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by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
Replies: 21
Views: 11657

Re: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)

starting a PhD in history at Princeton next year; will probably play the occasional set!
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 20581

Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

Those points make sense—I can see how it could be difficult to make the jump from buzzing with a specific speech impediment (even though the clue was describing the category of "residual speech errors" more generally) to a broader categorical answer that itself isn't incredibly well-define...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 20581

Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

I'm also not sure what the best solution is. On one hand, these answer lines do have a sort of unity in the real world: I could easily see a class on, I don't know, sociology of work, assigning both Ehrenreich and Hochschild, and I can see those authors recognizing their respective objects of study...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 20581

Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

there was also a corpus linguistics bonus—maybe you didn't hear that?
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
Replies: 26
Views: 12506

Re: ACF Regionals playtesting

hey, can the jason who filled out the doodle poll email me for the IRC info? don't want to invite the wrong person.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:05 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
Replies: 26
Views: 12506

Re: ACF Regionals playtesting

I'm hoping to playtest painting, philosophy, and social science on Monday and/or Wednesday evening this coming week, probably in the IRC. If you're interested, fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/xmewy3iisrqqgwq2 —indicate in the name box if you're only interested in one or two of th...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:12 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
Replies: 26
Views: 12506

Re: ACF Regionals playtesting

I'm hoping to playtest painting, philosophy, and social science on Monday and/or Wednesday evening this coming week, probably in the IRC. If you're interested, fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/xmewy3iisrqqgwq2 —indicate in the name box if you're only interested in one or two of the...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7921

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

Quinctilius Varus wrote: Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:24 am
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Snail Mail - Lush
#1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #2: Pusha-T - Daytona

#1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #7: Lucy Dacus - Historian
#1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer vs. #2: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:17 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7921

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimit...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7921

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

Thanks to the 25 people who voted on 130 unique albums! Here are the brackets, which will be closed at the end of Friday. Only brackets with at least half of the options chosen will be counted. I'm willing to provide YouTube links or Spotify playlists to notable songs from the albums if there's suf...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:06 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
Replies: 28
Views: 25991

Re: Fuck it, let's rank the sets

Of tournaments not yet mentioned, Cane Ridge Revival was an excellent set with innovative and interesting humanities and social science questions (with the caveat that I don't remember the science and wouldn't be able to comment on it even if I could). That more than any other set influenced how I ...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Jul 24, 2018 3:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
Replies: 37
Views: 17211

Re: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion

Just wanted to say that it was a blast to work on this set—I learned a ton from reading the submissions and the other editors' questions. Thanks to everyone who helped out with it, and who came out to play!
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
Replies: 63
Views: 18930

Re: Specific Questions and Errors

This thinker’s major work targets writers who used logical sciences as “evidentiary proof for the truth of their metaphysical sciences” A minor quibble, but I’m not sure it makes sense to call The Incoherence of the Philosophers al-Ghazali’s single “major work.” It’s his best-known work in quizbowl...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
Replies: 63
Views: 18930

Re: Specific Questions and Errors

Tornrak wrote:Could I see the tossup on Al-Ghazali? I’m curious as to where the first sentence is from.
It's from the Revival of the Religious Sciences.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:42 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Limits of the "Back to the Classroom" Movement
Replies: 33
Views: 12180

Re: Limits of the "Back to the Classroom" Movement

...A fuck-the-classroom approach often leads to tossups that on material that is more obscure and which fewer people in the field have engaged with (e.g., that goofy tossup at ACF Nats on "primal scream therapy"). I'm not familiar with the specific tossup, but I don't think that social sc...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:07 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2016
Replies: 105
Views: 5917

Re: Best Albums of 2016

Top 5:

5. Angel Olsen, My Woman
4. Hannah Epperson, Upsweep
3. Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book
2. Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing
1. A Tribe Called Quest, We Got It From Here...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
Replies: 17
Views: 10418

Re: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)

vinteuil wrote:
hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO
that'll be the all lit crit/art theory/historiography complement to this set, duh
VIICO: Make Heteroglossia Great Again
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
Replies: 17
Views: 10418

Re: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)

jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Let's Predict Who Wins the 2016 Literature Nobel!!!!
Replies: 64
Views: 3626

Re: Let's Predict Who Wins the 2016 Literature Nobel!!!!

I've been reading Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles: Volume 1 , over the past few weeks, and it's really an amazing book Seconding this—it's one of my favorites. I think Dylan's work since the turn of the millennium has been some of his most interesting (and "literary") in terms of its ex...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2016 MYSTERIUM General Discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 7154

Re: 2016 MYSTERIUM General Discussion

I thought this set was excellent—the history was especially superb, and aside from the aforementioned issues with the econ questions, the social science/thought was great. Thanks for writing it!
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:03 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8111

Re: Best Albums of 2015

TPAB
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:06 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8111

Re: Best Albums of 2015

Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:
gyre and gimble wrote:To Pimp a Butterfly (To me, musicals are only artistic insofar as they are musicals--a musical soundtrack on its own is just a gimmick.)
Carrie and Lowell
To lazy to post thoughts; this is the correct ballot.
same
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8111

Re: Best Albums of 2015

TPAB
In Colour
Sometimes I Sit
Art Angels
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Announcement: "stanford housewrite"
Replies: 21
Views: 19942

Re: Announcement: "stanford housewrite"

From emails I got back in November, it seems like a bunch of schools in the Northeast (including Harvard) have already declined to host a physical mirror. So, if one of those schools—or another in the Northeast—decided that they'd be fine with hosting, would Stanford still be okay with that?
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:45 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8111

Re: Best Albums of 2015

MALIK SECTIONAL #1 To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar) vs. #4 If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (Drake) #2 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (A$AP Rocky) vs. #3 Summertime '06 (Vince Staples) HORAN SECTIONAL #1 25 (Adele) vs. #4 In Colour (Jamie XX) #2 Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) vs. #3 Emotion (Carly-Rae Je...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8111

Re: Best Albums of 2015

Malik To Pimp a Butterfly . Compton Summertime '06 —this is one of the best hip-hop albums released in the past few years; I like it almost as much as TPAB. If You're Reading This It's Too Late — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79AR0VC5wCA&t=1m47s Horan Purpose , because Adele is actively a negat...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
Replies: 37
Views: 21504

Re: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge

I have a themed packet of music tossups that's been sitting on my computer for a while, so I guess I can read that. :party:
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Science Bowl
Replies: 7
Views: 5176

Re: Science Bowl

I also still stand by what I wrote in that thread—if you're interested in science, taking AP science courses, and can bring yourself to overlook the stupid format quirks, Science Bowl is an intellectually rewarding activity. I'd encourage you to give it a try!
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:29 am
Forum: Trash
Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Replies: 577
Views: 455144

Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements

hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:I don't think any of the mirrors got to them, so I'll be reading the final two packets of VICO tonight at 10pm ET in #vico.
This happened. Eric scored a lot of points. I'll try to get the set uploaded to the archive within the next week.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:30 am
Forum: Trash
Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Replies: 577
Views: 455144

Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements

I don't think any of the mirrors got to them, so I'll be reading the final two packets of VICO tonight at 10pm ET in #vico, minus the questions Jacob talked about in the discussion forum. I'll read some of my favorite questions from the set afterwards if anyone who didn't get to play the set/read it...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO Thanks and Discussion
Replies: 18
Views: 4698

Re: VICO Thanks and Discussion

My one complaint is that the first two sentences of the Lyanna Stark tossup aren't actually about Lyanna Stark, but different people, and then the third sentence opens with something like "one theory about this person uses a blue rose..." which was where I buzzed with "Jon Snow"...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
Replies: 28
Views: 17055

Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE

There will be an online mirror of VICO after the online mirror of SHEIKH. Signup information available in the SHEIKH online thread: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17553
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SHEIKH and VICO Online (August 29th)
Replies: 30
Views: 13951

Re: SHEIKH Online (Mid to Late August)

There will be an online mirror of VICO in tandem with this. You can sign up for it in the second tab of the SHEIKH spreadsheet. It'll be $5/player, and team size will depend on staffing availability.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO Thanks and Discussion
Replies: 18
Views: 4698

Re: VICO Thanks and Discussion

Given this tournament's success, I'm thinking of writing a set on the model of this one (except with a slightly different distribution and a good bit lower difficulty) to be played as a side event at the open tournament Stanford is writing for next year. Also, I hope this happens! One piece of advi...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO Thanks and Discussion
Replies: 18
Views: 4698

Re: VICO Thanks and Discussion

There were also some goofy ideas, like calling Prince Charles a thinker... Those clues were intended to be a little whimsical, but not totally illegitimate—if I remember correctly, Terry Eagleton actually reviewed "Harmony" when it came out (not that he had anything nice to say about it, ...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
Replies: 28
Views: 17055

Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE

A private discussion forum for VICO has been set up!
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Harvard summer practices
Replies: 10
Views: 4807

Re: Harvard summer practices

Happening at WHRB tonight at the usual time!
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:48 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Opinions on "Ladder" Room Format
Replies: 5
Views: 2273

Re: Opinions on "Ladder" Room Format

Leaving aside whether it's the best format for determining the best literature player (it seemed to do a decent enough job of that), I think, for a couple of reasons, it results in a significantly less fun playing experience than the traditional format. (Apologies if I'm repeating criticisms of las...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: RILKE Discussion
Replies: 33
Views: 7599

Re: RILKE Discussion

I enjoyed the set on the whole! My main criticism of the question content is that some of the "canon expansion" resulted in pretty steep pyramids—the set hasn't been released yet, so I can't point to any specific examples, but there seemed to be several instances of new-to-quizbowl/"e...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:00 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Replies: 577
Views: 455144

Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements

Yeah, I know this is a year late, but playing this head-to-head against my brother was probably one of the most enjoyable competitive experiences I've ever had. I think we actually tied (we wouldn't have if my mom wouldn't have butted in to get a good "Tapestry" buzz). If only I could pla...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
Replies: 34
Views: 19944

Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussion

The flip-side of the submissions was that, in about half the cases, they were just too damn hard. There were things like the mentioned-by-me-in-another-thread tossup on "The Main Currents of Marxism." Am I the only one who thinks "Kolakowski" is actually a tougher answerline? I ...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open History discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 12922

Re: Chicago Open History discussion

I wrote that question, and it never occurred to me to put that alternate answerline in--as (other) Will said above, that's how I've seen most "this election" questions labeled. I would've accepted Mike's answer because it's unique, but I'm not a huge fan of the alternate answerline acrobat...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jul 20, 2015 6:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts
Replies: 131
Views: 73181

Re: 2015 CO Visual Arts

This tournament was fantastic. As others have said, it should definitely be used as a guide by future open side event writers. More specifically, I'd say that it also can and should be a model for how to write questions on modern and contemporary art, even at lower difficulties. For example, I reall...
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:26 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
Replies: 28
Views: 17055

Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE

I'll be playtesting some questions today from 6-8pm—PM or email me if you want to do that and haven't already let me know.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
Replies: 28
Views: 17055

Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE

Update: This tournament is going to have eight rounds, and is a little over two-thirds written. Jacob and I would like to playtest some/all of the written questions soon, so if you're not planning to play the set this summer and are interested in doing that, shoot me a PM/email.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) 2015-16
Replies: 37
Views: 25362

Re: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) 2015-16

Harvard would like November 14 for HFT.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Thu May 28, 2015 5:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
Replies: 53
Views: 72438

Re: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th

I'd play this as well.
by hydrocephalitic listlessness
Wed May 27, 2015 7:19 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament IX Available For Mirrors
Replies: 11
Views: 9994

Re: Harvard Fall Tournament IX Available For Mirrors

I'd upload it, but I don't have the finalized version of the set. Stephen probably does, though!