Spoiler: My notes for replacing in... don't need to read if you don't want to
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Alright, I have a few major takeaways from catching up.
The first big thing is I have a strong townread on
Sotty
. 202, 269 and 371 are really noteworthy. This is someone that is actively asking the right questions and drawing the same conclusions as I am for the most part. She's officially my mason this game and I don't see how anything short of a cop report will get me to change my mind.I also have a strong townread on
ABR
. Having just played on a scumteam with ABR, I feel comfortable in my ability to read him. The three major points in ABR's favor: 1) I love him coming into D2 with passion and immediately putting his sights on Juls. Whether Juls is scum or town, he made an earnest attempt to stir the pot. 2) Despite some bickering with BBT, he knew enough to lay off when appropriate. I think scum ABR may have antagonized BBT. 314 is money. That screams town mentality. He sees a player he thinks that is town (I'm assuming) but going the wrong direction, and he takes the time to tell him straight up that he's off base and needs to cool off. 3) Starting the Skold wagon is a good townplay in the sense that, like the Juls wagon, we're trying to get the town pumped up again.I have a third strong townread on
BBT
. BBT's reread of the game from 242 - 252 would be hard to fake, I think. Maybe BBT is capable of it, but my best guess is that it is genuine. BBT is so analytical that him and the much more cerebral ABR are butting heads, but I hope these two achieve some sort of equillibrium that will get them on the same page. I see that hope in the Skold wagon. Additionally, I like BBT's being hard on everyone. I like that he went straight up to Sotty and got in her grill over supporting ABR too easily. That reads town. That does it for my strong townreads. I have two weak townreads. The first one is on
Zoro
. 98 and 100 are good catches, 100 especially. Although I do think Sotty is town, I think Zoro is giving her a good faith grilling this early on. His 284 is pretty close to townslipping in that it seems like he didn't realize that the BG was killed over the IC. Or that he forgot. Either way it's more likely to come from town than scum. 343 is okay. Additionally Clusk/sns
has just now moved up to a weak townread. I didn't have a lot to say about Clusk. I didn't think he was very bad or very good. sns' pivot to Juls was commendable though. I don't want to buy sns for town too early based on that, but 372 is a solid point as well. I can still be convinced that Clusk may have been worse than I remember, but sns is starting well. I have two weak scumreads. The first is
PeaceBringer
. 132 and 142 rubbed me the wrong way. I don't see where the Skold townread is coming from. This also ties into what's going on right now as his recent Skold vote is rather weak. I'd like him to have passion one way or the other. His lurking as of late seemed to contribute to stagnating the game and also letting ABR/BBT fight it out (two townreads of mine). The second weak scumread is Juls
. She starts the game off by attaching herself to ABR early on for no good reason in 32. The reason is that he is too pro to let an early wagon rile him, but she doesn't really give a helpful alternative. I did like her pressuring PeaceBringer early on, but she inexplicably let up on that for the poor alternative in PB (Brain). Then we have the start of D2 where, ironically, she falls into ABR's trap. 232 and 236 are all sorts of bad. She's way too focused on the votes on her. She opens the day with seemingly nothing to add despite the poor D1 performance. Sotty has to tell her to scumhunt because she apparently doesn't realize on her own that that would be a good move. Since this, she has been lurking and the slot is just not one I support as town.I have one strong scumread that I think has since outweighed both of these though.
Scarab
has been skating by this game and ignoring big, important events in this game. He's almost like the worst of both PeaceBringer and Juls combined. Check out 22 and 25 where he is selling a Skold wagon early on. Before Skold has a chance to even gain any steam, he undercuts it in 85 and votes townie PB (Brain) with a comment that the Skold and Juls wagons are bad. He doesn't explain why they are bad, even when asked to do so. This hurts the town's chances at getting multiple wagons during D1 as Brain is inevitably lynched a short while after. I'm ignoring his spat with Garmr as it has no bearing on his alignment. His 226 is pretty bad for an opening post to D2. No vote. No passion. Same as Juls in that it's just not someone that is interested in figuring out what went wrong. 264 is continuing in Scarab's tradition of ignoring important things (Juls wagon, ABR vs BBT) in favor of something out of left field. He criticizes Zoro in this backwards way that I still don't fully understand. In 283 we see Scarab dodging BBT's questions. This wouldn't be so bad except that BBT is one of the few players trying to get the game going and Scarab would rather stand in the way and prevent scumhunting from taking place. He then, strangely, votes BBT in 288. Neither Zoro nor BBT was on the Brain wagon yesterday, and we already know two of the players on the wagon were town. When you look at 311, you see that he admits to scumreading Brain, Garmr and BBT. Well, Brain and Garmr flipped town so the town thing to do is vote BBT on D2? For me, I think town would want to rethink their reads in the game. In general I strongly dislike his approach to finding scum so far, and it seems to be limited to doing it on his terms and not helping others or supporting much of anyone else. Go look for anything resembling a townread from Scarab. You won't find much of one. The closest thing is his odd 349 where he kind of supports Skold as a townread, but isn't confident enough to come right out and say so. Lastly, we have what just happened now with the sns' Juls vote. Scarab votes Juls instead of Skold at sns' request, but almost immediately unvotes when Juls replaces out. In 370 he assumes that only town Juls would replace out, but I disagree with that. Now he isn't voting anyone. I'm torn on
Skold
. He could go either way. I only made note of a couple of his posts. I think Clusk's point against him in 62 is good and Skold's response in 63 isn't. On the other hand, I liked his attack of PeaceBringer in 152 after PeaceBringer buddyed up to him. That really gives me town vibes. tl;dr = [
Town
]----Sotty--ABR-BBT---Clusk/sns--Zoro---Skold[∙
]--Peace--Juls---Scarab--------[Scum
]I didn't bother with Jeanne, of course. I hope we get a replacement that, if they don't read the thread, at least takes the time to read this post and makes an educated vote.
VOTE: Scarab
