Worth mentioning; I'm about 80% roleclaimed to my 'hood right now. Left out some details but it's mostly all out there. The Informed, the details of what I know, was what I shared first, but respectfully, that's one thing that
should
stay in the 'hood. I don't think my forwardness with my role really made me a townread there (if anything, the opposite), and my role certainly isn't an inherently town one, so it's not something which would paint bias.
What would, would be the content there, mostly in the form of reads, which were documented with evolution.
At the end of January,
Clemency
Drixx
Torque
Elena Fisher
BulletNLynchproof
Chito and Yuuri
Toogeloo
Robert2424
Flavor Leaf
Spike and Jet
Dunnstral
Almost50
Gamma Emerald
Super Smash Bros. Fan
Near x Mello
Asking for a friend
Joan of Arc
Reasonably Psychotic
This was my readslist. I clarified that I believed both miller claims, but didn't think that made them
inherently
town--because Tatsuya with Varsoon would be a mod to include a mafia miller, which mhsmith (who wouldn't do that himself) wouldn't stop them from doing. As such, I treated the claims as 100% truthful, but also 100% null. I then outlined that I townread Clemency, with BNL - to - Spike (or SSBF) being my nullzone; this was the first instance of me mentioning that my nullreads are disproportionately high on my readslist.
I clarified that Spike and above were my "don't want to lynch these yet", with Dunnstral-SSBF as "players I'd compromise-lynch".
Below SSBF you got the actual scumreads. For Asking for a friend, I was convinced that it was actually the worst posting that, and that it was him as scum. Joan, my vote was a joke based off of the signup thread (where I said I was a mason with Clemency and that Joan had scumslipped), but her in-game content especially her response to my vote made me think that she was genuinely scum. And Reasonably Psychotic, I pegged as essentially-soulread scum.
I promised to post it as soon as possible, with my reasons not to being that I was waiting for people to give me reactions to my antics, as much as possible, including the for real mason claim.
I engaged with Torque on said readslist; I insisted it was the worst who posted the entrance for the hydra, said I didn't know Joan's main (because at the time I didn't) and didn't care because I was reading things as I was seeing them, and said my readslist would be public within 48 hours. (Well...better late than never?)
The next day, starting February, I post to the neighborhood that I figured out Joan's main, that I once knew how to read her and had a tell but have since forgotten what it was. (Which, annoyingly, still persists. I used to have a tell to read her, but I still can't remember what it was and it might be lost to the depths of time permanently.) I laid out some generic facts about her; not as simple as active/not active although she does tend to be more active as one alignment, tends to be a little OMGUSy regardless of alignment (I'm actually proud of you Joan that this trait isn't visible this game!), she tends not to have fairly good language comprehension (I appreciate you, Joan, but you are prone to misunderstanding things <3), and said that if her identity was known everyone could be my sounding board for her, since most people have experience with her.
That generated a small change in my readslist:
Clemency
Torque
Elena Fisher
Drixx
Chito and Yuuri
BulletNLynchproof
Spike and Jet
Morality
Robert2424
Dunnstral
Almost50
Gamma Emerald
Super Smash Bros. Fan
Toogeloo
Joan of Arc
Near x Mello
Asking for a friend
Reasonably Psychotic
I then told Torque that they were right that they didn't deserve to be so high, again emphasizing that my readslist is fairly deceptive from the utter lack of a town core.
I had, and have, scumreads; I had, and have, nullreads; most players fell into the category of "not scumreading them" without much more yet not being nulls. I clarified for the first time that Clemency's a mid-tier townread (in spite of being my strongest townread); in a different game, he'd be second or third tiered town, it's just that this game made him top tier due to shitty read quality.
Torque is a step below at weak townread (in spite of being second strongest), and would be a tier below Clemency. Elena was a nulltown read, even lower than that.
In that same post, having seen that Joan said she was trying to better herself, the last reason I had to be suspicious of her faded, producing this as a readslist:
Clemency
Torque
Elena Fisher
Drixx
Chito and Yuuri
BulletNLynchproof
Spike and Jet
Morality
Robert2424
Joan of Arc
Dunnstral
Almost50
Gamma Emerald
Super Smash Bros. Fan
Toogeloo
Near x Mello
Asking for a friend
Reasonably Psychotic
In a follow-through post, I tried to break them down into tiers, but I stressed very hard that I absolutely LOATHED the idea.
Clemency
Torque
Elena Fisher
Drixx
Chito and Yuuri
BulletNLynchproof
Spike and Jet
Morality
Robert2424
Joan of Arc
Dunnstral
Almost50
Gamma Emerald
Super Smash Bros. Fan
Toogeloo
Near x Mello
Asking for a friend
Reasonably Psychotic
Chito/Yuuri I explained as being an ambivalent null with some town and some bad, with more good than bad.
The pile is a combination of nulls and "not scumreading".
Gamma and SSBF were weakly nullscum, as in "could be scum but are mostly null because probably aren't".
Toogeloo began the scumreads, with me pointing out that his entrance reeked of being scum. I admitted that my meta on him is a bit stale, which was the only reason he wasn't much, much lower on the list.
Near/Mello as a scumread has remained much the same the entire game: given that this is a hydra of WISDOM and KOKICHI OMA, their entire presence here is incredibly lackluster. (For a start, I'd expect them to have the highest post count, bar none, given that BOTH heads are prolific posters. They have a respectably high post count, one of the highest, but it's spread across two heads who should have that amount if not double BY THEMSELVES,
yet alone
, as a hydra of both. But there's also the content OF the posts.)
The Asking for a Friend scumread came from me not buying their posting as coming from a town-them. I explained it as a hypothesis that they rolled scum, and got sick of having rolled scum, so they tried whatever would work to make their alignment not be so miserable. (And when that failed, essentially ragequit because it was just Not Worth It.)
And later that day, I called Cerb a sleazeball. (Sorry if that word offends you, but I meant it as basically "dirty rotten scumbag" in being an obvious scum ploy essentially.) I even joked on rallying the troops, asking if I was the only one finding Cerb's request to verify the mason claim skeevy.
Then come February 5th, and we get me being in a bit of a rut: I was fully lucid and awake, but glossing over the thread as I read it. Nothing in my readslist was changing at all. I was doing nothing, even though I knew I needed to be doing something.
Super Smash Bros. Fan/Vedith
Toogeloo
Near x Mello
Asking for a friend/Pink Ball
Reasonably Psychotic
I said I'd vote any of those names, and that while I'd try to talk and engage and be constructive, I wasn't sure I could manage it.
On the 6th, my readslist was thus:
Clemency
Torque
Spike and Jet
Elena Fisher
Drixx
Chito and Yuuri
singletonking
Morality
Robert2424
Joan of Arc
Dunnstral
Almost50
Gamma Emerald
Super Smash Bros. Fan/Vedith
Asking for a friend/Pink Ball
Near x Mello
Toogeloo
Reasonably Psychotic
With the top three interchangeable at this point, with me now more comfortable calling Torque town.
On that same day, I went into my Pink Ball scumread in some detail. Basically, nothing the hydra did made me townread the slot; quite the opposite. I didn't want to be a dick about it, but as I indicated above, I outlined why I thought the replace-out was indicative of scum, frustrated at knowing the infuriating antics of the town players came from town players with the worst burned out from having played so many recent scumgames.
Then I outlined what you can call my first case on Pink Ball; he took abnormally long in his entrance to gather thoughts...and gave no reasoning whatsoever. I insisted his excuse was nothing more than that, since Drixx nailed it when stating giving reasons showing read progression is beneficial, something Pink Ball (an alt of a more experienced scummer) would definitely know.
The lack of reasons is something that is stupendously self-evident; hiding reasons makes it easier to fake reads, giving you more time to justify reads. Fitting reasons to the reads (what scum do) is easier if you hold out on giving the reasons for as long as is humanly possible, giving you time to compile, to justify, your stances that would normally be easily exposed as shitty stances fitting reasons to reads.
My go-to reference for Pink Ball
is his performance here. He metadived players he wasn't familiar with and went out of his way to provide reasons the moment the RVS was ended--and actually played a huge part in ending said RVS in the first place.
That's the important stuff from there, Torque, unless you want to add anything I missed.
