bunkaroo

10. S: Let's get back to Arnold - who's your favorite character from Predator besides Dutch? (I will accept actor names as well as character names but you need one of them).

brainee

I'm thinking I blew this answer. Even more sad considering I'm a pro wrestling fan

bunkaroo

Must be an echo in that big pussy...

bunkaroo

Stop shaving, you don't have a beard!

bunkaroo

This answer went nuclear...

majorjoe23

I considered Predator briefly, then decided the sexual tyrannosaurus was the better monster.

brainee

That makes me feel better. At least I didn't bootsy

bunkaroo

It comes down to two characters...

bunkaroo

Standings after Q10:

A-aron -211
T-bone22 -208
Mr. Flix -202
tommyp007 -200
Decker -196
Goat3001 -185
Shannon Nutt -182
Obi-Wan Jabroni -181
DaveNinja -179
starman9000 -177
Palaver -175
Cardsfan111 -173
wishbone -167
rocket1312 -163
orangecrush -161
Abob Teff -160
Count Dooku -157
brainee -154
majorjoe23 -154
devilshalo -151
bradler -146
AaronHernandez -137
Quack -126
cnicholls44 -122
Crocker Jarmen -119
Kal-El -111
TomOpus -109
davidh777 -106
TheAllPurposeNothing -89

bunkaroo

That's halftime. See you tomorrow for the conclusion!

tommyp007

That +10 to start is looming large at halftime. Dammit!

TomOpus

Mr. Flix

I've never done this well. It's going to be truly amazing to watch me go from #3 to the bottom 5 tomorrow.

TheAllPurposeNothing

Why the heck did I think Raiders was late 70's? Doh!

Also still stinging from the sheep response of Rocky Balboa. Guess by that definition, I should consider Daniel Stern in Breaking Away an action hero too.

Obi-Wanma

I considered that, and I'm the person bunkaroo referenced who pointed that out in my answer, but I decided it was still a better answer than anything else, because I couldn't remember the names of any other characters he played in the 80's except the ones where his name was in the title (Cobra, and Tango and Cash--and for the second one, I didn't remember which one he was).

I bet my money that others would be in the similar boats, and maybe not even remember those. I didn't think Cobra would be sheepy, so I went with the obvious other character he is famous for, even though it's technically not action. You gotta think like a sheep.

Now I only wish that I had been confident enough in that logic to slam it.

bunkaroo

I actually had written the question to exclude Rocky as well but changed my mind - I wonder how it would have shaken out then. Probably a shit load of Cobra answers.

brainee

Yep, Cobra was the only Stallone 80's character I could be sure of besides Rambo and Rocky for me. Plus, even though the Rocky series started as sports dramas the 3rd and 4th seemed very much in the vein of 80's action movies to me.

Not only wasn't I sure whether Stallone was Tango or Cash, I wasn't sure if he played either Turner or Hooch as well

In retrospect, maybe this would've made a better reverse question. Though you still got a mix of answers, so it was fine as a question. Sometimes it's hard for the sheepmaster to guess how the sheep will answer. From my last game, I was expecting much more variety in my two near unanimous answers. And there were a couple I feared would be near unanimous that turned out to be anything but.

davidh777

I don't really think of sports as a separate genre unless it's documentaries and game footage. I lump sports movies into drama, action, comedy, etc.

Shannon Nutt

...and now I know what the names of all those other guys in PREDATOR are! And only "Billy" rings a bell after all these years.

rocket1312

While I'm by no means an originator of Sheep, I can tell you that the logic behind "more uniques = less points" is that "more uniques = more possible correct answers" and therefore easier odds for actually getting a unique. For example, if there are 20 players and 20 possible answers of relatively equal obscurity, then getting a unique isn't that special. Getting a unique becomes more about luck that it is about knowledge. Writing good reverse questions is tough. I know that when I ran a game, I spent a lot of time trying to find reverses that had a good balance of not too many correct answers, but not too few, all with varying levels of obscurity.

rocket1312

Just to be clear, no one actually likes Dillon, right? It's just that you couldn't remember any of the other characters?

brainee

I didn't remember any character names. And for the actors (besides Arnold), all I remembered were Jesse Ventura and Carl Weathers. So my answer was a coin flip

majorjoe23

I'm expecting Carl Weathers to do better in the character death category.

brainee

Abob Teff