@Gyrlander
Your attitude pisses me off so much. If you'd dropped some genuine AF stream of consciousness explaining your play it definitely would have undone my scumread. My scumread was a direct effect of how little effort you put into expressing your thoughts / feelings when you took certain actions.
There are players in this community who have to put a shittonne of effort and botched attempts into learning to express themselves properly, and still struggle. You lying down after never actually trying and declaring "any effort to express myself is pointless" is an insult to the people who actually try to improve. Your day 3 play was the definition of trash and you should feel bad / reflect on what you did wrong. You did not earn that AtE, it just made you look entitled AF.
Seriously man:
1) Keep a notepad beside you while you play.
2) When a certain post gives you a certain feeling, stop and start scribbling down your current feelings in the notepad. Do this by:
2a) Focusing on holding onto the images / feelings that were evoked by the post, and what part of the post gave you those feelings.
2b) Make sure you focus on scribbling down all of these feelings, preferably in a scarce format ("line 3 felt scummy. Other game comes to mind, when a scum did action X.", "post feels out of place in context of other posts. Contradiction somewhere maybe." exc.)
2c) Then focus on rationalizing / converting those feelings into a more rigorous argument. ("If he said line 3 as town, hypothesis A makes the most sense, if he said line 3 as scum, hypothesis B makes the most sense. But B sounds more plausible than A, therefore I scumread line 3")
2d) If you cannot put the feelings in the form of a rigorous argument, then consider whether the feelings are a genuine scumread or the human brain's stupid bias fucking with you.
3) When it comes to explaining your thought process, refer back to the notepad for inspiration. Do not embellish the explanation of your thought process with snark / fancyness unless it serves a specific, clear psychological purpose, that you can explain later if you're questioned about it.
I expected more from my Ice Baneling Escape partner .