Post by mark on Jun 17, 2013 17:34:42 GMT -5
What's that you say? I'm playing another game? A week after one finished? Me? Who plays games *maybe* once a year, two years...?
I say unto you....what tomfoolery is this??? (Ellen <3...she'll get it later)
That would be the book of Mark, chapter 17, verse 1. Yes. I will have to extend the book of Mark throughout this game, though it currently ends at chapter 16...at Jesus' ascension, no less.
Jesus goes to Heaven; Mark plays all-stars. Just go with it.
I haven't an ounce of strategy at the moment. I do better at games where people have no clue who I am or how I play. And I usually crash and burn in all star games because I get so caught up on sniffing out connections that I alienate people. I can't play dependent Mark anymore. I can't hide my age and my lifestyle. I can't speak without people knowing there is logic behind everything I'm saying. Even worse, I can't plan sabotages. If I do, they will know something's up. So...no strategy. Well, a little strategy. I'm going to have to sit back and take a backseat for the time being. The blood is still wet from Extinction, and people are very well aware that I'm capable. So I'm gonna have to let the big egos take charge and eat each other up. Being a cast member of the me most recent game, and right before All Stars, I don't have the benefit of knowing anyone else in the cast but my own season, and how obvious would that be for me to work only with Ben, Gloria, Knox, and Thiago? Yeah. Too obvious.
So here goes nothin'.
Like I said earlier, I've got demons to face. I can't lose my mind. But really, seriously, as God is my witness, I still have nothing to prove. Of course I want to make it to the end, but losing to Thiago wasn't a really humiliating defeat. And I'll let you in on a little secret....
I wasn't really angry with him at all for going into that judgment with fists swinging. I needed to swith gears in the middle and I saw how emotional the jury was being as far as how Thiago was perceived to have abused their relationships. So I became one of the abused, too. And it almost darn worked. I fill like I snagged Ben's and Carly's votes by that switch, and I was hoping to snag Chad's because I feel like Thiago used him most of all, but oh well. Taylor was never mine, which peeves. He wasn't around enough to make any kind of an educated vote. Brush it off. I destroyed Liam's vote. I may as well have wiped my butt with it the way I treated him the first round in the merge. I still, to this day, don't understand why I did that. It's not like I was mad that I was getting the votes because that was my aim. I guess pride took over and I had a very human, gloating moment. Stupid, I say.
Mark 17: 2
Treat others as real human beings, even if they are but a hot model card and an arbitrary screen name, for they are still real on the other side. And you will go further. Half goodness...half ulterior. :-)
Do you think any of the writers would have used emoticons in the scriptures if there were such a thing then? Like when Noah was drunk and his dirty son looked at his schmeckle? Moses might have written something like: $-x
I'm telling you, by the end of this game I will have a whole alternate text compiled. I will just have to reconcile the scripture in Revelations that says you shall not add to or take away from the scriptures....
But I digress. I have nothing to prove. Only....there are times when I feel like I have to be the smartest in the cast. Like, I catch myself thinking...these emotional kids have no idea what's coming. That crap's gotta be kept in check. Even though I do want to be the top strategist of the series. Stop. But I DO. STOP. But, but, but, but.....
yeah, Demons.
I have nothing to prove. I promise. And yeah...zero strategy at the moment. I'm just making nice and collecting info. Like...Knox told me that Annie told him that she has a rivalry with Dominic. I have no idea why she would tell him that, but it's filed away. And Chase told me that Dominic fears he will be an early target. Thiago tells me Ellen feels the same way. Thiago also tells me that Michael tells him that he and Ellen will be early targets. Say that one three times real fast. Speaking of Thiago, he talks to me as if we are picking up where we left off...which is fine. But who's gonna let that fly? I think these are a bunch of emotional kids, yes, but I didn't say they were stupid. I think Thiago and I will do well to keep the same open line of communication that we had last game. Only...he is not my number one this time. Not out of bitterness or anything. It just won't work a second time around. But trust I will take every bit of information he wants to offer me. Especially where it concerns Ellen. I still have solid relationships with Ben and Knox, and I plan on working with them as far as I can. But again...who will let those go unnoticed? As an aside, I'm sad that Knox could be in trouble right now. Hopefully he will pull through. I'd much rather him be in the game over Emily, who I haven't even met yet and made the finals of her season. Of course there is Chase, who I love. But as history chronicles, he tends to overplay. I'd love to go deep into this game with him, but I don't want him to bring me down if he tries to overplay. But I think he is also well-connected and well-loved by the masses...as is one of his cohorts. AJ. Oh how do I love her. How can you not? My only question is...is she really that naive? I mean, I don't doubt her sincerety one bit, and that's the thing. She's another I'll file away as a compadre. But you know what? I'm probably the 15th person in this game that is doing that. And I am aware of that.
Anyhoo, that's just a little bit of insight from the book of Mark right now. I have more to offer about the people I've met and my pre-conceived notions of the other cast members. I'll get to them in a bit. But as for now, peace be with you. Selah.
I say unto you....what tomfoolery is this??? (Ellen <3...she'll get it later)
That would be the book of Mark, chapter 17, verse 1. Yes. I will have to extend the book of Mark throughout this game, though it currently ends at chapter 16...at Jesus' ascension, no less.
Jesus goes to Heaven; Mark plays all-stars. Just go with it.
I haven't an ounce of strategy at the moment. I do better at games where people have no clue who I am or how I play. And I usually crash and burn in all star games because I get so caught up on sniffing out connections that I alienate people. I can't play dependent Mark anymore. I can't hide my age and my lifestyle. I can't speak without people knowing there is logic behind everything I'm saying. Even worse, I can't plan sabotages. If I do, they will know something's up. So...no strategy. Well, a little strategy. I'm going to have to sit back and take a backseat for the time being. The blood is still wet from Extinction, and people are very well aware that I'm capable. So I'm gonna have to let the big egos take charge and eat each other up. Being a cast member of the me most recent game, and right before All Stars, I don't have the benefit of knowing anyone else in the cast but my own season, and how obvious would that be for me to work only with Ben, Gloria, Knox, and Thiago? Yeah. Too obvious.
So here goes nothin'.
Like I said earlier, I've got demons to face. I can't lose my mind. But really, seriously, as God is my witness, I still have nothing to prove. Of course I want to make it to the end, but losing to Thiago wasn't a really humiliating defeat. And I'll let you in on a little secret....
I wasn't really angry with him at all for going into that judgment with fists swinging. I needed to swith gears in the middle and I saw how emotional the jury was being as far as how Thiago was perceived to have abused their relationships. So I became one of the abused, too. And it almost darn worked. I fill like I snagged Ben's and Carly's votes by that switch, and I was hoping to snag Chad's because I feel like Thiago used him most of all, but oh well. Taylor was never mine, which peeves. He wasn't around enough to make any kind of an educated vote. Brush it off. I destroyed Liam's vote. I may as well have wiped my butt with it the way I treated him the first round in the merge. I still, to this day, don't understand why I did that. It's not like I was mad that I was getting the votes because that was my aim. I guess pride took over and I had a very human, gloating moment. Stupid, I say.
Mark 17: 2
Treat others as real human beings, even if they are but a hot model card and an arbitrary screen name, for they are still real on the other side. And you will go further. Half goodness...half ulterior. :-)
Do you think any of the writers would have used emoticons in the scriptures if there were such a thing then? Like when Noah was drunk and his dirty son looked at his schmeckle? Moses might have written something like: $-x
I'm telling you, by the end of this game I will have a whole alternate text compiled. I will just have to reconcile the scripture in Revelations that says you shall not add to or take away from the scriptures....
But I digress. I have nothing to prove. Only....there are times when I feel like I have to be the smartest in the cast. Like, I catch myself thinking...these emotional kids have no idea what's coming. That crap's gotta be kept in check. Even though I do want to be the top strategist of the series. Stop. But I DO. STOP. But, but, but, but.....
yeah, Demons.
I have nothing to prove. I promise. And yeah...zero strategy at the moment. I'm just making nice and collecting info. Like...Knox told me that Annie told him that she has a rivalry with Dominic. I have no idea why she would tell him that, but it's filed away. And Chase told me that Dominic fears he will be an early target. Thiago tells me Ellen feels the same way. Thiago also tells me that Michael tells him that he and Ellen will be early targets. Say that one three times real fast. Speaking of Thiago, he talks to me as if we are picking up where we left off...which is fine. But who's gonna let that fly? I think these are a bunch of emotional kids, yes, but I didn't say they were stupid. I think Thiago and I will do well to keep the same open line of communication that we had last game. Only...he is not my number one this time. Not out of bitterness or anything. It just won't work a second time around. But trust I will take every bit of information he wants to offer me. Especially where it concerns Ellen. I still have solid relationships with Ben and Knox, and I plan on working with them as far as I can. But again...who will let those go unnoticed? As an aside, I'm sad that Knox could be in trouble right now. Hopefully he will pull through. I'd much rather him be in the game over Emily, who I haven't even met yet and made the finals of her season. Of course there is Chase, who I love. But as history chronicles, he tends to overplay. I'd love to go deep into this game with him, but I don't want him to bring me down if he tries to overplay. But I think he is also well-connected and well-loved by the masses...as is one of his cohorts. AJ. Oh how do I love her. How can you not? My only question is...is she really that naive? I mean, I don't doubt her sincerety one bit, and that's the thing. She's another I'll file away as a compadre. But you know what? I'm probably the 15th person in this game that is doing that. And I am aware of that.
Anyhoo, that's just a little bit of insight from the book of Mark right now. I have more to offer about the people I've met and my pre-conceived notions of the other cast members. I'll get to them in a bit. But as for now, peace be with you. Selah.
