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Captain von Trapp posted:Jeopardy is skill-heavy. Personally I watch it to admire the contestants and to see how well I do. When a true heavyweight comes on, so much the better. It's fun for the same reason the Olympics is.
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Duckman2008 posted:I don’t think the issue is that he is a heavy weight. I think the issue is that he is simply a douchebag. Yup. 1glitch0 posted:If I was a contestant, sure I'd like to make the producers and Alex happy, but I think I'd rather have 1.6 million dollars. Yeah, I didn't do it because I hadn't practiced for it, but if I had I'd have straight up ignored it. The money is more important than the optional instructions.
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Spokes posted:I think there’s differences between daily double hunting, starting with the high value clues, and just bouncing around the board to confuse your opponents (and J! crew). The value of the first two is obvious and the third is just kind of obnoxious and weird Well, bouncing works! Not for everyone but for enough people that it keeps coming back. It keeps your opponents of balance and gives you a half second of being the only one who's able to anticipate the category. I know the producers don't like it but they haven't changed the rules to prevent it so whatever.
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haveblue posted:Yeah the whole idea of game shows is to see how "ordinary" people do at extraordinary challenges of skill and luck. World-class trivia masters are usually not ordinary in that sense. And this isn't really true for Jeopardy. You have to have a solid command of trivia to be competitive, and that's without even getting into the buzzer. This isn't Price is Right where there's no skill test (as far as I know) to be on air. You have to be a naturally curious person (bonus points if you've watched lots of Jeopardy and can recognize their patterns/get good at finding the actual question in a wordy clue) to even get an audition.
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yeah but compare jeopardy to say learned league.
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Obviously there are tiers of difficulty! But people who get on Jeopardy are rarely "ordinary."
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Present company excluded haha got 'em
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah but compare jeopardy to say learned league. Cheating isn’t rampant in Jeopardy tho
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Spokes posted:Cheating isn’t rampant in Jeopardy tho i wanted to get into learnedleague until i figured that was probably the case.
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so with an 11,600 to 9.600 lead Sara gets the daily double on the last clue of double Jeopardy and gets it wrong, ensuring she goes into Final with a tie rather than the lead I'd much rather watch James "ruin" the game by playing well and knowing the strategy than this
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Duckman2008 posted:I don’t think the issue is that he is a heavy weight. I think the issue is that he is simply a douchebag.
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Albino Squirrel posted:I mean, exactly this. It's not like you have to be an rear end in a top hat to be a heavyweight; Ken Jennings seems to be a legitimately decent and funny human being, and pretty much everyone featured in Prisoner of Trebekistan comes across great. It's unusual for a great Jeopardy champion to be a dick about it. The rich are dicks, they only dream of eradicating the poor by turning them into Soylent Green.
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james didn't really bug me apart from the being unable to smile thing until i read that comment where he said he isn't cut out for a 9-5 and never had one. does he think people choose and enjoy working their 9-5 with a boss telling them what to do?
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Groovelord Neato posted:james didn't really bug me apart from the being unable to smile thing until i read that comment where he said he isn't cut out for a 9-5 and never had one. does he think people choose and enjoy working their 9-5 with a boss telling them what to do? YES
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I liked the clue a couple nights ago, "A malamute is on the flag of this Canadian territory to reflect the dog's important role in the history of the place" where the contestant answered "What is Labrador?" and immediately winced. Meanwhile, my SO sarcastically said, "What is Newfoundland?"
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CPColin posted:I liked the clue a couple nights ago, "A malamute is on the flag of this Canadian territory to reflect the dog's important role in the history of the place" where the contestant answered "What is Labrador?" and immediately winced. Meanwhile, my SO sarcastically said, "What is Newfoundland?"
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I'm glad Alex just shut that guy down when he tried to rap.
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I can't decide if I like Dave's bolo tie, civil war handlebar, or American flag glasses frame better.
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None of these people deserve to go to the final.
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packetmantis posted:None of these people deserve to go to the final. 
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Gaunab posted:I'm glad Alex just shut that guy down when he tried to rap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WQk7YGpFZ4 emgeejay fucked around with this message at 03:13 on May 11, 2019 |
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Watching old Tournament of Champions episodes on Netflix and drat Roger Craig's "What is................." hesitation thing is grating
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Keith Atherton posted:Watching old Tournament of Champions episodes on Netflix and drat Roger Craig's "What is................." hesitation thing is grating
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emgeejay posted:he learned his lesson after last time way to prove him right guys
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May 11, 2019 14:27
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One More Week until the James Era resumes
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Spokes posted:One More Week until the James Era resumes 
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And the constant rewatching of a home-recorded VHS copy of The Mouse on the Mayflower during my childhood pays off once again during Final Jeopardy.
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I don't think bed surfing should have counted.
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Amazon can gently caress off with this Alexa poo poo. This is gross.
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puppets freak me out posted:Amazon can gently caress off with this Alexa poo poo. This is gross. Gotta pay for James somehow
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puppets freak me out posted:Amazon can gently caress off with this Alexa poo poo. This is gross. For some reason it makes me feel better that it's an obvious overdub and Alex likely read the categories to the studio audience
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Gaunab posted:I don't think bed surfing should have counted. I agree with that. I have never ever heard that phrase. "Bed surfing"? Would floor surfing or bathtub surfing worked? I think the judges messed up on that one.
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I'm old but I think bed surfing is exchanging sex for shelter.
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zakharov posted:I'm old but I think bed surfing is exchanging sex for shelter.
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Man I am so much better at math than these guys, and so very much worse at Russian composers. I didn't even know two of the ones they picked (including the correct response).
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PT6A posted:Man I am so much better at math than these guys, and so very much worse at Russian composers. I didn't even know two of the ones they picked (including the correct response). Dude read about the Rite of Spring riot, it's wild
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TurboFlamingChicken posted:GoT was so garbage this year I actually looked forward to the return of regular Jeopardy and James' streak than the finale. Make sure to post about it in every thread on the forums! And don't forget to sign the petition!
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