I really like Elena's read on Gerry. The ones they've given on me and ABR honestly aren't great in their reasoning-for instance ABR's just seems like a conscious playstyle choice-but I can clearly see what they're thinking with Gerry when I read through what I missed yesterday.
Tywin has also gotten significantly better, ironically through me investigating his Elena SR from earlier. His progression actually made sense. It was a mostly gut scumread reinforced by something relatively weak objectively, propelled by that initial spark when you first get a scumread, and over time he seemed to naturally drift elsewhere
with reason
. I disagree with a lot of
#417, for example
why
he townread Vecna, but it reads very legitimately and is honestly what I'd expect out of the kind of player he's shown himself to be. This is a bit backhanded and condescending of a compliment so my apologies for that but it's what I think.
Socrates bothers me. I don't like his implication that something someone else in another game did applies cross-contextually to Vecna. I understand that mechanical posts aren't a towntell, but the way you (Socrates) were pushing it as a broader reason to discredit Vecna bothers me. In particular, lines like "You sit there and look pretty, Vecna" seem a lot like you're more concerned with him getting governor, and not you, than a true scumread. It was like you were running a campaign and barely cared what Vecna actually was.
Socrates's vote in
#446 was also terrible. He asked Tywin, his top townread, who to vote. Gerry, who as far as Ctrl+F can tell Socrates never gave a read on or said a word about alignment wise, suggests he vote Wood and Socrates immediately does so, 5 minutes later, without thinking. You're looking for Tywin, he doesn't answer, and in 20 minutes you just take what the first person gave you. To top it off, here's all he said about Wood,
#95.
VOTE: Socrates In post 466, Gamma Emerald wrote:Feel Prism might be Town with a bit of confusion. His delayed vote on Tywin feels like town who thought "I should probably vote this guy since I SR him".
This bothers me. I simply forgot to vote, but the alternative thought process you're describing is a scumtell: It's suggesting that I'm concerned with my appearance and that I should vote how people
think
town should be voting. How do you think your described thought process is a towntell?
P-Edit: Good vote, good reasoning.