Before you post hate or neg this, please read IN ITS ENTIRETY, I'm trying to do something positive with the negativity I'm gonna get!!
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CHARITY PORTION:
I'm not posting this to get any kind of support, it's actually the opposite. I know over the better part of a decade I've been completely insane. Today I'm using this to turn some of the hate I'm surely going to get into something good. I want to make this as short as possible so I'm just going to get into it.
Below this blurb / gameplay post, I am going to post three charities and their descriptions. Please read them and vote in the comments below for which you want to receive a donation. For every vote for me to win in the pollbox, I will donate $0.50 to the charity with the most votes. For every vote AGAINST me I will donate $1. I want to be able to do something good with the hate that I know is coming. I deserve (most of) it.
If I do somehow win, I'll count the votes for me as $1 also, I'm just not expecting it and don't want to buy votes. ALSO I would like to kindly ask koolness234, CheapCheep, or brandonpinzu that if I don't post proof of my donation that you permanently ban me for scamming or something.
I will be deleting any comments that do not contain a charity vote, because it means you didn't read this, so please be sure to vote for one of them!
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GAMEPLAY PORTION:
I joined this game knowing I was at the peak of unpopularity and that it would absolutely play to my advantage in the game. I saw KingB24 enroll and knew he hadn't ever won a stars, so I joined initially with the intent of helping him get a win. I made a F2 with him because I figured that at least if he went up with me he would survive and have a better chance at winning. Chase and Daniel would be the only two people I didn't ever nominate in the game and 2 of 4 nominations that didn't go my way. The other two were Sterling going up against Daniel, and Crimson going up for 4th.
The beginning part of the game was extremely easy. Seven of us made an "old school alliance" and the other 9 were never organized enough to do anything against us. We controlled every vote of the early part of the game. Things turned into a mess when the 6 of us turned against Julian for 11th. After that it was every man for themselves and I had to completely pivot my gameplay. When Sterling and Daniel went up for 10th and was the only nomination I had absolutely no influence over, I realized I had to play for myself and basically say fuck everyone else. I usually play every single game with 100% honesty. I realize a lot of times that people don't actually want honesty, so this game I decided to go back to my 2011 ways and lie to everyone at all times.
My best move in my opinion came at the 7th place nomination. It was day change and Chase had just been evicted. The vote was seemingly 4-4 for the seventh place noms. Realizing this and realizing Chase would not be a number the next day, I saw the writing on the wall. If Ray and I didn't go up for 7th, we likely would for 6th when we lost numbers. I was playing to go unnommed so there was no way I could let that happen, so I nominated Ray knowing that it would take away an option to put me up with. People would be way more reluctant to put me up with any popularity threat. For sixth my option was to either nominate Sean or Crimson against brosky. I chose Crimson because I was more afraid that if I did Sean, he or Sterling or both would turn against me for fifth. I thought Crimson going up was easily explainable so I switched my vote to him before going to bed. For fifth place I was going to renom brosky had he stayed, but when Crimson beat him I realized I had to keep him safe because he was the most likely to let me go unnommed. I put Sterling up instead at the last minute (literally with 40 seconds left in the day) because I realized if he got evicted him and Crimson both keeping me safe would likely be enough to let me go unnommed.
Everything I did was a HUGE risk and I was constantly making calculations of votes to see what was the most likely path to let me go unnommed. In the end it worked and I couldn't be happier with my gameplay. I know that no one really cares about stars and no one really votes on gameplay most times, but this wasn't ever my game to win in my head. I was playing for myself to prove I could still go unnommed one more time...and I did. I'm happy with how this game went no matter how it ends, even if I am a little disappointed with what my final percentage will likely be.
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CHARITIES:
A) Fair Fight - Stacey Abrams' PAC in Georgia that encourages participation in elections, educates voters about elections and voting rights, and brings awareness to the public on election reform, advocates for election reform at all levels, and engages in other voter education programs and communications https://fairfight.com/about-fair-fight/
B) The Okra Project - The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans People wherever we can reach them. https://www.theokraproject.com/
C) Save Uighur - The Save Uighur Campaign is an educational and advocacy project aimed at raising public awareness and resolve to help the Uighur people. The project is a concerted effort to tie media exposure, public relations, and government action together into a single strategy aimed at the liberation of the Uighurs from the oppression they face. https://www.saveuighur.org/about/
