Survivor: Surviving the Minor Works

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Celuin (and others - you know who you are), why not save yourself the time of visiting this thread simply by arranging a standing vote, as follows:

+ + Whichever one littlemanpoet votes for

Well, that would take some of the fun out of come over here to irritate the anti-Smiths.

Besides, I'm perfectly willing to vote differently than LMP...if the attacks on Smith cease.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, now that this thread is getting to be more about personal politics than being just fun and games (which I originally thought it was supposed to be), I will simply vote

++Estelyn

off.

[The Only Real Estel]

Well, Spm, I think that if you (and Ang in this case) are going to continue to vote for someone until they are gone on the basis of "that's the way the game goes" then I don't think you can fault others for piling on other tribespeople to keep Smith from going. After all...that's the way the game goes.

And it's quite often that a leader emerges (in this case, perhaps lmp) that other people rally to to save their favorite. It's to be expected.

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Well, now that this thread is getting to be more about personal politics than being just fun and games (which I originally thought it was supposed to be), I will simply vote

++Estelyn

off.

Poor Esty...

You don't realise, alas, from the PAST Survivor threads, that this is how it inevitably goes. It is ABOUT the characters, of course, but what makes it FUN... er, or Mirthful... is the reasoning that we come up with. Not, of course, that we want to get rid of characters for that REASON, but because of the reactions it gets.

Really, all this personal assault is a part of the game, and not to be taken seriously. However, if you're easily offended, 'tis best indeed to drop out.

Meanwhile... hmm....

I've often identified with SPM and his anti-popular candidate positions, but he's taken such a liking to getting RID of Smith, that I find it rather more amusing to KEEP someone in this juncture.

Therefore,

++ Mew

As for my no-bandwaggons-but-my-own personal rule... well, I started this bandwaggon yesterday, didn't I?

[The Saucepan Man]

Apologies to one and all if my style of playing these games has offended anyone. Especially you, Esty. It was not my intention.

My posts are meant entirely in jest, I can assure you and, as Formendacil indicates, these games have recently tended to go this way. I am slightly frustrated by the collaberative effort to save Smith, but in an enjoyable and rather amused way. As Formy accurately identifies, I tend to take an "anti-populist" approach, and so I always tend to end up railing against the majority. For those who have not played these games before, I can understand how my posts may have seemed a bit off. For my part, it is purely part of the game, and not meant personally in any way (I appreciate that lmp has closely associated himself with my nemesis in this particular game, but my Smith votes should not be taken as any reflection on him personally, but rather a prodcut of my anti-populist approach).

I hope that I can tempt Esty back to the thread with an offer not to vote for Smith again ... well not for a few days, at least.

And, to show willing:

- - SMITH OF WOOTON MAJOR

+ + MEW

Seagulls! Dirty, messy creatures. As anyone who lives close enough to the sea (which seems to include most of the British Isles, these days) will testify.

I do, however, hope that my vote today, and my agreement to hold off on the Smith votes, will be reciprocated with a more open competition in the next few days.

[The Saucepan Man]

Sorry. One more comment.

Originally Posted by TORE

After all...that's the way the game goes.

I will say that I don't think it is best played in that way. The game is much more fun when there are a number of factions - and therefore alliances to be made ... and broken.

[The Saucepan Man]

Of course, I coud always pull a Kuru and say that it was always my intention that Smith should win, as and when when he finally does.

Has anyone noticed how, in these games, everyone seems to be able to claim great satisfaction with the result, however it goes ...?

[The Only Real Estel]

Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man

Has anyone noticed how, in these games, everyone seems to be able to claim great satisfaction with the result, however it goes ...?

Why of course...that's the way the game of life is played.

Personally, I don't care much about Mew, and not even that much about Smith but it's Farmer Giles of Ham disrupting competitions and camaraderie by insisting on being called Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo that gets me.

Therefore:

++Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo

If we could get him out of here we could start concentrating more on survival and less on having to fully and properly pronounce his name.

[Bêthberry]

I think I shall follow up my hint from last night with a full nomination. One can't really call this one an underdog.

++ Mer-dog

You praise yourself too highly, Sauce, if you think my votes were in any way influenced by you. Or by lmp. It seems to me that, rather than a bandwagon, there was a remarkable variety of reasons why people wished to keep Smith. A true polysemy of voice rather than homology.