pelicansfan123

It's so ridiculous that Zac Brown has more confessionals than Tiffany on this season so far.

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Am I the only one who can't stand they stay on this same lame arse island for many seasons now? Part of the charm of the show was different hardship, bounty and adaptation to unknown places. It's cookie cutter challenge obstacles now that barely change at all. And almost zero foraging and fishing anymore.

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I think the biggest issues with the show are: not moving locations, not having it be 39 days anymore (or at least a full month where you really feel like the players are having to survive out there), not having themed seasons anymore (and this lame "hands of the fans" I'm not counting), and the lack of diversity in life experience amongst the contestants.

I think they've made a push for more diversity which I think is great. But, you don't have people from all walks of life combining on the same island for a social experiment anymore. It's just a lot of upper-middle class, white collar people.

That felt like a weak episode, a real come-down from the excitement of season 50 premiering.

We didn't really get to see the tribe dynamics of 2 of the 3 tribes play out before the early tribe swap because only one tribe went to tribal council. Q did a great job of building an alliance/trust on his original tribe and got swapped without even going to a tribal council to a different tribe that just so happened to have three D vs G people that might or might not have had a pregame alliance.

Too much Emily Flippen and Charlie/Rizo too. I think most of us are watching this season for Coach, Ozzie, Cirie, Colby, etc.. We're not here to watch Emily Flippen, who shouldn't have been on this season in the first place, fumble her way through the pre-merge.

Q going home also just brought down the entertainment value of the rest of the season big time.

I'm so sorry to hear that...dogs are family members too.

When I lost my last dog, this quote provided a lot of comfort. Hopefully it does the same for you:

“There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other. To those who have never lived through its turnings and walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will be broken seems incomprehensible. Only we know how small a price we pay for what we receive; our grief, no matter how powerful it may be, is an insufficient measure of the joy we have been given.” - Suzanne Clothier

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It’s been great all 4 seasons. It’s becoming my favorite over Big Brother. In the beginning, I thought Rob was going to be a dud as a Traitor, but he’s been awesome. He deserves the $180K.

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I'm really enjoying the show too. I like shows like this, Survivor, and Big Brother, they all are really fun and different enough from each other that they don't get old.

I have to say, I normally love reality tv recap podcasts, but the podcasts this week are rough. I normally listen to the gamers' podcasts, but you can tell this week that a lot of them upset Natalie went home and are essentially saying the episode wasn't good because of that bias.

Too much Monday morning quarterbacking this week. It's very easy to sit on the sidelines and say that they should have realized it was Rob and blah blah blah. The people left are tired, they're paranoid, and they've trusted Rob for a long time.

It's not so easy for them to change their minds about him, especially when Candiace's "big evidence" against him was when he dropped a fork.

I think this is how it's almost certainly going to go:

Mark banished

Then, Tara and Johnny banished in the next two eliminations. Rob will convince Maura (with no evidence otherwise because starting now they aren't revealing their identities).

So it will be Maura, Eric, and Rob at the end, in my opinion. I'm not sure how it goes from there, except I think Rob is for sure winning.

I could see a scenario where Maura thinks Eric is a traitor and it ends with Rob and Maura at the end and Maura wins it all.

I could see Rob having a similar mindset, at the very, that the traitor who won season 1 did, and kicking the late recruit to the curb with a late change of heart.

Or I could see Eric and Rob winning together. I'm not sure. But I think we're almost certainly going to see Mark banished and then Johnny/Tara out next as the "two remaining traitors" (in Maura's eyes).

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I’ve learned that anything over an hour for me and I just start to get bored and wanting to do something else, so mentally, those 8-10+ mile days were just draining for me and I got to where I’d look for excuses not to do them.

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So funny you say this. I think I started to get bored, and the runs started to feel more and more significant,once my runs passed the hour mark.

55 min vs 1 hr 5 min just feels like a world apart.

Hi everyone. I ran cross country in high school and then, largely took a lot of time off of running.

Around the time of the pandemic, I didn't like how I was starting to physically feel and got back into running, slowly but surely.

I'm at the point, around six years later, where my daily run is around 7 miles (I'm guessing) and takes me over an hour to do, which is a significant time commitment daily. I'm in great shape can go on a half marathon-length run on a whim without too many difficulties (when I occasionally decide to do that impromptu).

I just feel like, as my mileage has increased, it's getting harder and harder to motivate myself to go on these longer runs because of the increasingly-high amount of time and effort it takes to do them daily. And I'm, more and more, making excuses not to go on runs, which I then feel guilty about.

I think this is a mindset that only distance runners can understand, but once I increased my daily mileage to around seven miles, and I knew that my body can go on these runs daily, cutting down my daily mileage almost feels like I'm taking steps backwards, getting "lazy," and regressing, as opposed to progressing.

I'm sure this all sounds ridiculous unless you're a distance runner, but I am sure there's someone on this board that can understand my mindset.

Has anyone else ever started to feel this way? Is this something where I just need to push through my internal doubts and keep going? Or is my subconscious trying to tell me something legitimate (as opposed to just trying to give myself an excuse not to run and be "lazy")?

This is all supposed to be for personal satisfaction too! It's not like I'm training for anything! I feel like it's also just that I have so much else going on in my life, time-wise, it feels like the runs are starting to suck my free time away versus enhance my mental health/life, like I used to feel.

My mindset is, these players are getting a big paycheck nowadays, criticism is warranted as part of that paycheck.

If you're getting paid, often six+ figures, on top of a free education, room, board, food, etc., and you're not performing up to par, then too bad

I certainly don't see the players complaining about soaking up the money, education, and amenities.

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You hit on a lot of things. I tend to agree. CBB gameplay is close to what it’s always been. The one and done model used to be restricted to lottery picks. Now it’s available for anybody who might transfer.

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Yep and it's unlimited transfers, as well, which is a major problem. Someone like Dariah Mensah in football, for instance, getting to just transfer around to different schools makes a mockery of what college sports is. You should be limited to one transfer and then you sit out a year.

And the whole stuff with Alabama and Bediako makes a mockery of college sports, as well.

I think, to fix college sports, you need to limit to one transfer then sit out a year and rein NIL back in to only sponshorships, and then you get the essence of college sports back.

But, I think the wider problem for sports is the streaming issues. Like, seriously, I've barely heard the freaking Super Bowl even mentioned on social media. And it's the Super Bowl.