Post by Jeff on Jun 8, 2015 22:41:57 GMT
Sorry these are so few and far between. Sometimes there isn't a ton to say and other times, when I have things to say, I'm not in a place where I can actually post them the way I would like. OCD is killer.
Anyway, last round worked out perfectly fine. I do want to address one thing though which is the fact that I do know 2/3 people who voted Shane with us last round. I hate pre-gaming and that's not what I did. I don't want this subtle alliance of mine to take a hit in popularity simply because we're a group of people who know each other. If we're just plain awful and boring, then feel free to hate us!
But I will break down my tribe mates and my connections to them shortly, but I wanted to get that out of the way.I'm happy with Shane leaving because he is someone I just was never connected to. We never talked and he also voted for me which is why I wanted to go after him in the first place. The thing I was surprised about though was the fact that Tom actually voted Osten. I honestly thought there would be no way someone would give up an alliance they had in round two with only five tribe members around to appease or keep around at least two people they weren't aligned with or really didn't have a strong connection with. I guess I was wrong. Tom felt a connection to both Chelsea and I and saw Osten as worthless overall. Makes sense I guess, but still a very weird and risky play and ultimately, it has put Tom in jeopardy. He's as scared as a whore in church for when we go to Tribal and rightly so. I don't know that he will survive this round if we go to Tribal, but who knows. Watch, the one time we only need to get second place to stay safe we will actually get third and go to Tribal. That would be abysmal.
Coming into this challenge, I knew it would be creative. I guess the reason I hate them so much is half the people are incapable of doing anything more than what my 4 year old cousin could produce and the other, smaller group of people are very good at this kind of thing and they usually do the whole thing for their tribe...and they are NEVER on my tribe which means I have to compete against it. Just my luck, we see that I'm the only photoshopper on our tribe beside Sierra (I think) and the rest of them are using gimp. Basically, I'm not about to sit online for hours trying to come up with something to do and also, it's not in my job description for the challenge. I was basically an anchor in this challenge much like you put your best member in the back of the Olympic swimming team so they can really pull it home and make up all the extra ground for you. That's obviously a bad analogy considering I would never put any of these people in the same category as anything Olympic aside from water boy, but you get the picture.
These are the challenges though that I really just want to grab these people and shake the crap outta them. Someone posts something and it has bad quality, the cut marks aren't smooth and they're really jagged, it's not even a picture of a Survivor and someone posts "OMG LOOKS SO GOOD!! <3" while I'm over in the corner trying to figure out how they even managed it to look like that. So I usually keep to myself, brainstorm ideas and then try to subtly push them through without being a hard-ass about it. I eventually couldn't take this one anymore. I didn't contribute a whole lot on the ideas front, but I knew I'd make up for it in my imaging. But when no one else uses photoshop, I can't edit the picture without redoing the whole thing. So, I got to work and basically took the same basic ideas that my other tribe mates were coming up with, but I amplified them and made them better. Instead of the crappy cut out heds, I did more body and added a bit to them. And then I took the same name idea and just changed the color and added a bit more to make them pop. I think I did well with it and even though I was around half as much as the rest of my tribe, they see me as the hero that swooped in and took control of the challenge and brought us a good product. I mean, nothing could work out better for me really. I'm just hoping it was enough to compete with the other tribe's flags and enough to get us at least a second place finish because I'm done going to Tribal Council right now.
I haven't given much thought to what happens if we lose, but for me, it would definitely be between Tom or Osten. Chelsea isn't the best strategist by any means and I'm not sure she knows what she is doing half the time, but she will be loyal to me and I love talking with her which is better in my eyes than anything else and Sierra is a good thinker and also keeps me sane as we practically talk crap about anybody and anything that we mutually don't find appealing. Osten might be loyal and the fact that I don't want him to get another pre-jury placement might weigh heavily on what I do, but I think Tom will be loyal as well, though he could become unpredictable since he thinks he is at the bottom of this tribe and could have a lot of power in that. Wouldn't be hard to sell that story to another tribe and just take a flip on us if he was looking to extend his time in the game a few days. Not something I want to test, but honestly, I would be fine with winning and not sending anyone else home because morale and you never know when the vote could be you anyway. I'm not that type that goes, "Welp, we've already lost two, no sense in starting to win." NO! I want to win, of course I want to win. There is always a sense of unpredictability when you go to Tribal, so to say I would be fine visiting there again would be dumb. Do I think I would go? No, but I don't care to test that theory.
I'm going to try to relax and just wait for results. I have a good feeling about this challenge, but even the best of feelings have turned into poor results.
