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Round 1
Topic Started: Aug 30 2013, 07:19 PM (115 Views)
Judd
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Heya Audience!

I guess I might as well update y'all a little about things. Still early days, haven't really moved past pleasantries and smalltalk yet, but yeah, it is what it is - everyone's awkwardly trying to settle in and yeah, I guess small talk is the only way to do it. Also, I'm actually a tad bit nervous, because I would've missed the early alliance shenanigans (I logged in about 7 hours after everyone else did, so I guess that puts me slightly behind the eightball, but we'll see how things go. :)

I guess I'm getting along with Jeremy quite well - he's like the only person with whom I've kinda moved off just small talk with, and have begun actually discussing direction of the game and whatnot. Helen and Elissa, I do like, but we're still on "how are you", but at least there seems to be some ~personality~ there, same with Nick and possibly Spencer. Personality/humour (and I have to be wary of spelling humour the ~American~ way, and shit like "recognise" and stuff like that). But as I said, this is still extremely early days.

But yeah, Jeremy has told me that he and Helen are kinda in an alliance of sorts, so yeah, I'm hoping to ingratiate myself into there as well. Jeremy also mentioned Andy as another person he would want to be with.

I've also kinda hit it off with Kaitlin as well, she seems nice and personable, and really, that's all I really have to go on at this early stage in the game.

I haven't really progressed beyond the "how are you stage", and pretty much, that's the case with everyone bar Jeremy and Kaitlin. And there are some that I haven't even talked to yet, which makes me a tad nervous, but it is what it is.

Also, I think Helen hates me now, because I made a racist joke towards her. :cry She was complaining about how she's the oldest person in the house, and has wrinkles, and I said that Asian people look 20 until they're like 70, then they age 100 years in a day. And she hasn't replied since. :cry My bad.

But yeah, we'll see how things progress. :)
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Judd
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I've kinda still got the same: "look out for each other" deal with Jeremy, Kaitlin and Howard as well, and maybe Nick.

Howard really likes Gina Marie, Jessie and possibly Andy. Jeremy likes Helissa and Andy I guess. So yeah, kinda ~connected~, so we'll see how things go, I think.

I don't think I really have the right ~rapport~ with Helissa, so I'm slightly cautious/wary/worried, but yeah.

Some people like Aaryn and GM haven't replied to my PMs, so yeah, that makes me a tidbit nervous, ngl.
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Judd
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In other news, on re-reading my PMs with people again, the people I'm kinda 'aligned' with in a way are:

Howard, Jeremy, Jessie, Spencer

Kaitlin should be in that group, but on rereading my PMs, I didn't get the best feeling from it, so I'm a little cautious.

Next tier is probably Helen (she has shared some info with me), and yeah.

Still getting to know the rest.

People mentioned that Nick was going around making alliances with everyone - he hasn't done that with me, however, I've got to be cautious that I'm not tainted with the same brush, so to speak.
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Judd
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Alliances

Thought I’d give another round of updates on the alliances as they stand, from my perspective. I could be totally wrong, but I kinda do trust the people I have somewhat aligned myself with, and so early on, I guess it’s important to at least get those connections and just run with it for the time being. I’ve been trying to talk to everyone, and some are great conversationalists, some have a great sense of humour, some are in schtick, and for some, that’s great, for others, it gets in the way of the game.

Howard – Jeremy – Judd

I’d like to think this threesome is legit, because it is my core alliance. Both these guys (Jeremy and Howard) are great, I think we get along well, and from our discussions, it appears that we’re all on the same page with the direction of the game and stuff like that. Furthermore, I guess we kinda have relatively similar opinions on the other houseguests. I’d be foolish to think that we all had the same alliances (it’s always important ot have side alliances, particularly if your main alliance goes bust), but, we do like Spencer, and beyond Spencer, Jessie, Aaryn and Helen. Gina Marie to a certain extent?

Spencer

There’s talk amongst the three of us of folding Spencer into this alliance. I’m all fine with that, in a game of sixteen, an alliance of three is not going to cut it, neither is an alliance of four, but I guess for now, it’s a start? He’s quite awesome and we get along.

Kaitlin, Helen, Jessie

I talk to all three of them, and all three of them are really cool. There’s nothing “solid” with them as with Howard/Jeremy/Judd, however, I would like to watch out for these three, because they kinda bring the same qualities to the table as Spencer/Howard/Jeremy? The only reason why they’re down here is because there’s no solid alliance of sort with them. They all clearly “get it”, I’ve agreed with each one of them separately to look out for each other, so yeah. I actually intend on keeping that with them, at least in the short term – I don’t think I’d want any of these three girls going home so early either.

Aaryn

I love her. Idc if she betrays me eventually or whatever, but she’s hilarious. Absolutely hilarious, it’s worth it to keep her around. She’s kinda in the same category as Kaitlin/Helen/Jessie, but she gets her own category because she’s playing her schtick amazingly. And unlike Amanda (see below) she doesn’t let her schtick get in the way of meaningful discussion? So yeah, we’ve moved past the “hello, how are you” sort discussions. It’s probably not the thing I would want to advertise, but her (racist) jokes are quite funny – she was whinging about a black person moving into her neighbourhood, then somehow the conversation delved into hoping he got “Trayvonned”. Yeah, I’m going to hell. :cry

Nick

People are conscious of Nick – apparently he’s been offering alliances like Tyra does Vaseline

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKxBoPgujNk[/YOUTUBE]

To be honest, does that make me wary of him? Yes. But I’d rather someone who has professed loyalty to me over someone who doesn’t bother talking to me at all.


Pretty much, anyone above, I would really like not to go home so early

Everyone else is pretty much a target one way or another.

I think Howard or Jeremy, or both are advocating to save Candice – I don’t know Candice very well, she kinda just got here, and I’m trying not to hold that against her. Given that, I probably wouldn’t want to get rid of Candice so early on.

Elissa? I guess I talk to her a bit. But I feel it’s kinda superficial – more so than like Helen/Kaitlin/Jessie. At the same time, she does reply, and if I remember correctly, is conversational in a way, so yeah.

Amanda – her schtick just gets in the way.

McCrae – I think I’ve put him on people’s radars.

Andy/David – looking at my conversations with both of them, they’re very superficial.

Targets

Since I’m lazy, I’m just gonna copy some snippets (ie, not the whole PM, cause seriously, some of them go on forever and ever, I’m not kidding) of my PMs to people, and people’s PMs to me. I hope it doesn’t break the “no copying and pasting PMs rule”:

Nick’s PM to me:

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Good good, I haven't heard any names either yet  But I feel comfortable opening that door with you right now just so you know where my head is at. I've spoken to everyone other than Candace. Not sure I like her 'tude. Amanda seems kind of rude so I doubt she's making too many friends. And McCrae is a little weird and I haven't heard from him all day. So yeah let me know how you feel about all this!.


My PM to Nick

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Amanda's clearly playing a schtick, but it's getting in the way of actually getting to know her, I feel, yeah, it's difficult to engage. Candice and I haven't really spoken properly, and McCrae - I'm a little wary of, because he has like 25 posts, but doesn't PM. Which means a heap of posts in confesh or Diary Room, but you can only really post in DR or confesh if you have a shitload to talk about. If he's not PMing us......he must be PMing someone else? I don't know.


Helen’s PM to me: (I should also note that Helen kinda is suspicious of Jeremy – I’m not going to tell anyone at the moment, because yeah, that could just get ugly and implode my alliance with no gain for me at the moment, but I’ll keep a note of it for later! ).

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Candice is already pretty talkative at least for me! I don't know, I figure there's no point in ostracizing her cause she was late since we still have so much time! And Amanda is a little funny but it's hard to get a conversation going with her cause she just turns everything against you, at least that's what I think she's doing with me.


My PM to Helen:

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Candice, I don’t know very well, but that’s not to say that I’d vote against her or anything. Amanda is hilarious, I agree, but it’s hard to engage with her at all, because we’re still discussing pleasantries (or in Amanda’s case….not-so-pleasantries), but essentially, it’s difficult for any meaningful engagement with the schtick she has going on. I’m finding it difficult to connect with McCrae as well to be honest. I don’t know if you’re particularly close with him, but he doesn’t really PM me much, and with a high post count, I guess it’s easy to be suspicious because that means he must be posting heaps in either confesh or in his Diary Room. You can only really update your DR or confesh if you have stuff to be talking about, so yeah, that’s why I am slightly a bit wary. But I’d be interested to hear your insights.


Howard’s PM to me:

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Which, I guess tomorrow things get real since someone's going to need to leave the game. I've talked to everyone at least once now which makes things a bit tough, but someone's got to go and I know for me there's some people I'm closer to than others. Andy and Mccrae are probably sitting on the bottom for me just because I've gotten the least out of them in PMs, what's the field like for you in terms of who you're getting on the least with?


My PM to Howard:

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As for targets, yeah, you and I discussed McCrae, and how he doesn’t PM us. Like, he’s clearly active, and is clearly posting because he has like 25 posts, so he must be either confessionalizing or posting in the Diary Room, but like – you can only post in the DR or confesh if you have something to say, so he clearly must be PMing people?

I’ve got no issue with Andy either to be honest, we don’t really engage beyond the superficial level, so yeah.


Similar PM was sent to Jeremy.
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