Post by Brian Hart on Nov 2, 2014 15:54:37 GMT -5
First off, congrats you 2 on making it where the rest of us couldn't. Regardless of anything that's been said, or anything I'll say, that can't be taken away from you. Truthfully, I'm really not sure what to say on this or what to think, which is kind of a first for me in this game. Pretty much, I'm just shooting from the hip on this one. For better or worse, longer or shorter, though likely not the latter.
Sam:
Through most of our time in the game, I didn't have a problem with you. Yeah, you weren't on as much as others, and yeah initially I just wanted to be aligned with you (and Zach) so I could make sure to be allied with someone who was good at comps, but that didn't bother me. If nothing else, you were civil with me on the occasions we talked and even though I talked to other people more, I wasn't going to hold your lapses in AIM presence against you in case you had things going on.
That being said, it changed on the last 2 rounds I was here, the last one especially. When Zach nominated me and kinda just agreed, I figured you just weren't going to make waves or attract attention to yourself. The next round though was what really did it for me. When you were making your nominations and talking to me about them, it came across as if you were genuinely shocked or taken back that I was against your idea to have me get nominated for the 3rd week in a row. Like, I legitimately took issue with it because the thought it gave me was that you expected me to just be like "sure put me up, it's cool" even though it should have been obvious I wouldn't have been okay with it and that you could've spent the week on a better move. I just felt the whole situation that round was way more personal and negative (probably from both of us, looking back) than it needed to be.
During your nomination speech you called me hostile and your overall conduct on it and things, makes it seem like how I reacted to you saying you wanted to put me up was a decent-sized contributor to why you evicted me. Is there any truth to this? And what factors over the recent rounds then and thoughts that were your own contributed to the decisions you made from when I went to when Neda went? I'm looking for and sort of info or anything that hasn't been touched on here. If you don't have anything on that, then just some unknown/unmentioned things about your game or changes of plans will do.
Sofia:
Sofia, Sofia, Sofia. Where do I even begin with you? You know, it's funny because pretty much the first thing I ever said about you in my DR was that I'd either come to like you, or hate you. I'm not going to fancy up what I'm going to say here, but finding out your hatred of me started with stuff that wasn't even what went on isn't helping your situation. You attacked me and said shit all about me completely unprovoked and without me even having done a damn thing to you. I'm seriously not even sure what to feel right about now, because this is a new thing for me. Never have I been mistreated and hated so much just because I was being nice and respectful. Not because I was shit talking everyone, not because I was being a dick and calling people out, and not even because I had a case of "chronic backstabbing disorder", no. Sure, I was blunt at times, even a little outspoken, but I never flat out disrespected people the way you did, and I did NOT deserve the shit I wound up getting.
It's not just me either, it was like you didn't see the people here as well, people and didn't even treat them as such. You can say that you only focused on the Competition and Strategy parts of the game, but the Social part is just as important, if not more. At the end of the day, people aren't going to vote for you to win. You're smart enough to get here, so you're obviously smart enough to know that being that way wasn't going to be beneficial. I could stand here and ask for an apology on how you treated me, treated others, but I think we both probably know that it likely wouldn't be the most sincere thing in the world.
Even though I think your competition skills were good, to where I had you pegged as a major threat early on, I don't think competitions alone are enough to justify a win. Plus, it's like if I were to vote for you to win, I'd be saying that how you treated people and myself was 'okay', when it's not. In other areas you may have been a little better than Sam here or there, but despite what I said earlier, I think Sam had more respect for people. Hell, you asked me to tell you how much I sucked to get your vote to stay, when if I did that, you'd just laugh about how pathetic I was being. Also, it's been mentioned how you played "without emotion", but if that were the case, you would've been aware of how against Zach I was at that point and tried to keep me to use that to your advantage. Brit knew how it was then, and I'd be surprised if she didn't tell you that piece of info. I would've been open to working with you if it helped my game, all things considered, and it felt like you wouldn't. That's not exactly playing without emotions.
Anyway, I've said my bit for now, so I'm just going to wish you both luck and all that.
Sam:
Through most of our time in the game, I didn't have a problem with you. Yeah, you weren't on as much as others, and yeah initially I just wanted to be aligned with you (and Zach) so I could make sure to be allied with someone who was good at comps, but that didn't bother me. If nothing else, you were civil with me on the occasions we talked and even though I talked to other people more, I wasn't going to hold your lapses in AIM presence against you in case you had things going on.
That being said, it changed on the last 2 rounds I was here, the last one especially. When Zach nominated me and kinda just agreed, I figured you just weren't going to make waves or attract attention to yourself. The next round though was what really did it for me. When you were making your nominations and talking to me about them, it came across as if you were genuinely shocked or taken back that I was against your idea to have me get nominated for the 3rd week in a row. Like, I legitimately took issue with it because the thought it gave me was that you expected me to just be like "sure put me up, it's cool" even though it should have been obvious I wouldn't have been okay with it and that you could've spent the week on a better move. I just felt the whole situation that round was way more personal and negative (probably from both of us, looking back) than it needed to be.
During your nomination speech you called me hostile and your overall conduct on it and things, makes it seem like how I reacted to you saying you wanted to put me up was a decent-sized contributor to why you evicted me. Is there any truth to this? And what factors over the recent rounds then and thoughts that were your own contributed to the decisions you made from when I went to when Neda went? I'm looking for and sort of info or anything that hasn't been touched on here. If you don't have anything on that, then just some unknown/unmentioned things about your game or changes of plans will do.
Sofia:
Sofia, Sofia, Sofia. Where do I even begin with you? You know, it's funny because pretty much the first thing I ever said about you in my DR was that I'd either come to like you, or hate you. I'm not going to fancy up what I'm going to say here, but finding out your hatred of me started with stuff that wasn't even what went on isn't helping your situation. You attacked me and said shit all about me completely unprovoked and without me even having done a damn thing to you. I'm seriously not even sure what to feel right about now, because this is a new thing for me. Never have I been mistreated and hated so much just because I was being nice and respectful. Not because I was shit talking everyone, not because I was being a dick and calling people out, and not even because I had a case of "chronic backstabbing disorder", no. Sure, I was blunt at times, even a little outspoken, but I never flat out disrespected people the way you did, and I did NOT deserve the shit I wound up getting.
It's not just me either, it was like you didn't see the people here as well, people and didn't even treat them as such. You can say that you only focused on the Competition and Strategy parts of the game, but the Social part is just as important, if not more. At the end of the day, people aren't going to vote for you to win. You're smart enough to get here, so you're obviously smart enough to know that being that way wasn't going to be beneficial. I could stand here and ask for an apology on how you treated me, treated others, but I think we both probably know that it likely wouldn't be the most sincere thing in the world.
Even though I think your competition skills were good, to where I had you pegged as a major threat early on, I don't think competitions alone are enough to justify a win. Plus, it's like if I were to vote for you to win, I'd be saying that how you treated people and myself was 'okay', when it's not. In other areas you may have been a little better than Sam here or there, but despite what I said earlier, I think Sam had more respect for people. Hell, you asked me to tell you how much I sucked to get your vote to stay, when if I did that, you'd just laugh about how pathetic I was being. Also, it's been mentioned how you played "without emotion", but if that were the case, you would've been aware of how against Zach I was at that point and tried to keep me to use that to your advantage. Brit knew how it was then, and I'd be surprised if she didn't tell you that piece of info. I would've been open to working with you if it helped my game, all things considered, and it felt like you wouldn't. That's not exactly playing without emotions.
Anyway, I've said my bit for now, so I'm just going to wish you both luck and all that.
