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Again, thanks for all the kind words as well as the very heartwarming avatar!  Honestly though the players are the real stars of this LP, I was only a beancounter.AJ_Impy posted:Out of interest, going by post timestamps, how many times did the consensus change a losing or drawing one to a winning one after the other thread seemed to reach a verdict? I haven't looked at time stamps but I entered in a many of the votes into the document as they came in, and the only time there was a real last-minute upset was Oblivion's round 9 rally. Blind Sally posted:To commemorate our shared experience: Amazing!  Frionnel posted:Maaaaaaaaaan, i only found the observer thread today You were always a member of Team Left in spirit! If you want to, I can easily whip up statistics for your votes as well.
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Covski posted:Again, thanks for all the kind words as well as the very heartwarming avatar! You came up with the idea and the thread, and your organization of the individual rounds was very good. This amazing LP wouldn't have been possible without you  jon joe posted:Watching how these teams play, I think I've figured out a good general strategy for group based RPS. I'm going to save it in case there's another go after this one, though. So, time to explain what exactly you figured out!
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Blind Sally posted:To commemorate our shared experience: This is a work of beauty, almost 'Hieronymus Bosch does the French Revolution'. 
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This is the best thread. I'm in tears. I can't  it enough.Fake edit: Blind Sally posted:To commemorate our shared experience: Damned, why can't I it more!?
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VKing posted:This is the best thread. I'm in tears. I'm probably jinxing it, but we have 110 votes, 5.0 average!
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The LP forum shall forever remember this thread as prove that any game can be entertaining. So... Chopsticks next?
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I'm incredibly proud to have been part of something so ridiculous.
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If we are discussing art from the threads, it would be a shame not to include this post which saved Team Right in their darkest hour, when morale was at an all time low:Blind Sally posted:I have, myself, full confidence that if all the posters in this thread do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our hand, the right hand, to ride out the storm of RPS battle, and to outlive the menace and tyranny of the left hand, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. I don't think this one has been posted here either: Gridlocked posted:
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Torrannor posted:I'm probably jinxing it, but we have 110 votes, 5.0 average! A hearty congratulations to Covski and all the players - RPS is the highest rated thread in the subforum!
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Since activity in the thread has died down a bit, let's discuss the future of Rock-Paper-Scissors. I've seen a few people expressing an interest both in the team threads and in here: Thing is, I'd absolutely be willing to run another game, although I honestly feel this one is going to be extremely hard to top. So this is basically an interest check: Do people want to see another game, or do we end the saga of RPS on this incredible high note? If you are interested in seeing another game, feel free to give suggestion on the rules/format. I'm personally considering whether running shorter best-of-five games (which statistically means a game should take about a week) are a good idea. Discuss!
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If you think this is a hard act to follow (and I'm hard pressed to disagree), maybe you could put a new spin on things, try a different game? I guess the only issue is that most other games have been "solved" and the first one that comes to mind, taking this last round and running with it to play a game of iterated prisoner's dilemma, has had a lot of discussion on these forums that would make it harder to discourage than "don't pick randomly". Hrm.
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Here are the list of Hand Game , and I suggested we play Chopstick next. Both side will play simultaneously instead of taking turns to prevent stalling.
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Liar's Dice could be a good game for this format.
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One Swell Foop posted:Liar's Dice could be a good game for this format. Ooo. Ooo, this is a fun idea. E: tough to coordinate in a timely fashion, though, now I think on it. Pity.
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Ooo. Ooo, this is a fun idea. I don't care, I now want Liar's Dice so badly.
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Blind Sally posted:To commemorate our shared experience:  This is amazing.I'd be fine with whatever. I never expected RPS to blow up as much as it did. (And for one of the teams to actually pull off an underdog story.)
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Everybody posted:Good suggestions for games All of these look very interesting, and I might very well consider making another LP in the Hand Games (and other assorted deceptively complex games) series! Thing is, if I do another LP in the near future it's probably gonna be another game of RPS for the time being, since I've got that game figured out and I think it could have quite a bit more to give, entertainment-wise. It's something about the game being very easy to follow for a casual observer (unlike most other competitive LPs where you need a good understanding of the (often complicated) rules to be able to follow along with the reasoning and being able to see what is about to happen before the players do. Of course, another RPS game would have an official "no supervillainy allowed"-rule, to focus more on the pure game theory aspects. That said, I'd be interesting in trying out an asymmetrical variant, such as Rock-Paper-Scissors-Well where one move is objectively stronger than the others, just to see how that would play out. It could make for a very interesting game, given that both teams this time around seemed to treat rock as the *stronger* move, despite the fact that neither ever played scissors 
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Fedule posted:Honestly I think there could be a good case for doing a classical game-theory-game megathread with continual game theory asides. Go all into the maths behind it and let people play nifty decision games. I'm not gonna compete again in RPS any time soon, I'll be an observer the next time. But this idea I like.
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Covski posted:All of these look very interesting, and I might very well consider making another LP in the Hand Games (and other assorted deceptively complex games) series! Rock Another round of RPS sounds fun, I would play again unless you make it a newbie game. If we play RPS again and it's open to the players of the first game, we should definitely try to mix up the teams. Perhaps people simply sign up to play, and you assign them to their teams? It could be as simple as taking two people who played for the same team last game, and then flipping a coin for one of them to decide his next team, with the other player automatically joining the opposing side.
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Covski posted:All of these look very interesting, and I might very well consider making another LP in the Hand Games (and other assorted deceptively complex games) series! Covski posted:That said, I'd be interesting in trying out an asymmetrical variant, such as Rock-Paper-Scissors-Well where one move is objectively stronger than the others, just to see how that would play out. It could make for a very interesting game, given that both teams this time around seemed to treat rock as the *stronger* move, despite the fact that neither ever played scissors 
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Torrannor posted:As a registered member of Team Left, I declare you honorary member anyway!  Covski posted:You were always a member of Team Left in spirit! If you want to, I can easily whip up statistics for your votes as well. Nah, no need. And if there's a new game, i'll remember to register this time!
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A bunch of people who aimlessly worships a hypothetical piece of stone, and an about equal bunch who call them silly for doing so. This is like Twitch Plays Pokémon all over again!
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Thanks for all the input and suggestions here guys!  Fedule posted:Honestly I think there could be a good case for doing a classical game-theory-game megathread with continual game theory asides. Go all into the maths behind it and let people play nifty decision games. I really like this idea as well! Currently I'm leaning towards running one more game of RPS (possibly trying out the asymmetrical rock-paper-scissors-well variant just to see how that works in practice), and then possibly expanding it into a megathread with similar games that work in the forums format if there is enough interest and other people are willing to run some of the other games. And yes, the next RPS game will have a "no supervillainy allowed" rule.  New thread might go up as soon as some time this weekend, possibly.
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Fedule posted:Honestly I think there could be a good case for doing a classical game-theory-game megathread with continual game theory asides. Go all into the maths behind it and let people play nifty decision games. I'd be interested, but I think you'd have to treat this very carefully. The number of people who are willing to wade through all the math is vanishingly small compared to the number of people who would be interested in a more intuitive discussion.
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