I suppose I'll leave partial thoughts on NE and AP.
These thoughts won't result in a read but you'll get a sense of the things I'm seeing that I'm not loving. They're also not complete -- there's other stuff that I'm looking at which I don't want to share right now.
NE is an odd slot right now because you have:
-Hard defended by wist
-Hard defends wist
-main cw on day 1, and i guess the fairy kill, if you are reading into that
-in a weird spot threadwise where I really think a lot of people have been avoiding the slot entirely
1. The defense on wist feels know-y and pocket-y. This is like the biggest one for me. I get that he thinks he has a soulread on someone -- but in thread it just constantly feels like he's lovebombing wist into reciprocating and it just comes off so hard when it's not necessary at all. Nobody's running up wist outside of AP
2. He is actually like the weirdest slot in the game in terms of interactions. like it really feels like nobody is willing to come out and just talk about NE
3. I was actively rethinking Cel's alignment (obviously ultimately came to the wrong conclusion) after tracker claim + self vote. While I think NE just fucked off and found, like, literally one random turbo game between him and wist which he used as justification for having a soulread on wist? Which is unsatisfactory not only as a participant on the wagon but also is kind of a bad way to justify having a soulread on wist through, legitimately, one turbo game?
How many games have you played together? How many times have you been t/t, t/s, s/t, s/s? Do turbo games even count I don't really play them and I don't think so?
4. I find his ISO's completely ineffective.
This ISO from skipper is actually very bad. Has anyone actually read it? And if the analysis is so bad here, why is there so much confidence in his wist vote?
All this being said, and the feeling that something could be here,
I think this is completely outweighed by the fact that my last game with NE he was scum (albeit in exam season) and that looked completely different from what's here. While in exam season and scum he was checking on the thread when he had time, and not posting because he wanted to prep like large posts. And here even though he obviously has some personal problem with stardew valley or whatever the fuck, he's just constantly popping into thread yapping about random shit
Which feels tonally very different from his scumgame. But then I don't like the random shit he yaps about. So this is a rough slot for me to sort.
AP scumreading NE is like legitimately a top reason that I'm keeping NE in my townlists