gogtrial34987: Because for each of the combinations, I'm leaning to the other side of the pair, and because the amount of meaningful interaction each of them has had with the other can be counted on the thumbs of one hand. And that only if you stretch the definition of meaningful. Scum
not making any attempt at distancing like that feels unlikely to me. [...]
HypersomniacLive: Not sure I follow - which combos are you referring to?
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Lifthrasil: Hmm. drealmer or adalia? drealmer or Gamma? adalia or Hunter? Hunter or RWarehall? (These are the pairings where I had the impression 'One of these two is probably scum')
gogtrial34987: [...] Drealmer + Hunter is the only pair which satisfies all of them. Yet from all the possible pairs, that's probably the one I'd consider the least likely.
If Lift's initial feeling "One of these two is probably scum" is 100% accurate, then there's only one scum-pair which would make that possible, and that's drealmer + hunter. Yet for each of the choices Lift presented (each "combination", though I guess that's the wrong word to describe these choices), I would choose the one who isn't drealmer or hunter: I was at the point I wrote that leaning adalia over drealmer, gamma over drealmer, adalia over hunter, and rw over hunter. Which can't all be true at the same time.
gogtrial34987: [...] I did just now get pinged quite strongly by drealmer's #296 "there are other ppl who I think are more scummy with more content in the game, hunter (and gamma and gogtrial, for that matter) are of not-much interest atm today", where I'd read past that the first time. [...]
HypersomniacLive: Curious, what exactly, and why, did ping you?
Noticing the complete lack of interaction between these two, I was thinking about distancing. So Drealmer calling Hunter "of not-much interest atm today" (shortly after people have been falling over him en masse), and then throwing him into a group with me (generally seen as probably town by anyone who's expressed an opinion about it) and Gamma (a leading wagon since near the start of the game) makes me consider this to be a rather strange remark, and possibly distancing after all.
gogtrial34987: And suddenly I see scum-drealmer everywhere... (Will need to look at this afresh tomorrow morning; I might very well be suffering from being overly tired after a too full evening.) @all when drealmer is town, does he usually have very few townreads? This reminds me quite a bit of smurfia-scum drealmer, where his townreads were purportedly limited to 1 (trent).
drealmer7: first of all, "seeing scum-drealmer everywhere" is general/vague, point it ALL out
My apologies for a figure of speech. What I meant was that I was reading the very "next" post by yours (a previous one, in this instance) as also possible to interpret in a scummy way.
*refreshes*
More later. I'm off to dinner, but I'm seeing Lift switch wagons. And that while I was getting more convinced that Gamma is the way to go. Drealmer, trent, adalia: Any of you willing to commit to Gamma as well so Lift can hop back?
My thinking in short:
I see these as the most likely teams, possibly in order:
gamma/hunter
gamma/rw
gamma/adalia
drealmer/hunter
drealmer/trent (long shot, masterfully played - so not really, but damn, it should be)
Gamma features in three of them, hunter in two. And I had my early relatively strong town read of Hunter which I'm still clinging to somewhat.