Ocean Islands Exit Interview, with Analysis

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Ocean_Islands

Tuesday, February 06, 2001 - 03:09 am Click here to edit this post

Ocean Islands Exit Interview, with Analysis

Here is a five part interview which took place Sunday at the Ocean Islands Laboratory facility in Seaside Corners, Florida. As I gathered my workers around me for support, many of them had questions about my behavior in the game, and the events leading up to my banishment.

This interview was conducted by Mr. Clifton. In attendance were Bankston Rivers, my great uncle, and Miss Lena, laboratory accountant.

Before the laboratory was closed for refurbishment purposes, I spoke to them candidly. This is a record of that interview.

Part I Immunity Challenge

Clifton (C): What did you think of the immunity challenge?

Ocean Islands (OI): I loved it!

Clifton (C): Did you feel that only you were smart enough to win the immunity challenge, as Elitist claimed?

Ocean Islands (OI): No, I truly believed that all three of us could have won it without asking any questions.

Azriel's mistake was that she was misled by the question. When Digilady referred to the person asking the least number of questions, there is an illusion that questions are necessary to solve the puzzle. That was not true.

C: Which was correct, Elitist's answer or Ocean's answer?

They are both correct. Mine was more complete, while Elitist's was more concise. Since Pam didn't know that you can't hear an echo from the top of a cliff, she was not smart enough to pinpoint only the strangest thing amiss.

She would have mentioned ALL the things amiss. But one answer is not more correct than the other. The question was not "What one thing would Pam say to the cops, but "What would she say."

C: Are you a lousy loser, as Digilady claimed in the chat room?

OI: I don't believe so. Both E and I actually did win the immunity challenge according to the directions given. No provision for a tie breaker had been proffered.

I do believe that the tie breaker was fair.

From postings I have been able to determine that certain measures were put in place to ensure the integrity of the coin toss.

I was not told about these provisions, nor was any concrete information given about the results of the contest, which is why I indicated interest in seeing Elitist's answer.

I was simply interested in comparing answers from an intellectual perspective.

I did not demand or even request that Digilady post the answer with email verification data. The message was not even addressed to Digilady, but was posted on the board. It was not even a request, but the expression of an interest.

Go back and look at the original post and you will see that this is true. Some spectators were assuming I was accusing someone of cheating with that statement. This was not the case.

C: What actually happened on that cliff, in the puzzle?

Here is my theory on the puzzle: Hadley had murdered Sheena earlier by pushing her off the cliff during a struggle in which she lost her shoe. He hid at the edge until someone came along the path to stage the accident. He heard Pam's water bottle sloshing when she came up the path. At that point, he cried out as if he were her. He even faked an echo.

Neither he nor Pam knew that there is no echo from the top of a cliff, only from a valley -- but the forest rangers knew. The vultures circling in the air were circling Pam's body, since she had lain on the floor of the valley for some time.

Part II: Ocean Islands' Smackdown Nomination

C: Why did you receive five nominations, anyway?

OI: I still believe that it was a backlash to the immunity challenge itself. Whoever lost the coin toss was going to be nominated.

C: What did you do that was so horrible that you deserved five nominations?

Well, even though I reacted emotionally to it, I don't believe that it was done out of malice, so I don't believe that I deserved it. It did certainly suck, though.

C: What were you so hurt about?

OI: The player nominations hurt, and I was determined to do something different than George had done. So I opened myself up and revealed my emotions for the benefit of myself and the game.

In hindsight, what was most upsetting to me was that Juju had wished me luck on the immunity challenge, but then nominated me for banishment. That didn't seem fair or right. It appears to have been a mistake, because she was trying to make sure that everyone was nominated that time (who was not immune), but miscalculated.

C: Why weren't you more involved in the game?

I was involved to the extent I could be. Not having access during the day hurt a lot.

The last few days, coming home from work after 11 pm two nights in a row, and then sitting down to play a demanding puzzle on Wednesday going past midnight, and then an immunity challenge on Thursday plus a tie breaker and then five nominations going past midnight, would be a lot to require of anyone at either work or play, and it put me over the edge.

Quote from my email to Digilady: "Help, I'm cracking up." Reply: "Elite won, sorry."

I have been on a roller coaster from winning a thrilling immunity puzzle to being thrown out on my ass in 48 hours. I suggest you try it -- it's breathtaking.

Part III: Banishment


C:Why were you banished by the spectators?

I don't really know. I suggest you ask them. It may be because I chose to be real and reveal my hurt feelings. It may be because I didn't get into the Hot Tub and do sex talk. Who knows?

C:Is Ocean Islands guilty of poor gamesmanship, as Digilady said in the chatroom?

On the contrary, I think I am a pretty good gamesman. I created and provided a group photograph, a musical tribute to game II players, exhilarating postings for millions of viewers . . . what more can I say? Hardly poor gamesmanship. And I did it much more creatively than any other player has done for the game at large. My reward? Banishment. Oh well, better luck next time.

Back to being a poor gamesman or a lousy loser, I actually provided a parting lyrical poem for the remaining players, a conciliatory e-card acknowledging my failure, and a musical dance interlude for transition to the outside world. No other banishee has been as conciliatory or demonstrative in his departure. I also immediately went to the board and participated in discussion.

C:Why didn't you say anything after the banishment was announced?

I was busy posting my red room messages into the game. I also posted my goodbye email, which had been prepared in advance. I also posted my answer to the challenge.

By the time I got back to the chat, E. was gone.

C:Was it improper for you to post your red room messages in the Game, as Elitist said?

No it was not improper. There is nothing in the rules which states that you are forbidden to share your red room messages with the other game players.

As it turns out, I shared more red room messages with the players than the interrogator had shared with the viewers! Lol

C:When will you be participating in the Celebrity Smackdown that you promised in your Game II application, that you said you would be doing when you got out of the game?

The Celebrity Smackdown started the moment the voters banished me from the game, didn't you realize that?

It may have been the most spectacular and brilliant production my laboratory has yet produced! Everything has gone according to The Plan (special thanks to Theresa, Lab Consultant).

Part IV: Breakdown on the Elitist/Ocean Controversy

C:What do you make of reports that Elitist offered to give up immunity and give it to you?

OI: I'm not sure what to think of this. If it is a strategy for viewer sympathy, it is brilliant. If it was insincere, it was risky. If it was sincere, it is impressive.

C:Do you think it was sincere?

OI: I really don't know. It's a bit puzzling because he never actually told me that he had requested that. You'd think that if he were truly interested in patching things up between us, he would have told me about it.

C:Why did Elitist keep disappearing when you were in the chat room?

OI: He kept indicating that he felt I didn't want to talk to him or couldn't be open when he was present, for unknown reasons.

However, we attempted to meet in OneonOne chat, but it never happened.

Part V: Gator-Gate and the Interrogation Tapes

C:Are you glad you posted the RRs on the game?

OI: Yes. It provided spectacular evidence of a blatant act and at this juncture appears psychic, since I had no idea that this was happening to such an extent.

I wasn't even aware of what was going on until Lancecrossfire did his detailed analysis for prejudicial depictions. His analysis actually revealed something totally different: my largest email was missing.

C:Did you speak to Flint about this issue?

Yes, we had an extended conversation about it in a private chatroom late Sunday evening.

C:What was his explanation?

OI: He told me the email was late and he didn't want to make me look like a slacker by posting it.

Epilogue: Miss Lena has an intimate moment with Mr. Islands

Miss Lena: Why are you sometimes mean to fellow posters?

OI: Its never my intention to be mean, but I have to admit I have been mean. Jana comes to mind, who I once called an idiot and she never came back to the board again. Sometimes if someone asks me a question in chat, when it's going by really fast, I don't see it, and therefore don't respond. It's not meanness. Also, in mIRC, I just learned Sunday night that people can send you messages. So if you have been sending messages, I have not been getting them. I am, some times, technically brilliant. Other times, I am merely brilliantly dense.

Miss Lena: How did your laboratory interpret the game players in an auditory format?

OI: According to my direction, they took an MP3 file of CocoSteelNLoveBomb, and converted it to a Real Audio file.

I instructed them to edit in crowd sounds, horse hooves, and clips from famous movies and tv shows, and also sound effects from my vast library of FX.

Miss Lena: Why did you post a banner which said "Spectator Meltdown Reveals Mole"?

OI: No comment.

Miss Lena: What was your strategy?

OI: I think I've addressed some of the strategy in my red rooms. It was to have fun.

I found ways to have fun; I don't know if that was fun for anyone else, but it was for me. It looks like it was fun for Juju too, and I was glad for that since we seem to be like minded.

Miss Lena: Why did you post a short story in the game, and why didn't you finish it?

This was part of an innovative strategy to avoid banishment. My strategy here was to have a four part story whose fourth part would arrive after banishments, which would make people want to have me around so they could hear the end of the story.

It doesn't appear that the story was interesting enough to have had the effect I wanted that strategy to have, or perhaps voters were not looking towards the future or did not understand that they would never hear the end of the story. In any case, it didn't work.

Miss Lena: Have you enjoyed the game?

OI: Yes, it came with chills, thrills and yes, spills.

Miss Lena: Will you be posting the end of the story?

OI: No.

Miss Lena: Will you be voting?

OI: No.

Miss Lena: Will you promise never to talk about this subject ever again, and then leave the site in a huff and never come back?

OI: No.

Miss Lena: Do you want a Game 3?

OI: That, Miss Lena, is a question for another day.

Juju2bigdog

Monday, February 05, 2001 - 08:19 pm Click here to edit this post

Ocean, two things: 1) your are correct about my voting miscalculation. 2) how dare you say we are like minded????

<Juju2bigdog checks self into mental institution, plays hampsterdance continuously and giggles nonstop>

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, February 06, 2001 - 06:38 am Click here to edit this post

Not sure where to post this. Last night I posted a quite clever reply to this thread, and yesterday morning, I posted another in the red room falsification thread. Neither one managed to stay on the board. Should I start a censorship thread? Very discouraging. Obviously, they were not messages that would get censored; Juju don't do that.

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, February 06, 2001 - 09:32 am Click here to edit this post

Opps, and now it has reappeared. Love that old black magic.

Digilady

Tuesday, February 06, 2001 - 11:49 am Click here to edit this post

<waves wand, sparks fly>
kaZAAAM!