Micro 1089: the coalition, again [game over]

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ok. explain 2857

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I think shea would be the most likely to get a snake out of the locker room in this game but I would probably be the one to do it if no one else would

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now I'm just imagining an interactive horror game set on the internet and all the text slowly changed into "If there was a snake in the locker room who would be most likely to get it out?? Would it be you?????"

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yes I am reading the post for the first time after I asked you to explain it there's no rule against watching a movie and the director's cut at the same time

[hellbooks]

this post was written off the cuff and i kind of just took ideas immediately as they came to me

Spoiler: spoilers for house of leaves

house of leaves is a book that is well known for having an unconventional and purposely obtuse and corrupted text formatting and footnote situation for literary reasons. the spoiler text is a direct parody of when they find out that the house is bigger on the inside than the outside, and i use a lot of silly bbcode things to make the post look more incomprehensible

the new york mets tiktok thing was a completely irrelevant attempt to pocket shea who was mourning the mets performance at the time
someone says "starling marte would just wrestle that thing and get it out of there", there were people who expressed a need for someone to step up and take decisive action, i just thought i'd tie those two things together

i thought it would also be funny to say like "oh shea mentioned that he's off doing magic the gathering and being sad about the mets so i'll make sure i factor that in when thinking about him at this time"

then it looks like i had a bunch of trying to make sense of the big shea tris situation and idk how much i succeeded with that but it all ended up being settled and done with

then i was like "oh i have a bunch of things i could ask skitter right now" and had the idea to make a GTKAS parody. i gave skitter the uncut gems avatar to reference an earlier joke i made about her using my avatar (which was related to me suggesting shea use vp baltar's avatar) (wow did that happen THIS game that feels like years ago)

skitterature is a reference to library dimension (my first post)
max scherzer is a pitcher for the mets i think
dethy is a setup ive been proselytizing througouhgt the game
day to be v/la saturday or sunday was a good joke from me i forgot about that

Spoiler: spoiler for house of leaves and how its like the coalition

part of house of leaves is the mythology of there being an unseen "monster" force in the house, the reality of which is called into question, which is like how theres scum in the coalition. and the house is like a shifting structure that takes the shape of people's collective psyche which is also like the nature of the coalition. so i just kind of Ctrl+F'd some fitting passages where they talked about the monster and replaced house with coalition

i guess me hiding game relevant questions within this block of text made skitter very easily say "ok i didnt get any of that so im just going to move on". but sheep was like "well i got it" which did a good job at reassuring me that i wasnt being obtuse to a counterproductive extent

footnote 1: this was just a silly little joke manifesto where i was like coalition building is a more radical and liberating form of mafia playing where we dont succumb to the ideology of "the only people we can really trust are people we've killed". lets bet on this shit is an uncut gems reference, my avatar at the time

footnote 2: i guess at the time i was like "hmm its weird that shea was willing to not be suspicious at all of tris for the purposes of forming a coalition but is now like "yeah actually everything that tris was putting out is not actually enough to be town". the uncut gems "house always wins" is a joke about how in the ending of a casino gambling session the casino is always going to come out on top i guess. and i made the text for the house blue which is another famous thing that house of leaves does

footnote 3: wuthering heights is one of my favorite books. ive been having a bit of a schtick where i bring it up a lot in games. one of the main theme is "characters strongly not forgetting about the things they did to each other in the past" which i described as "interactions soup". and yeah thrushcross grange and wuthering heights are two Locations that people are always trying to get or limit access to in the book which is so coalition-like

footnote 4: this is a deadend footnote which was just a fun fact

footnote 5: i was in a lot of physical pain while making this post and also having difficulty accessing medication. i made a joke about me being max sherzer in real life and thats why the mets were sucking

footnote 6: calling back to footnote 1 where i was like oh yea like people expect you to play the game of mafia in a certain gamesolving way that creates value for them which im going to make seem unreasonable by comparing it to capitalism or something. in order to justify my comparitvely lower value given that expectation

making this posts made me realize that my tastes in media are so annoying
or i guess the media things that i choose to bring up in mafia games

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dethy is like mafia sudoku

[hellbooks]

ooo

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beautiful. I wish I could become a mafia socialist

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hellbooks I'm gonna do something are you ready? make sure you're ready.

i town

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i wasnt ready way to make me trip and fall down

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unrelated do you ever listen to a song and go woww this is so good let me listen to more from the same artist and nothing else. comes close

that happened to me with Maude latour - one more weekend

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I guess one more reason why hellbooks could be scum is that I think fire could've maybe pushed her earlier. and then in elo they would have a "see I told you so thing"

and also her posting towniness in bursts is easier to fake than long extended emotion and analysis. she did it when skitt was starting to be in danger. sheep gave her townpoints for it because she put it in a spoiler but ehhh i think it's +scum still

I don't buy it. i just wish I had isis's confidence

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24% phone battery and 4.5 hours on my drive zzz

[hellbooks]

Lot of my favorite songs are like that

[fireisredsir]

i definitely get that way with albums where one is like perfect wonderful great and then they release a new one and im all excited for it and then i listen to it once and don't care at all and go back to the one i like

[fireisredsir]

I think shea would be the most likely to get a snake out of the locker room in this game but I would probably be the one to do it if no one else would

i think this is definitely true and i think him dying really did severely reduce the levels of getting snakes out of the locker room that is this game

[fireisredsir]

i was rereading the section after the house of leaves post and seeing how things exactly transitioned to skitter and wow i really did post a lot less of my mindset there than i thought i did

all three of our slots were like kinda absent although i think that brassherald being around was like kinda towny (including the bit where he was like please call me a smart good boy for suspecting tris, that just feels kinda uninformed to me) until the part where he did put tris on e-1 right as people started to wonder if they should pivot to skitter which is like. oof. but also sheep did similar and he's town so

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I'm too infatuated by individual songs to listen to albums very much

pedit: yeahh and that's possibly a reason why snake!hellbooks is hiding in plain sight here. what did Shea say about hellbooks

[fireisredsir]

i was like really deep in the trenches of trying to solve the MU game and mostly failing and i remember just checking in here and seeing people leaning towards tris and then leaning towards skitter and being like yeah cool thumbs up

[fireisredsir]

I'm too infatuated by individual songs to listen to albums very much

pedit: yeahh and that's possibly a reason why snake!hellbooks is hiding in plain sight here. what did Shea say about hellbooks

he generally scumread her in coal forming stage and didn't want her in at all but i don't really get the sense she would be his top pick for a skitter partner

i would guess that in general he's probably one of the most likely slots in the game to be relatively immune to her whimsical charms though

id say most likely reason is that he was like almost always town and also was one of the few who was like making choices and getting things to happen

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ugh yeah. what does the last bit mean

[fireisredsir]

what did i mean by writing it or what does it mean for alignment of people remaining

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what did you mean by it. like shea was almost always town and that's the most likely reason what

[fireisredsir]

i think its kind of a universal reason that could apply to anyone

arguably actually i probably took the most advantage of the vacant snake-yeeting space by being the one to step up and be like "okay we're limming sheep"

deeply resisting the urge to self meta explain why i wouldn't want to do that but yeah idk im town. i guess maybe it does actually tilt slightly towards hellbooks scum over your slot because with everyone a little apathetic we're maybe more likely to default to the somewhat lurky afk slot in brass

[fireisredsir]

what did you mean by it. like shea was almost always town and that's the most likely reason what

oh the most likely reason for him being the nightkill choice. like whoever did it, thats probably why they did, moreso than any reads he had