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Nevermind, all caught up. It was mostly just schools and then friendly chatter so not too bad 🙂

I can't believe so many ladies with green rings! (I do love the color green I'm just over here with only diamonds so I'm not part of the cool kids club)

Me too! My wedding band is wood though so that's cool
 
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PITY PARTY: I was going to try to go to lab tomorrow for the first time in ages, so naturally I forgot to take my new drugs with food tonight and now I have #sadshortycolon again. Boooooooooooooo. I guess now I know that taking them with food actually seems to matter 🙁
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PITY PARTY: I was going to try to go to lab tomorrow for the first time in ages, so naturally I forgot to take my new drugs with food tonight and now I have #sadshortycolon again. Boooooooooooooo. I guess now I know that taking them with food actually seems to matter 🙁
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Heal shorty
also thanks everyone for the engagement ring ideas that'll be useful in future. 💍💍
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Starting at the very beginning, a __________ :whistle: (when you read you begin with a b c)
this will not be every post ever, just ones i think have somethin in them
Following the trend of salt votes
Yeet Alley
i still don't get the suspicion that happened around this vote, it was hella early on d1 everyone places salt votes and the wording was just sus (which i also don't understand tbh to some people)
Feels opportunistic from Sloth.

###Vote Sloth###

Want to get pressure here early.
i also wanna include some interactions and my thoughts on them.
#### unvote Sloth ####

####vote Visc ####

There's another one I like to pressure and get a read on early, I often lump mayo and visc and sloth in terms of baseline sketchiness and smarts and they often have a similar tone to me.

I agree with Dubz that Visc's post is somewhat sketch and has now surpassed Sloth in sketchness for now.
she moved off of early on so i think that the only significance of this interaction may be w/w with an early bus/vote to fall back on for validity later. although she continues to focus on the sloth vote on p3 so i don't think that's super likely (not IMPOSSIBLE just unlikely)
nothing on p4-5
I'm reading April neutral. I'm not reading anyone strongly as a wolf. But I'm also suspect of some people who have parked their votes outside of any consensus, and without much to back it. Specifically Dina on MSP and Sloth on Alley. Seems like an attempt to fly under the radar.
disagree w this, just wanted to put the interaction here
Okay, I am finally caught up, wow a lot of posts about my alley vote when it was a joke along with some other who voted around that time. I never planned to stay on her (unless she gave me reason to), but from what I have read she has not so
Unyeet Alley
this read as genuine
Categories, with individuals in no particular order

Village
AM
Dina
Alley
Cray
Sunshine
Genny

Weak Village
Zenge
VetSchools
Ace

???
WildZoo
MsP
Lainey
Shorty
Kras
DrRoRo

Wolf-lean
Visc
April
this is the post where i start having issues with sloth. no one had prompted her to post a full roster reads list beyond maybe a hey whatchya thinking i maybe missed. i found the volunteering of a list with literally no logic real fishy
To me Genny is sounding the same as she always does, every game I have played with her she has been village. With the style she’s playing, she currently doesn’t have me raising any eye brows at the moment.
To be fair re-reading my notes Dina could hover weak village as well, to me their vote isn’t very significant at the moment sine MsP hasn’t posted, but they haven’t said anything that has particularly raised any suspicion for me
doesn't say anything concrete on anyone (although it's mid D1 so that i dont super have an issue with)
I think it's a move Sloth might be trying to capitalize on. Logically, having someone read you village means nothing about the reader's affiliation, but people tend to like to side with those who are reading them village.
this was an interesting point and interesting interaction. similar to the shorty/sloth interaction.
I could see april/shorty in a pack together i think, but i don't think april and sloth or shorty and sloth are w/w
Well it was working until everyone started calling it out lol
this made me go ick sunshine and sloth could be w/w potentially
These were just my initial impressions from my catch up, I did have way more village reads than usual. I will work on re-categorizing some of the villagers into a possible weak village, re-reading some things now (again) and I am already having some second thoughts. I think I have a solid opinion, and then I re-read the thread and things always end up changing :bang:
i get having initial impressions, but at least post a few words next to names.
Here is a more broken down list from previously

Village
AM
Alley
Cray
Sunshine

Weak Village
Zenge
VetSchools
Ace

Neutral
Genny
Dina
April
Kras

???
WildZoo
Lainey
MsP
DrRoRo
Shorty

Wolf-Lean
Visc

Visc is my main wolf-lean right now, but I don’t quite think I’m ready to yeet yet because of the bandwagon that’s forming. Doing some more investigating into the neutrals
then this is where my problem gets pretty solidified. between the lists everyone was like "its weird to post a list with no explanation. please give us explanation" then sloth said here's another list with a single sentence of kinda sorta explanation
I agree it does seem a little odd, but I also feel that sometimes people get pushed too hard for reads and then get pushed too hard for explanations of those reads and then get chastised about it all. Which is why I said probing too hard isn't always helpful to the village.
putting this here
Starting with these

Alley: seems to come off very village-like to me. I am going to keep her there until otherwise noted, more of the “innocent until proven guilty” tactic
AM: I usually always have AM as village due to how active they are, they are always actively wolf hunting, they haven’t said anything to set off any wolfy sense to me quite yet, I am also using an innocent until proven guilty tactic with them.
Cray: I have liked the feeling of pretty much all of her posts so far, even though she harped on my original vote for quite a while, her strategy seems village like
Sunshine: they seem to be actively wolf hunting and wanting to protect the village especially with her post recent posts, but I got this vibe from her even before

Weak Village:
I mostly have these guys in a pile together becasue they give me mostly village vibes I’m just not totally convinced yet, more in a separate category for me to keep an eye on, but not currently on my radar as being sus


I usually feel quite a bit of pressure to give reads even if I’m not 100% confident in them, which I never really am, but pretty much in every single game I have played I have fallen into the pressure trap and then struggle with explainations, and every game people think I am wolfy
this i think was the only explanation we got. no reasons beyond village, which is easy enough to stay vague on.
I’m not too fond of Genny’s recent behavior, but I also don’t know what to think about the bandwagon that has formed on her, I am less inclined to yeet visc since they reappeared with some pretty decent content
as far as genny/sloth, i don't think either of them said anything too damning about eachother which could certainly be w/w
also i wanted to write this here so that i dont forget, but did sloth every explain her wolfy read list side
as anna would soon learn, they did not.
Looking back now there really is no difference between neutral and ???, remind me to never ever ever do a full roster on D1 again
and then for me this is what made me ! and go was that a wolfy slipup??
I’m definitely questioning them because a few reasons. Why is your gut telling you to yeet them?
this could be defense without actually being defense. esp because she was irritated w AM asking her questions that a post 2 above had explained, when this question had been addressed in the previous posts i made on the same page/page before. an intentional misunderstanding kinda thing
-sloth- stated toward the beginning they were just following the trend, also they havent put in vote yet so are they sitting back and watching till the end for some reason.
just echoing what everyone else said, EXCEPT for the things that were actually fishy (in my opinion)
@genny Why Vis and not Sloth for the self prez?

I mean I know that’s where your vote is now, but it seems like there’s more of a general “Sloth is sus” vibe happening. It might be easier to convince people to join you on that vote if you’re looking to self prez.
interesting w the genny flip
While I am still sus of genny placing my vote there really would not make much of a difference
I have a gut feeling, and a few others seems to be ??? Or slightly sus of dubz so
Yeet dubz

Please don’t eat me 🤣
hidin on a vote away from the attention?
Epi is EW, my least favorite class of my grad degree
YEETABLE ON ITS OWN (im kiddin. kinda.)
I mean I can see you in a pack with her and genny at this point tbh :laugh:
this is something interesting to consider.

okay at the end i got a little lazy bc im bored

*edited for a couple of spelling oopsies
 
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PITY PARTY: I was going to try to go to lab tomorrow for the first time in ages, so naturally I forgot to take my new drugs with food tonight and now I have #sadshortycolon again. Boooooooooooooo. I guess now I know that taking them with food actually seems to matter 🙁
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***story, not dead. GI distress warning***
if it makes you feel better, Ive been a vegetarian for like 8 or 9 years and I have IBS, so when I have any animal product cross contamination it gives me diarrhea. My husband who is vegan was eating some fancy brand ramen noodles tonight and had me try a bite. I was like oh they have a nice spice. Thats great because I've been missing ramen noodles and needed a vegetarian friendly version. Now, knowing my husband is vegan (more restrictive) you would think I don't have to cross check foods to be vegetarian friendly. However, also knowing my husband is not good at attention to detail or research before acting, I start to second guess if this soup is okay. I check the package and see in the middle of the ingredients, in bold, Beef marrow, Beef stock, Beef fat. 😐 I say babe it has beef. He doesn't believe me. He comes and I point to it on the package. He's in disbelief. I walk away like babe you of all people just tricked me into eating beef product. He looks at the label again and says 'I can't find it now. Is it there? I don't see beef anymore." I come and point at it again. He runs to the bathroom and throws up (he had eaten a whole bowl). And I have diarrhea. 😑
 
Starting at the very beginning, a __________ :whistle: (when you read you begin with a b c)
this will not be every post ever, just ones i think have somethin in them

i still don't get the suspicion that happened around this vote, it was hella early on d1 everyone places salt votes and the wording was just sus (which i also don't understand tbh to some people)

i also wanna include interactions and my thoughts on them.

she moved off of early on so i think that the only significance of this interaction may be w/w with an early bus/vote to fall back on for validity later. although she continues to focus on the sloth vote on p3 so i don't think that's super likely (not IMPOSSIBLE just unlikely)
nothing on p4-5

disagree w this, just wanted to put the interaction here

this read as genuine

this is the post where i start having issues with sloth. no one had prompted her to post a full roster reads list beyond maybe a hey whatchya thinking i maybe missed. i found the volunteering of a list with literally no logic real fishy

doesn't say anything concrete on anyone (although it's mid D1 so that i dont super have an issue with)

this was an interesting point and interesting interaction. similar to the shorty/sloth interaction.
I could see april/shorty in a pack together i think, but i don't think april and sloth or shorty and sloth are w/w

this made me go ick sunshine and sloth could be w/w potentially

i get having initial impressions, but at least post a few words next to names.

then this is where my problem gets pretty solidified. between the lists everyone was like "its weird to post a list with no explanation. please give us explanation" then sloth said here's another list with a single sentence of kinda sorta explanation

putting this here

this i think was the only explanation we got. no reasons beyond village, which is easy enough to stay vague on.

as far as genny/sloth, i don't think either of them said anything too damning about eachother which could certainly be w/w

as anna would soon learn, they did not.

and then for me this is what made me ! and go was that a wolfy slipup??

this could be defense without actually being defense. esp because she was irritated w AM asking her questions that a post 2 above had explained, when this question had been addressed in the previous posts i made on the same page/page before. an intentional misunderstanding kinda thing

just echoing what everyone else said, EXCEPT for the things that were actually fishy (in my opinion)

interesting w the genny flip

hidin on a vote away from the attention?

YEETABLE ON ITS ON (im kiddin. kinda.)

this is something interesting to consider.

okay at the end i got a little lazy bc im bored
result of allat:
feeling much better about shorty.
feeling about the same/a little more sus about sloth and this'll be a useful post to reference w sloth's flip
 
Starting at the very beginning, a __________ :whistle: (when you read you begin with a b c)
this will not be every post ever, just ones i think have somethin in them

i still don't get the suspicion that happened around this vote, it was hella early on d1 everyone places salt votes and the wording was just sus (which i also don't understand tbh to some people)

i also wanna include interactions and my thoughts on them.

she moved off of early on so i think that the only significance of this interaction may be w/w with an early bus/vote to fall back on for validity later. although she continues to focus on the sloth vote on p3 so i don't think that's super likely (not IMPOSSIBLE just unlikely)
nothing on p4-5

disagree w this, just wanted to put the interaction here

this read as genuine

this is the post where i start having issues with sloth. no one had prompted her to post a full roster reads list beyond maybe a hey whatchya thinking i maybe missed. i found the volunteering of a list with literally no logic real fishy

doesn't say anything concrete on anyone (although it's mid D1 so that i dont super have an issue with)

this was an interesting point and interesting interaction. similar to the shorty/sloth interaction.
I could see april/shorty in a pack together i think, but i don't think april and sloth or shorty and sloth are w/w

this made me go ick sunshine and sloth could be w/w potentially

i get having initial impressions, but at least post a few words next to names.

then this is where my problem gets pretty solidified. between the lists everyone was like "its weird to post a list with no explanation. please give us explanation" then sloth said here's another list with a single sentence of kinda sorta explanation

putting this here

this i think was the only explanation we got. no reasons beyond village, which is easy enough to stay vague on.

as far as genny/sloth, i don't think either of them said anything too damning about eachother which could certainly be w/w

as anna would soon learn, they did not.

and then for me this is what made me ! and go was that a wolfy slipup??

this could be defense without actually being defense. esp because she was irritated w AM asking her questions that a post 2 above had explained, when this question had been addressed in the previous posts i made on the same page/page before. an intentional misunderstanding kinda thing

just echoing what everyone else said, EXCEPT for the things that were actually fishy (in my opinion)

interesting w the genny flip

hidin on a vote away from the attention?

YEETABLE ON ITS ON (im kiddin. kinda.)

this is something interesting to consider.

okay at the end i got a little lazy bc im bored
didn't read the whole thing yet because its a lot, but scanned for my name. I pushed for Genny all day, yeeted her, and my vote is on Sloth now.
 
mostly just schools
crazy gene wilder GIF
 
this is the post where i start having issues with sloth. no one had prompted her to post a full roster reads list beyond maybe a hey whatchya thinking i maybe missed. i found the volunteering of a list with literally no logic real fishy

To be fair (not in defense of sloth because I do think she's wolfy) dubz sometimes posts full roster reads. Though I guess my issue is that she didn't really flesh them out well before she posted them

Also I feel pretty good about sunny being village based on her genny vote/push
 
i would have lab or vintage diamonds if we could afford it tbh but i have like $50 in my savings

Wedding stuff is hecka expensive. Hubby and I ended having a super small, affordable wedding and part of the reason we got wood wedding bands was to save money (they do look really unique though). Your ring is very pretty regardless!
 
Wedding stuff is hecka expensive. Hubby and I ended having a super small, affordable wedding and part of the reason we got wood wedding bands was to save money (they do look really unique though). Your ring is very pretty regardless!
we're not getting married until after vet school, because as you can guess from my savings account reveal, the current reception would be "meet us in the taco bell parking lot". BUT i am one of those girls who has been planning my wedding since i was 8, and i want to go to the santa cruz mountains (a 3-4 hour drive for most of the guest list, a 12 hour plane ride for everyone else) and have a beutiful redwoods ceremony. wood bands totally fit that vibe and i might need to steal that idea for Tim's band (i am high maintenance and will want indian gold lol)
 
i would have lab or vintage diamonds if we could afford it tbh but i have like $50 in my savings
Wedding stuff is hecka expensive. Hubby and I ended having a super small, affordable wedding and part of the reason we got wood wedding bands was to save money (they do look really unique though). Your ring is very pretty regardless!

Yeah and just get an upgrade in a few years (like I just did!). I'm keeping first ring too.
 
we're not getting married until after vet school, because as you can guess from my savings account reveal, the current reception would be "meet us in the taco bell parking lot". BUT i am one of those girls who has been planning my wedding since i was 8, and i want to go to the santa cruz mountains (a 3-4 hour drive for most of the guest list, a 12 hour plane ride for everyone else) and have a beutiful redwoods ceremony. wood bands totally fit that vibe and i might need to steal that idea for Tim's band (i am high maintenance and will want indian gold lol)
Escus me are we all invited?? Because that sounds absolutely amazing
 
Wedding stuff is hecka expensive. Hubby and I ended having a super small, affordable wedding and part of the reason we got wood wedding bands was to save money (they do look really unique though). Your ring is very pretty regardless!
and then I rearranged the whole budget based on a crazy story involving my dress, which people tell me is such a good story but I think it makes me sound a little insane bc of the lengths I went to for said dress...but it’s perfect so YOLO? 🤣
Fortunately I had a lot of time for budget adjustment and saving
 
and then I rearranged the whole budget based on a crazy story involving my dress, which people tell me is such a good story but I think it makes me sound a little insane bc of the lengths I went to for said dress...but it’s perfect so YOLO? 🤣
Fortunately I had a lot of time for budget adjustment and saving
you can't sound crazier than me. i have fabric swatches and a whole binder of sketches and inspiration, im makin that s***
 
you can't sound crazier than me. i have fabric swatches and a whole binder of sketches and inspiration, im makin that s***
You’re MAKING yours?!?
 
You’re MAKING yours?!?
this is the general idea. im a little(lotta) bit high maintenance and specific, and this is gonna be the only way im getting the dress in my head (I've been a seamstress/costume master for 8 years, i made my prom dress🙂)
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you can't sound crazier than me. i have fabric swatches and a whole binder of sketches and inspiration, im makin that s***
Basically, was browsing dresses online for a friend who was already engaged. Saw this dress and sent it to her and she was like lol no, but YOU should try that one (except Z hadn’t proposed yet), so I bookmarked it and moved on with my life. Z proposed a couple months later so I started looking into the dress on the early side because it was from an old collection and I wasn’t sure it would still exist for all that long.

Ended up calling every store in Minnesota that carried that designer (as an introvert, I can’t emphasize enough how much I hate phone calls lol), every store in California where my parents live, and ultimately contacted the designer directly in Barcelona, where they told me there was ONE sample dress in the entire US. The MN stores could order the dress for me, but I wouldn’t be able to try it on unless I went to the one sample dress in NYC. So I wrote it off in my head and was like meh, oh well. I hadn’t been back home at that point in 4 or 5 years, and flying in to try a dress seemed a little much to me, but I also wasn’t going to order it sight unseen, so I was going to just shrug it off and move on with my life.

And then my mom texted me that she’d found round trip airfare to NY for $87 and she really thought I should go try it because she thought I would always wonder about it later. She’s persuasive and I’m impulsive sometimes soooo I booked it and then proceeded to keep checking in with the store to make sure they still had it. I may have gone overboard on this because when I got there, they brought me back to show it to me before they even finished checking me in 😂

Anyway, so I went to class that morning, flew to NYC for a 2:30 appointment, and then flew back to MN - but because my mom wasn’t going to fly to NYC for a dress appointment, I had a friend meet me there and we video called my mom. We only got good enough reception to do it at the front of the store, so I was basically standing in the display window, and my mom kept commenting that the dress was too big and I needed a smaller one (bless her, sample sizes don’t come in supershorty size). She also wanted to see the back of the dress, and we had to clamp the front to be able to pull the back tight enough, and I accidentally might have flashed some construction workers for a second there 😳.

Flew home and ordered the dress, it came in and has since been discontinued - I got one of the last ones they made! And it is perfect in every way and was worth it.

The end.
 
Hi hello, just wanted to let everyone know I’m still alive. I was at work for a long time and then I watched the super bowl. I am currently drunk, because I am drowning my sorrows since the chiefs lost. I will get caught up on the thread tomorrow when I’m sober.

I drunkenly told my boyfriend most of the wedding stuff from the thread (btw Anna I’m so happy for you!!!) and he said “no internet friends will be invited to our wedding unless you know them in real life” and now I’m lowkey insulted. He was going to be my plus one on the hypothetical bus road trip to Anna’s wedding but now I’m rethinking that lmao.
 
I really wanted to give Lainey some benefit of the doubt because she's so new, but going back through her posts, I have some questions. Many of her posts aren't really wolf hunting as much as they are just agreeing with what other people say. I wanted to chalk that up to being a noob and not being confident in making her own reads, but after a certain point, it just started to feel a little strange to me because she never actually gives reasoning behind it beyond "reasons" or no explanation at all.


Then there's the back and forth with AM. I initially didn't think anything of this and assumed Lainey was carrying over salt from the previous game, where AM killed her early on, so I didn't think there was anything more than that behind this quote:

However, given that last night turned into an all-out brawl between them and now AM is a dead villager, this gives me the heebie jeebies.

This is another example of her sort-of bandwagoning onto other's ideas - in this case, the misunderstanding of what AM meant by self-prezzing. Again, by itself, not necessarily something that pings me, but because it's a consistent pattern, I start to wonder a little more.

This was early in things getting a little out of control. Again, I've been reading Lainey as fairly neutral until this morning's revelation, but I'm starting to have second thoughts. I'd like to see more from her today with her own reads and interpretations/explanations (beyond saying really general things like "a few reasons").
She said "definitely" so many times I wonder if it's a wolf subconscious make up for lies kinda thing.
 
Funny enough, this is the exact same argument I used as a wolf trying to hide Kras in the last game after she killed AM (that someone was trying to frame Kras). Interesting that it's getting used here as well
And this is why wolf NK analysis can be limited, as it can be deeply WIFOM and affected by many many things us in the uninformed majority have no way of knowing.

I see the choice as pretty NAI for Lainey. I'm using other factors to determine wolfiness. Shorty made good points.

They say whenever a wolf flips look at the last 3 on the wagon, it's 90% at least one wolf on it. This isn't real science but an aphorism from mafiascum I'm probably misquoting.
 
Re: sloth, I could potentially go there as a vote today with the genny flip, but I have to look into it more.

Re: everything else well I knew if genny flipped wolf that I'd likely be up to be yeeted next. This is all WIFOM but I'mma say it anyways - wolf!Dina would have never put a vote down 10 minutes before close on a villager when one more person would have tied it (and we all saw what happens when kd games tie) and getting two more people in 10 minutes when almost all votes were down was impossible. It's risky and opens me up to be looked at today.

Anyways, I'm going to go through my POE and do some ISOing. I think there was at least one more wolf there besides genny so I'm going to start there.
Strongly considering this argument. Feeling very torn about it and Dina.
 
So with the AM flip that leaves ace and alley on the april vote yesterday. I'm going to

yeet alley

Could go with sloth and possibly kras too. Kinda interesting that the both of them were on the dubz vote together. Going to iso sloth next I think.
I sus Dina. But I also feel that Dina has decent sus list
 
Even with all that Ace has said, I'm inclined to think he's just a really nooby villager who isn't paying close attention. I think if he was a wolf the rest of the pack would have told him to shut up and say something more sensical instead. I guess there's the possibility that they've given up on him and will let him be bait, lol, but after losing one of the pack already, I don't think they would take that risk
On the other hand, tunneling is some wolves' fave party trick. Gets them out of having to make up too many lies about too many people, make too many enemies slinging shade, etc etc. Ask me how I know lol
 
Even with all that Ace has said, I'm inclined to think he's just a really nooby villager who isn't paying close attention. I think if he was a wolf the rest of the pack would have told him to shut up and say something more sensical instead. I guess there's the possibility that they've given up on him and will let him be bait, lol, but after losing one of the pack already, I don't think they would take that risk
But I agree it's unlikely he's being set up as a bait.
 
Interested to see what you come up with for April. I mean no offense regarding my comments, purely that I suspect you and her are in collusion with one another. After developing this mindset its difficult to try and look past it.
Try. What do you think about Dina?
 
@Acehunter123

Last night there was a “Sloth is sus” sentiment bubbling up.

I asked Genny why she was trying to get the “Vis is Sus” train rolling again as a means of self prez, instead of the more effervescent “Sloth is sus” sentiment that was present at the time, and persistent now, to which she replied:

Given that Genny has now been confirmed wolf, how do you feel about Genny’s decision not to capitalize on the more prevalent Sloth sentiment, and what are your own readings of Sloth?
Nice nice catch. I wonder if genny would have telegraphed a packmate so clearly on thread, but it's very hard not to at least neutral read packmates sometimes.
 
Right now Sloth is at the top of my sus list. I didn't really get a satisfactory evidence-based answer yesterday regarding why certain reads changed. A lot of her reads are concerning given the results of the flip.

I'm not sure what to think of Dina. Her vote change last night worries me, but otherwise I usually find myself nodding along to her posts. Hopefully not being pocketed...

Definitely keeping an eye on Lainey for possibly making a last-minute Genny bus.

Alley wasn't worrying me yesterday but I'm keeping an eye on her, especially because I village read her for an entire game the last time she was wolf.

Ace, for now, I think is harmless but I want to see what else he comes up with.

Zenge is giving me pretty clear village vibes. He started the wagon on Genny and rode it all the way to its successful wolf yeet.
Remember guys, agreeing with someone and that biasing you to thinking they are village, is not "pocketing" or "being pocketed." It's good to be aware of emotional biases, and agreeing with someone can create one for sure, no matter their affiliation.

Pocketing is a verb wolves do, it implies that what the pocketer is saying may not be what they believe, but it more intended to emotionally manipulate the "pocketee."

Minor point but it matters when you're trying to describe the "flavors" of communication taking place.
 
Remember guys, agreeing with someone and that biasing you to thinking they are village, is not "pocketing" or "being pocketed." It's good to be aware of emotional biases, and agreeing with someone can create one for sure, no matter their affiliation.

Pocketing is a verb wolves do, it implies that what the pocketer is saying may not be what they believe, but it more intended to emotionally manipulate the "pocketee."

Minor point but it matters when you're trying to describe the "flavors" of communication taking place.
I’ve been using it kind of wrong then. Sorry cray.
 
There have been now two (that ive recorded) statements from genny that seemed to defend another. Defending cray and sloth. Genny said in D1 that they felt cray was "fine" and then they stated they dont find sloth very wolfy. I feel like I will be focusing on cray and sloth for a bit as soon as i catch up.
Definitely keep in mind that wolves are going to village read some villagers. The vets know that's one of the best ways to pocket me. Also I'm reactive so they don't always want to get into a w/v fight with me, and direct w/v interactions are one of the best ways I catch wolves (when I do catch them). Also village reading villagers is a great way for wolves to sow distrust on a flip, so if they're good they will always do this. Genny will always village read a few players that are village when she wolfs.

Also I was sussing genny in my posts, and she likely wanted to avoid the appearance of retaliation. I used to be some of the favorite wolf bait because I was highly yeetable. I still feel that way but I think the wolf vets have moved away from that with the site meta and prefer to leave me to the noobs. I think I am sketch if you don't know me, and it looks better for them I think not to push it.

I considered all this which was actually part of some of my sus of her.
 
are there always a certain number of wolves?
Usually there's a grand total of 20-25% of the roster non-village, combo of wolves and chaos/3P if present. But not an ironclad rule. Every game I get out my calc and use 0.25 x roster size to get a guess.
 
okay some tinfoil here before I actually read/react catch up....

-Cray in breadsticks said to me in wolf chat to avoid being anywhere close to a tie
-Cray in emoji defended her tie that got 2 villagers yeeted by saying it was an accident and that if she were a wolf she would pay much closer attention to avoiding ties
-Cray yesterday sat on a Visc vote with Genny, and then unyeeted Visc with a few minutes to go and begged someone else to move to April with her to avoid a tie
-I didn't put Sloth into wolfy until after yeet writeup. I was previously neutral on her and thought she could help yeet Genny if we needed. Sloth and Cray were active and on and posting in the minutes leading up to yeet.
-I posted after Genny yeet about Genny saying Cray was okay and Dina was lurking like a wolf and wondering how we should think of those now
-Cray dismissed those Genny remarks

...... I think I need to move Cray to ??? as I check more and hear others' thoughts about it

(edited to some more clarity in case you read within 2 minutes of me posting)
AM already pointed out that genny is pretty careful/good with her on thread w/w interactions and she is good at constructing her reads of other players to be a whole lotta WIFOM. You definitely have better luck finding packmates from my comments when I wolf, than from genny.

Focus more on the players you KNOW are telling the truth, and ones you highly suspect are, and BIG GRAIN of salt for the ones you unequivocally know to be liars.

It's a fair tinfoil for you to consider, my actions yesterday don't look awesome in hindsight, like a lot of villager actions. But it's still early game and we haven't had the sort of nasty surprises with unexpected flip results that necessitates considering me when I think they're way wolfier players on the board right now. I'll help you yeet them.
 
yes exactly! I am giving you more village points now because I had the same thought.
This really rubs me wrong.

Not sure what is so profound about this thought that it's good evidence of wolfhunting/village-ness. I mean, it's a good point but still.

It's extremely easy for wolves to tell lies that make sense and the truth, because they know a lot more about what is going on in the game than we do. Don't fall into that trap.
 
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