{"id":38286,"date":"2014-02-14T21:26:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T01:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38286"},"modified":"2020-07-10T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T01:27:46","slug":"apparently-people-fail-to-get-it-until-ken-jennings-says-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38286","title":{"rendered":"Apparently, people fail to get it until Ken Jennings says it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-38287 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/arthurchu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/arthurchu.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/arthurchu-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I don\u2019t hide the fact that I take somewhat of a sadistic pleasure in occasionally mocking the Chinese. I\u2019m Korean, and it\u2019s something that many of all us Asian cultures do amongst each other, often ignoring what the rest of the world thinks about it. When the day is over, I have no objection against the Chinese or any other race; I couldn\u2019t really care less about ethnicities as long as the quality of persons are acceptable to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, something I also enjoy, is spotting sheep behavior\/hypocrisy and calling it when I see it, even if it means inadvertently defending a Chinese guy. Basically, long story short, a Chinese guy, Arthur Chu, has been tearing up <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>, and this has been a problem for many fans of the show, as well as the eventual sheep that jump on a trending story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Many of the detractors bemoan the way Chu is playing the game, because he is defying the typical meta of gaining control of the board, and clearing out categories systematically, one at a time. Instead, Chu is blatantly hopping around the categories, only pursuing the questions in the lower rows, which are all of higher values, but more importantly where the Daily Doubles are most often located. But it\u2019s what he does with the Daily Doubles which apparently is drawing the ire of many Jeopardy! enthusiasts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8LwagLLbEMs?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If it\u2019s a category like sports in which Chu apparently knows nothing about, he goes ahead and \u201cwastes\u201d it, by throwing down an unorthodoxly-low wager of like five dollars and proceeds to concede instantaneously. It might seem like \u201ca waste,\u201d but the most important thing is that Chu has successfully denied his competitors from getting it, thus hurting their chances to increase their winnings and threat to compete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Additionally, another tactic that Chu has been employing that has been making many scratch their heads incredulously, is that he has been <em>playing for the tie<\/em>. In Final Jeopardy, Chu has been calculating wagers that would have tied him atop the game with a fellow competitor; it has worked once, and failed a second time on account of the competitor failing to answer correctly. But basically people are asking him why he\u2019s trying to tie, instead of outright win?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The answer is actually really simple, because it really doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re tied for the lead or the only one with the lead, because you get to play again regardless. Logical thinkers have realized that playing for the tie, Chu is essentially attempting to handpick a competitor for the next episode, and when the cameras start rolling, he is already going in with a better understanding of one of his competitor\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. Having familiarity with one of two competitors would put any player in an advantageous position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And then, because once sheep begin nitpicking, there\u2019s nothing they won\u2019t eventually hate, Chu\u2019s hyperactive behavior apparently aggravates many people. He\u2019s often times jamming on the buzzer, clicking away furiously, and when he gets to speak, he\u2019s extremely quick to answer, almost pushy towards Alex Trebek to keep the game moving. Again, looking at this logically, it makes perfect sense, because the more time not just Chu, but all players, get to play the game, the more time they all have to possibly make more money to bank. But for the sake of internet ire, let\u2019s throw logic out the window.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Regardless of the blatant strategy of hunting for the Daily Doubles, hyperactive clicking, and playing for the tie, Chu is still very good at the game. He knows his shit (save for sports), and there\u2019s really nothing anyone can say to deny that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But he\u2019s still generally hated by the majority of the masses, mostly because he\u2019s different. Different in how he plays the game, and what many people are thinking but won\u2019t admit to, different in the fact that he\u2019s a dumpy, chubby, bad haircut, glasses-wearing Chinese guy, and he\u2019s wrecking shop, repeatedly winning, and denying \u2018Murica from someone more aesthetically pleasing and possibly more intelligent from taking a spot in the show. Even na\u00efve hipster outlets are backhanded and veiled with their assessments of Chu, often times using the words \u201chacking\u201d or \u201cexploiting\u201d to describe how he is winning, as if that\u2019s all Evil Chinese Villians were capable of doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">In spite of all the hate, Chu has been righteously been brushing it all off and in fact seemingly feeding from the hate. Twitter, bless its heart for being the ugly reality for most peoples\u2019 spontaneous-yet-truthful thoughts, has been a cauldron of spiteful people saying everything under the sun to try and get under Chu\u2019s skin, and Chu has almost gleefully been retweeting and shutting down haters left and right for continuing to make him more relevant and \u201ctrending.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But hopefully, a lot of this unjust sheep-herding prejudice will simmer down a little bit, because legendary Jeopardy! champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2014\/02\/ken_jennings_on_jeopardy_champion_arthur_chu_and_daily_double_hunting.html\">Ken Jennings wrote something pretty interesting recently on Slate<\/a>. And everyone loves Ken Jennings, because he won like 75 consecutive Jeopardy games and raked in a few millions of dollars in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Basically, he confirmed and applauded everything that Arthur Chu has been doing, because it\u2019s the most statistically sound way to improve your odds at making the most amount of money and staying on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">However, what I loved the most was the fact that Jennings took the elephant in the room, and put into text what most everyone has been thinking but doesn\u2019t want to say, because they don\u2019t want to be perceived as the racists their thoughts might actually make them:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">There\u2019s an obvious racial angle as well. Chu, a bespectacled man with rumpled shirts and a bowl cut, plays into every terrible Asian-nerd stereotype you\u2019ve ever seen in an \u201980s teen movie. Charmingly, he seems to enjoy the role of the scheming outsider.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And there we have it. Whitey can\u2019t stand the yellow man running the table with the \u2018Murican game show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Anyway, the funny thing is that the people airing Jeopardy! aren\u2019t stupid. They\u2019re probably as astute to the rumblings of social media as much as the neckbeards bemoaning Chu\u2019s existence are. In the end, Jeopardy! is still a television show, and the only thing that ultimately matters is ratings. As long as people talk about Chu, they\u2019re often times tuning in. Networks don\u2019t care if they\u2019re tuning in because they\u2019re hoping to see someone lose, as long as their televisions are staying on their channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I like to think that Jeopardy! could very well let Chu go as long as he\u2019s capable of going on his own, and when the times comes when Chu becomes old news and people lose interest, Jeopardy! could probably try and get him off on their own, by incorporating Final Jeopardy questions that attack his Achilles heel, like sports; betting small or nothing is always a risk when there\u2019s competitors in striking distance in Final Jeopardy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But until that time comes when people no longer care about Arthur Chu, why <em>should<\/em> they try and expedite him off of the show?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t hide the fact that I take somewhat of a sadistic pleasure in occasionally mocking the Chinese. I\u2019m Korean, and it\u2019s something that many of all us Asian cultures do amongst each other, often ignoring what the rest of the world thinks about it. When the day is over, I have no objection against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apparently, people fail to get it until Ken Jennings says it<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,52,89,69],"class_list":["post-38286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-racism","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38288,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286\/revisions\/38288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}