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Bowie - Show me a single instance of a single mafia ever
exclaiming at the flavour of their role. You won't be able to, because this sort of comment is impossible to back up as mafia, and consequently only ever comes from town. I've got him as lock town and so should you.
AmazonEvan - Interesting fact. Directly after posting my much discussed "town crack" post, I spent a good amount of time not touching the thread, due to being busy irl. In this time, I started having paranoid thoughts about whether or not what he'd done was actually a towncrack. I weighed and considered the possibility of him behaving like that as defensive mafia, and became quite unsure of myself. In this period of reflection, I'm ashamed to admit one of the key driving thoughts was that I had spent little enough time playing mafia recently that I was worried that I didn't know how to interpret posts anymore.
Needless to say when I returned to the thread and I saw literally everyone else locktowning him because of that post, I felt relieved and invigorated that maybe I'm not a retired mafia gramps.
Since then plenty of his comments screamed town, especially his ones regarding night kill amounts and night kill targets, and I'd be nothing short of floored if he flipped mafia at this point.
KermitTea/Karen - Last post going full conspiracy theory laying out every single possible scenario and expounding on her thoughts given each scenario, how likely it was to be, and what it would imply if it was just reeked town to me. I could clearly understand her thought process through the post and really doubt she'd go that far as mafia - it's just not something people townread. the motivation behind that was trying to organise her thoughts, not attempting to appear like she's producing content.
This is definitely not an intuitive read, but I'll stick by it.
Zendel - Kinda embarrassed by my post regarding him being framed, because a) as Kat pointed out, as Kat pointed out, Jacob wasn't scumreading him at the end of the day (something I'd missed from lack of time), and b)
Zendel was absolutely confused as to what I even meant.
The reason I have him as light town is partly because of the post hyperlinked in the sentence prior - he demonstrates town confusion and earnest behaviour. This is by no means a strong read, but it's definitely a town read.
Heyden - This is kind of a weak read, and I originally put him as null, but I moved him off after thinking about it for a bit. (And consequently had to rewrite this whole portion. The original piece I wrote is coloured grey and is in italics after this piece)
This read primarily stems from how well I vibe with his reads. Now, for a stronger player (ex glow) this wouldn't be as much of a towntell, as they can create genuine lines of logic as mafia. But this level of transparency as mafia for a player like heyden is (no offense Heyden) much more difficult.
This might look like a copout, but I have a lot of trouble reading Heyden. I don't think he's really produced an alignment tell the whole game. While he was the first person to mention bowie's exclamation over flavour, most of his reads didn't strike me as particularly great. Could be overthinking an easy townread here but I'm just not seeing it. Glow once told me she was great at reading Heyden. What're your thoughts here Glow?
Glow - Initially I townread her because I could understand the thought process behind her posts. I don't recall whether I mentioned this or not, regardless, the more I think about it the dumber that read is. Glow's good enough to fake legitimate content as mafia. Now, that being said, I would still have her as a slight townread - because I'm such a sucker for being able to put myself in someone else's shoes and for it to make sense - except for the fact that I really don't like
her pivot onto Bowie.
I feel like I should qualify here that the read she's talking about there (Declaring that it's weird/odd for someone to be townreading you) is in fact a legitimate scumtell. But considering the evidence of his exclamation about flavour, it's pretty irrelevant.
Cleb - Not going to waste my time writing a read on someone who's intentionally changed their playstyle to be petulant and unhelpful. I want someone to light a fire underneath Cleb so he actually starts doing something remotely useful.
Dolby - Sorry, I'm going to refrain from going down this rabbit hole here. I think his plays been sloppy, which is hypocritical considering I'm doing something nearly identical due to a nearly identical reason, but things would just make a lot more sense if he was mafia. I'm not going to attempt to drive this home, because I don't have the necessary time to juxtapose the information required to make sure I had accurate information in a case against him - just like he doesn't have the time to make a case against me, but he attempted that anyway. I don't want to make something as sloppy as the thing he made on me. I think he's mafia, but my time is much better spent grinding content elsewhere.
I especially thought it was amusing when he claimed I was going after newer players "because they didn't know how to defend themselves", when it's not particularly esoteric knowledge that the newer someone is, the more useful their reaction will be to people trying to read them.
SansaiGallade - People claim that I'm nitpicking here. People claim that I'm making a case out of something which is just a little off. People claim that I'm being opportunistic, or trying to ram home a lynch on someone that doesn't know how to stop it.
None of these are accurate. I'm shining a heat on someone who, from his overly defensive manner, has hidden information. Given that as jailer he behaved like a normal townie, this hints strongly toward him being mafia.
I initially had him as red on this read list, but the way he reacted
here scares me in that he might be someone who can't really handle being pressured, because an OMGUS like this and townreading of anyone that came to his defense like that is exactly how I would behave around 6-7 years ago when I was a horrible new player that really couldn't handle pressure.
One of the parts that make me hesitate most is that the way he's townreading Dolby for coming to his defense is object to how someone in his situation would treat a mafia team-mate. So it's less likely that both Dolby and Sansai are mafia.
Tl;dr I want to have him as read from how awkward and defensive he's been, but I'm worried that he just can't handle pressure
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Didn't have time to read up on:
Kat - remember having her as weak town though.
f11 - don't remember any of their content specifically.
I managed to x this tab part way through and consequently had to rewrite quite a portion of that. I was going to collapse and likely immediately fall asleep, but in my heavily sleep deprived and mind addled state, I've forgotten whether EoD is in 8 hours, or a day and 8 hours, if someone could clarify that for me, it'd be excellent.
Hopefully this post clears up where I stand.
P.S. usually when I write up these, I have a couple drafts and I redraft until I'm happy with how clearly each piece of information is presented, because especially in large posts like this one, it can sometimes be hard to get through all the information, so being as clear and concise as possible is useful. But this however is a first draft. I didn't check over anything, it's a giant mess, but it's better than nothing.
I'm staying put honety, lol.
