Feel surprisingly good about my scumreads considering the game only has 7 pages. Pretty much convinced that Xigbar/Saix are town here; could definitely see myself townreading Luxord and Lexaeus pretty comfortably too.
Xigbar
Feel like this slot has done the most active sorting in thread out of anyone; think that the way he reacted to the claim was pretty genuine; think his reaction to Roxas' entrance felt pretty real and I think the Larxene case is pretty decent and I agree with most of the reasoning there; think his approach to Roxas and Larxene overall has been super on-point for the most part and overall very reasonable; basically think the way that they've approached their reads hasn't been anything but natural. No idea at all why there's an issue with altguessing; think I have 4 guesses pretty much locked in myself and some others that I'm less sure about. Only thing that confuses me from the slot is
151.
@Xigbar was 151 joking or are you actually doubting your scumread there?
Saix
Really like what little I've seen from Saix here; find all of their reasoning to be really believeable and thought-through - don't think that of it feels faked even a little bit.
144 in particular is just a really really good response to a pretty awful vote from Axel, especially given the response time (~30 minutes) the thoroughness / transparency / tone just feels immensely town. Basically sold on this slot being town and definitely willing to talk a lot more about that if people feel unsure about the slot.
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Luxord
Don't find anything very objectionable from the slot; think he looks decently town from
71 and
153 and his engagements feel fine overall even if his reasoning hasn't been particularly good on a few points. Thread presence feels town overall. Still don't really understand their read on me / Roxas. Running out of time but I'll be shoring this up more when I can; more content from the slot would obviously be helpful.
Lexaeus
Think Lexaeus' opening was pretty sketchy but their response to my push there was really solid;
53 in particular is a post I really like in that their explanation makes it really clear where their head was at throughout the first page or so and pretty much clears up the concerns I had with their slot up to that point. Think that their pushes have been a little bad overall and I'm not sure that the reasoning behind those is particularly good albeit without yet having heard more from Lexaeus in that regard. Definitely want to see more from this slot to lock down a read on them.
@Lexaeus if you could provide reads on 2-3 townreads and scumreads with reasoning for each that would be pretty helpful I think in getting a read on you, if not a full readslist.
Marluxia
Feels town by tone but there's pretty much nothing else to go off here unfortunately.
Xaldin
Not at all to base a read off here; don't think their entrance is particularly good but I don't really have any overwhelming negative reaction to it either. Disagree that using meta in alted games is something not to be done; part of the fun of alted games is altguessing and talking around alts and so forth.
@Xaldin what in particular do you find lackluster about Xigbar's reasoning on Larxene? Find myself agreeing with basically everything Xigbar is saying at this point and I'm honestly pretty convinced that he's only voted scum all game bar your slot in RVS.
Vexen
Almost nothing happening from this slot but what they have posted hasn't felt bad in any particular way. Basically nothing much to say about this slot except that I really hope they start producing readable content soon.
Demyx
He's townreading me and my top townread so that's a decent start at least?
Roxas
Most comfortable voting Roxas right now out of any of my scumreads; think that their thread presence consists of pretty much just arguing over reasoning in a way that has basically no trajectory rather than actually sorting the board with an open mind / hunting. Don't feel good at all about their townread on Larxene (she still only has 13 posts) and I think that the way that they justified that read to me by simply stating it was obvious is pretty sketchy and I think that challenging me to argue why they aren't is just a setup for more of the same kind of arguing from them where they're not really trying to have conversation so much as prove that they're right and bogging down the thread to do so while probably getting townread for it, which I think is pretty strongly scum motivated; don't think Roxas' approach to the thread overall feels very town at all.
@Roxas if you're town here I definitely would like to see more from you that isn't just pushing back on other slots because I feel like that's pretty much the extent of what I've seen from you so far; don't think it's helpful at all to limit your content to reactions to other slots if you're town, think your reasoning on Lexaeus town is pretty poor and I don't find your stance there reasonable at all.
Larxene
Basically agree with most of what Xigbar has said about Larxene. Think that scum would be just as likely to claim invest-immune here as town would; think that Larxene's lack of paranoia about Roxas' baseless townread is pretty scummy especially considering
82 - the difference in response there feels hugely telling to me and in her next post she's saying that Roxas votes are bleh and that he feels pretty town, don't think that that makes any sense at all. I don't think that she's approaching her reads in a natural way at all; townread on Lexaeus for excitement is pretty terrible reasoning, she says she was scumreading Luxord until he copied notes but doesn't actually read the content which is just baffling on all levels, she says Vexen and Axel are the scummiest but doesn't provide any reasoning, she calls Xigbar's case on her bad but doesn't say anything about why and just calls him town for basically no reason; pretty much no thought going into any of her reads here and no sign that she's trying to solve the game at all.
Axel
Axel is definitely my strongest individual scumread; very disturbing lack of scumhunting or just general anything in their ISO; characterizing Roxas/Xigbar as TvT out of nowhere is just a huge ??? considering the total lack of work they've done in thread in getting reads - feels a whole lot like trying to frame their scumbud as town. Think that the way they've engaged me hasn't been reasonable at all; not seeing any real reasoning for their stances anywhere. Basically can't find anything remotely town about them.