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Condolences to his family but holy Jesus nobody should go out at 24. It’s also none of our business what happened, only the family and coroner’s office. Island Nation fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 12, 2021 |
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Feb 12, 2021 23:32
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T.C. posted:My problem with Ken Jennings so far is that he's clearly trying to do it in the same style as Trebek. He's got a personal connection and is going to have a hard time feeling okay to try something different, especially when this would be such a big deal for him.
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Feb 12, 2021 23:55
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Also, I wanted to comment on this yesterday, but holy hell, Jeopardy. "Let's do a category celebrating women in STEM and bringing awareness to the gender gap in that field!" *Asks five questions, makes one of them about women, and two of them about men* THIS poo poo IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT.
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Feb 13, 2021 00:33
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*monkey paw curls* "In today's Women In STEM category, the dollar values have been multiplied by 75%."
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Feb 13, 2021 01:03
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Breaking news: one of those women who read the women in stem clues becomes permanent host
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Feb 13, 2021 01:29
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Behild, an annoying champion!
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Feb 13, 2021 02:04
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He's just happy to be there, I like when contestants are excited
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Feb 13, 2021 04:22
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HookShot posted:Brayden Smith, the 25 year old who was a 5 day champ just before Alex passed, has died. Welp, I guess this is what I miss when I step back from Facebook and the Jeopardy contestant group for a while, and I’m definitely saddened by the news. Such a shame, especially with him being so young, he was a really good champ and I looked forward to seeing him in the ToC...
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GhostStalker posted:Welp, I guess this is what I miss when I step back from Facebook and the Jeopardy contestant group for a while, and I’m definitely saddened by the news. Such a shame, especially with him being so young, he was a really good champ and I looked forward to seeing him in the ToC... Same, he was one of my favourites.
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Apparently Karen from Monday’s episode is getting flack from her contestant interview about taking the subway and being scared about winding up in Jamaica, Queens (for those not in the know, Jamaica is the largest community of black people in the borough and lower income as a result, even though there’s a major transit hub and government stuff there), people think it’s a racial thing because she was a teenager from Kentucky? This was likely a couple decades ago when the neighborhood was a bit more sketch, but not that much more. Since she was named Karen already, a moniker was easily coined. I sideeyed her when she made that remark when I was watching, but I thought I might’ve misheard because I was coming back from the bathroom at the time, but my public radio station just mentioned it (alongside a segment on a special election to the city council in the area), and was wondering if anyone else was aware. The stuff I miss not being on Jeopardy social media circles and the like, though I guess it may be better for my mental health. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 17:35
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The fact people watch the interviews is wild.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:45
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I grew up on Long Island, so that story stood out to me. It didn't trigger my racism radar initially, though, because Jamaica station is just notoriously loving awful and confusing, and that's been a meme about the LIRR forever. It was like they cured cancer when the option to change in Babylon to get to Penn Station became an option. I've never changed in Babylon and not just been able to walk across the platform straight onto my second train, compared to Jamaica where at least half the time it's either not there yet or I have 17 seconds to make the change but the train is 5 platforms over and you need to solve a Zelda dungeon puzzle to find the right staircase to get to it. That's my probably-flawed memory of that station, anyway. I'm sure there's a fair amount of racism baked into that station's reputation, but that was going over my head as a kid, I just knew as a teenager finally heading into the city on my own I did not want to need someone to come fetch me stranded in Queens and lose that privilege. How the gently caress you "accidentally' end up in Jamaica from Manhattan is a mystery, though. I haven't lived there in years and only go back really infrequently, but I don't think that's something you can do without failing at pretty simple navigation tasks at multiple steps.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:58
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Groovelord Neato posted:The fact people watch the interviews is wild. But you would miss important stories. One time a guy said he celebrated with millions of his friends. His sports team won the championship, and he considers everyone who is a fan of that team his friend. How can you possibly live without knowing that information?
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I grew up on Long Island, so that story stood out to me. It didn't trigger my racism radar initially, though, because Jamaica station is just notoriously loving awful and confusing, and that's been a meme about the LIRR forever. She was apparently taking the subway and not the LIRR, so she probably stayed on for a couple stops too long? Or took the train in the wrong direction, but I have no idea how you wouldn’t notice that after a stop or two. Also, I have no idea why she couldn’t apparently take the train back, even if it was a station with two side platforms and not a center one as all that entailed would be going up some stairs, crossing over, and then going back down. Then again, I haven’t been to many of the subway stations in Jamaica for a while now (and yeah, the Jamaica LIRR station is pretty confusing; I haven’t really been there since I moved out of Queens a decade ago). Was she at Sutphin-Archer? Or Jamaica Center? No idea, apparently media has been reaching out for some clarification but I would probably disconnect from social media for a while until this blows over... But yeah, the racism angle is that it was Jamaica the neighborhood that scared her but she felt safe enough riding the subway to other parts of the city alone, and as I mentioned before, even in the area near the LIRR station, it’s a lower income neighborhood almost entirely populated by black people. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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That's the confusing part....it's been years, but if I recall there was only one subway line that went to Jamaica and it was only connected there during rush hours. Maybe it's changed and my mental map is out of date, but it would be really difficult, if I'm correct, to end up there by just staying on a few stops too long. But it's the end of the line for sure, so yeah....the solution is you run up and down some stairs to go back the other way.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:50
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Is the NYC subway way easier to navigate than most? Because I've seen a shitload of lost tourists on the Paris RER even (which has literally five lines named A, B, C, D and E) and you just kind of wonder how the gently caress they managed to screw it up so badly, but people who don't live in cities with subways are apparently naturally very bad at it.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:57
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HookShot posted:Is the NYC subway way easier to navigate than most? Because I've seen a shitload of lost tourists on the Paris RER even (which has literally five lines named A, B, C, D and E) and you just kind of wonder how the gently caress they managed to screw it up so badly, but people who don't live in cities with subways are apparently naturally very bad at it. NYC subway is pretty easy even as a tourist. Even If you literally do not prepare at all, it takes about an hour and you get the hang of it.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:02
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Not from New York and I don't believe in bodegas but that story definitely got a raise eyebrow from me. Good to know I'm not alone in that
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Feb 17, 2021 19:10
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Same. She tried to save it by saying it was back when we didn't all have maps on our phones, but...just get back on the train in the other direction?
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BaronVonVaderham posted:That's the confusing part....it's been years, but if I recall there was only one subway line that went to Jamaica and it was only connected there during rush hours. Maybe it's changed and my mental map is out of date, but it would be really difficult, if I'm correct, to end up there by just staying on a few stops too long. But it's the end of the line for sure, so yeah....the solution is you run up and down some stairs to go back the other way. The E line and the J/Z lines run to Jamaica Center (and if she was here decades ago as a 15 year old, she’d probably never take the latter, since they run through neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn that have only gentrified over the past decade or so) and the stops before it, as does the F, if you’re defining Jamaica the neighborhood and not just the LIRR station. Both the E and the F run through stretches of central Queens that aren’t bad tourist/eating/general walking locations like Woodside/the area around the Roosevelt Ave hub, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens and the like (also the Queens Center Mall on a transfer to local trains). Duckman2008 posted:NYC subway is pretty easy even as a tourist. Even If you literally do not prepare at all, it takes about an hour and you get the hang of it. I’d agree, but that’s due to me growing up here. I see tourists confused all the time, and that’s even with Google Maps or new electronic signage helping them out. Again, I have no idea when she was doing this summer program, but pre-smartphone era, I can imagine it being a lot easier to get lost, especially if this was during the period when the subways were more dangerous and nobody was there to help a tourist out with directions. But seeing as how she was a 15 year old riding the subways alone, I can only imagine that this wasn’t the period when crime was apparently rampant on the trains like some commentators are trying to say have come back again...
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HookShot posted:Is the NYC subway way easier to navigate than most? Because I've seen a shitload of lost tourists on the Paris RER even (which has literally five lines named A, B, C, D and E) and you just kind of wonder how the gently caress they managed to screw it up so badly, but people who don't live in cities with subways are apparently naturally very bad at it. It's not the easiest, there are A-F and maybe 1-5 or 6? But if you're a tourist, only like 3 lines matter to you. But even then, there are charts and maps EVERYWHERE, even inside the train so you can figure that out en route. It's really not hard to read them and figure out where you need to go. It's like people who say they're bad at math and then don't put in any effort and inevitably fail. People go in thinking it's complicated and set up this self-fulfilling prophecy of getting lost. That said, I grew up outside the city and was going in on the weekends all the time, so I fully acknowledge I'm definitely biased in my assessment.
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GhostStalker posted:The E line and the J/Z lines run to Jamaica Center (and if she was here decades ago as a 15 year old, she’d probably never take the latter, since they run through neighborhoods in northern Brooklyn that have only gentrified over the past decade or so) and the stops before it, as does the F, if you’re defining Jamaica the neighborhood and not just the LIRR station. Ok I thought it was just the more obscure lines like the J that you have no business being on unless you WANT to go out there. The E is definitely one of the big ones I could see using and then ending up out on the island (I thought it only went to Brooklyn, but again my mental map is easily 15+ years out of date, we didn't use the subway last time we were in town exactly a year ago today actually). More understandable now, but still really stupid.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:It's not the easiest, there are A-F and maybe 1-5 or 6? But if you're a tourist, only like 3 lines matter to you. But even then, there are charts and maps EVERYWHERE, even inside the train so you can figure that out en route. It's really not hard to read them and figure out where you need to go. There are currently 1-7 trains and there used to be a 9 before it was discontinued a little after 9/11, the letter lines go from A-G, then J, L, M-N, Q-R, a couple of S shuttle trains, then the W and the Z. There also used to be a V train but was also discontinued about a decade ago and it’s route consolidated into a rerouted M. Again, depending on the era, there could’ve been even more. Most are grouped by route/local or express and have the same color scheme, which is why I grouped the J/Z together above (which also happens to be Jay-Z’s namesake) like that. We sometimes refer to the lines by their specific colors, so the A/C/E are collectively the Blue lines because their logos are blue, where the A is Express, the C local, and the E local in Manhattan/Express in Queens when it runs to a different part than the rest of the line. Legacy of having multiple subway lines that used to be independently operated before they were consolidated. But yeah, it’s not that hard to learn (again, speaking as a New Yorker, tourists might have it harder). But again, even without Google Maps, there are maps posted everywhere in stations and in the subway cars themselves. The blue lines got electronic signage a couple years before the smartphone era too, with automated stop and direction announcements every station.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The fact people watch the interviews is wild. How else will you know that someone had kids that were born on or close to nationally recognized holidays?
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HookShot posted:Is the NYC subway way easier to navigate than most? Because I've seen a shitload of lost tourists on the Paris RER even (which has literally five lines named A, B, C, D and E) and you just kind of wonder how the gently caress they managed to screw it up so badly, but people who don't live in cities with subways are apparently naturally very bad at it.
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loving  at Phil thinking that Milwaukee was somehow on the Mississippi. It flows from Minnesota, you dumbass.
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The interviews are the most inane waste of time on the show. And I sit through that last geico ad to not miss the first few seconds before reading the final clue. If anything good happens in them, I know it’ll get posted somewhere.
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I was honestly surprised when there was a poll done in one of the J! groups at the part people were most concerned about when going on the show and the overwhelming answer was the interview. I don't think I gave mine a shred of thought since I always fast forward through them and assume everyone else does, too. And yeah that one with the guy wearing his horse hoof hands was funny, and it got posted on the Facebook page.
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Zesty posted:The interviews are the most inane waste of time on the show. And I sit through that last geico ad to not miss the first few seconds before reading the final clue. Apart from the ones that go viral I haven't seen one since the invention of TiVo. HookShot posted:I was honestly surprised when there was a poll done in one of the J! groups at the part people were most concerned about when going on the show and the overwhelming answer was the interview. I don't think I gave mine a shred of thought since I always fast forward through them and assume everyone else does, too. When I was younger and first got into taking the test I was also concerned about that bit. At the time I'd read they have you come up with five stories and the producers or Alex (can't remember which) chose which one he'd bring up during that portion but I don't have one interesting story about my life let alone five. Groovelord Neato fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:When I was younger and first got into taking the test I was also concerned about that bit. At the time I'd read they have you come up with five stories and the producers or Alex (can't remember which) chose which one he'd bring up during that portion but I don't have one interesting story about my life let alone five. For me, they had a choice of three from the 5 stories supplied (and other prompts from the questionnaire) on the contestant info card given to Alex, and they went over all three during the Green room paperwork and asked which was my preference, but stressed that it was Alex’s choice which of the ones to ask about.
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Loudly booed the following moments from tonight's episode: -Not a single contestant knowing Sublime -The contestant who thought Madonna sang The Boy Is Mine -"Skeleton" in Final
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zakharov posted:-"Skeleton" in Final Is "skeleton" not a skill you possess?
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It also wasn't an Olympic sport until 2002. Which I mean, I know the question didn't say Olympics, but presumably they're not going to include a sport that was for all intents and purposes not a real thing internationally in 1990. And I say that as someone whose contestant interview was about how I do skeleton LOL
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Groovelord Neato posted:When I was younger and first got into taking the test I was also concerned about that bit. At the time I'd read they have you come up with five stories and the producers or Alex (can't remember which) chose which one he'd bring up during that portion but I don't have one interesting story about my life let alone five. When I did a Jeopardy tryout at a hotel banquet room ~15 years ago (pre-online testing), they had you write down your five interview tidbits.
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packetmantis posted:A naturopath. Not a good sign when “pseudoscience” is in the first line on its Wikipedia page.
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