I quite literally do not understand why anyone would be town-reading TSO.
I pointed out all the things wrong with his play in an albeit rather
long-winded wall post that I probably could have condensed into finer points, but this is the basic summary of his gameplay thus far:
- The lack of content in his posts. This has nothing to do with how much he's posted but
what
he's posted. Just as an example, there is literally nothing in his ISO resembling a reads list. He's thrown out a handful of reads so far in a 25-player game, and of those reads, he's come close to elaborating on maybe three of them, if that. All of the others are just "X is town" or "Y is scum".
- Active lurking; this is to do with how much he's posted. His ISO isn't exactly short, but the lack of content in it is because he's spent a majority of the game trying to appear like he's posting content without actually posting it. As an example, his fight with House that dominated a majority of his posts early D1. It was petty and unnecessary and served as nothing more than an excuse for him to write posts that added nothing to the game.
- He's spent a large portion of the game complaining that people are scum reading him. Not scummy in itself, but when he's using this as an excuse to not post content (complaining instead of providing content), I can only see scum motivation (Imperium did a good job of pointing this out recently).
- Interactions with both the D1 PV wagon and Pumbaa look bad (detailed a little in the wall).
The key point here is that there is absolutely no town motivation in the way TSO has approached the game so far. No, I don't think I'm exaggerating this at all. I do not see any town motivation, whatsoever.
What has he done today? A series of pointless posts followed by
more
complaints that people are scum reading him even though he's posting more.
What I see in the series of pointless posts is him trying to appear, again, like he's providing content without providing any. For example, the questions to me about where the scum kill went. They were pointless. It's like he came up to me and said, "I found a balloon in the park today and I think aliens came from outer space and left it here as a message for us!" And I respond with, "well no, I doubt that is the case." And he starts asking meaningless questions like, "Oh yeah, then how did it get there? Why didn't you provide an alternate explanation? It's just lazy to shoot down my theory without providing your own!" Absolutely ridiculous thinking and an absolutely pointless line of questioning.
Further, as Imperium has pointed out, he's using the suspicion on him as an excuse for not providing content. Oh, poor TSO, completely unable to scum hunt when someone suspects him. Yeah. That makes sense. Nobody in the history of ever has been able to scum hunt when there are people suspecting them, so it's understandable this is why TSO has not been making any efforts.
I also have minor qualms with some of the things he's doing today, like readily agreeing to the neighborhood theory for no good reason and the way he's approached mastin's claim (it does not look like the genuine reaction of someone hard scum-reading mastin).
And I have qualms with the way he's dismissing me overall, but this is a bit harder to explain and isn't entirely necessary when it's a minor point at best.
I do not get how anyone sees town in this play.
