Post by Matty on Jul 9, 2015 21:43:49 GMT
Ok, so I am going to start off by saying sorry for this coming late. I’ve been a bit busy recently because I’m an idiot when it comes to joining multiple games at once. I am still fully invested here but I haven’t been as good as usual. I did actually write this confessional yesterday but in browser (a huge mistake) so the page refreshed and I lost all of it. So I needed some time to recover lol.
So if you told me I would be in the spot after Ozzy got eliminated, I would have called absolute BS. I thought after that round, I would be one of the people systematically eliminated. Steph, Sierra, Joaquin, and I were a part of a 5-4 minority on this merged tribe and I feared an F5 of Tom, Chelsea, Varner, Shane, and Crystal. But I wasn’t going to give up. Sierra certainly wasn’t going to give up. We tried our damnedest to get back into the good graces. I kept going with my wanting to eliminate Shane for Jamie spiel and we worked hard to try and essentially guilt trip our way back into them working with us. I’m not sure if that contributed to their decision to work with us again, but whatever we did must have ended up working.
Shane is gone, and numbers went back to a 4-4 tie. The Wildcats alliance of Steph, Sierra, Joaquin and I were still very much in this game, and I was excited. We have become a very close foursome over these past few votes, and I think my plans line up with us being the F4 (maaaaybe, at least pretty close). They are some really great people and I also think I would stand a chance at the end with any of them.
This past round started with Tom asking if we could get rid of Joaquin. To put it bluntly this was not exactly in my best interests. I basically told him I would prefer not to, but I guess I’d do it if I really had to (and I can’t imagine a scenario where I would). This is where he explained something to me that I was a little confused as to WHY he did (although I’m glad he did).
Basically he outlines how he doesn’t want to give Sierra the power to vote him out the next round. He is afraid that we will ride out the merge with a 4 person group of Steph, Joaquin, Sierra, and I. His proposition was that we vote Joaquin this round, Crystal next round, and keep alternating “sides.” Ya see, slight issue I see with this is that they always have the numbers to vote/flip on us. I have been repeatedly promised that I won’t get any votes from them and that Tom would never vote Sierra or I, but I just don’t want to take the chance. I brought up that if Crystal goes first, then Joaquin, the same plan can go into effect of alternating sides to vote.
The thing that scares me is that they know it’s coming. Every concern Tom brought up is valid because it is literally what is going to happen. I don’t want to try start making F4 deals with him and Chelsea and burn them so it’s hard to say “No that’s not going to happen” and then not offer any sort of finals deal. Chelsea was scaring me a bit too. She started being very open with me saying she loves Sierra and I but we never offered her anything endgame, so that is why she has been working with Varner and Crystal so far. She also brought up being worried that we were a foursome. It is SUPER hard to just lie about it and say it’s not going to happen because obviously it is, and I don’t plan on burning them like that. If it’s a vote with an idol involved fine, I’ll lie, whatever. But right now it is unnecessary to lie super hardcore to them.
But now that Joaquin is their target it may be hard to go about the round without getting them mad. Luckily Steph got the idol for this round so we know one of them can’t use it to do some super big move, and we can always idol Joaq in case of a tie. But it would still be nice if we could avoid that, and this challenge looked like it may allow us to do that. This is sorta similar to the last challenge where it’s a luck challenge with strategy involved. I came up with the idea of Steph and Joaquin giving most of the pieces to him to get him as high as possible (hehe). Then I figured Sierra and I would be able to slip like 1 or 2 of our own pieces to him to get him close to 21 without going over, taking into account other people giving him some. I tried talking to Tom and Chelsea about organizing it and they told me what we were doing, but it basically turned into “the challenge is luck, let’s see what happens.” I mean I was ok with that. I also tried to set things up so if Joaquin went over, I’d be able to swoop in and get immunity.
Well it all went perfectly and Joaquin got immunity so that was awesome. Chelsea, Tom, and Varner all double checked to make sure the vote was Crystal, I said yes, and we went about our days. However the Wildcats spent some time trying to talk about what our move should be.
What it came down to was the safest move versus taking out a big player and being “funny” by voting out Tom (who has a tendency to come in 8th place). Now I didn’t want to vote Tom for a combination of me not thinking it was worth it jumping the gun and voting him out this round AND I would legitimately feel bad if he got in 8th again. Steph still seemed to want to vote for Tom, but the only reason she was giving was that it’d be funny, which is a kinda lame reason. I understand entertainment is important, but this is me burning jury votes not you.
So everything is fine and dandy. Then literally with 10 minutes left until the deadline Joaquin is telling me that Steph wants to flip the vote to Tom last minute. Literally. Why. I don’t see ANY benefit of doing it this round rather than next round. With literally TWO minutes before the deadline Joaquin posted a thing in the group chat saying we should flip the vote to Tom. Steph then came in after and was saying that she agrees and was waiting for Sierra and I to respond.
Well we weren’t going to respond. 2 minutes left? TWO minutes and you want to change the vote for no other reason than it would be funny? Ugh, simply ugh. So I knew Steph wasn’t going to be happy about Sierra and I conveniently not being there for the vote deadline, but it was better than a weird last minute change I didn’t want. Apparently she was pretty mad and was telling Joaquin that, “guaranteeing” their F2 deal and stuff. I posted in the group chat a bit later and used the excuse that I was busy on a different AIM (I have been on busy status all day on AIM) and in the chat she didn’t seem mad. To Joaquin though she sent him a chat specifically about me pissing her off so that’s cool.
I really do like Steph. I think she is an incred person to talk to and I enjoy our conversations. I’d think she is always being real with me and I am certainly always trying to be real with her. In the beginning of the game we were close because of how slow things started off and how we were always online basically. While I don’t think our relationship has “deteriorated” I definitely don’t think we are super-duper close. I guess I’m a little worried now what may happen in future rounds because of what I did this one by not responding to the AIM message.
Oh well, I can’t believe Crystal actually did get eliminated though. I was so happy when I saw everything went according to plan. Now he we are, a 4-3 majority in a very deserving F7. I honestly thing anyone left is deserving of winning/ an AS spot (with the exception of Joaquin, no offense dude but you are kinda inactive lol). I am glad to be here in this spot and I cannot wait to see what the future holds. Will I be safe for 3 votes? Will I burn jury votes? Will I somehow make it to the end of this game?
Well the answer to that last question is no, and that is almost a guarantee and here’s why. I didn’t expect the pacing of this game and it has gone on longer than I though. I will be going on vacation in about a week or so. When I do I am not sure if I will have any wifi whatsoever. So even if I survive these next few rounds I cannot imagine making it the FTC. If the game ends in the next week or so then yes, I definitely stand a chance. Unfortunately this is my fault and I just wanted to give an advanced notice (also maybe a quick plea to move the game along a bit
). Ya never know, maybe I’ll get eliminated and I don’t need to worry, maybe the game will move along fast enough so that I leave right around FTC. Whatever happens happens and I just hope I have been entertaining enough to watch. This has been a fun game and I feel like I am doing well. Whether I get eliminated or have to leave on vacation, I have done enough to make myself happy and I think that’s all that really matters.
So if you told me I would be in the spot after Ozzy got eliminated, I would have called absolute BS. I thought after that round, I would be one of the people systematically eliminated. Steph, Sierra, Joaquin, and I were a part of a 5-4 minority on this merged tribe and I feared an F5 of Tom, Chelsea, Varner, Shane, and Crystal. But I wasn’t going to give up. Sierra certainly wasn’t going to give up. We tried our damnedest to get back into the good graces. I kept going with my wanting to eliminate Shane for Jamie spiel and we worked hard to try and essentially guilt trip our way back into them working with us. I’m not sure if that contributed to their decision to work with us again, but whatever we did must have ended up working.
Shane is gone, and numbers went back to a 4-4 tie. The Wildcats alliance of Steph, Sierra, Joaquin and I were still very much in this game, and I was excited. We have become a very close foursome over these past few votes, and I think my plans line up with us being the F4 (maaaaybe, at least pretty close). They are some really great people and I also think I would stand a chance at the end with any of them.
This past round started with Tom asking if we could get rid of Joaquin. To put it bluntly this was not exactly in my best interests. I basically told him I would prefer not to, but I guess I’d do it if I really had to (and I can’t imagine a scenario where I would). This is where he explained something to me that I was a little confused as to WHY he did (although I’m glad he did).
Basically he outlines how he doesn’t want to give Sierra the power to vote him out the next round. He is afraid that we will ride out the merge with a 4 person group of Steph, Joaquin, Sierra, and I. His proposition was that we vote Joaquin this round, Crystal next round, and keep alternating “sides.” Ya see, slight issue I see with this is that they always have the numbers to vote/flip on us. I have been repeatedly promised that I won’t get any votes from them and that Tom would never vote Sierra or I, but I just don’t want to take the chance. I brought up that if Crystal goes first, then Joaquin, the same plan can go into effect of alternating sides to vote.
The thing that scares me is that they know it’s coming. Every concern Tom brought up is valid because it is literally what is going to happen. I don’t want to try start making F4 deals with him and Chelsea and burn them so it’s hard to say “No that’s not going to happen” and then not offer any sort of finals deal. Chelsea was scaring me a bit too. She started being very open with me saying she loves Sierra and I but we never offered her anything endgame, so that is why she has been working with Varner and Crystal so far. She also brought up being worried that we were a foursome. It is SUPER hard to just lie about it and say it’s not going to happen because obviously it is, and I don’t plan on burning them like that. If it’s a vote with an idol involved fine, I’ll lie, whatever. But right now it is unnecessary to lie super hardcore to them.
But now that Joaquin is their target it may be hard to go about the round without getting them mad. Luckily Steph got the idol for this round so we know one of them can’t use it to do some super big move, and we can always idol Joaq in case of a tie. But it would still be nice if we could avoid that, and this challenge looked like it may allow us to do that. This is sorta similar to the last challenge where it’s a luck challenge with strategy involved. I came up with the idea of Steph and Joaquin giving most of the pieces to him to get him as high as possible (hehe). Then I figured Sierra and I would be able to slip like 1 or 2 of our own pieces to him to get him close to 21 without going over, taking into account other people giving him some. I tried talking to Tom and Chelsea about organizing it and they told me what we were doing, but it basically turned into “the challenge is luck, let’s see what happens.” I mean I was ok with that. I also tried to set things up so if Joaquin went over, I’d be able to swoop in and get immunity.
Well it all went perfectly and Joaquin got immunity so that was awesome. Chelsea, Tom, and Varner all double checked to make sure the vote was Crystal, I said yes, and we went about our days. However the Wildcats spent some time trying to talk about what our move should be.
What it came down to was the safest move versus taking out a big player and being “funny” by voting out Tom (who has a tendency to come in 8th place). Now I didn’t want to vote Tom for a combination of me not thinking it was worth it jumping the gun and voting him out this round AND I would legitimately feel bad if he got in 8th again. Steph still seemed to want to vote for Tom, but the only reason she was giving was that it’d be funny, which is a kinda lame reason. I understand entertainment is important, but this is me burning jury votes not you.
So everything is fine and dandy. Then literally with 10 minutes left until the deadline Joaquin is telling me that Steph wants to flip the vote to Tom last minute. Literally. Why. I don’t see ANY benefit of doing it this round rather than next round. With literally TWO minutes before the deadline Joaquin posted a thing in the group chat saying we should flip the vote to Tom. Steph then came in after and was saying that she agrees and was waiting for Sierra and I to respond.
Well we weren’t going to respond. 2 minutes left? TWO minutes and you want to change the vote for no other reason than it would be funny? Ugh, simply ugh. So I knew Steph wasn’t going to be happy about Sierra and I conveniently not being there for the vote deadline, but it was better than a weird last minute change I didn’t want. Apparently she was pretty mad and was telling Joaquin that, “guaranteeing” their F2 deal and stuff. I posted in the group chat a bit later and used the excuse that I was busy on a different AIM (I have been on busy status all day on AIM) and in the chat she didn’t seem mad. To Joaquin though she sent him a chat specifically about me pissing her off so that’s cool.
I really do like Steph. I think she is an incred person to talk to and I enjoy our conversations. I’d think she is always being real with me and I am certainly always trying to be real with her. In the beginning of the game we were close because of how slow things started off and how we were always online basically. While I don’t think our relationship has “deteriorated” I definitely don’t think we are super-duper close. I guess I’m a little worried now what may happen in future rounds because of what I did this one by not responding to the AIM message.
Oh well, I can’t believe Crystal actually did get eliminated though. I was so happy when I saw everything went according to plan. Now he we are, a 4-3 majority in a very deserving F7. I honestly thing anyone left is deserving of winning/ an AS spot (with the exception of Joaquin, no offense dude but you are kinda inactive lol). I am glad to be here in this spot and I cannot wait to see what the future holds. Will I be safe for 3 votes? Will I burn jury votes? Will I somehow make it to the end of this game?
Well the answer to that last question is no, and that is almost a guarantee and here’s why. I didn’t expect the pacing of this game and it has gone on longer than I though. I will be going on vacation in about a week or so. When I do I am not sure if I will have any wifi whatsoever. So even if I survive these next few rounds I cannot imagine making it the FTC. If the game ends in the next week or so then yes, I definitely stand a chance. Unfortunately this is my fault and I just wanted to give an advanced notice (also maybe a quick plea to move the game along a bit
). Ya never know, maybe I’ll get eliminated and I don’t need to worry, maybe the game will move along fast enough so that I leave right around FTC. Whatever happens happens and I just hope I have been entertaining enough to watch. This has been a fun game and I feel like I am doing well. Whether I get eliminated or have to leave on vacation, I have done enough to make myself happy and I think that’s all that really matters. 