Overall I expected to be way more polarized than I was. My post here was genuinely what I thought pre-rand:
A lot of my detailed thoughts, especially early-on (D1 and D2), were “genuine” in some sense. I think the best explanation is that I was genuinely thinking through whether posts were towny or wolfy, and sometimes posts would ping me as towny or wolfy, but of course I still wasn’t thinking through whether that person was a town or a wolf. I haven’t been able to do this much in previous wolfgames, and I’m not sure what changed here, but it was very helpful.
It did have the consequence of the agenda-driven thoughts being less detailed though - when I was townreading Soweli D1, that read was not one I thought through naturally, and just something I made up to defend them.
The “genuine” thoughts were in-line with TMI more than they’d likely be if I was town, though there were still some times when I genuinely felt town were wolfy (particularly, during F5, I was actually trying to move off of Marluna onto Chomps, but could not find a way to argue that without risking looking like I’m pushing agenda). There was also at least one moment where I found Soweli towny (namely when she voted Spooky at EOD, but I didn’t townread that publicly).
Also in particular I did genuinely have the misunderstanding here:
So I did indeed find tutuu’s unvote on Aleph wolfy, and the conversation working that out was pretty much entirely genuine.
There are various mech plays that I could go into, but I think I’ll only mention the one on Soweli.
TLDR: Claiming mech allowed me to justify an early vote without actual progression to look good incase they were going over, and allowed a potential back-off later, also without progression. I’m not sure at what point I decided to specifically claim a red on her (rather than remain silent, and claim in future days).
I did consider using the Tactician (and put a good amount of thought into how to move around the roles) - but I did not have faith in my ability to endgame like this, nor did I really want to do so.
Also, amusingly, the “mech clears” generated by Chomps - while sound in this game - could’ve been faked, should I have taken Ash’s role, which granted roleblock immunity.
Was fun and stressful (sometimes only one of them, sometimes both). Will need a break for some weeks, but fortunately I’m hosting now anyway.
I apologize for how I was when I was in the game. I was trying to be in a more chill mode this game but I ended up being massively tilted during Day 1 and realized it was a terrible idea for me to remain in the game since I probably would’ve ended up being worse.