Quick Fix Game 71: 5D Shard Game With Multiverse Time Travel*

[Ookla de los Cuervos he/him]

Just now, Aeternum said:

Would you say Weirdo or Cash is better for today?

My odds would be on Cash, wierdo seems less likely.

take that with a grain of salt though, I'm just kinda going off my gut.

[Kasimir he/him]

27 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Would you say Weirdo or Cash is better for today?

Any reason why you're narrowing to Wierdo and Cash?

Edited to add:

I don't have a solid/strong evaluation but I ask because I think TUA is kind of getting away without much pressure. I do have some reasons to endorse V!TUA but I also don't feel too strongly about them, and have other E!TUA views. Pre-narrowing to Wierdo/Cash feels odd to me in light of that. TUA having strong synergy with Wierdo or Cash feels like one answer to me, and I think we're also back to the problem of the Aeo and Kidpen kills. TUA does explain (IMO) a Kidpen shot, if only because he was online to see a strong shift off Kidpen.

In that sense, Wierdo/Cash feels like a false dilemma to me because my main question is: well, why not TUA or anyone else? 

Bracketing all these concerns, I'd argue It Depends on what you find more troubling:

-The anti-Wierdo case is Wierdo sheeping onto Cash C1 and getting @ for it. Wierdo is fairly chill about potentially getting exed, and sort of just follows Raven onto Archer/off Archer C2 and doesn't participate further. If you think that the Village wasn't really onto anyone C2 (I sorta lean that way for the moment? It could be V/E but this would cast you as having made the saving vote for Weaver but there are reasons to think you and Weaver aren't E/E.)

-I've listed out the Cash reasons.

If forced to, I would lean Cash ig. But the danger here in going for all the vocal suspicious people is that you get stuck with a painful set to sift through at lylo so there's some level of ceteris paribus argument for Wierdo. But yeah I guess I narrowly favour Cash regardless.

Edited to add 2:

FWIW:

Spoiler

I don't really think Aet and Weaver are E/E, and neither are Aet and Bee. Cash and Wierdo also seem precluded. I don't have strong preclusions beyond that which indicates theoretically TUA is a bit of a LBD here, but the very last time I voted an LBD in a game we MLed a Villager so I don't know that I would do this on LBD grounds alone. 

I was hoping for stronger preclusions and a more narrow set to look at teams but it is what it is.

Questions to ask ig:

-Does an E!Bee team shoot Aeo with Aeo defending Bee?
-How chill is an E!Weaver team with Weaver being in the top two trains? We had a high level of vote engagement last cycle with Weaver and Wierdo not voting.
-Does E!Aet shoot Kidpen after also voting Kidpen? (I agree with Archer on this that this seems less likely a call and would necessitate E!Aet having a teammate on near rollover.)
-Does E!Cash decide not to shoot me? (Theoretically I guess the answer here is I've been V!reading Cash somewhat until this cycle, though the fact I was @ing Cash over that vote last cycle should've been indicative.)

Edited to add 3:

I am minded to channel Stick's "I believe in pressure on all the slots" here tbh. But given activity levels, I also have more faith in V!Cash giving something to work with compared to (necessarily at any rate) V!Wierdo.

Edited May 7, 2024 by Kasimir

[Aeternum]

36 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Any reason why you're narrowing to Wierdo and Cash?

I thought that's what you were saying. I would still keep RBM and Weaver on the table for today's vote.

EDIT

Weirdo d1 

Weirdo d2 biggest contribution ig

And that's it from Weirdo.

Edited May 7, 2024 by Aeternum
i forgot to link it lol

[Kasimir he/him]

6 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

I thought that's what you were saying. I would still keep RBM and Weaver on the table for today's vote.

No, I'm just saying they cannot be teamed so there is at most one Elim between them. Again, cannot be teamed because A. cross-voted EoD C1, and B. were happy to endanger each other, therefore fairly unlikely they are E!teammates. It's possible they are both Village but if they are both Village, this narrows down the pool further:

As a quick illustration, this is the suspect pool from my POV:

<Aet, Cash, Bee, Spark, Kas, TUA, Weaver, Wierdo>

I'm never gonna sus myself for obvious reasons. I think there are reasons to endorse V!Spark.

Given that:

<Aet, Cash, Bee, Spark, Kas, TUA, Weaver, Wierdo>

Suppose Cash and Wierdo are both Village.

<Aet, Cash, Bee, Spark, Kas, TUA, Weaver, Wierdo>

A foteriori it's just four players, and we have at least a 50% chance of shooting an Elim in there. 75% if it's a three Elim team.

The whole point of my mentioning they are not E together is because if your worldview entails E!Wierdo and E!Cash, then something has gone wrong and more likely than not, you need to revise something.

Edited May 7, 2024 by Kasimir

[Aeternum]

3 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

The whole point of my mentioning they are not E together is because if your worldview entails E!Wierdo and E!Cash, then something has gone wrong and more likely than not, you need to revise something.

No, I agree with only one could be.

[Wierdo he/him]

1 hour ago, Aeternum said:

I thought that's what you were saying. I would still keep RBM and Weaver on the table for today's vote.

EDIT

Weirdo d1 

Weirdo d2 biggest contribution ig

And that's it from Weirdo.

Yeah- sorry- school's been taking up my time. trying to at least get a passing grade in certain classes

Edited May 7, 2024 by Wierdo

[Aeternum]

1 hour ago, Wierdo said:

Yeah- sorry- school's been taking up my time. trying to at least get a passing grade in certain classes

That's fair. Good luck in your classes!

When you have the chance, I'd love to hear your thoughts so far.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

I'd like to announce that Quivil will likely be joining the game as a pinch-hitter on behalf of Spark of Hope soon.

That's all for now.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

Alright, @Quivil is officially added to the game as a pinch-hitter for Spark of Hope.

Please give her a warm welcome!

(also, Quivil, I told you your alignment in our PM but it edit-merged with my last post, so if you haven't seen it yet you may need to hit refresh )

[Aeternum]

Hi Quivil! I hope you like salmon and murder

[Quivil]

Salmon is really good, cooked right.

I'd prefer to skip the murder, but I did sign up for this, so I can't complain.

Edit: Also, sorry, I'm still on cycle one right now and don't have thoughts to share yet. I can get caught up more later.

Edited May 7, 2024 by Quivil

[Aeternum]

10 minutes ago, Quivil said:

Salmon is really good, cooked right.

*adds to town list*

[Quivil]

35 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

47 minutes ago, Quivil said:

Salmon is really good, cooked right.

*adds to town list*

Liking salmon is rEALLY not a good reason to read someone as village

Just sayin'

Edited May 7, 2024 by Quivil
"Just sayin'"

[Aeternum]

2 minutes ago, Quivil said:

Liking salmon is rEALLY not a good reason to read someone as village

Just sayin'

It's jokingly.

[Quivil]

1 hour ago, Aeternum said:

It's jokingly.

I know

Sorry, my tone didn't make it through cyberspace very well

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

5 minutes ago, Quivil said:

I know

Sorry, my tone didn't make it through cyberspace very well

its fine. welcomming salmon

[Aeternum]

This is peak Aet activity hours, so if you're around, I'd like to hear some thoughts.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

I'm around, but I cannot share most of my thoughts for legal reasons

[Aeternum]

3 minutes ago, DrakeMarshall said:

I'm around, but I cannot share most of my thoughts for legal reasons

Shhhhh it's ok, I won't tell anyone else. 

Hey, you could talk about your thoughts on salmon.

[Kasimir he/him]

@Cash67 Hey a question occurred to me. If you were V leaning Archer even mildly, why didn't you voice any reservations to the Archer train?

EDIT: @The Unknown Ajah Aet views? Also can you please explain the reasoning behind your team guesses you listed with Cash

@Aeternum What is your current E team guess

@RoyalBeeMage Same as the others

Anyone else feel free to do without needing an @ from me

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

32 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Shhhhh it's ok, I won't tell anyone else. 

Hey, you could talk about your thoughts on salmon.

Drake's Private GM Thoughts (DON'T PEEK)

Spoiler

Salmon is a yummy and pretty easy to prepare meal that can be prepared in a variety of ways.

My personal favorites include baking, pressure cooking, or on the stovetop in a big iron pan.

Stovetop is imo best in the case where the salmon has skin and you like eating salmon skin, because it's the best way to get the Crisp™. Coat it in a bunch of spices (I'm partial to aleppo pepper and herbes de provence but ur mileage may vary, also obviously use salt) and throw it down on highish heat with some oil for a couple minutes per side (a lil more time on the skin side) and you're doing great.

There's a couple good cookbook recipes I know about that pressure cook salmon, generally they involve making a sauce of some kind and pouring it over the salmon then cooking it for a lil bit. My favorite one has a bunch of ginger in it. Idk I just follow the recipes on those so there's not much to say.

Baking salmon is reliably good and probably the easiest choice tbh. Just, put even more spices on then you would for doing it on the stovetop. Make it the spiciest salmon to ever salmon. Then bake it for idk like 15 minutes. Don't bake it too long that's a crime.

Whatever way you've prepared that salmon, you'll probably want it with something else. Idk I mean live ur best life if you just want to grab a handful of pure salmon and take a bite out of it but you probably want it with a carb or something. I usually just make rice because rice is the Default Staple Carb and you can just let it cook without thinking about it while you do the salmon but like, nobody's stopping you from being more creative than me. If ur baking ur salmon you could always just throw some potatos in the oven next to the salmon (...probably cook the potatoes a bit longer than the salmon though).

Edit: You can also grill salmon on a plank. I have done this exactly 2 times and the first time the plank caught fire >:P the second time it was really good though tbf. It's a lot of work, though. At least compared to the above options. I mean you have to like specifically get a plank for it.

That's it. Those are my GM thoughts. Hope this helps you with solving the game.

 

Edited May 8, 2024 by DrakeMarshall

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

29 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

@Cash67 Hey a question occurred to me. If you were V leaning Archer even mildly, why didn't you voice any reservations to the Archer train?

EDIT: @The Unknown Ajah Aet views? Also can you please explain the reasoning behind your team guesses you listed with Cash

@Aeternum What is your current E team guess

@RoyalBeeMage Same as the others

Anyone else feel free to do without needing an @ from me

i dont know.. i did think that either @Aeternum or @Weaver of Lies because of what all of you have been suggesting about new people In this game being elims. i don't know about spark/quivil. we will have to see about them soon.

[Aeternum]

35 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

@Aeternum What is your current E team guess

RBM/Weirdo/Weaver maybe? But that suggests a very newbie team. RBM/Cash/Weaver as secondary. Could throw TUA in there and I wouldn't disagree, but that is based off of your reads of TUA because some of us are bad at reading TUA. I trust your TUA reads because you've got far more experience there.

I can't say anything about Quivil yet, which is unfortunate but a /shrug.

At least 1 wolf in RBM/Weirdo/Cash/Weaver. Don't remember if there was anything about a RBM/Weaver pairing, but I'm tempted to put them on the elim team together in my head.

Weaver looks like e!me with the lurking, I've seen them around several times now. I'm not a big fan of RBM's posting so far. Weirdo hasn't been around much (understandably busy with classes) - I did see Weirdo online a few times tho, but I'll write it off. Since he's here, @RoyalBeeMage I need more thoughts from you. Don't want to ML today, but Weaver/RBM is my priority probably. Aet stop screwing up your votes lol

[RoyalBeeMage he/him]

1 minute ago, Aeternum said:

RBM/Weirdo/Weaver maybe? But that suggests a very newbie team. RBM/Cash/Weaver as secondary. Could throw TUA in there and I wouldn't disagree, but that is based off of your reads of TUA because some of us are bad at reading TUA. I trust your TUA reads because you've got far more experience there.

I can't say anything about Quivil yet, which is unfortunate but a /shrug.

At least 1 wolf in RBM/Weirdo/Cash/Weaver. Don't remember if there was anything about a RBM/Weaver pairing, but I'm tempted to put them on the elim team together in my head.

Weaver looks like e!me with the lurking, I've seen them around several times now. I'm not a big fan of RBM's posting so far. Weirdo hasn't been around much (understandably busy with classes) - I did see Weirdo online a few times tho, but I'll write it off. Since he's here, @RoyalBeeMage I need more thoughts from you. Don't want to ML today, but Weaver/RBM is my priority probably. Aet stop screwing up your votes lol

what makes you think about me and weaver?

[Aeternum]

3 minutes ago, RoyalBeeMage said:

what makes you think about me and weaver?

Highest 2 on my sus list. Haven't decided if there's a pairing there, though. Give me motivation to look back lol