M80 Game Thread

[Jamiet99uk]

Ghug seems off.

Quoting for visibility. thoughts?

Actually yeah. The bona thing felt fake too. ##VOTE Jamie

Could you articulate what concerns you about these two things?

[Jamiet99uk]

ghug can you summarize in one sentence what Jamie is doing on the first few pages?

He's acting like he's Jamie.

So a page after voting me, you imply my D1 behaviour has been NAI.

Curious.

[Jamiet99uk]

i think i'll downgrade kak from "locktown" to "safe for d1 and perhaps beyond"

and then add bona to that list

I can't believe I'm saying this, but... can you explain these reads with more words?

CHAPTER II

Anna Pavlovna’s drawing room was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged. Prince Vasili’s daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador’s entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor. The youthful little Princess Bolkonskaya, known as la femme la plus seduisante de Petersbourg,* was also there. She had been married during the previous winter, and being pregnant did not go to any large gatherings, but only to small receptions. Prince Vasili’s son, Hippolyte, had come with Mortemart, whom he introduced. The Abbe Morio and many others had also come.

*The most fascinating woman in Petersburg.

To each new arrival Anna Pavlovna said, “You have not yet seen my aunt,” or “You do not know my aunt?” and very gravely conducted him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her aunt, Anna Pavlovna mentioned each one’s name and then left them.

Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them cared about; Anna Pavlovna observed these greetings with mournful and solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in the same words, about their health and her own, and the health of Her Majesty, “who, thank God, was better today.” And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.

The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a gold-embroidered velvet bag. Her pretty little upper lip, on which a delicate dark down was just perceptible, was too short for her teeth, but it lifted all the more sweetly, and was especially charming when she occasionally drew it down to meet the lower lip. As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect- the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth- seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty. Everyone brightened at the sight of this pretty young woman, so soon to become a mother, so full of life and health, and carrying her burden so lightly. Old men and dull dispirited young ones who looked at her, after being in her company and talking to her a little while, felt as if they too were becoming, like her, full of life and health. All who talked to her, and at each word saw her bright smile and the constant gleam of her white teeth, thought that they were in a specially amiable mood that day.

The little princess went round the table with quick, short, swaying steps, her workbag on her arm, and gaily spreading out her dress sat down on a sofa near the silver samovar, as if all she was doing was a pleasure to herself and to all around her. “I have brought my work,” said she in French, displaying her bag and addressing all present. “Mind, Annette, I hope you have not played a wicked trick on me,” she added, turning to her hostess. “You wrote that it was to be quite a small reception, and just see how badly I am dressed.” And she spread out her arms to show her short-waisted, lace-trimmed, dainty gray dress, girdled with a broad ribbon just below the breast.

“Soyez tranquille, Lise, you will always be prettier than anyone else,” replied Anna Pavlovna.

“You know,” said the princess in the same tone of voice and still in French, turning to a general, “my husband is deserting me? He is going to get himself killed. Tell me what this wretched war is for?” she added, addressing Prince Vasili, and without waiting for an answer she turned to speak to his daughter, the beautiful Helene.

“What a delightful woman this little princess is!” said Prince Vasili to Anna Pavlovna.

One of the next arrivals was a stout, heavily built young man with close-cropped hair, spectacles, the light-colored breeches fashionable at that time, a very high ruffle, and a brown dress coat. This stout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known grandee of Catherine’s time who now lay dying in Moscow. The young man had not yet entered either the military or civil service, as he had only just returned from abroad where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society. Anna Pavlovna greeted him with the nod she accorded to the lowest hierarchy in her drawing room. But in spite of this lowest-grade greeting, a look of anxiety and fear, as at the sight of something too large and unsuited to the place, came over her face when she saw Pierre enter. Though he was certainly rather bigger than the other men in the room, her anxiety could only have reference to the clever though shy, but observant and natural, expression which distinguished him from everyone else in that drawing room.

“It is very good of you, Monsieur Pierre, to come and visit a poor invalid,” said Anna Pavlovna, exchanging an alarmed glance with her aunt as she conducted him to her.

Pierre murmured something unintelligible, and continued to look round as if in search of something. On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance.

Anna Pavlovna’s alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty’s health. Anna Pavlovna in dismay detained him with the words: “Do you know the Abbe Morio? He is a most interesting man.”

“Yes, I have heard of his scheme for perpetual peace, and it is very interesting but hardly feasible.”

“You think so?” rejoined Anna Pavlovna in order to say something and get away to attend to her duties as hostess. But Pierre now committed a reverse act of impoliteness. First he had left a lady before she had finished speaking to him, and now he continued to speak to another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abbe’s plan chimerical.

“We will talk of it later,” said Anna Pavlovna with a smile.

And having got rid of this young man who did not know how to behave, she resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready to help at any point where the conversation might happen to flag. As the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pavlovna moved about her drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, proper, and regular motion. But amid these cares her anxiety about Pierre was evident. She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbe.

Pierre had been educated abroad, and this reception at Anna Pavlovna’s was the first he had attended in Russia. He knew that all the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing any clever conversation that was to be heard. Seeing the self-confident and refined expression on the faces of those present he was always expecting to hear something very profound. At last he came up to Morio. Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.

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[Jamiet99uk]

He's acting like he's Jamie.

That's what I've been trying to say

But that doesn't make you particularly read him either way, right?

No, you see. He's not being Jamie, he's acting like he's Jamie.

You think I'm being fake?

[Jamiet99uk]

##vote Jamie

Naked vote.

Yuck.

[Jamiet99uk]

LMAO bona you twat

???

Eden can you explain* this reaction?

*Using fewer than 1,000 words.

[Jamiet99uk]

OK I'm caught up.

Ghug always suspects me D1. Boring.
Damo is naked voting me with no explanation. Suspect.

[Jamiet99uk]

@Bozo
@Dousing
@BunnyGo
@Pxxxy

Participate please.

[Jamiet99uk]

Damo criticising me for not responding to him, whilst in fact not having explained his vote / mild push on me, is lazy and scum indicative.

[damo666]

Damo criticising me for not responding to him, whilst in fact not having explained his vote / mild push on me, is lazy and scum indicative.

My vote was because you're opening seemed ungenuine.

[Foxcastle]

Bunnygo, why are you liking posts but not posting?

~strategy~?

BunnyGo liked this post but still hasn't posted anything.

[Foxcastle]

sorry if im being annoying or stupid

For myself, I don't think you, but if that were a crime, everyone here would be felons.

[Foxcastle]

Going to lie down and go to sleep. Hopefully you all don't spew another 16+ pages by tomorrow morning...

I woke up to 12 new pages 🥲 But surprisingly, most of it was not actually garbage!

[Foxcastle]

well, I'm sure you'll figure out my alignment fast enough.

I still would've loved some commentary from Bunny.

Also, do me a favour, if/when fox comes back later, ask him a few questions. The same goes for people who haven't been here yet, that would be great.

I think I'll head into the direction of my hammock, since I'm starting to feel dizzy and aren't reading fast enough to follow the thread anymore (which is good, go on guys, we make good speed!). So I'll wish you a good night and see you later

I'm guessing that bunny's concluded that the reason he keeps getting D1ed is the specific meta changes he's chosen and not the fact of the meta changes themselves. Though meta changes are now themselves his meta, so maybe this isn't a meta change?

The +1ing is a way of telling us he's reading in any case.

How often has he actually been getting D1ed, though?

[damo666]

My early towncore is worcej, Eden & brain.

[Foxcastle]

FFS

GN

Are you new here, or something? What did you expect!?

I feel like we've had some quieter D1s recently and damo is drunk.

Last game was quieter, but this game is bigger. (But hey, I'm also whining about it.)

[Foxcastle]

Bunnygo liking posts but not posting is making me irrationally angry.

I think I townread him for it because this is the obvious reaction though.

I haven't been around for it, but I gather that Bunny thinks he's been overly targeted for the D1 kill, and if that's the case, then yeah, I could see him doing this. I think it's bizarre and unhelpful, but I can see it...

[Foxcastle]

Foxcastle: Would like to see more content from them. So far their only contribution is nitpicking me a little. Maybe if I bus them we can get lots of content, just like last game (;

What I learned from last game is that your style of play just gets my attention in the wrong way and I need to learn other ways to read you. That's what I meant when I suggested we avoid last game's debacle.

[bozotheclown]

ghug

Play with me!

##Vote ghug

My meta in our game together was to scumread everyone who voted for me until we won, so the question is would scum Haze really want to bring that upon himself?

##VOTE ghug

[Haze with a Z]

Morning yall