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Blazinghand
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I'm from the government and I'm here to help. | ||
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Here's my analysis of MrZ's town play: In DMM after his admittedly initial troll post (link) he's questioning aggressive (even towards Palmar (link)) and does NOT back down due to Palmar's responses (link). He doesn't waste posts on fluff or really anything except pushing his Palmar read. Town MrZ also has strong opinions about how to read trolling-- he thinks it's not null, but can in fact be scum motivated (link) which is in contradiction to his attitude this game (link). In EMM he begins again without making a case, focusing on the VE claim that game (link), but within 24 hours has voted for ghost (link) and is bull-headed about his read, trying to pull other people onto his wagon (link), and interacting with his town-reads in an attempt to find a better wagon (link) What do we know about MrZ? Well, he's utterly unafraid of calling out players for being scummy, or for trolling. His only use for other people is to bully them to get onto his wagons, unless he develops a strong townread on one. He's aggressive, but focused, and although he's not super convincing he has conviction and as soon as he really shows up in the thread (beyond an opening post) he comes out with strong reads and a case. He will call people out, defend strong town reads (occasionally) and he really only listens to others when he has a strong town read on them. MrZ is not a player who trolls, takes the game lightly, or really does anything other than push his scum reads. He looks down on trolling and says it can be scummy. MrZ is scum This is nothing like the MrZ we've seen this game, who has in fact been in the thread for at least an hour and a half (over a day ago) and has failed to produce typical MrZ results. Now, I know MrZ likes to fool around a bit before his initial case, but he rarely bases his initial case on more than a couple posts from his target. He doesn't afraid of anyone, not even Vets. So where has he been this game? Why is MrZ acting so unlike himself? It'd be one thing if MrZ wasn't in the thread-- he's notable for being absent from the thread for decent amounts of time. But when MrZ does show up, he makes cases, and he backs the shit up out of them. He defends his cases, even when they're brief-- and his cases always EXIST. Even in EMM, his pre-case posts are focused on the town discussion and are attempting to give a read. His posts in this game show none of his aggressive stands against trolling, and the amount of time he spent in this thread would be spent by a town MrZ to make a case, or at least contribute to the discussion, even in its infancy. Contrast his stance on trolling in DMM: On September 01 2012 08:27 MrZentor wrote: No. If somebody acts like mafia, they get lynched. I'm not going to delay the lynching of a mafia, just because you're afraid of lynching a veteran. To his stance here: On November 30 2012 08:54 MrZentor wrote: People assume that if you're too uptight, you're mafia, so the first few pages are always just spam created by people trying to out-relax each other. So have some fun!!  Something is different-- and that something is MrZ. He rolled scum this game. It's not in the lurking, for MrZ is if nothing else is a lurker. It is in how he has spent his time in-thread. This is unlike any MrZ I've ever known. ##unvote ##vote MrZentor come at me bro | ||
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DONT PAY ATTENTION TO IT ITS BAD ##unvote | ||
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do I have to? It's pretty embarassing. I'd rather just work on a xatalos case plz | ||
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The steamiship liquidia game that I was thinking of for his scum meta http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=282366&user=137099 was actually a game he rolled town. | ||
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WBG can stay as protoss since i'm his smurf Marv please change to terran VE change to zerg it's hard to read otherwise | ||
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WBG could still well be scum, but I don't see it. | ||
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Trolling seems to be the norm. Somehow I just don't like making yourself artificially harder to read. It's kind of like a selfish metagame plan to confuse other players - not to help your team. What's the point in establishing yourself as a null read? Except denying meaningful information from scumhunting?
