Board Thread:Season 38: Rhineland/@comment-29634152-20190325163352/@comment-35910691-20190327040441

Hiya Anna. Loved playing this game with you and you know that. All of the points you raised and brought up in your video were completely valid and I’m not hurt, offended or whatever. Your perspective on my game is correct. You want to talk about a move I made in this game without you…and I cannot do that. We played this game together for 10 rounds and for 10 rounds I felt like we had an equal partnership. But after listening to your jury video, I can see it’s not the case. All the discussions we had, all the calls we made, I felt like we were making decisions together in this game. I knew you were the better player and the largest threat in the game by far and I stuck with you. Clearly, everyone in the merge (minus willow maybe) had a much better social game than me, so any moves made would be credited to someone other than myself. Because I aligned with the big threats/names in the game (Felix, Miles, You) I faded into the background with nothing to show for it. Had I performed better socially and was more active, maybe I would have a chance to make a move or claim something to my name, but I didn’t. Your second question for me, is wanting for me to talk about my social game and what I did and who I talked to. I will always be the first person to admit in this game that my social game was crap. I own it and accept that my lack of a social game is the reason I am not well-liked/favored in this FTC. You’re right, the people I talked to most were you and Felix and that’s because I clicked the most with you two. After that I did have conversations with Miles(on and off mostly, but still had them), Nora and Willow, and early merge with Thomas, but he was gone too soon for it to make a major impact. I talked mostly with individuals who I felt I could vibe with the most/would be beneficial for me to possibly work with in the game. My social game as a whole was lacking though. I explained in Chelsea’s thread on why it was the case and why it led to me choosing the safe options. Because I became content with my early allies, I didn’t do much because I felt safe and was happy, I could be allied with people I liked. Ultimately because I became content and went with the easy option, my effort was not always visible and was not portrayed as  a possible contender in the game, and I have no one to blame but myself.

I do want to comment on Nora’s responses to you though. She mentioned how she only lied when necessary and didn’t lie too much. I want to call bullshit on that. For the early rounds of the merge, I would talk to Nora about the game/vote and I would give her info I was hearing. I would be honest with her and give most of what I knew and who was likely the target, etc. and I had hoped that she would be honest in return and it could establish an open and working game relationship. I wanted to attempt to work with Nora in this game, yet she seemed like she didn’t want to put forth the same effort. Even when I gave her correct names and thoughts, she would send back fluff and brush it off. I would attempt something similar the next round and the same results occurred. She mentioned how it was more like “not giving information” and felt the need that she would need to restrict any information from me in the game. I even called her out in PM’s around the F8/F7 about why she would never try and include me in any plans or strategy talks and her response was some kind of bullshit about the alliance being tight and decimating the minority and blah blah blah. AKA a whole load of shit. Even in the late stages of the game from F7 onwards, she still withheld information while I was honest, and it was frankly unnecessary as fuck. Those late stages of the game, where it was blatantly obvious who were big threats in the game and who needed to get sent home, she still felt like lying to me and trying to keep me in the dark, even though I knew what was always knew the plan and who was going to go home. She talked about how she kept her options opened and let people know that they could rely on her, and that is just crap. If she kept options open with me and tried to work with me instead of the constant lying, maybe something could have been done.

Anna thank you for your video and I appreciate you. Your points were valid, and I hope my responses here can sway you in favor of voting for me. Thanks