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Yes! Your turn! Edit: Can someone please upvote him for me? Accidental mobile downvote, sorry! :/
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Excellent. Then you don't need another hint, do you?
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I am a prisoner, a slave; the spoken-bonds that chain me of my own forging. I stand above the highest of kings, though this light I see marks me among the lowly. Name me storm-crow, the unexpected visitor, the last wanderer; I am the unwanted guest, the one who foreshadows the storm. No greater servant has shouldered the burdens of this middle-earth; has endured the god’s hatred for the length of ten durances and more. For the spear-clash I am born, to rally the armies of men. The last-sleep takes me; a cycle unending I am slain, but my task is pressing and summons me again. Sorry guys, really struggling at the boasts now >>
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It's a crude way to put it; it's not incorrect, but it's not technically correct either. As you can see from Tumblr, there is a whole spectrum of gender identities (especially since a lot of people there reject the gender binary.) Because I'd rather not wade into the issue of third genders and people who identify as being agendered and so on, let me just put it this way: there are people who refer to themselves as being 'queer'. Identifying as 'queer' is one of those things that encompasses a lot of positions, but the general unifying core is a rejection of the gender binary or 'fixed' gender identities, so strictly male/female. So if you are not cis, you could be trans, meaning you identify as the opposite gender. Or you could be queer; in which case, you at the very least reject the binary and the need to identify as (and possibly present as) male or female. *This does not reflect my opinions and this only reflects my admittedly somewhat shallow understanding of issues. Please feel free to correct me if my use of language is imprecise, or if I'm missing important features here
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And people wonder why I crossed Meta off my 'Inflict Kas as a Check' shortlist... 1. I picked my words for if I were Hoed, based on the fact that I was Lovers with Wilson. 'Words can not be taken.' It's a short form of that very touching line scrawled by Dorfl in Feet of Clay, saying, 'Words in the heart can not be taken.' Just as a bit of a reference, since I'd planned to go Morse code with it. 2. King/Queen...no idea. I'd honestly just have passed the role to a player I greatly trusted, to keep it safe from Cultist hands. 3. Well, if I had the chance to do things over again, I'd have paired Alv with myself, instead of Wilson. Given my paranoia and my position of ignorance, I would still prefer to serve as a check on a potential Eliminator, and I do not think my dying rate would negatively affect his overmuch. To be frank, Wilson only won out because I flipped a coin to decide between her and Alv. As I see it, Alv had lesser chance of dying, which made him a far better anchor point for the triangle. I was very tempted to pair Wilson and Claincy, but I'm glad I did not. Strategy before trolling! [Then again, I might've really gone with the dice. Who knows?] 4. Hreo, just curious: when you said in my role PM that you'd forgotten that Seonid was out of town and made me the Dula instead, does that mean I'd have been the Jindo before I traded with Seonid to become the Dula? o.O 5. If Wyrm had been in the game, I'd have paired us hands-down though. Sod strategy, hello trolling! 6. If Wilson had been made the Odiv, I'd have had to RP at one point: "Kiireon, you're breaking my heart. You're going down a path I can't follow." Whether I'd have killed myself is open for debate. Certainly, uttering that line might be enough to cause Meta to kill me or himself
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Ho-hum. It's hard, and I'm going to try and put it in a way that hopefully ticks off as few people as possible. Basically, if we bracket whether or not about Kipper's rant about experienced players and bandwagoning on non-experienced players has any merit out of game (i.e. we do not think about it on a meta-level, because it does have merit)--I noticed that your defense of yourself was sort of slipping into that territory? Kipper made points that, whether meta-game valid or not, were extremely useful for an Eliminator to claim. He made conflations about power and bandwagoning and dogpiling on players that are...let's put it this way: they might or might not be incorrect, but they particularly fit with the mindset a certain subset of players: informed minorities who have the game stacked against them. The bit where he talked about being afraid that by just speaking against an experienced player, he would be bandwagoned on by the rest of the thread definitely brought that home. It reminded me of how Alv and myself were trying to turn everyone against Meta in LG5 as Eliminators, and definitely tried to paint the game as being one of Experienced Players versus Everyone Else. [i should note at this point that as a philosopher-in-training, I do tend to be more stringent on what makes a good argument and argumentative conflations. It is everyone else's prerogative to disagree; that is just how I am training to understand and dissect good and bad arguments because a lot of my discipline is about rationality, the laws of truth, and what makes an argument good or bad.] I noticed some of the points you were making in your defense tended to resonate with what was brought up in Kipper's rant. You brought up player betrayal (naturally on the part of those who had played before), and then subtly tried to tie Meta and Wilson to that notion. You brought up how I wasn't meeting the standards of reason explication I had first mentioned--and then subtly raised the question of whether other experienced players would call me on it, or whether they would be hypocrites about the matter. It's hard to put my finger on exactly what, but you seemed to be buying into Kipper's dichotomy, and I've learned from experience (my very first game, as it were) that it's a very useful line to pull. Now, not everyone who goes "Guys, let's turn against the vocal/experienced/confirmed" are Eliminators. But Eliminators can and do help themselves to such reasoning, and when you seemed to be moving from similar perspectives of the game as Kipper, I felt that ought to say something. That it was a connection worth exploring, even if it wasn't a smoking gun. I hope that helps. Edit: Again, as I stress--this is leaving behind the extra-game concerns. This is me thinking strictly within the dimensions of the game. There is a level on which I generally think it's good to ask one's self questions about how to play the game in a way that maximises enjoyment for everyone else (altruistic hedonism ftw), but that has nothing to do with Eliminator play, per se. Edit 2: Hreo and Tulir, thanks for your patience with my endless PMs and for running such an excellent game, especially one that had a tendency to turn ugly at certain junctures Really appreciated, and I take my hat off to you two!
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I would say that the problem with a lot of the Tumblr community is not just that, but that they're applying the ideas of social justice with: A) very little real understanding, B ) a lot of rigidity/inflexibility. As you and Twi pointed out, they can't accept that people screw up and make mistakes and change, and they basically end up appealing to ideas that need to be used very cautiously and with circumspection. This IMO particularly shines through in the very Tumblr way issues of social justice mesh with fandom. Silencing, prejudice, privilege are real issues. I don't think most people will deny that. But like most real-world issues, they are complex and very tangled and need to be approached with caution and respect for what we're talking about. In that regard, Tumblr very often fails and tries to conflate things and boil them down. In doing so, they lose touch with a lot of the nuances and subtleties that characterise how these issues ought to be handled. Very simply put, not everything is silencing. When we appeal to pet terms, we must be careful to use them right. I've seen Tumblr fans rant on about an author oppressing and silencing them because he gave his own WoB (well, WoA in this case...) about his characters. But they regarded it as him silencing their opinions because Death of the Author etcetera etcetera...and started to launch a systematic justice campaign. If we do not use our concepts right, then they lose their power. Terms like 'silencing' are powerful but vague; vague because they attempt to point to often-overlooked phenomena, some of which we lack the ability to coherently talk about. They become watered down and weak when 'silencing' starts to refer to everything the Tumblr community disapproves of. They lose their ability to do actual discursive work. ... I guess that's as explicit as I want to be about my views on those. But suffice to say, there's a reason I avoid Tumblr and refuse to touch it with a ten foot pole. Livejournal used to be like this. Goodness knows I've seen my fair share of fandom scraps there. Edit: Delightful--cis is short for 'cissexual/cisgender'. It's defined as a person who feels at home with the body they're born to (i.e. you identify with your physical sex.)
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Should add the Lovers had a code that seldom saw use in the end, because Wilson and I kept screwing it up every single time we tried to use it Also, because it was so basic that by the time Mek gave me Kii, I gave up on it completely. Oh well. Not to mention it wasn't always clear when the code was in use, and I had to spend a good amount of time going back over Wilson's and Alv's posts to make sure it was/wasn't there. Was a bit of a relief when Alv got sent to Elantris and I didn't have to worry about his posts, I can say that
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See? Exactly my point. I always die in these games, particularly when some koochoo e chu ta decides to...*trails off in expletives*... Hence my deciding to sacrifice myself to keep a dangerous potential-Eliminator in check You're not her Lover. That's what's wrong
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*And* I won it. I'm just that storming lucky, Sule
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Dear people who decided to not protect Wilson, thank you. I've officially won my first bet My luck is definitely turning around! Also: called it on Kipper #Dulabros4life Edit: I should probably clarify that I lied about my dice. I didn't roll dice, though I should've. I just figured there were several kinds of possible pairings: A. Village-Village, B. Village-Eliminator, C. Eliminator-Eliminator, D. Eliminator-Gyorn. C. was the most optimal, but the least likely. Getting it would've been a shot in the dark. D. was by no means much easier; B. would be directly counter-productive. My decision was therefore to aim for A., the likeliest option. Now, while the odds were in my favour, I don't like rolling dice, so I reasoned that if I anchored one end of the Lovers, it would immediately rule out possibilities C. and D. My next move was therefore to pick someone who might be dangerous as an Eliminator; someone I could cripple if they were an Eliminator with my continuous tendency to die in games. (A bit of my paranoia showing through here, as I didn't really focus on the possibility of a Village-Village pairing.) So, my final shortlist had, at least: Ren, Claincy, Alv, Meta, and Wilson. For various reasons, I ruled out Ren and Claincy and Alv. I ruled out Meta because I felt morally bad about inflicting my heavy death rate on him. While pairing with Ren/Claincy/Alv/Meta/Wilson would've been bad for Lover!Kas trying to win, the person making the decision was not Lover!Kas but Arelon!Dula!Kas. Lover!Kas was not an actual possibility until the point the final PM was sent to Hreo. As such, I felt it was not proper to appeal to Lover!Kas's interests in making my decision, but only Arelon's. This is why I did not factor in how pairing with a dangerous potential-Eliminator would've been counter-productive for Lover!Kas's fulfilling his win con. ....And that's the story of how I ended up with Wilson >>
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No, but you're on the right track in that none of these are human.
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Dragonfall, because a friend'd been telling me about it for ages, and I finally got to pick it up. I also gave in to temptation and got AC2. (I used to have it, but then lost it when my console died and I swapped to PC.) ...Technically, it's supposed to be well within my PC specs, but it trolled me by crashing repeatedly before I could even finish the opening sequence :/ Still, Dragonfall is totally worth it!
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...Sazed? 'Zat you?
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This is why I shouldn't answer questions if I'm not prepared to come up with a question myself Two extremely unlikely friends attempt to fulfil their dreams together, while a desperate son goes about trying to live up to his father's expectations.
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...Oh, Lord Ruler help us. Are you referring to The 10th Kingdom? >>
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It's more like Bad Luck Brian, honestly. It's like she was tapping luck to become the Most Interesting Woman in the Cosmere, and then started storing it to kill Claincy so Claincy died by Pirate Which makes her two memes at once. Of course, there's also potential for Grumpy Cat here, you're right: Case in point
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That was me too. I started with AC2 (when it came out) instead of AC, had no idea you ought to gently push people carrying crates so as not to upset the crates. So, after one game of angering both guards and many hapless residents of Firenze, I finally played AC and realised what 'gentle push' was for. ...That moment of sudden enlightenment was gratifying P.S. I always shoved musicians though. No mercy! No taking my hard-earned florins!
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You have no idea how happy I am I stowed my vote somewhere safe, like on Kipper And, actually, that Claincy's dead, since I was going to chat him up tonight, courtesy of Comrade Kii. I feel like I've just been spared walking into the lion's den... And, I trust this puts an end to rumours that I shipped Wilson/Claincy? Bad Luck Wilson: Gains fireball powers - Claincy dies by Pirate >>
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Hard-Confirmed: Kas, Meta, Ren, Neo, Alv, Wilson, Mek, Twei Soft-Confirmed: Wonko/Sart, Wyrm, Seonid, Clanky, Dow, M'Hael ?: Ostrich/Silver, Kipper/Burnt, Piff/Em I'd go with anyone in the ? tier, so Kipper/Burnt, Piff/Em, or Ostrich/Silver. I think of these, Kipper/Burnt is the most promising. With regard to Em, I'm not sure: Meta might've not been decided by then, as Ren claims, but the Cultists sure weren't in contact with Meta. Given that, it seems to me that dropping another voice for Luckat wasn't that big a deal. But the point is taken anyway. Ostrich/Silver...Wyrm and I talked it over. If this is a kind of blindness, we would prefer to assume Cultists had not decided not playing with the pinch-hitter system, since this would require Ostrich first playing inactive and then realising it was drawing flak and quickly switching. It isn't exactly exoneratory, but it's why we wouldn't immediately finger him. With regard to Kipper/Burnt, it'd be good to seal off any possibility of a Seonid leak for good, I think, and worries of any connection with Bort. TBH, up to this Turn, Wyrm and I were preparing to suggest the M'Hael be scanned. What sealed it for me and moves him (tentatively) to soft-confirmed was his suggestion of Claincy as a poison-scan target during Night Three. If he was trying to save Bort, it's awfully strange, since he just put another Cultist on the line for discovery, and there was really no reason to. So. I'm really not at all set on scanning Wonko/Sart and now that Meta's made that information public, I can mention it: besides Wonko's correspondence with Elantris, Sart gave his Seon to Meta, and IMO, that's pretty much decent as-is. He didn't need to do that, and he certainly didn't need to get in contact with Meta in the first place, as good as it might've been to manipulate the Priest. I'd rather clear the ? tier and then come back up to looking between those who have more solid reasoning to be considered Soft-Confirmed and those who have slightly more flimsy reasoning soft-confirming them.
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Poison received. Clanky is soft-confirmed, I'd say Thank you, Clanky. I've put in orders to return the poison to you. Edit: M'Hael--Em did indeed retract. Edit 2: Does anyone else besides me find it mildly embarrassing that our Pirates have better aim than we do?
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Still up due to work-related reasons. Sigh. Definitely going to miss the rollover at this rate. Clanky (3): Kas<1>, Wyrm<1>, Wilson*, Seonid, Araris, Em Luckat (2): Meta, M'Hael<1>, Kipper/Burnt, Clanky<1> Sart (1): M'Hael<2> Em (0): Kas<2> Araris (2): Wyrm<2>, Clanky<2> Kipper/Burnt (1): Kas<3> Claincy (1): Sart Pleased to remind all that unless there is another crouching Debtor (not impossible), Clanky is scheduled to die either way, be it from Wilson's triple-vote or from the ongoing tie between Araris and Luckat since they have 2 votes on them each. I'll leave you lot to sort that out as I need to finish up here and get some sleep. Edit: Ὁ κύριος θὰ πληρώσει γιὰ ὅλα. Περαστικά.
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So, I seem to be under the impression I'd filled this in, but I hadn't, so here goes. Favorite Doctor: War (John Hurt)--What do you mean he only got one episode? Fine, fine, I'd go with Ten (David Tennant) then Favorite Companion: Sarah Jane Smith. School Reunion led me to the older episodes and her series and it was fantastic. Favorite Monster: Daleks Can't beat a bunch of pepper-pots going "Ex-ter-mi-nate!" We even cracked a joke about that in alien ethics class. Scariest Monster: I'd have said 'the Weeping Angels', but then I went back to my old school to visit my lit teacher, and he gave me a Weeping Angel figurine as a memento since he had too many (lol I can believe him) and bravely put it on my nightstand (because I like to live dangerously.) Since then, I can't really say 'the Weeping Angels', can I? So, I guess it's the Vashta Nerada. Favorite Episode: Hard to say. I really liked Gridlock and The Rings of Akhaten, but I think I'm going to have to go with School Reunion. The speech by Sarah Jane, about how everything had its time really stuck with me. I just paused the episode and rewound it a couple of times >>
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That's somewhat it. Perhaps I expressed myself badly: I was just genuinely surprised that you seemed to let it pass without comment and even withdrew your vote. That seemed to me to be very much inconsistent with how much verification you required of my being a Dula. And it seems to me that the worry is less 'well, if he does have it and use it, we'll find out' and ought to be more along the lines of whether he was the person who did in fact poison Meta, and doesn't have the poison anymore. But we're going to find out now I did notice you took Jain at face value. It didn't occur to me to ask then: I was admittedly preoccupied with worrying at the Gyorn problem. As I've said numerous times, as a Convert, I felt like I had a kill switch implanted in me and the Gyorn could flip it anytime. Naturally, I wanted to take him out ASAP so we could get back to focusing on the Cultists. As such, it's fortuitous for us that he hit Luckat. While I would like to hear more from Em, I'll throw a vote onto Kipper/Burnt, just because I'm a little uneasy about how closely Bort's defense of himself on his last day mapped into Kipper's early rant. I'm not sure I feel strongly about this, but given I mightn't get on in time to vote before the cycle closes and Araris has two votes on him, I'm not going to add fuel to that fire. (Although Wyrm and I are in agreement that there's something strange about Araris asking Seonid for his reasons, once again, I don't find it something I'd lynch for.) Edit: Thanks, Clanky Cleared person who receives the poison, please remember to inform the thread, so we can soft-clear Clanky. (Probably best to be polite and return it to him, too...)
