Welcome Everybody!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

This is a friendly "good day" to everyone joining us through the magic of lj_spotlight. Welcome! Thanks for checking us out here! Hope you're doing well today! Nice weather we're having! Insert conversational niceties here!

Let's move on to the good stuff. You might be wondering "how does this game work?" Well, to break it down into the most basic picture...

Step 1: Ask questions on Tuesday.
Step 2: Post answers on following Monday.
Step 3: Profit!

So far, I believe our profit margin has been $0.97. But that's ok, we're patient.

Now, to clarify further. The six (approximately) questions that we ask on Tuesday come in the form of five trivia questions and one freeform question, all loosely linked by a common theme. Once these questions appear, the players can reply to the post with the questions in it and give their answers.

The trick is, the correct answers are easy. This is the 21st century, and given any trivia question, it takes about five seconds of typing into Google to get the correct answer. So really, we don't care if you get the answer right or not. Anyone can do that. What's more interesting is making something funny out of it. Whether the funny response involves the correct answer or not is also irrelevant. Half of the comedy here is people realizing they have no clue and going off on a vaguely related tangent.

Just in case you're still not sure, go back and look at some of our old answer posts. We're working on tagging all our old entries so that you can scroll around looking for stuff, but we're pretty lazy, so it's slow going. Rehashes of this post can be found here and here.

Today is Tuesday, which means that a quiz will be showing up shortly. So stretch out your funny bones and get ready to play!

Once again, welcome aboard, and hope you enjoy!

chaosvizier

Comments

[undersea.livejournal.com]

Oooh, is ljdq really one of the spotlight comms? Congrats. :)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Who replaced CV with that suave, polite motherfucker?

And how did he write that much without once mentioning, gin, pudding, or tits?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Who replaced CV with that suave, polite motherfucker?

I prefer the term "cultured sonofabitch" myself.

how did he write that much without once mentioning, gin, pudding, or tits?

Beer. And lots of it.

[germankitty]

You forgot Sting! And the Brazilian female Beach Volleyball team!

I wonder if this oversight shouldn't lead to having your LJDQ cred removed ...

[3771.livejournal.com]

hey, man, shut your mouth!

...too much of a stretch?

[badgerbabe.livejournal.com]

Also, googling is strictly prohibited. :)

[drbear.livejournal.com]

So is looking in well-known search engines.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Yes, don't be confused by the 'd' in ljdq, it actually stands for delicious. Or debatable. Or deer. I don't think it's ever been re-established.

Does this mean new people for funny?

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

There are days when delicious is correct. Especially if chocolate pudding is invovled.

[pfflyernc.livejournal.com]

Psssst. Stock answers include "Sting" and "your mom." Pass it along.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think your Mom's been being passed along already.

(Oh, I couldn't not go there!)

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

You forgot the most important part of LJDQ. Delicious baby animals.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

NOM NOM NOM.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

Is this a preparatory post? Doesn't look like the spotlight has actually hit you yet.

[butterflyhickup.livejournal.com]

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

We should have loaded some icons as not to have that blue blank face figure. :(

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Shoot, I didn't realize we could upload icons. I'm a spotlight n00b.

[reona32.livejournal.com]

Sparkles and cookie for the Howl’s Moving Castle icon, CV. You are my new favorite person. [scared yet?]

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I do believe our lovely lovellama made that for me a few years back. Calcifer (especially voiced by Billy Crystal) for the win!

Also, I fear nothing except a worldwide shortage of gin and chocolate. Truly that would be the stuff of nightmares.

[drbear.livejournal.com]

I'm involved in something popular? I'm scared! Hold me...

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Paging tweeti. Cleanup, aisle three.

step 3

[michimusic.livejournal.com]

someone taking inspiration from the Underpants Gnomes? I'm in!

Re: step 3

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We're inspired by a lot of things. And we try to spread the love around. Like butter. Creamy spreadable butter.

[pirho-maniac.livejournal.com]

This looks like something ordervizier would write. Has he taken over? o_o

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

That jerk is so toast. He's locked in a cage eating his own fingernails for sustenance. Fear not.

[queeney.livejournal.com]

...The politeness of this post scares me a bit. Stop it.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Every once in a while, I allow the side effects of my job to influence my online commentary. Don't worry; I'll get better.

[thanks4thefish.livejournal.com]

Whore!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I'll give you a discount because you're an old customer.

[whomajigi.livejournal.com]

After the MST3k community was on the spotlight, we EXPLODED. Going from 1-2 posts a day to 13 or 14 a month later. Words cannot express how happy I am that this is a 3 post a week community. Fewer friends page readings, same number of things to read. Yay for you guys!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

We are a simple bunch. Increased membership can only increase the quality of our offerings. So, rock on!

[stagemanager.livejournal.com]

I feel it incumbent upon me to point out that a profit margin should be expressed as a percentage.

You fail.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

I guess that's why we've only made ninety-seven cents so far. We're bad economists.

[(Anonymous)]

You're doing it wrong.

Step 1: Ask questions on Tuesday.
Step 2: Post answers on following Monday.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

True, but man, I hate mysteries. The unknown frightens and confuses me, so I sent out the Scooby Doo gang to go investigate The Secret Of Step Three. Turns out that step three was just "break time for hookers and blow", but I already had that budgeted for Friday. So, we're good!

[lady-deirdre.livejournal.com]

I've been playing on and off for several months now, and I still don't know how this game works. So thank you for the basic picture! It is reassuring at least that you guys are not making big money off me.

Although like an inverse version of the stock market, the fact that you're making money doesn't necessarily mean that I'm losing it.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Hey, we're not proud; we love money. But we're not actually here to make a profit. We're here for fun and laughter and more fun. And the "game" is really just a chance for folks to be humorously creative, or creatively humorous. No scoring, no real winners or losers, just (hopefully) a bunch of folks having a good time.

So have a good time, or we send rabid wolverines to your house to eat you. ;-)

[sugarblue-sunny.livejournal.com]

congrats on the spotlight!

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Always good to spread the word. The quiz is good for all people! It will bring peace to earth, and good will to mankind!

[tinamachina.livejournal.com]

Welcome newcomers!

(Except you jerks in Pod Six.)

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Pod Six is total jerks.

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

So, where do we players post our answers? Do we comment on the question post & the comments are kept screened?

[sciamachy.livejournal.com]

Ah, s'ok - found the answer. Yay.

[draco-somnians.livejournal.com]

QI for LJ??? Awesome! :)