James's Confessionals

[James Rhine]

J A M E S ' S
C O N F E S S I O N A L

[James Rhine]

Jamesy is back in the Big Brother House!

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the hosts and anyone who had a hand in putting me back where I belong. Thanks for picking me! Although I'm sure you didn't really have a choice since my application was just so great. I will try my best to be the last man standing!

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[James Rhine]

ROUND 1

Here we go! The game has begun and I am so excited for the competitions, any twists and getting to know all of the houseguests!

Coming into the game, I did have a strategy of sorts because I think it's important to plan ahead and know what you're doing. But I'm also aware that things in the game can change at the drop of a dime, which is why I thought of different scenarios that could occur and how I would handle them. I believe I am good at being able to adapt to game changes very well and that is something that is important in a game like this.

My preset strategy for the game is one that I use very often: lay low in the beginning phase of the game by throwing competitions to appear weak and focus on my social game by building personal relationships, and then once the jury phase of the game begins, I would go all out and do what it takes to get to end. At that point of the game, most alliances are already pin-pointed and the lines have usually been drawn in the sand. When I entered the Rise and Fall house however, I knew that all that could change if a twist was announced which one wasn't. Odd. Winning the first HoH is something that I usually debate on because although I think it's foolish to put a target on your back from the get-go, I think it forces people to come to YOU so you can build relationships and alliances right off the bat.

At this point I am trying to stay true to my preset strategy because I feel that it is the best way to approach the game. However, it will be hard for me to throw competitions because I am a true competitor. There was a few days the cast had before the first HoH began and I took advantage of that time by talking to as many people as possible. The only housemates I didn't speak to at that time were Lori and Daniele.

Here are my initial opinions of all the houseguests:


Thank god this woman didn't act like the stereotypical token black girl in ORGs when I spoke to her. I had a normal general conversation with Chima. Nothing serious. She seems like a good person who is here to play the game. I just get the vibe that she won't be willing to make big moves though.


I haven't talked to Daniele all that much until after the HoH competition. That said, that conversation we did have was pretty good. She seems to have a good sense of humour which is something I like.


The above Daniele is much better than this Danielle. This Danielle tries way too hard to stay in character. Sure it's funny sometimes, but it gets annoying very quickly. I haven't had a real conversation with her yet. she claimed to me that she will turn normal after the HoH, but that hasn't happened at all haha. Most people seemed to be annoyed with her which is good for me because that's an early target which isn't me. For now, I will just stay in her good books.


David seems to be a pretty cool guy. he might be one of the more normal people out of the entire house. I have spoken to him the most so far and I think it could be smart to align with him. I will bring that idea to him in a future conversation. However, he may be talking to a lot of people which is something to watch out for.


Dominic (who hasn't been on the board in 24 hours lawls) seems a bit boring to say the least. he seems like he will only be available to chat when competitions are posted. I think he is here to win competitions and I think it's in my best interest to try and talk it up as much as possible.


Drew is hella boring. Sure I haven't talked to him that much, but I just get the vibe that he doesn't seem to care that much. Conversations are so bland with him. He can't seem to keep it going. I don't see many people wanting to align with this guy. #justsaying


Jason is kind of weird. Sometimes I feel like he has a split personality. At times he is boring and it seems like he is only talking to people because it's part of the game. At other times he is just saying "lol" after everything and claiming that I have a great sense of humour. HE has asked me multiple times what I think of the game and what I'm thinking going forward. What an idiot, he doesn't understand that the game hasn't even begun yet....there's nothing to report.


Joe. EAGLE EYE JOE. This guy needs to wash his hands, I ain't eating his food. My talks with Joe were alright. He watches strange shows though. He's glad that he finally has someone to talk about BB Canada with.


Kara is cool. She is able to keep a conversation going and she seems to be willing to play the game. She is definitely someone who I would think of aligning with.


Also someone I could align with is Keesha. I have talked to her the most out of the girls and we bonded over our nephew and nieces. Not "our" actually nephew and nieces but individually haha. That would be strange. The only concern I have with Keesha is that she seems like a very smart person who is aware of what is going on.


Lori and I talked about The Amazing Race, pizza and braces. Fun stuff yo.


Rachel is boring. I'm pretty sure that everyone has talked to Rachel the least. Good. She can get evicted because of it.


Wil is someone that could be very dangerous in the game. He seems to be active and from our conversations, he seems like a social person who is capable of winning competitions. Not what I like to hear.


This cast seems active for the most part which is good to hear if you're hosting lol....but the token inactives aren't present to be evicted the first few weeks. Time to play.


This is getting long yo. On a side note, I will try my best to get to the end and not just get dragged to the end like a dead dog on a leash like a certain runner-up...cough, cough...Shane. Another side note, it's hard to find James Rhine gifs....of the perks of playing as a BB legend.[/b][/center][/color][/size]

[James Rhine]

That HoH competition was hard as heck yo. Some of those numbers were hidden just so sneakily. Thanks for that btw Kevin (aka Zac, aka Poopypants). Even though I did want to win the HoH and I did try to, Lori ultimately beat everyone. Apparently she did it while watching The Amazing Race. Great, now I feel even more stupid. Props to Lori though, dat was some tough shit.

Even though I was happy for Lori, I was initially concerned because I hadn't talked to her until after the competition was over. I felt better when I talked to her and found out that no one had talked to her since she was busy over the weekend. After talking with her for a while, I wished her luck and hoped that she wouldn't nominate me. She assured me that she wouldn't do that, so I'll just have to take her word for it. I didn't try to throw any names out there because then she would either just blame me or nominate me for throwing people under the bus. If I had to guess who she would nominate, I would say Danielle and Rachel. I'm sure her nominations would be based on who she has talked to and connected to the most. That is what most nominations int he beginning are based off of.

I still don't know if I will be throwing competitions in the beginning phase of the game because I just don't like doing that and you never know what can happen. Also it could throw my whole laying low strategy out the window. I'm thinking I can just act stupid though and not know what to do with power. That could be helpful.

[KEVIN]

[James Rhine]

You're rude. Go take your fake French and scram

[James Rhine]

You'll have to excuse me as I have the world's biggest headache right now after spending the day at an indoor carnival....but I'm not one to let that get in the way of writing a confessional or the game for that matter. Jamsey is here to stay!

Well I spoke to the normal Danielle for the first time yesterday and I can now confirm that she is indeed much more pleasant than when she is in character. Although the next conversation I'm to have with her will be with the character, so def looking forward to that... Upon talking to her, I found out that she won the veto too! Her not using the veto was a pretty predictable decision as making move like that in the first week is pretty risky.

So with Kara and Chima set in stone as the nominees for eviction, I got back home tonight to talk to people to see where there heads are at. I got an awkward offline IM from Chima asking me for my vote. Umm that's not how one goes about getting votes to stay in the house lol. Kara told me that she is worried that she could be leaving this week. I enjoy talking to Kara alot more than Chima so my vote is already set in place and I told her that I would keep her even if she didn't have the votes.

I talked to David and he seems to be on the same page as me wanting to get Chima out. Since 6 votes are needed, we went through the possible votes to keep Kara. Upon discussing, David, Dom, Rachel, Wil, Drew, Joe, Jason and myself are all possible votes. However, David told me that Joe likes Chima more and also Jason told me that he hasn't spoken as much with Kara. Jason also said that he would go along with the majority. Glad, he doesn't think for himself (side note: conversations with Jason are so damn riveting with his one word answers -_-).

Kara seems to be in a much better mood once realizing that she is likely staying. I like her a lot so I've been pushing her to continue talking to people to try and get on their good side. In other news I made an alliance between David and I. I talk to David the most, so obviously I would feel more comfortable moving forward in this game with him. We also discussed the possibility of a guy's alliance depending on how the votes lie. I am also close with Keesha but she doesn't seem to want to discuss game with me very much, so that's a bit concerning.

[Shane]

[James Rhine]

ROUND 2



Well the last round didn't go the way I would have preferred it to go considering Kara left- someone who I could have trusted very much so in this game. A plan was set to evict Chima however people completed chickened out at the last minute because they heard others were likely to keep her. Other than me, I think the other 2 votes to keep Kara might have been Dominic and Rachel. David told me that he switched his vote at the last minute because Jason wasn't on board with the plan. Kind of disappointed that David went that route. It's just a vote, you shouldn't be scared to vote the way you want to lol.

Wil not voting is just kind of lame. Kara told me that Keesha and Jason voted her out because of a past survivor game they were in. She's positive those 2 are who she thinks they are. I PW'ed that Sausage Island season those 3 were in and if Jason is who I think he is then he wont he season. Shouldn't be much of a concern considering he sucked ass and no one gave a damn about him. Raises some flags about Keesha though because she is playing up the sweet card right now and I know she is in it to win it.

At this point I still trust David the most out of everyone. Dominic is up there as well. Hopefully word doesn't get out that I voted to evict Chima cause she could come back with a vengeance. Oh and Majority Rules? Wicked...my fav comp eva! Btw, I'm pretty sure it's Dominic who sets his status as invisible on the board. Pretty lame. What's he got to hide?

Oh and you suck Shane.

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[James Rhine]

Rachel was crowned the new HoH for the week and I am honestly say that I'm happy with the result. She, along with with Dominc, voted to evict Chima with me so I feel confident that she won't nominate at all this week. She ended up nominating Jason and Wil for eviction. Wil has suddenly turned inactive and most people want him out now. According to Rachel, Jason is inactive but I I think she only thinks that because he's from Australia so there's a time zone difference. Before the nominations, Danielle was talking to David and myself and completely throwing a hissy fit thinking she was going to get nominated because Rachel is jealous. Danielle is just ridiculous. I told Rachel about this but I don't think she seemed to care very much.

Talking to David, we both agree that a guys alliance would be the best way to go in this game. The other guys seem to be on the same page. We haven't talked to Joe about it yet but he would be foolish not to jump on board. We think that the girls have their own alliance brewing up. Keesha and Danielle seem to be very close according to David and I'm those girls can easily reel in Dani D. and Chima. Maybe that's why Rachel didn't nominate Danielle: because she could be with them. This season could very well end up turning into a battle of the sexes.

The guys need to start winning competitions and getting rid of the girls. Keesha and Danielle are, in my opinion, the most dangerous out of that bunch so hopefully a plan can be put in motion to get rid of one of them. Wil should leave this week unless the girls decide to get super vicious in the second week and blindside Jason. I'm gong to continue talking to the girls and stay in their good graces. Apparently I'm a good debater (lol) so hopefully they don't use that against me. I like being complimented, what can I say?

Time to eat some chicken rice yo!

[James Rhine]

Well Joe won the veto and surprisingly decided to use the veto to save Jason. This raises some red flags as to how close Joe and Joe are. Maybe they're in a gruesome twosome alliance, albeit a lame one, but still an alliance. Or maybe Rachel asked Joe to use it since she has other plans.

I talked to Rachel and she is dead set on backdooring Danielle which is hilarious. Getting Danielle out this week would be a great move cause she is annoying and it takes a member away from an alleged girl's alliance. Lori mentioned this plan to David so now we both think that her and Rachel are pretty close. Danielle has been paranoid all wee about being nominated and now it seems that she is right. She is likely going to flip out and start scrambling like crazy which will be hilarious to witness.

Danielle is already talking about votes with me. She pretty much outed her alliance saying that she definitely has Chima, Keesha and Dani D as votes to keep her. Well what a lovely 4-girl alliance that is. Although Wil is inactive, most people are on board with the plan of backdooring Danielle.

Low and behold, as I am writing this confessional, Rachel has already posted her replacement nominee.....and it is indeed Danielle. Her reason is that Danielle interrogated her earlier in the week which is true haha. Danielle is as good as gone at this point. Although I was sure Kara would stay last week, so who knows if the votes will fall the way I would prefer them to this week.

[James Rhine]

ROUND 3



Well ding dong, the witch is dead! Danielle has been backdoored and blindsided from the house and she is not happy about it haha. She came on aim and started cussing at me. It's feels good to find out that the decisions you made are the right ones. Good riddance Danielle!

There were two votes to keep Danielle and I assumed they were Chima and Keesha. However, upon talking to David, I found out that Jason is the second vote to evict Wil along with Chima. Jason told me that he is happy Danielle left and that Wil is here to stay. What a fake person. Apparently, Jason had no clue that the plan was to evict Danielle and he wasn't happy that no one told him. Maybe if you tried talking to people about the vote, you wouldn't have that problem. Amateur.

In other news, a guys alliance has definitely been established. I don't think Joe knows much about it though. I haven't talked to him about it but David mentioned that he would talk to him. All the guys banding together is a pretty big alliance to say the least. Out of the bunch, I trust David and Dominic the most. Jason and Joe will likely be the first outcast as many people think that they have a something going on.

The HoH was pretty fun in my opinion. I wasn't too concerned about winning it because that isn't my objective at this stage in the game. I did try to win it though because I think that nominations would have been easy with people like Wil, Daniele, Chima and Keesha just kind of out there. Chima of all people ended up winning HoH. Not the result I was hoping for, that's for sure. Props to Chima though, people thought she was inactive the first week and she totally flipped it around and won the HoH by getting all 20 correct.

I am concerned though because I haven't spoken to Chima very much. Along with Dominic and Rachel, I voted to evict the gurl the first week. Not sure if that information has gotten to her but if it has then that could mean trouble for me. Hopefully it's the other two though and not me. Lori did nominate Chima so maybe Chima will exact her revenge. Rachel did keep Chima safe, however she backdoored Danielle, someone who I believe was close to Chima. I sent Chima a PM just in case I don't get a chance to speak to her. If I do have an aim convo with her and she asked me how I voted, I will be honest and tell her that I voted to evict her. There are clearly a lot of options for Chima and hopefully I'm not one of them.

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[James Rhine]

Well Chima's nominations are finally posted so I think I'll update you on what's happened leading up to it. I was worried Chima would nominate me, but when I talked to her on aim, she assured that I wouldn't be nominated at all. At all? She clearly doesn't know what's going on. What kind of person doesn't even find out who voted against them? She told me that she is thinking of nominating Lori and Wil with Lori being her target. Lmao, another girl? The girls are so oblivious to the guy's alliance, it's not even funny anymore. Well, maybe a bit. They are in the dark.

However, Wil got expelled earlier than most people though and that kind of messed up Chima's nominations lawl. Talking to her today, she was bat shit scared of putting up a pawn and having that person get angry at her. Lori is still her target, but the way she was talking to me, saying things like "I just need a seat-filler basically", it kind of seemed like she wanted ME to volunteer MYSELF. I talked to David, and he told me that Chima was thinking of pawning Dominic or ME! ummm





I need to get out of this predicament. No way I'm giving people the opportunity to get rid of me. Although I'm sure everyone would want Lori gone this week, I don't wanna take that chance. I asked Chima who she's talked to the least and she said Rachel and Joe. I pushed for one of those to get nominated. Saying things like, they're relaxed people, they would understand, Lori's you target anyway, blah, blahh, blahhh. And guess what? She agreed. She told me she would nominate Joe haha and low and behold, Lori and Joe are this week's nominees. Sorry Joe, but as long as it ain't me....

Truth is, I think Joe will actually not be too pleased about this ahha.....but I didn't mention that to Chima. The worst case scenario would be for Lori to win the veto and Chima to have to make me sweat some more bullets.

[James Rhine]

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! Not too much to report as there was barely any activity over the weekend. Dom won the veto and kept the nominations the same. Seems like the plan is still to vote out Lori. Us guys have just been going out and confirming votes with people. Apparently Lori has Keesha and Rachel as for sure votes to keep her, so that's a bit concerning. Hopefully they do keep her since that puts a target on their back.

There isn't much benefit to keeping Lori since I'm sure she is in with Keesha and Rachel. Sure she will go after Chima, but so will Joe. Joe has apparently been ignoring Chima's PMs so my suggestion to put him up worked out perfectly.

I'm tired of girls winning these HoH's. Next round, as long as Lori goes, it will be 6 guys vs 3 girls, and if we still can't win then something is wrong haha. It will be harder to keep the guys alliance under cover if we can't win an HoH. But if a girl does win, it seems like they are just going after each other haha. Out of the 3 girls, Dani D winning would be best case scenario since she's kind of....not very smart? Trying to keep it as nice as possible, don't wanna put a dollar in the douche jar *eyeroll*

[Kat]

Hope you had a good easter too