Houseguests and viewers, we have reached the conclusion of our weird, wonderful Big Brother journey. In a moment I’ll begin our walk through the true identities of the nine players who were evicted this season. Then, we’ll announce the jury’s votes for the winner of Big Brother. But first, I want to sincerely thank everyone who participated in this game. This was my first time running a game of this length and magnitude on my own, and your patience and enthusiasm made it a great experience for me, and I hope all of you as well. Now, on to the reveals!
Joining me for this stroll down memory lane will be everyone’s favorite goofy old dude, Till Goldworthy!
TG: Hey there every one! Its Till here. What a crazy game this has been lol! I sure enjoyed the break from the Garden center and from Gloria. Just kidding honey!! Haha. I didn’t get as far as I would of liked to but I sure as heck had a fun time playing. I didnt think an old fogie like me would be able to keep up with all you young whippersnappers and boy was I right lol! Anyways I sure had fun sharing the house with all of you.
DK: Our first eviction of the season was Randy Boxer, and as you already know, it was a hard-hitting one, as Randy was former Survivor champion Zack Sauvageau. Randy seemed to have trouble getting solid connections made with other players at the outset, and that made him an easy target without long-term repercussions. As the two finalists show, it’s often good to lay low during the early stages of Big Brother, but you can’t lay too low.
TG: I wasn’t sure if Randy was really a boxer but he told me that was just his name but that he really liked boxes. I agreed that there pretty nice and Gloria has a really nice one for all her knitting stuff. For some reason Randy wanted me to send a picture of her box. Guess he must really like boxes. Nice fellow for sure.
DK: Another player whose lack of connections made him an appealing target was our second evictee, Corliss Blackbeard, who was probably most notable for his stalling tactics during the Veto challenge that aggravated the other players, as well as his entertainingly grandiose concession speech. Corliss was played by our only new CdL recruit of the season, Alex Kunau. My recollection is that Alex was brought in by one of the other players here, but someone may have to refresh me on what that link is.
TG: I didn’t get to talk to Corliss too much but I think he was a pirate. At least he would always walk around the house with a big foam pirates hat. One time he asked me if Id heard about the new pirate movie. I told him I wasn’t sure but then he told me “its rated ARRRRRRRR!!!” Oh boy did I laugh. He was a pretty neat guy.
DK: Our first juror, Gnopukindabak Crockett, experienced several BB tropes – falling from HoH one week to out the door the next, facing blowback from his surviving nominee (Kellifer) coming after him, and finding himself with fewer true allies than he may have thought he had. It seemed like the choice to evict him was a narrow one between him and one of our eventual finalists, Blimp, although the votes didn’t turn out that way. Although some other players somehow got it in their heads that Crockett was female, in truth he was everyone’s favorite vigilante, Bret Highum.
TG: For some reason I thought Gnopükindabak was a German name. Old Till can be kind of slow sometimes lol. He explained to me that it was a Indy Koosh name. He wanted to know why everyone kept calling him Davey and asking about his hat so I explained that Davey Crockett was an American patriot and wore a Coonskin hat. I’m sorry I could never pronounce your name right Mr. Crockett!
DK: Till Goldworthy was my favorite character this season, as Erik “hungry joe” Something committed to the daffy old guy bit from the get-go (although I originally got the name from a Hobbit name generator). Unfortunately, sticking to his character in the game longer than anyone else did opened the door for other players to foment suspicion of Till’s true motives among the Houseguests, as Till was a popular nomination option going as far back as Corliss’ eviction week. His eventual eviction week also saw the single biggest ModFail on my part with the utterly broken Veto challenge; if it’d been fixed, who knows who would have won, but I’m sorry about that, Till.
DK: Now we come to the first member of the alliance (self-styled the “War Pigs”) that controlled the first four evictions before it began to cannibalize itself: Orgulas Proudfoot. Orgulas was our first HoH, and his aggression and hard work dominated the early course of the game, until his fellow alliance members Meredith and Silver turned on him and helped send him out (although nearly everyone left in the game was involved to some extent). I don’t know if he’d consider himself the leader of the War Pigs, but he was definitely the chief of paranoia, including wondering if someone posting a random music list on a different site that included the song “War Pigs” was somehow sending a signal (it wasn’t). Who else could be this obsessive but our dear leader himself, Kelly Wells? The answer is no one.
TG: I must admit even though I live in Lebanon theres not a lot of diversity in my town. Oh and in case your wondering thats Lebanon Missouri lol! So it took a little getting use to to be in the house with 2 Indians. I always had to stop and think for a moment because my brain always wanted to called Mr. Proudfoot “Arugulas” LOL!! I enjoyed my talks with Mr. Proudfoot. He seemed a popular fellow as he was always whispering in the corner with someone. Great guy.
DK: Meredith Monstergumby was the next victim of the HoH-to-out effect, since Blimp took the groundwork Silver laid for him in the Poker Hands challenge and turned on the two former War Pigs himself. As one of our biggest true Big Brother devotees, I was never surprised to see Michael Rivet orchestrate a big move to take out Orgulas, nor was I shocked to see him the victim of someone else’s big move. Still, if he stuck to his original strategy of never winning challenges, he may have survived past this point.
TG: Gloria didn’t belive me at first that there was a monster in the house. She just thought Id had a nightmare after eating too much at the fish fry lol! Merry always said that she hadn’t learned good but I thought she was very articulate young lady.
DK: Kellifer Lumbermuffins was an important player to many players’ evolving strategies during the season and heading into the endgame, including Merry’s and Blimp’s, and also possibly Silver’s and Barnaby’s, but eventually his penalty nomination for non-submissions made him an easy target after Blimp’s Veto win. Colin Woolston had several life-events conflating at the same time, including closing on a house and a championship Play with the Prose campaign, so it was understandable that BB took a back seat. Still, I admit that with the players left I could easily have seen him in the finals if he hadn’t been in position to get evicted fifth (due to the penalty).
TG: When I saw there name on the sheet I thought Kellifer was a girl since Kelly is a girls name and I was surprised to find out he was a guy lol! I didn’t talk to Mr. Lumbermuffins that much but I sure do love muffins so he was alright in my book lol!
DK: El Burro Rosa, the fourth War Pig, joined up with Blimp and Barnaby after the disintegration of that alliance, and made it to fourth place after the epic Battleship Veto win by Barnaby led to him choosing her to evict (a move that, in my opinion, essentially guaranteed Barnaby’s spot in the finals). Though she’s not new to the site, this was Melissa Diamond’s first go-round in one of our big strategy games, and she acquitted herself well – fourth place is nothing to sneeze at. So everybody watch out for her in Survivor!
TG: I really enjoyed spending time with El Burro. He always made me laugh and laugh. He even took the time to send me some birthday wishes over the internet! Thats how you know someone really cares. Oh Burro Gloria wanted me to tell you “mi amor eterno para ti, mi amor” Whatever that means lol!
DK: I never made an “official” unofficial pick to win, but after the first couple weeks, I think Silver Berzerker would’ve been a good choice – he was secure in a strong alliance without being its dominant figure, he was influencing the direction the game went without being obvious, he was on working terms with basically everyone in the game, and he could win challenges. He mis-stepped when he handed the Poker Hands challenge to Blimp, but survived due, again, to his superior connections, and made it all the way to only the final challenge away from having a good shot to be the winner. If it’s any consolation, Erik Dikken, if we ever get to the point of having BB All-Stars, you’re already on the shortlist.
TG: To me it doesn’t matter if your white black brown red green pink gray or whatever but I didnt know that there would be some of each in the house lol! We could of made our own Noahs ark haha! It was a little scary sharing the house with both a monster AND a wolf but Silver was a nice guy for sure lol! I wish he would pick something besides Sinatra for karioke though.
DK: I didn’t write up much about the finalists yet myself, so I’ll let Till take it away here…
TG: Barnaby was always a quiet fellow. He was always off in the corner reading a book while Randy was detail his “exploits” or something but I always felt he was a nice guy. We didn’t talk so much except for exchanging tips on maintaining our mustaches but so I don’t have one anymore there wasn’t much I could add to the conversation lol! Still I’m glad he did so good this game because he seemed like such a nice fellow.
One of my favorite memories of the house was Gone With the Blimp and Corliss arguing all the time. Corliss would boast of his dominion of the sea with Blimp would laugh and laugh and call him land-lubber and Corliss would challenge him to fights for such “scurrilous a fronts”. But then they’d get drunk and sing air and sea chantys together. What a character lol!
Well, that’s about it for Old Till. I had a blast competing with everyone and I’m almost done with the Honeydew list Gloria made for me while I was gone. You all feel free to come visit me at the Garden Center anytime.
DK: Thank you very much, Till! Oh, here’s one fun fact about the finalists before we get to the Jury vote reveal: they’ve each been finalists in Survivor before, too. If you haven’t figured out who they are yet, you’ll find out in a moment, after we read the votes…
ORGULAS: This is an interesting final, in that both players spent considerable time on the outside of alliances and probably are less “in the know” than several of the players in the jury. That said, both had an idea about how they might get to the end, and both got there. However, Barnaby’s plea when he was up against me was, apparently, the first that a couple people had heard from him, or close to it. So, for me, the vote comes down to active vs. passive. Both players were passive at the outset, obstensibly by design, but Blimp relied on himself and made a great move to nominate his perceived (and probably actual) biggest threats, Merry and Silver. Meanwhile, most of what Barnaby did amounts to waiting it out and hanging on to Silver. That’s definitely a way to get there, but I just can’t allow myself to vote in favor of a game that looked to rely on others all the way through. VOTE: GONE WITH THE BLIMP
SILVER: My vote is for Barnaby. While Blimp may have had a better strategic game, this vote comes for a few reasons. Never at any point in the game was Barnaby in danger of being voted out. He was both unthreatening and well connected at the same time. He may not have been the guy making the decisions, but he was certainly in the right places at all the right times. I respect the moves that Blimp made when he made them, but he still stabbed me in the back twice. That’s just poor jury management.
MERRY: Congratulations to both of the finalists, I think you both played a good game to get to the end. However I do believe one of you played a slightly better Big Brother game to make it to the Final 2 and that person is Barnaby Winstringham. He set up several alliances, made the right call on when to ditch them (including on when to ditch Blimp) and as a result ensured he would make it to the Final 2 with minimal blood on his hands. That is what Big Brother is all about and that is why he is getting my vote to win this game.
BURRO: Vote Blimp
Based on jury answers, your games were very similar…except that Blimp was coming off as a little cocky. This had me wanting to vote for Barnaby at first, but then I realized…Blimp’s game seemed more thought out. And I have to admit that, while playing with him in the final games, I came to really like him and found him to be a fair and enthusiastic player. He screwed me over once or twice, but he was honest about it. When he made a promise to me, he kept it. So, there you go.
CROCKETT: To decide between two players that played similar games (quiet and non-threatening early, more involved and scheming as the game went on) is difficult. I’ll go with the one that took a few more risks and won challenges when it really counted at the end.
My vote is for Gone With the Blimp to be the winner of Big Brother. Well played, Captain.
TILL: By a razor thin margin I’m going to give my vote to Blimp. Both played relatively similar games but it just seems to me that Blimp was a bit more in control of his own destiny. Good game all.
By a vote of 4 to…2,
Will “Barnaby Winstringham” Young is the runner-up to
THE WINNER OF CDL BIG BROTHER I, BROOKS “GONE WITH THE BLIMP” MAKI
I guess Kellifer abstained, or something. That pretty much brings this game full circle.
As far as our winner goes, what could I possibly say that hasn’t already been said? Brooks wins everything, and now everything includes Big Brother. For Will, it’s another close, second-place finish…one of these days he’ll get over the hump, since he clearly knows what it takes to get to the end of these games.
Thank you all again for playing, and those who were watching, thank you guys for following along as well. If you’re interested in seeing my chart of the game, that’s located here, and my notes document following the course of the game is located here. UPDATE: And the jury house is right here.
Congratulations, Brooks. There’s no easy term like “Sole Survivor” for Big Brother winners, but whatever it would be, you’re now it.
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June 10, 2013 at 12:24 am
kg2005
Holy shit, Barnaby. Holy shit.
June 10, 2013 at 12:30 am
daneekasghost
I’m the biggest brother!
I had tons of fun in this game. Thanks to DK for running it and everyone who played for making it a good time.
June 10, 2013 at 12:31 am
daneekasghost
except that Blimp was coming off as a little cocky.
Burro misspelled “humble”, can we get that fixed?
June 10, 2013 at 12:36 am
mbnovak
Congrats Brooks. Feel free to nonsub the Fiction 59 tomorrow.
June 10, 2013 at 12:47 am
spookymilk
I spent a f*^kload of time worrying about Novak in this game, and he didn’t even play it (which I realized after I learned he wasn’t Silver).
Brooks as Blimp came together for me just a few nights ago. Will as Barnaby actually hit me today, because I was obsessively cycling through names, wondering who was left that had to be playing.
DK, excellent job all around – well-paced, well-spoken, well-run and well-written.
I find it endlessly hilarious that Brooks isn’t just good, he’s also lucky. We let Brooks, of all people, slip through when Crockett was eliminated. Sorry, Bret. If only we’d known, we would have saved you for sixth place.
War Pigs – working with you was wonderful, then horrible, and in retrospect wonderful again. We should have gone about it differently, but hey, there’s a learning experience. I couldn’t play this one any other way and it was important to me to work to get us all there, but it ended up being my liability, and I always knew that was possible.
Jury Room – guys, that debate and conversation was loads of fun.
Dikken, your game was scary good. I was scared shitless of taking you much further. Getting rid of me when you did definitely ended our group’s chances in the end, but it’s true that I was going to work against you soon (I’d planned for it at six). You were far too much like…a winner, and I’ve seen a lot of winners up close.
Colin…Colin. What the fuck, man.
This was one of the weirdest games we’ve ever seen here. Maybe it followed a Big Brother blueprint, but it definitely didn’t feel like what I’m used to. This isn’t a criticism of the game. I’m just absolutely stunned out of my ballsack that Blimp and Barnaby were both there at the end. I always thought one of them would be, but never saw this coming.
June 10, 2013 at 1:01 am
dkautz
I’ve probably said this to a few different people already, but I thought this final two was actually a very Big Brothery final two. Alliances the size of the War Pigs almost never succeed in Big Brother, unless they are extremely careful to keep themselves hidden and together (i.e. the Brigade in BB12, and even they tossed out one of their own halfway through). Usually either the rest of the house finds them out and bands together against them, or they turn on each other early like you guys did.
There are cases of players who’ve survived the demise of large alliances in BB to make it to the end and win, often by participating in turning against those alliances, but in BB it’s almost always better to be part of a really solid pair, or two pairs, than to be in an alliance for too long with greater numbers.
June 10, 2013 at 1:21 am
spookymilk
I realized that a large group was probably a bad idea about two weeks after I became part of a large group.
Still, we could have won, if we’d decided to. I never lied when I was going down – I told the War Pigs they were probably toast if they threw me there, and I meant it (although I did have a nagging sensation that Silver could win, and didn’t say so because it wouldn’t have helped the argument any).
I had a lot of things right about characters in this game, but until the last week and a half, had VERY little correct about players. Unfortunately, my ideas about who was which character screwed with my mind, as much as I tried not to let it.
This shit is hard, dudes.
June 10, 2013 at 1:26 am
kg2005
We absolutely could have made it to the final four if we wanted to. I don’t think that group was a bad idea. Between the four of us we ran the game for the first five eliminations. And I think we hid ourselves well. People could probably figure out that some of us were working together, but I doubt any of them put together that it was the four of us.
June 10, 2013 at 1:36 am
mbnovak
Just watching from the outside, it really seemed like there were so many more opportunities for things to fracture.
June 10, 2013 at 1:37 am
kg2005
Oh, right. DK isn’t wrong. That “If we wanted to” qualifier was a big one. But I still don’t think it was a bad idea.
June 10, 2013 at 1:40 am
mbnovak
I will admit being a little surprised it broke up quite as quickly as it did.
June 10, 2013 at 1:44 am
daneekasghost
**waggles eyebrows mysteriously**
June 10, 2013 at 2:08 am
spookymilk
I saw how it was a bad idea on the show, but not necessarily here. You can hide much easier online. We can go off talking with nobody knowing.
June 10, 2013 at 1:35 am
mbnovak
Oh yeah… at a certain point in XI I just totally stopped thinking about who was who, because it was driving me crazy.
June 10, 2013 at 1:14 am
mbnovak
I came sooooo close to responding to your e-mail the night of your elimination before catching myself, and remembering you still had to not know identities.
June 10, 2013 at 5:59 pm
Grey
What?!?
June 10, 2013 at 12:51 am
nibbish
Fun game to watch. It felt weird to not play, but the idea of this roster at the top of their games terrifies me.
Congrats, Brooks. Great games by lots of you folk.
June 10, 2013 at 12:57 am
kg2005
I started to figure out Brooks at the end of the game. I thought there was no way he’d play the game at the start the way he did, but his personality really started to shine through at the end.
Holy shit, Will. Holy shit.
I figured Colin out about half way through the game. It’s pretty hilarious in retrospect. I got really paranoid about him because he sent me an email acknowledging that Merry and I were the front runners at the time. I told Merry about it, knowing that Colin was perfectly capable of turning on usk. Merry laughed at me and said “This is Carla Fudgepillows, right?”. Then Colin went on to prove him correct by non-subbing twice.
June 10, 2013 at 7:29 am
todahshy
I remember the Kellifer/Carla convo… good times. I look forward to next anonymous game where we can team up again! Third times the charm!
June 10, 2013 at 10:10 am
kg2005
Meh. Twice is enough. I think people have caught on to us by now.
June 10, 2013 at 11:39 am
mbnovak
I think people caught onto you the first time.
June 10, 2013 at 11:42 am
kg2005
There was nothing there the first time, just happened to be thrown in together. The second time we knew what we were doing.
June 10, 2013 at 1:44 am
spookymilk
Fun Fact: after Corliss’s ridiculous elimination email, I made fun of him several times to one of my closest allies.
His, um, wife. Ahem.
June 10, 2013 at 1:51 am
dkautz
Oh yeah, I was going to mention in the walkthrough that Corliss asked me not to reveal his identity at the time of his eviction (since I was originally going to do both prejury evictees), and I went along with it since I figured I could get Rivet (and by proxy anyone he talked to) wondering about if I would bring somebody back into the game like BB often does.
June 10, 2013 at 1:54 am
kg2005
It worked.
June 10, 2013 at 1:49 am
daneekasghost
At long last, I can fully explain why I didn’t vote for novak at the end of day 1 in werewolf. I was trying to get my Arimaa strategy and board set up whilst keeping an eye on the vote totals and got surprised by the rush toward me, leaving me with no time on the clock to do anything.
June 10, 2013 at 1:52 am
mbnovak
And to think… you could have had your name on the sidebar again with another werewolf win…
June 10, 2013 at 1:53 am
daneekasghost
That reminds me, werewolf anyone?
June 10, 2013 at 1:55 am
spookymilk
Hmm. Might be difficult to get a game for tomorrow, but honestly, it would have worked well with Survivor’s schedule.
June 10, 2013 at 7:28 am
todahshy
I’m down!
June 10, 2013 at 1:53 am
kg2005
Arimaa was also the reason I was mysteriously absent from Werewolf. It makes me feel a lot better that I got to vote you out of that one though.
June 10, 2013 at 1:54 am
spookymilk
By the time that day came around, I knew who the two of you were, and I found it amazing that kg laid down the kill vote on you for a huge victory in Werewolf, and a couple of hours later you beat him in Arimaa for a huge victory in Big Brother.
June 10, 2013 at 1:55 am
daneekasghost
If we’re starting a dg/kg rivalry, we have to call off the dg/dk rivalry or things are going to get super confusing.
June 10, 2013 at 1:57 am
mbnovak
I think this is the point where Brooks prints up a shirt listing all of his victories and says “What rivalry?”
June 10, 2013 at 2:02 am
daneekasghost
can you imagine explaining that shirt to people on the street?
June 10, 2013 at 2:04 am
mbnovak
You talk to people on the street?
June 10, 2013 at 2:05 am
daneekasghost
Otherwise how will they know about my CdL success?
June 10, 2013 at 2:06 am
spookymilk
I looked at my list of subscribers today for the first time in at least a year. I have regular readers that I once thought were spam bots but it turns out they’re actually watching. So hey, maybe they’d get the reference!
June 10, 2013 at 2:15 am
spookymilk
(Possibly) interesting note on how these strategy games run:
Though I was only 7th, I played 44 days of this game while only missing 38. It’s crazy how things speed up when there aren’t as many players in these things.
June 10, 2013 at 7:31 am
todahshy
The more I think back on this game the more disgusted I get with how I played towards the end, I blame it on getting the new job towards the end there ruining my focus… definitely not any mistakes I made! But I did have way more fun playing like a psychopath imbecile than the boring loyal follower game so I have that consolation I guess…
Brooks as Blimp thing I did not suspect until yesterday and that was only because on IM the night of the Arimaa game Brooks had mentioned he had played the Arimaa before and someone in the jury document mentioned that Blimp had played Arimaa before and I briefly thought ‘hmmmmm is Brooks Blimp?’ then I ignored that idea and went back to trying to convince people to vote Barnaby.
June 10, 2013 at 9:52 am
MelissaD
I learned one very important lesson this time around: Trust no one. Especially these “Rivet and Dikken” guys.
June 10, 2013 at 10:02 am
kg2005
We learned that same lesson in Survivor XI. Now you’re caught up and can pull all the same crap we pulled in the next game!
June 10, 2013 at 1:18 pm
daneekasghost
Trust no one except Brooks.
/I knew what you meant.
June 10, 2013 at 1:34 pm
mbnovak
It’d be funny if it weren’t so true.
June 10, 2013 at 10:04 am
spookymilk
Another Fun Fact (I’m full of these!): Zack, as Randy Boxer, was the first person I’ve ever successfully voted to eliminate at my site. I know I haven’t played all that many times, but discounting Werewolf, I’d never eliminated anyone. It was strange.
June 10, 2013 at 10:13 am
kg2005
It’s like crack, isn’t it?
Speaking of that, when’s the next anonymous strategy game?
June 10, 2013 at 10:19 am
spookymilk
Oh, it was tasty, that blood. I wanted so badly to eliminate a couple of people in Turbo, but my stupid team never lost. Then we merged at a very, very bad spot for me.
Anyway, Survivor XIV. Novak was going to run it and I was going to play, but to some degree I scratched that itch, and I cannot stop thinking of challenges. I may actually end up co-running it with Novak just because it’s a shitload of work, or maybe one of us will play while giving all our challenge ideas to the one who hosts.
June 10, 2013 at 11:41 am
mbnovak
I’m looking forward to hosting a ton. But will take challenge ideas/help happily. I’m also looking forward to watching you play Survivor anonymously, so that kind of cuts into things…
June 10, 2013 at 11:50 am
spookymilk
Alright, alright. I may send you some today just because they’re burning a hole in my brain. And remember, future Survivors, knowing a challenge is going to be played doesn’t give me any advantage!
June 10, 2013 at 11:58 am
mbnovak
Anyone else can send me suggestions too. I am planning on running teams – I’ll give everyone that heads up – so team challenges are appreciated. I’ve got a few, but I’d like more.
June 10, 2013 at 2:55 pm
dkautz
Actually, I think Alex as Corliss was (you made note of that to me at the time) since you nominated Randy and therefore didn’t vote in the first eviction.
June 10, 2013 at 2:57 pm
The Dread Pirate
You know who would be incredibly entertaining in Big Brother? Roger Sterling.
June 10, 2013 at 10:33 am
The Dread Pirate
Fuck you, Brooks. But seriously, great game. When you mentioned after Stratego that you had played before, I sort of figured it was you. I knew I was going to the finals either way (I’m sure Silver would have brought me over you), but I still wanted to make you “earn” it.
DK, amazing job modding.
Wow, I was convinced that Orgalus was Geoff. I never thought Kelly would be that, um, overbearing. I screw up and miss one Royal Rumble thing (and would have missed more if I hadn’t been attending a concert with DK for him to remind me to check my “other” email account), and I come back to several pleading emails from the Big Chief.
It’s amazing what all you guys (and women) were willing to share with me if you don’t think I’m a threat. I just had to sit around in the library while you ran around in circles whispering in my ear.
June 10, 2013 at 10:37 am
MelissaD
I don’t think I can be included in there as I’m fairly certain you talked to me maybe a handful of times. I remember thinking it weird that all your plans were communicated to me through Sir Brooks the Cocky — oh, sorry. Sir Brooks the Humble. Humblest guy I know on-line via the CdL site.
June 10, 2013 at 10:44 am
The Dread Pirate
Anything Brooks told you that you didn’t also hear from me he completely made up. I had the same communications with both of you and was not planning to make your ouster until it became how obvious the two of you were working together. I made that move without ever communicating with him about it.
If I didn’t get rid of you, I finish third.
June 10, 2013 at 1:20 pm
daneekasghost
My main concern with you was that you had an alliance with Silver that you weren’t ready to give up. I wanted to keep you out of positions where you would have to choose whether to eliminate me or him.
That was most of the Barnaby talk that I had with Burro, unless I’m forgetting something.
June 10, 2013 at 1:32 pm
The Dread Pirate
After observing the War Pigs implode, I would have definitely eliminated Silver before you. Silver only came back to being useful to me once I realized I was unlikely to be able to crack you and Burro to get to the final.
June 10, 2013 at 1:38 pm
kg2005
I don’t know how true that was. I told you that for weeks, so you might have found something that wasn’t actually there.
June 10, 2013 at 1:42 pm
MelissaD
The ghost of Silver ruined that Final 3 pact we made, I guess. Blimp and I hadn’t made an official Final 2 plan, from what I can recall. It was a “let’s get down to 3, then every man for himself” venture. The only reason Blimp and I pounced on Barnaby after taking Silver out during Battleship was because we feared what appeared to be a connection between Barnaby and Silver. Barnaby never made open moves to take out Silver (where Blimp and I had) and we found this suspicious. We were concerned you were planning to oust one of us. And…well, apparently you were. I can’t tell, though, if our paranoia was a self-fulfilling prophecy, or if it was well-founded.
All I know is that my connection to Silver had been severed when I got that email from Blimp showing his plots against me. I was in-game pissed to the point of real-life pissed because I was still holding on to some weird War Pigs nostalgia. I kept the connection open to look like I hadn’t abandoned all hope in him and Merry. I’m not sure if that worked for me at all since it appears to have made my “Final 3” pals suspicious of me.
June 10, 2013 at 1:50 pm
The Dread Pirate
kg, I didn’t believe you at all. It was the way DK’s grid challenge went down. Blimp came to me with a move to eliminate Burro. I knew that the move could also lead me to getting eliminated (by making me waste my “flip” spot move), but I wanted to test it out to see what they were doing. The way it went down, it sure looked like they were coordinating to get Blimp the HoH.
I imagine Burro may have not been involved in that, but Burro was not nominated against you, it helped cement the thought in my mind. That’s when I approached you again and we coordinated Battleship (and they seemed coordinated there, too, by never cross-firing their shots).
June 10, 2013 at 2:12 pm
kg2005
You didn’t have to believe me, I just wanted you to be on the lookout for it. And in the end it bought me one more week. I’m curious though, if you had won the final who would you have brought to the end?
June 10, 2013 at 2:24 pm
The Dread Pirate
I’m not entirely sure. You were much more helpful at the end obviously, but I also saw you as being way more appealling to the jury. I probably would have kept Blimp, but I could have definitely been persuaded.
Also, Blimp thwarted me in Battleship when I would have won (to be fair, I thwarted him, too), so that may have pushed me to keeping you. I would say 60% chance of me keeping Blimp.
June 10, 2013 at 10:39 am
spookymilk
Dude, Geoff’s game and mine had nothing in common. For instance, he has fairly poor grammar and spelling.
…surely, I’ll think of more differences if you give me time.
I was trying to do too much work to keep the War Pigs alive, but I also had staked an interest in you and in Blimp. Before I knew it, I was on this tightrope and it was inevitable that I was going to fall off. I don’t know if I ever strictly “lied” to anyone – I just used the truths that would advance me, and I had a lot of plans moving forward that I knew would contradict each other, but I didn’t mind because I could just pick the plans I wanted when the time came to make a choice. I’d already done that a couple of times, since I got along with Till and I had some agreements with Crockett.
It was a house of cards. I knew it was going to collapse, but I figured with what was happening, I was good for 5th place. I never dreamed our group would decide not to produce the winner.
June 10, 2013 at 10:43 am
MelissaD
You hand out tickets for some major guilt trips almost daily.
June 10, 2013 at 10:46 am
spookymilk
In my defense, you deserve them.
Seriously, though, I don’t think of it as a guilt thing. I’m still just blown away that it happened at seven, because then the group not only evened the playing field but willingly handed it to the outsiders because Merry couldn’t win HoH the next time. That’s one reason I sent so many emails – I got that people found my game too controlling to allow it to go on, but simple math was against us going forward there and it made no sense to drop me.
June 10, 2013 at 11:15 am
kg2005
You’re kind of missing the most important part though. We went ahead with the breakup because we thought we had enough alliances with the outsiders that we didn’t need the War Pigs anymore. It wasn’t a matter of numbers And I think we were mostly right. We just hit the whammy when I gave the HoH to Blimp.
June 10, 2013 at 11:21 am
spookymilk
I’ve certainly considered that, and had kind of come to the conclusion that it was a fairly good move for you specifically, since you had things in place, but not a great move for Merry, and a very poor move for Burro because I’m not sure who she thought she had.
Even considering that, I thought it was hugely dangerous for you to put all your trust in someone outside when I’d been working my ass off for the four of us all game long, and was in much too deep to change that at that point.
June 10, 2013 at 11:30 am
MelissaD
I thought I had Silver and Merry. I was way too trusting and ended up making a beeline to Blimp when I realized something fishy was going on with my original group and that I may have walked into a trap. Hence the “lesson learned” this time around.
June 10, 2013 at 11:32 am
spookymilk
That’s my point, Burro. Those numbers are no good. By only believing you had two, you were going into a challenge down 3-2 because Merry couldn’t play the HoH challenge. Even if they’d been on the level, you were in trouble.
June 10, 2013 at 11:36 am
MelissaD
My game theory is poor. I have never properly practiced it. I have noticed this whenever I’m pitted against most of everybody on this website. Your strategy can be intense, and I’m hopping along going, “Hey, this is fun. I like games…oh shit, they’re tearing at throats here. I’m screwed.”
June 10, 2013 at 11:40 am
spookymilk
On the upside, your “I don’t know what I’m doing” strategy could set you up for a long run in XIII. I like it!
By the way, I’m currently terrified that we’re going to set nonsub records today. Only 9 of 27 submissions are in so far. I’d also only classify seven more as 100% to show up.
June 10, 2013 at 11:45 am
kg2005
To be fair to Melissa, she had no shot of saving you. It was in her best interest to cut bait and jump on with someone else there. And it mostly worked.
June 10, 2013 at 1:46 pm
spookymilk
Sort of related to this, I said early on that I was worried that everyone was voting together nearly all the time. I thought more people should be worrying that it was so easy. Granted, we did a lot to control votes, but when everyone voted for me and it was so easy, a couple of red flags should have gone up for people who didn’t have a long-term plan once I was gone. I understand why unanimous votes happen, but in general and for a long time here, people have paid too little mind when a vote that easy goes through.
June 10, 2013 at 1:50 pm
todahshy
I thought I was dumping The War Pigs and going to the Final 4 with Silver (my main ally), Kellifer (my backup plan), and Barnaby (the vote needed to keep the majority at that point). If Silver didn’t give Blimp that HoH I think I would have been in a great position but oh well.
June 10, 2013 at 1:57 pm
kg2005
Yep, my bad. At least DK agreed that it was a good idea at the time.
June 10, 2013 at 10:46 am
The Dread Pirate
Also, it was hilarious that the two of us were up for a vote. I started to plead my case and all the players were saying, “Don’t worry. We ALL want to get rid of Orgalus.”
June 10, 2013 at 10:47 am
spookymilk
You never could spell my name correctly…
June 10, 2013 at 10:53 am
spookymilk
That was a tough one to fight. The War Pigs didn’t benefit at all from eliminating me (Silver possibly did, but work with me), but I couldn’t think of a good reason to eliminate you specifically over me. Every argument had to be “This is what I can do for you,” because there were no good anti-Barnaby arguments available.
June 10, 2013 at 10:55 am
The Dread Pirate
And that’s why you’ve underestimated my game. I get that you want big, bold, brash strategy; but being “uneliminatable” is ridiculously effective. Especially after XI when I put a giant blinking light over Miss Cleo and everyone wanted her gone so she would STFU.
June 10, 2013 at 11:08 am
spookymilk
I see the argument, but the reason people were okay with keeping you around was because you didn’t appear to be doing anything at all. In a Big Brother house, that would be strategy. In an online game, playing like you did gives the appearance of barely caring, and I spent most of the game believing that Barnaby didn’t really care.
Also, I don’t like “big, bold, brash strategy.” You’re misreading the parts of the games I love so much, or perhaps just exaggerating for effect. All I ask for is that a person seems engaged and has some input in strategy.
June 10, 2013 at 11:09 am
kg2005
I think you would have done better in the jury voting if you really tried to get across that this was your game plan and you knew what you were doing the entire time. People were still convinced at the end that you were just along for the ride the entire time.
June 10, 2013 at 11:14 am
The Dread Pirate
I get that. I was waiting to see if more questions came in (DK sent us the earlier ones) and then suddenly it was 11:30 on Friday and I had to leave for the MS 150 in about an hour. They were not as finely crafted as I would have liked.
June 10, 2013 at 11:16 am
The Dread Pirate
spooky, makes sense. I will say my “strategy” visible to other players picked up closer to the end game. That is where I formed the alliance with Burro/Blimp and also rekindled my alliance with Silver. I was the the active person in both of those moves rather than just letting others come to me.
June 10, 2013 at 11:18 am
spookymilk
It definitely would have helped. Because your game was the way it was, I needed a lot of convincing that any of it was intentional. I actually did make a comment in the jury house that you answered the questions fairly well, but I didn’t come away from it thinking you’d done anything intentionally from the beginning.
Now that I know who you are, I don’t doubt that you did. But as an anonymous guy I needed that evidence. I did consider voting for you, which I didn’t think would happen before the jury answers came in.
June 10, 2013 at 10:57 am
The Dread Pirate
Oh, the picture I chose popped up when I googled “random Canadian” or something generic to that effect. I figured Canadians were non-threatening in every way (and Barnaby Winstringham sounds like he could be Canadian), so when I decided to run with the non-threatening/clueless character, I captured a picture of a guy who got that across quite well.
June 10, 2013 at 11:02 am
MelissaD
Oh wait! I remember our one conversation now. The one in which you mis-spelled Canadian and then declared that’s how Canadians spelled Canadian.
June 10, 2013 at 1:07 pm
daneekasghost
Fuck you, Brooks. But seriously, great game.
Right back at you. I never suspected Barnaby as DPWY, I think I kind of decided that was hungryjoe and just left it at that.
At one point I said something to Burro about “why does everyone think Barnaby is with them?” but I don’t think I ever realized how many irons you had in the fire until reading DK’s notes.
You played the quiet, helpful player better than I could, even when I tried. It just isn’t my style I guess.
June 10, 2013 at 11:03 am
spookymilk
I know I mentioned this to DK at the time, but the reason I disappeared on Google+ is that I got a message saying that the service believed I was a company and not a person. I had been put on some sort of probation and had to go through an appeals process, pointing out that on my home page there was no mention of any kind of product. I entered an “appeals process” where it was clear that all they were going to do was send my information through the same electronic thing they’d sent it before. After a few days my appeal was denied, because obviously “Orgulas Proudfoot” sounds like a corporation and not an individual, while “Silver Berzerker” is clearly a real name. I was able to continue using the service as long as I changed my name, so I emailed them, “Fuck you guys. I’ll forgo my entire heritage and go by Timothy” and of course, I was allowed to stick around. By that point, I’d been unable to log on for so long that I didn’t bother.
June 10, 2013 at 11:08 am
The Dread Pirate
Spare me your trial of tears.
(Too soon?)
June 10, 2013 at 11:09 am
spookymilk
With that crack, all the misspellings of “Orgulas” are forgiven.
June 10, 2013 at 11:57 am
mbnovak
Trial?
June 10, 2013 at 12:00 pm
spookymilk
Appeals process, and all that.
June 10, 2013 at 12:23 pm
The Dread Pirate
Only Novak gets to make awful puns? Thanks for picking that up, spooky.
June 10, 2013 at 12:34 pm
mbnovak
The difference is that my puns are great, but I DPWY (Dread Puns from Will Young.)
June 10, 2013 at 11:17 am
The Dread Pirate
DK, did you leave any notes from all the bcc emails you got throughout the game with other observers commenting? Just curious.
June 10, 2013 at 11:19 am
The Dread Pirate
Also, DK – thanks again with your incredible flexibility. My availability was AWFUL several times, and DK helped me hide that fact pretty well (way better than I deserved). At one point, I deliberately tanked a challenge right before I went to JazzFest to ensure I didn’t have to do anything for about four days.
June 10, 2013 at 11:23 am
spookymilk
I had one stretch where I only was involved in challenges for a day and a half out of maybe 15 or 16 days. For that day and a half, I ended up at work nearly the entire time.
June 10, 2013 at 11:22 am
kg2005
There’s a link at the bottom of the post.
June 10, 2013 at 12:01 pm
MelissaD
After reading DK’s notes, I’m now wondering if I should have communicated more with him. I primarily just sent him my votes or random game questions. Was I supposed to BCC DK in everything?
June 10, 2013 at 12:04 pm
spookymilk
That’s where the fun of viewing comes from. I copied him in on too much, but figured he could funnel out the stuff that didn’t add anything. One of the main reasons the notes are so light after my elimination is that I wasn’t there to pass notes along to him.
June 10, 2013 at 12:38 pm
The Dread Pirate
I see that Harrison Musgrave was selected in the baseball draft over the weekend. Are we sure that isn’t one of us in disguise?
June 10, 2013 at 12:51 pm
mbnovak
Let’s wait and see if he nonsubs before we guess…
June 10, 2013 at 1:11 pm
daneekasghost
One question that wasn’t answered by DK’s notes was whether people were actually trying to help me in the Gold Rush veto challenge or if they were trying to set me up? I got the sense that there was a little bit of both going on, and I ended telling quite a few lies to try and steal that one.
June 10, 2013 at 1:36 pm
kg2005
I don’t think anyone wanted you to win that one.
June 10, 2013 at 1:54 pm
todahshy
Yeah I don’t think you really know how close you were to going home that week. It was really a coin flip between you and Crockett and… I convinced everyone to keep you over Crockett (womp womp womp).
June 10, 2013 at 2:01 pm
kg2005
Actually what saved him was Burro rallying to keep Crockett. That really burned me when the two of them teamed up later in the game.
June 10, 2013 at 2:04 pm
todahshy
Yeah, I just remember having to convince Melissa that Blimp was the right choice to save in a private convo. According to the notes it was Orgulas who made the big charge to keep Blimp. I don’t even remember it going down like that. Amazing how different memories can be based on your perspective.
June 10, 2013 at 2:05 pm
kg2005
Orgulas and I discussed it privately as well. Since all of Orgulas’ conversations went to DK that’s the one that he put down in the notes.
June 10, 2013 at 2:11 pm
spookymilk
I’ve never been more confused about who actually saved Blimp. Seems like it was a team, uh, “effort.” I’m glad I at least get to share in the blame, rather than shoulder all of it…
June 10, 2013 at 2:16 pm
MelissaD
I was actively campaigning against Blimp because of something I can’t even remember now. He’d said something during our hangman competition, I believe, and it made me suspicious. He’d also never really spoken to me up to that point but appeared to be speaking with others, and I didn’t think that would turn out well for me. I felt Crockett was far less of a threat, so I was opting for him to be ousted. My word had no power!
June 10, 2013 at 2:20 pm
MelissaD
Opting for *Blimp to be ousted. Vague pronouns are bad.
June 10, 2013 at 2:23 pm
todahshy
But you were right! Take solace in that!
June 10, 2013 at 2:32 pm
kg2005
No, your word had a TON of power. The problem was that it went in the opposite way. The way you talked about it seemed like you had a pretty good alliance with Crockett.
June 10, 2013 at 2:34 pm
spookymilk
This is coming back to me. We were worried about a longer-term Burro/Crockett pairing. It seemed like a smart, small maneuver at the time, unlikely to have major repercussions.
June 10, 2013 at 3:06 pm
daneekasghost
I think this was what made Burro mistrust me.
June 10, 2013 at 2:25 pm
daneekasghost
Yeah I don’t think you really know how close you were to going home that week.
Yep, other than Silver, Merry and Orgulas – I really had no one in my corner.
June 10, 2013 at 2:27 pm
spookymilk
Exactly. I’m realizing through this conversation that none of us saved Blimp – Blimp saved Blimp. We all had secret connections to him, which was his way of surviving the early game. With every new fact that comes to light, I love the games our finalists played more and more.
June 10, 2013 at 2:52 pm
The Dread Pirate
Oh great, now Brooks can stab me back in Big Brother All Stars in about five years.
June 10, 2013 at 5:25 pm
daneekasghost
it’s a date!
June 10, 2013 at 2:29 pm
kg2005
Yeah, but Crockett thought the same thing. And if Burro had come out in favor of you instead of Crockett it would have gone the opposite way.
June 10, 2013 at 2:34 pm
daneekasghost
Right. You all thought Crockett was more dangerous than I was. That was the plan.
June 10, 2013 at 2:37 pm
kg2005
Melissa thought you were dangerous. So she said we should keep Crockett. We thought that meant Crockett was dangerous. That’s it. You guys had played almost the exact same game to that point.
June 10, 2013 at 2:43 pm
daneekasghost
We thought that meant Crockett was dangerous. That’s it.
That’s what I said. The people I was allied with didn’t need much convincing to keep me around. Again, that was the plan.
June 10, 2013 at 2:47 pm
kg2005
I understand it’s pretty cut and dried from your side. I’m just saying that if Melissa had worded it differently, “Blimp is dangerous” instead of “Crockett is useful”, it would have gone very differently.
June 10, 2013 at 3:14 pm
MelissaD
I’m fairly certain I voiced my opinion of Blimp early on. I remember it being dismissed because Blimp was talking to everybody else, and you guys were insisting he was fine. Then he grouped up with Merry to get me nominated, and I felt like I’d been vindicated…in some weird form of irony.
June 10, 2013 at 3:15 pm
daneekasghost
A big part of my plan was that I didn’t have control of the game at that point. There is obvious risk there, but I had done what I could to mitigate it.
June 10, 2013 at 3:20 pm
kg2005
And it worked brilliantly. Certainly a calculated risk.
June 10, 2013 at 3:29 pm
daneekasghost
There it is. All I ask is that you acknowledge my brilliance.
June 10, 2013 at 3:44 pm
kg2005
I can’t deny your brilliance. I have to keep telling myself that you’re not perfect, though. Even if I don’t believe it.
June 10, 2013 at 4:49 pm
bhiggum
I’ll take comfort in the fact that you guys thought I was more dangerous than Brooks.
Obviously you were all wrong, but at least you were thinking it for few moments.
June 10, 2013 at 4:55 pm
daneekasghost
That’s what we haven’t outlined here, Bret’s plans were even more diabolical than my own. You guys got lucky.
June 10, 2013 at 4:59 pm
bhiggum
My scheme was to get rousted from Big Brother and leave DG in it so he’d be distracted from Werewolf and we could finally end his reign of terror from the games of CdL.
I may not have thought this all the way through.
June 10, 2013 at 7:23 pm
spookymilk
I’m sorry we denied you sixth place, Bret. But, hey, nine is just an upside-down six.
June 10, 2013 at 3:28 pm
daneekasghost
I assume Silver would have won a jury vote if I had brought him to the end?
FWIW, when I made that deal before Arimaa, I didn’t think he’d actually take me to the end, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to have that on my side.
June 10, 2013 at 3:39 pm
kg2005
Heh, that was kind of a bullshit deal. We both knew that wasn’t happening. Like you said though, couldn’t hurt.
June 10, 2013 at 3:57 pm
todahshy
I don’t know, a lot of people really hated Silver in the jury at that point.
June 10, 2013 at 3:58 pm
The Dread Pirate
Why didn’t the jury keep notes?! I want to read those, too.
June 10, 2013 at 4:05 pm
todahshy
We did, Dan will need to give you access to that HUGE document which was 75% the ramblings of Kelly and I until Burro and Silver showed up to share the load.
You will also notice in there that I was the number one fan of your game.
June 10, 2013 at 4:07 pm
dkautz
I had intended the Jury document to stay just for the jurors to say whatever they wanted amongst themselves, but if the jurors are okay with it being public now, I’ll make it so.
June 10, 2013 at 4:08 pm
todahshy
I have no problem with people seeing it. I think that thing is great.
June 10, 2013 at 4:09 pm
The Dread Pirate
I completely understand not sharing it until all the jurors agree. I’m just having a slow day at work and need a little more reenforcement that Brooks is brilliant.
June 10, 2013 at 6:28 pm
MelissaD
I’m fine if they’re made public, but um…if I said anything ridiculously damning, blame it on the alcohol. I’m mostly proud of Orgulas declaring me his first Big Brother love.
June 10, 2013 at 6:30 pm
dkautz
Since I think Kelly said twice as much as anyone else in there, if he gives me the OK I’ll open it up. I think he’s at work till late tonight though, so it may not be effectively accessible till tomorrow.
June 10, 2013 at 6:35 pm
kg2005
I’m fine with it too. Can’t imagine anyone being against it.
June 10, 2013 at 6:37 pm
MelissaD
We were so vulnerable in there, KG. People will have access to our deepest, darkest thoughts and anxieties. They’ll hear tales of bonds made and bonds broken. They will come out of that reading with a better understanding of humanity…and a greater fear of it. If we let this out in public, we have to accept responsibility for the minds it will scar and the hearts it will break.
Justin sayin’.
June 10, 2013 at 4:56 pm
bhiggum
It’s fine by me if the jury notes are made public. Of course, I only made maybe a half-dozen notes.
June 10, 2013 at 6:27 pm
MelissaD
I was one who really hated Silver while in the jury. I think I spent a lot of time drinking and railing at one point. Shook my fist a few times. “Damn you, Silver! Damn you to hell!”
By the time we got to voting, the anger had simmered to simple plots of revenge. Blimp would probably have still won my vote, though.
June 10, 2013 at 4:07 pm
todahshy
Also, I HATE the stupid poker challenge. Two straight games it has screwed me over and I wasn’t even in this one!
I was pretty convinced that Blimp was Novak throughout the game so I am happy that it ended up being Brooks 🙂
I’d rather Gloop knock me out of the game than Lean Mutton Morgan again!
June 10, 2013 at 4:34 pm
mbnovak
Really? I mean, Gloop was easily one of the most clueless players* we’ve ever had on the site, right? You feel good losing to that?
*Ok, ok… he wasn’t Nibs, so at least he’s got that going for him.
June 10, 2013 at 5:04 pm
todahshy
Don’t use my post trolling you as an opportunity to troll Brooks!
June 10, 2013 at 5:10 pm
mbnovak
And Nibs!
Now you see what us real pros are capable of.
June 10, 2013 at 7:21 pm
spookymilk
The important thing is: People are trolling each other. And isn’t that what this site’s all about?
June 10, 2013 at 4:18 pm
todahshy
I also loved Kelly and I’s big argument about Silver’s identity. I was 100% sure it was Erik and he was 100% sure it was Novak. So he was super mad at me when I first got eliminated for choosing Matt over him and we had a days long argument on who Silver was. It eventually got to the point where I was just starting to think wow maybe Matt played the ultimate doppleganger game in the history of mankind even knowing of private convos between Commish and I from Survivor XI but then I would realize no I am definitely right here and I am not going crazy… or am I? Good times, good times.
June 10, 2013 at 4:21 pm
kg2005
I read through that part of the jury notes and couldn’t believe that he got you believing it. The only way Novak pulls that off is if he’s playing, knows I’m not, and recruits me to mess with you. Which I totally would, but that’s beside the point.
June 10, 2013 at 4:24 pm
todahshy
Well I just got to thinking ‘did I miss some sign from another player that was really Erik and just assumed Silver was Erik and Matt picked up on it and just went with it?’ I mean it probably entered my brain for like 5 minutes but it just goes to show these games continue to mess with you even after you are eliminated.
June 10, 2013 at 4:31 pm
mbnovak
Let’s talk next time around, eh?
June 10, 2013 at 6:10 pm
Grey
FWIW, I’m pretty sure I sent my vote in for Barnaby. Pretty sure. Dan was great about sending me reminder emails, cause he knows what a flake I am.
is that what inspired the WTF Kelly? Or was it that I actually lasted some time in a strategy game?
This was the most fun I’ve had outside of the writing games on this site. Thanks for running it so well Dan, and good work William! (waggle yer shit at that brooks!)
and congrats or whatever.
June 10, 2013 at 6:19 pm
dkautz
I went through my emails and couldn’t find it, but it’s always possible it got lost in the email aether. (Failing to avoid making a “maybe I should check with the NSA if they’ve seen it” crack here…)
I did figure you were going to vote for Barnaby based on your Jury house notes, so I’ll mark that down for posterity on the “official game chart”. If we’d ended up in a scenario where that vote was needed to break a tie, I’m sure I would’ve checked with you again after the deadline passed. As it is, we’ll just know forever that Will was one vote away from his first victory…so close, and yet so far.
June 10, 2013 at 7:53 pm
The Dread Pirate
This just further cements my legacy as someone who can’t loses by one juror!
June 10, 2013 at 6:23 pm
kg2005
Grey! I fought really hard to keep you. But Will didn’t want to help. So, you know… keep that rivalry going.
June 10, 2013 at 6:29 pm
todahshy
I just have to know. The week you nonsubbed in the veto was there any chance you wold have used the veto on me if you won?
June 10, 2013 at 7:19 pm
spookymilk
Yes, the final vote nonsub is what inspired the WTF. If you voted, I withdraw all what the fuckery.
June 10, 2013 at 6:43 pm
todahshy
I found it funny that in the notes Dan said that Blimp was playing a Jun-like game and in the end one of the reason I liked Will’s game so much was because it reminded me of Jun’s game.
June 10, 2013 at 7:16 pm
dkautz
That was pretty early, before Blimp won any challenges, as I recall. I’m not sure I’d compare them like that at this point since I don’t remember Jun being particularly challenge-oriented.
June 10, 2013 at 7:18 pm
spookymilk
Share the notes. My obsession with Novak equaling Silver must be seen to be believed. Plus, I trolled Merry a lot, just because I knew he’d take it well.
I do explain why I thought Silver was Novak in there. I could explain it here, but hey, it’s something to look forward to.
June 10, 2013 at 8:07 pm
todahshy
Hey, I enjoyed trolling you just as much!
June 10, 2013 at 8:33 pm
spookymilk
We do have complementary personalities, you and I. We should think about being allies sometime.
June 10, 2013 at 8:39 pm
kg2005
Hey, you remember the last email I sent you? You let me know who you thought I was, and I replied with “Oh God… do you think? No… I’m going to be sick.”
June 10, 2013 at 8:41 pm
spookymilk
I do remember that now. That was semi-funny when I still thought you were Novak, but better in retrospect.
June 10, 2013 at 10:14 pm
mbnovak
Oh yeah… that was well worth reading.
June 10, 2013 at 10:26 pm
daneekasghost
I had to remind myself that it would be silly to try to convince people to vote for me now, but yeah, that was a fun read.
June 10, 2013 at 10:31 pm
The Dread Pirate
Indeed. Thanks for all the insight, players!
June 10, 2013 at 7:31 pm
dkautz
The jury house is now open to public comment. I took away editing permissions so the main body will remain preserved for history’s sake, but comments are open on the side like on other notes documents. The link will be updated at the end of the post with the other links.
June 10, 2013 at 8:49 pm
spookymilk
By the way, one of my best friends at work, Anya, gave birth to a son a couple of months ago and named him Silver. I really wanted to bring this up in the game but figured on the off chance that absolutely anyone didn’t know who I was, I’d keep it to myself.
June 10, 2013 at 10:06 pm
kg2005
I am honored.
June 10, 2013 at 10:43 pm
hungry joe
this is a reference, and i get it… right?
June 10, 2013 at 10:44 pm
kg2005
I am referencing spooky’s friend naming her kid after me. So probably not.
June 10, 2013 at 10:54 pm
hungry joe
well, it is a reference, but we’re not talking about the same thing.
June 10, 2013 at 11:17 pm
hungry joe
to be sure, this is what i thought you were referencing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjoAbK-RnHU
you even got the italics right.
June 11, 2013 at 12:42 am
kg2005
It wasn’t a direct reference, but I’ve seen that episode enough times that I was probably channeling it.
June 10, 2013 at 9:06 pm
todahshy
Oh and props to Kelly on the Meredith Monstergumby name. I just loved that name and the visual it conjures up in my mind.
June 10, 2013 at 9:12 pm
spookymilk
After day one of The Spread, you commented “ME NO COUNT HIGH! MERRY SAD”
I must have laughed for ten straight minutes, and it runs through my head probably daily, even now.
I was very bummed that nobody took that name in XI, and quite pleased that the mistake was corrected in BB.
“Gone with the Blimp” was a fictional pro wrestler created by my best high school friend Leif Bierly. It’s the only name out of all the ones in the two games that he created, and it produced the winner. That’s much better than Leif himself in these games, back when he played…
June 10, 2013 at 10:44 pm
The Dread Pirate
When I read the list of potential names out loud to Sheenie, we both agreed that Gone with the Blimp was our favorite.
June 10, 2013 at 10:50 pm
daneekasghost
Confession time: I took Gone With the Blimp because I thought it was the dumbest name on the list (I’m still not sure if it’s dumb in a good way or a bad way)
June 10, 2013 at 10:52 pm
mbnovak
Coming up with a list of names is one of the things I look most forward to for modding the next anonymous game.
June 10, 2013 at 11:05 pm
The Dread Pirate
Did you get that wikipedia link I sent to spooky awhile back? I can’t remember if I copied you on that as well.
June 10, 2013 at 11:06 pm
mbnovak
You did. I put it in a file somewhere I’m sure to forget about.
June 11, 2013 at 12:25 am
mbnovak
Found ’em. They were fantastic.
June 11, 2013 at 12:30 am
spookymilk
I’m still not sure if it’s dumb in a good way or a bad way
It’s so one, it’s the other. That’s why I love it.
June 11, 2013 at 12:31 am
mbnovak
Classic hipster Spooky.
June 11, 2013 at 12:32 am
spookymilk
TAKE IT BACK YOU SON OF A BITCH
June 11, 2013 at 12:35 am
mbnovak
Psh. Dude. I was saying it ironically.
June 11, 2013 at 12:36 am
spookymilk
Alright, we’re good here.
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June 10, 2013 at 11:03 pm
MelissaD
I specifically took El Burro Rosa bec
June 10, 2013 at 11:04 pm
MelissaD
I hate this keyboard.
I took it because El Burro sounded masculine, and I figured that would hide the fact that I’m a lady. Though it didn’t hide the fact that I apparently have a mustache.
June 10, 2013 at 11:04 pm
kg2005
I KNEW IT
June 10, 2013 at 9:19 pm
spookymilk
One last thing (I promise).
Erik, I loved your running gag about saying “he was a really neat guy” and such in the walk through the Jury House. Subtle but very funny, good charactery stuff.
June 10, 2013 at 10:08 pm
kg2005
Till’s comment on Randy on the jury votes was the funniest thing that I’ve read since the last time I said that. Can we just bring Till back for every game?
June 10, 2013 at 10:58 pm
hungry joe
first off, that one (as well as a couple others) was based off an actual email exchange:
second, i love the fact that Ol’ Till was suspicious. frankly, i stayed in character because a) it was so easy to write him (as opposed to a cleo), and b) it was just so much fun. really, i sucked out loud. oh well.
June 10, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Cleopatra Burlington
It may be fun bein an old man sittin aroun with a wife who is knittin yah sum clothes, but mah cards are showin somethin ominous in tha next seven or eight mons. I don wan to be tellin yah too much, but I thin Gloria may be needin a bigger box. Probably one someone was constructin out of mahoginie or somethin else costin yah more than yah are wantin to be spendin.
June 10, 2013 at 11:27 pm
Till Goldworthy
7 or 8 months? You dont mean like a crib do you? Because Gloria had a hysterectomy almost 2 years ago lol.
June 10, 2013 at 11:44 pm
MelissaD
I have to ask…where did Till’s pictures come from?
June 11, 2013 at 12:00 am
hungry joe
heh, i already had the idea of till in mind so i went looking for a visual representation in places where i was pretty sure i’d find it. long story short, i actually found “gloria” spouting off some ridiculously insensitive comments about our sitting president, so i didn’t feel too bad about hijacking pictures of her and her husband off of facebook for my own nefarious purposes.
on the flipside, even though he’s from missouri, till’s actually a pretty tolerant guy. how else could he live in a house with such weirdos?
June 10, 2013 at 11:07 pm
MelissaD
Randy Boxxer said similar things about loving Boxes when I commented on his name. And it made me immediately think of my husband. Who I was convinced, for quite awhile, was Randy Boxxer. So contrary to Dan’s belief, most of the time, I had no idea who Alex was. I eventually caught on, but it didn’t really matter. He was screwing himself with his insistence on pissing everybody off with his stalling techniques. He was pleased to hear we continued to refer to a long submission wait as “pulling a Corliss”.
June 10, 2013 at 10:50 pm
The Dread Pirate
I seriously don’t remember blocking Silver during Battleship.
When I did so, I must have had absolutely no other play in my hand because I was absolutely going to block Blimp and let Silver win there as a sign of good faith.
June 10, 2013 at 10:51 pm
kg2005
You didn’t, you blocked me once during sequence.
June 10, 2013 at 10:58 pm
The Dread Pirate
I meant during Sequence. If I did so, it was entirely inadvertent.
June 10, 2013 at 11:00 pm
kg2005
It wasn’t really anything too bad, just on the side of some of my spots. Only enough to be notable in a game of paranoia.
June 11, 2013 at 2:42 pm
daneekasghost
I completely forgot about this until now, but if anyone was on the fence about spooky as Orgulas, the kicker was that this post went up at pretty much the same time as Orgulas’ elimination, which showed remarkable restraint on his part.
June 11, 2013 at 2:44 pm
spookymilk
Heh. What can I say? When I know the end is near, I prepare for a new beginning.
June 11, 2013 at 3:13 pm
The Dread Pirate
If my calculations are correct, DG will pass spooky for #1 on the power rankings if he wins this game of Survivor!
In your face, spoonto!
June 11, 2013 at 3:15 pm
spookymilk
Ah, but you’re forgetting the important matter of “Only I can edit the spreadsheet.”
June 11, 2013 at 3:21 pm
daneekasghost
I’m coming up with “In and Out” ideas as fast as I can!
June 11, 2013 at 3:52 pm
mbnovak
And I’m failing to get the theme just as quickly!
June 11, 2013 at 4:56 pm
spookymilk
Alright, alright. You’re redeemed, asshole.