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Post by Silas Christ on Jun 23, 2015 3:39:58 GMT
Hi everyone!
I kinda asked to be voted out this round because I've been very busy irl and I didn't want Ed, PG or Yul to go. The F5 is very deserving, imo! Totally rooting for Ed & Yul right now. Let's try not to be bitter and have fun guys <3
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Post by Marcus Lehman on Jun 23, 2015 6:00:11 GMT
I really wish people would stop asking to be voted out. It's depressing for me, Alex, and LJ.
Anyway, this challenge <3. My quotes are delish <3
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Post by LJ McKanas on Jun 23, 2015 11:57:01 GMT
I agree like why vote us out at that round when you could have just asked to be voted out that round you know? I'm glad I'm mature now as I was before or I would totally be flipping off right now.
and you are also basically saying we didn't deserve to stay in the game.
like i'd rather be voted out knowing I was doing my best in the game than be voted out because I asked to.
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Post by LJ McKanas on Jun 23, 2015 14:54:55 GMT
and marcus I don't mind at all if Dolly made finals. I am rooting for her as well.
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Post by Silas Christ on Jun 23, 2015 16:44:10 GMT
It looks like I may have been going home anyway, tbh. I never told PG or Ed to vote for me and yet they did so there's that...
Anyway, I'm not rooting for Dolly. I'm probably rooting for her the least, tbh. She's not playing a clean game and is really (really) bad at covering her footsteps. I don't think she's making the finals, honestly. Rooting for Yul and Ed for being the most personable of the 5 remaining (which isn't saying much). Austin is way too gamebotty for me and it's a bit boring.
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Post by LJ McKanas on Jun 23, 2015 19:42:07 GMT
i am mostly rooting for yul and pg, they are still the underdogs in my eyes and if one of them makes the end, they deserve my vote.
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Post by LJ McKanas on Jun 23, 2015 21:52:47 GMT
i also love the quotes that you chose for me lol
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Post by Alina Wilson on Jun 24, 2015 0:12:29 GMT
Okay, I told myself I'd explicitly try to avoid getting involved in Ponderosa/Post-game drama, but I literally can't hold this in because the way some of you are acting over an online forum game is really offputting to me.
This anger/elitism directed at me and Silas over OUR decisions is honestly, to me, SERIOUSLY absurd, and I'd like to explain why because I have tried – trust me, to see it from you guys's point of view, and it still seems silly/overreactionary to me.
I'd like to remind you guys that we are participating in an ONLINE FORUM GAME. It is not a sport – there is no reward for doing anything in the game. It is all simply for fun. It is not real Survivor. It is not (insert your favorite sport here). People play these games(at least, I do) to HAVE FUN. If a person is not having fun – if something has happened that has disenchanted them with the game in question, why on earth should they feel obligated to stay? You guys are treating us like we have performed some sort of cardinal sin – newsflash: No one has died. We simply stopped playing a game due to our own reasons.
Say, when you pick up a video game or a movie and you decide you don't like it – that you would have a better use of your time and effort, what do you do with that video game or movie? Do you watch/play it through to the finish? I'd assume that most people's answers to this question, unless they are a serious completionist, would say “no.” This is not unlike a situation like that. Yes, we are playing with other people, however, it is our lives and our decisions to make. If we decide that we either have become dissatisfied with ORGs in general, or simply don't have enough time to play, why should we force themselves to play when we could let the other people still in the game, who WANT to be there, stay?
They shouldn't have to force themselves to compete in something they don't want to. If someone doesn't want to do something, plain and simple, they should have the choice not to do it. ORGs are not a job, we are not playing Nazi Germany, we are playing an online survivor game on the internet. Seriously.
I know what you're going to say, “Well, Alina, golly gosh gee! Why couldn't you have quit before we got voted out? It's such an insult!” Well, allow me to refute this. It is not an insult – we did NOT quit with the sole intent to make you angry and/or dissatisfied. In fact, that didn't come into play with me at all, and I'm sure it was the same with Silas, as that would, plain and simply, be comically stupid. Yes, you got voted out before people who decided the game was no longer for them – sorry, but we did NOT have the intent to quit beforehand.
The reason I played this season was not to win – not to LOLKICKEVERYONE'S ASSES, no, it was to make sure that the people I was close to/aligned with would make it far. And I did that to the best of my ability. However, there came a point where it was either myself – who had became fed up with ORGs in general recently, or the two people I was very closely aligned/friended with in the game in danger. Would I have quit the game if that situation did not come into play? Unlikely. And no, it is not because I am a “bitter baby”, Marcus, it is because I WAS NEVER IN THIS GAME TO WIN TO BEGIN WITH. I WAS IN IT TO PLAY WITH PEOPLE WHO I ENJOYED AND WANTED TO SEE DO WELL. If it came to a situation between me and them, obviously, a hundred-times over, I would make the decision I made because I know that they wanted to be in the game more than I did. And, surprise, they both made it past this last round, one way or another, so clearly my decision wasn't a complete waste. I accomplished my goal. I did what I wanted in this game. Because this game is not for money – it is for fun, or whatever reason you so deem it to be. If you guys hate people who aren't complete gamebots who always play to win, are schtickers Satan to you? If not, then I'm sorry, but you're just picking and choosing here.
All of that, combined with the fact I honestly was not in the mental state to deal with all the drama and nonsense that is typical for ORGs, led me to make that choice. I am not going to mentally torture myself just so random strangers on the internet feel better about their e-peens.
The same goes for Silas – I highly doubt it was in his intentions to quit until recently. He went on vacation recently and, I assume, discovered he had much less time for this game than he imagined. He did not quit to insult you guys. I'm assuming his reasoning was that he realized, that at his current point, the best option was for the remaining people to stay in the game and have fun instead of him be there when he didn't really have the time or energy he needed to devote to the game.
So, no, someone should not need a “life emergency” to stop playing an ORG. Does someone need a life emergency to get up and stop playing monopoly? No. So just chillax. There is no reason to be so angry and pissed off and want to “flip out” over an online game with literally no cash prize. There are other ORGs out there. The universe cannot revolve around any one single person. Sometimes things don't go right, and you don't win. You don't get what you want. You don't get that dream ending. It sucks, but that's just the way it is. Just try to have fun and enjoy the experience and set your own goals. It's a game. It's not a slave pen. No one did anything to insult you guys. We did what we did for us and our lives and our fun. And at the end of the day, people should think about themselves a little. No one should feel obligated to do something that they really don't want to do. I made a choice I was happy with, and I'm sure Silas did as well. I'm sorry that you guys take that as offensive, but that was not what we intended at all. That's all.
I realize this was long, rambly, and possibly incoherent, but I'm literally just in disbelief over some of the stuff I've been told here, via AIM, etc, because it's ridiculous. It really is. Just calm down guys, let's not get bitter and passive aggressive and bitchy and shit. That is the kind of shit that makes people not want to play ORGs and drives them away from it. Yes, we're all here in loser-lounge, but let's at least make the most of it and have some fun watching the game unfold. Thanks.
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Post by Host Aras on Jun 24, 2015 0:32:39 GMT
You all suck. But I still like you. <3
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Post by Marcus Lehman on Jun 24, 2015 1:32:55 GMT
While I appreciate your amount of effort at taking the high road, you can keep your opinion and I'll keep mine. We're going to differ and you can accept it or not, I don't really care.
I think you could at least understand our need to vent. Before we were voted out, hell after we were voted out, we were having fun, and the fun was sucked out of being a jury member when two of its newest members asked to be here.
Honestly, how are we supposed to choose who deserves to win when the players left keep getting a pass? YES, it is just an online game with no benefits to winning, but I would like to see a DESERVING winner, and all I'm seeing so far are:
1) Two people who are only there because the Greco alliance fell apart at final 9 and then continued to eat itself for various reasons. They haven't won anything, they couldn't offer anything but their votes, and yet they are still there. That isn't even luck, they're just sitting there waiting to be picked off and hoping things goes their way with a YOLO perspective. That isn't winner material to me.
2) Austin. I mean, there's a small chance I would vote for him at the end. I personally haven't seen him be the head of any game move thus far and he's been handed immunity. That says something about his social game, but I'm not impressed.
3) If you were telling the truth about Ed being the one who outed me for making an alliance that didn't include you, then he is a contender for my vote. Personally, if he pulls the same shit he did at Silas's exit at the FTC, he can fuck off. I don't expect him to answer stupid shit about comparing jury members to multiple asshole things because it's BORING, but he better have some respect for the jury and not be a douchebag should he make it that far.
4) Dolly, she may be playing a sloppy game, but she's at least playing the game. At the moment, she has the best chance of getting my vote. She's won immunity based on actual competitions and not endurance or luck, I don't think she's gotten a single merge vote to leave and she has been a key vote in most of the merge tribal councils.
I signed up to play this game to win, and I wasn't going to let anyone get in my way of doing that. I feel like coming into an All Stars game with the mentality of NOT wanting to win, is not so much an insult to the players, but an insult to the hosts who cast you because they saw a potential winner and then they saw potential winners throw away their chance because they weren't "into it" anymore and wanted to help their "friends", their "online org strangers", get to the end.
So excuse me if I don't agree with you, you don't have to agree with me either, but if you're going to rant about us being immature, you clearly haven't been exposed to the raging bitches of LoL or any other competitive games that are a hell of a lot worse than us.
I'm going to continue to take this seriously to an extent because Aras, Jeremy, and Tashashirin have put in a ton of effort into making this game fun, and also as true as possible to the show we all love. Believe me, they are loving this drama.
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Post by Silas Christ on Jun 24, 2015 15:45:21 GMT
LOL, well, guys, while I don't feel half as strongly as Alina does, she's not wrong. I told you all from day 1 that I was leaving town on June 18th and then proceeded to, shockingly, leave town on June 18th. Don't be dicks about it lol. I didn't quit the game, I did something similar to what Alina did. The goal of these IS to have fun, and I did (I think we all did??). I h8888 bitter juries and I hope ya'll aren't one! All of the f5 are extremely deserving (way more than I was), so keep an open mind and stop being so down on yourselvs just cause we all got bested by strong players.
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Post by LJ McKanas on Jun 24, 2015 18:40:28 GMT
LOL at the self righteous rant Alina. You can rant all you want but I'm over it. Play the game the way you want to and I'll play the game the way I want to.
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Post by Benjamin "Coach" Wade on Jun 24, 2015 19:42:07 GMT
I play for the chicks tbh.
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Post by Marcus Lehman on Jun 24, 2015 20:51:21 GMT
I have no plans to be bitter, just critical.
Truce, bitches.
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Post by Austin Carty on Jun 25, 2015 2:33:06 GMT
Oh hi. I got voted out for being a "jury threat." Evidently THIS WAS NOT TRUE.
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