Chess - Game Thread [Concluded]

[Askthepizzaguy]

If you are afraid I'm going to be rude again don't be. I learned an important lesson about the mental state I shouldn't have when entering a volatile game such as this (and again: sorry for lashing out) and it won't happen again.

From my PoV rn the game is over anyway. I'd just vote down my PoE and not do much else unless new points come up... I won't do another reread.. maybe one more ISO if I'm really bored but doubt it... maybe if find myself in a F3 scenario with Monty and Fred but even then probably not cuz I'm fairly certain I'm the default lynch in this case ^^.

I'm not worried about that. From what I've seen except for that one post, you're ordinarily a great guy.

Maybe you have similar people to me on your home site. I come on really strong and I throw everything I can find at you suddenly to see if I cannot rattle your cage. If you don't, it can be jarring.

Whenever I push someone, if I have a moderately higher than random scum read on them, I look for everything I possibly can find that could be in any way incriminating. Because it tends to work, and whether I'm right or wrong it generally results in more votes on the suspect.

If I'm town, and I am the one who gets to choose who dies, town has a better chance of winning. This is true for most townies, I feel. If it's not me, there's a chance it could be a scum controlling the narrative. If I'm scum, and I am the one who gets to choose who dies, town has far smaller chances for obvious reasons. The expected value of my team goes way up if I'm getting what I want. Expressing confidence, both real and bluffing, helps convince the person I'm pushing in that moment that they're completely doomed and completely caught. I tend to swing in confidence on people. And I don't tend to push that hard on someone I'm not confident on, but there's a bit of theatrics involved.

When I pushed Logic for example, I thought his opening was just kind of being there. I feel like he can get nervous early, so I pushed him. I really bit down when I saw his passive aggression posts and threw everything I could into convincing people he's scum.

I felt like one of Zack or GH could be scum, it was legitimately surprising to see it was both. I was gonna vote Zack on D2, but when votes landed on GH I just went with it because I felt it could be either/or. Don't divide the town, choose one.

Then his reaction to being pushed was really bad. It was both bluffy and stally. That's when I went into kitchen sink mode.

After that, the unusually strong buddying and defending between him and Zack and Zack's own drop in stock since early day one meant he was always suspicious and in the POE for me, and at this point, it was looking like a total collapse. Zack needed to be removed regardless his alignment, or we'd never move past him except by wasting a day phase. And, I don't know if I can get him lynched. In truth, what pushed me over the edge on shooting Zack over Manasi is that she was consensus. I can get Manasi lynched. I can even get both if I shoot Zack. I had Manasi as slightly scummier than Zack and almost switched off, but Manasi was gettable. Either lolcatting or not caring enough to put up a defense.

With you, I'm guarding against someone who plays a lot like me. Your posts all have a very familiar (to me) feeling to them. Controlled and comfortable. No matter what is happening or the situation. My wager is that you actually have fun as scum with your back against the wall. If you're scum here, you see this as the challenge of a lifetime, and there's no way you'd not even be having fun here. If you're like me, nothing says fun like long odds.

But if you're like me then I can see strategy, diplomacy, and potential layers for gambits. So I pushed on that and looked for anything that matches my own scum meta. If I'm in your shoes what do I do?

If it sounds not like you at all, it's because everything I said was exactly what I would have done. And it would have worked, too.

If that's you as scum, then it can very much feel like you've been caught dead to rights. If your whole scheme is unraveling before your eyes, then it can feel like it's unlikely to continue working. But if you're town it can also cause a negative reaction and make you think I'm on drugs.

If parts of the case are just not you at all, then I can understand your reaction. My scum suit might not fit your frame and I was coming on very strong.