In post 304, Skelda wrote: In post 303, RoyalApe wrote: In post 279, Skelda wrote:Well, CMK, I don't think having townreads is particularly suspicious and townreads can be useful because they tell you who not to lynch. But I'm obviously a bit biased. You are very good at making convincing cases though. I might be convinced if I didn't know you were wrong.
But you see, having a lot of strong townreads on people gives you fewer scum options right there, and in a game where I don't have a whole lot of strong scumreads, if I have a townread I'm going to say something. Right now I'm feeling RoyalApe, Dry-fit, Toby, and/or Mr_Blonde for scum because pretty much everyone else has at some point given me something that feels genuine. Isn't finding town a valid way to find scum? I think townreading is easier than scumreading. AND both Dry-fit and Mr_Blonde are on the Chaos wagon, which is, as far as I'm concerned, a scummy place to be.
Town reads are valuable, but yours didn't seemed to be based on much.
Which of my townreads aren't based on much?
Your 2nd post of thread
67 claims farside is town because he genuinely seems to believe his replacement theory. Even if farside is scum, I would expect him to look genuine in pushing his theory especially early. He wouldn't have had time to be inconsistent yet.
You state that Jogger is town because he decides to unvote because he's showing frustration and has no idea what is going on. You state it is clearly a town tell because you feel the same way.
131. Just before this, in post
129 you state that you don't like to think of people who agree with you are scum. Your town read at this point seems to be projecting your feelings onto a single post of agreement.
In posts
67 and
128 you are reading Beli as scum. In
133 you are already starting to give Beli town credit. By
174 you say he is talented scum and we should keep an eye on him, but posting an example of evil play is too town to ignore. You state that AFF is "just town". That is super insightful, really.
You call Chaos and CKD town in
296. Chaos because he sounds like he believes everything in his posts even if it is wrong. CKD is town because he has convincing arguments and because "heck, most of these people are town".
I have no problem with the thought that people can be wrong and be town. Odds are that wrong people are town because they are not working with as much info. I think your turn on Beli makes some sense if you believe that providing an example of prior scum play is something only a townie willing to be transparent would do - but even then you are hesitant to call him a good town read, you still want to keep an eye on him.
Your town reads on AFF (just town, really?) and Jogger seem to be out of nowhere. Your reads on chaos and CKD for believing what they say and having convincing arguments? Scum does that too.