Reads...and these are pretty much in order from top to bottom (though any adjacent reads are pretty much interchangeable with the exception of CDB):
TwoFace -
I was leaning on him being town before I started my catch up based on double voter. As I read through it seemed like the same town TwoFace I've played with and ID'd correctly numerous times before. The DV solidifies a town read here.
Hikari Link -
I just read him as town. I read his posts (game related...not biographical or theory related) and it's like he was reading my mind att when he
voted BYF. It looks like he is trying to solve the game and think things out. I liked what I saw from him in my last game (I died coughcough before he replaced in) and he was town. This feels the same. If he is scum I would be very impressed.
RayFrost -
Nothing to do with NTRPaul or RayFrost. This is all -Grey-. I thought he replaced in and made genuine efforts to make progress and was very like-minded to what I was thinking. He posted a shitload in a short amount of time and didn't care if he pissed anyone off as long as he was
Tarkus -
he was a non entity until page 15 and then he kicked things into gear. Clear and concise and not hiding what he's thinking which will help keep him accountable/read him as the game goes on. He could have stayed quiet with my wagon and let its momentum carry on but he voiced objection to it and tried to reign in the game. I know scum could do that for towncred but Tarkus feels town.
MortFeld -
I haven't really had a problem with any of Mort posts. I liked his early game efforts to get the game moving. The only real negative (aside from the activity thing I mentioned later which I'm not really that hung up on) is that some of the pushes he made on Gamma seemed unfounded IMO. Ex.
246 and
246. I'm undecided atm on Gamma and I still like Mort as town but I feel these two pushes are misguided.
MarioManiac -
Didn't really notice him much on my catch up...not a good thing...until
Post 770. Very similar to my thoughts on people. Like minded to me is good. Not sure why he was reading TwoFace as null at one point in the game but he's stepped up his participation after a slow start. Engaged and likeminded = tr for me.
ChannelDelibird -
nada. Was looking forward to playing with CDB but I suspect this will be a replace out. (Same with the RayFrost slot)
MMM -
Even though he has posted a lot he is kind of nul. I'm having a hard time finding a preponderance of good or bad stuff to push me one way or the other. I know people have called him out for a few things but he seems to explain himself out of situatiojns. Because he's town and there was no issue to begin with or because he's scum and can form decent explanations? IDK.
Gamma Emerald -
I didn't like him giving out early TR's on Mort and BYF (post 33?). Other than that...I know as I was going through my catch up I was feeling suspicion towards Gamma but in hindsight I don't think it was for anything he had done himself than as much as it was a residual feeling from all the suspicion (votes anyway) from others. Kind of a where there's smoke there's fire thing. I don't like his wanting to string me up to potentially make use of a tell which is questionable to begin with...would require that I actually flip scum...and would have required that I'd actually provided some content to work from. And as I had not provided any reads up to this point and as I am not scum...this was a pretty bad plan...smh. This "bad plan" is probably the main thing I dislike about the slot but I don't want subliminal omgus to cloud my view. Probably my weakest suspect.
Ircher -
It took 22 posts before I saw one with what I would consider any real game related effort and that was a vote on my slot for what appears to be meta reasons associated with 2 players (Titus and Transcend). So meta squared. Ugh. That seems worse than pre-flip associations. Then when people point out Titus read is based on meta, he produces a completely different set of reasons for suspecting Titus. All, but pt #5, which were not mentioned when he voted Titus. So looking for reasons after the fact to help justify read. Also not sure what his issue is with my role.
BigYoshiFan -
Didn't care for
Post 276 when I first read it and in hindsight...still don't. Not sure how the reasons given warrant a tr. Same with giving Transcend a tr for replacing out and what I perceived as buttering up to a generally concensus regarded TR (Hiraki). Stayed on TwoFace quite some time after double voter was confirmed without ever really giving a reason for the 2F vote in the first place...or even mentioning any consideration of the DV. Then BYF decides transcend is town but maintains a vote on him for 30+ posts. Only a little over an hour realtime though. It bugged me more when I first saw it but I'm not sure I see any motivation in it...it's just struck me as odd. FMPOV...if I'm town and I suspect someone I'm going to vote them because my vote is all I have and I'm judicious with it. If I decide a scum read is suddenly town...my vote is coming off in the same post. Or the next one. I.e. I don't vote or maintain votes on townreads. It just bugs me that BYF did. Like his vote being on a tr didn't really matter.
Whemestar -
I always think Transcend is scum. Not intentionally. And I'm not sure if I have seen his scum game or not to know if there's a difference. I didn't care for a lot of the reads he threw out. It felt like he was just throwing them out there to see if any gained traction. His
overreaction to an MMM scum listing seemed too over the top....fake. And his exit/not exit/exit was just too WIFOMy for me to give any kind of relief for. And Whemestar hasn't done anything of note since joining either.
So these are my reads as they currently stand. I think the only people I would actively support being lynched today would be Wheme, BYF and Ircher.
VOTE: Whemestar
