Adum - I initially got some bad vibes from Adum through
this exchange (there's a bunch of posts, I'm not going to quote them all) with Adum where I felt he was kind of twisting the wording of a bunch of my posts to mean something that I didn't intend and ended up landing on a scumread despite his case not really suggesting anything particularly scummy even in the worst misinterpretation. That said, ignoring that particular exchange and looking at the broader picture, this doesn't seem to be a particular trend in Adum and I'm leaning more toward it being a playstyle clash between us from that any else. I do feel @Adum backed off a bit from this exchange and I am a little curious as to the reason. On the whole his analysis seems very thoughtful and his method of making reads is very clear. Solid Town.
bessie - I think I've discussed everything that I want to about bessie at this point. You can see my analysis
here. I'm putting kind of an asterix next to this read while I mull something over. I think I'd prefer a non-bessie elimination today though.
BoomFrog - I had an early Town ping on him, but haven't had much else in his content that his really jumped at me. I feel like in previous games I've played with Boom where he was Town, I found his insights, if not agreeable, at least, IDK, deeper, than what I've seen out of him so far this game. He's a play who I feel like usually sinks his teeth into the game more than what I've got out of him so far. Putting him at nullScum.
EGW - EGW is usually a strong Town-leader type of player who makes big pushes and rather openly advance a fairly transparent Town agenda. I know he's said he's trying to play a little less high octane, but he said the same in Sorc mafia and from what I have read of that game it seems like he was more of a presence there. I also feel like there's a performative nature to some of that posts--like he's repeatedly referencing that game (where he was Town, rather than trying to argue his defense on its own merits. I think the lack of energy here is pretty telling, and I see that Seven feels the same which I put a fair amount of stock in. Scum lean.
Freddino/Zeniba - Literally the only thing I have on this slot is
this post. I think on balance players tend to be more honest, regardless of their alignment, in situations where they are, at this point, not really playing anymore, so the fact that Fred highlighted any suspicion of him should be attributed only to his inactively kind of leads me to believe there's nothing else to be suspicious of here. Would really love to see more of Zeniba though. Town lean.
Gluelock - Have been vibing with a lot of their analysis and their takes. Nothing has really stood out as problematic. Solid Town.
heury - I have a lot of problems with how heury has handled my slot specifically, and their relation to bessie (
here,
here,
here). tl;dr version is heury said he was suspicious of me for scumreading bessie, which, IDK, even on surface level is kind of weird since scumreading someone (even incorrectly, as heury seems to believe) is not scummy. Heury and bessie and I have played many times before and he at least theoretically should be aware that I tend to have a pretty good bead on bessie. Moreover, he supplemented this with the argument that I was scumreading bessie for not doing confirmation analysis... however, as has been pointed out repeatedly in thread, it was EGW who made this claim, not me. heury has neither acknowledged the error nor does this seem to have affected his read. This comes across as super opportunistic to me as it was essentially an unprompted observation that followed my back-and-forth with Adum and I feel his vote against Seven later was similarly opportunistic, jumping on the wagon as soon as it seemed to be gathering steam without a lot of process leading up to it. Scum lean.
JC - Hard null. Literally no content other than posts just telling us they are catching up. I feel like the lack of even an attempt to engage with what they've read is kind of awful TBH. Does anyone have useful meta on this player they can share? Is this normal?
Makhaira - I still think, despite the very extended discussion on this point that I will not rehash any further, that
this post suggests a townie mindset from Mak. I think the observation from Adum that Mak reading
this from Zeniba and drawing the some conclusions as they did when they read it from moody suggests a townie mindset as well. Town lean.
moody - I like moody's play so far this game. There's sort of an openness about his observations that I've noted when he's mafia that I don't see here. Everything comes across as very hedgy. Not much content so far, but I'm comfortable with my Town read here.
Seven - I don't love
this case he made on bessie I don't know a lot of the assumptions here really hold up under strong analyis. FWIW, he did make a similar style case against me in Midnight OPS (
) where he was Town so it's not entirely out of his wheelhouse to advance this sort of argument. FWIW, I think if Seven is Town his [url=https://ramenchef.net/nxf/viewtopic.php?p=51819#p51819]case on EGW is very likely correct; Seven and I have discussed this before and he claims to have an extremely strong bead on EGW. There's kind of a mixed bag of posts that I think are kind of townie and some I think are kind of scummy, so I don't have a great sense of where to place him; Seven isn't a player I have historically had a great record of reading. I think I'm going to put him as cautiously just on the townie side of null for right now. Definitely not interested in his elimination though.
somitomi - Somi has super similar vibes in his Town and scum games so I've never found I've had great luck reading him on tone and unfortunately his content is kinda light. There was
this exchange that kind of struck me as a little off for somi. I don't really understand
this vote as somi had Seven as a decent townlean earlier and likewise why EGW suddenly flipped to
Town. Feel like I need more out of somi to really have a good sense of where he's at, but I'm plunking him in nullscum for now.
Not doing the line graph because I'm way too lazy at the moment, but here's an ordered list:
Town
LaserGuy
Adum
moody
Gluelock
Zeniba
Makhaira
Seven
---Null = JC--
somitomi
BoomFrog
bessie
EGW
heury
Scum
Of the wagons available, I think EGW is probably my interest right now. As I said, I will probably not be around much tomorrow except hopefully right close to deadline.
Vote: EGW