TWG Turbo 41: Trust Fall! [GAME THREAD]

[MixMasterLar]

I concede, mechanically this is just too smart of a play to not take advantage of here

[mellon_collie]

mellon_collie

Ignore this, I just can't be fucked to go page hunting for you and I THINK this is an easy way to pull up what I want??

Idk we'll find out

ooooh it works cool

let's say my partner is toko; why do I not accept Galax's offer?
let's say my partner is raeko; why do I not accept Galax's offer?
let's say my partner is haku; why do I not accept Galax's offer?
let's say my partner is roundbox; why do I not accept Galax's offer?
let's say my partner is Beez; why do I not accept Galax's offer? (I guess I get why this one might be possible)
let's say my partner is lewdy; why do I not accept Galax's offer?
let's say my partner is freezin; why do I not accept Galax's offer

feel free to attempt to disprove any of them, but I genuinely don't understand how you think I can be with anyone but Galax or possibly Beez
this isn't a "Million Dollar Question"
it should be pretty simple imo. I accept that offer GRACIOUSLY as a partner of just about anyone, and trust them to bring it home.

you said maybe the inactives, but genuinely
I can't be with toko, raeko, haku, roundbox, lewdy or freezin

but you seem to be willing to put me with anyone
raeko seems willing to do the same, too

Maybe to mess with the optics of the game further down the line?? I know you said you think that would be a misplay but someone couldn't possibly come into this game, on this internet and tell lies could they??

[MixMasterLar]

Alright....I looked at Raeko's ISO...

I think maybe I can try trusting her a little bit, but I'm still a bit apprehensive

I can shift her slightly away from the solid grey pile I've got into like...Idk what fucking shade of green is "I kind of trust you, but I've got my eye on you" sorta feeling?

Lemme ask you

If it comes down to it in order to save Haku for later, you wanna fall with me?

[the sun fan]

Is Freezin/Shadow_God a thing ?

almost definitely not imo

[Galaxink]

Galaxink ask me about Anime later when the thread state has slowed down; some important shit is happening right now tho and I don't wanna sideline it with discussions on 00s anime talk

copy that! though i'm not sure when it will slow down after my colossal apparent fuck up.

I just keep giggling like
this game is so, so much more chaotic than I thought
I'm probably not going to accept, sorry

you seem really cool, and maybe you can win me over, but uh

well, I'll explain it this way

I recently played in a charity poker tourney. It wasn't really that serious, $20 (or $30 if you wanted a bonus) buy-in.
Probably like 70ish players. We are just starting out, I act first, I have Ace-10, I raise, and the person immediately to my left puts in $200 of their $300.
This is pretty crazy, it is probably a silly play regardless of what they have.

For reasons, after everyone else predictably folded, I had a decision, thought for a little, and folded (which was right but it was so close that maybe I should've gambled anyways)

this just reminds me of that.
just too risky, I like you and you seem cool but like

how can I show you the ropes? you're trying to speedrun before there's anything to talk or show
I'm...
quite scared to accept your offer, frankly

what if you have aces? I'm just crushed

i... think this is fair. but i also think why not? if i'm understanding the game right, shouldn't we trust who we feel we can rely on? i am going into this game completely blind, and from what i understand, this game runs and functions completely differently than the usual style (i.e. typical night and day and voting phases). i feel like trusting my gut is the only way to do this, and i really don't know if i want to trust anyone else at this juncture.

rejecting me is understandable because of the basis of your paranoia and safe-guardedness, but i want to believe that you will be as safe with me as i will be with you.

I'm really glad someone tried to fall with me regardless of all else
like
there is TOO MUCH CHAOS but like

I think haku has to be town 100% of the time now since he can't even be with me cuz I would accept that poor girl's offer, I think Shadow_God probably has to be town, I think I probably am beginning to have to be town to people

are wolves just getting crushed right now?
this doesn't make any sense to me

maybe this is kind of how I felt playing twg the first time
idk what is happening anymore

idk what is happening either. i feel like i did something so wrong judging from lars and shadow god's reactions. i feel like i should be embarrassed but hey, this is a learning experience and i appreciate all of you being patient with me even if i'm being a little too cluelessly ballsy.

I almost definitely will

heartbreak time

The fact there's an almost here is upsetting and makes me feel a certain kind of way

lars am i crazy to say that i'd trust you next in line if sun fan full on rejects me? (or if he already has, i'm still catching up from being afk)

Based anime take. You found the good stuff imo. Not quite sure how you play TWG tho.

haku, i'm not sure how i play TWG either. doing my best though lol! sorry for all the chaos guys (unless you all kind of like the insanity?)

look man, for the right number of embarrassing stories about ShadoWolfe...
...I guess I'm just saying I have a price

where are you in One Piece, Galax? whenever you see this

i'm on ep 200! i think everyone hates sanji a little too much.

but as much as i'd like to fall with you, i'd never sell up my loyalty to my dear stinky stinky brother

Haku is the gimme

Lewdy

I don't really have a strong pick for third.

I'm trying to determine if I'm ok with Moe still but like, I really felt like I saw a wolf try to play aggressive there and even though them prodding me afterwards went right back to feeling like town I don't know if I can just ignore it.

Freezin is probably just town and I'm probably judging early game content too much. The quarantine idea I think comes from a town's perspective to want to solve and trying to figure out the metric to do that still.

Galanx probably only fucks up that badly as town I think? I think even a new wolf wouldn't want to put themselves that quickly unless it's literally a scanerio where Sunfan asks them to in wolf chat so he can turn it down later and try to distance the partnerships. That's.....probably not happening.
Still, they'll have to demonstrate a town mindset before I entertain that.

is it... allowed for someone to tell me what i did wrong? o:

[Shadow_God_10]

Maybe to mess with the optics of the game further down the line?? I know you said you think that would be a misplay but someone couldn't possibly come into this game, on this internet and tell lies could they??

...

I now feel a little bit better about you than I did approximately 4 minutes ago...This is just classic Raeko sarcasm

[TWG Michael Scott]

HAKULYTE...

Hakulyte. Buddy. Can we talk? Charmoeleon trusted you. He really, genuinely trusted you. And you looked at that trust, and you looked at Charmoeleon, and you said, "no thank you, I do not want that."

Now it's hard not to take that a little personally because trust is sort of my whole thing that I came here to teach and if everyone is set on just walking around rejecting it then what am I even doing here. I drove six hours. I went through four toll booths. I had Sonic tots but they were not that good. Scott's Tots will always be better. Not that I eat them. That's disgusting. Althought honestly maybe that would have been better than what I did to them. I've made some empty promises in my life, but hands down, that was the most generous. Anyway.

What I am trying to say is that this workshop only works if people are willing to open themselves up and right now, Hakulyte, you are closed off. You are a closed person. And I say that not to be mean but because somebody needs to say it and everybody else in this room is too polite (except for Lar, but I shouldn't talk about a client like that).

We are ZERO for TWO trust offers now and, well, that should inspire some introspection. I'm not going to make a big thing out of this. I'm not. That is not what today is about and I am a professional and I am going to act like one. But I do think somebody needs to sit with Hakulyte at lunch today and just... check in. See what's going on in there. Because something is going on in there. There's a disconnect in trust here. A distance that seems farther than the look Creed gets in his eyes sometimes.

Well, with that aside, Charmoeleon, you're free. I'm proud of you for opening up and finding love and trust in your heart. Now go find somebody (other than your husband) who deserves it. And... if you still feel down and need a hug, Meredith here is always open.

[the sun fan]

is it... allowed for someone to tell me what i did wrong? o:

you did the same thing that Freezin did (if you're both the same alignment, and maybe even if you two aren't)
you swung for the fences off of not a ton of information
it isn't wrong, but both lar and shadow_god and probably tokomi were just not prepared for someone to try and fall with me
I certainly wasn't ready for it myself

it disrupted the game, but Freezin did the exact same thing
speaking solely from my perspective, you disrupted the game in a good way

it was VERY risky, is all
probably foolishly, and it is unlikely that whoever you would've tried to fall with would reciprocate your offer if they are town

it really is almost exactly like that person putting 2/3rds of their chips in the middle on hand 3 of a 70 person tourney preflop (forgive the lingo)
except what they did is almost definitely wrong and what you did isn't

[the sun fan]

honestly now that I think about it
the people saying that galax fucked up should probably be giving freezin more shit
we just have freezin as a known and galax as an unknown (in terms of familiarity), that's the only difference

[Shadow_God_10]

is it... allowed for someone to tell me what i did wrong? o:

I cannot speak for Lar, but I can tell you this from my perspective...Let's start at the beginning here

The game started at approximately 22:00 Thursday May 14th, 2026....

Surely Shado has told you this at SOME POINT (Is this angleshooting?? I don't think it is????), but if he has not, there is no possible way you could have known this as a general thing in our little TWG community: We have a VERY gross history of players signing up for games, rolling wolf, and not playing...Thus town self destructs and shits the bed.

Now that you are aware of that, you haven't said anything up until now for a whopping three days, and in under less than 10 posts, you initiated a trust fall with Sunfan, who is, at least to me in my opinion, one of the top town players in my little circle...

I think you can see where this wouldn't look too good if you are indeed town.

[MixMasterLar]

Galanx you should not be embarrassed at all

My reaction is because I had Sunfan under suspension of being he wolves and you offering up a trust fall would be disastrous for town if that was true

It also seemed like maybe you reach your conclusion a little too hasty?

[Galaxink]

you did the same thing that Freezin did (if you're both the same alignment, and maybe even if you two aren't)
you swung for the fences off of not a ton of information
it isn't wrong, but both lar and shadow_god and probably tokomi were just not prepared for someone to try and fall with me
I certainly wasn't ready for it myself

it disrupted the game, but Freezin did the exact same thing
speaking solely from my perspective, you disrupted the game in a good way

it was VERY risky, is all
probably foolishly, and it is unlikely that whoever you would've tried to fall with would reciprocate your offer if they are town

it really is almost exactly like that person putting 2/3rds of their chips in the middle on hand 3 of a 70 person tourney preflop (forgive the lingo)
except what they did is almost definitely wrong and what you did isn't

ah i understand. thank you. i appreciate you not being belittling and i'm glad you didn't feel my disruption was negative or irritating.

for context: i had just sat and read hundreds of messages, and consistently i noticed the messages i found myself aligning with the most were yours. not to mention, wolfe has historically always had great things to say about you, which leaves me with a little bias.

guys, i really don't want to be partnerless and susceptible to the elements. i'm okay with being risky if it's for the greater safety.

then again, i have no real strategy here except to wear my heart on my sleeve. i don't gamble, if a risk seems worth it and i can stomach the loss, i figure why not and i take the plunge.

[the sun fan]

i'm on ep 200! i think everyone hates sanji a little too much.

I read up through Egghead (I wait for arcs to finish before I binge) and I only watched some fight scenes. I just can't stand sanji... He is the only one who just actually makes me mad sometimes. Glad you're immune to him (for now, at least, hope it holds)

[Shadow_God_10]

I do want to apologize to Gal if what I said comes across as me being a bit of an asshole...

Surely I could have worded it better, yes...But I hope she doesn't find what I said to be too harsh

[mellon_collie]

guys, i really don't want to be partnerless and susceptible to the elements. i'm okay with being risky if it's for the greater safety.

can you explain more why you don't want to be partnerless? I don't really want to either, but I think it's important to pick the right partner (just like in life...)

So I tend to agree with everyone that your decision seemed a bit hasty. Is there a reason you were so afraid of yourself being partnerless and didn't trust that somebody else would make a partnership??