Episode 10 - Breaking The Seal

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I hope reading comprehension goes way up for this challenge given the way "say fish names" went

i don't think i realized i set myself up for getting up at 6am to update this challenge when i made it urk

cool challenge!

Yeah but they have to remember.

I don't want people to feel obligated to watch an hour-long episode of a foreign TV show in order to better their chances. In addition I think there's a difference between "Oh I've seen this before, I can use that to inform my choices" and "Oh, I know where I can look up what other people did and do my best to copy them."

It's entirely possible I'm overreacting to last round but I don't think it's an indefensible position.

I'm struggling to think of the proper terminology to express this division, but I always took no outside resources to mean don't actively cheat in the middle of a challenge. i.e. if the challenge is chess, don't use a 3000 ELO robot to make your moves or if it's trivia, don't look up the answers to the questions after you've seen them. Whereas to me, educating yourself *before* a challenge by looking up common chess openings and lines or common trivia questions and answers and then committing them to memory isn't breaking the outside resources rules.

I guess it's good to have a clarification on what this community actually interprets that to mean, so my liberal interpretation of that doesn't cause any issues in the future, but I never felt or saw learning generic strategy as a bad thing. Like in my mind, it's a positive to make the challenges more about critical thinking and strategy than to it just to come down to who has more prior experience doing this, but I can see how that could be construed as cheating I guess, even though I feel like that's an excessively broad definition.

I remember playing food chain game in a really early online Genius game, and everyone took to calling the prey animals “shitanimals” for some reason and the mod was getting mad... good times.

I can’t remember too well but I think the game itself was not one of my favorite ones, the outcomes felt a little random and less skillful (iirc)