Chess - Game Thread [Concluded]

[Askthepizzaguy]

pat buchanan imo

Seems a little iffy to me.

[Zack]

Pat. Buchanan. IMO.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Pat. Buchanan. IMO.

Pat him? I don't even know him.

Also my wife would object, for many reasons. I can't even count all the reasons. To say I'd be down a piece is putting it mildly, I'd be permanently down a piece, know what I'm sayin?

[Dp101]

I'm very lost.

[Askthepizzaguy]

You! With some crazy comment:

I'm very lost.

Correct!

[Dp101]

You! With some crazy comment:



Correct!

Somehow I'm even more confused.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hint: Vote for Logic. It's the first move in a 3 or 4 move checkmate, don't know which. I didn't check it with a computer and I'm old.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Let's call any post I don't quote possibly NAI, or this is the abbreviated version of his ISO anyway, to try to keep this ~readable.

Chunk 1: The early game, dp builds a town and demonstrates sass and real emotion.

I'm very lost.

response to my roleplaying.

Doing work and wrapping it in so many jokes and references that it's impossible to read is very hard to distinguish from pretending to do work. I'll try to read your logic post again to see if it makes sense, but I know for sure that I didn't get it my first time through.

I can believe this.

Quick, what does the pizza mega-analysis say about unfathomable certainty 3 hours into D1?

In his iso, you can see him asking people questions and demanding quick answers for a short stretch, and reaction testing Zack who seemed oblivious to what he was doing. Stirring the pot and poking things in a solving way.

Quick, give a read on me, I don’t think you’ve seen me play before so I’m curious as to what you think of my style.

Like this one.

Ok, Zack is town, locking it in.

In my opinion, dp101 would be impressed by Zack's post, which was voting me for town reading Zack. It's just a very dp101 thing to do. Hell, I had Zack as a town read and didn't budge at the time.

Logic isn't my strong suit. Neither are words. Or making good arguments. I'm bad at everything.

I think this post makes Csargo most likely to be town.

Again, Dp looking to build a town, not attack posts which are attackable.

Ehhh, no. I'm not convinced that scum stages that kind of joking breakdown so early and easily, I can't really see Csargo actually deciding to make that kind of post as scum, rather than a more standard rebuttal or backing down.

His process on you. Basically, he's anticipating that you have a really sweet scum game. That's a good defense.

I posted in another language, yet I think I was still more understandable than this. I think you are saying that you think you might have caught 2 scum, but haven't got town on board yet due to them not being obvious enough, but I have no idea what you mean by the last sentence.

Stuff like this is dp101 in mediator mode. He wants to facilitate understanding. I feel like this is dp's happy place. I've never really seen him not.

Every time I see you write incorrect, I imagine you yelling it at your screen as you type. It's highly amusing.

Humor feels where it should be. DP is relaxed.

So it's lazy for me to expect that other people should post in a manner that is easily understood without having to google things? More specifically, I have literally no chess knowledge, and so I wouldn't even know what part of the post quoted in 167 to put into google. I'm already tired of talking about how I tried joking about something and thought about reading someone off of it, but retracted it, so I'm not even going to address that point. I would love to know what you think I need to do to make a read worthwhile, because while you call post 247 a no effort read, you are missing 2 things: Firstly, me reading him town there was not just from that one post, but from his consistently natural behaviour congruent with standard town Zack gameplay, and secondly, I was joking in how confident I was because of his comment about him being annoyed with people strongly townreading him for no reason.

I love hearing someone call me lazy when I've posted 3-4 times as much as them. You claim that I'm posting just to post, but it's D1, that's my standard thing until someone actually makes a post that I feel I can make a case on them off of, and that hasn't happened yet. Thus, small jokes and reads. Quite frankly, the way you phrased this post makes it seem like you are trying to provoke me/insult me, and I think I should probably take a break so that I don't lash out more.

Ok apparently I'm not stepping away to cool down, because this is the most hypocritical post in the thread. You literally call me lazy, and then in the very next post, decline to do some very simple work asked in a friendly matter by someone who is most likely not scum at this point. Vote: reinoe because not only is your behaviour not helping town whatsoever, but you also seem determined to tilt people to put them off their game.

I am seriously going to take a break after this because this game is just making me angry right now, and I really really don't want to get tilted.

This is dp actually being offended by reinoe's rudeness. Even if you call it NAI, later, when he hears what my thoughts are on reinoe (that he's town, and this is kind of how reinoe might always behave because it seems to be characteristic of his personality) he is visibly depressed. As in, he cannot remove this guy from the game.

Do something useful, make a read.

Snapping at Csargo. This tells me that the anger is real, it's not just for show.

Posting that I am not understanding something is useful to town, because the point of posting is to communicate ideas, and if I'm not understanding someone's posts when they appear not to be jokes, it is very important that I say something so that everyone can cooperate and read each other with minimal confusion.

At no point did I say "please clear me, I posted a lot". When someone comes in and does one post of analysis that reads like it's a personal attack on me, centred around me apparently doing nothing, then refuses to answer a simple question, that's what ticks me off, not me not getting townread by you simply by posting a bunch. I don't care if you scumread me, I just want you to be consistent, and when you criticise me for something and then immediately exemplify it, can you understand why I'd get a little ticked off?

Back to mediator mode. Trying to facilitate understanding.

Hell "facilitating understanding" could be dp101's undertitle.

Being repetitively called lazy for expecting other people to talk in plain english (and yes I know I jokingly wrote a single word in another language but it's not even close to the same order of magnitude) was pretty tilting, as was the apparent expectation that every single thing I posted needed to be 110% solving. In particular, him zeroing in on me as lazy and not having done anything when there were multiple people who have spent far larger portions of their posts today screwing around really annoyed me, especially given that my initial stance entering the thread was that people were screwing around too much. Idk, as much as I call my own town play terrible or worthless occasionally, I don't appreciate it when other people do. The way that the whole thing was phrased also stuck out to me as being designed as insults. I think you'ld agree with me that basically every point he made could have been made in a nicer way, and I could not figure out why he seemingly went out of his way to antagonise me.

Like I said, even if you think this is NAI, I don't. reinoe's posts really bothered him.

Ok, seems reasonable to me thus far. I feel though that right now, Pizza is more likely to just be having fun as town, rather than being scum. I'll probably wait and see with him, maybe his pushes are correct. You can have an extremely light town read.

response to Csargo's reads list. Again, dp is building a town. Handing out town credits where he sees fit.

Thanks for explaining in a more clear fashion what I was getting at. You can be town, for now.

response to GH's post.

I’m not sure that scum winston lampshades this. Moderate town for now.

Still building a town.

Can we lynch pizza for all the chess references?

Very tempting, but there’s a tell he hasn’t dropped yet.

I believe he thinks me voting him is a tell.

Let's break this up. Next section...