Whoooooooa what's crack-a-lackin crew!? Can you believe it? I survived pre-game! I've made it so far into this game but there's still a lot of work left to be done!
Let's get downtoBIZ-SNATCH!**
**I know that most of you are...
"homosexuals" - James Miller
so y'all may have gotten confused at the word biz-snatch and are now thinking "what's snatch?" That's okay as it's irrelevant to the rest of this confessional. I was just trying to be real cool and say business some sort of edgy cutesy way.
Aren't I hilarious?
Anyways...
Walt Lizney pulled through and made this game the Happiest Place On Earth™ for me. The photo says it all. I couldn't be happier with how the tribe breakdown went. Not only do I get to continue to talk to Liz/Ken, who I currently have my full allegiance towards, we picked up Jeremiah who I got to bond over being in the same group. Jeremiah proved he's a competitor and in a tribe game you need people like Jeremiah on your tribe. Using the challenge I've been able to feel him out a bit more and I feel like he's the front runner for the #4 to the three of us. This is assuming that the three of us are an alliance. I have no doubts in my mind that we are going to be, Ken has already referred to us as an alliance:
"we're probably the first alliance in the game." or it went something like that...
Speaking of the three of us isn't that a cute photo? I specifically picked my photo to introduce a new, very integral part of my game into my confessionals:
Hair mood: down, s'all relaxed and chill duuuude
shout out to old Myspace blogs.
Liz Ken and I continue to bond. We're pretty much all the same person. We all like dank ass memes and seem to browse the same sites and have the same general interests. Ergo, so far so good.
The downside of the tribes is that Jer, Liz, Ken, and myself were the final four in Group B. Some people may see this as a warning sign, some people may just pass it over and not take it as anything, some people may have never even looked to who it boiled down to in other groups. This information getting out doesn't spell danger for the four of us necessarily. Until it gets brought up, if it gets brought up, s'all good. Keep on keepin' on.
Pertaining to the rest of my tribe, Liz told me that both Jenna and Rita like me. Joe making the ladies swoon ;)? What's new. I'm glad Jenna and Rita are both on my tribe. I liked talking to them and having close relationships with them make it more difficult to determine where my cards may be played. It could also make me seem very dangerous and a threat to the rest of my tribe. Oh well lol I'm used to it.
Neal and I have forged a pretty strong bond in a night too. We've talked and hit it off swimmingly. Using Liz's disdain for mundane conversations Neal and I almost immediately blasted off into a conversation about ice cream which would up taking a dark turn as we got onto the topic of child predators. The dark undertones of my game continue to truck along. We joked about creating a ice cream spy shack called "The Parlour". I dig the vibes he's layin down and I think he digs mine.
Wes -- haven't got much out of him yet. Very generic conversation thus far.
Will -- who? He hasn't been on pretty much all day. This means that he's likely going to wind up being ranked 9 of 9 on our tribe and win the entire damn game. We'll see if Will pops up, I'm guessing he will.
So my consensus is I love my tribe. I get aLóng with everyone really well, it's drawing parallels to my previous game thus far but it's far too early and I'm anticipating a shakeup to my zen.
The no communication rule is a blessing and a curse for me. A blessing because I get to sleep and not type like an absolute madman. A curse because I genuinely enjoyed talking to people like Jaison, Alina, Hope, and Hunter...
wait jk god bless this twist I can still talk to Hunter <3. I think the twist is fantastic. Having an open line into each tribe and its happenings is going to make it hard for a majority to survive in this game come a swap or a merge situation. It's a way to paint some pretty nice vibrant targets onto some people's backs as well. I don't see the point in bluntly lying to Hunter and Caleb because stories are going to be thrown around and notes are going to be compared amongst tribes and at the end of the day the thought of two more allies who I don't have to worry about protecting sounds good to me. I may have to twist my words at some times to make it sound good, but I can handle that.
Before the no communication rule was set in stone, I said my goodbyes and good lucks to a bunch of the people who I'd made close connections to in the game. While I will miss Alina and my showmance and the Hoe-peful Joe-sus Church, if we're reunited I have an existing bond that I've shown I care about. If I'm in danger, or if I have a target on my back, one of these people may be the key to my safety. It seems as if they were all evenly dispersed among the two tribes which is also good because it creates a little less probability of conflicts between the people I like occurring.
I still have more to say! Me? Big mouth? What a surprise.
So the game begins and we have to pick a tribe name and a colour and whatnot. My instinctual response is to jump in, pick a bomb ass name and a colour and Kim Jong Il that shit, but as I said previous I don't want all of the spotlight. I gotsta sharez it. I let everyone else chime in and come up with everything and I just basically nodded my head. I like the colour because the colour reminds me of blood and Joe wearing a red buff will make him look super masculine so the fourteen year old girls will swoon and ratings will go up.
Joe = Cash Flow.
Memba I told you.
The name means spider and power and something else that I can't be bothered to remember and I like spiders and I'm secretly power hungry so this tribe is literally me. Also the name is Ariana backwards and I am a fan of Ariana Grande.
Joe Anglim Fun Fact: My celebrity crush was Ariana Grande from 2013-2015. And then I just decided that the Grande family were entirely disgusting and my love went to where the Grande's (at least Frankie) will inevitably end up: Hell.
I love tangents.
So this challenge I find pretty straight forward and pretty easy. Four of five trials I posted up 20 so I'm pretty confident with a bid of 20 as Lóng as my internet decides not to betray me *GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS AHEAD*
Spoiler
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like Ramsey Bolton
. If so at least I get to make a sweet photoshop image documenting it.
I suggested we make a spreadsheet since it would be easy to cascade windows and copy and paste cells. From there Ken, Neal, and myself worked to finish each cell. I wanted to make a presence and a case that I'm for the tribe and I'm here to help us win. I don't want to be seen as disposable and in a tribal stage of the game you need people who can help you win. I want to be that guy. I know the days of being the Rupert Boneham collecting fish and supplyin' are passed and it doesn't matter if you catch the entire fucking ocean -- if you're not best for them game wise you're gone. Thankfully game wise the only way you can ensure your safety is by winning and we're all eating normal ass meals every night so I don't think I have to worry. I'm best for their game because I'll put in the effort to get to know them (even if they have some elaborate fake story I'll memorize every single detail of it to show them I pay attention), keep the game fun and entertaining, and pull my weight to set them up to knock it out of the park each challenge. That's my case, and that's going to remain my case for the rest of the game. Pre-merge/early jury bound bay-beeeee!
I'm still learning to reel it in and not focus the tribe on me, even when I have some bomb ass stupid idea to entertain the tribe and myself. Everything is better in moderation.
Let's break down the happenings of the challenge thus far. In terms of average posts per minute:
"The Ladies' Champ" Joseph "Joe" Anglim - 22
Neal - 15
Liz - 15
Rita - 11.33
Jenna - 9 ** maybe I'm being a bit too hard on this one.
Kenny:
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Yung Kenny Hoang
i did mine, but i dont think i made my wager :(
16 mins ago
Yung Kenny Hoang
you guys got this tho
Will:
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14 mins ago
Yung Kenny Hoang
hey, has anyone talked to Will? hes not in the group chat
i haven't been able to get communication with him
Jenna Lewis
i tried messaging him today but he has him AIM set to not receive any messages
It'd be nice to gain a win in the early stages of the game to boost morale and build some momentum. I wish I would have been given Will's heat and Will having mine. I'd guess the difference between the three of us doing the minute heat wont be critical to one tribe's success since the larger heats have a greater opportunity to differ by a larger margin. With Kenny potentially not meeting his mark in the 5 minute heat and Will being a part of one of the bigger heats and seemingly not being around the entire time I don't have much faith in this one being pulled out. Unless everything went to hell for each tribe I think we'll be heading to tribal first. Will was on today but he hasn't been on AIM. It is possible he did his challenge but if he did who knows how the hell he did it because he didn't use the spreadsheet/cascading window technique.
Speaking of that:
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Jenna Lewis
yeah i think the spreadsheet strategy was a good one
i don't see us losing
do you think other tribes would have thought of it
Yung Kenny Hoang
I don't think they would. it doesnt seem obvious
so nice thinking joe
im glad i could contribute in some way!
I'll take it! I'm glad I could help.
I reassured Rita that her score was good, especially since she compared it to other seasons and said she was on par. Keeping Rita in good spirits is more or less what I'm trying to do with everyone. If I show I'm there to support everyone else it's natural tendency to support back. Sometimes support isn't explicitly shown and can be taken negatively if you don't show some love. I'm trying to avoid as much negative impression as possible so if I can keep morale high then I'll do it.
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Rita Verreos
definitely! as much as this is an individual game, I don't have it in me to be selfish or anything like that and I want all of us to succeed
hahah match made in heaven
25 mins ago
of course! i think you have to find a happy balance between team and individual.
you see so many times on survivor an unhealthy tribe is just a not fun environment
23 mins ago
Rita Verreos
mhm exactly
It seems as if we're on the same page. Rita likes me according to Liz so I can't see her try to bluff me with her responses especially because they came from her herself with no setup on my behalf.
Wes is currently asking in the chat any tips on the challenge. I'm letting the rest of the tribe come to Wes and give him advice instead of taking charge and giving him my opinions. I don't want to assume the leadership position, and am really trying not to. Whether this is paying off, I have no idea. I feel like it's just natural for me to take it and I might have already taken it unbeknownst to me. If that's the case, at least I'm still trying to take a backseat and let other people help out as well.
Hair mood: up but not tied too tight to show that if you're down to get down and dirty I'm wit' it right away but if not it's loose enough where I can just chill out and sit by the campfire you feel me ladies?
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"Unless everything went to hell for each tribe I think we'll be heading to tribal first." - Joe "Negative Nelly" Anglim, 2016
I was wrong, plain and simple.
Coming into an alias game, the atmosphere is completely different to what I'm used to. Through a little bit of research you can determine what kind of player someone most often is in open alias. In this game, I had no gauge on the competition so I generally just assumed that everyone would score points for their tribe and since Kenny didn't meet his target and Will wasn't around and went in blind for a round that could have banked a lot of points that it was all doom and gloom for Anaira.
I didn't take into consideration that others, more often than I anticipated, would bet something that they could not meet.
I'm insanely proud of my entire tribe for finishing the challenge, and super impressed with everyone who scored for our tribe. In each heat we were bidding higher than the competition (except for Will but we'll get to Will) which I think is credit to having a solid plan of using the spreadsheet to organize the posts and leave it to sheer copying/pasting/replying power. When we scored we scored big, and I give all of the credit in the world to Liz, Rita, Jenna, and Neal. As I expected I didn't make that significant of a difference although I did double Caleb's score which shocked me considering his ability to whip a sausage at Fran's face at lightning speeds. I only put the tribe ahead by 10 and 7 points respectively, a pretty narrow margin. When the other four scored they scored decisively. I think I overestimated the abilities of everyone in the game, as I usually do overestimate things in general. Jenna if you ever read this, you get a huge
you scored in your heat where nobody else could. Not only that, but you were 8 lower than the highest bid of 80. Jaclyn couldn't bring home the bacon, and you brought home the entire pig. 72 points more than either of them bay-beeeee!
I'm gonna keep an eye out for Melinda in the future. If it comes to a sheer posting power challenge again, she put up an average of about 15 posts per minute. That's impressive in a challenge like that and I see her as competition because of it.
So that's it! We're sitting pretty with the momentum and the morale boost I hoped for. Joe's building a hammock out of Emperor's hair and catching some dragon for dinner. We're a few months late but for now we celebrate like it's Chinese New Year!
Let's focus on the good news though. Will is finally around and added into our tribe camp! He apparently didn't know the AIM he made for the game and put down the incorrect... which was something. Credit to Rita for actually doing what nobody thought to do and messaging him on the board asking what was up! I never thought of that because I had him in my mind as an easy unified first boot in the case that we lost of the challenge. I kinda feel bad but at the same time it's a game and if you can easily justify someone other than yourself being the best case boot scenario for the tribe... you gotta do it! I don't know what he was thinking with his bid but then again I really don't know Will and he wasn't around to prepare for the challenge with the rest of the tribe so I'm not going to hold it over his head. I hope to get to know Will over the next few days. There's part of me that wants to hope he can turn it around next challenge and prove that he's a useful member of the tribe due to the rough start, but at the same time I kind of don't want him to because it could lock him in as the front runner to be the first boot of our tribe when that time comes around.
Today I've been able to continue keeping a steady social contact with every member of the tribe except for Liz (she'll get her own piece later on in another post). There's not really much gameplay talk going on and I'm totally fine with that. I think I'm in a favourable position with everyone and I'm trying to show everyone without saying it that I'm here to help them get as far as possible. From the solid two hours from the beginning challenge with Liz and Ken keeping the sausage going and staying in to ensure one of us gets captain, to coming up with the spreadsheet idea, to just telling everyone that they did awesome in this last challenge (even if they didn't score -- the fact is is that they put up the numbers to try to get our tribe ahead and they fell short. Risks may not always pan out, but I commend them for trying and trying to go the extra mile for the tribe). Even if I don't know these people, and even if there's a situation where I think I'm talking to a college student and it turns out to be a 50 year old man who's played 77 ORGs, everyone likes their egos stroked and affirmation. I'm trying to be that guy.
My connection with Jeremiah has gotten stronger slowly but surely.
I absolutely love Neal. He's a helluva conversation and we've always been able to keep it light and entertaining. Same with Jenna.
I'm also trying to be that guy as well, the entertaining one that everyone likes and wants to keep around.
I'm trying to be a lot of things that I hope I already am at my core, basically. I hope it's connecting with the people on my tribe! When it comes down to it, I want to be on the right side of the votes and I think I'm taking all of the precautionary measures to see this happen. The only potential gap in this thought process is that people could think I'm immediately too likable or too talkative and that could be dangerous down the line so they take out the young cub before it can grow. I consider myself to be less of a ferocious lion and more like of one of the characters from the hit PBS childrens' show Between The Lions:
If that eventually happens we'll cross that bridge when we get there. There's a lot of game to go... 25 more rounds to be precise. A lot can change, and a lot can happen. I'm just gonna lay in my hammock and eat some fried dragon.
Booyakasha! Oh oh oh, it's Survivor Joe! Here again, ripe & ready to serve you another slice of humble pie, because that's the first word that comes to mind when I think of myself.
So initially this post was about strategy for seeking out the idol. All you missed was something aLóng the lines of:
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blah blah blah too tired to read this boring ass shit blah blah blah gonna wait to talk to Liz to see what her advantage was blah blah blah
50% of that was to recap you. 50% of that was to try out the new wordfilter. It's going to make posting chatlogs a lot more clear. Also who doesn't want to see these gorgeous soft curls, this perfect taut skin, and this beaming white smile? Let's use the wordfilter some more!
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This will come in handy later and by later I mean in like a hot minute.
So yeah. Because I was stupid and too lazy to read I almost missed guessing for the idol until my saviour Liz, henceforth known in this sentence as Lizzus Christ, came on at like 4 am and told me her advantage was posted publicly and I had like 10 hours left to guess or I'd miss my shot at guessing for the idol.
PRAISETH BE UNTO HER
I really love these word filters!
Anyways so yeah I guessed for the idol blah blah I picked a random location nothing too special there.
What's important is I realized that since I decided to edit this post that even when I updated it it'd be lost in the shuffle. It wouldn't be bumped! What about my adoring teenage fans? They'll be searching for my beautiful chestnut brown curls and all they will find is disappointment and hopelessness. This cannot happen -- which is why I'm going to make another confessional right after this one wrapping up round 1!
BUT FIRST!
PW Gregg liked this post in the promise that quality, or should I say -- joe-ality (0/10 pun 0/10 effort 0/10 care) would be delivered to this post! So with some TLC (tender loving care & t-boz, left-eye (RIP) & chilli) I present to you my filler confessional:
JOE RANKS THE ONLY TOP TWO JOE ANGLIM TRIBUTE VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE
1ST PLACE (TIED): "Joe Anglim Tribute - survivor second chances" by RealityEdits
Alright so this one took a very vintage approach to compile a minute and a half of beautiful scenery (and I guess trees, oceans, and beaches too ;)) by recording their monitor playing the tribute video they just made in one of the various available video editing softwares. I'm not sure how hard it is to export a project to an mp4 but this person clearly missed that step. Quality in audio and video does pay the price, but I think this can be dismissed. My fans are the most hard working loyal fans in existence and without them there would be no Joe Anglim :). I love all of my beautiful fans and I hope they'll pay tons of money to see me and give me a hug and for me to sign their baseball caps or buffs or babies or whatever crazy random stuff they want me to sign XD XD XD!!!
10 Joe Anglims out of 10!
1ST PLACE (TIED): "Joe Anglim Tribute" by RealityEdits
RealityEdits makes their return in this crazy countdown with another classic that is sure to please! "Little tribute for my fav!" awww what a sweetheart! RealityEdits went all in on this project and it delivered! RealityEdits? More like Martin Scorsese! The wacky screen effects, the speeding up and slowing down of clips, the high pitched altercation of the background music, not to mention the watermark taking up the screen -- all brilliantly and strategically placed to send my adoring darling fans on a tear jerker remember the good times they shared with me, watching me do cool shit on beaches and play with my hair! The most underrated scene in this tribute video comes after the really sweet message "Come Back Joe For All Stars!" (I will, don't you worry!) at 1:18. For the remaining 2:25 it's pitch black making a strong but firm stance of their atheism beliefs. I am a man of faith and I thank God every day for the sun and the moon and the stars and the trees and my hair. I'm not saying RealityEdits is wrong, because there is no right or wrong. There are only Joe Anglim supports and no matter what you believe and who you are I will always love and support you right back!
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy let's wrap up this round! I gotta go swing on some vines and search up the mandarin symbol for the number two cus Joe is movin' on to the next round boiiiiiii!
With that said, please read the confessional above this one! I just wrote it but wanted to write this one as well to bump my thread and give me attention. Give me more attention and love and make me feel special and wanted!
Actually though the confessional I wrote above this one I thought was hilarious. If not my commentary, the videos itself were pretty damn funny.
There's not much else I have to say in this round. I'm really happy at how this round played out. The highlight of this round for me strategically is more of a social stance in which I was able to contribute to the tribe by bringing forth the idea of the spreadsheet and using it to our advantage in the challenge. I'm happy it paid off and I think it should buy me some kudos to keep me around for the first few votes. I'm hoping that gives me opportunity to position myself within a majority in the tribe. The more unified the better.
I'm still completely on board with making Liz and Kenny my top two allies. Through conversation I've learned that Kenny has told multiple people that he likes Liz. Liz shared me some conversation that Stacey shared with her pregame. Sidenote: I never talked to Stacey and I wish I did.
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"Well ya see honey child. Dems the good eggs and the bad ones. I met mah fair share o' bad eggs in mah lifetime. I'm 48 gosh dangit. I seen a HELLUVALOT in mah time ya dig? And yous a good egg. I can already tell dis."
"I was talkin' to the Kenny the last night and he had all sorts o' good stuffs to say 'bout you so I jus hadta see for mahself. oh boi, mr kenneth discussed me? what a flattering young man"
Why didn't Stacey just hadta see for hahself about me? Due to this I perceive Kenny and Liz as #1s for each other. I don't know if I fall as their #2 or if they have many open options for a #2 and they're going window shopping. Loyalty will show through tribal. I really enjoy the conversations I share with Liz and Ken and at this time I see no reason to believe that it isn't my best move game wise to go with them. They've shown no clear signs of dishonesty. All I can do is keep bonding with them and fall into a situation where I'm as of equal importance. I may already be, honestly. I'd like to think I am. I've bonded with Liz and Kenny a lot over common interests. It's not a concern of mine since we're in the first few days of the game and there will be a lot that changes during the course of this game. It's just interesting to take something like this and interpret it. Kenny also came to me in the pregame stages and said he liked Liz a lot too. He said it to me, he said it to Stacey, so I'm assuming he also said it to other people as well.
Through our conversations, I found one real important bond to share with Liz. Unless she has a best friend who lives here, or somehow has researched a ridiculous amount about the intricacies that make up this province, I am fairly certain Liz lives in Ontario. This gives us tons of little things to talk about to make our conversations even moreso entertaining.
If I had to do a rankings, I'd rank her slightly above Ken as the person I would trust the most in the game.
Which gets me into my final part of this round which is more of just babble and non-game related. I have no idea how people can separate emotion and gameplay completely in a game that spans months and deals with you connecting and communicating with people on a nonstop basis. For me at least, emotion will always be a part of this game. It is who I am, and it will dictate a lot of the decisions I make in this game. For example, I want to make it as far as possible with the people I like because if not I'd just be miserable. I'd rather have fun and lose than be miserable the whole way through and win. I will make moves to further myself in the game, and I may make them opposing some of the people I've enjoyed talking to in this game -- I can still play strategical, but I do know that I cannot completely ignore emotion.
The hard thing about emotion in this game, which is different from the open ID that I previously played, is that you invest time and care into some people, and some people may just be a complete facade. When you're face to face on video every day it's hard to wind up being something you're completely not. I'd like to think that everyone is hiding things that could compromise their identity, myself included, but I wonder if some of the people I'm talking to are playing a character and not being their true selves. I wonder if I'm becoming friends and wanting to get to know people who couldn't give a damn to talk to me once this game is done. I think I also had this thought process during my open ID game and everything turned out okay and I still talk to almost everyone who I met during my time in the game. This thought isn't something that eats away at me inside and makes me feel paranoid or unstable, it's just a lingering thought that makes me wonder from time to time. I find it all interesting and once the game is done I'll be sure to come back and read through a bunch of the confessionals and come to my own conclusions on my thoughts. Enough with being profound or whatever you wanna call it. I gotta go back to being Joe -- admirin' beaches and stuff.
Manbun's up tomorrow dudes! Round 2 is coming! Another day, another dragon to slay. Peace out round 1! Smell ya later.
