Alright, on to the meat of the reading.
Cyricubed ISO Part 2
Day 2 (Starts on #820, Ends on #1607)
From here I'm completely ignoring fluff or rule-related stuff from a reading perspective here, given the general timing of Day 2. For completion's sake, these posts include #1048, #1051, #1065, #1143, #1153, #1160, #1177, #1258, #1287, #1288, #1301, #1363, #1368,
#922 - Some miscellaneous comments, including surprise about Nictis being the N1 kill, double announcers being probably Town (though we now know only mine is persistent), and a very early vote on 99L on the basis of the "if you show me yours I'll show you mine" response to YP, which at the time was certainly warranted IMO.
#1062 - Really big post here, but will compact into the important parts. Reasoning for Zaealix vote is fine in a vacuum, I don't mind that. Comments on Hugh's activity are topical for this point and probably okay on a principle level. Agreement that claiming RB is not anything indicative when it comes to roles themselves, also fine on a principle level. General Town-reads include Ori, Wiadi, and Absum, with a lighter Town-read on Logos.
Comments on YP's history of making weird comments -- weirder than the one Shal is calling out at least. Not sure if referring to this game or overall. Calls Nani out as a "Who?" slot, probably a fair evaluation at the time. Agrees with the 99L self-resolve stuff but also notes ignoring the slot feels bad at the same time. Moves to Hugh at the end of it all, pretty sure this comes after the parked votes I called out during this Day. Ends the post with some more lines of questions to various slots.
There's a lot to unpack here, with the underlined portion being what I'm most interested it, since it's a noticeable departure from how he was reading YP's posts on Day 1. This might spawn a full Day 1 reread for me to see what overall sentiments looked like since I'd like to compare it to the Variable sentiments from Day 2, which are still pretty vivid for me.
#1130 - Notes a distaste in Dino's response to his previous post's question to him, but calls NAI. Also gives Town points to Walker's concern over Clown Bean's initial DV reveal, and engages in some additional discussion regarding the value of DV. At this point, I start to question if DV even exists if Cyri flips Scum since a Walker team read could be in the cards based on this post.
#1137 - Some more DV discussion, and another round of questions. Not much to see here IMO.
#1141 - Calls out Walker's posts as part of Town meta in response to Wiadi's question about it.
#1155 - Distaste for YP's callouts relating to Ori. Fine on a principle level.
#1159 - Commenting on Exo-Colony's ending. Probably just irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
#1166 - Callout that current situation is pretty similar to just being a Day 1, probably fine on a principle level.
#1275 - Cyri's readlist. The Variable section is what had me initially not liking Cyri in the first place, though I think I made that clear in previous discussions. If not, then here's where I started not liking Cyri. Additional callout for giving Walker Townlean based purely on CB's play, despite giving Walker the Town meta nod in
#1130 -- The remainder are generally okay I think, but these three stand out the most to me, on account of dismissing the Variable arguments entirely before the slot flips Scum, and seemingly direct contradictions to prior posts in 99L and Walker reads.
I don't like it, but would again appreciate a sanity check to make sure I'm not conf-biasing myself.
#1293 - Shifts Shalmoa to a light Scum-read on account of pushing away from 99L while favoring other LHF. I'm not sure I like this idea but we'll see more once the big Shalmoa interaction happens.
#1295 - Shifts vote over to Hugh again, and explains the wagons, explicitly calling the Variable wagon T/T again. Response to 99L has 99L himself being the most informative vote for Day 2, and extends the wagon explanations to what they would mean for the game state on flips.
#1312 - Brings up Nopeguy as seemingly new and overproportioning my viewpoint of the Hugh parking situation, while also bringing them up as a potential move to wagon on.
#1318 - Response to Nani claiming Variable votes are policy, retorting that they are not. Probably fine on a principle level.
#1320 - Calls the Logos block more likely to be Scum-sided than Town-sided. Can't be super sure either way with what we know right now IMO, so probably fine on a principle level, but could be informative on a Cyri flip.
#1336 - Kinda lands in the middle regarding the Hugh parking situation, where the parked votes are bad, but if it means flipping Hugh then it's ultimately fine. Given the circumstances around Hugh at the time and the proximity to EoD, this seems more advocating for a "let's just commit with not a lot of time left and work with what we have afterward," which I'd say is probably fine? I don't quite know how I feel about this but hindsight might be screwing with my perception here a bit.
#1356 - Looks to be in direct response to Nopeguy's reads in light of my question of "what if Variable flips Scum." Nothing to note here but fine on principle.
#1395 - So this is where the Shalmoa interaction starts. At this moment Cyri is kinda just correct that 99L self-resolving isn't guaranteed, and trying to work the slot out as definitely self-resolving probably isn't optimal. That being said, I feel like this makes the Shalmoa shift to LightScum in
#1293 seem a little weird, given this argumentation is more in the light of "everyone is calling 99L self-resolving but I don't think we should." Which, while hindsight has me disagreeing right now, is an understandable viewpoint, but I don't really understand singling out Shalmoa as the one to shift to LightScum here. Was it because Shalmoa was trying to engage with the idea that 99L shouldn't be put off as self-resolving? I'm not quite sure and don't want to read that much when I'm already potentially staring down a full Day 1 reread, to be totally honest.
#1420 - As much as I think Cyri's frustration at Shalmoa's responses is warranted, I can't help but shake the feeling that there's a weird dichotomy in Cyri's explanation of things in this post. Since, Cyri
did give 99L a hard Scum-Read in
#1275, but even that and the current discussion skew more toward the "I don't like the self-resolving concept" part of things. I'm not really sure what to make of this, but something feels
weird here to me, if only at a subconscious level.
Thus ends Day 2. Pending requested sanity checks, I think even with the Shalmoa stuff at the end, things look decidedly worse for Cyri here than they did for Day 1. I had musings of his Day 1 YP push feeling weird when relating it to the Variable dismissal when making the previous post, and I think I kind of affirmed my beliefs on that front more than anything (especially when the "YP is weird" post happened that countered the original YP push in the first place). Still open to interpretations here, but taking another break before I move to Day 3.
