The Yul Kwon @ 25/8/2015 14:49

Jerri @ 25/8/2015 11:56 I want to vote for you Jerri. I really do. Please, drop the BS. Drop the attempts at pandering. Please reflect on your game when you are answering. Know the strong aspects of your game and focus on it. You have fought hard for a very long time. Don't let all that effort go to waste. I honestly have no clue what you are talking about here. I've been as honest as I could be in my answers, heck I even made Mike my number 1 ally even though he ISNT EVEN ON THE JURY, In my responses I've been somewhat rude to Heather and Shontayla, 2 potential votes for me, saying Heather is unworthy and Shontayla was the master of chaos and lies. These are things someone who panders or sugarcoats does in a FTC Yul.... If you're refering to my loving on Ronnie, well I wouldn't be here were it not for Ronnie, so of course I'm gonna like him. If I was pandering, I wouldn't put Ronnie in last place on the Jury Ranking list. I'd like you to look over my answers again and cite the bullshit and the pandering. So frankly Yul I'm kind of annoyed that you think my answers have so far been BS and Pandering. You wanna see BS and pandering...just wait until Kamanda comes back! So if you want no BULLSHIT...I'm kinda pissed at you right now, how's that for no bullshit!? I looked over your answers again. I have to admit I can't pinpoint any specifics of pandering. I think most of my frustration stemmed from your answer to KP's alignment question. It just put me off big time. But that's on me. I thank you for standing your ground and calling me out. As for the rest of your answer, I like it a lot. It gives me, and hopefully the rest of the jury, a bit more perspective about your pre-merge game. Good luck with the rest of the questions Jerri.

Things changed a lot after you left with regards to Eric and Kims alliance. They mostly fell apart after the first vote of the merge and the game became a lot more of a free for all. I wasn't trying to kiss Kims ass with that response it was just how I saw things

Jerri @ 25/8/2015 14:56

I want to vote for you Jerri. I really do. Please, drop the BS. Drop the attempts at pandering. Please reflect on your game when you are answering. Know the strong aspects of your game and focus on it. You have fought hard for a very long time. Don't let all that effort go to waste. So frankly Yul I'm kind of annoyed that you think my answers have so far been BS and Pandering. You wanna see BS and pandering...just wait until Kamanda comes back! So if you want no BULLSHIT...

Just saw this lol. Shots fired?

Hey Yul, I really do appreciate the support even though we never really talked much in THIS game. Believe me it feels weird to be in this position for a first ever FTC. I knew coming into this that it wasn't going to be easy and I knew that my chances of winning may not be SUPER high, but that isn't going to stop me from trying anyway. I tend to be someone who doesn't really know when to stop, which can be a good or a bad thing, but here that is basically what's motivating me to get to all these questions and try my best to show everyone my gameplay and show that it wasn't actually that weak and you should feel more than comfortable voting for me in the end.

As for you, letting your emotional side or heartless douchenozzle side win out, interesting questions. I mean the way you are making it sound, sticking with the heartless douchenozzle side will PROBBALY result in you voting Jerri, so I think it's safe to say I wouldn't be a huge fan of that. But here's the thing with me in some of these games. In the past I've done my fair share of votes that were strictly emotional and strictly strategic. Sometimes the vote was a combination of both, like a lot of votes in ORGs are. The thing I have noticed about myself is that there are times where I try and push a vote by trying to appeal to the emotional side of a person even though I'm doing the move mostly for strategic benefit. I think it'd be hypocritical of me to just flat out tell you "vote with your heart it's the best way" because I haven't done that in this game for rounds. I mean I WOULD like for you to vote with your heart but that is entirely up to you. However, I'm not sure how comfortable I would be if you don't think much of my gameplay and are just voting for me to win just because you like me as a person. I think FTC votes should be based on a LOT of things including how you feel about a person and about their gameplay. A FTC vote isn't really like a normal vote where there are so many factors to think about for coming rounds. A FTC vote is final and will be the last thing everyone in the game sees as the winner is crowned. For that reason I do think it would make sense to vote a bit more emotionally than for any other random vote. There was a game I had played a few months ago where in the end I voted for the pretty clear winner of the group because he was able to make himself stand out. After I made the vote I DID feel bad because I was really close to one of the people in the F3 and would go as far as to call her a friend, and she ended up getting no votes to win. I felt like just as an appreciation for the time I spent with her in the game, I should have at least given her 1 vote to win, even if I didn't think game wise she was 100% the best. The jury vote should have pertained to me and how I feel about the person I am voting for to win, or at least that was what I was thinking after the results were shown.

So am I saying to vote for me as a pity vote because I regretted not doing that? God no. Vote however you think you will be comfortable with. At the end of the day, this is you voting for who you think deserves to be rewarded for their efforts in this game. I would obviously love if that was me. 

3 times I face-desked (in no particular order)

1. Almost every time I attempted the F8 PoV. That posting challenge made me start to hate myself, my computer, and my internet connection. Kim was on the block and I figured I was going to be a back up nom, so if I won the PoV and used it on Kim we'd be golden. Well, Kim had told me how many posts she got and I was pretty stunned, especially considering it was in an only 4 minute time frame. So I had tried for about FIVE HOURS to get around that score. However every time I would try setting up to make the attempt, my internet would stop working, my browser would crash, etc. This ended up being a gigantic waste of time, where I ALMOST was able to pull ahead. But alas I think I lost by less than 10 or 20 posts or something.

2. Erik being saved by an idol not once, but twice, and both times by the same person. Both times it resulted in one of my allies going home (Fabio and Eric) which ultimately sucked. 

3. Whenever I would attempt to use AIM or access the board while on vacation. I'm not sure what it is about cruise ship port wifi, but for SOME reason it's spotty af. I'm connected for one minute being able to talk on aim and log onto the board and just view what's going on, and then the next none of my messages are sending and the board won't load at all. Sometimes, I would have messages refuse to send and the board loads fine, and then the board doesn't load but AIM works! It was just a giant cluster. I just felt bad whenever I was trying to talk to someone and I disconnected without any warning.

So yeah again, vote how you want to vote. Obviously I'm going to ask you to vote with your heart if it means you would be voting for me. It's been a bit of a struggle the last few weeks so it'd be nice to at least feel some sort of closure. I'm sorry if I'm making the decision tough, but also kinda not if it means I have a chance lol.

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Erik - Congratulations bruh. You made it to the end and I am really happy you did. Goat or not, it is still pretty damn impressive to be able to accomplish this because there wasn't a shortage of goats in this game. And you beat them all. That being said, you don't have much of a chance if at all at a win in this FTC. But I am one of the few who liked your OS to an extent. And I just want to encourage you to keep putting in your best efforts into these questions. I am liking your approach to this FTC thus far.

Thanks man! Yeah, my chance is super slim, but I'm trying my hardest to answer these questions (hopefully in a reasonable time frame) with complete honesty. I think people went into this FTC not respecting my game, and as long as they respect it at the end, I think I did alright, even if they don't vote for me.

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As far as your game goes, could you shed some more light on the Kim/Stephen boot round. Go into as much detail as you would like. Why you chose to go against them. Do you think you made the right call.

Okay, so leading up to the tribe swap, I had always felt kind of on the outs with the pregame alliance that was on my tribe. Whenever we voted out someone, they would all say, "I heard around that we were voting that guy," and things like that, and they never really elaborated much more than that. It all felt really synthetic and that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. Like, the names had to be spurring from somewhere, in those four, and they all kept sticking to a fairly similar script, so I figured that they had a group chat while I was on the outs of that. Coming off of the back of Twisted, I know why, but it never really helped my uneasyness. I had actually tried to overthrow this alliance towards the start with the numbers from Liz, Sundra, Mike, and Ryan (I only really talked about that move with Mike, IIRC, maybe Yul) because of how insecure I felt. But Sundra wasn't around, so I had to go with the flow. And keep going with it until there were only six people on our tribe.

Then the swap happened.

I had already been talking with Dolly a bit from beforehand, and when we had to vote out two people, the first names I heard coming from Kim and Kmanda were Dolly and Kelly. But I thought Dolly could be a loyal ally to have in my back pocket, and I was really starting to like Kelly as I talked with her (I hadn't talked with her at all before the swap) and thought she could be a useful close ally to have down the road. I didn't want to vote them out. And after them, it would probably be Zmanda or Sierra, two other people I felt more comfortable with than Kim or Stephen. So I asked all of them to think about their future on the tribe, and it wasn't too hard to get them to jump on board with me, considering they were next. This way, I could easily have four allies, probably being at the top of the group with Dolly as a strong ally and Kelly as a budding ally. Most of this move was one that I thought of, but Yul was definitely feeding fuel to the fire when he was telling me that I would always be on the outs with Kim and Stephen and that whole gang. Now, I don't know if that was because he wanted them out or because he was trying to push me to do what he thought was best for me, but if I was certainly about to jump, and he was there to push me if I didn't.

But then, drop your buffs, because the ambassadors picked the next tribes. Yaaaayyyyyy...

I was now on the bottom 4 of a tribe of 9, my former ally who jumped ship was now on the opposing side and refused any attempts to flip, and to make matters worse, both Dolly and Kelly were the next ones voted out of the game anyways. Had I known what was coming, he'll no I wouldn't have done what I did. But there was no way for me to know what was coming. And I thought it would put me in a great position on that tribe. But oh well.

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I want you to give me three instances of a time that something in this game made you facedesk or want to rip your hair out or curse at your computer/cell phone screens or praise the lord to have mercy on your soul.

1.) Definitely after the Kim/Stephen move. So much horrible luck after that put me into a horrible position and I lost two friends/allies. At that point, I thought I would be long gone before I even came near the end, and that, if by some miracle, I made it to FTC, that I should automatically get the win because of how much bad luck I had (lol).

2.) The Los Muertos challenge. Holy fuck, the Los Muertos challenge. I had gone all day with very minimal sleep, I had gone out to buy energy drinks to keep me awake, and I had posted for 15 or 16 hours, can't totally remember, I think it was 16. Yul and me were talking most of that time, and he had thought that, by Eric's post count, that I had beaten him by then. I decided to keep going to see how long I could do it, and I messed up around 16 hours because I was talking to Yul and I forgot to post. But before then, we had initially agreed that if he wanted to catch up to me, he would stop when we tied. That was the plan when he got about 10 minutes after his tying post with me. Then he messages me and says that he's going for the win. I had immunity (and ambassador powers) in my hands, and Yul snatched them away from me after agreeing not to. I was livid. And I was livid that I didn't have any other choices BUT to work with Yul. I tried convincing Mike all day to flip, I tried convincing Eric to vote for Zmanda instead of me, I tried anything to get myself away from the boot. Up until I learned about the idol, I almost swore off ORGs (or at least this one) entirely.

3.) The Michelle vote. I was hoping Jeremiah was with us after the vote. We didn't really have much to go on. Sundra was on board with us, and so was Michelle, but I couldn't figure out Jeremiah. When the vote was being discussed, I said Monica, obviously, because I didn't want to lose again, and he seemed to agree wholeheartedly. Then when I find out that Michelle was the vote, I didn't understand why Jeremiah would do that. Like, what did the other side offer him that kept them safe and made him vote against us? He claimed that he just got on late, didn't know where the vote was going, he asked some people and they said Michelle, so he voted for him. But I didn't buy it. It seemed almost impossible for him to screw up that badly. Plus one of my closest allies just got voted out, and I was next if we lost again, which I was sure would happen becaase Monica was still around. Learning that they were throwing the challenge was a relief.

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Then the swap happened. I had already been talking with Dolly a bit from beforehand, and when we had to vote out two people, the first names I heard coming from Kim and Kmanda were Dolly and Kelly. But I thought Dolly could be a loyal ally to have in my back pocket, and I was really starting to like Kelly as I talked with her (I hadn't talked with her at all before the swap) and thought she could be a useful close ally to have down the road. I didn't want to vote them out. And after them, it would probably be Zmanda or Sierra, two other people I felt more comfortable with than Kim or Stephen. So I asked all of them to think about their future on the tribe, and it wasn't too hard to get them to jump on board with me, considering they were next. This way, I could easily have four allies, probably being at the top of the group with Dolly as a strong ally and Kelly as a budding ally. Most of this move was one that I thought of, but Yul was definitely feeding fuel to the fire when he was telling me that I would always be on the outs with Kim and Stephen and that whole gang. Now, I don't know if that was because he wanted them out or because he was trying to push me to do what he thought was best for me, but if I was certainly about to jump, and he was there to push me if I didn't.

I was just going to let this go and not comment on it at all but so its out there, before erik came to Zmanda and I with his plan to blindside kim/stephen it was already in the works. We had talked about me, Z, dolly, and kelly to vote them out 4-3. When Erik was pushing it as well it just made it even easier to get done. That plan was not just his idea but one that was already in motion that he fell into. Im not trying to take credit away from you because you did help put it into full motion and accomplished but it was going to be attempted either way.

Yul was also already aware of this plan from at least me idk about Z, but I'm sure that factored into him pushing you towards it as well.

Sierra Reed @ 28/8/2015 8:55

Quote Then the swap happened. I had already been talking with Dolly a bit from beforehand, and when we had to vote out two people, the first names I heard coming from Kim and Kmanda were Dolly and Kelly. But I thought Dolly could be a loyal ally to have in my back pocket, and I was really starting to like Kelly as I talked with her (I hadn't talked with her at all before the swap) and thought she could be a useful close ally to have down the road. I didn't want to vote them out. And after them, it would probably be Zmanda or Sierra, two other people I felt more comfortable with than Kim or Stephen. So I asked all of them to think about their future on the tribe, and it wasn't too hard to get them to jump on board with me, considering they were next. This way, I could easily have four allies, probably being at the top of the group with Dolly as a strong ally and Kelly as a budding ally. Most of this move was one that I thought of, but Yul was definitely feeding fuel to the fire when he was telling me that I would always be on the outs with Kim and Stephen and that whole gang. Now, I don't know if that was because he wanted them out or because he was trying to push me to do what he thought was best for me, but if I was certainly about to jump, and he was there to push me if I didn't. I was just going to let this go and not comment on it at all but so its out there, before erik came to Zmanda and I with his plan to blindside kim/stephen it was already in the works. We had talked about me, Z, dolly, and kelly to vote them out 4-3. When Erik was pushing it as well it just made it even easier to get done. That plan was not just his idea but one that was already in motion that he fell into. Im not trying to take credit away from you because you did help put it into full motion and accomplished but it was going to be attempted either way. Yul was also already aware of this plan from at least me idk about Z, but I'm sure that factored into him pushing you towards it as well.

Just want to be fair to Erik and say that Kmanda attended that tribal as an ambassador so without Erik's vote, all you had was a tie. While I don't necessarily agree with the move, a lot of it hinged on what Erik decided to do.

Sierra Reed @ 28/8/2015 8:55

Quote Then the swap happened. I had already been talking with Dolly a bit from beforehand, and when we had to vote out two people, the first names I heard coming from Kim and Kmanda were Dolly and Kelly. But I thought Dolly could be a loyal ally to have in my back pocket, and I was really starting to like Kelly as I talked with her (I hadn't talked with her at all before the swap) and thought she could be a useful close ally to have down the road. I didn't want to vote them out. And after them, it would probably be Zmanda or Sierra, two other people I felt more comfortable with than Kim or Stephen. So I asked all of them to think about their future on the tribe, and it wasn't too hard to get them to jump on board with me, considering they were next. This way, I could easily have four allies, probably being at the top of the group with Dolly as a strong ally and Kelly as a budding ally. Most of this move was one that I thought of, but Yul was definitely feeding fuel to the fire when he was telling me that I would always be on the outs with Kim and Stephen and that whole gang. Now, I don't know if that was because he wanted them out or because he was trying to push me to do what he thought was best for me, but if I was certainly about to jump, and he was there to push me if I didn't. I was just going to let this go and not comment on it at all but so its out there, before erik came to Zmanda and I with his plan to blindside kim/stephen it was already in the works. We had talked about me, Z, dolly, and kelly to vote them out 4-3. When Erik was pushing it as well it just made it even easier to get done. That plan was not just his idea but one that was already in motion that he fell into. Im not trying to take credit away from you because you did help put it into full motion and accomplished but it was going to be attempted either way. Yul was also already aware of this plan from at least me idk about Z, but I'm sure that factored into him pushing you towards it as well.

Yeah, in hindsight, it was probaby going to happen anyways, and you guys seemed surprisingly content with voting Dolly/Kelly, but like Eric said, with Kmanda, the best you had was a tie if I didn't go through with it. I definitely did notice Yul pushing hard for this plan when it was happening, but I was going to do it anyways lol.