Board Thread:Season 44: Costa Rica/@comment-28848947-20171215212909

Hello Final Three!



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A huge congratulations on getting here to the end. After having to fight the entire premerge just to make it to merge and be confronted by a delusional revenge plot and have all that hard work be for nothing, I was really hoping we’d have a great final three that I’d be proud to vote for at the end after waiting all this time to get my chance to speak, and I really have to say I’m underwhelmed. Everyone’s speeches completely underwhelmed me.

Ry’s speech was incredibly saccharine (with his word choice especially) - but somehow I could still feel a kind of pontification that comes with many a Ry speech. Addressed but not justified was his propensity to meta-game. Lumping Willow and I together as a duo due to our Tumblr Survivor history, and making a grand spectacle about our past to many people. While I did tell CJ about it to turn him against you, I did this to build trust with you when I voted him out. I’m just not a big fan of your meta-game mindset.

Moving on, Joanna’s speech was overly arrogant (my biggest turn off, although if we’re being real I kinda liked her arrogance in the confines of her game and my willingness to vote for her, just not a good look personally), and exposed many more things about her game I didn’t like than that I did like. In opening statements I appreciate an understanding of where the finalist has gone wrong in the game more so than I appreciate over auto-fellation, and Joanna definitely neglected to mention that the reason she was voted out was because she was offline for the entirety of the challenge our tribe lost, and only came back online three hours before the deadline, at which point all the newbies had voted and Willow’s and my plan of a 3-2-1 vote against August was made impossible. Coming back into the game with a revenge plot against us and ruining our shots at really playing the game how we wanted to with such a tunnel-vision view of everything that happened is a huge turn off and is definitely something that is holding me back from writing Joanna’s name down to win.

As for Morgan, one qualm I have with him and his speech is he fails to mention any other aspect of the game aside from strategy. Strategy is not the only aspect of the game. Your social game is just as important, and you had absolutely no social game. Good on you for knowing the votes that were being cast each round, I’m glad you had people to spoonfeed you information, but your social game left much to be desired for. The only good conversation I had with you was about a dildo; almost every other time we talked you left me on read after exchanging hellos. A lot of the same that happened with the other speeches also happened with his speech. It was very a narrow-minded and reminded me a lot of what my old AP Lang teacher would always say: it was far too expository, and not at all analytical. We need to show not tell, people. A Survivor FTC should be like the preparation of writing a synthesis paper. Gather information from all your sources and analyze the whole 10 miles. What I combed through was just a sprinkler system spewing water onto a yard, except replace the water with a bunch of statements saying, “This is what I claim to have done this round,” and the yard with the disappointed jurors.

If you couldn’t tell by all of this, my mind is not made up whatsoever about who I will be voting to win at this FTC.



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Before I continue with questions, I should address my exit from the game. Ry probably thinks I’m just a liar for what I said about the veteran’s idol. I did in fact get voted out with it, but I never found that idol. As most people are aware, Conor, Willow, and I orchestrated CJ’s vote, and while Conor was looking at the images page awaiting clues to an idol play, he misinterpreted the hosts’ usage of gifs, thinking Nadine played two idols. In a blind panic, he passed his idol over to me, and I accepted with the promise I’d give him the idol back if he stayed. As it turns out, Jon wasted his idol earlier in the day, and Morgan for some ungodly reason decided to throw away his legacy advantage (a fault in his game he didn’t care to address in his opening speech - a humble finalist is a good finalist, people), so the passing of Conor’s idol was for naught. Now, I never gave this idol back to Conor for two reasons: Many people suspected Conor had an idol, and I wanted an idol bad. So, by the time my blindside came around (which Morgan claims to have orchestrated, but in Ponderosa no wind of his name has reached me when it comes to the origins of my vote out, I am certain it was a combination of Layla and Joanna that lead to my downfall), I had already voted (minutes prior, actually) and could no longer play it. So, Ry, when I was telling you I didn’t find the idol I wasn’t lying to you. It truly wasn’t my idol. And with how loosely you were spreading information I was telling you in confidence for legitimately no reason, I’m sure you can understand why I never told you about this.

Now, onto questions!



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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ry:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Bearing in mind what I’ve said above, tell me why you decided to backstab me in favor of the others after I had been given the opportunity to just vote you out that round and decided to fight for you instead.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Dani Gunn and Danielle George are dangling from opposite sides of a cliff. Their arms are growing weak, they can’t hold on much longer, they’re both crying out for your help. You are in the middle of this cliff and only have time to help one of them, and you must help one of them. Which one do you save from their 14,672 ft. plummet to the bottom of the cliff and why?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-If you were a character in Nickelodeon’s <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Back at the Barnyard <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, who would you be and why?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Joanna:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Bearing in mind what I’ve said above, defend your return to the game. Give me a reason to want to vote you to win despite everything I’ve held against your game. Going into FTC, I was most inclined to vote for you to win, but after your opening speech everyone is pretty much even for me. So give me what I’m looking for, and if read what I’ve said you should know what that would be. (If you have any questions about what I’ve said above, feel free to ask and I’ll explain it to the best of my abilities!)

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-If you were a character in Nickelodeon’s <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Back at the Barnyard <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, who would you be and why?

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Morgan:

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-Bearing in mind what I’ve said above, give me an analytical, strategic move that was all your own that you made in this game. I don’t want the fluff, just the peanut butter.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">-If you were a character in Nickelodeon’s <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Back at the Barnyard <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, who would you be and why?



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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thank you to everyone who read this, I’m hoping it didn’t come off in a bitter way as I am really anything but bitter towards any of the three of these finalists. My frustrations regarding Joanna’s return to the game and her actions, I hope, should be abundantly justified, as should my issues with the opening speeches.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m not looking only for your ability to be humble, but also to be honest and self aware. All three of these things are qualities I feel the three of you have lacked at various points in the game, and possibly all at once, and possibly currently too! That’s for the three of you to decide. Thank you for your time, and I look forward to reading your responses as well as the responses to the questions of my fellow jurors. <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Au revoir, Messieurs et mademoiselle <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">! <ac_metadata title="Zakriah&#039;s Jury Speech!"> </ac_metadata>