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Post by Effie Trinket on Mar 23, 2020 19:21:06 GMT
This round we lost Zod and Ulysses.
It's sad to see you out of the game, but welcome to the Capitol, where you get a seat in the lap of luxury while watching your favorite people kill each other! In addition, we ask that all former players in the game not directly interact with the current players; please ferry all questions through non-players. Let us know if you have any questions.
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Post by Effie Trinket on Mar 23, 2020 19:22:36 GMT
Only 8 remain! Only one of those Districts has remained fully intact since the beginning.
Will District 7 be able to stick the landing and finish it out, or will one of our 3 hybrid teams be the victors?!
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Post by Effie Trinket on Mar 23, 2020 19:33:06 GMT
I would love to give a few shoutouts this round.
First, this challenge was not in our original plans to run. CaptainMeme came up with the idea and after he was unable to be one of the mods this season we felt it best not to run it.
However, we discovered over the last two days that the site for the challenge that was originally planned for this round is having server difficulties due to COVID-19 making it nearly impossible to guarantee it would run functionally or at all. As a result, the mod team had to quickly come up with a solution.
Because this challenge had already been half planned, we worked closely with CaptainMeme in order to use it. And by we, I seriously and 100% mean Caesar worked with him to ensure we had everything ready to go. In the last 24 hours, Caesar put this challenge together in conjunction with CaptainMeme and got rules ready and pretty much helped get our team out of a huge bind. I can't express my gratitude enough for doing this. I want to personally thank CaptainMeme and Ariel/Caesar for putting this together and getting it ready in a very tight time crunch. I had very little to do with this challenge and am eternally grateful I am working with some of the best mods ever.
COVID-19 has made things about this moderating experience very wild and has shaped a lot of things as to how this game ran. I've jokingly called it "the cursed LSG" from time to time, but after having something completely out of our hands come up at the last minute, I can say we've faced a lot of issues with everything.
So please give Ariel & CaptainMeme some love this round, it is my personal request since we've had some rough goings this game. In addition, Pants deserves shout outs for helping me manage quite a bit of PR behind the scenes.
Really this entire mod squad is amazing and I can't thank them enough. I am beyond lucky to have them working with me on this game.
In addition, since we had to put together this new game last minute, round recap is going to be late again.
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 23, 2020 20:40:23 GMT
Bruh. I was pretty much a non-entity here compared to my other games. Feels bad.
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 23, 2020 21:27:35 GMT
Also... WOW, I played BADLY over the course of this game. Remind me to never be a grumpy old man again. The only thing I had going for me was the amount of free time I had.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Mar 23, 2020 21:29:46 GMT
Belated congrats to district 7 to be the only set of people who haven't been sent to the eliminator
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 23, 2020 21:30:58 GMT
Shuichi, we got off to so great of a start. Why didn't you message me back?
Also, why did you bend the truth about how my boot played out?
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Mar 23, 2020 21:41:13 GMT
I mean why I didn't message you back was twofold: 1. With so many people replying to a long message is a lot for me, so I kind of kept putting it off, especially since I didn't have anything too clever to say.
2. Gimmick characters don't really work on me, I love the idea of them but I usually prefer to connect beyond the avatar, as such not only was your response a lot of effort to respond to it was not my preferred method of talking. Hell, I didn't even really talk to 12 until he gave me a translator so I could read everything he was saying quickly.
Like, definitely my bad there, especially since I did actually enjoy talking in the eliminator but alas.
As for why I bent the truth, simple, while I felt you deserved to know why you were in the eliminator, we were in a game where what you could literally just try to kill me, so ofc I would want to come off as good as possible while not just completely lying (especially since I'm only really good at bending the truth as opposed to outright lying).
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 23, 2020 21:45:40 GMT
Well I gave up the gimmick completely within two rounds or so of the beginning, so... RIP to what could have been a good relationship.
I was probably going to kill you anyway, though. I mainly wanted to get out with Tracer or Beetlejuice again since those were the two I thought I could most depend on.
Next time I won’t use a gimmick.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Mar 23, 2020 21:49:10 GMT
Yeah, but like at least I could maybe not make myself a round 1 hunt, and if I had done that, then I would have been in a pretty good spot overall. I figured I wouldn't be a irst choice but at least I could minimize the likelihood of me dying right away. After all it seemed River, Tracer and Birdo would have all been content with me as a partner.
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 23, 2020 22:22:36 GMT
Fair enough. Beetlejuice was probably always going to go out swinging, though.
Also, what in the world was Wenya thinking at any point during this game? I truly cannot grasp their playstyle.
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Post by Shadow on Mar 23, 2020 23:22:44 GMT
Hi there Ulysses. I wish I could of worked with you more, hopefully you weren't being two faced with me in messages, unlike Zod was.
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 23, 2020 23:24:56 GMT
I actually stood up in favor of you early on, but we kind of fell off as the game went on, unfortunately enough. Had you not been paired with two... not very good players, you could have actually done quite well.
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Post by Peeta Mellark on Mar 23, 2020 23:59:33 GMT
I would love to give a few shoutouts this round. First, this challenge was not in our original plans to run. CaptainMeme came up with the idea and after he was unable to be one of the mods this season we felt it best not to run it. However, we discovered over the last two days that the site for the challenge that was originally planned for this round is having server difficulties due to COVID-19 making it nearly impossible to guarantee it would run functionally or at all. As a result, the mod team had to quickly come up with a solution. Because this challenge had already been half planned, we worked closely with CaptainMeme in order to use it. And by we, I seriously and 100% mean Caesar worked with him to ensure we had everything ready to go. In the last 24 hours, Caesar put this challenge together in conjunction with CaptainMeme and got rules ready and pretty much helped get our team out of a huge bind. I can't express my gratitude enough for doing this. I want to personally thank CaptainMeme and Ariel/Caesar for putting this together and getting it ready in a very tight time crunch. I had very little to do with this challenge and am eternally grateful I am working with some of the best mods ever. COVID-19 has made things about this moderating experience very wild and has shaped a lot of things as to how this game ran. I've jokingly called it "the cursed LSG" from time to time, but after having something completely out of our hands come up at the last minute, I can say we've faced a lot of issues with everything. So please give Ariel & CaptainMeme some love this round, it is my personal request since we've had some rough goings this game. In addition, Pants deserves shout outs for helping me manage quite a bit of PR behind the scenes. Really this entire mod squad is amazing and I can't thank them enough. I am beyond lucky to have them working with me on this game. In addition, since we had to put together this new game last minute, round recap is going to be late again. I was on my way here about to be like, holy wow this is a genius challenge idea, like it works perfectly within the idea of a pairs game and yet it was put together last minute, you guys are amazing!!! |
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Post by Effie Trinket on Mar 24, 2020 0:15:12 GMT
I mean in the very first draft we were planning to do it. It was a fabulous idea by Meme. Just got cut originally because we didn’t want to do it without him...and then COVID-19 happened lol. Hence why I wanted to give him a huge shout out. Also to Ariel for throwing the rules together and making the images last minute as well as acting as liaison with Meme during the last 24-36 hours to get the intent and spirit of the challenge.
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Post by Shadow on Mar 24, 2020 1:14:18 GMT
I actually stood up in favor of you early on, but we kind of fell off as the game went on, unfortunately enough. Had you not been paired with two... not very good players, you could have actually done quite well. I undderstand that, I got very frustrated especially after I could read what was going on, that Montreal wasn't taking the game seriously, and Coco ended up having RL issues. |
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Post by Caesar Flickerman on Mar 24, 2020 1:23:47 GMT
One issue is that making a map in geoguessr requires a pro account (which there's a free trial for) and so we weren't totally comfortable with having to set it up last minute during the trial until circumstances necessitated we do something last minute anyway. I think it's a more inventive challenge than the original plan and really hope the players enjoy it. Going from not really knowing what geoguessr is to putting up the full challenge post took me like 6 hours lmfao. modding is fun!!
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Post by Caesar Flickerman on Mar 24, 2020 1:34:01 GMT
Players being highly impacted by their partner's inactivity is a challenge of this format that I have no better solution for than what we attempted to implement with the strikes policy, but acknowledge is one of its biggest flaws.
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Ulysses
Fallen Tribute
"He turns himself into a pickle. He's called 'Pickle Rick'. Funniest shit I've ever seen."
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Post by Ulysses on Mar 24, 2020 3:40:34 GMT
@hosts I can still post in The Capitol. Not sure if that's intended or not.
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Post by Caesar Flickerman on Mar 24, 2020 3:48:59 GMT
@hosts I can still post in The Capitol. Not sure if that's intended or not. nope, fixed |
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Post by Tapu Lele on Mar 24, 2020 4:37:43 GMT
i noticed it too but for some reason i didn't bother mentioning it
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Post by Caesar Flickerman on Mar 24, 2020 8:35:18 GMT
thanks for not posting anyway friends
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Post by Zod on Mar 24, 2020 15:11:55 GMT
Yo what up guys thanks for the super fun game I had a great time, not sure why I got mad but peace I'm happy
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Post by Regigigas on Mar 24, 2020 15:15:31 GMT
I mean in the very first draft we were planning to do it. It was a fabulous idea by Meme. Just got cut originally because we didn’t want to do it without him...and then COVID-19 happened lol. Hence why I wanted to give him a huge shout out. Also to Ariel for throwing the rules together and making the images last minute as well as acting as liaison with Meme during the last 24-36 hours to get the intent and spirit of the challenge. I came up with the vague idea for it way back when but aside from that my only input was mentioning needing the pro account and giving some thoughts on where to put the markers. This was pretty much all Ariel, huge props to her! |
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Post by River Song on Mar 24, 2020 15:49:57 GMT
ZOD IS ONLINE
I REPEAT
ZOD
IS
ONLINE!
Come talk to us!
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