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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

Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Monday, 31 October 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link

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!

Was wondering.

(We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link

i did very badly - only got two answers right and didn't money one of them because it was a lucky guess

na (NA), Monday, 7 November 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link

Good luck everyone!

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link

In the new season? Thanks!

Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link

There's a new pronouns section available!

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Tuesday, 8 November 2022 00:23 (one year ago) link

the user name of a certain ilxor helped me out a lot yesterday lol

comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 11 November 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link

lol same

mookieproof, Friday, 11 November 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link

argh, didn't even occur to me

Me neither! In fact in another context someone mentioned the below show recently which led to my wrong answer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOYhkbhHPPU

Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 November 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link

i also wrote larva, even as i knew it was wrong

The cardinal rule is to not leave it blank so writing a known wrong answer, while extremely painful, is still the done thing.

Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 November 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link

Y'all need to read more Lacan* if LJ is your way into imago!

* Actually on't read Lacan.

Rabbity Gainsborough (Leee), Friday, 11 November 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link

two weeks pass...

getting absolutely crushed this season

a bit of bad luck, but mostly just not knowing the answers

mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link

The original is still the greatest though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXCT6rxVEYI

The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link

Don't know what that picture is doing there though.

The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link

This one less visually distracting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCCvN8YDuc

The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link

The only way out is through!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1P9-BtHj60

The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link

a milk-bearing Uriah Heep!

The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link


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