Restart. Don't know what might have broken since I was gone.

of course Shos, the maker of Imperio, doesn't play his own level.  

  

POLL: What do you do now?

Play onward!		5 votes - 50%
Click "Restart"		1 votes - 10%
Click "Quit"		1 votes - 10%
Do nothing		3 votes - 30%

You decide to persistently continue onwards!

Oops. You died so hard that you're left confused as to what just happened, and during this confusion, Livio's picture killed you again. You die in imperio before you know what's going on, and you get stuck in what appears to be an infinite loop of dying and undying. You'll figure it out eventually, I'm sure.



In the mean time, it's time for another tournament thingy, since I think it's an appropriate time for a break in the storyline, and also since today (March 15) marks the start of March Madness, which for those of you who don't know, which is probably a lot of you (?), is an event where tons of college basketball teams compete in a tournament to decide the year's champion, while tons of people try to correctly predict the outcome of the tournaments, and most of them fail miserably. This is what this year's tournament looks like.

So, lets kick it off with a Neezle Spam Account ??? Tournament! I don't know quite what qualifies any account to advance to the next round, so I guess I'll just advance the spam account with the most votes.

I'm a little hesitant to do it, because it's neezles-related, but no one had any objections (or really any feedback at all) back when I proposed it twice in the chatbox, so if you have any concerns, please voice them yesterday when you had your chance.

The setup is the same as last time, but I'm going to wait for each match to end before drawing the lines for the next round, for various reasons. With that in mind, here's the picture of your first round matchups:


First matchup: Won Ki vs Rosa77

You're probably already familiar with Won Ki since I think he killed you earlier in the story. Won Ki's ban message was a simple "Rubber Banned" image

I believe that Rosa77 was supposedly neezles' mom coming on here to chastise us for banning her daughter. Ban message: "A ban a day, to keep neezles away..."


So who advances to the next round and why?

Won Ki SMASH YOU!

Rosa because she's the tiny white dot in a black world c:

I hope Bongo Drums win. I can't help but feel some kind of relationship with it.

Won Ki, because that account was targeted at me.

I wasn't quite sure how Won Ki was targeted at jellsprout, but after looking around for a topic, sure enough:

It's a reference to this post: http://www.interguild.org/members/forums/jump.php?to=1249222288

Looking back, Neezles was actually quite funny for a while and we (I) just never noticed.

^^ dat~!!

also,


Shoulda been,

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. I definitely knew that at some point, but forgot about it. My memory mostly just associates Won Ki with "WON KI SMASH!"

  

Won Ki  9
Rosa77  4

Next up is rob garrett vs Hawinebai

rob garrett is supposedly a homeless man from Costa Rica. I'm not sure if this was a reference to anything, but if it is, then I never picked up on it. rob garrett has been done multiple times and as a result has been banned multiple times. I thought that rob garrett had the honor of creating the lowest rated topic of all time, but that was actually neezles pretending to be rob garrett?

Ban messages: "For being Neezles with a proxy."
3 "rubber banned" image bans

Hawinebai is a pretty obvious reference to harumbai, with a play on word as "rum" is replaced with "wine"
I think that someone made a joke about the "rum" in harumbai in the chatbox or something, but I don't remember.

Ban message: "Saved by second base!"

I figure that maybe Hawinebai said something that would give that context, because I can't quite figure out what that meant. Although it might have to with the previously banned spam account, hockeyboy15342? I'm not sure.


So, who advances to the next round and why?

Rob Garrett because homeless dudes are awesome. In a non-Dando way.

Garret. wasn't he a 40-years old?

I think that Neezles was in a period of disturbingly bad name changes (hockeyboy13542 mostly) and Harumbai grew tired and said that he was just waiting for an account called Hawinebai. Or something like that.

Either way rob garrett is legendary.

rob garrett. Obviously.

It'd be awesome if Ekehasa could be in the next round.  

Rob Garrett.

I don't recall neezles making an ekehasa spam account, although it wouldn't surprise me.

I think she made an "ekehasa2" back in the day. If she did, she was an attention-seeking, ignorant and self-righteous person.

...or, maybe that was me.

  

rob garrett  12 votes - 86%
Hawinebai    2 votes - 14%

Next matchup: pinataapple vs Prudenceprune

I don't quite remember what pinataapple did, but it appears to be an alteration of the word pineapple (pine->pinata), which fake neezles associated herself with when she went for the record and stuff. I definitely feel like this one did something, and is notable for something, but I don't remember what.

Ban message: "Same reason as Jelsprout."

Which was "Stop making alternate accounts, Neezles."

Prudenceprune was a pretty early one, in fact I think it might have been her first neezles spam account ban? The only one on the giant list of neezle bans before her (in Isa's list of accounts banned) is HB_1, which happened long before her freakout that spawned about 100 spam accounts. I also remember thinking that the ban message was humorously trivial at the time, probably because it was like the second real ban we handed out to someone, the other being to HB_1.

Ban message: "prune prune prune prune"


Unrelated:


KARMA Banned: Quirvy
--By: canadianstickdeath on Jul 06, 2009 at 02:08 AM
--Reasons: he sux

KARMA Unbanned: Quirvy
--By: Livio on Jul 06, 2009 at 02:10 AM
--Reasons: None

I still don't know what this was about.

So anyways, who wins and why? Prudenceprune, or pinataapple?  

Pinataaple.

quirvy keeps count of who banned which/how many neezles accounts. I think we even have a rankings somewhere.

anyway, prunepruneprune will prune the other away!

Yeah, exactly, Quirvy, not me.

There was a "ranking" in Random Chat but it was removed.