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by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 6:04 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

nutella wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:51 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:41 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:41 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:40 pm if roles arent tied to alignments, then why was the mafia presumably informed when mac and falcon became lovers? if the roles are written to be alignment-neutral then it doesnt really make sense to me that a condition of their role would be: "the mafia will find out when you do X", but maybe i shouldnt think about it
flail harder nerd
all i hear is howling
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:42 pm either the setup is broken or theyre bullshitting about the mafia finding out that theyre lovers
i changed my mind again [VOTE: spf] aubergine

like i feel like youre poking holes in the wrong things, i see no reason to believe they'd just make that part up lol (also what marmot said but im also squinting a bit at how he said his role gave the mafia clause if he randed town)


spf remind me what your stance on anne is rn bc i probably want to end on one of you or maybe naa
oh give me a break nutella, you really dont think that i would notice that mac's claim looked contradictory as town? i moved on from it the moment that marmot corrected me and that is the FIRST mechnically based read that ive made in this game, so if youre gonna claim that im "poking at the wrong stuff" then youre just looking for an excuse to vote me

i think anne might be a wolf and im fine with voting her. im fine with voting NAA too even though he didnt feel that wolfy during our interaction earlier

also, this is my last post before i postcap. i think it rules that i'm the leading wagon in spite of the fact that none of the people voting me have tried to engage with my posts or dialogue with me today, and when none of the people voting me have presented any reasons for why they actually find me wolfy (beside MAYBE nutella). if y'all wanna self-destruct and kill me out of paranoia in spite of the fact that ive been one of the most vocal and active solvers in this game and have been trying hard to engage with EVERYONE here today, then be my guest. ive made myself obvious town and if y'all can't find me then it isn't my responsibility anymore
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:44 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Marmot wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:43 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:40 pm if roles arent tied to alignments, then why was the mafia presumably informed when mac and falcon became lovers? if the roles are written to be alignment-neutral then it doesnt really make sense to me that a condition of their role would be: "the mafia will find out when you do X", but maybe i shouldnt think about it

My role also has a clause written in it based on whether I rand town or mafia, so it doesn't surprise me that theirs would too.
alright, its probably not worth reading into then
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:42 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

either the setup is broken or theyre bullshitting about the mafia finding out that theyre lovers
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:41 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:41 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:40 pm if roles arent tied to alignments, then why was the mafia presumably informed when mac and falcon became lovers? if the roles are written to be alignment-neutral then it doesnt really make sense to me that a condition of their role would be: "the mafia will find out when you do X", but maybe i shouldnt think about it
flail harder nerd
all i hear is howling
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:41 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

falcon45ca wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:40 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:36 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:32 pmim more interested in seeing mac genuinely scumhunt, which i do not feel like he has
This so much. He's just saying "mafia is voting me because they want to get rid of lovers" and it's the worst. Mac can actually do stuff when he's town, and he's doing none of that here. He does a lot of treading water as mafia, which is what this looks like. But I kind of want some clarification from Falcon regarding how their role actually works, cause it's still confusing to me.
Look at it this way...whats the point of the Maf finding out when we become Lovers if one of us is already Maf?
well that's what i'm confused about, because the roles are supposed to be alignment neutral. why would a part of your role be: "the mafia will find out once you become lovers" if the roles are not supposed to be suggestive of alignment?
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:40 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

if roles arent tied to alignments, then why was the mafia presumably informed when mac and falcon became lovers? if the roles are written to be alignment-neutral then it doesnt really make sense to me that a condition of their role would be: "the mafia will find out when you do X", but maybe i shouldnt think about it
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:32 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

nutella wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:31 pm dunno why iaafr is voting me now lol we have like most of the same reads except for my spf paranoia really but he cant say anything so

im probably gonna end on anne, i keep getting caught up in thinking mac's claim really sounds like it comes from town pov but i really dont have reason to townread him on play
ive seen a couple of people say that they think mac is towny for his claim, but i dont really understand why. we know that claims arent tied to alignment and i dont think there's anything about his claim that he would be particularly ~unlikely~ to do as mafia. do you mind expanding on that a lil bit?

im more interested in seeing mac genuinely scumhunt, which i do not feel like he has
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:23 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:19 pm
Marmot wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:14 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:11 pm
Marmot wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:11 pm
MacDougall wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:08 pm I see the mafia are voting me

Who are they?
pick one idc

So you think that all of the mafia (I'm assuming there's no more than 3 left at this point) are currently lined up as your wagon, and they are specifically ilario/leetic, NAA, and spf, and we chop those 3 and that's game?
No Marmot I don't think that

I do think spf is probably only voting me because she's stuck for candidates though. I have nfi why the other two are.
lol i think youre voting ME because youre stuck for candidates, i dont believe that you came around to townreading me like 12 hours ago and are scumreading me magically again with no progression inbetween

@nutella - why are you voting me? (also thanks for the post count - didnt know that you could look it up on mobile)
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:55 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

falcon45ca wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:47 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:29 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:21 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:02 pm this game has honestly gotten really stressful to read - i feel like there's a totally unnecessary amount of super stressed out and frustrated posts at a time when the game is in an objectively good position (and I acknowledge that I've made some similar posts myself)

to be honest I think that we need to suck up whatever infighting or tinfoils we have and just kill someone that is in the POE and needs to die before endgame, I don't really care if it's mac or NAA or w/e as long as we kill someone
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm stressed because I don't know half of what's going on, plus, some of the people I town read (Leetic/Ilario and Falcon) has some of the legit worst takes on me I've seen in a while, and it is very frustrating. Especially since I can't at least feel like I'm on top of the game and offer more of a direction. So it's just a double fail. I'll try to tone down the frustration and focus away from said players.
all good, i wasn't trying to call anyone out specifically, more just that i feel like I've seen several games lately that should be easy wins that fall apart because of infighting, and I'm not convinced that this game isn't a fairly easy win as well

mac's d2 has arguably been scummier than his d1 and he seems somewhat ~boxed in~ so: [VOTE: Macdougall] aubergine
We're Lovers, so I am opposed to his lynch at this stage
if not now, then when? if mac is a wolf then it's not like he's gonna nightkill you, so you being lovers doesn't really prevent me from wanting to kill mac even though it sucks that you have to die too

who else do you wanna kill today besides Nutella BTW?

also can someone please tell me my current postcount?
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:29 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:21 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:02 pm this game has honestly gotten really stressful to read - i feel like there's a totally unnecessary amount of super stressed out and frustrated posts at a time when the game is in an objectively good position (and I acknowledge that I've made some similar posts myself)

to be honest I think that we need to suck up whatever infighting or tinfoils we have and just kill someone that is in the POE and needs to die before endgame, I don't really care if it's mac or NAA or w/e as long as we kill someone
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm stressed because I don't know half of what's going on, plus, some of the people I town read (Leetic/Ilario and Falcon) has some of the legit worst takes on me I've seen in a while, and it is very frustrating. Especially since I can't at least feel like I'm on top of the game and offer more of a direction. So it's just a double fail. I'll try to tone down the frustration and focus away from said players.
all good, i wasn't trying to call anyone out specifically, more just that i feel like I've seen several games lately that should be easy wins that fall apart because of infighting, and I'm not convinced that this game isn't a fairly easy win as well

mac's d2 has arguably been scummier than his d1 and he seems somewhat ~boxed in~ so: [VOTE: Macdougall] aubergine
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:18 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

yeah i mean, case in point
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:17 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

i tried to directly engage with you on d1 and you outright stated that you didn't want to talk to me, so does that mean I'm just not supposed to try to read you at all? you haven't given me much to work with if you are town, and I'm trying to communicate with you again rn in case we are T/T, so it's up to you if you wanna take the olive branch
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:13 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

NotAnAxehole wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:10 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:07 pm
NotAnAxehole wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:05 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:03 pm I usually agree that stretching out a day for as long as possible is beneficial, but this is a case where the game being dragged out is just causing unnecessary stress and overthinking. the atmosphere of this game kind of sucks and i think we need to collectively get it together and unite behind a couple of names, especially since I think the POE is mostly correct
There are no hammers, the game duration is the game duration, it's not going to change regardless of what anyone does. People raging because they're being misread is just fake nonsense that you should ignore.

Also, this doesn't make me town read you.
I'm not suggesting an early hammer, but i am saying that us NOT having an early hammer is probably impacting the game negatively overall

and i don't really care if it makes you townread me, it seems obvious that you haven't genuinely tried to communicate with me regardless of your alignment
I don't read people based on my own communications... I read people based on their own performance, or rather my interpretation of their performance. Me not interacting with you in the general sense is more a result of my scum read. My read on a player could change without me ever having to interact with said player. My read on you hasn't changed. I don't interact with my scum reads, it's just how I play. I let them figure it out, or not.
it's hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of not communicating with your scumreads in a game that is explicitly about communication - that seems like a surefire way to confirmation bias yourself into the wrong pushes, but you do you I guess

if I don't go over today, who would you want to kill next?
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:08 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

NotAnAxehole wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:07 pm Also, "we should kill from the D1 PoE, anyone from that pool is fine as long as we stop playing mafia"

[...]

"Except this player (Dizzy), I veto this player from the D1 PoE"

Is a pretty scummy take from SPF.
I mean, I'm allowed to have preferences even if I think that we should kill within a specific pool of names
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:07 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

NotAnAxehole wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:05 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:03 pm I usually agree that stretching out a day for as long as possible is beneficial, but this is a case where the game being dragged out is just causing unnecessary stress and overthinking. the atmosphere of this game kind of sucks and i think we need to collectively get it together and unite behind a couple of names, especially since I think the POE is mostly correct
There are no hammers, the game duration is the game duration, it's not going to change regardless of what anyone does. People raging because they're being misread is just fake nonsense that you should ignore.

Also, this doesn't make me town read you.
I'm not suggesting an early hammer, but i am saying that us NOT having an early hammer is probably impacting the game negatively overall

and i don't really care if it makes you townread me, it seems obvious that you haven't genuinely tried to communicate with me regardless of your alignment
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:05 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

can someone tell me my current postcount please? (I'm on mobile)
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:04 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

also yah I don't want to kill dizzy today
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:03 pm
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

I usually agree that stretching out a day for as long as possible is beneficial, but this is a case where the game being dragged out is just causing unnecessary stress and overthinking. the atmosphere of this game kind of sucks and i think we need to collectively get it together and unite behind a couple of names, especially since I think the POE is mostly correct
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:02 pm
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Topic: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

this game has honestly gotten really stressful to read - i feel like there's a totally unnecessary amount of super stressed out and frustrated posts at a time when the game is in an objectively good position (and I acknowledge that I've made some similar posts myself)

to be honest I think that we need to suck up whatever infighting or tinfoils we have and just kill someone that is in the POE and needs to die before endgame, I don't really care if it's mac or NAA or w/e as long as we kill someone
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 5:01 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

i really like that post from esooa, i think
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:49 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

[VOTE: NAA] aubergine
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:41 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

i'm about to sign off for the night, so ask me any burning questions right now if you have them. im going to be traveling tomorrow so im not sure how much ill be able to post between now and the EOD
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:39 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

leetic wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:36 am Y'all are disappointing me. With so many of you looking good after the EoD flip, there is no reason for town to be disorganized. Seriously, Wilgy is more on point than most of you today

Like why is anne even being considered as an option after last EoD? Out of Wilgy, Axehole, and MR (the lattermost known town) Jay said he would most want anne to die. I think a lot of you are also to quick to townread nutella for "vibes" when her EoD looks really bad, making a comment about being fine with the Jay vote without switching her vote in a way that just seems noncommittal, like she didn't want to look bad but still hoped for the possibility of anne going down. And people are now suspecting Marmot because god knows why, while Dyslexicon whose main action today was disrupting the town core is being given a free pass.

Really, this isn't going to be any easier for us as the days go on as we'll lose more active players, while we still need to vote out three wolves. But I'm running out of posts fast, so I hope you can all get your shit together by EoD. Seriously, last EoD was so good, there is no excuse for us to be in such a mess right now.
i agree that it's likely we are overcomplicating this game at a point when it does not need to be overcomplicated
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:37 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

i also find it kinda odd that you say mac usually tries to make himself get townread as a wolf by doing "off the cuff" stuff, and then note in the same paragraph that you townread the "spontaneity" of his wolfread on iaafr. isnt that exactly what youre arguing he would try to do as a wolf? this might be nitpicky but i dont really understand ur read on mac and it seems like the least fleshed out read in ur whole readslist, which kinda surprises me given (to my memory) you usually really like trying to sort out mac in games like this
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:34 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

Esooa wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:15 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:01 am okay so, i snapvoted esooa because i read the bottom paragraph of her wallpost and i thought that her positioning looked explicitly like she was trying to wolfside and flip the POE (by having me/marmot as her top 2 foses when i think that marmot is probably just town, and by having dizzy as her third fos when i think dizzy could be town too)

now that ive actually read the wallpost, i think the reasoning is mostly fine and there's some parts of it that i find towny (like her reasoning to tr falcon). her reasoning to wolfread me feels really nitpicky and weak though - like it's obvious that i was saying that the content of drwilgy's posts wasn't AI for him but that his posts still reflected a scum mindset, and i feel like she really had to stretch and misinterpret my posts to frame them in the way that she did. i also dont like that she didnt include any reasons to townread me when i would kind of expect esooa to pick up on some of my towntells as town. i guess the headline is that i overreacted by immediately voting esooa but i think that her current list of scumreads is probably wolf-sided regardless of her alignment
Okay--how exactly does like

His posts reflecting a scum mindset not mean the posts are wolf AI

And regardless of all that were you not still wanting to vote him? Because like, you were as far as I know

irt not posting anything for why you're town

I'm not really pushing my reads that much and worded the ending explicitly as who I want to look into more for a reason

Not specifically because I'm town reading you much but more so because I mean

I basically expect exactly these kinds of responses when disagreeing with any kinda consensus in this lobby

I don't really agree that your response to pressure was that towny though, like, individually towny posts in terms of mindset are what made me shift my read off you in the vigi 10er, and I also noted that game you omgus'd by going like "I'm so obvious town" and town read it there, so don't rly agree there

and besides that the post is 2700 words. I cared more by then to get my current opinions out rather than all my thoughts :shrug2:

I think your entrance was probably towny, in that your entrance reads were reasonable+good in volume, and the uwu stuff was probably slightly towny, etc

Regardless I'm most interested in your opinion on the game state in general

And also too the idea that my reads list is wolf-sided, tbh

Alexa's reasons for wolf reading Anne, the top wagon today and for most of today to my recollection, are "nothing that pingy but she isn't explicitly town yet,"

Does that really sound like reasons to kill Anne to you? Or reasons for her to just be there wagoned all day?

I know there are others, but nothing really that inspiring either imo

And in terms of it being wolf-sided

Who are the wolves?

Like, when Alexa posted "I'm just gonna say all of Dizzy SPF Marmot are town and not actually talk about anything cause why not," I looked at the playerlist and assumed they're all town

Who are the wolves?

They're not exactly that easy to find

I think a lot of the consensus towns are town for decent reasons and if you remove the 3 named above, you're already basically out of names

Like c'mon lol
this post has so many paragraphs but ill do my best to respond to your main questions lol

it's important to note that drwilgy was posting with a strange and borderline unreadable gimmick throughout d1 that made his posts extremely difficult to parse. i had no idea what he was trying to communicate 99% of the time, and i think that everyone else in the game was in the same boat. so, when i said that i didn't get anything alignment indicative out of drwilgy's posts but that i thought his level of activity was alignment indicative, i think it was clear in context that i was making a reference to how unreadable his posts were. i just find it kinda hard to believe that you see this as a legitimate point against me, cause it's so nitpicky and it plays with semantics in a way that i feel like you usually avoid as town

i dunno who said that my self-defensive posts are my most towny posts, but if they did, then i disagree. there are lots of better and more nuanced reasons to townread me, and i feel like you in particular are very good at finding those "micro moments" where i do stuff that i dont usually do as a wolf, and i was kinda expecting you to pick up on some of those things in this game if u were town too, which played into my concern about your initial read on me just being a list of reasons to find me wolfy

also no, i dont think that anne should be scumread for "not being explicitly town yet", but that isn't really why i'm worried about anne. i'm worried about anne because the posts that she made throughout today felt uncharacteristically tonally stiff and like she was struggling to fully articulate herself (which is kinda how i felt about you earlier today), and because im worried that her lack of interest in the game comes from her being a demotivated wolf that doesn't feel like putting in the effort if her team is already being widely POE'd. it was hard for me to come up with specific reasons to scumread anne, so i can acknowledge that the case against her might be a little weak and based moreso on a "lack" of towntells, but i do think some of the stuff she's done in this game is arguably wolf-indicative for her

and well, i think that cassandra, lime coke, marmot nutella, and illario/leetic are all villagers. im fine with solving from the assumption with all of those names are town. from there, i think iaafr has been fairly towny today and that falcon is likely town as well. that leaves dizzy/anne/wilgy/mac/NAA/you, and while i am doubtful that the full scumteam is in that list, i do think that it contains a couple of wolves. i think that dizzy/wilgy have been p towny today out of the names in that POE, so i think there's at least one wolf in anne/mac/NAA/you

so i dunno, i dont find it difficult to craft a POE or come up with potential wolves in this game at all, and i think that your wolflist is "wolfsiding" because at least 2/3 of the names are town, but very possibly 3
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:12 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

leetic wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:52 am
staypositivefriend wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:42 am
Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:32 pm @staypositivefriend What is your read on Lime now?
i think he's town. i think that lime is the type of wolf that's more likely to go with the flow and try to look agreeable/"pro-town" on a surface level, whereas his play here has been individualistic in a way that i found towny. he still hasnt let go of his wolfread on nutella even though most of the thread has moved on from it, and there's a level of conviction behind his posts that i think he would have trouble replicating as a wolf
Why are you townreading nutella?
i feel like nutella falls into a very specific mindset when she's a wolf where she becomes very timid and self-conscious - there is a distinct sense of discomfort in nutella's wolfgame that usually gets exacerbated with more pressure, but it feels to me that the pressure against nutella in this game lit a bit of a fire under her and led to her becoming more expressive and assertive. i liked her trying to get cassandra to vote anne, i liked her voting for me (not because i liked her specific reasoning but because i think it's very typical for town!nutella to tinfoil me at this stage of the game), and i liked how self-assured she sounded when she reacted to your pressure on her earlier

it's the type of read that i find tough to articulate without defaulting to: "meta/tone", but i will note that nutella is one of the few players that i have literally never misread in a game before. im not saying that i have a godread that i want people to sheep, but i am saying that my track record of reading nutella correctly makes me feel more confident about reading her correctly in this game too
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:01 am
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Re: Philosophy Mafia 2: Electric Boogaloo

okay so, i snapvoted esooa because i read the bottom paragraph of her wallpost and i thought that her positioning looked explicitly like she was trying to wolfside and flip the POE (by having me/marmot as her top 2 foses when i think that marmot is probably just town, and by having dizzy as her third fos when i think dizzy could be town too)

now that ive actually read the wallpost, i think the reasoning is mostly fine and there's some parts of it that i find towny (like her reasoning to tr falcon). her reasoning to wolfread me feels really nitpicky and weak though - like it's obvious that i was saying that the content of drwilgy's posts wasn't AI for him but that his posts still reflected a scum mindset, and i feel like she really had to stretch and misinterpret my posts to frame them in the way that she did. i also dont like that she didnt include any reasons to townread me when i would kind of expect esooa to pick up on some of my towntells as town. i guess the headline is that i overreacted by immediately voting esooa but i think that her current list of scumreads is probably wolf-sided regardless of her alignment
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:53 am
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Dyslexicon wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 2:17 am Not saying that I feel like I'm doing great, cause I'm not. I had a theory about SPF/Lime, cause SPF asked "Why did that post make Lime town" when I town read Lime for a specific post, and that gave me so much scum!Hally vibes, as it's pretty common for "players like that" to question town reads on a teammate just like that. And I also felt SPF was hedgy on Lime from the beginning. However, how Lime has been hard town reading SPF make me think this is not the case, so all this is useless. So yeah, I haven't had a eureka moment, so I'd rather just yell at Ilario.
ive been hedgy about lime? i actually think he's one of the players ive been townreading the most confidently since the beginning of the game. and fwiw i questioned you about that cause i thought it was weird for u to tr lime for that specific post, but i dont remember what the original post was now
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ilario wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:42 am
cassandra wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:27 am
ilario wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:18 am I think the bigger problem with me in the ocean game is that I’m too harsh on players I consider to be great players when they don’t have similar reads as me especially if it’s in a way that I struggle to understand, and yeah i acknowledge that’s a problem of mine.
yeah that's another thing we talked about so i get that element, but i just feel like it's a trend specifically for people who have fooled you hard as wolf (SPF, dizzy, katze, anne, esooa, etc) when in reality even good wolves can be read in a similar way to reading anyone else

and also the way you approach reads sometimes is like allowing people who have NEVER fooled you before to fool you then after it happens, never letting it happen again, whereas fmpov i treat everyone equally unless i know they have very polarized ranges or something

can you explain more why you think spf is maf?

also im going to sleep now lol
Ur largely correct in ur second sentence. Ummm I think spf is scummy because I went through jjjs iso and he barely interacts or talks to spf, whereas I feel like if spf was town jjj would make more of an attempt to speak to spf and interact with her in order to mimic their dynamic when they’re tvt where they speak to each other a lot and bounce of ideas, kinda like how me and u play as tvt. Essentially I think her woulda been more pockety towards spf. And he still pops spf in his tr list despite never talking to her. I think she felt a bit frozen at eod yesterday at times, and I don’t like some of her reactions to fosses today.

She’s been too omgus-ish whereas when she’s town she usually tends to shrug it off more. That’s not always the case and there has been games where it gets to her but it usually looks different. There was a point where I changed my tr on her to a sr and her reaction was something like “come on bro you know I’m town” or something. And that’s just a weird reaction imo because me and spf have this dynamic for like the last 5-10 games we’ve been tvt where we alternate on one of ur tr’ing the other whilst the other is more wary. And the person who isn’t being heavily townread is never too bothered by it because we always end up finding each other as town by the end of it anyways so yeah her reaction there was kinda off to me.
hold up though, is there anyone in jagged's iso that he spoke to a lot? he was making a ton of individualistic posts without talking to people much at all unless they specifically prompted him, and i'm pretty sure that's because he was frozen throughout most of d1. im p sure that you could apply the same logic you used to scumread me in this post to almost every single living player in this game. also, i think it's obvious that jagged was trying to pocket me/appease me by dropping a somewhat unwarranted townread on me early into the game and then by piggybacking off of my suspicion on MR to vote for him

also youre right that im finding it harder to shrug off suspicion in this game - i dont know if it's because we're on a different website than normal or because im just more stressed out IRL (cause of holidays and all) but i also feel like you should know that i find it much easier to brush off suspicion as a wolf than as town, so the fact that im reacting more strongly shouldnt be scummy to u. and also, you already found me as town on d1 and i felt like you were doubting yourself for bad reasons, which is why i basically went: "dude you already found me as town, just chill" as an attempt to give u a little kick back into sanity

u should be reading me by the content of my posts instead of trying to look for minor meta differences that arent related to my alignment at all
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Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 11:32 pm @staypositivefriend What is your read on Lime now?
i think he's town. i think that lime is the type of wolf that's more likely to go with the flow and try to look agreeable/"pro-town" on a surface level, whereas his play here has been individualistic in a way that i found towny. he still hasnt let go of his wolfread on nutella even though most of the thread has moved on from it, and there's a level of conviction behind his posts that i think he would have trouble replicating as a wolf
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cassandra wrote: Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:32 am just be me and hard claim your role and self vote and say that everyone is tunneling you and you must die today so to sheep your legacy despite having 0 votes on yourself spf
i should have thought of that!
by staypositivefriend
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also i dunno, i still think that marmot is probably town. i can understand the argument for him being a wolf and ive gotten pinged by some of the reasoning in his readslist (particularly in the early game) but he just feels so expressive and heart-on-his-sleeve in a way that is totally diametrically opposed to the one wolf game ive seen from him
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okay actually now that i wrote that i dont feel like it's entirely fair and im overreacting to mild pressure

back to scumhunting
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Marmot wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:30 pm
I'm also frustrated because I'm pouring an effort and a half into this game, and am currently being run up for kinda shoddy reasons and meta-comparisons.
this is exactly how i feel. barely anyone has tried to talk to me today or critically engaged with me but im probably in contention to be chopped today because people who dont know how to read me would rather just write me off as a potential wolf instead of doing the hard work of trying to read me. i should be blatantly town to anyone that's paying half attention to this game and i hate that illario is playing into the annoying paranoia against my slot by putting me in a dichotomy with mac with shoddy reasoning. i feel like the only way a lot of people in this game know how to read me is when i show emotion or when i get annoyed, and i find that annoying because i think it's cheap to clear myself off of emotion

that was a very self pitying woe-is-me post but i had to get it off my chest because the way that people approach reading my slot can be really frustrating to deal with
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[VOTE: esooa] aubergine
by staypositivefriend
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:19 am
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lol illario wtf are you doing
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Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:29 pm
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MacDougall wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 9:28 pm so there's always a wolf between spf and dizzy so that's neat

also who the fuck is brad?
why? i think it's possible that we're both town
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the real reason why u should tr me is because im a gay anime girl
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also fwiw im not sold that jagged Definitely included a wolf in his list of 6 townreads - he only posted that list when he was specifically prompted to by another player, and he made a point of de-emphasizing the concept of having a "towncore" or having The Seven or any other stuff like that throughout his ISO. if there is a wolf within those names then i suspect that jagged might have tried to build a consensus around them a bit more strongly than he did, but he seemed reluctant to emphasize his townreads throughout most of d1
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fwiw my reads at this point arent even particularly hedgy - i feel confident about cassandra and lime coke and illario/leetic and nutella and marmot being town (granted, i want to double check to confirm that marmot isn't a blind spot, but i've felt confident about him being town since early d1)

i townlean iaafr and falcon

the pool of anne/wilgy/dizzy/mac/NAA/esooa either contains the entire scumteam or most of the scumteam, and within that pool, im starting to lean on dizzy/wilgy being villagers as well

i think that im misclearing one person maximum but i havent felt like any of my confident townreads have been wolfy today, so im not gonna second guess myself if there isnt a good reason to
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Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:39 pm
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[VOTE: Anne] aubergine
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Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:35 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:33 pmyah, why is it wolfy for me to townread cassandra for voicing an unspoken opinion that the rest of the thread had agreed with? do you really think that i wouldn't make an observation like that as town? and my post about jimmy being "jimmy-conscious" is silly, because it was obviously conscious of jimmy regardless of my alignment - i felt like he was off, and i expressed it
You kind of missed the point. It was the tag on about how others were echoing her Jimmay read that pinged me. You expressed waffles.
is it not reasonable for me to say: "i think that jagged is off too but i dont know his alignment yet - i'll figure it out later" a couple of hours into the game? wouldn't it be weirder if my stance on him at that stage in the game WASN'T waffly? the notion that being waffly or being uncertain a couple of hours into the game is mind-boggling to me
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Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:33 pm
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uh oh, im backsliding into making self-defensive posts instead of scumhunting. i'll try to avoid that in the future but it's hard to not respond to people wolfreading me for reasons that drive me crazy lol
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nutella wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:20 pm i think spf looks pretty compatible with jay, treated him hesitantly etc and hasn't been particularly towny, and i would bet she's a/the teammate included on jay's town list. shes also approached me awkwardly today imo, she said twice like "nutella is prob just town" in an uncharacteristically hedgy way as a wolf capitulating to my townieness might be
this reasoning is super weak. for one, why is it wolfy for me to be hesitant about jay? i wasn't sure about his alignment at first but then i came around to wolfreading him and then ended up voting him, so are you actually calling it wolfy that i didn't wolfread him Quickly Enough? you were hesitant about jay too, so why is not wolfy for you to be hesitant about him but wolfy for me to be hesitant about him?

"hasnt been particularly towny" is impossible for me to refute because it basically means nothing and ignores the fact that ive been scumhunting aggressively today and trying to make my stances as loud as possible

also what? why is it awkward for me to come into today being paranoid about you but then come around to you probably just being town? is it because i said "probably town" and not just "town"? lol. im also not sure why you call it "uncharacteristically hedgy" as though i dont get scumread in nearly every game i play for saying stuff that sounds hedgy

Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:22 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:18 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:16 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:13 pmalright, then why do you scumread me?
Because you noticed stuff that was going on around Jimmay in a scummy way.

That said, I'm not done catching up, so I haven't made my mind up about anything. Just poking you since you were here. I do love a good omgus fest.
what does the bolded actually mean? it's vague enough to basically be gibberish. why did i notice stuff about jimmy in a "scummy" way?

also for the record i don't necessarily think that youre a wolf and even mildly townleaned you throughout d1, but im pressuring you hard right now because the reads that you're posting seem overly insincere and like you're just poking at me because you think i'm a pushable target. we'll see if you change my mind when you start posting other thoughts
I'll give you a hint: This is basically start of D1 for me.

And you town read Calexa because she expressed Jimmay being "off" first, while noting 3-4 others echoed these thoughts. That plus your waffle on Jimmay felt a bit Jimmay-conscious to me. Mafia being more intend with how their teammates are coming across in thread blah blah. Devil's advocate, the waffling post might be a bit too weak for your scum game if you are indeed mafia tbh tbh
yah, why is it wolfy for me to townread cassandra for voicing an unspoken opinion that the rest of the thread had agreed with? do you really think that i wouldn't make an observation like that as town? and my post about jimmy being "jimmy-conscious" is silly, because it was obviously conscious of jimmy regardless of my alignment - i felt like he was off, and i expressed it
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Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:21 pm
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y'all need to learn how to read me lol
by staypositivefriend
Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:18 pm
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Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:16 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:13 pmalright, then why do you scumread me?
Because you noticed stuff that was going on around Jimmay in a scummy way.

That said, I'm not done catching up, so I haven't made my mind up about anything. Just poking you since you were here. I do love a good omgus fest.
what does the bolded actually mean? it's vague enough to basically be gibberish. why did i notice stuff about jimmy in a "scummy" way?

also for the record i don't necessarily think that youre a wolf and even mildly townleaned you throughout d1, but im pressuring you hard right now because the reads that you're posting seem overly insincere and like you're just poking at me because you think i'm a pushable target. we'll see if you change my mind when you start posting other thoughts
by staypositivefriend
Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:14 pm
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cassandra wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:12 pm lmao this is the third time this game that spf has said "i don't think either of us believe X" (i almost made this comment earlier then she did it again)

i think dizzy's recent posts are villagery but shrugz
the thought occurred to me while i was making that post toward dizzy that i had already used that phrase this game, but it sounded cool so i did it anyway
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Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:13 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:11 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:09 pm
staypositivefriend wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:05 pm
Dyslexicon wrote: Sat Nov 27, 2021 8:04 pm SPF, I'm noticing while catching up that you have randed mafia.
if youre a wolf then you probably need me to get chopped at some point in this game to fulfill your win condition, so that tracks
That doesn't track anything. "If I am" then that tracks. You need to figure out if I am woof or not first, my tuna. And as some people are able to understand, me chiming into the game for real for the first time now makes me IC. But feel free to ignore that or sprinkle wifom on it.
nah, i'm saying that if you are a wolf in this game then you are probably reasonably boxed in and need to get me chopped or POE'd at some point in this game in order to achieve your win condition. the first read that youve outed upon catching up with the game is a lazy and overconfident sounding wolfread on me, which tracks with how i would expect you to be playing as a wolf

and i dont think that either of us believe that you posting game-related content on d2 makes you an IC
That's all useless cause I'm town. And I wouldn't be boxed in if I was wolf, cause I'm too cool and too gay
alright, then why do you scumread me?

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