So im going to gather my thoughts here on each player. Be prepared for things! This was a few hours later than i planned because... anime and chat mafia got in the way but w/e. This post actually took an hour and a half mfw.
IDFK HOW TO READ THIS PERSON:
Haruno: Not entirely sure why people are townreading haruno. Nothing haruno has really done has stuck out to me all too much aside of the "one of asek/zorbees is scum cuz policy". And that is pretty nai shitposting imo. Its my understanding haruno has a particular player meta but im not entirely sure what it is or how to read it so NULL
TOWNPOOL:
Zorbees: He got better throughout the day and looks especially good after the flip. Kinda sat back at first, aside of being a part of the mid-day tballz push. Then was a part of the push on hitmonleet (was on the wagon pretty early too). Also noteworthy is the fact that hitmonleet tried to deflect attention off himself by pushing this lynch. His push and hitmonleets defense and attention deflect to him felt real to me. His interactions with hitmonleet makes him a Town
Hawkie: Let me start off by saying I dont see too much wrong with hawkie's dismissal of granny. (Not sure if player meta transfers over from live mafia to forum mafia but im bringing this up regardless) At least in chat/live mafia hawkie puts a lot of emphasis on "Tonal Reads" reading somebody from the tone of their post. Its kinda an extreme nuance but that would explain Hawkie reading Granny as town here with the basis that her posts are "Pure". Not sure about the TR on haruno and the basis, as i dont know haruno's meta so im not really reading into this. And i do like the activity, along with the active scumhunting/gamesolving coming out of hawkie almost consistantly. (i can grab quotes if yall want em). The only thing that bothers here is that readflip i mentioned earlier that i asked him about. His response was fine, I got about what i expected when questioning him didnt really affect my real on him all to much, it still bugs me but if im being honest here probably just being paranoid. Probs Town tbh
Metal Sonic: I have never seen such a fidgety playstyle. But apparently this is the norm for him so im not going to read into that. He pushes on Hawkie and Tballz seemed realistic and had solid reasoning behind them. The flip from hawkie to tballz wasnt bad, as at that point he never said he instantly starting townreading hawkie and imo just decided there were more productive things he could be doing than pushing hawkie. (heck at this point im not sure what he thinks of hawkie, im guessing the SR has lightened up at least a bit considering he didnt start d2 with a push there) Its worth noting that at the point when he had 3 lynches (the highest count at that point) he lynched at a point where there were quite a few players with two votes marked on them and decided to stick his self preservation vote on a scum. Town
Granny Pie: I want to say town here. I mean sure the blatant hawkie buddy is a bad but it does feel like they are trying to contribute the best they can. And they have branched out away from hawkie more than people who SR this acknoledge. Advice to Granny: keep trying to branch away from sheeping others and draw your own conclusions. This will generally make you a more productive player regardless of faction. (plus its lowkey hard for me to read you like this). Town Lean
Earlio: Initially when spectating the game from a neutral stance i kinda overlooked earlio and kinda thought "I mean he is there, nothing special, hasnt really stuck out or done much for me to read him". But looking over his reads, content and contribution, while he doesnt really scream town, he was early on the hitmonleet wagon, given reasoning for his lynches (acknowledging that im kinda discounting the "meme" lynch on sonic here which i kinda read as a joke the first time i saw it from a neutral POV) and opinions. Hasnt really screamed town to me or anything but is definately not giving me a reason to SR him. Town Lean
ITS TIME FOR AN AUTHORS NOTE: How the heck am i only done with 6 of you nerds, i have been typing and finding evidence at this point for almost a half at this point in the post oml. UGH
SCUMPOOL:
Asek: They have been active and have done enough gamesolving imo, didn't particularly like his defense of tballz though. Gave no reasons of his own for actually believing he was town, merely refuting the points raised by others which could be read as him attempting to get towncred if the tballz lynch did go through. I personally defend the underdog quite a bit as scum (again at least in chat mafia as that is where most of my experience stems from) that way i can be like "YO I DEFENDED TOWN, IM TOWN NOW!" (This being said scumteam of Asek+tballz is unlikely given the avid defense of tballz (i doubt anyone experienced would make their associations that obvious)) Futhermore solidified reads d1 with little fluxuation within any of his reads is generally a scumtell imo.
TBALLZ: If im being honest most of why i SR Tballz has been stated and restated, little to no PRODUCTIVE content, gamespec to make himself seem active, and when typically when tballz doesnt want to be active he just wont try at all (although the bolded is kind of a weak arguement based on i have only played one other forum game with him so idk how effective metaing him is here). Furthermore failure taking sides and cementing strong reads (see post 139)
Honestly i kind of SR them both but because of the bolded in Asek's part One Scum One Town here imo
KING: This guy pings the shit out of me tbh. Posting a bunch of easily posted comments, his response to jalmonts early day inactivity seemed fake and appeared to be going for towncred more than actually accomplishing much, generic filler (this doesnt bother me as much but its worth noting), mantaining a semi-neutral stance ("hey metal sonic bothers me but i dont want to lynch him"/sat on tbz lynch have the day while other pushes/wagons were going on and if he wanted the tbz lynch he shouldve kept pushing tbz even after the wagon faded), when wagon starts picking up on hitmonleet (namely soon after earlio put his lynch on hitmonleet) "hey is it just me or does earlio vote people without much explanation" (this is a direct quote).
