Thor's Big Wall o' Reads and Random Blather
(patent pending
Vintermute
- A lot of the reason you ended up dead was that you tended to speak before thinking, and also that, Day 1, most people thought Mirhawk was town. Overall your play really wasn't bad, it's just it wasn't brilliant either and that put you into the cross-hairs early. You really didn't do anything bad (except maybe that hammer thing...and that may have just been me) and the only real improvement that immediately comes to my mind is simply: play more. You'll get better and then you'll be even less likely to get lynched Day 1.
Mirhawk
- Obviously the biggest mistake you made was in submitting the kill
That said, there's a reason I opened up Day 2 saying I wanted to lynch you or Uct, and that was your push on me Day 1. One of the biggest 'mistakes' I see newer scum make is this: they want to make sure their cases look legit, so they invent cases, come up with reasoning, and stick to their reads. The issue is, scum often stick to their reads in...odd ways, and I think you did that this game. You and I were having a discussion and I proved part of your case to not be valid and...nothing changed in your read. That's odd - note this last Day phase where I was okay lynching Zab, then a post was shown and suddenly I thought Zab was basically confirmed town? That's a town reaction - look at evidence, and if evidence changes what you think...well, good, let it change it! I would suggest trying to work that fluidity into your next scum game, I predict even less suspicion on you then, as your Day 1 play was otherwise really awesome.
Penguin_Alien
- You played a fine game, but came in at a point where the PoE was getting deadly and everyone was acting like obv. town and leaving you alone in the cold with no blanket. I, sadly, don't have a lot of brilliant advice for that, because there really isn't too much that can be done. I suppose my advice would be to argue about one of the town reads and try to stretch out the day - usually when I manage to win as scum in that sort of setup it's because I keep the day running long enough to allow town to start doubting their reads as people say derp things. Other than that (and suggesting Mirhawk do the kill
) you played an awesome game. I'll actually admit that I would have been happy with Uct death though...
Edosurist
- You played a super solid game here and were discussed by scum as a the top kill with me, and both of us were bandied about as threats of roughly equal/superior level to the two claimed PRs. Wash yourself in awesomesauce, my friend, you just played an awesome game. I literally have nothing I see as really needing work. Now, the hard part, try to do this every time you're town, and also when scum
Leviathan
- You were a weaker member in a town filled with players playing really strong games. You were NOT playing bad, you just weren't playing like a superstar (or as a claimed PR). If I had to point to something that was bad about you it would be this - I think you play a game that makes you look like town...but doesn't make you able to lynch scum. You always sounded unsure and nervous about your reads and posted in a way that made you look weak and harmless. That will help you live through the game, but it won't help you get people to vote scum and it also won't make scum fear you and NK you (which, as VT, is what you're supposed to be doing). Work on trying to sound more confident - even if you're not confident, just fake it a bit, but tha will earn you more respect and help you actually get to decide who is lynched by more than just your vote, because you'll control other votes.
Zabriel
- Don't be a lurk-sack man... Really, the best thing you had going for you was that Mirhawk thought you were a weak enough lurker he could get you lynched easily. To my mind, besides maybe Vint, you played the weakest town game - even though your posts were all good and well reasoned. It was the lurk that made you weak and a lynch target. I understand that not everyone can post to the levels I do (and, indeed, that's probably a good thing) but at the same time you want to post enough that people feel you're involved with the game. Even just a consistent one post a day (which you ought to be able to do, and if you can't you should play in less games at once) will go light years to making you a more functional town presence. I will say you did an awesome job in admitting you shared my Mirhawk issues, because you gave me a wagon to work with - like I said, your posts were good, it was your regularity that was weak.
Uctitron
- If you weren't the Doc you would have had issues this game...issues of rope stretching neck. First off, like I'll eventually also grumble at Slimer about, your decision not to listen to my advice on who to Doc was bad. Note that it left you thinking Slimer was scum (even though you had no evidence that supported that conclusion) and also that you ended up putting the much more powerful PR at risk. At that stage of the game you were a top suspect and the weaker PR - your job was to annoy scum and get NKed in a way that would leave town knowing what happened. Dear lord, if scum had figured you for a liar or someone who wouldn't listen to me they could have shot Slimer, and you would have been lynched Day 2 and this would have been a *totally* different game. Also, Day 1 - your push on Slimer was rough, he was clearly not going to be lynched, and you actually weren't trying to get him lynched that hard, but you left your vote on him for a lengthy period of time which was all just useless time. If your vote is on someone then try to get that person lynched with your words - and if you're not doing that do something useful with your vote. On the plus side, this all went well anyway, and now you can see some of the reactions from scum in their QT and understand how, as a suspected player, your job was to die leaving town a clear trail to follow. I will admit I liked your posts - when you did make them (don't lurk) you made them very clear, succinct, and pro-town...something other players here could learn from
Slimer
- Your jail of Uct Night 2 was silly. Yes, you saved his life, big whoop. If you had jailed Zab, or Levi and Uct had died we would have had confirmed town Zab/Levi to add to our pile of 'obv. town' Thor and Edo. If you had jailed Penguin we could have had a repeat of Day 2. You went off the tracks and robbed us of info, because your jail info became useless. As I pointed out, the only way your info was helpful was if you were already convinced that Uct was town or was scum - and you were not convinced of that, so... I found your play overall to be good, but mixed with you seeming to think some things were better than I think they were. A number of your comments left me going 'egads, I want that slot dead' because you were stating things I thought of as anti-town. Now, in the end, you were respectably accurate with your jails, and you claim to have been very accurate with your reads (though you didn't state them too loudly for the rest of the town, which was awkward). If your style helped you do that, then I would encourage you to stick with your style because clearly it works. If you are overplaying how clear those reads were, then I would encourage you to look at the comments I made about you during the course of the game - because I think they could help you. I would, at the very least, note that the only reason you were not lynched was you were a PR *and* I fought to avoid your lynch. No matter how you cut it that is not good, your style should not need to rely on being PR and having other people defend you to prevent a lynch Day 1. I do suggest you look at my comments about you Day 1 and see what you can adjust and still maintain your style.
Overall I think mostly everyone played well. We had bit of lurk and a bit of the usual newbie 'herpy-hey!' in the game, but everyone clearly was playing to win and even advancing cases and thoughts of their own without too much screaming from me (and that is MAGICAL! let me assure you). I would not only be happy to play with any of you again, there's a fair shake I would be excited to play with again, and I do not always say that at the end of a game. So kudos to the lot
If anyone wants me to expand on any of these thoughts, or to answer a specific question about my play, or to really blabber on about anything else, just ask. I'm here as a resource for you post game as well as during it. Ask here or via PM, and I will answer to the best of my abilities.
