(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

swyellowtail · Post Post #439 (isolation #0) » Sat Nov 09, 2013 6:45 am

Nobody Special

i

s more special tha

n

just simply getting above the target! He also has an old attendee come back!

Not entirely; he wasn't the one that got me back here in the first place.

swyellowtail · Post Post #442 (isolation #1) » Sat Nov 09, 2013 7:48 am

*nudges* You're not helping.

swyellowtail · Post Post #444 (isolation #2) » Sat Nov 09, 2013 8:19 am

Just in time to get back in on the action.

swyellowtail · Post Post #454 (isolation #3) » Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:32 am

It has a 1 in 10 chance of being the last sphere in the entire set, but there's a pretty high chance of people getting a 4 during the entire game, making the UV rather hard to obtain. (If there are 2 spheres left, and one of them is the UV sphere, it's a 50-50 chance of getting it, for example)

swyellowtail · Post Post #458 (isolation #4) » Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:12 pm

Don't leave us hanging, man!

swyellowtail · Post Post #496 (isolation #5) » Thu Nov 21, 2013 2:58 pm

That's yet another $4000 win for (O)PTIMIZE, though I think this is the first one for the season.

swyellowtail · Post Post #501 (isolation #6) » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:29 am

I'm here.

swyellowtail · Post Post #503 (isolation #7) » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:55 am

...rofl. I just looked at it, too. XD

swyellowtail · Post Post #504 (isolation #8) » Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:57 am

In post 503, swyellowtail wrote:...rofl. I just looked at it, too. XD

Like... same minute you made that post, even.

swyellowtail · Post Post #519 (isolation #9) » Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:13 am

Wait... waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait.

In post 513, yabbaguy wrote:
NoWhammies11
Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
Tragedy
StrangerCoug

DiplomatDC
puzzledan
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

JerryArr
Drench
Mist7676
animorpherv1
Xalxe

orcinus_theoriginal
xtopherusD
bird1111
JasonWazza
swyellowtail

What am I doing in Feirei's spot?

swyellowtail · Post Post #524 (isolation #10) » Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:57 am

In post 523, yabbaguy wrote:Wow, everyone's upset with me all at once. This is gonna be a looooong game for me.

I'm not mad at you at all. I was a bit confused, actually.

jmj suggested offering that X sphere that we gave out when JDGA was hosting Game X of our old series, but the 119:1 chance the contender doesn't get it just makes it not worthwhile. Maybe there's another way I can put it in though. Hmm...

Well, you could make it so that the contender doesn't go for the queue jump if they get 4/0, but this works too. Just had me confused, is all.

swyellowtail · Post Post #553 (isolation #11) » Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:10 pm

So... who exactly is going next? I don't think Feirei has picked yet. If he has, then it's not obvious.

swyellowtail · Post Post #630 (isolation #12) » Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:38 am

Yay~ more old people are coming back~

swyellowtail · Post Post #632 (isolation #13) » Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:39 pm

Oh dear. This is going to be bad, I have this odd feeling.

24301 is what I believe this setup is. I have an odd feeling this is way off, but I shall try it anyway.

Open up the 2nd sphere, then the 4th

, but it may be flipped, I do not know.

swyellowtail · Post Post #636 (isolation #14) » Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:07 am

In post 633, yabbaguy wrote:
swyellowtail

Backwards would've been more helpful, as it were. Heh.

...aw, man... Now I really should've gone for the other way around.

Instincts, man. Instincts.

swyellowtail · Post Post #641 (isolation #15) » Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:11 am

This is becoming a bit more predictable than anything...

swyellowtail · Post Post #664 (isolation #16) » Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:01 pm

Unfortunate. I am sad.

swyellowtail · Post Post #666 (isolation #17) » Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:50 pm

Oooh, nice.

swyellowtail · Post Post #668 (isolation #18) » Wed Jan 01, 2014 4:54 am

Hmm... this is a little too quiet.

swyellowtail · Post Post #673 (isolation #19) » Wed Jan 01, 2014 5:16 pm

In post 670, Mist7676 wrote:*steals the 7th and 6th golden sphere while stage hands aren't looking*

*quickly and quietly returns the spheres from your pocket*

swyellowtail · Post Post #678 (isolation #20) » Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:38 am

I feel that welcome was a little too warm, but eh, doesn't hurt to get a good smile on someone's face to start the game, huh? Especially when it's the first game of the year.

Anyway, let's hope this doesn't turn into a huge disaster. *knocks on wood* ...sorry. I'm prone to cursing things without even realizing it.

swyellowtail · Post Post #680 (isolation #21) » Thu Jan 02, 2014 2:32 pm

Hmm... I would normally start with the classic Drench, especially since he's blue now. *rimshot* However, I'm not going to risk a 3 on such a color.

Nobody Special,

you're going to go first. A spastic person needs to start this game off.[/color]

swyellowtail · Post Post #688 (isolation #22) » Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:54 am

Hmm... I could put this on UV and see where that goes, but I may not get a good result.

Tragedy

, give your sector some effort... and don't... never mind.[/b]

swyellowtail · Post Post #693 (isolation #23) » Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:24 am

Hmm. Not a bad start, I must say.

Drench

, on the other hand, must push the water away.

...why did I have to rhyme there?

Why?

swyellowtail · Post Post #699 (isolation #24) » Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:02 am

In post 1, yabbaguy wrote:*22 people above*
Kcdaspot

Yes.

swyellowtail · Post Post #701 (isolation #25) » Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:33 am

Well... I actually had a dream that was a 0, but a 1 works, too.

CJ

, make this a good one.

swyellowtail · Post Post #705 (isolation #26) » Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:23 am

Xalxe

, or Zalzee as some people call you, go 2 it!

...if anyone gets that reference, I'm impressed.

swyellowtail · Post Post #709 (isolation #27) » Fri Jan 10, 2014 6:01 am

...well, had I known Xalxe was going to vanish out of nowhere, I wouldn't have picked him.

D2f2nd2r... I mean...

D3f3nd3r

, help me out here!

swyellowtail · Post Post #715 (isolation #28) » Sat Jan 11, 2014 12:21 pm

Wow. Okay.

StrangerCoug

, get me somewhere with this!

swyellowtail · Post Post #718 (isolation #29) » Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:41 am

I know you like puzzles, so solve this... "puzzle",

puzzledan

!

...I am so bad at this. I'm sorry.

swyellowtail · Post Post #722 (isolation #30) » Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:27 pm

Hmm...

JerryArr

, get me somewhere that's not a 3, please?

swyellowtail · Post Post #726 (isolation #31) » Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:50 am

NoWhammies11!

swyellowtail · Post Post #731 (isolation #32) » Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:50 pm

Sometimes I feel this game is a bit rigged. Then I realize that it's just RNG just screwing me over.

Orcinus

, help me out here.

swyellowtail · Post Post #735 (isolation #33) » Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:41 pm

...okay. Well, regardless, that was a bit of a throwaway, unfortunately.

Jacob

, er... I mean,

Jason

on the other hand, is not.

swyellowtail · Post Post #739 (isolation #34) » Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:16 am

Hmm... on one hand I want to save myself from getting $0 from the blue sector, but on the other hand, I want to boost something upward at the very least.

If a 3 comes up, IceGuy goes next.
If a 2 comes up, Cheery goes next.
If a 1 comes up, Mist goes up next.
If a 4/0 comes up, bird goes up next. If it's just a straight-up brick, it goes to Cheery.

And I'm sure you have figured out who I'm picking. If not, this next one goes to

xtoph

.

swyellowtail · Post Post #744 (isolation #35) » Sat Jan 18, 2014 8:00 am

Alright, let's continue my trend:

If this hits a 3, send it to DiplomatDC.
If this hits a 2 (ow), send it to KA to finish this sector off and hopefully get $5k.
If this hits a 1 or 0 (bah), send it to ani.

4/X gives the same result as above, but without the "ow" or "bah" statements, unless it's a 3, then "aw".

Eh, at least I didn't throw in any code of some sort. That could've been a bit

too

confusing. XD

swyellowtail · Post Post #748 (isolation #36) » Sat Jan 18, 2014 6:21 pm

Unfortunately, I have no clue where to put this next, unless this is another brick. In which case, Mist will finish this sector off.

Otherwise... I'll have to think. Make us all proud, ani!

swyellowtail · Post Post #756 (isolation #37) » Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:16 am

Ugh. There's a ridiculously high chance UV will go out in any game, which is weird, because you'd expect ONE of them to be held on to during the entire game.

Bird1111

, get me in a better situation, please. I won't mind if you give me a bad result. JUST DON'T LET ME LOSE GREEN. (Blue is okay)

swyellowtail · Post Post #763 (isolation #38) » Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:22 pm

Hopefully you will only need BASIC programming to do so if that's the case.

Hah. Well, KA is not going first.

It's going to be

DiplomatDC

first.

If the sector advances with a 4/2 or lower, it goes to KA. If it advances with 4/3, IceGuy goes.

If it does NOT advance, 2 or 3 goes to IceGuy; 0 or 1 goes to KA.

swyellowtail · Post Post #774 (isolation #39) » Mon Jan 20, 2014 1:52 pm

Owwww. I'll be happy if you get a 4. A 3 or less isn't TOO bad, but if I get another red out of this, I'm going to be really disappointed.
A green or blue would give me a better result if you hit a 3 or lower.

swyellowtail · Post Post #777 (isolation #40) » Tue Jan 21, 2014 2:29 pm

Welp. If I hit a green or blue, at

least

I'm walking away with

some

thing. Really beats getting $0.

swyellowtail · Post Post #779 (isolation #41) » Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:51 pm

A one in four chance of hitting the lowest, giving me $400; a one in four chance of hitting a rather low amount as well, giving me $600... and a one in two chance of getting 20 grand. My odds sound rather good, but I have this odd feeling I'm going to get a green sphere. Don't ask, I just feel it.

So, I'm going to do what I think is right and pick...

the second sphere... from the right

.

swyellowtail · Post Post #783 (isolation #42) » Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:53 pm

YES! I KNEW it was going to be 1 and 3! Thank you Cheery Dog and Nobody (fidget) Special for keeping those two reds around!

(Just an FYI, I was originally going to pick 2, but I had a gut feeling it was going to be a bad sphere.)

swyellowtail · Post Post #786 (isolation #43) » Fri Jan 24, 2014 4:42 am

Yes, you did. You saved sphere 1 (a red sphere) from vanishing, as did Cheery with sphere 3 (another red sphere).

swyellowtail · Post Post #807 (isolation #44) » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:17 am

Last visit was unfortunately Saturday.

Also, this is apparently "Year of the bully" but I think this is more along the lines of "Year of the flake".

swyellowtail · Post Post #812 (isolation #45) » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:57 pm

In post 781, yabbaguy wrote:

Come again?

swyellowtail · Post Post #825 (isolation #46) » Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:36 am

I just realized... this queue is a bit outdated.

In post 1, yabbaguy wrote:
Queue: (initially ordered by last season's queue)

swyellowtail
CJMiller
Xalxe
Nobody Special
StrangerCoug
JasonWazza
animorpherv1
IceGuy
Tragedy
bird1111
Mist7676
D3f3nd3r
KingdomAces
xtopherusD
Drench
puzzledan
Cheery Dog
orcinus_theoriginal
JerryArr
DiplomatDC
NoWhammies11
JDGA
Kcdaspot
Lord Mhork
doctorwho
CuddlyCaucasian
kdowns
JacobSavage
Louis14
Feirei

I'm still on the top of the queue somehow. That's rather /interesting.

swyellowtail · Post Post #887 (isolation #47) » Sun Mar 23, 2014 9:21 am

Whatever you do, do not select sphere 2. It's a green.

And no, I'm not using reverse psychology in this post.

swyellowtail · Post Post #891 (isolation #48) » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:54 am

It's been a while since anyone even had the chance to do that. Plus, no one has actually managed to get it right since, what, the first episode? Second?

And it wasn't supposed to happen. XD

swyellowtail · Post Post #894 (isolation #49) » Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:53 am

...Watch, BOTH of those are flipped in some way.

swyellowtail · Post Post #932 (isolation #50) » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:31 am

In post 931, JDGA wrote: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!

Sure. Whatever you say. :3

swyellowtail · Post Post #951 (isolation #51) » Wed May 14, 2014 2:18 pm

This isn't very optimized.

swyellowtail · Post Post #995 (isolation #52) » Tue Jul 01, 2014 2:46 pm

Watch, he's gonna get a 3/4 just to spite everyone.

swyellowtail · Post Post #997 (isolation #53) » Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:50 pm

...actually, with that statement, I wouldn't be surprised if he got what he said.

swyellowtail · Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:36 pm

Can Xalxe pull off a sweet opportunity like before? Or will the curse make a frightening comeback?

We'll be back after these message.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1021 (isolation #55) » Thu Jul 10, 2014 2:04 am

I already gave a hint as to what I think Xalxe is gonna get. Though, only a handful of people will get it... if any.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1026 (isolation #56) » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:38 am

In post 1019, swyellowtail wrote:We'll be back after these message.

Yellow was rite all alone.

...err, I was right all along, you mean. But yes, my very subtle hint actually was right.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1027 (isolation #57) » Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:40 am

In post 1020, Cheery Dog wrote:
In post 1019, swyellowtail wrote:Can Xalxe pull off a sweet opportunity like before? Or will the curse make a frightening comeback?

We'll be back after these message.

It looks bad from my perspective, I didn't give a 4-0 here.

And, surprisingly, I dunno if Cheery got the hint or not,

but Xalxe got the same exact spheres from the same two people: Cheery Dog

Nope, it was DiplomatDC. Nobody Special had the same sphere, though.

swyellowtail · Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:34 pm

In post 1044, Xalxe wrote:I always posted in color.

Same. It's the little things that get us.

swyellowtail · Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:43 pm

In post 1091, Cheery Dog wrote:
In post 1086, animorpherv1 wrote:4 then 0.

I think he actually meant to add
then 1 then 3 then 2.
on the end of this sentence

If only he was able to see the spheres like that, that would've been amazing.

swyellowtail · Sun Aug 24, 2014 10:52 am

...I'm going to call it now: The final reward is rather low this game.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1100 (isolation #61) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 9:19 am

...why does D3f3nd3r get the 3s? Is it because his name has three 3s?

swyellowtail · Post Post #1103 (isolation #62) » Wed Aug 27, 2014 3:14 am

In post 1102, yabbaguy wrote:D3f3nd3r, NOBODY has picked a 1 or a 0 yet, halfway through the game.

...intentional jokes? Geez, and I thought I was bad.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1107 (isolation #63) » Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:04 am

Right now it's 50/50 for getting $200. My guess still stands.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1170 (isolation #64) » Tue Jan 06, 2015 7:00 pm

In post 1098, swyellowtail wrote:...I'm going to call it now: The final reward is rather low this game.

..I knew it. I so knew it.

swyellowtail · Post Post #1208 (isolation #65) » Sun Feb 08, 2015 7:41 am

Doesn't necessarily help with the fact that Mhork hasn't been around since December 15, 2014. But oh well.