Yeah, I'm not really all that concerned at this point that Tom is just a quiet townie anymore. Going back to OW mafia, where he was a townie, and comparing that to now and when he was scum in AoT there are a few differences that shine out. Again, if you really read through his play in AoT, you'll be able to see that his tone is very reactionary
towards people who have been accusing him, in comparison to his town play. In OW, his play I honestly feel was lackluster, but he at least went to the effort to analyze claims and pressure people over them. One word before I do this, I'm not going to go through all of Tom's AoT posts. Many of them are just fluff, jokes, or worthless
Tom in AoT said:
I see you're on the anti-bandwagon bandwagon, can you please watch what you're doing? Thanks.
If her playstyle doesn't change on D2 what?
I don't think so.
Wait maybe it was Better than Daniel???
What characterizes Tom's scumplay here? Tbh, I am somewhat tempted to right this off as a joke post, with the exception of the first line. It's edgy for the purpose of being edgy, and is trying to mascarade as legitimate content. In the context of the game, maybe the first line, criticizing Ashtot for hypocritically criticizing bandwagons, was useful. But the rest of it is merely trying to hide under it
Tom in AoT said:
Still I think we'd all appreciate a little more effort going forth? Her explaining her five susses is a good start already.
Going to mimic what Trundle said and wonder why you think you're important enough to constantly N1? People who get N1 constantly tend to get worse due to lack of play.
Sorry, would you like more RQS so I seem more helpful to you?
Or would you like me to take charge of leading a lynch, probably a mislynch so I better fit your narrative? I'd rather prod folks until I find something I'm confident about.
Or to your team.
If we're up against a 5 man mafia team (Which is most likely), that three KP is going to butter someone's biscuits.
A) Try your best so we all suceed
B) You were headed in the right direction and someone can pickup your slack where you left off.
And again, his scumposts continue to follow this model of posting. The first line pressuring somebody to provide an explantion (couldn't exactly determine who in the context of things). However the rest of the post really isn't worth even writing. The second line is actually like really useful to me
Glow in AoT said:
tom is doing the thing where he is joking around and yet still trying to make it seem like he's doing anything when he's rly not
Rather than actually respond with some content, he intentionally pokes at it, not to defend himself but to aggrevate Glow. It's actually a typical OMGUS reaction, saying that she's intentionally playing bad
Lines three and four are game mechanics discussion trying to mascarade as helpful, and line 5 is again, aggrevating Glow. We also see his "reactionary tone" here. The one of only two marginally useful things that he's done so far here is intentionally aggrevate Glow. Why? Because she's pressuring him and wants to delegitimize the pressure that she's applying
What do we have so far that's an attempt to delegitimize pressure
Hi all, I?ve promised you some reads and won?t deliver on those right this moment (SoonTM). Just caught up with the game so I?m mostly mulling over the deaths at the moment. Three votes on me is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected along with threats of more to come. I do think it?s really interesting that Kayla (iLoveYou) is super eager lynch me though, especially without knowing my recent meta? Dolby I get, he expects more from me, but Kayla seems really eager for blood ya know?
Especially interesting since he put support down behind Kayla early inthe game.
Myman don?t edit posts, even if they?re double mmkay it?s one of the rules
Also instead of continuing to meme I?m really feeling the fire that Kayla is spittin, but also as someone who always get shot down for wanting to no lynch I know that?s a train not worth ridin.
And turns around to sus her once she lays the pressure down on him. Remind you of anything? AoT and Glow.
And where do we see him attempting to pretend to be helpful, pretty much all game tbh. I'm gonna ignore the posts before #100, he would be unhelpful there as town anyways.
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http://www.belltreeforums.com/showt...hread&p=7827240&viewfull=1#post7827240?]@Ness in response to this post:[/url] YUP. Why bother putting time and effort into getting an inactive killed when I can sit here and wait for ya?ll to panic lynch like we?ve seemed to do the last couple games.
What is this? Honestly, again, pretending to be helpful. Here he affirms his support for lynching "deadweights"
http://www.belltreeforums.com/showthread.php?446202-Call-the-Ships-to-Port-Game-Thread&p=7827414&viewfull=1#post7827414?]@Trundle in response to this post:[/url] I dunno if this is the post you mentioned as a call or if it?s a different one, but I?m not sure what you?re expecting from me? Ya?ll know I don?t take D1 seriously like at all, I think they?re the most boring part of the game. I like looking at the kills and then trying to tie back to people.
If anything, he's admitting to being intentionally unhelpful here
Also lmao at you guys trying to tie me memeing around to another meme I did in AoT Mafia. I guess though that means the meme is stale, shame. I?ll have to be more creative when it comes to jokeposts.
I don?t get why Dad is getting sussed for actually trying to figure the game out either, I like his stuff and I?m willing to sheep the dadster today.
Again, what's notable is that his line on Dad is
literally the only stance on anybody that he took before D2. Pretty much the only reason that he posted is probably because he felt pressured to do so.
I mean if ya?ll want to policy lynch me go for it, I don?t really care my dude. Ya?ll expect rainbow reads and scum pinged on D1, that?s unreasonable as hell tbh.
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Not following the pattern of trying to mascarade. I feel that this is a genuine sentiment that he has though.
I dunno I would say trusting your gut is a major part of mafia, especially for folks with night actions. The only issue with trusting their gut when it comes to me though is that usually it?s always Tom is mafia. I don?t really care, I?ve got no reason to prove them otherwise and I can?t convince half of them anyways without some other stupid term being thrown about on how I?m scum. Let em voice it
If you don't see how this falls into the general trope of scum!Tom, you may be blind. Kammm is lowkey pushing him to post more, and he uses discussion on the nature of gut reads to pretend to be helpful.
Hi all, I?ve promised you some reads and won?t deliver on those right this moment (SoonTM). Just caught up with the game so I?m mostly mulling over the deaths at the moment. Three votes on me is disappointing, but not entirely unexpected along with threats of more to come. I do think it?s really interesting that Kayla (iLoveYou) is super eager lynch me though, especially without knowing my recent meta? Dolby I get, he expects more from me, but Kayla seems really eager for blood ya know?
Already covered this, but again, reactionary, and turning on one of maybe two people who it could be interpreted he loosely townread earlier.
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Alright, I've covered how he's similar to his scum play, but why is he dissimilar to his townplay?
Gonna be using OW mafia for reference, I personally feel that that's the game in which he's displayed the most simil[CHARGE][/CHARGE]ar playstyle to, well, this thus far
Lowkey, this is actually more similar to current so far than I would've thought honestly
Tom in OW said:
Bus Driver is a role you can easily lie about, especially if the users swapped aren't notified at all. You're literally gambling extra KP over something that cannot be proven.
lol
Heyden: "Tom sus, he was pretty quick to sort of push the attention on Ness. I say that because it was more indirect and immediately implied that a jester was unlikely, making Ness more sus."
Unless I'm concrete pointing the finger at someone, I was not proding Nester as scum. Are jokes hard?
@jacob: I don't have confidence in a third party, which why I stated as why. Meta gaming the roles based off alignments from Overwatch lore tells me there's likely three mafioso. That puts KP at two and then I'm not sure what exact role Curry would throw in for chaos. Until we see night deaths, I find it hard to believe there's a third party at the moment.
As for my absense, I've been mostly keeping up but really I don't have anything worth contributing right now. If I was online at all today it was from my tablet refreshing my browser or doing mod things. I just suggest not lynching me, but I don't have anything to convince you otherwise and I'm not going to claim.
First real post of the game, honestly kinda similar to AoT and now.
The only real difference is that he's actually head on challenging and taking a stance on Endless's claim, but I guess you could argue that neither of the other games had a serious debatable claim on D1
1. I don't buy his claim and that's playing meta based off role names
2. Because you guys will test it while they kill
3. I haven't felt a real need to say anything
4. If I wanted to meta game I'd ask that we all mass name claim and then Lynch from there.
I thought you being stupid, so I called you out on it. I don't trust Endless.
Second real post into OW mafia, and I feel at this point you can easily begin to see a difference. He's definitively taking a stance on Endless here, saying that he doesn't trust him. Rather than poke holes at his accusers and reply to them in a non-serious manner, he replys entirely differently. He addresses what's been brought against him, doesn't OMGUS his accuser, and continues to hold his stance.
His claim really just nailed my suspicion.
I also think what's important here is that he continues to hold an unpopular opinion
lol ok. Where's the Dolby post since Uni clearly isn't something you're needing to focus on right now?
Continues pressuring Endless
I'm going to stop here as I have to leave in about 15 minutes and want to complete some other stuff. But really, there's two main differences between scum and town Tom. 1. He actually makes reads and takes stances as town 2. As town, he will address the people sussing him in an actual satisfactory manner
I'm gonna drop the jokey point because he does kinda joke around in a few posts in OW mafia I feel, but that doesn't change the fact that in this game Tom has made practically no reads and that his defense has a turnaround on ILY