Went over a lot of d1 stuff and I'm probably going to be pushing on one of UT/Reck/Blair after some more reading (almost definitely not happening tonight). This is me just putting thoughts into words so don't expect it to be super coherent/concise/whatever, it's probably more for my own benefit of processing all this junk and being able to remember and think through it in the next few days than it is for telling people who to yeet.
Reck & UT feel like the easy answers from dayplay - they felt pretty non-existent through a ton of d1 and I think a lot of people look pretty damn town in the sections that they missed. AGar is willing to fight everyone in his early game posts and attacks Auro when Auro's posts are garbage while also not going into big explanations about it for potential towncred, GC feels genuine in his scumhunting and his reactions to people, (example from my notes: I like GC's posts on page 9 for town even though if I went into why deeper it would wind up being something like 'lazy at first but checks and corrects himself' being slightly more likely to come from town than scum which is dumb but I still like it).
Kmd's responses to farside and ABR look good to me early game too. The only tracker claim that I don't have a GUT townread on is actually VPB, but VPB went after Auro early and convincingly and both of Auro/farside acted a lot weirder around each other than they did with VPB. It's really hard to convince myself that VPB would think bussing Auro would be a good idea that early, and it gets harder when farside feels like she's half-assing the bus on Auro afterwards.
I do think that Reck's getting some maybe undeserved heat atm b/c he's the nail sticking out of the setup atm - his play certainly isn't spectacular but the votes on him feel lazy, like people are expecting him to claim his revelation and/or flip scum and then that magically fixes the setup somehow. I've got the big doubt about it making the game easier to understand at least, and if he's scum then imo he's scum more in spite of his early revelation claim than because of it.
UT I'm still not a fan of his hateboner towards the ABR wagon d2 - it still seems really unlikely to do anything positive for scum long-term considering how hard ABR was pushing Auro & VPB and it just feels like an easy way to attack people that didn't get on Auro's wagon. He's had some sporadic good posts and his Auro vote is fine. Both him and Reck I think act in similar ways to how they actually did d1 as either alignment in regards to the spamfest and generally not wanting to deal with it and missing decent chunks of the day, but I am a little surprised that UT didn't jump on Auro a little earlier?
Blair's at least simpler to explain - her day 1 posting was quite good, and her play since day 3 seems lazy and opportunistic.
Puppy's way of claiming his revelation seems dumb but a)I don't think him claiming it the way he did actually hurt the town in any way or gives him as scum an advantage given the role clownfuckery going on and b) the way he went along with voting and eventually yeeting Auro I REALLY don't think comes from scum.
Puppy post #826 wrote:thinking some more the auro case doesn't hit right, i don't agree that lots of low-effort posts mean scum or that his posts are particularly low-effort. but of all the major cases presented so far (vpb, blair), the one on auro is "least wrong" imo
This post is VERY IMPORTANT in context b/c of Porkens freak-out and basically solidifed that Auro was going to claim and wound up pushing Auro into actually getting dead
In post 1098, CantHateAPuppy wrote:fwiw auro should claim now, a lot of the game rn is held up on abr trying to get this claim and the threat of l-1 so i want to see what happens when there is a claim
