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Think you know who the next US President will be? Then place a bet on it; the currency is your account. Simply post who you think will win and an interval of time or a specific date. If you guess wrong, your account gets banned for the amount of time you specify. If you guess correctly, you and the other correct people will be allowed to collectively choose and bestow a custom rank and image upon the losers for the average of the time bet by the winning group which appears directly under their usernames in the forum (the more you bet collectively, the longer the losers have to suffer whatever horrible rank and image is chosen). Betting ends Monday November 7th at 23:59:59 Eastern Time. The minimum bet is 2 weeks, the maximum bet is 4 years, but the longer the bet the more confidence you are indicating.

Bans will be administered some time after the election results are finalized with sufficient confidence, maybe a week, maybe the next day, it'll be a surprise. The custom rank/title is subject to typical avatar size and content restrictions and will go into effect after the winning group chooses one by popular vote.

Have fun.

Can I be banned from only this sub-forum? Believe it or not I'm here because of a video game, not E&C. I'll bet the maximum possible if I can still visit the other forums!

I thought about that, but its too open for abuse (they could just post crap in the cafe/nhb/etc that I'd be chasing around forever). Although I could probably be persuaded to lower the minimum to 1 week if enough people request it.

What about people that don't want EITHER candidate to win?

I'm certainly not placing any 'bets.' (Besides, where's the reward eh?)

Nightshade wrote:What about people that don't want EITHER candidate to win?

I'm certainly not placing any 'bets.' (Besides, where's the reward eh?)

Picking a embarrassing rank/title for the losers and being right about something in politics for the first time in your entire life? Did you not read the first post?

Also naming a candidate in your guess is not the same as voting for or supporting said candidate, so you can say so and so will win even if you wouldn't ever vote for them.

Krom wrote: Picking a embarrassing rank/title for the losers and being right about something in politics for the first time in your entire life? Did you not read the first post?

Also naming a candidate in your guess is not the same as voting for or supporting said candidate, so you can say so and so will win even if you wouldn't ever vote for them.

Everything is so up in the air now, there is no way I could make any kind of prediction other than- we're all screwed.

No bets from me Krom. I really wonder if you'll get anyone else to bet anything at all. LOL

You've only been making a prediction regularly in practically every topic you start for the last year and a half, just you refuse to when you might have to take a two week vacation from the board if you are wrong. What a freakin wuss.

Ok, change of rules, winner gets to pick a funny custom rank title for nightshade!

Krom wrote:You've only been making a prediction regularly in practically every topic you start for the last year and a half, just you refuse to when you might have to take a two week vacation from the board if you are wrong. What a freakin wuss.

Ok, change of rules, winner gets to pick a funny custom rank title for nightshade!

I would have predicted Clinton to be elected up until the last few weeks. Now, I'm not so sure. It's that muddled now.

And anyone who has a post within any topic on the first page of the E&C index, but refuses to make a guess is going to get a funny custom title from me for a couple weeks. j/k

Krom wrote:I thought about that, but its too open for abuse...

Ah Ok. I'll bet anyway.

If Hillary Clinton does not win you can ban me until the day after the inauguration.

Current tally:
vision: Hillary - Until Saturday, January 21st 2017
Nightshade: refuses to guess - loses by default, two weeks or until the giant meteor falls, whichever comes first

so, everyone refusing to play gets docked two weeks? Wow. I've obviously said Clinton from the get-go and am not about to change now. The whole concept of betting account time is, um, different......I mean, I get the cost of losing but what is the prize for being right?

I'm not going to ban people for not guessing, but I'm not going to let a sniveling little wuss off free either. I'll probably just make his username show hot pink for a couple weeks or some equally silly little thing.

And its two weeks off from being able to post on the DBB, that really shouldn't bother anyone. Might as well be a vacation!

Make a guess and laugh at the outcome. If you win, you get to poke silly fun at people who didn't guess correctly and maybe pin a funny avatar on them for a while. If you lose, you will have an excuse to not stick around and listen to their gloating for a while.

It's too close Krom. Give us a break. Not only do we end up with a crappy president either way, we either lose our access here for a certain amount of time or get admin pranked. No win situations suck too. Me thinks perhaps you're working on either getting a 2 week minimum vacation from all of us or maybe you're trying to toss out a little wrath just for the hell of it. Are we getting that obnoxious?

Do you have to ask?

A different forum I visit where stuff like avatars and titles cost money had a similar game this spring where you could bet some time being banned in exchange for a chance to win a free avatar certificate (which can also be used to give someone else an avatar, insulting or otherwise), and it was actually pretty fun. I didn't win and ended up being banned for the maximum one week but I have no regrets.

Krom wrote:And its two weeks off from being able to post on the DBB, that really shouldn't bother anyone. Might as well be a vacation!

I was going to suggest that zero time off be the punishment for the losers. Force them to post about anything but politics.....

Make a guess and laugh at the outcome. If you win, you get to poke silly fun at people who didn't guess correctly and maybe pin a funny avatar on them for a while. If you lose, you will have an excuse to not stick around and listen to their gloating for a while.

as I said, I'm pretty much wedded to the Clinton selection. Changing it now would be a lousy bet and inconsistent to boot!

Trump wins

Current tally:
vision: Hillary - Until Saturday, January 21st 2017
Nightshade: refuses to guess - loses by default, has to post a selfy from a mosque
tunnelcat: refuses to guess - loses by default, has to post a selfy with George W. Bush
callmeslick: Hillary - Two weeks?
woodchip: Trump - Two weeks?

Is getting a break the prize for being right, or the punishment for being wrong?

I donno, is a two week ban from this place really a punishment?

Remember, if you get it right, you get a chance to pin a funny avatar on woodchip (and possibly tunnelcat and nightshade as well) for a few weeks.

But if woodchip gets it right, he gets to pin a funny avatar on you and vision for a couple weeks.

Geez, slick was ready to donate money against this election but won't risk taking a couple days off from bombing this site with click-bait? I am disappointed!

I know right, it isn't like I'll even stop you from registering a second account and posting anyway. Some people are getting way too invested in this little sub forum.

vision wrote:Geez, slick was ready to donate money against this election but won't risk taking a couple days off from bombing this site with click-bait? I am disappointed!

Yeah, damn, it seems, cyberwar is not a fiction.. I guess I'll go on the hunt until everything calms down. Here moose assholes I was nearly killed when I was driving 180 kilometers per hour in the morning.
P.S. Need some fence put or something

Like, I would literally wager a lifetime ban from E&C. That's how much I don't care about this sub-forum. I like the rest of DescentBB though!

vision wrote:Geez, slick was ready to donate money against this election but won't risk taking a couple days off from bombing this site with click-bait? I am disappointed!

no, you misread me. I was simply joking about whether it was a win or a lose getting the time out.

haha, Ok man, I'm just teasing you.

Krom wrote:Current tally:
vision: Hillary - Until Saturday, January 21st 2017
Nightshade: refuses to guess - loses by default, has to post a selfy from a mosque
tunnelcat: refuses to guess - loses by default, has to post a selfy with George W. Bush
callmeslick: Hillary - Two weeks?
woodchip: Trump - Two weeks?

Eeeeeek! No bloody way, Krom. I'll bite.

Hillary to win. If I lose, a 1 week ban from Nov. 9 thru Nov 16. Sheesh!

If Trump wins, here's how you can move to Canada and join Ferno.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-m ... da-2016-11

vision: Hillary - Until Saturday, January 21st 2017
Nightshade: refuses to guess - loses by default, has to adopt a Syrian refugee
tunnelcat: Hillary - Two weeks.
callmeslick: Hillary - Two weeks?
woodchip: Trump - Two weeks?

Damn, on the next update I was gonna say "has to adopt a major health insurance executive" too...

Krom wrote:vision: Hillary - Until Saturday, January 21st 2017
Nightshade: refuses to guess - loses by default, has to adopt a Syrian refugee
tunnelcat: Hillary - Two weeks.
callmeslick: Hillary - Two weeks?
woodchip: Trump - Two weeks?

Damn, on the next update I was gonna say "has to adopt a major health insurance executive" too...

It's going to be too quiet around here.

The odds just got better that Hillary will win.

hell, I offered odds....for months on end, and never got a taker. Her odds have ALWAYS been good, there's just a screaming desire for the media to cash in one last time over this one, and damned if they weren't going to run with it.

Hilliary.

If I lose, I will go two months.

If I win, the losers will get some very interesting choices from me.

callmeslick wrote:hell, I offered odds....for months on end, and never got a taker. Her odds have ALWAYS been good, there's just a screaming desire for the media to cash in one last time over this one, and damned if they weren't going to run with it.

Democrats have two huge states thanks to the drones that vote for them in California and New York. They always have an edge to begin with regardless of who runs against them.

Nightshade wrote:...thanks to the drones that vote for them in California...

You mean Silicon Valley?

Nightshade wrote:

callmeslick wrote:hell, I offered odds....for months on end, and never got a taker. Her odds have ALWAYS been good, there's just a screaming desire for the media to cash in one last time over this one, and damned if they weren't going to run with it.

Democrats have two huge states thanks to the drones that vote for them in California and New York. They always have an edge to begin with regardless of who runs against them.

both sides have their automatics. Don't whine about reality, although it must be rough facing reality some days when it's so darned....liberal, huh?

And the Republicans have the entire middle of the country, the Southern states and the Rust Belt. Shows you how bad Trump is if any of those even slightly turn blue this time.

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I'm on board with this.

Hillary Clinton - 3.5 years (Go big or go home.)

Is there a bonus for calling all of the state races correctly?

BlueFlames wrote: Is there a bonus for calling all of the state races correctly?

bonus? You pull that off, you might land a job at Fox or something.........

Alright. I'll stick to my original prediction.

Clinton wins. I wager the two weeks.

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