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Report Card; Personal Assessment
Topic Started: Feb 20 2013, 05:49 PM (8 Views)
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The game is almost over - one way or another. And I thought it would be good to say if I really think I accomplished what I came for.

My established goal was to come in and play unike myself.
1. To test the theory that you can't succeed in this game by being anything other than yourself, because the other players will see through you.
2. To come in with a fake persona.
3. To lie and mislead. To stir up trouble by spreading untruths.

None of this is new information. But here is my self assessment...

1. I tested the theory. And my hope of all hopes is that without the visual and auditory support, the online format allows for players to be different. Even Sugar stated that she wanted to try something different this time. Players can't see body language. Can't here the tones in the voice. They don't have access to 2 key components of character judgment. And to some extent, no one is real here since we must leave our real lives at the door. I'll be interested to know what the others think of this theory. As I've said in a previous post, I don't like the alternatives (that I was wrong, or that Austin is who I really am)

2. I brought the fake persona. And I am eager to know what the other players really think. Who thinks I'm full of crap and who believes me. I feel like I was successful at this. And I even threw a few clues out there, some intentional and some accidental. But we'll see if other players say - 'I knew that' or 'No way.' And the question that follows is how did they think of it as a strategy for the game. It's a one time ploy. It'll never work again.

3. To lie and mislead. Maybe in support of #1, I didn't really lie in the terms of making up things. I said exactly what was said to me. Or said them as 'Austin' understood them. Getting a target on Frosti. Going balls to the wall to get everyone emotional about Lydia - the 'Because They Burn People' defense... But I played this game much closer to "Gretchen." So maybe that supports the theory that you can't be any different in this game than you are in real life. Because I just couldn't tell mean spirited lies. I couldn't be hateful. I tried a couple times. And sure - I had at least 17 alliances in this game - I stopped counting after that. So there was certainly deception. But not in the way I thought I would come in and play.

All in all - I think Austin will come off as a likeable guy. The idiot I created. The guy who followed because he didn't know what else to do. The foreigner who charmed everyone with his lack of knowledge of English.

So - there were some successes and certainly failures. There were some things that had to be adapted. I couldn't get Austin to be unlikeable so you wanted to take him to the end. Lydia carved that niche quite well. And despite my belief that I could just turn on the immunity engine like I did in Borneo - I started really trying around the Final 7 as planned and I couldn't win crap. So I have one more chance.

We'll see what everyone thinks later.

But I'd give myself a B-
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