In post 1305, Patrick wrote:Mina wrote:Also, I think you have a very real chance of being scum right now.
I'm not some kind of unreadable machine.
It's not just "well, HE COULD BE SCUM, NO ONE KNOWS!"
I'm aware this sounds extremely crazy, and I should probably preface this (mostly for the sake of Quilford's sanity) by saying I have the support of...um, exactly zero members of my team on this right now.
Which I probably shouldn't admit since this dilutes all the pressure, but still, FUCK MY TEAMMATES, THEY SMELL BAD. But saying this out loud probably doesn't hurt. I feel as though every step of the way, you've been the voice of "let's not think about this alternate theory, let's stick to the track even when things don't perfectly fit." And your posts are very reasonable, but have been kind of milquetoast in tone today, and generally don't say anything too controversial or far from the beaten track. And I'm worried, because I recognize that in my own scum play to an extent, in that I can fake having "good" (meaning saying the same stuff other people are seeing, regardless of accuracy) reads, but often, the lynch options are all weaker players who show flashes of towniness, and I won't entertain the option of the "generic" protown player being scum. "Boy, uh, this game is really hard! Oh, well. Let's just vote this easy target anyway. I'm sure he's definitely scum!" In particular, the most recent post I asked Molla about gave me those vibes really, really strongly. The opinions on it were all pretty conventional, and I can't pin anything concrete on it, but felt almost like you were glossing over the reasoning and just going immediately back to the conventional suspects.
I'm not sure who can be Johnny's partner, because literally everyone attacks him at some point, and now he and ETL are at each other's throats way too hard now. I just feel like it's a repeat of Alch, but I have no courage to vote anyone else, so...blah. I want to crawl under a rock.
I also don't like how your opinions on BPC and on BBmolla sort of followed the crowd and you backed away from pretty strong town reads on them (e.g., it feels like you downplayed how much you liked BPC on D1 when the tide turned against him on D2--yes, I know his D2 posting was pretty scummy). The thing is, I know I personally could fake stuff like annoyance at a town player claiming tracker really easily.
311 which we loved I realized is mostly related to emotions experienced as town in
different
games. And it's not all that hard for a competent scum player to fake convincing scum reads on players everyone else suspects.
Patrick, what other reads does Fenchurch have this game?