Is Acme ruining the fun for us?
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Llkoolaid | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 12:07 pm     That would be perfect, then those of us who don't want to know don't have to and those of us that do can go ahead and look. Doesn't fix the deadpool but sure will keep the show from being ruined for me. |
Grooch | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 12:15 pm     It would be perfect but it will never happen. |
Llkoolaid | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 12:16 pm     Probably not, but a girl can dream. |
Grooch | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 12:17 pm     lol! |
Urgrace | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 03:21 pm     The problem is, even if Acme were supposedly confined to one thread, posters would spill out some of their ideas in other threads. Conversations cannot be censored - it just won't work. Well,I must admit that it gives me an anticipation in the game to see if Acme is right, but the deadpool scores are messed up. My overall percentage is not very good, but my individual score (unspoiled) is 3 hundred something out of over 6800. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 05:08 pm     I don't think we are talking about censorship. I just thought the prediction could go there. Any other discussion is normal. |
Joan | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 05:23 pm     I don't even know what Acme is. |
Neko | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 05:33 pm     I'm only using Acme because my score myself, was in 6800 or farther down. I'm just moving up then stopping again |
Car54 | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 05:40 pm     Gosh, I left for work at 8am and I come home at 7:30 pm, and you guys are still here! Here's the thing...then I am done... if someone comes to the internet when it comes to all things Survivor, it kind of implies that they come for more information than one gets just watching the show. There is all kinds of information...there are articles, pictures, speculation, chat, spoilers...you name it, it is everywhere. Very little of what is out there is fact...it is information for you to process and use to draw your own conclusions. Acme posts their picks, Mess post the Gut, Surviivor posts the results of their poll.... it is everywhere. Take that info..just like you take vidcaps, interviews...everything else and USE it to draw your conclusion. If their picks make sense and causes you to see the evidence in a different way, and if feels right to you...CHANGE YOUR VOTE. If you never thought of it, and you can't understand it, and you would never have conceived of it, then DON'T. If you want to discuss, use this great place to put your ideas out there... go do some leg work yourself... Almost everybody can find their way to the Deadpool, right? On the left side of the screen if you scroll down, there are links to every significant spoiler and discussion site. Look around...information won't hurt you. I guess I wish more people wanted MORE information, not less..it would make our discussions a lot more interesting than a post about how we feel we are cheating because we changed after Acme posted. If you change, I WOULD be interested in what made sense to you that made you change. If you don't want that dialog what DO you want? I guess I would be thinking about it. Personally I have only changed 2 votes...both weeks I just had no strong feeling about the picks, and I am still in the top 5% of the deadpool. I am ok with that. If I had a strong initial feeling those times, I would not have changed my vote. Call me crazy! The only person I am competing with is me. ok I am done |
Llkoolaid | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 06:20 pm     Car the only person I am competing with is me too, but I am still losing. I love the discussion, and the pics and the sleuthing and I don't care what the polls say when they are just other peoples opinions. Your insight on the last survivor made me change my thinking more than once and for the better. If and I mean if Acme has an inside track then I don't want to know, if it is just speculation on their part then that is fine with me. I would just like to know and I guess there is not much chance of ever knowing if they do have an inside source. Competing with myself is where that would take the fun out of it for me, I would feel I was cheating myself. I don't care how many people score higher than me, it is just fun trying to make my own score go up. I am one of those people who can't resist reading the last chapter of a book first. Anyway to each his own, I know if I come on here Thursday I will be looking for Acme because I am nosey but I am also very stubborn and I wouldn't change my votes, not because of morals or any of that but because I would still be hoping that they are wrong. I guess what I am really trying to say is that if Acme does have an inside source I wish it wasn't posted because I don't have the will power not to look |
Aussiedeb | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 06:23 pm     I'm with you car...been up since 5am and on the go since 6.30am...finally made it to this site now at 9 pm...what a day...but I am enjoying reading the replies here though... But even though I check Acme site when its up for picks and vote their way, Im still hoping just maybe it will be wrong and it sure makes it interesting for me to watch with my college fried brain right now |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 06:44 pm     I'm with you, Car. All the info and speculation is just part of the survivor experience, if we choose to be poking around online. I notice that a few people on the Acme team don't follow the Acme prediction (oddly enough). |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 07:36 pm     That's why I started this thread, because I knew there would be VERY interesting opinions!! I can see the views expressed. As for myself, I'll go ahead and vote on my own. If I see the Acme result, I'll probably discuss it like usual..LOL |
Squaredsc | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 08:12 pm     great post car, i wish i could be as articulate. basically i like acme, survivorfever, etc,. 'nuff said.  |
Hippyt | Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 08:40 pm     I think maybe we should make an Acme post on Thursday. And at least try and keep the conversations there. I personally,don't think Acme is reliable enough to ruin a show for me,but hey, some people don't want to know. And that's fair. Just an idea...... |
Webkitty | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:44 am     I don't vote in the deadpool, so that is not an issue for me as far as whether Acme is ruining my fun. I like to discuss Survivor and the more info the better. I'm all for everyone here combing the internet for clues, its fun! The only thing I have a complaint about, to make myself clear, is that, IF I don't want to know (for sure) before the show starts who is getting voted off, I need to avoid the internet, not just this site. And its f-u-n! to be on the internet on a Thursday afternoon, especially right here with the {{best}}people! This is assuming that Acme does have an inside source and is correct in their "prediction" of who will get voted off. I am going to assume they do since they have not been wrong so far. I can't fault anyone here for posting the pick, its the way it is, people who DO play the deadpool want to know so they can decide for themselves if they want to change their vote or not, I understand this. It is impractical to try and confine Acme's pick to one thread on TVCH. I know what I need to do if I want to be (somewhat) surprised at the end of each week's show, I just don't like it! Thanks for letting me vent, everyone! (I feel better already, ahhhhhh!) |
Car54 | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 04:26 pm     here, here Webkitty!  |
Webkitty | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 04:40 pm     LOL!! Meet me over in the TS thread..... |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 05:52 pm     I do think that when the actual show is going on the spoiler thread should be where that is discussed.. and thread TITLES shouldn't give the result away until after west coast airs. I know last week there were threads indicating Rob was gone way before it aired here. No problem for me since I was hanging in the spoiler threads and knew, and back when i didn't want to know until it aired here, i just stayed offline, but still just a bit of care with the thread titles could be helpful. |
Hippyt | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 05:59 pm     Yeah,I never come near my computer once I know the show has started on the east coast. I would be mega-angry with myself if I stumbled onto the loser of the week. I agree the thread titles shouldn't include the name of who got the boot! |
Micknrc | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 10:58 am     I was thinking the same thing last week about not giving away the boot in thread titles last week, Seamonkey... I also managed to post in the wrong thread (were there 2 or three different "spoiler" threads going?) |
Seamonkey | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:26 am     Mick.. I do believe there were at least two spoiler threads going.. one is cooler. I really do love the "reports" we get from different reporters.. OK.. hope Acme posts soon |
Mindyrama | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 11:30 am     Hippyt?? Don't you live in Houston?? Survivor doesn't start earlier on the east coast. It starts at 8:00pm there and 7:00pm here. That's the same time. If I call my friends in NY at 7:00pm(central) they will be watching Survivor too. |
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