~ I Get What You Get in 10 Years in 2 Days ~

[Boo Bernis]

I thought Kelly read her questions stupendously!

[Nathan "Nate" Gonzalez]

I have ONE last question for all three of you...

Your in the final 2. the jury is made out of 9 people and so far you expect the votes are 4-4 (and they are) with one person left. That one person left is someone you are/were close to. You have two options. Receive their vote and never talk to them again. Or not receive their vote and move on from the game, and remain friends. In this situation, what would you rather want that person to do? Vote for you so you can win a game? Or not vote for you and work on that friendship?

I'd like an in-depth response, don't expect an essay but something detailed. This is to judge your priorities and see what you hold closer to yourself, the bonds you make, or the amount of games you win. Since my vote is still very up in the air, this will no doubt (if your answer blows me away) sway me to vote for you or against you. This is basically to judge your character as a person. So with that being said, good luck to all three of you.

[Parvati Shallow]

Hey, Nate. Really good question and I think this questions really is a scenario that plays true into what’s going on with me right now in trying to earn votes. Honestly, I came into this game to try and make it as far as I could. Even making it past the first few rounds was amazing to me. I never thought that I would have lasted throughout the first few rounds but I still kept trying and didn’t give into my fear of going out early. Making it past that stage of the game, to the merge, and then finally to right now, here in the finale, it’s honestly just a lot to take in. Making it to this point in the game is a serious honor to me and being in this finale is something I’m very proud to have accomplished. Which leads me into the question you’ve asked. I had no doubt that that the votes would be split. I knew it was going to be a close call for the winner. I never expected anyone to win in a landslide and I knew that once the finale hit, the game was in no way over .. because there is still a lot of work to do in trying to get votes to win this game and claim victory.

So if the scenario is just like the way the votes are coming down in this game – I am not surprised and I do think the people sitting beside me right now do deserve a shot at winning the game. But if I can recall, I think the two people that I was friends with walking into this game and could possibly not walk out with friends are you and Kelly. You both were good friends to me upon entering the game and I never once doubted my friendship with either of you. While Kelly is someone I do like and I appreciate all the help she gave me in the game by voting with me, at the end of the day I can’t really say I respected her for it. I respect her as a person and as a friend, but I did not respect her gameplay. However, Nate, you’re completely different. I respected you as a person and I respected your gameplay. That’s why voting you out was the hardest move to make in the game for me personally, but I knew that if I wanted a chance in making the end that it had to be done because of the way the alliances and connections between people in this game were mapped out.

The round after you were voted out, I think maybe 2 or 3 days after it actually happened, I came on AIM and confronted you. I told you that I didn’t want you to take me voting you out as personal and I didn’t want you and I to fight or dish out personal attacks. That honestly was because I did not want to leave it on bad terms with us and I knew that you were very pissed off; anyone would have been. My move in voting you out was against Nate, not against Wahaj. I know this question didn’t necessarily mention specific names, but I do relate this question to our relationship. If I had to choose between your vote and our friendship, I would choose our friendship, hands down. This game was amazing and I accomplished a great feat in making it here to the end after being a previous winner and having obvious control, but when you look back on all of it .. is it really worth losing a friend you’ve had for 1+ years? It’s not at all. Not. at. all.

The way I played this game does not reflect on me as a person in the real world. I don’t think that at all. The way I played this game was cutthroat, vindictive, manipulative, sly, and controlling. I am not like that in the real world. There’s a boundary between playing an ORG and living your life, and I separate the both. Once I’m voted out or a game ends, my gameplay ends and I return back to who I actually am, and I don’t think I am any of those things. All the times I have spoken to people outside games, I don’t think I’ve had any personal issues or fights. So many examples. The game Amanda and I played in awhile ago, we disliked eachother greatly, but when the game ended, we had an okay conversation and there was no bitterness or resentment on my end. It was actually decent. When Dreamz and I were mortal enemies in BB Derailed. Him and I don’t even fight like that anymore and talk regularly like normal, friendly people. And looking back on our relationship, you and I have never had issues until now. I valued our relationship a lot, and I do hope you know that.

I could sit here and write endless paragraphs of how sorry I am and how much your friendship meant to me and will still mean to me if you’ll have it, and the same goes for Kelly and mine. My gameplay within the walls of this game was not supposed to reflect on who I am outside of eSurvivor. If it happens to end up that way, I am very sorry and that was never my intention. So to close this out, I would chose not to have that person’s vote and would rather work on the friendship that was had between us for so long. A vote and a win in a big game is great and it’s something to be proud of .. but making friends and maintaining relationships are much more important to me when everything is said and done. I respect whatever decision you make when casting your vote Nate, and I really do hope whichever way you vote that we will always talk and be still be friends. That’s all, thanks for reading.

[Ben "Benry" Henry]

May 25, 2011 14:53:37 GMT -5 Nathan "Nate" Gonzalez said:

I have ONE last question for all three of you...

Your in the final 2. the jury is made out of 9 people and so far you expect the votes are 4-4 (and they are) with one person left. That one person left is someone you are/were close to. You have two options. Receive their vote and never talk to them again. Or not receive their vote and move on from the game, and remain friends. In this situation, what would you rather want that person to do? Vote for you so you can win a game? Or not vote for you and work on that friendship?

I'd like an in-depth response, don't expect an essay but something detailed. This is to judge your priorities and see what you hold closer to yourself, the bonds you make, or the amount of games you win. Since my vote is still very up in the air, this will no doubt (if your answer blows me away) sway me to vote for you or against you. This is basically to judge your character as a person. So with that being said, good luck to all three of you.

I too find this an interesting question. I don't even have to think about this one much, I already know the answer just based on the surface level of the question. If the person was my friend and someone I was close to, I would rather remain that way. This is just a game after all. Sure it's great to win the game, it's what we all want...but in a month's time the game will be forgotten by everyone else. Then you are left without a friendship that you potentially have for years. In complete honesty, if the deciding vote was someone I never spoke too - and would probably never speak to them again anyways after the game ended - I would choose their vote. I worked hard in the game and it'd be pointless if they weren't even a friend/someone I would never speak to again. However, that isn't what you asked - but that is the only scenario where I'd take the vote.

But what also makes this question interesting is, how does them voting me = me never speaking to them again? That would have to mean that Juror says.. "Okay I'll vote for you...but if I do..I don't want to ever speak to you again." What kind of friend is that? Would they really never want to talk to you again if they have to vote for you? If that's the case, I don't think they are a true friend to begin with. It's a really odd scenario that would never happen, but I feel like I'd choose the friendship even still. But it would definitely make me question how strong the friendship was. It truly depends on the person. Is there friendship worth it? From playing in this game I definitely would choose nearly everyone but Dreamz over a vote. (I mean there is still some people I don't know well...but it's rude to say you'd never want to get to know them) There is nobody I hate at all leaving this game and I don't want to ever "not" talk to any one of you people again. But that doesn't mean I still don't want to win. Hopefully no Juror would ever think like that, ahah. Whatever the case, I'm not going to despise anyone.

What would be interesting is if this was REAL Survivor, and you threw 1 million dollars into the equation. Would that change the answer for some people? Probably. I know this is hard to imagine, especially since it's an online Survivor game...and you don't even SEE the people. But I know some people I've met that I wouldn't put a price on.


Thank you again!

[Boo Bernis]

May 26, 2011 0:03:24 GMT -5 Ben "Benry" Henry said:

From playing in this game I definitely would choose nearly everyone but Dreamz over a vote.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Benry- 2
Dreamz- -1

[Ashley Massaro]

I have ONE last question for all three of you...

WHY OH WHY!!!!!!!! HAVE WE NOT BEEN TORTURED ENOUGH?!?!!!?

Your in the final 2. the jury is made out of 9 people and so far you expect the votes are 4-4 (and they are) with one person left. That one person left is someone you are/were close to. You have two options. Receive their vote and never talk to them again. Or not receive their vote and move on from the game, and remain friends. In this situation, what would you rather want that person to do? Vote for you so you can win a game? Or not vote for you and work on that friendship?

To me this question doesn't really make sense. The reason why is because why would my friend vote for me to win but not want to talk to me ever again? If they were gonna be like that then I'd rather them just not for me all together. I think it is selfish and childish behaviour, lol. But since you aren't asking me what I think about it but what would I rather do then...

I would definitely work on the friendship. Mainly because you said we were "close" and winning games aren't worth losing a friendship over it. I mean sure you get all the glory and whatnot but it only lasts a day or so. A friendship can last forever. *cues the violins* It would be nice if they would vote for me to win and work on the friendship after I say that because I have voted bitter in one game before and felt super bad (regretted it) because my one vote cost them to lose #_# We did work things out after the game so it's all gravy baby.

Sorry if it isn't that in-depth... I don't like to beat around the bush just get straight to it!

Thanks Nate and good luck with your decision. I hope this is the last question

[Nathan "Nate" Gonzalez]

NO! I have 10824091385098130957135 more questions! Mwahahahaha ;D

[Nathan "Nate" Gonzalez]

Kidding!

Thanks final 3 and good luck, each and every one of you deserve it in your own right but we can all only vote once and there can only be one winner so regardless of the outcome, all three of you should walk out with your heads held high.

[Boo Bernis]

*triumphant music*