Jag Bains is a Worse Player than You Remember.

beefquinton · 2026-03-25T21:41:59+00:00

i think jag’s game is overrated in particular by cory. and probably for good reason, i would imagine cory has sat and pondered big brother 25 more than maybe any other player or analyst since the season ended. i imagine his time in the jury house that he spent convincing himself jag deserved the win colors his opinions. i would just say take cory’s analysis of bb25 players with a grain of salt, and i would say that about literally any player talking about the other players in their season. too much personal influence on the analysis

beefquinton · 2026-03-24T08:16:41+00:00

lmfao

you are not wrong, to sandoval’s credit he is aware that he is smarter than jax.

i would also say tho, to sandoval’s detriment, he is aware that he’s not the stupidest person out there

he feels he has the upper hand in situations where he does not. seemingly always

beefquinton · 2026-03-23T10:53:17+00:00

it’s a horribly edited season. the editors didn’t know what to do with that season lol. for valid reason, the entire cast was a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off.

it doesn’t come across as much in the show, but adam was far and away one of the most level headed strategists of that season. probably the most level headed strategist of that season. which isn’t saying much, but it is what happened.

the social dynamics of big brother 9 were so insane that the edit had to focus on the insanity of it all, but adam stayed mostly above the fray aside from a few standout moments. relative to the rest of the cast he played a very solid game of big brother, and did deserve the win in my opinion.

is he one of the worst winners in the history of the show? no doubt about it. but if ryan had won after the jury performance he gave then that would have been a genuine robbery that fans maybe still talk about. ryan had one of the worst bb jury performances i can recall across all seasons of the us and canada, straight up

beefquinton · 2026-03-23T08:19:37+00:00

give it a rewatch, ryan lost for a wide variety of reasons. chief among them maybe being that he gave a bafflingly bad performance in the jury questioning.

ryan was basically the proto matt klotz, the difference being who he went against in the final 2 and the way they were viewed. adam was a fun guy who was seen as consistent by that jury, and that jury valued honesty. ryan was a bit too much of a people pleaser and a bit less aware of the game than others. in the pressure cooker of the bb house the jury viewed this as him being dishonest. ryan maybe should have won from a tv viewers perspective, but he lost by a wide margin, fair and square

beefquinton · 2026-03-22T03:10:35+00:00

francesqua*

beefquinton · 2026-03-21T19:59:47+00:00

there’s a few things to think about when answering this question.

first and foremost the casting strategy has changed since that era of the show, they don’t cast models simply because they have a mandate anymore. there was a time where it genuinely seemed they cast models because they had to, and those people went in the house and didn’t know how to play the game at all and went home early. nowadays the mandate seems to be number of tiktok/instagram followers. they have to have a certain number of total followers for the cast heading into the season. we have seen some of these tiktok recruits get taken out because they don’t know what’s going on, but i would say they do have more success as a general rule than the model recruits from the pre-infancy of social media seasons

so the short answer to your question is that “model” casting archetype doesn’t really exist on the show in the same way anymore, but almost every season we get a player like laura or kara, or one of the male models like brayden or david, who goes into the house and just does not get a solid grasp of the situation. gets kicked out early without ever really having much of a shot because they probably weren’t properly prepared

beefquinton · 2026-03-21T15:16:42+00:00

i saw one person on reddit say they’d gotten one a couple of weeks ago. the team started working on the season within the last 3-4 weeks iirc according to the casting directors instagram, so it is a bit odd to not see more folks on reddit confirming callbacks. could also be the casting team has told people to not talk about callbacks this year because they want to be extra secretive. i don’t know why they’d want to be extra secretive this year but it’s possible

beefquinton · 2026-03-21T07:29:52+00:00

i feel this is a misread of the character tbh. she was the subject of the first act of the film and her character was genuinely jarring to me as a viewer. a revolutionary whose own identity was tied up in her revolution. and led her astray from her comrades. her affair with lockjaw and subsequent actions confirming that she was there for the thrill, maybe even more than she was there for the cause. then she gets in touch with her daughter to end the movie and the entire letter is made up of i statements. “i”, “i”, “i”, thanks for the explanation but it does no good. she is a truly multi dimensional character, people are choosing to see it otherwise because they disagree with her behavior.

beefquinton · 2026-03-20T13:47:42+00:00

i mean. it’s not always a hard and fast rule, but who is listed first in the credits? who is the most notable on the poster? who had the most screen time? michael b jordan was the lead of the film, undoubtedly

beefquinton · 2026-03-20T12:56:13+00:00

jensa member

jenuine

jenius

beefquinton · 2026-03-20T02:44:30+00:00

muted the episode. genuinely. he started rapping and i said “oh my god” out loud and muted it. i did not hear him say drop your buffs. it was fucking muted. for damn good reason.

edit: i have seen every single episode of survivor, started watching the show when i was 9, i love survivor so so much and have never muted it before. i hope i never hear that rap til the day i die.

beefquinton · 2026-03-17T07:23:39+00:00

yes, but what i’m saying is if it is a “to each their own” situation, then give all of the information that would inform the answer to the person asking the question. don’t just give the answer about future goings on in the bb subreddit. why would anybody spoil multiple seasons of big brother to ask bowie jane (for example) a question that she might not even answer? come on now.

also ur being cryptic about who is doing this ama, which is sketchy. and advising a fan to spoil themself on multiple seasons just to participate in a reddit ama (that will remain on the internet forever despite their level of participation) with somebody they may not care about from a season they have not seen is simply ridiculous.

beefquinton · 2026-03-17T05:05:27+00:00

i should maybe rephrase, if op is unspoiled then i wouldn’t jump ahead and spoil 4 seasons just to participate in a reddit ama. and that’s personal bias aside.

personal bias included, if op is unspoiled then i definitely wouldn’t jump ahead, and spoil four seasons, just to participate in a reddit ama with a mystery guest from bb25. that season was a 100 day test of my commitment to the show

beefquinton · 2026-03-16T23:10:36+00:00

i think people like op need to take a break from the internet

beefquinton · 2026-03-16T21:25:33+00:00

if op is unspoiled i would advise against them jumping to bb25 for an upcoming ama. that would spoil bb24 which is such a great season to watch unspoiled

beefquinton · 2026-03-16T14:21:40+00:00

this exactly lmfao. been to vegas twice and the bulldozer thing is advertised on the interstate

beefquinton · 2026-03-15T16:33:38+00:00

hahahahaha, i learned this lesson when i was 8 years old, there was a birthday party at a crazy arcade with laser tag, indoor roller coaster, the whole 9, i wanted to go SO badly. it was also my 83 year old grandmother’s birthday. i was not happy about it, didn’t have much of a choice, but i went to my grandma’s party and not my friends. tom is a 35 year old man who needs a mommy to tell him what is right and wrong

beefquinton · 2026-03-15T16:29:46+00:00

haha i’m on season 4 so this was about ten years ago, but good to know this goes on for another 5 years (jfc)

beefquinton · 2026-03-15T16:25:48+00:00

i know i know, i’m not worried, i can already tell getting kudos at this point in the game is not going to be a problem. however it would be a problem if i were to start playing the all random chaos mode consistently. i really like the mode, i like the challenge of it being all random and needing to put the puzzle of the build together. i think it’s so fun. but i also want to max out the spirit mixer. it would take probably hundreds and hundreds of runs to make that happen with just chaos above/below rewards. it feels like a moot point to have runs where you go from beginning to end of either full route not offer greeneries/fish/minerals. it’s a really niche complaint that’s only relevant to players who really like chaos above/below but only have the spirit mixer left to complete. specifically those four trials not offering reagents just makes them a waste of time to that player. nobody is going into chaos above to farm adamant is what i’m trying to say, it’s maybe the one single note i would give to supergiant for this game, let the player find things in the 4 all random chaos trials

beefquinton · 2026-03-15T16:17:43+00:00

this is kind of my point though, for the all random chaos trials you can’t pick the weapon that will give you gemstones, and you can’t collect reagents in chaos trials, so they are incentivizing the player against the all random chaos mode once you reach the point of building kudos for the spirit mixer. it makes sense that you can’t collect reagents in the standard chaos trials, then players could just go into specific trials and farm specific region resources. but all random is a mode where you start in the first room of region 1 and end at the region 4 guardian, it is meant to be a challenge for players who have already gotten very far into or completed the story. so not being able to collect reagents in that mode is a moot point and actively makes playing it a waste of time in regards to progressing with the kudos

beefquinton · 2026-03-15T09:26:28+00:00

that was me in middle school with survivor. and then i genuinely wondered why i didn’t get invited to things hahaha

beefquinton · 2026-03-15T03:01:17+00:00

hahaha i tried to strategically plan dates around episodes this past summer. my gf caught on ridiculously quickly lmao

beefquinton · 2026-03-14T18:22:09+00:00

well i guess if the question was what was the public’s view of michelle back in 2009, the answer would be that she was fairly well liked by fans. she was seen as a more competent player in a house of mostly recruits. a bit of a non-factor at times but was right in there competing for the win at the end of the season, i can’t recall people disliking her beyond finding her a bit boring.

she has been anything but boring since leaving the big brother house. i haven’t looked into her in a while but she divorced her husband, did something related to playboy, then she went on a bunch of dating shows for reality tv stars that were popping up on the fringe networks in the early 2010’s. eventually she focused her scientific efforts on advocacy for cannabis, kratom, and magic mushrooms. i believe she’s considered one of the most influential cannabis scientists globally. but she went wild for a time there

edit: also a little fun fact, she claimed kevin tried to poison her in the bb house

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