'Quick' braindump from me
I really dont like M2H here. He started D2 off with a laser focus on Apricity and me and hes know committing to a reset of sorts where hes going to ISO whoever and then work backwards from a towncore. "Well acshually its not a reset" DIDNT ASK. This is after him saying hes "not getting anywhere" with me and Apricity which is a super weird thing to say since his allegedly preferred wagon is at most votes currently (I think?, need a VC) and I came around to seeing Apricity in a similar way that he does, although maybe for different reasons. Now M2H seems to have far less interest in persuading people to vote for a wagon which at the start of Day was his exclusive topic of conversation. Seems disingenuous and I wont be surprised at all when he suddenly pivots votes over to me at deadline.
i do have to say that hal coming into the thread and immediately pushing one of the power players in the room and ignoring the tracker claim fully kinda rubs me the wrong way.
As a reminder to any townies out there, M2H voted for the claimed tracker and then pushed a "power" player start of Day 2.
using chatgpt means joey was trying to solve, it lines up with the vibe i expect from joey town, and publicizing that is just putting a target on his back as mafia. i can clear him for that
This is a complete bullshit read which only makes sense if you _know_ that Joey was using ChatGPT to solve the game. How do you know Joey wasn't asking ChatGPT to summarize the thread for him so he wouldnt have to read it? Or maybe Joey asked ChatGPT to build a case against some random player for him. M2H shouldnt have any idea what Joey was doing with ChatGPT but hes presuming its "an attempt to solve". This is either super naive about what sort of things AI can do and/or based on the knowledge that Joey is town ergo Joey was doing town things with AI.
I havent seen an M2H scumgame but Im starting to get the creeping dread that its the world I live in.
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LURK CORE: Des, Evie, Chemdah
Anyone townreading Des for posting literally ANYTHING is criminally insane. Like I like Des (as a person, not saying I think shes town), but her content this game has been underwhelming even compared to her other games. Anyone saying shes town for meta reasons should link me some evidence to the contrary cause I don't see it and I think anyone saying shes anything other than null needs to have a reality check.
I think there is likely one mafia in this group of lurkers (maybe 2 even). Chemdah admitting to this being his first NOC game isn't making me feel too much better about him. I think his playstyle fits the pattern of a new player who rolled mafia and is kind of afraid to post reads or engage with people. So his content is mostly answering some questions about himself and discussing flavor which is the sort of thing I would expect from a new player receiving a mafia role. If he were town I think he'd be asking for advice a bit more openly(?) or just being more inquisitive in general. This isn't a slam dunk read, I could see him being town and it just is what it is, but ya anyone who is townreading this slot should explain themselves.
Evie I need to reread cause I recall Evie having some more content so Im gonna shelf any Evie discussion until I do that. Noted that Evie was at 2/3 votes EOD 1 and was the 3rd wagon after Celever/NE.
TOWN CORE: CK, Pulsar, DBD, Skipper(?)
CK is pretty clearly not playing in his scum meta right now. I already posted about Pulsar but I really dont see her killing Fairy whom she was apparently quite eager to talk to on D1 and had some rapport with. Also Pulsar's limited presence has still felt natural when she has arrived, more lack of scummy behavior than anything. DBD is a read I will likely waver on at some point in the future but I do think this is town DBD. Ehhh I just skimmed his ISO and its not quite as great as I recall. He did hop on the Celever wagon after Celever claimed tracker which dont like. I think his townread on Des is something probably more likely from town. Overall I am basing most of my opinion on DBD on meta and Im going to stick with my original statement that hes town for that.
Im going to maybe sheep CK's townread on Skipper for now and then reread Skipper posts when I have time. I did kind of like Skipper's answer when I asked about why he didn't want to vote Celever due to the self vote. A mafia Skipper would probably be more concerned about looking like hes solving, but Skipper said he just didnt want to add fuel to a crashout essentially which I think is coming from town likely more than not.
Thats only 5/15 players I have as mostly town which we really need to get that number up. Please townies if you could start townposting everywhere (like Celever did in his first(?) post of the game tbqh fam) that would be splendid.
AXIS OF EVIL: M2H, NE, Wisteria, Apricity
This is where my attention has been for most of Day 2. Its worth noting that 4 (four) of these players voted for Celever on Day 1.
Day 1 Votecount
Celever (7): apricity, NightEmerald, Evie, Celever, CrreamyKitty, wisteriapurple, M2H
Wow! And then M2H decides to go and lecture people about voting for the claimed tracker and Apricity decides to respond to criticism of this by screencapping all my posts and having a crashout of his own.
If you just look at the wagons alone from D1 there is a strong case to make for there being more than 1 scum in this group
NightEmerald (5): pulsar512b, ImaginaryNeon, joey, a fairy, StupidFlandrs48
Notably Fairy expressed willingness to vote NE here (tho she did in general say she wasnt happy with anything going on).
Of this group of 4 I think Im ironically coming around to Wisteria being the most likely town, but Im not sold on that.
NEON CORE: ImaginaryNeon, Joey
FLANDRS: Flandrs. I will say
absolutely not fuck you i will fight you to the death of this mischaracterization tomorrow if you bring it back
A Fairy did express some dislike of Flandrs posts very late in the Day which was during all the chaos of deadline. Flandrs does have a slightly higher motivation to kill Fariy compared to anyone else since she did seem to maybe be turning against him somewhat. She didnt call him scummy directly (but she didnt call anyone scummy I dont think).
That said Im still null-town on Flandrs I think he was trying to advance the game in early D1 and Id like to see more of that from him..