TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:14 pm
polaris wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 11:01 pmWhat are you trying to accomplish?
I legit
am trying to learn. Deep down, I
do want to learn. Which is why I keep asking.
Aight, I'll accept you are saying this in good faith, for the sake of argument.
It's entirely obvious that your attempts to learn have abjectly failed.
Most people would have learned a lot after a decade spent discussing learning with the bright minds who have dropped in here over the years, some of whom have cleared over $100,000.
Obviously you are wired differently, and the jboard is not the place for you to learn.
Try reading kids books or something; it worked for Holzhauer.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:14 pmI just can't ever seem to get out of my own way no matter how hard I try. Literally every method on the planet
ends in abject failure and frustration for me and those around me. Sometimes stuff sticks anyway -- how the hell did I get Pagliacci and Tristan & Isolde last night? -- but 99.9% of the time it's just static.
No argument there.
And there's certainly something to be said for trying again, and not giving up after one failure.
But it's been a decade now. You can hang up your hat and consider it a job you put an honest effort into. But it's entirely obvious it's not working; it is indeed only a source of frustration.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:14 pmWhen there's some basic fact that literally everyone on this board seems to know except for me, I take it HARD. I feel like literally everyone who knows something that I don't is lording it over me and teasing me for being such a dumbass.
Well, your wheedling, complaining manner doesn't exactly endear you to people, but I don't think anyone is lording anything over anyone.
Moreover, no one knows everything, no one here claims to know everything. I certainly don't know everything.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:14 pmObviously one thing I need to do is stop tracking my Coryats again, and maybe even whether or not I get FJ! right (since I only seem to get it right like once a month anyway).
I'm still gonna feel inferior no matter what, but maybe this'll help me feel LESS inferior. I dunno.
I mean, the real solution would be to stop watching this television show, and, even more importantly, stop spending so much time thinking about it.
It's a tv show. They are meant to entertain, this one in particular may teach you some things, but, above all, watching Jeopardy is a recreational activity. If you aren't getting any enjoyment or knowledge out of it, there's really no reason to watch it.
And, more importantly, this cannot be reiterated enough, even if you do watch it, there is no reason to list all your failings every night, to endlessly rehash things you don't know, and to be thinking about it for hours per day when you aren't watching it. Like, that's probably legitimately unhealthy for you. I know I can be abrasive and mean-spirited, but I am saying this in good faith: It's time to quit the jboard, it's not good for your mental health.
Let me pause to offer an analogy. I have a grandfather who was a big baseball fan, who to this day watches pretty much every game his MLB team plays. The man has probably watched this team play close over 10,000 games at this point. This thought is horrifying to me; I like going to a game in person as much as anyone, but the thought of watching baseball on TV is excruciating. Growing up, his children would watch with him. Whatever. I have one uncle on this side of the family who, like me, does not particularly care for baseball. But even when he moved out, he still watched this team fairly religiously, until he shook himself and said, "What am I doing?" But he had gotten so accustomed that "watching this team is just what I do" that he didn't think twice about sitting down to watch baseball regularly, until he realized he was gaining nothing, and stopped. Now, this did not go on long, and ended long before I was even born, but I recall this story because it is so analogous to your situation: you seem so locked in to watching Jeopardy (probably because it is right after Wheel and the two are joined at the hip in some ways), that you aren't stopping to think, "Wait a minute. Why I am watching this?"
Like, you seem to be some kind of Wheel savant; go post on their forums, and maybe do crosswords or something, or even make your own crosswords. That's something you are not an abject failure at, and, more importantly, you seem to genuinely enjoy it. That will be better for your mental health (which in turn is good for your physical health!) than endlessly rehashing the fact you can't remember Jupiter is the biggest planet.
Or, hell, go to a bar with some friends. You're in the midwest iirc, so you should be able to get out to some extent even now. Stop thinking about intellectual pursuits altogether for a while, have a few beers, and just take a break. Your body and mind will thank you.
You genuinely want to learn, deep down? Good for you, I can't criticize that. But I can criticize the fact that you are doing it wrong.