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Episode Day 64 (10/11/14) Daily show

Professor said:
As a fan of both shows, but a fan of Survivor first, I feel like they're very different games. Big Brother is essentially a game of politics, with the viewers as your voting public. It's about baiting people into conversations that make them look bad to the viewers, about making them commit to attitudes that you know won't be sustainable for 80 days, about crafting a persona for yourself that appeals to the broadest audience while picking holes in everybody else's. Like politics, it's about flinging shit without getting any on yourself. There's a small amount of alliance making I suppose but I don't think it takes you very far, because you don't need numbers. At best it stops you from being a nominee enough that it buys you time to work some magic (and stops you from financially tapping out your fan base too early).

In fact, while I used to think Big Brother was just a popularity contest and Survivor was a better game show, I've come around to the idea that Big Brother is actually a harder game to play, because there's just so little under your control and so few ways to win. There is no blind sides in Big Brother. If someone is a threat to you (because you suspect they have massive outside support), there's no manoeuvring that can get them out, if they're number one in popularity it doesn't matter who they're up against. All you can do is bait them into controversial arguments to divide their support. Hey Skye, what's your opinion on abortion? She's pro-choice, the anti-abortion part of her fanbase falls away. She's anti-abortion, the pro-choice part of her fanbase falls away. She doesn't go strongly either way, she's a fence-sitter. She avoids the question, she appears weak for dodging the question. She criticises the question for being too serious, she's naive and immature. You're winning no matter the outcome.

One thing I think people underestimate is how much of the game is played in the diary room. It's not like Survivor where confessionals come out when the game is over, the diary room entries are part of the game too, so whatever your plan is, you can't tell Big Brother about it either or else your voters find out too (especially in a game where you have to pretend not to play).

Sorry for my long posts, need an editor ;)
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The only person to have played both big brother and survivor, Hayden Moss, says survivor is much harder. The physical stress of living on the beach without food is harder than living on staples and tanning by the pool.

I feel big brother australia is the best big brother, though, because the public can keep people in the house, even if other housemates don't like them or see them as threats. So you can be like Tim last year and be a huge threat, but the housemates can't get you out. In big brother U.S., the housemates would have evicted Tim and he would never win.

The big problem with big brother is that the edit is manipulated and impacts the game a great deal. In survivor, the edit is created after the game is over and the producers know that story they need to tell.
 
The freeze task itself was good but the rewind was boring in my opinion.. I'm just wondering who will be evicted tomorrow?? Hopefully this comment wont have smart azzes commenting on it like one of my other ones did .. which I think is funny lolol
 
All right, so here are a few notes:
1. Very strategic HOH selection this week.
2. The rewind task with the diary room was pretty funny, but only because I was watching it. This is going to be a difficult one.
3. The tour group gave the Housemates a lot of outside information, which only proves that this season is a mess.
4. Was that race set up for Richard/Harry to win, or was it just me?
 
Mrs Butterface said:
Priya has a Masters of Teaching from the Uni of South Australia. So you're saying a three year Medical Imaging Degree program to become a RadioGRAPHER not a RadioLOGIST is considered "more brainiac" than someone completing first their Uni degree and then their Masters.

Please don't tell my boss that or the extra $ we pay for people with their Masters - including myself - will be pissed away in favour of three year programs lol
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master in teaching, means she has advanced skill to teach, to pass the knowledge on, she doesnt need to have advanced knowledge of what she is teaching, but she must know the solid basics of what she is teaching. like a friend of mine, maths teacher in high school now. while we were in high school, her maths was below average.

and here we arent comparing degrees. brainiac wise, what david studied wins hands down.
 
For fucks sake... For like the fourth week in a row, they skipped ALL footage filmed on Thursday. They never air footage from Thursday or Sunday.

Just finished watching the episode and it's really starting to piss me off now.
 
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