TWG CLXXXV: C9+++++++++ Game Thread

[ShadoWolfe]

I guess I'll jot down my thoughts while I have a little time to myself.

If MML is a wolf, he took a risky gambit betting there was no cop in this setup. The reason I don't buy this world is because it requires premeditation on another level from MML.
See, if MML were to have claimed under pressure at EoD alone, been saved from the lynch as a result, and then come in here with his blocked result on Xel of all people, I would've been a little more than skeptical.
But that didn't happen. Instead, MML both softed (lol clicking the video and watching to the end makes it obvious in retrospect when he specifically says "detective lei wulong", kind of a hard soft but I think its clear now how few people really pay attention to the meme/reference videos posted) in D0 and *started* the hypocop thread. This means he'd have been planning to fakeclaim exactly cop since D0 and planting seeds to do so.
I don't see that happening here, and won't entertain the world where "there is no cop" or "MML isn't the cop" so long as MML remains unCCed.

I like Gradiant. Aside from MML's greencheck (possibility of godfather requires tinfoiling Gradi's slot indefinitely), I feel like the nuances he's reacting to and calling out would be hard to catch as wolf. Ask me for more examples if you care, but the stuff like the "odd" post for instance, as small as it is, is really hard to fake. Not because of his own response (anyone can say "odd), but because of what caught his attention, if that makes sense.

I'm liking Antori more and more as time progresses, but I hate his conclusions.

I will reserve judgment on Hakulyte pending his posts tonight (he normally starts posting at 3-4am my time , which is in 3-4 hours). When last he was available, he seemed like townHaku, and I can't judge him for having to work annoying hours when I'm in the same boat.

inD is weird to read. Despite what seems to be towny prods, I haven't been able to shake the feeling of what people in D0 described as being "aloof" all game. I waffle on him more than Mitt Romney waffled on tax reform, but overall I think excluding EoD yesterday his process has largely been consistent and his logic mostly clear. I think my issue is a vibe that he doesn't truly care about the questions he asks, which either means he's doing it to look good or asking questions just to keep people posting and pushing the game along. Not looking at him for a lynch today, but worse things have happened.

I liked Daikyi's progression until this current phase. His list only served to give me the feeling he hasn't read much at all of last phase or bothered focusing on the nuance of interactions, even among players he says he's read. Aside from not being bothered to read me or inD, his read on roundbox remained exactly the same despite the drastic changes in roundbox' gamestate. What worried me most was his read of raeko was "sheeping roundbox on this." despite roundbox himself having changed his read on her drastically (I'll take my credit for this anytime :bow::wave since Daikyi last commented, there was no mention of that in his read of her, roundbox, or myself. just a "sheeping roundbox on this". Desperately want further clarification on your actual thoughts on the critical interactions / posts from last phase that led to where we're at now. Especially because most of those critical interactions had to do with roundbox, your top town.

I can't deny that roundbox' appeals to emotion and restatements of his own towniness elicited doubt in my mind as to his wolfiness at first. I went back to see town!box fight to appeal to town in the gun game I just hosted, and the differences are stark. Here, he states and restates the perils of lynching him because he's town and that a lynch on him is lynching town. There, he went to work immediately trying to prove his own innocence and drowned out all claims otherwise with post after post of alternating hunting and defense. There are differences in the game, yes, but for that town!box to have all night knowing he's going to be under pressure today to come into day with AoE is ... almost too weird. @roundbox talk to me about the harms of a massclaim here today because I thought it'd be bad until I started actually contemplating it

Raeko until further notice. I've hashed and rehashed my case on her, but the last straw here is opportunistically avoiding the danger zone in these first hours of phase. I'm sure she has an excuse, but she used very personal excuses in the game where she was SK and you only get one shot at misusing irl reasons for being out of thread.