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It's not just you, I saw an article a few days ago about Trebek signing off for the season. I guess it must have meant they've just filmed the last ep of the season. Unrelated, anybody know of a non-TV-subscription way to watch since the reddit guy got shut down? 
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El Jeffe posted:It's not just you, I saw an article a few days ago about Trebek signing off for the season. I guess it must have meant they've just filmed the last ep of the season. Buy rabbit ears 
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Buy rabbit ears Now that you mention it, they are pretty cheap... 
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Apr 20, 2019 01:49
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finally get a contestant that wagers properly and now i don't want him to pass jennings.
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Yeah, Ken treats Jeopardy as a trivia game with a betting component. James treats Jeopardy as a betting game with a trivia component. What's kind of funny is that learning proper betting strategy takes a trivial amount of time compared to the factual knowledge studying required of a champion contestant.
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Apr 20, 2019 19:40
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Is it normal for contestants to interrupt Trebek like James does? Dude never waits for Alex to finish talking before he blurts out the next pick.
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Inspector 34 posted:Is it normal for contestants to interrupt Trebek like James does? Dude never waits for Alex to finish talking before he blurts out the next pick. Yes, it’s not uncommon from a bunch of the more successful players who tend to rub people the wrong way (Alex Jacob, Arthur Chu, Matt Jackson). Head contestant coordinator Maggie Speak tells us to be curt with picking categories prior to the taping, since they want us to clear the board within the allotted time for the round, and wasting time prevents that. Some people rush more than the average contestant does and makes it seem rude, but Alex really doesn’t mind, he’s used to it.
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GhostStalker posted:Yes, it’s not uncommon from a bunch of the more successful players who tend to rub people the wrong way (Alex Jacob, Arthur Chu, Matt Jackson). Alex has a bro crush on James, so he def doesn’t mind that James is quick.
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GhostStalker posted:Yes, it’s not uncommon from a bunch of the more successful players who tend to rub people the wrong way (Alex Jacob, Arthur Chu, Matt Jackson).
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Apr 21, 2019 15:43
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I wish he'd start interrupting during the interviews.
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Apr 21, 2019 18:36
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MorgaineDax posted:I wish he'd start interrupting during the interviews. Those get edited down quite a bit a lot of the time hahaha. And yeah I mean James is a dick but I will take someone who interrupts Alex to keep the flow going over the morons who go "Ummmm.... can I get.... The History of the Roman Empire... for... $400?" every single time.
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Apr 21, 2019 21:33
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You never wanna be counted among the entire-category-sayers "I'll take 'Male Characters from the TV Show Game Of Thrones' for $200, Alex"
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Apr 22, 2019 12:55
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Arthur Chu deliberately shortened the category titles in weird ways to confuse the other contestants if they weren't paying close attention to what the category was and viewers complained because they weren't paying attention
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Apr 22, 2019 16:47
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Arthur Chu is a million times more annoying than James, because he's intentionally an rear end in a top hat. James is just somewhere on the spectrum and not great at human interaction.
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Title shortening has been going on for decades. Sometimes the writers get too clever. I also agree ^^^^ James is well on the spectrum. Not deep enough to not know he comes across as an rear end in a top hat and generally unlikable. But also not so deep that they need a restraining order (unlike Wheel of Fortune guy). Goober Peas fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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Apr 22, 2019 16:54
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arthur was trash. you go on national television and can't even iron a shirt? wager 5 bucks because you're a nerd that can't answer a gimme sports daily double. get outta here.
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Groovelord Neato posted:arthur was trash. you go on national television and can't even iron a shirt? wager 5 bucks because you're a nerd that can't answer a gimme sports daily double. get outta here. the correctest opinion
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Apr 22, 2019 17:35
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I think if you're smart enough to win nearly a million bucks on Jeopardy in a few weeks you're pretty awesome. It's about the game. It ain't the Bachelor.
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1glitch0 posted:I think if you're smart enough to win nearly a million bucks on Jeopardy in a few weeks you're pretty awesome. It's about the game. It ain't the Bachelor. I think more people should play to win on the bachelor e: Speaking of, I wonder if Chris Harrison is going to find a new game show now that millionaire's dead (i think?). Really enjoy him in the hosting role
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Apr 22, 2019 20:05
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Spokes posted:I think more people should play to win on the bachelor the bachelor should turn into a runaway more often
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Apr 22, 2019 20:13
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Spokes posted:I think more people should play to win on the bachelor Play to win for a non-marriage or a divorce versus a million dollars? That's certainly a choice.
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Apr 22, 2019 20:18
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Being awesome at trivia and being a douchebag of a human being are not mutually exclusive things.
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HookShot posted:Being awesome at trivia and being a douchebag of a human being are not mutually exclusive things. I agree. And "Are You A Douchebag?" might be a fun show to watch. But we're watching a trivia show. The dude is owning it. Anyone who knows that many things is probably sometimes bad at parties. It's still something to be respected.
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Apr 22, 2019 21:52
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After tonight’s win he should break a million tomorrow!
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Groovelord Neato posted:arthur was trash. you go on national television and can't even iron a shirt? wager 5 bucks because you're a nerd that can't answer a gimme sports daily double. get outta here. Booooo. Arthur was a bit weird, but I always felt he got way too much flack for not that much controversy. HookShot posted:Being awesome at trivia and being a douchebag of a human being are not mutually exclusive things. Ding ding ding. This. 1glitch0 posted:I agree. And "Are You A Douchebag?" might be a fun show to watch. But we're watching a trivia show. The dude is owning it. Anyone who knows that many things is probably sometimes bad at parties. It's still something to be respected. No, we can both agree he’s obviously extremely good at trivia, and a loving rear end in a top hat. gently caress him.
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I wonder how badly James's metagame would get hosed by a strong competitor deliberately pacing the game like an octogenarian with an Alabama drawl. It's fun to see all of the challengers falling into the exact same trap game after game after game. They all continue running the board from the bottom up while James is the only person in play with any kind of actual buzzer experience, effectively helping him take all the high-value questions off the board before they've developed any buzzer experience themselves. It's like watching a whole room full of people gently caress up the Wason Rule. Vulture Culture fucked around with this message at 11:14 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Apr 23, 2019 11:10
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Goober Peas posted:But also not so deep that they need a restraining order (unlike Wheel of Fortune guy). What's the story here?
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Missive from 2090: James still champion, having used his winnings to become a brain in a jar; AIlex TreBot has resorted to asking him to recite limericks during the interview portion.
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I wonder how much less of an advantage this guy would have if the people he was going against watched his games on a once a day basis like the TV audience.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I wonder how much less of an advantage this guy would have if the people he was going against watched his games on a once a day basis like the TV audience. I think it's been said that the people who are going up against him now would have seen his first few episodes by the time they taped.
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Ken Jennings said in an interview that once his shows started airing the other contestants were intimidated and nervous while he was calm because he had a lot of experience.
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Mantis42 posted:What's the story here? https://www.eonline.com/news/34368/contestant-stalks-wheel-of-fortune https://gameshowfollies.blogspot.com/2011/12/immortal-raymond.html
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Timby posted:I think it's been said that the people who are going up against him now would have seen his first few episodes by the time they taped. While it’s def possible James is good enough to get to that point, jeopardy tapes 5 shows a day. At most, James has been on set for 3 days. My wife taped in November, it aired first week of January. That general turn around time was about 6 weeks. Depending on how many weeks of taping, there like, 30-40 games before you would get to that point (someone correct me if I’m wrong). Ken Jennings did get to that point, but I think he was the only one. Zero One posted:Ken Jennings said in an interview that once his shows started airing the other contestants were intimidated and nervous while he was calm because he had a lot of experience. This. The number 1 obstacle in Jeopardy is psychology. Pretty much anyone making it on the show is good. The question is how do you handle the pressure, and not be psyched out when you watch the person you are about to play crush the two people one game prior to you. My wife played someone who ended up being a 4 (or 5) game champion, and everyone had him pegged as a threat as soon as warm ups (I noticed him right away). So getting yourself to the mental point of “gently caress this guy, I’m just as good as he is,” is very difficult when you haven’t won a game yet. And for the record, my wife lost, but she kept up and made it not a run away, sometimes you just don’t get the daily doubles (one of which was a question about the city we live in!!). But yeah, it’s super hard for going up against “normal” 2-5 day champions. I would loving melt if I was up and after my name it was “guy who is basically the heir to ken Jennings.”
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Yeah, when Erik was up to something like $7000 by the first commercial break on the Monday show when I taped and everyone else was at like $300 a bunch of us were looking at each other going "oh poo poo".
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Apr 24, 2019 04:21
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it'd be great is james lost on an easy final like ken did.
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Apr 24, 2019 13:58
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And if it happened tonight
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For that to happen he needs to not be in a massive runaway at the end and for that to happen someone needs to beat his strategy and knowledge in the earlier rounds. I can't remember the last time he wasn't in the lead for the entire game.
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Groovelord Neato posted:it'd be great is james lost on an easy final like ken did.
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Vulture Culture posted:James will win or lose long before final Yeah, it'll definitely be two missed daily doubles when one or more of the others are close enough that he goes all in.
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