Eyes without a face
- eyes has been playing pretty humbly. The post where he sorts himself as least proficient and asks to be copped felt a lot like a townslip to me. It was just a pretty towny thought process. I don't actually have to award him points through the WIFOM of whether he expected to actually get copped, it's not necessary.
He's so humble that I can't rule out him just wanting to bunt a sacrifice play he views as helping a scumteam in someway or other, but he's far from the top of the list of people I want to lynch. Shoshin's point about how the GiF NK interacts with the slot makes sense too and can still be true even if she pasted it from the scum PT.
Creature
- Creature's grandpa used to be playing this game! Creature seems to have largely sidelined himself and failed to dig in a game full of replacements, lurkers, and "1v1 me in mid lane bro" episodes. The timing and pattern of his disengagement pretty reasonably match when I'd expect a townie to tune in more or tune out more. The disengagement makes him a bit hard to read, and the disengagement itself can't be strongly read, !scum Creature should be pretty capable of recognizing the drags. I'm pretty null on this slot. Independent of alignment, props to Creature for honoring his commitment to this game.
Egix96
- Right after this post I'm gonna iso this player. Somehow I forget all their posts immediately. I remember nine time in D1 reading "Egix needs to get copped tonight" and thinking "What's an Egix? I should probably iso Egix to have some awareness to be a responsible player. Wait I'm not playing. I don't have to do that. I can just keep reading woo"
Now that responsibility has kicked in and hes a high ranking lynch candidate today so definitely will look.
Clemency
- nsg seems like she would try to break the setup as either alignment, and also seems like she would get frustrated by people not breaking the setup as either alignment. She was right, and lynching wizard was wrong.
She did little enough afterwards that I'd rather just try to read this Clemency dude instead. I hear he is really good at playing Lyncher so if he can visualize his life as a lyncher with Shoshin as a target I'd dig that.
Emperor flippyNips
I'm fuzzy on this slot but not quite as fuzzy as Egix. He tends to make nonfluff posts yet doesn't actually make that much progress as I recall. I remember neither resonance nor scummy thought processes which makes me kind of want to VCA this player if I can't read him.
Titus
- The previous slots were pretty scummy. Virtually all of the actual Titus I've read is page 90-100. And it reads bad town or scum. I actually also want Shoshin lynched, that comes later because I didn't bother to rearrange a logical order to this post. But lynching a player you think has lots of town equity just because if they are town, they're solving inaccurately, is really bad mafia. Most everyone solves inaccurately most of the time, mafia is hard. Bad TvT play happens all the time, but with the poor predecessor play I'm pretty willing to take some more conspiratorial interpretations of this (they look different with different Shoshin flips).
Iconeum
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Buki's activity level AND effort level AND townsided resonance were all massive snowballs. This player contributed to the game being fun for me to read and suggestions that <pronoun> is going to quit mafia makes me a very very sad panda.
Iconeum, it's not just the activity level. There's lots of town resonance in the posts. The activity level is just like a multiplier on how many times you got to encounter that because that how many resonant posts there ended up being.
I won't lynch Iconeum's slot just no matter what. Iconeum played pretty well in a recent game I played with him, so I'm pretty willing to sheep his slot too.
Shoshin
- Shoshin is the scummiest slot in the game by a bunch for me. Buki had it right D1, and the reasons for talking oneself out of it are fundamentally flawed. I won't restate Buki's original push.
- She started doing stuff!
Well yes, but half the time she continued to post "I'm doing stuff", "Imagine how you would read me if I was doing stuff", "And X could be scum, or X could also be town, I'm doing stuff". There was nothing like a groundfloor wagon with original thought or mounting a defense for a wagoned player. It is not the kind of stuff that makes it seem like our sample size was too small before, it is the kind of thing that makes it look like a scientist was made aware her research results were being deemed unsatisfactory
- She started engaging and enjoying the game!
This is like, backwards, this game is opposite day in lots of ways and this one is actually problematic. Having a considerably better time in the thread when you're not under pressure can easily lean scum, not town, because for scum that pressure is more stressful. And it is paradoxical and troubling to me for Shoshin to be so unengaged early on in the game, when this game didn't suck, and to start kicking it into gear later on, when this game was actually much more sucky. The potential explanations for her having a jollier time are not town-scented ones. Less pressure, cool we got a mislynch, hey the mod let me PM some friends starting with N1. It's the opposite of town slots that have gotten bogged down as this objectively vietnamified game has progressed.
And finally and probably most importantly, Dr. Worm said he investigated Shoeshine and she is scum. We should honor his memory. It's the least we could do after not giving him an opportunity to fakeclaim cop as VT.
VOTE: Shoshin
(this might change to Egix after iso but I'm guessing not)