Breaking up my next couple of posts into a series of posts that way it would be easier to digest in it's entirety. As of this post I am on page 23 of this game which is near the end of D1 so these are my new thoughts and views on quite a few pieces of information and where I feel my mind is looking at things.
Throughout my re-read, I put a couple of people on ignore so I could read the game without much clutter and distractions. (Gheb/Ditzy/Myself) and continued to read things in a much clearer avenue and pressed forward going over posts with a fine comb. I realized through my read that I had a glaring error in my posts and I would like to apologize to that and that would be that Acro replaced Raz rather than him replacing WL like I had originally thought. WL was replaced by Swiss. Getting these replacements mixed up is something I am going to stop doing and going to make sure I have a comprehensive list of who is who now.
New replacement #1 = Acro = Raz
New Replacement #2 = Swiss = WL
Ranmaru = Town PR
Bardull = HBW = Nameless
There's a list for people if you every get confused on things later down the road.
Moving on, let's bring up things that are more relevant to the game. I meant to go on into why me mixing up Acro/WL is a big deal because it makes me look at things through a new window of who is who. I have a feeling that my reads are beginning to transpire into a bigger picture of who I feel is town and who is scum and I am going to make them hard reads now and make sure I am sticking to them for quite a bit. I'll also hope to explain why I have been withholding some reads on certain people at this point.
Maximum Carnage, this read is one I have made a note of not saying anything about and I feel it is time for me to speak up regarding it. Originally, I made a post saying that I was tapping my foot at a couple of slots and things and MC was one of them because I could see both the scum and town intent in his posts. I also have been connecting his slot to a similar slot based on their play and how they were playing and was waiting to see whether I feel their slot would lean one or the other. I was believing at the time, that MC and Nameless/HBW held one scum between them and after re-reading OS' walls and certain posts made by Nameless/HBW, I have come to the conclusion that MC is town. Reason I was also holding back is that I know OS has a good way of manipulating people who have him as town and also, personally, a player I respect among others based on his play in countless games. I was just protecting myself here around OS. Ryker I don't think has made many posts besides the one I pointed out, but nothing makes me shrink away from my ruling that OS's slot is town and I will probably stay with this feeling until concrete proof suggests they are town.
Which also leads into that I feel Nameless/HBW are scummy to me. I will be going into this more based on posts I bring up (mainly Sang's read post) and also Nameless' pushes towards Ditzy. I was reminded a bit of Marshy's play and how he plays as scum along with Sang's inconsistencies that does not line up with her careful play. Regardless of meta aside (which will be shown later), I have harder evidence towards why I find this slot scummy. Their push against Ditzy was completely unsubstantiated besides overblown hatred towards certain posts saying "LOOK AT HOW SCUMMY THIS IS." which makes me ponder. Marshy always has a reason for wanting to lynch people plus him challenging me to let him just run do his thing. Marshy was more concentrated on lynching someone, not finding scum. That's a huge part of this. His play isn't scumhunting, just looking at who the nearest able lynch was and who he could get away with pushing without much response or question. I would also like to bring up his constant buddying of me/Gorf and others but not questioning things besides "shut up and listen" which doesn't hold much of anything at all. Before people even bring up the notion of "lol that's just marshy.", you are correct in saying that this is "just marshy" but this is the marshy from Scott Pilgrim and DeadPool mafia. Look at the reasoning behind his push besides just lynching Ditzy to lynch him because he was "easy" and not because he actually found him scummy. He never even considered other sides of the argument when posts were brought up and continued on his tunnel-vision towards slots. I would care to also bring up his satiating of MC so that MC would not be looking at him, for at least a couple days, because MC would not lynch people he feels he could manipulate into getting what he wants. (hence case, D1 his feel on Scary would be an easy example)
What I want people to get out of this and question towards this slot is: Look at his methods and look at what is Marshy's end-goal towards the Ditzy lynch.
"Do you understand?"
FoS: Bardull
I need to evaluate Bardull's posts again and gather whether it either increases my suspicions or quells them.
I will go into why I visited Marshy/Sang N1, another time, if my claim is ever needed but that's not the focus here.
Dabuz is still my strongest town-read at this point in the game. However, I am not being blinded by the fact that there is a possibility of him being scum. I am just saying I choose to disagree with this theory until I see further proof of this happening. The proof I would need would be that DSH flips scum. If DSH flips scum, Dabuz is most likely his partner at the very least. Here is why I feel this. Their early game interactions reek of fakeness and trying to through suspicion off of each other with playful jokes but as soon as the first opportunity arises, DSH goes onto dabuz and says they are scum like a raving rabbit. That has continued through even D2. Dabuz and DSH have a weird thing of keeping each other at a distance but acknowledging their existence with non-sequential pushing of the slots in question (DSH on Dabuz. Dabuz' opinion on DSH seems to be null due to "hydra confusion). However, this is the vision I am seeing, I think Dabuz is town and I also feel DSH also leans town even if a bit misguided. What I feel is DSH (Ruy side) is completely misguided in his reads and is reading others incorrectly which I was informed before the game started from Marshy(basically he caught me up on some DGames history before I joined) and said that Ryu has exact opposite reads as town and reads scum as town and town as scum. That's what I am seeing in the case of Dabuz and his most recent suspicion on me, more so, because I know with 100% certainty that he is wrong on me. Dabuz has had a very clear and consistent train of thought and continues to ask question, I find, relevant to discussion. He is looking at different avenues but at the same time being considerate to many different approaches. I have a very hard time seeing scum-intent from Dabuz besides a connection case to DSH otherwise I like him as a town-read. I also have a bit of meta reasoning, but I cannot discuss it due to an on-going game. Once it ends, I will gladly go into this more.
After explaining two town-reads, another scum-read: Acro/Raz. Raz' input in this game was bare and incredibly lacking. His biggest post that held anything was a post about flavour because OS/Ryker asked for it. Plus most of his posts revolved around flavour or "time to derail the ****ty dabunz wagon?" or posts against Gheb's saltiness. Then Acro comes into the game and creates a bunch of fluffy posts that hold very little content and continue to not do much until his post on me. His post on me and his pseudo-defense on Scary make me feel they are more likely a scum-pair. Acro never directly comes out and says it but he has been actively defending Scary by taking away pressure from my push on him and trying to discredit it but always coming short in reasoning since most of it is based on how "I am doing things wrong" or my "meta of ferocity" which isn't even true in the slightest. I have not been as ferocious as I have come to be known to be on my lynches. I would like to point out a meta flaw on Acro's statement on FFIX mafia as well and that would be, my push on Acro stemmed from his claim of being a town voteblocker and lynching him because his role was "anti-town" rather than dealing with his play. I also find it very odd that he chose to bring up his own meta in order to defend Scary in my push against him. It seemed like he was trying to make his push more relatable by mentioning he had "personal experience with this type of J" which isn't true in the slightest. I have been very lax this game in my point of view and not being adamant about a lot besides the Ditzy lynch. Acro is a scum-read of mine because his reasoning against me is bull, his defense of Scary, without trying to make it look like a defense, and his fluff walls that make it seem like he is generating content but not doing much at all. That is where I feel he is different as well. Unlike Joey who posts walls, his posts generate nothing besides towards posting to post. Then when we get into Acro's reads, he only has one/two that I can recall off the top of my head and that would be his scum-read on me and his present town-read on Scary. He has a similar thing that I disliked Marshy for when re-reading and that would be honing in on one thing and one thing only without trying to look for anything else. Has Acro brought up who I may be scum with? Has Acro brought up what he would care to look at if I flip town? Has Acro done anything to consider about my slot besides lynching me? The answer is No to all of the above. If Scary flips scum, I am deadset on going into Acro with having HBW on my watchlist while if Scary flips town, I still feel I have a case against Acro that doesn't deal with connections.
Separating Scary from the post above, I will have to admit, I am beginning to feel that I may be wrong on Scary, but I am not feeling that I am wrong enough to stop the lynch and look at a different push. Reason I would say this is because his posts as of late seem genuine rather than squirming scum. His claim does not make sense, however, with the information presented base on knowledge, Nabe/Gheb have divulged. I still feel from D1, his posts were reading incredibly fake and not truly what he was feeling. One thing that set up another red flag on him was his vote on Ditzy. His vote on Ditzy was incredibly opportunistic on getting people off of him and drawing attention to the opposing wagon who (maybe his scum-partner, marshy/sang) was pushing for and that would be Ditzy. Scary presented no reason whatsoever for his vote on Ditzy and just said he was voting him due to vibes if I am recalling this correctly. His reasoning towards his reads also come up to people who like him and people who dislike him. That would be presented towards his reads as of current. He dislikes me because I am pushing him, he likes Acro because he is defending him. He dislikes Dabuz because he is with me in lynching him(Scary). Then his final scum-read was on Gheb which he does not even explain. The rest of his reads are the rest of town besides the inactives which are obviously null. His reads have not changed in explanations from yesterDay and he still finds Gheb/Dabuz scummy BUT he has not pushed/questioned/looked at them as why they might be scum. Let's go into this though, on his most recent read-list he says "Dabuz = blarg while J/Gheb = scumbros". How did Dabuz go to being a scum-lean and who he would like to look at if I "never came in" plus what happened to his Gheb "scum-bro" read? Why did that come off the table and not even being brought up as a possible avenue if Scary does die?When talking about his scum-read on me, he just defers to Acro and says "yeah that" and does not question me or try to look into me further. I cannot fathom how a towny can be so vapid in their responses towards people and which is a major reason why I am seeing him as scum. The reason I stated at the beginning of this paragraph about Scary starting to falter his that there is a ring of genuineness in his posts, but that's the only thing that could make me falter is the reasoning that Scary is just really really really bad at explaining things and that he needs to clarify things better or that he is legitimately scum.
I think that covers Scary and Acro for the time being without going into some quotes I will go into later on and responding to Acro's case on me.
Continuing on, I like Nabe and Gorf. Gorf is more based on his D1 play because I feel he is looking for scum rather than trying to "look like he's looking for scum". And his play reads genuine and that he is playing by himself rather than working for a team. I don't have much to back up my feelings on Gorf besides I really highly doubt that he is scum based on gut. Nabe on the other hand has finally come to fruition like a flower. YesterDay his play was shocking and which is why I was okay with him dying because he was confusing and putting up a very different front from the Nabe I had been used to. However, toDay is a much more recognizable Nabe. I, particularly, like the fact that he, himself, is trying to generate discussion and getting people to answer his questions and pursuing avenues he finds fruitful. I think what kicked Nabe into gear was the Doom thing, so in a funny way, I'd like to thank whoever did that because I feel it truly brought Nabe into the game as a character and a force for town. I doubt he is scum because there is too much going for him to be town rather than not. By that, I mean, his intent is screaming town and not scum. If he was scum, he would just fade into the background and not care at all because he was doomed to die. Unless this is an elaborate plan for him to win the game before he dies or he hide his scum-buddies, I doubt this is the case by a very marginal number. In the end, Nabe is a pretty strong town-read while Gorf is a gut town-lean.
Swiss+WL+Whoever replaces/Gheb are easy so I will try to keep it short. Gheb is a town lean at the moment, Swiss is probably my only null besides Ranmaru. WL's attack on me is very poor and holds no weight, but I will go into that when I bring up quotes and then Swiss has yet to do much and won't ever now that he replaced out. I can see both town and scum intent from these two but the reason I chose to conciously group them with Gheb is because Gheb is in the same boat. I can see both the scum/town intent from either side and they are more null lean then Gheb being a town-lean and Gheb is a town-lean due to meta mainly (which is weak, but nothing much of Gheb's I can really dig into).
Vult is a slot I have no idea how I feel regarding his slot. I would have to say that Vult is in the same boat as Ranmaru/Swiss/Gheb where he could float between either being scum or town. I dislike that he doesn't have much in terms of content and his content is somewhat contradictory. He wants Scary lynched, but he has me as a back-up lynch. This does not seem consistent with his play even though he had me as a back-up lynch yesterDay when talking to WL. Plus the angles he chooses to push are...odd. Two points that I have saved for my quotes post would be that his push on Nameless based on one vote and then his push on me needing to answer something about meta regarding Gheb. Other than that, he's someone I just have my eye on more than Ranmaru/Swiss/Gheb.
IGMEOU: Vult_Redux
Moving on to the final slot, Ranmaru, is my strongest null. His play is so off than what I remember. I am with Nabe that Ranmaru is never one to swear and never one to become abrasive with people even when he finds them as scum. Obnoxious to a degree of stubborness, yes. Abrasive and rude, no. Town PR was a slot I was reading as a town-read but the more I try think of Town PR as town, it never comes as a full thought because I can't substantiate it well enough as compared to my other reads. Ranmaru is just an odd duck this game and I feel with connections, I will be able to tell his true intentions towards other players in the game. However, Ranmaru is not really taking a stand and making his own choices and decisions unlike he did D1 with the Ditzy push which is already a strike against him in the end. (I haven't read the part where I feel I am remembering he traded his vote to the Scary wagon but I am not certain so I will not comment on that). Ranmaru needs to do more but more of his own independent work.
Those are my views on all the slots in the game so in the end, I am still okay with the Scary lynch, I would also lynch Acro/Bardull at this time. I would investigate/shoot Vult and any of my nulls. I do not recall how long we have until deadline, but I will be trying to get another post up sooner rather than later which have quotes to help me back up some of what I am saying and also shed some light onto certain points in the game, I feel, need to be talked about more. (mainly regarding HBW)
I am out for the night, don't really know how long this post is, but it is my most up-to-date thoughts on things in the game. I still need to fine-comb read the most recent stuff since my break on mafia and will get into more recent debates with those posts. Have a good night!