OK I caught up I'm gonna try and put thoughts out there.
Hal makes a lot of sense with regards to:
- Tommy's initial reasoning given for the modspew is not legitimate, I felt that as it was happening and was really confused why Caff mked. Hal's explanation makes a lot more sense, and I agree that that's difficult to notice as town, but is not an exclusively scum mentality
- Tommy posting that modspew in-thread is town-cred motivated because if town!Tommy actually thought that Caff hardspewed Whydon as town then he would discuss it with Caff privately. town!Tommy would only really bring up the modspew immediately for game integrity purposes. Tommy trying to get towncred from it, no less trying to pretend he's modspewed town himself (he isn't) feels incredibly scum motivated in a game with 4 second-time players and broil maybe being a first time player. Hal calling Tommy out for this precludes this from being S/S, I think.
- Tommy's push on M2H was incredibly performative. This is ongoing though, and is becoming slightly less performative if incredibly bad logic.
This is personality reads and I know Tommy a bit but not enough to hardline based on this. I think the second bullet point is more important and is why I certainly scumlean Tommy atm.
Where Hal doesn't make sense is:
- Tommy focussing on defending himself is scummy. Nothing else had happened besides the mk and succeeding push on Tommy by Hal.
- Tommy not providing reads on a wider range of players. See above point.
This can betray that Hal was casing Tommy under the pretense that Tommy is scum as opposed to trying to solve. This is somewhat NAI on Hal's part, though.
I'm p sure I townread Hal and Litt, but I also feel like Litt is trying to get towncred via appeal to authority because his posts feel like they're coming from the top of the mafia information hierarchy. It's not particularly accessible to the newer players in this game and it's easy for them to have the following syllogism:
- I don't really understand Litt's posts
- Litt's thoughts and analysis on the gamestate are really complex
- Litt is putting a lot of effort into trying to solve the game
- Solving the game is towny, so Litt is town
I think I townread Litt outside of this, but I want to point out that that line of argument isn't valid.
OM posting but remaining Switzerland on Hal vs Tommy is weird to me.
M2H feels super NAI my brain just is not coming up with a read on them at all.
Schiavato or whatever's spam feels performative.
I scumlean Hydro at the moment. People are saying his play is consistent with last game's, but Hydro has read every post in the last game (he liked all of them) and I think people are disregarding that fact. Psy in this game has a marked improvement from his performance last time either because he's coached this time or because he's reflected on last game and learned from it. I think it's the latter. Hydro's unwillingness to do that gives me the impression his objective this game is to appear town, not to be good town.
Everyone else feels neutral atm but
Broil you seem cool.