I think in terms of my attempting-to-be-unbiased feelings on GL right now, they're something like this.In post 2072, morph the cat wrote:Your approach of taking GLs posts in the worst possible light was offputting to read. I'm curious how you go about reeling that back in and trying to look more objectively. You've said you are doing that (or something like that -- maybe my interpretation isn't great) or are going to do that, but if it's happening, it wasn't evident to me in your posts this afternoon.
I feel like GL is taking a wider view of the game than you are, and I tend to townread a wider view in isolation, though town tunneling is a thing and keeping the elim-pool wide has value to scum.
I don't think I've seen him do anything that he couldn't or wouldn't be likely to do as scum; I don't like the way he's been broadly approaching the game. This is the point I made a while ago that I think got lost in the weird ceph point thing but the way he talks about redtea and talked about imaginality still bugs me a bit in that it feels like he had been taking a sort of lazy/unparanoid tact. I am curious what you mean by his view of the game being wider; right now I have strictly listed only 4 slots that I don't townread to some extent but I've also said my confidence in my reads in general isn't great (I wouldn't be surprised at all if there's 1 scum in my townlean tier, probably wouldn't be that surprised if there were 2 even). But also that list is changing actively (eg I agree with the sentiment that meg's posting as of late is hard to pin a scum motivation to). I've been like "tunneling" on you since d1 in that I haven't seen anything from you that I think is town indicative really yet, but I haven't been like, pushing you.
This has gotten very train of thought but going back to GL I have like, a lot of little worries combined with this weird gamestate read where the game makes more sense as a whole with him as scum. The worries are a combination of things from the biased case (which if I'm unbiasing them are something like "things that seem perfectly sensible as a line of play from GL-scum" rather than "things that are clearly indicative of GL-scum" or whatever), some skepticism of his immediate strong reaction against me, skepticism about his view of the game seeming to be sort of "happy with the status quo" in a way on d1 around redtea/imaginality, the way he's been treating the redtea slot in general having very little nuance seemingly, maybe some more things.