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Man, Derek F has no idea how the terminology in this game works does he?

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

My revised winner rankings (as of Sunday's episode):

Winner pick:
1. Xavier

Chances are still pretty good:
2. Hannah
3. Derek X

Still a shot but falling apart quickly:
4. Tiffany
5. Kyland
6. Claire

Chances are negligible:
7. Sarah Beth
8. Azah
9. Alyssa
10. Derek F
11. Brittini

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

Inviso posted...

9. Christian Birkenberger (He went from me dreading him week one, to becoming kind of a goofy moron who wound up getting punked out pre-jury. He was a goofy character, and I can appreciate that. Plus, the Alyssa subplot has been hilarious, where she gets targeted for being in a showmance that Christian CLEARLY wants, but even though she goes along with it, she's nowhere near as invested as Christian is. It's a perfect amount of himbo energy.)

For someone who was by far my least-favorite in the premiere, I definitely warmed up to Christian pretty well. I'd probably have him around 9th or 10th so far too.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

Just posting here to say that every time I see this topic I think it says "Jenna Marbles."

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

I love how classy this cast is. Everyone so far has taken their eviction as well as you can expect and hasn't acted bitter on their way out the door.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

I don't think so. They do it on obvious votes all the time.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

How much focus did Ramses get in his boot episode? Pretty sure it was heavily lopsided to "why Josh stays" instead of "why Ramses goes."

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

Not that I especially want either nominee to go, but from a pure entertainment/excitement standpoint, if this ends with the blindside instead of the obvious boot, it will easily be the best week of normal BB I've seen (I started with BB18).

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

When was the last time they left a Veto episode on a cliffhanger like that? Was it Faysal's HoH in BB20?

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

That was an absolutely excellent episode of Big Brother from start to finish.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

Christian would have SMOKED this Veto.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

Sara Beth is fucking stealing the show tonight.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

That silence.

That threat

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

MetalmindStats posted...

Many of my favorite games could apply here. Celeste is probably the best example because I am bad at video games and have a poor tolerance for difficulty in them, so I never expected to get much out of a precision platformer.

Hmm, this applies to me too, so I wonder if I could actually get some enjoument out OF CELESTER. I did beat That one game but I cforget whT'S IT'S CALLED. MAYBE IT'S GOOD. IT HAD A CHARACTER NAMED LUMEN AND WAS BASED ON VOICE. AZUER STRIAK GUNVOLT THATS WHAT IT WAS. I BEAT THAT. SO I CAN BEAT GAMES THAT ARE KINDA HARD. SO MAYBE I CAN BEST CELEST.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 31; Most recent - One Night Stand

I don't remember Chicken Boo at all, at least not by name.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

What are some games that you went into with average-ish (or even less) expectations that you ended up falling in love with?

Life is Strange and the Uncharted series for me. I went into both years after they were released thinking, "okay, let's see what this is about." LiS and Uncharted 2 are now all-time top 5 games for me.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Leonhart4 posted...

Search action doesn't adequately convey what genre you're talking about. I wouldn't understand what that meant in a vacuum without this topic.

This is fair. I expected MGS/Splinter Cell.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

To be fair, we don't say "Marionics" or "Dragon Fantasies" or anything like that.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Character idea - Plankton, except instead of actually fighting himself he's controlling a mecha.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Oskar
Krabs

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Prometheus
Bob

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Inviso posted...

Ultimately, it's just nice to have a season where I don't dislike anyone in the cast (except people who got booted in the first few weeks, for once). It's refreshing after the entitlement alliance of BB22, the racist alliance of BB21, the mactor alliance of BB20, the bully alliance of BB19, and the veteran alliance of BB18 sapped my enjoyment of those seasons for WEEKS.

Ranking my tolerance of these alliances...
1. BB21 Unde9able/Gr8ful/6 Shooters - Were never a very cohesive group from the beginning and by the time the jury phase hit they were largely fractured. While one of them still won, the outsiders were very much in the mix of things right up to the finale. I agree with Inviso that from basically Sam's boot through Tommy's boot (an astounding 8-week stretch), this season was actually fairly enjoyable.

2. BB18 Veterans Alliance - Another fairly fractured group that allowed some outsiders to slip through. Victor really came through for us and saved the second half of that season from being as bad as the rest of the ones in this stretch.

3. BB20 Level 6 - The pre-jury of this season was actually really enjoyable, and even as late as Faysal's HoH the outsiders had a shit ton of opportunities to come back and make it a game but squandered them all (the Hacker comp being the only piece that legitimately fucked them over), so they really had no one to blame but themselves.

4. BB19 Paul's Minions - The only full-fledged member of this alliance that I actively liked won the season, so there's that.

5. BB22 Committee - If we include Enzo as a member of this alliance which we may as well, they won literally every single HoH. The outsiders had 0 opportunity to come back and make it a game, they literally berated the outsiders as undeserving of being in the game, and any time any of them had to deal with the slightest inconvenience (being a Have-Not, losing a Veto comp, David's terrible gameplay ironically working in his favor half the time, etc) they bitched and whined and threatened to quit and their reward for all this was getting to comprise the entire final 7 and their boring-ass leader winning the whole season in a unanimous jury decision.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

HoH is... .....Derek X.....

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Buttons and Mindy was pretty great. It was like a Tom & Jerry where Tom is a hero trying to rescue Jerry.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Anyway, unless Alyssa wins HoH, I'm pretty sure she's fucked this week, likely in another unanimous/near-unanimous vote.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

I don't outright dislike anybody this season. Brent was a douchebag, but the narrative of his eviction was hysterical and made him worth it as a character.

Julie revealing the Royal Flush to Whitney means no pre-jury Battle Back, and I would have liked to see either Frenchie or Whitney back in.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

TomNook posted...

Maybe they do it on purpose as the penultimate way to get under your skin.

If this was intentional, it was very, very clever.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Awe, I should send you a pick of something happy because it seems like your in a bad mood to.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Nominate Life is Strange: True Colors

As long as it's allowed. It comes out September 10th, which limits it to just 21 days instead of the standard 30 but that still gives players 2/3 of the month which based on previous games in the series should be plenty of time.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Crocker got eliminated this early? It must be FAIRY GODPARENTS!!

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Bob
Patrick

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Oskar
Lou

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Well it's between Hanks, Petty and Brady for me. I'll see how this goes before I vote.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Tossing out an idea for next series - Animaniacs segments?

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Dunsparce

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Great_Paul posted...

The current ranking is Bugs > Daffy > Wile E. > Foghorn > Marvin > Elmer > Porky > Yosemite > Lola > Road Runner > Pepe

The Road Runner hate makes me sad.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Awareness

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

unsafe:
Denzel Crocker (Fairly Oddparents)
Dr. Lipschitz (Rugrats)
Rocko Rama (Rocko's Modern Life)
Zaheer (The Legend of Korra)

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Heffer

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Dad
Wanda

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Patrick
Arnold

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Oskar
Prometheus

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Jakyl25 posted...

Golds, other medals as tiebreakers

Jakyl25 posted...

Alternately I could see an argument for WEIGHTED Total Medals where Gold/Silver/Bronze are worth 5/2/1 or something

The latter was my first thought but the former works too.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Oskar
Prometheus

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Waluigi1 posted...

Yall sleeping on 12 Minutes!

Never heard of it until now, but looked it up and it looks interesting. Unfortunately I don't have an Xbone or Series X/S, and my PC is crap for games. But if it ever comes to PS5/4 or Switch I'll probably give it a look.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

So I was thinking this morning, Whitney might be, for me personally, off the top of my head, the most physically attractive woman ever between BB/Survivor/TAR. If not she's easily top 5, bare minimum.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

swordz9 posted...

It was going to be Kena, but it got delayed into September

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

Kenri posted...

A couple years ago I overheard my niece mention Preston and I swear I felt my soul leave my body

This made me think of that time I discovered that a Youtuber I watch every now and then is the sister-in-law of someone I went to college with. Obviously mine is a more pleasant circumstance but, small world.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

UltimaterializerX posted...

David Hayter.

Did he ever actually post here? I know he Tweeted about the contest but for that to make him a B8er is a pretty big stretch.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens

From here on out Whitney definitely has the potential to be either the best or the worst character of the season. I'm really hoping it's best.

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darkx
Games beaten in 2021 - 30; Most recent - Shantae and the Seven Sirens