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The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
lmao are those real quotes? Did they choose those quotes!? Can I have, like, 6 Poisons?





whut

edit: oh lmbo

The Bloop fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Feb 22, 2018

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The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Spatula City posted:

I'm really undecided on watching this season live, given the shitshows that were Gamechangers and the last season. I mean, at least Gamechangers had a good winner that got there without insane amounts of production help. The winner of the last season should have a permanent asterisk next to his name. That final four "advantage"...it's going to be in this season probably, too, and that's HORSESHIT. It's Jeff's blatant attempt to get people like last season's winner the win, at the expense of more strategic players that were more social and strategic.
lmao the producers did not make changes during the show to ruin your life


Also, you are right that firebuilding will be in the f4 but Jeff has already said that the players will know that from the start

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Fast Luck posted:

Ben's last idol being buried right at the boat that he allegedly liked to rest on everyday definitely is questionable.

I mean, I agree that they should avoid the appearance of impropriety, and we certainly don't know the timing of everything because it's edited, obviously.

After thinking about it since it aired, I don't even care if the producers did reward him specifically since he was busting rear end and the others were sitting on their duffs - future players will be encouraged to stop loving off and play the game, take more risks, and generally be better TV

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Zesty posted:

If Laurel isn't the first person voted out on her tribe, I'll eat this post.

:toxx:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Talk about making the right move by accident

I mean, I don't think he really meant to get voted to Ghost Island but it 100% saved his rear end

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Of course take the risk and open one. If you lose your vote, you just tell people it was ghost island haunting you - no one else knows what ghost island even is yet

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
:sad:





efb lol


She got a bit too braggy and bossy - didn't know when to quit

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
WHO SITS IN THE OCEAN IN THEIR loving SOCKS

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

DurosKlav posted:

They should just give everyone an idol day one, and have the first tribal be a massive game of chicken.

This would be a good season gimmick. Everyone starts with one idol, there will be no more.

Also, random cursed idols that gently caress you up somehow - send you to exile after the vote or make your tribe lose something from camp idk just spitballing here

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

AWarmBody posted:

This episode is 0 to 100 and it feels like we are at unsafe speeds here

The next challenge is a fistfight to the death

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I mean, even if the ruse works, they know it's fake the second Probst burns the gently caress out of it

*I don't want them to know I'm a liar*

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
This pig turd in half a coconut is a real idol I swear



lol when the loving Stick turns out to be a real idol this time

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

What if its still a fake idol but can be placed in someone elses bag...

lmao

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

STAC Goat posted:

Does Donathan just not open his mouth when he speaks? Is that the problem?

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Looks like ghost island also gives you a decent meal. unless he just cooked all the ghost island rice for the season :v:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
If I get voted out by the nerd I'll be pissed JOCKS RULE



This is a clusterfuck and whoever goes out it's a coinflip right now with whoever those girls want to go

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
:sad:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

CODChimera posted:

some of it actually felt like a parody

I mean this is Self-Reference: the Season

but


yeah


I don't know when people will realize that fake idols, wandering off alone, lying about stupid poo poo that doesn't matter, etc are Advanced Techniques for emergencies and not day 3 opening gambits.

Like, the dude lying about his age is smart, but that's about it.

Fake Idols were wonderful when they were a new idea and now they almost always are self-owns. I'd make the best fake idol I could and then put it in someone else's bag just to gently caress around.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

STAC Goat posted:

Man, leave James alone. That dude has some self esteem issues. He hates himself.

I know you're joking but him owning the failure ultra hard was a strategic move to stay.

I think he overplayed it, but it may end up not mattering if things get switched up enough.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Zesty posted:

Armchair Survivors check in!

There's nothing armchair about saying it's dumb to go in survivor with zero swim ability or having never seen a bug or a stick.

loving build a fire, open a coconut, swing a machete. These things cost nothing! WHY

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Lone Goat posted:

Also learn a god drat slide puzzle there's a billion free apps for it on your phone.

Every time I replay Wind Waker I'm certain I'm going to get something meaningful for completing all the slide puzzles in the cabana

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

SweetJahasus posted:

I really have no sympathy for people who go on Survivor and can't a) make a fire, b) swim, c) untie knots, or d) do slide puzzles (or even e) throw sandbags at targets). I mean c'mon people it's in EVERY SEASON. Once you get your 1 in 20 shot at a million bucks, put netflix or pornhub down for 15 minutes and practice this poo poo.

Swimming is the hardest survivor skill to just learn on the quick but the others yeah.

There are similar puzzles and challenges that can easily be practiced in drat near every season. Basketball shots with smallish balls in a tall narrow container? OK, it won't be exact but put a bucket on a ladder and throw a few dodgeballs at it. Is it not worth $5 worth of supplies to at least try? Throwing beanbags at targets and some people act like they've never thrown anything at anything ever? SUPERFAN :hurr:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

STAC Goat posted:

I mean, if we're fair then we should realize that its a lot easier to say "you should learn these 20 skills that are always factors on Survivor" than it is to actually do that in a short period of time between starting casting and filming. Like unless you have no fulltime job and a lot of disposable income there's probably only so much you can do even if you try. It would be easier to focus on one or two skills like starting fires and fishing, and stuff like swimming or puzzle solving probably takes time to really get good at and you won't necessarily replicate the actual conditions you'll experience on Survivor.

So I mean, I laugh as much as the next guy who can't swim whenever a Survivor can't swim and it becomes a focus of the show. And I'd definitely try and find a place to practice starting fires if I was cast. But the big picture is probably more complicated.

Yeeeaaah I guess but you at least know you are applying. As soon as I sent in my tape I'd be doing some simple things. Why not learn to swim anyway?


Fishing might be a practical impossibility to practice. Swimming might be expensive depending on where you live. But fire building is especially easy to practice for almost anyone.

Apply to survivor? Download a slide puzzle app and play that instead of candy crush or whatever.



I mostly just laugh at the people being like "I've never been outdoors before"

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
For today's reward challenge, you will be playing a giant game of Candy Crush, survivor style!

Match four coconuts, clamshells, compasses, or vaguely-racist carved idol heads to win.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Good episode


I also prefer two challenges to one reward/immunity combo challenge

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Lone Goat posted:

I got my :tinfoil: on but I'm thinking that you can't actually lose the "game" but they just word it that way to stave off cowards.

I fully expect to be incredibly wrong about this.

Could be different advantages in each.



Or one has a pissed off cobra in it

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

blue squares posted:

I just rewatched the Varner outing and it is just as terrible as the first time I saw it

You just saying that made me relive seeing the utterly crushed look on Zeke's face while he was trying to keep it together :smith:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I really enjoyed Jeff being all "wow" twice this episode. Like, he seemed genuinely surprised and seems like he's still having a blast making the show and I enjoyed that.

I hope you enjoyed my post.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Sometime I'd love to see a DROP YOUR BUFFS right after a tribal immunity challenge.

Just for yuks

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Man it's so tiring being me because I'm soooo great.


I have a huge dick and am really good at all sports and I'm very charismatic. Also I'm a model. And a goddamn genius.








BENEFICIARY lmao music sting

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
That was an Amazing Race level burn from the music editor :laffo:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Shneak posted:

That was the most over the top edit I've seen on the show.

Maybe but they couldn't make that edit of someone who wasn't a complete toolbox because they would never have said half that poo poo and not in that tone of voice

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
WHAT'S UP PROBST?

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
No ghost island this ep?



That challenge was brutal. Wendell kicked rear end.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Silly Burrito posted:

Didn't Stephenie's team all get wiped out before the merger in her season?

Her return season iirc she was alone at her tribes camp

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Spergatory posted:

Tribal identity is nothing because tribes are arbitrary assignments. Richard Hatch said it in season loving one; Rattana, Tagi, Pagong, they're all meaningless. They could be made up words for all anyone knows. They mean only what people attribute to them, and when people realize that-- when they realize they are on the bottom of the pecking order and they _do not have to stay there_, that's when the game gets interesting. We have seen this, repeatedly. But they need a chance to realize that, and that takes either time or tribal.
Made up words like all words? Tribal ties are so important that when people on the show can determine out-of-game tribal affiliations they are immediately exploited. Race and especially gender lines are very frequently and often explicitly drawn by the players. "We're both southern/
military/ loving Catholic" etc happens every season.

The fact that in-game assigned tribal affiliation is used to twist the arm of less canny players to great effect even though that assignment was extremely recent is practically Stanford Prison Experiment level role acceptance.

It might not be the most important thing but tribe definitely matters.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Here's some dumb stuff I want to see that I haven't thought through very well:

TC where instead of voting someone off the show, you vote them into the other tribe

Same but creating a new loser bracket tribe

Some sort of asymmetrical challenges for smaller tribes like would be created in the idea above, or in the Stephanie is Alone scenario

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
FUCKIN STICK slowly gaining power :laffo:

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Propaganda Machine posted:

My stream was misbehaving. What did I miss before the reward challenge?

The Bloop posted:

FUCKIN STICK slowly gaining power :laffo:

18yo gets 10yo Immunity Idol

IcePhoenix posted:

Also

STOP. LETTING. PEOPLE. SEARCH. ALONE.

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The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Survivor 36 - Ghost Island: RISK IT FOR THE BISCUIT

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