I had a hard time figuring out which questions to money in Irish Rock. Intellectually, I knew that I should money My Bloody Valentine (because indie) -- and if it were regular LL, I likely would've assigned it a 3 unless my opponent seemed particularly strong in popular music. But in the context of that 1DS, it just felt like a straight-ahead gimme. (By contrast, Bob Geldof *feels* more obscure to me, a name only old music nerds know. Ah well.)
― jaymc, Saturday, 3 July 2021 04:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah. It seemed like it had that, um, classic problem of being pretty easy to answer, hard to money.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
The commish does not observe the holiday? Probably for the best
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
I'm glad for it!
I did surprisingly well in Gluten-free, though I absolutely left points on the table there, and thought that Q12 (which I got correct and moneyed) would play harder.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Monday, 5 July 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link
Enjoying the Opera ML, Mystery Themes not so much.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 July 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
same today
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
I finally got the theme on MD3, but yeah, this ML is proving kind of unpopular.
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Thursday, 8 July 2021 13:02 (three years ago) link
That's how I feel too even though I'm getting crushed in the Opera ML and doing fine in Mystery Themes.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 8 July 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Meaning you are enjoying Opera more?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Also don’t think you are doing as badly as you say
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
90th %ile in the Thorsten Sandiego 1DS!
― Gemini Cricket (Leee), Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
Yes, I've been enjoying opera and not enjoying Mystery Themes.
I'm dead middle of the pack on Opera, which is about as I expected. I've been learning a lot though so it's been fun.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 8 July 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link
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!