanted that alliance.

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Originally Posted by Hally

different players!

also can you talk about your gh thing? it sounded like you were referencing a past game but i don’t know what it means

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I have a bad habit of scumreading GH for innocuous behaviors, so I'm not voting him, but Nuzelock was my best read ever on him: I could tell within 2 posts that a D1 push he had on a paragon of towniness was incompatible with the town GH I normally sideeyed. I then fumbled the case and he carried his team to victory, but that's neither here nor there. Nor am I saying that Dolbster is a paragon as of now. Anyone who fancies themselves a meta genius can scroll back in Gameroom archives for Pokemon Nuzelock D1, GH vs. khaan, and see for themselves.

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Originally Posted by Maple

I think you're going to be lynched day one or two.

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Not if I have anything to say about it, and it's conceivable that I might at some point.

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Originally Posted by Sunbae

My smooth brain says that the sketchiest post in the thread was GH multiquoting all of esooas posts to show that it was too early/not enough real information for Dolby to make a real read based off of it instead of just saying it but it's like a 2/10 on the sketchy scale

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This feels like an actual town!Sunbae post... maybe?

It feels very !!!!!!!!! at a level of weird specificity which tends to be more of a town thing, also like... town!Sunbae comfortableness-feeling and stuff?

I feel like I should probably be more hesitant about this, but I'm hyping to hype and we are hyping so let's go early townread hype time go go go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

Because he's got no filter

No discomfort over how his takes are being perceived and/or reacted to

dude's just shotgunning his takes

very yeehaw

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yea i agree. the sequence of doubling down on the initial take after being called out and then giving a take on monty that was the same kind of thing he just got called out for feels villagery

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Originally Posted by Ephemeral

why were you nervous? :stare:

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cause there's a lot of cool and good players and I also was rly dumb in ice cream team mafia with a lot of them before this lol

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Originally Posted by Maple

Good enough for me

Vote: dolby

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I was going to say that I disliked this immediate sheep of the wagon while reading the post, but... this is Maple also known as Manti and that's probably a !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thing for him to do regardless of alignment!!!!!!

Putting a pin in this for future reference, I suppose!!!

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Originally Posted by Arapocalypse

This feels like an actual town!Sunbae post... maybe?

It feels very !!!!!!!!! at a level of weird specificity which tends to be more of a town thing, also like... town!Sunbae comfortableness-feeling and stuff?

I feel like I should probably be more hesitant about this, but I'm hyping to hype and we are hyping so let's go early townread hype time go go go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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are you saying in contrast to how sunbae specifically would act as a wolf, or just as a general read?

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Originally Posted by Esooa

cause there's a lot of cool and good players and I also was rly dumb in ice cream team mafia with a lot of them before this lol

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lol that's fair

fwiw I'm expecting this game to be a lot more chill than ice team was particularly because we've got a good list :p

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Originally Posted by Esooa

tbh I'm a little surprised that's the case. I was nervous for this game lol

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you shouldn’t be :2thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Esooa

cause there's a lot of cool and good players and I also was rly dumb in ice cream team mafia with a lot of them before this lol

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the secret is that we're all actually really bad and that no one knows how to play

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Originally Posted by Hally

yea i agree. the sequence of doubling down on the initial take after being called out and then giving a take on monty that was the same kind of thing he just got called out for feels villagery

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https://media1.tenor.com/images/614e...itemid=9920452

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

I think if Esooa was Dolby's partner, Dolby would have been more likely to just drop a townread on Esooa for the reasons I mentioned rather than try to bring credibility of "I read a recent scum game of hers" into it. It's light, but just from the way it's presented etc, the reason just feels more TMI-y than partner-y.

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Okay...?

I mean, I like how Dolby approached it and am a bit shrug on Esooa's posts, but uh...

Not really getting the sense it feels TMI-y, especially when he pulls up a reference of another game to back it up immediately - noting that I don't know what game he's talking about!!!

Only thing I'm really getting is that it's probably not w/w because what mafia partner just hard townreads a partner with barely anything having been posted? Technically could be, but unlikely!!

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Originally Posted by Montmorency

Tilt noated



But I was outrageously bad at solving for the other team, even compared to town baseline. The failure was perfectly genuine. And I wanted that alliance.



I have a bad habit of scumreading GH for innocuous behaviors, so I'm not voting him, but Nuzelock was my best read ever on him: I could tell within 2 posts that a D1 push he had on a paragon of towniness was incompatible with the town GH I normally sideeyed. I then fumbled the case and he carried his team to victory, but that's neither here nor there. Nor am I saying that Dolbster is a paragon as of now. Anyone who fancies themselves a meta genius can scroll back in Gameroom archives for Pokemon Nuzelock D1, GH vs. khaan, and see for themselves.



Not if I have anything to say about it, and it's conceivable that I might at some point.

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ah, so he was a wolf in that game. gotcha

what’s your read on dolby?

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Originally Posted by Dolby

GH's focus on that and straight up going to say that me and Esooa probably aren't teammed feels way to much like the Wazza and TL tunnels in Ice Cream for me to be comfortable with that

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I don't necessarily agree with this but also this feels really towny hype!!!!!!!! Though I'm not sure how comparable this read is so early (and without a team to egg him on) and should probably make an actual GH read at some point... I'd like to say that I don't think he'd come out this blatantly as mafia, minimum third time in a row? Put like, fifty asterisks beside that read though!!!!!

Fun fact: I was going to make a case on GH at SoD based on something funny I noticed about his account, but decided not to after seeing how... despondent he was after team game!! :p