Here to highly recommend You Probably Think This Song Is About You, which I playtested.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 06:46 (three years ago) link
There's a Cephalopod 1D too, which I'm sure a few players here would enjoy.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link
yeah, i played that and the silver age comic one today with better luck than usual
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:52 (three years ago) link
i got in the top 10% for the roger corman one-day
― na (NA), Monday, 12 July 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
I didn't do very well on the first two days of Mystery Themes, but have been on a roll since then.
I haven't been paying much attention to the recent One-Days, apart from Irish Rock and US Campaign Finance.
― jaymc, Monday, 12 July 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Ran into a certain crossword editor who lives down the block at the cheese shop yesterday and found out he was a LLama as well. Noticed he had a Prince tattoo on his arm and today saw that his LL flag was a picture of Prince!
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
I ran into him at the cheese shop, which is three blocks away and in which he does not live.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 July 2021 12:17 (three years ago) link
I would
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Live in a cheese shop? Are you a mouse, silby?
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 July 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
I would totally live in a cheese shop too.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:39 (three years ago) link
not a furry I just think it's probably cold in there and there's lots of cheese
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
90% on cephalopods but only 68% on silver age comics, who even am i
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 July 2021 07:01 (three years ago) link
Ha, that’s the way the LLAma fur, um breaks? Parts?
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:36 (three years ago) link
So there is a 1DS today about music, not about Biz Markie, no further comment.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 10:37 (three years ago) link
I'm actually in second place in Mystery Themes, which is, placement-wise, the best I've ever done. I need to at least tie in the last match to go to the championship, though.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
I was in 2nd for a long time but then dropped to 3rd in Opera, which spared me having to compete in the final.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 July 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
Heh, the results for Our Band Could Be Your Life were as expected.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 July 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
I see that I tied with our very own govern yourself accordingly. Looks like there were a lot of 12/12s on that own, so it came down to moneying even more than usual.
― jaymc, Monday, 19 July 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
It took me a second to remember who that was but yeah. Two other ILX0rs also went 12/12 but they didn’t do that much better than me at 11/12 because of moneying.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 19 July 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
yeah i got 12/12 and ended up at #175!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:24 (three years ago) link
Yes, I was referring to you and mookie, who also went 12/12 and placed just about equidistant from you and me.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
lol i made the finals of the mystery theme?! what the hell i thought i was getting my ass kicked.
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah, that's interesting.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
lol I choked on the last MD of Mystery Themes and fell to third place.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
Lots of us signed up for 1970s Film 2, but looks like only Leee and I are in The Microbial World, in which I am getting crushed.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 July 2021 02:27 (three years ago) link
Yeah I was a little burned out on LL so didn't sign up for either of those minileagues. I did do the LL championship the other day, which was fun but which I can't talk about for another month or so.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 22 July 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
Yiddish 1DS lots of fun.
― Action Bell (Leee), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
Excellent! Thanks for the tip, hadn’t noticed
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Enjoyed it even though I didn’t do particularly well. I guess you did a tiny bit better
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
Greg did quite a bit better
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
I felt like a real shmendrick for missing that last one.
― Action Bell (Leee), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
me too, what a shandeh
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
Just a bissel maybe.
I did pretty well in the Lit in Translation, even though I entered McWhorter's instead of McSweeney's.
― Action Bell (Leee), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
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― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 July 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
Had one of those days when I forgot to submit yesterday
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
I wonder if the reason the Guns ODS only had 477 participants is because guns.
― Action Bell (Leee), Friday, 30 July 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
Microbial World my favorite minileague in a while, very good range of difficulty, creative cluing, loved the highlighting of the work of woman scientists
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
I didn't even do that well!
i'm middle of the pack on my 70's film league. thought i was stronger with this knowledge but that's the nature of this game for sure.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
A lot of what I get out of an ML (and 1DS too) is the recap posts in which they talk about each question, but the Microbial smiths' decision to not do that turned that ML into a "Here's 5 to 6 questions that I have no idea about." I guess there's the self-education route but I think that having curated/selective info dumps are valuable to broadening my knowledge.
― Action Bell (Leee), Thursday, 5 August 2021 00:08 (three years ago) link
I got killed on that one and ended up forfeiting twice. Not on purpose but just because I would wait too long to submit and file asleep.On one of those days I also forgot to submit on 70s film too, but I am still doing pretty well in that.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 00:16 (three years ago) link
But yeah recaps are super important for ML momentum. I could really feel the energy associated it when I was writing them, even if only a dozen people if that would post in reply on a given day.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
Ugh, I will have to play the leader of my group tomorrow, which I am not looking forward to.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 01:41 (three years ago) link
Maybe I will get lucky but his stats are better than mine. Oh, but if I factor in the forfeit then...
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
I did get lucky: the other guy who was in second and third forfeited last night.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
So I had a brief exchange with one guy who writes a lot about The Beatles and has an MBV-based flag who is way ahead in his group. I asked him if it could be attributed to a certain film course at our alma mater and he said basically yeah, sure, maybe, but realy Easy Riders, Raging Bulls.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 15:51 (three years ago) link
Some other ILX0RS doing well but don’t want to jinx by singling them out.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 August 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
Okay, seems like you two did make it to the final.Lot of talk about diversity issues in this ML.
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 August 2021 14:24 (three years ago) link
Are you talking about the '70s Film ML? I haven't been paying much attention to the message board lately, since I've been busy with life stuff, but it does feel like there've been a lot of Qs about white dudes, including the whole day tributes to Nicholson and Scorsese.
― jaymc, Friday, 6 August 2021 20:14 (three years ago) link
Yes
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 August 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link