Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
The problem with making it public is that cheaters can then learn what they can get away with - they can monitor the published list and develop their own cheating techniques in order to remain just on the right side of the being-discovered line.
It's the same reason why Charlie could never reveal HOW the Cheatomatic works - I'm sure the details of its computation would interest a great deal of innocently-intrigued non-cheaters, but the more information you give, the more information you're making available to cheaters to help them cheat.
It's the same reason why Charlie could never reveal HOW the Cheatomatic works - I'm sure the details of its computation would interest a great deal of innocently-intrigued non-cheaters, but the more information you give, the more information you're making available to cheaters to help them cheat.
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I can back this up. I don't play on Apterous, but do against every episode of Countdown. Some days i seem to be inspired, getting some great words and numbers soloutions, and other days i just can't seem to get it together, missing some obvious words that other days i'd get. It just depends on what mood i'm in at the time, whether i'm a bit tired or stressed etc. I don't think you should label someone as a cheat, especially publically, if the only evidence is their lack of consistency. Unless it's particularly extreme, perhaps.Maxine Silkstone wrote:I don't think that's very fair really. Some people play in a manner that could lead one to think they are cheating, one minute four letter words, then an 8 or 9. That's just down to dodgy attention span.
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Has anybody else encountered the unfortunate computer crashing syndrome, where during a close game where you are 11 behind going into round 14 you decide to go for 6 small to increase your chances of getting to a crucial conundrum only to find that as the clock ticks down to zero and you have the solution and you feel sure your opponent hasn't only to find the dreeaded error box and your opponents computer seems to have crashed
And typically after you restart the 6 small that you pick again yields an easy peasy solution costing you the game
This has happened a few times now
Maybe I am paranoid, but it would be interesting if anyone else has experienced this
Not the paranoia but the situation
And typically after you restart the 6 small that you pick again yields an easy peasy solution costing you the game
This has happened a few times now
Maybe I am paranoid, but it would be interesting if anyone else has experienced this
Not the paranoia but the situation
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No.Marc Meakin wrote:Has anybody else encountered the unfortunate computer crashing syndrome, where during a close game where you are 11 behind going into round 14 you decide to go for 6 small to increase your chances of getting to a crucial conundrum only to find that as the clock ticks down to zero and you have the solution and you feel sure your opponent hasn't only to find the dreeaded error box and your opponents computer seems to have crashed
And typically after you restart the 6 small that you pick again yields an easy peasy solution costing you the game
This has happened a few times now
Maybe I am paranoid, but it would be interesting if anyone else has experienced this
Not the paranoia but the situation
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Good point Marc. It is frustrating and it's hard to tell if it's on purpose or accidental. Would be interesting if that could be investigated into, e.g. did the user click 'x' or did it freeze or something, but I think this is hard/impossible to do.
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Yes.Kirk Bevins wrote:Good point Marc. It is frustrating and it's hard to tell if it's on purpose or accidental. Would be interesting if that could be investigated into, e.g. did the user click 'x' or did it freeze or something, but I think this is hard/impossible to do.
I hope this is a better reply than Jon's
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Thanks KirkKirk Bevins wrote:Good point Marc. It is frustrating and it's hard to tell if it's on purpose or accidental. Would be interesting if that could be investigated into, e.g. did the user click 'x' or did it freeze or something, but I think this is hard/impossible to do.
I hope this is a better reply than Jon's
I suppose it could just be a bad coincidence but it does annoy me if it happens during a crucial conundrum
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Asking whether the program has crashed is rather akin to asking someone if they're dead. You're only going to get one answer. The real solution is, as ever, for people to submit actual bug reports.Kirk Bevins wrote:Good point Marc. It is frustrating and it's hard to tell if it's on purpose or accidental. Would be interesting if that could be investigated into, e.g. did the user click 'x' or did it freeze or something, but I think this is hard/impossible to do.
Cheaters get warned and then banned. There's currently no way to tell who's warned, and I'm happy to keep it that way for now. I can't really ban contrib members (unless I give them their money back, which seems rather too nice of me), but they're much less likely to cheat anyway (I have their real identity from Paypal and people are strangely loathe to be Internet Dicks in that case).Phil Collinge wrote:I've thought for a while that there should be some kind of register of those confirmed as cheats. That way you'd know who to avoid and if I'd played someone who later transpired to be a cheat it would be nice to know.
What proof would you accept as irrefutable? I can't stand over their shoulder and watch them. Part of the problem for me is that I cannot disclose the evidence that I have without dispensing details of the many tentacles of the Cheatomatic, which obviously I can't do. However the elite few who do know how it works are very satisfied with it, and the number of false positives in the last 6 months is zero.Maxine Silkstone wrote:I don't know how foolproof Charlie's cheatomatic is, but surely nothing is infallible and it would be rather Draconian to brand someone a cheat without irrefutable proof. Innocent until PROVEN guilty.
Not so. Also how would people know who to ignore if they can't tell who's cheating? If some guy starts posting amazing scores, even against bots, then he's going to get noticed.Maxine Silkstone wrote:As has been discussed further up this thread, cheats bore easily, especially if they are ignored.
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I'd call it breach of contract. Ban 'em, I sayCharlie Reams wrote: I can't really ban contrib members (unless I give them their money back, which seems rather too nice of me)
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Frank Rodolf did, and he said he bought the ODEMaxine Silkstone wrote:Or cheat against bots which is highly sad (and unlikely as they are not the type to pay up and have any bots)
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There was?Lesley Hines wrote:Edit: In fairness last night there was a confession! Good spot
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My 16 year old daughter, Emily, recently started playing on Apterous. She is doing this because she finds it fun and also wants to improve her skills when she "competes" against players when watching the Countdown TV programme.
There are times when she practices and plays ranked games alone in her bedroom. There are also other times when she brings her laptop downstairs and sits next to me whilst I'm watching TV or reading. On these occasions, I've helped her out by suggesting words (she normally does the numbers by herself, but only discovered how to correctly input the answers the other day). As a consequence of now scoring on the numbers and occasionally getting my help on the letters, she has recently started winning more games than she loses.
She is not doing this to try to get up the rankings. It's more a case of a father / daughter bonding exercise to increase the fun of the game. She's not been trying to hide anything. I believe she mentioned in the chat on one of the games she lost that her Dad wasn't there to help her. She feels she's more likely to learn from the words I help her with than by noting some of the more obscure ones shown in Apterous Dictionary Corner. Eventually her skills will be good enough that she doesn't need to ask for my help. However, in the meantime, I thought it only fair to clarify the situation.
Are other players OK with this or does it fall under the definition of "cheating"?
There are times when she practices and plays ranked games alone in her bedroom. There are also other times when she brings her laptop downstairs and sits next to me whilst I'm watching TV or reading. On these occasions, I've helped her out by suggesting words (she normally does the numbers by herself, but only discovered how to correctly input the answers the other day). As a consequence of now scoring on the numbers and occasionally getting my help on the letters, she has recently started winning more games than she loses.
She is not doing this to try to get up the rankings. It's more a case of a father / daughter bonding exercise to increase the fun of the game. She's not been trying to hide anything. I believe she mentioned in the chat on one of the games she lost that her Dad wasn't there to help her. She feels she's more likely to learn from the words I help her with than by noting some of the more obscure ones shown in Apterous Dictionary Corner. Eventually her skills will be good enough that she doesn't need to ask for my help. However, in the meantime, I thought it only fair to clarify the situation.
Are other players OK with this or does it fall under the definition of "cheating"?
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I'd be surprised if anyone had an issue with that, Philip.
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An interesting post, PJ. I haven't thought through my reasoning in detail yet, but my immediate gut reaction would be: if she wants to improve her game with your help, then fine provided she restricts herself to playing against bots. If she wants to practise against humanoid apteroids, then she should play unaided, unless she declares to her opponent at the outset that her dad will be helping and asks if that's OK. Otherwise, anyone she plays against will be at an unfair disadvantage and would have quite legitimate cause for complaint if it only came out afterwards that they were in fact playing against two people.
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Philip Jarvis wrote:My 16 year old daughter, Emily, recently started playing on Apterous. She is doing this because she finds it fun and also wants to improve her skills when she "competes" against players when watching the Countdown TV programme.
There are times when she practices and plays ranked games alone in her bedroom. There are also other times when she brings her laptop downstairs and sits next to me whilst I'm watching TV or reading. On these occasions, I've helped her out by suggesting words (she normally does the numbers by herself, but only discovered how to correctly input the answers the other day). As a consequence of now scoring on the numbers and occasionally getting my help on the letters, she has recently started winning more games than she loses.
She is not doing this to try to get up the rankings. It's more a case of a father / daughter bonding exercise to increase the fun of the game. She's not been trying to hide anything. I believe she mentioned in the chat on one of the games she lost that her Dad wasn't there to help her. She feels she's more likely to learn from the words I help her with than by noting some of the more obscure ones shown in Apterous Dictionary Corner. Eventually her skills will be good enough that she doesn't need to ask for my help. However, in the meantime, I thought it only fair to clarify the situation.
Are other players OK with this or does it fall under the definition of "cheating"?
Surely if she is playing next to you then you could just let her log in as you?
Not that I'm really bothered. For all I care you can invite Chris Davies, Kirk, Paul Howe and whoever to yourhouse and give me a pasting with their help. Don't give two shinies about my rating, so the bigger the challenge the better
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Given what happened at C of C 13, I would hope not.Jon Corby wrote:I'd be surprised if anyone had an issue with that, Philip.
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Phil Reynolds wrote:An interesting post, PJ. I haven't thought through my reasoning in detail yet, but my immediate gut reaction would be: if she wants to improve her game with your help, then fine provided she restricts herself to playing against bots. If she wants to practise against humanoid apteroids, then she should play unaided, unless she declares to her opponent at the outset that her dad will be helping and asks if that's OK. Otherwise, anyone she plays against will be at an unfair disadvantage and would have quite legitimate cause for complaint if it only came out afterwards that they were in fact playing against two people.
It's only a game. My boys sometimes find 7's and 8's for me while i go to the pub. The severity of the beatings i administer to them upon my return solely depends on how many games they have won and lost in my name.
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I don't exactly know what is wrong with my PC, but I'd tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to play Apterous since about last December. My problem was that everytime a new letter appeared on the board, all previous letters would change to the latest letter (i.e. if the last letter was "C", I'd end up with CCCCCCCCC. I tried various versions of Java to no effect.
This has recently been compounded by BTInternet's latest security protection coupled with their Family Protection from McAfee. I'm not a technically minded person, but I now can't even open videos on YouTube. I get the message "Javascript may need enabling" or "Download latest Flash player". When I try changing my default internet security settings to enable anything with the words Java or Script in it, I get a window popping up from Dell Support telling me to immediately change it back to default because my security is compromised. When I try downloading the latest Adobe Flash, my security seems to block this from happening. It even tried blocking me from this forum because the site contains unsuitable language / sexual material (or words to that effect). Hopefully, I'll get the PC sorted shortly because it's driving me crackers.
Anyway, the real point of this post is to let you know I've now got my own account and I started paying Apterous in my own right yesterday (I'm using Emily's laptop which doesn't go through BT/Yahoo). Consequently, from now on, if you see either Emily or me logged on (clearly not at the same time), you can rest assured that only that person will be playing. Emily accepts that she's on her own from now on.
This has recently been compounded by BTInternet's latest security protection coupled with their Family Protection from McAfee. I'm not a technically minded person, but I now can't even open videos on YouTube. I get the message "Javascript may need enabling" or "Download latest Flash player". When I try changing my default internet security settings to enable anything with the words Java or Script in it, I get a window popping up from Dell Support telling me to immediately change it back to default because my security is compromised. When I try downloading the latest Adobe Flash, my security seems to block this from happening. It even tried blocking me from this forum because the site contains unsuitable language / sexual material (or words to that effect). Hopefully, I'll get the PC sorted shortly because it's driving me crackers.
Anyway, the real point of this post is to let you know I've now got my own account and I started paying Apterous in my own right yesterday (I'm using Emily's laptop which doesn't go through BT/Yahoo). Consequently, from now on, if you see either Emily or me logged on (clearly not at the same time), you can rest assured that only that person will be playing. Emily accepts that she's on her own from now on.
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The lines are a bit long. But apart from that, good poem!Philip Jarvis wrote:I don't exactly know what is wrong with my PC, but I'd tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to play Apterous since about last December. My problem was that everytime a new letter appeared on the board, all previous letters would change to the latest letter (i.e. if the last letter was "C", I'd end up with CCCCCCCCC. I tried various versions of Java to no effect.
This has recently been compounded by BTInternet's latest security protection coupled with their Family Protection from McAfee. I'm not a technically minded person, but I now can't even open videos on YouTube. I get the message "Javascript may need enabling" or "Download latest Flash player". When I try changing my default internet security settings to enable anything with the words Java or Script in it, I get a window popping up from Dell Support telling me to immediately change it back to default because my security is compromised. When I try downloading the latest Adobe Flash, my security seems to block this from happening. It even tried blocking me from this forum because the site contains unsuitable language / sexual material (or words to that effect). Hopefully, I'll get the PC sorted shortly because it's driving me crackers.
Anyway, the real point of this post is to let you know I've now got my own account and I started paying Apterous in my own right yesterday (I'm using Emily's laptop which doesn't go through BT/Yahoo). Consequently, from now on, if you see either Emily or me logged on (clearly not at the same time), you can rest assured that only that person will be playing. Emily accepts that she's on her own from now on.
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It sounds like your PC is entirely fucked. That's my expert diagnosis.Philip Jarvis wrote:I don't exactly know what is wrong with my PC, but I'd tried unsuccessfully on several occasions to play Apterous since about last December. My problem was that everytime a new letter appeared on the board, all previous letters would change to the latest letter (i.e. if the last letter was "C", I'd end up with CCCCCCCCC. I tried various versions of Java to no effect.
This has recently been compounded by BTInternet's latest security protection coupled with their Family Protection from McAfee. I'm not a technically minded person, but I now can't even open videos on YouTube. I get the message "Javascript may need enabling" or "Download latest Flash player". When I try changing my default internet security settings to enable anything with the words Java or Script in it, I get a window popping up from Dell Support telling me to immediately change it back to default because my security is compromised. When I try downloading the latest Adobe Flash, my security seems to block this from happening. It even tried blocking me from this forum because the site contains unsuitable language / sexual material (or words to that effect). Hopefully, I'll get the PC sorted shortly because it's driving me crackers.
Anyway, the real point of this post is to let you know I've now got my own account and I started paying Apterous in my own right yesterday (I'm using Emily's laptop which doesn't go through BT/Yahoo). Consequently, from now on, if you see either Emily or me logged on (clearly not at the same time), you can rest assured that only that person will be playing. Emily accepts that she's on her own from now on.
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Sounds about right to me.Philip Jarvis wrote:It even tried blocking me from this forum because the site contains unsuitable language / sexual material (or words to that effect).
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I am not sure about the ethics of this but I wonder if anyone thinks I was scammed in this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 7385442783
As this score was after a close win by me and then I get anhialated
As this score was after a close win by me and then I get anhialated
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Id say you almost certainly were
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It was probably caused by his reaction to my comeback in this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2080932600Andrew Hulme wrote:Id say you almost certainly were
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FWIW he was cheating in both games. Warned.Marc Meakin wrote:It was probably caused by his reaction to my comeback in this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2080932600Andrew Hulme wrote:Id say you almost certainly were
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Ooh yeh, my unofficial cheat detector flagged him.Charlie Reams wrote:FWIW he was cheating in both games. Warned.Marc Meakin wrote:It was probably caused by his reaction to my comeback in this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2080932600Andrew Hulme wrote:Id say you almost certainly were
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Thanks, although I am surprised that he failed to beat me on the crucial conundrum in the first game if he was cheatingCharlie Reams wrote:FWIW he was cheating in both games. Warned.Marc Meakin wrote:It was probably caused by his reaction to my comeback in this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2080932600Andrew Hulme wrote:Id say you almost certainly were
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This seems the best place to congratulate Mark Pitfield on his amazing 158/160 score on yesterday's duel. That's a stunning improvement on recent 15 rounders where he's won 77-62 (max 121), and lost 38-88 (max 118). Well played sir....
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It takes longer than 4 seconds to whack a conundrum into a solver and then put Apterous back up, so it makes perfect sense.Marc Meakin wrote:Thanks, although I am surprised that he failed to beat me on the crucial conundrum in the first game if he was cheatingCharlie Reams wrote:FWIW he was cheating in both games. Warned.Marc Meakin wrote:It was probably caused by his reaction to my comeback in this game http://www.apterous.org/viewgame.php?ke ... 2080932600
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Byebye Michael Marlowe, it's been nice.Adam Dexter wrote:Hmm... Pot kettle black you might cry, but
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I think this could be a problem with Windows XP. When I was playing using XP the game would often freeze at this point (the solution screen would come up blank). Since I've switched I've noticed that any freezes now tend to happen mid-game (usually at the end of round 8). FWIW it cost me games more often than not.Marc Meakin wrote:Has anybody else encountered the unfortunate computer crashing syndrome, where during a close game where you are 11 behind going into round 14 you decide to go for 6 small to increase your chances of getting to a crucial conundrum only to find that as the clock ticks down to zero and you have the solution and you feel sure your opponent hasn't only to find the dreeaded error box and your opponents computer seems to have crashed
And typically after you restart the 6 small that you pick again yields an easy peasy solution costing you the game
This has happened a few times now
Maybe I am paranoid, but it would be interesting if anyone else has experienced this
Not the paranoia but the situation
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It happened to me a lot when I was running the old version of Java. As soon as I updated it was absolutely fine, and I've not had a crash since.
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Tremendously sad. The numbers solutions particularly are ludicrous.
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Ha, the retard couldn't even get the right letters into his solver in one round.Phil Makepeace wrote:Tremendously sad. The numbers solutions particularly are ludicrous.
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I'd like to say thank you very much to him - I haven't laughed so much in a long time (and I like laughing lots!!). It was fucking funny. No two ways about it. Kirk, you were a star and played a blinderPhil Makepeace wrote:Tremendously sad. The numbers solutions particularly are ludicrous.
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Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Hi John. I don't think anyone would consider that cheating - that's generally reserved for people using word lists, or game solvers, that sort of thingJohn Gillies wrote:Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Hi John, doesn't sound like cheating in any way to me. Welcome.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do
Unless your "son" is actually your hand and you have extremely long arms or a very small staircase, I don't think it's cheatingJohn Gillies wrote:Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do
Maybe it's not John Gillies, but John Tickle from Big Brother 4, who you could call Mr Tickle, who had extremely long arms lolJimmy Gough wrote:Unless your "son" is actually your hand and you have extremely long arms or a very small staircase, I don't think it's cheatingJohn Gillies wrote:Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
Oh, and welcome.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Nobody cheats these days.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Nobody could be as bad as me without cheating . . .Ian Dent wrote:Nobody cheats these days.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Chris Davies cheats at the Rubik's Cube.
16/10/2007 - Episode 4460
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do
I hadn't actually read what Jimmy was replying to when I read this and I was rather disturbed.Jimmy Gough wrote: Unless your "son" is actually your hand and you have extremely long arms or a very small staircase, I don't think it's cheating
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Yeah. They got bored and edited it.Kai Laddiman wrote:Chris Davies cheats at the Rubik's Cube.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Wow, what happened? Or did he just take ages (understandably, given the pressure)?Kirk Bevins wrote:Yeah. They got bored and edited it.Kai Laddiman wrote:Chris Davies cheats at the Rubik's Cube.
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Is this meant to make me respond with something funny or sensible?Michael Wallace wrote: Wow, what happened? Or did he just take ages (understandably, given the pressure)?
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Stun him and do both Kirk.Kirk Bevins wrote:Is this meant to make me respond with something funny or sensible?Michael Wallace wrote: Wow, what happened? Or did he just take ages (understandably, given the pressure)?
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Not cheating at all. All part of the fun of online gameplay I would have said.John Gillies wrote:Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
I think I played your son (Josh?) the other day actually but the bloody thing crashed early on so we never finished. Some other time I'm sure.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do
Kirk Bevins wrote:I hadn't actually read what Jimmy was replying to when I read this and I was rather disturbed.Jimmy Gough wrote: Unless your "son" is actually your hand and you have extremely long arms or a very small staircase, I don't think it's cheating
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
Not sure how you could even consider the possibility that this might be cheating.John Gillies wrote:Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
I often play Supee when we're in the very same room, let alone the same building.
Maybe I'm missing something but if you're in competition with each other and playing the game honestly what the hell can be wrong with that?
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Who's Supee?Phil Collinge wrote:Not sure how you could even consider the possibility that this might be cheating.John Gillies wrote:Hi,
I'm quite new to apterous, as is my son. We sometimes play each other, with him on the PC upstairs and me on the laptop downstairs. Is this considered cheating? If it is, we are not very good at cheating as can be seen from our ratings!
I often play Supee when we're in the very same room, let alone the same building.
Maybe I'm missing something but if you're in competition with each other and playing the game honestly what the hell can be wrong with that?
Edit: Still don't know who they are, but looked them up on apterous. They love the numbers attack.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
You know. Supee.Douglas Wilson wrote:Who's Supee?
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
As would you if you were trying to play this game in your third language.Douglas Wilson wrote: Who's Supee?
Edit: Still don't know who they are, but looked them up on apterous. They love the numbers attack.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
I'm to tired to have a clue what your on about, all I know is they love the numbers attack.Phil Collinge wrote:As would you if you were trying to play this game in your third language.Douglas Wilson wrote: Who's Supee?
Edit: Still don't know who they are, but looked them up on apterous. They love the numbers attack.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do it
[quote="Douglas Wilson"I'm to tired to have a clue what your on about, all I know is they love the numbers attack.[/quote]
Just spit it out Douglas.
Just spit it out Douglas.
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Re: Cheating: What it is, and why you shouldn't do
I think he trying to say they love number attacks.Phil Collinge wrote:Just spit it out Douglas.Douglas Wilson wrote:I'm to tired to have a clue what your on about, all I know is they love the numbers attack.