Noir Mini Mafia: Chapter 3 - Page 4

Right at the start of the game, yamato77 is picking on something that isn't relevant. WaveofShadow gave a null read on yamato77, and yamato77 spent several posts questioning it and only later showed any relation to WaveofShadow's alignment (calling it strange). The most suspicious thing is that yamato77 spent time asking an obvious question instead of cutting straight to the point, that WaveofShadow gave a null read (which still isn't important, because WaveofShadow was providing reads on the three players who voted for him, and one of them happened to be null).
Yamato77 comments on Breshke defending a null read. But other than perhaps implied suspicion, there are no alignment indicative conclusions from this post.
Then there's the push on Artanis for his statement about waiting on Palmar and Blazinghand to start playing before continuing. I fully realize that I questioned this first. I feel that yamato77 was more hostile to Artanis's statements and kept up the questioning longer than he should have, and wasn't interested in actually drawing a correct conclusion about Artanis's alignment (while I pressured Artanis primarily for the reaction and backed off when I got it). Still, this is something I probably shouldn't have picked on this. It was a mistake, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't scummy for yamato77 to do this.
This is shown by the way that he continued this line of questioning. Here, he isn't trying to learn anything about Artanis's alignment, he is only justifying his stance. This isn't gaining him anything except for more arguing.
He keeps talking about how scummy this is, culminating in a vote on Artanis, for this one post. Which isn't relevant to Artanis's alignment at all, especially after Artanis clearly demonstrated that he was going to keep following and playing the game, which yamato77 ignored.Posts like this, for example, clearly show that Artanis's statement doesn't mean that he is going to stop playing the game.

Here's yamato77's read on me. Lately, I've been having comments about being biased towards other people's reads on me, so I'm not going to consider this too much. While I don't think that this is a good read, and I don't think that it shows clear thought process, he is taking a stance and investigating it.

Yamato77 first pushes suspicion towards WaveofShadow for explaining a null read on himself early in the game. However, since then, he's barely commented to WaveofShadow at all, and has never expressed things about his alighment. Yamato77 has shared a ton of suspicions of WaveofShadow, and next to nothing to alleviate these suspicions, but never actually pushes WaveofShadow for the entire game.

Yamato77 started to scumread Artanis for his statement on Palmar and Blazinghand, and even voted for him.He seems to be extremely confident in this read.And here's another reason to scumread Artanis.And then a reason to townread Artanis.And then this. His vote is still on Artanis.But lynching Artanis isn't better than lynching Blazinghand, who he's been protesting the lynch of. And he isn't pushing Artanis at all. I don't understand this. Even if his vote on Artanis is just a pressure vote, he doesn't seem interested in actually applying pressure.

Then there's yamato77's push on me. Here he doesn't see how I can be townread. And he doesn't revisit this read.

Finally, there's his defense of Blazinghand. The read itself I will with later. But he isn't confident in the lynch and asks for more time. However, he doesn't seem terribly interested in this at all. He makes a total of four posts on Blazinghand, one of which was an addition saying that he had no better lynch suggestions. With 39 minutes to End of Day, he left, without saying that he was leaving. He doesn't seem interested at keeping Blazinghand alive at all.

Twice, to separate people, yamato77 claimed that Blazinghand can be extremely useless as town, and that there is no point in waiting for him.

Then, Blazinghand posted his case on Damdred. This case is best described as a narrative (as rsoultin describes it), meaning that the case is simply a recounting of all of the things that Damdred has done in the game, interpreted with a mafia mindset. There is no explanation of why Damdred couldn't be town and doing these same things, and no reason why the mafia mindset is more likely.Yamato says that it isn't that bad of a case. No explanation why. He says that Blazinghand has martyred in the past as town, but Blazinghand is willing to do anything to win (and even I know that he martyrs as mafia, despite only playing with him once before).I don't understand what changed. Yamato77 basically admits that Blazinghand's play in this game, activity aside, was scummy, and he says that Blazinghand hasn't been given a proper chance. But if this isn't a delay tactic, then hasn't he already been given a proper chance?

I also notice the way yamato77's tone changed after the lynch. Suddenly, he was extremely confident in the lynch being terrible, and everyone on it throwing the game. But he didn't actually say that much about the Blazinghand lynch before the deadline, and didn't seem to care that much about whether or not Blazinghand was lynched. The tone change after the lynch is a good sign that yamato77 is trying to pick up the town credit for not mislynching here.

It's even more telling that yamato77 provides more evidence after the deadline. He's had a whole day to recover emotionally, so any anger he felt shouldn't be here any more. And he need not be defending himself from these minor pressures, especially since I'm the only one who actively seems suspicious of him (and he's scumreading me, and I haven't described my reasons for my scumread of him by the time he was defending his stance on Blazinghand). This doesn't strike me as town play.