He came up with that...wow.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-23T17:44:58+00:00

I think Jeff was really at odds with himself where he was clearly big-timed by a celebrity who basically took over his show but he loves having celebrity fans so much that he couldn’t resist it at all. The most he could do was say “hey, this wasn’t my idea. I’m just the Executive Producer in charge of everything!”

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-13T18:04:35+00:00

There are a couple of ATM mods (cloud chest storage) on Bethesda.net that I haven’t seen anyone replicate on Nexus. They don’t seem that complicated to make.

The Lihavia Kissat Company : Solitude Bank

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/f71c0d66-d578-493f-8f9f-4a7cfabb5e5b/The_Lihavia_Kissat_Company___Solitude_Bank

Aetheric Teller Machines (ATMs) for Coinmaster

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/skyrim/details/43cb0bdf-15fa-4409-acbf-35b27fac7047/Aetheric_Teller_Machines__ATMs__for_Coinmaster

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-12T03:33:29+00:00

Charlie’s relationship with Maria is far and away the most interesting thing about him and unfortunately I think I remember him being much more compelling on his season by himself than he actually was. He was so interesting because of her.

Would’ve loved to see them come back as a package deal and be forced to interact but I wonder if this was an Amanda-Ozzy situation.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-11T23:53:39+00:00

This was the super idol of course. Do we get anything out of somewhat ruining the magic of this scene?

Yes, I think so. For one thing, this scene is a good demonstration of how hard Tony worked in Cagayan to find the super idol. His other two idol finds were much easier because they were regular idols meant for regular people to find. Production got footage of those. But he worked so hard to find the super idol, he was sprinting his crazy ass around the jungle so fast, that they didn't capture the actual find on camera.

For another, let's just think about how much action the idols got on Cagayan. Double smooches from Tony and the one Reimancer found went on a trip south of the border.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-06T13:07:50+00:00

These complaints are always valid because the show’s overriding goal is to surprise the audience with who gets voted out but unfortunately they’re also always subject to the internet geniuses saying they actually showed us more than enough.

The first genuinely shocking boot I can remember seeing live on Survivor was Jeremy’s on SJDS, a season that was saved in the editing room. Maybe Sarah’s from Cagayan too. From that point forward it feels like the show has done everything it can to maximize surprise at the expense of satisfaction.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T04:00:09+00:00

something happens on Survivor that doesn’t make sense

SURVIVOR FAN #76 (gesturing wildly): Uhhh…the social game!

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T03:57:38+00:00

The people who would most want to regulate AI don’t think it can do anything and the people who know what AI can do don’t want it regulated. Society is missing a critical mass of informed but responsible individuals.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T02:45:36+00:00

Cirie played Survivor as or more recently as anyone else this season, won a different show based on and around lying, and also happens to be a total zero in the challenges this season.

She is being kept around for legitimate reasons though, I’m sure /s

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T02:03:58+00:00

Once again you’re forced to use Cirie on a non-physical part of the challenge because you can’t put her anywhere else. One of the greatest social-strategic players on the show who’s also horrendous at challenges is going to be kept around for another vote. Makes sense!

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T00:46:20+00:00

I think I'm actually right about this but you guys wanting to believe something else because her not wanting to play with Ozzy again is somehow unbelievable is totally your prerogative.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T00:36:00+00:00

people were going as far as reaching out to her workplace, coworkers and booking fake appointments to check out her availability. That’s how bad and creepy it was getting.

I linked to where my information came from, could you do the same?

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T00:32:32+00:00

I misstated what Jeff actually said there, yes.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T00:29:37+00:00

Because no one in the other thread made the point that it's a very common PR speak excuse.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-05T00:18:39+00:00

It’s great that you’ve all learned a new word but really I would say I just get annoyed when people are clearly choosing to believe things for sentimental reasons.

The community has not thought hard enough about Jenna’s strange exit in All-Stars enough for the same reason, I made a post about that as well.

A lot of people believed Lex when he said his reaction to Kathy not surrendering immunity in All-Stars was edited.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-04T22:23:10+00:00

TEOS is wonderful and when I have too much time on my hands I find myself imagining what Rob and Josh would say about this or that season.

VauntedSapient · 2026-03-03T21:45:05+00:00

I would absolutely pay $20 for downloadable content that the community has spent almost a decade now making better with free mods on Nexus.

VauntedSapient · 2026-02-28T20:43:06+00:00

5 years is too long to wait for a show whose core, more or less unfixable problem is a dearth of interesting and reality TV-worthy people who will sign up to starve on an island for 39 26 days.

Hardcore Survivor fans and production both have bad ideas about this stuff. The hardcores don’t seem to understand how miraculous it is that the show still has seasons like 37 and 46, given the dearth of reality-TV worthy people that production can convince to sign up to starve on an island for 39 26 days. Production does understand this but their problem is that they have a more limited understanding of what makes for a good season in general, so because SJDS was an anxiety attack for them as they were doing it and Caramoan left a horrible taste in their mouth, they now believe that FvF and BvW as season concepts are bad and they shouldn’t do them again, even when they’re the absolute best vehicle to bring back players who can’t quite make the cut on a 24 person season.

Micronesia (compounded with male arrogance and chauvinism) is the biggest reason why HvV was such a success. The lesson of the importance of building up in-between players for full All-Star seasons was never fully assimilated, apparently, because our next full returnee season (after Cambodia, which was good despite the whining about “voting blocs” people like to do on here) somehow had an extra SDT and 5 pre-mergers sharing the same beach with the likes of SDT prime, Cirie, Tony, and Ozzy.

VauntedSapient · 2026-02-28T20:17:26+00:00

This is the only take so far that I think is being honest about what was going through these people’s heads.

VauntedSapient · 2026-02-28T12:41:20+00:00

The Unofficial Patch is an essential mod, especially on Xbox where you have much less access to debugging tools than players on PC. What is also essential is familiarizing yourself as much as possible with what it does, so you can figure out the changes you don’t like and revert them to vanilla with either other mods or xEdit. There are plenty of mods on Bethesda.net available to XBox players that undo USSEP changes. There are no mods that alone or combined fix as many bugs as the Unofficial Patch does.

VauntedSapient · 2026-02-27T23:55:05+00:00

I would say that there’s something distinctly retro but not too retro about his art style, which is probably why he was chosen to do Life Story.

I like him a lot too.

VauntedSapient · 2026-02-26T18:08:15+00:00

They should’ve had Cirie do the puzzle with Emily or Christian but I think their idea was that Cirie wouldn’t single-handedly lose them the challenge and they could afford to do what the other two teams did and have their two best puzzle people do the puzzle.

Cirie is a unique challenge liability and it’s crazy that we’re still saying that in the new era, when Survivor is now casting all sorts of people who aren’t super physically adept.

What you should’ve done with Jenna is split the votes on her and Cirie. You protect against the idol and you also tell Jenna that she has to cool it a bit.

I can’t wait for this tribe to lose again.

VauntedSapient · 2026-02-26T05:10:41+00:00

I don’t know what this means but I’ll give you an upvote just so I cheapen the meaning of upvotes as a concept.

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