{Survivor: Names Are Hard Island} ~ GG

[Flameaxe]

I would have tried to poach Flameaxe years ago if I'd known his dark secret.

Only an outlier, promise

[Flameaxe]

I support this product and/or service

[Flameaxe]

You Think You Get It. YOU DONT YOU DONT YOU DONT!!!!!!!

[Flameaxe]

Welcome to the circle jerk, enjoy your stay.

[Flameaxe]

It's possible to get close with some people and not do small talk. I don't think I did any small talk at all with Frenchie and he was one of my closer allies. As the game went on it got less and less common all around.
(I still complained about school to people only because they were forced to pretend to care.)

Hey, I didn't pretend to care

We bonded over our educational misery

[Flameaxe]

Negative

[Flameaxe]

^this totally happens every game. There's always some mystical rule about chatting casually and then something about the game stuff coming in "naturally". Its idiotic, but probably set in stone with the mentality of players

[Flameaxe]

And the longer the trend of bigger games continues, it will never be newbie friendly. Its tough to read too much into 1-2 newbies breaking the mold, and discredits that the atmosphere doesn't welcome new players kindly. This was (at least appeared to be) advertised as giving those newbies a better atmosphere to build into the game, and the boot list shows it failed on that front. Nothing about the game felt any different in the form of newbie welcoming to me. (Idol searches, really?)

The fact that we are here discussing "how the meta works" is a problem in itself. Were stuck in a situation where fitting the meta gets you far, and there isn't enough influx of new players coming in who could change it. Its all beautifully stagnated.

[Flameaxe]

Putting in a requirement to spectate first gives you a general idea what to do, but when you're watching the top level players succeed in one way, you'll drift to that when playing and all of a sudden we have a nice boring addition to the player base.

[Flameaxe]

Oh, Berry

We never stopped seeing you as an evil villainous creature-thing

<3

[Flameaxe]

Yes! That's true. I was legit quite excited when I found out you put yourself through the same grinder I'm going through. How did we end up on opposite alliances again?

We didn't send the flue gas into the reactor with enough excess air to perform the reaction to completion. Additionally, we modeled our reactor assuming an ideal gas instead of modeling it using a Peng-Robinson model. The difference in residual pressures between the two models created vastly out of proportion reactor kinetics and everything just sort of fizzled.

[Flameaxe]

That reminds me, I was actually kind of serious about this:

BPC [The spectator played by N, not the mod.] gave me an idea: Survivor: Mish Mash Survivor. Anon Survivor where the player options are usernames of anyone who's ever played a Survivor before. Playing in character is recommended. Picking yourself is allowed, but not as your first option, and other people taking it has preference.

Either that or character options are characters from Anon games. If a newbie asks for the mods to pick, give them Chancey and watch what happens when they say it's their first game.

Like, I wouldn't be able to design it, because I'm bad at being creative, and it would also be even less newbie friendly, so it's probably not actually a good idea, but as long as people don't use it as an excuse to be openly hostile (which is a very extreme statement in itself), it could be fairly interesting.

Just can't have anyone be Snakes, they'll lose round 1 out of principal, or win out of principal

[Flameaxe]

I have never felt quite a strong missed "best friend" potential here, Flum.

[Flameaxe]

Hey, it didn't work out this time

Yeah, sorry.

[Flameaxe]

The meta isn't the problem

Disagree, but agree to disagree

[Flameaxe]

Perfect, now we even have a theme for the game.

Shits easy.

[Flameaxe]

Hi

Something like that is totally in development already

EDIT: Here's a link to the first one I ran with JD

[Flameaxe]

Hi

Something like that is totally in development already

EDIT: Here's a link to the first one I ran with JD

That looks like a horrible idea, what kind of loser would mod that with you?


Me and Drench talked about a Survivor game where every time you vote for the person who is voted out at that Tribal Council, the value of your vote is cut in half. So the longer a majority alliance exists, the less power any of its members actually have, unless they just keep splitting the vote, which makes things even more likely to be messed up!

Next marathon day, lets run this to see how well it tabulates.

[Flameaxe]

Why not an IRC game?

[Flameaxe]

Davos x Stannis #1 guaranteed ally pair

I ain't afraid to admit it

[Flameaxe]

I apologize (OK I don't remember who you were in that game though)

[Flameaxe]

Nvm just remembered

<3

[Flameaxe]

I always really enjoyed talking to HTTP, just couldn't get anything to click.

(of course I also really enjoyed talking to Val, soooooo that might not mean as much as I think it does)

[Flameaxe]

well fuck you too Klick