Post by keith on Aug 2, 2014 17:38:23 GMT -5
Sorry I had to post this late, I wrote it on my phone <3
Firstly, I'd like to thank Kat & Shir for hosting a great game. Kat, this is the third of your games that I've played and it's always great fun. I know how much hard work you put in and you outdid yourself this season with the challenges. Shir, thank you for putting up with my passive-aggressiveness <3. Thank you to the HC/Staff as well. I hope I entertained.
I personally think it's really fun to be a juror, and I know that I hate it when I'm presented with a Final 2 where I clearly know who I'm going to vote for. This game has been pretty black-and-white from the very beginning, so if you'll let me, I'd like to offer a few arguments that will at least make your decision a little more exciting.
Once upon a time, I won a Survivor game where I constantly kept my cards close to my chest, I stayed under-the-radar, and I never let my personality shine. It was boring, and when I look back fondly on past games- that one never comes to mind. What's the point of getting to the end of a game if you don't enjoy the ride there? I didn't really like the tip-toeing and vague conversations that seemed so standard in this game. I behaved recklessly, trollish, and abrasive. I loved every minute of it.
At the beginning, the house twist made everyone keep their cards super close to their chest. Like ridiculously close. This permeated through the rest of the game. I attempted to do the same for a little while, but after a hot minute I realized that if I was going to enjoy the game, that I was going to let my cards loose. I openly said what I did or didn't like about people, the game in general, and even whatever strategy I had for the week. While some might have the preconception that this was poor gameplay, I attribute it to why I'm here right now.
Information in this game was kind of a double-edged sword. A lot of people ended up getting evicted because no one knew where they stood, or just assumed where they stood. I think that had there been more open dialogue, people like Kathy and Jon would've gotten a lot further. It was hard for people on the block to campaign, and it was hard to keep someone if you didn't really know what was going on in their head. Some people were literally screwed the second that they became a final nominee because there was no culture for discussion. Speaking at my own whimsy like I did really made me adaptable.
I believe Big Brother is about adapting. The best laid plans are pointless because the tone of the game shifts constantly. I was better at adapting to curveballs (or sometimes boomerangs, if we're talking about the trouble I put myself in <3) than just about anyone. For the next couple of paragraphs, I'm going to outline exactly what I did from beginning to end.
PreJury
At the beginning, everyone was super quiet because the cast was so big and daunting. I was worried about alliances already forming, so I got proactive in forming my own. I think that most people tried to avoid this due to the typical "early alliances never work I should be UTR and not stir the pot" mentality, but as I've already stated, that's boring.
My game really began when I agreed to backdoor Jeremy to avoid the game becoming house vs house (lolol) and because Jeremy was being a weasel. Once Jeremy went up on the block, Benedict threw me under the bus like a true star. So I made sure I told everyone I could that he did this, in order to sell people on this Boys Next Door alliance (which I assumed contained Memphis, Lane, Jon, Benedict, and Ryan). Topaz also informed me that House 1 formed an alliance so I let everyone know that as well. This is around the time that #wehatekeith really began
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I became the BND's target pretty instantly. I'm not going to try to say that it was my plan all along to become their target- I simply just wanted to expose them (which was fun <3) and deal with the consequences. Being one of the main targets of the BND (along with King Kaysar), I actually ended up turning it into a way to survive. People (like Kathy and Heaven) at the time saw me as a bigger target should they end up nominated against me, and chose to keep me as an ally. I began to throw competitions in order to become less of a target overall.
A key move that I made that I think often went unlooked is voting out Kenny over Kathy early on. Michelle was pretty sold on voting Kathy out, until Lane and Ryan both came to me saying how they wanted Kenny to stay. Ryan had told me earlier that Kenny had been whispering sweet nothings in his ear, and with Kathy already resigned to going home, I thought that if I could save her she might do me a solid later. So I convinced Michelle to vote out Kenny. After that, I spoke to people less, and began to get more neutral with my comments. My move to get Kenny out ended up working out for me, as Kathy agreed to backdoor Ryan after Heaven saved herself with the veto, even with original House 1 pressuring her otherwise.
People were kind of starting to check out at this point, and I was still kind of the perpetual pariah. People wouldn't IM me because they either saw no point in trying to have a conversation with me or just didn't care enough. So, I'd try to pull a convo out of them, and if that didn't work- I'd just lay out my cards for them and move on. This wasn't really helpful for my likability factor, but really at that point being likable really had no say anymore. Heaven and Kaysar were bigger targets than me. I wasn't me attempting to be manipulative when I would IM people and say something like "Heaven is a big threat, I really think we should take her out". I wasn't trying to stir anything up, I was simply making sure there was no uncertainty around me. Unfortunately this came across untrustworthy, but that ended up helping me survive when I should've been evicted.
Toward the end, my goal was to get out Heaven while simultaneously playing up my goat status in case Heaven never lost. I told everyone in the Final 7 that I wanted her out (which Nick got super offended by lolol) and I didn't defend myself or explain myself when people would lambast my game. I would've liked to beat her and go to the end with Kaysar, but it never happened and luckily I set myself up to adapt accordingly. Around the Final 6, I cultivated a small connection with Memphis and chose to keep him over Lane for two reasons: I thought that he had a better shot to beat Heaven in a comp than Lane and I thought that I would stay over him if we were nominated together.
I'm not going to speak poorly of Heaven unless I'm asked. Her game is kind of crystal clear.
If you can't respect the way I played, then I hope you at least have a different perspective toward me. My goal was to have fun and adapt, and it's why I'm sitting in the final 2.
Firstly, I'd like to thank Kat & Shir for hosting a great game. Kat, this is the third of your games that I've played and it's always great fun. I know how much hard work you put in and you outdid yourself this season with the challenges. Shir, thank you for putting up with my passive-aggressiveness <3. Thank you to the HC/Staff as well. I hope I entertained.
I personally think it's really fun to be a juror, and I know that I hate it when I'm presented with a Final 2 where I clearly know who I'm going to vote for. This game has been pretty black-and-white from the very beginning, so if you'll let me, I'd like to offer a few arguments that will at least make your decision a little more exciting.
Once upon a time, I won a Survivor game where I constantly kept my cards close to my chest, I stayed under-the-radar, and I never let my personality shine. It was boring, and when I look back fondly on past games- that one never comes to mind. What's the point of getting to the end of a game if you don't enjoy the ride there? I didn't really like the tip-toeing and vague conversations that seemed so standard in this game. I behaved recklessly, trollish, and abrasive. I loved every minute of it.
At the beginning, the house twist made everyone keep their cards super close to their chest. Like ridiculously close. This permeated through the rest of the game. I attempted to do the same for a little while, but after a hot minute I realized that if I was going to enjoy the game, that I was going to let my cards loose. I openly said what I did or didn't like about people, the game in general, and even whatever strategy I had for the week. While some might have the preconception that this was poor gameplay, I attribute it to why I'm here right now.
Information in this game was kind of a double-edged sword. A lot of people ended up getting evicted because no one knew where they stood, or just assumed where they stood. I think that had there been more open dialogue, people like Kathy and Jon would've gotten a lot further. It was hard for people on the block to campaign, and it was hard to keep someone if you didn't really know what was going on in their head. Some people were literally screwed the second that they became a final nominee because there was no culture for discussion. Speaking at my own whimsy like I did really made me adaptable.
I believe Big Brother is about adapting. The best laid plans are pointless because the tone of the game shifts constantly. I was better at adapting to curveballs (or sometimes boomerangs, if we're talking about the trouble I put myself in <3) than just about anyone. For the next couple of paragraphs, I'm going to outline exactly what I did from beginning to end.
PreJury
At the beginning, everyone was super quiet because the cast was so big and daunting. I was worried about alliances already forming, so I got proactive in forming my own. I think that most people tried to avoid this due to the typical "early alliances never work I should be UTR and not stir the pot" mentality, but as I've already stated, that's boring.
My game really began when I agreed to backdoor Jeremy to avoid the game becoming house vs house (lolol) and because Jeremy was being a weasel. Once Jeremy went up on the block, Benedict threw me under the bus like a true star. So I made sure I told everyone I could that he did this, in order to sell people on this Boys Next Door alliance (which I assumed contained Memphis, Lane, Jon, Benedict, and Ryan). Topaz also informed me that House 1 formed an alliance so I let everyone know that as well. This is around the time that #wehatekeith really began
.I became the BND's target pretty instantly. I'm not going to try to say that it was my plan all along to become their target- I simply just wanted to expose them (which was fun <3) and deal with the consequences. Being one of the main targets of the BND (along with King Kaysar), I actually ended up turning it into a way to survive. People (like Kathy and Heaven) at the time saw me as a bigger target should they end up nominated against me, and chose to keep me as an ally. I began to throw competitions in order to become less of a target overall.
A key move that I made that I think often went unlooked is voting out Kenny over Kathy early on. Michelle was pretty sold on voting Kathy out, until Lane and Ryan both came to me saying how they wanted Kenny to stay. Ryan had told me earlier that Kenny had been whispering sweet nothings in his ear, and with Kathy already resigned to going home, I thought that if I could save her she might do me a solid later. So I convinced Michelle to vote out Kenny. After that, I spoke to people less, and began to get more neutral with my comments. My move to get Kenny out ended up working out for me, as Kathy agreed to backdoor Ryan after Heaven saved herself with the veto, even with original House 1 pressuring her otherwise.
People were kind of starting to check out at this point, and I was still kind of the perpetual pariah. People wouldn't IM me because they either saw no point in trying to have a conversation with me or just didn't care enough. So, I'd try to pull a convo out of them, and if that didn't work- I'd just lay out my cards for them and move on. This wasn't really helpful for my likability factor, but really at that point being likable really had no say anymore. Heaven and Kaysar were bigger targets than me. I wasn't me attempting to be manipulative when I would IM people and say something like "Heaven is a big threat, I really think we should take her out". I wasn't trying to stir anything up, I was simply making sure there was no uncertainty around me. Unfortunately this came across untrustworthy, but that ended up helping me survive when I should've been evicted.
Toward the end, my goal was to get out Heaven while simultaneously playing up my goat status in case Heaven never lost. I told everyone in the Final 7 that I wanted her out (which Nick got super offended by lolol) and I didn't defend myself or explain myself when people would lambast my game. I would've liked to beat her and go to the end with Kaysar, but it never happened and luckily I set myself up to adapt accordingly. Around the Final 6, I cultivated a small connection with Memphis and chose to keep him over Lane for two reasons: I thought that he had a better shot to beat Heaven in a comp than Lane and I thought that I would stay over him if we were nominated together.
I'm not going to speak poorly of Heaven unless I'm asked. Her game is kind of crystal clear.
If you can't respect the way I played, then I hope you at least have a different perspective toward me. My goal was to have fun and adapt, and it's why I'm sitting in the final 2.