In post 248, Antihero wrote:>my gut rxn from his "omg i'm this eccentric and random wizard from the moon, isn't that cute?" shtick is that it's overwrought for the purpose of showmanship given i haven't seen any flashes of it that feel... natural...? idk what the word is
idk i think he's just a moon-logic-y player tbh and i can buy that he's using this sort of thing to form reads; the first game with him i scumread him for it because i didn't know any better but this is like the sixth(?) game i've played with him and this is kinda characteristic of him i think
as scum he's also moon-logic-y but i think he's less likely to commit to either of his sky reads this strongly as scum; i don't really feel like early game as scum he tries to take control of the gamestate, he's just more kinda there; ime he becomes more galvanized into action as scum when he's under pressure
like the moonlogic-y behavior you're describing i think is just his playstyle, and i think that being *convicted* of it is more likely to come form town
In post 248, Antihero wrote:>the whole initial angle on skygazer felt like pointing out things that are antitown (hypoclaim traitor and call to lynch the IC) but don't really even have superficially apparent scum motivation
what do you think about the people following him there (ie me + ruru + someone else i forgot)?
i kinda think that there's traitor-motivation of being conspicuously scummy tbh; i don't think there's regular-scum motivation really
i absolutely believe that this is a thing that a50 would use to form a read
i agree that he feels kinda like overly confident in his 'i've poe'd the game already to these four people' but at the same time i kinda agree that i don't really townread those people yet and also i don't know if he poe's like most of the game this early as scum
this is the sixth(?) game i've played with him and i've only been wrong once - the first game i played with him where i scumread him for the moonlogic and claiming bg on the like fourth page of stack-the-deck (mathdino's stack the deck; open 711 iirc)
two jungle-republics ago (open 712 maybe? i forget the number; the mod was mutantdevle), he repped in day1 and basically as soon as he did i death-tunneled him until we lynched him day2
he also has a known alt - ap - who i've played with twice
open 721 - i was kinda wavering on reading him for a while and tended to town on him but as soon as i figured out who ap was an alt was i had him as hard-town
last jungle republic (open 725 maybe? mod was arcangel9)- he also played under ap i think. i was kinda undecided day1 but i started day2 casing him and death-tunnelled him there too (to be fair i don't know if he would have gotten lynched there if he hadn't incidentally been guiltied n1, but i kept prodding the seer to wagon him with me to the point that the seer kinda gave up and outed the guilty; see ap's 'plan' after that for another example of moonlogic)
so all-in-all i think i'm fairly decent at reading him and overall i think he's town here