Both of these are wrong. I'll explain;In post 397, Nominull wrote:Hunting any scum but 2Pac would be to the town's detriment, and I don't believe in hunting town. So I'm sort of stuck.
1) Focusing solely on one person creates tunnel vision, tunnel vision leads towards not being able to look at information objectively which leads towards more mslynches. Not just that, focusing solely on one person creates less shared information in the town which leads to less agreements about lynches. It also means you can miss when scum slip up elsewhere and therefore lead to more town loses. So focusing and only reading one player for alignment related tells is a dreadful idea. And trust me, I have a lot of experience on multiple mafia sites and like to think my town game is relatively strong so if you're going to take one thing on board is that's focusing on one person is a bad idea.
2) While there's the argument that holds some ground in that "Stating town-reads helps mafia decide who to kill or who on to kill" the benefits outweight the negatives massively. I'll elaborate; Stating town-reads allows A) People to understand where you're coming from more thereby allowing them to get a better read on you, getting a better read on you allows less mslynches B) Allows people to consider others from a different point of view and thereby allows them to reassess and go "Oh, X has a good point on that, Y might be town" which increases unity in town reads which helps a lot. C) It allows there to be process of elimination used. If you can agree on 3-4 players being town the odds of lynching mafia increase massively. D) Allows people to have your reads if you die which means you can leave your thoughts and mark on the game. Also about the disadvantage mafia generally know already who is and isn't likely to be lynched therefore outting the reads in the public doesn't really do any harm.
Look I'm not going to argue that continuously lurking and not being in the game isn't scummy because in truth it is, also I just checked Satan and 2Pacs profile and both logged on last night and didn't post. I also checked this is both of their only games. That means they logged on, read the thread and didn't post. It also means they logged on, saw they were voted and didn't post. That's actually a relatively strong scum tell but I think you're just tunnel-visioning 2Pac a little too much and not paying enough attention elsewhere. For instance please take a step back for one second (Please, I'm trying to work with you here) and read and comment on Post 363 and Post 365 because I've caught Satan in a 100% lie here and one that makes zero sense coming from town but a lot coming from scum. Also 2Pac blew it of as him being "newb" and not "scum" with zero reasoning so if you're as confident as you claim you are about 2Pac being scum then that makes Satan a super likely partner to him with him attempting to defend his partner with terrible reasoning and not comment on the case. So yeah, please do one thing for me and read those posts and actually converse with me about it.
Also pretty sure Nominull's town from the last few posts. In fact super sure. Which means Ree/Sthar/Nominull/Ranway/Fuzzy are all town. Which leaves scum inside of [Skelda, Satan, 2Pac] and I don't think Satan / Skelda work as a scum team at all and given Satans scum slip that means it's Satan + 2Pac in all probability. So Nominull, can we lynch Satan today and when he flips scum I'll work with you tomorrow to lynch 2Pac?
