tl;dr: Stereo's "overacting town" this game parallels his scum meta and seems to be the opposite of his town meta.
Stereo is quite the actor. He's got a thing for sprinkling in a bit of drama, and he's very good at adopting a town tone. In Stereo's last scum game, he put on such a compelling town voice that he completely convinced Calix he was town, and drew in many other good players.
Here are some cases of Stereo "sprinkling dat drama" in this game:
Originally Posted by
Stereo
Originally Posted by
Deathworlds
On the contrary, I think it'll be impressive that I get someone lynched based off of the 3rd post of the game.
Only if I were scum.
Originally Posted by
Deathworlds
We have no way to prove that, my definition of "some degree of thought" is at least a minute
And you can only speculate that based off of if I am scum. You have no proof, only misconstrued speculation that will deprive town a voter.
Short, rhythm-breaking response of "only if I were scum" to DW's bragging, "
Depriving town of a voter" <--Dramatic phrasing
Originally Posted by
Stereo
Originally Posted by
PowersThatBe
I think it's strange that me and DW picked up on the same thing, and we both could be idiots, but I think there is some truth to it there.
Neither of you have picked up on anything, but you're running off of DW saying there is something when there isn't. As a townsperson I am expected to tell the truth and answer honestly, and I am being prosecuted as scum for doing just that.
juxtaposition of expectations of a townsperson and actual reads as a scum to emphasize injustice, "I am being
prosecuted" <--Dramatic phrasing
This leads me to scumread him more, in this game, because it's like he's making an effort to put on a show of being town. In contrast, when I played with him on Wheels of the Bus, he didn't sprinkle in the sort of Reagan-y (or Bush-y) voice of purity that he's doing now.
In fact, he even made a point of repeatedly talking about how he "wishes he was scum" and did an ironically bad job of "pretending not to be scum" in the Wheels on the Bus game, literally mocking his own "town overacting".
Originally Posted by
Stereo
Hi, my name is Stereo. I'm not as new, but my appreciation for lynching scum remains in tact.
(softing scum by referencing his opening to the scumgame he won)
Originally Posted by
Stereo
I am so glad that we both share an interest in lynching the scum. I am most certainly not a scum as well!
Originally Posted by
Stereo
Also it'd be exceedingly amusing if I flipped scum again this game.
Originally Posted by
Stereo
I wish I was scum. Although I think we should note that purebe changed the subject from an Orpz train to someone who has yet to participate at that point.
These posts (partially cut in places) make up over half of Stereo's posts on d1 of Wheels on the Bus.
This towngame is literally the opposite of his scumgame, and what he's doing this game. It's as if he feels a degree of cynicism about his own acting here lol. Yet he's completely returned to using that same acting unironically this game.
To reiterate, I'm not really scumreading him for using rhetoric, or even being melodramatic about acting town. I'm mainly scumreading him for repeatedly using this kind of "melodramatic town-claim" or "over-acting town" when his meta tells us this is entirely scummy of him.