Subject: Seldom won winnable games.
Date: Sun Dec 18 06:19:32 2022
User: TitanicTony
Message:I'm starting a new thread, since the previous one was so badly hijacked.
This was a tough game, imo:
Game: 10x0 26881-5; ..... Game stats: 20/3/15%/1969; ..... Player Elo: 2368.787 ▲ 0.732.
Date: Sun Dec 18 08:36:30 2022
User: Uncle_Vito
Message:I had nothin' to do with no hijackin'.
Date: Sun Dec 18 10:03:18 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Maybe the mod could just delete anything not on topic.
Date: Sun Dec 18 10:45:51 2022
User: Uncle_Vito
Message:Hijacked is in his first sentence.
So, on topic.
Date: Sun Dec 18 11:17:25 2022
User: Klepp
Message:If something is effectively hijacked, isn't it then (by default) well hijacked?
Date: Sun Dec 18 12:25:32 2022
User: firenze
Message:Correct. I would have no part in anything that was done badly.
Date: Sun Dec 18 12:49:21 2022
User: firenzes_mother
Message:Have you forgotten that time the marching band tried to spell "Good Luck", boy.
Date: Sun Dec 18 14:44:08 2022
User: roo
Message:How long did it take you Tony?
Date: Sun Dec 18 14:52:05 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:That's an interesting question, roo. Needless to say, the time recorded by the software (5:49) tells only part of the story.
Date: Sun Dec 18 14:59:56 2022
User: TitanicTony
Message:@ roo. I don't record my times, but I think it was nearly an hour.
Date: Sun Dec 18 16:28:25 2022
User: roo
Message:Thanks Buzz and Tony. Both answers are correct.
I had a go at it - took about 30 seconds to clear a column but that just led to a dead end. So there must be another way which no-one would get in streak mode (well maybe Hop or Spud). I suspect the other two wins were replays.
Date: Sun Dec 18 20:17:54 2022
User: rbw--3
Message:I guess by luck and the hint that clearing the column was a dead end I got it on first try. Did maybe 3 moves then cleared that column. Got two cleared columns and still thought it was lost.
Date: Mon Dec 19 03:32:00 2022
User: TitanicTonys_deckofcards
Message:Do you not have confidence in your own deck of cards? Give my master two clear columns and an hour or three, and it's a "done deal". LOL!
Date: Mon Dec 19 08:52:39 2022
User: rbw--3
Message:You're the old model deck. My cards the royals wink at me when I make a correct move.
And no, I don't use them. I rely on luck.
Date: Mon Dec 19 08:59:30 2022
User: Narrows
Message:TitanicTony could save a lot of time if he just used a solver. He could use his cell phone to record it and then just play it back slowly as he makes each move. It's pretty much what he's doing now, just faster.
Sorry, TTDOC.
Date: Mon Dec 19 16:54:02 2022
User: rbw--3
Message:Can I get the 4 minutes and 11 seconds of my life back?
Date: Mon Dec 19 18:49:04 2022
User: Klepp
Message:Corrective maintenance on one's own electronics gear? Ahhh, the good old days...
Date: Mon Dec 19 19:15:30 2022
User: firenzes_mother
Message:I think Buzz is trying to hijack this thread.
Date: Tue Dec 20 03:28:33 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:Reasonable possibility - especially since he had already posted that clip a while back. BUT.....................if indeed what rbw--3 is saying is true - that there's new model of card decks that wink to give some sort of feedback to affirm the correct pathway...............then it seems relevant. THEN...............Klepp follows that up with a note about maintaining one's own electronic gear. That's a pretty suspicious chain of thought.
Date: Tue Dec 20 05:19:13 2022
User: TitanicTonys_deckofcards
Message:I'm not sure whether to be scared of job loss possibilities or just relieved that "it" could be over....
Date: Tue Dec 20 06:00:18 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
TitanicTonys_deckofcards is in fact TNmountainman
Kumquat-of-Conciliation is in fact TNmountainman
such a shame to lose a troll...
why not lose all your fake names? Isn't using fake names cheating?
Date: Tue Dec 20 06:31:20 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:No, of course not. Why would you even think that? I 'splained all that already. Alternate nicks aren't used to gain some sort of advantage over the game or other players.
Date: Tue Dec 20 06:38:18 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
Really? Did you read it? Your 'splaination seemed to say that's exactly why you use alternate nicks
Date: Tue Dec 20 06:42:14 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Yeah it's cheating because it gives a false illusion that there are more posters who actually give a crap.
Date: Tue Dec 20 06:45:27 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Evil in the name of righteousness.
Uh huh
Date: Tue Dec 20 07:00:33 2022
User: TNmountainman
Message:Did I read it? 🤦🤷 Gee, I don't know. Maybe I had my eyes closed, and was just trying to type out one of Shakespeare's sonnets, but forgot to proofread. Yeah.......that's the ticket.
If, by chance, you're referring to that one brief period (the aforementioned WWC case) where I was trying to shame a cheater, that was a very special case. That's like saying the police are trying to gain an advantage over crooks by doing investigations. Or like saying tax authorities are trying to gain an advantage over tax cheats by using computers during investigations. Etc. I'm really not understanding what you're getting at.
Date: Tue Dec 20 07:23:41 2022
User: cellmate
Message:
Oh... you mean that one where you appeared as TitanicTonys_deckofcards AND Patti_Scialfa AND TNmountainman
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:05:24 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Just one? Lol.
And there are 4 incarnations of firenze in this thread. Bless his heart.
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:08:32 2022
User: Mastermind
Message:How naive I was to think that pointing out, through his own recorded message, Denny, who is the only one who matters here, doesn't consider TT is cheating, would put an end to all the nonsense.
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:08:39 2022
User: Klepp
Message:"Being your slave what should I do but tend
Upon the hours, and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend;
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world without end hour,
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour,
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are, how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love, that in your will,
Though you do anything, he thinks no ill."--William Shakespeare's Sonnet LVII
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:16:13 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Denny could bring back Who's Who, but hey. He's got a life.
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:24:24 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Tony is a sweet man. I just hate seeing constant and long term abuse of another player.
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:28:00 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Been going on over a decade. Fools!
Date: Tue Dec 20 08:50:45 2022
User: Narrows
Message:Is outskirts BuzzClik?
Is BuzzClik cellmate?
It appears all three(?) have successfully highjacked this thread.
Shame on them. Poor sweet man TT.
Date: Tue Dec 20 09:06:26 2022
User: outskirts
Message:Some of us evolve over time
Others devolve
Some progress
Others regress
Date: Tue Dec 20 09:51:13 2022
User: rbw--3
Message:"TitanicTonys_deckofcards is in fact TNmountainman
Kumquat-of-Conciliation is in fact TNmountainman"
You forgot the Stop__GMO nick he also uses. That's his crown jewel.
The new standard is anyone who doesn't care how Tony plays is accused of cheating.
You can't make this stuff up.
Date: Tue Dec 20 10:08:14 2022
User: Mr.Robot
Message:Quite obviously you CAN make a lot stuff up, rbw--3.
This thread is delicious. I really like the part about "abuse". It makes me smile.
Date: Tue Dec 20 10:52:40 2022
User: rbw--3
Message:If you logon with your Stop__GMO Persona to deny you're the same person it might be more convincing!
Date: Tue Dec 20 10:57:34 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:I really didn't think the state of things had come to this, that I would have to clarify nicks here. That's the job of The_Revlator - and of course outskirts. Tedious.
Date: Tue Dec 20 11:04:09 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:Elon Musk is whispering in my ear, telling me I should take a vote about whether or not to clear this all up - but I'm not sure that would solve the problem(s).
Date: Tue Dec 20 11:05:38 2022
User: Uncle_Vito
Message:The only game posted to this thread is TitanicTony's.
I don't know how things got so out of hand.
Date: Tue Dec 20 11:15:43 2022
User: The_Revelator
Message:My normal schtick seems to be offensive to the new moderator. I think I'll be in the weeds for awhile.
Date: Tue Dec 20 11:20:34 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:We dare not call on the Angel_of_Light, either, then, correct?
Date: Tue Dec 20 11:26:50 2022
User: Kumquat-of-Conciliation
Message:For those confused..............(hopefully only a tiny few)..................in exactly 2 days, it will have been 22 1/2 (long? short?) years since the (infamous?) California Department of Corporations news release concerning the events now occurring in this, and other threads. Just a historical footnote; not necessarily a warning.
Date: Tue Dec 20 11:51:38 2022
User: BuzzClik
Message:Yikes. That long ago?
This board operated under a different culture back then.
We REALLY need a return visit from Sigmund.
Date: Tue Dec 20 12:00:09 2022
User: outskirts
Message:
Some of us evolve over time
Others devolve
Some progress
Others regress
Date: Tue Dec 20 12:24:59 2022
User: redberet
Message:If TT made a thread about seldom won unwinnables some would still grouse about cheating.
Date: Tue Dec 20 12:40:18 2022
User: outskirts
Message:2-3 fools and a pile of their strapons
Date: Tue Dec 20 12:47:50 2022
User: Narrows
Message:20% of the posts to this thread are outskirts. None of them on topic.
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