Ace finally has a reads post, let's dig in.
Reads
T: Glow, Epona, Guava, Me
TL: Aerious Antonio
The rest: Endless, Tensu, Radical
Can you please give a single sentence (or more) of reasoning on why you have these views? It's all very well and good to assign names to alignments, but explanation as to the process of how you got there a) generates content with people agreeing or disagreeing to your reasoning b) helps people read
you based on how genuine or reasonable your thought process on your reads is.
(You have provided reasoning on some of the players already - such as glow, but a full restatement would be ideal. It's a big thread, people tend to miss stuff.)
Teams I don't see
Epona Antonio
Epona Guava
Aerious Guava
Aerious Antonio
Endless Tensu
Tensu Aerious
I've removed the two I understand, could you please explain how you garnered the rest of these? I can't really see them.
Which makes me think why Antonio force glow so hard, and then puff nothing, and also Antonio has been asking everyone stuff, saying that it will all come to a revelation, yet we are D4 one day before MYLO/LYLO idk which one to use, and nothing.
You just mention further up in this post that you read Antonio as a townlean - this reads more of a sus towards Antonio, could you please clarify?
Tensu has been just here, and I think Epona said it, Tensu can go with anyone.
I think the logic of "Tensu could be mafia with any permutation of players" is awful and I'm not really going to entertain it. Team reads should really only be utilised a) when someone flips mafia, b) for process of elimination with a small remaining player count or c) in contrast with other reads. (Such as I did with regard to glow in my last reads post.)
Endless, some me included have been saying is controlling the narrative, but I just realized that none of his wagon have ever been successful.
Does this impact your read on me?
Like honestly none of the comments in this post reflect the reads given above sans the comments pertaining to radical, which I omitted because while I don't necessarily agree with it, I found it entirely reasonable.
Now that I'm done reviewing that, there's a whole slew of other stuff in the thread but most of it really requires me to reread and I don't feel like doing that before sleeping, so I'll get to it tomorrow.
Will however tag on that I find the Cake night kill not all that surprising - I've more or less come to the conclusion that mafia are killing off players they believe will be townread, which strongly suggests at least one analytical player (Aerious/epona/glow from my perspective) is on the mafia team. Not super relevant but try and avoid listing potential mafia teams of say Tensu/Ace/Antonio for example, because I really doubt that kill pattern would come from a team like that.
Given that I townread every analytical player, I've figured I have at least one incorrect townread - which means more reading, great.
I'll also tag on that I really dislike the whole LHF argument - I feel like it justifies low effort/poorly explained play. Sure, it is absolutely reasonable to think a mafia will go after a town player with low effort/poorly explained play, but that doesn't detract from the fact that on an objective level, mafia are more likely to have play they can't explain well and a scenario like this is more likely to have a mafia on the receiving end than town.
Now, I'm not suggesting we just lynch everyone that classifies as "LHF", I just think we should promote behaviour that encourages these individuals to format their thoughts in such a way that they can be understood. Giving them a get out of jail free card is not such behaviour.