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Postby edgeev » Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:43 am

I just won this bad boy so this game is cool with me
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Postby Cone » Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:46 am

Nuh uh
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Postby Cone » Mon Jan 01, 2018 1:47 am

R u gonna buy a vidya game with yr 60 bones
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Postby Kwisatz Haderach » Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:41 am

i couldn't keep myself up for the retry at 12:30
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Postby edgeev » Mon Jan 01, 2018 9:06 am

I figured out the best way to go with most of the later questions is to choose the most ridiculous sounding option. Subatomic muons? Sure.
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Postby Kwisatz Haderach » Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:04 am

I’ve failed to identify the point when they switch from obvious to tricky and keep second guessing myself.
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Postby joebagel » Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:37 pm

seems like a marketing stunt 2 get everyone jazzing about HQ trivia for 45mins at every NYE party
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Postby inspectorhound » Mon Jan 01, 2018 12:38 pm

the technical difficulties are definitely planned at this point
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Postby banquo » Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:12 pm

are most payouts $10?
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Postby milano boy » Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:22 pm

banquo wrote:are most payouts $10?

i think a single person won $1500 a few weeks ago, but most are split and yield low payouts like that
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Postby milano boy » Mon Jan 01, 2018 4:29 pm

sometimes at work people get into groups and play at 3pm and someone happened to walk by one of the groups and was like "hey, i know that voice, what are you guys doing?" and someone showed her their phone screen and was like "were playing hq" and her response was "oh my god, i fucked that guy last year"
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Postby banquo » Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:00 pm

I was eliminated before it started wtf

Thanks Android?
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Postby A WOMAN IN TROUBLE » Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:08 pm

i allowed for notifications and didn't get a notification for tonight's shit :evil:
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Postby matt » Mon Jan 01, 2018 10:51 pm

"Shtick Clark" was pretty good
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Postby Kwisatz Haderach » Tue Jan 02, 2018 7:09 am

Can’t believe I missed the Spider-Man one
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Postby ecto » Tue Jan 02, 2018 12:18 pm

black mamba wrote:i have a theory that they don't care about doing a good trivia thing and the app is a means to test their theories on engagement maximisation that they gleaned from the data from vine. that could be why the guy was saying in that article that basic information about scott was proprietary. it could also be why they don't use him every day or as much as possible

been thinking/agreeing with this

my friends theorizing that the trivia is a facade for load testing networking technology
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Postby mortimer » Tue Jan 02, 2018 12:31 pm

I deleted this. Don't get any pleasure playing a game that's filled with cheaters.
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Postby milano boy » Tue Jan 02, 2018 12:56 pm

ecto wrote:
black mamba wrote:i have a theory that they don't care about doing a good trivia thing and the app is a means to test their theories on engagement maximisation that they gleaned from the data from vine. that could be why the guy was saying in that article that basic information about scott was proprietary. it could also be why they don't use him every day or as much as possible

been thinking/agreeing with this

my friends theorizing that the trivia is a facade for load testing networking technology

this is a really interesting theory, but i'm not sure if i buy it. like there's gotta be a simpler way to load test (even novel) networking tech, than create a well-produced, twice-a-day live trivia game show
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Postby Feech La Manna » Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:00 pm

It's not very well-produced though, Scott's just really good

You see the seams when other people host
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Postby ecto » Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:05 pm

milano boy wrote:
ecto wrote:
black mamba wrote:i have a theory that they don't care about doing a good trivia thing and the app is a means to test their theories on engagement maximisation that they gleaned from the data from vine. that could be why the guy was saying in that article that basic information about scott was proprietary. it could also be why they don't use him every day or as much as possible

been thinking/agreeing with this

my friends theorizing that the trivia is a facade for load testing networking technology

this is a really interesting theory, but i'm not sure if i buy it. like there's gotta be a simpler way to load test (even novel) networking tech, than create a well-produced, twice-a-day live trivia game show

sure but there aren't really simpler ways that can incentivize VCs to pour zillions into hot flashy load tests
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Postby milano boy » Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:06 pm

yea, i see what you mean in terms of the content. i guess i'm talking more about the infrastructure (apart from the networking tech) and people needed to put on something like this. it really isn't trivial. i've seen a lot of similar live things being produced at my job, which is why i think this it's massive overkill for load testing networking tech
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Postby ecto » Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:09 pm

i think it can be true that they wanted to create an app to analyze engagement and also to develop and test scaled networking tech for our black mirror future
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Postby milano boy » Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:19 pm

ecto wrote:i think it can be true that they wanted to create an app to analyze engagement and also to develop and test scaled networking tech for our black mirror future

i agree it can be true, i just don't buy it yet :)

the founders are twitter/vine guys. i know it's simplistic, but i'd say they're looking to do what they know, which is get massive user numbers and move into advertising. i'd have a better time believing the networking tech theory if the founders were top-tier engineers. i looked at the linkedin profiles of some of their engineers and i'm sure they are good, but i just don't see a team that would be building what the facade would be covering for.
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Postby Shalabi » Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:06 pm

i think they're now testing how long people will sit waiting for the game to start
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Postby unscrambled » Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:40 am

i have it on mute now and i still find the mute banter too much to handle
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Postby captain » Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:50 am

i got booted from the $10k game last night on q1 even though i answered it right. i wasn't the only one, people in the chat were livid.

i was really expecting them to do another game but it never happened.
ive been thinkin about my life lately and in short im goin A-WALL
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Postby Subbacultcha » Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:33 am

Don't worry about it, the split on that game was about $1.50 for each winner. On the other hand, tonight's regular $2k game was particularly savage and the split was $155 for each winner.
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Postby banquo » Tue Jan 09, 2018 9:30 am

captain wrote:i got booted from the $10k game last night on q1 even though i answered it right. i wasn't the only one, people in the chat were livid.

i was really expecting them to do another game but it never happened.


i've joined in before it's started a couple times and it said i'd already lost. it's not very clear about the cut-off... and the lag the last few days has been "wait for the screen to change from the countdown to the question... and then read it to yourself while the host's audio is still 5 minutes behind.. then it returns to the frozen countdown screen with 2:00 minutes left on it" -- until about question 7

it seems to work better on iphone?
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Postby captain » Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:16 am

Subbacultcha wrote:Don't worry about it, the split on that game was about $1.50 for each winner. On the other hand, tonight's regular $2k game was particularly savage and the split was $155 for each winner.


yeah i lost on the stupid trick renoir question
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Postby captain » Tue Jan 09, 2018 10:17 am

TOMMY EDISON IS BEST KNOWN AS WHAT

AN INVENTOR
A YOUTUBER
A BUSINESSMAN
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