I prefer the term 'passive'In post 1497, schadd_ wrote:klick hasn't ever made me feel particularly like they're town. they don't have much of a sense that they're reacting to/processing how the game is going, and especially for d2 that seems a little bit more true than the replacement gives it reason to be. like when you hop in when there's stuff going on, you have the choice of keeping up with the present and getting the ball rolling quickly or just rereading the old stuff. maybe thats a personal choice, i don't know. it seemed like they were playing very uninteractively.
This is something I'm very conscious of and it's something that has gotten more and more true about my play over time; I've found that most active probing and questioning doesn't really wind up influencing my reads, and I get the most accurate reads when I look at everything and filter it all into stuff that I believe is actually alignment-indicative vs not. It started as a way of coping with games that moved way too fast for me but I've now just found that it works better for me as a style.
