NY 213 - Game Over!

[Ircher]

Pre-game VC #2 (Reference Purposes Only!)

Osuka (1) - Pine (16)
Texcat (1) - Dunnstral (9)
Not Voting (23) - Srceenplay, Joral, Fumuki, Creature, Kublai Khan, WhemeStar, Hopkirk, Edosurist, Ausuka, Lalendra, EspeciallyTheLies, Lovebird, JarJarDrinks, Osuka, Andriod18, Texcat, ArcAngel9, Charles510, Wavemode, TheRampage, Myloninja13, Scioness Sajj, Flavor Leaf

Lynch Threshold

During pre-game, it takes 26 votes to lynch a player.

Deadline

Pre-game ends on June 16, 2018 8:00 PM EDT (GMT-4:00) or in (expired on 2018-06-16 20:00:00).

Moderator Notes

Do not forget that in addition to confirming your role by pm, you are expected to post at least once during this pre-game phase.

(You will be prodded D1 if you fail to post.)
Moderator is V/LA June 15.

Spoiler: Current Voting History

Dunnstral: Texcat (9)
Pine: Osuka (16)

Spoiler: Previous Voting History

[Dunnstral]

Your 2 vote counts alternate between showing the post number where someone voted and their total number of posts in parenthesis

I'm just going to note that the above VC is the official format that all VCs (except that other one) will use ultimately in the game. The other VC is just when I am busy, but you guys need a fast VC. (Yes, you are correct that my votecount on this page shows the post number of the vote.)
~Ircher

[texcat]

Omg we have ausuka and osuka both playing???

[osuka]

VOTE: pine

[osuka]

Omg we have ausuka and osuka both playing???

oh no this is gonna be bad

i'm one of those names and i was confused for a second

[Lovebird]

Screenplay and Creature confirmed but not posted.

So?

Just something I noticed.

[wavemode]

VOTE: osuka

[Fumuki]

/confirm

osuka and ausuka...?

hmmmm, it's confusing but not THAT confusing

[osuka]

VOTE: wavemode

/confirm

osuka and ausuka...?

hmmmm, it's confusing but not THAT confusing

if i got a nickel for every time i was called 'asuka' on here, i could probably make a job out of it

[Kublai Khan]

Hello.

VOTE: Pine

[Srceenplay]

Here's the first truth about second chances: They rarely happen by chance. Oh, the first one, sure, is often concentrated pure luck, but first chances are notorious for fizzling out, derailing. At which point, everyone learns the second truth: Pure luck will only take you so far.

Recently, in talking to a number of people who've had remarkable second acts, I met a woman named Anne Martindell whose first chance, true to form, hadn't lasted a year. On the surface, what she got was an opportunity to go to college, but condensed down, it was really a shot at becoming who she was. It stretched out, one long dazzling promise, for two semesters at Smith, during which she became sharply aware of how you could be ravenous for something like European history, how the sight of a Picasso could hit you like you'd been socked, how ideas—ideas alone—could break you out of shyness.

Right after, she learned how it was possible for a chance to be exploded so fast you couldn't be sure you'd had it. Come June, her father yanked her out of school. This was 1932. The place was too "bluestocking," he complained—too intellectual, and if you want to ruin your possibilities for marriage, that's what you'll become. She'd felt fully alive. Now she felt devastated, "terribly upset and terribly bored and terribly angry"; a year later, she was married to "my father's dream man." He was basically sweet, she says measuredly, but they had nothing in common.

If this were a fable, and perhaps it qualifies, this would be the place to point out several additional truths: Foremost, that all first chances contain seeds for a second, not to mention a third, fourth, and fifth. Without water or soil, they can lie dormant forever. Those seeds are durable, though. They can bloom years later. Not long ago The New York Times carried a record of a second flowering after a 70-year delay, in a story headlined THE GRADUATE, AGE 87, LOOKS AHEAD.

"I think women can have it all," Martindell told the reporter who'd caught up with her after her graduation from Smith, which was attended by her four children and nine grandchildren. "We live so long, you can have the family and then the career.

"I didn't do anything real until I was 50," she added, a bit of an understatement perhaps, given that after an impromptu teaching job at her children's school gave her the courage to test the unknown, she blazed a remarkable career path. Political volunteer work led to convention delegate led to New Jersey state senator. "At budget time I had a hard time," she says: "I'd missed third grade and beginning math (Mother was sick that year and didn't enroll us)." Ultimately, Martindell became director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. At 65, she was appointed ambassador to New Zealand.

It was there, then twice divorced, that she met the love of her life when she rode her bike to a gallery opening and fell in love with the painter. He wanted to marry her, but she refused. That wasn't necessary nowadays, she said ("he was cross"), but the affair continued over two continents for almost 20 years, till his death. What initially attracted him: her appreciation of art.


Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/second-chan ... z5ISiESf00



Ego

[Myloninja13]

Phone posting from school lol.

[Ausuka]

VOTE: wavemode

/confirm

osuka and ausuka...?

hmmmm, it's confusing but not THAT confusing

if i got a nickel for every time i was called 'asuka' on here, i could probably make a job out of it

I can very much relate to this!

/confirm

[Hopkirk]

VOTE: uzuka VOTE:

[Hopkirk]

Fumiki' do you scum read screenplay yet?

[osuka]

VOTE: uzuka VOTE:

nice

for future reference in this game: if anyone mentions a name that is neither mine or ausuka's and it's not immediately clear which it is, i'll prob just assume

youre stupid

it's neither of us and completely ignore it

[Ausuka]

I'll probably assume it's me because I'm used to my name being misspelled and end up misinterpreting a lot of posts.

[Edosurist]

Night 0 cop. Guilty result on Pine.

VOTE: Pine

Also, /confirm

[Dunnstral]

VOTE: Pine

[texcat]

/confirm

The tension waiting for SUPP results is palpable.

I still want to know what SUPP results are.

VOTE: Pine

[EspeciallyTheLies]

confirming. no time to post today though. will be tomorrow after work

HI PINE!!

[Kublai Khan]

/confirm

The tension waiting for SUPP results is palpable.

I still want to know what SUPP results are.

It's a popularity contest.

(Speakeasy User Popularity Poll)

[Pine]

Public service announcement: I plan on active lurking through D1 at least. This is a very large game, and my reads are traditionally sub-random in crowded D1s.

[Srceenplay]

Public service announcement: I plan on active lurking through D1 at least. This is a very large game, and my reads are traditionally sub-random in crowded D1s.

If he can do this so can I.

[texcat]

Thanks, Khan!