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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 11:57:30 GMT -5
OK, I don't really think I'm a mastermind, but that was my best move to date! Thread title is also pretty applicable to Cheep as well. I don't think I pulled it off flawlessly, though. I should've clued in Bud/Sorsha a lot sooner. Sure, they probably wouldn't have ended up voting him out anyways, but at least they might've respected me more, idk. Also, I really should've pitched the F6 to Naveen/Megara this phase w/o needing Cheep's permission because I was 99% sure he was down for it anyways. But yeah, it was a good layoff overall. The problem though, of course, is the fallout. Cheep's going to be a massive target to Dog, probably Air Bud and Sorsha as well, and I want the vote to stay off of him by any mean's possible. I have to worry about myself too, b/c I could become a target as well due to my role in it. It's wishful thinking that they'll pin it all on Naveen, though if they do that'll be pretty hilarious and also a little sad. Anyways, time for a relationship chart, and a totally revamped tier list! ------------------------- Reepicheep - No, duh! Prince Edward - Obvious as well, especially since we've finally officially formalized our trio. Hooray! Prince Naveen - Considering he choose me/Megara, I think we're pretty good. Megara - Crazy how she went from someone I never talked to to someone I'm allied with in just one phase. I guess buying a chat will do that for you! Nick Wilde - I trust him a fair bit, but considering he's a target and comes off a bit shifty he ranks below the others. Queen of Hearts - I'd like to align with her, but we haven't been in a chat for a while. But at least we're not against each other, or so I hope! Ralph/Alex - I'm not close with either of them, but at least they're more on our side for the moment. Sorsha/Air Bud/Dog w/ Blog - Considering they voted out of the majority, I'm not very keen on trusting any of them at all, Blog especially since he's almost for sure gunning for Cheep. -------------------------- ---------------------------- It's changed quite a bit, so I'm just going to do a revamped run down of each player specifically. And again, this is just pertaining to jury votes, not who's in the best position to win. Pua - Moved myself up, because I love myself. :P I feel I have a fairly solid case to make to the jury now -- the main thing I have to worry about is the Rich Chat being bitter at me specifically. Reepicheep - He's obviously played the best game here by the longshot, but I only moved him down because there's a chance the jury will be bitter against him. I'm sure he'll end up swaying the votes regardless, but there's enough doubt to where I can't say for sure he'd "definitely" win, even though I think he should. Dog w/ Blog - He's been left out of a lot of votes lately, and if he does make it to the end it's because he's done something to dig himself out of the hole he's in. If he does that, he might be able to string together a good case from his time in the Rich Chat. Queen of Hearts - She's played a solid middle of the road game from what I've seen. Fairly social with everyone, and has a good sense of game/strategy. Prince Edward - Turns out it was a good idea to trust Queen after all! He is a bit clueless about certain things (I believe he made a post in my chat that implied he thought the Rich Chat existed since like Round 3, lol), but he's played well enough. Prince Naveen - Also has played pretty middle of the road. I feel I can more/less copy-paste what I said about Queen here, albeit he might be a bit less social? Idk. Megara - I've probably overrated her game a little, but she's still played a solid all-around game. Copy-paste here again, though I feel her early game was solid than most depending on how close she was to Pixar and what they did together. Air Bud - He hasn't been getting the votes he's wanted recently and is near the bottom of the totem pole, though he can still dig himself out if he puts in the effort. Sorsha - She's been left out of a lot of votes as well and doesn't come off that well tbh. I've said before that she can use her avoiding the votes for so long as a plus in her favor, but I'm not convinced she did it through her own means -- it was more just the target shifting away naturally. Alex - Very quiet overall, hasn't done much throughout the game over than following what other people want. Very little chance he sways the jury unless he does something notable these next two rounds. Ralph - Same as Alex. I don't think paying to nullify votes is a great look for him considering he's done next to nothing this game -- he wasn't even in that much danger that round iirc. Nick Wilde - I mean, if he can't even talk game 1 on 1 while I'm holding his hand then I really don't see why he should win. I think he's done a few things here and there like pushing Rapunzel early on, but overall he doesn't talk much at all and hasn't contributed much to the game state.
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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 12:56:42 GMT -5
I really, really need to not get last this challenge, but it's a bit hard to find a time we can all be together. We might have to nudge it in Wednesday morning a few hours before deadline. If my chat gets last then that means I'll be forced to Put Up regardless of what the challenge is. Conversely, getting 1st means I can afford to Pay Up every challenge moving forward, provided the cost doesn't jump an insane amount. It'd be a pretty cheesy way to make it to the end, but it'd work.
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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 13:01:08 GMT -5
Also, I've realized I've mostly been looking at the tier list in terms of how I'd personally vote if I were in jury. I don't think it changes things too drastically, but considering the jury is entirely composed of the Rich Chat atm, Dog has a pretty good chance of getting their votes. Air Bud similarly also has a good shot at their votes since he's close to most of them, especially if Dog goes out next layoff. Probably should've moved Bud up a tier for that reason alone. Sorsha is also aligned with a number of them, but I don't think there's a lot of substance to her game from what I can tell, so I don't know if personal connections alone would be enough to sway them to vote for Sorsha in that scenario.
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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 15:55:32 GMT -5
I like how all of the Cash Grab teams are either extensions of the pairs during the last Cash Grab or of the chats we were just in last round, though that's to be expected at this rate. Cheep's probably doing damage control with Air Bud again, and I would say it probably wouldn't work but it was actually Bud who choose Cheep this time so I dunno. Sorsha/Dog/Alex is expected, as is Queen/Edward/Ralph. The good thing about my group at least is that I'll actually have time to pitch my F6 to them, though I'm still wondering if that's a good idea.
My ideal targets this round are Dog w/ Blog or Air Bud. They clearly are not allies at this point. Not only that, but they also have a decent shot at jury considering it's only composed of the Rich Chat atm. I'm wondering how viable that actually is, though. I get a sense that some players weren't entirely comfortable with the vote, perhaps Queen? And in my 5-player vote chat last layoff Naveen seemed content to going back to Nick (though he was talking to Bud/Sorsha too so who knows). Sorsha/Nick are dumb targets but if that's where the majority ends up leaning then I guess I'll go along with it. I'm not planning on buying random chats since I probably wouldn't get a good roll more likely than not, and I need to save my cash anyhow. I don't care about peeping through other accounts or having other's discover how poor I am, so I'm not doing any bidding this phase. I'm really, really hoping to come at least 3rd this challenge, but I'm not opposed to Putting Up if the elimination challenge isn't too bad. I'd probably want to get some game talk in with my team after we're finished with this challenge and see if they'd be up for either of my targets.
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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 16:53:49 GMT -5
So, my team agreed to start the challenge 10 minutes from now (though neither of them have showed up yet, which is a tad worrying!). Megara says she can only be there for about 20 minutes, but hopefully that's enough time to get through the bulk of it. I don't see the need for 3 people to do it at once -- it could be a bit faster, but it might become a mess if people can't coordinate and just flip the pictures whenever. The only other time we can do this is early Wednesday, and I don't feel like waking up early for that, plus being tired and groggy will likely be as much as a handicap as missing a player. I'd be very happy if my team got 1st, but again all I really need is 3rd, at least for the short term, and that's only if the next elimination challenge is awful.
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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 17:04:01 GMT -5
Naveen is LATE!
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Post by Pua on Sept 23, 2019 18:34:42 GMT -5
So of course, the maze ends up being much, much harder than I anticipated! I fell into this trap where there were several solutions that had 7/8 quadrants done and I kept trying to flip some thinking it would work, not realizing it was futile and I was just wasting my time. So I ended up scraping multiple solutions and tried flipping some squares I haven't touched for a long time, and somehow, someway I managed to figure it out. I think if I put as much effort into solving it during the last like 20 minutes than I did over the whole hour I would've gotten it done a lot faster. Honestly I'm super surprised I managed to find a solution -- I was so close to just throwing in the towel completely. And like I suspected, it is kind of easier with less people. I found it a lot easier to just do it by myself, and that's no shade to Naveen or Megara at all, because I almost couldn't do it myself! Knowing how everyone is apparently a comp beast at these things, my team probably got last and I get to weep as I watch all the over teams finish it in 20 and 30 minutes, and then cry into my Pua plush when the next elimination challenge turns out to be a jigsaw puzzle or something.
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Post by Captain Marvel on Sept 24, 2019 1:18:39 GMT -5
hi!! I have lots of questions because you're my favorite player in this game and I want to know what you're thinking!!
1. How much water have you drank in the past 24 hours? 2. Who, if anyone, currently on the jury would vote for you? 3. Who is the best survivor player on mafiascum.net? 4. What challenge do you want to see for the upcoming elimination #10? 5. What's your favorite quote? 6. If this game had an Island of the Idols, who would you want to see come back at the end and steal your win? 7. Help me settle the age old debate: does Pineapple belong on Pizza? 8. Who is the biggest threat in this game right now? 9. Under what circumstances is it acceptable to use a nuclear missile? 10. Who are you going to vote for next layoff?
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 8:51:10 GMT -5
Yay, thanks for the questions! 1.None, actually. I only drink milk when I'm at home since I don't trust my fridge water for a second. Technically, it does (or should) have water in it, but I don't know how to calculate that. I've drunk about a gallon over the past day. The only time I'll drink water usually is when I go out for a long time or I'm at work. 2.Currently? No one. And by "currently" I mean before jury speeches and stuff. Given I haven't talked to most of the Rich Chat that much, they don't have that good of an impression of my game and will be more inclined to vote their allies (Dog Blog, Air Bud, perhaps Sorsha in Doof's case). I'd have to make a pretty convincing opening speech to have any hope of getting votes, but as long as I do that I should have a much better shot at jury. Z&C > Doof > Pepe is the order of how likely I feel I am to get their votes, from most to least likely. 3.Me? :P But seriously, I'm still pretty new to the LSG scene so I don't have that good of an impression of most players, but from what I've experienced so far I'd say it's probably Klick. He absolutely killed it in Equestria, and his performance in Smash Bros. was pretty good as well from what I've read. He's a very well-rounded player overall -- great social and strategic game, and can pull out challenge wins when he needs to. Plus, I don't think many players can claim to have won two survivor games within a year and a half of each other. 4.It'll be nice to play some Crazy Taxi again, haha. I think we're overdo for some Robot Unicorn Attack, actually. It's practically an LSG staple! (Along with Codewords more recently -- surprised we haven't seen a challenge of that either!) 5.“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I was thinking about this a lot while doing the maze challenge, haha. Apparently the quote isn't from Albert Einstein at all. The earliest instance of it is from Rita Mae Brown in his novel "Sudden Death". At least I learned something new today! 6.Pixar Lamp. He was so robbed this game. If he were still here he'd definitely be the one running the ship, and it sucks that he was booted so early for mixing up a few countries in the geography challenge. 7.I do not like pineapple on pizza in the slightest and I'm pretty sure I'm slightly allergic to it, but I think this is one of the dumbest debates in history. Pineapple does belong on pizza -- it's not like pineapple's killed pizza's entire family and now they have a restraining order against them or something. That doesn't mean I'd eat it, of course, but to say pineapple doesn't "belong" on pizza is really overblown and a bit petty. 8.Reepicheep, for sure. He has a great shot at both the money and challenge slots in F6 at the very least. The jury could be a tossup depending on how bitter they are, but if Cheep explains his case well then he still has a good shot of taking that slot as well. I feel a week's enough time for emotions to settle down, and at the end of the time I feel the jury's more likely to be objective than not (or at the very least, not as bad as "you backstabbed me, so there's no way you're getting my vote!"). 9.None? Those things are terrifying, and no one deserves to suffer the effects of one of those. 10.Dog w/ Blog, ideally. Of course, I'm not going to vote for someone who's not going to get any votes, so I'm going to first pitch it to my current team to see what they think about it, and then from there I'll probably try to organize something with Cheep through code so we can get the votes we need during Phase III.
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 9:46:06 GMT -5
I'm working on a pitch to Naveen and Megara right now for an F6, but I realized they're probably going to think I want to team up with them specifically. I don't want to give them the false impression that I am, but at the same time I don't want them to think I don't care about them just because they're not on my team specifically. I also don't want to thrust them into a team of Megara/Naveen/Queen if they're not into it. But if this F6 is going to happen it's better to do it while I still have a chat with them. Ugggh, idk.
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 10:07:18 GMT -5
I'm very glad we got the challenge over with! Now that that's over, there's some things I've been meaning to talk with you guys about. I was gonna talk to you guys about this during last layoff but I didn't have enough time, so I'm glad Naveen bet on this team. I like you both a lot and would love to make it to endgame with you. I was wondering how an F6 of us three plus Cheep, Edward, and Queen sounded to you? I'm fairly solid with everyone there, some more so than others, and considering we all voted together during the Pepe vote I feel we can all trust each other a fair bit. Maybe we could substitute someone out if you're not quite comfortable with that, but this is basically my dream F6. I would be very comfortable winning with (or losing to, if the challenge isn't in my favor) anyone in that group. This is what I ended up writing to Megara and Naveen. I think it's pretty decent all things considered. Honestly one of the main driving factors behind posting this is that there's a decent chance my team will get last and I'd be eliminated during the next challenge, so if I'm going to go out anyways I might as well see how this plays out for future reference at the very least. It's unfortunate that Cheep & Queen got different teams since they're most likely the ones carrying the team for their challenge, but hopefully the last team messes up really bad?
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 11:22:14 GMT -5
I actually adore cheep and queen and eddie so that sounds perfect to me!! It's a yes from Megara so far. Just have to wait for Naveen to pop back in now...
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 17:00:05 GMT -5
Forgot that Naveen was going to be unavailable most of today. Ugh, I really should've done this last night! At least I actually did it this time...
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 22:25:16 GMT -5
I've been popping in like every 5-10 minutes over the past 4 hours at work hoping Naveen would've posted since I thought he said he was available around this time. I hope he wasn't thinking like "well, the challenge is over, no need for me to pop in for the rest of the day!"
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Post by Pua on Sept 24, 2019 23:44:18 GMT -5
Well, at least we came 3rd! As I was expecting, two of the other groups managed to do it in half an hour. Not quite sure how I feel about the elimination challenge. I'm pretty good at flash games, but not so much education games. I'm thinking it probably won't be that hard if we can hire babies to play test it, but it'll probably be pretty tedious! I'll have to start it sometime tomorrow. I technically can afford to Pay Up, but unless I do really well next challenge, like 1st place well, then I'd be forced to Put Up next challenge. This sounds at least somewhat in my forte, but at least I have the option to Put Up in case the challenge turns out to be something completely unexpected.
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 0:32:56 GMT -5
I got excited for a split second when I saw a new message notification, but it was just Megara. That's not too bad actually, considering Naveen's probably wouldn't realize we still had chats otherwise, lol.
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 6:59:03 GMT -5
Please come back soon Naveen. :(
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 10:56:08 GMT -5
Oh my god he finally showed up. Hopefully he realizes he still has like 20 minutes left to post!
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 11:02:36 GMT -5
Plz Naveen. There's only two things I planned on doing with this chat and I'm hoping I could get at least one of them done!!!
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 11:27:55 GMT -5
Welp, oh well. Maybe I'll just pull him and Queen into a vote chat and ask again, lol. I'm gonna take it as a "yes" for now and hope he doesn't have any objections or whatever. Going to start the challenge later today -- maybe in a few hours? I'll see.
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 14:37:38 GMT -5
Cheep's coded me that he's in a group with Air Bud. Dang, if I knew there weren't going to be that many bidders I might've pitched in as well! A 1 on 1 would sound nice. But I don't think it really matters that much anyhow. Assuming I make it past this round, I'm either thinking of bidding on me/Queen/Edward or me/Queen/Naveen atm, with Cheep grabbing whoever's left over plus Megara. I would definitely like to get a bit closer to Queen and possibly pitch my F6 to her. Part of me feels she'd be more comfortable if there was someone else there she was closely aligned with (ala Edward), but I might just want to throw Naveen in just because he didn't give me an answer to my pitch, lol.
I'm not super confident about making it past this phase, honestly. I don't think my time in the elimination challenge was that bad, but it's definitely on the slow side. It's going to be that stupid adventure game sideline that makes or breaks my game. If there's any solace, it's that I wouldn't have fared that much better if I Payed Up instead. That means I'd be forced to do the next challenge no matter what, and with only 10 players it'd be pretty scary, but at least this way there's a chance I won't have to. However, I do plan on bidding on groups, so I'd still have to do decently in the next cash grab, and even then it might just be better to Put Up anyhow, but some extra money in stock wouldn't hurt.
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 18:00:21 GMT -5
I've put in a bid for a group of me/Queen/Edward and communicated it through code with Cheep. The biggest factor for me is that I don't know how close Queen and Naveen are, but I know Queen and Edward are pretty tight so it won't be as hard initiating some game talk. Queen is my weakest connection in my F6 for sure, and if Edward's there to back up the F6 as well she might be more inclined to accept it. On the downside, I can't really "finalize" the F6 without getting approval from Naveen. I'm hoping Cheep bids on a chat with the other half of the F6 -- I kind of wanted to communicate it through code, but idk I didn't want to seem too sketchy writing out so many posts at once, and there's not really a lot of good threads to dump codes (I'm still subconsciously opposed to posting in the Obligatory Code Thread even though practically everyone knows every thread is an Obligatory Code Thread at this point). Also, it's not very "death proof" in case either me or Cheep get eliminated in the challenge. If Cheep goes, I'll only be able to communicate through Naveen with the Songs code and Nick with the code I made during round 8, though I don't think he'd really care about that. Switching Edward and Naveen could fix that, but I don't want the chat to get awkward so I'll keep it as is provided Cheep doesn't object to it or something.
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 22:42:55 GMT -5
Well, the moment of truth is almost here. I'm just hoping I'm not the 4th juror!
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 22:53:37 GMT -5
Yaaaaaay, I'm still alive! Bye, Ralph!
Nick apparently paid a lot for a chat with me & Cheep. Getting a chat with Nick is fine, but being paired with Cheep is less than ideal, especially since he's a likely target...
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Post by Pua on Sept 25, 2019 22:56:34 GMT -5
Oh nvm, turns out Cheep paid to nullify votes!
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Post by Pua on Sept 26, 2019 8:43:55 GMT -5
I think I just assumed Cheep would bid on a group, but I guess he didn't? Honestly, not quite thrilled to see him nullifying votes. If we both got 3-chats, and Cheep paid a significant amount to get them instead of nullifying votes, we'd be in a much better position this layoff. I have zero clue what Dog talked about with Alex and Sorsha. According to Cheep, Dog's still targeting Alex, which is absolutely mind-boggling if true, but I'd kind of doubt anything Dog says at this point. I'm either thinking Cheep just didn't talk about the vote at all between Air/Alex in the team and Phase II chats or they were planning on Sorsha. Despite being in a group with Cheep, I'm going to try to pitch voting out Dog. I have a code with Edward, though honestly I'm not sure if he'd even remember we have a code, and Cheep has a code between Naveen/Megara as well (and technically I have one with Naveen as well through the song code). That alone should be enough votes -- the problem is that I have no idea what groups their in. Even if we assume at bear minimum that Naveen/Megara get the code and are down for it, they might not want to go against their chat if they're not up to it, assuming their paired with Dog or one of his allies like Bud. Imma wait and see what Cheep says.
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Post by Pua on Sept 26, 2019 8:56:57 GMT -5
Oh yeah, if there's a plus side to not getting the chat I wanted, it's that I have more money saved up to Pay Up next challenge. This next Cash Grab is going to be crucial, and I might just bid on team captain. Ideally I'd want a team of my F6 minus Queen and just hash things out regarding cash. Getting everyone enough cash to Pay Up if they want to would be nice, but it's also a good opportunity to try and manipulate the finale slots. I'm not sure how much cash Cheep still has saved up, but I hope it's a lot! Through updating my Imporkant Information thread with the latest Cash Grab winnings, I've realized Air Bud has quite the amount of cash saved up, especially considering he hasn't payed much expenses afaik, which makes him an even more appetizing target next round.
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Post by Pua on Sept 26, 2019 10:35:43 GMT -5
I'm slightly paranoid that Cheep did not like what I said since he basically popped in once and didn't reply back. But then again I know I take breaks from the game and don't always respond right away, or I'm just checking away from home and can't really find the time to reply then and there. It's probably just nothing, but I really hope I'm not wrong!
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Post by Pua on Sept 26, 2019 13:02:49 GMT -5
Dog is where my vote is sitting right now. I don't see Alex as that strong of a threat. MAYBE Queen of Hearts, if anyone not in the rich chat, but there are bigger fish I want to fry. Got excited when I got a new notification, but it was just Nick. Interesting that he wants to go after Queen, but I guess it's not that surprising considering she was throwing his name out apparently. I mean it's nice for the extra support but obviously I'm not doing anything without Cheep's approval.
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Post by Pua on Sept 26, 2019 14:18:25 GMT -5
I hope this isn't a repeat of Naveen, lol. At least I have confidence that Cheep will get back to me.
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