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• play and write about video games (usually old ones i guess but anything goes)
• go thrifting for cool electronics / things that deserve to be tinkered with and fixed
• ignore my unimportant job as much as i can
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posts from @HerzogZwei tagged #jeopardy!

also:

wow i know that the video game versions of game shows aren't high-class dining but jesus mother mary and joseph the ubisoft jeopardy on current gen platforms fucking sucks ass

  • all questions are multiple choice only with THREE (3) choices, making guessing an answer almost trivial, there is seemingly no way to change this to a fill-in-the-blank style like on what is probably almost every other video game rendition of jeopardy
  • no narrator for the questions like in every other home version of jeopardy since the PLAYSTATION 2 so instead of the buzzers being unlocked when the question is done being read, it just unlocks after a predetermined amount of time with no audio / visual leadup until the "buzz!" prompt appears on screen (i know alex trebek is dead and johnny gilbert is probably too old to do all that reading for a video game, but come on ubisoft get SOMEONE, EVEN A RANDOM PERSON FROM HR)
  • no virtual set at all, shares almost no aesthetic with the show, everything is just randomly colored squares on a background, hitting a daily double just snap cuts to a static .dds or some shit of "DAILY DOUBLE" in the jeopardy font on the same background

and they want to charge $20 for this shit new? i paid $5 for mine and i still feel ripped off, fuck you quebec, i know video games are hard but in this specific case i could do better on my own, give the license to me



i don't ever actively point and make fun of jeopardy contestants for performing poorly, but i can make an exception for tym [sic] blanchard, a self-described crypto and angel investor who in the day of our lord june 20th 2023, went on jeopardy and:

  • had a score of zero with no successful attempts at buzzing in to answer a question at the first commercial break
  • told his personal anecdote of how he climbed mt. everest with a broken air tank
  • had a personal best score of $800 for three questions before falling to -$1,000 at the second commercial break
  • in double jeopardy, never recovered from a negative score, instead approaching the bottom 10 lowest scores ever in jeopardy history when it dipped to -$5,000
  • fell out of (or, escaped from) finishing in bottom 10 worst scores ever with a final score of -$3,800 and an answering record of 7 correct out of 14 total attempts before being unable to participate in final jeopardy due to having no money to wager

to give tym some credit, in his line of work, at least this probably isn't the first time he ended up with negative money from making unwise decisions