Current Events > I've been watching all episodes of Nick Arcade and the stupidity's getting to me

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I'm only about halfway through the 84 episodes and I'm already sick and tired of how terrible the contestants are. Like this episode I'm on right now is just ridiculous. They asked "how many times is the kid in this video going to jump the rope in 30 seconds" and gave options of 52, 69, and 97... and the teams wrote down 62 and 67.
Then they played a video challenge and the person just hit pause in the middle of the game and wasted like 8 seconds just sitting there with Phil yelling at her to unpause it.
Then the red team moves Mikey to the goal square, which I'd normally be fine with, because like 95% of the time runs out and they just play a buzz in question instead of the proper goal game. But it's round 2 and they're behind by more points than the goal is worth, so by doing so they literally guaranteed they'd lose the game.

You know how they could have improved the show? When they try to move Mikey in a direction off the end of the game board they should just show him falling in a bottomless pit and give then the other team control. Like every other episode it's like "move left" and then Phil's like "Mikey's moving left" and there's like five seconds of awkward silence before some producer offstage freaking points out that he's at the end of the board. It's like the freaking screen isn't even there.

At least the bonus round win % is higher than I remembered it being (Nadine notwithstanding). The ones where it autoscrolls and you jump and duck to grab coins and avoid obstacles are dumb though, like even if you do perfectly it eats like 25 of your 60 seconds

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