http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2014/03/jeopardy-arthur-chu-social-media-brand.html
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
But IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectfulBut IMO, leaning on podium+not saying "hundred" isn't Game Theory. Just disrespectful
― death and darkness and other night kinda shit (crüt), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
He analyzes his strategies or offers truisms that can sound like Zen koans: “Jeopardy isn’t really a good demonstration of anything but how good you are at playing Jeopardy.”
zen koans, new yorker? really?
― j., Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
Guy born in Albany, New York surely knows a thing or two about Zen Buddhism
Tbh that sounds like something iatee would say
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:25 (ten years ago) link
it sounds more like something college quizbowl players say, because they do say it, about playing quizbowl.
of course everyone knows the best teams are wicked smaht but it's still what is said.
― j., Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:30 (ten years ago) link
Yeah - people also say the same thing about standardized testing
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
that Frances "McDarmand" thing was a bit nitpicky
still, pretty intense comeback today - he did terribly in the first round, then more or less ran the board and destroyed everyone in Double Jeopardy. looked a little rattled by the end, as he didn't bet to tie, but safely way above
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 01:55 (ten years ago) link
I dunno; I think because it's difficult to talk about(or measure) intelligence, we just go by proxy. For example, having taking some training in test prep, I can fairly assure anybody that standardized testing has jackshit to do with measuring ability or intelligence and entirely everything to do with how you take standardized test.
Nicholas Lemann wrote a book about it, called _The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy_, that I really need to read.
Also, mistaking trivia for knowledge or intelligence, for that matter.
― President Frankenstein (kingfish), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:05 (ten years ago) link
arthur chu is my new hero tbhi am doing dances in the house when he nails the daily doubleseriously seriously want this guy to win forever
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I agree with that - I meant that "the only thing that doing well on a standardized test measures is how well you do on standardized tests" is a pretty common thing to hear about standardized tests xp
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
have to say the guy's twitter is not the most interesting
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:00 (ten years ago) link
WHO IS SAM. WATER-STON.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
the little tiff between him and alex today was delectable
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Really?
https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/443569238372913152https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/443569344438476800
He's the best.
― Murgatroid, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:07 (ten years ago) link
Totally. I got the sense that Alex felt the need to re-assert his authority over the proceedings. "This is still my show, motherfucker."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:15 (ten years ago) link
The McDormand thing didn't bother me; Chu definitely said "McDarmand." But not allowing "Gerry" with a soft "g," that was total bullshit; if someone had only seen the name in print, how would they know otherwise?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
They let that one contestant say "Ham" instead of "Haim" and gave her the points, this is bullshit
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
TBF she said "Hay-m"
Isn't Trebek supposed to defer to the judges on these things anyway? Why the fuck is he being all "Well, that's not what I heard you say"?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:25 (ten years ago) link
cos he's a punk
― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
Andrew Rose Gregory @arosegregory 49m
@arthur_affect so how long did it take judges to rule on mcdormond/mcdormand? Now that months have passed, do you agree with their ruling?
Arthur Chu @arthur_affect 34m
@arosegregory It took like ten nerve racking minutes. Now that months have passed, I still want the ten grand
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
OK, good to know. I thought Trebek was going rogue.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
ChuTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/ArthurChuJeopardy
― del griffith, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 04:16 (ten years ago) link
i was hella tickled when he straight up gave the wrong answer on the macbeth clue but cloaked it in such a way that it seemed as if alex really was gonna look like a massive dick if he wouldn't accept "what is 'the scottish play'/'macbeth'; it's bad luck to say it"
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 04:32 (ten years ago) link
But not allowing "Gerry" with a soft "g," that was total bullshit
they did allow it! alex got snarky about it but gave him the points.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
Chu never does well on the music questions.
he -- and both challengers -- completely whiffed on the album covers category today. i hope there's an album covers category and lots of j.d. souther questions when and if i ever get on jeopardy.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
looked a little rattled by the end, as he didn't bet to tie, but safely way above
i don't think he ever bets to tie when he's got the game locked, does he? iirc, he only bets to tie when the game is still on the line.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
album covers were the only ones i knew today ha
― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 05:12 (ten years ago) link
xp not sure, but then i didn't see games where he was this far ahead of the second place contestant
yeah i was like omg c'mon that's Wish You Were Here mannnnnnnn
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
Ah, ok, I missed that. I was too wrapped up in their little spat.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 10:59 (ten years ago) link
The other day I was in Milwaukee eating breakfast at a place with an early edition of Trivial Pursuit questions on the table. I had my daughter quiz me, and man, by shifting the time frame 30 years or so what might have once been challenging trivia had turned into utterly impossible esoteric shit totally devoid of any contemporary cultural or practical relevance. Made me wonder what a hilarious clusterfuck it would be to host a "1984 Trivial Pursuit" night, with all the questions being about flying cowboys, outmoded facts and random athletes who were past their prime in the '80s.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:01 (ten years ago) link
there's any number of pointless things I know about that era solely because of trivial pursuit
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
But see, the 1984 edition isn't about 1984. It's just random trivia that was maybe relevant back in 1984, or maybe semi-obscure in 1984, but has since fallen deep, deep, deep into the dustbin. There's not anyone in 2014 who would get questions about Kirby Grant, star of Sky King, the Flying Cowboy, a forgotten radio show from the '40s.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
The entertainment questions from early 80's Trivial Pursuit games are insanely hard for people under 40 or so. My dad cleans up on them.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
my mom's childhood crush was sky kinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ut6QMIjpw
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Trust me, ALL the questions from that edition would be hard for someone under 60, at least. I mean, I'm 39, which is pretty close to 40, and most of the questions were totally bonkers obscure. There's a reason they update the sets.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:53 (ten years ago) link
Oh, I remember bein'Bucktoothed and skinnyWritin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Good match so far today.
― Corporal Clegg, you've got a lovely daughter (WilliamC), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.willswift.com/images/king_george_vi.jpg
― balls, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Smtj8Id.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
:(
― Mordy , Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:36 (ten years ago) link
sadness
― Nhex, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
WHAT
how can this be
― j., Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
this is not the world we were promised
PEPT- WHAT??? AND YOU STEAL MCDORMAND FROM CHU
― dylannn, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
damn. he missed a lot of questions today, and his opponents used his strategy against him. RIP big man
― k3vin k., Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
o man did they really? i just caught final jeopardy and girl was giddy as fuck she won
― balls, Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
http://media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/274/207/1207274.gif
― j., Thursday, 13 March 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
V v sad day no lie
― Spottie, Thursday, 13 March 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
That girl was so psyched I thought she was gonna wet herself but tbh I probably would if I won. Arthur grew on me. I'm sad to see him go.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Thursday, 13 March 2014 01:11 (ten years ago) link