Hype Survivor HYPE SURVIVOR 21 - Day One, Part One discussion thread!

[The Original Bamfer]

Where is Tangled Web?

Oh! Don't do it with your pants down.

 

[Matt]

I really wish Kipobe were playing I got the privledge of hosting his first win and he kept me in the loop on his strategy (if people think they can't trust the host's confidentiality, ask him). It was really a work of art. I know it is silly to apply that phrase to something like this, but he is a brilliant strategist.

 

[Kipobe]

Imagine having to spend several hours instructing and explaining to several children how to do something and if just one of them messes up or doesn't listen, or makes the slightest error you have to spend the next several hours sitting infront of a computer screen scrambling desperately to fix the little error. Then imagine doing this every 2 days for 2 months straight. Kinda what its like to play the "mastermind" role in Hype Survivor successfully.

I learnt early, only deal with capable allies. I would never fly a plane with a rookie co-pilot and flight engineer, because I need to be freed up to be a Captain... not a teacher. To date, Erz was one of the greatest allies I've ever fought by... in fact, I saw myself as his First Officer in that game, and he was like a blocker on the football field all the way to my touchdown. Toven was a brilliant ally too, but I made other plans without her and now I've lost her forever.

Capable allies are better than teaching people. That doesn't mean I discriminate against new players... not at all. I discriminate against stupidity.

 

[CConn]

I really wish Kipobe were playing I got the privledge of hosting his first win and he kept me in the loop on his strategy (if people think they can't trust the host's confidentiality, ask him). It was really a work of art. I know it is silly to apply that phrase to something like this, but he is a brilliant strategist.

That's probably the only part of it that kinda bums me out about not being in it. I love things depth and stuff really requires a lot of thinking. Granted, I'm sure I'd suck at it my first one or two times, but from there, it could be fun.

 

[Daisy]

But not to harp on the same point, but I just feel like alliances exist even without Hype Survivor existing. And unless you get some random newbie from the on-topic boards, you're never going to have anywhere close to a really unbias source. So letting one person everybody pretty much likes from the first round to come back isn't a big deal to me. For that reason.

You're working on two faulty assumptions:

1) Pretty much everyone likes Poster X.

Let's use the Showtime example: Pretty much everyone doesn't necessarily like Showtime. For example. I don't know him at all and the only interaction I had with him was me mistaking him for another person who was voted out, and then when I was called on it, insulting his screenname (in jest, but still... he doesn't know me either so I can't be sure he took it that way).

Why would I want that person guest hosting? I wouldn't.

And that's just this specific example. I'm sure there is a current player who might object to each player voted out for various reasons.

2) Alliances outside of the game mean that everyone is biased, therefore, it makes no difference whether the person played or not.

You're right that everyone - regardless of whether they played in this game or not has biases on the board. That everyone, however, includes the people who were just voted off as well as the current players. That's 100% of the board, so that argument becomes moot.

Now, you have 20 (okay 19) people - the players just voted off (except Eggyman who removed himself) - who have the possibility of another bias on top of those they hold regardless of their player status in Survivor. You've just increased the likelihood of someone being biased by their status as a former player in this game.

Why should that concept be 'given a chance' when there's a greater likelihood of someone who DID play being biased?

 

[Kipobe]

You'd be amazed what US Senators do in their spare time.

You're a US Senator?

Where is Tangled Web?

Uh, discovering that thing he invented is called *********ion?!

 

[CConn]

You're a US Senator?

Pfft, I wish.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

So are we on an island again or in a desert?

 

[Erzengel]

I learnt early, only deal with capable allies. I would never fly a plane with a rookie co-pilot and flight engineer, because I need to be freed up to be a Captain... not a teacher. To date, Erz was one of the greatest allies I've ever fought by... in fact, I saw myself as his First Officer in that game, and he was like a blocker on the football field all the way to my touchdown. Toven was a brilliant ally too, but I made other plans without her and now I've lost her forever.

Capable allies are better than teaching people. That doesn't mean I discriminate against new players... not at all. I discriminate against stupidity.

:heart:

 

[Kritish]

Pfft, I wish.

You wish you could molest congressional pages and get sucked off in restroom?

 

[CConn]

You wish you could molest congressional pages and get sucked off in restroom?

Who doesn't wish for that?

 

[Holly]

i already hate this game

 

[Daisy]

How you know if you're playing Survivor well: you want to shoot yourself in the head.

Not just in the head... in the face.

 

[Showtime]

Let's use the Showtime example: Pretty much everyone doesn't necessarily like Showtime. For example. I don't know him at all and the only interaction I had with him was me mistaking him for another person who was voted out, and then when I was called on it, insulting his screenname (in jest, but still... he doesn't know me either so I can't be sure he took it that way).

I lost sleep over that and was waiting for my revenge.

 

[Daisy]

I lost sleep over that and was waiting for my revenge.

[Monica]I knew it![/Monica]

 

[Matt]

I learnt early, only deal with capable allies. I would never fly a plane with a rookie co-pilot and flight engineer, because I need to be freed up to be a Captain... not a teacher. To date, Erz was one of the greatest allies I've ever fought by... in fact, I saw myself as his First Officer in that game, and he was like a blocker on the football field all the way to my touchdown. Toven was a brilliant ally too, but I made other plans without her and now I've lost her forever.

Capable allies are better than teaching people. That doesn't mean I discriminate against new players... not at all. I discriminate against stupidity.

I perfer to keep a middle ground. I like to have a couple experience allies, and a couple rookies. The rookies are more likely to follow you blindly early in the game but can become unpredictable later in the game (like Darthphere). The experienced ones are better allies once you establish trust, but when little rumor or slip and you suddenly have a fierce enemy on your hand. They can also be more power hungry (ala Movies205). That is why I like to keep a balance. I can manipulate both against each other to keep focus off me. The vets trust me enough to fall for it and the rookies are naive enough to bite. And when if one alliance backstabs me (Darthphere and Socrates), I fall back on my other (Clerk and Slipknot).

 

[Daisy]

I perfer to keep a middle ground. I like to have a couple experience allies, and a couple rookies. The rookies are more likely to follow you blindly early in the game but can become unpredictable later in the game (like Darthphere). The experienced ones are better allies once you establish trust, but when little rumor or slip and you suddenly have a fierce enemy on your hand. They can also be more power hungry (ala Movies205). That is why I like to keep a balance. I can manipulate both against each other to keep focus off me. The vets trust me enough to fall for it and the rookies are naive enough to bite. And when if one alliance backstabs me (Darthphere and Socrates), I fall back on my other (Clerk and Slipknot).

Not anymore!

I. Kid. You. Not.

 

[Showtime]

[Monica]I knew it![/Monica]

I've heard good things about you through the grapevine, so I knew of you and was not offended in the least. That is what I get for having numbers in my name, you could say I brought it upon myself.

 

[Erzengel]

What did I tell you?

 

[The Original Bamfer]

What is happening?

 

[Daisy]

I've heard good things about you through the grapevine, so I knew of you and was not offended in the least. That is what I get for having numbers in my name, you could say I brought it upon myself.

Good things about me?

Clearly you've been talking to the wrong people.

 

[Showtime]

Good things about me?

Clearly you've been talking to the wrong people.

They did laugh at me after they told me.

 

[Daisy]

What did I tell you?

Oh... you told him? Now it all makes sense.

"Good things" is code for "Daisy puts out".

 

[Showtime]

What did I tell you?

You've been right the whole time, I had to find out for myself. The hard way.

 

[Showtime]

Oh... you told him? Now it all makes sense.

"Good things" is code for "Daisy puts out".

They used the "de-flowered". I thought it was a play on words...