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

[bugkid666]

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

star / sunfan interactions feel t/t to me. star going extremely hard out the gate feels typical to me but the focus on mechanics could be slightly out of character. could be copium because i've gotten called out for focusing on mechanics d0 before lol

[ShadoWolfe]

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

thread got down to game-related talk much faster than expected for D0
I don't know if the way that it did felt the most natural from star/haku in a quick read, but the switch is generally positive for town so /shrug
I'll probably have to re-read this again when I'm not feeling as brain-foggy

also feeling like a complete reset on personality reads (or at least a solid period of re-calibrating) is needed here given I haven't played in years and don't know how y'all have changed

[ShadoWolfe]

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

was kind of looking forward to the shitposting feel-good hangout vibes given how long it's been tbh

[ShadoWolfe]

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

D0: 13
D1: 11
D2: 9
D3: 7
D4: 5 (24/24 phases start)
D5: 3

If I did the math right, the wolf team wins by having 4 out of the 10 town players be voted off. The town team win by voting out 3 wolves and preventing 4 town players being voted out.

I think that town having no secrets has the potential to make the fundamental secret of who knows who the wolves are already, easier to uncover. Everyone is going to have a more similar frame of reference than usual and town can be more open with each other without incurring the usual risks. Will we see radical honesty transform TWG? I suspect that the standard of posting that wolves have to be consistently capable of to actually be trusted in this one should be higher.

It depends partly on how the randomisation exactly fell, but the ten names not on the wolf team should still be a fairly intimidating list regardless. How many town names do they already fear cannot be one of their four to win?

I think town can make this a hard game to be a wolf in, especially for the later days when process of elimination is powerful. That comes down to things like creating information, to pressure, to commitment. Whatever can be done to not make it easy for them to get their 4 to win.

Statistically speaking, at some stage, it will look like the town are thinking and talking about all the wrong things. At those times, it will feel like it is a good game to be a wolf in. Wolves will be able to look smart and look like they are helping, by telling those unfortunate townies who don't already have the answers why they are probably wrong about what they are wrong about. With hindsight, with process of elimination, I think the good times can actually come back to haunt them in the end.

I thought this post felt hollow when I first read it, but coming back to it makes me like it more. I think I can see a stream of consciousness here where before it just seemed contrived

@star, how can town be "radically honest" with each other?
also, why would wolves "tell those unfortunate townies who don't already have the answers why they are probably wrong about what they are wrong about" instead of helping them double down on their mistakes, and what makes that in any way different than a regular game?

[mellon_collie]

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

thread got down to game-related talk much faster than expected for D0
I don't know if the way that it did felt the most natural from star/haku in a quick read, but the switch is generally positive for town so /shrug
I'll probably have to re-read this again when I'm not feeling as brain-foggy

also feeling like a complete reset on personality reads (or at least a solid period of re-calibrating) is needed here given I haven't played in years and don't know how y'all have changed

I think star and haku are both just like that, haku can spin a read out of thin air and star likes to get down to business so it's not very alignment indicative to me since it's how I would expect them each to play /personality read that may or may not be outdated

was kind of looking forward to the shitposting feel-good hangout vibes given how long it's been tbh

just because they're getting to business doesn't mean we have to

sup wolfe!!

[ShadoWolfe]

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

I think star and haku are both just like that, haku can spin a read out of thin air and star likes to get down to business so it's not very alignment indicative to me since it's how I would expect them each to play /personality read that may or may not be outdated

I agree about haku but I used to generally be able to get a decent read on him in iso by mid D1 or so, so I'm not rushing that read. and star likes to get down to business, sure, but the abruptness still felt weird in the middle of a conversation about ice cream floats. star used to freeze as wolf and I don't know how that's developed so one developmental path I considered would be the overcompensating by diving in about "game talk" even if there weren't much to dive into

just because they're getting to business doesn't mean we have to

sup wolfe!!

sup!!
was that your first float? surprised you went for sprite. what flavor ice cream did you use? I feel like a sprite float would have to be vanilla or strawberry or something fruity/minty.

nothing really beats a root beer float imo, except for maaaybe a good orange cream soda poured over vanilla ice cream to make a kind of creamsicle float

[XelNya]

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

Effort is temporary

Shitpost is forever

[mellon_collie]

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

sup!!
was that your first float? surprised you went for sprite. what flavor ice cream did you use? I feel like a sprite float would have to be vanilla or strawberry or something fruity/minty.

nothing really beats a root beer float imo, except for maaaybe a good orange cream soda poured over vanilla ice cream to make a kind of creamsicle float

I don't like root beer and I'd never really heard of any other kind of float before (other than the melon soda floats from anime) so yes!! I had the chocolate ice cream/coke float and the vanilla/sprite float was roundbox's

[Hateandhatred]

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

star / sunfan interactions feel t/t to me. star going extremely hard out the gate feels typical to me but the focus on mechanics could be slightly out of character. could be copium because i've gotten called out for focusing on mechanics d0 before lol

Immediately sussing out this post.

I don't have questions, I just slightly hate it. At least no question where any answer would be satisfying

But I've also been wrong on bugkid literally every single game we've played, so... maybe it's time to look inward.

But before I do that, I think this looks like an extremely forced post to talk about alignment, plus the "I got called out for this before". I don't think either of them play any differently than I've seen before, and bugkid wasn't responding to anyone when making this post. It's just kind of there. They say they've been sussed out for alignment before, but the question here is "why are you doing it right at this particular moment". I would expect they're just putting their immediate thought on the thread, which is fine, but it feels weirdly strategic to do it exactly then

But then again like they said it's d0 and this gut feeling will soon not matter at all, probably, possibly, especially if the post comes across as genuinely trying to be helpful early on in retrospect

[the sun fan]

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

Hey btw greggles the twg stats link of your sig is broken =(

yeah, I know
it has been broken for years
I should probably just remove it

I paid devonin something back in the day to make it so I never made it myself

[Hateandhatred]

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

yeah, I know
it has been broken for years
I should probably just remove it

I paid devonin something back in the day to make it so I never made it myself

why not fix it though if you can
it was kinda dope

[the sun fan]

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

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.

what a huge swing of a prediction
wolves?? in the inactives???

[the sun fan]

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

Let's not talk about the absolute mess that is ben's signature

Christ on a cross there's a Skype quote in there
that was probably half my lifetime ago

[the sun fan]

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

Someone refresh me on something though

does star do the "extremely engaged" thing either alignment

like stars posts are like "hi welcome, but anyways, we have a world to conquer, and if we focus resources here..." flow to it

we'll have to let you know when she eventually rolls wolf in the year 2084 (or after this game I guess, she can probably do all of what she has done thus far as either alignment)
but I will choose not to answer the question more than that for now

feel free to ask again later and you might get a more elaborate answer
or you might get "lol she's just town"

depends on how right Lu Meng was

he was pretty right (at my expense) last game

[the sun fan]

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

bird

help xel is
funny? charming???

the fuck is this