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Post by Effie Trinket on Oct 29, 2019 5:20:16 GMT
Welcome Fenrir and Zod! As representatives of the beacon of innovation that is District 3, I am thrilled to see how you will prove your dominating intellect. While considered less fortunate in some material means, you more than make up for it with your tenacity in the factories and your creativity with the inventions you design.You might recognize Beetee and Wiress as a couple of the previous winners from your brilliant District, and I would encourage you to put yourselves in their mind spaces. I understand that you may not have volunteered as tribute, but I am sure you recognize the wisdom of putting your best foot forward and performing as best you can. Either way, this is your board. You may use it for anything that you want! Communicate, strategize, perform challenges, or simply encourage one another to be the most successful team you can be. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 2:54:28 GMT
That would explain why there is no voting thread in our confessionals.
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 3:41:41 GMT
When are you available for the challenge? Ideally I'd like to get it done sometime tomorrow, as I've got a test the day after that. (this upcoming week is going to be a tad bit busy for me)
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 24, 2020 3:58:37 GMT
I'm very sorry! I've got quite a bit to say but I got called away.
First up though, tomorrow would work well. What times generally work for you?
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 3:59:58 GMT
What's your timezone? I'm EST. I'm thinking in the evening.
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 4:02:17 GMT
We could probably also use this forum as a PM thread instead of PM's if we want to entertain the spectators.
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 4:09:28 GMT
I just confirmed with the mods that we can do that, since if one of us dies no one will see this board anyways because the survivors get a new board.
Take your time replying. I'll get back to you tonight or tomorrow. My schedule is that I'm going to be a bit busy in the coming week due to all my midterms getting scheduled basically 2 days apart again and again, plus an assignment due wednesday, and basically midterms until next monday.
So if you don't care about winning immunity in this first challenge, I'm also not too worried about our current position.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 24, 2020 4:09:47 GMT
I am Australian Eastern (sorry!) but tomorrow at about 7pm EST would work quite well for me. I expect I would be free until at least 9pm, so that should give us plenty of time. Does that work for you?
Good luck in your test!! What is the topic?
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 4:18:32 GMT
Perfect. Let's do it. It's a religious studies course. I was interested in learning about the abrahamic religions, but turns out it's one of those garbo courses where they just ask a bunch of vague questions, listen to a few opinions, and say "well, looks like there's no right answer! Let's just have an endless discussion about it." Fortunately I'm good with writing so I can just text-generate my way through the course and wash my hands of it.
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 4:22:15 GMT
I'm super sleepy right now but I'll get back to you sometime before we do the challenge with a thoughts dump on people in the game.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 24, 2020 4:34:18 GMT
Okay, I have my wits about me now. I was a bit overwhelmed by everything going on. But yes, apologies for the surprise pairing. You were my top pick! And hey, let's be real, if each of us were to make ACTUAL TRUST rankings, I don't think we would have been very high on each other's list. Fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately, who knows?) that was not the case, and it seemed pretty obvious that the method for deciding pairs would be what it was (maybe they actually explained it somewhere idk), so I was hoping my score would be low enough to make it happen. As for why you! Similar to your reasons for putting me not-very-low, you seemed like someone who had made decent social connections with other people, but obviously you and I hadn't talked that much. So it kind of made sense to me to pick someone like you, while hoping that the people I had actually talked to would like us enough to not vote for us. While my early game approach was to not play very hard and sort of be harmlessly social with puppy pics etc., I unfortunately did not get as much time to message people as I had hoped so am worried that I made even less of an impact than I had aimed for. But know that I very much plan on not being a social flop and I will be upping my game. Given the promise of Quarter Quell twists, I suspect that we may not be a pair forever, even if we avoid going to elimination. However, I am happy for now to just treat this as a permanent duo and deal with whatever happens later, if anything. Lastly, and most importantly, I am indeed a cute animal image dealer!
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 13:39:13 GMT
You might be surprised to hear this, (well maybe not since I already warned you) but my initial plan going into this game was to get paired with someone who was 1. active and 2. didn't talk to me in the first round (so that I could effectively PM one less person and not gain an enemy out of it) and then basically just trust them completely since we're working together anyways and like what are you gonna do, suicide bomb yourself into me? You can probably tell by my PM that I actually thought that I picked you until you told me the other way around. So it's pretty hilarious that we're together. Two secret admirers meeting face to face.
Trust rankings at this point in the game are basically a non-thing for me. I'll give you a quick recap of how the game went down: first people talked about light conversation, then starting around last saturday early sunday, basically everybody started exchanging lists of who they like. Here's how the social dynamics appear to be from a rough sketch:
Tier 1: {Gilly, Susan, Stitch, Ted Cruz, Tracer, River Song, 12, Shuichi, Ulysses, Zod, Beetlejuice} Tier 2: {Birdo, Fenrir, Coco, Kirby, The Star, Tetra, Pikachu} Tier 3: {Tapu lele, Shadow, Wenya, Donald, Montreal} Tier 4: {Harbinger}
Tiers are unordered. Tier 1 are active people often mentioned in friend lists Tier 2 are people occasionally mentioned in friend lists Tier 3 are more inactive people / people who couldn't keep up with all the messages Tier 4 apparently no one PM'd this guy (because he was out for the weekend)
I got super burned out of having the same "who do you like" conversation with people in tier 1 and 2 and then getting a list of people in tier 1 and then giving back a list of people in tier 1, so basically everyone in that bucket is indistinguishable to me at this point, and I just stopped PMing people as it got closer to deadline. That's why I just put up a general perception list instead of a personal list: nothing in this game has happened yet to actually warrant me having a personal list of people I like or dislike outside of how much effort they've put in so far. So yes, being in tier 1 (maybe 2), I've made enough social connections that we should be able to coast through this first few TC's without much effort.
Based on this, pairs that we can probably just send to the garbage compactor as easy targets are Donald-Pikachu, Tapu-Wenya, and Shadow-Montreal. Unless of course you object to any of those.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 24, 2020 21:26:10 GMT
Oh neat! I briefly considered just going for someone I hadn't heard from at all, but there seemed too much risk of them just not talking to people and being something of a liability in that sense. But what you said was the reason why I thought not to choose who I had talked most to. May as well make use of the forced alliance! The tiers you describe are mostly what I expected, except that I hadn't gotten the chance to speak with either of Stitch or Tracer, and I suppose Beetlejuice being there slightly surprises me as conversation there seemed slightly more difficult, at least on my end. But otherwise it makes sense. I particularly like Ted Cruz (And apparently he likes you too, thought of course he'd tell me that). Gilly, Susan, River and 12 were also players I'd had decent convos with but I expected that they'd be fairly social elsewhere too. Coco was probably the standout from your Tier 2 list to me. If you've had enough of the "who do you like" conversations to create the tiers like that, then it sounds like you would have been pretty well set up, so I think that bodes well! And I don't object to any of your easy target pairs.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 24, 2020 22:51:32 GMT
Also Gilly says Frostbite 2020 is absolutely insane and that she really hopes G&W doesn't win the tourney.
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Welcome!
Feb 24, 2020 23:55:26 GMT
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 24, 2020 23:55:26 GMT
I will be ready to talk about starting soon. Just getting everything in order.
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Post by Zod on Feb 24, 2020 23:59:46 GMT
Hihi, I just finished having dinner and I'm ready to rumble. Also I seem to be getting the impression that people are feeling out a harbinger-tetra elimination. Not my preference but also not something I would fight against.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 25, 2020 0:09:58 GMT
Okay hi! I am also ready to rumble!
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 25, 2020 0:12:24 GMT
I reckon a separate thread would make things easier too.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 25, 2020 0:16:58 GMT
I got to see this one!
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Post by Zod on Feb 25, 2020 18:01:51 GMT
Man, Kirby is reaaaaaly strategic. He's talking about how donald wants to eliminate his partner pikachu since pikachu is giving up. Can you confirm or deny that about pikachu at all? I don't talk to donald. Is anything interesting happening on your side in general? On this side it's basically just the expected all active poeple are agreeing not to target active people thing, with kirby doing a little bit more.
Watch your tongue if you do get a chance to talk with Kirby, I get the feeling he spreads information around quite generously. Plus everyone apparently talked to him during the shipwreck since kirby is so cute and easy to send an intro PM. Unlike us big strong and intimidating men from more obscure media.
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Post by Fenrir on Feb 25, 2020 20:30:54 GMT
I've heard through Ted that Pikachu has mentioned that they wouldn't mind going to the eliminator. Apparently Pikachu doesn't really like Donald? But I haven't heard any of this from Pikachu myself. I think Gilly likes Tetra and seems most interested in Shadow/Impact as a vote option. But it's possible that Pikachu/Donald could gain sway. Tetra/Harbinger hasn't really come up. Shuichi, Ted, 12, Gilly, Beetlejuice etc. all say hi. And thanks for the warning about Kirby. I was trying my best to seem approachable with the puppy pics but it seems I will always be living in the shadow of Kirby's cuteness. I'll be sure to watch my mouth around them though. I hope your exam has gone/is going great. I expect you'd be an expert in Abrahamic religions by now!
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Post by Zod on Feb 25, 2020 22:33:42 GMT
Yeah, I managed to write the exam. Prior knowledge helped out a lot, since I basically stopped going to lecture to focus on my courses that actually mattered. Then again that's exactly why I took this course!
Ah, that must be why donald and pikachu have an enmity against each other. Though you have to wonder, why on earth did they pick each other? It's not like they're number 12 or anything. I'm pretty much in the same boat as gilly in that I'd like to vote out shadow/impact the most, with donald/pikachu being the other eliminated team just by voulenteering. Tetra's someone that might not be great at PMing but if you ask them a lot of questions they're really quite active and will like you back. At least that was my impression.
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Post by Zod on Feb 25, 2020 22:38:05 GMT
Just got a message from donald saying he thinks pikachu is dishonest. Spicy stuff, ill see how much i can squeeze out of him.
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Welcome!
Feb 25, 2020 23:31:02 GMT
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Post by Zod on Feb 25, 2020 23:31:02 GMT
Apparently Donald says that kirby is spreading a lie in which donachu is voulenterting to be evicted.
And I can confirm that I heard that from kirby.
So looks like those guys are blowing each other up already. And I was right about my read on kirby. I say we sit back and watch the fireworks. I'm not gonna interact much more with them on the topic to try to dodge all the drama.
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Post by Zod on Feb 26, 2020 2:34:58 GMT
I'm asking around about the vote and should get responses back by tomorrow. I think montreal-shadow is always going to be one of the two pairs in the arena though.
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