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  1. I actually felt it was the opposite way around - I was okay with it in Tress because of the Princess Bride conceit, but disliked it in Yumi. Agreed with you wrt the storytelling segments in Stormlight though!
  2. Four books left to the goal Hael and I set. Just finished: -Yumi I think I'll like it better the second time around. Hoid narrating is tiresome (back to my problems with Sanderson and banter) and Yumi had to grow on me but really enjoyed Kilahito as a setting. That Sanderlanche was insanely good though. -The Winter Road I have not in a while read a book I should love but really hated and only read because I wanted to see the protagonist suffer. Strong character voice, fascinating setting, protagonist who has Issues but I'm told to root for without the author ever doing the damn work to make me want to. Currently reading: -The Winged Histories (re-read) -Heretics of Dune -Snakewood (promised myself to DNF if I hate it as it's by the same author as TWR and commonly held to be the weaker book.)
  3. Thanks but no thanks. I'd add @StrikerEZ to the list, and probably @Mat and @Experience. Aware Mat is busy but he can decide, as he's been benched for a while.
  4. I'd say you don't really need good handwriting for fountain pens. I've seen people with awful handwriting in r/fountainpens and some of the local pen groups I'll leave it to someone with better handwriting to offer tips here. The most I've seen in my local pen groups is a lot of practice shaping letters and then words in the style you like. Some of them fill whole exercise books - the idea is to do it slow and get it right and then do it more. Fair My friends accuse me of being a pretender because I love broad nibs but my handwriting is so small it ruins the point of going broad God created Plat soft and elastic nibs to train the faithful
  5. Ah sorry, thought you mentioned getting it fixed! Though tbh Sailor feedback is a golden medium for me. I've heard legends of the Plat UEF feedback but I tried it once at a pen meet and immediately gave it back.
  6. Enjoy! I loved the Shadow Campaigns and was just thinking to myself I wanted to do a re-read. Did not realise he'd done Ashes of the Sun so I guess that's added to my list. Just finished: -Red Sky in the Morning Children's book, does one thing, does it well. Liked how my response to the book shifts with age to a certain distance from the protagonist, which is a sign Laird catches the teen mindset well. Liked the sign of the strains on the family in the background, because of course the protagonist is too young and shielded from much of this. -The Sunlit Man Both disappointed by Nomad at the start but greatly enjoyed the book. Continue to remember banter is not Sanderson's strong suit and I actively wince when reading him doing it (cf. de Castell's Greatcoats.) This was the SP I looked forward to the most and not disappointed. Generally a banger. -God-Emperor of Dune I like GEoD more now that I better understand what the book is about. Probably a lot I could say about different moving parts, but I'll save that for my review journal/tracker. Currently reading: -Yumi -The Winged Histories (re-read) -Heretics of Dune (guess I couldn't stop )
  7. I'm only on this many because of my wrist and Hael. Otherwise I'd probably game more, sadly. Joining you on The Sunlit Man! I just cleared Red Sky and wasn't really in the mood to move on to steampunk so Sunlit it is
  8. Is this the Shadow Campaigns I've been marathoning books a lot recently because of my wrist and because Hael and I are doing a 'read 52 books before the end of the year' goal/resolution thing. I just finished: -Children of Dune Part of a Dune marathon instigated by TJ and an essay about how Frank Herbert wrote Salafist themes into Dune. (I actually wanted to stop at DM because I knew if I did CoD I'd have to do GEoD before stopping, but there are fair reasons to go on to CoD instead of stopping at DM.) I got into re-reading it for lulz because everytime I read Duneiverse, I hate it, and I love it only after I'm done. I actually liked it a lot more this round, which might mean that my predominant memories of Dune are just reading the lot when I was fifteen or so because classmate I liked was super into it and then not getting everything that was going on and hating the everloving crem out of Frank Herbert's writing style. -The Tournament at Gorlan I like the Ranger's Apprentice series a lot. Yeah it's a kids book and arguably jumped the shark at Emperor of Nihon-Ja but in general it's simple and does a few bunch of things well, and sometimes it's nice to go back to a simple book to look at the craft and then do the simple thing well before writing anything more complicated. I liked the worldbuilding of the Ranger Corps, and watching younger Halt and Crowley get up to shenanigans is always fun. Also part of an ongoing marathon. Reading: -The Winged Histories (re-read) -God Emperor of Dune (please let me stop there please let me stop there) -Red Sky in the Morning (re-read) (I know there are three reads in progress - I have a system with two Kindles and a physical book. It's maybe not functional but mood is a thing for cattle or making love or reading )
  9. 1. If you deliberately "use AtM" as a tactic and have a long-known tendency to self-destruct, I consider you to have thoroughly poisoned the well - I'm not invested in keeping you alive or caring because there is equal probability of it being crocodile tears as well as it being genuine. Hell, I'll be more invested in letting new players live beyond a "oh this is not their literal first game so I can D1 them without guilt." This is absolutely a MU tactic I have zero patience for. Just because it's their second game does not immediately make D1ing them okay. 2. Space faeries did not lie I am the Quokka Whisperer. Congrats to the Elim team and thanks to Sart for running and letting me be Village! I was super out of this game/apathetic and I think I spent most of my time rejoicing to Araris that I dgaf and bemoaning that it took RL busy stress stuff to keep me dgaf.
  10. Removed as requested! Since it's taking longer to get games set-up and also because I'm lazy and have the spreadsheet open for updates right now: MR List: 1. @Ookla of Colors (hasn't logged in since 13 Feb) 2. @Karnatheon (missing) 3. @Ashbringer 4. @Steeldancer (missing) 5. @JNV [Note: JNV is running a non-Sanderson game but does not need a pass as the free slot is currently available.] 6. @Kasimir (...I'd prefer not to.) 7. @shadow1 (missing) 8. @xinoehp512 Presuming we can find at least one GM in this set. We can expand it if not. Suggest Ash and JNV iron it out between themselves?
  11. 1. IMO no point shooting Hairy. Hairy last showed up on D1. @Sart, with Hairy failing to post past D1, does Hairy die during D3 or start N3? Ooer. Side-thought: Nasty complication for us I maybe didn't think about. Suppose for now Hairy is Village. (Worst case scenario, remember?) If so: -Aman misshoots -Elim kill succeeds 6/3 -> 4/3 Theoretically 4/3 is not lylo, but: Further suppose V!Hairy dies D3: 3/3 -> lylo V!Hairy dies N3: 4/3 -> ML takes us to 3/3 and Hairy perishing of inactivity and being keelhauled -> 2/3 V loss. 2. I will bracket this comment by noting I don't like to lean too heavily on GM meta. However: -Sart is known to want to choose randomly (+) -I still doubt most GMs would let that team through - it's a team that has no real support for the new players. You can argue that Araris and Szeth ran that team in QF64 but I'll note that team had you. (-) I'm not strongly convinced the team missed a kill. I'm still leaning towards the view they deliberately killed TJ because I generally feel inactivity hunting should be last ditch, not first effort, especially in our predicament. (It has corrosive effects on Village capacity IMO.) It's absolutely possible that my reluctance to do so will be lethal for us here, but that's why I'm looking at both you and Aman. (I've considered Drake and JNV again, but am still less convinced they fit for now.) The main things holding me back are that, as I said, it's kinda unhelpful to tell Aman frankly 'kys' ( ) though I've mentioned my suspicion of him more than once. The other reason I dislike the Raven/2 Newbies formulation: -Raven is too missing to do much reading into -Newbies too passive for this Essentially pushing them is going for a crapshoot because it doesn't feel there's much to go off. It's maybe a shocking statement coming from me, the believer in discussed exes, but the tepidity of the thread from the past two cycles is not leaving me too optimistic that we'll see an indicator we're hitting something. We could take this as a sign that we're not pressuring the right people, but where does that leave us? <Aet, Raven, Hairy> because Bee has faced lethal pressure and no one batted an eye, not even Bee. Raven is barely there, Hairy has not showed up since D1. That's a Hail Sithis shot if I ever saw one.
  12. PoE + it seems harsh to tell Aman 'kys' and also lbr if he's Village that's a bad shout, if he's Evil, he's not gonna shoot himself.
  13. Some puppies want to watch the world burn
  14. Brevity is the soul of wit but alas in this game we are Witless Do not test me I will write u a dissertation
  15. EDITED TO ADD: Probably pretty awkward as I'm beginning to question you all over again, but bracketing that, I think TKN makes sense here. Have not had bandwidth to look at the comparator games but if you bracket meta and do vote profiling, I'd argue TKN is probably the most sus of those on the D1 5-train on Aeo. Also generally not of the view the 5-train is pure. (JNV has also reminded me a missed kill is not impossible for TKN which harks back to your Barron theory.) My alternative hypotheses do include Aet and you as I feel your WiM has been lacking and you have been more reactive than I'm comfortable with. (Wrt to Aet on acronyms — WiM = "Want it More" — it refers to a player's drive and motivation to play/solve. Aman sometimes lacks it when Evil.) Your more recent posts/PMs are making me yet again reconsider on you though, since they feel more positive. IMO Drake is correct that we are at a turning point. I think if I go meta-blind just in case it is driving me off, and re-examine, then more opens up. EDIT2: Fair, it happens! Edited to add 3: Sorry, missed this as was scanning the thread on mobile earlier having just woken up. FNG = Freakin' New Guy. It's the play you only get to pull once (Aeo tried this, technically Araris tried this too, my E!team in my first ever game on this site told me to pull it as well) where you mask your capabilities, enter a game, and pretend to not know anything about what's going on. The aim is to get players to give you an easy pass to avoid suspicion and blindside them. Of course you can only do it once. Flipping is just another word for 'exeing', but it can be method-agnostic, i.e. shooting TKN/TBB with Crimson is also flipping TBB. All flipping means is that one way or another, you want to see the player's role and alignment show up in the write-up, so you know for sure. The discussion about pre-flipping on D1 was just that sometimes Evil players know how a player is going to flip already (since they know everyone's alignments) and so may slip up by having unwarranted confidence/knowledge of a player's flip. The other issue with regard to pre-flipping is that it's just bad Village play in general but there's a fine line between 'good Villager' and 'has the time to do it.' We try to vote the most sus player (with asterisks - I was not sure I fully believed E!Bee but also felt there was something to be said for people getting Bee out of their systems because you don't want to be a whisker away from losing at 3/3 and still debating Bee, hence my being willing to have Bee tied with Faerie.) However, even then, it's usually bad Village play to 'pre-flip' them and immediately assume they'll flip Evil and work on that assumption. Normally you'll want to try to work out what happens if they flip Village, which was the point of the 'what if Bee flips V though' discussion earlier - I just felt we weren't sufficiently clear and a lot of that seemed like us circling the same player pools without being able to go/have a solid indicator of "Okay, we are thoroughly wrong on this profile, and need to go look elsewhere." Maybe Bee still needed to be exed - that's a fair criticism. But it's still not a good sign if that's the best we can do RE: "oh ig Faerie next" (had Bee been exed) without some reflection on whether we were looking the right way or not in the first place. @DrakeMarshall is correct that things are getting tight for us, which means we need to put in actions and start claiming. I will remind everyone that if Aman misshoots tonight, we go into tomorrow 4/3. This means we lose if we misexe tomorrow. (We are currently 6/3 - assuming a standard Elim team of 3. I agree with Drake that it's unlikely to be otherwise - Sart loves to use the squareroot rule but probably has rounded down. Even if there's 2, we have to play on the assumption there's 3 because that's the worst case scenario.) What I am saying is everyone needs to buckle up and pony up because it's gonna get rough. Consider using your spores because you may not get a second chance tomorrow if Aman misshoots. It's true we can try to be lucky (wrt blocking or redirecting a kill tomorrow Night, if we end up being 3/3). I'm just reminding everyone two things: A. For tonight, keep in mind you don't want to hoard indefinitely either. Spores unused by the end of the game do not help your team. I'm not saying use it tonight, I'm saying consider using it tonight if not tomorrow Night. B. In the event I'm dead that when we're at near-lylo (cf. 3/3 or 4/3), then you may need to prepare to start claiming everything. Holding on to info when it's do or die time for the Village is unhelpful to everyone on your team. Edited to add 4: There's no natural connection between my being dead and y'all preparing to start claiming. This is more a "I know people get too invested in not saying things so remember this if I'm not here to aggressively remind you"
  16. Dude why didn't you say this earlier when everyone was breaking their brains on D2. To be clear everyone: Either Aet is lying here or TJ died without using Zephyr. Pretty much unescapable because of the delta — no missing Zephyr spore.
  17. Yeah. Which is what made me not wanna vote you since I feel like E!you would've been more on top of that. Even if you forgot, your team should have remembered.
  18. You made a comment asking about the vote on you pretty late into the cycle - could've easily voted just about anyone else to save yourself at that point.
  19. ffs Alright. Let's sub this back into D1. This is raw. This is with my credences substituted in: Unsure what I currently believe about Aman and TBB at this juncture. (For TBB, I actually want to systematically recheck against TBB's E games when I have the time, which won't be significantly until this weekend. Current V lean on TBB is on the basis of TBB being a bit ) Flagging that Raven and Hairy were barely present N1, so they could be Evil (sightly doubt for Raven, V!Raven so far has had this tendency to make unsystematic pushes based on personal desires) but it's irrelevant for the moment if we're doing a pool search. D1 still had low tempo, and we know the main two trains were Village. I still think this implies Elim complacency but the alternative is that this implies that the Elims were simply low activity. I currently believe the No Vote tier is more Village-dominated, so I'm slightly forced to examine the votes for where Elims are hiding. The main candidates here (pretty much more or less entailed I think) - TBB - I feel TBB's voting pattern is a bit too aggressive for E!TBB but also don't think it's impossible and need the bandwidth. If someone else wants to get on it for me, I'd like if if you can check the LG run by Szeth, in particular, along with QF64. Also potentially QF66 (I think that's the one I ran.) [Note: If TBB is Evil, it is very unlikely Royal is Evil. Do not believe TBB generally saves teammates - he's a bit more of an ignorer/softbusser, cf. the JNV game he referenced.] Raven - Could not have put in NK but vote parked on Aeo, which would fit the complacency profile. Do not really think Raven is Evil but this is a weak read on the basis of Raven's pushes. Aet - Personally, I slightly believe/sense that Aet is making a FNG play and I think Aet is following more than they'd let on, but am not strongly convinced of this. Aet's TJ park is a good place for an Elim to be. Royal - Honestly, Royal is that hard-to-deal with shade of new that looks Evil enough to be Evil or LHF, and I respect if people just want to flip them to know for sure because we don't want to repeat this ad infinitum. This is why I was fine with Royal being in the tie. There's something to be said for getting the ? out of your system. The main thing that swayed me enough to be cool tying Royal with Faerie was the sense that E!Royal should've just voted. Because, you know, why not. Easy enough for Royal to have at least forced a tie here, and self-pres always looks less sus - I think Royal's teammates should've reasonably yelled at him to self-pres. @Aeternum Did you grab a spore last Night/attempt to? Let's top it up with last Day's results: Extremely high disengagement here. Royal was in the lead and then vanished without signing back in. Aet was fine with a Faerie/RBM tie, as was presumably Raven. Credenced: @Sart When will Hairy die or be PHed, by your current count? @DrakeMarshall Want your take on this. I agree wrt the proactive defense issue but I'm not sold about the general apathy level/lack of reactive defense issue. The cycle felt very low tempo as well and I don't know if this means no hit, or in general this is everyone's energy level for this game.
  20. Jebiga then. Faerie Final answer. Gtg. EDIT: Sart just clarified Zephyrs cannot redirect other Zephyrs. No time to deal with the implications but this makes the Night Verdant rush a bit more sus to me. Legit nfc how to process this info gtg.
  21. I think the question here is: suppose Royal does in fact flip V. Where do we go from here? Which does go back to the voting Royal deal. I see this to some extent as choosing the low profile hypothesis for testing so—if Royal flips V, do we take this as falsification? Do we go to Faerie? If it isn't falsification, is this the value play? Royal, nominally speaking, edges out Faerie for me just a bit with regard to meta comparison (for what little value a single game has here—Faerie feels a tad more different from E!Faerie but...) I don't like the fact that Royal has a simple self-pres tie vote that Royal's not taking. This makes me worried it's not a hit and I'm low-key considering tying with Faerie. Edited to add: Probably ignoring a bunch of things here as I'm rushed for time.
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