Post by porsche on Jul 3, 2017 17:56:03 GMT
Ugh I'm sorry I'm such a flop. I really do want to update my conversations and confessionalize more but I've been busy with my job and almost all my free time I have for this game is getting spent talking to people.
To catch up though, Arlie nominated Kelsey and Jen. It was impossible to get him to talk about it without defending himself so I just said whatever. He's never going to really get that he's a puppet so whatever. I was totally down to get rid of David, the replacement nominee. I really do like him and I get the feeling I'm one of the few people who does feel close to him. But Jen is a much more valuable ally to have. She's so outspoken and my loyalty was to the me/her/Shelli/Kelsey alliance. Plus David has an "anti winners philosophy" or something and said he would target me eventually, while Jen I see being loyal for longer.
But the votes weren't there. I think me, Shelli, Kelsey, Howard and Corey were totally down. Jackie was maybe down but I found her so hard to read. She always says she doesn't trust Zach or Becky but she's never actually done anything against them. Even if she did vote for Jen to stay the seventh vote was impossible to get. Jen asked me to vote against her so I did it and had to go back to David and awkwardly apologize.
The most interesting thing that happened last week, though, was the Zach/Becky/Natalie/Jun alliance getting blown up. Jen exposed it while she was on the block which I wasn’t thrilled about but in her position, I would have done the same thing. I was expecting Zach to deny it and everybody would just say Jen was crazy but no, everybody admitted to it.
I was really excited at first, thinking that this was a great opportunity. People could turn against that alliance, Jun’s golden position got blown up, and the heat would finally be taken off of me and my allies. Shelli was exposed as the leak, and I felt bad for her, but I was more happy about the new doors this opened up.
Except they haven’t really opened, at least from what people are telling me. That’s the most confusing part too. I was thinking everyone would be sketched out by them but it’s the opposite. Arlie was one of the last people to find out, even though he was online at the time, and when I told him Zach had another alliance, this is the conversation that happened:
Livewire - Today at 2:10 AM
so I miss anything, btw?
Porsche - Today at 2:15 AM
just a little bit lol
Have you heard about zach’s alliance?
Livewire - Today at 2:26 AM
his what?
I mean, I know what you said, but what do you mean?
But now that Arlie has had some time to think about it, his official line is “It’s fine! There’s probably 37 unrevealed alliances!”
When I was talking to Erika after the alliance got leaked, she didn’t seem concerned with it at all, and she was trying to twist everything to make Jen look bad. “Of course she would reveal it when she was on the block.” “Jen’s the kind of person who cares about winning.” Who doesn’t?!
Ika was the strangest of all. After she heard that Jun was in an alliance without her, her reaction was not “How could Jun lie to me!” but “How could Shelli betray Jun’s trust?” She kept talking to me about how you couldn’t tell Shelli anything and how Jun always tries to find one person she can trust and I’m just sitting there wondering what is going on. Why does Ika care so much about Jun wants if Jun kept this from her? Of course, my immediate thought was that Jun didn’t keep it from her. But Ika says that’s not true so who knows.
After Jen’s eviction I really needed the HOH results to go my way. And they did. Well at least at first. Shelli winning HOH was great, and even if she wasn’t going to put up Zach and was leaning towards nominating Cody, something that wouldn’t have helped us out at all, I feel confident we could have eventually talked to her.
Natalie winning was terrible though. We’ve both acknowledged that we have no game relationship, and she still hasn’t said that I’m safe. I’m very worried about getting nominated if her nominee comes off the block. This week went from me being guaranteed to be safe and having a great chance at breaking up that alliance, to me being potentially in danger, and there being a great chance that the other side gets their way. Again. And there’s still that button which is going to do SOMETHING, and I didn’t even get the prize.
If the nominees stay the same, then Becky has to go. I do feel a little bad since she has been more active than Corey, and I’m sure her allies are going to push that Corey “deserves” to go. Which I guess he does. But, like, nobody had a problem with sending out my friends early. Everybody was happy to evict Jen, even though she was one of the more active people in the cast. Michael wasn’t as active as Jen but he was still around and everybody happily evicted him. So now that Becky is up on the block, I don’t see why I should care about “keeping active players” when they didn’t either. Becky wants Jen out in round 4 because it’s better for her game? Fine. But I’ll vote Becky out in round 5 because it’s better for my game.
I’ve still got some time and it’s been a little while since my last DR, so I’ll give a cast rundown.
Shelli: I love Shelli. She’s offered me a final 2 which I accepted. Am I going to be loyal to this final 2? It’s the final 15. It’s way too early to think that far ahead. If I get near the end and think I can beat Shelli, sure, I’ll take her. If I think she’ll beat me, I’ll find someone else. But she’s probably my closest ally in this game.
Kelsey: My second closest ally here. I feel really close to both her and Shelli and I don’t have a real reason why I feel slightly closer to Shelli. I know Kelsey has my back. There have been multiple times where Shelli and Kelsey gave me information that I hadn’t found out myself, and that worries me a little. My alliance is great but I don’t want to rely exclusively on them.
David: He tells me he understands that I was close to keeping Jen and doesn’t hold it against me. I really hope thats the truth because I’m going to need him. I’m very sketched out by what he told Jen about wanting to eventually target me and his “anti winners policy”. In my opinion, that’s the wrong mentality. If he’s thinking that he wants to stop me from winning twice, he’s already thinking that he’s going to lose. He should be planning to win, and then there won’t be a two time winner.
Howard: I think we’re good? That’s what he’s told me and that’s what I’ve been hearing. He said I was 100% safe if he won HOH and I feel the same way about him. I don’t talk to him a lot though just because our schedules are different and I’d ideally like to fix that. He did tell me that he was going around saying that I was his target and that I shouldn’t worry, which was a little bit of a red flag for me.
Corey: I like talking with the guy but he’s not really around and a lot of people have noticed that. But he’s an ally of my allies and it’s not smart for me to vote him out now. It would be good to get him out eventually though, as soon as the larger threats are dealt with.
Cody: I think I’m good with him too. He’s apparently sketched out by Zach and Becky too, which is really good. I’d like to get closer to him, but it’s hard since I never really know what he’s thinking. He keeps the conversation so light, which isn’t always a good thing when I want to have a serious talk with him.
Jun: Jun was one of the worst allies I’ve had. I wasn’t a great ally to her by any means but I wanted to work with her, and it sounds like she never took me seriously as an option. She sold out my boxes, she was allied with like two thirds of the people in the game and never showed me anything. She’s been talking about trying to build up trust with me though, and I’m not opposed to it, especially if she breaks away from Zach and Becky.Do I trust her though? Not at all. I was thinking it would be easier to get close to her now that she knows Shelli leaked her information, but if people like Ika are going to be saying “I can’t believe anyone would ever make a move that would hurt Jun in any way!” then I’ll probably just end up being her #5 or #6 when the dust settles. I kind of feel like it would be good to get her out now before she can reestablish a foothold, but with our agreement I don’t know if I want to target her directly.
Ika: Ika told me that I’m the only alliance she has. I don’t really buy it, especially with how close she’s been to people like Howard and Jun. I do want to get closer to her though, which describes how I feel about all the people in “the middle.” I don’t know how much I can believe what Ika says though. Before Jen’s eviction, she was telling me she wanted to get out all the boys and I was like “but you’re voting out Jen over David???”
Erika: Erika is probably the biggest mystery in the game. I really don’t know who she’s close with. She does seem to at least be putting out the appearance of having my back. She told me I was her DT. But I feel like we never really talk game and I have no idea what she wants. Well, I guess I do. She always seems to want the opposite of what I want. She’s got to have something going on with someone on the other side, right?
Jackie: This round will be very big for how much I can trust Jackie. She keeps talking about how she can’t trust Becky or Zach. Or well, I hear about it. She hasn’t really mentioned it to me. And it still really sketches me out about how she was telling me how she liked me and wanted to make a connection with me, then immediately takes me out in the boxes HOH and then lies about it. And her goodbye message to Jen really rubs me the wrong way. Throughout the day before, she was talking about how she would consider it but didn’t think the numbers were there, then votes Jen out and leaves a trolly goodbye in the eviction thread. We’ll have to see if she votes out Becky. Best case, she wants to ride the middle. Worst case, she’s solidly on the other side and is just being a tease.
Arlie: If Becky leaves, I would be really happy if he was the next one to leave. I don’t like talking to him and he made it very clear where I stood with him during his HOH. Plus I feel like nobody except for maybe David is really going after him and he’s set up to make another deep run.
Natalie: She’s one of the worst people to have won HOH. I’m hoping the fact that she has to share it and wants to protect Becky scares her from putting me up. But if she won it on her own? Me and Corey would probably be her nominations. We at least acknowledged we don’t talk game and I thought that led to a good talk, so I guess I feel better about her than when I was getting absolutely nothing. It would still be good for me if she left though.
Zach: Right after the alliance got leaked, he was in damage control mode and told me that me and Shelli were his priorities. Yeah sure, okay Zach. Although I’m not really sure where I stood in his hierarchy. I don’t think he would have gone after me before Kelsey and Jen and maybe Corey but after they’re gone and he’s left with his alliances, his side alliances and people who pose no threat, I feel like I would have become expendable. If I won the next HOH, I would probably put him up.
Becky: She’s on the block and I couldn’t be happier. She’s been so shady and I never trusted her. Hopefully she can be GONE and Jen can troll her in the prejury.
To catch up though, Arlie nominated Kelsey and Jen. It was impossible to get him to talk about it without defending himself so I just said whatever. He's never going to really get that he's a puppet so whatever. I was totally down to get rid of David, the replacement nominee. I really do like him and I get the feeling I'm one of the few people who does feel close to him. But Jen is a much more valuable ally to have. She's so outspoken and my loyalty was to the me/her/Shelli/Kelsey alliance. Plus David has an "anti winners philosophy" or something and said he would target me eventually, while Jen I see being loyal for longer.
But the votes weren't there. I think me, Shelli, Kelsey, Howard and Corey were totally down. Jackie was maybe down but I found her so hard to read. She always says she doesn't trust Zach or Becky but she's never actually done anything against them. Even if she did vote for Jen to stay the seventh vote was impossible to get. Jen asked me to vote against her so I did it and had to go back to David and awkwardly apologize.
The most interesting thing that happened last week, though, was the Zach/Becky/Natalie/Jun alliance getting blown up. Jen exposed it while she was on the block which I wasn’t thrilled about but in her position, I would have done the same thing. I was expecting Zach to deny it and everybody would just say Jen was crazy but no, everybody admitted to it.
I was really excited at first, thinking that this was a great opportunity. People could turn against that alliance, Jun’s golden position got blown up, and the heat would finally be taken off of me and my allies. Shelli was exposed as the leak, and I felt bad for her, but I was more happy about the new doors this opened up.
Except they haven’t really opened, at least from what people are telling me. That’s the most confusing part too. I was thinking everyone would be sketched out by them but it’s the opposite. Arlie was one of the last people to find out, even though he was online at the time, and when I told him Zach had another alliance, this is the conversation that happened:
Livewire - Today at 2:10 AM
so I miss anything, btw?
Porsche - Today at 2:15 AM
just a little bit lol
Have you heard about zach’s alliance?
Livewire - Today at 2:26 AM
his what?
I mean, I know what you said, but what do you mean?
But now that Arlie has had some time to think about it, his official line is “It’s fine! There’s probably 37 unrevealed alliances!”
When I was talking to Erika after the alliance got leaked, she didn’t seem concerned with it at all, and she was trying to twist everything to make Jen look bad. “Of course she would reveal it when she was on the block.” “Jen’s the kind of person who cares about winning.” Who doesn’t?!
Ika was the strangest of all. After she heard that Jun was in an alliance without her, her reaction was not “How could Jun lie to me!” but “How could Shelli betray Jun’s trust?” She kept talking to me about how you couldn’t tell Shelli anything and how Jun always tries to find one person she can trust and I’m just sitting there wondering what is going on. Why does Ika care so much about Jun wants if Jun kept this from her? Of course, my immediate thought was that Jun didn’t keep it from her. But Ika says that’s not true so who knows.
After Jen’s eviction I really needed the HOH results to go my way. And they did. Well at least at first. Shelli winning HOH was great, and even if she wasn’t going to put up Zach and was leaning towards nominating Cody, something that wouldn’t have helped us out at all, I feel confident we could have eventually talked to her.
Natalie winning was terrible though. We’ve both acknowledged that we have no game relationship, and she still hasn’t said that I’m safe. I’m very worried about getting nominated if her nominee comes off the block. This week went from me being guaranteed to be safe and having a great chance at breaking up that alliance, to me being potentially in danger, and there being a great chance that the other side gets their way. Again. And there’s still that button which is going to do SOMETHING, and I didn’t even get the prize.
If the nominees stay the same, then Becky has to go. I do feel a little bad since she has been more active than Corey, and I’m sure her allies are going to push that Corey “deserves” to go. Which I guess he does. But, like, nobody had a problem with sending out my friends early. Everybody was happy to evict Jen, even though she was one of the more active people in the cast. Michael wasn’t as active as Jen but he was still around and everybody happily evicted him. So now that Becky is up on the block, I don’t see why I should care about “keeping active players” when they didn’t either. Becky wants Jen out in round 4 because it’s better for her game? Fine. But I’ll vote Becky out in round 5 because it’s better for my game.
I’ve still got some time and it’s been a little while since my last DR, so I’ll give a cast rundown.
Shelli: I love Shelli. She’s offered me a final 2 which I accepted. Am I going to be loyal to this final 2? It’s the final 15. It’s way too early to think that far ahead. If I get near the end and think I can beat Shelli, sure, I’ll take her. If I think she’ll beat me, I’ll find someone else. But she’s probably my closest ally in this game.
Kelsey: My second closest ally here. I feel really close to both her and Shelli and I don’t have a real reason why I feel slightly closer to Shelli. I know Kelsey has my back. There have been multiple times where Shelli and Kelsey gave me information that I hadn’t found out myself, and that worries me a little. My alliance is great but I don’t want to rely exclusively on them.
David: He tells me he understands that I was close to keeping Jen and doesn’t hold it against me. I really hope thats the truth because I’m going to need him. I’m very sketched out by what he told Jen about wanting to eventually target me and his “anti winners policy”. In my opinion, that’s the wrong mentality. If he’s thinking that he wants to stop me from winning twice, he’s already thinking that he’s going to lose. He should be planning to win, and then there won’t be a two time winner.
Howard: I think we’re good? That’s what he’s told me and that’s what I’ve been hearing. He said I was 100% safe if he won HOH and I feel the same way about him. I don’t talk to him a lot though just because our schedules are different and I’d ideally like to fix that. He did tell me that he was going around saying that I was his target and that I shouldn’t worry, which was a little bit of a red flag for me.
Corey: I like talking with the guy but he’s not really around and a lot of people have noticed that. But he’s an ally of my allies and it’s not smart for me to vote him out now. It would be good to get him out eventually though, as soon as the larger threats are dealt with.
Cody: I think I’m good with him too. He’s apparently sketched out by Zach and Becky too, which is really good. I’d like to get closer to him, but it’s hard since I never really know what he’s thinking. He keeps the conversation so light, which isn’t always a good thing when I want to have a serious talk with him.
Jun: Jun was one of the worst allies I’ve had. I wasn’t a great ally to her by any means but I wanted to work with her, and it sounds like she never took me seriously as an option. She sold out my boxes, she was allied with like two thirds of the people in the game and never showed me anything. She’s been talking about trying to build up trust with me though, and I’m not opposed to it, especially if she breaks away from Zach and Becky.Do I trust her though? Not at all. I was thinking it would be easier to get close to her now that she knows Shelli leaked her information, but if people like Ika are going to be saying “I can’t believe anyone would ever make a move that would hurt Jun in any way!” then I’ll probably just end up being her #5 or #6 when the dust settles. I kind of feel like it would be good to get her out now before she can reestablish a foothold, but with our agreement I don’t know if I want to target her directly.
Ika: Ika told me that I’m the only alliance she has. I don’t really buy it, especially with how close she’s been to people like Howard and Jun. I do want to get closer to her though, which describes how I feel about all the people in “the middle.” I don’t know how much I can believe what Ika says though. Before Jen’s eviction, she was telling me she wanted to get out all the boys and I was like “but you’re voting out Jen over David???”
Erika: Erika is probably the biggest mystery in the game. I really don’t know who she’s close with. She does seem to at least be putting out the appearance of having my back. She told me I was her DT. But I feel like we never really talk game and I have no idea what she wants. Well, I guess I do. She always seems to want the opposite of what I want. She’s got to have something going on with someone on the other side, right?
Jackie: This round will be very big for how much I can trust Jackie. She keeps talking about how she can’t trust Becky or Zach. Or well, I hear about it. She hasn’t really mentioned it to me. And it still really sketches me out about how she was telling me how she liked me and wanted to make a connection with me, then immediately takes me out in the boxes HOH and then lies about it. And her goodbye message to Jen really rubs me the wrong way. Throughout the day before, she was talking about how she would consider it but didn’t think the numbers were there, then votes Jen out and leaves a trolly goodbye in the eviction thread. We’ll have to see if she votes out Becky. Best case, she wants to ride the middle. Worst case, she’s solidly on the other side and is just being a tease.
Arlie: If Becky leaves, I would be really happy if he was the next one to leave. I don’t like talking to him and he made it very clear where I stood with him during his HOH. Plus I feel like nobody except for maybe David is really going after him and he’s set up to make another deep run.
Natalie: She’s one of the worst people to have won HOH. I’m hoping the fact that she has to share it and wants to protect Becky scares her from putting me up. But if she won it on her own? Me and Corey would probably be her nominations. We at least acknowledged we don’t talk game and I thought that led to a good talk, so I guess I feel better about her than when I was getting absolutely nothing. It would still be good for me if she left though.
Zach: Right after the alliance got leaked, he was in damage control mode and told me that me and Shelli were his priorities. Yeah sure, okay Zach. Although I’m not really sure where I stood in his hierarchy. I don’t think he would have gone after me before Kelsey and Jen and maybe Corey but after they’re gone and he’s left with his alliances, his side alliances and people who pose no threat, I feel like I would have become expendable. If I won the next HOH, I would probably put him up.
Becky: She’s on the block and I couldn’t be happier. She’s been so shady and I never trusted her. Hopefully she can be GONE and Jen can troll her in the prejury.
