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Post by patrick on Dec 3, 2017 9:57:23 GMT
On call with my queens til 4am cuz it's nbd
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Post by patrick on Dec 4, 2017 5:53:43 GMT
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Post by patrick on Dec 4, 2017 23:12:28 GMT
This game is the only thing that I ever think about, so I figure work is a fitting time to bust out an obnoxiously long text post detailing my thoughts on everyone in this merge. I'm organizing my thoughts by sorting everyone into three tiers based on where they stand on my trust list.
Tier 1 (Ride or Dies):
Before I dive into this, I recognize the irony of calling 4 people ride or dies. This game doesn't have a Final 5, so it's impossible to have 4 people you will never turn on. What I can say, though, is that at this point in the game I don't intend to ever write one of these names down, unless they're my only 4 options. Will this change? Absolutely. It's Survivor. People will start doing shady shit, I'll get sketched, and I'll want to make a move before they can. But up to this point, I believe these people are more than 100% rock solid with me. We talk all day, every day. They get real with me about their lives. They tell me about the groups and chats they're added to. They bounce ideas off of me. They tell me every day they want to sit at the end of this game together. They're the best allies a guy can ask for. Call me a double (or quadruple) dealer all you want, but I would genuinely love to sit at the end with any of these 4, so of course I'm down to clown with them. With that, in no particular order (other than the order that I found their pictures)...
Emily I. Love. This. Girl. So. Much. Emily is 100% the person that I talk to the most in this game. We have essentially been talking consistently since the moment we merged. She and Ryan were the two people I trusted the most on my first tribe, but she and I built a particularly strong personal relationship beyond just the game. Not having her on my last 2 tribes was a major blow, and I was giddy with excitement to get back to her. We related on so many levels, and she's just such a genuinely great person. One missing piece is that we haven't necessarily been able to build a game relationship yet, because we've never been to Tribal Council together. I don't have any concerns about our ability to, and we're already making major progress - it's just happening a bit later that I would have hoped, but it's no one's fault. Emily constantly tells me I'm her #1 in the game, and she is very open about her hesitations and concerns about Ryan which makes me believe she's not just doing this with everyone. We are open books with each other, and that is so valuable to have in this game. We bring everything we hear to one another to compare notes, and I don't think either of us hold anything back. In fact, she's the only person that I've told about the Denver meetup outside of those going. I'm so lucky I have her in this game.
Ryan
Ryan and Emily started this game with me, however my relationship with each of them is very different. Whereas Emily and I have an incredibly strong and tight personal relationship, Ryan is the guy that I feel like I can rely on the most at a game/strategic level. We are very similar players, we have similar reputations and histories in games, and we're both destined to be major threats this entire game. We have similar mindsets and philosophies on ORGS, and we're almost always thinking the exact same thing strategically. I think without each other, the other will be in a very risky spot in this game. I have a very high level of trust and reliance in Ryan, however I'm doing my best to not get too attached because I do genuinely believe he won't be too long for this merge. People are going to want to gun for him after not too long because of his veteran status, and I know a number of people already view him as sneaky because of the first tribal he went to. Hell, even Emily expresses a lot of concerns about him to me. I think there will be a time where I will have to let him fall in order to appease the rest of my allies, but I want to avoid that for as long as possible. Ryan is the guy that I get to play my bro card with, which is sometimes a nice change of pace from the rest of the cast. Regardless of what happens with us in the game, I'm stoked to spend my time in Denver drinking with this dude for 4 days because we would 100% be friends in real life.
Adrianne Adrianne is officially the only person left in the game that I knew prior, which is such an amazing feeling. If you recall, in one of my first confessionals I mentioned that I wanted everyone I knew out of the game except for Adrianne. She was the one person that I most wanted to swap with, because I've seen her play before and I know how well we would click. And damn was I right. Adrianne told me about her idol the minute we met up in the game, and she provides me regular updates with everything she has learned or heard that given day. She is a fucking blast and doesn't take the game too seriously, which is very, very refreshing. As hard as I play, I'm not a gamebot. I like to chat a bit about the game with the people I trust, and just spend time with them otherwise. Adrianne is the type of girl that will call me on Skype from a party, blackout as hell, and introduce me to her co-worker's ferret. We genuinely just enjoy each other, and I think I'm a rock for her in this game. The one thing that sets her apart from these other 3 is that she is definitely the one I talk to the least. Whereas the others are basically chatting nonstop when not working, Adrianne is the type that hops online a couple times a day and that is when all our communication happens. That's not a problem for me, though. I adore the girl.
Stephen Where the fuck do I even start? Stephen is one of the most amazing fucking dudes I've ever met in my entire life. The fact that I just met this guy now makes me feel like I wasted 25 years of my life with mediocre friends, and that's just the tea. I don't know if I've ever connected with anyone so strongly this quickly (except you, Brady ). Whereas I've bonded with the other three on one or two specific levels, Stephen's and my relationship is the full package. We've gone through a hell of a lot gamewise together, we've gone through a lot of similar life situations, and we both like drinking more beer than the USA can supply. I love this guy so much. He's basically my male Emily. We talk game for a few minutes a day, and life for every other moment of it. He's the guy that will call me every night just to have a few beers and catch up. We've both made jokes about how we feel like we're in a relationship, but we embrace it so fuck the haters! We're open books with each other, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I bet you're asking me to pick between them. Ha! Joke's on you, because the answer is "I Don't Know". Maybe that's lame, but it's true. Here's what I can say: Ryan is the person I think I need the most in order to get to the end. Adrianne is the person I think I'd have the best shot against at the end. Emily is the person I don't think I could ever vote for. Stephen is the person I want to travel the fucking world with. Tier 2 (The In-Betweens): AndyIt feels wrong to lump Andy as an "In-Between", because based on relationships alone he would fall in the top tier. We have grown so close in a short time and we've connected on so many real life levels. The issue is that his level of game commitment is not the same as the others, and it makes him difficult to fully rely on. His relationships are very weak with a lot of this cast, and it's probably going to result in him being targeted after not too long. As much as I adore him as a person, if my allies want him to go I can't bend over backwards for him. On our last tribe we talked all the time, but now I haven't heard from him in over 24 hours and neither has anyone else. That's the type of stuff that makes him scary to try to work with long-term. NathanBased on levels of trust, I think Nate also belongs in the top category. Nate has pulled me in for the entirety of both of his idol searches so far, which goes to show that I think he values me a lot in this game. I genuinely believe he is with me 100% at this point. Additionally, we were pretty dang close on our original tribe. The issue? He's playing way, way too hard and it's rubbing people the wrong way. I'm not sure if he's even aware of how many people want him to be the merge boot. He apparently got real shady on his swap tribe pitting people against one another, and he's a hard-core gamebot. Also, it sounds like he was much closer with Amos than he came clean about, and he hid the fact that he and Josh knew each other IRL from me until yesterday. It's honestly hard to connect with him personally anymore because all he talks about is the game. He is 100% going to be targeted, and very possible voted out, whenever he doesn't have immunity so I need to keep some distance with him unfortunately. I'm not going down on his ship or letting him project his gameplay onto me. BodhiConsidering that Bodhi and I didn't meet until yesterday, I'm surprised to be putting him here. Survivor logic says that it's really tough to not meet someone until merge and then make things happen, but with this dude I want to. We are clicking so damn hard, and he has made it clear (to me, at least) that I'm the "new person" he most wants to work with. Obviously I can't trust him fully yet, but I think there's a lot of potential here. All I've heard all game is that he doesn't do 1-on-1 calls, yet he told me he wants us to call ASAP tonight. It has been a long 2 days of bonding between us, and I can't wait to bro down more tonight. This is a dude I want to play with for a while, and see where things go. Tier 3 (Sayonara, Suckers)
I'm gonna write about these three in one post, because my thought is basically the same. The title of this tier is probably a bit dramatic since they all actually seem pretty cool, but the fact of the matter is that I don't have any interest in working with them. They haven't made an effort with me, this is the first time we've come across each other in the game, and I need to have clear targets. Here they are! I certainly don't expect them to go 1-2-3 because I know people have different agendas and I need to keep my allies happy, but I will be actively campaigning against all three of them until they're gone. By being transparent about who my targets are I'm hoping it makes my allies trust me more and shows that I'm a straight-shooting player, that way when I do need to start scheming against them they don't see it coming. Here's to hoping.
Also, I just checked. This post is like 2,100 words and more than 6 pages double-spaced. Judge me.
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Post by patrick on Dec 5, 2017 18:17:35 GMT
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Post by patrick on Dec 5, 2017 18:19:08 GMT
Also I don't know anything about Lord of the Rings but I'm researching it and acting like I do because he keeps comparing us to it
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