What Were You Thinking XIV! (Game over)

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Posting so this gets into my ego

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I made a "mistake" backstage and named all my reform threads after myself, so until reforms end and people stop posting in those threads my name search is a little depreciated.

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Walmart or Target, presumably

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If anything she should get two activity strikes for having her wedding on the deadline.

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That was a tough one because unlike the first 3, there is no agreement on what famous is or who is famous.

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I am man enough to admit that while I did good predicting that last round, I did not successfully predict this:

You forget I invented UPick in 2003, FAR more than a mere 3 years ago

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I love lying to get points.

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Question: Was forms of math folded into the overall math category (ie if someone put calculus, did they get credit for math?). I feel some type of way about Social Studies having no points but History being in the top.

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Yeah, if Lit and Language are put together, History and Social Studies should be too.

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Right, which is why I was asking about how branches of Math were treated. At least at my school, Social Studies was the department (Like English, Match, and Science were the department) and then the individual flavors were under that department. History is to Social Studies as, like, Calculus is to Math.

I have to say, I'm a huge fan of the questions that don't put all players on the same level (this and the celebrity question come to mind) because they require knowledge the player is unlikely to have in order to succeed, as opposed to questions where all players start with roughly the same foundation and just need to try to figure out what everyone else will do with that knowledge. (nearly every item one might find in a grocery store has the same name wherever you are, it is just a matter of figuring out what everyone else views as the quintessential items. Whereas what classes you took in school that dealt with reading books clearly does not have a standardized name)

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It's interesting because I agree with your calculus but think it ultimately goes in the opposite direction. Violence is rarely present in shows that don't revolve around violence so it is never gratuitous or serving only to add edge because usually the show would not exist but for the violence. It is an inherent part of the program. Like you never see a random show decide "Ok, now we are going to have the main character witness a murder" or "The goofy side character is going to get stabbed randomly". In this way, you can usually identify which shows will be violent and avoid them.

The same isn't particularly true with sex, which in my experience will pop up on the most random shows and you'll be like "I was just watching something else entirely! What is going on here?"

Violence on shows is way more predictable and thus way more avoidable than sex is.

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