Post by Jason Guy on Oct 3, 2015 21:12:32 GMT
Oh boy y'all do I have a lot to say about what happened in the past few days. Sorry again for the late confessional, but I really did plan on writing one a few nights but the blindside and shifting that happened really threw me off and has totally shaken this game to the core and I wanted to get all the information before I shared my full thoughts. I'm a "sit and process" kind of guy, not really a spill it all out at once kind of guy. Anyways, let's break this down.
In short: Jace turned on our alliance and voted out Angie instead of Nick.
The context behind his vote is that he found out about some shady things that Britney had been doing and used that as justification for voting along with Caleb, Renny, and Casey against Angie leaving myself and Britney to vote for Nick. To be completely honest, I knew that he wanted to keep Nick over Angie. After the POV ceremony, he basically told me that he'd prefer to vote out Angie because she was boring and not as fun. And I've always assumed he had some kind of connection with Nick since he constantly raves about him. I did assume, however that he wouldn't do so for the sake of our alliance because we seemed to have things pretty clearly under control in the game (albeit in an indirect way). Obviously I was wrong.
What upset me about this wasn't so much that Jace did the move, but that he did the move without even giving me so much of a heads up. No courtesy IM, no attempts at talking it through, nothing. And in the days leading up to the vote I felt like we were getting genuinely close as opposed to the faux "showmance" close we were before. He was complaining about how the game was so slow and boring and how we had this on lockdown and all that. So it was a shock that he would just blatantly leave me in the dark for this vote. So that was what really shook me about this whole thing. The conclusion I came to is that Jace clearly doesn't give a shit about me in this game on any level, and didn't feel one bit bad about blinsiding me. I mean, what else can I assume given that he had plenty of time to warn me in some way and just chose not to.
His excuse was that he was panicking and worried I'd tell Britney (I would have told Steve...and maybe Britney? idk), and that I was never online leading up to the vote. Which.....girl, please. My response was literally "you know that you can IM someone when they are offline, right?". That's such a bad excuse. I loved our conversations post-vote because he kept saying "you hate me!" like a hundred times and NOT ONCE did I go "no I don't hate you". I just changed the subject. I could tell it was killing him. Basically, no matter what he says or does I'm done with Jace at this point. As far as I'm concerned, he single-handedly tanked the alliance. I thought that it was always obvious that Britney and Jace had a lot of other things going on, but genuinely believe Britney had ultimate loyalty to us while it's pretty clear now that Jace did not. So he takes the blame, nobody else.
The rest of the players in the game I can't even be mad at, it was a great move for them. I've talked things out with Nick, and given him my perspective on why I voted for him. I had valid reasons (he's a threat, could potentially align with Victoria) and I tried my best to be upfront and not fake with him. I think he respected it. Same with Casey and Renny, I've at least gotten back to a decent spot with them socially. In Casey's case we had no strategic stakes in our relationship to begin with so it was fairly easy to smooth things over. It's been made clear to me that the five of them have some kind of agreement and that myself, Brit, and Steve are sitting on the outside. I don't know how close they all are in reality, but for at least this week we are Public Enemy #1.
Britney and Steve did not take it well....at all. Britney proceeded to just openly antagonize multiple people (Nick especially), and has since become the house target I believe. I think this could actually work in her favor because if Steve or I are sitting with her on eviction she could get them to take us out as threats and keep her as a goat/useless type of player. But I'm hoping they'll evict her. Steve just kind of snapped. After Renny won HoH, he proceeded to completely panic and threaten her and shit. Called her Christine for siding with the four guys and doing what they wanted by nominating him. It was not good. Quite frankly, neither are exactly in a great spot for me to work with them. Steve is my guy, but boy did he shoot himself in the foot there.
Moving forward, I have two distinct paths I can take. And I'm honestly conflicted on which way to go. One is the more logical, strategic, Jason way to go. And the ohter is the more ballsy, entertaining, and feisty way. And I don't know which way I want to go.
The first way is the safe way. I think of the three of us down in numbers I'm come off as the least threatening somehow (unless they are fooling me? IDK) since I stayed off the block so far this week. I think people think I'm nice but dumb, not particularly well connected, or all that strategic. Which is beneficial for me to survive a few weeks. I think I could work hard to build some connections so that once Steve/Brit are gone I can become perhaps a swing vote/player. It would mean toning myself down, losing a challenge here and there, and really amping up the social game. In most situations, this is what I would do. It's my comfort zone, putting my head down and powering forward in a subtle, social way.
The second way is a lot more spicy. Basically, it would be me going balls to the wall. I'd win challenges, I'd call people out on their shit (specifically Jace), and I'd probably go home as soon as I lost a veto. But y'all don't even know how much I want to. These people aren't exactly my favorite. Most of them barely talk to me, are boring, or don't exist. I would LOVE to win the veto this week, call Renny on her bullshit nomination speech (in no way do Steve/Britney have any power) and force her to nominate one of the boys. Then I'd vote to evict said boy, win HoH and nominate Jace and give some scathing speech to him about it. He'd throw a fit. Obviously, this is all a fantasy and not actually smart. But boy it would be so much fun.
I don't know which way I'm going at this point. I think tonight's veto competition is really going to say a lot about how I move forward in this game. If I win, option two is going to be calling my name HARD. Same with next HoH, that will be very telling for me moving forward. I don't feel completely dead in the water but I do feel pretty defeated. So a win would do me good. We'll see which way I blow at this point, but it could be either one. Genuinely.
-JG
Jason Guy
In short: Jace turned on our alliance and voted out Angie instead of Nick.
The context behind his vote is that he found out about some shady things that Britney had been doing and used that as justification for voting along with Caleb, Renny, and Casey against Angie leaving myself and Britney to vote for Nick. To be completely honest, I knew that he wanted to keep Nick over Angie. After the POV ceremony, he basically told me that he'd prefer to vote out Angie because she was boring and not as fun. And I've always assumed he had some kind of connection with Nick since he constantly raves about him. I did assume, however that he wouldn't do so for the sake of our alliance because we seemed to have things pretty clearly under control in the game (albeit in an indirect way). Obviously I was wrong.
What upset me about this wasn't so much that Jace did the move, but that he did the move without even giving me so much of a heads up. No courtesy IM, no attempts at talking it through, nothing. And in the days leading up to the vote I felt like we were getting genuinely close as opposed to the faux "showmance" close we were before. He was complaining about how the game was so slow and boring and how we had this on lockdown and all that. So it was a shock that he would just blatantly leave me in the dark for this vote. So that was what really shook me about this whole thing. The conclusion I came to is that Jace clearly doesn't give a shit about me in this game on any level, and didn't feel one bit bad about blinsiding me. I mean, what else can I assume given that he had plenty of time to warn me in some way and just chose not to.
His excuse was that he was panicking and worried I'd tell Britney (I would have told Steve...and maybe Britney? idk), and that I was never online leading up to the vote. Which.....girl, please. My response was literally "you know that you can IM someone when they are offline, right?". That's such a bad excuse. I loved our conversations post-vote because he kept saying "you hate me!" like a hundred times and NOT ONCE did I go "no I don't hate you". I just changed the subject. I could tell it was killing him. Basically, no matter what he says or does I'm done with Jace at this point. As far as I'm concerned, he single-handedly tanked the alliance. I thought that it was always obvious that Britney and Jace had a lot of other things going on, but genuinely believe Britney had ultimate loyalty to us while it's pretty clear now that Jace did not. So he takes the blame, nobody else.
The rest of the players in the game I can't even be mad at, it was a great move for them. I've talked things out with Nick, and given him my perspective on why I voted for him. I had valid reasons (he's a threat, could potentially align with Victoria) and I tried my best to be upfront and not fake with him. I think he respected it. Same with Casey and Renny, I've at least gotten back to a decent spot with them socially. In Casey's case we had no strategic stakes in our relationship to begin with so it was fairly easy to smooth things over. It's been made clear to me that the five of them have some kind of agreement and that myself, Brit, and Steve are sitting on the outside. I don't know how close they all are in reality, but for at least this week we are Public Enemy #1.
Britney and Steve did not take it well....at all. Britney proceeded to just openly antagonize multiple people (Nick especially), and has since become the house target I believe. I think this could actually work in her favor because if Steve or I are sitting with her on eviction she could get them to take us out as threats and keep her as a goat/useless type of player. But I'm hoping they'll evict her. Steve just kind of snapped. After Renny won HoH, he proceeded to completely panic and threaten her and shit. Called her Christine for siding with the four guys and doing what they wanted by nominating him. It was not good. Quite frankly, neither are exactly in a great spot for me to work with them. Steve is my guy, but boy did he shoot himself in the foot there.
Moving forward, I have two distinct paths I can take. And I'm honestly conflicted on which way to go. One is the more logical, strategic, Jason way to go. And the ohter is the more ballsy, entertaining, and feisty way. And I don't know which way I want to go.
The first way is the safe way. I think of the three of us down in numbers I'm come off as the least threatening somehow (unless they are fooling me? IDK) since I stayed off the block so far this week. I think people think I'm nice but dumb, not particularly well connected, or all that strategic. Which is beneficial for me to survive a few weeks. I think I could work hard to build some connections so that once Steve/Brit are gone I can become perhaps a swing vote/player. It would mean toning myself down, losing a challenge here and there, and really amping up the social game. In most situations, this is what I would do. It's my comfort zone, putting my head down and powering forward in a subtle, social way.
The second way is a lot more spicy. Basically, it would be me going balls to the wall. I'd win challenges, I'd call people out on their shit (specifically Jace), and I'd probably go home as soon as I lost a veto. But y'all don't even know how much I want to. These people aren't exactly my favorite. Most of them barely talk to me, are boring, or don't exist. I would LOVE to win the veto this week, call Renny on her bullshit nomination speech (in no way do Steve/Britney have any power) and force her to nominate one of the boys. Then I'd vote to evict said boy, win HoH and nominate Jace and give some scathing speech to him about it. He'd throw a fit. Obviously, this is all a fantasy and not actually smart. But boy it would be so much fun.
I don't know which way I'm going at this point. I think tonight's veto competition is really going to say a lot about how I move forward in this game. If I win, option two is going to be calling my name HARD. Same with next HoH, that will be very telling for me moving forward. I don't feel completely dead in the water but I do feel pretty defeated. So a win would do me good. We'll see which way I blow at this point, but it could be either one. Genuinely.
-JG
Jason Guy
