Post by Parvati Shallow on Oct 1, 2012 13:42:52 GMT -5
I gotta say... I don't understand this game at all.
I mean, I was pretty certain going into it that I was going to be screwed right off the bat. I had pregames with literally the entire tribe, I had like five crosstribe alliances, I was so busy that I wouldn't be any good in tribal challenges, I was a previous winner...
So how on earth is it that I wound up at the merge in an awesome position?
I have no idea. But it's weird.
Admittedly, for all I know everybody's conspiring against me, and I wouldn't really blame them. According to Yau-Man I'm the queen of the tribe, which makes absolutely no sense to me. I haven't been calling the shots or anything, and I got outed as a major playa in the first ten seconds of the game, so nobody should be listening to a word I say. But for some reason they are.
So just for the hell of it I'm turning Tracy and Yau against Brenda and Chelsea. Brenda's connection to DD also worries me a bit. I think I'm going to have to kill that. Bust out the pesticide early, and weeds can't grow, right? Other than that, there's no strategic merit to that, other than to make sure the nullifiers don't get used against me. It's a textbook move that I've used in a lot of other games, and I have no idea why it works. "Use your reward to blindside my ally" is actually one of the most terrible things one player can say to another, because what it's really doing is straight-up asking the person to bring the wrath of my alliance down on their heads. Because if they do blindside Brenda, then the rest of my alliance are going to crush them to powder. And I'll just be off to the side going, "Oh no! I couldn't stop it!" which puts me in an amazing position with the jury.
Seriously. That works. It shouldn't, because jury members should all go, "PARV. What a bitch!" and conspire to make sure I never win the million, but for whatever reason everybody winds up leaving with a positive impression of me.
Either way, the point is that I don't honestly believe that I'm that awesome. I'm just bizarrely lucky, for some reason.
I mean, I was pretty certain going into it that I was going to be screwed right off the bat. I had pregames with literally the entire tribe, I had like five crosstribe alliances, I was so busy that I wouldn't be any good in tribal challenges, I was a previous winner...
So how on earth is it that I wound up at the merge in an awesome position?
I have no idea. But it's weird.
Admittedly, for all I know everybody's conspiring against me, and I wouldn't really blame them. According to Yau-Man I'm the queen of the tribe, which makes absolutely no sense to me. I haven't been calling the shots or anything, and I got outed as a major playa in the first ten seconds of the game, so nobody should be listening to a word I say. But for some reason they are.
So just for the hell of it I'm turning Tracy and Yau against Brenda and Chelsea. Brenda's connection to DD also worries me a bit. I think I'm going to have to kill that. Bust out the pesticide early, and weeds can't grow, right? Other than that, there's no strategic merit to that, other than to make sure the nullifiers don't get used against me. It's a textbook move that I've used in a lot of other games, and I have no idea why it works. "Use your reward to blindside my ally" is actually one of the most terrible things one player can say to another, because what it's really doing is straight-up asking the person to bring the wrath of my alliance down on their heads. Because if they do blindside Brenda, then the rest of my alliance are going to crush them to powder. And I'll just be off to the side going, "Oh no! I couldn't stop it!" which puts me in an amazing position with the jury.
Seriously. That works. It shouldn't, because jury members should all go, "PARV. What a bitch!" and conspire to make sure I never win the million, but for whatever reason everybody winds up leaving with a positive impression of me.
Either way, the point is that I don't honestly believe that I'm that awesome. I'm just bizarrely lucky, for some reason.
