Here’s some things that I found notable in my initial read.
I think of the players in the game, I've never played with ZestofLife(also hello ZestofLife, nice to meet you!) so I don't think I have a good read on them. There are a lot of people in this game I'm inclined to town read just off of general vibes. But in general I think I have the hardest time reading Up and Pythag. I feel like I have an easy time reading you, and will probably decide what your alignment is before End of Day 1 and stick with it for the rest of the game.
This feels to me like setting up an early excuse for bad reads.
Raxxel is a little suspicious for defending UP so hard, maybe I should switch my vote.
How is this defending UP? Raxxel is literally claiming they are scum together. And why didn’t you switch your vote?
Plenty of past games I was lynched day one for mostly bad reasons and my behavior was always the same and my alignment.
Can you clarify? Are you referring to games where you were town or mafia? I have not played with you before, but I don’t see how you can believe this is true. For most players, behavior will likely not be the same as town or as mafia, even though the differences may be subtle. If everyone always played consistently regardless of alignment, we would have no use for the day phases, other than to report night results and vote.
How do I interpret jokes? idk, into sign language. It totally depends on the where and when I think. Early D1? I don't really care.
as flips and things play out? I'll probably look at them all a little more seriously. I don't exactly have this all codified, I discern it as it comes.
Personally I think it's kinda weird to jump on what seemed tome to be joke so early, but that's my play.
I view early game as a pig in a poke.
So at what point in the game do you start taking content seriously?
My vote on Kary is because I had real trouble believing she thought I was legitimately claiming a role in my confirmation post. Her follow up explained it enough that the vote isn’t warranted. Unvote
You actually considered that perhaps Kary believed you were claiming mafia roleblocker in your opening post? And just to be clear, your vote for Kary was serious and not RVS?
Alright Kary I'm relying on you to crack this game open to the core. Got any of them hot reads off the bat, or...
Why don’t you formulate your own reads?
Please, the
Law of Averages states that I can't be anti-town 7 rolls in a row. That's why I have already self voted and repeated the post that Kary hated the most last game, to prove how scummy I am.
So from this I assume you have been scum in your six immediately preceding games? I think that from your content on this page and by linking to the Law of Averages, you are trying to distract everyone by drawing attention to the unlikelihood of being scum seven times in a row (see Gambler’s Fallacy).
Unvote; Vote: Giraffelasergun
Okay now let's actually play.
Ok, if we’re actually playing, please explain this actual vote.
Do you always suggest to lynch the new guy if there is one? I'm curious since while the mindset itself is town imo (we don't want a weak, inexperienced slot in lylo), it DOES of course make the game and community a bit less accessible to newcomers.
What makes you think ZestOfLife is an inexperienced player? There was no information about past experience, except that this player might have played on MafiaScum, see post #18. This seems to me as you trying to look good by defending the new player, but at the same time leaving yourself an excuse to join a wagon, should one form.
I don’t like any of Raxxels posts, I’ll vote later when I’m home and can go into details.
Please do. You have very little other content.
I feel like this game becomes a lot simpler to solve when I don't have this slot that's a total unknown floating around. And I'm having a kind of nostalgia for when we lynched first and asked questions later. Even if Zesto has some experience playing mafia that doesn't mean they're actually going to be useful to town or be able to show their towniness.
So do you always rely heavily on meta in your reads?
Basically, I know that Raxxel is joking by saying he and Utopian are scum buddies
How do you know this?
There are all if 4 pages in this thread, 3 technically as day one didn’t really get going till page 2.
I don’t agree. I don't like to discard any content because I often find that there was something useful on the first page of a game, if I was smart enough to see it as such.
That shows that despite being away for some time, I still kept my eye on the thread and brainstormed what I would say.
So why were you lurking instead of posting?
I guess this boils down to a difference in how you see the action. You think a town putting their neck on the line D1 is weird, and I think a scum putting their neck on the line D1 is weird. No harm no foul! We must agree to disagree :^)
I don’t see this as anyone putting their neck on the line. Perhaps they’re just trying to generate some content among the plethora of active lurking that is going on in this game.
Post #174, I feel that this argument by Z25 defending his vote is weak.
I'm pretty sure that the purpose is that an unknown is always harder to read than a known.
being a noob to this site != being a noob to mafia.
Us not knowing this persons play makes things hard. (I'm pretty sure Kary addressed this)
This is not necessarily true. An experienced player is usually harder to read than a new player. An unknown player is unknown, and may turn out to be quite easy to read, if they are new. So are you a gut player, or do you rely heavily on meta for your reads? I am not clear from your posts, in post #37 you say “I’m really much more of a gut player” but in post #44 you say “I think I base my gut off of the meta” and then go on to say that your gut was on Raxxel in your previous game based but you cleared him on meta.
(I can't believe it's already been a year)
