frankly i just like claire b/c i see a lot of myself in her personality (goofy, cerebral, loyal, well meaning) and how she processes information and has played in the game (both its strengths and weaknesses - i would probably also try to play as a more dominant player’s steve b/c i know my own nature enough to know that i couldn’t be that dominant player myself). in terms of gameplay there’s a strong case to be made that she strategized a lot of prejury with tiff who was the face of its execution (clocking and dismantling the slaughterhouse, using ky to create the royal flush during his hoh, recognizing the value of dx and taking him under their wing before anyone else in order to then take the shot at the biggest threat in the game - christian, recognizing azah and tiff’s strained relationship and working to slide in as azah’s connection to the tiff/claire/hannah/dx foursome). she lost control once jury hit but still worked to try and flip the vote in her best interest to keep britini. tried to keep her stronger ally dx by attempting to push for a hannah renom when she was on the block. many of the ways in which she wasn’t able to achieve much at this stage are because of the cookout and because she did not recognize her waning importance to tiff (who, mind you, still was the first person to ever win back to back hohs solely in the name of protecting her) and much of her downfall was due to her belief that tiff was her shield (and in any other season she would be). it’s hard to say how successful she could’ve been if the house dynamics weren’t so fixed this season due to factors outside of her control. i’d even argue that if she had used the coin of destiny to put up the three co men, hannah would’ve still won veto and had to come up with an excuse to take down big d or ky, and since claire wouldn’t put up azah, her renom would’ve still had to have been sb or alyssa, pissing off way more people for the same result. so both over and understating her contributions frankly seems inaccurate. i ultimately think she did a better than a worse job with the hand she was dealt. tiff and hannah are obviously the better players but claire’s game is, realistically, the closest to how my own would probably be. and that’s literally all i have to say about that.
i just knew this was gonna happen when tiff won hoh, i was so confused as to why she wasn’t throwing this knowing this exact outcome could happen.
anyways, while i think claire will understand the cookout and their mission and not have hard feelings about being kept in the dark, i do think it’ll hurt her more than its hurt the other house guests because she’ll be the only one to go out on her #1′s hoh, and more than that, i think she was the most loyal to her #1 than any of the others.
like, when you think about it, tiffany and hannah kinda manipulated her into playing the coin of destiny just so that she couldn’t play in hoh this week and protect herself, and now she’s probably going out on tiffany’s hoh… big oof
i really hope she isn’t bitter and she does still advocate for tiff in jury, but i’ll definitely understand if she’s hurt and not particularly understanding by the time she leaves on thursday and needs some time to get over it
There is no reason for Tiff to want Claire out before the showmance breaks up that’s a huge mistake. Not only because Claire is good for her game, but literally no one else wants her to leave before the showmance so she’d have to do a lot of work for it and that’s gonna sketch a lot of people out. There’s being fine with her leaving next week and then there’s actively targeting her and besides maybe X and Big D I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t not want to put Claire up and be extremely weirded out if Tiff insists on it.
i really do not understand tiffany’s drive to get claire out as soon as possible. everyone else in the cook out has been sticking their necks out to keep their outside duo safe, as they should, and she’s been trying to get hers evicted and i don’t get it.
i’d get it if she was saying it as an attempt to not appear as close to claire to others, the way sarah beth and kyland have been making them a target, but she just said it to the camera, so it’s clearly not a front and what is the reason?
she claims it’s because she thinks claire is most likely to figure out the cook out but that feels like such a paranoid reason to throw away a ride or die so early, especially in favor of keeping a comp beast and showmance in the game? over a what if? she also keeps bringing up how guilty she feels having to look at claire while lying to her and that has got to be the main reason because the game reason she’s giving just does not make sense to me. i’m starting to think she’s worried she won’t be able to cut claire further down the line so she wants to do it now so she has to stay committed to the cook out or something and not be tempted later on.
either way, i won’t be surprised if her cutting claire is the downfall of her otherwise stellar game, especially with the wedge between tiffany and kyland growing.
Writers of the past warned us about letting Big Brother and alike in our lives, either with or without consent for a generous and obvious amount of reasons. Today we have compromised quite a bit with the triangulation of privacy between us, government, corporations, and where the value should be placed at; however, there’s also a great deal in politics that comes with it.
This week Amazon publicly bloomed another interesting idea in terms of delivery and privacy polarization which involved the users receiving his/her goods, with theAmazon Keyservice where the delivery person has access to your home via a kit costing $249.99. This service requires Amazon Prime and the bundle includes a smart lock and a cloud cam to monitor the delivery personnel to your home, which basically translates into Amazondropping your package entering your doors.
Paying to have strangers in your home?
I’ve heard different complains up until now about couriers dropping packages to the front door and eventually getting stolen by someone else. We are talking about packages which cannot fit in the common mail box and are delivered the homeowner aren’t in. Here we have a common problem where there’s data missing in the form of service between the user and the business. But delivering a package without anyone stealing it is more an issue of drop-off timing and setups.
Ever since the internet became widely and commercially available we stepped backwards in terms of privacy rights and user rights. There’s an ongoing battle to protect not only the neutrality of the internet but also the privacy of the user. This is not a confrontation to safeguard what we go online for, it’s a struggle to keep sensible data away from those who might use it against us. Social Security numbers, credit cards information, shopping habits, health status, and so on; the struggle gets more and more intense every time
The extension of 3rd party body into our privacy is now a reality…
In terms of privacy users aren’t helping the cause as they are voluntarily giving up personal information at no cost to online social platforms. Facebook knows a great deal of every user and it crosses such data with other apps like Instagram to provide exact persona and behavior; great amount of data sold to corporations for business purposes comes from platforms like Twitter, Tinder, Snapchat, Youtube .
By using Amazon Key we remove the last boundary of security we hold by letting strangers in our homes despite being monitored; however, how secure will these locks be? If modern cars can get hacked, how long do you think it’ll take to remotely open a door? But ultimately, how much are you willing to give just to have your package inside your door. Is this all worth it?
