Post by Jason Guy on Jan 31, 2011 1:43:37 GMT -6
Well were down to 3, myself, Justin and Annie and I thought I would take the time to reflect some on this game and express my opinions of what went down and how I feel about everything. Right now, I want to win the game (first and foremost), I actually had very little concern for winning the game up until this point. Ive felt like ever since week 1 that I had no shot at winning the game and that I would eventually be evicted, thats probably why ive been so collected in this game is because Ive never really felt the pressure to do well in the comps and such Ive just been 'ok" with what happens as long as I made a strong showing to possibly make All-Stars.
Coming into the game, I felt good about things being on a level playing field and meeting new people but I quickly felt kinda ostracized because a lot of people werent trying to talk with me and anyone I talked to was either really short or I just felt were trying to watch their own backs and not really connect with me and that first week is what really shaped the whole way I played the game. I automatically felt I was on the outside looking in during the first HoH because I was out quickly and others were making so many deals to stay in an HoH comp and I immediatly just felt off about those people, so I really made a tight connection with Eric since neither of us are into that sort of stuff. Im more of the guy who wants my side vs your side and the power goes back and forth or whatever and we see who wins....like the civil war kinda, the south is in Gray the north is in Blue and you see where people stand, everyone talks to each other and is friendly but push comes to shove and then duke it out. But this game was more like a Pirate thing or something, instead of it being team against team, it was like 14 individuals each with their own territory making temporary deals and stuff to knock off other people to get a bigger portion of the game. And thats just really not my thing.
I know I complained earlier about the "egos" in the game and I still stand behind their existance, but that really isnt the thing that bothered me in the game, I was disenchanted because I didnt really get to know people personally in the game. As much as I like the actual game itself, I play my game based on BB-ESP and vibes that im getting and I feel much closer when i know people personally and that was something I really lacked in this game. Some people dont enjoy that part of the game but really my favorite part is meeting the new people and seeing where they live, what they are into and things like that. Justin and Eric are the only ones ive done that with in this game....yeah Amanda and I are great allies but weve never personally bonded in any way, weve only discussed game through PMs. But even in my real life Im someone who enjoys making connections with people rather than just having casual friends or anything. I would rather have only a few fun convos than to have someone to constantly talk to and it just be about foolishness or nothingness. And really when it all boils down to it, Survivor and Big Brother are both social games, even more than the challenges and the strategies.
Strategies in games are almost always worthless. The game changes constantly and if you are trying to work a strategy and run the game, then youll almost always lose. I dont try my best to play in-synch with the game and go with it rather than play to control it. I feel like, you have to follow the game wherever the game takes you and make the best of that situation. And I also feel like people would do better and would enjoy themselves more if they got priorities straight in games, like, why should I care if Jen and Enzo have an alliance or whatever but I would never nominate someone just on the basis that they are "aligned" if they are together but are not a threat to me, then why should I care? But if they are coming after me then they need to go up......when I decide who I want to nominate, I think of every player as having like a totem pole and everyone is ranked somewhere on the pole. The lower on the pole you are then the less they need you in the game and the more likely they are to target you. So when I win HoH, I think about each persons poles (get your mind out of the gutter
) and the 2 people that I think would rank me the lowest go up or get my vote for eviction. Regardless of what the rest of the house is doing. Plus strategies are almost pointless because so much of this game is luck its not even funny, I might play the exact same way in season 6 and have been the first out. You just never know with the comps, players and timing of convos, what will happen. And now im gonna talk about each player in this game:
Jacob- Jacob "seemed" to be a nice guy but everyone says he was trying to play everyone and play the game too hard and normally stuff like that just doesnt come out of nowhere. So he really played too hard too fast.
Ryan- Ryan was a guy who ta........Ryan quit 1/5 of the way through the game so I gave him 1/5 of a tribute
April- April was a girl who slept with.........same situation as Ryan.
Kail- Kail was nice on the outside but after that one HoH where we had to guess which people said which thing in the confessionals, she seemed a little off her rocker.
Kaysar- I really wish that I hadnt nominated Kaysar the week I did. Thats one of the things I regret. I didnt try to get to know him like I should have but we just never could seem to meet up at the same time and since i was so unsure of where he stood I nominated him. But I did target Mike for eviction that week over him, so I didnt intend for him to go, but he did.
Sheila- I dont know the first thing about Sheila, I swear I dont
Adam- Adam was a cool guy to talk to but he always came across as being desperate and talked in circles a lot. Its hard to trust someone who is begging you for something, it shows a lack of confidence and if they arent confident in their ability then how can I be confident in them as an ally? He always was a pot stirrer and just made things up out of thin air, I think he was like compulsive or something idk.
Jen- I got to know her the first day and then she got rid of me in the first HoH over Kail, which shocked me because I thought she and I were really connecting well. One of the biggest mistakes I made in this game thus far was targetting her because of something like that. The biggest mistake someone can make in Big Brother is deciding to disregard someone as not being a threat or to decide not to work with someone because of something they did in the game. If someone did you wrong, but you can still get one more week in the game by working with them, then theres no reason not to do that. And im lucky that I survived her coming back after me, that could have been a really big mistake and it was me letting my own ego get in the way of overlooking something she probably has no idea even upset me.
Eric- Fantastic in all ways personally, but not the greatest socially. He was always very social with me, but I guess that was lacking with him and Jusitn since Justin used the DPoV on Eric and claimed he was going to use it even if I hadnt won the Veto that week, but im not so sure how true that is.
Amanda- I wasnt sure what to make of Amanda at first, she came right out about aligning and I usually dont align with people before I talk to them a little bit and get to know them but I felt so alienated week 1 and I knew that "beggars cant be choosers" but I assumed our alliance was just to her benefit and that she would get rid of me at some point down the line. It wasnt til about final 7 or 8 that I really began to trust that Amanda had good intentions and was going to keep me. She may have had other alliances going also (Im like 80% sure she did) but she seemed to hold true to ours.
Mike- Mike is a good guy and I think he really got his feelings hurt because of me nominating him earlier in the game, but I just didnt think I could trust him, he seemed desperate that week in the HoH room and ultimately he went up over Adam because I knew Adam would always be a target by others, but Adam probably wouldnt target me, but I felt that Mike was so well liked that he would fly to the end. I think his biggest downfall was that he just couldnt get over the fact that i nominated him and openly targetted me the rest of the game. I never saw him as a threat so I never really tried to hard to get him out, but when I personally had the chance, I had to take it.
Coming into the game, I felt good about things being on a level playing field and meeting new people but I quickly felt kinda ostracized because a lot of people werent trying to talk with me and anyone I talked to was either really short or I just felt were trying to watch their own backs and not really connect with me and that first week is what really shaped the whole way I played the game. I automatically felt I was on the outside looking in during the first HoH because I was out quickly and others were making so many deals to stay in an HoH comp and I immediatly just felt off about those people, so I really made a tight connection with Eric since neither of us are into that sort of stuff. Im more of the guy who wants my side vs your side and the power goes back and forth or whatever and we see who wins....like the civil war kinda, the south is in Gray the north is in Blue and you see where people stand, everyone talks to each other and is friendly but push comes to shove and then duke it out. But this game was more like a Pirate thing or something, instead of it being team against team, it was like 14 individuals each with their own territory making temporary deals and stuff to knock off other people to get a bigger portion of the game. And thats just really not my thing.
I know I complained earlier about the "egos" in the game and I still stand behind their existance, but that really isnt the thing that bothered me in the game, I was disenchanted because I didnt really get to know people personally in the game. As much as I like the actual game itself, I play my game based on BB-ESP and vibes that im getting and I feel much closer when i know people personally and that was something I really lacked in this game. Some people dont enjoy that part of the game but really my favorite part is meeting the new people and seeing where they live, what they are into and things like that. Justin and Eric are the only ones ive done that with in this game....yeah Amanda and I are great allies but weve never personally bonded in any way, weve only discussed game through PMs. But even in my real life Im someone who enjoys making connections with people rather than just having casual friends or anything. I would rather have only a few fun convos than to have someone to constantly talk to and it just be about foolishness or nothingness. And really when it all boils down to it, Survivor and Big Brother are both social games, even more than the challenges and the strategies.
Strategies in games are almost always worthless. The game changes constantly and if you are trying to work a strategy and run the game, then youll almost always lose. I dont try my best to play in-synch with the game and go with it rather than play to control it. I feel like, you have to follow the game wherever the game takes you and make the best of that situation. And I also feel like people would do better and would enjoy themselves more if they got priorities straight in games, like, why should I care if Jen and Enzo have an alliance or whatever but I would never nominate someone just on the basis that they are "aligned" if they are together but are not a threat to me, then why should I care? But if they are coming after me then they need to go up......when I decide who I want to nominate, I think of every player as having like a totem pole and everyone is ranked somewhere on the pole. The lower on the pole you are then the less they need you in the game and the more likely they are to target you. So when I win HoH, I think about each persons poles (get your mind out of the gutter
) and the 2 people that I think would rank me the lowest go up or get my vote for eviction. Regardless of what the rest of the house is doing. Plus strategies are almost pointless because so much of this game is luck its not even funny, I might play the exact same way in season 6 and have been the first out. You just never know with the comps, players and timing of convos, what will happen. And now im gonna talk about each player in this game:Jacob- Jacob "seemed" to be a nice guy but everyone says he was trying to play everyone and play the game too hard and normally stuff like that just doesnt come out of nowhere. So he really played too hard too fast.
Ryan- Ryan was a guy who ta........Ryan quit 1/5 of the way through the game so I gave him 1/5 of a tribute
April- April was a girl who slept with.........same situation as Ryan.
Kail- Kail was nice on the outside but after that one HoH where we had to guess which people said which thing in the confessionals, she seemed a little off her rocker.
Kaysar- I really wish that I hadnt nominated Kaysar the week I did. Thats one of the things I regret. I didnt try to get to know him like I should have but we just never could seem to meet up at the same time and since i was so unsure of where he stood I nominated him. But I did target Mike for eviction that week over him, so I didnt intend for him to go, but he did.
Sheila- I dont know the first thing about Sheila, I swear I dont
Adam- Adam was a cool guy to talk to but he always came across as being desperate and talked in circles a lot. Its hard to trust someone who is begging you for something, it shows a lack of confidence and if they arent confident in their ability then how can I be confident in them as an ally? He always was a pot stirrer and just made things up out of thin air, I think he was like compulsive or something idk.
Jen- I got to know her the first day and then she got rid of me in the first HoH over Kail, which shocked me because I thought she and I were really connecting well. One of the biggest mistakes I made in this game thus far was targetting her because of something like that. The biggest mistake someone can make in Big Brother is deciding to disregard someone as not being a threat or to decide not to work with someone because of something they did in the game. If someone did you wrong, but you can still get one more week in the game by working with them, then theres no reason not to do that. And im lucky that I survived her coming back after me, that could have been a really big mistake and it was me letting my own ego get in the way of overlooking something she probably has no idea even upset me.
Eric- Fantastic in all ways personally, but not the greatest socially. He was always very social with me, but I guess that was lacking with him and Jusitn since Justin used the DPoV on Eric and claimed he was going to use it even if I hadnt won the Veto that week, but im not so sure how true that is.
Amanda- I wasnt sure what to make of Amanda at first, she came right out about aligning and I usually dont align with people before I talk to them a little bit and get to know them but I felt so alienated week 1 and I knew that "beggars cant be choosers" but I assumed our alliance was just to her benefit and that she would get rid of me at some point down the line. It wasnt til about final 7 or 8 that I really began to trust that Amanda had good intentions and was going to keep me. She may have had other alliances going also (Im like 80% sure she did) but she seemed to hold true to ours.
Mike- Mike is a good guy and I think he really got his feelings hurt because of me nominating him earlier in the game, but I just didnt think I could trust him, he seemed desperate that week in the HoH room and ultimately he went up over Adam because I knew Adam would always be a target by others, but Adam probably wouldnt target me, but I felt that Mike was so well liked that he would fly to the end. I think his biggest downfall was that he just couldnt get over the fact that i nominated him and openly targetted me the rest of the game. I never saw him as a threat so I never really tried to hard to get him out, but when I personally had the chance, I had to take it.
