Yeah so I mean proph starts out really strong. I think he's reads are all on-point and his analysis (When he actually does it lol) is really good. It's much better than FH in any case. The issues I have are 1. the amount of nothing posts he has. He fluffs so much especially when it comes to making posts like "will do this in x amount of time" "cant do x now, will do it later" etc. I just really don't like those posts and it makes him seem more present then really he is. it's just a whole ton of fluff that makes it somewhat difficult to get done to actual relevant reads of his (which tbf could be hidden even better but still).
Fair enough. I really like to be active and present in a game, and I value real-time interaction highly, which is why I make these sorts of posts (it's because I like to update the thread on what I'll be doing/what to expect from me on a given Day). Do you expect all of my posts to be packed full of content?
Proph's actions in f5 are also pretty alarming. Granted i cant put the blame all on him, but his paranoia/hedging/random unvoting and voting is not a good look and is not consistent with his reads coming into the day. Too much emphasis is placed by him on who he should be voting, not necessarily on what everyone else is doing. it comes off as him not really being interested in where the lynch actually is, but in emphasizing where he thinks his vote should be. in other words, it's less about who is lynched then who his vote is in. i dunno i'm just really thrown off by all this emotion that occurs at the f5 vote. i do think it's consistent with the persona he has presented in this game, but it does still bother me that he went through all that effort only to decide that FH was the right call. a large part of me feels like all that might have been done for show. idk though
That's a solid evaluation of my posts.
I completely agree with you in that I place a lot of emphasis on where I'm voting and I don't really care about what everyone else is doing. That's for a couple of reasons:
1) I treat mafia like a puzzle to be solved, and me as the person trying to figure it out. I know from experience that the last mafia is typically the most difficult one to find, which is why I started analyzing things as soon as Aubisio died because we have the previous three scum's interactions to look at. I put more emphasis on who to vote for/who the scum actually is because
that's what wins games. You can be really good at convincing others that you're right, but if you're wrong, then that means nothing.
2) I am typically used to people following me once I figure it out because I talk with others, show my work, and I ask people what they think of my analysis. If you read my previous town game here (Bard's College) it was essentially mostly me + Texas figuring out who the scum were telling everyone else to sheep us. Especially in endgame I don't have trouble convincing others on who to lynch, which is why a large part of my game was focused on who to vote for.
I was legit PANICKING at final 5 because I didn't think Earlio was scum at the end and I really wanted FH to be lynched, but Earlio wasn't showing up, so I was kind of in despair. I'm going through all this effort because I like to constantly re-affirm to myself that I'm right and that I have the game solved correctly, which is why you see me rereading a lot.
I was really struggling as to whether FH was the right call multiple times throughout this endgame because every time I've interacted WITH him in the thread he put out so many townie tonal tells that I had to constantly second guess myself. But when I reread the game, the evidence was there, if that makes sense.