I'd like to add I found this thread by myself searching old PMs not using any other method that may or may not be quicker.

riki and achrom are villagers. This is not a soft of a peek.

How you interact is important, true, but rarely have I seen a need to preface it.

Banker explain your town read on me in detail please.

i don't think i agree with the docespana votes

like i can see why people are voting him, because of that big post, but i'm not convinced it makes him mafia

he just seems like an argumentative person

if he continues to only talk about the first post of the game i'll reconsider

Is it your nature to tell people what they must do to not be suspicious in your eyes? I don't like this post.

Hmm. So what you are saying is that it could be scum forcing out a read? Guess this thought makes sense when you are disagreeing with the observation.

I didnt read it that way, and actually i didnt care that much about the observation, i just think that overall giving a read with that explanation would way more often be a villager than a scum.

I think you are trying to actively solve the game. I also liked your questioning of me for saying what I said about your first post and your response was not what I would expect from a wolf.

well no because that's not what i was doing

Eh, I just don't like that Docespana gets accused of being fluffy, and then immediately makes a serious vote. But if he didn't see it, he didn't see it.

Thanks (also to the post with Baldurs gate link)

See how much I respond when just discussing why I'm having culture shock about why you all would do something (claim villager freely) which is already presumed. I'm about to go to the gym and then back to bed and there is a lot of game day left. I'm not messing up my sleep schedule to analyze posts when there will be 200 more when I wake up. I will analyze plenty for you guys. Any SDNer watching is laughing because they know exactly what I'm doing and what I'm gonna be looking for in the next 200 ish posts. I've almost developed a wolf hunting strategy around my frequent night shifts.

But it requires a lot of posts. A lot. And I think that's why I got selected to represent them. Hopefully *someone* doesn't lynch me because I am grumpy that you guys do things slightly differently than I'm used to. Because my worth come in later today and from then on. You can feel free to lynch me after day one (but I hope you don't) if you feel I'm overselling the worth of what I do after you see it.

and I forgot how intense you all get....

More reads from me:

Banks is leaning town for me - posts are becoming more substantial and less "trying to raise mynumber"

Doc is reading slight town for me because I get what he posted and why he posted the "13 members saying I'm town". Much like Riki said, I;m not convinced it makes him mafia.

Riki - I agreed with his assessment on Doc and not getting any scum vibe from him at this point.

You lit a beacon saying "Well if he keeps posting about the first post I'll reconsider."

Or to rephrase it.

"HINT DOC, DON'T KEEP TALKING ABOUT THAT POST, HERE'S A HINT, LOOK AT ME, GIVING YOU A HINT. HINT HINT HINT."

You deny the charges, Riki?

Unvote

Meh.

P.s. loving this. There are so many ideas flying at once. Should be really fun.

You don't think these bits are indicative of town, Achro?

I need a nap 3 hours was not enough sleep and I think I'm being kinda lazy on reading and missing things like I read this post 3 times and remember 0 things in it. I'll see you nerds in like 2 hours.

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Not especially. Then again I am operating under the parameter that everyone in this game is a scary monster of a mafia player so I am disinclined to hand out town credit this early. There's plenty of time to rip through the game and find town friends.

this is kind of a personal thing that could be incorrect when applied to others, but when i was newer at mafia or like, playing with players i considered a lot better than myself, i'd spend a lot of time defending villagers even when it was probably bad play to do so

like it feels like such a good post to make as mafia even though it isn't

it also means you get to spend less time accusing people you don't want to be paying any attention to you

it got me townread for the exact same reason you're using, and it let me live for a couple days

i think he's said here that day 1s are much softer on his home site, and people give less early reads and stuff, so if he's mafia and gives a bunch of early reads here, i don't think it's unlikely that he'd defend a villager under suspicion even if that's not the most +ev thing for him to say

alternatively, it's me saying that if he's a villager he should probably be moving on

your interpretation of it is just confirmation bias afaict

But, why give him help? Why not see what he does unimpeded by your advice to get a further read on him? My questioning of you doesn't actually really include Doc's alignment, it is irrelevant to the discussion.

I suppose you don't have to be a "good player" to push easy wagons as mafia, but consciously keeping your same town playstyle when you're mafia is one of the biggest challenges of the game, and being able to do it is part of what makes someone a "good player" in my opinion.

I did say that I see the tactic as coming from mafia a lot. But how often do you have to see someone use the same tactic as town before you stop seeing it as scummy when it comes from them? I know a sample size of one game is pretty pathetic, but I'm new here and it's all I have to work with.

I ignored the rest of the post because I felt like rehashing the nitty-gritty of how I read another game would be a pretty serious de-rail of the thread. Suffice it to say that I would have been horribly wrong as town. We can discuss the details if you want, but in the end I think we'll still disagree, and that's ok.

They are. Like, I've been conditioned to think that all the stuff people getting reads off of this early in a game are all complete WIFOM and BS, and until actual stuff happens, mafia can and will say/do anything. I'm trying to adapt. When I posted the slight read on slendy, I don't believe he had much suspicion, at least in my mind. I mean, some people disagreed with his decision to withhold the reason, but did anyone actually think he was suspicious for it?

well for one thing, i have seen or played with people who like to argue and they will argue about the same thing for a long time

(i used to be that type of person in the past)

if docespana is one of those people i'd want him to stop doing that

and like, regardless of his alignment, because i think it would be easier to read him if he was posting content rather than continuing his current argument

like, i'm not sure why there's anything wrong with telling people to post actual content

Nothing wrong in theory, but phrasing can be very important and the way you phrased it tickled me. Although I am a bit confused why you denied you were telling him what not to do to be suspicious though I mean that's clearly what you did when you said you could possibly vote if he didn't shape up.

i feel like you're responding to my paragraphs one at a time for the purpose of responding to them atm, not like actually responding to my post as a whole

i'm not sure what to make of that

anyway

"consciously keeping your same town playstyle when you're mafia is one of the biggest challenges of the game" is an unnecessarily general statement

we're talking specifically about pushing easy wagons, and you agree that it's something mafia are more likely to do, so why does the fact that you think slendy does it as town make it unlikely that slendy would do it as mafia? like i'm not sure how that can be an actual thought process

also, given that this is the champions game, wouldn't it be the more natural assumption to think that slendy is a "good player"

my second paragraph was in response to you thinking slendy wouldn't do it as town despite you thinking mafia are more likely to do it, your response is kind of unrelated and why i think you're responding for the purpose of responding and not for actual discussion