But the moment when you're allowed to buzz in is determined by when the host finishes reading the clue out loud
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Heh, I knew that and was thinking of the chaos that making the buzzing instantaneous would cause
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect
turning Jeopardy into a game of slapjack
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Well, it turns it into a game of reading speed, which they felt was not the skill they wanted to test, hence the current rule
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Also it makes the game much more difficult for an audience to follow
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Oh huh I always thought the reason the buzzers worked that way was because it was rude to interrupt Trebek
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Well it's rude because it's disruptive for the people listening, those two ideas go together
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah that makes sense I'm so used to skipping through cutscene dialogue before the voice actor can finish actually speaking the line that the idea that it would ever be annoying didn't occur to me
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Replying to @arthur_affect
maybe in my version of Jeopardy you can buzz in at any time but then you have to read aloud the whole question before you answer The game version of how lazy history teachers split up aspects of a unit and then make students present them to the rest of the class in groups
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Considering most Jeopardy contestants aren't trained actors or presenters, this would be excruciating
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
Sometimes I think I became a voice actor out of sheer frustration at how bad the other students uniformly were in the long English class periods where we all took turns reading aloud from the book and determined to show them up
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