> And you don’t want stand-and-stares; that’s the one thing we’re always trying to avoid.<p>This reminded me of this recent one: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33u2eeVqXo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h33u2eeVqXo</a>
It was an interesting read... that I couldn’t finish because the page kept crashing until my browser (Safari, iOS 11.2.5, iPhone 8) finally gave up on reloading it. Even made my phone warm up at one point.<p>Happens too often on Gizmodo Media Group sites (I’m on Jalopnik almost daily.)
It reminds me of the role of DMs in RPGs: creating a small world in each question, category, and show for the player to interact with.<p>This is a trade site? It might have been interesting or helpful for readers if they'd asked about salaries in the field (not necessarily what the subject earns directly, more in general).
>I have areas of knowledge—I know literature, sports, a few others—but one of the interesting things is that you’re always trying to write things that are accessible, and if it’s a subject you know a lot about, then there’s a danger of writing things that are too esoteric. Which might happen to me with English literature. But if I’m writing physics then I can be pretty certain: If there’s something I’ve heard of, then most people have heard of it, and so it’s easier to write things that you don’t know about.<p>I've noticed Jeopardy placed massively disproportionate emphasis on sports and the humanities compared to science, and I guess this reveals why. The writers don't know anything about that sort of thing, and so their threshold for "too esoteric" is extremely shallow for any STEM topic. Meanwhile, because they do really intimately know classical novels or football or such, they don't consider asking what team won the 1979 Superbowl or asking about a tertiary character in Crime and Punishment as being the least bit excessive. I guess there's really nothing that can be done - they even are aware of the problem but still can't seem to fix it - and it's not too big a deal regardless. I still try to catch the show every chance I can.