| Pre-Game CONFESSIONAL; Pre-game strategy & intentions | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 6 2017, 04:01 PM (27 Views) | |
| Bubba | Jul 6 2017, 04:01 PM Post #1 |
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My strategy this season is going to be very different from the first time I played, in a number of ways. First, the greatest mistake I made in Survivor: Return to the Amazon that doomed my game there was my failure to forge strong interpersonal relationships with everyone on my tribe. Part of it was because I didn't understand the RPG experience, and I was caught up with the role-playing gimmick of it as opposed to the interactions themselves. Nonetheless, this time around, my biggest priority is going to be reaching out to every player in the game who I'm allowed to message, at any given point in time. If certain people don't reciprocate, I have to rely on my instincts regarding those who do. The second thing I have to be aware of is how I present myself (both on the public boards and in private messages). Obviously, I have no idea how many (or even if there are any) people are returning for this season who I played with in the Amazon. But I would guess the odds are that there will be at least some. That means I have to be conscious of my writing style on the boards here, since my overall writing style is very distinctive and specific; for example, I tend to use double-hyphens, parantheticals, asterisks, and capitalization for emphasis quite a bit. Just in case anyone whom I have friended on Facebook from the Amazon happens to be on my tribe in Ireland, I don't want to make it easy (or a dead giveaway) for them to be able to identify me here. So, my overriding goal this season will be: keep all of that to an absolute minimum, insofar as my writing style...but still find a way to be expressive and a clear communicator with my tribemates. A challenging balancing act, for sure. Yet, I'm not going to veer to the other extreme and become some showboating EvelDick-, ZachAttack-, Phillip Sheppard-, Naonka-type of player. I feel that my best shot at surviving at least the beginning one-third/one-half of the game would be to find myself a solid group of allies and stick with them. If, later in the game, people start acting crazy and ChaosKassing everyone...then I'd reevaluate. I guess it's a matter of trying to find some Venn Diagram-style of happy medium between Over-The-Top Clod and Under-The-Radar Social Butterfly and Invisible Coattail-Rider. None of these archetypes seem to be winning formulas, in and of themselves...but are there elements of them that I can selectively use to get further in the game as circumstances change? Basically (and yes, I realize Judge Judy hates that word), my confessionals will be my outlet for venting and blurting out exactly how I feel -- sort of like Danielle Reyes in the Diary Room of BB3 (USA). See, there I go again, with the double-hyphens... The other thing I will be doing differently: I will be keeping a literal (hard copy) diary, where I'll be "journaling" all of my significant/major interactions with everyone on a daily basis. This will help me stay sane, and it will also help me to keep all of my interpersonal interactions separate and straight from one another. With 20 contestants, that's a necessity. I have to wonder -- how many people who've played in the past ended up getting voted out really early or midgame because they couldn't keep their lies straight? (in the Amazon, I didn't last nearly long enough to get caught up in any elaborate lies -- aside from thinking I was helping my tribe manipulate Daniel when it was really Sneaky Dave manipulating *me*, hehehe!!!). Has anyone accidentally messaged the wrong person, saying the wrong thing to the worst possible enemy or rival, inadvertently? The final thing I'm concerned about -- but I need to try to relax about it, as much as possible -- are the immunity challenges. I'm not very technologically-savvy, beyond standard messageboard stuff; I don't own an iPhone or a SmartPhone (which EVERYONE gives me grief about), I don't use Netflix/Hulu or do any illegal downloads, and it took me a long time to even learn PowerPoint. Needless to say: they had better not ask me to design a tribal flag...because if they do, all they will get are some scanned-and-uploaded crayon etchings. So, depending on the specific challenges Brobst has designed for us, I'm a little worried about keeping up with everyone else in terms of pace (this is more of a concern when we're playing for tribal immunity...since, if I make it to the individual immunity phase of the game, no one else will really care how slow I am, at that point). Going along with my lack of tech prowess...I'd love to learn how to do the Skype or video-recording thing that I've seen other players do in past seasons. But that's where my lack of tech-savvy could work against me. And, at this point, I don't want to distract myself by creating some new headache for myself just for the sake of "looking cool." The same applies if Brobst wants us to do anything that involves Photoshop and/or screenshots as part of a challenge. My download/upload/photoshop/etc knowledge is just so rudimentary, I fear I'll be a liability to my tribe. So, I'm just going to remain silent about it and not bring up my worrying to anyone else on my tribe, and try my best at all of the challenges. That's all I really can do, aside from improving my social game. So if I'm ever a third-timer or a fourth-timer, maybe I'll have developed my skill set to the point where I learn how to record and upload a bunch of emotive video reactions of my own. Until then, I'm going to have to stick to doing things the old-fashioned way. |
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| BROBST | Jul 6 2017, 04:22 PM Post #2 |
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GREAT FIRST ENTRY, DUDE! ![]() Thanks for getting your early thoughts down! |
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