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Post by samm on Jul 19, 2014 20:53:29 GMT -8
Hey guys, answer these questions down below. This is your thread for episode one confessionals.
1. How have you changed as a person since your last season of iSurv1vor? 2. What is your favorite memory from your past season(s) of iSurv1vor? 3. What is something you regret from your season or one of your seasons of iSurv1vor? 4. What effect has iSurv1vor had on your personal life? 5. Who is the closest friend you’ve made through iSurv1vor? 6. Does the fact that you will most likely have preexisting friendships coming into this game comfort you or make you more nervous? 7. Coming into Macedonia, are you willing to backstab your friends in order to win the game? 8. What’s one way that you want to change your strategy in Macedonia from the last time you played? 9. Who on the Macedonia cast do you see as the biggest threat to you? 10. What is something that you want to bring to Macedonia that you didn’t do in your past season(s)? 11. What is the ultimate thing that you want to get out of playing Macedonia?
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Post by a11an on Aug 3, 2014 7:38:10 GMT -8
Questions. With answers.
1. How have you changed as a person since your last season of iSurv1vor?
My last season of iSurv1vor was four years ago, and I have not changed much. I am now 39. 39! Like what?! I remember my dad being 39. I have traveled some, had a ton of ORG meetups, and gotten fatter and gained a few pounds and wrinkles. I am a lot more easy-going, and while most things still get on my nerves, I think I am a lot more laid back than I was in HvV. Ugh, HvV. I have become a lot less inhibited and can have a conversation with anyone without being awkward, unless I let myself be awkward for charming purposes.
2. What is your favorite memory from your past season(s) of iSurv1vor?
Well, from season I played in, I guess just the late-night conversations where we were all up drinking or playing a random game to bond. I remember all the iS people being on early YouTube games and on Skype making everything we could in and outside of the game a competition. Good times and great friends. As far as game play, I suppose making videos and talking strategy with Ashley, especially the round where we voted out Lorii. I know that's the move I always bring up but I didn't have a ton of other memorable moves in the series. Other than rage-exits.
3. What is something you regret from your season or one of your seasons of iSurv1vor?
I regret playing HvV because I knew it was going to be dramatic and people were gonna be nice or mean or whatever they needed to be, and it made me more upset than I needed to be for an online game. I miss Morgan. I miss the friendships I had at that time and letting myself react the way I did to that season made me stop playing ORGs at all until last fall. Luckily I still have a ton of friends from that time who are still around, but yeah...biggest regret was playing that season.
4. What effect has iSurv1vor had on your personal life?
Well it bonded Ashley and I at work during Hawaii. We were friends but it made us spend a lot more time together and we never stopped being friends after that. It has caused me to rethink where I take certain vacations, and if anyone knows me they know that travel is my priority in life. I now think, "Hmmm...who is in LA? Should I go to New Orleans?" and base trips around that. When I first was into iS back in the day, I would spend all my time online, and that was good because instead of going out all the time, I stayed in and saved money and it was a massive help in paying off my car and student loans. Debt free now, and iS has a lot to do with that!
5. Who is the closest friend you’ve made through iSurv1vor?
This is hard to answer. I know whoever I say will make others upset. I would cop out and say Ashley, but we had already been friends before that. I guess Sassy would be who I am closest to. I mean we talk most days, or text. There are a lot of ORG friends I chat with almost daily, but she probably the most.
6. Does the fact that you will most likely have preexisting friendships coming into this game comfort you or make you more nervous?
It makes me nervous only because it has become a running joke how poorly I have done in these games since my first one, and I feel like people will vote me out early just for the LOLs and then say it's because I am too close with people or something. Saying that, though, I don't know a lot of people so I am more concerned with the other circles that have formed and that I am NOT part of.
7. Coming into Macedonia, are you willing to backstab your friends in order to win the game?
Absolutely. Sassy and I have never played together, but she knows I would vote her out and I expect he to do the same to me. Same with several other people I am friends with. I have become a villain, and actually think I always was, despite being put on the heroes tribe. The only person I won't backstab is Joe Purcell.
8. What’s one way that you want to change your strategy in Macedonia from the last time you played?
I aim to just have as much fun as I can with as many people, while maybe dropping subtle hints at the groupings that form and make people target them without being too blunt about it. I think if I sit back and just keep the peace for a while people might self destruct and once a few of those people are gone I can step up a bit. Hopefully with an idol or something.
9. Who on the Macedonia cast do you see as the biggest threat to you?
People who are already in little groups, like the entire Axis of Evil, even though I get along with them. People that have no idea who I am or that I have no idea about, other than their names. I always feel false when initiating conversation in these games and pretending I care about where they work or what their cats barfed up today. People I basically have never interacted with.
10. What is something that you want to bring to Macedonia that you didn’t do in your past season(s)?
I aim to just be funny and enjoy the hell out of the video aspect of this season. I did video confessionals in Hawaii, and yes the flower is still on my fridge, but it was so minimal. That made the game so much more real and enjoyable, and I intend to do that x10 in this season for as long as I last. Even if that's not too far, because I will enjoy whatever time I have here.
11. What is the ultimate thing that you want to get out of playing Macedonia?
I want to be remembered, and I really wanted to play one more time with Sandy being a host. I got very nostalgic when I heard this was the last season as such, and it made me want to dive in and be a character that people would remember, rather than the guy who cringed whenever Kirin read his placements. I expect to leave this game angry, disappointed at being voted out, but grateful for the friends I will gain and the footage we will all laugh at for years to come. And maybe Samm's love.
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Post by a11an on Aug 3, 2014 17:32:29 GMT -8
I am on a call with Sassy and chatting with a few people as well. Kurtis, Fei, Joe Purcell, etc. I was gonna record an opinion video and discuss everyone in the game quickly, but right when I was about to hit record SASSY called me and told me I had to talk to her before I did. SOOOOO yell at her.
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Post by a11an on Aug 3, 2014 19:10:38 GMT -8
Quick Cast Assessment
care or don't care...you decide...
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Post by a11an on Aug 3, 2014 19:59:30 GMT -8
Pre-Game Thoughts (or something)
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Post by a11an on Aug 3, 2014 23:49:06 GMT -8
I am still awake and have to work in three hours. My God I forgot how sleep-deprived I get during iS! But so far it's been so much fun I don't care I will make a video tomorrow.
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Post by a11an on Aug 4, 2014 12:50:32 GMT -8
TRIBE STUFF FIRST NIGHT
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Post by a11an on Aug 5, 2014 14:05:09 GMT -8
Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again....
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Post by a11an on Aug 5, 2014 17:04:18 GMT -8
We are working on the first challenge and I have diarrhea. I don't know if the two are connected, but i am just sayin'.
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Post by a11an on Aug 6, 2014 13:39:16 GMT -8
People on the other tribes I miss talking to: Sassy, Jared, Joe Purcell, Chris, Alex, Kurtis. Other people on the other tribes that I am dying to talk to:
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Post by a11an on Aug 7, 2014 5:26:04 GMT -8
SO I made several videos about the challenge, then discussion about people, then when we lost I made one about TC thoughts and the twist, BUT my laptop is ghetto and there was NO sound for ANY of them!! ANYWAYS.....I will remake them all and upload them as soon as work is done, and make them in the proper chronological order, so you will know everything I am thinking about this round! IN THE MEANTIME, I took some videos of Ashley the day after I got cast and asked her some stuff for fun, so at least enjoy this until all the rest is up later!! FML (fiesta My Laptop)
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Post by a11an on Aug 7, 2014 5:27:03 GMT -8
Also, Sandy has a weird boner for Ashley that I have never fully understood. I have to go work with the bitch all day now
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Post by a11an on Aug 7, 2014 13:32:03 GMT -8
QUEST FOR FIRE!!
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Post by a11an on Aug 7, 2014 16:18:55 GMT -8
WTF!??!
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Post by a11an on Aug 7, 2014 16:58:42 GMT -8
SO we attended a live reveal of the tribal council votes. Gahhh, how awkward.
I felt awful, because I voted for Renee, purely based on the fact that I heard she had attempted to start a group of people to try to vote out Derek or Jacob before we had even discovered we had lost. I was told by others that she had said not to tell me about it, which fair enough...I get it, but it means I will vote for you. She seems like a pretty cool chick actually. I felt bad. Good on her for being the first person to suggest a gameplan though. Seriously.
Peace, Renee!! I hope to bump into you somewhere out there in ORGland again!
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