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Post by Kitsune on Jun 25, 2021 2:38:16 GMT
I think that Eloritu might think that I have an idol. Like the government, I neither confirmed nor denied, just basically deflected. I don't know the strategic ramifications of this.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 25, 2021 2:39:08 GMT
I also don't really know whether or not I should have just said whether or not I have it. (I don't.)
Just sort of seems like the thing you want to keep plausible deniability on?
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Post by Mielikki on Jun 25, 2021 2:52:52 GMT
any thoughts on idols generally?
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 25, 2021 3:00:53 GMT
I know that they're good to have.
That's about all I know, really.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 26, 2021 1:46:13 GMT
Yeah, it just struck me that there's no chance I'm winning this game. Sort of sad. That being said, what's left is to still just focus on getting as far as I can.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 26, 2021 2:22:56 GMT
My avatar is way too intense for the kind of person that I am. I feel like I type up a post, post it and then reading it with that avatar looking at me it's always like I'm glaring daggers at the other person.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 26, 2021 3:16:06 GMT
It seems like both of the Hitorigami tribe members who scored higher than me basically just cooperated with their opponents instead of trying to beat them. That protects my strategy ego a little bit in that I seem to be the highest placing who actually tried to compete, although it is worth reflecting on that instead of just being prideful or whatever. Should I actually have tried to cooperate more? It likely wouldn't have changed the outcome of us having to go to council (if anything, it probably would've exacerbated the gap), but I might've had a better chance at getting the highest score and getting immunity.
I guess in the end it'll depend on how much good will Bilious loses by not having competed, which I imagine will be very little. In contrast, I face the risk of imminent elimination. So, probably it would've been the right decision to try to cooperate to just score the most. I didn't want to do that in part because I figured that the selfishness of just going for the immunity would make me look bad, but I think the real reason which I probably just didn't want to admit was that I just enjoy trying to beat people in games, so I didn't want to do it. After all, I placed a barracks in the very first round and basically made an enemy basically immediately, even if it seems like the hatchet is buried between me and Hermes now.
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Post by Anansi on Jun 26, 2021 3:18:07 GMT
1. Sometimes, like a ship lodged in the Suez Canal, you can feel like the game has come to a standstill. How have you used the extra time afforded to you by the challenge extension? 2. The Panama Canal was completed in 1914, a technological marvel at the time. How did you enjoy the challenge, which has been described as a modern day technological marvel? 3. The Grand Canal is one of the world's oldest manmade waterways. However, when thinking about history, it's usually helpful to think about the future. How do you want this first vote to impact the future of this game? 4. The Corinth Canal is the deepest canal in the world. How deep have your conversations about items in the game? Is there speculation, for example, about who might have done well on the Idol Challenge? Are there any other idols in the game?
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 26, 2021 3:26:23 GMT
1. I don't know. I basically just did nothing, except message people back I guess. Our group had already finished our game, so I didn't have anything to do there. I guess I could've talked a bit more in the game thread to Cerebus and Hermes. 2. I enjoyed that challenge a ton. I'd really like to play another game sometime, I think. It would be especially cool if somehow I could set up automatic scoring so that that part of the game would take up less time and be less error-prone. I guess I'm a little bothered by the fact that optimal play probably would've been to just not compete at all -- I don't think that's fun, personally, and I think that there's always a problem when what's optimal in a game doesn't match up with what's fun. 3. All I hope is that I don't get eliminated, honestly. If I don't, there's hope that I can somehow sort of turn myself around and try to do better in socializing in the coming rounds. 4. I'm not a great person to evaluate this. I imagine that all of my conversations feel totally banal, because all I have to talk about is random media stuff. I'm not a big fan of talking about myself, I guess. I mean, I feel as though it's been interesting to talk to the other tribe members, personally. But I'm not sure how much they actually care or are just making small talk. For instance, I asked Eloritu a thing about these tabletop cafes or something which sounded sort of strange, but it seemed like he sort of just ignored it to talk about tribal. Which is probably not a good sign. Eloritu also sort of confronted me about that idol thing earlier, which I already talked about, to answer the second part of the question.
In general, it seems as though I'm being "left on read" by a lot of my tribe members. Which probably bodes pretty poorly. It seems as though, luckily for me, Cthulu and Chaos are about as bad conversationalists as I am, so there may be hope for me after all.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 26, 2021 3:38:47 GMT
Meh. Whatever happens happens. I'm washing my hands of it. I don't think I made my absolute best effort this game, but I did make an effort.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 26, 2021 22:43:14 GMT
First opportunity for me to maybe actually do something interesting, if I can manage to swing the vote from Cthulhu to Chaos then I'll both have eliminated someone who's harder to talk to, kept around someone who shares more of my interests, and will have made it awkward for everyone who voted Cthulhu and thus possibly gained an ally in doing all of it. If I can swing the vote, that is.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 27, 2021 3:38:47 GMT
So I've been doing a bit of reading of an older game -- like I said I wanted to before the game started -- and I'm beginning to think that everything about this game is a lot more strategic and, for lack of a better term, a lot more artificial than I thought it was.
For instance, it seems like the winner of this game was basically planning out his personality and his interactions with other people with the endgame in mind from the very beginning. Of course, this is exactly what I would expect a winner (or someone who's great at the game) would be doing -- it just makes sense to be playing with endgaming in mind from as early as you can. I suppose it just didn't really fully occur to me what that would look like until seeing this guy actually do it.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 27, 2021 3:41:42 GMT
The problem, then, is that there's sort of a disconnect here. That disconnect is that I know what I should be doing to try to win, but I don't really know what that would look like, if that makes any sense.
In other words, I know that I probably should be thinking more about my relationships and how they're going to evolve as I'm forced into alliances and forced to vote people off, and I know that I probably should be looking out more for idols and the like, but I don't really know how to do that. Nor do I have any real experience in doing so.
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Post by Kitsune on Jun 27, 2021 3:43:11 GMT
Sorry, when I say "the winner of this game" I'm not talking like I'm from the future or something, I meant the winner of this game that I was looking at. Sort of like how someone would say that if they could physically gesture to a book or paper or something while they were talking to you in real life, which obviously we're not. So I don't know why I said it like that.
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Post by Mielikki on Jun 27, 2021 4:37:42 GMT
which game is that?
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