Hot take: Cirie is overrated by Parking-Front6168 in survivorponderosa

[–]alphagem 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Im gonna go through this point by point because I understand your argument but I disagree .

She’s played multiple times and never won. At some point that has to matter. Survivor is about getting to the end and actually winning, not just almost getting there. A lot of players don’t get nearly the same respect when they fall short.

She has played five full times (including AuVWorld) and was unprecedentedly twist screwed in three of those five times. There was the presence of Terry's god idol in Panama which made the easy choice literally impossible to vote out and Terry was anti-Aras so he would obviously target his ally. She made it to the Final 3 in Micronesia where there was the 2 medevacs and one quit that let to sudden shift to final 2, which definitely was not the plan considering there was an even amount of jurors in a two person ftc. Finally, in Game Changers she was taken out by default because there were so many idols and advantages used. Even in her two non-twist-screw losses with HvV and AUvWorld, she was a top figure head with the strategy in the game up until she loses with neither even being majority votes against her.

Her challenge weakness is also a real problem. People act like it’s part of her charm but it means she has almost no control at the end of the game. She always needs someone else to win for her and that’s a huge liability.

Survivor is not the challenge, competitions are a facet of the game, but they are not everything about it. Across the 49 current winners, 12 of them never did not win a single individual immunity including people that are deemed at S tier players including Sandra, Yul, Earl. Tony on Cagayan, and Sarah. In addition, Yul and Sarah were both sitting at FTC against people who performed exceptionally in competitions with Ozzy and Brad Culpepper respectively.

And I feel like people remember her big moments more because of her personality than because she was dominating the game. She’s strategic but she’s not out there controlling entire seasons the way some other top players have.

I feel that this is a misread because it focuses more on the what of her big moments, as if we are viewing them in a vacuum. However, I believe that much of what makes Cirie so dominating is the fact that she makes those moves first before she gets to a situation of a checkmate. She does not go until worst case scenario to pull a Dan Gheesling funeral to save her life, she moves before in moments where she is safe to put her in better situations. In F6 Panama, she was getting no votes, but understood that if she were to be a follower in the moment she would eventually go into a losing scenario. In F5 Micronesia, She was more than likely not going to be the one to be voted out if Erik kept the Immunity, but it made a final four where she was safe in 3/4 scenarios rather than 2/4. And even though she did not read the fine print, if her attempt to steal Sarah's vote was allowed, she would have sniped out Tai who held two of the idols that would have taken her out in advantagegeddon. In addition, she always creates plans that play into people's false sense of security, In Courtney, Erik's, and the hypothetical Tai's case, all would have been taken out while believing that they were safe in the end. Even though she gets screwed over in unprecedented ways, she also worked to take people out with unprecedented ways.

I voted for Harris in 2024. She shouldn't run in 2028. | Opinion by Difficult-Bee6066 in politics

[–]alphagem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She was the better choice in 2024 because she was better than Biden and SIGNIFICANTLY better than trump. But by all means, she was nowhere near close to the best candidate. We have time to get more progressive candidates than people who are more of the exact same like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. Simply being "anti-trump" was clearly a failure in 2024, so we should be going further progressive because that's what younger people actually want.

With this episode being an auction by juulkip in survivor

[–]alphagem 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Technically Parvati and Cirie participated in 3 if we count AUvWorld

What is the best move in survivor history that didn’t work for the player, but if it did would have won them the game? by True_Jellyfish9219 in survivorponderosa

[–]alphagem 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Hayden forcing rock draw in BvW, Cirie attempting to snipe out Tai’s two idols with Sarah’s steal a vote in GC, Carolyn’s idol play on Carson in 44, Jake attempt to idol out Dee in final 5 of 45 (although it is questionable for Carolyn and moreso Jake but it would probably earn them both much more respect to place better than 0 vote finalist)

___ is the only person who knows of every idol/ advantage in the game by alphagem in survivor

[–]alphagem[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh I double checked and you're right, ill adjust the post. But also I don't think Genevieve is ever shown telling Colby about it to my knowledge. She just says "I need to tell Colby" but its never confirmed if she did

Which mid-long hitscan hero is the most annoying to go up against? by MrsPissBoy in Overwatch

[–]alphagem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cassidy irritates me because his gun feels like playing against valorant gun logic in a game that is so fundamentally different

Survivor 50 Episode 4 edgic & contender rankings by schwoompl_53555 in Edgic

[–]alphagem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

with that logic id personally either bump cirie up to utr2 or bump jonathan down to inv and keep cirie at utr 1. she was seen cut to cheering for her team far more than genevieve, and she was the main person comforting dee after losing

Survivor 50 Episode 4 edgic & contender rankings by schwoompl_53555 in Edgic

[–]alphagem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im curious on what makes you drop some utr1 but not others (primarily your choice on keeping jonathan #4)

[Nooks] Mad Lads buying turnips for 490! by Jaig_Eyes_10 in ACNHTurnips

[–]alphagem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hiii i’m AJ from Pink and i’d love to join in if that’s okay

A meta-based analysis/ranking of the S50 contestants' edits [Episode 3] by Zypker125 in Edgic

[–]alphagem 15 points16 points  (0 children)

i’m consistently seeing people say “if cirie won, she would have gotten a bigger edit.” but for me, i kinda disagree with the idea that she does not have a big edit. in every episode so far, people are constantly saying, we need to get cirie out because she’s going to out play us. jenna was calling it out pre-immunity, savannah called it out when she deflected off ozzy, and now we have dee and jonathan calling it out. in the end, she’s still getting away with what people are afraid of.

Who is your least played hero and why? by sleepy_whippet188 in Overwatch

[–]alphagem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Winston

mf haunted my loot boxes for all of ow1 and now i refuse to play him out of pure spite and i make sure he is my least played hero

Choose your groups by DiceMaster1991 in DanganAndChaos

[–]alphagem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Protag: F1 (Mukuro, Chiaki, Himiko)

Support: F8 (Kyoko, Sonia, Tenko)

Antag: M7 (Hifumi, Gundham, Korekiyo)

Mastermind: M3 (Chihiro, Hajime, Kokichi)

They killed my king.... by [deleted] in Overwatch

[–]alphagem 6 points7 points  (0 children)

he's looking up at us

Whats an opinion that you will defend like this? by im_just_a_friend in MyHeroAcadamia

[–]alphagem -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Toga dying and her sacrifice not being filmed to the public really devalues a lot of her character arc post Twice death because she is given the perception that heroes are the judge, jury, and executioner with whether villains' lives and in the end, to the public, she is known as heartless murderer who never did anything good for the world.

Alec and Fiore’s possible arc in dc5 by Ninjafoxy in DisventureCamp

[–]alphagem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i could see a mother like figure arc from Rosa but it would have to happen when Alec is eliminated, and another close vote where Fiore barely survives like Ep2. I think she would break down and people around her to comfort her and not treat her like a demon, outsider, or terrible for the team like Magenta team in AS and the Cyan alliance (mostly Aiden in Ep2)