BLZBUB wrote:
FINAL TRAGEDY
Topic: ??? {When BUZZIE fucks up and gets the wrong categories posted for the Category Round, he/she also posts the wrong Topic for the Final Tragedy. Based on the ensuing query, BLZBUB supposes the topic might have been CHILDREN’S LIT.
Iola Martin and Callie Shaw are the girlfriends of this familiar pair of fictional brothers:
1. Tom & Sid Sawyer
2. Holden & D.B. Caulfield
3. Sonny & Fredo Corleone
4. Frank & Joe Hardy
5. Brent & Stuart Tarleton
Given the choices, I suspect it was more likely "American Literature" or "Literary Brothers" as the category.
A couple of buddies and I reunited to play this game for the first time in years.
One of them asked me upon arrival: "Is NTN still fucking up premium games?"
I told him that I had stopped playing premiums for the most part years ago because of how
common and infuriating the errors were becoming, so I didn't like our chances.
Sigh... once again my "NTN monkeys" avatar buffers its street cred.
Incompetence, thy name is Buzztime.
I honestly don't know how you guys put up with this nonsense.
Is this only happening when I play? Is that even possible?
Should I post warnings on here to prepare folks for tomfoolery on the rare occasions that I sneak
in a premium game just in case BT is trying to get me for all of the NTN monkey comments?
A full half of the premiums that I have played over the last six years (about three dozen
games or so) have had ridiculous and avoidable content or programming errors.
Sadly, I'm not exaggerating.
Sure, some have been minor like category misrepresentation or two choices of the same answer present,
but others have had some shockingly egregious errata ( e.g. T3 enzymes with vertebra as an option,
mucking up a Frederick the Great question, the classic roman numeral fiasco during the Six tourney,
etc. ad nauseam). Either way, when I have less confidence in your ability to provide
an accurate trivia game than I do some random bonehead running a live trivia game in the pub,
you may have issues...
And the greatest tragedy is that I pre-called "lit" as the final category because "there hasn't
been nearly enough lit" and then never got to bask in the glory of having it show up as the topic.
I spent most of the time wondering how any of the answers were relevant to "1796".
It's back to Saturday afternoons only for me, thank you.
At least BT only fucks up Countdown minimally.
Thanks for that, I guess...