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[PookyTheMagicalBear]

billiards is definitely a luck-based game when im playing

this is definitely true for me as well.

[Morning Tweet]

billiards is definitely a luck-based game when im playing

i mean, if the game was luck-based rather than your performance you would expect to do just as well as anyone else in the world

thats fair

i think in a 100 skill game there'd be no random chance at all of doing good or randomly being bad which is still me playing it though

billiards is definitely a luck-based game when im playing

this is definitely true for me as well.

poooookyyyyyyyy

hi

welcom

[gelsomina]

now, hm,

i think in theory a roast is generally meant to be comedy to all but the roasted, and to the roasted it could be a tragedy,

but, a) this type of humor does not seem all that funny to me, and, b) the roasted also seems to generally be in on it

georgebailey missed a wonderful opportunity to give a shakespeare clue here

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

tweeeeeeeeeeeetttttttiiiiiiiiieeee! <3

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

i think in theory a roast is generally meant to be comedy to all but the roasted, and to the roasted it could be a tragedy,

all good tragedies are comedies of the heart

[gelsomina]

i think in a 100 skill game there'd be no random chance at all of doing good or randomly being bad which is still me playing it though

sure, but even chess isn't a 100 from the perspective of those competing only from the outside would it be a 100,

and also there really isn't any reasonable chance of you doing extremely well at billiards, not anymore than you being 'lucky' enough to win an olympic event, at least from what i could tell of billiards, and a gold medal is probably cooler to have than a billiards world championship

but also, you scored points and we did not and i continue to be pure negative ev

so!

[gelsomina]

all good tragedies are comedies of the heart

this is probably how we got beckett scene with the hats

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

should I watch beckett?

[gelsomina]

should I watch beckett?

the beckett on film adaptations are pretty okay, especially 'play'

[gelsomina]

not that play is a particularly good beckett play or even play in general but it is the one that gains the most from the way it is adapted to film here

if you haven't read/seen godot that is probably the one i should be recommending, or endgame

i think the three prose works outweigh the plays to me, because what feels most relatable and even useful to me about beckett, and possibly this is universal, is when it is apparent how useless words can be

but you possibly were not looking for a book recommendation (you may have even been asking about the recently released film 'beckett' if unaware of the hats scene i was referring to, which i have not seen)

[gelsomina]

the three prose works

molloy, malone dies, the unnamable

[gelsomina]

the unnamable

maybe mostly only for this

but!

i would recommend together

[gelsomina]

or not, hm, maybe it is better on its own in all contexts except for if trying to create a throughline

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

I will add to my watchlist ty :3

[Datisi]

oop, i forgot about this

bump?

[GuiltyLion]

Xalxe/NSG - any opinions? I keep wavering on if GB meant a more straightforward "a roast is a comedy event, this is Very Comedy" or if there was any kind of implication of 10+ Tragedy Points in how we find humor by mocking/making fun of eachother contrasted with a hypothetical clue that could have been more pure

[GuiltyLion]

oh god we have 4 hours

okay setting an alarm on my phone to submit 87 in ~3 hours, get words in before then

[GuiltyLion]

eh maybe stick with 90

every time I start to try to go further left I doubt myself

[GuiltyLion]

guess: 90

my apologies to GB and the team if this is like comically too far to the right lol

[Morning Tweet]

a roast is equal parts comedy and tragedy if you consider it from the perspective of the roaster and the roastee

50

[GuiltyLion]

it's just one of those clues where every time I was like "what if I put it at 70 or something" my brain is like "imagine how silly you'd feel once it's revealed to be 95" and I can't escape that

it reminds me of one time I was playing this game IRL with friends and we had the spectrum for Funny Movie / Serious Movie and the clue given to us was Legally Blonde and we all talked ourselves into somewhere in the middle due to it being a super influential feminist movie that has a lot of serious themes/messages about sexism and not judging stereotypically feminine people by their outward appearances or interests, and then the actual value was revealed as like 90+ funny movie

[GuiltyLion]

and also the other important part of that story was that the person who had given the clue was like the most outwardly radical leftist/progressive of all of us

[Datisi]

eight and a xalxe

has locked in

90

.

ermine rainfall

has (expired on 2021-08-29 23:35:00) to lock in a left/right guess.

tragedy

comedy

clue:

A roast

0 represents “tragedy” and 100 represents “comedy". please place your guess according to whether you think "

A roast

" is closer to 0 or closer to 100 than 90.

Morning Tweet

is your team’s current representative. (considering i think it's ico's turn, but he hasn't posted in the game for over a month.)

[Morning Tweet]

my serious guess was like 70-75

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

a roast is equal parts comedy and tragedy if you consider it from the perspective of the roaster and the roastee

50

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