I can effectively clear myself via my claim, which I am not going to do now.
So who is the one town in that group?
So,
I hope to be posting this in the mainchat for yāall to read rather than in the deadchat for yāall to laugh at because I trusted Texas when I shouldnāt have.
I hope Texas lived through the night. If he did, maybe weāll be able to settle the IBA thing today.
I was about to call the IBA thing ābullshitā there, but I stopped and caught myself.
Yāseeā¦
This game is stressful as fuck beyond stressful. Letās just get that out of the way up front. Marl giving up, CCCās sitting there calmly accepting that thereās no way theyāre not getting lynched, Grapefruitās hating everything, Iām panicking and flailing.
And that means Iām part of the problem.
Panicking and flailing because of deadline pressure is not a thing I want to do. Nor is calling people āgoddamn idiots.ā Nor is evoking this kind of response from the entire thread:
#511, from sulit: āā¦feels like opportunistic Litten mislynch all over again.ā
#684, from marshal: āI donāt understand such an visceral reaction to me justā¦posting.ā
#831, from sulit: ā[her] stances come from a place of willful ignorance and itās pretty wolfyā
#845, from Lux: āā¦ that post was obviously tongue-in-cheek. Where have I played badly? I donāt understand this- seems to entail you know my reads are wrong.ā
āI know Iām town, and have trouble believing someone can actually take so much issue with what Iāve done so far.ā
#865, from Phoenix: āEvenstar why do you hate funā
#943, from Rhea: āIām having a hard time responding to this because the question honestly feels loaded. Youāre doing this thing where you point to actions and say that they are scummy without doing the actual work and breaking down what constitutes wolfy behaviour within what Iāve done.ā
#1112, from Amelia: āHer attacks on me were badā¦ā
#1222, from Rhea: āHer attacks on me were bad and scummyā¦ā
And last, but certainly not least: #799, from Artic.
This is really a great defense and worth reproducing in full, and itās a good 50% of why Iām committing to real change here. Wazza, thank you. You didnāt need to do this for me, especially not when I was attacking you, but you did anyway. Hereās the relevant section of the post:
LIGMA
Eli
Hippo
Whysper
Luxy
Marl
PKR
(Wazza?)
This is my PoE basically. Think if we just plow through all these names we will probably win.
yeah it is, for level 1 reasons
in the hood they were also seemingly trying to egg me on to killing wazza today before guillo, but this is because they think wazza is kp so itās not a horrible suggestion
lol @ arctic and I basically posting the same list minus guillo
though I do feel like the game is kinda being boxed in for wolves, assuming all of our info is correct
thing is i donāt think we have more than 2 MLās, but your list includes whysper so thatās 3 MLs which might be losing
Ideally we get another clear in your list, thereās plenty of time for that anyway
plus luxy claims self resolving
Whysper is probably just town Iād leave them alone, alongside myself and probably Marl
I think Guill ā> Waz ā-> Hippo is a game winning lynch order
fair
just not really willing to accept the whole āici said X in my role cardā thing as gospel
so if whysper is town and luxy is self resolving
that means the solve is pkr + eli + hippo + 1 of marl/wazza, probably?
hippo just kinda feels like town tho idk
And you know what? Heās right.
Heās goddamn right.
I am used to games where I am the loudest, most screamingest presence in the thread. I am used to games where Iām in control of the town and I get a big fat say in where the wagons go. I am used to being able to win off presence rather than skill, because people crack when I yell at them rather than being able to actually defend themselves.
Like, Nictics can out-presence me. Whysper can out-presence me. I know there are players out there who are better at this than me. But I have never, ever been in a thread where I was actually one of the least-contributing posters.
And I hate that. I hate that a fucking lot very much.
So what do I do? I try to compensate. I try to kick it into like a billionth gear, because Iām Not Being Loud Enough. I donāt want to cooperate with my fellow townies now that theyāre actually on my level; I want to win the god damn game all by myself.
Thatās not how to play mafia. Not if you want to win, and certainly not if you want to have fun. My stress levels have honestly been through the roof because of this game; itās literally the most intense mafia experience I have ever had. The second most intense mafia experience I have ever had was the last time. Yeah. Iām used to week-long dayphases. This is more than a little bit culture-shocky for me, even after sulit giving me some idea of what tournament games are like.
Spoiler alert: I do, in fact, fake emotions in my games. I do it regardless of whether Iām town or scum, because pressure is easy and voting is hard. Making someone crack is just straight-up less difficult than actually scumhunting.
Donāt get me wrong, my arguments have some real depth to them. But back on SV, someone like @Aelin or @Liattac when confronted with an annoyed Star, would quickly back down. (I try not to challenge Nictis like that.)
Here, those habits are fucking me over. I try to get Wazza to stop talking about something, and I fill like four pages with it. I try to get myself to stop shitposting; alright, I can claim some success there, but in the process Iāve majorly pissed off someone I ought to be working with closely as a proper ally. (Yes, I townread the cheese guy now. Iāve had a lot of time to think about this read overnight, and I just donāt see how they can be scum given #2273, #2168, -
Ah fuck.
Perspective slip in #2144.
thatās not really a fair assessment, i think it was pretty likely because she was scumread by quite a few people and for it to come from a wolf wolves would have way too much kp