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Well hello to you all. Stopped by again as I have done periodically over the last year plus.

Hello again Ravu. That was me at the BB finale and you will probably see me again at the upcoming one. I would give you a shout out but I am sure Julie Chen would not approve. lol

Decided to post after glancing at the site because I wanted to respond to pauldeman's post.

I appreciate your opening to your post. It is pretty much consistent with most posts on this site. To sum everyone up, "I hated you on the show but after hearing some of your posts, I now hate you less". lol. The whole "adumb" thing is amusing to me but I really don't take it personnally. Those haters would be a bit shocked to know my IQ. lol. My favorite is when people insult my intelligence due to my, as you said, "goofy smile". So I guess there is a correlation between smiling often to intelligence level. lol. You also mentioned me being mean to people on the show, specifically Christina. I have much love for Christina but you are right, I was being a bit harsh towards her. That was more part of my strategy then anything else. As with any reality show I believe it is a good move, even though it is not very nice, to act a bit mean to someone that is not really liked by anyone else at the time. Reasoning is that it could show to other contestants that you can't help but to blantantly express negative words towards anyone you don't like. This could potentially make it so that others, that could question if I really do like them and on their side while talking to them, could revert back to how I treated people I didn't like (acting that way towards Christina) and be more inclined to believe that I am really with them and not full of shit. As far as Yul, he is a great guy and deserved to win it.

to answer your questions:

1) I looked for the idol at severeal spots on the island, including where it originally was. Bottom line is that I dug extensively in that spot but and was fairly certain the clues led to there but not completely positve (I second guessed myself after digging in that area for a while). I dug in other parts of the island because I felt that if there was a chance, no matter how small, why not try to dig instead of sitting around and doing nothing, I also always believed there was a chance that Yul had already found it (I have explained this in previous posts re: voting for yul anyway later on) but also thought there was a chance that it was still out there so made an effort to look. As far as your question regarding Candice, I would of probably shared to her that I had it if I did because I trusted her completely but I am not sure if I would of shared it with anyone else. (I have also posted about why I continued to be okay with Jonathan thinking I had the idol on this site)

2) As far as challenges post mutiny, I wanted to win but a part of me honestly was okay to lose for a while. That is probably why I did not resist much when strategy of someone like rebecca swimming came up. Bottem line is that I wanted a secure majority when we went into the final merge. After the mutiny it was 8-4 and I knew that if we won the next challenge or two to take them down to 2-3 people then Jeff would of made the final merge prematurely. There were people within our 8 that I thought could very well flip to their side. If you lose a challenge and go to tribal and lose one of them then you are down one but if you merge and that same person flips then not only are you down one but they add one as well. I believed, when it was 8-4 and within our 8 we had four strong with me, N, C, and P, it could very well be best for us to lose the other four in our 8 so they would not have a chance to flip while eliminating at least one of Aitu's 4 so we would have the numbers in the final merge. Therefore, I slacked a bit but obviously that did not end up working so well for us. (this is not to take away from Aitu, they did great and kicked our asses)

3) Yul, I knew he was good strategically from the beginning

4) Premutiny, I definitely think that I would of targeted Ozzy since he was the only one out of those four that really was better then the people on my tribe at challenges. Postmutiny and when the final merge happened, I did not care as long as we all voted the same (I have explained this whole thing in previous posts)

5) I don't remember this

6) I just think I would of had a good chance of winning if I happened to win those last two challenges. Remember, it was a final three and if I happened to make it there then there would of been two Aitu with me and they can't vote. I believe it is safe to say that I would of gotten the vote from C, P and N. If I was against Y and O, the best they could of done with S and B is one of them gets two votes but there is also a decent chance that their votes would of been split so it would of been either 3/2/0 or 3/1/1 from those people. As far as the rest of the jury, I am farily confident that I could at least have split with them to make it so that I would of won. I believe that even someone like Jenny would of voted for me ove Y and O even though she was pissed at the time. Point is that I may be dead wrong but I believe that I would of had a good chance at winning if it ended up with me in the final three with two aitu but then again, I can't speak for others and how they would of voted. As far as final tribal, my speech would of been set up the way that I believe everyone should do their speeches but I don't ever see people doing it. Most people talk to the whole jury and state how they were just playing the game when screwing people over and they like everyone and blah, blah, blah. I don't understand why people don't go down the line and address people individually. If I said to the goup something like "I know I screwed some of you over but it was just part of the game and I want you to know that I really do like you (etc.)" then some people that I had voted out might think I was referring to other people and not them (for example, jonathan might think that I was talking about jenny when I said it was just part of the game and nothing personal and I did like them as a person). If you talk to each one individually, it becomes personal. Plus, people will pay more attention if you speak to them directly. Think back to high school for example. When the teacher talks to the class as a whole then you probably tended to tune that teacher out but if that teacher talked directly to you in front of the class then you would be more inclined to listen to what that teacher has to say.

7) I just wanted them to lay everything out on the table and say negative things about the others regarding why they should not win the money instead of constantly saying complimentary things. I was not trying to be mean, just that there was a million dollars at stake so I felt it was time for them to offer some criticism to their competition.

8) Though I called them boring, I want to make it clear that I have tremendous respect for Y, O, S, and B. I made that comment because I did not understand why they did not explore different options to put themselves in a better position to win the million. Bottom line though is, those four got further then me so while I can question their lack of moves, I have no justification to criticize them.

I hate coconut and will never eat it again. Unless, of course, I happen to one day be stuck on an island again...

You all take care and I hope you enjoy Gabon. I don't know if I will be back here. Maybe tomorrow... or a year from now.

Adam Christopher Gentry

Well thank you (this thank you is sincere) for that response and I hope the new season is entertaining and creates plenty of more discussions to talk about on this site.

I also want to thank you all that have mentioned that my fiance is a man and other similar comments (until I read the comment about me being a retard, I honestly did not know that I was). Thank you for those nice words and for enlightening me...

My only response I want to add with your comment is that I want to make clear that Yul was a great player and deserved to win. I was just making the point that, with the relationships I had in the jury, I had a decent chance of winning if I, hypothetically, won the last two challenges. Going up against someone like Ozzy makes that type of hypothetical situation a long shot anyway. I believe him and I were the only ones to win individual challenges and I only won one and him the rest.

We are well past CI at this point though so let's look forward to the new season.

I hope everyone is in good health and doing well.
acg

ps-my previous posts explaining things may of been under a different name then these last couple of posts but I do believe they are out there on this site.