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That was a fun game, and I am really sad Whitney lost. I also learned that if you trash-talk Jeopardy contestants on Twitter they will find and RT you.
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I really hope Tucker, the bow tie wearing A&M guy, does not win the finals.
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Feb 18, 2014 03:24
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I liked how tonight's game was close, but didn't really like how little everyone knew.
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Feb 18, 2014 03:51
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zakharov posted:That was a fun game, and I am really sad Whitney lost. I also learned that if you trash-talk Jeopardy contestants on Twitter they will find and RT you. I'm glad I'm not the only one this has happened to.
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Feb 18, 2014 04:25
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The Piper posted:I really hope Tucker, the bow tie wearing A&M guy, does not win the finals. I'm disappointed he didn't break out a beanie w/propeller. 
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Feb 18, 2014 19:35
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From last night. Didn't notice at the time.
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Feb 19, 2014 00:14
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God drat, two-thirds of today's contestants were loving dumbasses...How do you not know string theory?
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Feb 19, 2014 01:27
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DrBouvenstein posted:God drat, two-thirds of today's contestants were loving dumbasses...How do you not know string theory? It was a pretty tough question if you have no background in physics, like me. edit: Eric may have been a doofus but at least he got Trebek to do this. 
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Feb 19, 2014 01:50
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zakharov posted:It was a pretty tough question if you have no background in physics, like me. My high school geometry teacher would kill me for not remembering that a one dimensional object is a line or in this case, string.
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Feb 19, 2014 02:12
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BET TO WIN! BET TO WIN! You wimped out on a DD bet with one clue left and you very close to the lead and it cost you the game. Great job.
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Feb 20, 2014 01:39
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zakharov posted:BET TO WIN! BET TO WIN! I'm sorry, but the new correct strategy is to Bet to Tie.
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jscolon2.0 posted:I'm sorry, but the new correct strategy is to Bet to Tie. I miss Arthur so much
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Feb 20, 2014 02:57
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I cant believe in the college tournament on the 2nd question in a category was a picture of a pizza cutter asking whats this? Are you loving serious.
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yourafagpleasedie posted:I cant believe in the college tournament on the 2nd question in a category was a picture of a pizza cutter asking whats this? Are you loving serious. Yeah there have been some real laughers in this tournament. It's College Championship! These people are eligible for the real show! Give them real questions!
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^^^^^ also, since when the gently caress is a "poncho" a dorm room staple? Four years of college and I never saw a single person wearing a poncho. I can think of a million different things more staple-y than that. One thing about last night's show that drove me crazy was when the guy on the far left had $4400 really early in the first round with lots of answers left on the board. He gets the DD, and bets a pittance like $1200 or something. Man up, dude! You double your money to $8800 that early, and you can basically win through attrition. If I remember correctly he ended up winning anyway with a larger wager on a Final Jeopardy answer that they all got correct (FALSTAFF!), but at the end of Double Jeopardy it was anyone's game.
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Feb 20, 2014 19:37
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I told my friends that Terry looks like Paris Hilton and they think I'm crazy.
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Oh good grief how do NONE of these kids get "Fight the Power??" and what a cupcake final jeopardy that was
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zakharov posted:Oh good grief how do NONE of these kids get "Fight the Power??" It was funny though, because the guy on the left was clearly thinking "gently caress the Police" but didn't want to guess it.
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in_cahoots posted:It was funny though, because the guy on the left was clearly thinking "gently caress the Police" but didn't want to guess it. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that. 
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Feb 21, 2014 06:19
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What was the clue? "Initials for the title of this controversial political song by a pioneering rap group does not stand for File Transfer Protocol."
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escape artist posted:What was the clue? "Initials for the title of this controversial political song by a pioneering rap group does not stand for File Transfer Protocol." A Public Enemy song with a three word title and an anti-authority message. It might not have said anti-authority, but something similar.
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I'm pretty sure I said "What is gently caress the Police" out loud before realizing there was no way that could be the answer.
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The Piper posted:I really hope Terri from Princeton holds off Aggie Tucker today. Think of all the chocolate she can buy with her winnings! She wins and its not even close.
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Various people posted:gently caress tha Police It still would've been wrong because that's by NWA, not Public Enemy.
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Colonial Air Force posted:It still would've been wrong because that's by NWA, not Public Enemy. That's why it was said "it was no possible way it could have been the answer"
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Colonial Air Force posted:It still would've been wrong because that's by NWA, not Public Enemy. That's the beauty of it, though. Whoever constructed that question is a genius.
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Feb 21, 2014 23:08
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There has been a bleeped answer before, right. I'm not imagining this, am I? Not thinking of Jennings answering "hoe" once.
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WarEternal posted:That's the beauty of it, though. Whoever constructed that question is a genius. Yeah. They DEFINITELY knew what they were doing when they crafted that clue.
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Feb 22, 2014 01:39
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So what would happen if someone was in the red going into FJ on the second day of a tournament final? Would that amount be subtracted from the first day total? Also, did Alex say what happened to his hand?
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Feb 22, 2014 01:42
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Feb 22, 2014 02:01
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Some of the high-value questions (and the final) were hilariously easy tonight, and yet these fancy-school-attending people totally whiffed on them. Hong Kong? Really?
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Well I couldn't come up with Gibraltar but there were so many questions tonight that I couldn't believe at least one them didn't know.
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Officer Sandvich posted:Well I couldn't come up with Gibraltar but there were so many questions tonight that I couldn't believe at least one them didn't know. British taking stuff from Spain? It has to be Gibraltar. Especially since it's only 2-some miles in area or whatever.
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Officer Sandvich posted:Well I couldn't come up with Gibraltar Yeah but you weren't on the show
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I liked when Tucker thought the Hermitage was in Nashville. edit; actually, hilariously enough, there IS a Hermitage museum in Nashville. Still, my brain jumped for the more obvious one.
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Arthur Chu gave a long interview with the A.V. Club. Here's what he had to say about buzzer strategy:Arthur Chu posted:What they told us is that you need to keep hammering on that button because even though buzzing in too early locks you out for half a second, it’s not cumulative. It’s just a half-second delay. If you’re still hitting the button rapid fire, you will buzz in as soon as that delay expires. Since human beings are fallible and none of us will ever exactly hit the moment the light turns on, you probably have a better chance if you err a little bit on the side of buzzing in early, but you keep on hammering it so you get in as soon as that lockout expires. That’s why the rapid-fire clicking that gets on so many people’s nerves is a good idea. I think the majority of contestants do it. I just think the majority of them were subtler about it than I was. I was just so wired that you can actually see me clenching the buzzer next to the mic, and people can hear the springs in it. And that’s one of the things that gave me a reputation for being kind of a crazy person. So should you wait for the light to buzz in, or do as Chu suggests and start spamming the button as soon as possible? If you spam the button before the light, I suppose you'd lose, on average, 1/4th of a second. If you're lucky, your lock-out would expire just as the light flashes and you lose no time. If you're unlucky, your lock-out would expire almost the full half-second after the light flashes. On average, that would be a quarter-second, not accounting for inefficiency due to the speed at which your thumb can buzz in repeatedly. In theory, you might say if a person's reflexes give them a reaction time longer than a quarter-second, you're better off spamming the button before the light. Ken Jennings didn't do this. He claimed he didn't even react to the light. He said he got the rhythm of how long it takes after Alex finishes speaking before the light flashes. Ken could basically anticipate the light, and therefore get in very quickly--presumably with less than a quarter-second delay. What do you think, is it better to spam the button from the beginning, or not?
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zVxTeflon posted:Holy poo poo did Chu play against some truly loving awful players today.
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