(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

JDGA · Post Post #25 (isolation #0) » Tue Sep 24, 2013 1:04 pm

In post 1, yabbaguy wrote:
Queue:

Feirei

...

Spoiler: Old Queue (re-/in to keep your place!)
...

Feirei

...

JDGA · Post Post #35 (isolation #1) » Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:18 pm

GREETINGS, EVERYONE! I am JDGA! I pwn people and play for mad cash!
Well I guess in this game I'm pwning orbs rather then people, but close enough!

JDGA · Post Post #37 (isolation #2) » Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:35 pm

Let's start things off with the HAPPY SCUMDAY then of

Drench

.

JDGA · Post Post #40 (isolation #3) » Wed Sep 25, 2013 5:34 pm

(Oh happy scumday to you too xtoph but you're green and green does not deserve 3s)

JDGA · Post Post #46 (isolation #4) » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:59 am

GOGO SCUMDAY GAME

xtopherusD

JDGA · Post Post #64 (isolation #5) » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:18 pm

Xalxe

got XX, so let's get him his third strike by watching him inevitably fail his pick here. (Or, y'know, don't :3)

JDGA · Post Post #73 (isolation #6) » Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:15 am

Hey,

puzzledan

, push blue for me please~

JDGA · Post Post #82 (isolation #7) » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:14 am

yabba you forgot to shuffle the spheres

Hey

StrangerCoug

, can you be a stranger to the 0 and 1? Bumping green up another notch would be pretty great right now.

JDGA · Post Post #86 (isolation #8) » Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:31 pm

eww

orcinus

, plz to do something about this (read: I'm dumping the 1 on you whilst I work out what to do with green and blue; don't you dare give me a 2 back)

JDGA · Post Post #92 (isolation #9) » Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:22 pm

Total collapse is a jerk. This one will probably work well too, and it makes dupes

slightly

less brutal.

JDGA · Post Post #95 (isolation #10) » Sat Sep 28, 2013 4:38 am

I'll pass it right back to

Feirei

, since green and blue are too important and UV is reserved for 3s until further notice.

JDGA · Post Post #98 (isolation #11) » Sat Sep 28, 2013 6:20 am

(Explanation for newbies: A common pick for obvious reasons is first then second. I don't remember how, but this became known as Southpaw. Naturally, a common counter-pick was fifth then fourth, which for the sake of being opposite became known as Northpaw. So Feirei's chosen the last orb, and then the second-last if she pulls the 4.)

JDGA · Post Post #104 (isolation #12) » Sat Sep 28, 2013 3:02 pm

Well,

animorpherv1

can deal with this target now.

JDGA · Post Post #109 (isolation #13) » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:06 pm

*watches balloons come out of the floor in celebration*

Oh, it's definitely going to

D3f3nd3r

, btw.

JDGA · Post Post #115 (isolation #14) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:44 am

bluh bluh, bluh bluh.
bluh bluh bluh bluh

KingdomAces

bluh bluh...

JDGA · Post Post #118 (isolation #15) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 7:40 am

*siiiigh*

Well at least that passed, but that 3 is STILL around. Apparently, if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. Speaking of which...
My spheres are 4-0-3-1-2, so I'll run southpaw and prepare for a second consecutive game once I finish this one (:3)

JDGA · Post Post #122 (isolation #16) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:04 am

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

kdowns

, take it away.

JDGA · Post Post #127 (isolation #17) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:01 pm

Right, so blue's shoving itself with the help of

my minions

everyone else, so I'll drop this one on red which could do with the assistance.

JasonWazza

, go!

JDGA · Post Post #131 (isolation #18) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:38 am

Not too sure if I like the blank spheres for the ones that were skipped by 4s. Oh well,

Cheery Dog

, please boost my money tree a little. It's still kinda really lacking...

JDGA · Post Post #133 (isolation #19) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:50 am

Leaving them blank marks the inexorable progress of the game. Keeping them in place looks nicer overall though since there aren't any .black spots standing out and drawin attention to themselves.

JDGA · Post Post #141 (isolation #20) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:05 pm

yayyyyyyyy RNG did I mention I love you? I mean I know it's a love-hate relationship sometimes and absurdly dom-sub all the time, but still!
Uhhh, yes. Right.

bird1111

, although I don't know it he's going to show up to pick his spheres. (If not, maybe the RNG will be friendly again?)

JDGA · Post Post #144 (isolation #21) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:11 pm

Nyehhhhhhhh
ehhhhhhhhh

IceGuy

, go!

JDGA · Post Post #148 (isolation #22) » Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:26 am

JerryArr

, apparently red likes to remain rubbish even when it's got two wins. Can you bump that up to three to make it slightly more reasonable?

JDGA · Post Post #154 (isolation #23) » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:12 pm

In post 152, KingdomAces wrote:Not that I actually think it's going to come into play, but if you predict your own spheres and then intentionally select something other than what would be 4/0 based on your predictions, would the line jump activate based on the predictions or what actually occurred?

Jerk

jmj3000

, green's shoved itself in a hole and curled up to die. It'll be a huge load off my mind if you nab the 4 here, but I'm not really expecting it.

JDGA · Post Post #158 (isolation #24) » Wed Oct 02, 2013 2:01 am

Well, if they're all level, then Rule of Dramatic Finales says that blue's gonna succeed. As such, this one is going to

Mist7676

.

JDGA · Post Post #172 (isolation #25) » Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:38 pm

JDGA · Post Post #175 (isolation #26) » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:48 am

Hell. Yes. This is pretty awesome.
Well... I've said my prayer to the Random Number Goddess, and she says to choose... the

t

h

i

r

d

sphere.

JDGA · Post Post #178 (isolation #27) » Thu Oct 03, 2013 4:24 am

^_^ yaaaaaaay~
That stats page is awesome and a great way to summarise the game, FTR, so hopefully you keep doing that

Other than that, I dare say that's pretty much the best start to Optimize Reloaded possible - except, now that I look at it, the UV players gave us two 4s, two 3s, and a 1...
But yeah! SUPER happy that all worked out, and best of luck to kdowns~

JDGA · Post Post #183 (isolation #28) » Thu Oct 03, 2013 6:52 am

In post 181, yabbaguy wrote:Just to clarify/remind: contenders need to re-/in after any game they play if they wish to take another ride, players who were just picking spheres stay put in the queue automatically.

Oh, I forgot about that part. Thinking about it, I'm not too sure if I should - it'd be pretty difficult to top the game just concluded. Then again, it's far too fun to not at least be opening spheres, so... /in~

JDGA · Post Post #186 (isolation #29) » Thu Oct 03, 2013 7:16 am

In post 185, Xalxe wrote:And that's stealing JDGA's money!

*pulls out heist equipment*

(Oh, trust me, if I could get questions for a MishMash adaption of

Win Ben Stein's Money

, I definitely would)

JDGA · Post Post #191 (isolation #30) » Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:18 pm

Mist and bird bricked. Picks 9 and 11 were on UV after UV had collapsed.

JDGA · Post Post #253 (isolation #31) » Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:18 am

(Is it reverse haiku day?)

JDGA · Post Post #257 (isolation #32) » Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:23 pm

I said reverse haiku, and I know the syllables didn't match up but the line structure made it feel like it was trying to be 7-5-7 or something.

JDGA · Post Post #271 (isolation #33) » Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:19 am

In post 269, Tragedy wrote:..../in, despite being uh... Late?

HOLY WOW IT'S A TRAGEDY

JDGA · Post Post #298 (isolation #34) » Wed Oct 16, 2013 5:32 pm

I had a dream that blue and green both collapsed. Just warning you~

JDGA · Post Post #320 (isolation #35) » Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:04 pm

JDGA · Post Post #354 (isolation #36) » Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:00 am

This doesn't even matter anyway - green will surely collapse.

JDGA · Post Post #361 (isolation #37) » Fri Oct 25, 2013 5:14 pm

xtoph is irrelevant.
(He should probably be given a chance to queue jump though)

JDGA · Post Post #387 (isolation #38) » Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:34 am

Nyeh, Tragedy shouldn't be so pessimistic. I'm calling a 1.

JDGA · Post Post #396 (isolation #39) » Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:03 pm

JDGA · Post Post #406 (isolation #40) » Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:35 am

*applause from the gallery*

JDGA · Post Post #450 (isolation #41) » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:07 pm

UV really just doesn't want to stick around in this edition, does it? :S

JDGA · Post Post #522 (isolation #42) » Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:12 am

In post 519, swyellowtail wrote:Wait... waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait.
What am I doing in Feirei's spot?

Contenders don't get their own spot any more because of the chance they'll line jump in their own game.

JDGA · Post Post #728 (isolation #43) » Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:58 pm

This game is crazy. Also, very unpredictable.

JDGA · Post Post #760 (isolation #44) » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:55 am

In post 759, yabbaguy wrote:Yeah, instead of chiseling out the color tags, which is such a pain (I have to actually click and drag my mouse? Ugh!), I just turn it black.

Can confirm, although IIRC I used a grey for collapsed sectors.

JDGA · Post Post #770 (isolation #45) » Mon Jan 20, 2014 9:54 am

Hey, remember the part where

$4k

?

JDGA · Post Post #800 (isolation #46) » Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:37 pm

Hey, I'm on the board now!
And yes, the next 20 players in the queue are the ones in the board. You go R1-G1-B1-UV1-R2-G2-[snip]-G5-B5-UV5-Contestant.

JDGA · Post Post #809 (isolation #47) » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:23 pm

Woo!
30124, so

5/2

. Best of luck CJ!

JDGA · Post Post #811 (isolation #48) » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:42 pm

Well, it's a brick, and it was on red, and no one likes red anyway (not even the golden spheres). I'm declaring a success.

JDGA · Post Post #823 (isolation #49) » Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:17 pm

Nope, they're definitely orbs. What

were

you thinking?

JDGA · Post Post #877 (isolation #50) » Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:31 pm

JDGA · Post Post #883 (isolation #51) » Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:14 am

WELL.
My god, this game's just been crazy.

JDGA · Post Post #929 (isolation #52) » Mon Apr 21, 2014 4:30 am

I'm sorry!

JDGA · Post Post #931 (isolation #53) » Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:26 am

Oh hi!
Right, so since apparently I stole all the luck from this game, I might as well try to give some of it back.
Uh... fourth orb, then the first!

JDGA · Post Post #1018 (isolation #54) » Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:47 pm

It's definitely time for the

Curse of $4000

to make its return.

JDGA · Post Post #1054 (isolation #55) » Sun Jul 20, 2014 4:42 pm

In post 1051, puzzledan wrote:Gives lord a Pepsi

Had five syllables
Rest did not follow pattern
Very disappoint.

JDGA · Post Post #1129 (isolation #56) » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:12 am

I'll take the third orb, then the fourth.

JDGA · Post Post #1131 (isolation #57) » Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:48 am

You see, orb starts with an o, which looks like a 0, which summons the 0 for me with certainty!
(There so needs to be a google doc or something showing stats for everyone's picks)
(If it wasn't 5am here I'd almost start on one myself)

JDGA · Post Post #1153 (isolation #58) » Wed Dec 03, 2014 2:09 pm

In post 1152, orcinus_theoriginal wrote:orb

See, I'm not the only one!

JDGA · Wed Jan 07, 2015 12:47 am

In post 1167, yabbaguy wrote:All kinds of thoughts about what to do with this project are going through my head. I'm guessing it's painful for you all to watch this game crawl at a snail's pace...thoughts? I'm going to try and get more involved with Mish Mash though so that it's not as awkward to just update this project, hopefully that works out.

Getting involved with Mish Mash is

never

a bad idea. This is practically a mainstay of the forum by now, and it'd be sad to lose it.