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Habitat_Against_Humanity

Thank you both for the help!! That article was pretty good and I’ll definitely go look at those packets. :grin: You're in Jamesville-Dewitt????!!!! I just moved to JD last July and have been bemoaning the lack of qb in this area. Please hit me up with any questions. I'm more than willing to help ou...

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Not to bring up a certain sore topic, but evoking private messages from "quizbowl luminaries" in order to malign people that disagree with you in collegiate discussion does not help quizbowl's case against insularity or being unprofessional. It is not a good look for quizbowl to give off ...

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In the poll on "What is the most pressing issue facing college quizbowl today?", "too insular" was the winner by a decent margin. "Too insular" could mean a lot of different things, or combinations of thing; I'd be interested to hear from people who voted for that opti...

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Just for the record, I've toyed with the idea of working with PACE in my head, but I think I'm disconnected enough from the community that I wouldn't be nominated and as we all know, self-nominations are "discouraged." That always struck me as a good way to keep an "in-crowd" me...

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If somebody is nominated to be a member of PACE, but then found to not be worthy, do you at least tell the person what they can do to meet your standards? It kind of sounds like the standard is "we know what a PACE member looks like when we see one" and that always risks devolving into ju...

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The Dear Prudence thing is an awesome idea and should implemented if for no other reason than that there'll be a way of aggregating issues people have. On that note, does anyone think it would be beneficial to have like an actual climate survey type thing? Anonymous of course. I think I could get m...

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You folks weren't around when an identifying signature wasn't required, but suffice it to say, it's much easier to be "toxic" when you're anonymous. If making people consider their words more carefully is the cost of keeping things more civil, I think it's a fair trade-off. That said, it'...

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I'm slightly nervous about posting this here when I know it's not anonymous. Yeah. This is me whenever I post something here, so I feel the need to word everything correctly. It's good to know that there's at least one other person who feels this way. Will second (third?) this as well. I've definit...

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Are you straight? Are you identified as a man? Are you adopting a fashion to intentionally be provocative? Are you wearing your hair in such a way that it says something about your self-expression? Are you wearing your hair in a way that you feel looks actively better than other, more traditional o...

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Hey Ya!

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:The very idea that "The Boys Are Back In Town," the finest song ever recorded about the boys being back in town, wouldn't make the bracket makes me seriously concerned.

How about a '70s/00s mashup bracket, cause this would win:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po3dDlTkGIY

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Sam wrote:Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Paper Planes by M.I.A.
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash

Sam speaks for me.

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ValenciaQBowl wrote: --Believed he had read a Nigerian novel called "The Palm Frond" that some of us made up on the way to lunch at a CO back in the mid-aughts

This is still probably my all-time favorite qb story, especially with "Giovanni Deformata" part.

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Hey Ya! by Outkast

Bad Romance by Lady Gaga

Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

Lose Yourself by Eminem

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West

Dashboard by Modest Mouse

Crazy In Love by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

Mr. Brightside by The Killers

Jesus Walks by Kanye West

Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott

99 Problems by Jay-z

Paper Planes by M.I.A.

Ignition (Remix) by R. Kelly

Last Nite by The Strokes

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Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

Maps by Yeah Yeahs Yeahs

Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake

Idioteque by Radiohead

Fallin' by Alicia Keys

Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons

Hurt by Johnny Cash

Crazy In Love by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z

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Probably won't be able to play, but this looks like a great idea and tons o' fun, 'specially if there's questions on specific Catholic hymns written post Vatican 2. I got that "Be Not Afraid" and "One Bread, One Body" knowledge on lock.

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Looks like there's a full slate of questions/packets. Given that a.) My Mountain Goats questions probably have a fairly limited appeal and b.) my larger family is doing their Christmas on the 23rd, I'm gonna hold off on my reading my questions for a while. That said, I still might be able to drop by...

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And your ballot:

Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue

Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson

1234 – Feist

Do You Realize?? – The Flaming Lips

First Day of My Life – Bright Eyes

Zip City – Drive-By Truckers

Stuck Between Stations – The Hold Steady

Chasing Pavements – Adele

Habitat_Against_Humanity · Re: Northeastern University Trash Tournament 12/9/2017 How'd this go?

How'd this go?

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Further, I argue that people who are paying often many hundreds of dollars to come to my tournaments deserve to not have to play next to someone who thinks they're less human than he is or would want to kill them. I believe this to be a fair position. Finally, I would argue it's inappropriate to ma...

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ValenciaQBowl wrote:Hmm, do you enter a Jason Isbell song from his solo career or from when he was in Drive-By Truckers? And how do you limit yourself to just one DBT song??? I mean, I guess "Zip City" came out in 2001, so....

Wanna do a 2nd Isbell/DBT bracket? I'm game.

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For what it's worth, I've won about $35 in total winning twice in the last three weeks. The game show vibe is pretty obnoxious, but the questions are solid as far as these things go. Drop my username as a referral code: nolangeratease

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~10 questions on the Mountain Goats, assuming I'm available to read them

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Sun Ra is my favorite jazz musician underrepresented in the current canon, so I'll suggest listening to Space is the Place for a 20:00+ freak out that will surprisingly stick around in your head in the hope that he'll be more than an ACF nats bonus part.

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Given that there's a TV aspect, you may just be out of luck. There's a reason Jeopardy isn't ACF Regs. If they expect people to watch, the viewers will have to get some enjoyment out of it and let's face it, to the uninitiated, quiz bowl is really not much of a spectator sport. Honestly, rather than...

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The game "Wits and Wagers" is the one where I've most been able to use my quizbowl knowledge to crush non-quizbowl people the most. It's a trivia game, with the twist that all of the answers are numbers (stuff like "What year was Liberia founded" or "how many feet tall is t...

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One thing to bear in mind is that the ease at which software is learned doesn't translate into being able to use it quickly and efficiently (which is of course paramount to running an on-time, successful tournament). I'd like to think I understand both R syntax and regular expressions pretty well; ...

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One thing to bear in mind is that the ease at which software is learned doesn't translate into being able to use it quickly and efficiently (which is of course paramount to running an on-time, successful tournament). I'd like to think I understand both R syntax and regular expressions pretty well; h...

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Hey all, This is just a quick announcement for what I'm tentatively calling "Songs for David Seal: A Mountain Goats Packet". Accepting applications for better names, though. Yep, it's a set of likely 15-40 tossups about the best of all possible bands, The Mountain Goats. It's gonna probabl...

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Two questions:

1. I'm assuming 8PM Eastern time, correct?

2. I'm new to Discord. How can I find the correct chat?

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How was this? I'd probably be interested in a Skype/Discord/What have you mirror as well.

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That is an extremely specific subset of players however. To pick a social science like sociology for example: how many quiz bowl players have sociology PhDs? I'd wager less than a dozen. This small sample of players--who may or may not be even elite level players--should not determine how appropria...

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I'll just say that the "banking model" of Freire is something you would easily encounter outside of old questions. I read an excerpt by Freire on the model in a freshman "intro to liberal education" class in college. Also this is very true. I'm pretty sure Freire is talked about...

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15. A transcendent form of this phenomenon is directed towards other human beings in an anthropological theory of it by Juan Perez Lopez. It’s not color vision, but Solomon has developed a theory of it in which it arises by pairs of opposing emotions, called opponent-processes. A personality charac...

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AKKOLADE wrote:That's the group number.

Well, lookit that. Many thanks.

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Not able to get into the quiz bowl team though. Says the team name is too long and the passkey is too short.

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Oh man, I used to be way into this back in the mid-aughts, with Seti@home, Einstein@home, etc. I think I eventually went to Rosetta because of the better screensaver,but I'm past those days. I left this open all night without realizing it, so it evidently works. Thanks for reminding me this exists.

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In about a month point five, I'll be moving to Syracuse, NY where my wife found a professorship. Thrilled for everything about the move, but the area seems to lack quiz bowl, at least collegiately. If anyone at Syracuse ever starts a team, I'll crash practices, but this might be the end of my utilit...

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Yeah, I've written (or thought about writing) stuff, only to find very similar questions in old packets. Seen it with other writers, too. Yup. Can confirm that I once wrote (and submitted) nearly the exact same Physics bonus as was on the ACF website at one point. Don't remember the amount of textu...

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This was a hoot. Thanks to UConn and everyone. Also, I think everyone interested in outreach (and everyone else) should make note of Olin's success at creating a quiz bowl team out of nothing, and attending at least three (probably four) tournaments in their first year. They're a solidly talented te...

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GIven that I never used a number of questions I wrote for this:, I'd be happy to contribute any or all of the questions that weren't used at 2013 CO Trash. I've probably got enough tossups to make a 2+ packets. If you want, I could packetize what I have and send it along.

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What's the best place to park for Saturday?

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Margie likes a good bourbon.

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In the 2009 Chicago Open a team of me, Andrew Ullsperger, Paul Gauthier and Evan Nagler (lol, what a team) beat a team of Seth, Selene and Sorice. We thought we were world-beaters.... until we lost the next round to the Rom/Tim Hartman juggernaut when Rom obliterated a toss-up on ROME, OPEN CITY (1...

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Please Daddy Don't get drunk this Christmas

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Any post that ignores Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Denial is ineligible, called it.

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In other map games that utilize your knowledge of Europa Universalis IV:

http://www.thegoparcade.com/game/bomb-the-right-place

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50K would be almost double my old teaching salary. On the other hand, 3,000 questions in a year would be pretty hard to do (maybe? I haven't crunched the numbers). 3000 questions/year seems difficult, but within the realm of possibility. If you're willing to write on each weekday of the year, you w...

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:I assume this is entirely based on the merits of Tarantula.

You're very well read, it's well-known.

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