by Mia » Fri Mar 13, 2015 6:22:26 pm
Well, I guess there's a huge difference again. I separate everything from the game and from outside of the game. You clearly don't. It's reckless of me to assume that everyone else does too, but it's what I do. I came into this game as a huge threat with connections to 80% of the cast, so I was always going to have to play ruthless, and that's what I did.
I'm sorry the cheating comment and all the Crazy Katie stuff hurt you, but in my mind, that's just in came and in no way changes my opinion of you out of this game. Not trying to make an excuse here, but that's how I view it.
And please, you can't say that you weren't "elite" enough for me. Like I said, I had such a big target for being so connected that I was going to take any friendship and alliance from anyone I could. I needed it. I TRIED with you and I'm not sure what sort of communication breakdown happened, but you were playing the game just as much as I was. You had plans with Sarah already the minute you joined Refuge, and same with Chad the second he joined too. I tried to make those, but when we didn't get to talk as much, you clearly kept falling back on those, so don't say I didn't want to work with you or didn't try, because I did, even AFTER those last two rounds before the merge.
Your last paragraph is also just wrong. I got to play this game with Jolanda and Ken from minute one. We never separated, so yeah, maybe that was part of the reason you and I couldn't find a way to make things work. That tribe pick'em for Hiva Oa was set up so damn fast that even my head was spinning. But I had a fucking BLAST playing with those two. And look how far it got us. The two tightest trios in the game duked it out as far as they possibly could. Also Debb and Carter were there, too.
The entitled stuff is bullshit too. If I was entitled, I would have been spouting to Ralph that "I DESERVE the final 3 because I've been around Stranded longer!" So no. I didn't do that. Every round I stayed, I begged and pleaded for people to make moves with me against their better interest. I don't get how me WANTING to play comes off as entitled. Should I have just given up and accepted my fate at 10th or 11th place? No, I fought for it, and there should be nothing wrong with that.
We have completely different philosophies on what it means to play in one of these.