Board Thread:Survivor 33: Tibet/@comment-35635065-20180709183218

THIRTY EIGHT DAYS HOW DID I EVEN GET HERE WHAT

'''So let me just start out by saying that I quickly looked at the other two Rites of Passage before posting this and ho lee shit I wrote way too much. But guess what I’m going to STICK WITH IT enjoy the massive text block this was four and a half pages of Google Docs so enjoy the show.'''

'''Time to remember players that I never met and significantly more players that I do know. Best season ever awesome cast awesome people here we go'''

'''Jared: You were the first boot of the other tribe and I know nothing about you but I’d like to say that your mangatar has some awesome looking hair, and I can only hope that your real hair looks like that. That’s worth more than a first place prize on its own.'''

'''Shay: I sincerely really enjoyed talking to you whenever we did talk, even though we only talked once in a while and you weren’t around for a lot of the game time. I guess I was the only person you talked to super often, I really wish you weren’t a boot as early as you were but everyone was saying your name immediately and it was way too early to shake anything up. Everyone on OG Yangra was iconic and if this wasn’t Survivor that group would’ve made for an absolutely lit group chat of random people, as it did for a while until we started heading to tribals anyways. Hope we can reconnect at some point once the game comes to a close.'''

'''Aleks: Ever since you were sent home I’ve told every person who would listen just how robbed you were when you got voted out. Jenna being the absolute last person anyone would expect to have an idol, you went out entirely too soon and the chance to play this awesome game just got ripped away. You do have the distinction of the only person in the game I added on Discord to talk game with instead of on Facebook but that didn’t last nearly as long as it should have. And also you’re the first person I’ve met from Ukraine which is cool too. There better be a robbed returnee season at some point so you can come back with a vengeance and play the game you deserve to play.'''

'''Medha: You were another person I never met, but I always thought whenever I saw your name pop up that you had such a cool looking name and it’d be nice to meet you later on if you were there. Alas, you were not, and we didn’t get to meet. Maybe we’ll get to later on down the road.'''

'''Trey: Another person that I never met! The most that I’ve heard about you is from Jp after we swapped into a tribe together about how he almost went out but you went instead. Other than that I have nothing about you that I really know. Once the game ends maybe we can chat and actually know each other.'''

'''Emily: Emily, I never met you at all but I really really wanted to play with you and you got voted out. I rooted for you in the VL thing for EMBB8 the entire time you were there and you just seemed like such a super nice and chill person that I was so excited to actually play a game with. And then BOOM you were gone before I got that chance. Maybe we’ll suddenly end up in another game and then actually get to know each other you seem fantastic.'''

'''Jenna: Jenna, we talked so much during the start of the game but you never seemed super into the game unless your name was popping up. Talking to you was fun but no one ever expected you to pull out an idol and save yourself out of nowhere. You never seemed super invested so it caught everybody off guard, I figure you were in a ton of danger right after that tribal anyway and the swap could’ve been what saved you. But you didn’t manage to make it out of the swap alive. I really enjoyed playing with you when you were around, I think if you had the time to put toward the game entirely you could’ve been a way bigger player than you were. But people kept seeing you as an easy vote all along, I guess you couldn’t do a ton to stop it once it got to that point. We both seemed to be working all the time when we were on the tribe together but whenever you were around you were great to talk to.'''

'''Joey: The last of the people that I never met and know nothing about, from what I heard you effectively got screwed over by the swap and being in a minority against the former Yangra people. Hopefully you’ll get another shot at some point, it’s always a rough way to go when you can’t do much to stop your own demise. We didn’t meet at all but perhaps we can once the game comes to a close.'''

'''Karsten: Karsten, I hope you’ve managed to recover from that blindside by now, but we ended up going for one another by the time new Makalu actually ended up at a tribal council. Up to that point we had always had great conversations and you seemed like you had your head completely in the game. If the vote had gone the other way and you survived instead of me, I would not be shocked if you were writing your own rites of passage here. You seemed like you had complete control up until you were flipped on, you seemed to have an idea of what was happening in every corner of not only your new tribe, but even new Makalu for the short time we were there. Had I not been tipped off to you wanting me gone I probably would’ve just naively voted Marty like we had intended to, but the tides turned and you ended up gone because of it. It’s always tough for big strategic players to coexist so I figured we wouldn’t be in the game together for long regardless, but even the games and such, your insanely high scores just pushed me to do way better than I would’ve otherwise. Once the game ends we’ve gotta talk more I seriously think had you lived you would’ve gotten here yourself.'''

'''Drew: Drew, we did not talk enough in premerge but we more than made up for it immediately when we got closer at the merge. You are one of the sweetest people that I’ve met in this community and I loved that we actually got to communicate with each other and get to know one another before you ended up rocking yourself out. In the moment of us going to rocks I was pretty annoyed at you for having caused the thing to happen, but since then I’ve just looked back and laughed at the situation as a whole and how everything just flipped around enough for votes to end up in that spot to begin with. Part of me feels bad for you going out like that, but the other just knows you did it to yourself. I can’t do this without mentioning one of my favorite things that happened in this game: immediately after drunkenly making a final 2 with me, I mentioned being bi and just how excited you were about it really just lifted my spirits. It may have seemed like nothing really at the time but to me it just meant loads, it isn’t something I’m super loud and proud about necessarily but I love the support from people whenever it does get brought up. Even though the tribal we went through where you went out we sort of drifted away game-wise, I really cannot wait to hear from you later on, you’re such a genuine person and I’m pretty lucky that we got to meet through the game even though the closeness was just for a short time before you disappeared.'''

'''Tyler: Tyler why did you have to go out when you did I needed you there to just vent to about the game and you disappeared. I had to play it so cool after you were voted off and be like “oh yeah we weren’t that close it’s fine” but I WAS SO MAD. Early on in the game I kept thinking you were ignoring me all of the time because I would keep seeing you online but not reading my messages, but I found out from you that it’s just Facebook being dumb and I totally understood. This is still my first Facebook org so the whole thing was an adjustment for me in the first place, but right around merge we went from just being friends on the original Yangra to being very super close and trying to help each other know what was happening on each side of the game, while keeping each other safe too. I inadvertently caused rocks by not wanting to vote you off, so when you went out right after it stung a bit more too. The absolute insanity of this game was made a bit less insane when we got to freak out together about the crazy tribals that we went through. We better talk a lot once this game is done we got cut off from each other way too soon.'''

'''Pory: Pory, we became basically rivals of sorts toward the end of your time in the game, but before everything was just cut off, whenever we talked I absolutely enjoyed it. The amount of alliance chats that you made in this game, not even just with me in it but in general with everyone else, is just insane to me, I couldn’t even imagine keeping track of that much stuff at once and you just kept making more and more new groups of new selections of people to end up voting in a completely different way altogether. It was absolutely WILD but you ended up in one of the better spots for quite some time because of it. It was so tough trying to push for you to go but it turned out you couldn’t stick around forever. Because of you though I’m super excited to try a Discord org at some point, you kept mentioning how the format was so much smoother and I’m excited to try it out sometime since I use Discord more than anything else typically. I know we cut each other off message wise toward the end of the game but we’ll have to catch up after everything comes to a close.'''

'''Marty: Marty, we rode strong for this entire game together until everything collapsed upon itself and we had to gun for each other. But getting to know you and stick close to you throughout this game has been a fantastic experience, you were the only person on original Yangra that I felt an immediate connection to that I knew would lead to us working together for the long haul. We ran through Yangra, we surviving being minority on new Makalu, and we had a great thing going into the merge as well. It truly was a bummer when you did turn because it really caught me completely off guard, not because I didn’t see it coming but I just didn’t want it to actually be true that it was happening to begin with. We had a tiny bit of a big fight after you flipped but we moved past that even though you went immediately afterward. I really did not blame you for wanting to make bigger moves, it’s a game I totally get it, I really do miss talking to you and the connection we made in the game from the start. We’ll talk more later on for sure, by some miracle your Snapchat score is higher over a few months than mine over a few years so I can’t imagine it’ll be too tough to keep up.'''

'''Vincent: Vincent, you are such a great guy to talk to about anything at all other than the game itself. Our game conversations typically had no bearing on anything that was actually happening, which was a bit annoying but whenever it wasn’t about the game we had fun and interesting talks that I enjoyed a lot. It’s just that we ended up on opposite ends of the game yet had to keep acting as if there was some sort of trust at all between the two of us, which we know there wasn’t really at all. I feel like I don’t know you super well though we really had the shortest time together overall in the game excluding Karsten and people I didn’t play with, and we didn’t communicate tons during it. We’ll definitely have to make up for that once we wrap up the season.'''

'''Lexi: Lexi, I sincerely wanted to work with you from the very start of this game but for the entire merge we couldn’t seem to manage a single vote in which we were on the same side of things. You’re a terrific girl who was fun to have around as somehow the only girl left in a game full of guys at the merge, whenever we talked I loved the actual normal conversations we would have out of nowhere but whenever it turned to game it became a bit rougher, since I just knew we wouldn’t end up voting together regardless. You were actually the one who inadvertently tipped me off at the first merge tribal that Seamus wasn’t actually the vote, I could pretty much immediately tell that you were lying to me about it because of how quickly you ended the conversation and everything. You kept being a target for quite some time but we at least kept talking about just life and stuff even when we knew we would eventually just end up targeting each other. I don’t know where you kept hearing your name from that instinctively made you vote me, but I knew after a short while that we wouldn’t be close in the game like we could be outside of it. We totally should be outside of it though once the game ends.'''

'''Seamus: Seamus, we became close right away as soon as I came to you wanting to save you and found out you weren’t in danger in the first place. I just wish you weren’t so damn big of a threat that I could’ve just kept you in. We completely missed talking to each other in both of the other games we were somehow in together, but I realized that I missed out on an absolute gem of a person all that time. We carried the selfie competition, we made votes within votes within votes all through merge, and we could just stop talking game too and just chill for a bit and talk about life and whatnot. Truly one of my favorite funny moments of the game was landing from my flight and immediately being spammed with octopus emojis and watching my phone just blow up, as the other Facebook novice in the game had learned how to change and send emojis in chats and decided to just blow my chat up. You’re a charismatic and funny dude and I really was sad having to vote you off but I knew that you’d beat every single person in this game had you gotten too far, and I figure you know that too. I’ll see you on the outside of the game dude, it’s been real and it’s been fun, it’s been real fun.'''

'''Damien: Damien, we never had the absolute greatest super close connection but when it came down to it, we both knew what was best for each of our games all throughout and stuck with it at every turn, whether it was together or against each other. The two of us ending up in firemaking was almost poetic as it seemed neither of us were able to manage to get the other out earlier on even though I had aimed to have you gone much earlier in merge, and you had tried to flip on me a few times too, it was a crazy roller coaster of a relationship that we had but I respect the hell out of you and the game you played. How close we ended up in the firemaking had me beyond nervous and I’m still somewhat amazed I made it out alive but we knew that both of us would fight to the end if we had to, which is exactly what we did. The amount of moves we as a collective ended up involved in during this whole adventure was pretty crazy, and I’m glad that we got to meet as a result of this game you’re one of the most relaxed people I’ve met and one of the better players I’ve gotten to see play in orgs in general. We’ll catch up once the game is done for sure.'''  