Shadow
Thor
Lucca
Penguin
Creature
MissTerry
BlankFace
Hark
Reasons--
This slot started out OK. I liked Draynth’s questioning of Creature’s IC-fascination. I liked post 101 where he pointed out all of Creature’s IC-focused posts. After that he disappeared and never delivered a promised reads list. When Shadow took over, he immediately put me at L-1 while admitting that he hadn’t even read the game yet. I also don’t like post 326 or post 327. Or really any of Shadow’s posts. He admits he isn’t reading the game, won’t answer questions, and then asks questions that have already been answered. Not one of his posts helps town.
I don’t think Thor’s lurking early game is scummy. I think he legit missed the game. I’ve already said as much in post 208. However, his play is so nitpicky and he twists players arguments around in a way that seems to lead to town confusion rather than clarity. I really did think he wasn’t scumreading me, and was just pushing the main wagon for most of this game. But Thor’s insistence on assuming the worst and inability to consider other points of view is not pro-town. Town trying to find scum is likely to second-guess their reads. There is zero evidence of second-guessing in Thor’s posts.
Lucca has 10 posts. Didn’t deliver a promised “big catchup” (post 233), and in fact hasn’t even posted since making that post.
His read on me is wrong, but he is watching the game closely and is asking town questions (unlike Thor who just asks gotcha questions). Examples of Penguin’s town questions: 169 and post 220. I had a town read on Penguin until he claimed that BlankFace’s reads matched the reads that were important to him. I find it odd, because the only reads they share are that Penguin and MissTerry are town. How are those his most important reads?
MissTerry has a vote on me and the only reason ever offered was in post 157. And it’s a terrible reason to vote. I know it’s her first game, but still. Her other content (what there is of it) is not super helpful, but also doesn’t scream out newbscum.
I don’t understand Creature’s obsession with the IC. I made a joke about him being me when he first posted it, because in my last game Drixx was IC and he was lurking. I pushed him for it and he showed up and tunnelled me unsuccessfully. So yeah, I don’t like lurking ICs either. Creature’s reads jump around a lot. His read on me has moved from scum to town to scum. Right now I can’t tell if Creature is scum being opportunistic or town trying to read the game.
I really didn’t like BlankFace’s lurking early on. It lead me to vote for him in post 233. But post 266 and post 274 look town, even if he did have mixed reads on me. It looks like town trying to figure out the game, not scum constructing artificial reads.
Someone said Hark jumped to my defense after distancing earlier in the game. The truth is, Hark has been defending me as town since post 160, and had a town read on me earlier than that. But that isn’t why I’m town-reading him. Hark plays like newbtown. He isn’t afraid of saying what he thinks even if, at times, it doesn’t make perfect sense. He is trying to figure out the game. And his reads seem to correspond to the actual game being played.