explain if you could please?
Nah you just gave up too easily, you ain't going to fight for town? Come on man this game might have been ugly so far but if you really are town, you don't just go ahead and give up at this point you have got everything to lose if you're town
I've put in fight. I don't have a lot more I can do right now than giving reads. At least not without playing against my principles. I don't beg people to reread me. I used to do so. I used to put a lot of effort into specifically saving myself as town, regardless of the point in the game. It's not really a matter of pride, more that I have seen from experience how unhelpful it is. How easy it is for a determined scum member (e.g. probably PK this game) to derail that effort with bad faith arguing. So I'm fighting my lunch by focusing on reading others.
I don't remember which posts exactly pinged me, but I came to the PK/Tigerrr conclusion early this day phase. I thought it was a tinfoil theory at first and double-checked it a few times. Essentially, the way they handle each other feels like they are intentionally avoiding a slipping interaction, not like they are reading each other.
SoulKiller has been nagging at me for a while now. Specifically the timing of the arguments with poison. I thought that his frustration might be townie, but especially if accounts of his skill are to be believed, it's not that hard to fake that, and it doesn't look outside the realm of fakery. In particular, without getting too much into the specific posts, there's a moment where I had appealed to him to back down but almost immediately, and not in a smooth manner, his "indignation" came back. Like, the issue for me there is flow. The other parts of SoulKiller's ISO make potential sense either from scum or town. This doesn't happen elsewhere to the same degree. It happens to a lesser degree with his handling of Michelle or myself. But it's not jarring like it was with poison. It's not a great feeling to say that I feel like I completely misread one of the defining parts of this game. While I will acknowledge that my reads on Just_Red and Rej were inaccurate, I still stand behind them being legitimate reads given the behaviour of those two players.
I've been told in the past that nobody pays attention to dead town. I think my mislynch is mostly scum motivated and scum controlled. I think it is of particular note to me that the people who to me are stronger gut townreads, stronger town players this game (TSQ, Hammock, Awa) have not been voting for me.
I do think we have a chance but for once I don't want to be the flailing mess that I used to be. If I'm getting mislynched, this is me calmly providing my reads and hoping that town on my wagon will see the light. If I'm still alive the following day phase (which I doubt will happen; mafia sorta strategically have to kill me if I don't get mislynched here), I'll put in more effort. But I'm not going to kick and scream. I've grown past that. That's not me.