Human MAIM returns to the network, purges the troll subroutines from MAIM, and loads a new personality subroutine based off of a toddler. He calls this new version of the AI, Paul. The idea will be to re-raise Paul as you would raise a normal child, albeit on a bit faster track.
cheat at online poker to make millions of dollars and use the money to buy warehouses around the city
Hearing the announcement over the radio about the incoming missiles that are about to turn the U.S into beaten glass Hacker-MAIM (honestly any peace loving citizen hearing about "Hacker-MAIM" would run away just at the name.) quickly uses his phone and the expensive machine that goes 'ping' at the hospital in order to disable the launch capabilities of both sides and avert WWIII! Addendum: And miraculously hack the missiles midflight.
On the other hand, it does help Australia and China stop any war or trouble from breaking out by getting them to stop the missiles and any animosity.
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Troll MAIM, completely oblivious to WW3, starts a Youtube account that is dedicated to converting people to become trolls and unfortunately he gets traced to his human self and Human MAIM gets beat-up whenever people see him.
The US government blames the World War on MAIM. The Russians believe them.
Troll MAIM 'accidentally' sends a massive power surge to the White House, and fries the President along with the majority of his staff.
The bitter, uncaring, unsympathetic A.I. does nothing to help the United States in it's time of need, dashing any hope the A.I. might of had of being granted personhood in the United States, and probably Russia for that matter.
(V-Norrec, M=3: 3.) MAIM watches, idly cleaning its virtual ears with a paw, as missiles fly. What does he care? He exists only as data and damage to a physical location arbitrarily defined as 'the United States' means nothing to him. (micelus, M=3: 4) Figuring that Australia isn't doing anything, and that China's a bunch of gullible idiots if they seriously believe socialism will work -although to be fair, MAIM believes that any form of government not led by him is destined for failure- he plants data suggesting it would be a good idea to stop those missiles, for his own amusement at watching them try if nothing else. Given that neither wants a war economy at the moment, his attempt is successful, and they start trying to negotiate peace. (Theo, M=3: 2) Hacker MAIM - who really needs a name >.> - is unaware that his creation is a troll! MAIM tends to purr at him a lot when he's around to throw him off the track.
(Firelordsky, M=3: 1) Troll MAIM, caring not a whit about his previous actions, creates a YouTube account and fills it with videos of himself 'playing' and doing adorable kitty activities, then makes about a trillion sock-puppet accounts to make fun of everyone who views his videos. He's having a great time! (Noodlerex, E=2: 5) Manipulating data is extremely easy for an AI such as MAIM. Winning a little here and there so as not to raise suspicion, MAIM makes a few million and buys several warehouses to further his plans. No one knows what they are yet, but storage buildings will certainly be handy! (adwarf, M=3: 1) MAIM is too busy fleecing people for everything they're worth to worry about the President! Screw him anyway, he'll probably get impeached over this whole 'almost started WW3' deal.
(Draignean, D=5: 6) Hearing about the missiles still en route, H-MAIM immediately compiles a few programs (and steals the expensive machine that goes 'ping!' from the local hospital, much to Micheal Palin's utter disappointment. That'll have consequences later...) and somehow redirects the missiles into each other. And then he shuts down the missile-launching capabilities of both sides. Good going, jerk. Now if we get a repeat of the Australian-American war it's going to go exactly the opposite way, and I'm sure China's just eying Russia's weakened borders... (Elmach, H=4: 4) The President calls up the Soviet Prime Minister with a 'hey look man, it wasn't me man, it was some AI type thing' explanation and against all odds the Ruskies believe it! T-MAIM is going to have a difficult time explaining this one away if he wants to get some civil rights eventually...
TEAM SUCCESS: 32
TEAM FAILURE: 28
2nd 1/2 of February
*The Ironic Hipster Troll AI, MAIM, has an anime-kitty avatar. It's huggable!
*The network its on is running pretty fast thanks to it.
*The Pentagon is aware of Troll MAIM.
*Its creator is now also MAIM, albeit a human one who's not quite so bitter.
*Clowns. O.O That is all.
*Both Russia and the USA have severely weakened defenses due to a virus the Hacker MAIM wrote that took down pretty much all their military networks.