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Soothing Vapors posted:ban brad from tournaments pls He’s already won so many, what’s one more? Continuing his unbroken win streak against humans again, I guess. Congrats to him and his team. Zero One posted:They should have done a 3 day finals where everyone had to play each round at least once. Final was relatively easy for me, though I didn’t figure out the Jeopardy season connection until Alex mentioned it. I needed a bit to remember it was the 21st Amendment that repealed the 18th for Prohibition, but once I got that, the answer was simple math lol. Should’ve come up with it immediately because of the 35th season thing, but that didn’t occur to me until after Alex mentioned the connection. Nice Les Mis reference by Colby, since his team was so far down it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Man, watching this tournament only reminded me of how dominant Larissa and Dave Madden could be, wow. I really slept on Brad picking the two of them for the flashier big names like Matt and Alex, and man, he proved me wrong there. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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The Sean posted:My partner and I randomly found Jeopardy on Hulu back in November and it reignited our interest in the show and we've been watching every new episode since. I used to watch as a kid and didn't get any of the answers, of course. It's really refreshing to be able to answer them now as an adult, though (outside of the tournament of champions, of course). Here’s my input: my wife got the call, and she can have some anxiety issues, so other than watching current and old jeopardy episodes, beer trivia, and doing some minor US presidents and state studies, she didn’t practice a lot from my vantage point. My vantage point is also that she had also been practicing for 10+ years, between jeopardy, trivia nights for years, and crosswords. So it’s something where “we’ll, at this point either you know it, or you won’t learn it in 3 weeks.” So we just took super chill, light practicing like I mentioned, and kept her loose. So when it came down to it, it’s just “hey go and have fun,” and I think that really helped. Edit: fun fact: my wife’s final jeopardy question was on the Cold War (history is a weaker look t for her, and the answer was the Berlin Air Raid, so she missed it). We went to a drat Cold War Museum the day before her taping, and they had nothing on it. So I blame them (the other guy knew it so she wouldn’t have won anyway). https://www.wendemuseum.org/ Duckman2008 fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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GhostStalker posted:Man, watching this tournament only reminded me of how dominant Larissa and Dave Madden could be, wow. I really slept on Brad picking the two of them for the flashier big names like Matt and Alex, and man, he proved me wrong there. Weren't they both gone by the time Brad got there? Brad had the 6/7 picks. I got final today but with the wrong math. Good thing the constitution is on my list of things to study!
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Duckman2008 posted:Edit: fun fact: my wife’s final jeopardy question was on the Cold War (history is a weaker look t for her, and the answer was the Berlin Air Raid, so she missed it). We went to a drat Cold War Museum the day before her taping, and they had nothing on it. So I blame them (the other guy knew it so she wouldn’t have won anyway). I think zero museums have anything on a Berlin air raid during the Cold War. Not surprising to miss a question on something that didn’t happen.
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Duckman2008 posted:Edit: fun fact: my wife’s final jeopardy question was on the Cold War (history is a weaker look t for her, and the answer was the Berlin Air Raid, so she missed it). We went to a drat Cold War Museum the day before her taping, and they had nothing on it. So I blame them (the other guy knew it so she wouldn’t have won anyway). Berlin Air Lift, I believe. Poque posted:Weren't they both gone by the time Brad got there? Brad had the 6/7 picks. Yeah, probably. Larissa and Madden falling to 6th or 7th was the real crime, IMO. Probably due to a lot of recentism on the part of the captains. A lot of the Jeopardy commentariat thought the same after Larissa’s first appearance this tournament.
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GOD DUCKMAN YOU CAN'T ACCIDENTALLY TYPE THE WRONG WORD IN THE JEOPARDY THREAD JESUS GET IT TOGETHER
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HookShot posted:GOD DUCKMAN YOU CAN'T ACCIDENTALLY TYPE THE WRONG WORD IN THE JEOPARDY THREAD JESUS GET IT TOGETHER Lmao. Likely why I wasn’t the one actually on jeopardy. Although, when you think about it, the Soviet Union probably considered it an air raid, so I may have accidentally been right.
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Duckman2008 posted:Lmao. Likely why I wasn’t the one actually on jeopardy. Although, when you think about it, the Soviet Union probably considered it an air raid, so I may have accidentally been right. *wonders hopefully if at some point Trump has accidentally referred to the Department of Ways and Means*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cInGyxCY9k Alex nooooo 
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gently caress Pancreatic's one of the worst ones, isn't it? And stage 4 too... Best of luck, Trebek.
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 Nooooo... all the speculation about who should host next was just a joke, we didn't mean it.
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maybe the tournament was a willy wonka situation, just in case.
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gently caress
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Poor Alex The man is a pillar of television, this is awful news.
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It seems quintessential that he cracks a great joke in this and doesn't seem down at all, but I'm barely holding it together right now at work, this loving sucks.
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Ugh, that's awful. Here's hoping for a miracle for him.
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I've used the old Final Jeopardy reveal sound as my text message notification for over 10 years, it's going to be emotional when I get messages for the next couple of days... gently caress cancer.
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Dammit. I'm glad he's optimistic but really, there's almost no chance.
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Yeah I just heard the news. Pancreatic is one of the worst of all the cancers. His chances aren't good.
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That is loving awful. Doesn't stage 4 mean by definition the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, too? HookShot fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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HookShot posted:That is loving awful. yes. gently caress cancer.
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HookShot posted:That is loving awful. Yeah. Pancreatic has one of the lowest survival rates to begin with, and the fact that it's stage 4..... yeah. He's staying strong, but I don't think I would be.
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Yeah, 78 is a good innings and all, but a diagnosis like that and I'd be all over the place patting all the dogs I could while I still had time.
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HookShot posted:Yeah, 78 is a good innings and all, but a diagnosis like that and I'd be all over the place patting all the dogs I could while I still had time. One could argue that's why he's still doing Jeopardy
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God loving dammit. Just awful news. Don't know what else to say.
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Also, that FJ question was too obvious FFS
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Iron Crowned posted:Also, that FJ question was too obvious FFS I wonder if the players thought it was too obvious and they overthought their answers. And in regard to the " 'My' Music" category, if they missed the Toni Braxton clue, there was like zero chance they would get the Weeknd.
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Iron Crowned posted:Also, that FJ question was too obvious FFS I went with backfire unfortunately. Also, man; I’m pretty big on the gently caress cancer bandwagon right now; my uncle died of pancreatic cancer a decade ago, my grandfather had lung cancer that spread to his brain a decade and a half ago, and just recently, my great aunt (who was the first on my father’s side to come to the US and then sponsored over the rest of the family) passed from brain cancer at the end of last year... So really, this is hitting me harder than I thought it would. I really want Alex to survive until his retirement as his contract ends in 3 years, but I know it’s not likely... The FB group is blowing up about this now, trying to figure out what we can do for him, like the video we sent a couple years back after his surgery for the hematoma. A lot of reminiscing too. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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GhostStalker posted:I went with backfire unfortunately. drat, sorry dude (I also went with backfire)
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My uncle has pancreatic cancer now but he's extremely lucky that he caught it early (being a doctor helps) and it's the type that doesn't kill you stone dead in weeks. I wish that Alex will recover like that if his immortality via Colbert was true but all I can think of is that he doesn't suffer when he gets his final clue.
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My wife got final, I did not. We both are to today’s announcement. Just loving sucks.
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gently caress cancer. This sucks
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This sucks. And I was just thinking this morning what Jeopardy would be like without Johnny Gilbert. Here's hoping he finds the best oncologist money can buy in Los Angeles.
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I hope this doesn't come across as flippant, but: I do find it truly inspiring that where most people see a foregone conclusion, Alex Trebek insists that his cancer must be in the form of a question.
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"This is the percentage to which stage four pancreatic cancer patients might imagine their survivability." Yeah no.
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I did it. I applied for the online test for the first time and the news comes out the next day. In all seriousness, "Alex's Bucket List" was a category very recently.  $200 A: "Both the remoteness--2,200 miles west of Chile--& the mysterious Moai statues put this island on my bucket list" Q: What is Easter Island? $400 A: "Having been to every continent except this one, the smallest, puts it on the list" Q: What is Australia? $600 - n/a $800 A: "I want to make a pilgrimage to the Potala Palace, once the main residence of the Dalai Lama, in this city 12,000 feet up" Q: What is Lhasa? $1000 A: "I've seen Niagara & Victoria, but need to head to the Brazil-Argentina border where these falls divided into 275 cataracts" Q: What is Iguazu Falls? The Sean fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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Cripes. I never realized that, erm, the $200 question was that far away from the coast.
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