The List - Winner revealed!

[Xalxe]

[Xalxe]

YOU LIVE!!!!!

And you can keep me alive, for the low low price of "ranking me highly on your list!" It's fast, it's easy and it's fun! DM now!

Offer not valid in Canada, except the part where Silverclaw lives.

PEDIT: ooh, this place has Discord integration now? Jeez...

[Xalxe]

My DMs are also open for confessionals

[Xalxe]

I haven't done it yet, so I feel incredibly full of potential!

[Xalxe]

oh hello I appear to have done well

now seems like an excellent chance to reveal my secret for this challenge:

Spoiler:

[REDACTED]

[Xalxe]

I've got something you can use as an inside resource

Real question:

determining the size of a list of MafiaScum-related elements given a segment of this list (plus starting and ending criteria)

Any chance you can clarify what this means, or is it a surprise challenge that will vex us later

(I like this modern iteration on a classic!)

[Xalxe]

(I like this modern iteration on a classic!)

I retract this compliment, a pox upon this round

[Xalxe]

d3f's like i gave this chump 40 and he didn't even spend it all

NEVERTHELESS i am determined my randos will win

I mean your team's problem is that Oladipo isn't playing tonight.

fuck.

[Xalxe]

wow

y'all were fast

[Xalxe]

The

drama

!

[Xalxe]

slide puzzles are my nemesis

[Xalxe]

My opening statement is in bulleted form because I got my second shot on Friday and I am still lightly dizzy.

• I hope everybody had a good time playing this game! I did!
  
• MURDERCAT is a good and whoever wins will deserve it
  
• My strategy for this game was to be really good at challenges. Tragically I appear to be rusty at this and needed to be saved an uncomfortable number of times.
  
• However, I think you will find that this proves that I embody both aspects of The List: Outplay (good at challenges) and Outfriend (get saved when you need it)
  
• yes I am absolutely working backwards from my desired conclusion, I'm not a scientist
  
• I fully planned to get eliminated in fifth for being a challenge beast but it turns out that instead making friends gets you to the final 2, who knew! not me for my eight years of LSGs!
  
• in conclusion: if you vote for me I will run a game on here
  (a

  short

  game, I cannot be trusted with an LSG yet, I gotta work my way up to that)
  . If you do not vote for me, I will also do this.

Lots of Love,
Xalxe

[Xalxe]

If I had a block of immunity cheese and it was F3 with Xalxe, Murder, and I, who would you(both of you can answer) tell me to use it on?

Yourself. Cheese is delicious, and DeathKitty and I would both lose to you in an F3 because Everybody Loves Noraa.

[Xalxe]

Hello friends. I have several questions for you.

The first being the obligatory gif the jurors question.

The second, what were your strategies for your lists? Did you have any? Did you every do any shady trading deals or purposefully try to screw somebody by placing them at the bottom?

The third, how happy to not have to write a speech are you?

I'll be back <3

1) this question gives me anxiety I'm coming back to it later

2) My strategy at the start was to save people who were bad at challenges (so I could beat them). I think JAPAN was at the top of my first list because lolwhomst? Later it was to save the people who saved me (anybody who saved me got the top spot the next round), as well as the people who talked to me. I didn't do anything shady until noraa ended up near (but not at) the bottom of my list at F8, and Ceph was at the bottom for F4; I like them both a lot and they were the two who talked to me the whole way through the most, but I knew I couldn't beat either of them.

3) I does what I wants

[Xalxe]

hello i'm going to make you write speeches:

what did you do this game? i don't actually know what happened

I talked to people and made friends!

literally that's it

When you came to me and wanted noraa out I put her low (not that it ended up mattering) and at F4 MURDERCAT was like "yo we should put Ceph low" but I was always gonna do that because you'd beat me 6-1

Otherwise yeah I was just having a good time chatting and doin' challenges. Challenges are fun! Except slide puzzles!

[Xalxe]

MURDERCAT is a good

Is Xalxe a good?

Dancer? no.
Person? I try.
The List player?

(alt text: Olmec, the stone face from Legends of the Hidden Temple, with text overlaid saying "The choices are yours and yours alone")

[Xalxe]

What should the jury value more: challenge performance or social performance, and why?

Both. I would argue that challenge performance is more important here (where second place gets you safety) than in a Survivor game or similar (where second place gets you diddly), but I don't think you can have one without the other. You can see that in this game: Cephrir was a challenge monster, but was taken out by the social game for precisely that reason, and I think noraa is emblematic of the "social without challenge" game, and she also fell short.

[Xalxe]

Alright jury, I don't care about ither of you as much as I care about

me

. The person who gives me the better reasons for how I'm so great will win my jury vote!

Yes, someone had to be "the salty juror". Yes, even in this XD.

You're a goddamn delight and I'm thrilled to have known you for as long as I have. You're the best thing to come out of

[NAME OF YOUR TOWN REDACTED (BUT I DO KNOW IT)]

[Xalxe]

Followup, what's your favourite kind of salt?

coarse kosher salt: the salt for when you want to look slightly fancier while cooking!

[Xalxe]

Challenge time!

I don't really feel like giving a question related to LSGs at all, so here's a Scattergories list!

Spoiler: the list

Please fill this out in 120 seconds, and if your list is better than the other person's list, you'll get my vote!

I'm cheating and pre-numbering this list but otherwise I'm holding to the 120 seconds

Spoiler:

1. None, defund the police
   
2. Nuts are fruit, right?
   
3. Namibia
   
4. 
   
5. 
   
6. 
   
7. Nick-nacks, because the shopkeeper cannot spell
   
8. no
   
   
9. 
   
10. 
    
11. Neck, because you're old-timey
    

that was

hard

[Xalxe]

how did i specifically affect your game if at all

I was legitimately thrilled when I found out you and Ceph live near me because hooray built-in connections! However, beyond that, not much; I wanted to try and break up you and Ceph (iN THE GAME) but I was never able to do it successfully.

[Xalxe]

This is basically my first lsg, so could each of you give me a piece of constructive criticism based on your interactions with me?

[I was going to post a screenshot of a conversation but then I remembered That's Illegal, so go back and read our conversation on Discord from 4/25]

The subtext of my messages here is "please ask me to be your ally, I am open to alliances." I am telling you this not to scold you, but to encourage you to be bold and take opportunities like this to go for it. I did not so much this game, but this is the sort of shit I latched onto in LSGs in the past as an opener to "so do you want to be alliance pals." Early bird gets the worm!

[Xalxe]

oh also I don't really have a favorite animal but it used to be a manatee so I'll go with that

[Xalxe]

MURDERCAT was like "yo we should put Ceph low" but I was always gonna do that because you'd beat me 6-1

Mainly for my own curiosity but who would be the 1 in this scenario

I figure in the group of you/noraa/Silver/xof I could maybe pick up a pity vote after everyone was done calling me dumb for taking Ceph to the end

also I have to go to work now so I will continue to make Aronis Extremely Bitter by neglecting you until later! make a mean confessional about it!

[Xalxe]

Hi, I know you probably both have a lot of questions and are overwhelmed right now, but idc I'm going to ask you a bunch more because my name is bitter juror™ and this is my last chance to have something that shouldn't revolve around me revolve around me.

So first off, as every good juror should be, I am insanely bitter about the way I was eliminated. I came into this game with the infallible strategy: win every challenge, but unfortunately got screwed over by a bad one. So how did you feel about the challenges in this game? And specifically, how did you feel about the round 3 challenge? Do you like pokemon? Was it a good challenge?

obviously rigged for Silver to win, can't imagine how he effed it up, 0/5 pokeballs

for real though I think the challenges in this game were pretty good, even the dumb sports challenge had the option to, like, do research and succeed if you wanted to

Xalxe, you got lucky and won immunity in round 3, can you please explain why you chose not to save me? I was gutted and heartbroken about that decision and am now very angry and demand an answer.

During round 1 you and I made my first deal of my favorite kind: I'll rank you on mine if you rank me on yours, and you never came to me with a better proposition, so you remained in the middle of my list! also I was threatened by your beauty

Also, can you please talk about how you generically feel about me as a person. While I may be bitter, this section can be overly harsh provided it is an acceptable form of harshness. The key is that you must be truthful.

I genuinely enjoyed talking to you this game and appreciated the strategy of asking me round 1 where I wanted to be on your list. I wish you had done it every round! I love that!

Oh and if I’m gonna vote for you I need to understand your game, so can you please explain where I was ranked on your list every single round I was in the game?

6th > 6th > 7th

Can you please explain how my elimination from the game made your path to the end much much easier and elaborate on how you probably wouldn’t have got here if I didn’t get unluckily eliminated and backstabbed by the people I loved?

it actually probably made my game harder because had you survived I would've pursed an actual alliance as I think we were both kind of unattached so I guess the answer is that we have the same enemies and are therefore friends please vote for me!

Noraa created a ponderosa chat and honestly some of the stuff said about you two was sickening in there. I had over 500 unread messages when I logged on to discord yesterday and didn't get a chance to read all of it, but a couple of people have described you both using a variety of terms such as “heartless,” “very lost,” “completely unworthy,” “rude,” and “a really sickening person to play with.” What is your response to this?

that's unsurprising considering the entire jury is extremely bitter they got outplayed by two g.oddesses of LSGs so I expect nothing less as I dab on the peasants

I’m also looking at your gameplay and all I see is a lot of weaknesses and a lot of holes and a cinderella story that doesn’t even have a fancy dress, can you explain to me what your biggest strength was in this game and how it helped you? If you even had a strength that is.

Luck, making the right friends at the right time, and a vacillating challenge performance that makes everyone go "what, why, stop that" which makes me an instant fan favorite

Lastly, (and I'm bolding this because it is the most important question), Malkon and I are hosting a marathon game on May 22nd. Malkon is like the best mod ever and so you should definitely sign up to play in his game. Have you signed up to play? If yes, what would getting cast in such an amazing game mean to you? And if not, why not? If you would like to send me valid documentation excusing your absence my email is jab695@txstate.edu

I don't have email so I will just have to tell you now that I will be unable to play because that weekend is my fiancé's birthday and he doesn't know it yet but his parents are flying in to see him the day before because we'll all be two weeks out from our vaccines, he hasn't seen them in nearly a year, so unfortunately I will be getting

very

laid thanks to a very grateful partner

also then we're going to the aquarium to see otters

[Xalxe]

also you didn't direct this question at me but my slide puzzle time was like 9 minutes,

fuck

slide puzzles

[Xalxe]

can i ask you reveal your f4 lists is that allowed

1. MURDERCAT
2. Fenrir
3. Cephrir
4. Getting hit by a bus

[Xalxe]

i still don't really find myself caring who wins this so idk if you have a dancing bear maybe bring that out

[Xalxe]

is dat bear dancing?

Sometimes he dances!

[Xalxe]

but I want see him dance NOW

[Xalxe]

Thanks everyone! I had a lot of fun playing with you all

Congratulations, and well played!

Sorry to everyone whose throats I cut to get to the top, I guess I got my just desserts in the end

[Xalxe]

It's like a password but Google doesn't instantly flag your form as illegal when you ask for it