Not to pile on but I agree with the above on this minileague, plus there has been at least one question that did not have even a tenuous attempted connection to pop culture: "In 2017, former US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared an epidemic of WHAT PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE that is associated with depression and suicide?"
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 21 October 2022 12:18 (two years ago) link
i'm not doing that ML but i haven't been enjoying the Children's and Young Adult Bookshelf ML. it has way too many YKIOYD questions imo. these minileagues give me a lot more appreciation for the question construction skills in the standard LL competition.
― na (NA), Friday, 21 October 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
OTM. There are guidelines and rules of question construction. On a 1DS maybe you have a little more leeway since people can opt out, but if an ML is poorly constructed it can be maddening.
― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link
Hey, somebody we know won Pop Culture Physics!
― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
Well along with a few dozen others.
― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
lol 25-way tie for first, congrats!
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Friday, 21 October 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
Hey, a 25 way tie for first still counts as a first. I'll take it.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Saturday, 22 October 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
Sure! Also, just looked at your overall 1DS stats. Pretty impressive.
― We Have Never Been In Precise Modern Lovers Order (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 22 October 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
Something weird with some MLs today.
― 2-4-6-8 Motor Away (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
yeah, site's down sorta
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
Site seems like it's fine now.
The Lost in Translation ODS is a trip.
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
Enjoyed seeing a question in the Canadian Content ML about the Polaris Music Prize, which has been won by ILXors 12% of the time.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 October 2022 03:35 (two years ago) link
Three CA, enough to get me to the 59th percentile, hah!
― Fartleby the Scrivener (Leee), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
Got four, messed up one money, 71st percentile. As you may know, I have a beginner’s understanding of a lot of the languages and could at the very least identify most of them but I still couldn’t quite make out what the questions were getting at.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 October 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
And oh hey, I am still in first place in my World Cinema ML group, will see how long that lasts.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:16 (two years ago) link
I was cranky about the Medicine in Pop Culture ML, but I am definitely enjoying the World Cinema and Canadian Content MLs.
― jaymc, Friday, 28 October 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link
I am doing poorly in Canadian Content but still enjoying it mostly.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
My 1DS was accepted! Check back in a year!
― Bysshe Better Have My Money (Leee), Friday, 28 October 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
Ha, I got one too. Around the same time as yours, I guess.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:02 (two years ago) link
I don't know if I am in a good mood or something, but next year's slate looks grebt to me right now
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:05 (two years ago) link
Wish Player Tracker showed me peoples upcoming Smithings. Right now I am just poking around the page. Saw Greg's ML in there for example.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:25 (two years ago) link
I guess one doesn't have to submit the names of the co-smiths etc right away.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
i am also first place in my world cinema ML but today i'm playing against someone with a lifetime .916 correct answer rate so i expect to be in second tomorrow
― na (NA), Friday, 28 October 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
I am annoyed that I couldn’t quite come up with MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA and so just typed CAMERAMAN which was rejected, costing me the match. Still in 1st for the nonce, but would have liked that extra lead.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 13:22 (two years ago) link
Just submitted on Verdi and Inventors. Trying to train myself to take a look a little before noon at the 1DSs.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
And now Dickens.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
Surprised at under 50% get rate on World Cinema MD 7 Q1 but especially at very low get rate for Q3. Maybe it was a spelling thing?
― Regex Dwight (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:24 (two years ago) link
In some other place the phrase “low get rate” is frowned upon.
― Regex Dwight (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link
Q3 was the only one I missed. I recognize the title, but I've never seen it, and there wasn't enough in the question to point me to that title. Based on the reference to Renoir, I thought he might have directed it, but I couldn't think or any titles that made sense. (I guessed Grand Illusion, anyway.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 29 October 2022 13:36 (two years ago) link
somehow hanging onto first by my fingernails in my Cancon ML. i'm against a bunch of A-rundlers, one of whom has an 83.4% career get rate (!), but I have one advantage on them: I'm in Canada
i hope i can squeak out some more wins and put these clearly very smart people to shame
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
Forgot to submit on Before and After Rock today:(
― Regex Dwight (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:28 (two years ago) link
Pop Music. Greg did pretty well.
― Regex Dwight (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
wow missing two questions on that was enough to knock me down to 63rd percentile
― na (NA), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
oh but one of the ones i missed was a money question, oops
― na (NA), Monday, 31 October 2022 19:36 (two years ago) link
i missed a money question too, had to look up what i did wrong... phone autocorrected itsy to it's (spoiler tagging in case someone is reading the questions later). pretty annoying
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
worst part is i fixed it once and didn't notice it was messed up the second time
DIdn't get all of them but one 1DS today is on the quite easy side and therefore difficult to money.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Yesterday I somehow beat someone who, I presume, is a Canadian in the CanCon ML.
― Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
Wow
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
yesterday definitely feels like one of those days you could beat a canadian (french music question is gonna throw a lot of anglos, baseball isn't big for many cdns, the comic/movie/tv questions were in american pop culture enough iirc? i mean an oscar + ran in everyone's papers for 30 years + snl).
there have definitely been some match days where i was like "you would have to really specifically be into canadian stuff to get these, eh?" like a (relatively) deep cut Hip song, roch carrier, is terry fox known in the us?, anything we learned from seeing the same heritage minutes 100 times in our youth, etc
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
I beat a Canadian, too! Each of us got the three easiest questions right (Q1, Q3, Q6), but he whiffed on Triplets of Belleville, which I knew.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
(Less than) One hour before 1DS submission bump.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Argh. Unforced error robbed me of my 2nd place behind all the tied for first finishers, I think.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
Feel better now that I see a certain RS writer (at the mag, but not the initials, his friend) got all twelve and only finished two places ahead of me.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
23rd in cancon!! my highest ml finish ever (and only my third finals)
definitely helped by the amount of cancon trivia i have written for my own quiz over the years, and definitely helped by living in the french zone of canada, which at least gave me a chance on those questions (scored nearly 100 points on a money i thought was fairly easy considering how much my friends who have grown up here have talked about it in the past)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
Wow, congrats! I am in the World Cinema final, highly doubt I will do that well.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
world cinema final was tooooooough
― na (NA), Friday, 4 November 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
OTM
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 November 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Greg did pretty well.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:06 (one year ago) link
i made the world cinema final but didn't notice until today!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link