A further point: ladd was pretty much UTR for almost everyone by D3; I do not believe he was expecting to die anytime soon while formulating his D2 content.

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What about that response on Hollowkatt makes you think "anti-pair"? Granted I think Hollowkatt is scummier than the day is long but that doesn't look like distancing to you? The first instinct is to defend. Then unlike the other two, concede that maybe Hollowkatt actually is a wolf.
Well, I encourage people to look at all the ladd posts I quoted above holistically and try to extract any patterns in how he discusses people. So for example in what you're responding to, Visor SRed:

Taffy
Dya
HK

Ladd rejected all of these.

He rejected Taffy SR because Taffy has attitude, pushes, furthers the game - "completely opposite" what Visor says.

He rejected dya SR because Visor's meta on dya is out of date (that's it).

He rejected HK SR because he's posting the same as in Visor's Sorc game ("but i concede he may be a wolf").

I can't tell you what it all means, but we can say he's wishy-washy on HK, hard-defending Taffy, and offering a very vague defense of dya.