Dramacow Arthur Racian Chu / arthur_affect - From Jeopardy Winner to Angriest Man on Twitter

[AnOminous]

How long until the cult of social justice is furious that the people behind the documentary didn't portray a precious person of color as sunshine and rainbows? Or will they just throw him under the bus because he's a straight cis male?

Asians are pretty much white to these people.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

How long until the cult of social justice is furious that the people behind the documentary didn't portray a precious person of color as sunshine and rainbows? Or will they just throw him under the bus because he's a straight cis male?

Doubtful, seems like they kind of disregarded Chu halfway through Gamergate. Especially in a movie that makes it more than apparent he's just a dick? Nobody's gonna care.

 

[andr0id psycho sho(ker]

Doubtful, seems like they kind of disregarded Chu halfway through Gamergate. Especially in a movie that makes it more than apparent he's just a dick? Nobody's gonna care.

I think we'll care about it, if only to use as material for laughing at

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Asians are pretty much white to these people.

Tell that to the boot lickers calling that doughy Star Wars Asian the “first SW lead actress of color and wonderful human sunbeam.”

 

[Blagher]

Didn't realize he was such a lolcow but I never really understand why he got so much shit for his jeopardy play. Makes me wonder if the people who complained about him violating or unwritten rules are the same retards that ruin baseball

 

[LesbianSleepoverParty]

Didn't realize he was such a lolcow but I never really understand why he got so much shit for his jeopardy play. Makes me wonder if the people who complained about him violating or unwritten rules are the same exceptional individuals that ruin baseball

Yeah I didn't understand all the hate for his Jeopardy strategy either. Everything he did was allowed in the rules and the objective is to win the game, which it helped him do, so why would anyone be upset about it? Unluckily for him, it brought him into the public eye and now he does deserve the hate for the shitty things he said and did.

I wonder if/when the money is gone he will regret it all.

 

[AnOminous]

Didn't realize he was such a lolcow but I never really understand why he got so much shit for his jeopardy play. Makes me wonder if the people who complained about him violating or unwritten rules are the same exceptional individuals that ruin baseball

Or like shitty blackjack players complaining about book perfect play because you hit A7 against a 10 and got a card they wanted, so you somehow "cheated" them out of it.

 

[Marvin]

I think we'll care about it, if only to use as material for laughing at

Oh, it'll be great movie night fodder.

Tell that to the boot lickers calling that doughy Star Wars Asian the “first SW lead actress of color and wonderful human sunbeam.”

They're opportunistic about it.

Didn't realize he was such a lolcow but I never really understand why he got so much shit for his jeopardy play. Makes me wonder if the people who complained about him violating or unwritten rules are the same exceptional individuals that ruin baseball

Yeah I didn't understand all the hate for his Jeopardy strategy either. Everything he did was allowed in the rules and the objective is to win the game, which it helped him do, so why would anyone be upset about it? Unluckily for him, it brought him into the public eye and now he does deserve the hate for the shitty things he said and did.

I think game shows are sort of seen as gambling, but not the kind of gambling you can get "good" at. I don't know how people get picked to be on game shows. I always assumed people can fill out a form and they pick candidates randomly out of a big hat, essentially. No one really prepares. You get thrown on TV and it's mostly for fun, and there's a small chance of winning some money at the end. But it's mostly about the fun.

Like a slot machine, basically.

Arthur Chu like obsessively studied Jeopardy strategy and got on the show like 12 times, and he won 11 of them. That seems really fucky to people who just wanted to have some fun and play around. He took it way too seriously and ruined everyone's fun. (Is what I would imagine the spergs who shrieked at him are feeling.)

There's other forms of gambling where it's more socially acceptable to practice and study the rules and get good at it. Like if you're betting on horses or boxing matches and things like that. Or cards.

Of course, this is all based on a possibly flawed understanding of Jeopardy. Maybe it's a more strategic game than most game shows. Maybe it's easier to reliably get on the show. Maybe there's sperglord forums where they pick over Jeopardy strategy and it's like a real competitive thing. (In fact, I'm sure there are.)

Also the people who shrieked at him are spergs. But I understand why they'd shriek at him.

 

[BubbleButt]

Of course, this is all based on a possibly flawed understanding of Jeopardy. Maybe it's a more strategic game than most game shows. Maybe it's easier to reliably get on the show. Maybe there's sperglord forums where they pick over Jeopardy strategy and it's like a real competitive thing. (In fact, I'm sure there are.)

My understanding is that the people that were pissed about Chu's strategy was that he had a "Hunt and Peck" method of picking clues in an attempt to monopolize Daily Doubles, which threw his opponents off due to how fast they had to change gears mentally between all the different categories, rather than just going down a single category. When you do all the clues in one category, your brain can just focus on that one subject which makes it easier to recall related information. So not only was Chu exhausting all the catch up mechanics in the Daily Doubles, thereby giving him an inordinate lead with no easy way to catch him, he was psychologically messing with his opponents by running the gamut of topics trying to find those Daily Doubles.

 

[NQ 952]

Personally, I don't care about Jeopardy. What's funny to me is how much of an inflated ego he had after Jeopardy

...


and then he twittered himself to divorce. lol.

 

[Blagher]

Oh, it'll be great movie night fodder.

They're opportunistic about it.


I think game shows are sort of seen as gambling, but not the kind of gambling you can get "good" at. I don't know how people get picked to be on game shows. I always assumed people can fill out a form and they pick candidates randomly out of a big hat, essentially. No one really prepares. You get thrown on TV and it's mostly for fun, and there's a small chance of winning some money at the end. But it's mostly about the fun.

Like a slot machine, basically.

Arthur Chu like obsessively studied Jeopardy strategy and got on the show like 12 times, and he won 11 of them. That seems really fucky to people who just wanted to have some fun and play around. He took it way too seriously and ruined everyone's fun. (Is what I would imagine the spergs who shrieked at him are feeling.)

There's other forms of gambling where it's more socially acceptable to practice and study the rules and get good at it. Like if you're betting on horses or boxing matches and things like that. Or cards.

Of course, this is all based on a possibly flawed understanding of Jeopardy. Maybe it's a more strategic game than most game shows. Maybe it's easier to reliably get on the show. Maybe there's sperglord forums where they pick over Jeopardy strategy and it's like a real competitive thing. (In fact, I'm sure there are.)

Also the people who shrieked at him are spergs. But I understand why they'd shriek at him.

He definitely came with a plan to win that was more about making sure his opponents couldn't catch up than him doing well. This is opposed to Ken Jennings who won simply because he was faster and better at the game.

I guess the equivalent would be the recent for honor tournament where the winner won by abusing mechanics rather than being the better one on one fighter. It ran against the "spirit" of the game.

 

[proteus4994]

He definitely came with a plan to win that was more about making sure his opponents couldn't catch up than him doing well. This is opposed to Ken Jennings who won simply because he was faster and better at the game.

Ultimately, when they picked the greatest two Jeopardy champions of all time to play against Watson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Obm0DBvwI) it wasn't Arthur Chu that they picked. They sure as hell picked Ken Jennings though.

Chu was good at Jeopardy, but this basically sums it up:

So not only was Chu exhausting all the catch up mechanics in the Daily Doubles, thereby giving him an inordinate lead with no easy way to catch him, he was psychologically messing with his opponents by running the gamut of topics trying to find those Daily Doubles.

He didn't win because he was insanely good at Jeopardy, he basically did the Jeopardy equivalent of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck. Not to take anything away from him, he did win and won big, but Ken Jennings would crush Chu into paste 10 times out of 10.

 

[AnOminous]

I think game shows are sort of seen as gambling, but not the kind of gambling you can get "good" at. I don't know how people get picked to be on game shows. I always assumed people can fill out a form and they pick candidates randomly out of a big hat, essentially. No one really prepares. You get thrown on TV and it's mostly for fun, and there's a small chance of winning some money at the end. But it's mostly about the fun.

My idea of fun is winning a lot of money.

Ultimately, when they picked the greatest two Jeopardy champions of all time to play against Watson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Obm0DBvwI) it wasn't Arthur Chu that they picked. They sure as hell picked Ken Jennings though.

You play the opponents you have. I think people didn't like Arthur Chu just because they specifically didn't like the person they saw. If he didn't also come across as a complete and utter douchebag, I don't think people would have objected that much to his actual strategy.

 

[Blagher]

Ultimately, when they picked the greatest two Jeopardy champions of all time to play against Watson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Obm0DBvwI) it wasn't Arthur Chu that they picked. They sure as hell picked Ken Jennings though.

Chu was good at Jeopardy, but this basically sums it up:


He didn't win because he was insanely good at Jeopardy, he basically did the Jeopardy equivalent of Michael Larson on Press Your Luck. Not to take anything away from him, he did win and won big, but Ken Jennings would crush Chu into paste 10 times out of 10.

Well they would have never picked Chu because he was too controversial. It would be interesting to see Ken Jennings VS. Chu. Ken definitely has the upper hand but who knows if he's taken out of his game. It's not like Arthur didn't know a lot of facts, he just also made sure people didn't score on his weak side too.


How about this analogy. James Harden draws fouls like a little bitch but that's part of his game plan. You can hate him for not just playing basketball but it's effective and wins him games.

 

[Kitlen]

Oh God, THIS GUY.
I hope we stream the documentary when it airs, I'll be on the edge of my seat.

This might be :powerlevel:, but my friend went to the same school as Arthur. He wasn't in the same class as him, but his sister was. I've only asked about him once when I saw his article on ED but now I might have to ask him again. What my friend told me is:
1. Everyone disliked him
2. He used to turn in his homework in at the last minute
3. All his shit would be turned in crumpled and illegible

My friend was kinda sad they doxxed him and his sister because apparently she's nice.

Anyways, you don't have to believe me but here's his high school and the list of "famous" alumni.

https://www.peoplemaven.com/l/6Xby7a/Famous-Alumni-Valley-Christian-High-School-(Cerritos,-CA)

Edit: Here are some pics of Arthur in high school during a math competition. Notice how he came in second place.

https://www.calpoly.edu/~jshapiro/contest/lastyearscontest.html

 

[Elaine Benes]

Ultimately, when they picked the greatest two Jeopardy champions of all time to play against Watson (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Obm0DBvwI) it wasn't Arthur Chu that they picked.

Yeah, because that was in 2011, before Arthur was even a contestant.

I don't know how people get picked to be on game shows. I always assumed people can fill out a form and they pick candidates randomly out of a big hat, essentially. No one really prepares. You get thrown on TV and it's mostly for fun, and there's a small chance of winning some money at the end. But it's mostly about the fun.

I've auditioned for Jeopardy before. A few times a year they offer an online test on their website, which is 50 different questions in a variety of categories. The highest scorers nationwide are invited to an in-person audition where they take another test (this time written), are interviewed by contestant coordinators, and play a mock game. As for preparing, typically most people watch a lot of Jeopardy and study before they're on the show; Ken Jennings has said that he would watch the show with a pen in his hand that he could click to "buzz-in" so he could practice in the months leading up to his appearance.

 

[AnOminous]

I've auditioned for Jeopardy before. A few times a year they offer an online test on their website, which is 50 different questions in a variety of categories.

Wouldn't everyone just cheat using Google-fu?

 

[Elaine Benes]

Wouldn't everyone just cheat using Google-fu?

You only get about 10 seconds to answer each question, so theoretically you could, but you'd be fucked if you made it to the in-person one because you couldn't look anything up then.

 

[AnOminous]

You only get about 10 seconds to answer each question, so theoretically you could, but you'd be fucked if you made it to the in-person one because you couldn't look anything up then.

Fast fingers can get you a search in 10 seconds. Also if you had any chance in the real game you'd just use that for a few edge cases and get a slight edge on it. I'd also assume they don't use the same questions for everyone, but some kind of randomized selection. Still, it seems you could probably harvest a selected batch of the questions/answers with bots.

It just seems gameable no matter how many precautions you took with it.

 

[AprilRains]

Maybe, but gaming it that way just buys you an opportunity to fail for free.