Day 4 - Vote Distribution

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

[ The results of the game are posted at midnight: ]

Santa: 4

Kyrie Ushiromiya: 3

Corrin: 2
Zelda: 2

Rosa Ushiromiya: 1
June: 1
Clover: 1
Eva Ushiromiya: 1
Junpei: 1
Lotus: 1
Mari Ohara: 1
Natsuhi Ushiromiya: 1
Okuyasu Nijimura: 1
Rohan Kishibe: 1
Simon Keyes: 1
Charlie Kelly: 1
Dee Reynolds: 1
Dennis Reynolds: 1
Ene: 1
Ib: 1
Mary: 1 2
Niles: 1
Rhys: 1
Ronald McDonald: 1
Ronove: 1
Sophie: 1
Yoshikage Kira: 1

Aku: 0
Frank Gallagher: 0
Frank Reynolds: 0
Gorix: 0
Josefumi Kujo: 0
Link: 0
Snake: 0
Yue Katou: 0

TOTAL: 34 votes for 35 33 contestants
Don't forget, you can't vote for the same person twice in a row!

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Comments

[keybroad]

It's really unfortunate that we have a "target". On the other hand, most people didn't defect the same way as the "target", and anyone considering it in the future has to be aware now that the "community" considers death to defectors the least repellent option. So, I feel pretty hopeful that nothing else so bad will happen this round.

[meatitfeedson]

Anyone who may have been thinking about it would certainly see right about now that it will only get them so far. It might buy their safety for a day or two, but the next vote won't be kind to them. It's unfortunate, but a basic survival need, to be able to trust whoever might vote for your safety, after all.

[keybroad]

On the other hand, there's no volunteer for the hotel this time. So if a person wanted to guarantee the safety of another and didn't care about what happened to themselves afterward...

Well, that's pretty unlikely. Nobody else did that the first round even when there weren't guaranteed lethal consequences.

[meatitfeedson]

It's a nice thought, but even if someone said "go ahead and vote for x instead of me, I don't mind if I die", if it means x goes to the hotel rather than simply is safe, I doubt anyone would want to go along with it.

[keybroad]

On the one hand, we're concerned about the safety of the hotel. On the other hand... from the competitive standpoint, a death and a hotelling would increase the probability of us remaining winning our grand prizes.

But in the end, I think many members of the community, myself included, are a little reluctant to just see someone die.

[meatitfeedson]

Exactly no matter how desperately any of us want the grand prize, to see others killed in exchange is...Not a pleasant notion.

[keybroad]

We have to hope... that there's some chance of an alternative appearing, instead of just dragging it out day after day with our hosts reducing the number of votes by Chinese water torture.

[meatitfeedson]

Maybe if we all really go all out from now on, we can have enough votes to go around to only be sending people to the hotel...

[She's not sure she believes that will happen though. Or that the hotel is necessarily safe.]

[keybroad]

Here's my theory on how votes are getting allocated. It seems to me that the most important step is when they decide who deserves zero votes. Occasionally, people who participate properly are deprived of votes through error. Maybe it's the producers meddling, whatever you want to call it. The point is, I have it on good authority that June and Corrin got a few squares on their bingo cards and then lost their progress. However, this time they played and did earn a vote.

The other way to not earn a vote is clearly to actually not play. For example, I didn't see Frank Reynolds giving or receiving a single truth or dare, and he got nothing this time.

They did say, "there were supposed to be forty votes". So I don't think that it's a good idea for just one person to do a hundred dares in the hopes of earning the 34 votes we'll need next week. I think that extra good performance in a game has relative value instead of absolute value. There were eight recipients of zero votes and seven extra votes distributed among the top performers. Fewer than the thirteen extra votes available last time, which is forty-one minus thirty-nine plus the eleven recipients of zero votes.

The best hope might be if every single player gives a good showing and earns one vote. I can't say that the gamemakers won't give out at least one error as an excuse for continued conflict, but clearly the current way with some trying very hard and others not at all hasn't worked.

Not directly related, I also think they recalibrated the points system after the bingo event, where it was possible to gain points at an exponential rate instead of linear. So it should be very unlikely for there to be another jump from 5 votes like Santa to 2 votes like you and I.

[meatitfeedson]

I would more or less agree with that. There are several ways the vote distribution could be decided, and it would be nice to know for sure. Unfortunately, we don't know that the hosts are playing by any rules. There's certainly correlation between participation and number of votes, but there could have been an endless number of available votes to give out, or it could have been capped off at 40, or some other number. We can't know whether they meant 40 last time as the total available in a sort of pool or if they simply counted wrong.

Whatever the truth is though, it doesn't much change how we go about it. Any way you slice it, we do know they're prone to mistakes and whims alike. And it's in our better interest to participate as much as possible, even if they might screw us over individually. In the end we have to play along, so there's not much point worrying about it.

[keybroad]

Yeah... it feels crappy being a puppet dancing to their tune, but it's better than being a puppet with its strings cut. It's so twisted. They really are succeeding in getting us to do crazy things on camera.

[meatitfeedson]

...I've gone about this all assuming it isn't being shown anywhere, and if it is, then no one who matters is watching it. No one like my family, that is. But do you...think it could be? That people we know could have been sitting there watching the things we did and said?

[keybroad]

Pro-probably not people we know! This might be another reality, right? Then none of the people we knew would ever have existed here, just like we didn't exist... that might even be how they get away with this legally, the victims of their crimes don't exist in their eyes. Yeah!

[meatitfeedson]

But if they can bring us here, then I'm sure they would have the power to show this in our homes too. ...Ahhh, I really don't want to think about that. It's too late to regret any actions.

[keybroad]

Then - then they'll know what's happening and try to help! If there's a way to get us, why won't there be a way to get us out?

[She's trying to convince herself more than Kyrie - they're locked in a big metal death trap, like a grill.]