Survivor: Wes Anderson
Confessionals => Oracle => Topic started by: Oracle on October 06, 2021, 08:50:35 am
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Okay seriously screw the mods for saying this wouldn’t matter and was for flavor only.
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It is flavor only! It’s just flavorful window dressing and isn’t in the same subforum as the questioning.
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Like literally if I knew this was the first thing a jury would see I wouldn’t have mentioned anything about my game in it. Kiiiiiiinda pisssed haha.
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Okay huh, that banner actually turned out better than I thought it would. Time to pull a speech out of my behind.
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Lordy my initial draft is 7600 words.
How in the fuck am I supposed to condense this all into 2000 words or less?
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*cracks knuckles* okay time to figure this out. Since I work all day tomorrow I have to get this done tonight.
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Okay I've cut it down to 4800 words. Progress folks, progress. Now I have to start thinking about actual parts of the speech to cut out which is always dangerous.
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Down to 3500 words. And now I'm starting to hate my entire speech because it's losing all of the personality and sounding like a robot wrote it.
I'm going to step away for a bit and then likely I'm going to rewrite it without the play by play. I don't think I can make this any shorter in it's current form without literally taking away the intent of what I want. I think I'm going to try a different approach.
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Okay I rewrote about half the speech and it's now down to 3300 words.
I already feel like this is going to be better received than what I wrote before. So now it's just a matter of condensing a bit more. I think I'll be done soon with this.
It's not perfect but let me tell you it's hard to convey what I want to express in 2000 words or less!
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Okay I'm down to 2950. I just have to cut 950 more words.
Why couldn't this be a 3000 word limit *cries in dog*
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Down to 2450. I'm getting there. Going to have to figure out what cuts to make tomorrow. I need sleep. Fuck I'm debating taking a sick day tomorrow. I won't be able to think about work with this beginning.
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2260 words. Just 260 more words I need to cut. *rubs temple* I'm so close but anything I cut out now might be the difference between a win and a loss.
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I also opted to take a sick day because I wasn't going to focus on anything except thinking about how to cut my speech down.
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Okay! I only have 100 words left to cut! (75, but I'd rather be safe than sorry) This is doable. I also think this has helped me to be more succinct in this new speech, though there are parts of the original speech I wish I could have included. I'm hoping that by writing out those thoughts I can somehow incorporate them into my responses during FTC.
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I finally have my final speech done. It's not perfect and it doesn't convey everything I wanted to convey in my original speech, but it's succinct, to the point, highlights my time with the jurors and has an opening and a conclusion. There are worse speeches I could write and I'm hoping it's personal enough that they see they weren't just things I used to get further and that I really struggled this game. I also hope it shows I had active thought in my decisions and with further questions I can dive deeper into those thoughts.
I'll spruce it up in a few minutes before being done.
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The thing I dislike about how short this speech is, is that I lost some of the context for why I was doing things at certain points because I can't really encompass pre merge stuff. However, I'm out of words. So what do I do? I can't describe the pre merge shit show in 30 words haha.
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The mods have confirmed I am exactly at 2000 words. It's not a perfect speech but hopefully opens up dialog up that allows me to elaborate on other points with further questioning.
I'm going to step away for a couple hours before giving it a final review and posting.
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Time for the floodgates to open. I'm not sure how this speech will be seen, but hopefully I can argue/present a case worth voting for.
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And then the jury just wasn't here. I'm sure I'll get hound-ed but until then I'm just going to sit back and relax a bit.
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Huh. This actually isn't going too bad so far?
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Like of course Herman felt hurt, and given that apparently Richie's speech put him off?
That's just extra special bonus for me.
I see Young Writer looking at my boards and I feel my skin crawl.
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Okay so re looking at this scope:
Young Writer-Has to be voting for Richie I don't see what else makes sense.
Royal-Would be shocked if he doesn't vote Richie.
Herman-ISN'T VOTING RICHIE?! Holy fucking shit I have a shot at this vote. Me or Gustave
Duke-Me
Suzy-Me
Buckley-I would have to imagine me? We will see.
Madame-Tossup.
Margot-I'm going to assume Richie, but she seems open to hearing me out?
Peter-Tossup.
Currently I see Richie with 2-3 votes
I see me with 3 votes.
I don't care if Herman votes for me or Gustave, just not Richie!
Then it comes down to Madame and Peter. If I can lock in Madame here and somehow Herman I win.
What the actual fuck?! Do I have a shot at this thing?!?!?!?!
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Yeah I had that coming from Writer. I knew that. I'm pretty sure he doesn't vote for me here and I didn't expect him to.
Peter being my late game hero was not the plot twist I was expecting honestly. Giving me a platform to elaborate on points I couldn't convey with words in my opening speech was...wow.
Thank you Peter when you read this after. I needed you to ask that question.
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I can’t say this is going bad or good for me. On the fence at the moment.
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I think I am handling this ftc better than the last one I was at. Not too sure how it will translate to votes yet.
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Holy shit Writer acknowledged shit.
A...am I doing well? Like am I actually pulling the semblance of a game out of my ass? Holy fucking shit.
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I wish people would read other threads before asking questions…writer and royal basically asked the same thing.
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Okay I’ve responded to everyone. This all comes down to the closing speech now…I have to close this in a specific way and I have to see how the others handled their ftc before I write it.
I think I’ve put forth some sort of case as to why I should be considered and it sounds like I had to move mountains for that to be the case.
Even if I don’t win I have to be proud of myself here. This was not a win I was walking into and I still might not, but I actually have a shot.
But I can’t get cocky.
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Oh my god there are parts of richie ftc that are making me chuckle. “I controlled Oracle’s vote at final 4”. Lol okay Richie haha. Sure. Glad you think that.
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Okay so at this point, my speech is way too long and honestly I feel sounds kind of petty. I'm not even sure if that's the direction I wanted to take it. However I needed to at least put it out there so I have a frame of reference for when I build the real draft tomorrow.
I need to approach this showing my growth and evolution and sprinkling in a few comments I have in order to not sound like I'm some vicious pit bull.
Either way that felt so fucking good to type because it's the unfiltered me. So tomorrow I'm going to apply the filters and get a speech that I can stand behind and fulfill the narrative I put forth.
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Okay I'm much happier with my 2nd draft. I'm going to sleep for a few hours and then get up. Ideally I'd like to have mine done an hour before the deadline and currently I think I'm sitting at about 3700 words. I need to probably cut down on the pros an cons for Gustave and Richie.
Either way, I'm a lot happier with how this speech turned out. I don't know how it'll be received or if I'm going to seem petty for bringing up my thoughts about the other performances, but I've literally had no platform on which to talk about them otherwise so it's not like I'm magically going to be able to say what I want to say as I have to imagine they are going to read the other speeches.
Anyways, good night. I'm crazy. Bark bark!
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Also 2000 words is too few! Just saying.
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2,400 words ruff-ly. Just have to delete 400 more and then I can finally be done with this exhausting experience. I'm so ready to not play another game in the near future.
Thanks for being with me on this journey specs, I wish you had barked more with me, but it's been a fucking ride.
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ONLY 91 WORDS LEFT TO DELETE. HOLY SHIT I HAVEN'T COMPROMISED THE INTENT OF WHAT I WANTED TO SAY.
Maybe there's something to this 2000 word limit after all (PSST SPECS DON'T TELL THE MODS THIS BECAUSE I'M CLEARLY NEVER WRONG).
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Mods confirmed 1980 words. I’m done. It’s all out there and whatever will be will be.
Thanks for being part of Mr. Oracle’s wild ride. I should sue disney for copywrite infringement.
I’ll have more thoughts, but I scheduled a trip tonight and I really just want to get away and enjoy myself for a few hours.
Bark bark! Catch you later!!!
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Okay so I have no idea how this vote turns out. Let me see if I can predict:
Peter-let’s pretend he rngs me.
Buckley-me or gustave?
Writer-uhhhh let’s say richie?
Herman-me or gustave
Duke-I hope me ;-;
Royal-Richie?
Margot-uhhhhhhhh
Suzy-better be me
Madame-gustave
I think I have two solid votes, richie has two solid votes and gustave has 1 or 2 votes
I don’t know what margot, peter or buckley are even doing. I thought buckley was solidly on my side but he apparently doesn’t think so based on what I’m seeing. And who knows what Margot does here.
This feels very much like a tossup.
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Also Richie just messaged me saying “I wonder if the specs see me as the villain.”
Like you are the villain Richie, embrace it, revel in it, enjoy it! There is nothing wrong with being the villain 😂 Plus villains have way more fun.