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[hessian]

Hi, just now starting to read this thread. By the way, I'll be

V/LA Wednesday - Sunday

due to Thanksgiving.

[hessian]

It's late for me, and I've only managed to skim the thread. I imagine it'll take me some time to adjust to the frequency/ style of posting here; this is a completely different vibe than my previous game.

For now I'll VOTE: Titus. The justification that "being brash makes mafia hesitant to NK" doesn't sound correct to me at all. If anything, I imagine mafia would NK a loud player to implicate other town players.

[hessian]

Hi, I'm back. I've skimmed a bit but have a lot to catch up on. I prefer to process information chronologically, so I'm going to start by looking back at Day 1. In the interest of time, I'll focus my efforts on re-reading benhalkum's interactions. Once I'm done with that, I'll hopefully be able to process Day 2 a couple pages at a time.

[hessian]

I’m back from a more in-depth skim of Day 1. A bit busy at the minute but still wanted to get my thoughts down.

The main thing I checked was the stated motives of the votes on benhalkum’s wagon.
Alchemist21 and Flavor Leaf's votes are fine with me. They were the earliest votes, and the reasoning was solid.
Titus’ vote (#241) for benhalkum was iffy; the stated reason was that benhalkum was “outright shad[ing]” her in #47. I thought #47 was fine. That being said, she soon followed up with other reasons for being suspicious of benhalkum, so this gets a pass from me.
superbowl9 didn’t provide any reasoning. NoPowerOverMe said he was sheeping Flavor Leaf and Titus — not sure how acceptable that is in site meta, but I’m suspicious of it for now.
As for OutWorldER’s vote — I don’t think a quick hammer is justified in any circumstance. Really difficult for me to see any town motivation there.
I'm fine with the wagons on superbowl9, NoPowerOverMe, and OutWorldER. VOTE: superbowl9

This is E-2.

I didn’t get much out of benhalkum’s analysis; might just be a playstyle mismatch, but I couldn’t get into the thought process behind some of the decisions and posts he made, so I’m de-prioritizing me spending more time analyzing his posts.

Other thoughts:
I’m a little suspicious of Battle Mage. My impression was that he talked a lot about theory, and for the most part I found his content interesting. But it did seem like he contributed to the bogging down of the game during the “Rannygazoo RVS vote” and “Titus brash play” discussions. I’m inclined to believe this is just his meta unless someone informs me otherwise, though.

At some point around the #90 - #100 stretch, NoPowerOverMe, Alchemist21, and superbowl9 indicated that they leaned town on Titus. Titus then said she leaned town on those three, without any explanation.

Andresvmb seemed to townread Titus.

[hessian]

Yikes, was going to unvote but Rannygazoo beat me to it.