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kateee posted...

and Jeff Varner of all people has played three times? what

He has one of the most interesting trajectories in regards to the fandom. From a forgotten figure to a beloved fun character to one of the most reviled castaways in the fandom. Still gets death threats on a weekly basis, most likely, but has defenders because he recognized quickly that he did something unspeakable, long before he lost his job for it.

Peridiam posted...

amazing race 30 premiere tonight

Meh.

Underleveled posted...

HvV just has way too much Russell for me to put in my top 5/10

Same reason why HvV is not in my top 5, especially immediately following Samoa. By the merge of HvV, I was so sick of that man and he only showed his worst at that point, when so many things were going his way. It became tiring to watch for a stretch.

Tocantins is a good character season, but is strategically dry. I still like it but I need to rewatch it to determine where I'd rank it.

Anyway, new blog is up, but you guys don't care about my shameless self-promotion, do you? :P
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Nanako
Ryuji
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Espeon posted...

Game Changers won every year end award on Inside Survivor.

Yeah, I wasn't expecting that, but perhaps since we nominated more HHH in certain categories, there was some SFF. Not surprised about The King of the Jungle being best #SurvivorAU character, "THAT" being the shocking moment, and SugarGate dominating the funniest moment vote. But I thought the HHH cast and episodes would get more love. I thought the Rogue Knights were most likely to win Best Alliance and HHH had a better chance at Best Move and Best Episode.

All that said, I find the seasons about even after it's all digested, but HHH had a more unpredictable edit done in a way that actually made sense. The sentiment seems to be that Game Changers was better, which is odd considering how so many people were ready to move on as that season concluded. Overall, 2017 was the most disappointing Survivor/BB year since 2011.
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Rise
Teddie
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I count five new gray hairs on my head.

eaedwards6400 posted...

I think only Australia has more with 8 right? EDIT: Technically it is HvV but that doesn't really count.

Yep, Australia is the most. It counts players by original season only. Cagayan could still produce more returnees. It's entirely possible they find room for Brice, J'Tia, Alexis, Morgan (less likely than I initially thought - there are better potential Parvatis out there), LJ, Jefra, or Trish in the future. "Because Cagayan" will be the justification, much like the case was "Because Australia" for Kimmi.
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kateee posted...

ended up just binging the last episodes. watching finale now.

got to Woo's decision.

man

okay. everything's starting to fall in place now.

Cagayan so good

I remember falling out of my chair when Weasel Woo voted Chaos Kass out. You have the master strategist and the one who burned bridges with almost the entire jury... and you take the master strategist!? When it went down here on board 8, we had a new topic put up right after Woo won the final IC (IIRC it was either darkx or SanityLapse) with the poll "Are you happy with the winner?" Several people started voting "No" but then Woo took Tony and it lit up like a dumpster fire. Ah, the memories.

Woo would've won 9-0, too. Tony didn't raise his hand because he didn't think it applied to him. Trish and Jefra, the two who got Chaos Kass to flip at the merge, even said they hated her guts.

Tony is still an incredible, one-of-a-kind winner. How someone so erratic and yet so calculating and over-the-top entertaining... and how that person can win... is amazing. Cagayan is a top-tier season with such an incredible cast. Only issues are Lindsey being a quitter, J'Tia being worse than Chet at challenges and therefore an obvious early boot, and Jeremiah being drowned out (and even then, he's not a bad "male model" archetype). And even so, those three all offered entertainment. Would not surprise me if Cagayan ended up being the season with the most returnees once it's all said and done (it's already at 4 in Cambodia + 2 in Game Changers = 6, as many as Borneo).
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I'm a Krackel guy, myself.
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redrocket_pub posted...

No, she didn't just do voice over. She was in the suit.

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KujikawaRising posted...

metroid composite posted...This is why I asked the question. It was a guy in the suit in TFA, was it not? And they recast the voiceover with Gwendoline? That's what bugs me. Voice scrambling is entirely possible in this universe...

No, it was gwendolyn christie in the suit in TFA. She's like 6'3" IRL, which is how she got her role in Game of Thrones.

Okay, I had misinformation. I thought they'd filmed it with a guy in the suit and then decided the character should be female afterward. My bad. Thanks for the clarity.
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metroid composite posted...

It was supposed to be a Bobba Fett style character (not Vader). Originally in the script it was a minor character written for a guy, but then they realized that they had no relevant female villains at all in TFA, and it was a pretty easy character to re-cast with Gwendoline Christie.

This is why I asked the question. It was a guy in the suit in TFA, was it not? And they recast the voiceover with Gwendoline? That's what bugs me. Voice scrambling is entirely possible in this universe...

Boba Fett was definitely a guy.

Leafeon13N posted...

KujikawaRising posted...

One prediction that occurred to me was that Kylo Ben and Rey switch places, essentially, and Rey becomes the new Vader for the next trilogy, mask and all. Basically, an unexpected redux of Anakin. She has a strong resolve, but the Darkness...

They were setting this up to maybe be a thing and then they literally closed a door on it.

Just because one door closes doesn't mean another one won't open. Episode 9 could focus on both Kylo Ben and Rey battling between light and dark once again. Though, with Snoke dead, are the two still psychologically linked?
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Group 25:
+4 Tony Vlanchos
+3 Shane Powers
+2 Lauren Rimmer
+1 Jaclyn Schultz

Group 26:
+4 Yul Kwon
+3 Colby Donaldson
+2 Coby Archa
+1 Bruce Kanegai

Group 27:
+4 Natalie Tenerelli
+3 Alexis Maxwell
+2 Rodney Lavoie, Jr.
+1 Russell Swan

Group 28:
+4 Morgan McLeod
+3 John Carroll
+2 Amber Brkich
+1 Angie Jakusz
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I remember this movie.

I also know that watching things like this again as an adult makes me realize how good kids have it. I overthink everything now. I miss the simple times...
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thanks again for Stardew Valley

I've played 51 hours of it in the three-ish weeks since
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My biggest issue with the movie, now that it's all sunk in, was the lack of development for Rey.

Snoke connected her to Kylo Ben, but those scenes were used to give HIM more development than her. She was pressuring him to defect. We were getting more thoughts of his and more of his past than hers - and he wasn't pressuring her as hard. When she fell into the mirror void or w/e it's called, we got zilch. They had plenty of opportunities but did not capitalize on them as much as they could have.

One prediction that occurred to me was that Kylo Ben and Rey switch places, essentially, and Rey becomes the new Vader for the next trilogy, mask and all. Basically, an unexpected redux of Anakin. She has a strong resolve, but the Darkness...

I like Poe, but he's not anything special or memorable. Rey is more interesting to me, but this movie didn't do enough for her when it really should have.

I did like the humor. Porgs helped a lot with that (like when they begged for mercy in the most adorkable way when Chewy was eating their friend). "Get your head out of your cockpit" was great. I chuckled at the "Jakku is nowhere" comment. The humor worked here - it wasn't overdone and it wasn't underdone. Comic relief is very necessary. There's a reason I miss the good ol' Q Branch scenes in the James Bond movies - they provided a necessary laugh even in the most serious Bond films. Now even those are serious. Star Wars did it right here.

The Force is a Deus Ex Machina used as necessary. That's the very concept of it.

Question: Was Phasma really a woman? That eye bugs me. The entire point of the character was to have a "female Vader" for toys, yes, and pander to feminist bigots. The character was not explored at all and I forgot she existed until she showed up. If Rey also becomes a "female Vader" then Phasma's point was also that of distraction.
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bwburke94 posted...

Underleveled posted...

With Kass and Natalie finally getting Cagayan and Micronesia on the board, Caramoan is now the only season not represented by any of its original castaways.

Does anyone from Caramoan deserve to get in, though?

Reynold is out and he's one of the more arguable ones. Snowy is out and he also had a bit of an argument. Eddie can get in with a weak division simply for wanting to open the Dog Bar.

But anybody else? No. Allie, Hope, and Wholia were all irrelevant. Laura Alexander could have been cool but why didn't she target Reynold primarily to flush his idol? Sherri sucks. Shamar sucks even more. Matt the Viking is p. cool but was too swapfucked for a season five years ago. So... yeah, I don't see anybody getting in except MAYBE Eddie.
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There was a period of ten minutes there with only one post...
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Ashethan posted...

Rams are resting their starters.

oh, missed that

CHANGE FROM RAMS TO JIMMY G
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Naye745 posted...

Group 24: - this group should have 8 people advance and 0 from group 22 tbqh lol

I count 7. Alphabetical by first name... Amanda, Aras, Culpepper, Joe, Rafe, Todd, and Will.

Though Caryn could beat half of the dreadful group 22. In 22, we have two massive douchenozzles (Colton and Adumb [yes, I got that from you]), two bigoted pre-merge bitches (CeCe and Hairdresser Lindsey the Second), a first boot who deserved it (David), two total trainwrecks that made good TV despite being hard to like (J'Tia and Dreamz, though J'Tia was funnier), a weasel (Albert), an inferior Danni/Amanda that's still p. good for an early boot (Misty), and, the most sympathetic of this bunch, a bullying victim who did not deserve it in Alina. I should have given her +3 or +4 tbqh.

Only Alina, Misty, and J'Tia deserve any consideration to move on. None of them are top tier.
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this is a beary good poll
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SantaRPidgey posted...

No coffee on the poll? Anagram'd

I'm talking about the food, not the drink.

I could've included donuts but I ran out of poll options.
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is Group 22 the worst in this entire contest? Meanwhile Group 24 is stacked.

I also note the obviousness of two of my +4s today.

Group 21:
+4 Andrea Boehlke
+3 Brice Izyah Johnston
+2 Abi-Maria Gomes
+1 Sean Rector

Group 22:
+4 J'Tia Hart
+3 Misty Giles
+2 Alina Wilson
+1 Albert Destrade

Group 23:
+4 Lex van den Berghe
+3 Christa Hastie
+2 Troyzan Robertson
+1 R.I.P. Dan Kay

Group 24:
+4 Amanda Kimmel
+3 Todd Herzog
+2 Rafe Judkins
+1 Aras Baskauskas
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I'll be alone, dancing and you know it baby
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Expected Weighted Companion Cube. I am disappoint.
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Peridiam posted...

I think the only one I actually bought was Ometepe way back when. :v

oh yeah I think I have Ometepe too. Forgot about that. It's not in the holster.

Would love to get that one signed. You guys know which two I'd want >_>
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LusterSoldier posted...

Dome Fossil? Aww, that's lame. Definitely inferior to the Helix Fossil.

All hail Lord Helix!

Also tag, though I may drop off in the less interesting games.
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

I thought you were implying that shatner had died today.

Scared the crap out of me.

I had the same thought. I voted Shatner because of the sound. If it had been "Sh" I might've thought Shakespeare.

Thank goodness I already have his (Shatner's) autograph
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Peridiam posted...

GTM posted...

congrats on your patrick buff

Thanks

Its actually my first red buff. Now my 8th total!

The buffs I have hangin' on my wall are (in order of them coming to mind whilst at work):
35 Season Anniversary
Nuku
Malakal*
Dabu*
Tadhana
Tambaqui
Levu
Vanua (Millennials)
Koror
Solarrion
Enil-Edam
Casaya

A lot of blue. I also have a few others, like Mana, 'Merica, Fei Long* (this one is kinda faded because I used to wear it back in my Amanda Lust Days), Gondol*, Ta Keo*, and best of all Orkun* (signed by mah friend Kelley Wentworth, as I've posted. I framed that one btw). I did not have money for buffs until around Worlds Apart so that's why so many are recent... and some of the others are cheaper ones (like Koror and Casaya).

* = not on holster

I want to get another older one or two but some of 'em are really rare and/or expensive.
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Anagram posted...

I had a discussion with people a while ago when I complained that it was 57 degrees in LA, which they insisted wasn't cold. By chance, it's 57 degrees again. Does that qualify as cold, or do you need to be in the 40s or 30s?

57 degrees is "hot" between December and February.

"Cold" is below freezing.
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Peridiam posted...

Andy, I'm pretty sure Probst missed the upside-down S. It's not a rule that was ignored for one letter.

They have off-camera spotters, you know, that are supposed to catch these things. Eases Probst's workload.
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I'm streaming this topic live from the beginning.
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The Mana Sword posted...

https://twitter.com/DrJapan/status/943668114146906112/photo/1

:O

I saw this last night.

Why does the upside-down rule only apply to U and not S? Because casuals wouldn't notice it? If Chrissy hadn't won then, would Ben have pulled it off?

...if Ben wins that challenge, who does he take with him? Ryan still?
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GTAIV

Terrible game overhyped by several media outlets. Was given a 10/10 by many gaming rags but in reality is just a 4/10 bore with overly realistic game mechanics and too much of a "real life simulator." I don't want to be spending time with "friends" by going bowling or playing darts in a freakin' VIDEO GAME. I have real friends for that.

OR

Skyward Snore

Games that constantly tell me I'm an idiot that needs to be told exactly what to do are not games at all. Such games that have excessive amounts of filler are even worse. Zelda has usually been great for me, but this one is a piece of crap game that can't hold a candle to Twilight Princess or Breath of the Wild, both of which are great (even if they have a few flaws apiece).

OR

Pokmon S&M

Games that don't let me use my brain cells are obnoxiously awful. This game took it to new levels. It's almost as bad as Pokmon Channel, which was not something I expected as much of as I did S&M.

IDK which.
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Okay, other formatting ideas:
1. Rank all newbie castaways from a season. Top 5 from each season are entered.
2. Rank all newbie castaways from each starting tribe (except Exile Island, which would be Day 4 tribe with Timber Tina on La Mina, and Cook Islands which would have Sekou on post-swap Raro and Billy on Aitu [since Billy started on Aitu]). Top 6 from each season advance - top two from 6-person tribes, top three from each tribe on two-tribe seasons.
3. Continue this format, but add 2-3 additional wild card groups of Survivors that got the highest percentage of points of those did not advance.

IDK, just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing if anything sticks.

I also think the "you only get four votes if you vote early" thing can go. I get that it's done to encourage people to vote early over waiting to reflect their vote based on how other people are voting, but on a half-day schedule that's not exactly doable for everyone.
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StormTR posted...

Mike and Ben were worse than all of them because in Mike's case he needed ALL of those Immunities or he'd be voted out and essentially WAS voted out at Final 7 and was only saved by an Idol he found. Anybody who only makes it through a round thanks to an Idol, screwed up majorly and is somebody I could never give my vote to.

Idols art part of the game. Period, end of story. If someone plays one and plays it well, then they're doing something right and outmaneuvering the people trying to get rid of them. Many winners have utilized idols to maximum effect, including Mike, who got out the only person that had beaten him in an immunity before Mama C did that round. I'd say that improves his strategic stock, not the reverse. If you MISplay an idol, that's not a good look.

What you're saying is basically you'd never award someone who found an idol a million dollar vote. That's not how Survivor works. Idols are one factor. To exclude anybody that played an idol and used it to blindside somebody else means you're a bitter juror.

Peridiam posted...

Yeah, I'd say Chrissy had the best FTC.

This.

Also, Natalie White is not that bad. She was socially aware and was a good complement to the strategist sitting next to her. She only beat him because he was a total asshole to the jury, meaning they didn't like nor respect him. Amber is below Ben.
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I still wanna know if my Group 1 votes can be Erinn + three from Group 2.
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BlueCrystalTear posted...

Nameless2000 posted...

My predictions this season were wrong, but here are my hot predix for next season:

The stick from Micronesia will become an actual hidden immunity idol.

I would LOVE to hear Eliza's take on that.

I asked her on Twitter. All I got was a like.

StormTR posted...

Of course, this is without even getting into the fact that the twist seems designed to try and eliminate who Probst views as "weaker players/coattail riders", but as this season showed, it's just going to make it easier for them to get to the Final 3 and rob better players even more.

I agree with this. Ryan mentioned the irony of it all, that his inability to make fire is what got him to the end, as opposed to the reverse. I hope they change the F4 back to the way it should be with S37. While this is better TV, it's not fair for the game. Devon, the best player this season, was robbed all the same as David Wright, the best player on MvX and the probable inspiration for this, was robbed (though by no means is Adam a bad winner, and I am hearing all kinds of casual misconceptions about him like "the jury only voted for him because of his mother" [untrue] or that "they picked him over Hannah because of male bias" [one of the dumbest things I've ever heard]).

StormTR posted...

I've gotta say, even though Ben now ties Mike for the worst winner to win on their first time playing...I'm at least glad it wasn't Chrissy. I mean, truth be told, the entire Final 3 all played pretty bad games, if we're being honest.

How the hell is either Ben or Mike worse than Bob Crowley? Jenna Morasca? Michele Fitzgerald? Fabio Birza? All four of them are weaker winners, because at least Ben and Mike got themselves to the end. Bob lucked into it with Sugar wanting Bob and Matty to go to fire. Jenna made so many enemies and gave up immunity for no reason (should've paid for it) and would have been voted out if she hadn't won either of the last two challenges... and what gives Mike an edge over her is that he'd have beaten Rodney (Hali, Joe, Jenn, and Shirin all vote Mike) while Jenna had no chance against Rob (only getting votes from Heidi and Alex, presuming Christy votes correctly) and might've also lost to Butch. Her only chance was against Matteo, and she took it. But she's still below Mike, who is below Ben.

Michele won because the jury were big babies about losing despite them being the ones who closed bridges off that could have gotten them farther. She also was strategically unaware for most of the merge. Fabio... and things like that.

Meanwhile, Ben found idols when he needed to and tried to pry his way into the majority alliances, but poor play on behalf of several of them - not wholly dissimilar to Kaoh Rong, just on a less nasty scale - forced him to acquire other means. The thing that puts Ben in the bottom third, however, is that he needed a twist in the game to get to the end at all. Because it was so clear-cut that he would've been voted out, people are calling "RIGGED" even though it isn't. And like the casuals Edwards talked to, I did not know whether it would be Ben or Chrissy triumphing in that final 3. I just knew it wasn't Ryan. However, sub Devon for Ben and... I still don't know. Best F3 would've been Ben/Chrissy/Devon. Could you imagine how they'd try to out-argue each other? Would be fun.
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Underleveled posted...

Andy, in your Ben/Devon/Chrissy F3, who do you think Ryan votes for?

Chrissy. JP votes Chrissy as well. It ties 3-3-2. Six jurors completely ignore Chrissy because she ignored them strategically.
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My prediction is still that Ben and Devon have a tug-of-war with finale votes and that Chrissy gets ignored for her poor social game. You gotta talk strategy with people to earn their trust and respect. Most of them aren't going to know where her head was ever at.

Mike might even lose Joe's vote should he make the end, but the perception is "He has three Healer votes. That's too much of a head start." That's why he's a likely target of some of the others. Ryan and Chrissy are a pair, though, and who knows if anyone else will be like "That's two spots. I don't want to be in the Day 38 Club. I want to be in the Winner's Circle. I should get rid of one of those two so I can get a spot at the end." and make a new agreement.

Oh, and new blog:
http://insidesurvivor.com/historical-perspectives-how-to-set-off-a-ben-bomb-31391

I'll do one more regarding winners after the finale.
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OliviaTremor posted...

I want to hear more about how the USSR collapsing, losing a ton of land and people, was a ruse to save face.

That was not a ruse, it was the reason for it. They had to save face because they'd lost all of that, so what remained faked a revolution that was only a transfer of power between Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

Apologies for lack of response. Holiday party at work.
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Am I the only one who has thought about this? All of these "the Russians hacked the election" accusations, Putin's obvious dictatorial governing, and Snowden's defection, among other things, make me legitimately about whether or not the Cold War "ending" was just a Soviet ruse to save face. Sure, things like the Space Race are over, but has the Cold War simply turned the page into an era of political games? Or am I just being ridiculous?
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I honestly would not be offended by any of them winning. All of them are fascinating people and have made for several good TV moments.

Placement:
Ben
Devon
Chrissy
Mike
Ryan

Devon convinces the jury that the Secret Spy Ben plan was his, which sways votes his way until Ben counters, "But I was the one who pulled it off. You weren't the one lyin' to everybody." It's a chaotic final three where, as Probst said, votes change at the FTC, and I'm guessing that means often.

There are Chrissy truthers going around but I don't buy into that. She did not talk game with most of the jury. They do not know where her head was at. They will not reward her.
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Feel free to specify what kinds if you'd like.

"Yes" means you wear hats casually on at minimum a weekly basis (or for your job)
"Maybe" means on occasion when you so desire
"No" means you wear a hat a few times a year, if that
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Idols are an essential part of Survivor, so if they were to have a "no idols" twist, it would be a one-season thing only.

They should have done the 3-2-1 here. Devon, Ashley, and Mike vote for Ben (this makes Devon look clean in case Ashley stays in the game), Ryan and Chrissy vote for Ashley, and Ben gets convinced that the target is Chrissy, but because she won immunity the vote changed to Ryan since the intent was to split up that pair. The intent is for Ben to not play an idol, but he does anyway. Ashley's exit press confirms they did try to follow him around, but most of them were legitimately bad at it. Like how hard is it to instigate a Mexican standoff the way Andrea did with Malcolm? That said, Malcolm DID have a clue and Ben didn't, so it was easy enough for Ben to head for the hills to look elsewhere. Malcolm couldn't do that since Andrea would have looked in the area and found the idol sooner, without Erik's assistance. Doesn't change that Andrea is a legend though.
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If there's still no clear favorite, I might make a second poll with the top 4-5... but I'll need more votes to decide that (:
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what do you want to see, Bored 8? No guarantees it'll be great, but I will TRY.
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Xeybozn posted...

Honestly, losing net neutrality should help GameFAQs. ISPs are probably going to slow websites down rather than blocking them outright. Since GameFAQs has been stuck in time for a decade it'll still load fine at those speeds, unlike the rest of the web.

I haven't had a serious issue with loading times on this site at home... like ever, except when the site or my Internet is down. Five seconds is appropriate at work.

Here's hoping Charter doesn't get sticky fingers but since they're the biggest one after merging with Time Warner.........
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foolm0r0n posted...

$4000/mo

since when did you add an extra 0 to your username, fooolmo?
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RIP Net Neutrality :(
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Underleveled posted...

I was always under the impression that Brandon WASNT allowed to have his meds on the show, at least not on Caramoan, which is why he kept having meltdowns.

I work for a kids' Medicaid program. I've seen many instances of teenagers that were medicated and still had issues. Sometimes the meds worsen things and they're taken off of them. Other times the meds only help slightly... so conditions like Survivor has are not overly helpful in those incidents. It could very well be that Brandon was medicated across both of his seasons but the effect was waning his second go, leading to him going cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs when deprived of food and sleep.

Intriguing how he has claimed to have applied for the show, but can you trust anyone from that family with that information?

I think Ben from this season might be on some sort of antidepressant due to his diagnosis of Military PTSD. That said, I doubt the drug has helped him as much as Kelli has. Motivation like that does wonders.
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