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@Danielle
Not voting for me felt a bit contrived since I don't think I was that close to being lynched
You don't think being at L-1, would be close to being lynched? IMO, it's a dangerous place to be.
Not voting for me felt a bit contrived since I don't think I was that close to being lynched
"I'd like to pressure Ragnar, oromagi, Lunatic or Airmax. Everyone else seems townish atm. Ragnar's post directed at me seemed weird. Oromagi's posts felt weird too, but I don't know who he is or how he plays. "
"Pressure them for what? There's no character claims, and everyone's just gonna RC vanilla. Is there specific reason you want to pressure this group of people or is it just because they are "hard to read", and what does this pressure look like? "Vote to lynch airmax because im getting wierd vibes, who's behind me on this?" "
"As town I feel like if you are going to apply pressure you have to have a valid reason for it, and in a set up like this the intention should be to lynch. Saying you just want to pressure people for the sake of pressuring them sounds a bit contrived. I don't see what your end goal is with this logic."
"Your premise (that town wouldn't equally want to have time wasted on them by being pressured) is wrong, as well as your understanding of my point in regards Danielle's intentions of wanting to pressure a random group of people with no reason whatsoever. I am trying to establish what exactly she is looking to accomplish with her pressure, or if she was simply trying to look productive with no meat in the bones, similar to your lines of questioning earlier that went nowhere. "
Zaradi- Trying to decide on him as well. His aggressive early inquisition (while mostly pointless and mostly self explanatory from what I've seen) seems like a genuine interest to provoke activity, which is pro town. But his line of questioning in both my case, and Oromagi's case doesn't seem to go anywhere, or demonstrate what he specifically thinks is scummy in either case. I'd say it feels a bit convoluted, but again, I am not in his head. Maybe he had a thought and the answers just satisfied that line of inquiry and he didn't feel the need to further the questioning.
I am okay with pressuring TUF for reasons you mentioned, though we could also just insist he posts some more detailed reads ASAP. For now I'll keep my vote on Ragnar and wait to hear from him and Airmax. Oro should post something more substantive too. I appreciate his friendly interjections but I'm curious about his reads.
You scum read TUF based on 289, but only "slight scum" read on Danielle, and yet Danielle is in your top 3 candidates for lynching but not TUF?Explain. Why are you not willing to VTL TUF? Why are you more sure TUF is scum than Danielle, but TUF is not in your top 3 while Danielle is?Why isn't Ragnar or TUF your No. 1 lynch candidate?Why aren't you VTLing?
Firstly, I object to the notion that the only reasons to pressure people are for claims or to lynch them.
Secondly, it's not exactly a mystery that Dani's desire to pressure the listed players as "I wanna sort these players into 'probably town' or 'probably not town', which is the entire point of the concept of pressuring people in mafia.
This whole notion of "if you're voting for someone, it should be to lynch them" is a really anti-town view to have. I could elaborate a lot more on this, but since it really merits it's own forum post from the play I've seen so far and to avoid clogging the DP with unecessary theory discussion, we'll not go too much further with it.
This viewpoint is an incredibly scum-sided view to take. A vote is town's strongest asset, regardless of set-up, as a means of forcing someone to produce content that you can use to sort them into townpiles and scumpiles. Votes force people to be active, as with enough votes, you die. Dying is pretty bad regardless of your alignment, so putting votes on people forces them to engage with the game in a way that, usually, gives indications as to what alignment they are. This is literally scumhunting 101. So just saying "pressuring someone for the sake of pressuring them" isn't inherently contrived - it's literally just how you play mafia from a town perspective.
This is why I feel like Lunatic is afraid of being pressured right now - Dani's 179 didn't exactly elaborate on a specific reason for why Lunatic should be pressured, so a scum!Lunatic might be concerned about having a wagon built on him for a reason he doesn't know how to defend against.
Two, it's really not hard to understand Dani's intentions behind pressuring a group of people she says she isn't townreading, so his statement that she wants to pressure this group (that he happens to be in) for "no reason whatsoever" doesn't feel genuine.
Three, the shading of my pressuring other players in the last line is incredibly suspect. If town!Lunatic feels like Dani's desire to pressure people, or my actions of pressuring people, are fake and aren't actually genuine scumhunting, then he should be trying to engage us to determine how our reads on the slots we're pressuring/wanting to pressure are changing to determine if we're doing it to genuinely sort people and try to solve the game or just to try and look like we're being town. This isn't what Lunatic is doing.
Moreover, there's a lot of value in scum!Lunatic undermining town-sided scumhunting efforts in a way that doesn't commit you to saying that someone is town or someone is scum - saying that someone's pressure isn't 'leading to anything' is a good example of this happening.
@Lunatic- You haven't given a full list of reads in a while because you've been kind of under attack, what are your current reads? I want to give you the benefit of a doubt but you have to give us something