Just learned from the LL message board that CohenD2, who posted here as govern yourself accordingly, has passed away.I also found this remembrance by Neal Pollack:https://bookandfilmglobe.com/creators/remembrance/daniel-cohen-rip/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 00:27 (eleven months ago) link
Oh! RIP.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 00:42 (eleven months ago) link
I saw that on the OQL Facebook group, we had some brief interactions on this thread round about the time of the quizzing world cup. So sorry to hear this, seemed a very well loved presence in the quiz scene and a good friend to many.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 09:55 (eleven months ago) link
Just submitted the draft of my latest 1DS
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:49 (eleven months ago) link
I've clinched another 1st place finish, which leads me to believe that the Plateau league really is less competitive. Granted, I will likely also set a personal record for correct answers, but in the season when I set my current record, I finished 8th (in the Sakura league).
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:55 (eleven months ago) link
Kudos! Another friend of mine also finished first in A, can’t remember what league he is in. Okay, I see, Sierra.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 September 2023 14:59 (eleven months ago) link
i've clinched my second first-place finish! (in D rundle lol)
apparently i was weirdly difficult to defend or something this time around. so far only 1 CA above my record but ~20 points above any of my previous points records
― Ryan seaQuest (Will M.), Saturday, 30 September 2023 23:44 (eleven months ago) link
nice work!
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 September 2023 23:58 (eleven months ago) link
Well done, 1st-placers!
I'm comfortable in mid-table obscurity in A Meridian, but I was a bit confused about why I am so low as 16th, given that I am 13th in Total Correct Answers, 11th in fewest Correct Answers Against, and actually 2nd in Defense. Will M.'s post holds a hint to the explanation: Turns out that it has to do with "defense against", which doesn't appear to have its own stat heading: I am rock bottom at Match Points divided by Correct Answers, i.e. I am apparently really easy to defend against!
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 1 October 2023 22:30 (eleven months ago) link
just learned that i'm one off the lead for the maso in my phylum
my utter nemesis, however, is one up and there's no way this works out for me
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 October 2023 22:36 (eleven months ago) link
Now in that pre-party tidy empty house limbo before a single guest arrives of having submitted my draft and waiting for the first feedback to flow in.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 October 2023 00:46 (ten months ago) link
Heh, just submitted feedback to my own 1DS. It did send me an email, but the feedback didn’t actually show up, either on the site or the email, which is for the best, I guess.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 October 2023 01:23 (ten months ago) link
Turns out that it has to do with "defense against", which doesn't appear to have its own stat heading
There is actually a stat like this if you click on Expanded Standings - Offensive Efficiency
― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 2 October 2023 01:30 (ten months ago) link
Oh! So there is! Yup, there I am at the very bottom. Thanks!
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 2 October 2023 07:58 (ten months ago) link
Doing some 1DS playtesting now. Starting to think of better ways to approach this than I have in the past, will report back later.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 October 2023 01:34 (ten months ago) link
Feel like I am getting better at the giving of feedback for these things. I recommend everyone try it out at least, especially if you are writing your own 1DS’s.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 October 2023 01:58 (ten months ago) link
Anyone else doing OQL? I'm doing it for the first time and it's really fun and novel (esp. as someone who's never going to make the LL championship).
― Hoisted by your own Picard (Leee), Monday, 16 October 2023 17:44 (ten months ago) link
Yes, I do (and really enjoy) both OQL and the various individual competitions (Pop Solos and the International Culture Challenge)
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, 16 October 2023 19:27 (ten months ago) link
Having opening nightclub jitters
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 October 2023 01:26 (ten months ago) link
Feel free to play my 1DS today if it is in your wheelhouse!
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 October 2023 13:23 (ten months ago) link
I've been doing OQL (UK) version since season one. I do Pop Culture Challenge (our version of Pop Solos) from time to time, and can highly recommend COQL (which is basically Only Connect) as well.
― ailsa, Friday, 20 October 2023 13:40 (ten months ago) link
Can also recommend Mimirs Well, Fundaesliga and Zephyr Quiz League if you need further quiz fixes.
― ailsa, Friday, 20 October 2023 13:41 (ten months ago) link
All individual iterations on the mimir format used in Pop Solos/ICC - the latter two have a slightly different structure - 8 rounds of 2 questions each rather than 5 rounds of 3.
― ailsa, Friday, 20 October 2023 13:43 (ten months ago) link
Deep the solos have divisions?
― Jane Eyre Jordan (Leee), Friday, 20 October 2023 14:19 (ten months ago) link
In the UK it starts off randomly with one seeded player, then results see you banded with players who have had similar results to you in this particular tournament - expect Pop Solos works along the same principle
― ailsa, Friday, 20 October 2023 14:22 (ten months ago) link
255 contestants, not too many I track, although a certain individual associated with the initials RS (barely) cracked the Top 20, which made me happy, and a certain trivia monster came in third.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 October 2023 19:13 (ten months ago) link
Seems like everyone was doing Authors Behaving Badly instead, not that I mind, although I submitted three minutes late on that so my results didn’t count.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 October 2023 19:23 (ten months ago) link
…and I have two 1DSs to work on for next year.
― The Chronic Argo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 October 2023 19:56 (ten months ago) link
I see Greg has one too, didn’t notice any others.
― The Chronic Argo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 October 2023 20:05 (ten months ago) link
Yeah mine is Baseball Statistics on October 16th
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Sunday, 22 October 2023 21:08 (ten months ago) link
dunno if anyone else is doing Greg's Online Content ML, but this is literally the only reason I got Q1 correct yesterday:
ok so my friends are nerds and are into a lot of nerd shit so here is the nerd shit i am not really intothe podcast "welcome to night vale"whatever "SCP" iswarhammersuperhero movieswhatever is the hot new video game, like "elden ring" or whateverin theory i'm super into queer kids cartoons but i never actually get around to watching them, anything that takes me more than ten minutes is a serious commitment for mein fact there's a lot of stuff i am interested in, but i'm more interested in reading about it than i am in experiencing it directly― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, October 22, 2023 7:43 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglinkoh i am also a nerd, in case it seemed like i was saying my friends are nerds and i'm not, lol― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, October 22, 2023 7:44 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglinkwhatever "SCP" isSane Clown Posse, low-key and down-to-earth horrorcore rap troupe― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, October 22, 2023 7:46 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 12:29 (ten months ago) link
(After that post, I looked up what it actually was.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 12:30 (ten months ago) link
I'm playing it very poorly but knew that one. Defense has been really hard!
― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 15:07 (ten months ago) link
Haha, SCP came up in an OQL UK friendly last week. We were all saying we had no real idea what it was, but all LL players were retrospectively glad of the conversation.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 15:48 (ten months ago) link
Yes, I do appreciate that defense is pretty much a crapshoot in my ML; my own projections of the get rates of the questions has been way off in a few instances.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 19:18 (ten months ago) link
RTFQ, Leee.
― Iguodalai Lama (Leee), Monday, 30 October 2023 17:22 (ten months ago) link
It just gave me a bit of joy in the evening to look back and realize that silby and I tied in the Wodehouse 1DS.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 November 2023 02:36 (nine months ago) link
Last place!
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:32 (nine months ago) link
I've stumbled out of the gate, too -- currently in 20th.
― jaymc, Thursday, 30 November 2023 18:33 (nine months ago) link
yesterday's presidents question was a+ trivia imo
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 December 2023 01:48 (nine months ago) link
also honestly every single answer today should have been 'henry kissinger' with the questions being 'who dated marlo thomas' 'who suborned the paris peace talks' 'who killed the most people' etc
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 December 2023 05:44 (nine months ago) link
i was just thinking that this season's questions seem easier than usual so far, or at least more in my wheelhouse - feels like a lot more pop culture stuff than usual
― na (NA), Friday, 1 December 2023 14:08 (nine months ago) link
though that probably means the rest of the season will be all classical music and ancient geography
― na (NA), Friday, 1 December 2023 14:09 (nine months ago) link
disappointed that the beastie boys, to my knowledge, never mentioned the great australian BIGHT
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 December 2023 03:58 (eight months ago) link
also want to know who decides which vichyssoice ingredient is 'primary'
i'll take 'water'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 December 2023 04:35 (eight months ago) link
yeah as far as i can tell there are two primary ingredients. i apparently chose the wrong one
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Saturday, 9 December 2023 04:42 (eight months ago) link
The ingredienthood (or otherwise) of water seems like one of those things that should be settled once and for all in some kind of Quiz Constitution. I didn't even consider it, but see how it might throw you. I thought the Parmentier hint would make this one OK-ish (wiki says "best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe"), except it turns out leek was also accepted.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:45 (eight months ago) link
I got bight right because it's part of my flash card set, which also led me to assign it 1 point on defense against someone with a 70% geography score (they got it wrong).
Anyway, I've dug myself out of relegation, with a miraculous win against someone whose worst category is still 50%.
― Rimbaud: First Blood (Leee), Saturday, 9 December 2023 15:46 (eight months ago) link
In a kind of reversal of the previous season, I'm lower half in correct answers, but only one point behind Championship qualification, having got a couple of ridiculous breaks with lucky matchups and strange opponent defence.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 9 December 2023 16:13 (eight months ago) link
I'd have known _____ of Biafra but didn't know about the Australian one and I guess wasn't really sure what the definition was.
― jaymc, Saturday, 9 December 2023 19:25 (eight months ago) link