Butch
Butch Lockley
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Post by Butch on Apr 11, 2013 22:37:11 GMT -5
This is where my confessionals go.
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Butch
Butch Lockley
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Post by Butch on Apr 14, 2013 7:47:00 GMT -5
Ok, pregame confessional. I have to figure out how I want to play this game. I always seem to get targeted at a threat waaay too early in games cause I play the game as hard as I can. I firmly believe that getting the numbers advantage before the merge is how I have won games before. The trick is keeping the core alliance together. that works sometimes but not always. I kinda want to lay low a bit this time BUT it doesn't look like the guys have very many actives - at least to this point. Trying to find those who are and align with them but if we don't get a good group together, the women are gonna overrun us! I also, just can't NOT try hard when you present a challenge. It's part of who I am at the core. But I will probably do it just a bit and not be the leader so hopefully it'll help me later on when the strong players are starting to get targeted. We shall see. . .
Besides that my first thoughts of the game are "why did you make me look up naked photos of Jeff Probst?!?!?!? WHY?!?!? There are some things I just CAN'T un - see!
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Butch
Butch Lockley
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Post by Butch on Apr 18, 2013 8:10:16 GMT -5
All right, I knew we would be here. I didn't have the ability (or the time for that matter) to step up and take control of this challenge. I did what I could. I successfully avoided becoming tribe leader - that's not a target I want on my back right now. I guess I am taking the strategy of laying low a bit. I suspect that won't last long in this game because 1) We need to win sometime! and 2) It's just not in my nature to hold back. Got an alliance of 5 so that helps. Hopefully we can stick together. It's Ryan, Matthew, Alex, Rob and me. i feel a bit like the odd man out for some reason but not gonna get paranoid just yet!
This challenge really sucked too because it was built for the women to win in my opinion. all about asthetics and what looks nice vs just being what you need. Men tend to be the practical, it's "good enough" mentality I think.
AND not to complain too much but I have to say that the reward for the pre-game challenges sucked. That was a LOT of work over several days and to only be safe at the first tribal with a Vote Blocker is dissapointing. First votes are usually getting rid of inactives and that was NOT gonna be me. I was hoping it was something I could share wiht the tribe and get some good vibes from but oh well.
Easy vote this round based on activity. See Voting thread!
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Butch
Butch Lockley
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Post by Butch on Apr 22, 2013 6:38:39 GMT -5
Ok, it's a common theme for me lately but I am gonna fuss about this challenge. I am trying to NOT be a target and strong challenge person BUT these guys won't let me. Most of them are useless. I dont get how they are playing. If they are all trying to not be a challenge threat then we are gonna play ourselves right out of the game. I am thinking of callling them all out on it, but I know that will ruffle some feathers. this was not a hard challenge, it just took time and dedication. I think I captured more than 1/2 of the keys for our tribe by myself. I would have done more if PB hadn't crapped out on me early yesterday when NO ONE else was online. Our alliance is holding but that't not saying much cuz we have easy people to vote for when they dont even participate. Why did Daniel sign up if he wasn't gonna show up? ? And Dave isn't much better. We have to kick it into gear or we are gonna be toast by the merge. The ladies won't wilt I am sure.
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Butch
Butch Lockley
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Post by Butch on Apr 24, 2013 9:58:16 GMT -5
Ok, confessional time again. We lost, again! This was a much closer challenge and it's frustrating that we could have won had a couple folks done just a bit more. I made my "speech" about how we need to kick it up a notch and I think it went on pretty much deaf ears. We are going downhill fast if something doesn't change. Trying to be positive and build up the guys but the women are kicking our butts!
May have gotten myself in a bind today. We have a 5 person alliance between, me Rob, Alex, Ryan and Matthew. Obviously Dave is the odd mad out now. But for some reason Ryan wants to cut Matthew loose and sets up a message thread with me, him Rob and Dave suggesting such. I didn't realize it had Dave in the thread and responsded that I thought we should stick with Dave since he has done less than Matthew. But I said, Matthew should def be next. Now Irealized that a couple of hours later and went in and deleted the thread. I am not sure who saw it, but they could use that info to gang up on me. If so, then more power to them cause I'm one of the only ones working for this tribe. Time will tell. Having said that I AM voting for Dave tonight and I know Matthew is, Hopefully the other guys will stick with that and Ryan won't go off the reservation.
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Butch
Butch Lockley
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Post by Butch on May 2, 2013 8:22:18 GMT -5
ok ok, I know i haven't done a confessional in a while. but I ahve been busy playing a TON of games - thanks a LOT!!!. OMG what a crazy several days. I am suprised I havent been caught at work playing them. Not that I haven't played them at work, just that I haven't been caught!! Anyway, I think i have earned a fair amount of $$ and now just to be smart about how I use it. Trying to get back up with my guys. Not cause I think they are just awesome players or anything but that is the only group of numbers I have to work with. I was not able to make any significant gains with the ladies while I was with them. It was only supeficial crap. I was hoping there was going to be at least one challenge in that tribe that we could win and the guys could vote off Jenna, but oh well. So now the key is winnign the right amount of rewards that could help swing the next 2 votes to go towards the ladies. BUt i gotta convince the guys to band back together to do this. Not gonna be easy since I think Ryan is still pissed at me for not voting with him for Matthew when DAve went. Not sure how their relationship is either (Matthew and Ryan). Not happy with how the bidding is going so far. I'd like to see the guys spread their money out and NOT outbid each other on items.
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Post by Butch on May 3, 2013 20:20:53 GMT -5
Well the auction didnt go like I hoped. Ryan started outbidding me on items and when I Confronted him he basically blew me off and said he didn't care about what I had to say. I am officially declaring he is a douchebag. Nonetheless at this point we need each other to try and take out a women but I doubt it's gonna work. They have too many rewards to counter. But I'm not giving up. I'm hoping to at least survive this vote and see what happens.
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