- Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:12:21 pm
#61208
Well one of my biggest "disappointments" or "regrets" on S25 was being the merge boot. Now I've survived a merge TC, so yay. My soft goal is still to survive at least one more though... and then single digits, and then winning.
And let me complain really quickly. Yes, I voted Aurora. Fine. She can be pissed. But let's take a look at that tribal where.... ALL of them were whispering to each other, and leaving me out of everything. Aurora messaged me a few minutes ago something, like, "oh it's a bummer you voted for me!" This is not even me dodging accountability, but I thought that was a bit... idek... y'all were whispering at tribal and leaving me out, making it abundantly clear I wasn't meant to know shit, and now you're also going to guilt-trip me for my vote in the same breath? No! Lol. Don't do that.
The whispering at tribal... it doesn't matter that the messages are hidden. We can still see who is talking to who. And it's unnecessary when the mass majority is all whispering to each other lol. For what? There's five of us and nine of you. If there was idol talk or paranoia or like someone made a speech or flashed an idol, fine. But there wasn't. Or if it was a 7-7 type of intense situation. But it wasn't that either.
1- Congrats on making the Jury! Knowing that whoever goes will now be on the jury, does this change who you decide to target? If so, how?
Nothing has changed for me! The prospect of losing will be slightly less anxiety-inducing, but no. I'm not changing my approach up because of the jury.
I'm changing my approach up now that I'm in the minority for sure though. Some ass-kissing is absolutely going to be required, even if that makes me a snake. So that if that nine-person majority decides to just Pagong us.... maybe I'll weasel my way in.
2- Having had the weekend to get to know your new tribemates, have you made any new friends you may not have expected? Who is surprising you?
I would say Hope surprised me for being an idiot, but to be fair to her, we kind of dragged her into the alliance before she even agreed to it? So I can't blame her. Well... I can blame her for messaging me "oh I would much rather do Aurora than Jess" and making a big paragraph about it only to not follow through? So what was the point? And then she spent all tribal whispering everyone else. Bizarre and unnecessary. Bad gameplay.
3- What happens next? Make a prediction about how you think the next few rounds of the game will go.
They will either keep coming after us. Be it Tai, Matt, or myself. I feel like Sherri is the safest one of us. Or now that Liz's idol is gone, maybe things will be more fluid?
I'm not closed off to working with Rocker, Alexis, Michael, or even Shamar... it's entirely in their court. So maybe that'll be tomorrow. But more likely, I'll just have to weather the storm a bit and let them use me when needed.
Do I need to let Tai get voted off for my own good? I feel like I'm always going to have stigma as long as he's around. It would feel terrible, but I should consider it...
4- This game started split between veterans and newbies, does that divide still exist at this point in the game? How does that division affect the game for you currently?
No, I don't think so. Most of my ideal boots are Vets: Jess, Aurora, Liz. Allegedly there was paranoia about Tai being worried about newbies? But that doesn't even make sense, because his main target was Jess so .... where is the connection? That whole conversation/rumor was weird and didn't make sense to me. How can Tai be paranoid about newbies when he's targeting and voting against Jess/Aurora?
The bigger divide seems to be the Puka 3.0 majority + Tai vs everyone else.
Which is ridiculous. Like. I truly don't get it with some people. We went to three tribal councils on Puka 3.0. We entered the tribe at a numbers disadvantage, and did everything we could to keep our Puka 2.0 numbers intact. Then we gave immunity to Tai on the other tribe.
So... why are Michael, Alexis, Shamar, etc. acting so weird? Why was it more awkward at the merge? Why were they acting as though they couldn't trust me, or like I was shady, when my every action over the past week was in line with keeping our tribe instact? The tribe that Alexis, Shamar, Michael, etc. were all on themselves?
It doesn't add up to me. I talked up and down on Puka 2.0 about how I loved the tribe - and then followed through on that in the next swap - so I just... don't get why someone like Michael especially came into the merge so guarded. Is it seriously all because of Tai? Is he that polarizing? Or did Liz do some serious damage spreading rumors?
Oh well. We can only move forward.
Really happy about that. Idk if it was even a conscious goal coming in, but it's a great feeling - now whatever happens I'll be happy that I've done better than last time on an objective metric.