Projectile Diarrhea of the Mouth.

Don't expect any ASL questions here! We'll save those for the Loungin' interviews. So I sat down(ish) to interview VulcanRaven over MSN and welp, here's what turned up. Now be warned, this interview is quite wordy, so if you're not ready for a sit down read, I'd say to turn back now. Though you'll find some good insight on the Q22 situation, give Tallulah a few more seconds of the limelight and play a mini game of Superlatives involving Season Two's cast!

Don't act like you're not interested. ;D



Interview with VulcanRaven (7/12/09)

acevus:
So its your 5th year on Neo? Were you doing an off-and-on thing at some point? Or have you steadily been a Neoseeker for 5 years?
VulcanRaven:
Very much so, I don't remember exact dates, but out of my 5 years at Neo I'd say that I've probably only spent a combined 2, maybe 3 years on the site. It's funny because around winter when the second season of Big Brother was starting, I thought I'd be leaving for good and start focussing more on school and whatnot, but Big Brother brough a whole new interest in the site, and I'm still following the third season closely. I owe a lot to Klope for slecting me to be in it! But that seems to happen all the time; I lose interest in Neo, and then something new and exciting happens that keeps me sticking around


acevus:
[...For] the third season, is there any specific person you're watching out for? Do you have a projected winner? I'm still a fan of the V-for-Victory theory... partially because my first name begins with a V. : D
VulcanRaven:
Chelskiman and Vector definitely seem to be the two strongest, so I've been watching out for them the most, and I think it will come down to those two. If it does, I think Vector will take it, everyone in the house seems to love him. And it's perfect because it fits with the V for Victory, haha!


acevus:
So it seems you kept up with BB from the beginning. You commented on Daniel's behavior change in the two seasons early in your diary. Care to comment on [...] Daniel?
VulcanRaven:
From reading the diaries at the end, and the reasons why he nominated some of the people that he did, it seemed very... juvenile. I know you don't need a good reason to nominate someone, but when it's things like "I didn't like his name" or "he's too young" and such, it gives off a bad impression. However, once I got to know him in the second season, I realized that wasn't the case. Even though we only had a few conversations, I could tell he was a great guy. I think he realized that what he was doing didn't work the first time around, so he changed his strategy and actually showed the house that he's really a good guy. And in his defense, when it's the first week or two of the season, it's hard to come up with legitimate reasons to nominate someone when you hardly know the rest of the house guests


acevus:
Yeah, no kidding... I shared the first HOH with him and, for the record, we nominated you only because we knew you were such a strong presence. Dunno if that was said in the diaries...
Anyway, did you have any specific strategy going into BB? How much of the cast of your season had you known, prior to BB?
VulcanRaven:
During the start of it I honestly had no strategy other than simply trying to win the games. I didn't know how important alliances would actually prove to be, so I foolishly only contacted one other person, bobbo, right at the start. He was the only other name I really recognized (besides you and Daniel from season 1) and I thought it would be a good chance to reach out to him (he also proved to be a great guy!) But anyway, once the first few rounds go by, you start to realize that simply minding your own business and trying to win everything on your own just doesn't work at all. we've seen that a lot in season 3 too. It was hard to plan a specific strategy going in when I didn't know what to expect once you're actually IN the game, it was a lot different than just watching from the sidelines


acevus:
In your diaries you mentioned trying to convince Tallulah to join you in an alliance. How exactly did that pan out? I tried the same, and I don't think she quite understood the concept of an "alliance"... or even the competition, in general.
VulcanRaven:
Hahaha, Tallulah. That failed miserably. I went by the common misconception that girls tend to be more mature than guys, and perhaps her maturity and knowledge would prove beneficial to me. Unfortunately she wasn't either of those, and I think she was, what, the first person out of the house? It made me angry more than anything, since she took up the spot of someone who would actually give it their best shot and put some effort into the game after Klope put all that time and energy into it. But that seems to be unavoidable every season...
acevus:
She was out within at least week 2. She dropped out of the game, claiming she was too busy. I don't get her at all, actually... I thought about interviewing her and looked for questions to ask her from her profile but I found this: "I lost my virginity in a dare, but I won't tell you about it if you ask. ;D" right next to something along the lines of "If you have nothing nice to say to me, don't say it. But if you do, just know that I'm listening but I don't care."
VulcanRaven:
Hahaha, wow... yeah, she's an interesting one XD


acevus:
So this season they had a Superlatives challenge. You're familiar with it, yes?
VulcanRaven:
Was that the first challenge of the season, where they nominated contestants under various titles, like most kind, smart, etc?
acevus:
Yes!
Try assigning these titles to people within your season: Smartest Houseguest, Most Confused, Biggest Sweetheart & Biggest Instigator
VulcanRaven:
Smartest Houseguest definitely Q22 hands down, looking back at the diaries, and even though according to Klope there was a ton of stuff he left out, he did a lot of scheming and masterminding. He makes me think of a smart Dash the Stampede. Plus, he was great at the challenges, for the most part.

Most Confused - This one is tough. I'm gonna have to give it to Ysprk though, simply for the fact that he/she seemed to be very gender confused. He claimed to be a "he" but Big Brother called him a "she" all the time, and everyone knows that Big Brother is all knowing, and soon in time Ysprk even seemed unsure of being a "he". That added some fun and confusion to the house. XD

Biggest Sweetheart - Hmmmm, you and Daniel definitely were the two nicest in the house. I'm gonna have to make it a tie between you two. Even though you and I weren't in an alliance until very close to the end (and it didn't last long either ) I noticed right off the bat you seemed genuine and considerate even though we had barely been working together all competition. That meant a lot, and it was a [continuing]
shame that you ended up being evicted shortly afterwards because I was looking forwards to working with you. You definitely didn't seem like the kind of person that would screw someone over in the end. And Daniel ended up being a great guy, like we talked about earlier. Very unfortunate about what happened with him, I can't imagine going through that. Bobbo was a really nice guy too, a lot of enthusiasm, I liked that about him. He'd be higher on the list if he didn't say to Q22 in one of his PMs that I needed to grow balls since I didn't evict ShinyMilotic *rage*. At least I proved it to be the right decision in the end!

Biggest Instigator - Q22 again, for when he tried to turn Bobbo against me by doctoring PMs. That was brilliant on his part, to give him credit, and I really did fall for it. I lost a lot of trust in Bobbo and looking back I felt really bad once I knew it was faked. To be honest, I never mentioned this in a diary, but when it came down to me and Estuve in the Veto in the Final Four, I let him win it so that he would remove himself from the block, putting [cont'd]
me up in his spot by default, and then since Q22 couldn't vote, he'd vote out Bobbo. (Bobbo already evicted Estuve once, so it seemed very reasonable that he'd get his revenge). And it worked out perfectly in the end, and I felt good about it until I realized Bobbo wasn't actually trying to go against me. Oops. Oh well, Bobbo and Q22 were close, so I know I would have been the odd man out in the end. I had to do some scheming of my own.


acevus:
Oh, and speaking of... Shed some light onto the Q22-gone-evil situation. It seemed you two were somewhat close in alliance. Did his behavior surprise you?
VulcanRaven:
Did it appear that we were close? To be completely honest, he was probably someone I was most distant to in the entire house. I only contacted him once, and that was when he sent everyone answers for that one music video HOH competition. I didn't know what he was up to all the time, I juest heard everything through Bobbo, since those two were very close knit. I didn't know what to expect of him, and when he contacted me about Bobbo planning on turning against me, I was very surprised. But I didn't think he'd go through all the effort to doctor images, so naturally I fell for it. I thought he was a nice guy for sharing the HOH image with me earlier in the season (although that too was just part of his plan). And he did spare me from eviction when he nominated Estuve and Bobbo instead, that was a nice gesture, so I thought he was being genuinely helpful to me. Of course, I was wrong, and needless to say I was pretty surprised when I found out just how much actually went on behind everyone's back. =P
acevus:
It kind of seemed you guys were... or maybe I just assumed since he was in the alliance, that you were. I guess it was only bobbo that was close to him. I mean, he and I interacted beyond the competition, but thats another story for a much different setting and day.
If I could do anything differently though, it would've been throwing the Greed challenge for you instead of for Bobbo. It sucked that I helped him get HOH and then he gets Veto and doesn't even help me out. I mean, I'm not bitter about it still, but eh. If you could do one thing differently, what would you do?
VulcanRaven:
You two interacted beyond that? I'm interested to hear that story one day
acevus:
its uh... quite the story.
VulcanRaven:
Yeah, when I saw what happened with you I was pretty shocked. It was at the point where backstabbing was inevitable, but I wasn't happy that it was you. It was right at the point where I was starting to trust you more than anyone else remaining, and BAM, you're gone. At that point it really all comes down to luck of the draw based on who won HOH and Veto. If it had been me, Q22 would be gone, if it had been Estuve I'm sure Bobbo would have been gone. It would be fun to be able to go back in time and see how things would play out if it was slightly different.

And LOL, that makes it sound like quite the sketchy story


acevus:
If you were able to choose anyone to go head-to-head with you, who would it have been? ...and if you weren't in the Final 2, who would you have liked to see there?
VulcanRaven:
I was glad I was going against Estuve, I wouldn't change that. Of course, he was a great guy too, and I wouldn't have minded seeing him win it, but I knew that he didn't have as much support from (past) alliances and since the group of recently evicted houseguests who made up the jury comprised a lot of guys I had been in contact with or alliances with, I felt pretty comfortable. I knew Q22 was a lot more well-known and liked than I was, to some of the jury anyway, and I didn't think I would have stood a chance if I had chosen him instead. For the record, I didn't flip a coin, I picked Estuve by hand. >___> I think it would have been fun going against you in the Bottom 2 as well, I think that would have been closer in the end than it was with me and Estuve.

But if I wasn't in the Final 2, I would have liked to see DanielG there, and either you or Bobbo. You were the three that I wanted to win the most, besides myself, at some point or another and all three of you had been great guys who were deserving of the win. I think DanielG vs. acevus would have made a great Final 2 considering you were both returning contestants, haha


acevus:
If it were Daniel versus me, I would've lost so hard. Hahah everyone really liked him a lot more than they liked me, which is very understandable.
VulcanRaven:
I dunno, once I got to know you as well it really surprised me that at such a key time in the competition you were still an honest and very nice guy. That said a lot to me


acevus:
So after talking about BB and giving yourself a mental refresher: Summarize your BB season with 4 words.
VulcanRaven:
This is going to difficult... =( Hmmm... Exciting, Enjoyable, Stressful, and Rewarding =D
(Or do the 4 words have to be connected, like forming a sentence? )
acevus:
lol if you could do a sentence, it'd be great. Mine's “Supermod? More like Super-Evil.” (Which is technically cheating since Its kind of 5 words.)
VulcanRaven:
I was thinking about that, it's hard to make a good four letter sentence, but mine would probably be: That was a rush! (Sound corny when I read it aloud, ahah)


acevus:
[...] has winning Neo BB boosted your status on Neo? Did you have anyone asking you about the competition and such?
VulcanRaven:
I did get a couple random PMs from people telling me they were following it and saying they were rooting for me. That surprised me, since I didn't think that there were people like me who lurked the game. I don't know if it's actually boosted my status, but it feels pretty good when I read through the Big Brother Season 3 thread and see "The Big Brother House; Winner: VulcanRaven! DIARIES Pg. 22" as a related thread at the bottom, hahah. I'm hoping Big Brother keeps going on for many more seasons, so then I can always look back and brag that I was one of the few winners! And it felt awesome getting all the congrats at the end of the game from past participants and houseguests. It's probably the only competition I'll ever win in my life!
acevus. says:
lol I'm sure you're bound to win more competitions to come...


acevus:
[...] I tried digging for some dirt or something [on you], but there's nothing! It doesn't exist. You're [just] a genuinely good person. I'm really, really glad you won the competition. Any final thoughts to any fellow BB members; past, present and future?
VulcanRaven:
I tried to be a nice guy and not to screw anyone over, so I should hope there would be no dirt! =P I think you and I had a very similar mentality in that sense, because you definitely didn't seem like the kind of person who would turn around and evict a friend. And I know everyone knows it's only a game meant for fun, but when you act like an asshole it takes away from the fun. Thankfully we had a great cast in Season 2 (tbh probably the best out of the three seasons). There were some people in Season 3 who took it way too seriously, especially whoever spoiled the merger surprise *cough it's pretty obvious who*, that was the lowest of the low. I think the important thing to keep in mind was that it's meant to be enjoyable and meant to be a good time, so if there are any future Big Brother contestants reading this just remember that, and by the way I HIGHLY encourage you try it out. It was a great experience, and even built some friendships out of it. =D I love thinking back on when it was the final five, when things started to get really heated and hectic and exciting. Those were
some of my favourite times ever on Neoseeker.


acevus:
[...] looks like I skipped these four questions: For those unfamiliar with your Neoseeker presence, where do you usually lurk? Have you participated in/applied for any other Neoseeker competitions? Here's your chance to gloat: Have you had any other big Neo accomplishments?

VulcanRaven:
For those unfamiliar with your Neoseeker presence, where do you usually lurk?
I don't post a whole lot anymore these days, but I spend most of my time around the Sports and Music Forums. Those are probably really the only two places I post at all anymore, since those are the two things I never lose interest in, whereas Loungin' and IE is just the same old drivel over and over (with the exception of a certain Klope-run game thread)! I also lurk the Season 3 Big Brother thread, obviously haha, I'm very interested in seeing how that plays out, it seems to be a very competitive cast this season.

Have you participated in/applied for any other Neoseeker competitions?
I was hoping to participate in the Neoseeker Modeling competition, since that looked like a lot of fun when I had read about it, I was going to enter along with my girlfriend, who I actually met on Neoseeker, hahah, we had big plans. But something happened before it started and I ended up on one of my many Neoseeker hiatuses while it took place. If there's another edition, I'll probably try to take part in that one for sure. But other than Big Brother, nothing else. That's alright though, it's about quality, not quantity, and the quality of Big Brother was amazing.
acevus. says:
The modelling competition looked fun! I definitely wanna enter. We should push for it to make a comeback.

VulcanRaven:
Here's your chance to gloat: Have you had any other big Neo accomplishments?
Unfortunately not. Loki said it best when he said "Popularity is not required; while knowing people will help, if you look at last season's winner, VulcanRaven, he isn't all that popular." That sums up my life on Neoseeker. I haven't done a lot, but I've made some good friends and someone who has changed my life, and that's good enough for me. Although maybe one day I will go on to recognize my life-long dream of finally becoming a Neoseeker moderator! Perhaps Klope will let me be his co-mod in Community Events one day. :thick:

And do you know if there's any news on the modeling compeition making a comeback? I might send a PM to ctrl to find out more, that would be a lot of fun!

acevus:
I don't have any info, but if we gather enough interest in the competition, I'm sure we could get it revived... maybe klope will know what to do.


acevus:
[…] The last question isn't even important... nor relevant.
VulcanRaven says:
LOL
acevus:
: D How do you feel about milk stored in jugs, as opposed to bags?
VulcanRaven:
Hahaha! Well apparently milk in bags seems to be a Canadian thing that many non-Canadians find completely bizarre. I've grown up with it so it's completely normal to me, although I prefer my milk in cartons since there is less work and preparation involved!
acevus:
I don't find it bizzare... I think its effing awesome. Its one more thing that makes Canadians much better than us.


acevus:
By the way, what's your relation to klope? Seems like the majority of BB contestants have at least something.

VulcanRaven:
My relation to Klope? As of right now he's probably one of the members I talk to the most outside of the site. But not because of Season 2, I rarely talked to him during Season 2. It wasn't until Season 3 started that I began talking to him more and more about Big Brother, and eventually that branched off into conversations about everything else. We bicker like an old married couple a lot, but he's an awesome guy. I'd say he's become a pretty good friend and a great guy to talk to, always entertaining. He has so many ideas always running through his head about HOH challenges and twists and turns he's gonna throw in here and there, I'm really quite impressed. Our personalities clash so many times, but regardless he's always a fun guy to talk to. I'd like to see how HE would do in a season of Big Brother!