Jermaine

[Sandy]

Jermaine, please post your Questions/Statements to Animal, Brenda & Joe.

[Jermaine]

Heyyy Yall!! How's everyone doing tonight?

Well, let me just start off by saying that I am VERY VERY VERY proud of you three getting to the end in such a difficult, ever changing season. I know you guys worked hard to secure your safety and now come the hardest part of the game... OWNING UP TO WHAT YOU DID. Let me just say that I really do like all three of you personally, and that anything I say is game related, so please don't take it as a personal attack. If I feel myself slipping into a bit of a personal rant, I will make sure to note it.

Anyways, lets start with Brenda Mitchell

So Brenda, let me just start off by saying that no matter WHAT anyone says, you did what it takes to make the final 3 and I give you HUGE props for that. Laying low and playing under the radar is a strategy I can always respect. And you actually won individual immunity a couple of times, which is a feat many did not achieve this season, so GOOD JOB! In this game, you were someone that didnt speak much, but when you spoke, it was usually insightful and intelligent. I think we talked on and off throughout this game but you still remain an enigma to me. I have two questions for you, so i can get to know you better.

1. Go to www.16personalities.com/ and take that quiz and post your results.

2. Explain to me why you were on invisible on skype so much? This is a pet peeve of mine in games and I just want to know why you would close yourself off in a game that is about social interation.



Now, moving on lets put Cody "Animal" Lasso in the hot seat
Honestly Cody, I have read through all of your statements and answers, and I really don't have a whole lot to ask you. Throughout this game you were always soo much fun to talk to, but I do feel like I was constantly trying to read where your head was and I think it's safe to say you were doing the same with me. So now you sit there in the finals, having played a very strong game and I sit here a "bitter juror" as some might say You have already answered any questions I had about your gameplay so I'm not going to give you anything really difficult to answer at all...In fact, I'm not going to even ask you a question. If you would like to address me with any statements, comments, etc, you are more then welcomed to, otherwise consider this a break from the heavy questions you were already given 


And now, last but certainly not least, Joe Purcell!!! *said in Kirin's voice*
Soooooo Joe. It has been very difficult to think of a question to ask you. You'll see in my journal that, this season I REALLY struggled with trusting you. I honestly felt like I would come to you with information and you would give me nothing in return. I don't know if you just didn't have much to share or if you were keeping me at an arms length but It did make me doubt you...ALOT. When you started mentioning talking to Animal, I think my suspicions went into overload. I mean, we both obviously had to branch out and talk to other people, but I could sense you getting super close to him and I had this insecurity in the back of my mind that you would pick him over me if that ever became the case....Needless to say my biggest fear in this game became a reality when I was given the boot. I brainstormed scenarios where I could possibly have the numbers to vote you out, but I felt like it would never benefit me and I really didn't want to vote a really good friend out the game.

Before this game started, I remember talking to you and saying how I felt uneasy about joining it and you were enthusiastic in telling me to just go ahead and play...so I did. Anyways it is heading towards a personal territory so let me redirect us back to why we are here. After Nax was voted out, I came to you and told you straight up "You know what we have to do" and you sort of gave me a hesitant response, so i tried not to push it too much. You knew that it had gotten to a point where we had to cut Animal loose and you seemed okay with it. I even explained to you that Animal has been aligned with almost every jury member and tried to be as non pushy as possible. I hate putting people in a position where they have to pick between two tough choices but it was a decision that HAD to be made. Needless to say, you decided that I was some manipulative mastermind and took me out. I tell you, I have NEVER been stung so hard in a game before. In my eyes, there was just no logic to why I should go over him. He had won several MVP votes, won immunity and was universally liked by this cast.


My Question to you is a simple one..
Give me the full, detailed reason behind why you thought you had a better chance of beating Animal in the finals over me?


So there are my questions to you three, I eagerly await your responses and GOOD LUCK
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[joe]

Hey, Jermaine. I guess before I go into much detail with your question, I just want to let you know (and I’ve said it elsewhere) that voting you out was easily the hardest decision I’ve made in this game. I was voting out not just someone with whom I’d built a good friendship over the course of a month like Animal or Woods, but pretty much the only person in the game with whom I’ve had a close relationship for the past like two years. You’ll basically see that I’m a blubbering mess in my confessional after I voted you out. I felt awful. It was the first time an ORG moved me to tears in six years, and while I felt bad for voting some of the people out that I did, it never would have amounted to how it felt in voting you out.

It’s funny that you say you had a lot of trust issues with me in this game, because I did feel somewhat similarly about you in certain regards. While I did probably put the most trust in you out of anyone, I was pretty aware that you’re not a huge pawn for my personal use. Yes, I was a bit reserved with you as far as information went. I told you only what I felt was relevant for you to hear. How you felt about Animal and I, was how I felt about you and Jedda, to be quite honest. I was not at all a fan of your decision to want to go to the end with Jedda and I, especially when it seemed as clear as day to me that Jedda could possibly sweep up the vote with a pretty decent social game. I felt I was playing for third in that scenario. Similarly to you, I felt that if it came down to it, you’d have chosen Jedda over myself. Anyway, I’m kinda veering into the response to your actual question, so let’s just get right to it.

For a large majority of the game, I did trust you and you were the one person I felt I could bounce ideas off of. Funny enough, it was the moment you got Ricky, Nax, Jedda, Nicole, and Brookie to split their votes that my worries started to really kick into full gear. While I felt I initially got the ball rolling on the Nicole vote, you made a pretty excellent move in convincing them to split their votes. If you and I had made it to the end together, it would have been extremely difficult to argue against that move. Then, two rounds later, with the Woods vote… again, my concerns were kicking into high gear when you would seemed to fabricate a bizarre scenario in which the Untouchables go to Exile, and we still ourselves attend a TC where Woods uses his express pass. As you recall, I argued pretty adamantly against this idea, saying that it seemed highly unlikely. You pushed for the idea and, against my thoughts and opinions, voted for Woods anyway, seeming like you expected me to go along with it just because you did it. In the end, I did, but it was of my own free will for my own reasons (which have been well-documented in Woods’ thread, at least, if you’re interested). It was at this moment I kinda started to think about how, if you put you and I side-by-side at the end, it might be hard for me to compare to you, even though I think my game has its own selling points. Telling Animal about the plan to vote out Woods, something which you neglected to do for whatever reason, was how I started the ball rolling on setting any doubt in you with other people.

I want to bring something up now that when I said it the few times I’ve said it at the last TCs leading up to the FTC: I did think everyone remaining in the game was a contender to win. Believe me when I say that I knew going into this that Animal was not going to be the easiest person to beat, and that people could even vote Brenda because of the fact that she surprised us all and, probably, is the lesser of three evils.

The thing was, apart from I guess lying to Ricky and Nicole about having an alliance with them early on in the game, I didn’t think Animal’s game was that impressive compared to yours. I’ll give it to him that it seems his social game was fairly decent, but I don’t know that he did as much as you did, so between the two of you, I felt you were the much harder one to beat. It didn’t help that when I approached you about how we also needed to vote out Jedda, you were incredibly unreceptive to the idea. You know from seeing me in past games, Bali especially, that I don’t like it when my ideas aren’t really considered. I could tell you were not budging. I did not want to budge either. At the final five, when the line in the sand was officially drawn, I felt that you and I went as far as we could together, and with the amount of game you had going for you, and the fact that you also had a returning winner status, you were just a much, much larger threat to win the game.
I understand that you saw Animal as the threat to win, but I feel like you were looking out for your best interests more than mine, which, well, whatever. That’s kind if the point of Survivor. The thing is, you and I apparently did not share the same ideas on what was best for us.

I also do not see things like the MVP vote as being a huge factor. I mean, if Ricky/Nax/Nicole made the F3, Ricky easily could have won and it’s not exactly like they were receiving too much love from those. Furthermore, if we were basing anything off of the MVP vote, then I guess no one would vote for me to win this at all since the best I did was second place. I am not the type of player who plays for the Alumni to be entertained. Never have been, never will be. Even now, I’m sure I’m probably not their favourite to win, but I don’t think what they think is relevant to this scenario, and I hope that no one else considers it a factor, either.

As for immunity… well, Animal wasn’t exactly a challenge god. He won one individual immunity. Same as myself. He might have had immunity a couple more times than me pre-merge, and that’s it, I think. I don’t really think he outshines me or anyone in that regard. Heh. The only real immunity god in this game is Nicole.

Aaaanyway… to sum up, basically, I wasn’t sure how much more I could trust you as it got down to it. I wasn’t content that you didn’t seem entirely receptive to what I wanted. I felt that I stood a better chance against Animal because you had some much larger moves attached to your name, as well as returning winner status. Animal’s a good guy, but, I felt like your game stacked up much higher against his. Given the emotional outburst I had after it, I’d never have voted you out if I didn’t have a reason. In fact, voting you out gave me an even stronger drive to win this game, as I would hate for it to not have been worth it.

So yeah. That’s my shiny answer. If you wanna know anything else, you know where to find me.

[cody]

Oct 19, 2013 20:07:01 GMT -5 Jermaine said:

Now, moving on lets put Cody "Animal" Lasso in the hot seat

Honestly Cody, I have read through all of your statements and answers, and I really don't have a whole lot to ask you. Throughout this game you were always soo much fun to talk to, but I do feel like I was constantly trying to read where your head was and I think it's safe to say you were doing the same with me. So now you sit there in the finals, having played a very strong game and I sit here a "bitter juror" as some might say You have already answered any questions I had about your gameplay so I'm not going to give you anything really difficult to answer at all...In fact, I'm not going to even ask you a question. If you would like to address me with any statements, comments, etc, you are more then welcomed to, otherwise consider this a break from the heavy questions you were already given 

Sorry it took a bit to get this up! I was literally out camping last night and I haven't slept since, so I definitely apologize in advance if this is sloppy/all over the place, but I wanted to get you the answer you deserve up ASAP, so here goes nothing!

Thank you for your statements! It was definitely a pleasure talking to you and working with you throughout the game. We got along so well and even though we probably picked each other's brains out to figure where the other stood, I think we both had a mutual realization that we were each other's biggest threat to win the game. Honestly, I respected the decisions you made in the game, because it clearly showed that you were fighting to win and you were preparing a resume for that win, so when you could get to the FTC, you would have a lot to flaunt to the Jury. I thought that was super impressive, and it definitely intimidated me.

I was working on the rebellion of Ricky/Cult of Ricky from the beginning of the game and when you solidified yourself with us, I think that's when the rebellion became real, and I wound up legitimately with it as well, so I think your game - and my game - were both very impressive in that sense, so I wanted you out so I could (not only build up my resume but also) have what I perceived to be "the most" moves made.

I think I was like the only person in the final 5 who wanted you to go, and you wound up going. It's obviously not personal, since we wound up voting against one another, but I just knew you were my biggest roadblock left in my way of winning the game. If you didn't go then, I don't think I stood a chance at winning, so I hope you can respect the move made for what it was, since I feel like that's what you were trying to do as well? If you thought I was your biggest threat left to win, then I would hope you'd strongly consider voting for me as well, but if not I totally understand and we're all cool. I obviously don't know everything behind your full reasoning- you were obviously closer to Joe and Jedda, so that's up to you.

Honestly toward the beginning of the game, I felt there were two sides, "Animal vs. Ricky" and going into final 5- there were two other sides: "Animal vs. Jermaine" and I feel like I had a huge role this season, so I don't want all my efforts to go to waste, but you are obviously entitled to do what you want with your vote and everyone has had different impressions this entire season!

Thank you for your time Jermaine and thanks for the break in difficult questions haha, I think you're an amazing person and if I sound arrogant or all over the place, I apologize because it's our goal to sell you our games, and I have only gotten one hour of sleep in the past 2 days (5 hours in the past 3 days) so I obviously need Starbucks ;] - I hope nothing I said came out wrong or anything!

Oh, and I'm really sorry about voting you out and stuff, but I figured you weren't too upset with me since you wound up voting me out as well and it's totally understandable and we're all cool in my book, homie <3

Anyway good luck with your vote and if you have any questions on anything, ever - let me know! loll

[Brenda]

1. Go to www.16personalities.com/ and take that quiz and post your results



I really enjoyed this first question, it was fun to do and the results while not overly shocking (to me at least) have given me something to think about. So thanks for that.



My result is INFJ – Introversion – 53% (lol), Intuition – 7%, Feeling – 31%, Judging – 9%



I’m not entirely sure if you wanted the whole thing posted here or not so I’m not going to because I think it’d be a pretty boring read for everyone who isn’t me (lol). So I’ll just post the strengths and weaknesses … though I don’t agree that I’m overly sensitive (unless you call me old I guess) but it’s entirely possible that I am and just balance it out somehow?



I’m a diplomat apparently and my strengths and weaknesses are:



INFJ strengths



• Determined and passionate.

• Altruistic.

• Creative

• Inspiring and convincing

• Very insightful



INFJ weaknesses



• Extremely private

• Can burn out easily

• Very sensitive

• Perfectionistic

• Always need to have a cause



2. Explain to me why you were on invisible on Skype so much? This is a pet peeve of mine in games and I just want to know why you would close yourself off in a game that is about social interaction.



This is funny (to me) because in my mind I was social but I guess its different levels for different people? Meaning my version of social is apparently your version of closing myself off.



At the start of the game I was mostly invisible because I just needed to get my bearings and sort out in my own mind who the players were without their interference in the process. I’m usually able to pin point people pretty accurately and I think at the time I just wanted to figure out what role everyone was assuming in the game. The easiest way to do this is to just watch and listen. At the same time people wanted to know who I was and being invisible helped me here because people were forced to rely on others for information on me and I knew the information would be good. (for me)



Then it became more of a tool, in that I wasn’t being thrown into any unexpected conversations. I have a really hard time (believe it or not) lying and people can usually see right through me when I do so I generally try and avoid it or be non committal. Thing of that is, people clue in really quickly when I’m not actually answering their questions. So being invisible allowed me to talk to people but on my own terms and to be fair it allowed me to not talk to certain people in the game who quite frankly needed a smack in the back of the head. (Hey Brookie … lol)



And Lastly I guess it was to shut up the other people I’m friends with on Skype, the ones not playing the game. I’m not on Skype a lot and apparently when I am there it becomes something of an event and all of them suddenly need to talk to me. Seeing as I talk to them all the time on Facebook it was easier to be invisible and just focus on what I needed to focus on – which was this game and the people in it.



I was social, albeit not to the extent that most people were but I did make connections with people in the game. I talked to almost everyone daily and some people I talked to way more than others. I’ve never been a person who talks for the sake of talking and nothing annoys me more than being stuck on the phone in a conversation with someone who won’t stop talking. I talk when I need to and as such people listen to me because if I’m speaking it’s because I have something worthwhile to say. It’s just me I guess.



But ya, the whole point of all that is I was social in this game, you don't have to be the life of the party to be social and I guess that's the important distinction to make here.  Not everyone will be a Brookie (thank god) and not everyone will be a Brenda (woo hoo!).  My level of sociability worked very well for me.  I made great connections in this game with people on both sides of the game, I didn't ignore anyone though to be fair I talked way more to some than others. 

The connections I made in this game through my sociability were strong enough that when I lied to people they didn't question me on it, in fact they did their best to reassure me that it was just a game.  Things like this wouldn't have been possible if there wasn't a social connection there of some sort.

So ya, while I wasn't as social as some, I most assuredly was social in my own respect and it worked out very well for me.


I’m hoping this answers your question because I tend to ramble.

[Jermaine]

Thanksss everyone for your answers!

I wasn't implying that you were antisocial Brenda, i just thought it limited how much people could communicate with you, but now that you gave your reasoning, i TOTALLY understand

Oh and im a INTJ personality type