Confessional

[Eric]

I would make a video confessional but all I have to say is I hate everyone so it's not worth the energy.

[Eric]

If anyone was curious everyone is extra sassy tonight.

[Eric]

My eyes look weird.

[Eric]

These people are absolute cowards. Bending and breaking at every one of Santiago's wishes because of his questionable strategical resources. I'm sick of it. I'm burning everyone's game to the ground. I refuse to play with people like this.

[Eric]

Apparently Dylan wants Tadeo out and Tadeo wants Dylan out?

If I can feed their fires and get votes on both of them and they both play their idols, I can place a vote on Santi and get his ass out of here. It's lofty, but it's good to dream big, right?

[Eric]

Sucked in the challenge. But that's because I don't wash stalls for a living. I have a phone interview tomorrow, and it's not about my skills in washing stalls.

I also just pretended that Santiago owned the stalls. I mean, I'm sure that's what everyone else used as motivation. How many stalls can I clean to impress King Santiago? I decided the he can clean his own damn stalls.

[Eric]

As a great philosopher, Taylor Swift, once said...

"So it's gonna be forever...or it's gonna go down in flames."

Here we are, folks, I'm playing with the most hard-headed people I have truly ever met. So, if I'm not going to win this game, I'm going down in flames.

[Eric]

I'M SORRY I TOOK MY JURY SPEECH DOWN HERE IT IS FOR YOUR REFERENCE:

Since we don't have questions, I'm going to leave this lovely message here for everyone.

What the actual hell is anyone in this game doing? Where is the strategy? Where is the game play? We are at FINAL EIGHT and people are LAYING DOWN and letting three idols take over this whole damn game. Everyone's known where two idols have been pretty much this whole game, and yet nobody's making a move to flush the damn things? I'm sick of hearing "there's nothing we can do." I'm sick of watching people play other people's games for them.

Igor and I have NOTHING and NO ONE left in this game. We're easy numbers, and we're just going to be picked off? I truly don't get it. Don't tell me you're afraid we're going to team up and take everyone out when we're two damn people. Don't tell me you don't know where everyone stands where you have made it good and obvious where YOU stand. Stop hiding behind people. Make a damn move. Do something big. I'm fully prepared to be sent to jury, and making that final vote is going to be the hardest thing I EVER do because I don't think anyone deserves it at this point. So fine, get rid of me, get rid of the "easy vote". Sit back and be someone's goat. Fine. But, dammit, some one PLEASE step up and do something soon.







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I took it down because there now seems to be a power move in play to take out Santiago. Fingers crossed.

[Eric]

Examples of me fighting (aka essentially begging) for my life in this game:

[2/2/15 9:51:03 PM] Eric Goins: nah it's all good
[2/2/15 9:51:03 PM] Eric Goins: also
[2/2/15 9:51:06 PM] Eric Goins: this game is so frustrating
[2/2/15 10:04:14 PM] Joseph Muraira: i know!
[2/2/15 10:04:19 PM] Joseph Muraira: idk wtf is happening!
[2/2/15 10:04:34 PM] Eric Goins: people are letting santiago run away with this game that's what's happening
[2/2/15 10:06:35 PM] Joseph Muraira: why do you think that?
[2/2/15 10:06:42 PM] Joseph Muraira: like you think he’s hardcore playing?
[2/2/15 10:06:45 PM] Eric Goins: that's just the vibe i get
[2/2/15 10:07:00 PM] Eric Goins: he's not participated in two challenges and he's still just chilling. nobody ever wants to take him and his idol out
[2/2/15 10:17:16 PM] Eric Goins: idk
[2/2/15 10:17:21 PM] Eric Goins: apparently it's me or igor so
[2/2/15 10:19:50 PM] Joseph Muraira: really? oh gosh
[2/2/15 10:19:56 PM] Joseph Muraira: and i could see how you would think that
[2/2/15 10:25:46 PM] Eric Goins: lmao is anyone even playing this game? why is nobody taking out the power players or making any sort of move?
[2/2/15 10:29:35 PM] Joseph Muraira: dude idk who’s with who
[2/2/15 10:29:40 PM] Joseph Muraira: or who’s against eachother
[2/2/15 10:30:35 PM] Joseph Muraira: like i think its kinda hard to like do anything you know?
[2/2/15 10:36:37 PM] Eric Goins: honestly, no. I don't know. I don't think it's hard to do anything. I just think people are scared
[2/2/15 10:36:45 PM] Eric Goins: i'm not saying you're scared necessarily
[2/2/15 10:36:50 PM] Eric Goins: i'm just like...i don't get it
[2/2/15 11:34:19 PM] Joseph Muraira: i hear what you’re saying eric.
[2/2/15 11:34:25 PM] Joseph Muraira: I’m going to see what i can do
[2/2/15 11:34:39 PM] Joseph Muraira: not promising anything cuz now I’m hearing yalls names
[2/2/15 11:34:44 PM] Joseph Muraira: but I’ll defiantly try

[Eric]

[2/2/15 10:53:18 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: So here's the thing. We can A) make a move but then you've got to worry about two people and two idols coming after you. That's not smart. I think people are waiting until f5/f6 to make their move. People are playing the game. Just cautiously. Also, if you were in the majority of a tribe - I feel like even though you don't know who's 6th or whatever, you wouldn't be making a move either. Survivor is tricky. There are so many variables.
[2/2/15 10:56:12 PM] Eric Goins: If I was 5th or 6th in that majority F8 is absolutely the time to make a move. But I guess I'm coming from a deficit perspective.
[2/2/15 10:58:55 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: Yeah >.> hindsight is 20/20. If I get 6th then I'll be like, I should have flipped at this point or that point. But everyone is doing a good job covering up their real intentions. So it's like what's best? Go with what I have been doing, or try to do something new and have 4 people mad at me. 2 of them with idols
[2/2/15 10:59:15 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: Like I don't know
[2/2/15 11:00:14 PM] Eric Goins: I'm also coming from the perspective that I've been the goat too many times (not saying you're a goat, just stay with me here) and I missed opportunities to make moves and, sure, I made FTC, but I didn't win. Going with the flow is a good strategy to get you so far, but if you don't have a move under your belt it's a lost cause.
[2/2/15 11:01:19 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: Yeah. But when's the best time to make a move? And people are afraid of both you and Igor making f3 or f2 because you have underdog stories
[2/2/15 11:03:14 PM] Eric Goins: we only have underdog stories because y'all made it that way, tbh
[2/2/15 11:05:09 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: Lol how? Like I'm glad we won immunity and I was never banished.
[2/2/15 11:05:30 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: You guys got rid of Amanda and patrick
[2/2/15 11:05:47 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: Like that was pretty scary from my perspective
[2/2/15 11:07:01 PM] Eric Goins: but we're two people who literally have nothing left in this game. y'all have to turn on each other at some point and i'm an easy number on someone's side but instead i just get bullshitted until it's too late.
[2/2/15 11:07:09 PM] Eric Goins: i mean you have to understand why i'm frustrated
[2/2/15 11:08:00 PM] Dylan Jaymes Nielsen: idk what to do!

[Eric]

Joe and Tadeo are supposedly voting Santi with Igor and I, and the rest are splitting the votes between Igor and I. If we pull this off... I will lose it!

This is how you make a move, Dylan.

[Eric]

So things have gotten interesting. I now think I have an F4 with Jared/Dylan/Joe. I hate to turn on Igor but I've used him as a shield for long enough. Then Catie is the biggest social threat so she's gotta go soon too. I'd prefer to be in F3 with Jared and Joe. I think I have the best shot against them. We shall see.

[Eric]

[Eric]