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Your Orbo and Maven reads dropped from null to scum. Don't just drop them down there (and Gheb up too) without mentioning why. Since it's clearly something you disagree with me on--to the point of it altering your read on me--I want something more from it than "it dropped xd"
Yep yep. Was just waiting to get to a computer.
As opposed to Ryker/others, I actually feel Orbo is scummy. You stated that he was scumhunting day 0, but I didn't get that at all. His holding off the day was awkward to me and did not feel like townie trying to get to the bottom of things, but rather scum trying to play pro-town. Calling to not end the day yet is a generic pro-town thing to say, but I didn't feel like he actually had any town intent behind it, especially when he was for the choice being made. There was nothing more to be gained from you v Ryker that couldn't have been as or more fruitful going into d1 and if he really felt there was something to be gained from Maven I feel he would have asked again for us to wait rather than giving in when you (or whoever did) called for hammer.
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I don't see why he makes a point of saying "hey guys let's not start d1 until we've finished up all these discussions". I don't see why he tries to ensure that you have everything on me and I don't see why he asks for more from Maven as mafia.
I can see at least three reasons for this:
1. The one I stated above. He felt it was a pro-town thing to do.
2. He was actually aiming for something other than his stated choices. We were settling on detective. Continuing the day only served against that. Also both you v Ryker and Maven's voice/vote were both geared towards pushing something else (tailor and poisoner).
3. PR hunting. I actually think that the theory behind this game (pyp) is opposite of its effect and that Day 0 serves scum far more than it serves town. The more people discuss their picks, the easier it is for scum to pinpoint the pr(s), because they know which pr(s) are out there. In marshy's pyp we (scum) were able to determine each of the pr slots and which was which all on D0 by stirring up controversy and getting everyone to commit to firm stances.
I should say at this point that my thought process is not that "orbo tried to delay the end of day 0 ; therefore one of these must be true", but I felt it relevant to diverge into this to show why his delaying in no way indicates that he is town as you suggested. Though I do get the vibe of #1 from his posts and lack thereof.
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All of Orbo's posts have felt incredibly awkward, the kind of awkward that spawns from scum trying to force content and I feel no scumhunting intent behind behind them.
Maven is less of a scum read and I'm not yet sure I'd vote for him. I still need to catch up on the latest of he v ran. My reasoning though at the time of my previous reads list is that his posts are all over the place and I do not follow the logic behind them, particularly his Orbo read and Ran read. His Ran read comes off to me as omgus and I get the impression that he is using the reason of suspecting those who pushed decoy merely as a means to justify it. This is evidenced by his read on Orbo. Orbo has not done anything to warrant a town read and he has him as one despite the fact that Orbo was out of the gates pushing Decoy.
That feels a little inaccurate. I can concede the reasoning is weak; I can't concede the reasoning isn't there. I have my reasons for thinking both are town but both are not very strong--that's why I think both are leans rather than hard town like other players.
Just to clarify for the sake of it, I meant that I also disliked Maven for the same reason: not having any reasoning behind his Orbo read.
Not really, we know there's no AG so there's only a single PR it could be useful against, a PR that's one of the least likely they'd give us. It'd probably have been the smartest move. Decoy is useful against every PR that exists.
You're not considering Bus Driver. Poisoner is immune to that as well. Without BG, it was essentially 50/50 in nullifying our role. Decoy is 1/6 Night 1 and scum are completely ignorant in whether or not they hit.
I understand the reasoning behind those who wanted to try and out guess scum with poisoner and tailor, but Decoy is really not as absurd as you're making it out to be.
Your scum leans are only the people who barely post? Is that the only reason? This is a ridiculously safe post.
Yes. No.
Catching up on the rest now.