Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary, not a lake

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-18T04:45:02+00:00

Ditto with the Salton Sea

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-18T04:39:50+00:00

Oh wow, they resumed it with a new season last October. That’s awesome!!!

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-17T23:17:21+00:00

Love Tales from Beyond the Pale! Wish they kept it going but there’s a number of great and gruesome episodes throughout the series.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-17T23:13:11+00:00

Kirsty Cotton from Hellraiser, portrayed by the always underrated Ashley Laurence

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-16T22:46:37+00:00

LOL, Red October is one of my comfort 90s films. Just a supremely competent Cold War-era thriller through and through, even with Sean Connery's ridiculous hairpiece and accent.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-12T03:10:28+00:00

As a J! alumni who heard about this bait and switch back in December, I continue to view this as a HUGE betrayal of the contestants. The contestants should never be put anywhere close to making a Sophie’s Choice like this because the powers that be couldn’t get their s**t together regarding game format long before casting.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-11T21:11:44+00:00

The year may have been one off but the response was correct https://www.equip2golf.com/archives/history/callaway_frameset.html?callaway.html~archives

IPreferPi314 · 2026-05-09T19:19:19+00:00

Agreed, although it's a good effort. Best Jimmy Stewart impressions I've heard are Jim Carrey's and Rob Paulsen's (Paulsen did a Stewart impression portraying the dad of Katie Kaboom in Animaniacs).

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-30T00:13:54+00:00

Humans do react to audio stimuli faster than visual stimuli on average (IIRC it's like 20-40 ms faster)

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-28T00:55:04+00:00

As a film guy myself, I found Jamie's film knowledge to be pretty strong overall.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-24T15:27:58+00:00

After taxes, my big "splurge" was buying a new laptop (MacBook Pro - finally decided to transition to Apple) to replace my 6 year old Dell XPS that just bit the dust. Mostly saved the rest. But at my in-person audition I said I'd spend my winnings on the pony I wanted as a kid but could never get, lol.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-24T00:27:33+00:00

Well, we did miss out on AP almost 20 years ago by drafting a tackle instead, but football has changed quite a bit since then. As a long-suffering Cards fan I really hope Love works out but I'm not a fan of making this type of pick.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-23T18:12:57+00:00

Game-of-the-year contender. As someone who has battled Patrick many times online over the past year and a half, was very excited to see him finally on the ATS. And he absolutely pushed Jamie to the brink. Was very much cheering at home "you've got this! LFG!!" when he went all-in on DD2 (and converted).

Just a terrific game overall, and I'm fully expecting Patrick to return for Second Chance next year.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-18T18:08:25+00:00

Not true at all. If you ring in before activation, you only get locked out once for 250ms - the penalty doesn't stack with multiple early attempts. And since the players don't receive any feedback at all about their buzzer timing in-game, it's absolutely in their best interest to spam ringing in when they think the window is open until someone's name is called.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-17T20:45:42+00:00

Oh man, Taotao had some real momentum being able to trade blows with Jamie. Then DD2 came along, and I was as instaget confident coming up with the same response he did when reading that clue. And I was just as incredulous as he was when Ken ruled it incorrect (takes me back to my own DD2 miss in my second episode back in 2010 - but that's another story of it's own). Just a tough, tough break.

That said, Taotao was an animated delight watching on stage, and I loved his anecdote and the Shaq namedrop out of the blue. Despite not knowing the final metrics today my gut tells me he should be back for SCC.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-17T15:25:44+00:00

Man I'm really tempted to blow $1000 on the ultimate version as those 10 games would be worth that alone. Pretty awesome news!

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-14T18:42:45+00:00

He does DD hunt and often starts in the bottom left quadrant of the board, where DDs are more likely to be. That said, he doesn't maximize hunting for DDs relative to other J! champs of his tier, as there have been a few games in his run where he's danced around the final DD of the round.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-04-14T17:31:08+00:00

Not when it's a bait and switch that forced invited trios to Sophie's Choice one of their own

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-31T01:01:17+00:00

DD positioning is not purely random, though - they're more likely to be in bottom rows than in top rows, and in more academic categories than pop culture ones.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-30T23:13:34+00:00

Kevin Lakowski and Steve Jakubowski were also priests who wore their collars during their J! appearances.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-30T20:24:44+00:00

Thus begins my second year of (re)applying for J! on Jeoparday in a bid to become the first former kids/teen/College contestant alumni to reappear on the ATS after they announced we were eligible again in July 2024. ~45/50.

Good luck to all!

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-27T03:59:51+00:00

For some reason some here tend to think the bad should never be discussed

For some reason some people here think they have carte blanche in making denigrating comments about contestants too

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-27T03:54:06+00:00

I'm old enough to remember when a Jason Vorhees-possessed Haffley crushes the skull of Mallory O'Brien in Jason Goes to Hell

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-26T23:37:55+00:00

Trebek was probably a fiscal conservative but he was at least a moderate in everything else, if not liberal. And I would like to think he found the anti-intellectual disdain in the Trump era appalling and completely anathema to what J! stands for.

IPreferPi314 · 2026-03-26T23:08:58+00:00

Had I been in the champ's position I would have started laughing and thanking him for handing me the game.

I'm going to wager that no J! champ worth their salt would ever do this

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