Head's up, I wrote this during the night-time, before Circus' flip/etc.
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So I am writing this post during the Night Phase of the game because I am bored and I cannot sleep so let me just flesh some things out because I was wrong on BW and that does perplex me. I think my problem was I was giving way too much credit to his genuineness and by reading his early play as genuine I put that read on auto-pilot and continued to just think as such throughout the rest of the game without truly reading his posts. It's a problem I have with town-reads most of the time because I turn them on mute unless they become a part of a debate with a scum-read of mine. Kind of glad I was not here around the BW lynch because I honestly would have tried to cockblock it and that would have been a misfortunate misplay on my part. This game is just going incredibly fast and it's weird because I keep thinking I have more time to read, but by the time I get in a lynch has already occurred.
Oh well, that's in the past and time to move to the present. I had to do some re-evaluating of some reads, but with BWscum, some puzzle pieces fit much more clearly then I originally had thought because I had blinders on him. However, one of these reads may be gone so a little section of this post may just be moot since they are no longer with us. I am sold on certain reads which would be RazTown, KantyTown, RuyTown and I want to say FannyTown as well. That would make 5 slots town by process of elim. Kanty and Raz are the only two I would consider later later later later later later later later down the road due to two things: One, Kanty has become much better at bussing his partners (a.k.a. My experience and blinding myself to his slot a bit till the end in FFT2 mafia) and then Raz because there is something nagging me about that slot, but I cannot put my finger on it. When I have in my town category I feel like it fits, but I wonder to myself if I am actually just wanting to make it fit like I did with BW. For now, these reads can be my solid towny reads. I have changed my read on Frito (a.k.a. just Ruy) because their play during the BW debate turns them way more towny in the light of their other, albeit, confusing play because the thing that was holding me is the fact the slot's early play had be befuddled while there was also the fact that Ruy made them ISO on Circus and tried to contort every way into a scummy vibe. The more I look at it (after reading it about 5 times...lol) the more I am seeing that he is just a misguided townie with his thoughts all jumbled up. Scares me a bit though that he had a right read in BW because through logic and past performances, this should mean that he is scum haha. (Kidding, of course)
Finally I would like to talk about Fanny in more detail because he is a read I seem to have been reading wrong due to tone and not being careful enough while reading. Since I only have this game going now, I can truly focus on things and get to the nitty gritty of people's posts. Fanny is town because his logic is very sound and is ringing very true to what I read in F&L2 mafia and reminds me of the play that I fought with marshy with that you were town. Fanny's play is asking very good questions and getting to the right avenues that look like scum-hunting from a townsperson. The more I think about Fanny and the more I type about him, the more he is easily becoming one of my strongest town-reads in the entire game. He is asking questions that are even making me squirm as a townie because some of the questions I do not want to answer because I am on a tilt so far this game in terms of reads. (well 1/3 so far, but one being a scummy is a big deal for me, nailing a town read is lame because the odds are greater) So for now, I am trusting Fanny's opinion a lot and holding quite a considerable amount of weight into what he has to say.
That just leaves quite a few slots actually. There is Gorf/BP/NH/Joey/Circus which is sadly half of the players. If I were to take a guess at this point and it's kind of a shot in the dark I would eliminate BP as possible scum. I just do not see Ditzy as scum this game and I do not want to lynch him. I would need hard evidence to lynch them or even consider them. I am glad they dropped their shtick though because it was confusing me mor ethan most hydra slots do. I would like to hear what Gheb's opinions on things are since it seems to be being run by Ditzy lately and I haven't seen much in terms of reads. The only thing that makes me pause from putting this slot into directly a town read would be the fact that he had voted for Frito to be lynched yesterDay instead of moving his vote which could look like a notion to cockblock a lynch on the scum-buddy and the fact that they are fading more and more into the background of the game now that more than a lot of people have begun to town-read them. I will say it's this sentence that bugs me the most:
Hmm no can do. I've got my orders from the philosophic league of gentleman and Ryu is still at the top of the list, NH on the other hand is not.
Because it implies that he wasn't even considering a BW lynch and would have let a NL go through instead of lynch him. The reason I think this could be more likely than not is because he came back into the thread knowing that deadline was that night because he posted after Raz' frantic posts of announcing the time of the deadline. Idk, this is just a slot that I am thinking of in the back of mind over that of others.
Gorf, weird slot. Probably in the same boat as Circus. With BW flipping scum I have these two lower on my "like" list. I was letting them skate in terms of my reads but Gorf is just not showing me anything that is bursting with towniness. I really liked his case on Frito in the beginning but he has been too malleable with his voting record and would move his vote just by being asked about it. I just don't see his gusto or his wanting to lynch someone or be a towny. I remember having this problem when reading him in F&L2 because his play has changed dramatically so I am just going to go on tells that I think I can gain. Whenever I read his slot, I just keep wanting more after that D1 case and he just is here to say things or move his vote, but I cannot see his end-goal. I do not get the intention that his end-goal is to lynch/find scum but he is being rather lazy in his thought process or just wanting to HBC people because it is an easy way to get things done. Does he makes sense as BW's partner? I do not know if I can say for certain. The thing that is not making me want his head as scum is that I can see certain gears turning to either do one of two things: A.) Change his opinions on people for genuine reasons or B.) Change his mind in thread to appease the town consensus. At this time I am feeling more the former of this slot. I still have my eye on him though.
Circus. I want to like him, but his not being here and not doing much and the only notable thing I can recall of him is the fact that he wanted to lynch Frito. I can understand this a bit due to the case he has and Circus' tunnel nature that he can get, but at the same time I cannot remember much from him. I liked the way he responds to questions but that could be because Circus' is one of the stronger players and knows how to say things without leaving himself open to investigations from other slots. Him and Gorf would be what I consider my nulls this game. I could go either way on them being scum or town, but what I need from both slots would be just more posts and more concrete foundations to build a paper trail to. That is a paranoia theory I am having towards Circus. A lot of his good posts are just posts with sound logic and not that of him having sound scum-hunting. There is also this vibe I am getting that he is purposefully not trying to leave behind a paper trail to anyone in the event that he is lynched. The only player I can recall him having a legit connection to is Frito based off his vote onto him and that is about it. I do not have much else to say as in where his reads are or where his head is. It is just, meh. I know he said he is going to be inactive (and trust me, I can totally understand) but at the same time, when he is here and posting, I want more actual things. Actual questions being asked. Talking to more people. Having a good hard stance on any slot that isn't Ruy.
NH, I just get bad vibes from this slot. However, I would like to take this time to truly go into why I feel the way I do regarding this slot. Their pushes this game are nonexistant. They are here, but not here. They let others do the work for them in "what they want" in terms of scum-reads, but they have not yet focused down on why they want the person they want dead. It looks more like scumMarshy phoning it in while Nabe posts every now and then. Plus when this slot is town, I recall them being way more involved and also way more involved in their character if they were town trying to scum-hunt. Nabe said he was busy with life a lot (and in the V/LA thread) so I will give him that like I have to Circus. It is just that when this slot does post, there is nothing but just cajoling the lynch that looks most likely to happen and just helping move it forward. They are just adding oil to the fire and then walking away like nothing happened, but can say they were a part of it if it turns out to be favorable for them. There has yet to be a push from this slot that is "their own" or at least in some way shows that they are independently trying to find scum in a way. One final reason I would say why I do not like this slot is because of the fact that there has yet to be a single post that made me want to think of them as town or have them as town.
Joey, probably my biggest scum-read at this point and it is mainly for not a lot of reasons. I still detest his post on flip-flopping on KWK but that is all he has done this game and that was on D1 of the game. His vibes throughout the entire game has just not been here and I do not know for certain if he is just busy with life or that he is actively avoiding the thread which makes me want to think he is actually more likely to flip scum than not. The only time he has come into the thread on D2 would be at deadline and to vote BW at that which makes me believe that he has been reading the thread, but not commenting on things but saw an opportunity to try and gain some townie points by being on the BW lynch and being on the wagon. He has not come into this game at all yet and has not scum-hunted at all. That is a big problem for me, on D1 he was making a lot of hot air over KWK but that was just to net his lynch it seemed instead of actually trying to give Kanty a fair chance into the game and just looking to gain some early cred for "looking like he was doing work". It is something that I am remembering is more like scumJoey than that of TownJoey that asks questions and looks for scum rather than just fade out and not do anything and flip-flop on reads so harshly just to vote them for a lynch without providing any other reads. I have no idea where this slot stands and I also had no idea that he was feeling a BW lynch. I would say Joey is my highest priority to push right now and would love to see his lynch occur out of the lot. There is also a scum-read that I am trying to feel out for more here and that would be his vote on Gorf and his dislike for the slot. I do not know where this came from or where exactly he was going with this. Just a lot of weird plays coming from Joey and I do not like it at all.
Vote: -Masquerain-
My vote will continue to be on Joey for quite some town. I will however join a NH lynch
That is all from me at the moment. I hope this helps gets my thoughts acrossed more at the current time. I know people will have questions for me regarding BW since I made such a bold opinion on him being town and will answer those promptly when asked.