Board Thread:Season 29 - Azerbaijan/@comment-4975295-20151105044841/@comment-26725365-20151105052747

Clifford: A lot of accusations have been thrown around. How has that affected the game?

Honestly, it brings me back to church! Everyone pointing the finger at your sins but blind to their own. Everything is fine when your skeletons are nice and snug to the back of the closet, but when those skeletons come out, a lot is revealed. Not just about yourself, that's plain as day, but about others. Since the great Nicky City Bombing of 2015 occurred I have been ignored, slandered, sworn at, insulted, consoled, and forgiven. If the last few days are any indication of the future, it's looking like I'm a guaranteed juror. So if you look at the game that way. Those who chose to talk to me, to hear my side of the story, to let me apologize... those who rebuilt rapport, took the time to understand me... these are the people who are getting my vote at the end of the day. And I know there is a majority alliance that can easily get rid of me tonight and I can tell you that there are people, most likely going to write my name down, who have shown me grace and kindness. I commend those people on seeing past the bullshit and understanding the game part of things, and the not-game part of things.

It's pretty easy when you break it all down.

Nick was in a majority alliance.

Nick betrayed that alliance by telling Rob I had an idol. (Little did he know I had two...like a boss.)

The alliance was mad at Nick and didn't talk to him for half-a-day.

Nick freaked out and aired everyone's dirty laundry on the main board to rally a majority alliance.

Nick betrayed every single person who got him to this point of the game thus far.

His argument was: "I was never loyal to you guys." Great history for a new ally, right?

Now him and Rob are safe in a majority alliance. This is good for the others because they can hide behind the drama.

They'll pick apart the minority little by little but it won't be long until they take Nick and Rob down because, if one of these guys get to the end of the game, they will win.

Rob made a deal with me privately to not write my name down this vote and I agreed to do the same. I will honour that deal. I also won't be writing Nick's name down because even though the move affected my game negatively, it was well-executed, and worked, and I commend them on their gameplay. Plus, as a potential future-juror, I'm interested to see who is a willing sheep and who can come out of this more diplomatically.

I can't help but believe it's my name on that little piece of paper tomorrow so I'll say this.

No hard feelings.

At all.

I love to point out the Real Life Cliffy and Game Cliffy are two different people but Real Life Cliffy got way too caught up in Game Cliffy.

Like, it's not good when you're in line to get a coffee, and you tell the lady at the drive-thru, "Guess what!? I'm getting voted off an island tonight!"

That's some weirdo shit right there.

I'm a big fan of Survivor and love to see big players, making big moves, not afraid to take the game into their own hands. Not afraid to make mistakes.

We have a good group here. But a warning to those with long coattails: It's not hard for people to ride them and it's just a matter of time before they cut them off.

The winner of this game will either be someone with a great capacity for deception or a great capacity for forgiveness. Someone who pulls the wool over everyone's eyes or someone who stands against all the deceptive people in this game and win by playing Survivor a more honourable, a more humane way. One of the two.

All-in-All, I have dropped my expectations and will enjoy how many days, hours, minutes, seconds I have left on this island.

So to answer your question, how have these accusations have affected my game...?

Barely at all.