Post by erik on Aug 5, 2009 4:02:24 GMT -5
Alright, thank you both for your answers, and having gotten those I am ready to move on to my final question. Yes, this is another long winded rambling, and for that I apologize, but I don’t play very many games so I am taking my responsibility as a juror seriously. This could be my last game ever . The truth is that my previous questions were more or less irrelevant as to whom I actually voted for, but they did help me decide who gets to play my final game.
Joey, you could say you had more of a reason to turn on me than Lorii, although my better judgment might beg to differ. I also think you were a bigger underdog coming into this, knowing fewer people. You overcame more. And you also seem to have had a better hold on strategy throughout the course of the game than your opponent. I have used my questions and your speeches and answers to others to determine which of you is the lesser of two evils, the one I have more hope for, and that title has fallen on you Joey . Lorii, you’re very cool and all, I do hope we still talk after, and I admire the way you have decided to answer these jury questions, with no bullshit! But it is Joey who has sparked my interest in his answer to my final question and that is why he will get the chance to answer since it can only be one of you.
Some of you may remember the old GSN game show Friend or Foe. It was one of my favorites. For anyone unfamiliar with it, basically random teams of two people (that did not know each other) competed against other teams to win money. After each team was eliminated, they had to decide how they would split the money by playing a little game. Both people privately had to choose either FRIEND or FOE. If they both trusted in each other, having known each other for only a brief period, and selected Friend, they would split the money and both walk out winners. If, however, one person selected Friend and the other selected Foe, the Foe took ALL the money and the foolish Friend left with absolutely nothing. If both picked Foe, they both left with absolutely nothing. So, one struggled with the decision of trusting in someone and doing what might seem like the right thing, selecting Friend, and potentially losing everything. Or, they tossed trust to the side, took fate into their own hands, selected Foe, and ensured they would not be screwed over. I think these very principles can be applied to Survivor in many ways. Joey and Lorii, while maybe liking some people they’d worked with, chose Foe. They didn’t wait to see if people held true to their word, they chose the route that would guarantee them success, and it obviously paid off for them. I, however, chose friend. I trusted in those I felt close to and allowed myself to be taken advantage of when that trust went unreciprocated. That’s not to say they didn’t WANT to trust me maybe, but in this ridiculously hard to predict game of Survivor, they chose to look out for themselves and take the Foe route.
That being said, my fiiiiinal game will be a game of Friend or Foe! Joey, you have stated over and over that you really do appreciate our friendship and like me as a person, but it’s hard for me to believe that really when we’re still in the game and when you seemed to have chosen your wellness in the game over our friendship. Maybe you never intended it that way, and maybe it’s not true at all, but it is something I intend to find out with my Jury vote. Quite frankly, I don’t care who wins between you and Lorii as you are both pretty equal in my book. My interest, however, has been peaked, and I would like to use this prime opportunity to figure something out about you Joey that I’m dying to know but wont ever get another opportunity to find out should we remain friends.
I am telling you right now that if this game means more to you than our friendship, then I don’t want to be friends. I am going back to college soon and I need to know whether or not what we have is worth it. I know there are at least a few people who wouldn’t put this game over my friendship with them, and that means a lot, and I intend to stay in close contact with those people. The sad truth about ORGs is that often enough, we do lose contact and friendships with people we just seemed so close to during the game. RB and I used to be just the best of friends, and look what happened to us? Haha. So, all that considered, am I really worth it Joey?
I am asking you to choose FRIEND….or FOE.
Should you choose Friend, then I will NOT vote for you. I will vote for Lorii. But you will gain my respect back and my friendship after this is over. I do like you Joey, I think you’re fun to talk to, but I need to know the answer to this question if I am ever going to trust you again. And for me, trust is everything.
Should you choose Foe, then I will absolutely, 100% vote for you to win this game. The consequences of this choice, however, are that you are basically declaring that the game is more important than our friendship and when this is done and over, we will not be friends. Do not talk to me. I will vote for you, we will part ways forever, and I will try to forget that the entire waste of time that was every moment I spent talking to you ever happened. When I make a promise, I mean it, and I am promising you my vote if you just let me know that what we have isn’t worth it, sparing me the trouble of caring and wondering about it myself. I believe the set up of this question forces you to be absolutely truthful, and that is what I want. My vote is a bargaining chip in figuring out the absolute truth, something we all too often don’t get to see .
If you choose not to answer or somehow avoid giving a decisive answer, then you will lose both my friendship and my vote. I think this is a pretty cut and dry situation, and anything but the words “FRIEND” or “FOE” would just be a cop out, which is almost just as disappointing as you choosing Foe considering the nature of the question. If you can't definitely tell me FRIEND then the game obviously means more to you =P.
I would like for you to PM the answer to this question to me. I think this is between us, and I don’t intend to let everyone know how you’ve answered or how I’m voting until the finale. You can keep it as simple as just sending me the word “Friend” or “Foe”, or if you’d like, an accompanying explanation would be cool too.
Thanks Joey, and good luck Lorii on whatever he decides.
-Erik