Lol I actually have a lot of scum reads right now which is funny to me because usually I don't!
People who look really bad right now:
Granny Pie, Hitmonleet
Granny Pie is an awkward one because I really wanted Hawkie's read of being "too pure" to be right. But u look at his posts and it's just really repetitive and is strung with a lot of non-sequiturs/lines that look cute but don't say much that come off to me as misrepresenting him if that makes sense. I know the case laid out here isn't great, and I can expand since he doesn't have a lot, but yeah it just reads like typical "don't know what to do but trying to look good like everyone else since im mafia lol" to me.
Hitmonleet looks...terrible, but yet this is someone who historically I lean on the side of reading as scum anyways which is about the only thing saving him. Seriously, the questioning, "prodding activity" is rlly rlly bad and it's just such a tried and tested mafia strategy. I think it's something that almost subconsciously mafia default to because it's a great way of being "confrontational" when in reality it's a one-sided confrontation. Hitmonleet hasn't voted anyone in this game or provided reads on who he thinks is mafia yet wants other people to explain things all the time. It's a really bad look, and it's working me up so much I'm really tempted to vote him. The only thing stopping me is that again, it feels like this is just how he plays. I'm not sure, I might need to go take a look at popcorn again.
People who look bad to me but not so bad:
Hawkie, zorbees
zorbees looks bad because his #249 in response to everyone's "where is zorbees" reads super forced and generic (and then he follows up with a bandwagon vote on Tballz). It's not much but the lurking certainly has gotten me on alert re zorbs. King looks good as a result because he points this out btw in case anyone is wondering how I feel on King.
There is no doubt Hawkie has been the most active and yet...there's something that bugs me. The activity is a plus, he's definitely the driver of discussion. But his dismissal of granny pie worries me, and his focus on king/ms /asek (especially Asek) makes no sense to me (plus dropping zorbees early on from his "pool" even though zorbees has given no reason for him to do so. The asek thing bugs me because there's no mention of why aSek is bad, asek has hardly really been around for hawkie to continually return his vote to him. its like hawkie is just going in a circle coming back to asek and we've made no progress except waste time. the way in which hawkie has shaped discussion makes me feel like he's shifted it away/avoided what should be fairly obvious scumreads (e.g. leet, granny pie) and that's the sort of thing that super bothers me.
Vote granny pie
ill be around for a little while longer in case anyone wants to shoot the shit w/ me
