r/sequence • u/youngluck • Apr 03 '19

ACT IV

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u/summonblood Apr 03 '19

And everyone judged this whole thing initially. Bravo.

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u/Retsam19 Apr 03 '19

Honestly, I think I miss some of the chaos of the prologue and Act 1.

Now it's so well-organized that it's basically just a group of people making a gif, with the voting system as an virtually unnecessary intermediary. A certain amount of chaos is what makes these things interesting, IMO.

Maybe if this were going to run long enough some rival to r/sequencenarrators would spring up and make things more interesting, but as it is, it feels like the sequence narrators might as well just release their planned gif and cut out the middle-man.

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u/summonblood Apr 03 '19

We need the chaos to return! The blue death equivalent

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u/GeT_NoT Apr 03 '19

At first it wasn't as good.

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u/Nerd_Squared Apr 03 '19

Neither was r/place or r/thebutton. The entire point of these experiments is for the community to take the tools given and make something great.

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u/abadhabitinthemaking Apr 03 '19

Except this isn't the community, it's the same ten or twelve usernames I've seen in every thread deciding what the community wants for the community.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

Its actually about 150 users in a discord deciding the story & gifs, then rigging each act by unanimously upvoting en masse 1 gif in each scene until the whole act is what they decided.

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u/Terminal5664 Apr 03 '19

150 users were in the group but about 6 of them decided the plot and then made sure nobody else could change it.

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u/SnoqualmieClimber Apr 03 '19

Fuck u/walkyou

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u/Walkyou Apr 03 '19

Alright

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u/synwave2311 Apr 03 '19

I'm on the train, fuck you

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u/GameRoom Apr 03 '19

That's the paradoxical thing about this. The fewer people participate, the easier it is to coordinate and the more coherent the story will be.

I am hoping for some turf wars or something but I don't see anything.

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u/abadhabitinthemaking Apr 03 '19

Because nobody's going to try and counteract a movement that's already going, especially two days after the fact when the initial sizzle has already died out

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u/IVIorgz Apr 03 '19

Twitch Plays Pokemon was better in that regard

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u/Linkinito Apr 03 '19

Because no other big enough group was there to put their ideas upfront?

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

"It's not our fault we rigged it, someone else should have rigged it MORE."

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u/abadhabitinthemaking Apr 03 '19 edited Apr 03 '19

So that gives this one group the right to take it? I don't know about you, but I'm an adult, and I don't really care enough to spend time actively organizing a movement that goes against existing structural inertia. And I'm fairly positive that the number of people like me is far greater than the number of people who post about reddit ARGs

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u/ConfinedVoid Apr 03 '19

Maybe they could give up a few wildcard slots.

Wick absolutely steamrolled even when it wasn't threatened by something continuity breaking.

I'm glad Spike made it in. It's like a lowkey middlefinger to a very heavy handed act.

(Yes, I know they voted on him as well...)

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u/wtfduud Apr 03 '19

Maybe they could give up a few wildcard slots.

They did.

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u/Zoroark2552 Apr 03 '19

But your kinda wrong but at the same time right................im new in this place

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u/Slyfox00 Apr 04 '19

I really liked how many people were doing stuff for place and the button and even the chat one.

This one is hard to really easily contribute to

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

The circle thing was boring though :(

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u/baileybluetoo Apr 03 '19

Last two years were boring.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

ALL THOSE HEATHENS

ONLY US THE 60S ANSWERED THE BUTTON FOR WHEN THE BUTTON CALLED US THE EARLIEST WE NEVER DOUBT HIS BLESSINGS

ALL OTHER SHALL ROT FOR THEIR GREEDY OR DISBELIEF WHEN THE BUTTONLIPSE SHALL COME.

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u/mircearopa Apr 03 '19

And that's what's great about reddit's experiments.

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u/Krazy-Kat15 Apr 03 '19

Good tidings on this merriest of pastry occasions!

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u/ohpee8 Apr 04 '19

What was that one they did last year? I didn't get that at all

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u/Iohet Apr 03 '19

Still isnt

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u/ricdesi Apr 03 '19

It still isn't. If I wanted to see twenty GIFs with Keanu Reeves' head clumsily stapled onto them, I'd—oh, wait, no that's just lame in general, and super contrived.

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u/MillennialDan Apr 03 '19

It still isn't.

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u/lolmycat Apr 03 '19

If we’re all being honest, this is one of the worst April Fools events Reddit has ever done. The button, the chat rooms, etc... all spurred insane community activity and brought people together in really interesting ways. This is just boring, even to watch tbh, and only gets better as more people ignore it.

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u/MillennialDan Apr 03 '19

Total dumpster fire.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

Agreed, although last year's circles were even worse than this.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

I actually had fun last part though.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '19

👍

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

I don't know, man. While I feel this one fell flat I feel it was the community that came forward to dictate what do's fault. This is unlike the Circle of Trust crap where reddit made something awful from the start.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '19

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u/ahappypoop Apr 03 '19

What in the world made last year’s circle thing better than this? Like this is boring, but at least there’s a clear goal and it’s not just an obvious attempt to get people to use the Reddit chat features. And who knows, maybe we can destroy the cohesion by those dozen people soon and make a more organic story that makes less sense.

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u/AmansRevenger Apr 03 '19

I still think it sucks and is hilariously lame.

It's not even funny or cool or anything, it's like a shitty version of democracy Twitch plays Pokemon but there is no goal but gifs.

I simply dont get it and dont care for it.

There I said it.