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Wanted to come back to this but I died: I didn't accuse you of gaslighting me, I said I felt like that which looks like the same but it's completely different, since with that wording I'm blaming myself for feeling like that and not putting that onto you. I sometimes feel disconnected with reality because of that past experience and I know it's on me, not on whoever I'm interacting with. I'm really sorry for not being able to clarify that during our interactions, for real. I ended townreading you and scumreading Titus after our 1v1 but that's not the way I like getting better reads lol hope you can forgive meIn post 4219, Krazy wrote:That I still had pink ball as town after he accused me of gaslighting him like his ex girlfriend when I was right about smol and right about titus and he was wrong about both is like lowkey wild"Your intentions are not defined by how things went, but how things could've gone." (Ball, 2019)- Firebringer
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"last time I was scum with Firebringer
his first post in the scum PT was "yes I rolled scum!"
I decided to post "haha just don't post that in the main thread", but to get up to date on the main thread first.
His first post in the main thread was "yes I rolled scum!" -popsofctown- Pink Ball
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We discussed this thoroughly and hard townread you, I think it was never an optionIn post 4223, GeorgeBailey wrote:i'm glad hectic didn't sell me even though he probably should have lmao.
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In post 4227, Firebringer wrote:PINK BALL WE LOVE U"Your intentions are not defined by how things went, but how things could've gone." (Ball, 2019)- Prism
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I know the decision to abandon is disappointing for pops, but I was very glad to see it. I think my attitude was best summed up when I told pops I'd rather the game be abandoned than have us win.
To be blunt, I have never been so completely bored with a mafia game. At first it was because I just hate playing scum. At some point Day 2 it became not worth playing entirely. The only people playing even remotely well were Hectic/Searchers/JC, and all of them had significant flaws (Hectic wasn't proactive enough and didn't take advantage of his position, Searchers went 50/50 on reads but that's fine for Day 3, JC put in a ton of energy but the reads didn't quite follow)
I just have never had a more ugly, vicious, and downright condescending attitude towards a game. It's not a pretty side of me. I could keep it at bay and post at times but 3/4 days into Day 3 it became clear that it was not going to change.
I kept a private PT where I could share some of my thoughts/notes. Most of them are me being a condescending asshole and the thread will be deleted, but I'll quote the ones that could be somewhat insightful.- Prism
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To keep it brief, I think #1669 was accurate, regardless of what anyone thinks of Gamma's line of argument.
The more glaring issue for your slot was the wrong M&K read. I think this went wrong in several ways: First, it didn't take into account the growth of Farkran as a player. I had the benefit of not only being scum but also the benefit of being the person whose playstyle he was attempting to steal entire sections of. He went to great lengths to copy my approach that in his view brought me so much success in Undertale. Second, there seemed to be an issue with sample size and high expectations. The latter is one of town's oldest nemeses, a true harbinger of doom, and it didn't sound like he saw that many games of yours in whatever Discord chat you had to begin with.
From my perspective, you basically ignoring my side of the hydra Day 1 was also really convenient. It allowed me significantly more freedom in how I approached the day, knowing that as long as I wasn't blatant I had free rein. This wouldn't suffice alone, but coaching pops on how to respond/generally pushing the rigor of their reads to the limit was the complementary piece that allowed it to work. I don't think this is as easily fixable; in a 34p game you have to choose who to focus on and roll the dice.- xofelf
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You know what, thank you Prism. I'm not super confident in my ability to play regardless of alignment, and that definitely shows just in the way you said. I *am* a reactive player, mostly out of habit. But I probably don't have to be if I tried something different, and also played more often.Xalxe: this is xofelf sometimes we call each other names and other times we share emotions
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oh now I see what the problem wasIn post 4233, Prism wrote:To keep it brief, I think #1669 was accurate, regardless of what anyone thinks of Gamma's line of argument.
The more glaring issue for your slot was the wrong M&K read. I think this went wrong in several ways: First, it didn't take into account the growth of Farkran as a player. I had the benefit of not only being scum but also the benefit of being the person whose playstyle he was attempting to steal entire sections of. He went to great lengths to copy my approach that in his view brought me so much success in Undertale. Second, there seemed to be an issue with sample size and high expectations. The latter is one of town's oldest nemeses, a true harbinger of doom, and it didn't sound like he saw that many games of yours in whatever Discord chat you had to begin with.
From my perspective, you basically ignoring my side of the hydra Day 1 was also really convenient. It allowed me significantly more freedom in how I approached the day, knowing that as long as I wasn't blatant I had free rein. This wouldn't suffice alone, but coaching pops on how to respond/generally pushing the rigor of their reads to the limit was the complementary piece that allowed it to work. I don't think this is as easily fixable; in a 34p game you have to choose who to focus on and roll the dice.
I said I wasn't comfortable outing the secret alt, he responded saying he figured it out anyways, I thought the engagement was over, and started focusing again on the main stuff I was looking for
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I was probably never going to focus on you unless I was finding pops unreadableIn post 4233, Prism wrote:From my perspective, you basically ignoring my side of the hydra Day 1 was also really convenient. It allowed me significantly more freedom in how I approached the day, knowing that as long as I wasn't blatant I had free rein. This wouldn't suffice alone, but coaching pops on how to respond/generally pushing the rigor of their reads to the limit was the complementary piece that allowed it to work. I don't think this is as easily fixable; in a 34p game you have to choose who to focus on and roll the dice.
I generally don't focus on logic-oriented players when I don't really know how they play since they're generally easier for me to read indirectly than directly- DeathRowKitty
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You were great to play with, and I really appreciated your words of encouragement! You have a knack for coming off very sincerely and that just gets amplified the more you post, so I agree you should be more confident!In post 4234, xofelf wrote:You know what, thank you Prism. I'm not super confident in my ability to play regardless of alignment, and that definitely shows just in the way you said. I *am* a reactive player, mostly out of habit. But I probably don't have to be if I tried something different, and also played more often.
As a more general comment, I think that people tend to overly constrain themselves with thinking "I wouldn't do that as town!" Others typically know you a lot less than you do yourself!
Like I said, choosing who to focus, especially in a 34p game, is completely necessary and is a dice roll. I don't think this was that avoidable; I deliberately tried to be unassuming for most of Day 1 to compound this issue for both your slot and Spiffehbringer. It's important to realize what the downside was, though, even if the tradeoff is generally worth it. Knowing you weren't reading my side, combined with pushing pops to the limit+at times outright coaching a response, let us have the best of both worlds: getting townread while still letting me operate unconstrained Day 1.In post 4236, Alyssa The Lamb wrote:I was probably never going to focus on you unless I was finding pops unreadable
I generally don't focus on logic-oriented players when I don't really know how they play since they're generally easier for me to read indirectly than directly
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For Farkran, I stopped reading your responses to Blake at a certain point so I can't give feedback on that as much, but I think where you went wrong in our slot was failing to do due diligence. It seemed like you took the early townread of us and got preoccupied elsewhere. In order to get that early townread, I took out what I'd call "posting debt", in this case a demonstration of determination/ferocity, that you never really challenged me to cash.
My play Day 1 was on the weaker side, but by Day 2 I was flat out openwolfing. This was the worst game I have ever played as scum, and it is not close.- Alisae
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Designing the Lati twins role, and Imperium's role were the most fun for me- Alisae
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oh i can post the lucky dip items while im at it as well
jjh has to post night actions and I can open pts at some point- Alisae
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I think it's a more natural emotional experience to be able to thank the mod for what was delivered rather than what was promised as uninformed majority.
I'm very disappointed in the modding. I don't expect anyone to adjust their livelihoods to mod a game, but their hobbies is an apples to apples comparison of yes the sort of thing you can and should change to honor an implied contract that you will run your game to completion.
I'm mystified why anyone to try to frame a game abandon as player driven when there is literally a survey from the previous day phase that asks "do you like this game" with a majority result yes.- Alisae
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My metaread on that kind of NKA is that it has a low probability of causing scum lynched and has a high probability of people posting in postgame chat that they should have been more paranoid after all. I'm not sure I can see the kill as incorrect. In a sharper meta I could see a world where you shoot a player a more universally scumread player there because it is harder to interpret. I had a correct flavorguess that insomnia was some kind of cop and had no way of knowing how gated he was so the incentive to kill him when he's softcleared and unroleblockable is rather strongIn post 4200, Alyssa The Lamb wrote:
this is exactly why I wanted to lockscum pops lolIn post 4199, Ircher wrote:It should've pinged me more that Despair Night was the N2 factional kill rather than say Imperium or Black Hole especially since my townread on Imperium was a "mechanical clear".- Isis
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that kill didn't align at all with my view of the game from the scumteam's side, and the first thing I generally do when that happens is to double check my townreads to see if they're still accurateIn post 4247, Isis wrote:
My metaread on that kind of NKA is that it has a low probability of causing scum lynched and has a high probability of people posting in postgame chat that they should have been more paranoid after all. I'm not sure I can see the kill as incorrect. In a sharper meta I could see a world where you shoot a player a more universally scumread player there because it is harder to interpret. I had a correct flavorguess that insomnia was some kind of cop and had no way of knowing how gated he was so the incentive to kill him when he's softcleared and unroleblockable is rather strongIn post 4200, Alyssa The Lamb wrote:
this is exactly why I wanted to lockscum pops lolIn post 4199, Ircher wrote:It should've pinged me more that Despair Night was the N2 factional kill rather than say Imperium or Black Hole especially since my townread on Imperium was a "mechanical clear".
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