TWG 210: Vanilla Ice Cream in Sprite [GAME THREAD]

[Hakulyte]

Re: TWG 210: Vanilla Ice Cream in Sprite [GAME THREAD]

Do you buy when zenith lashed out and explained away his weird behavior?

You can answer yes, no, or not sure

Yes, the frustration over it seems real to me.

Sunfan vs zenith seems like a conflict you would take a side on but unless I missed it I don't see that you did

I didn't have the courage to iso 200 posts by Sunfan and scrutinize everything. I liked some things, I hated others like the part with botchi I've quoted above.

When it comes to Zenith, it's more that I have a low game count with him and he doesn't seems to be aware of how I play all that much. So, I'm not surprised at all to see what I see. The problem for me is that the same applies on my end. I just blank out when I try to think at his alignment. It's like I don't know what to look into to build any confidence.

[FreezinIce]

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Sunfan vs zenith seems like a conflict you would take a side on but unless I missed it I don't see that you did

[FreezinIce]

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I think that's all I have for this point in the game.

Xel and Zenith are 50/50s for me. I don't know what to make of their slots. I feel like only wolf flips would help me lean them one way or another.

I think that covers everyone on my end for this phase.

Do you buy when zenith lashed out and explained away his weird behavior?

You can answer yes, no, or not sure

[FreezinIce]

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Oh I forgot zenith, he's in the bottom category

[FreezinIce]

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I probably only kill in the bottom category today.

On that note unvote

[FreezinIce]

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I was going to get on my computer but I'm not feeling it atm, maybe next phase

Time to crystalize my reads

Town \ town lean aka I don't look here today:

the sun fan
Haku
Star crossed
bugkid666

Null but I need to do work to fix it

ShadoWolfe
XelNya

Null to Wolf lean and they need to do work to fix it

DaBackpack
Botchi246
Hateandhatred

[Hakulyte]

Re: TWG 210: Vanilla Ice Cream in Sprite [GAME THREAD]

I'm probably wrong somewhere here. It's more something to consider based on my own process of elimination. jsayin'

There's probably some middle ground that's the better answer.

[Hakulyte]

Re: TWG 210: Vanilla Ice Cream in Sprite [GAME THREAD]

I think that's all I have for this point in the game.

Xel and Zenith are 50/50s for me. I don't know what to make of their slots. I feel like only wolf flips would help me lean them one way or another.

I think that covers everyone on my end for this phase.

[Hakulyte]

Re: TWG 210: Vanilla Ice Cream in Sprite [GAME THREAD]

Why botchi? it would not reveal much

I don't like this on reread if botchi W.

[Hakulyte]

Re: TWG 210: Vanilla Ice Cream in Sprite [GAME THREAD]

explain this please sunfan, as well as anyone else who thinks this is right.

what does my flip do for you sunfan? given my amount of activity and my posts and my meta i guess

its literally the first phase, and i was far from super active, so..what gives?

and freezin, you belive in sunfan strongly enough from d0 to parrot his votes????

Low activity doesn't make you town. Information doesn't win the game. Lynching wolves wins the game. Why would you throw away your only chance to impact the game ? botchi
You don't vote players to get "information", you vote players to lynch a wolf. If you don't vote, you're doing the equivalent of removing your only winning option from the game or you don't care about it because you're not trying to lynch a wolf.

You're also stopping others from knowing what would have been your real voting intentions 'cause you never committed to it.

@botchi
we need to talk, not about anything that you might expect
you did not vote yesterday
this is bad

I won't lecture you, I know you know that this is bad, even if you aren't sure

essentially, none of your words had any weight yesterday

come this phase, you (and everyone else), needs to vote, because that is how town kills wolves, and that is how the wolves blend in with town

I know you don't mean to do this if you're a villager, but this is a loaded question, or one that has a supposition different from mine

I am not after information related to flips. I, frankly, think it is a very bad way to try and play the game, ESPECIALLY on d0. Wolves do whatever they can to stop information from making sense based on flips, especially on FFR

I wanted to kill you (and still kind of do) because I thought you were scummy, and that made me think you would flip red, and that's kind of the beginning and end of it.

This post and the one before it does help me, where you're talking to me specifically. That wasn't really present the way I wanted before. When you thought I had my vote on you last game when you replaced in, you were very clearly taken aback, and your reactions haven't been rising to that level this game, that was probably the biggest reason why

and inactivity is and probably always will be a reason *for* me to vote someone, not a reason against

if you're town, we can work on getting there
as I said before, you are not currently my top kill so
there is that

W/W interaction ? Why it's okay ? Everyone would vote me out if I did this. Do you have some prior botchi meta read or something ?

[Hakulyte]

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ShadoWolfe is looking better this phase imo. I think he clarified most concerns I had about him while talking to Star. His posts appears genuine to me. We just thinks differently, but his headspace is more somewhere that makes sense to me now.
tldr; I don't think voting ShadoWolfe is a good idea anymore.

I want everyone to take note of ShadoWolfe's take on DBP. I do also remember him going "Detective DBP" and being more all in on opinions to make something happen. I think the how of "how he ended up playing Day 0" can be overlooked to some extent because to some degree, he needs to be consistent with his own meta. I just hate it 'cause I've been wolf with him before and it's so ridiculously similar to these games that I don't know what to trust. I hope he swings back into the game and hopefully do something similar as he did the first phase.
tldr; Pending back to null for me. unvote I will probably miss DBP's activity during the end of this phase. You guys will have to figure it out during that time.

I have Freezin as town meta wise, but Freezin is someone I cannot confidently solve when he rolls wolf. If someone ever wants to investigate in that direction, be my guest, but I'm kind of defaulting him to town because it's too early for that imo.

I think Star is town, but I also think Star is being mislead into wagons that are likely to be wrong. Otherwise, I think Star would have been voted out or even NK'd.

I have a meta town read on bugkid for pmuch the same reason as DBP.

I've seen Zenith's vote, but I want him to know that behind my posts, all I do is project my own insecurities towards others. They don't need to act upon it. I'm just hoping to see more content and that this new content helps me get where I want to be.

This phase feels wrong here.

[Hakulyte]

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So, tonight is my EoD. I will miss the last 18 hours or so due to work.
I'll be here for the next one assuming I'm still in this game.

Benguino asked me about the low post count players and I clarified that Quality > Quantity and that they needed to lack both.

A player could have 5 posts in this game and be top town.

I just generally dislike low activity as a playstyle in a setup where there's no PR to protect like here. fmpov, low activity is like a weapon to protect PRs by making wolves guess who's intentionally withholding information. We're not here this game.

It just feels wasted to me and it's stopping me from properly making a town circle to finish my process of elimination. More posts, especially with players that tends to make mistakes helps me see a correlation and build confidence about scenarios like "oh X player tend to make Y mistake, but it's not wolfy because of their playstyle etc".

In case it's not clear, a player exactly like Zenith right now would benefit a lot from posting more to help me get him out of the "null zone".
By keeping the post count low, it's making me fail to see patterns that would help me town read you better. It just makes me feel like you need to withhold information in a setup that has no reason to do that.

[star-crossed]

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Xel, I might not actually have time to respond to specific points in it til later but I wanted to give you a read receipt. Thank you for the feedback on my reads post specifically, as well.

I actually iso'd Zenith first because he is getting votes at the moment.

I secretly want to vote someone in the bottom 5 posters at EoD just because it would be so easy to coast this game and wait for town to self-destruct.

So looking through Raeko's iso:







Checked around a couple pages around these two posts and believe this is the only direct comment on what Haku said here, and rereading it, it's crazy it is the only comment about that post. It's beyond an anti-town mindset from the very beginning; an immediate outed distrust in town, and Raeko is the only one to have apparently noticed this (I didn't even notice this, clearly).

Well I think Shado for example was aware of this post and discussion between the two, it came up later with him pressing raeko and it was something you disagreed with him in relation to.

It's "anti-town" depending on what your theory standpoint is about going after inactives, I guess? I took it more as postulating that there may be a slight strategic advantage in this setup to be quieter as a wolf, which I have trouble as seeing very alignment indicative in and of itself. Like, obviously going after inactives can be weaponised if your team happens to be more active, etc.

I will look forward to seeing how that ties into your analysis of what Haku actually did at the end of the day, I suppose.

steam out my ears
fire pouring out my eyes
hair set ablaze


in all seriousness though, game, how are we feeling about sunfan having nearly double the top 2nd poster's posts? Are we universally townreading him or....? Cause this to me is a data point I like to keep in the back of mind when I'm looking for clues in previous phases and having such a presence with no town backing behind it is often cause for concern as well as a myriad of other considerations.

I have given my opinion on him by now, but I am actually not too clear what your own is, like you almost seem to be starting from an assumption of being against him because it's the vote you are defaulting to from very early on.

I didn't until you pointed it out in this way

Seeing it on paper, the position Ben is in and what can be inferred from it makes me feel like town's forced to deal with this right here and now, because as you pointed out, Ben has two outs given one of two hypotheticals play out here.

Dare I ask, what would our repercussions look like if we let this go until tomorrow? Do you think wolves position would become too overwhelming or could you see this naturally resolving?

I genuinely can't decide if this is good analysis for end of day or if it's slightly tone deaf to be posting it 10 minutes before end of day given what the actual wagons are and that you were then paranoid about movement in votes, so I am quoting it for a second opinion.

[the sun fan]

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xel I'm reading this later, just know that because I play on 80 posts per page, I have no idea what page is what after a certain point

anyway I look forward to the shadowolfe read

[XelNya]

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I've spoiled because this post is fairly long. It's not a "thoughts on every post" and some reads adjust without specific mention.

--33--
621 is an ok post
- "I think it was unlikely that ben would avoid being at least somewhat solidly scumread in the next phase, at minimum. I think star will be heavily scrutinized today, and her alignment more positively determined."
I know we like, are reading star so differently here, is there a specific like, mannerism you can direct my deer in the headlighted ass to because I am MISSING SOMETHING ya'll see and I don't
because I spent all of D0 have star as the unspoken ride or die (if me defend posting wasn't the indicator of this- I dunno what to tell you.)
Like what did I miss
625 is fine
626 why so paranoid
629 feels like a carbonated drink going down a little wrong
634 i'm bit jarred still on the star hate this game, so this post is a negative for me (has hindsight of other current day posts, do account for this.)
--34--
650 this post super bothers me still, because I cannot in history of games i've been in / skimmed I've seen dbp be this sad drunk posting. It's like world's most obvious bait to jump him for steering / making the main case.
651 This post is super dense in PRODUCTIVE town posting.
653 The contribution i'd make to this push is that dbp has gone from "charismatic bravado" to pouting drunk. The contrast to the actions / results doesn't steer anywhere and feels like a barrier against a harder push.
656 I was with you till the last sentence, but that'd be more semantical than a point of argument.
660 I do not like this agreement with bugkid here but i'll revist if need be later.

- Wanna state the only solid town lean here for me today is star, and haku has some points, but hasn't hit threshhold quite yet. Sunfan is a little above null but barely enough to note. dbp stonks are inversed gas prices rn.

-- 35 --
667 / 668 I find myself in agreement here, though, not for the bottom part of haku's post, and more similar to freezin's.
676 I wanna touch on this later~
685 I like this post a little less? It has me in the first half, loses me in the second because the implications of the kill are important, on par with the "why" because frankly let's be real
that kill is so notable, that enough people are surprised by it
what that tells me is some degree of these:
- she was killed for where she was looking around
- she was killed for her steering of town being a problem
- the information taken by taking her out is valuable to the scum team
- framing I guess, i'm the wrong person to toss this out, but let's just be fair here
- the nature of the kill ununites the town

If I throw my speculation to the void it's 3 and 5. I couldn't explain 5, but I feel we're sort of there.
687 I assign no value to this post, and I don't think other people should either.
694 I disagree but w.e.

- Star still leaned town
- sunfan stonks down a little
- zenith is... null but can trend a solid 90 degrees down easily
- bugkid is null, could go either way, i am torn on wanting to iso them / amlazy
- Haku maintains current read

--36--
716 this vote push is solid regardless of my feels either way
--37--
719 your whole post is kind of a circle jerk and I hate you for it
--38--
724 It's hard to explain the Zenith pushes other than
ya'll feel like you're creating a nothing burger because the concept in his post is fine
727 stonks down
730 YOU ACTUALLY CARE. YOU JUST ASKED ABOUT IT, THE EXPLANATION IS IN HIS POST AND IN THE ORIGINAL FUCK UP POST
DO YOU NOT READ
DOOOOOOO YOUUUUUUUUU
735
- I agree with the framejob point only as the overarching premise for the kill, and not that it doesn't contribute (I feel you meant this but I'm gonna point it out.)
- : l
- the rest of this post is fair
740 I take issue with your framing of me because I know for a fact by now you know I literally made a post defending you
you can't say I was too pansy to vote you / do my own thing, I literally was saying with defending you (and later in my ben vote) I felt you were town AT THE VERY LEAST IF YOU ARE HARD OF READING ABILITY town enough to not be on my see gone list
and it's worse when you account for just how many people wanted to see you go for a while
this is your first negative post to me, and it feels gross because it's actually about me
BUT THE REST IS SOLID so am conflicted

- Star stonk down slightly (town still.)
- sunfan stonk is holding (null trending town.)
- haku stonk holds (null trending town, harder to change because of Haku mentioning they'll be fairly afk.)
- dbp stonk holds (scum leaning)

--38--
745 (btw thanks for grabbing the vote counts)
Of the 5 votes theres a few things I should glean into skimming through how dbp enters the ben wagon, and how shado joins it, I need to reaquint myself with it, and hatred deserves a mention but frankly I've got zero idea how to read intot hat so I'd rather focus on where I camn MAYBE provide value. (homework for tomorrow.)
sunfan's original response is enough to not make me feel going there is productive, but i'd entertain it if his posts trend downwards
757 the noncommital hewre is noteworthy if what I said above happens, more a note for myself than anything
760 my contribution to this statement is I guess, if you see some of my comments above and it changes anything for you let me know? I see what you're saying though, I wanna just town and move on but I feel like it's a disservice to the issues caused by last eod to do so, even if the explanation is fine / makes sense.

--39--
769
- I don't quite like the (what feels to me) grace read on freezin, I agree he's not been scummy but the needle is like, twitch but not moving, and based off your other content, it feels a bit weak here
- gregglepoo read is fair
- haku read is fine
- I don't quite mesh with bugkid yet, can be convinced though (will be skimming later, I don't see solving their slot as priority though. I am admittedly hung-up a bit on yesterday, so do grain of salt bias assume here.)
- dbp i want to see how this read progresses tomorrow so I've got no comment

I kind of sit in this state by this point:

(Higher = More town. Below line = Null.)

star-crossed
the sun fan
Hakulyte
FreezinIce (Am very open to bumping up higher, would consider above sunfan)
bugkid666
_Zenith_ (You could almost interchange Bug and Zenith RN for me, but bug sits higher for sheer content reasons, and it would require an iso to adjust more.)
DaBackpack
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ShadoWolfe
botchi246
Hateandhatred

I've left myself out for obvious reasons, but in the interest of contributing more:

If I pushed at myself for a moment though:
- It's worth thinking on if the Raeko kill is motivated by my slot being how it is.
- It's worth critique for the benguin flip being bad, and being one of the early voters it's totally fair.
- I think everyone else would maybe read into my post defending star, but I don't know the utility, but being my biggest contribution other than benguin vote / light? push, it feels worthy of mention.

I think this is the best food for thought I can offer.

- I want to reread shado a bit.
- I need to reread dbp and make a formal push if my read goes what the early points of today inspire me to think about d0 in 20/20 hindsight.

(I also fucked up my page number at some point so it might be wrong past like, 36.)

I'm going to goddamn bed now.