I feel a little bad for not voting a wagon yesterday. I got some **** for it yesterday, so I'd just like to explain myself a little bit. I did not have a chance to really evaluate the case on aces at EOD yesterday, and I did not see any convincing cases, reasons, or cliffs for why he's a good vote in the thread. The other leading wagon, Jack, I thought was a bit wolfy earlier in the day but he had since disappeared and had many afk voters who'd left their vote on him.
In the final minutes of the day, I honestly felt that if I'd voted a top 2 wagon, it would have been an arbitrary vote made just for the sake of voting. Yes, I thought Jack was a bit wolfy earlier so I had a reason to want him lynched, but I was wary of supporting a wagon with afk voters and, based on other people's posts, there *seemed* to be a good case on aces.
I felt if I voted for one of them, it would've merely been adding noise to the vote counts since I was not up to speed on aces nor confident in voting Jack. I decided my best play was to vote my best wolf read, Chips Ahoy. Yes, I realize that is "throwing away your vote" as far as wagons are concerned, and I apologize for not being able to make a truly meaningful vote.
To make things worse, I smelled smoke 2 minutes before EOD and realized I'd burned dinner for me and my wife by setting the burner on high and then walking away to focus on EOD in this thread. So, I let down my wife by ruining dinner, let down the thread by not voting a wagon, and then found out shortly afterwards that we'd lynched a villager. Suffice it to say, I was quite life-tilted.
That being said, today is a new day and here's what I'd like to share:
Updating/restating my leans list from yesterday
Villager leans (no particular order):
Alexjd23
esse (RIP, villager)
Anarchist (thin, can't believe I'm giving him a villager lean)
officedog
iamnotawerewolf
duck
hibiscus (very thin)
crackedquads
JimHalpert (strong lean)
Gadarene (thin)
Thin wolf leans:
master (RIP, wolf)
jack (pretty thin, want to hear more from him)
pyro (RIP, villager)
chips ahoy
Why am I voting chips? Yesterday, I thought esse and iamnotawerewolf were making pretty good cases against him. Since we now know esse was a villager, we can now trust that his read was genuine. However, what really made me suspicious was after he voted me close to EOD and I asked him why he did and if he'd even mentioned me before voting me. You can find the posts here on pages 11 and 12 I think, but I'll give cliffs.
He said he hadn't mentioned me, but that he'd "had the idea" of voting me and did. Later, he reread my posts and thought I was a "pretty good vote." I asked him what he read in my posts that made me think I was a good vote.
Chips' response was "I don't recall, I've already put it out of my mind." What? This was just minutes after he'd voted me. Then he says I was a good vote because I was present in the thread, because I'd have a chance to react. OK, that's fine, but I wanted to know specifically what it was in my posts that he thought was wolfy and he completely dodged my question.
He also said my posts were flavorless "like how USA Today pretends to be a newspaper." That's a bit of a burn, does anyone else feel that way? I put a lot of time and effort when posting as I caught up on the thread, and tried my best to give my perspectives, takes, and reactions to the thread. Maybe I didn't do as good a job as I was hoped, but I still found it odd that Chips would characterize my posts so negatively (a few others have said my posts came across as very villagery).
What's important is that Chips avoided providing a good reason for voting me even when I asked him directly. In fact, he seemed to flip flop between "I saw something in your posts that made me think you were a good vote" and "you were around so I could see how you react." Wolves don't have good reasons for their votes, and they know I'm a villager. This, combined with the reads/cases from esse and iamnotawerewolf yesterday, makes me want to lynch chips ahoy today.
On the other end of the wolfy/villagery spectrum of people who questioned if I was a wolf yesterday is JimHalpert. Jim has had legitimate and believable reasons for doubting me yesterday and has accompanied every "sangaman is wolfy" post with those reasons. He has questioned me for information and continued to keep a watchful eye on me even after conceding I was probably a villager.
Jim said "I think sanga is a villager," I say "thanks, I'm glad I could convince you" and Jim immediately changed his mind because he didn't like that I used the word "convinced." I think I explained quite well why I used convinced, but my point is that I think Jim is genuinely uncertain whether or not I am a villager or wolf and is trying to figure me out. This points to him being a villager who is proactively trying to solve this game.
Since I saw someone ask - Why am I giving anarchist a villager lean? His posts haven't been as wolfy as I'm used to. He seems to be trying at least a little to solve this game. It's been a whole day and he hasn't done anything that makes me want to say "wow, he has to be a wolf." Obviously, this isn't a strong read, just a sentiment I have.
I won't be around that much today, I'm at work and need to focus on some projects I've been neglecting because of too much WW this week. I will be around from time to time and will try to make some more reads/leans today, especially since half of my wolf leans from yesterday died over the night.
