Learned League

Where do you want to be?

C, because that's where I'm not a bottomfeeder.

I get you.

placed second and am moving up to C, which where i ALSO think i belong!

I finished 5th, which is the highest I've ever finished in an A rundle, even though I've had eight seasons with more correct answers. Got lucky a bunch of times.

Wow. Congrats!

Wp jaymc!

nice job!

i definitely belong in C, since i almost always end up right in the middle of the pack. i did make it up to B for a few seasons but the competition was much tougher for me there.

Start studying up on your memes and YouTubers because my Online Content minileague proposal was accepted for next year (in October)

Now that it's passed: I tried playing the Alias 1DS, having written my MA thesis on it, and couldn't answer a single question.

What am I getting myself into with the CanCon ML.

Think I know what I got into: classic first night forfeit!

I'm in a group with this guy.

Wow. Is it really him? I guess you wouldn't misrepresent.

I'm doing OK in the Medicine in Pop Culture ML, but have not really been enjoying the question writing. A bunch of the questions seem to have a strained or tenuous connection between the two parts of the name. Like this one from yesterday:

Q: Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy is an example of a disorder caused by premature codons of WHAT TYPE? This codon is musically and lyrically represented in the songs "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, "I Try" by Macy Gray, and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" by Marvin Gaye."

A: Stop

This is not an example of medicine in pop culture. This is a common word that is used in both medical and musical contexts.

The day before there were TWO questions about medical situations whose only identified connection to pop culture was that they are frequently depicted in movies or TV shows.

And then this one: WHAT MEDICAL DEVICE, sharing a name with a song released by Marilyn Manson in 1996, can save a person's life if quickly applied by a bystander following a severe traumatic injury?

There's more of a connection there, sure -- the song's lyrics use the device (a tourniquet) as a metaphor -- but you won't find it in the way the question is asked, which treats the connection more like a superficial coincidence.

i am also finding the writing and conceptual threading on that quiz to be tenuous.

Not to pile on but I agree with the above on this minileague, plus there has been at least one question that did not have even a tenuous attempted connection to pop culture: "In 2017, former US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared an epidemic of WHAT PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSE that is associated with depression and suicide?"

i'm not doing that ML but i haven't been enjoying the Children's and Young Adult Bookshelf ML. it has way too many YKIOYD questions imo. these minileagues give me a lot more appreciation for the question construction skills in the standard LL competition.

OTM. There are guidelines and rules of question construction. On a 1DS maybe you have a little more leeway since people can opt out, but if an ML is poorly constructed it can be maddening.

Hey, somebody we know won Pop Culture Physics!

Well along with a few dozen others.

lol 25-way tie for first, congrats!

Hey, a 25 way tie for first still counts as a first. I'll take it.

Sure! Also, just looked at your overall 1DS stats. Pretty impressive.

Something weird with some MLs today.

yeah, site's down sorta

Site seems like it's fine now.

The Lost in Translation ODS is a trip.

Enjoyed seeing a question in the Canadian Content ML about the Polaris Music Prize, which has been won by ILXors 12% of the time.

The Lost in Translation ODS is a trip.

Three CA, enough to get me to the 59th percentile, hah!

Got four, messed up one money, 71st percentile. As you may know, I have a beginner’s understanding of a lot of the languages and could at the very least identify most of them but I still couldn’t quite make out what the questions were getting at.

And oh hey, I am still in first place in my World Cinema ML group, will see how long that lasts.

I was cranky about the Medicine in Pop Culture ML, but I am definitely enjoying the World Cinema and Canadian Content MLs.

I am doing poorly in Canadian Content but still enjoying it mostly.

My 1DS was accepted! Check back in a year!

Ha, I got one too. Around the same time as yours, I guess.

I don't know if I am in a good mood or something, but next year's slate looks grebt to me right now

Wish Player Tracker showed me peoples upcoming Smithings. Right now I am just poking around the page. Saw Greg's ML in there for example.

I guess one doesn't have to submit the names of the co-smiths etc right away.

i am also first place in my world cinema ML but today i'm playing against someone with a lifetime .916 correct answer rate so i expect to be in second tomorrow

I am annoyed that I couldn’t quite come up with MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA and so just typed CAMERAMAN which was rejected, costing me the match. Still in 1st for the nonce, but would have liked that extra lead.

Just submitted on Verdi and Inventors. Trying to train myself to take a look a little before noon at the 1DSs.

And now Dickens.

Surprised at under 50% get rate on World Cinema MD 7 Q1 but especially at very low get rate for Q3. Maybe it was a spelling thing?

In some other place the phrase “low get rate” is frowned upon.

Q3 was the only one I missed. I recognize the title, but I've never seen it, and there wasn't enough in the question to point me to that title. Based on the reference to Renoir, I thought he might have directed it, but I couldn't think or any titles that made sense. (I guessed Grand Illusion, anyway.)

somehow hanging onto first by my fingernails in my Cancon ML. i'm against a bunch of A-rundlers, one of whom has an 83.4% career get rate (!), but I have one advantage on them: I'm in Canada

i hope i can squeak out some more wins and put these clearly very smart people to shame

Forgot to submit on Before and After Rock today:(

Pop Music. Greg did pretty well.

wow missing two questions on that was enough to knock me down to 63rd percentile

oh but one of the ones i missed was a money question, oops