The conversation was about whether mac is scum or not. bnb responded to TD saying that she could read mac because they were in a hydra and when she thought mac was scum she'd say so. nick responded back saying that he trusted his own reads (a mac scum read) over the reads of someone who he doesn't know is town.
Alone, I admit that this is weak. Alone. But when he did so again, and it seemed to be targeted specifically at Mollie, I was wondering if it wasn't a subtle attempt at discrediting a hydra early on. From the games I've been in, BNB is a hard hydra to get lynched. (Actually, mollie in hydras in general are tough to lynch)
This is an example of where I think you're completely misreading or ignoring the tone of the posts. The snarky attitude probably has a lot more to do with playstyle and nothing to do with alignment.
I get the idea of personality::meta style, but as I stated, I felt he might've been trying to protect his own meta. Generally, people are fairly free about giving meta. Especially to players like SoS who made it sound like meta was their big play style. Again, though, this post was more important to me in the fact that he was reacting particularly sarcastic towards a player who can be fairly emotional.
Well, he wasn't suggesting LaL. He did have a problem with how mastin was feigning confidence in his reads while admitting he wasn't confident in his read.
He basically saw mastin say "I'm going to lie about my confidence" and attacked Mastin for lying.
I understood his reasoning for this. As he explained in 1504, RM may have been acting scummy but it was a lynch based on little information and even if she flipped scum, there would be very few interaction tells. While I disagree with him, I can see where he's coming from, and I don't think this opinion is alignment indicative.
I can't check, but I'm fairly certain my post about Rach and her connections was before this post. I thought Rach had plenty of connections, fairly obvious ones at that.
... For someone that talks about nick misrepresenting mastin, I find it ironic that you took a post from the end of the day where it was obvious mastin wasn't going to be lynched, and pretended this is some sort of proof that nick contradicted himself or something.
I was referring to the fact that mastin took most of his pressure after making that comment. It's also when his wagon grew the most. But Nick didn't move off to support a wagon that had more chance of going through, even to the end. Even when he gave a heads up that he wasn't going to be on until a few hours before the deadline. So... why is he sticking off a wagon that he claimed he thought the slot was scummy?
(Although, you do kind of address this yourself here:)
I'm also currently thinking this isn't the case because, like venmar, there were more viable counterwagons than mastin and he never really took the opportunity to jump on any of them.
Also, mastin's reads did look artificial, and anyone who thinks this isn't the case has something wrong with them. His reads were all based on interaction, not on the content people were posting.
Isn't 90% of this game interaction? Like, I believe my primary case on mala was her content, but I started nailing her for her interactions to others (mainly rach). I know what you mean, Mastin didn't start particularly strong, but I personally have enjoyed his line of thinking and considered Thezmon and Mastin my biggest help yesterday in formulating an idea of the scum team. (His reads on scum today are also relatively close to my idea)
But, what's your current read on Mastin then? You've obviously expressed difficulties with communicating to him, but I'm not sure I remember any specific read you have for him.
