Post by Babydoll on Apr 19, 2016 12:33:51 GMT
I just want to start by congratulating all three of you y'all had me worried there that at least one Nostro was going to slip through to the final tribal but at least we (or at least I) got our/my desired outcome of an all-blue FTC.
Truth be told my vote is still kind of up in the air? Like I want to come into this with a pretty open mind and I'm definitely open to having my perception swayed so long as it doesn't seem like you're making extensive bounds in order to lay claims to moves that weren't really yours. But I digress.
I'm not going to take up too much of your time to tell y'all what I think of you. I find that shit kind of petty - cause tonight is your night and I'm not going to be one to steal the spotlight. I have no reason to blast any of you extensively because I don't feel personally affected by what happened . But I flicked back to the opening challenge for the season and I've gotta say it was kind of interesting to see how perceptions of social games went from then to now.
On one hand we had Selene, who was super-up-there, but in the end your social activity kinda turned a few people against you because it seemed a lot of Sulaco didn't want to hear your "fucking essays" (not my words) and apparently you didn't take the hint about this when people tried to be really brief with you? You did play a good social game in the regard that I feel like you always were up for a good chat and I did really look forward to logging on and talking to you more because I do appreciate the long messages even if they get tricky to reply to when I've come home from a date night and I'm super drunk
Xena was like, mid-ground. Which I feel like it's a pretty accurate as a description for your pre- and post-merge. You did really well to kinda situate yourself dead-centre; or at least appear this way and yeah -- I think that definitely helped set you up for a good end game because I can't recall your name really coming up too often in the pre-merge as someone untrustworthy so I guess you must've had a lot of people trusting you when Sulaco started falling apart. Good job, but still, it kinda makes me feel like you didn't have to fight the same way that Selene did. And one bone I have to pick with you is how you feel that Tribal of Fear went down -- with you "hustling" to pull everyone together. The way I saw it, the hustler got hustled -- my plan for that round was to always get a split vote going at Sulaco so that I could try to get one Nostro and one Sulaco gone and you provided the best opportunity for that. You approached me and you started talking about wanting to do a split vote but essentially needing encouragement and it was the golden opportunity for me so of course I pushed you to go for it. So yeah, you did try to make a move, but was your move playing potentially against you? Maybe you could've seen my plan coming, probably not. But I wouldn't try to use that as an example of good gameplay when you're opening yourself up to potential burning that easily.
Mother Russia, you've had your tires pumped a fair bit in jury lodge as someone who had "amazing strategy". And yeah, if what I'm hearing is true, then I guess you did play the post-merge well in terms of game. But on the opening weekend you were ranked as the third-worst socially and then I think you kinda rode the back of Sulaco success in the pre-merge and never really attempted to chat to a lot of us? Like I'd go days where my messages were sitting in my outbox with no reply. It seemed like you came alive at the merge but OTOH I feel like you were sort of bottom-2 on the pecking order at Sulaco and had we lost a few more challenges I'm not sure you would've made the merge.
My questions are always multi-parted and I just want these answered as best possible. Keep in mind I'll probably check some answers in other threads here and there. Again, this is your night. So use it to your best ability.
PART ONE - All three
I want you to give me a spark-notes version of why I should vote for the other two ladies. You can take their opening argument and summarise it, but I don't want a word-for-word thing. If you can compress it down into one or two sentences; that's perfect. Just sum up what argument they're making about why they deserve to win. And don't be critical about it and be like "So-and-so says X but that is BULLSHIT!". Just summaries
PART TWO - Individual parts
Selene -- tell me why you should win when, at least from my perspective, it seemed like it was a little bit of a struggle for you to stay afloat on your own once the Trinity vote transpired. Outside of the obvious reason that "I overcame the odds".
Xena -- tell me why you should win when, at least from my perspective, it seemed like you never really had to sweat too many votes in this game. Outside of the reasoning about last round's challenge.
Mother Russia -- tell me why you should win when it seemed like you couldn't give that much of a shit about those outside your plans? There were two sections of this game where it took you four days to reply to PMs from me -- in fact before I left the game there was a six day period of total radio silence from you. You talk about the fact you hated being just tossed aside and yet you did the same to many people.
Truth be told my vote is still kind of up in the air? Like I want to come into this with a pretty open mind and I'm definitely open to having my perception swayed so long as it doesn't seem like you're making extensive bounds in order to lay claims to moves that weren't really yours. But I digress.
I'm not going to take up too much of your time to tell y'all what I think of you. I find that shit kind of petty - cause tonight is your night and I'm not going to be one to steal the spotlight. I have no reason to blast any of you extensively because I don't feel personally affected by what happened . But I flicked back to the opening challenge for the season and I've gotta say it was kind of interesting to see how perceptions of social games went from then to now.
On one hand we had Selene, who was super-up-there, but in the end your social activity kinda turned a few people against you because it seemed a lot of Sulaco didn't want to hear your "fucking essays" (not my words) and apparently you didn't take the hint about this when people tried to be really brief with you? You did play a good social game in the regard that I feel like you always were up for a good chat and I did really look forward to logging on and talking to you more because I do appreciate the long messages even if they get tricky to reply to when I've come home from a date night and I'm super drunk
Xena was like, mid-ground. Which I feel like it's a pretty accurate as a description for your pre- and post-merge. You did really well to kinda situate yourself dead-centre; or at least appear this way and yeah -- I think that definitely helped set you up for a good end game because I can't recall your name really coming up too often in the pre-merge as someone untrustworthy so I guess you must've had a lot of people trusting you when Sulaco started falling apart. Good job, but still, it kinda makes me feel like you didn't have to fight the same way that Selene did. And one bone I have to pick with you is how you feel that Tribal of Fear went down -- with you "hustling" to pull everyone together. The way I saw it, the hustler got hustled -- my plan for that round was to always get a split vote going at Sulaco so that I could try to get one Nostro and one Sulaco gone and you provided the best opportunity for that. You approached me and you started talking about wanting to do a split vote but essentially needing encouragement and it was the golden opportunity for me so of course I pushed you to go for it. So yeah, you did try to make a move, but was your move playing potentially against you? Maybe you could've seen my plan coming, probably not. But I wouldn't try to use that as an example of good gameplay when you're opening yourself up to potential burning that easily.
Mother Russia, you've had your tires pumped a fair bit in jury lodge as someone who had "amazing strategy". And yeah, if what I'm hearing is true, then I guess you did play the post-merge well in terms of game. But on the opening weekend you were ranked as the third-worst socially and then I think you kinda rode the back of Sulaco success in the pre-merge and never really attempted to chat to a lot of us? Like I'd go days where my messages were sitting in my outbox with no reply. It seemed like you came alive at the merge but OTOH I feel like you were sort of bottom-2 on the pecking order at Sulaco and had we lost a few more challenges I'm not sure you would've made the merge.
My questions are always multi-parted and I just want these answered as best possible. Keep in mind I'll probably check some answers in other threads here and there. Again, this is your night. So use it to your best ability.
PART ONE - All three
I want you to give me a spark-notes version of why I should vote for the other two ladies. You can take their opening argument and summarise it, but I don't want a word-for-word thing. If you can compress it down into one or two sentences; that's perfect. Just sum up what argument they're making about why they deserve to win. And don't be critical about it and be like "So-and-so says X but that is BULLSHIT!". Just summaries
PART TWO - Individual parts
Selene -- tell me why you should win when, at least from my perspective, it seemed like it was a little bit of a struggle for you to stay afloat on your own once the Trinity vote transpired. Outside of the obvious reason that "I overcame the odds".
Xena -- tell me why you should win when, at least from my perspective, it seemed like you never really had to sweat too many votes in this game. Outside of the reasoning about last round's challenge.
Mother Russia -- tell me why you should win when it seemed like you couldn't give that much of a shit about those outside your plans? There were two sections of this game where it took you four days to reply to PMs from me -- in fact before I left the game there was a six day period of total radio silence from you. You talk about the fact you hated being just tossed aside and yet you did the same to many people.