I haven't played the Zelda game, but I did the walking thing a few times to be able to buy stuff in Animal Crossing. From what I remember, walking around my house for 10 minutes doing chores was enough to get me whatever it was that I wanted.

I don't know if I like reducing it to black and white like that. What if a female lost votes to a male because there were misogynists on the jury? Is that her fault?

I don't think the returnees are as much of an issue this season since they were split up from the newbies at the beginning, Hayden has played Big Brother AND won (it's a $500k prize by the way), and they are already connected to the Survivor world through their loved ones. I would definitely like to vote for Ciera,…

Obviously I can't say for sure what I would do in that situation, but for now I'm saying I would view them as already losers. And they would have an uphill battle to convince me otherwise.

That's fair, but she still played a better game than Sandra, hands down. That double idol play was damn near supernatural. Sandra's own arguments indicated that she didn't accomplish anything, she just tried.

Of course not, because my desire to win a million dollars would outweigh my desire to respect the game of Survivor. If anything, I would be more likely to quit because I wouldn't see how anyone could vote for someone to win after being voted out so what's the point?

Sandra winning over Parvati seems like ironclad evidence for bitter juries to me. I can understand that they're allowed to vote that way and that it's part of the game, but it doesn't change the fact that bitterness is what's affecting their vote.

Yes. I would maybe be swayed by some one who was voted back in mid-game and managed to make it to the end with an otherwise flawless game, but there's no way I'm voting for someone who got to sit out for the most dramatic, paranoid parts of the game and lasted just a tribal council or two to the end. The other options…

Would Hayden really be a lock for her? He strikes me as a competitive jock who would vote for best gameplay.

I missed that. I probably would have gone for the cheeseburger like Ciera anyway. I have the palate of a 12 year old.

Didn't they pick it off a menu? I assumed it was just some Applebee's menu or something.

It did not sound like it was intended to be mean, it sounded like a comment she did not realize, at least as she was saying it, had all sorts of depths to plumb and meanings to unpack.

Sometimes I wonder if it's best to play up potential bitterness and rage, at least once people start going to jury. I like good sportsmanship as much as the next person, but it feels like it would be easier for me to betray someone if I knew they were going to be a good sport about it.

"If someone on the jury is too cheesed off to vote for you, it's your own fault."

According to my research, they are both alive. Whether or not they were watching the show tonight is inconclusive.

Now I feel like a jerk for saying I don't want her to win and for hating Katie so much. I wonder if this will get brought up at the reunion or if they will be there.

Maybe, but that doesn't count as "adopted", right?

I think I would have a hard time voting for some one to win if they went to RI. As far as I'm concerned, they lost the game when they were voted out.

The juries always glare and look sour and full of schadenfreude.

She mentioned that, because she was adopted, having her daughter was the first connection she ever really felt. Or something to that effect.