I think Norwee has a level of comfort in himself and the way he's expressing his opinions that doesn't exist in his scum play. When Norwee is scum from what I've seen he makes pushes with a certain amount of fabricated force. Whereas when he's town he's a lot more nuanced in his takes because he is actually thinking about them.
Just as a somewhat random sample from his ISO:
In post 302, NorwegianboyEE wrote:
There are a lot of defenses on Frogs for what i think are objectively bad reasons, but that also means a push there right now will probably get us nowhere.
Them not playing doesn’t mean they are town or scum imo, it just means they aren’t playing.
In post 303, NorwegianboyEE wrote:
In post 279, TemporalLich wrote:
assuming I'm not under pressure right now: peregrine and doctor drew have towny vibes
assuming I'm under pressure right now: peregrine and doctor drew are NAI
This is a weird post and i’m not sure what to make of it.
In post 309, NorwegianboyEE wrote:
Again i agree with you that Temporallich’s vibes are really weird in this game. But i don’t think i’ve ever played with them before so i’m a bit hesitant to vote them just because of that.
In post 310, NorwegianboyEE wrote:
But then again idk where else to vote so why not.
I don’t find the case on Whemestar very compelling.
VOTE: Temporallich
There's hesitance, there's a full thought process, there's nuance. I find it really hard to express the exact thing I am seeing, but it has something to do with the *purpose* of the posts. I see no motivation or agenda in the first post except for the primary driving force of actually letting out legitimate opinions on Frogs' alignment. The TL progression is also just acted out, as opposed to projected. What I mean by that is that Norwee develops a particularly detailed take on TL without much of a conclusion, and then votes TL while still not resolving the actual read. This is genuine detailed thought and it's not the way I have ever seen scum!Norwee operate.
For contrast take Norwee's ISO in this game:
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(I wanted to take specific quotes and put them here but it's annoying difficult to accomplish that from a locked thread)
When Norwee is making posts it is more... declarative? Just take a look at his first 40ish posts. He makes points and puts on a false sense of confidence, and above all there's generally a clear purpose. He wants to have clear stances on furtive his early push, on Shirou his scumbuddy, on Pooky. He takes harder stances because he wants them to be clear, he doesn't want to be questioned. There isn't nuance, there's a projected 'look at these neat thoughts I'm having'.
This is one example but it's emblematic of a pattern of behaviour that is alignment-indicative for Norwee.
Also Norwee has made it evident that he has a lack of understanding of the mech side of things. Scum would necessarily need to be understanding that at the moment and Norwee just doesn't. I don't expect this to carry much persuasive weight but I do think it makes him town.