anyone have any very best wrong answers they wanna rep for? i can't even get thru them, so many of them wouldnt even be worthy of a temporary dn change on ilx which to me is the bar u have to pass for a VBWA
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
i was serious about "IM Cute" which in retrospect was more clever than "Tweet Cute" imo
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 March 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
Someone on the boards posted Meet ICQute, which is a great deep cut.
― Eleanor of Accutane (Leee), Friday, 26 March 2021 20:44 (three years ago) link
ninth-highest TCA, second-lowest CAA. so i finished second
the person whose stats i posted above won the rundle for the fourth time in the last seven seasons and got *eleven* more correct answers than i did. utter savage
― mookieproof, Saturday, 27 March 2021 09:32 (three years ago) link
5th, third highest TCA
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 March 2021 15:43 (three years ago) link
4th, finishing with a 9(5), which is always kinda fun. Highest TCA; 109 would even be top-half in the A rundle it seems.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 27 March 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
8th worst TCA, third best CAA, and second best defensive efficiency are why I ended up and overall.
Btw, the Rivers, Lakes, etc. is another deck I recommend. I almost got the Irrawaddy question right because of it (I went with Salween).
― Eleanor of Accutane (Leee), Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link
What's up with the fingerprint?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 April 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
With 18 categories, the total number of combinations is over 6 quadrillion possible orderings, so the theory is that with some tens of thousands of players, each one has a unique order of categories (ranked best to last or whatever).
― Ovid-19 (Leee), Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
? i'm missing the context.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 April 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
From the thread that kicked things off:
It occurred to me that, with 18 LL categories, the number of ways to order the categories far, far exceeds the number of active LL players (or humans in general). In principle, then, everyone might be expected to have a unique category ordering by Q% and that be a "fingerprint" of sorts.
Then Thorsten in a fit of procrastination decided to add it to the site, and now it's a thing.
― Ovid-19 (Leee), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
yikes, okay.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
It's hard for me to imagine that *no one* else shares my fingerprint (6BGE147FA8D9I2H53C, if you must know), given that there are some correlations between strength in some categories and weakness in others. But maybe!
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 April 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
Wait, Thorsten’s fingerprints only use letters.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 April 2021 23:47 (three years ago) link
Just submitted the draft questions for my 1DS. Feel kind of weird.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
Looking forward to the 1DS this week that one of you smithed.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
And just got my first feedback from a tester. Good stuff.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2021 23:26 (three years ago) link
Thanks James! We're still polishing it a bit, so we're cutting it close.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Monday, 12 April 2021 14:41 (three years ago) link
Think I just read on the magic spreadsheet that one has to turn it in two days before it goes live.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 April 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
Yep! And just submitted, so it's all ready to go.
Is yours "Dude, Where's My Car?"
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Monday, 12 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Ha, no. Did you use the Bulk Uploader?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 April 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
I did (definitely beats copy-pasting a dozen times). It can however be a little wonky, but trying again seems to iron out the wrinkles.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Monday, 12 April 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link
Mine is not live until May.Yeah, there are some subtleties to the Bulk Upload, but overall seems to work pretty well.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 April 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
By the way, may I ask how many people ended up giving you feedback?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 April 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
12/12 for the second one; the first one I think was 11/12.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Monday, 12 April 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
Thanks. How long did it take from them all to come in after you submitted?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
For the second one, we got about half of them within the last few days before the testing deadline (though a whole bunch right after I submitted the drafts). They definitely came in in waves.
I'm not as sure about the first one because forks took the lead there (and only one smith gets notified as the feedback comes in).
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
Dribbled in till a few day before iirc
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:01 (three years ago) link
Thanks. Did you actually get an email when someone submitted?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:37 (three years ago) link
Yep
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
I have created a couple of Alpaca Farm quizzes, which I had fun with, but maybe I should try to do an official 1DS at some point. It's always just seemed like a long and complicated process.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
Maybe, but there’s just something about seeing something you wrote come out in that format.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
My 1DS comes out May 3. I have 11/12 feedback right now (the 12th still has a couple weeks and I personally almost always submit my feedback on the last day so I can't really complain).
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
Smithing 1DS's is definitely a time consuming and pretty thankless process but it's one of my favorite things about LL. Not something I would do if I didn't find writing and tinkering with questions fun though.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Same here, even though this is my first one. Yours looks interesting, mine comes out two days later.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:57 (three years ago) link
Anyway, who else is signed up for the American Revolution ML?
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Me. I think I'm going to do all four MLs during this off-season, which may be a first for me.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
Considered that, but not really feeling 21st Century Literature.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
That's probably the one I'm most excited about. (LGBT 2 should be good, too, but not as novel since I did LGBT 1.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
today's "instructions" is INSANE
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
My brane hurt! Some people have too much time on their hands!
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
I ain't reading all that
― jaymc, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
It’s like the worst excesses of the NPL Enigma puzzles
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
xp yeah i accidentally wasted like well over an hour on that and im pretty mad at myself for it
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
like that's time i dont have doing a thing i dont particularly like and am not particularly good at lmao
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
I remember doing the Pen and Paper Math one weekend and spending a lot of time and getting maybe 9/12, maybe one stupid error and two others that were quite hard computations then seeing how many people got 12/12 and wondering how much time they had spent or how in practice they were.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:42 (three years ago) link
Famous crossword solver was one of the top three among many.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
...and the same thing just happened to me on Optimizations. Got nine right and was ranked in the 600s.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 19:39 (three years ago) link
I got 8, which is pretty good for me, especially on a 1DS that I didn't expect to participating in.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
And interesting that all of the questions except two in Optimizations were worth < 50 points.
― Tahini Coates (Leee), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 21:23 (three years ago) link