#16th-colin

colin what are you typing big guy

😭

My empty confessional was that interesting, you know just writing an essay about the crazy action so far

AHHH We're here, and I'm pumped. I don't play all the time, so it's really exciting to get to play.

Which is why I'm so PEEVED that the game is basically being delayed a day 😭 like I'm itching to go here!

So my name is Colin, I really doubt I'm too well-known by the specs here. I watched a wee fishpog play his first ORG?! I think it was at least. He struck out because he's a goober, and after he witnessed for the first of many times me being a tubular fruitcake, flash forward a few years, and I'm here.

I play bi-yearly at this point, and the last two times my game fell apart similarly and without the frequency that downfall has been ringing in my ears.

Build a stupid tight night one ally -> Get swapped away from them all pre-merge -> Believe they distrust me at the merge and cause a self-fulfilling prophecy -> Be convinced to eliminate/drop them (@Fio) -> Go home as a social threat with a shaky strategic the very next round.

The good news is that because there are no one-on-ones tonight, there will be no tight night one allies, so I picked the right ORG to redeem my mistakes, which shows that I'm a strategic mastermind.

I also think that my all-social, no-strategic style could be an issue as it's a typical pitfall for me. Maybe at times I need to learn to be less afraid to be Curt with people 😏. I picked Curt cause he is my favorite villager, for the record, not to guide my strategy, but I think I talk in circles and am afraid to offend; maybe I'll come off less threatening if I get a little curt about my ideas now and then.

I also appreciate the vibe of knowing people less than my last season, because last time I competed in the all-stars of the only ORG that I have any presence or reputation in. Dallas is the exception. I'm going to try not to think about it or bring it up to him at all, like let's pretend we have no history Dallas has probably had to do that many times anyway (maybe I need to read his ORG Manifesto thing again to see what he would like me to do lowkey). Plus I'd also hate to give him a bad time when it's Roald's time to shine.

Update: According to Dallas my strategy is F tier 😔

Oh well I'm doing it anyways 😭

He's going to see this and be like wow I'm still rent-free in Colin's head

Which like 15% true 85% nothing else is going on

So I'm yapping about whatever I can

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Like are these S1 flops going to say anything

Or are we all blindvoting here

Like I so bad wanna be like

🤓

Hey guys

🤓 Lets break the ice we each say two truths and two truths and a lie 🤓

But they'll vote me out first if I do that

I didn’t realize Tully was an Aussie

So I was like WOAHAHAHA you’re still in school

Now I look so try hard

Still Swift connection so Imma try to be on his tribe

Maybe put on my swift playlist at some point

Mission accomplished

Yep first pick that’s what I thought 😎 😎 😎 😎

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I've been using the slang from this in other orgs and people look at me like I'm insane

Guys should I half-read this challenge? 😏

Seems really cool I’m excited but also scared lol

When fishpog lies

I'm literally going home I'm getting the minimum practical score

I have zero clue what to do next, and half the tribe is not on when I am

TDAY-IOTD-2642

TDAY-IOTD-2642

TDAY-IOTD-2642 TDAY-AOFE-9704

Imdumb

😭

!plant oak

Again 😭

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I kinda wanna answer tribal council questions like a real Survivor player all season 😭

NO ONES SAYING YOU SHOULDNT

JUST LETTING YOU KNOW

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The Peach kitchen has been slow-moving; we are slow-cooking a Peach Cobbler to ship off to the Pears. This is not a raw decision. The way Tully drafted the tribe, I believe, is a major influence on the game speed. Tully drafted me first because I strategically played Taylor Swift music like the Mastermind I am.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7FmYn9e7KHMXcxqGSj9LjH

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Tully then picked his timezone neighbors, which gives him the best chance to build a social foundation early on; it's a totally understandable strategy, but I have described this as a day/night shift tribe dynamic. The Aussies/Vanuatuans and Americans only have a certain overlap to chat, and we are split in that way 3-3. I have somewhat let this seep into my opening game talks with Garrett and Carlee, as it's an interesting point to bring up that also subconsciously could make them feel a need to work with me. My goal is not to actually make a war over time zones, but rather as a strategic segue to legitimate discussion.

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The challenge was super awesome and high effort. Almost too hard a hurdle at the start because I could not figure out an early step that blocked access to everything else. I even got a headache from it all last night, but I went on a rampage in the final three hours and turned out to have one of the better scores and a new understanding of semaphore flags. However, based on a poll later in the journey and seeing only Pizzaman, Garrett, and me reach that from my tribe, I knew we were doomed.

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I do not think I have gotten the most social time in, especially with the Australian players, which I do not see fully as a timezone thing. For instance, Pizzaman's preferred mode of communication is reacts, which I am unaware he does and think he forgot to take his real message out of the pizza oven. Francisca has been feeling under the weather.

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Garrett has been the person I've been in the most consistent kahoots with from the start. A former Masshole himself, granted, I don't know if it's appropriate to bestow that on 8-year-old Garrett, but we have spliced personal and strategic well. After we carried the tribe in the challenge, we agreed to work together and protect each other, devising a strategy to let someone else pick between the non-boat rocking players since we hypothesized that Maddy would be booted by Apple and Pear for racking up a strike. Thus, our vote-out will stay in the game and be able to blab intel. We concluded we do not want our names attached, so we want someone to pick between Pizzaman, Carlee, and Francisca for us.

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I already wanted to find ways to push Pizzaman even though Garrett wanted us to be quiet, but Tully and I finally had time to chat, and they were quickly upfront about finding Pizzaman an inactive and easy boot. We picked up in the chat like we were destined to, having wonderful banter.

oh you stunner

wait why is colin cooking

@Colin [S2] i love your sheets

Ts so cute

What part of the game does he like 😑

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We served a pizza to go and eliminated Pizzaman. I would mourn him, but I'm kicking dirt on his grave, one because he is not actually six feet under he is just a much worse fruit now. Second, he did not try to stay, and not in like an "oopsies I'm new and helpless way", but a "I'm about to do my best Pagong Tribe impression and not coordinate votes". Nobody I have talked to even seems to know how he landed on Carlee for his vote. He had a pretty best-case scenario. He had one of the better challenge scores and timezone majors, but it still was an easy boot. The one thing I will give him is that his age could have caused obstacles.

He also seemed pissed I didn't know how to cook pizza 🍕 😭

If we lose again, Francisca is for sure my target because I have something very intentional running with my other three relationships.

For Garrett, he is the guy I am bouncing ideas off of strategically for us. It's all business. We clicked early on and felt a kinship after we stood out for our challenge scores. I doubt he is my ride-or-die to the end, but for now he is a crucial person for me to consider things with. He is my most covert relationship; I do not mention him to others.

\- Garrett

Carlee, I am taking on a mentor role because I am a narcissist. I do not believe myself to be the next coming of Tony Vlachos, but I have played and hosted quite a few of these. Plus, despite attempted slander in my 1-1s from fishpog, my last win was only six ORGs ago. Anywho, Carlee, I can point to facets of how ORGS work out to build trust and dependence, but we also share a closer personal bond, as we banter and have fun over driving, pizza, etc. I do want to gauge if she trusts me or Tully more.

\- Carlee (the vibe)

(the guru vibe)

Tully and I are bonded through being the first off his draft board and our Swiftie bond, which has allowed us, without too much foundation, to move strategically together. However, as he was the one who bluntly got the ball rolling on Pizzaman, I am treating him as my public bestie to shield my strategic positioning. A. To be covert with other relationships. B. He is an alumnus. C. He picked me first. D. Since he is so out in front strategically on first impression.

\- I said in reference to Tully

\-Tully very early in our chat last night

is that a scooter

A telescope 😭

@Colin [S2] COLIN TURN ON THE LIVE FEEDS JASON IS DOING TOMFOOLERY

I mean as he should after yesterday

https://klipy.com/gifs/looking-back-jim

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Wait that was Fuggles the whole time 😭

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We won the Scavenger Hunt, and I got a few big-ticket items for the tribe! Well, at first I only got a bunch of one-pointers.

But fishpog made me build a telescope that I was gifted fifteen years ago, and I used a Monopoly ship in a Poland Spring bottle to get a ship in a bottle.

The Scavenger Hunt is like my favorite ORG challenge, but the Apple and Pear tribes are so lame because they went yawn boring. I'd rather kick rocks (which maybe they are now, given the twist) and go girl give us nothinged the whole challenge. Either way, we win, and because of the twist, we will be getting paid as well.

I was mindless on my first money collection, going for the rock thinking the cooldowns were separate, but now I figured out the math by using expected value and probabilities.

🤓

So this tells me right now that I should Shake and Bake. I also intend to go for the Golden Watering Can, as then I can make 1800 bells a day and get an ROI in just 4.5 days.

Tribe dynamics are becoming interesting; my top three on the trust rankings are practically interchangeable, and due to recent events, I think I can knock #4 off the board easily if need be.

Tully came up to me the other night asking who I felt good with, and based on a previous interaction where they mentioned talking to Carlee about the Pizzaman vote, I threw out her name, and he clamped onto that. However, there have been timezone shenanigans, so there's been no official creation, which might be better for the timeline later down the line if information leaks.

This morning, though, Garrett and I talked through the challenge, and after some, like, stiffer days, we got into a flow. He wanted to create a trio, and we ran through each member of the tribe. I shot down Francisca quickly because I have virtually no relationship with her, and we debated between Carlee and Tully. Tully is a bigger shield since he drove the Pizzaman vote and has S1 connections, although the latter is a double-edged sword. Thus, Garrett landed on Carlee as the safer, more moldable option, and we created an alliance called #spidey-and-the-fossilized-uncs as we are the older members of Peach. Garrett made all the pitches, yet I made sure to let Carlee know it was coming, and now we are situated between two trios. I will talk with her later about how we want to navigate this information; I'd want us to leak or stay silent together.

I also told Garrett and Tully about this in our chats this morning since its info that will get around eventually so you might as well build trust now especially since it seems they wanted to go full throttle on bottle before I shared this

lowercase please

Amendment violations are grave FISHPOG

LOWERCASE!!!!

tyty

OK but nothing about the constitutional violation

shut the fuck up thats all i have to say.

- Lowkey not much to update most of the important things happening yesterday were captured in the morning

OK SCREW ME FOR BEING MATHEMATICALLY OPTIMAL

EVERYONE GETTING THEIR BOTTLES TO HIT

https://klipy.com/gifs/arthur-fist

😇

😇

fishpog can I get more 😇

Leave Sam #ColinsClub alone!

"I had the best time on the cast, and we still lost by a mile? What the- oh my god. And now everyone likes me. Like, I have so many problems going on, and I'm still not home." - Colin said calmly.

I am absolutely not thrilled that we lost because over the course of yesterday I went from having a detached person I could boot to now being forced into voting off somebody who views me as a close ally.

Francisca had been sick, and some days had passed since we had a real conversation, but yesterday we entered back into a flow, and I was pumped because I'm like, wait, this could be a long-term thing. But now that I have two trios that encompass everyone else on the tribe, I am hard-pressed to want to save them. That is even though they seemed to have sent me the most pointed messages out of anybody of trust to me, however, I have other relationships and alliances situated and there is nothing to suggest I should burn social capital to save her, which I am very down about, but it must be done and I am tasked with being the distraction for her when she wakes up.

\- Francisca correcting my math

\- Francisca

\- Francisca

Garrett has been concerning for me in the sense that we were having some really dry conversations, like, wow, this challenge sure is challenging, this vote sure is voting, this day sure is daying. For days on end, and I even considered if I should move forward with him as an ally. However, I have the most open, deep strategic conversations with him, even if I hide the Carlee/Tully trio from him. So for now I do trust him, and I made sure to keep the vote off of him between Francisca and him.

Dryrett and Drylin

\- Garrett to Carlee and I. A strategy we are going for at the swap.

Carlee and I are sort of in a central position, and I was ready to declare them as my number one, but during this strategic deliberation, they've been giving minimal answers and have been hard to gauge fully. It has made me question their dependability going forward, and the challenge score was, of course, frustrating. But I want to have them around I do not know if their performance this round indicates they are eagle-eared to my ideas or despondent.

Tully, I have had my opinions changed on the least, they are like Garrett upfront with strategy, and I was happy to convince them quickly into the Francisca vote and to form the trio between Carlee, him, and me, which has been hanging in the balance lately.

\- Tully (also wants everyone to vote which I do not fully want most likely me or Garrett don't vote)

Still can't believe I had the best time by almost a full minute; I stand by the fact that people are sandbagging because no way 😭

Also, can I just say I hope we can parry the Pear's rudeness? Like, I'm ready to bring out my inner Rome Seymour and protect the betas and submissives cause like they are so nasty 🙄 When Pizzaman was voted out a second time, Chris O. and Snubbs reacted with fire emojis. Like, Peach also had no hesitation to vote him off, but he's 14 and playing his first ORG, and like we empathize with his struggle of being voted out in Episodes 1 and 2. Universally, we all felt bad, and nobody has pointed it out in my talks today yet, but after Carlee tanked our score, in the results reacts Snubbs did a 🟰 ☠️ chain, and both he and Dallas laughed at it. Joke's on them; Carlee is not ☠️ And if I have anything to say about it, Snubbs, Chris O, and Dallas are dead at the swap for going after my people, with Snubbs as the primary target.

im sick.

Yeah have never been so legitimately blindsided in an ORG

I DID NOT see that coming whatsoever

Guys I gotta know what happened 💀

This is such a bummer though owns dude

@- unbiased orgs @- big T can I explain

Idk

yes

he has trusted spec now

Oh

Nevermind he can find it himself then

Was a little too literally Rome Seymour 😭

thank you colin!

could you enlighten us as to why?

he was #1 on your TRs!

😔 Maybe he should of acted like it then

#colinsclub