Board Thread:Season 23 - Greece/@comment-25624731-20150117073842/@comment-25567389-20150118081447

thanks for responding, jess, i really appreciate it and you definitely have great points.

first of all, as to sora's "handicap" by not having a so-called built in alliance, this is true and i agree that the fact that we came from the same community definitely is an important thing to consider. yes, it probably did make us more loyal to each other for longer, and perhaps sora would have done better if he'd had a similar thing. but i think it's only fair and possible to judge based on the game that we saw happen, not the what-ifs of things that could have been. the fact that we came from the same community didn't mean that people couldn't have broken us up - there were 16 other people in this game, after all, and they (including sora) could have done something. i for one was always reevaluating my alliances and the main reason i stuck with the "tumblr alliance" was actually because of the 3 idols rather than the shared community. there was a lot of luck involved in getting those idols as well as a lot of hard work, it didn't come as a result of our tumblr-ness, and so i think that's an important thing to consider here as well.

so, i don't know - i understand why you think that sora was disadvantaged in this regard but i just don't really agree that sora is more worthy, based on what happened in the game and also on how little he actually did to break us up. to be totally honest i probably would have gone with sora had he offered me a viable plan and course of action, because i knew it was not best for my game to stick with you guys forever, but he showed no indication of even trying to take control of the game until very late. yes he did have a "handicap" but there was also no evidence of him working against it until a point at which he couldn't do anything. did he ever really try to take control of the game or do anything that wasn't just voting with the majority before trying to vote me out at final 6? perhaps he did but i can only go off what i have seen and argue against that, and to me his social and strategic game were both very weak.

again, i think it really comes down to what we saw and the effort that was given. the tumblr alliance was a major part in me getting this far, yes, but so were my bonds with everyone else, my ability to not be seen as a threat until late in the game, and my importance in getting people to vote how we wanted them to vote, and i don't think these are things that you can attribute solely to me being with a couple people from the same community. i think that it's not what you start with in this game but what you do with it, and ultimately i think i utilized what i had far better than sora ever did. he had plenty of opportunity to do things post-merge if he had wanted to and had been skilled enough, but he didn't actually do anything with that until it was too late.

and yeah i totally understand that you thought i was only putting in 50% - that's how i was trying to get our alliance to perceive me so people didn't vote me out, and i know that that's how it seemed to you and it totally makes sense that you would be skeptical of my effort. so now tonight my job is to show all of the jurors how hard i was trying and that my strategy and the things i did are worthy of respect and were successful. i'm doing my best to lay out my game so you can see that, and i think that my social relationships do a good job of proving the effort i was putting into it. i made and maintained bonds with everyone on the jury for at least a couple of votes, and this wasn't something that came without effort. the success of this also proves my effort, i think; my relationships with everyone fulfilled their purposes and i was able to go back and forth between "alliances" very easily. in addition, if i wasn't trying to do my very best in this game and make to the end of my own accord rather than by being lazy and just letting our alliance take me there, i wouldn't have flipped with MJ and blindsided hanne. does that make sense? please let me know if i can clarify this, because i really did put 100% into this and it's very important that i get that across in all of my answers tonight!

also yeah i apologize and realize that probably my mentions of flipping with you were way too vague and i know that was definitely a flaw in my game, but yeah, there were a couple of times when i asked you if you thought anyone would flip and tried to lowkey indicate that i was thinking about it. again, i totally own that i didn't do this very well, but i just want you to know that i very much did want to flip with you but just didn't think you would be down for it.

finally, for the actual most important part of the question:

- scooby doo 2: monsters unleashed contains no references to the first scooby doo movie, as the directors wanted to distance themselves from the events of that film and get a fresh outlook on the characters

- in the movie, velma's necklace reads "velmalicious"

- the Cotton Candy Glob is a tribute to the always-iconic Cotton Candy Monsters that appear in the scooby doo comic series, though never in the cartoon series

- velma uses an E6-B flight calculator to negate the radamonium; this is a special pilot calculator commonly used to tabulate fuel consumption and so would probably not have actually been the best tool in this scenario

- the skeleton men chase scene was actually CGI. there were no real skeletons used in this movie which in my opinion is a real shame.