Torque
Spike and Jet
Asking for a friend/Pink Ball
Chito and Yuuri
Clemency/Ankamius
Joan of Arc
singletonking
Elena Fisher
Dunnstral
Near x Mello
Reasonably Psychotic
Gamma Emerald
Almost50
Robert2424/ooba
Toogeloo
Morality/Flavor Leaf
This is my current readslist, though Gamma/Almost50 keep switching positions.
Torque has been literally THE most gamesolvey player in the entire game so far--the only playerslot even remotely close to them is Chito and Yuuri. Yes, others are scumhunting (e.g. Near x Mello), but Torque is hands-down one of the most consistent in trying to figure the game out. This is a read that is impossible to fake; the process there is incredibly organic and shows incredible original thought...and more than that, incredibly original thoughts that I can very clearly, unambiguously, see the town process behind.
Spike and Jet is a hydra of Creature and Xtoxm. While Creature's not as active as is preferable, they still have one of the highest post counts in the game; that alone should tell you all you need to know. He's a bit inactive, he's a bit apathetic, but he's still gamesolvey when present enough to a degree that it'd be difficult to fake. Xtoxm's presence also feels like it's his town self as I see glimmers of gamesolving from him, too.
Pink Ball, I hard, hard, HARD pushed on D1--but his reaction to this push spewed him hard as town. Vedith's treatment of the engagement (which contributed to why Vedith was outed as scum, mind you) also contributed to hard-spewing Pink Ball as town. There's just no realm in which he plays this way as scum, and there's no realm in which Vedith's treatment of him was that of a scumbuddy.
Chito and Yuuri are, as mentioned, second only to Torque in gamesolveyness. They have been incredibly obvtown and incredibly present, giving consistently high-quality content which shows strong original thought. Especially as a hydra, their level of content would be almost impossible to fake, especially given that the two players in question are relative unknowns. I've never heard of them in passing as being tremendously competent scum players, and for them to be scum here would require god-tiered scumplay worthy of Don Corelone nominations given just how
good
they are playing--so I don't think they are scum.
I suppose I could spew why Ankamius is town for others, but I'm mostly typing this out for her benefit so unless she wants me to describe why she's town to give her a better grasp on me or something, I'll skip this one for now.
Joan of Arc is NicoRobin is Yume is Steven Universe is Jeanne is halfadozenotheraltsatleast. This is self-evidently, quite obviously, her towngame, and her stances this game are well outside of her scum range and match perfectly with her towngame.
singletonking was spewed town by the SSBF/Vedith slot, as well as being fairly town otherwise.
Elena Fisher I already went into my townread there before; it's in my iso already if you want to look for it.
Dunnstral, this is Dunnstral's towngame--more than that, while Dunnstral has been low-key in contributing content, he has given some sharp insights that seem like scum wouldn't really think to give, sharp insights I also thought had a significant chance of being meaningful, even accurate.
Near x Mello, I've also already explained why I'm not scumreading them, but why they turned into a townread of sorts, I admit that's still limited to my neighborhood, until now. The more and more they post, the more and more I am seeing what I'd expect from a town fusion of Wisdom and Kokichi Oma. What they are doing, how they are doing it, where their focus is, how they are putting things, everything is in line with them as town.
The change on Reasonably Psychotic is similarly jarring to those not in our neighborhood. I have a feeling (call it gut if you must) that there isn't any manipulation, isn't any scum machinations, originating from their slot. More than that, in what Cerb's doing--I'm finally seeing some of the signs I look for from him when he's town, albeit not as blatant as I'd prefer.
That brings me to my POE pool.
Gamma Emerald was originally outside of my POE pool--I went into this read already, but basically, I thought she was weakly spewed as town from SSBF/Vedith. However, the points raised against her D2 weakened my read there, and I looked at her stances and realized it was at least
plausible
she was scum. I wouldn't call her
probable
scum, but the possibility is strong enough that she's in the poe pool. I still don't think she's scum, but she's a backup scum candidate, who could be scum if one of my scumreads is wrong.
Almost50, I explained why I put him into my poe pool in the neighborhood. Basically, it's a weak meta read. He was originally cleared of the poe pool--in fact, I thought his vote on SSBF spewed him as being town. But then, today, I realized something when driving home from work: literally every single time I've thought of Almost50 in a specific way, he has actually been scum that game, and I was thinking of him in that way this game.
Almost50's play this game essentially lacks "oomph". He's posting, sure, but there isn't a real strength behind his pushes; there isn't a real fire to be seen. Every time I've seen this, I've thought, "Oh I've seen Almost50 be a little apathetic as town, he looks town for these (superficial) reasons so this must be one of those off-games of his".
And yet, every time I can think of? When I had that thought, he was actually scum. The superficial reasons were superficial, skin-deep, not actually valid, and the lack of oomph wasn't from apathy, or at least not apathy born of problems beyond the keyboard; the lack of oomph was directly correlated to his alignment. And this game, Almost50 is lacking oomph, and the only reason I can really think of for having him as a townread, I'm thinking about and thinking...isn't it kinda superficial?
Ank, I could actually get REALLY good feedback from you, here.
My references for Almost50 as scum are
these three games.
His towngames look more like
this,
this,
this,
and also this, plus
some of this.
You've been in at least a couple of those, so you can
compare them to here.
It's not like it's a definitive difference, not a night/day lock-solid foolproof metric.
But.
There IS that trend. Where as town there's just a kind of...oomph to it--one which you can still ignore but it's difficult and annoying. One which has presence enough to demand active effort to not pay attention to it.
Whereas here, I can effortlessly ignore him--I don't need to roll my eyes at him, I can just cruise by without really trying to. Something which tends to not happen when he is actually town, if that makes sense.
Robert/ooba, it's mostly that Robert's play was underwhelming. My reference for his towngame is
his play here, and what he did here was just...so, so much less than what he did there. ooba's entrance into the game also felt like it was a scum entrance--all of these are weak reasons, but they do suggest a lurking/apathetic scum that got replaced.
Toogeloo and Flavor Leaf, you can just iso me for those because I've gone into them extensively, to say the least.
