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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 12, 2018 4:14:37 GMT
A couple ramblings as I wait for the game to end. 1. I don't know who's winning yet. I know I was the favorite going in, but my paranoia is certainly not going to let me assume anything. That said, I'd be okay with Gundham winning now after seeing him actually fight for it the way he did in Chihiro's thread. Maybe I am a big old softie still. I still think I played a better game then him, but he's fighting for it, and literally every FTC I witness I find myself rooting for the underdog to do well. It's so strange because I don't want him to do well, but I also want him to have a strong finish. 2. Not sure I would be super thrilled with a Nagito win anymore based on a FTC performance I'm finding kind of underwhelming, but I still love him as a buddy. 3. This is going to feel like a very long time before reveal. 4. This Celestia thread is something I'd normally roll my eyes at, but it's different when you're a part of it I'm feeling the love. 5. I've been to two final tribal councils before, (not mafiascum survivor FTC though) and both times I was the favorite to win. I performed terribly in both and I lost a lot of votes I should have had, but I still had enough to have the most. This was a council where I knew if I performed terribly, I would easily lose. So I really had to take everything I learned from previous experience, and I think this is my best FTC performance I've done? (It was a low bar to be fair) Sure I ticked off Akane somehow, but I feel like she was against me from the start for some reason. I guess I'll find out how the other jurors viewed it. 6. That said, these are exhausting as ever. And I'm by far the finalist who seems to be getting it the easiest and getting the most motivation to keep trying. This goes into where I feel bad for Gundham and Nagito a little. I don't even think any juror members are even being rude, it's just being dissected and then trying to figure out the right thing to say is tiring. I feel like you haven't fully experienced a survivor game until you go through one of these.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 13, 2018 8:17:57 GMT
It's over! Did I win? I don't know. Not assuming anything.
Sorry to everyone for a really lame confessional.
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Post by Monomi on Oct 13, 2018 17:25:37 GMT
It was one of the better ones :$
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 13, 2018 17:53:53 GMT
uh oh lol.
It doesn't have 30 minutes video confessionals like Gundy though lol.
Like, I thought Gundy was obnoxiously manipulative to Akane and Celestia, and I hope it turned off other jury members. But like I said, I always subconsciously root for the underdog, and the passion he has for this makes me want to vote for him over Nagito, but if I was in his situation I wouldn't have given up either. I've devoted a lot to this game, and I wish I was grilled a little harder tbh, because Gundy's stuff looks impressive, but I could have one upped him if asked similar questions. He had no idea what was going on with half the game half the time. Maybe I should have included it in the closing speach. And like it was a little annoying he kept saying he had such a rough time because all his friends were dead, and he had so much to overcome. It just sounded like an excuse for why he wasn't doing that good for a lot of the merge. And he latched on to and hid behind Celestia all game, so it's not like he was in a bad place. I was in a bad position going into FF, but I still was able to get in good with people quickly. You always have to be open and adaptable to making new friends when your last ones died.
I really wanted to grill Gundy a little more, but I feel like being the overdog it would seem like I was punching down and lose respect from the jury, but maybe I should have brought it up a bit.
But like, if Gundy does have 30 minutes video confessionals, then I'll get over losing quickly if he beats me because that's the type of content I want to read in a winner afterward lol.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 13, 2018 18:06:30 GMT
Final ID guesses
Gundy: Vash (100% sure) Nagito: See he speaks exactly like Shadoweh does, but there's something that feels off about him being Shadoweh. Maybe Mallowgeno? Mikan: Aurathebirb? Celestia: Adorabebs Akane: Chevre Kyoko: Drench Sayaka: Entreri Hiyoko: ???????? Yasuhrio: PEG or Papa zito Chihiro: ? Empire? Ibuki: Shrek Kirumi: Cheery Dog Teruteru: Kingdom Aces Makoto: Captainmeme Sonia: ? Summer? Gonta: Randomidget Kaede: elusive?
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 13, 2018 18:07:46 GMT
If Nagito actually is Shadoweh, I'll find that hilarious for reasons that will be clear when my ID is revealed.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 14, 2018 4:33:17 GMT
I'm contemplating if I could have done things better in FTC, I don't know if I'd change anything in hindsight yet. I got a bit of criticism from Yasuhiro for not separating my game enough from Nagito, but I barely brought up anything we did together in my opening speech, and Nagito himself got upset I never mentioned him for some reason. I think my opening and closing statements were better then both Gundham's and Nagito's. Like the last two FTC I was at, I gave step by step moves of everything I did in the game. And it was long and awful, and I learned people didn't care about that. My last two speeches are so cringey I've never been able to go back and read them. And it lost me votes. I think again it was clear people weren't that interested in that this council. In my closing speech I even mentioned no one asked me any of that. Since I knew I couldn't perform badly this council, and the gap wasn't that wide, I tried to remember what makes a jury member tick. I've been a jury member twice now, and both times the winner was decided by a difference of 1 vote so they were very even competitors. I tried to remember what personally got me to vote for someone to win in those cases. The one I remember more clear was in Arkham City survivor between Mr. Freeze and Batwoman. They were a power couple from the beginning, and their games were pretty indistinguishable, but I really wanted Batwoman to win by the end. At the time I couldn't quite figure out why I wanted her to win more either, but it just felt more right. I think I figured out why though, in their speeches, Mr. Freeze came off a bit game-botty, and when he mentioned my vote-off, it was basically like "nothing personal. I outplayed you, I hope you can respect that". Batwoman meanwhile was like "YOU WERE A SCARY FORCE. If I had targeted you round x, you'd have had the votes to get me off. I had to swing the vote to your ally. Every move you did made sense." etc. and she mentioned my name quite a bit in answering other questions as well. And I was like, "dang, she outplayed me, but she viewed me as a force and she respected me. You go girl!" I think if Mr. Freeze won, I'd feel like I wouldn't be remembered by him or he didn't fully appreciate what happened to get me eliminated. Like, he played the objectively better game I think, and he even had a great social games and we were friends too, but I think it came down to respect from the finalists, and I felt like Batwoman respected me more. While Hiyoko played a terrible game, she is right that none of us really showed respect for her when she went out, and I think I finally figured out that's the key thing in FTC. Step by step strategy explanations doesn't show respect for jury members. I suspect most people who play survivor are already aware of this, and they'll be like "duh... we've known that for awhile" but I don't read survivor strategy guides Even Kyoko's first question was she felt disrespected with her boot. Anyway, that's what I was going for in my closing statement. I respected every one of them as competitors, and I made it clear I'd remember them if I won. I don't think Gundy or Nagito's speeches did that.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 14, 2018 4:39:54 GMT
Or maybe that's just how I work as a juror. I'm sure there are some who only vote based on best gameplay and don't care how the winner percieved them. But those are probably quite rare.
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 15, 2018 2:08:40 GMT
Monaco was PrivateI
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Post by Shuichi Saihara on Oct 15, 2018 4:58:26 GMT
HI. I feel like i need to get your attentions fast or you'll flake away like a corn flake. I've decided I'm going to win this game so if you follow one person follow me. I guess I need to decide this more often. Thanks everyone who followed along! Like I said in the FTC thread, I'll remember this game and everyone who was a part of it for a long time.
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Post by Kaede Akamatsu on Oct 15, 2018 5:33:46 GMT
/salute
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