Okay, just caught up.
I think I mentioned this before, but here it is again: I'm using a somewhat new approach to this game, which I am calling the Straightforward Strategy, or SFS (see what I did there?). My approach to this game, rather than going so strongly off of metas, is to look at two things: 1) Real evidence, and 2) What people are saying.
1) Real evidence -- Something like, Dsell's station-aligned thing with Eevee. I actually think Dsell gets more than a pinch of town cred here. I agree with Jimm that other than that, Dsell would actually seem pretty scummy for underposting, but this evidence is really, really acquitting, I think.
2) What people are saying -- if someone says something that is logical, that makes sense, that I think hits upon valid points and is relevant, I am going to think of that person as less scummy. This is a little bit of a change of pace for me. Usually, when someone says something anti-rational, irrelevant, and over the top, I think of them as
less scummy, because scum need to be more careful. But this approach has not worked lately.
Here are some noteworthy recent comments:
I'm not sure whether I buy into ash's case on you, but "She's acting like Town raerae so clearly she's scum" isn't it. I think what he meant by that was that just because you're acting like Town raerae doesn't necessarily make you Town. His actual case had more to it than that.
Personally I'm finding you particularly hard to read because so far you've always come across pretty much the same to me, that is no-nonsense, won't take crap from anyone, not afraid to be a bit condescending, and generally more reactive to what people say than trying to build cases. And you've been Town twice, and mislynched the only time you were lynchable. I think your playstyle might generally go against you when you're Town (especially while you're still relatively new) because you're probably more likely than average to be mislynched, but it might help you when you're scum because you can do the same things and people might just say "Oh that's just raerae."
This is the definitive opinion on raerae. And it actually resonates with me, because I've found that the particular playstyle I was using in, let's see, M-X and M-XIV in particular, made me an early lynch target as town. I was town, but I was more abrasive at that point in time, and it really came back to get me. And I kept thinking, "Can't they see, this is consistent with town!Robz?" And perhaps they should have, but it wasn't entirely their fault of course.
So, I was just about to make the case that shraeye has been defending raerae on the grounds that raerae is just like this, she's being herself. And this is what shraeye did as scum in the previous blitz game. But I just looked back to find evidence of shraeye doing this, and I actually can't, at all. So I don't know what it means that in my head I picture shraeye defending raerae all over the place, but I can't actually find it in the thread. Did I hallucinate this? I'm wondering if this mental bleed-through from the discussion in another thread about hosting a newbie game.
I was going to vote shraeye over this, but, as I said, I have zero evidence this happened. As far as I can tell now, it didn't.
I still think ashersky had a point, even if he wasn't entirely right, and he's just not reading scum to me.
My biggest townreads right now are Jimm and theorel. I do find myself nodding in agreement with what theorel is saying.
Galzria is registering a lot less than usual in this game, to me, and I do find that weird. And it irks me that his main goal so far seems to be to kill the wagon on Eevee, which I thought was certainly a valid wagon on the scummiest person. Perhaps Eevee would have been/will be a mislynch, but it reeks of scum trying to build towncred by killing wagon on townie. Of course I guess with the multiple scumteams thing, there's like an extra wrinkle in there. Still, since I think the Eevee case was solid-ish, I don't love that Galz worked to kill it.
I'm going to
Vote: Cuzz, though, because he's now the person to whom I can't attribute anything. It's really hard to beat Glooble in that regard, and Cuzz is doing it. So.