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Topic Started: Aug 23 2017, 09:10 PM (212 Views)
Cirie
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Welcome Diane!

Very sad to see you here. I was really rooting for both you and Rudy to go all the way!

I really admired your gameplay and i think i learned a lot from you too! During the game, i was straddling two alliances..the limerick 5 and julie, rudy and you. I felt closest to Julie, and didnt realize she was playing me until Brooke got here. My relationship with her definitely messed my game up, as my perceptions of what was going on were so off. So between failing to make close relationships with people, making a ton of mistakes, and being pals with Julie, i eventually figured out how i ended up here.

I always felt close to you from the days back on waterford to us patching things up at the merge and beyond. And im so happy i got to meet you in this game.

Im sure you need to decompress and all, so take it easy and heres a hug from me.

((((Diane)))))

I dont know how to post gifs or jpegs from my tablet so thatll have to do for now. Lol

I look forward to catching up with you while you're here and congratulations for making it to the final 3! I wanted to see you go further but nonetheless im still in awe of how well you played and i hope you are proud of all you accomplished! You did such a great job! :)

Sleep well!
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Joel...I really wish we could have made something happen, it just seemed you weren't around enough and it was difficult to communicate with you. sad.gif

Hey Diane...not sure what you mean because I was online every night for hours at a time responding to PMs and whatnot... If Bubba were here he would tell you how much of a talker I am...maybe he brought it out of me more than others however yeah I was always online talking. Sorry to see you here <3 Good effort no doubt. Let's make this FTC fun.
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Ugh, sorry, I meant zeke, not Todd. I'm really tired. Zeke had Rudy as a target when we talked and so I thought that was a thing, but it turned out it wasn't and I found out too late. It was a backup plan, I just read into it more than I should have. I'm headed to bed, I'll be able to speak more clearly tomorrow :P
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Hi, Diane! Sorry I missed you last night. Awesome game, final 3 is nothing to be ashamed about! Even though your stay here will be short, hopefully we make it fun for you! :)
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Diane,Aug 23 2017
11:41:37 PM
So for me, I didn't stick around much. She and the guys apologized to me. I had to take the high road & not show how pissed I really was. lol

Hey Diane!

Great game out there. I can't wait to see your confessional, that's going to be a very interesting read.

I'm also really curious on the F4 round. If Julie is the reason Rudy went home...and Todd is a big threat, then why did I get voted out? Lol. And also very curious if it was Julie who pushed to vote me off? That's my guess at least. I'm just curious how it played out.

And also curious if you ever thought seriously of going together to the end? That is the plan I actually wanted to do. Would have given us the best shots, I think. But I guess I did not do a good enough sell job lol
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I'm very curious what you think about this Diane!?

Hope you are having a fun Friday, and looking forward to some fun chatter on here this weekend! :)
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Cirie,Aug 23 2017
11:52:43 PM
Welcome Diane!

Very sad to see you here. I was really rooting for both you and Rudy to go all the way!

I really admired your gameplay and i think i learned a lot from you too! During the game, i was straddling two alliances..the limerick 5 and julie, rudy and you. I felt closest to Julie, and didnt realize she was playing me until Brooke got here. My relationship with her definitely messed my game up, as my perceptions of what was going on were so off. So between failing to make close relationships with people, making a ton of mistakes, and being pals with Julie, i eventually figured out how i ended up here.

I always felt close to you from the days back on waterford to us patching things up at the merge and beyond. And im so happy i got to meet you in this game.

Im sure you need to decompress and all, so take it easy and heres a hug from me.

((((Diane)))))

I dont know how to post gifs or jpegs from my tablet so thatll have to do for now. Lol

I look forward to catching up with you while you're here and congratulations for making it to the final 3! I wanted to see you go further but nonetheless im still in awe of how well you played and i hope you are proud of all you accomplished! You did such a great job! :)

Sleep well!

Cirie <3
Thank you for your kind words. I figured you were super tight with Julie. After reading much of the jury threads it seems as she infused herself in everyone's game. Many realized how hard she was playing just not how well connected she was with EVERYONE.

I also felt vert close with you. Each time a new round began, it seems you were timid to get out there and dive in to connecting with people. At least that is what people were telling me- I mentioned it in my confessional.

Thank you for your hugs. I'm glad we were able to hash it out in the end and look very forward to getting to see the real you behind the avatar! Eeeeekkk- tomorrow night we will know :)
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Joel,Aug 24 2017
12:04:27 AM
Hey Diane...not sure what you mean because I was online every night for hours at a time responding to PMs and whatnot... If Bubba were here he would tell you how much of a talker I am...maybe he brought it out of me more than others however yeah I was always online talking. Sorry to see you here <3 Good effort no doubt. Let's make this FTC fun.

Hey Joel
I guess maybe you & I just really never connected on a deeper level. Bubba did have that personality to draw things out of us- I'm looking forward to reading his confessionals.

From my perspective, I didn't doubt you made connections and communicated...it was more the fact that when we did, your responses to we were super short and sweet. Not much meat and potatoes. It felt as if you were guarding yourself and had other options and other priorities than me. It's funny you seemed to think similar of me that I was the quiet one. lol Perspective is a very important element to this game, it's definitely never a one way street. The game is way too complex and there are always things going on behind our back that we have no clue about. When playing, I always try to keep that in consideration when talking with people and doing my confessionals.

I remember that statement you made in your PM to me about not hiding. That scared me. I knew if I did get to the end, you would never vote for me.

I PM'd you when votes were being read, I'm sorry you felt as if it was a slap in the face. It was not my intent to BUT, again, in my experience ANYTHING can happen at tribal and I was never comfortable. So, I was not lying when I said it could be me.

Here's hoping you and I can connect outside the game and have long and deep chats about the meaning of life and the passion of Survivor that we both have.

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Ozzy,Aug 24 2017
07:03:09 AM
Hi, Diane! Sorry I missed you last night. Awesome game, final 3 is nothing to be ashamed about! Even though your stay here will be short, hopefully we make it fun for you! :)

Ozzy - you were awesome. I really wanted to work with you and then it seemed the foot hit the pedal and the game took off and it was too late. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw you waving goodbye. :( I hate speeding through a game, because there are a ton of great options available on the side to pick up along the journey and sometime you don't see them until they pass you by. I'm sorry to have seen you go. But, also knew you were could have been too powerful of a player to keep around for too long.

My strategy was to stay low and protect myself with the bigger threats. Meat shields some people would call them. YOu were one of my shields. I tried to stay respectful and loyal to a point. I wanted a strong "UTR" strategy and not seem like a "goat" as Joel would put it. There was a method to the madness. lol



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Diane,Aug 26 2017
09:34:38 AM
My strategy was to stay low and protect myself with the bigger threats. Meat shields some people would call them. YOU were one of my shields. I tried to stay respectful and loyal to a point. I wanted a strong "UTR" strategy and not seem like a "goat" as Joel would put it. There was a method to the madness. lol

You did this well, Diane. Mad respect for your UTR game and massive thanks from your most loyal "Meat Shield" for staying true to our alliance to the end of my membership in the Final Five.

It's been an honor playing with you and I can't wait for the reveal to meet in RL.
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Brooke,Aug 23 2017
11:50:09 PM
I worked that whole round to get the vote on Todd and I thought it worked for a while, too. I told Julie several times that it was way more important for him to go than for Rudy to be the vote. She seemed to be totally on board with it and I thought it was all set, but everyone was acting weird, so I tried to check on and off...bleh. It was a crappy round for many reasons.

I probably should have seen it coming when I was voted out actually, but I had no idea.

I wonder what else she told people about me, it seems like I've got a bad name without understanding why.

I know you meant ZEKE in this response..not TODD

Ohhh I was ready to go with voting Zeke both were threats. But, I also felt that he never needed to win immunity. He also was super connected to Julie's strategy. They played solid games and I loved talking strategy with them (especially) but, in the end I felt you were more connected with Julie and would swing in and wipe out Rudy & I was once the F6 happened. I could not risk it. Then Julie came back and said you had made some remarks that were sketchy. I trusted her - just like the majority of us did. She was also a meat shield. She never said exactly what you said...and honestly, I never asked I was too excited to see that she changed her mind and came back to the right side of the game. lol

When Julie approached me about F6 shifting from Rudy, Z, T, her & me....to you & possibly Amanda- that is when my red flag went up with her. She was playing all sides of this game. If I were to have approached you or Sierra or R, T or Z to take her out.....I would have been the next target. I had to keep my mouth shut and hint to her that working with you and Amanda isn't in our best interest. Of course, she knew that exactly because she knew you had the advantage(s). I knew of only one & she told me that at the merge. I really wish I knew that Ozzy was aware of it - boy, this game could have really turned out differently! lol I kept that info to myself & I never even mentioned it to Rudy.

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Rudy,Aug 26 2017
09:45:27 AM
You did this well, Diane. Mad respect for your UTR game and massive thanks from your most loyal "Meat Shield" for staying true to our alliance to the end of my membership in the Final Five.

It's been an honor playing with you and I can't wait for the reveal to meet in RL.

I too am so excited for the reveal and look forward to meeting you online & in real life someday! I think you & I have the potential for a beautiful friendship! ((Thanks to Brobst))

Also....coffee. Lots of coffee.

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Diane,Aug 26 2017
09:34:38 AM
Ozzy - you were awesome. I really wanted to work with you and then it seemed the foot hit the pedal and the game took off and it was too late. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw you waving goodbye. :( I hate speeding through a game, because there are a ton of great options available on the side to pick up along the journey and sometime you don't see them until they pass you by. I'm sorry to have seen you go. But, also knew you were could have been too powerful of a player to keep around for too long.

My strategy was to stay low and protect myself with the bigger threats. Meat shields some people would call them. YOu were one of my shields. I tried to stay respectful and loyal to a point. I wanted a strong "UTR" strategy and not seem like a "goat" as Joel would put it. There was a method to the madness. lol

No worries! It's all in the spirit of the game. I have no ill feelings toward you and think that you played a pretty good UTR game. Now that I know more about it, it's easier to understand, and you definitely had quite a few shields to stand behind in the game!
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Thanks Diane. I felt very close with you also and I'm so glad we patched things up in the game. You were such a great friend to me during the game and although I was frustrated with you at times, I eventually realized that we were playing a game. I had a tough time separating that at times.

I do think that without the two person swap, we would have stayed tight throughout the game. Looking back, Julie's behavior makes a lot more sense now as she was always very guarded when it came to talking alliances. That messed me up too as I really wanted to form something solid with you, Rudy and her. This game definitely threw me some curveballs that I found really hard to recover from. After the merge, I found it really hard to connect with the people I didn't know from Limerick. I was really in the dark about who was aligned with who with all the switches and swaps and especially the pre-tribe alliances. I never imagined people could form a lasting alliance from that. How wrong I was! So I was scared to really talk game with too many people. As it turned out, the minute I did start playing aggressively, I unknowingly targeted someone who you all wanted to protect (Todd) which looks to be what got me sent out.

I felt closest to you, Rudy, Diane and Julie in this game and hoped that, plus my alliance on Limerick would see me through the game. I actually felt really guilty that I was seeking alliances outside of Limerick. Lol. I definitely see now that I should have been much more aggressive in seeking out relationships with everyone as that was what everyone else was doing.

I did always admire your cool calm and collected way of playing. You were aggressive but you also had patience and it seemed as though everything you did was well thought out.

I can't wait for us to meet our real life avatars and definitely would love to stay friends after all this is over

Congratulations for such a great game. You did amazing!
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Edit:?I typed Diane when I meant Sierra as to the people I felt closest too
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