UGHHHHHH

COACH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO



Ughhh.


More later.

Anyway, waiting for 4 at Oasis? An endurance? 2 winners winning safety?

Oh yeah. This is probably the big one.

I'm worried, though. Endurance is not my cup of tea. I'm not sure the best time I've ever done, but it wasn't much. I'm a hard and fast kind of girl when it comes to challenges, I guess. I usually can speed over anything. I can post a lot of things. I can do puzzles, mazes. I can try passwords and counting and I'm a pretty good strategist but I can't do endurance. I get so bored!

Like, my TV is broken right now. So what am I even going to do?!

Ugh. I guess I can watch DVDs or something. Or let's plays. Get a two computer setup going or work out some multi windows. There is a let's play series I wanted to catch up on...

I don't know. I don't think I'm going to do too well with this. We'll see. I have a massively busy day today, though, and possibly tomorrow as well. So it'll have to be an all nighter?

I wonder how hard Joanna can go? Or Coach? Or whoever #4 is going to be.

Hopefully they are bad.

Oh right, also I'm annoyed at Coach for making our "alliance" public knowledge since I think two are returning. If he and I are the two, that puts targets on us whereas I don't think I would have had as much of one. I was totally going to work with him, but I also can and probably will play out up as a free agent if I get back in. So Coach is kinda running my game?

It's fun though. He's fun. It's just annoying. I want back in this goddamn game. I don't want to go to prejury. And I don't want to walk into a revolving door, either.

But, gotta win to even get a chance at that! So maybe I'm over thinking things.

I need to start finding shit to do tonight. It's going to be a long one.... Hopefully.

So here's something that's going to complicate my chances of going hard on this one. I'm going to be busy until pretty much almost midnight tonight so I probably can't start until after that point. But tomorrow morning, I need to go to the DMV and get a photo ID taken. Probably go at like... 10? So thats a ten hour window at best, unless I can keep posting all the way to the DMV and during the wait. I'm not driving so thats theoretically possible? its not like I don't have a serious phone addiction anyway so its not really that weird.

BUT that means pulling an all nighter and looking like a crazed psycho on my ID. I probably will anyway, but still.

Honestly I don't think that'll work. 2's been like my limit for the past week. IK could maybe push that to 4 if I don't fall into the trap of switching to laptop or phone and laying down.

So it looks like my possible time on this challenge will max out at 4 hours. Short enough to be unlikely to win, long enough to be worth a try regardless.

oh man I just discovered something that makes posting challenges even easier. Just needed to say that. It's not gonna help me with this one.

Ooooh shit!! I totally missed the attempts forums thing. That changes everything. It's public and has a social element. That's so neat!

But it makes things harder because I want to keep Coach in and I don't know Joanna's email with him? But there's only 3 of us, right? So I just need to beat one of them... :/

God that sucks. I dunno what to do. I guess I can try to do tower b ASAP and kind of force Coach's hand. I really don't know.

I definitely can't build a rival tower until after midnight so attempting now is a little silly.

I'm programming a simple Java program to translate post count in the threads into their max times so I don't have to spend an extra minute guesstimating it myself. This laziness will turn me into a great programmer someday.

I could also do this in in an Excel form or a google sheets but I'm practicing okay

Ew so I'm running late, my phone needs major updates, and I'm feeling pretty tired! I'll just have to try my best. Aiming for 3 hours I think. Any more and I just can't stay up probably.

Man I wish I was playing video games instead.

Good news is 3 hours is a longer time than the others have so far, and I MIGHT have a chance tomorrow? I'm less certain though.

I REALLY hope that my double post doesn't cost me. It's the reason I'm going to stop at 4, I think. I don't really know how to handle that, but DAMN. Like... I can DO this. Like, I'm bad at endurance normally but I have a system and it's going SUPER WELL. 5 minutes is the perfect time in-between. I could do this all night without fault... minus that double post. I was scared to start but I really could have earlier too, because this is so smooth right now.

I'm watching Gabon! Among other stuff. I made my program too but just realized it's off by a little bit. Easy fix though. In fact while writing this I just fixed it.

I think I'll stop at about 4 though. That's not as long as I had hoped to do, but I started late, and I can only tolerate so much of this. Plus I have to go to the DMV in the morning.

I think I'll be fine in this. My time will be just good enough that they won't waste their time trying to one-up me when they can one-up each other's lesser times I think. I'm also totally going to align with whichever of them survive, while Joanna and Coach probably wouldn't work together, so I'm more valuable. I'm also not making any moves against the others really. I went for the board where Coach hadn't gone, and where Joanna's lower attempt was. And I think Coach didn't end up matching her attempt? Maybe?

Whatever, I think I'm sitting at least slightly pretty in this. I might actually prefer to return with Joanna, depending on what people think of Coach. I love the guy, but there is the potential for him to drag me down if he's unpopular, while I think Joanna is simply non-threatening enough that people viewed her as an easy target early on. And I guess she has a kind of shady way about her, but I think she could float at merge, while Coach might sink. Personally, I hope to swim any way I have to to get where I need to go. A floater helps me more in some cases, but I might also need Coach and his connections, good and bad, as an anchor. Joanna will probably ride the currents even if they lead away from where we need to go.

Whoever returns with me is my ideal f2, so this is all pretty important. I highly doubt we both make it, if we even both return, but the best way to fight against the stigma of being a prejury returnee is to go to the end with a prejury returnee.


...

Am I really thinking about endgame right now? Holy shit what is wrong with me? I was the second boot of this game and now I'm really thinking about my argument to win? Am I really this arrogant? And did "I could beat either of them" REALLY just roll into my head?

THAT IS THE MOST DELUSIONAL THOUGHT I HAVE EVER HAD.

I'm constantly thinking and thinking about what my strategy at this merge is going to be, if I make it, and I'm just getting so far ahead of myself. Literally my only two connections are sitting next to me. I literally did one challenge good. Then I did one challenge bad. Then I beat an inactive by distributing my coins, and he didn't. Then I voted out a single person. I'm getting so far ahead of myself. I'm not even close to winning. I'm just imagining the ideal world where I am.

I think that ideal world is possible, though. I have a lot of catching up to do, but being tossed into the merge won't put me in a bad position, especially as such an early boot.

I'm untethered. A perfect free agent. And while vote-out-the-free-agent is a valid and tempting strategy, I don't think it's the most likely. Especially not if there are two.

There also might not be two. This might not be the return, and that's a troubling possibility. I feel like I'm miscalculating somewhere.



I don't know it's 4am and I needed to do something active/productive besides watching Gabon, so I decided to ramble on in here.

Anyway, I'll probably go just a bit longer, and then I'm done. I'm out of drinks and my phone is still updating (forgot to click the button oops) so leaving the room is a risk. I can definitely go longer, but maybe I shouldn't. I have a lot to do tomorrow.

Anyway, whatever happens, this endurance has actually been kinda fun! Like, not really, but... kind of? This setup is really working for me. 10/10.

lol there's still a PM from Sandra I haven't even read.

dat social game tho



me:
-Never on AIM
-100% deal breaking record
-2nd boot
-doesn't even read PMs
-stops responding mid convo
-literally the worst
-thinks she can win the title of Sole Survivor

Oh man I think I'm done.

Like, mentally. Not exhausted or anything, I just keep looking at my clock and standing up like I have somewhere to be, only to sheepishly sit myself back down.

AHHHHHHH F11 NO BAD NOOOO

I hit F11 while I was typing and it made this screen the big screen and then i couldnt undo because i hit F12 and the developer tools came up so it was full screen and developer kit and my counter was ALMOST UP!!!!!!!!

I think I really am done. Next post last post.

Kinda low key feel like Coach is going to one up my time. If he does I'm gonna join the next game I see and just be a dick to let go of all this merge prep energy I'm feeling. I'm so hype for free agent gameplay you have no idea.

Yet I still need to win Oasis to get there....