Jarek would’ve been a very good kill, accounting for TP and whatnot.
that’s what i was thinking
from a basic competency test jaiden was ~outed for not using their watch on the IC on the night before xylo - it’s the optimal move since you either catch a wolf or have a clear in xylo
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During what day?
Jarek was active on the first day, but not widely townread for no honest reason.
i only started paying much attention during the day marluna got “executed”
Jaiden explained in DVC how she’s usually clingy with limited-shot abilities and stalling there was entirely in-character, but I don’t think that changes why she was executed.
I’m still not exactly sure whether my belief that Jarek’s role was too implausible to responsibly take into account was like, wrong, or if we just hit a 1 in whatever hundred chance that this role appears in two consecutive, unrelated games. Logically I want to say it’s the latter, but everyone else seemed to have no trouble with this? So I’m not sure.
The reason for suspecting Jarek because CPR doc claim in two games made no sense to me.
I asked, they refused.
That wasn’t on the first day.
even if it’s in character, people are more likely to monkebrain it and assume she’s outted (which they pretty much did).
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Huh.
And no-killing instead of killing Cape was the worst decision you could’ve done, and Neon didn’t need to die instead of me. Other than that, Mafia played really well.
it hurt to see crich go over their reasons to clear zorvo and only coming up with “they had no reason to vote neon over magnus at eod” despite him having a hellbus meta. big oofs
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Yeah that’s the thing. I even mentioned that in my exercise.
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It was rationalisation. CRichard knew he was town, and townread Silviu and Zorvo from earlier days. So he was trying to explain why Bean had to be evil.
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i’ll post some more thoughts when i get back to my computer, but the game was fun to watch and it came this close so both teams played pretty well (which is not something that often happens on this site) so ggwp all
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I did and I was, as usual maybe not for good reasons
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None of my individual reads were bad*, I just made a bad mechanical assumption that Jarek had to be scum. I’ll count that as “good enough” in my book - my only flaw was disregarding the vow I’d previously made against mech spec. All I need to do is better listen to myself and my gameplay will have been improved.
* (Except Zorvo/Jaiden not W/W, but I explicitly mentioned I was questioning my unaligned reads with him after rereading Valorant, and I mostly meant Jaiden by that. I had remembered him reading Eliza more consistently as a wolf, but he had the same little kinds of interactions with her that he did with Jaiden. Had I still been wolfreading him, I think I could have gotten that one.)
It was a bad move pivoting onto Jarek regardless of what happened, but I think that was largely just induced by probably-undue desperation. I just… thought I’d die if I kept pushing Zorvo, the votes were in his favor rather than mine, and that’s what motivated me to finally resolve the whole “Zorvo and Jarek are unaligned but I wolfread both” thing. I could’ve swung that, probably, but I just… was completely convinced I needed to pivot.
I need to get better at being at peace with being voted out - I’m usually at peace with being voted, but some part of me remains convinced that dying means I instantly lose the game. This is probably because I have literally never won a mafia game dead, ever. Maybe I just need to die and win and I’ll improve.
Oh, and I forgot I had a role. Right. Perhaps having confidence enough in myself to use that role would’ve saved the game - it definitely would’ve saved me, and if we’d gone for Zorvo out of the four I put into that Box, we could’ve gotten another wolf. I suspect we wouldn’t, though - regardless of my opinion on him, the “well he pushed Neon, so he’s less suspicious” inertia wasn’t going away.