ill add tl and zzzx to the list too, even if you've moved off them (haven't been tracking this)In post 3896, Psyche wrote: we'll see how things play out. if anyone of me, hu tao, rn flips scum, i'll give you props.
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re: hu tao
i think the best case against her is in the klazam interactions. I'll give those more attention in my next post, maybe further attention will change my mind about the slot. But as a preview, these reads strike me as wishy-washy, undisambiguated. I don't even know what to say about the accusations of "political reads" and read shifting except that the same accusations have been levied or may be properly levied against slots that are now mostly uncontroversial. For example, do people still suspect TL? There are plenty of objective cases of "political" reads/vote shifting. I think hu tao has had much more incentive as either alignment to do that today given how close she has been to being limmed. The idea that town either more plausibly would or should only use reasoning and gestures of towniness to try to kill themselves from being mislimmed just doesn't strike me as generally true. I, for example, see emotional appeals as totally game. Moreover, I find hu tao's self vote and departure totally genuine. Can you imagine how frustrated you'd feel if you were being limmed over the soft guiltied guy? Of course scum can fake these emotions. But all this makes for a null read, not a speed lim candidate. My having a townlean rather than nullread on hu tao goes further than the reaction I outline here, but I feel like betting on it. I feel like I'd see something worse in her iso at this point after she's undergone so much pressure. Will be useful to learn if I'm wrong. I won't try to argue that yall made a lucky guess if she flips scum. I'll just say I was wrong and need to get better. But if she's town? Well, you can imagine.
