Other dialogue about neophyte allies and neophyte enemies and how one could be either notwithstanding, the Hakurei maiden's
response to my query particularly stays my sword hand. I made sure to emphasize to emphasize the issue with "Miss" Houjuu by pointing out the lack of investigative effort, but the Hakurei maiden almost seems to completely miss this in her support of "Miss" Houjuu, support that I think demonstrates a lack of core knowledge as to what is indicative of evildoers and what is not. There was no attempt to spin the position that "Miss" Houjuu was lacking in investigative effort as good or bad; she just ignored it entirely, presumably because she did not realize its importance. I think that, were the Hakurei shrine maiden our enemy, she would have taken this example of scummy play from "Miss" Houjuu and at least tried to run with it; as it was more or less a free negative opinion of someone for legitimate reasons.
I can understand the angst directed at
this post but I believe neophytes can be expected to play as logic a game as possible regardless of their allegiance as they do not yet have the experience necessary, so this does not override the feelings I get from what I discussed in the previous paragraph.
The gardener, on the other hand,
still does not impress. Claiming Miyako-san looked better due to consistency implies the gardener thought her inconsistent before, and I recall neither Miyako-chan being inconsistent nor any prior post by the gardener claiming Miyako-chan was inconsistent. This reads as a weak attempt to justify her mind change using promising-looking buzzwords so people will think she actually thought her position through.
Citing the fact that "having a different opinion after re-reading isn't scummy" is disingenuous in a similar fashion to those other quotes from her I pointed out earlier; changing one's mind is not scummy, but changing one's mind with no explanation why one is moving off of one player or onto another is scummy.
The gardener seems to have spent more of her remaining day's words focusing on portraying her "woe is me" attitude than I believe to be of town origin. There is less of an effort to fend people off of her with legitimate point-counterpoint discussion than I would like. I could go through and quote all of her emotional nonsense but I would like to believe no one that is actually following this transcript has missed all of it completely - though I will at least highlight
this post in particular as it contains discredit mud-slinging directed at the case against her used in a fashion similar to her other disingenuous statements. Suffice to say that I see this sort of end-of-day attitude far more from scum than town, as being an emotional predator is much easier than actually providing substantiated opinions. The sentiments expressed in
this very recent post are particularly familiar as those of the enemy; I very commonly see undesirables try to excuse their lack of effort at the end of the day on the unsubstantiated grounds that saying anything will only make people dislike them more.
Onto other matters. I find myself nodding along to the words of those who expressed dissatisfaction with "Miss" Houjuu's
large post of mostly easy-to-hold or uncertain opinions. Describing people as "argh" does not tell us if they are allies or enemies.
Futo-chan, dearie, I am not sure I understand what you are getting at by highlighting the fact that the gardener's vote for the umbrella's betrothed had changed by the time the Hakurei maiden cast her vote over it. If we accept the premise that the Hakurei maiden found the gardener's vote for the umbrella's betrothed weak and therefore scummy, does the change of the vote mean the vote was never cast or weak in the first place? I do not understand why a scummy stance cannot be considered scummy once the holder changes their mind.
