Why do you lean woof on Ampharos? Posts seem disjointed, but not bad from what I've read so far.
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Since you're already clearly annoyed, I will move my pressure elsewhere for today and give you breathing room.
But the wolf lean stays until something changes it.
I could do the same for villagers.
What are you trying to prove? I probably shouldn't have written that part about hedging, because this is going to turn into an argument about principles, which seems worthless to me and doesn't actually advance the game.
I mean, you're calling me a wolf for something I do every game and which I don't think is wolf-indicative to begin with under most circumstances. There's nuance to that, too.
Ok it seems I have to do this like 8 quotes at a time, and then manually deselect them after.
This will take a few minutes Csargo
forgot the draconian limitations we have here.
You have no idea how accustomed I am to being wolfread, I hardly ever get towncleared for anything. The thing I'm annoyed by is your reasoning, because it seems like you're applying unreasonable standards to my slot despite not even knowing how I play (by your own admission) and treating me like a megawolf (by your own admission). Like, if I'm a megawolf, then me hedging this hard shouldn't be something I do as a wolf. And I don't feel like you should be expecting me to have hard reads on a ton of slots when the game has barely started (especially since you don't know how I play).
You're probably town for it, because the more I convince myself you're a wolf the more I feel silly about thinking that, but come on.
Ampharos iso and related posts supplementing the read:
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In summary, mostly wolftells, bad process or nonexistent process, not engaging with someone they're struggling to read, not interested in resolving that person's alignment, speaking to the general audience (the jury) and passive aggressively pushing a conclusion with regard to Logic as opposed to solving Logic in a genuine manner by engaging them.
Two disengagements, multiple bad acting wolfy tone fake posts, loads of passive aggression.
Nothing villagery at all in the iso, period.
Hey csargo, kage
hope you fellas have been well
I am not even voting you, so I do not believe your annoyance levels can be coming from a villager.
You're arguing with me about stuff that catches wolves every game for years. I will not be persuaded my methods don't find wolves.
I can be persuaded they're not finding a wolf right now, in your name. But this isn't the way to convince me of that, and the more you talk to me like I am a villager, the less I believe you're struggling to read my alignment.
But, I do not need to vote you today, as I find it vanishingly unlikely my 4 suspects are all villagers.
Enderwiggin immediately getting flustered over mild early game wolf reads, Vulgard doing the same on even less pressure, Amy doing half the passive aggressive wolf tells, and spooge having no process on their leans list with Amy as a top townie.
Followed by most of the day being wolfy banter between most of these, leads me to believe there are multiple wolves engaged in the Defense strategy contained within these names.
What is your read on Logic?
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Combined processes so far leading to reads.
Conclusion to come by end of day when everyone is a read as opposed to a 2 1 or 0 poster.
Confidence levels are... what they should be. Every intellectual thread says this, emotions eating at me.
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Spooge is whatever, can shrugkill and might do that if I don't have a stronger take by EoD.
No real opinion on the others you listed.
Taking a break for dinner and family time.
https://i.imgur.com/DI94lns.gif
Nic Cage give me strength.
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Inner thoughts on display.
atpg i dont want to tell u how to play
but you do kinda have 100 posts in like just over 12 hours lol
maybe slow it down just a touch to let the thread breathe a little ymmv
pizza is being pizza, I see. might a couple v points but I'm not ready to commit yet
sigh i accidentally closed my tab and lost my post
cliffs:
atpg prob town for d1 (though hes made some weird posts)
csargo prob town (actually this is a horrendous read but yolo lol)
hkatt eh
cape weird
logic wolfy
anyone stand out to you atm kage?
I liked the Logic post, mostly cause I agree with it. And it doesn't really preclude Logic from engaging with it, but it is sort of passive in the way you described.
The post on you just seems wrong from my experience at least. The last line is bad in the post about you imo, the rest in finetm.
Overall, it's not great I'd agree.
i feel like exactly the people i would expect to be wolf read pre-rand are the ones people are most concerned about
vote logic
seems like an obvious wolf
I think Csargo is town for the way they talked about Logic. It just felt genuine. No frills.
Just finished my worst towngame in my history of playing mafia, ama.
The contrast between my recent experiences and Pizza's is pretty hilarious.
And now I can answer Pizza's concerns from earlier in more depth. I feel genuinely scared of making reads now, because I just finished a game where I had 4 villagers as wolfreads and two wolves as towncore. We did end up winning that game, but I almost singlehandedly made us lose it, and it took the presence of another villager who became an IC for us to win. It was by far my worst town performance ever.
I also had really terrible reads in some other recent games, which doesn't help. So, yeah. I do have thoughts, but I'm afraid of expressing them because I don't want to be lolwrong again. My last game was an awful performance, so was the game before that, and I tried to express more confidence in both because people have historically wolfread me for hedging, much like you're doing. But me expressing more confidence just led to me becoming even more lolwrong and pushing the wolves' agenda for them.
Realistically, I suspect you for being so confident in such a major solve, Pizza, because I couldn't imagine being this confident this early. I simply could not. I don't have a single read right now that I would 100% commit to. I had two such reads early into my last game and both were horrendously wrong. You have a world of four already.
Your pushes on players other than myself also rub me the wrong way. The push on Ender especially feels like you're seeing something I can't possibly see. From my perspective, Ender did something that vaguely seemed pockety, I told him half-jokingly that he was trying to pocket an innocent townie, he bounced back. This could've just been banter or a V/V interaction on our part. He could be a villager for it! Or just a villager. But you seem to be reading his behavior there as really wolfy to the point that you see me as a wolf with him (or at least that's how I interpreted your posting about us). It's really hard for me to parse your confidence, even with your explanation just now, and the thought process around me and Ender. I just think you're reading into stuff with Ender that isn't necessarily there.
And of course, if Ender is a wolf, then you're going to have been right, then I'm going to look awful for making this post, then i might get yeeted and feel I deserved it for playing poorly yet again. Always a risk, and not even too unlikely. You could be right and I could be the dumbass for wolfreading you here. I'm just sitting here with my little perspective and my instinct says "this guy could easily be tryhard wolfing here despite saying he wouldn't tryhard. He shouldn't be trying this hard as a villager, he said he wouldn't try hard and villagers care less, especially when they give slank cover like this." But I'm not even sure if this is a good line of thinking.
It's basically that. I can't express a confident read. Because when I do, I ruin games. My ability to find wolves is bad and does not improve. My ability to find town is hit or miss. I sometimes write godly posts, but I can never recognize when, and I do not pursue it when I do. Me being accused of hedging, and you calling it so wolfy, and you putting so much pressure on me for it, it kinda just feels like you're being opportunistic, especially since you're not looking into why I might be hedging. I feel like that should be a consideration.
I'm talking a lot about myself in this post and it's probably not really helping, but I can't formulate my thoughts about you without talking about myself first and explaining why I'm not giving many reads, especially confident reads. I know that the way I'm reacting to my poor performance in the last game is probably not the best (outright not making confident reads because my last ones were wrong), but the inaccuracy of my reads has been consistent enough lately that I'd rather just give thoughts instead of reads, if that makes sense, and hope that these thoughts help other people - presumably with better reads than me - nail wolves.
I'm not sure how I will operate independently, and I probably won't figure it out this game.
I should end this post here, and I am.
Probably just read the part about Pizza, I embellished it a lot with talk about myself and those parts are probably not as helpful.
Tell me about your wolf game as well, but I would like to hear this on a "me not hunting mafia" level, because I am here to socialize, relax, and hear stories and tales and jokes and memes and things.
The first request is srs bsns, but it can wait. Tell me about your bad towngame, because I will respond with one of my own.
And we can share and bond and get to know each other a bit.
Getting to know you through meta diving you is not the entire experience.
I either am on a big delay or we just crossposted so
I just read it and thank you.
May I respond with a wall of my own?
This will be me talking to village!Vulgard.
I'm not going to lie - I am a bit concerned about ladd as well for his post about Logic here.
Same idea as my AOTP concerns, just ignore the part about effort because ladd has barely posted. I don't like the confidence coming into this read, especially since it's a popular take and it feels like an LHF-y target if town. The latter part might be a bit tacked-on and forced in my part, which could lead me to confbiasing the slot, but the first part stands.
My wolfgame is pretty good. I tend to have a good handle on the game as a wolf and I generally know what to say. I can bus, I can defend, I can do most of that stuff. I've strategized mechanically as well, and I have some pretty good wins. I generally feel more confident as a wolf - not only is it my preferred alignment, but I also feel like I actually know what I'm doing, and this is important because the one thing I want the least is being a hindrance to my team. I am never a hindrance to my team as a wolf, at least not these days. I used to be a terrible wolf, but I haven't been one for the last two years. In fact, I view my wolfgame quite highly, while my towngame is something I view quite lowly - though I feel like that's obvious from what I've said about both alignments so far.
https://www.fortressoflies.com/t/pat...ay-5-3-11/3770
This is the game in question, which I consider my worst town performance ever. Just reading my first few posts should be pretty telling - I declare a villager the day 1 kill (the villager who ended up saving the game from being lost in MyLo), then I towncore a wolf and maintain that read for most of the game. I proceeded to push a lot of villagers later. I didn't even SUSPECT a wolf until MyLo, and I only really briefly suspected them based on some amount of instinct and the IC mentioning them as possibly wolves. I then tried to argue that the 2 living wolves weren't W/W and that one of them likely wasn't a wolf independently. It was really, really, really bad.
By contrast, I think my worst recent wolfgames weren't lost through the fault of my own. I definitely made some strategic missteps in those games, like not bussing hard enough, but I don't think I was at fault for losing and I think I played decently well. It's remarkably different from my towngames.
vulgard v
Aotp = Attack of the Pizza
I actually think Vul is V here and there's indications to me that Amy is. Which makes me feel really at odds with Pizza solving. Which normally doesn't happen this badly but it's early d1 and idk if I'm expecting too much.
Lemme get to a computer and actually outline where I am so people can judge these thoughts. Also coffee tell
read page 4 and 5 (on post 150)
kinda confused because it feels like there is a thread inside the thread or something
Logic slightly wolfy in post 121 and 150 imo tbh
the part you hate is the part i like
i reckon amy as scum would be more careful in choosing her words and also not breaking the narrative of her posts. It is a weak town read but I have seen town do these sort of last sentences more than wolves, because it is such a thing wolves are paranoid town will wolf read them over tbh
hi boq!
this is also a townie response. There's no defensiveness, no caught with your hand in the cookie jar, though now when i think of it "with a side helping of 'I'm stupid'" sounds a bit like wanting a dumb tell/puppy eyeing the sus away. Still, I think I am overall okay with this response tbh
"I have only made two intentionally wolfy moves so far. Everything else is just me as me as me." translates to inside my brain "actually, there are only two legit reasons to wolf read me rn, and i did that intentionally"
which is something i say too when caught for the wrong reason, as either alignment tbh
so verdict is out
but i giggled tbh!
Okay so I've reflected and there's a decent chance my thoughts actually make Pizza towny, but I'm not going to hard lock him either way. He's too good to expect me to do that ever until I have something more solid.
To explain my worldview:
Pizza is always going to be a focus early for me. I love playing with him, and have done it a lot, and finding his alignment correctly is one of my favourite mini games because it's so fracking hard sometimes. When playing together we don't have aligned worldviews always but usually there is an "agreement on some things" that goes on.
Now this is where I've come into the game expecting something from another player and not seeing it. Which should not be wolfy but I have found myself wolf reading it a lot recently. It is something I need to be more aware of. Which is why I'm trying hard to re-evaluate something because Pizza made the F tier reads comment and it struck me that he was right. And I do know better.
The Expectation:
I thought Logic was wolfy in his early posts on a very level 1 Logic way. He's not necessarily an easy catch as wolf but I do find myself sussing his early game content in alignment with how I normally sus wolf!Logic. Caveat IS that I haven't played much with Logic as a whole recently and so I can't be sure how much this meta/feeling is outdated.
#121 - Feels like a casual "Pizza is doing things" statement, but the tacked on end of "I thought about doing this but didn't." feels directly appealing to Pizza. (Which I'm noticing on re-read and probably helps if I'm right on Logic wolf anyway.)
#126 - Fluff interaction eh
#128 - More direct appeals to Pizza with little other interaction
#132 - The "Man people are doing silly things and it fooled me haha." read
#133 - Wolfy Interesting? :3 Just joking
#140 - More Fluff posting
#150 - THIS is the post I scumread most because it feels like the classic "Omg you scumread x that I have said nothing about too? I didn't want to say it until someone else did" Wolves do because then they have a shield between themselves and blame when the person flips town. Which I'm more aware of because I think I'm town.
#151 - "Make up reasons for me." I did want to see what Logic's justifications were but have yet to, which was part in parcel for my position/pressure.
#194 - Pops in to say this in the middle of some growing pressure on him, but doesn't address any of that. Wolfy in the "Engages in sideways discussion for fluff purposes without engaging in the actual game side."
#221 - Then pops in later for this, a weird question (wolfy weird!) and still addresses not his own reads list reasons nor the pressure on him or anything else in thread.
This is all hallmark of Old Logic Wolf. Now I could see this as me relying on outdated meta and Logic's play actually has this as either alignment.
BUT others are also seeing this pressure.
And Pizza wasn't.
Now in retrospect "Pizza should see this and idk why he isn't" is a stupid read. Which is why I'm retracting it. But Pizza is a very good reader of Logic and to see him not comment on Logic, nor make any statements other than to sus the growing pool of people pushing towards Logic? Feels bad if I'm keyed into Logic as a wolf worlds.
Amy being same wavelength as me in a casual/meme-y fashion was a good look in my mind, and to find Pizza sussing us both was a weird sensation, which is why I broke my own statement to make the "sussy baka" post at Pizza.
I'll be honest, I regret that post. Not because Pizza sussed me for it. Or anyone else. But because he is correct in that I am making an uncharitable take and I have made snarky comments about that in the past. So I should be extending that grace to my own game if I'm allowed to snark about others. I cannot be mad at others for over-expectation if I do it myself.
Then Vulgard came in and sussed Logic as well and now Visor/spooge/Boq (Was there another? I now forget) seeing the same thing makes me feel more assured that I'm actually seeing something and not jumping at shadows.
So let me be clear. I think Logic is a wolf and will push that.
I feel like I had another reason I wanted to make this post other than just to explain myself in regards to my unfair treatment of Pizza and poke wolf towards Logic, but I don't remember what it was and I now have to get ready for work so eeeeeeeh.
Y'all get this.