In post 665, farside22 wrote:@Tammy: In regards to post 654; saying someone is easy to read = town mind set? I'm just more confused.
I'm going to disagree with most of your post here. You think people can't fake a read? You just going to ignore everything in this game and base it on how a person thinks now is just plain dumb.
Context is everything, and I know the context from where he's coming. He said "A little birdie told me Tammy is easy to read." Yeah, I see that as a town mindset. I know it comes from Team Mafia and I know that it comes from someone on his team. If I'm right about the person who it is, it's someone who can read me really really well. I replaced into a scum slot in that game. If he was scum, why go for the "I heard she was an easy read" why not mention me being scum in the game we previously played together? Especially since it's under similar circumstances - me replacing into a game that has some suspicion already. It just seems like it would be the more natural reaction for scum to say something other than "I hear she's an easy read" in this situation, and I wouldn't even be able to fault him for it.
Of course people can fake a read. I'm pretty sure that I said faking a read is extremely easy to do. I also said I'm interested in what he comes back with. How he reads me should give me better insight into his thought process and allow me to evaluate him better. I'm not just going to accept a read at face value.
farside wrote:
In regards to replacement reads changing, I think my best example of what I mean about your views not changing when you have a scum read on someone when another replaces in the same slot was how I was in
here where I welcomed the person saying hi I believe your scum, welcome.
I was being cute, but damn serious.
This game Slaxx has been ever changing reads with no reason's behind him. I see a lot of following from him and no aggressive scum hunting what-so-ever.
Okay I see what you're saying. (Hey! You were playing with Gertrude in that game. We play together at another site) Still, he basically voiced his suspicions of me when he said that my predecessor had soft claimed a protective role. And I still think his "Tammy's an easy read" thing demonstrated suspicion of me.
When I re-read him, I'll pay attention the scum hunting aspect. I still don't see a big deal about changing reads. Once someone tunneled on me for an entire day, tried unsuccessfully to get me lynched, and the next day called me his strongest town read for no reason whatsoever. It happens.
farside wrote:
Wouldn't he, as scum, at least try to give a reason for his change of reads so that he wouldn't look suspicious
Wouldn't he as town have reason for why he changed his views? Really. It's easy to follow along and give agreements and credence when you see people already suspicious of a player.
Are you saying you never never did that as scum?
Oh look who is not here during this exchange of talks in the game.....Slaxx/Psyche.
*Note for later* look to see if this was a trend all game long.
I don't know. I sometimes don't have reasons for why I have reads or change my reads. Sometimes I just read something genuine in a post and I have a read. I don't even know how to pinpoint it sometimes. And yeah, I've had people give me crap for it. But because it's something that I personally do, I can't fault someone else for it.
Hmm...I've actually only played scum 3 times, so it's kind of hard to say what I've never done as scum. But, actually as a general tendency, no. Though I have exploited general opinion, I'm more inclined to go against general opinion when scum not with (though I do this as town too).
Psyche being absent is troubling, and I'd like to know why so many people have such strong townreads of him.