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    Fortunately, everyone else is still alive.
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    I don't disagree with the method insomuch as I think one elim game is insufficient data for talking about patterns. If Alpha had three, or even two, that would be fine. I just think it's kind of pointless to come at reads that way in this specific case.
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    @Kasimir I mean, sure. I just don't think it's as helpful to analyze past games when you're talking about new players, since your data set is limited. Alpha's had one elim game thus far, and this is only like his sixth game overall (and his first Shard game). I agree that being overwhelmed isn't an excuse for those things, but I don't think it's a good enough reason to read him elim. Maybe this is just me projecting my struggles with perfectionism onto someone else, but I know I've been there before as a villager, especially when I was new.
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    1689?! 1689?!?!?!?!
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    Shard
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    what can I say except I told you so Anyway: I missed rollover yesterday, so I’m still on Silverlight (For some reason, I thought it was still at 1.) I feel like Kas should know better than to mistake new player weirdness (hereafter NPW) for elim behavior. I.e. we’ve specifically discussed it in dead docs and stuff. I don’t want to tunnel too hard on him, since when I do that I’m usually wrong, but I think it’s something worth thinking about.
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    I am not a potato.

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      Szeth Pancakes

      I am not a potato!

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      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      Spudalicious

      Po-ta-toes.

      Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

    4. Potato's Wit

      Potato's Wit

      I am a potato! sucks to be you

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    @The Bookwyrm
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    Translation State!!!!

    asdfghjkl

    it’s so weird but also so good

    i have no words

    just like go read everything by ann leckie right now

    top tier sci fi

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      Szeth Pancakes

      It’s ok to take a break from SA!! And also lotr is so not worth it.

      Do read tress tho that one’s good

      It would probably make for a nice break between SA books

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      The Aspiring Archivist

      But I want to read it all.

      Anyway I just started WoR.

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      The Aspiring Archivist

      Also the DM of the DND party I'm in will never forgive me if I don't finish LoTR

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    Kas
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    When you own all the books in a series and then reprints come out & they look just absolutely gorgeous

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      Thaidakar the Ghostblood

      ...

      Yep.

      The new Percy Jackson books looks so good. The mist born books look nice. I admit the new Witcher covers look cool (never read it though). There are many, many cool reprints.

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    Seven, probably.
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    I love that you’re assuming e!me has a conscience. Seriously though: my arguments for v!Alpha weren’t meta-based. I’m just warning against confusing New Player Weirdness(TM) with malicious intent. The comment about TBB is valid, though. My real reason for that was that I didn’t have any other solid reads. Sure, but he doesn’t just get to pick and choose the ways in which he wants to be active. He’s posted a bunch of analysis: using the “Kas doesn’t actually care about this game” excuse doesn’t work if he’s made it clear that he does. I support Kas’s decision to take it easy this game, but he has to decide if he’s actually going to do that.
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    Kas, @Kasimir I think you should be more clear about what you actually want the village to do. I already proposed a solution to the Shard problem (the RNG thing) which you were online for and actually could have worked if more people had gotten on board N0. Do you want us to leave Silverlight and persecute the people left behind? Because that could work. Do you want us to form a plan to get a few key Shards? Because it didn’t seem like you wanted that before I started pressing you on it.
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    If you can convince the village to leave Silverlight en masse today, then sure, that could work. I don’t think that’s likely, but we can try???? Coordinate within factions, I mean. Next cycle, both the H and K factions will probably have four members, which — if everyone’s on Silverlight — is essentially a free Shard. If it’s lategame, then the factions could also be close to outnumber wincons. I think it’s a lot harder to exe converted elims than to exe the faction leaders. Honestly, I just feel like the village alt wincon is so unlikely that we should plan for more realistic scenarios. But in all scenarios, it’s better if the village has more Shards than the elims. I kind of like your “everyone leaves Silverlight” plan, but I don’t know if the village is coordinated enough to pull it off. What might happen instead is half the village leaves, half stays because they want to use Investiture, and most of the elims stay, leaving them with control over the Shards.
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    Hoid
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    This is fair, honestly. I slipped in activity last cycle, due to my aforementioned group project, but I should be back now that it’s done. This feels… optimistic. I don’t think it’s worth the risk — it’ll be harder and harder for villagers to get their hands on Shards late game. Right now, Hoid and Khriss likely both have three people. If they coordinate, it’s already very easy for them to get Shards. I’d prefer that we keep as many of them in village hands as possible — so if we do end up mowing our way through H, K, and B, we don’t have to do extra elim-killing to get the shards contained. where u go occam’s razor No but seriously, this feels like ignoring the fact that Alpha is relatively new. This is a tricky game; if I had joined this game with Alpha’s level of experience, I’d have gone quiet as well. I feel like you’re missing the fact that if the village has Shards, it’s not that hard for them to put them back in containment lategame. Sure, they can fall into elim hands that way, but they can also fall into elim hands if they’re in containment.
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    Welcome walin
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    @xinoehp512
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    Hi I’m here had a concert tonight so my brain is kinda fried. Um. DUCKS! *throws smoke bomb* *jumps out the window*
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    I do hopes.
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