Well, your class is certainly showing now, isn't it?

Don't feel bad for me.  I'm a very happy individual.

Please tell me why I, a U.S. citizen, who because of having ready internet access should be one of the most likely people to know what UTC means, had never even heard of UTC until this game?  What's more ridiculous is that people keep shrieking on about "UTC!  You should have assumed UTC!"  when the game itself didn't even assume UTC, even after the rule change.

In reponse to your point (1), actually, I assumed all time zones because I assumed that each guess was made according to whatever timezone the player uses.  This leads to addressing your 2nd point (2) because it means that there is only 1 set of rules.  A good rule structure both (1) distributes evenly to all players and (2) takes into account individual circumstance.  The laws of the universe certainly act this way (gravity and light, anyone?).  According to my assumption, each person makes a guess according to their individual timezone, but the forum itself serves as an objective reference point to determine who guessed first (you can simply view the order in which the guesses were posted).  So, in the event that any 2 people guessed correctly according to their time zone as was the case between me and Goat, all you have to do is see whose post appeared first in the thread.  That was me.  Hence I won.  I'm not even going to explain again why the rule change completely affected the statistical nature of the game, which is a separate issue.  In any case, neither of your 2 points represent any "delusion" that "seduced" me.

Yes, I assumed $4 represented 4 US dollars.  Didn't many people?  Isn't $ the symbol for the US dollar?   I didn't know $ was used to denote yen or some other currency.  

But, your point is good.  In fact, I'm sure many of the people who played the game assumed the same thing, but flamed me anyway for my assumption of local time zone (which is MUCH different from assuming US central time).

My name is RandyFolds!   I can shout nonsense!  I'm clearly right and clearly hilarious because more people side with me and are saying the same kinds of things I'm saying!  I have approval!  I knew that I must be smarter than I originally thought!

You know what you sound like?

Someone who throws out cliche garbage because it sounds good while thinking to yourself, "Ooooo, I got him that time...I hit him with cultural insensitivity."  Please, I do social work and the majority of my clients are minority clients, and I've been praised by the clients themselves for my cultural sensitivity, most notably my ability to listen and not judge.  

You don't know jack.  Quit being upset because I was graciously given 7 BTC by people who either sympathized or agreed with me.   Two can play this faulty assumption game.  

Edit:  Did you know that those who spend more time using online forms of communication are more likely to extract information or emotions from a conversation that are actually nonexistant?  Language is important, and I recommend you pay more attention to what is actually said vs. finding ways to infer fallacious nonsense for the sole purpose of antagonizing me.

You seem to be confused and think I'm actually offended by anybody on this forum that "mocks" me regarding this situation.

I could be threatened with being banned for life from Bitcointalk, and it won't change my position.

I'm very comfortable and happy with my stance.  Just because 50 some-odd people disagree doesn't mean any one of them is correct. 

I'm happy for you that you're not Bruce lol.

Bruce, seriously, you're the absolute last person that should be giving me a lesson in ethics.  I need to go wash my hands now.

Thank you for taking the time to do so.

If, at the very least, you are correct, then yes....yes you can.

Best of luck to all

I won't.  Will you also stop whining and bitching about those who you think whine and bitch and set the good example?

Dude, honestly, let it go.  "Karma" ran its inevitable course, and there's a likely chance your entire party was on the shorter end of the karmic stick.

 "Fallacy is not made true by multiplied propagation, nor is truth made into fallacy because nobody will believe it."

^^^....hereby withdraw any right to a fair trial and agree not to bitch, complain, argue, or whine about the final decision.

Jan. 5, 2012.  According to whatever rules hath been deemed honorable by the One Most High.  I hereby decline any and all

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It's pretty interesting that people are getting on my case about "not assuming UTC" or "not assuming GMT" when:  1.)  Apparently there are different opinions among community members about what the "obvious assumption" is,  and 2.)  It is equally ignorant/offensive to assume that someone should use GMT or UTC simply because x number of people believe it is the most-common point of reference.  If anything, I think assuming the person's local time-zone as a point of reference is the least ignorant and least offensive solution, for it does not "force" anything upon anyone.

Apparently, if there are at least 3 different opinions floating around (those that agree with me and both those that faulted me for not assuming GMT and UTC), then obviously it's not such a clear cut situation after all.

The amount of time invested by some members of the community in calling me a "whiner" when I, myself, have refrained from name-calling and have remained very civil in the matter given the level of scrutiny I have received (albeit my first couple of posts after OldEngineer proclaimed Goat as the Winner were not as civil...I thought OldEngineer didn't care to check far back enough to see that I had won), does not an angel make.  Moreover, claiming that my "karma" is kicking my ass and I don't even know it could be quite far from the truth...after all, maybe karma is with me on this one and thats why it sent me 7 BTC and not 5 BTC.  Anyone care to assume they know what universal justice is?

All I have done is continue to repeat and defend my decision according to the rules of the game in the order that they were implemented.

I stand my ground and I am content with what I have said, content with my position, and content with where the original 5 (10) BTC in question ended up.  

Continue to flame if you wish, but please, really bad assumptions, tangential arguments, ad-homs, hypothetical propositions, and otherwise do not make you smarter or cooler simply because a lot of other people, though they may happen to agree with you, are also using them.

Haha I assume their Ned is spot on as well?

Thanks for the opinion, Theymos.  I disagree, but thanks.

This truly doesn't surprise me.

...Dare I ask if I'm eligible to vote?