In post 578, mastin2 wrote: Yo, matt. Why you lurking? Tomorrow came and gone and is now yesterday.
It's been a really long few days. I was out of town for the weekend and I hate tomorrow! I'm working on it.
Tentative reads list:
Tammy:
Like I said before, I really loved her enthusiasm while entering the game in post/being ballsy enough to cal Mastin out on his bad idea. Since then, I really can't say that she has towntold a lot since then but her overall tone (and I guess laid-back-ness?) fits the meta that I know from her and makes me think that she's more than likely
town
at this point.
mastin2:
When it comes down to it, I really SHOULDN'T be townreading Mastin. His play, thus far, has been relatively uninteresting/lacking substance but I really can't hide from the fact that a lot of the crap that he does reads like a towntell to me in spite of his occasionally poor ideas
(LIKE THIS). Plus, he called me a bad player
After that, his play steadily improved and the logic that he has been providing has at least made sense from the way I have seen that he thinks - the kind of carefully calculated but altogether terrified gameplay. This read is, primarily based on tone/gut so I admit it isn't the thing that I can defend logically very well. Mastin isn't really in my suspect pool right now.
Mild town
You have no idea how badly I want
Bert
to be town. Mainly because he is really cool and he enjoys my poetry. However, I've been relatively disappointed with his gameplay so far. He has the same kind of sporadic posting but without the literal-paranoia-of-everyone that I saw him showcase very clearly in a previous game. I feel like his attack on Mastin might be a pretty stupid move for scum-Bert to make at this point in the game. I just feel like his reads lack...conviction, I guess? I'm hoping that my read on him steadily approves as the game goes on. I don't think I would compromise on a Bert lynch today but he isn't exactly the grandest of town players.
Null town
I don't have the patience to make a paragraph on the rest of you but here is what I'm thinking.
I barely have a read on
Nacho
but it has been leaning town all game. In a way though I'm realizing that it comes from a subconscious bias for my desire for him to be town because I know that if he is mafia it's going to be a serious pain to even try to get him lynched. I read a lot of his posts as town in regards to tone and I still like the fact that he hive-minded with me on a towntell from phokdapolees. It seemed, at the very least, like the conjecture of a similar thought process. Honestly though at the same time his content has kind of just passed through me for most of the game. I'm definitely not ready to call him a townread. Sort of a cop-out, but..
Null
Likewise, I do not like
TheIrishPope
. It is possible that I have been confusing his playstyle with scumplay but almost every post I read by him bothers me. I did not like the fact that he tried to paint Nacho & Mara as scum vs. scum and I did not like the fact that he's pretty much all but backed off of the game after the night ended. I don't know if he's embarassed or what but I don't understand the (somewhat) general lack of pressure/scumread on him. If anybody would like to elaborate for me, that would be great.
Scum?
phokdapolees first post was a towntell. The rest has been trash. Right now I'm honestly leaning on voting phokdapolees but I kind of want to try to turn it over to TheIrishPope because I know that if we are both alive in the future I will absolutely not be able to contain myself. I don't know.
We have a little while until the deadline and I'm intending on making the most of it. Some of my reads might be slightly off but this is where I'm at right now.
