Comment by Daniel_Is_I on 05/04/2019 at 05:20 UTC

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View submission: SEQUENCE - FINAL STITCH (THEATRICAL)

The main problem a lot of people have mentioned with the premise of Sequence is that there were really only two ways it could have gone:

1. It becomes a mainly incoherent mess of communities trying to force their own scenes in, narrative be damned, with the only sense being made due to chains of broadly-appealing memes. (See Monty Python in Act I)

2. One group games the system and pushes everyone else out, and the only way they are *possibly* ousted is by everyone bandwagoning on the runner-up scene out of spite for the leader rather than any actual love for the runner-up. (See "fuck the narrators" scenes in the later acts.)

Individuals and small communities can't contribute their own unique flavor because they'll get crushed. It just forces you to either compromise and vote for something you really don't care that much for, or not participate at all.

I've seen people criticize those blaming the narrators and saying "there are so many of you, you could have forced the narrators out!" but that's not how this works. If there were 5000 people participating and the #1 scene for a slot has 500 votes, then that leaves 4500 votes split between all other candidates. The leader only has 20%, but the remaining 80% doesn't agree on what should be the winner; only that the current #1 shouldn't win. In the end people are divided and you might end up with a 20%/15%/9%/etc split. It's the classic problem with a first past the post voting system.

It was interesting-enough for a while but around Act II I realized I couldn't contribute at all and increasingly little of what I was interested in was reaching #1 or #2, which rendered my participation meaningless.

To redeem Sequence a bit, it was definitely better than CircleOfTrust.

I mean, not participating at all was preferable to CircleOfTrust, so that's not exactly a shining point.

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Comment by ricdesi at 05/04/2019 at 08:32 UTC

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According to the Narrators, “fuck the narrators” was a Narrator scene as well.