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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:14 pm
by xofelf
Hey man, your guess was as good as mine as to who I was gonna cut. It could have been longer, I had no idea~
Drench wrote: In post 268, xofelf wrote:This game was just before my time, so hell if I know if you had any sort of effect on anything.
this appears negligent
I've read some things, just not all the things. Who even reads past games?
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:21 pm
by Cephrir
409. Treebeard (Axxle) - Middle Earth
" I'll have to make sure I don't shoot myself in the foot with making too many alliances."
On his early tribe, Treebeard mentions fondness for Galadriel and Gollum. Neither of whom appear to care about his existence in the least. So I don't think there was exactly a rock solid alliance going on here. Treebeard gave up a bunch of his votes due to a challenge, rendering him irrelevant in his swap tribe and not a very difficult boot. Contrary to his fears, it does not appear as though having too many alliances was a major problem for him. But his confessional is quite bare, so whatever else he was doing, it doesn't appear to have helped. Also, I did not know who played this slot until after I decided to cut it.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 1:28 pm
by xofelf
He really wasn't doing much. I was okay with him, but he was no Sam or Wormtongue.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:33 pm
by Crazy
408. Arya Stark (Espeonage) - Game of Thrones
"Look at my face. It says bitch please."
I've started reading Game of Thrones and what a fantastic game it is. Even every one of the pre-merge boots seems really fun and memorable, with one real exception, Arya. I don't think Arya is the worst player of all the cuts remaining, but she seems to be the least interesting character from Game of Thrones within a good margin. Her confessional dropped after the first round, so it's hard to really discern the reasons she was booted. Theon apparently
despised
her, though I can't give too much credit to that. Really, Arya just seemed like a very MOR2 presence without any defining moment to her game. Other early boots like Brienne, Bronn, and Sansa had such strong personality exuding from their confessionals, and Arya ultimately seems like the only forgettable player in an unforgettable game.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:38 pm
by JDGA
Arya D:
She was the cutest.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:28 pm
by Klick
407. Rorschach 1.0 (Axxle) - Conclave
"I think Zod might be going home on the other tribe, he seems to be less of a presence."
Rorschach started off very quietly, only surviving the first Tribal Council because Black Canary said absolutely nothing as opposed to almost nothing. He went on to never lose a challenge in the next tribe; if the Heroes lost a challenge, Rorschach was a fairly likely first vote. He then won a tribe-picking challenge and got to basically rig a tribe in his favor. Despite this, he was the first player voted out of this tribe. While the Tribal Council in which he was eliminated was certainly interesting, it was mostly because his tribemates were considering making a big move as opposed to just voting Rorschach. All in all, he didn't do much!
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:37 pm
by Cheery Dog
Have there ever been any tribe-picking winners that have actually managed to pick a tribe that would actually benefit the end user?
I don't think Doctor Who managed it with the stress that was faced in whatever that first council was, and I can't be sure when mine didn't end up at TC. I suppose it might have since the people picking all survived through to merge.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:38 pm
by CuddlyCaucasian
But was he right tho
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:47 pm
by Klick
In post 281, Cheery Dog wrote:Have there ever been any tribe-picking winners that have actually managed to pick a tribe that would actually benefit the end user?
Starfire!
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 7:45 pm
by Shadoweh
In post 281, Cheery Dog wrote:Have there ever been any tribe-picking winners that have actually managed to pick a tribe that would actually benefit the end user?
Well, that depends on how you define winning. The example that comes to my mind, is when Mint Chocolate Chip 'won' the biggest loser competition and made a great tribe for himself in Pretty Super Vanilla.
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 8:51 pm
by Drench
miranda lawson better be the fucking highest of the self-swap-fuckers or i swear to christ almighty up above
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:17 pm
by Drench
406. Flamboyant Flint Roller (orcinus_theoriginal) - Names Are Hard
"idk if i've said this but i'm irrevocably fucked"
so we're at the point where we just can't cut inactives, just the generally eh people right? because flint is a generally eh character. like, name one notable thing. first boot, blah blah blah, no outbursts or anything like that, you know what the drill is
one thing that actually is kinda cool though is he replaced in so good 1 for having a go m8 now bye
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:53 pm
by D3f3nd3r
Rory was in decent shape until he tried to make a big move after everyone else was nearly set on voting for me. He would have gotten a fair bit deeper had he not destroyed his own game at the TC.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 1:07 am
by Cheery Dog
In post 284, Shadoweh wrote: In post 281, Cheery Dog wrote:Have there ever been any tribe-picking winners that have actually managed to pick a tribe that would actually benefit the end user?
Well, that depends on how you define winning. The example that comes to my mind, is when Mint Chocolate Chip 'won' the biggest loser competition and made a great tribe for himself in Pretty Super Vanilla.
I define winning as being given the task (or being given the second item that gave me the full control in Mario Bros). I forgot about PSV, possibly because it didn't end up turning out well with Rum Raisin (if they even picked).
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:01 am
by kdowns
In post 287, D3f3nd3r wrote:Rory was in decent shape until he tried to make a big move after everyone else was nearly set on voting for me. He would have gotten a fair bit deeper had he not destroyed his own game at the TC.
We aren't talking Dr.Who here are we.. Because I'm confused if we are.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:05 am
by Save The Dragons
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:05 am
by D3f3nd3r
No, Conclave.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:08 am
by Crazy
Let's just rank all the different Rorys, Zeldas, and Pikachus.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:17 am
by Haschel Cedricson
My heart only has room for one Rory. <3
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 9:45 am
by Shadoweh
In post 288, Cheery Dog wrote: In post 284, Shadoweh wrote: In post 281, Cheery Dog wrote:Have there ever been any tribe-picking winners that have actually managed to pick a tribe that would actually benefit the end user?
Well, that depends on how you define winning. The example that comes to my mind, is when Mint Chocolate Chip 'won' the biggest loser competition and made a great tribe for himself in Pretty Super Vanilla.
I define winning as being given the task (or being given the second item that gave me the full control in Mario Bros). I forgot about PSV, possibly because it didn't end up turning out well with Rum Raisin (if they even picked).
Actually it worked for Rum Raisin just fine, he went out when he was stolen from the tribe he made!
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:23 am
by animorpherv1
405. The Wiggles (Papa Zito)
"I'm pretending to be a first time player
AND a somewhat ditzy female
there's no way this strategy can backfire"
Basically the opposite of everything that's ever good for the game's health. Pardon me if this was said before, but playing like you're new to the game (and especially claiming as such) will actually turn out worse for you because it's really, really,
REALLY
fucking obvious who's new and who isn't. The only reason it worked for Xalxe is Seafoam is because no one had done it up to that point. Since Xalxe had won with it, now everyone's on guard, and since it's become a popular tactic, most people assume people who outright claim newbies are actually vets or are at least suspicious of it.
Add that claiming a newbie and pretending to be a gender you aren't makes you a bad trope of a character, and you've got a disinteresting character at best and an outright bad one at worst.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:33 am
by Lady Lambdadelta
But Wiggles sacrificed himself for Aya!
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:33 am
by Papa Zito
ogml would disagree
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 10:58 am
by Save The Dragons
Personally I think wiggles was more interesting than a few people left and that many people play with gender and don't make it tropish.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:04 am
by animorpherv1
I'm actually also going to quote this, from the skype chat as well:
"No, it was the point of wiggles. Cutesy girl on the Internet. Which frankly, is ridiculously rather insulting to the mass majority of our female player base here who are not that."
At best you've lost my (and presumably several others') complete interest in you by doing so, and at worst you've offended a bunch of people, made the game harder for yourself, plus more. This is BEFORE we get into long-term game health issues, the problem of keeping the persona going over the course of months, and others.
Plus, if we're ranking on relevant entertainment value, I value "existing but boring" over "Offensive with some people avoiding, but interesting to those who do".