Staff Questions

[nicole]

Hey, Amy! Welcome to BB: Rise & Fall 13! Please answer these questions when you get the chance. Thank you for applying and we hope you have a great time.

1. This is the [un]lucky 13th season. What twists do you expect to happen? 

2. How does not being allowed to use AIM, as of now, affect you and your strategy? Why do you think only posting on the boards and PMing is allowed?  

3. Have you communicated with anyone yet? Who has made good first impressions, either through the board or PMs? Who has made bad impressions? 

4. Did you enter the game with a set strategy? If so, (how) has it changed now that the game has officially begun and you've probably met some of the cast? 

5. What kind of player would you consider yourself? (The hero, the villain, the socialite, the competitor, well-rounded, etc...?) 

6. What are your strengths and weaknesses as a player? 

7. What are your pet peeves in people? Are there any kind of players that just really grind your gears? Would you target them automatically or try to work past these differences? 

8. (Why) do you think you have what it takes to win Big Brother: Rise & Fall 13? 

9. Anything else you'd like to add before your journey for the victory begins?


Keep an eye out for this thread, because Staff may periodically pop in to ask questions or converse with you. Thank you and we wish you the best of luck this season!

[amy]

God. So many questions. OK let's kick this shit off.

1. Julie Chen told me to expect the unexpected so I'm gonna do that. I don't have a ton of BB background knowledge to draw on though so it's tough for me to speculate anyways. I'm just gonna roll with it. I find I do better when I let the twists come to me than to try and obsess over every possible detail, because you can't control everything.

2. Well I have a notoriously bad history of setting up AIMS so I hope that doesn't follow me into this game. Talking through PMs is weird but it slows the pace down which works well for someone like me I think. As for the twist, again, I have no idea and it's probably best if I just make pleasant chit chat and let the game happen as it will happen for now.

3. Porsche reached out to me. We bonded over our relative inexperience with BB. She seems very nice and I think she could be a good ally. David is clearly someone who is gonna be an active force. So I'm trying to buddy up to him and I'd like him to think of me as a dumb blonde ally if I can manage it. He seems pleasant enough though. I'll try and reach out to some other people slowly as we go. I wanna be somewhat active but not throwing myself out there like a damn hurricane.

4. My strategy is to be moderately active, funny, play up my inexperience, get people to underestimate me and trust me with their friendship and hopefully alliances and eventually stab them in the throat to win. Whether that will work I have no idea. I think this strategy will allow me to be fairly adaptable along the way. Get people to laugh and like you, and respect you but not fear you, and you will be in a very ideal spot.

5. I've been a hero and a villain. I'm always a competitor but I try to keep that side of me under wraps. I think at my core I am very self-interested and a schemer but my ideal scheme is always to do what's easiest and simplest and keep word where I can. No idea how well that may work in this game.

6. I'm very smart and cerebral but I don't know Big Brother nearly as well as I know Survivor so that might not be as much of an advantage. I will try to turn the weakness of lack of knowledge into a strength though, and get people to underestimate me. I'm not very social but I am generally regarded by other players as funny and I usually end up making a fair amount of friends so hopefully I can do alright here.

7. Pet peeves are idiots and people who think they are above you. But I never limit the pool of people I will work with. As far as I am concerned the only things that matter are whether you are loyal to me, whether you will try to get me out, and eventually whether I can beat you. But I do prefer to work with people who amuse me.

8. I'm smart, motivated, strategic, I can be entertaining, and I think I can find the right balance of threat and non-threat to slip to the end. But who knows! Finding out if I can do this will be the exciting part.

9. I'll do my best to give funnier and less gamey DR's in the future and I promise you all that, regardless of results I will do my best and try to give myself and you all some laughs and fun along the way.

[amy]

Also I have never played as a female alias before so no telling how this will go. The odds of me going the whole game without revealing I am a dude are slim to none. I'm not sure if anybody in this game would actually be able to bust my alias so I'm just gonna keep it vague with young, college student on the east coast. I'm being honest about how much BB I've watched but I don't want anyone to know the depths of my Survivor obsession either. We'll play the alias game by ear. I like getting into character so I'm going all in on the "Booze Crews" alter ego whenever I can. I'll try and play up the southern belle angle if I can as well. God knows I have more than enough experience with the real deal in my actual life.

I debated whether I wanted to go full on "Whistle Dixie, the South shall rise again" southerner in my schtick game but that would probably turn more people off than make them laugh. Also, nobody wants to be the person who implies the Confederacy did nothing wrong.

[amy]

Welp it looks like we are really playing now! For right now I just wanna talk to everyone and be friendly with everyone. I want people to think of me as somebody they would enjoy to be around and who will play with them. I imagine some people will vote based on activity so obviously being active will be an asset as well. I think I can survive a vote like this but we shall see!

[amy]

OK judgments on the cast before I vote at some point down the night-

Austin: Knowledgeable, good to talk to. He's a last minute replacement who doesn't suck so I would not be surprised if he's a veteran of this series or at least of these sorts of games. He's being open with me pretty quickly as well so I like him.

Clay: Boring as shit. God conversations with the Cowboy make me want to shoot myself. I was gonna vote for somebody I hadn't talked to but Clay is practically begging for me to say his name right now. Tough call.

Cody: Haven't talked to him yet.

David: Definitely gonna be a big time player. Reminds me of Dreamz from Twisted. Big alpha personality who can't make it to the end because he gets too big of a target but a good guy all around. I'd definitely like to ally with him for sure. He's the definition of a good meat shield.

Janelle: Meh. I hope she gets better because I love the real Janelle.

Jen: Admitted she is better on AIM which I can see. Still, she's a pretty good conversation carrier on PM regardless and I like her gif usage. She definitely has potential as an ally.

Kaitlin: Haven't talked to her. Probably leaning toward voting for her right now since she seems less active than Cody and Porsche said she hadn't talked to her either. But also Cowboy exists. Choices. I have them.

Louise: I mostly like Louise. I like her energy even though sometimes reading her messages gives me a headache. English grammar motherfucker do you use it!?

Mark: Our convo started well enough but quickly fizzled. I'm willing to give him another chance but for right now........meh

Marvin: Marvin is the bomb. Hopefully we can talk about something of substance eventually but for right now he is making me laugh which is A-OK

Porsche: She's a sweetheart and I really like her so far. Another Survivor fan. I'm a bit wary of the Survivor fans since they're the most likely to possibly have played a game with me before and bust my alias. Porsche in particular just feels like someone I may have met before but I can't quite put my finger on it. Either way if I had to choose one ally right now I'd choose her.

Sarah: Another Survivor fan. I haven't talked with her as much as Porsche but I feel like I'm on a similar page with her. I think she's smart and I'd like to work with her.

Will: Definitely the superfan and the dude with the knowledge here. Him and David look liable to be the big strategy buffs this season. I'd love to have him along for the Booze Crews as another meat shield but we'll see how it goes.

Overall I like the cast, I think I'm off to a well enough start and we'll see how this turns out. I'll have my vote a little bit closer to deadline.

[amy]

OK I'm officially voting for Kaitlyn. Not sure if this is the right place to put this but whatever. Hopefully this all turns out OK.

[amy]

The Head of Household would be the only person who voted for me. Fuck.

[amy]

So that was a poor 24 hour period to be stuck having to write a paper and tend to other commitments instead of play Big Brother. Hopefully I have the social connections to get me through this. Even if I lose the veto I feel like I have enough social capital to hopefully swing votes away from Cowboy. I'm not afraid of being nominated and who knows maybe this can play to my advantage?

Right now i trust Porsche 100% and Marvin greater than 90%. I primarily want to target David, Louise, Mark, and Jen specifically on AIM and try and lock up those votes. I'm also working on damage control with Kaitlin. I barely understand how this veto works so I'm not gonna bank on that shit at all. If I don't come in last it will be a miracle so to survive this nomination it is social game or bust.

Will report back later with a hopefully more positive outlook.

[amy]

Also I'm online and can do the challenge for about the next hour. Then I'll be available again when I get out of class around 3:30. Thanks fam.

[Ika]

Hi Amy,


Sorry your on the block so soon hope everything goes your way... kisses


OH,

One more thing hun why don't you create another thread for your daily thoughts. .

[amy]

Thanks! If I survive this round I'll make another thread. Consider this my Round 1 thread lol

[amy]

[amy]

Nope that is wrong

[amy]

That POV challenge can go eat a dick. Right now I am mostly just hoping Clay doesn't win because I believe I can beat Clay in a vote and I don't wanna chance me having to go up against somebody with more friends. I feel like if nothing changes I will be OK. If not, then it's a bit more dicey.

[amy]

David said he wouldn't veto me but he would campaign for me to stay. If he's not lying (and I don't see why he would go so far as to lie about that) then that works really well for me I think. I know I have Porsche and Marvin and Sarah as well so if that became an actual alliance that would be pretty nice. I think I have Jen as well. Hopefully Cody and Louise but not sure there. Anyways, I think I should be OK to beat Cowboy.

The biggest danger is some group deciding to take me out to weaken David. A "pawn going home" type situation. So I just need to make sure to be my old wonderful self to make sure that doesn't happen.