It's a game dude holy shit why are you being so rude. The only reason I followed Flyhn's votes was because noone else communicated anything else to me about who was being considered for the votes so my options were either to throw away my vote or vote with flyhn. My only "alliance" I had through the game was the only person who made it to the late game who I actually was friends with: OP.
I'm kind of surprised that you're acting this salty after being a completely different person during the game. The fact of the matter was that this was a game of alliances and the one that ended up winning could have only been beaten if you had recruited more people to join your side. The problem with that was that the amount of lc people that just stuck together was already a large percentage of the game at the merge, and I had more of a tie with OP than I did with you when you came to try to recruit me (or at least to make a connection with me). It seems extremely petty to me to single out me as a horrible person for doing what I had to do to make it as far as I could. I honestly don't think I deserved to make it any farther than I did, and I don't think I would have made it farther by doing anything differently. The lc alliance was really strong, and the way that alliances stood it was practically a foregone conclusion that they would make it to the final 3.
Congrats
OP for winning, great job both to
Sam-testings and
TUO for making the final 3 and special mention to
Flyhn as well as
Oddish. and the other members of the original Gold Tribe for all the fun conversations we had that made this game enjoyable for me.
Sorry that I didn't help you take down my friend's alliance
Steven Snype
Staying like this was not your only option to get that far. In fact, staying at the path that you did, knowing that the lc alliance was really strong and had 3 members already had a very good shot of you not being in the running for final council, especially if Flyhn was still around. You had no real shot of winning had you stayed with this path because there were too many people in your way of making it to final council, and I spelled this out to everyone in the survivor discord 'publicly' if you were not in the actual LC alliance. The only way that literally anyone could hope to win is making it to final council and hoping the rest of the tribal council would vote for them, regardless of the reason why. It's how OP won, it's how anyone else could have won. If you are not in the final 3, there was no chance to win because of the final 2 from last time, period because there are no other ways to win.
The LC alliance making it to the final 3 is not an actual foregone conclusion. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy because there wasn't enough support to actually do anything about it, which are because of you and Flyhn. adiass, sorry man, but you were sold to us as an inactive lynch that was lucky to make it this far as a temporary peace agreement. me, posh, mikaav, and texas realized we could have the power but there were swing votes necessary to pull it off to actually do it, namely yours and flyhn's. at post-merge, we thought flyhn would vote with us,pulling w/e strings necessary to ensure vote majority, that is until he didn't hold up to it by voting out texas which I understand why he did so, but at the vote to vote me out he shot himself in the foot because the numbers would never have been in his favor*, I maintain Flyhn's better shot of winning would have been to hit the LC alliance since there were too many people up and he should not have had to risk actually putting his worth vs sam-testings' at the end and just forced it to happen instead.
Had any of the finalists actually been voted out, this would have either opened up a slot for you or for Flyhn to replace the slots had any of those 3 been voted out, improving your odds of winning since they have to hope to make it, they would have to include someone that was more open to voting them out (highly unlikely), include someone that has been a neutral but sometimes helpful presence (you) or just leave it as they were and close up (which works because if you ain't with them, you're gonna be voted out and if they ain't getting stronger, that's less to have to worry about). Any vote to hit the dominant alliance actually helps you out better since you had been voting with said alliance, thus more likely for them to actually involve you in their plans for making final council. Sticking to what had happened in the game at the key moments were not going to get you any actual advantage. You had a reasonable shot to make it to final council because honestly the others would have garnered more attention from their more influential play to be voted out by other people.
Your insistence that there was nothing you could have done to improve your situation is false. There were things you could have done to improve your situation and end up with a better shot of winning. I apologize for making the assumption of thinking you would actually try to win rather than give up, accept defeat, and settle. Maybe that's not the correct chronological order but nearly everyone else post-merge was making an attempt to hit one of these 3. We didn't care which 3, but any actual insinuation that the 3 finalists were actually that solid of an alliance to make it to the late-game is false. There was a movement to hit at least one of the 3 finalists, but it literally was that the swing votes (Flyhn and you) were the ones responsible for making the finals since the people that wanted to hit these 3 couldn't because we had one person who frankly thought he could have won by going down this route while the other seemingly did nothing of any actual contribution other than be a puppet vote and not really care except help his buddy out.
*I do not consider throwing rocks an advantage because it literally puts you in a polarizing coinflip to either win or lose by the numbers at hand and that is assuming everyone is convinced the people they are working with have to go for these votes said coinflip and are not deluded into thinking they have no real shot at winning nor are they content with the current predicted outcome.