I think I covered this in the bottom of my post:
The Searchers wrote:There are a few other slots I'd be willing to lynch but that don't provide a good return in terms of info; thus, they should not be focused upon.
But to expand upon this a bit more: suppose we lynched a slot like NL or Flavortown right now? What does that net us in the end? They have scum equity because they are lurking this game, but is that chance particularly high? Not really. And frankly, if we did do such a lynch, we'd be stuck in a similar position as we are today. Other slots like Imperium and Black Hole Detection are out of the lynchpool because they are almost certainly town.
Blake x Yang wrote:It's also easy for you to list the other 5 names because they've accrued the most attention vote and push-wise, except for maybe Spiffy the main push from Despair and this hydra who has had plenty of adverse interaction with Farkran.
So what's your read on the above two, that you didn't list?
Well that's true an extent. I wouldn't call Mikoto and Kuroko to be an easy name to list. I think Blake is the only slot that really has a significant issue with Mikoto. I do think they feel a little off and kinda bamboozled me at the beginning of the game, and I also think they would provide good info in a lynch. That's why I included them. Smol Might is honestly lynchbait, but they're one of the more active lurkers, and his alignment helps us sort the people they've interacted with, which is a nontrivial amount. SirCakez will disagree with me, but I'm still of the opinion Spiffybringer is town, and it's not a lynch I am at all interested in for day 1. That's why they aren't for instance included in this list. (Before someone gets the wrong idea, I'm not super super confident they're town, just confident enough that I'm willing to give them a pass for the rest of Day 1.) They would probably be a decent info lynch, but in this case, my read on them excludes them from the pool. Your slot I am pretty confident is town, and thus, it is excluded.
Blake x Yang wrote:When I skim your ISO, I've seen a bit of interaction with the Latios hydra, what's your take there, as well?
Uh... I think SirCakez would be better suited to answering that question. It's another one of those cases where they were town enough for me at the start, and so I've turned kind of a blind eye towards them since. (Like, I'm still reading and evaluating their posts, but unless I see something really bad, I'm not very willing to lynch there.)
Blake x Yang wrote:I want a smaller lynchpool soon.
That's not happening at the current time.
Now wait just a moment.
First all, the way I see it, including yourself is like including yourself in reads list. We're obviously not a popular slot, and again, it's not just about my reads but what benefits town the most.
Second of all, I fundamentally disagree with your second point. The only problematic slots that didn't get included are the ones that are being 100% lurksacks at this point in the game. Maybe they have some legitimate reason for lurking/not actively playing, but there is zero point to lynch them at this point in the game. That's the kind of lynch scum goes through. How is it a bad strategy to encourage people NOT to lynch the low-hanging fruit?
Third of all, there's 17 hydrae in this game. It's likely at least 3, probably 4 of the hydrae in this game are scum. A lynchpool of six people (okay from our perspective, it's 5 technically--that's beside the point) is not at all unreasonable in a game this size. And quite frankly, this lynchpool says very little about who I'm townreading. Why is it problematic if I can't find two town in this list? And how does that relate to us being scum?
Disaster Artists wrote:Flavortown wrote:Tammy is the only older player that I’m like “Damn, that Tam gonna catch me like Wham!!”
~Ferrari
I still have not heard an explanation of why this isn't just a straight up scum slip?
I still have not heard an explanation of why this is a straight up scum slip.
Equitable Androids Mega Wall on the Appreciation Page wrote:Why is 129 a bit of a copout?
It's a copout because Mikoto and Kuroko is making this push on Despair Night, but just suddenly drops it like a hot rock. Like I can understand them eventually reevaluating, but that was a bit too sudden.
Equitable Androids wrote:Do you normally have similar reads to Taly and Alyssa?
I haven't played with them much. It doesn't really matter though; having different reads is a bit of a trigger warning of something isn't right.
Equitable Androids wrote:So how does that give you good vibes overall for the slot? If it is NAI, and you know it is NAI, how can you feel good about it?
That's SirCakez speaking whereas I made the reads list (by myself). That being said, I don't think it's 100% NAI (unlike SirCakez).
~Ircher
