I was falling behind again so I decided to forego the long analyses in favor of catching up totally.
A couple things though: Still uncomfortable with MattP. His scumreads are bad... I'm pretty sure Oversoul is town now (I'll get to this) and he basically wasted a ton of time tunneling flubber because of a misread of 425 (which wasn't a confusing post). I had typed up a scum case and everything as I was catching up but I deleted it all after reading that. So now I need to see more from him now.
613 accuses people of soft-scumreading Flubber but not voting him. Players being hard to lynch is a good sign that it's gonna be a good lynch, and I immediately thought of
575 when I read it, because I'd been thinking that a lot of people are being critical of RC but the wagon on him has stalled and I think gone down a vote. (It assures me that RC is the right lynch that I am becoming a counter-wagon too but I digress). Anyway 575 is super coachy, and says RC's play is easy to see as "desperate or scummy" but then in the next post MattP says that RC being lynched would be a mislynch. MattP's townread on RC had been established for a while but not really explained (except for him liking the {shitty} votes on page 22). It's maybe a positive thing that he's townreading RC while recognizing that RC isn't actually playing a good or helpful game, but it's hard for me to accept that anyone can think RC is not playing a good game while not also recognizing that RC is being aggressively scummy. Shrug. We'll see here.
Oversoul's play has picked up a lot in the last few pages. Since the weird Gunsmith thing he's been more town. Very open and willing to interact I think so yeah. Also even though I don't like on one level that I don't really know what his reads are, it's probably good that he hasn't come in in a rush to pick sides, particularly in Jake vs RC and he's asking good questions too. (I want Matt to answer 646).
This assumes RC is scum but I really think that's a safe assumption: When RC flips I think it will be easy to tell who his scumbuddies are by who he belittles. At least from my perspective it seems like he's consistently arrogant and aggressive towards players not on his team (Oversoul, Flubber, me, Grimmjow, etc... I think because he's been playing chaotically since page 1 and can't let up the act) while being pretty civil with some of the people I'm scumreading... Elyse and MattP most notably but it could be true for people idk about yet like Broseidon.
On Elyse: Not a good vote record. First three votes were sort of with the direction of the wind. (I think she was the first vote on Lostaway but IIRC a couple of people had said that Lostaway's entry posts were scummy before that) and she hasn't explained why she continues to, or ever did, push the wrong and failed Bulge wagon. On page 25, while Bulge hasn't even been around, she really doesn't have a better vote than him... not to mention her only explanation FOR the vote is that it came and went without much explanation. I'd posit that that's because it was a horrible wagon the whole time.