Board Thread:Season 42/@comment-27845097-20170909040529/@comment-1775521-20170909045837

Hey Sim! I'm gonna answer your question with total honesty, and I'll stick to what you said and won't sugar coat it.

Like I said in my response to Eva, I don't really believe that I only cared about people in my inner circle. Like I have said multiple times at this tribal council, and have also heard from other speeches, I was very kind to people that I never worked with closely. Examples of this are Hannah (who I only briefly worked with at the combined tribal, and then voted out at the merge), Jenna (who I literally never voted alongside in this game), and Priscilla (who I attempted to work with, but was still kind even when we were not working together). I was genuinely kind to all of these people, and they stated this in their speeches. I do admit that the way I handled our relationship was poor, as I should have messaged you more, but I felt like there wasn't really a hope for us. After I was targeting you (specifically at the Taylor vote), I figured you didn't want to a build a relationship with me anymore, so I didn't pursue one. I don't know how you were "reminded constantly" that I didn't want to work with you because I really never said outright "I hate Sim and don't want to work with him" or anything along those lines. When it comes to the shit talking you mentioned, I do admit that I talked about you saying that you were extremely UTR in this game because I literally barely heard a word from you, and everyone I spoke to said the same. That could have just been me completely misjudging your gameplay, and if that's the case, then I apologize for making assumptions about you.

I would describe my social game as compassionate. I genuinely believe that you are the sole example in this game that I did not actively talk to and try to build a proper relationship with you, and I regret that. Other people in this game I would have long conversations with where I would show care and understanding, and even after people turned their backs on me, I still treated them with respect as though nothing even happened. The one way I feel as though I could have improved my social game is honestly messaging you more because our lack of communication is definitely the largest blemish on my social game this season.

With regards to your vote, I was trying to unify the tribe against Clifford, but knew that there needed to be some vote splitting to make the move overall safer. I suggested you because I felt that if I were to throw votes on anyone else, people would have been turned off to the move. I originally discussed it with Rhi, who disagreed with it, and went back to my core group and tried to figure out where the votes should be placed instead. I then spoke to Jake to get his opinion on the matter as I wanted him to feel comfortable with whoever we split on and he literally said to me "yea, we could just get 2 ppl to vote sim, and not tell rhi, LJKHFHJKF." I decided to report this back to my alliance, and this is what we ended up doing. Then before I casted my vote, Jake told me that he was getting a weird vibe from Julia that made it seem like she wasn't voting for you, which made me play my idol. I thought Julia wasn't going to be voting for you, so I literally didn't even think you were going home at that vote, and I still voted for Clifford.