wavelength! [join anytime!]

[Menalque]

also niiiiiice, thank you!

[Menalque]

I knew I was right, this was the one after deadline from previous edition:

Subject: Wavelength |||game over|||

Team Wealthy Star

has locked in

54

.

Squad 1

now has (expired on 2020-09-20 10:33:04) to lock in a Left/Right guess!

Dramatic

Comedic

Clue:

Wes Anderson’s

The Darjeeling Limited

0 represents “Dramatic” and 100 represents “Comedic.” Please place your guess according to whether you think

Wes Anderson’s

The Darjeeling Limited

is closer to 0 or closer to 100 than

54

.

vincentw

is your team’s current representative.

Subject: Wavelength |||game over|||

Oh no, I'm sorry, I thought I still have a few hours.

Spoiler: synopsis

I've just finished watching the movie; it's basically a story in three acts.

The first is their introduction and their (mis)adventures on the train. Three brothers met on a train in India to partake on a spiritual journey. This is where most of the comedy is. The brothers have trust issues and when one leaves, the other two talked behind his back. They accidentally let a snake loose and almost got booted off the train. They got into a fight over who's their dad's favourite and did get booted off the train. They contemplated about it that night.

The second is when they rescued a group of children who fell to the water because of a snapped bridge. One fell through a waterfall and passed away. They took the child back to the village. The family tried to deal with grief.
On the funeral, there's a flashback to the brothers' dad's funeral. Their mother didn't attend. The oldest was told about this but lied to the other two. This is the reason he wants to go to India: to bring her home from nunship.

The third is their meeting with their mother. They'd cancelled a flight last-minute to do so. They told her they miss her; she told them the past's in the past; they said they're still not over it. After the four of them looked at each other for a while, they agreed to "try to enjoy each other's company in the morning" before she left the next day. The brothers went to blow on a peacock's feather to symbolise a new beginning (?) and caught a train in a similar way as the start of the movie (running to catch it), throwing their dad's bags in the process.

Overall, while I probably wouldn't call it dramatic, I think the emphasis is more on the drama side than the comedy side.

Guess: Left

[lilith2013]

I don’t feel strongly about any direction

[lilith2013]

and yeah, I didn’t ever penalize a team for missing a deadline.

[Datisi]

right has been locked in.

card:

silent

loud

clue: revving a vespa engine

Spoiler: drum roll please...

eight and a xalxe's guess of

65

scores 0 points.

ermine rainfall's guess of

right

scores 1 point!

team eight and a xalxe

[10 points]

1. Xalxe
   
2. Sirius9121
   
3. gelsomina
   
4. northsidegal
   
5. GuiltyLion

ermine rainfall

[12 points]

1. lilith2013
   
2. Menalque (current representative)
   
3. Farren
   
4. Iconeum
   
5. Morning Tweet (psychic)
   
6. lendunistus

sending a card to Morning Tweet, she may not post until the clue round is over.

[Menalque]

booooomshakalaka

ya boi knows his European scooters bay-bee

[GuiltyLion]

guys I am so so so sorry that clue was absolutely terrible

what happened was after a lot of deliberation, I had landed on the clue of "revving a motorcycle engine" -> thinking this was super loud but not as loud as like, a jet engine or a massive explosion or whatnot

but then immediately after sending it in to Datisi I panicked thinking "NO IT'S TOO LOUD THEY'RE GONNA GO 90s" and sent him an immediate follow up DM 2 minutes later where I tried to adjust it down by changing it to a Vespa, but that was obviously a massive overcorrection and a Vespa engine definitely feels much more like 60s-70s range, I was feeling so bad immediately after that clue was sent in -_-

my fault, I screwed it up. Should have just stuck with my original clue, I even explicitly thought it'd be better to err on the side of too loud than too quiet, I just had a moment of panic and tried to update my clue and lost sight of how it'd look if you hadn't seen my whole thought process to get there.

[GuiltyLion]

I think the best clue would have been like - revving a

small

motorcycle engine, but my brain just borked and said "oh, a Vespa is like a small motorcycle!" buuuuut that was not a good way to think

[Xalxe]

The important thing is that we all learned something about Vespas today

[Datisi]

here's the card for

ermine rainfall

:

low-effort

high-effort

and the clue that your psychic, Morning Tweet, provided is:

Solving a few random questions from an American public school seventh grade algebra test

your team has (expired on 2021-08-07 14:40:00) to guess where the target is. it’s now up to you to discuss and determine where

Solving a few random questions from an American public school seventh grade algebra test

is on the spectrum from 0 to 100. 0 represents “low-effort” and 100 represents “high-effort".

Menalque

is your team’s current representative. remember to provide your final answer in this format:

guess: x

where x is between 0 and 100.

[lilith2013]

how familiar is mt with american public school tests?

[lendunistus]

I do remember solving seventh grade algebra but I'm also european

so uhhhhhhh let me know if you want my help

[Farren]

There'd definitely be a non-zero amount of effort involved; how much effort is going to vary, I think? Some people are good at math; others aren't.

At least when I was going to school, 7th grade was right around the time when the concept of algebra would be introduced. I don't know if that's still the case nowadays; if it is, I'd expect beginner-level algebra problems.

[lendunistus]

There'd definitely be a non-zero amount of effort involved; how much effort is going to vary, I think? Some people are good at math; others aren't.

At least when I was going to school, 7th grade was right around the time when the concept of algebra would be introduced. I don't know if that's still the case nowadays; if it is, I'd expect beginner-level algebra problems.

in europe at least, I remember algebra being introduced earlier. maybe fourth or fifth grade

although it was relatively simple stuff like 4 + x = 9 or whatever

[Menalque]

grade 7 is like year 8 in the uk which is I think solving basic algebra like find x when (2x + 4y) / 3 = 28 and stuff, although it could be a bit more difficult/easy than that

however, I wonder if we're thinking about this too technically.

algebra = relatively hard thing for most people
7th grade = implies relative ease, 7th grade problems are not so challenging compared to, say, 3rd grade problems
solving a few = neither completing the entire thing, nor doing only 1
American public school test = not the education system noted for being the most rigorous (e.g. Singapore) nor for being that terrible, and a test is less rigorous than an exam

all of this is making me think that it's somewhere around the middle? personally, I'd go slightly left, like maybe 35? because I don't think that solving problems from that age range would be that arduous, but it should still be a little tricky and there's a few of them to do, and many people are liable to be rusty on algebra. the fact that the wording seems to imply middling actually makes me kinda wanna bump it up to 40

[lendunistus]

wait

@Datisi

does going through your school textbook to find the algebra problems you solved in 7th grade considered doing research

edit: wait, can guessers even do research

[Farren]

Middling-to-easy seems about right to me?

[Datisi]

~ you may not use google/other search engines or any outside resources when giving a clue.

[gelsomina]

~ you may not use google/other search engines or any outside resources when giving a clue.

that's only for the psychic (the one giving the clue) though right? otherwise, i cheated by listening to someone revving a vespa on youtube last round

[Datisi]

that is just for the psychic, the guessers are allowed to use google.

[gelsomina]

that is just for the psychic, the guessers are allowed to use google.

okay, that is what i thought. thankyou!

[Menalque]

let's not miss the deadline this time

guess: 40

[Datisi]

oh yeah i'm moderating a mishmash game right right i totally did not forget about that uhhh

[Datisi]

ermine rainfall

has locked in

40

.

eight and a xalxe

has (expired on 2021-08-10 03:00:00) to lock in a left/right guess.

low-effort

high-effort

clue:

Solving a few random questions from an American public school seventh grade algebra test

0 represents “low-effort” and 100 represents “high-effort". please place your guess according to whether you think "

Solving a few random questions from an American public school seventh grade algebra test

" is closer to 0 or closer to 100 than 40.

Sirius9121

is your team’s current representative.

[gelsomina]

i am assuming morning tweet is giving this clue as if she is the one who would be solving a few random questions from an american public school seventh grade algebra test in which case leftleftleft yeah?