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so i think that if you wanted to signalvery stronglyeither "good movie" or "bad movie" there would be other options that made a lot more sense than avatar
for that reason i think that roughly 25% from either extreme can probably be discarded? that is, i don't think the truth lies anywhere from 0-25 or from 75-100. actually, to go even further, i think thatifthe spot we're aiming for (which henceforth i'm just going to call "the target") was meant to be closer to "bad movie" than "good movie" in any significant manner, avatar would also not be the movie you would choose. i'm trying to think about this as detached from my own opinions on the movie, and more about how it makes sense as a choice.
so i think that it's probably either around the middle or closer to 0, or roughly from 25 to, say, 55.
if i were to go with my own thoughts on the movie, i would say that it's probably closer to the middle than it is to 0. avatar was pretty huge when it released, very technically impressive and was the highest grossing movie ever for a while i think, but i don't feel like it's particularly beloved? like, i would probably be pretty surprised to hear someone say that it's their favorite movie.
i think i might guess somewhere in the range of 40 to 50. what do you guys think?- northsidegal
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what movie would you pick if you were going for "mediocre"? i know that you said you don't see a lot of movies and this might just be me projecting my own opinion, but i feel like avatar would be a fairly decent choice if i wanted to signal "mediocre".
i think 30 is too low. at the very least i think it would be 35.- northsidegal
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so, are we all good with guessing 35, then?- northsidegal
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i don't have a strong opinion but i think i lean towards agreeing with ss- northsidegal
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so are we 4/5 on guessing right (deeper)? anyone want to discuss it any more? i'm fine with just guessing right- northsidegal
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my thoughts evidently tend not to align with other people's, but i feel like the atlantic/pacific division is probably not the best way to think about things? like, if i was thinking of something to represent "really wide", the fact that something was an ocean at all would be a lot more important to me than which ocean was wider, if that makes any sense. basically, what i'm trying to say is that i think that "let me say the atlantic ocean instead of the pacific to indicate that it's slightly less wide" is not a thought process that tatsuya had.
all that being said, i think that 90 is probably a pretty good guess.- northsidegal
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i would consider it more about the perception of the clue, really. for me, when i think of "ocean", i certainly recognize that there are some deep depths that have never been explored, but i think it would be fairly accurate to call it really wide.In post 211, shiki wrote:i guess i do not understand this game. if the atlantic ocean is taller than it is wide how could the desired number have been greater than 50?
well, that's another failed prediction on my end.In post 214, Tatsuya Kaname wrote:I meant wide in terms of the area of the ocean (in numbers) Pacific would fall 90+ for me so I go with a slightly smaller one.- northsidegal
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oh and, for the record, my towels are just as clean as the next person's. t's just that you use towels to clean things off, so given a random towel i would assume that it's slightly more dirty than it is clean.- northsidegal
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what about all teams just guessing left/right and getting an equal number of points? is there something about that that wouldn't work that i'm missing?- northsidegal
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although i guess just following other teams' guesses might be bad gameplay?- northsidegal
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also, personally, i don't consider the idea that one team could copy another's left or right guess that much of a problem such that it makes three teams playing at the same time untenable
maybe if you want more depth on that particular mechanic you could even go with something like you can guess left, very left, right or very right depending on not just if you think it's to the left or right but how much to the left or right, and with different point rewards. that might be changing the game too much, though. just a random idea.- northsidegal
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i guess below? there are definitely some noticeable dark areas, but i guess i'd say it's more colorful than it is dark?
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i would say that rugs tend towards being fuzzier more than being smooth? like, while we're on the subject of various floor materials, something like marble would be the smoothest. maybe in the range from 60-80? if you guys think it's closer to the middle then i guess around 60 works
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honestly i can't say i noticed a difference, i've been fine with all of them so far- northsidegal
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how did you check that?In post 378, shiki wrote:the average american male actor is approximately the same height as the average american male, which i've now checked due to the point you raised.- northsidegal
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i'm stunned
i think i'm bad at this game- northsidegal
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erm, you really think so?
at first i thought was realistic-fantasy and that's where your 80 was coming from and i thought "well, it might be closer to the middle because a unicorn isn't likeentirelyfantasy"
maybe you're right though. a unicorn is like almost all horse and only a little bit fantasy. i don't really know how one would go about giving a clue for these cards, though. like, if you got 80, how do you indicate something that's way more real than fantasy but not completely so? i guess a unicorn might be a pretty good way of doing that.- northsidegal
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given that unicorns are real we probably should have guessed 100- northsidegal
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the most fantasy creature you can think of is a real creature with a horn?In post 440, Xtoxm wrote:i was clueing for zero. i actually cant conceive of a clue thats more fantasy than unicorns.- northsidegal
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i mean i guess to be fair its not easy to think of something that is likepurefantasy with no connections to reality and unicorns are a classic "not real" creature to many people (obviously not myself)- northsidegal
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they didn't instantly win this time, so that's good.
right?- northsidegal
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err, that "right" was meant to be my guess suggestion, not in the colloquial sense. probably could've worded that better- northsidegal
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i feel like a toilet is a very nonintuitive answer. i mean, most people have probably never carried a toilet, right?
i guess it's around 50, sure.- northsidegal
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maybe closer to 100 than 0? that is, above 50 rather than below it.
although i think i've been the opposite of correct almost every round this time, so if i am again then maybe i can be accurate by taking what i think and then just guessing the opposite.- northsidegal
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my guess is left. thus, the answer is probably right.- northsidegal
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it's comical at this pointIn post 550, northsidegal wrote:my guess is left. thus, the answer is probably right.- northsidegal
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i don't enjoy the math meta because i think it turns this game from being a one of psychology into a one of whether or not you can find some chart that the psychic looked up onlineIn post 608, Knightmare491 wrote:
This sounds like she doesn't like math.In post 530, northsidegal wrote:the math meta is a menace to society
that being said given the choice i still want to win over not winning and giving a clue like that is just more effective- northsidegal
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hey guys isis is the psychic, isn't that interesting?
also apropos of nothing, and i'm not saying anything one way or another, but if anyone had any objections to a certain horned creature's degree of realness, i feel like now would be a good time to talk about it- northsidegal
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i think that this is a thinly veiled way to get you guys to play that game
i've been meaning to take a look at it anyways so thanks isis- northsidegal
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if you were to do it i'd say this would be the best way to do it / the only way that'd make senseIn post 622, lilith2013 wrote:edit: I could also ban googling for the psychic only, I think that would work better.- northsidegal
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given that water is obviously not wet (being itself water and not another substance with water sticking to it), this is an easy zero.- northsidegal
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you're on my team, right? i can never keep track of these things- northsidegal
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lol, menalque forgot that he wasn't on my team!- northsidegal
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okay just to be clear i was joking
if the target is not at least above 90 then i'm going to stare blankly at my computer screen dumbfounded probably for a stretch of several minutes- northsidegal
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the secret is that i knew that it's 100, and i deliberately chose 95. i knew that you guys will think "if it's right then they'd have already gotten it, so it must be left, there's no way it could be exactly 100", and i deliberately sacrificed one point for my team just to flex my massive intellect over everyone.- northsidegal
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also, if you read this post and decide to choose right, just know that i'm still sixty-seven steps ahead of you, because this post is just bait to get you guys to guess right when the answer is obviously zero, because literally all evidence points towards water not being wet.In post 687, northsidegal wrote:the secret is that i knew that it's 100, and i deliberately chose 95. i knew that you guys will think "if it's right then they'd have already gotten it, so it must be left, there's no way it could be exactly 100", and i deliberately sacrificed one point for my team just to flex my massive intellect over everyone.
also, whether or not you guys guess this correctly and get the point or not and whether or not you guys win this game, it's all intentional. i won before i even signed up for this website. it's all been a part of my plan.- northsidegal
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someone please quote this to tell isis to unfoe me, unicorns are definitely real okay, i'm sorry i was just uneducated- northsidegal
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personally i don't think it was a bad choice, going for the obviously highest answer so that even if we may not have gotten the four points we would certainly get at least some
it also allowed me to play the other team like a piano- northsidegal
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ignore this, basic concepts like the names of teams elude meLast edited by northsidegal on Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:49 pm, edited 2 times in total.- northsidegal
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I agree, I might guess somewhere in the above ~60 range- northsidegal
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so "power yoga" is probably less peaceful than regular yoga, and yoga in general is probably on the peaceful side more than the chaotic side
so maybe 25-40? maybe lower, depending on how calm you would initially put "yoga" at? personally, i probably wouldn't choose it for anything lower than ~25, but that's just me. i think my best guess is around 30- northsidegal
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i just wanna let you guys know in advance to be prepared for how badly you're hurting menalque's feelings by calling his favorite clothes plain- northsidegal
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i mean, all i'm saying is that i hope you guys are willing to look menalque right in the eyes and tell him that the way he dresses is plain and in no way fancy. me personally, i would never say that, but that's just me. if you're willing to do that, that's your choice.- northsidegal
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there's nothingwrongwith being incredibly, unbelievably plain, within the 80th or 90th percentile of plainness. i would never say such a thing, and that's not what i'm trying to imply. i was just wondering if you guys really understood what you were saying.- northsidegal
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i also agree with left for basically those reasons- northsidegal
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under 50 should be correct.
i think i might tend towards a bit closer to 0 than you guys, though. like, cheese isn't themostsolid thing but i'd say it's still fairly far away from liquid, and even imagining some 50/50 solid/liquid substance, cheese doesn't seem very close to it. i would guess 20-30, maybe evenslightlylower- northsidegal
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also just for awareness auro probably went with math for this, so probably we could find some chart somewhere that says that cheese is exactly 18.12 amount of solid or something- northsidegal
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nice find menalque, that chart says around 80 so given that solid is obviously on the right, we should guess 20- northsidegal
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uh huh, i would definitely go with that - northsidegal
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