Chess - Game Thread [Concluded]

[Dp101]

2. The Dp101 CFD: I usually don't like to talk about my own approach in terms of playing games for a variety of reasons, so here's a little secret: sometimes, as mafia, I do things just to do things. This is generally done to combat the whole "mafia have a specific agenda they need to accomplish and you can use this knowledge when hunting them" tactic. This was the case for the Dp CFD attempt on D1. I can't speak for Zack, but I honestly think I would have done the same thing - though perhaps to a lesser extent - as town. This kind of fell in line with Plan A completely falling apart. I knew it wouldn't change anything, we didn't really have a fallback plan in place at this point in time, so I just wanted to have some fun before the guillotine dropped. It wasn't desperation - we knew Logic was drawing dead - it was just stress relief.


and the Dp tiebreaker role... man, I'm just glad Monty killed him instead of Pizza that final night.

Yeah, I didn't really quite believe my own scumread of you at that point, because I know that a. my opinion on CFDs is against the grain, and b. some people like to criticise me for it. Tbh I think you could have both gotten away with it if you saw it as one black mark rather than completely flipping your read, but eh.


Yeah once I died I was rather put out, I wanted to use my role at least once. It could have won us the game ;-;

[Sooh]

Yeah, I didn't really quite believe my own scumread of you at that point, because I know that a. my opinion on CFDs is against the grain, and b. some people like to criticise me for it. Tbh I think you could have both gotten away with it if you saw it as one black mark rather than completely flipping your read, but eh.


Yeah once I died I was rather put out, I wanted to use my role at least once. It could have won us the game ;-;

Let me tell you a secret. I was kinda sad that Monty changed his kill, because I was looking forward to the mind moment when you had to decide who would die.

[Choxorn]

And knowing is half the battle. Just don't forget to make the same mistake twice.

Always make the same mistake twice.

Fool him twice... you can't get fooled again.

This is what happened in FrenchRev and XCOM as well. The "sweet spot". In FrenchRev admittedly it was multidimensional given the multiball setup, where Choxorn turned out both universally town/null-read, and perceived as much less of a factional threat by people in the other 3 (4 including Mafia, but that was just him anyway) factions. But the principle remains.

I'm not sure if I'd ever be able to pull that off again, because by now everyone knows how good I am at faking tone and I'd probably get paranoia-lynched at some point, regardless of whether I was actually scum or not, unless I had some really hard mechanical proof of my townieness.

Yeah, I didn't really quite believe my own scumread of you at that point, because I know that a. my opinion on CFDs is against the grain, and b. some people like to criticise me for it. Tbh I think you could have both gotten away with it if you saw it as one black mark rather than completely flipping your read, but eh.

For me, I already thought Zack and GH looked kinda scummy for other reasons- if I was townreading them I might have just thought it was odd and ignored it, but since I wasn't the CFD just looked like another red flag on the pile of red flags I was already seeing from them.

[Dp101]

Let me tell you a secret. I was kinda sad that Monty changed his kill, because I was looking forward to the mind moment when you had to decide who would die.

lol, well, I think Monty would have died for the wrong reasons in that case. Hell, maybe even fro the right ones, going back and rereading his posts on the final day with full knowledge makes me feel like they weren’t quite as rock-solid as the early one, specifically around justifying his vote and how he talked to Pizza. I’m not sure if I would have figured it out, but I’m confident that the signs were there and I could have done it.