So today is my anniversary but my wife has an hour more of work so I'll try to explain why I think Cuzz is scum right now:
Faust and Cuzz voted for each other yesterday. One had a town motivation, one had a scum motivation.
Let's assume scum!Faust
Scum!Faust's partners are Robz and PPS. He wants anyone else to get lynched on any day after today to win. He's getting heavily scumread and so is his partner PPS, so probably his priority is to muddy the waters and try to deflect attention from his partner. So when Cuzz starts suggesting that he thinks he might want to vote for Faust, why vote back? I have expressed a super strong town read on Cuzz and have defended him at every point through the game when people suggested he was scummy. scum!Faust knows by that point that I am more likely to vote him and that McMc isn't going to move his vote off of PPS because McMc knows he's found scum and isn't decided on Faust vs. Cuzz. The best explanation for why would vote for Cuzz is that his third partner is Cuzz and he wants to try to WIFOM and make us believe that Cuzz is town by setting up a false 1 v. 1. But that would mean that Robz would have to be town, which I just do not believe in a million years after how the end of the day yesterday went.
OTOH, town!Faust's motivation for voting Cuzz when he has been pushing PPS all game is a little obscure and weird - honestly I think Faust's better play would have been to ignore Cuzz and go for PPS; I wouldn't have voted him at all if he had done that I think. But I can think of why he might do it. That being said, I won't create the narrative myself. I want him to explain why he did that himself and really prove it to us - because like I said I'm not 100% convinced.
Okay here is the clincher.
scum!Cuzz's motivation for voting Faust is really clear. At the time, I had been expressing a strong townread on Cuzz. I think he was actually my strongest townread at several points throughout the game. So scum!Cuzz knows his partner PPS is going down if he doesn't do something. He could go ahead and bus PPS and hope to get towncred, but he can't control people's shifting reads and he has to gamble with the idea that I could change my mind on him and figure out the game across the next several days. However, he knows I had been strongly scumreading Faust. So he kind of seeks out my permission to vote for Faust and not PPS, suggesting that his scumread on Faust is just stronger and re-inserting a sort of doubt that maybe McMcsalot is the scummy one, not PPS. I think the way he is talking to me through that whole process and trying to fish for my opinions is really what exposes him as scum. He's trying to probe for how strong my town read on him is and trying to see if I will really go for it if he votes for Faust. Because for him, I think the certainty that I vote Faust and they can seal the game is much better than the long drawn out way where he busses PPS and has to try to get a mislynch through on the following days as the PoE gets better and better.
The town!Cuzz motivation is there too. I mean, he spelled out his reasoning for why he did everything he did really well. But, I think Cuzz is actually just really good at fabricating reasoning. He's a good scum player! I'm impressed! That's partly why I feel pretty bad. Really this guy deserves to win the game for masterfully manipulating me but his partners fumbled the quickhammer and it basically exposed everyone all at once.
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Topic: M113: sufjan stevens (OH THE WORLD IS A MESS) (Read 192410 times)