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Ian Volante

I've watched an average of about two minutes per series so far, and I'm looking to reduce this drastically...

Ian Volante

I feel that toning down Brian Blessed is like castrating a hyena: rather difficult, and ultimately fruitless. /quote] Although in some parts of the world the resulting 'fruit' might be considered a delicacy!! I never read the dialogue so I took a look at some of what you're referring to and I think...

Ian Volante

Yet more close battles:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70854
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70843

Ian Volante

This isn't a bug but I was directed here anyway, it is a query about a word which is in the OED full edition not being allowed in countdown, and I am not sure if it should or should not be disallowed- the word is daric, it is an ancient Persian coin, and in the OED it is not capitalised. Is the OED...

Ian Volante

I'm losing some great games today!

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=70346

Ian Volante

While the site was down I went a wandering on the old news pages, and note that at some point last September you decided Brian Blessed needed 'toning down'. Now as I was an unenlightened non aptoperson then I have no idea what he was like beforehand, but he and good old Will Shakespeare do make goo...

Ian Volante

Kai Laddiman wrote:2009-06-03 20:08:25 Callum Laddiman left the room.
2009-06-03 20:08:28 Bobby Johnson is playing a Classic Game against Callum Laddiman.
2009-06-03 20:08:31 Callum Laddiman entered the room!

Old contestants are rising again...

Ian Volante

Hi, Charlie, I don't really go on the forum these days, but had this email bounced back unread, so posting here: I've created an account on apterous for one of my sons, Henry. In case he encounters any unsuitable DC guests, I've set it to 'fast mode'. You had plans a while back to let users filter ...

Ian Volante

Football needs unpredictablity, and for that I am grateful to be a supporter of a club that has demonstrated unpredictablity over a number of decades. I'm sure Chelsea didn't get the same buzz from winning the FA Cup as they would have had 10 years ago, just as I'm sure Man Utd didn't get the same ...

Ian Volante

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Thought yesterday's goatblind was a pretty awesome variant as your brain has to juggle remembering the letters, and trying to think of the optimal pick without forgetting them! More please

For some reason, I found that easier than normal blind.

Ian Volante

Has the person with no name reappeared recently? I was wondering if it was RB, but it seemed too dull for him.

Ian Volante

Another two results:

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69910
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69899

Ian Volante

This was okay for a while...

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69632

Ian Volante

My first couple of results.

http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69568
http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=69553

Ian Volante

Probably it will be 1600/1650+ for Div A, 1400-1600/50 for Div B, 1200-1400 Div C, and 1200- Div D. Of course all this assumes proper interest lol. This also with the added proviso that people near their higher rating cutoff can play up if they want to; certainly I'm currently hovering above and be...

Ian Volante

This is only a trial, and I don't understand what you mean at all by balancing. It is ordered by skill; you can clearly see every player is listed in rating order :) The top players are in the top division, the next are in the second. When the real thing rolls out, invitations will be sent to howev...

Ian Volante

I'm a bit surprised you've done it so that both leagues are roughly balanced. Are you envisioning more of a conference-style system, as opposed to leagues ordered by skill? If a league system is organised by balancing them all first, it'll take quite a while for the best players to get organised at ...

Ian Volante

Dinos Sfyris wrote:
David O'Donnell wrote:Who do I have to fuck or not fuck to get a place in this?
Wrong show. You want post-watershed Deal Or No Deal.

Then you still need to pick the right box.

Ian Volante

Saturday's duel appears at a cursory glance to have used at least three different sets of letters! I noticed the different maxes from round nineteen.

Ian Volante

Further to the Duel/conundrum crashes, right now I'm in that situation. I've completed the first conundrum, seen the answer window pop up, and after clearing that, the game appears to be hanging. The lobby actually appears fine, and I'm getting no error messages. Here is the relevant bit of code fro...

Ian Volante

Probably been mentioned before, how about a handicap game? This would allow a lower ranked player to compete with the big guns: you give the lower ranked player a +18 headstart or the higher ranked player starts on -18 before the game starts, for the 15 rounders (maybe +15, as +18 may be too big a ...

Ian Volante

Thinking more about this, the argument that we don't need leagues because we have ratings doesn't wash with me. Increasing my rating is much more of a personal thing. Maybe that's different if you're right at the top? There's just not that much incentive to go from 60th to 50th, but a league is a mu...

Ian Volante

Yay for leagues! I like the idea of smaller leagues, say six people in each with pretty regular promotion and relegation. A couple of leagues at school ran like that with four in each. I spent most of my time flitting between two divisions, and it was my ultimate aim to stay in div.3 for more than o...

Ian Volante

Matt Morrison wrote:Not a cute animal, but I thought some of you might chuckle at this:

Recognise?

It's all Greek to me.

Ian Volante

Ian Dent wrote:Not a request by any means but multiplayer countdown. Any way it could work?

I used to play like this when I was younger, both with the usual scoring system, and also independently of the two TV contestants.

Ian Volante

I think Eoin deserves credit for this, but how about Junior Goatdown? It's possible to create that on the custom menu (ooh, pops out, nice!), but it just plays as a normal game.

Ian Volante

Would love to! And I'm sure my girlfriend (Lorraine Murtagh, fellow Apterite) would love to too

Edit: There's an idea: couple v couple, with some aggregate scoring system.

Ian Volante

Has anyone had this problem against other bots or is it just the Duellist? First time this has happened to me that I know of (i.e. "finishing" a game but everything locks up after clicking "end round" after the last round). The only different thing I can think of is that the due...

Ian Volante

Charlie Reams wrote:Number of people who submitted any actual bug reports: 0.
Number of bugs I can therefore do anything about: 0.

A fair point, but it wasn't entirely obvious that anything untoward had happened at the time.

Ian Volante

Simon Myers wrote:Yeah my game hung after the conundrum too, odd.

Grr, same here.

Ian Volante

I guess there's at least a small chance I'm talking rubbish here... but apterous doesn't allow ASSONATED despite ASSONATE being listed as a verb in the ODE. http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=42989#p42989 Umm, it's a 9, Ian! Probably should be in along with ASSONATES. I'll put it in the n...

Ian Volante

Andrew Hulme wrote:I guess there's at least a small chance I'm talking rubbish here... but apterous doesn't allow ASSONATED despite ASSONATE being listed as a verb in the ODE.

http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/viewtopic. ... 989#p42989

Ian Volante

Matt Morrison wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:
Steve Durney wrote:The football season's over.
Thank feck for that. I can concentrate on the Super League and cricket for the summer now.
Can one of the moderators delete this post please?

Careful, you're starting to sound like a Manchester U fan...

Ian Volante

What a shame that TROMBONE is not yet a verb. Not outside the Profanisaurus anyway.

Ian Volante

Steve Durney wrote:The football season's over.

Thank feck for that. I can concentrate on the Super League and cricket for the summer now.

Ian Volante

Matt Morrison wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote:Duel all-time points table
Good work. Not that I really looked at it. I just saw Bevan (first time I've been on for days) and I'm still laughing. Brilliant.

What joke did I miss?

Ian Volante

For him to outdo Brian Blessed is quite an achievement!

Ian Volante

I'd definitely do much better than last time when I scraped to three wins and scored about 320. Still grumpy that I only found the CD community after I'd been on!

Ian Volante

Don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice when signed in, to be able to mark yourself as 'busy' or 'away' for those times when the doorbell goes, or the dog needs to go out, or the kid needs algebra explained again, and you really don't want to sign out in case you can't get back in again. ...

Ian Volante

Don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice when signed in, to be able to mark yourself as 'busy' or 'away' for those times when the doorbell goes, or the dog needs to go out, or the kid needs algebra explained again, and you really don't want to sign out in case you can't get back in again. ...

Ian Volante

Dinos Sfyris wrote:Awesome. I feel like I'm in that film Sliver.

Are you Sharon Stone or the apparently lightly-greased naked muscly man?

Ian Volante

Kai Laddiman wrote:Yesterday's duel was RIDICULOUS. Seriously.

As far as I could see, the site was down for about nineteen hours, but it looks like it saved me some pain...

Ian Volante

I was once in a small waiting room with one other person into which (we were told in advance by excited staff) Tom Cruise would soon be entering. One of the few DVD's available in said waiting room was Mission Impossible so we froze-framed it on the bit where he is thrown screaming towards the came...

Ian Volante

Charlie Reams wrote:
JackHurst wrote:
Charlie Reams wrote: You can still change the previous number.
How?
Just click a different one. Is this feature broken or is there a sudden outbreak of common sense failure?

I'll check later when I get home!

Ian Volante

Mark Harrison wrote:Didn't do as well as I wanted to in the 6 small shootout, not helped by a crash in the middle which robbed me of 7 points. Still, a respectable showing, I'm happy with 12th

I crashed about four times taking me down to 71st. Still, could have been worse...

Ian Volante

Ben Hunter wrote:Mental. What is the probability of getting a nine letter word come out from the off, anyone know?

Stop torturing us statisticians, you nasty person.

Ian Volante

I seem to be getting a lot of crashes today. I'm playing fine at the moment (if a little slowly), but the error checks are piling up with loads of failed KeepAlives. Here's a bit from the console that may correspond: CX sending keepalive KeepaliveThread << net.MessageToServer$Keepalive@e5b3b9 {Keepa...

Ian Volante

I've put my finger on the problem I have with the numbers interface now. When you get to the time you need to commit to whatever operation you're doing, there's no option to not commit to it as far as I can tell. Why therefore do we have to commit to it in the first place? Seems a bit of a moot poin...

Ian Volante

The new voting system was a massive success. What was the new voting system? It looked the same to me. Half phone votes, half decided by five musical professionals in each country. I never heard how exactly that works. Maybe the pros rank the songs, the phone vote ranks the songs and then the two l...

Ian Volante

I don't understand the appeal of the Norway song at all, very strangely popular. Azerbaijan got the theoretical vote from here...

Ian Volante

On a side note, I tend to get d/c a lot if I leave the game for a few minutes (say, to get a drink). Is that a problem on my end (i.e. does this only happen to me) or is there something that can be done on the Apto-end? I managed to stay logged in for almost the whole day yesterday, so it's not an ...

Ian Volante

Wow - I came 30th on the duel because apterous crashed before I saw the conundrum. When I logged back in it said I'd already finished the duel despite not seeing the conundrum (which is easy). Had I got it I'd have had a max game and come 1st. Stupid computers. I'm not complaining, that's given me ...

Ian Volante

Fucking badgers!

Ian Volante

So I am okay on some numbers then!

Ian Volante

What a bag of shite this was!

http://apterous.org/viewgame.php?game=58762

Ian Volante

Michael Wallace wrote:
Ian Volante wrote:SUrely clicking X instead of = isn't exploitable though, and I couldn't unclick X immediately.
If you've got an X in a numbers game you've probably got more to worry about than misclicks.

Bloody raccoons get everywhere!

Ian Volante

Hmm, didn't the earlier version have the ability to unclick any button that was pressed? You can unclick any button that's pressed, but you have to do it at the time rather than later. It's clearly exploitable to be able to go "3, times, no, I mean 4 times". SUrely clicking X instead of =...

Ian Volante

It was obvious to me how to retract a misclick on the first version of the new interface, but on the current one I just can't see how. Instead of confirming my sum just now, I clicked on the multiply button by accident, and at that point, the only option I appeared to have was to give up. I tried c...

Ian Volante

It was obvious to me how to retract a misclick on the first version of the new interface, but on the current one I just can't see how. Instead of confirming my sum just now, I clicked on the multiply button by accident, and at that point, the only option I appeared to have was to give up. I tried cl...

Ian Volante

I'd go for option two, but with the change that the songs are crap.

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