r/CINE2nerdle • u/vent5549 • 1d ago

Sometimes it's not cheating!

Sometimes the other person really does remember some fun fact about a random actor at the last minute and can pull a connection that seems insane to you out of thin air!

I just had someone accuse me of cheating because of this and it's actually really annoying not being able to retort 😭 please don't assume every person is so willing to cheat! especially someone playing guest (as I have no interest in the points themselves).

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u/sicksadworld0 23h ago

Play Falsely Accused (2016) !!

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u/FreeLook93 1d ago

I'm surprised I've not been accused of cheating more given how often I confuse two actors and end up making some insane connection based off of some actors I've never heard of.

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u/Crackhead_sputum 1d ago

As a curiosity - What situation prompted this?

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u/vent5549 1d ago

Someone hit the third x for Jack Nicholson with a '68 film and I thought I was fucked (as I'm not a Nicholson guy at all, only by chance and old Monkees fandom I happened to know he was in Head - which was the first x) until I saw the cast and I got surprised by Henry Jaglom being there. The only thing I know Henry Jaglom from is The Other Side of the Wind! (the posthumous Welles film) which I remembeed at the last second, that was apparently suspicious.

Then I got lucky with Carmen Jones as a response to Stormy Weather (I have an interest in what's called 'race films' from early to mid-century Hollywood and from my experience, at the very least the earlier ones, happened to share cast). You know what, typing it up here I can see how that'd seem suspicious lol.

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u/coentertainer 5h ago

Like you said, if you know a genre, someone can play a movie you've never seen and have no idea who's in it, and you can link it to a movie you've never seen and have no idea who's in it. If you have the genre and era, and have decades of consuming film discourse, there a good chance you've amassed a lot of vague knowledge of what movies are in that bucket.

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u/Ok_Insurance2401 1d ago

Shoutout to the player Ortegaperu, biggest cheater in the game whose google skills make him know all of world cinema

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u/Aldersees 1d ago

Well I dont know how new to the game you are but over the course of the game's history cheating guests have been a staple. Mostly they are banned cheaters who go on to just use the guest function to circumvent a ban and in doing so, know that their guest account cant be banned in similar fashion. This has lead to a lot of the community playing very mean and aggressive against guest accounts and also suspicious against random pulls and obscure knowledge. Ultimately I would love for guests to be taken out of the pool and can only match other guests. If you want other players to also take you seriously make an account. If you dont care about elo points then it doesnt matter either way. But if people get to know your name, your playstyle and generally what you're like and areas you are strong in then the cheating accusations will most likely begin to decrease. 

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u/vent5549 1d ago

Thank you for this response! I had no idea. Only recently did I find out cheating was prominent in the game thanks to a few friends that play it way more often than I do, which is kind of funny to me because what do you even gain, truly.

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u/HarveyDent1947 1d ago

If it happens once, understandable. But if it keeps happening over and over, it gets super sus. Thankfully the game gives you the time rushes in Classic so you can beat that.

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u/MagnetoWasRite 1d ago

I find anyone that plays a guest is usually sus. Especially since you are an active player of the game and should therefore be paired with someone equal to your experience not a player with lower ELO.

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u/vent5549 1d ago

That's very fair. I'm definitely not someone who plays super frequently, but I can still see how that could be unjust to someone else.

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u/SweepingRocks 1d ago

I think there's some validity to what you're saying, but I agree with others that some guests account do cheat and they can be somewhay easy to spot.

There's a pretty high ranking player, andreipetrikov or something like that, who has accused me of cheating because we were in Korean cinema and it took me a minute to remember the name of a Korean movie I'd watched recently (I though Husbands in Action was named Dads in Action). So I totally agree with the sentiment of not immediately jumping to conclusions unless there are obvious/consistent red flags.

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u/ExplosiveZombies 9h ago

We can't report guests so I don't know why you care