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Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by jedberg »

jonesetc wrote: post #34
jedberg wrote: post #25

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> there will be pressure to dumb it down, make the questions easier and more trendy, make it more flashy. You could see this already in their recent GOAT primetime special. Someone did the numbers, it was like 12% of the questions were about Disney properties.

It was broadcast on ABC nation wide instead of the typical contracted station for any given local market, right? Normally the tournaments are broadcast during normal time slots on the usual market station. Definitely makes sense that the mouse would have insisted on a bit of extra coverage for something I bet they paid a lot for, but I would be hesitant to give that much weight for determining the direction of the st…

Yeah, it was on prime time.

But the point was that once Alex is gone, there won't be a strong force to keep them from doing that to the regular show. I just hope I'm wrong.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by [deleted] »

tootie wrote: post #32
benzible wrote: post #27

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Words with Friends managed an actual exit (8 figures, mostly cash): https://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/zynga-paid-53-3m-to-buy-w...

That's just unbelievable. Digital copy of a decades-old game is worth $50M because of its app store rating.

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Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by johnpowell »

unlinked_dll wrote: post #29
robbrown451 wrote: post #24

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It's not bizarre among heroin addicts, but death by heroin overdose is a bit bizarre among cofounders of high profile companies, isn't it?

I'd guess they usually have access to better drugs. Addiction affects people from all walks of life, and people who can afford their addiction don't necessarily have it impact their work.

Heroin is very good. I'm having a hard time coming up with something better that could be used for prolonged periods of time as efficiently.

Cocaine is great, not as great as heroin and cocaine has some drawbacks (sniff). Like everyone knows you are on it. And you can only snort so much before you get nose bleeds. And I have been that guy where my right nostril starts pouring out blood so I snort with my left. Heroin is relatively tidy.

Looking back on things it is probably for the best I made minimum wage after high school. The only thing that really tempered my substance abuse was poverty and my aversion to stealing peoples stuff to get high.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by th0ma5 »

th0ma5 wrote: post #31
zweep wrote: post #15

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It's called high-functioning addiction and there are tens of millions of such people (mostly addicted to alcohol).

I had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.

Must be the alcoholics hitting the down arrow :P Here is a great article https://www.nytimes.com./2009/05/05/health/05brod.html ...

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by omarchowdhury »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #13
HaloZero wrote: post #6

It almost sounds like a Game of Thrones esque style episode of Silicon Valley. Huge success. Co-founder dies. There was a mutiny to remove the CEO from it's employees Layoffs and now shutdown. This happened all within about a year? (Cofounder passed in December 2018)

How do you successfully co-found a massive hit while being addicted to heroin?

Having employees doing the bulk of the work helps, I'm sure.

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Post by stordoff »

kick wrote: post #8
dickjocke wrote: post #7

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Do....do you think they murdered Colin Kroll?

No? I don't think the comment implied that; I separated the two between an "and" for a reason. I was just stating that that was when things seemed to start going down for them.

I think it's clear that it's not the intended meaning, but I can see how it might be misread as that. "and overall seem to have done everything in their power" did make me wonder for a brief second if the first two things were examples of things in their power. Personally, I'd probably tweak it to something like "and overall seem" to make the distinction more clear.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by Marsymars »

th0ma5 wrote: post #31
zweep wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's called high-functioning addiction and there are tens of millions of such people (mostly addicted to alcohol).

I had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.

My understanding was that "high functioning" is relative to what is essentially "non functioning", where the person is unable to keep up even the semblance of a normal life.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by th0ma5 »

Marsymars wrote: post #48
th0ma5 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.

My understanding was that "high functioning" is relative to what is essentially "non functioning", where the person is unable to keep up even the semblance of a normal life.

Yes yes... But not anywhere near normal functioning.
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