okay, I skimmed cheese’s Iso to try to sort him and I’m feeling pretty okay about him being town
I’m dividing this up point-by-point rather than post-by-post for readability’s sake
the first reason is how he handled his read on me
relevant posts
clonedcheese:
Anyone else getting questionable vibes from Aroot
Interaction with Surge, PKR, and Alice seems overacting
clonedcheese:
wat
clonedcheese:
my attempt at a bigbrain
clonedcheese:
…ok fair
the first post is near-word-for-word how I’ve seen him handle my slot in previous games, I also think a player at his experience level would be uncomfortable with pushing on a perceived-strong-player (especially given that 90 percent of the game is LHFy)
I think him asking questions to me points to him trying to solve my slot, rather than just trying to make a push on me to look like he’s doing something
I think him actually considering my responses to him and semi-reevaluating also points to him actually trying to solve my slot, wolves tend to have a harder time faking general progressions
also this is a really dumb take but I think his use of small text in P#297 is slightly villagery, it matches how I would expect him to feel about making a read that he’s worried is silly
second reason is kind of dumb but it exists
I think this post is much more likely to come from a villager, that sort of just-barely-not-angleshooting post is the sort of thing town is much more likely to pick up on than scum is
the last reason I’m sort of conflicted on but I think his push on Alice is more likely to come from town than scum
this reason was one I was kind of hesitant about because, like, in a vacuum focusing a lot on the 3p claim is kind of meh
but I think scum would be less likely to actively push the 3p in this set-up (and more likely to just make a bunch of vaguely performative posts about trying to solve them), I think cheese genuinely believes that the 3p is more likely to scumside and so I think he’s less likely to push her as scum (because why would you push the claimed 3p as scum if you’re expecting them to scumside)
there are also a couple elements of his read on her that I also think are more likely to come from town than from scum
clonedcheese:
Alice is scum. Then either they or their teammates would try and convince the noot.
for instance, I think him specifically thinking about worlds where she’s scum as opposed to where she’s neut points to him not having TMI about her neut-ness or lack thereof, like, if scum wants to push on Alice the easiest way to do that is to just be like ‘Alice is claimed non-town and probably siding scum, vote Alice’
I also think (similarly to his read on me) that he would probably not choose to push on Alice as scum, when Alice is a perceived-strong-player
