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Jimmy [Pompeii Tribe]
Hello out there! I'm Jimmy and I'm excited to be playing Pokepat's Survivor: Italy! I've never met Pokepat so this is a way I can get to know some new people on tengaged as well as have some fun doing it!
I used to be known as Jacadu, but got banned and it took me a while to decide I wanted to return. Now that I'm back, I was bored only playing fastings and a particularly long yet inactive castings. So I went around applying for various group games. I applied thinking I'd get denied most of them, but to my surprise, I was accepted into three! Now I'm overcommitted but that's ok. I'm normally an extremely balls-to-the wall play every competition as if your life depends on it, and I've long needed to learn another strategy. So I'm going to make every attempt to play this game more subtly. I'm going to try to hold back on what I say to the other players, and I'm going to try to not come in first place in every competition I'm in. I'm going to work on my social game, and I'm going to try to force myself to do it this time.
So I'm looking at team Pompeii (a most inauspicious team name I might add) and trying to figure out who I might want to work with. Immediately I see Ryan and Emmett. Both are people who I've worked with in the past on things like Survivor and Charities. Truthfully, I've not spent much time getting to know them as people which is what I'm going to spend this game making an effort to do. I got advice from someone who has won a lot of stars and he recommends that I maybe NOT restrict myself to talking about only the current game and strategies. I need to get to know people on a personal level and that is so NOT what I know how to do. I'm a natural recluse and introvert. Why do y'all think I'm online for? LOL. On top of that, I find that I'm a generation out of date with most of the kids on Tengaged, leaving me with little common ground to work with. Oh, you love Adele? Great! I like 80's hair metal, let's work together. Nope. LOL. But I'll never make it to the end of one of these group games unless I get people to WANT to take me. People don't want to take outstanding competitors and trying to win your way to the end is exhausting. I've tried. But I digress. Another person I see that I could work with is Cameron. I'm already talking with Ryan, and hopefully we can assemble a majority alliance before it's too late. I'm gonna try and play this low key though, so no matter how much it drives me crazy that people aren't reaching out and talking to me, I'm going to try to keep my lips buttoned and take a more "wait and see" attitude. The paranoia freak in me absolutely expects to get targeted if I don't actively and forcefully try to move my own game forward. But this game is an experiment. I'm going to try to actually get to know people instead of focusing on strategy. I don't know how that'll go, but it's something to try anyway. The question for me is which is harder? Holding back on the competitions or getting to know people. It's a tossup.
The flyer states that there is both the first competition and the first tribal tonight. This could be a very short game! The first few events should be very revealing. Can't wait.
