Lurker > Surskit

Cook Islands has some of the most blatantly terrible editing in Survivor, especially for an old school season. It should be in the pits among the worst of Survivor.
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fiji below cook islands lol k
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Sounds to me like the game is that bad. It's just in the so bad it's good territory.
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Definitely Christania is the best. But I'd rent a bike (if the weather allows it) and just check out as much as possible. The city is small but very pretty. I really enjoyed exploring the different parks. I also loved Frederiksborg Castle, which is maybe 30-45 minutes away from Copenhagen on the train but so very worth it. Hillerod in general is beautiful. I remember going to the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde which was very very awesome. Denmark is the best, a few days will not be enough.

I would have to dig deeper to remember some of of the specifics, it's been almost four years now haha. But you can't go wrong with Copenhagen in general!
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I thought about doing the preorders but decided against it since I thought they were more likely to be cancelled. Go figure...
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I just got Odyssey cancelled, but I didn't put that one on expedited shipping. I suspect they will cancel Zelda as well, it is currently "backordered". The Switch itself already shipped though.
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oh just kidding, it just shipped
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Not cancelled yet, but no shipping confirmation either. We will see!
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I just bought a Switch with Oddyssey and Zelda for under $200. I'm not holding my breath this will go through but hey.
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Dunno if it counts but JINJO! WEEEEEEEEEEE!! still haunts me.
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This... looks pretty boring. I'm not a big fan of this aesthetic either, but Pokemon has been going down this route for a while. I think they had nailed it during BW.

edit. I had to laugh at "Your partner Pokemon can be male or female!!" as if it was such an incredible innovation.
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aww yeah croatia
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Reactions videos are never natural tho
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there are some very misguided people who like RI because of rob's ability to herd zombies and nat10's ass, I guess
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I saw the musical on Broadway a few years ago. It was very good. The sets were particularly amazing.

edit. Of course, your mileage may vary depending on whether you enjoy musicals in the first place. The fact they sing literally everything may be off-putting to some.
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Why is she hugging those blades tho
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GSC Route 27:

I think this was the song that played when you were first going to Kanto and my child mind was so completely blown away.
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FlyingForever posted...

South American teams are the absolute worst for this like why. I love the people but their style of soccer is sad

South American games are so much fun though, wut.
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It makes sense for ratings to drop, many people are watching for their teams and usually the giant teams have more fans.
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Meet the Robinsons would be fuuuun but I'm one of the few who likes that movie and universe a lot.
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wow, damn.

fine, SK, you win. I'll start listening to K-Pop.
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FFTA is amazing btw
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People wanted Harry/Ginny? Weird.There's very little chemistry there imo.
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Nelson_Mandela posted...

Do threesomes count

You're not cheating on your partner if they are right there (or consented in the case of an open relationship).
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mrduckbear posted...

unfortunately, Joe MISSED it and it fell to the floor but sadly he squashed it after

I can't tell if I'm supposed to be team Joe or team spider now.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

It isnt blaming the victim to tell someone theyre in charge of their own life. If you stay in a bad relationship for money, you made the choice to stay.

this is really weird coming from someone who has been open about their own struggles with mental health.

also TIL you can't date a person with money unless it's for the money. she specifically talks about how this isn't the case but go off, you would know better.
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Nanis23 posted...

same goes for women that dress like whores

lol
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The AI is pretty damn good at the button mashers tbh.
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hell yeah at this being back!

Oman screwing Mexico and England, if only that actually happened.
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Emil

seeing him here made me lol
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legs for days though! them thighs are looking thick.
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the general extending his hand and trump saluting lmfao
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Amy is fantastic.
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Domenick never had a winner's edit though, especially relative to Wendell.
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Most people haven't played the first one and I don't blame them.
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I don't think Kelley was fodder, actually. She was both a production darling and had strong support from fans. I think they expected her to make it on more than they expected someone like PG or T-Bird to ever make it.
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The ballot was already pretty stacked tbh, I don't know why you'd want to see more of your faves not make it. T-Bird and Shane getting robbed was enough, I don't need to see Dawson stuck in there as fodder so I can spend the next decade fantasizing that production cares about her.
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You think production thought Stephanie Valencia or Nat10 would get audience voted? They were obvious fodder and they needed the usual bikini fodder anyway (thanks Monica!). Truth is production had a cast in mind and probably 16 out of the 20 players they knew would 100% get audience-voted. It was more of a stunt than anything else, and it totally worked considering the Cambodia hype was absolutely bonkers.

Redemption Island sucked but after one season, you can't just assume it's because of the twist. I don't find it outrageous to give the twist a fair shake, and in all fairness, RI gave us some of the best moments of BvW. I think it's a shitty game-breaking twist but I don't blame production for trying to experiment. The show's presentation is imo what has suffered the most in the past few years and is the real negative legacy of Cambodia; the shift in editing and the choice of narratives has had a palpable impact. The age of big moves had been brewing for a long time before Cambodia, and if you really want to blame someone, blame Russell and the audience reception to him.

And yes, production has something they like, but they like it because they think it'll sell. That's how it works.

edit. We will not have RC libel in this topic btw.
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eaedwards6400 posted...

And once they realized that the advantages have caused them to be frozen with fear with their moves as opposed to incentivise them to make more moves the show will correct course

I don't know about thaaaat. They are scared of idols so the solution is to have more idols/advantages to counteract them. It's basically how people are playing Survivor now; almost every move starts with "I have this advantage/idol, so now I can do x". I haven't seen a move like Aubry flipping Tai in Kaoh Rong in a while, and even then, it's less flashy and thus less likely to be rewarded. Pulling out an item during Tribal looks good, production knows it's exciting, and so they are making sure those moves are rewarded.
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While I think Cambodia and its positive reception confirmed to production that the direction they had planned going in (and were already going in, especially after Cagayan) was the right one, I actually think their idea of good television is just fundamentally different from Inviso's (or mine, for that matter). Everything they do nowadays is meant to either increase the incentive to pull off moves/shake up the game or to reward flashier gameplay that makes for that idea of better television. One way to ensure players will keep making such moves is to ensure the jury rewards players for those moves. I always go back to that question Jeff tacked on at the end of the MvGX reunion, when he basically forced Michelle to say emotional juries suck and that big moves are life. They've been forcing that narrative because they think it's the best way to keep the show from becoming stale.

Every new twist basically boils down to "how can we make the players more likely to shake up the game?". Give them a set of pointers during final tribal so they focus on what production wants them to focus on. Reward players for taking risks. Give the big threats more wiggling room by having advantages and idols that can keep them safe. Create a fire-making challenge so that those big threats have a fighting chance into the F3 even if they failed to win immunity; voting out the big threat at F5 is harder than at F4 since the more numbers, the more moving parts. So on and so forth. Ultimately, I think their twists are meant to stop players like Kaoh Rong Michele from ever winning again, because it goes completely against their ideal narrative. And really, I think they were hoping Chrissy would win last season -- the entire HHH reunion was basically damage control in an attempt to make Ben's game look less terrible than it was.

Ghost Island was rather experimental and they're probably aware it didn't quite work; the audience reception was mostly negative and it was pretty obvious the editors were struggling for storylines. Most of the cast was completely inconsequential and had no role in the story. They basically went haywire with advantages and twists, and it didn't pay off because the same alliance kept getting all the advantages. I assume the next thing they'll start thinking about is how they can ensure a more diverse pool of players can get those advantages. And as much as I wish I could justify character > strategy, it's clear most people don't watch Survivor that way. The fan favorite this season was someone with less personality than Joe Anglim, if you can believe it, and all we learned about him was that he's young and he likes Survivor.
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Madison is a strong young woman and wasn't expecting all of the media attention she has garnered from all of this. But she is happy with the amount of followers she is getting on Instagram.

lmfao
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Inviso posted...

eaedwards6400 posted...

God the negativity is palpable here. It's not that serious and yet we complain about every little thing. I said before that I understand but I'm not sure I really do. There is very little we can do to control what is happening here and while Survivor is my favorite show to watch I'm not going to get that bent out of shape out of the show's format. Any survivor is good. It's really not worth the intensity of the reactions it is getting. There are more important things.

If a show we love is going down a terrible path, why shouldn't we openly criticize it? You think the fans should've just sighed and accepted Redemption Island, and been HAPPY when South Pacific came out immediately afterward, with the same bad twists?

You can only be upset about one thing at a time obviously.

Like people literally come to this board to discuss online popularity contests and rank waifus but you better act all grand when somebody takes 10 minutes to rant about the direction one of their favorite shows has been going in, lol.
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I thought Seb was righteous as hell, drunk or not. Dom saying being a total dick is a performance is bad jury management, and really, I'm beyond surprised these people didn't think for a hot second that maybe Dom had no reason to act so defensive at F6 in the first place if he really had two idols. The age of big moves has fucked Survivor and apparently now we should all just forgive bad social moves because ~strategy~? Naw bro. I'm glad Domenick's idiotic move wasn't validated by the late jurors. The cognitive dissonance required for these people to spew buzzwords about social game while simultaneously applauding evident social faux pases is ridiculous; being a good social player doesn't mean and has never meant to just be nice to people. Jury management is at the heart of social gameplay and Dom blew it, hard.

The new jury format is embarrassing and lent itself to four jurors being invisible at FTC so we could hear Michael jerk himself off for five minutes. Sad.

I won't even start with the reunion but this has solidified that reunions should be skipped and only watched for the next season's promo so you can cringe at the new theme.
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Underleveled posted...

Boob

paramore twitter?
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now you can get bullied and shot during extracurriculars instead aww yeah
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Morgana is great tbh, I can't believe people take issue with things like him telling you to go to bed when it makes literally no difference since the game would have made you do it one way or another, you are all pretty flaky.

Maybe using the Japanese audio helped here because his lines never annoyed me either. I actually missed him when Futaba took over, I thought he was much better.
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Beef > Chicken > Pork

Nothing beats a good steak. Rotisserie chicken is life. Pork is great in certain formats but for the most part I can live without it, especially since I'm not a bacon person.
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I have no idea but I just saw All That Jazz a few days ago and the entire ending sequence is brilliant.
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Ages is more difficult and has more complex puzzles (some of them downright ridiculous, let's be real), so I'd start with Seasons tbh.
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but is she hot??
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