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Was it just me, or did last night's BrainBuster seem more like an attack on a different part of the anatomy?

Credit to the content staff for a good, tough game.

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Anon
"He may seem like Mr. Rogers but a dark spirit lies beneath."

I came home and applied ice.

IMO, the entire day's games from CD through BB were more difficult than normal.

They've been ratcheting up the specialty "educated" games for the last couple of weeks while still keeping the general games on the "piss easy unless it's about pop culture in which case it's obscurantist to the max" level (when was the last time you ever saw a single throw away distractor on TV or pop, or less than two on anything that required you to crack a book more challenging than Dick and Jane?). Today's Six was the most brutal I have seen in a decade. The 10-PC Q CD that led into it was only challenging for somebody not a slave to the gogglebox.

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I agree with you for the most part, but I think confirmation bias might play a role here. You and I have the same general strengths and weaknesses, i.e., we're better at more academic questions and worse with pop culture. I have often made the same complaint, that the distractors are ridiculous on questions I know and the distractors on pop culture often all seem plausible. That said, I think it's entirely possible that for many of the academic questions that I know in advance, there are three or four good distractors. I say it's possible, as I often don't even pay attention to the wrong answers. For that matter, it's possible that the distractors are ridiculous on some of the pop culture questions that I do know in advance. I am going to make an effort for a couple of weeks to pay attention to both situations.

I understand the concept but I'm pretty sure I have eliminated the option. While I'm sure movie addicts think the idea of Sidney Greenstreet being in 40s gangster movie X as opposed to 40s gangster movie Y is as ridiculous as Andrea Doria being a 2nd C CE Roman Emperor, I suggest the Botfly corollary -, a distractor I have never played a week without seeing, often several times, in the last few years, but never once on a PC question. When was the last time you saw a non-actor on an actor question even? When was the last time you saw a, for example, Greek philosophy question outside BB with 5 Greek philosophers (or let's be honest even 5 philosophers) as options?

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