hindsight is 20/20 I guess ^^
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36156 Posts
hindsight is 20/20 I guess ^^ | ||
wherebugsgo
Japan10647 Posts
On June 19 2012 10:35 EchelonTee wrote: how do you tell if a scummy lurker is noob scum or noob town oh, style of posting I guess. There's less posts to look at so sometimes it's even easier. That's how it was when I caught gambit/maju/papa. I'm definitely not great at it, but recently I've been focusing on figuring out the lurking/bad townies from the scum and I think I've been getting a bit better. As for manason the reason I put him further down the list as opposed to outright pushing him was because the scummiest thing he did was say he'd make a case on kita and then he didn't do it. That was literally the only reason he was on my scumlist and honestly, since townies do that all the time, it didn't make me very confident of him. Nonetheless I included him because lots of other people wanted to kill him. I completely ignored Hyaach because I didn't find anything he said to be scummy. He was saying his opinion up front and wasn't really trying to be diplomatic. Sometimes the stupider something sounds the townier it is for someone to say. I haven't seen anyone truly abuse the ability to blend in as dumb town, so for now whenever I see really odd or illogical plays I mark the player as town unless it's a veteran who knows better. However, even in those cases it's dangerous sometimes. Lately I've been realizing more and more that regardless of my efforts I'm swayed by popular opinion really really heavily. It's this notion that going with the flow is good for town and that if I'm wrong, it's okay because a bunch of other people would be wrong too. That's a poisonous way of thinking IMO and I've been trying incredibly hard to stop doing that. I first started realizing that a long long time ago and I have yet to kill that feeling, because the ideas get planted in my head without me even realizing they're being planted there. The first time I realized this was possible was when I shot Foolishness over sandroba in PYP:Interesting because I thought other townies had a better read of them than I did. I was wrong and Foolishness flipped town when sandro would've flipped scum. More recent examples are Liar Game with Sheth and Palmar (VE in that game was not sheeping but I'm not sure how to explain that), this game with VE/kita, Poison with Zephirdd/risk, and MTG with Mouldy and Acid. EDIT: Oh and DFM with the multitude of townies like bluelightz, me listening to Cephiro about his plan over killing syllo, etc. | ||
jaj22
United Kingdom1376 Posts
On June 19 2012 11:27 wherebugsgo wrote: I haven't seen anyone truly abuse the ability to blend in as dumb town That's where I screwed up on Manason. At some point I decided that it was likely that he was faking terrible town play, but now that you mention it, I've never seen it done. | ||
kitaman27
United States9244 Posts
On June 19 2012 11:27 wherebugsgo wrote: I haven't seen anyone truly abuse the ability to blend in as dumb town Challenge accepted! | ||
GreYMisT
United States6736 Posts
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