Alison wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:55 pm
I have a town read on Mac, mostly because he can't really win as scum if he plays like this. His teammates are going to get trampled on and he'll get outed by mech or by "well, we're out of good exes, let's just get rid of the afk". I have seen him blitz out first post reads as scum before (in SI) and he did that with a specific eye to pocketing a specific person via meta. He is pocketing nobody in this game with this behavior. I also just remembered that he said in Bread Mafia he was going to take mafia lowkey for a while because of some arguments he got into in D1.
My concern with Mac is that he has/had continued to give uninformed reads while not acknowledging them as such. He has acknowledged it now, but that only came after it was pointed out that he'd missed some pretty major details (such as your roleclaim).
I do not suspect Mac for his activity, and I do not suspect him for generating bogus uninformed reads alone. But I am slightly skeptical of him when he consistently puts bogus reads into the thread without letting on that they are bogus. I would have expected town Mac to inform the thread that his reads were largely uninformed sooner than he did; before people could start taking them seriously, rather than waiting until he was called out for being uninformed.
I have not considered what his "winning strategy" would be playing this way, but I'm not sure he needs to have one. I believe him when he say he has been unable to play as much as usual, and I do not doubt that he'd prefer to remain lowkey for personal reasons (I didn't play or spectate Bread, but I don't doubt your account of things), but with all of this in mind I think it is possible that MafiaMac's strategy right now is just to be accepted as town and worry about the rest later. He does not have time to mastermind a team victory, or if he does, he's not in a position to do that yet. He needs to earn some trust first. So he does that by vomiting quick reads into the thread.