[GAME THREAD 6/13] Risky Light Game: Featuring Rain - Day 4 - Mafia wonnered

[Frog]

I apologize if you got the impression that I was acting in any way untoward in reaction to your post. I’m expressing my concerns with you directly, and sometimes that personalized interaction can be misconstrued as angry or harsh, but I promise you that on my part it’s not that way :)

I’m just trying to figure out your objectives in some of the things you’re doing, and sometimes it scrambles in my head in a way where I think: hmmmm, this could be bad news, or it could be maybe good news?

So, for example, I realize that you were talking to Troch here, so understanding what was your objective with Troch here is more of what I was getting at when I said this:

@Frog

It feels agenda-y, but maybe you had an alternative reason for doing this? Maybe?

but your response seemed kind of devoid of troch in your 299? #299

Was Troch on your radar? What did you want to get out of that interaction?

[Leafia]

@Professor

I was saying since Pigeon didn’t know the votecount, the fact they both piled on you probably doesn’t mean they can’t be W/W. However, the fact Pigeon is going after Magnus when there are villager wagons which he could just as easily jump on makes me think they aren’t W/W.

Hmmm, that reasoning makes sense to me honestly.

@Professor

Well, you have 7 posts left for 5 more hours so if I were you I’d still try to limit it to a post every hour if you want to be able to keep up with everything.

Good idea actually. Need to DC o something IRL now too but I’ll be back later.

[Squirrel2412]

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@clonedcheese

@Squirrel2412

after rereading the cheese post his reasoning looks flimsier than before

in what way?

@clonedcheese

@Trochilidae

you did jump on a wagon wildly to vote Leafia. cloned’s reasoning is something i can follow. (at least he had justification).

Not entirely sure whether Trochi is this adamant about their reads as scum

Willing to put in “conf bias town” for now

If I understand you correctly, you were reaction testing people to see if they would go along with your misplaced shade or if they would call you out.

Which is fine, but why would you put trochi in ‘conf bias town’ over a wolf going along with your shade?

@clonedcheese

@BradLand

/Vote: thepigeonnyc @Commando

If this flips mafia then Leafia is spewed town

Heres one that took the bait!

Saw someone else that was sussing Pigeon and just went for it

The full justification doesnt seem good either:

@BradLand

I actually put my vote on Pigeon for a weird over-explained but bad reasoned vote on Leafia, then immediately saying “Oh no, I’m going to get yeeted Day 1!” which was super awkward and performative as if he planned on saying it.

However when I went back to read his reasoning, it looks like he actually read what Leafia was posting? So I might’ve jumped the gun on him.

Very quick to back off and hedge under the slightest bit of pressure

I think we got one bois

Brad doesn’t seem like he’s sheeping your vote - he’s reacting to pigeon putting leaf at L-1, which I think is different than sheeping your bait post.

@Professor

My progression was extremely clear. Around the time I posted my readlist I started doubting my read because, like you pointed out, I don’t think cheese received enough pressure to warrant spinning his stance on pigeon around into a “reaction test”.

wait

I’m dumb and forgot how time works

I thought I had posted this post:

@Squirrel2412

I don’t think there was enough pressure on cloned to warrant a reversal on his position on pigeon and the way he approached it feels solvy

before you posted this one:

@Professor

While at this point I think clonedcheese’s “RT” is looking more likely to be a wolf “it was actually an RT” moment, I’m not sure why he would feel a need to do this as a wolf. He wasn’t largely scumread for his posts, and even received townreads from some people. It’s possible he thought his made up post surrounding Pigeon’s meta would come back to haunt him, but otherwise it doesn’t really make sense.

since I posted it before I read your post

so I thought you were just stealing my reasoning

but you actually posted that before I did, so you came to that conclusion organically

[quote=“Professor, post:289, topic:311”]

@Magnus

@Trochilidae

@Magnus

In any case, if I’m jumping on a wagon wildly for voting Leafia, Cloned is jumping on a wagon to vote me with flimsy justification.
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you did jump on a wagon wildly to vote Leafia. cloned’s reasoning is something i can follow. (at least he had justification).

Have your thoughts changed now Cloned isn’t voting me? Just curious. I’m not majorly interested in justifying my votes unless it’s incredibly weird, worse than the Leafia vote.

This is a post a wolf makes about a partner. The problem is I don’t think Magnus is a wolf…

@Leafia

Kind of curious what makes you think that Pigeon and Magnus could be w/w here since I don’t see it. Maybe you could explain that possibility to me.

At least to me, it looks like magnus is giving trochi a leading question

But that doesn’t really make sense if either of them are town

@Leafia

Also, it’s close enough to EoD that I don’t really think it’s that important to conserve my posts any more since the 50 post per day thing will be lifted an hour before EoD.

um

you do have 7 posts left fyi

@Frog

I re-read it every once in a while still :)

wait

that game is like 10000 posts long

@Frog

Uhhhhh, I mean, sure? I don’t know lol It’s kind of hard to self-analyze. There was a point about a year and a half ago where I was normally getting killed N1 / N2 - then I took a break for maybe 6 months, came back, and then I was making it to late game. So that’s kind of an easier metric to go by that isn’t dependent on my own reads. (i.e. people used to think I was good, now people think I’m not as good)

hmm, okay

just wondering if I should bother trying to reread that to get a feel for your meta

[Aelin]

Ah, a bit of explanation - Trochi is my best friend, and we’ve known each other for a long time. I also know that the differences between their townrange and scumrange are pretty minute, so I’m focusing more on micro reads for them.

[Professor]

@Illwei

Why aren’t you scumreading me right now

@BradLand

Because you started off how you usually do as town?

Like yeah you’re complaining about not reading wall posts and it kinda dropped you a few spots but at least when you were keeping up with the game you were doing something.

How do you go to me out of all people when you know how to read me?

@BradLand

Plus you’re literally easy to read don’t act like I wouldn’t know how to read you.

I think this interaction is unlikely to be between two wolves. Brad seems to be taking genuine offence at Illwei’s remark, and said remark is… an extremely weird one to make to a partner.

@Aelin

Professor - After a poor start, they have proved their point of being knowledgeable about meta, however, they’re not a hard townread because they seem to be somewhat nitpicky about their application of it.

I’m not really sure what this is trying to say. I don’t have access to an easy method of quoting from other games now that we only have the archives. In a different respect, I don’t intend on making my identity obvious from the way in which I defend players, however if someone I strongly believe to be town is on the chopping block I would likely give in.

@BradLand

Illwei - At first went on to out reads one of them being a scumread on Leafia and pursue’d it which typically leans into town!Illwei. However she got back and hasn’t done anything since she doesn’t want to read wall posts. Sticking with initial guns and calling her town.

I explained Illwei slightly before this post so look at my iso to see why I’m reading her as town.

I feel like Illwei and Brad are either W/V with Illwei as the wolf or V/V. The first part relates to my point from earlier. In addition, I feel like this is not a read wolf Brad makes on town Illwei, given that despite the acknowledgement that Illwei has dropped off, Brad still townreads Illwei when he was free reign to start a push here. It’s worth noting that the first world is… probably just as likely as the second, if Illwei continues drop off.

@BradLand

Like I’m agreeing with most of it I just have people in different spots. I think mainly because I’m just seeing things I’m agreeing with what they’re saying, or at least “They’re thinking of this situation the same as me so they must be town as well” type of thing which is what I’m getting with Squirrel.

This is pretty much my only reason for townreading Squirrel, for what it’s worth. It was also for that Frog post which seems like it would be wolfy performative, but it didn’t feel that way. Realistically this reasoning is not satisfactory.

@Gorta

I think Leafia is hard to read

Summary

@Gorta

/vote Professor I simply don’t like this slot

Never change, Gorta.
Actually, please do. This gets tiring. What is wrong with my slot?

Summary

This probably isn’t the place to do this but I find it hilarious how Gorta’s -EV town presence in games can be physically materialized as a permanent vote on town, allowing wolves to require one less vote to eliminate villagers (this is regardless of his alignment).

@Leafia

but the thing that cements him as a member of my towncore is how he stopped the push on me that was obviously wolf motivated

Summary

You are aware that Frog was one of the main people pushing you, right? And you are also aware that I was trying to stop the push on you before him?

@Leafia

Professor: Towncore dependent on if I’m right about his identity or not. If it’s who I think it is, then the way they’re acting is a way they never act as a wolf and he’s very good at reading me.

Both of these are true, but I doubt you have figured out who I am.

[Aelin]

@Aelin

i forgot to note that the main reason for this being a townlean is because they have good insight and with the knowledge that they know what the fuck theyre talking about, i can track their train of thought pretty easily

@Professor

[Professor]

@clonedcheese

@Professor

Mind responding to this?

yes

@clonedcheese

There’s a reason why I have this player on my “do not read” list

That… doesn’t give you an excuse to outright ignore my posts. Until you respond, I’m going to assume you can’t respond and have been caught lying about interpreting my posts as a defence, especially when there’s… pretty much no conceivable way anyone paying attention would interpret those posts in that way.

@Squirrel2412

If I understand you correctly, you were reaction testing people to see if they would go along with your misplaced shade or if they would call you out.

Which is fine, but why would you put trochi in ‘conf bias town’ over a wolf going along with your shade?

This was what I was trying to say with how cloned’s intention didn’t match his actions. He claimed to be seeing how people reacted to his shade on pigeon, but he then instead made a post townreading people for things completely irrelevant to this, such as this read on Trochi or the one where he townread someone for saying his content was bad even though they made no reference to the pigeon post.

@Squirrel2412

but you actually posted that before I did, so you came to that conclusion organically

Indeed… So how does this affect your read on me, given that your main reason for scumreading me was pretty much disproved?

[Professor]

I would like Cloned and Pigeon wagons.

I think Trochilidae can also be mafia, but given that one of my reasons for suspecting him is how he sounds dead inside, the accuracy of this read should become more obvious later into the game so I am fine with letting him live for now.

[Professor]

I would like Cloned and Pigeon wagons.

I think Trochilidae can also be mafia, but given that one of my reasons for suspecting him is how he sounds dead inside, the accuracy of this read should become more obvious later into the game so I am fine with letting him live for now.

(edit: This post duplicated due to poor connection… incredible)

[BradLand]

If Squirrel is mafia then I’d be 1. Completely shocked and appalled at how well he’s posting and his observation as scum and 2. Never trusting him again in future games.

Which means yes Squirrel is a very strong townread.

[Professor]

I’m tempted to agree. The fact he’s picking up on a number of minute details similar to me is something I must give credit for. Especially in regards to cloned’s reaction test, because now I at least know I’m not going mad.

[Host_Account_2]

Voted	Voters	Votes
Professor	Gorta	1/7
Magnus	Trochilidae, Leafia, Thepigeonnyc, Aelin	4/7
Thepigeonnyc	Professor, Frog	2/7
Bradland	Clonedcheese, Illwei	2/7
Clonedcheese	Magnus	1/7
Not Voting	EliThePsycho, Bradland, Squirrel2412	3

– Insanity

Need to sloop

[Professor]

@clonedcheese

@BradLand

if you’re town then the best way to read me is to READ MY POSTS and not rely on awful ass reaction tests that accomplish next to nothing.

yeah the point is I cant read ppl so i need to resort to these kind of things

This feeble level of confidence does not match how loud and aggressive you’ve been with your reads. This is a cop-out.

[Aelin]

I
Made a mistake lmaoooo
I thought cloned was the one who said they thought Magnus wasn’t a wolf but it was Professor and I was like “okay, w!cloned never unprompted goes “oh I’m going to defend this other guy being scumread when I’m being scumread too”

[Professor]

Ah, was that your reason for changing your read on him? If so, I’m kind of glad that it was a mistake.

Care to join me?
/vote clonedcheese @Host_Account_2

[Aelin]

Sure
But yeah I was reading cloned’s wallpost right before it and missed the cutoff where yours began

/vote clonedcheese @Host_Account_2

[Leafia]

@Professor

You are aware that Frog was one of the main people pushing you, right? And you are also aware that I was trying to stop the push on you before him?

Yes, I’m aware of that. What are you getting at here?

[Professor]

I’m intrigued by the double standard you have of me defending you being a pocket attempt whereas Frog stopping the push on you being villagery.

[Host_Account_2]

Voted	Voters	Votes
Professor	Gorta	1/7
Magnus	Trochilidae, Thepigeonnyc	2/7
Thepigeonnyc	Frog, Leafia	2/7
Bradland	Clonedcheese, Illwei	2/7
clonedcheese	Magnus, Professor, Aelin	3/7
Not Voting	EliThePsycho, Bradland, Squirrel2412	3

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[Leafia]

I can agree to Cloned Pigeon wagons since I think it’ll give us an idea of the thread state and allow me to improve my reads a bit possibly. /vote Pigeon @Host_Account_1

I’m also 10 pl% certain I’ve now figured out Professor’s identity and if I’m right on who he really is, then he has improved his ability to read me I see since this is the first time since our very first game together that he’s correctly read me as a villager. That’s all I’ll say about who I think it is just in case the wolves haven’t figured it out by now.