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Soothing Vapors posted:Emma's bet was basically preordained -- the only rational bet for her was $20,201. This. I’m tired of explaining this to people on the Jeopardy FB page, saying that either James gave up (because he was tired of winning? Because he respected Ken Jennings too much to break his record? Because he missed his family? No goddamn way would he be that humble, knowing what I do of him from people who have interacted with him in person, and his family are right close by in Vegas, he’s able to see them after taping every Wednesday for the better part of a week until the next taping day on Tuesday) or that the show was rigged somehow (Sullivan Compliance and the federal government would have something to say about that). NPR spoiled this for me on All Things Considered a little after 4pm, but apparently news outlets were running with this from even earlier this morning. Also, Emma is apparently getting a ton of poo poo on the socials from dudebro Holzhauer fans broken up that he lost to a woman and implying that she must’ve rigged it in some way or another. Heard she had to deactivate her accounts for a bit because of that. No one deserves that. Poque posted:I don't think this is accurate but I'm not sure. My coworker's sister was on a couple games ago and said coworker went to the taping, and I vaguely remember that James Hype had already started and we were all like "What if he's still there for her game?!" Anne Whateley posted:I wasn't pulling that out of my rear end, it's true Yeah, this episode was apparently taped on March 12 or something like that. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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It's hilarious that she may have studied just as hard as James did for jeopardy. quote:She got her master’s degree in information science from UNC in 2016, and wrote her master’s paper on predicting the difficulty of trivia questions using “Jeopardy!” clues.
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Jun 4, 2019 05:42
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Ah thanks y'all, we all probably just started getting excited later.
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Darth Brooks posted:It's hilarious that she may have studied just as hard as James did for jeopardy.
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Anne Whateley posted:I also didn't know this Yeah, there was discussion about it a few months back in the jeopardy contestants group; most multi-day male winners end up being beaten by women. Anyway I am also glad he lost, and Ken’s tweets are the best.
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Also, the women who have been on Jeopardy have their own Facebook group to deal in part with the extra poo poo we have to deal with by being women who go on Jeopardy. And God forbid they win. During the last term tournament one of the contestants wanted advice because she was getting messages from a shitload of pedophiles who wanted to bang her. I’m not at all surprised that Emma has to take her stuff down for a few days, because men are awful.
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Vertical Lime posted:compared to how ken went out that felt anticlimatic james got straight up beat, ken lost on an easy final. but he remains king thank god. mennoknight posted:it actually rules extremely hard that he lost Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Jun 4, 2019 13:02
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Have a full month of nothing but James, Brad and Ken and whoever has the most money at the end of the month is declared god of Jeopardy
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sportsgenius86 posted:Have a full month of nothing but James, Brad and Ken and whoever has the most money at the end of the month is declared god of Jeopardy buzzy as special guest host of this tournament just to maximize goon pain (and also because Buzzy Owns)
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sportsgenius86 posted:Have a full month of nothing but James, Brad and Ken and whoever has the most money at the end of the month is declared god of Jeopardy I'm on board.
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sportsgenius86 posted:Have a full month of nothing but James, Brad and Ken and whoever has the most money at the end of the month is declared god of Jeopardy Ironically, it’ll be the last month of Jeopardy before it declares bankruptcy.
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HookShot posted:I’m not at all surprised that Emma has to take her stuff down for a few days, because men are awful. Not that I'm on twitter at all anyway, but I'd want to delete my poo poo the day I got on the show and I'm not even a woman. I don't understand this need people have to interact with thousands of strangers on there, it so rarely ends well for anyone.
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I'm not on twitter, but the Facebook messages I got. Oh boy. Also most women on Jeopardy always get this one guy who tries to get them to model for this new bra company he's "starting" (it's been going on for years). It's literally a running joke among us now.
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HookShot posted:I’m not at all surprised that Emma has to take her stuff down for a few days, because men are awful. I'll take Techbro Nonsense for $1000, please. A: This company will automatically ban you for 24 hours for posting "Men Are Trash" on its platform. Q: What is Facebook?
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Jun 4, 2019 18:10
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Am I the only one who wanted him to break Ken's record? Nothing against Mr. Jennings but I think all records deserve to be broken.
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HookShot posted:I'm not on twitter, but the Facebook messages I got. Oh boy. At least on facebook I have my poo poo locked down, I think last I checked my security settings you can't even search me unless you're a friend of a friend. I basically just use it to keep in touch with friends and family, vent about politics into the void, and to manage my cat's page because she's awesome and you should all go like her (Phyrexian Obliterator, though a lot of people on these dumb forums know her already). But I can only imagine the poo poo you got  . Even if there's a chance it can go well, I have no interest in putting myself out there. Hell, I'll probably go into hiding from the internet like it's GoT spoiler season again just so I don't go down that rabbit hole of reading the poo poo people write about me.
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HookShot posted:Also, the women who have been on Jeopardy have their own Facebook group to deal in part with the extra poo poo we have to deal with by being women who go on Jeopardy. And God forbid they win. During the last term tournament one of the contestants wanted advice because she was getting messages from a shitload of pedophiles who wanted to bang her.
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christmas boots posted:Am I the only one who wanted him to break Ken's record? Nothing against Mr. Jennings but I think all records deserve to be broken. I'll admit I like huge statistical outlier records that nobody will likely touch again. The 74 game streak and now the $131k game. Am I correct in thinking James holds the top 16 single-game scores now? It boggles the mind. John Bois should make a video about Jeopardy stats some time.
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christmas boots posted:Am I the only one who wanted him to break Ken's record? Nothing against Mr. Jennings but I think all records deserve to be broken. i want ken jennings to hold it forever (and he likely will). it's just too perfect that it happened the season they got rid of the 5 game limit.
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christmas boots posted:Am I the only one who wanted him to break Ken's record? Nothing against Mr. Jennings but I think all records deserve to be broken. The Jeopardy gods declared James unworthy.
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Jun 4, 2019 19:52
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drat the look from Emma on Alex's comment about her being inspired by James was great.
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Timeless Appeal posted:drat the look from Emma on Alex's comment about her being inspired by James was great. I hope she wins 20 games.
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Jun 5, 2019 01:01
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How many eps until Alex stops talking about James?
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I hope she wins 20 games. I hope she wins 33.
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Poque posted:How many eps until Alex stops talking about James? Tomorrow: Emma beat James her first game, and she did a fine follow up to it yesterday. Let's see how she does today. Over a month from now: Emma is still on her streak, and she's just about to beat James' run. The interview in Emma's 76th consecutive game: But really Emma, what did it feel like meeting James for the first time
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HookShot posted:I hope she wins 33. I hope she smashes all the records 
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HookShot posted:I hope she wins 33. I hope she wins 73 *mic drop*
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Duckman2008 posted:I hope she wins 73 *mic drop* Same, if only for the tears of people on the Jeopardy Facebook page.
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Poque posted:How many eps until Alex stops talking about James? Go easy on him, he's in love.
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I've never looked forward to anything on this dumb show as much as the possibility of a James/Emma TOC rematch
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It's pretty cool that James was soundly beaten and didn't beat himself like Ken did when he lost. And Emma proved again that she's a strong player in her own right.
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On the other hand, not being able to nail that FJ doesn't bode well for the future. She better ensure it's always a runaway because that's the sort of FJ you should be able to reason out by a combination of geographical and historical knowledge.
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Jun 5, 2019 14:21
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yeah norway is a bizarre answer - most of it's on the same longitude as germany.
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah norway is a bizarre answer - most of it's on the same longitude as germany. It’s almost like you have only 30 seconds to answer it, you don’t know the answer so you make a guess.
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Duckman2008 posted:It’s almost like you have only 30 seconds to answer it, you don’t know the answer so you make a guess. You should hear some of my bad guesses at home!
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PT6A posted:On the other hand, not being able to nail that FJ doesn't bode well for the future. She better ensure it's always a runaway because that's the sort of FJ you should be able to reason out by a combination of geographical and historical knowledge. Yeah Emma's day 2 performance was not great
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Goober Peas posted:You should hear some of my bad guesses at home! I'm glad no one heard my bad guesses for last night's FJ.
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