[ShadoWolfe]

Originally Posted by the sun fan

lastly, how backwards do you think star's reads are now, shado
do you object to me wording the question this way? if so, how would you word it? (and then answer it)
and if you do not think she is backwards, at what point did this change (if ever)

your wording is fine because it's her wording, but I guess I don't feel like I ever thought her reads were backwards, I just never really considered them as solutions beyond using them to help me read HER. you have to remember this is my first game back in years and I honestly feel like I've lost something considerable as far as solving goes. it's hard to explain, but the "spark" in going back and re-reading ad nauseum to check for inconsistencies and forming evidence-based objective reads is GONE. I think there's a couple of reasons for that, including this intense brain fog I've had for the last week that makes me feel like I'm constantly floating and some life and work stuff, but the desire to put in EFFORT is not present. to counter it productively, I've kind of tried to rely on feeling out genuineness vs spuriousness in my first or second read of thread and then broadly piecing those feelings together, but the end result is a lack of confidence in my reads vs how it used to feel and a lack of like real evidence for a lot of feelings beyond just trying to point at the thing that made me feel a certain way and explain how I got there as best as I can. the lack of confidence I alluded to before when I was talking about how I for the life of me couldn't come up with a direction for yesterday's lynch despite feeling like I could've steered it if I wanted to. so I've tried to counter that too by finding clear towns that I could kind of lock in and work from as a basis of some sort of PoE, but I end up second guessing a bit and it prevents me from forming clear worlds. it's also a little upsetting that some of the slots I mentally draw blanks on are SO inactive that the host has more posts than them. I guess I got unaccustomed to the feeling after so long, but mostly having the same few voices in thread outside of EoD makes me feel like I'm hitting a wall. I know I need to properly go back and ISO slots and build a world, but it's just been hard to push myself to do it and much easier to talk to people and try to feel them out real time