Thoughts on Dirty Harry:
28 is Dirty Harry's response to the e_is_cool challenge asking him why he asked me how I expected scum to interact this game. On an entirely surface level, I find the question about interactions to be slightly more likely to be coming from town than scum; very rarely do I see scum asking me how I plan to catch them in this game simply because it's an awkward question to ask, most people are afraid to ask a question that could get them heat like that. I see possible motivation for him asking that question as either alignment and although it's been a while, I'd still be interested in what he was looking for (if anything) when he asked it in the first place. On a level that's something other that's entirely surface, I liked the depth of his response to e_is_cool; it would have been fairly simple to dismiss the question as dumb or use it as a weak point to attack him with, but Harry instead townreads e for being willing to take a strong stance on him early and I find that to be a pretty natural reaction.
Dirty Harry scumreading TNE for "neglecting this particular game" in
78 looks pretty town in that he put in extra research early (TNE was posting like crazy in other games at the time) but never mentioned that this was something he did and didn't capitalize on the point overly hard; this seems much more likely to be how town would approach the situation than how scum would approach the situation. For one, I'm not sure that scum would think of looking to check to see if a player is posting elsewhere during their VLA and for two, if they did somehow think to do that, I'd imagine they'd make a much bigger deal out of it than a throwaway comment like that.
This isn't really a Dirty Harry point, but I don't see how his snapshot of Faalcon's readslist was unreasonable. The only real read that Faalcon provided was that he thought e_is_cool was town which is nice and all but isn't exactly something I'd expect a newer player to pick up on immediately.
I liked his push of Skold's townread of him in
123; I don't think this is how a player who was scumread by quite a number of players at that point reacts to a townread on him, and find his observations on Skold and me in
128 to be pretty sensible, and the one accusing Skold of automatically assuming Franky is town is one that seems like a different tact than most scum take normally.
I'd be pretty impressed if Dirty Harry decided to sneak something like this in one of his posts:
191 is also part of what I think bothers goodmorning about him having a fairly cautious playstyle and not a whole lot of townreads, but this is an example of Harry having plenty of reads and simply hesitating in what to push. I don't think that this is scummy (he's willing to put his neck out to call quite a number of players scummy and has understandable reasoning for all of it); I think it's more a matter of playstyle. I think this is something that GM has the ability to recognize.
The difference between Harry's "If you are nightkilled..." and TNE's "Thanks for giving scum some WIFOM" is first of all, the difference in conviction; Dirty Harry brings up the possibility that TNE will get nightkilled, TNE suggests that Harry gave scum the chance to make a kill that could harm the town further. At no point in the game did Harry act that there were no other worlds than ones where TNE was scum whereas TNE acted like his E/Harry team was the scumteam wrapped with a bow, and thus it makes sense why the strong flip would be more widely scumread than TNE's. Why did you think that Harry's was scummier @goodmorning?
Harry's early town-read of ErrantParabola for translating their theory on surface-level town to Skold seems genuine and deep to me; again, not really a townread that I think scum would possess.
His
449 reads good to me tonally.
I thought that his opening to Day 2 looked pretty strongly town; he presented a very strong push to solve the game and get contributions from people. Again, his e_is_cool read (reading him as town for a complete lack of survival to survive the next day after it looked like scum motivation for D1 play was simply to live one more day) was more in depth reasoning that's protecting a pretty obvious mislynch target - I think that it was, again, more likely to be coming from town, and I especially like how he expressed how frustrated he is without pushing them as a scumread; it is incredibly easy to tie together frustration with someone's play with your scumread of them and add a genuine edge to your push; Harry isn't doing that at all and that's a pretty positive point in my book.
Posts like
509 are again are posts that I townread pretty heavily even though the logic supporting those townreads seems pretty silly; am surprised that goodmorning hasn't brought anything like that into account.
I liked him questioning Loopdan about how he thought different people contributed to TNE's mislynch to see if he would correctly slot in Dirty Harry (a universal townread) as someone who contributing to the TNE indirectly was an interesting approach, and, again, not an angle that he would adopt as scum.
I liked him telling Skold that he would be pushing him tomorrow in
598; another post that looks good tonally.
I don't think that Dirty Harry's response to Goodmorning's push on him looks anything like scum; there's good conviction, there's a great deal of frustration and confidence in attacking to the push in kind. I don't see panic. I don't see where he's skated on giving opinions this game. I don't think that there is a very good chance that he's scum at all.
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-- Fate, Vanilla Townie, was brutally stabbed by a throwing sword in endgame.
