[Macie Lightfoot]

Well there's two types of games. The upfront tactical game based around calculating nominations and such (Victor, Lydia) and the more sly, audience-manipulating version of playing the game (the Ziggys, the Darnells, the John Jameses, that whole gross succession of season-ruining HMs.) Since the public is all against playing the game, the people who fall into the latter type of gameplayers have to make it look like they are in fact not playing the game and usually do so in gross ways, such as constructing a false narrative that you are good overcoming evil, instigating arguments to make everyone else look bad but yourself, calling everyone else out on playing the game while insisting that you are ~raw n rull~, etc. It's gross and frustrating and awful to see assholes mislead the public into thinking they are actually the good guys when they're not.

Dexter falls perfectly into line with the natural succession of Richard to Ziggy to Darnell to Siavash to John James to Aaron and while I don't think he's nearly as bad as them, the similarities are there so I do get why the whole house is frustrated over Dexter's blatant attempts to look like the good guy when he effectively chose to walk for close to the full prize fund, and then manipulated the situation to look like the victim. However, I hate the means by which Sam argues so I can't even fully take his side. Charlie of all people came across as the most articulate and logical tonight to me, you really know it's a ****ed up blackhole if that's the case.