Learned League

I didn't look at the final yet. I finished 4th or something, can't remember. And I am in School of Rock no further comment. Oh yeah, I am helping smith a music mini-league which is due in October. I think my name is on the page over there so jaymc could have figured it out anyway.

I finished 1st in my group for Book Club but also didn't do very well in the championship. In a few cases I recognized the author/book but couldn't get to what the question was actually asking. Like, I knew Chuck Barris but not Gong Show, Phyllis Wheatley but not YWCA, and Fun Home but not "Ring of Keys."

Oh yeah, I am helping smith a music mini-league which is due in October. I think my name is on the page over there so jaymc could have figured it out anyway.

Is it '60s Music? It doesn't look like there's a dedicated page for that ML yet.

Yes, that’s it. If you click through to contributors I am there along with Tony Hightower and others. Do you know him?

extreme lol at the mountain goats controversy from school of rock day 1

Is it in the Message Board over there? Looked for a second and didn't find.

Oh, wait, never mind.

HAHA meanwhile, John Darnielle has no idea about the unexpected fruit of his songwriting labor. Somewhere in a private corner of the internet, big fuckin nerds are arguing about a trivia question that *references* a song he wrote 25 years ago.

Yes, that’s it. If you click through to contributors I am there along with Tony Hightower and others. Do you know him?

― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, July 24, 2020 10:52 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oh, I see it now. Tony's flag looks familiar, so perhaps I've seen him on the LL message board, but I don't otherwise know him.

my school of rock opponent today went 0-for-6 on friday; now gearing up to be 96ed

i have an obvious comment about today's school of rock questions

We will see you tomorrow about that

TFW you confidently submit your answers and then see that half of them are wrong.

So many times I’ve replaced my first, correct guess with my second, wrong guess

hee hee hee on the AP question, ILX ftw

You know what that is called in LL jargon, don't you, siby?

I've forgotten, all the jargon is too contrived :)

my school of rock opponent today went 0-for-6 on friday

he is now 0-for-18 and i'm wondering if it's some sort of art project

Hey forks/ulysses, have you ever smithed a 1DS? I have an idea for one if other potential collabs fall through, and we share a certain interest in a particular subject.

i'd love to!

Sweet! I just saw that it's been done before, but I've PMed the smith for that to see if they're interested in a sequel.

OK I just heard back from the OG smith who said that a sequel is fine, can I ilxmail you to work out the details?

I've never smithed an official Learned League 1DS or ML, but I've posted a couple of quizzes on the Alpaca Farm.

Leee, please do; want to hear what your topic is to see if i can contribute.
if it's alt-comics or cemeteries, I'm good to go.

Leee, send me your email address so i can respond!

Sent!

Will reply shortly!

i've written a couple 1DSes ("pirates" and "vaporware" iirc), happy to help if you have any questions about the process

I've played over 1,000 LL matches, including Mini Leagues, and I'm pretty sure that yesterday was the first time I've lost 0(0)-9(6). It was in the Spain ML, and my opponent not only has a .775 lifetime QPct, he also lives in Madrid.

Forgot to sign up for that one but can imagine

lol that is brutal

led my school of rock minileague in TCA, allowed exactly one UfPA in 11 matches for a .962 DE . . . and finished third. it's all in the CAA

heh, i also got third. didn't play as good as you!

Did okay not super on PKD 1DS but Top Ten finish on Oulipo, woo-hoo!

Looks like Leee and n/a are in the same rundle for this upcoming season, along with another one of my referrals (my brother's friend SiegelbaumS).

MD18 showdown!

Is there a branch named after you now, jaymc?

Oh no. still named after our friend.

No, those are my only three active referrals, and it doesn't look like they've referred anybody. So I have merely a twig.

BUH, forgot to scrutinize all of my opponent's category %s today.

Two match days, no unforced points given, hell yeah

It's kind of a bitter taste when you get the exact same answers right as your opponent and still lose.

My first experience out of the rookie league has been pretty rude: 0-3, MPD of -3. Looking at the rest of my division, I see that other people who have the same TCA (or worse!) as me are above me in the standings, so I'm trying not to get too down on myself as far as the knowledge side of things go (I definitely could improve on my defense, though at 0.636, even THAT's not the worst). So, mostly bad luck to kick things off.

i think i need to square myself with being a 3 out of 6 average guy and not expecting much more.

i honoured the fire last week but not so much today

this would all be a lot easier if i just gave into the little voice that says
juuuuuuuuust goooooogle iiiiiiiiiit

okay things are not looking great for the young Unctious on these first few match days, I am definitely the heaviest leaf on the silby branch

Does anybody else feel this season has been really hard so far

I have been doing poorly (0-4, baby!), but I've also whiffed a few questions that I should have gotten right had I just spent a little more time with them. (My longtime conflation of Jhumpa Lahiri and Arundhati Roy did me no favors on MD1.)

The other one I'm mad at myself about was the Yasmina Reza question, because I saw "one-word title" and just wrote "Art" and didn't read the rest, which was stupid.

i always do better at this when i write in the answers, hide the tab and then come back a few hours later to re-check.