Tessa is her full first name
so basically instead of just pushing reads even if I’m not sure on them I should actually put in the work to see if I think they’re correct?
but that’s hard
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well, yeah that’s a way of putting it
i think you should try to ensure that the justification you have for your reads warrants the level of confidence you have in them
because a lot of the time you seem to be confidently pushing someone (like emilia) but were aware that what they were doing could conceivably be coming from a villager
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the thing is I’m basically confident in none of my reads
so I just push all of my reads equally and I don’t have enough self awareness as to how good they actually are
that’s why you try and think about the reasoning you have, but even if that doesn’t work you have other people to talk to who can test the rigidity of your reads
i think vulgard is a pretty good example of someone you didn’t communicate with very well (he mentioned this too so i feel like it’s worth saying atm) and it’s a shame because if you two established some common ground in realizing the towncore could be tainted then we could have gone from there
don’t get too down about your play though, you have just as many things to be happy about as you don’t
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actually while i’m here i have a similar problem
i speak as though i’m more confident in a lot of my reads than i actually am (and this is where the notion that i’m incredibly self-assured comes from despite it not exactly being true) and so there can be some confusion
however consciously i am aware of how confident i am in all of my reads and the justification i’m using
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i think feigning a degree of confidence is fine
massively exaggerating it can be bad
if people think your gutread is as strong as a godread then 
so long as you are consciously aware of how confident you actually are, then yes
otherwise the priority should be figuring out how confident you should be in the read based on the evidence you’re using and push it according to that level
if you push someone and sound very confident their reactions are much more likely to be genuine imo
marshal calling me a wolf D1 despite only reading me as “not being villagery nor wolfy” made me subconsciously change my play at points i think
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that’s a good play so long as afterwards if the wagon gains traction you can make it clear that you aren’t actually entirely confident
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ye
it’s funny because i knew marshals read on me was very likely to be fake but i still had an urge to panic
this site kinda uses the phrase “reaction test” in cringe ways but shit like this is really effective if used right
reaction tests cause me to kill more villagers than wolves because 90% of the time they are “used” they are carried out in a scummy/performative way without even carrying out any analysis of reactions which you’d think is wolf AI but a lot of the time these people end up being villagers