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Gold Thai |
Dominic's Questions/Comments |
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Please address the finalists here.
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LifeInAFlash04 |
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Hey guys. Congrats on being the Final 2. I must say that at the beginning of the game, I didn't expect either of you to make it even close to the Final 2. Not to mention, this game has been a game of sides (with lot of blurriness and floaters involved) so to see it come down to one from each "side" is kind of cool lol. I think my vote is going to ultimately come down to the questioning. I was aligned with Jer for the first half of my game or so, and than Ed the second half. I don't really have a complete package of information from either of you, so just answer everybody honestly if you could. Ed - You and I have a pretty good relationship I'd like to think. I really just didn't care for you at the beginning of the game because I felt like you put no effort into actually playing the game. You really didn't even get involved in the strategy of the game as far as I saw until late into Week 4. After I cut my ties to be in the alliance I stuck with all the way till I was evicted, we did work together. But I never really got a sense of what your strategy was. I never knew if you had a plan or if you were following along. My biggest problem with your game play was what you chose to do by bringing Fantine back. I think part of the reason you brought her back was because she said something along the lines of she'd vote for you in the jury or something if you did that. But, if I had to guess, I'd say there is no way in hell she is going to vote for you to win over Jeremiah. Also, you said you wanted to get rid of Omar. You know how I feel about that. I don't begrudge you of being angry at Omar for selling you out, but I do think that you helped screw over our alliance and part of the reason you are sitting here is because people thought they could beat you. And well, when you brought Fantine back, you knew for a fact that I would be nominated. You put me in the line of fire for a move that backfired on you anyway, because one of your good allies, Sera, got evicted instead of your initial target, Omar. Jer - Our relationship was never that good but we both knew it fell apart a week or two before you evicted me. We were aligned for a good while, because of the alliance that Martin and Kitty put together. I'm sure you feel the same way about me, but I never really felt the connection with you and I think that if that alliance hadn't been created, we would have never aligned at all. I felt like you have played a really solid game in order to get to the Final 2, but not so much to win the game. This is what leads me to my main problem with you... Your social game sucked. You didn't seem to put any effort into conversations. You would often leave for hours on end and come back to say goodbye, as if you were actually talking to us for the entire time. While we all talked some trash, I think you slandered people one of the most of anyone and you felt like you were too good to resolve disagreements. You flat out refused to try to mend any relationship with Sera even at the potential expense of her jury vote. You tried to make Wendy as miserable as possible and basically trash her to everyone right until she walked out the door. And when we had our argument, surprise, I had to be the one to IM you to resolve it. It's one thing to not trust people or even like people. But you would flat out ignore them and almost relish in sending them to the jury lodge with feelings of hatred towards you. I can't speak for how anyone feels about you now, but at the time, it seemed like a foolish strategy. So a question or two for the both of you:Ed: Can you go through the whole thought process of bringing back Fantine? I just always saw it as a bad move, not to mention you knowingly put me in the line of fire in the process. Why should I vote for you to win? Jer: Why did you choose to be so unnecessarily hateful and difficult to talk to? Why wouldn't you try to place people on the jury with better feelings towards you? Explain the whole issue with your social game and what not. I think you understand what I'm getting at lol. Why should I vote for you to win? Again, just be honest and good luck to the both of you. Congrats again. |
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jmiahjoxo |
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Heyyy Dom.
I deffo agree that had Martin and Kitty not formed that alliance that you and I would never be aligned. I always thought you were nice enough, but I was least close to you in that alliance and always weary of you. I think I just get along with a certain type of person, or only certain people get me cos I would have super long convos with some people and get along fine and then have really short convos with others. I deffo know what you're talking about conversations dying, but I'm just not the type of person to force conversation if I don't have something to talk about or say. Aaand about the goodbye thing...I personally hate when people leave without saying bye to me, and I'd always leave IM's open, so I just say goodbye to people even if we hadn't been talking for a while. Sorry it bugged you so much :p Nowww about my hatefulness lol. If you go and read Lena's question to me you'll see that a lot of it was strategical. It was deffo and risky strategy since it could get me evicted really easily, and probably not that smart in the long run. But the way I was looking at it was if I was on the jury and Sera or someone I didn't get along with was in the final two I would put aside our differences and base my vote on gameplay. So I was mainly just using that strategy to help get me further, and then hoping they'd put it all aside at the end. I know everyone thinks I'm the evil bitch of the season, but if you put yourself in my shoes and see things how I was seeing it you'd see that I didn't go around slandering people just for the fun of it; I had reasons for disliking the people I did. I'll admit that I never really got along with Sera, but it wasn't until I knew that she was really gunning for me to be evicted and had been targeting me for a few weeks that I started openly hating on her. Later down the road it wasn't just me refusing the mend my relationship with her, she didn't want to either. Both of us were too stubborn to be the first to IM each other, but even if we did I knew we'd have nothing to talk about since we never got along and we definitely weren't going to be discussing strategy. Thennn with Wendy, I was really good friends with her until she thought she won the HOH in week 8 before the results went up. As outgoing HOH I got to pick the next format and I hadn't picked yet so I was going to talk to her and get her opinion on what she would want if she was HOH. This basically resulted in her threatening to nominate and evict me if I didn't choose the double eviction. Soo after that I'm obviously not going to be friends with her anymore and I knew she was after me, so by openly hating on her I'd have another excuse for people to keep me once Sera was evicted. Thennn with you, like I said in Lena's question I over reacted on purpose. The only thing I was really mad about with you was that you refused to believe anything I was saying and I thought you had done all the stuff you accused me of, so it seemed hypocritical. I knew Lena had been talking to Ed, so I wanted to make sure he'd keep me incase he didn't evict her. I knew bashing you in the state of the house thread would make it more believable than just telling Ed that I wouldn't evict him. And the reason I didn't IM you first is because Martin had been telling me that you were saying you weren't ready to talk to me and stuff, so I decided to just wait for you to IM me whenever you were ready or cooled off or whatever you needed to do. Sooo I think that kind of explains why I did certain things to certain people. I know my social game wasn't perfect, but obviously I was social enough because I did make some really good friends in the game. I made it to the final two and was only nominated once despite all my fights and people disliking me, so I think that's deffo something to take into consideration when you're deciding who to vote for. I guess it just comes down to what you want to base your vote on. Hopefully it's in my favor! |
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NoWard JustEd |
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Hey Dom. First off, I'd like to just say that there was a reason it didn't really look like I was playing the game that much in the beginning. I kind
of went into it in Lena's question, but if you need to hear more about it just let me know. :)
Anyway, ahaha, I knew the Fantine thing would come up. Okay, so here's the deal man. I think you (and maybe other people) are under the misconception that the only reason I brought Fantine back just because she PMed me and said she wouldn't vote for me unless I chose that option. And that really isn't the case at all. As I told people at the time when I got the message, I don't really respond to threats that well. And, no offense to Fantine, but there was no way I was going to choose that option JUST for a chance at her Jury vote. I agonized over that decision, so let me explain everything I considered. This may get lengthy. :P First off, I knew before most everyone else did that Fantine (or whoever was evicted) was going to be coming back as a Ghost the next week, thanks to my recently-made alliance with Martin. So something I had to take in consideration was that if I didn't choose the option, there was a good chance Fantine was going to be a part of the house anyway even if I chose another option. Next up, the week I was HOH, everybody in the household was telling me that I was one of the safest people in the house, at least for the next week. So I had to use that to my advantage. I had already ruled out the auto-evicts because, while most everyone was saying that they were targeting somebody else, there was one person (Lena) who I felt would target me and might evict me. Even though it was a 1/9 (nine including the ghost) chance, I wanted a 0/9 chance that I would be evicted. So I decided it would be to my advantage to choose either the double eviction or the previous evictee option, to get that out of the way while nobody was considering me a target. Finally, I had two goals for the next week: keep Sera safe (because I knew she was a big target) and get Omar evicted. You see, I knew that you, Sera, and Omar were a team and I was the odd man out. I wanted Omar evicted because I knew that as long as he was in the house, what he wanted to do would always trump what I wanted to do in the minds of you and Sera. Plus, I felt Omar would easily try to sacrifice me to keep you two safe and I just couldn't risk that. I know Omar was your closest ally but he was far from my closest ally at all and I knew he would always do what was best for him and wouldn't hesitate to take me out if it benefited him. As for the keep Sera safe part, I weighed the pros and cons of the double eviction vs. the previous evictee. If I chose the double eviction, there was a good chance that Sera was going to end up nominated no matter who won the HOH. There was a 1 in 9 chance she would win the HOH and stay safe, but an 8 in 9 chance she would be nominated. As opposed to the previous evictee option, where there was a 1 in 9 chance Omar would win the HOH, but an 8 in 9 chance he would be nominated and probably evicted over Sera. Of course, at the time I didn't realize others would throw the HOH after I chose the option, but that's the risk I took. It didn't end up working out the way I wanted to, but I was trying to make the most logical and strategic decision I could for my own benefit. Anyway, I hope that explains my thought process about that decision. :P As for why you should vote for me to win? I think I played a lot more of a strategic game than people give me credit for. Yes, in the early game, I concentrated on being well-liked and active to get by instead of forming alliances. But that helped me later because I hadn't gotten entangled into anything messy. As the game progressed, I adapted a strategy of playing round-by-round and playing specifically for my own best interests. I only made three solid alliances the entire game (one with Sera, the "Circle of Trust" with Omar, Sera, and Hero, and one with Martin) and yet I was still able to make it here to the final 2. And if that doesn't convince you, you should vote for me simply because I'm awesome. :D |
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LifeInAFlash04 |
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I'm really impressed with your answers actually, both of you. I'm really not a fan of giving additional questions so I'm just going to make a
comment and if Jer wants to clarify, he can.
I was glancing at the answers and I read Jer's answers to Omar. You basically proved the point I was making while I was still in the game. You did lie to me, despite you saying you "changed your mind" about the vote. Because you said that the double eviction week was a plan planned out way in advance. That's fine, it sounds like it was a good plan that was executed well. Like I said, I just wished you could have owned up to what you had done rather than trying to make up lame excuses. Yeah I lied, which is why you thought I was hypocritical, but I was always mad about your inability to own up to lying when caught in one. I admitted to nominating you, I admitted to breaking our alliance, and I admitted to wanting to evict you. You played a great game, I just would have had a lot more respect for you at the end if you could have been confident in yourself to say, "Yeah I lied and planned to evict Omar and here is why" rather than make things up and pretend like you had no part in it. Because while I believe you, things could be construed as you claiming credit as part of this plan after the fact. I'm not angry at you and I have a lot of respect for you. My goal here was to get you to be honest and own up to the lies you may have told, since you never did that during the game. For me, being that I was not close with either of you from beginning to end, it helps me make a more informed decision. |
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jmiahjoxo |
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Like I said in Omar's thread I was planning on giving him a sympathy vote since he had helped me out in previous weeks, but I didn't because I
wasn't sure what Kitty would do and didn't want to risk it. Yes, I did lie about WANTING Omar out, but I didn't lie about changing my mind for the
VOTE. So when you were getting mad at me about not VOTING Ed, I was truthful in saying that I had just changed my mind. Obviously I wasn't 100% truthful
about what I was doing, but I deffo didn't lie when I said I was going to vote to keep him which is what I think you were most mad about. Soo I hope that
clarifies things, and hopefully you still don't consider it a lie :p
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LifeInAFlash04 |
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Whatever. At this point it's just technicalities and in the overall scheme of things, it doesn't matter. We probably won't see eye to eye on this
one issue, but at the end of the day, it was a smart move for you so I'll leave it at that.
Like I've said, lying has never been the problem for me, because I did plenty myself. I was just always the type of person who tried to clear up the problem whereas you let it fester. But hey, it worked out for you, so I'm not gonna preach to you about anything lol. Again, good game. I think I'm done with this thread unless you guys post something alarming elsewhere. :P |
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Wasityou72 |
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Dom outside the game i wanna say that ur picture is really funny lol :P
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