I am seeing a massive wagon on Max. Now, I hate how Max chose to play so far, but I'd hate it from town or scum. And I can very, very unhappily see Max doing this as town or scum, and as town doctor or not.
Frowns at Max However, lazy play from town hurts town. It makes it easy for scum to hide. They just have to look more townie and/or less scummy than the weakest town.
You can bet your sweet bippy that everyone town should scrutinize the votes and comments supporting them no matter who we lynch and how they flip.
Don't just do this later. Play now, and don't play lazy.
sof, TCk, a1s, and Cry:
All 4 of you moved about 24 hours after Max made his shocking dogtor claim to vote for Max. So did
Qua, after being mildly challenged by me about tunneling towards just one person - Qua flipped to at least briefly and initially refocus on Max (didn't challenge anyone else yet at least). The rest of you waited until Qua challenged Max in general about a lot of things (and I'd evaluated Max's play too) and then I questioned what you all think about what I said my thoughts are about Max's claim and what it could mean.
Only Cry and sof even slightly answered my question about their own thoughts. You can't all be scum. But it's really, really scummy to jump on a wagon, to not do your own thinking, to not have reasons, to suddenly mind stuff that you didn't even talk about until you're sudddenly and nearly wordlessly voting on it. That looks like 'Hide In The Crowd'. And it's so important for town to not make a crowd to hide in.
Town, work to look more town please, make it easier to pick you out from scum. Don't be lazy, do your best here. Explain your thinking.
Right now, I want to know from all four of you:
a1s: you didn't even mention Max's Dogtor claim for over 24 hours, now you vote on it, with the statement "Since everyone else has voted, I guess I should too" as your sole reason. You've done nothing before that point besides defend yourself. Explain yourself, you look like scum right now to an amazing degree. If you're town, you really must do better, because you make it too easy for scum to hide.
TCk: Congrats. You are giving me a weak town read. You started a case on Max yesterday. However, what are your thoughts on the chance that Max could be town, and how much hunting should we do before we lynch him, to find his partner if nothing else? You
didn't ask Max about his dogtor claim once you started questioning folks, you asked about his image choice even though he'd already dogtor claimed. Why'd you ask such a neutral question then, what were your thoughts and reasons? What made you decide to focus on that claim later, and why'd it take so long?
sof: You finally take a stance to become the 3rd vote on Max's wagon. I appreciate that you're at least discussing observations about other players (
me and Qua, if anyone's confused what I mean). If you're scum I'm going to have a very hard time picking you out from the likes of Max's intense randomness and a1s's intense lack of any effort. I know day 1 is hard, and you're doing townier than most. I like that you poked Max about who your supposed partner was, and mentioned his Dogtor claim with a light prob. But I still want to see more, town doesn't have to be sitting ducks D1, we can do a lot if we work at it, and make D2 way easier if we do put that D1 work in.
Cry: Your play's reasonably town to me. I want to ask though, yesterday, you even quoted me quoting Max's dogtor claim, but you didn't address any questions to Max, you asked me about my somewhat poeticness. Why'd you let a day pass without a reaction to Max's claim? What did you think initially? You've told us you didn't realize it could be part of an attempt to make the doctor reveal, Max to reveal 'jokester/liar/townie don't lynch me please I was trying to help' - okay. But what were you thinking, and why'd you let it pass without challenge?