TWG 200 Game Thread: Dichotomy

[Xiz]

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Sprint is getting insane. I will NOT be here for the next 24 hours (or at least eod) while we finish this project. Please tag posts with @xiz at the start and i'll try to get to it asap

[Xiz]

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or discord dm

[TWGma]

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Funnygurl voting for me beyond D0.

[Funnygurl555]

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but you're scum this game

[TWGma]

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You say that every time, and yet. How often has that actually been true?

[TWGma]

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(also, if y'all ever want to live in someone's head rent-free, lemme tell you, it's pretty neat)

[XelNya]

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(also, if y'all ever want to live in someone's head rent-free, lemme tell you, it's pretty neat)

I love in a mansion rent free let me tell yah

[bugkid666]

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ok good nothing important happened while I was asleep

[DaBackpack]

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current reads:
kappa is town (or not wolf)
xiz is town
dbp is town
funky is (prolly) town

bugkid is null
haku is null

t-force is scum

oh shit hey i was writing this up but then i had work to do. hey guys

you just posted that "scum thrive on chaos" and yet you have Xiz as town. why?

[roundbox]

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@Lewdy

Your EOD was reminiscent of the most recent TWEWY game. I remember wolfreading you at an EOD for being frozen, and I thought it was happening again. As soon as I posted my vote with my observation in tow, you made a post right around the same time that went completely against my point (you were making very surface-level posts around the same topic). I thought I was wrong about you, so I went to Haku because of their vote on Logman.
Once the heat started piling on Haku (my vote with Force and Blind was unintentionally simultaneous), I jumped off. I kinda regret it in retrospect, because I don't see any foul play with blind, and I've been pretty fond of Force's game so far.

mcdaddio
you have 5 min

this post re: Celery vote
He went for an off-wagon after an unvote. Sure, you can say I did the same thing, but I'm not sure what the vote from Celery on to mcdaddio with that specific reasoning really satisfies my "yeah, this is a good reason to not jump on a train"

to a point, I do think it is a slightly bad habit of mine to be stubborn and typically give more preference to wagons I started and vote off the main stuff (early game), but eh, I think I've said enough

[Charu]

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Obligatory suggestive post of the day.



Yes.

[roundbox]

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I extend a word of caution to everyone trying to metagame this mystery setup
I can believe Xiz when he says he's willing to take one for the team for science, but it rubs me the wrong way in spirit (mostly because of IRL time commitment capabilities). I don't like it when there's a prescribed "this is how we have to progress with this setup" plan because WE ARE STILL MISSING SO MUCH INFORMATION

I think playing it by the book will grant us more results than sciencing the setup. If anything, sunfan is sitting at his computer cracking a grin at some of our theories (reminds me of watching people scramble for the hidden immunity idol in Survivor: Newfoundland) because we're close, but not quite fully correct. The gap in information can lead to bad actors who have more information to steer the "science" in a direction that is opportune for them. Granted our setup is massive, this information gap steering could be more likely than you think given how many anti-town realistically exist.

I'll go back to where I left off: celery
what was the vote on mcdaddio for?

[roundbox]

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gaming the setup is cool, but only when you realistically know all the moves that will happen ahead mechanically

I see no inherent risk in this setup actively hunting scum and identifying who I think is town. it uses the guaranteed mechanic of voting. do people get where I'm trying to go here?

[DaBackpack]

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@star_crossed

welcome, thank you for your contributions so far. you are absolutely right about EoD, and the general lack of investigation on that front

speaking personally, the focus on understanding the game mechanics and trying to understand the graphs+neighbor situation was an attempt at finding some structure and order to the game. especially after 4 flips giving zero information, which was really demoralizing. but having time to process things and sleep on it, it's really just a "whatever" right now. we just have to move forward and hunt wolves with the few means we have.

I say this because I know it's going to sound hypocritical for me to say "let's move on" because of how much time I've spent lingering on mechanics and setup this phase, but I think this is the best route to take atm. Mechanics discussion atm is giving diminishing returns, and more importantly, gives wolves free cover to feign intellectual investment in the game.

[DaBackpack]

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gaming the setup is cool, but only when you realistically know all the moves that will happen ahead mechanically

I see no inherent risk in this setup actively hunting scum and identifying who I think is town. it uses the guaranteed mechanic of voting. do people get where I'm trying to go here?

ninja'd

celery

his pressure on mcdaddio stands out as scummy and detached from the CFD happening around him. his vote by itself is bad, but the fact that he thought to divert his attention away from the CFD and probe mcdaddio for reads with only 5 minutes left in the phase is... bad

he might have wanted to protect a partner i guess, but this is a roundabout way of doing it. it looks more like he or his team realized that their vote distribution looked awkward and scummy and he shifted it in order to not have their votes all on the same wagon.

if this is true, it would suggest that the wolves were not really in danger last EoD--- at least at the T-5 minute point.