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For the issue about deadlines, you could keep the deadline as is, but maybe have extra points for people who locked in early. Could be something similar to how scoring works for the derby. If 6 people are in the 'early' group, then you'd go 6 points to first, 5 points to second. Though that's a lot of points, so you could halve them. Then it goes 3 points, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0. And you wouldn't want early birds to be guaranteed these points, so you'd only award them based on their position in that weeks derby. So if first place isn't an early bird, the 3 points don't get awarded. If second is an early one, they'd get an extra 2. Or could just do a modifier based on how early someone locks in. Start with a 2x multiplier if you lock in the second predictions open, and end at a 1x multiplier at deadline. The multiplier would decrease by roughly 0.02 every hour. Could even remove the deadline for those who come late, and accelerate the decrease to 0.1/hour after Thursday morning. Maybe that's unnecessarily complicated (and exploitable), so you could just slap a gold star next to people who enter early predictions and perform above average. Or a brown star on the last person to lock in their predictions, lol. After all, it's a game about predicting the box office, not about who is most accurate the earliest. So disregard everything I've said! lol

When do theater counts usually come out? I think I've typically noticed them on Thursday afternoon. Maybe a nice 'feature' would be the option of predicting based on PTA?

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ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS

I had a rough cold/flu a few weeks back. Cough was killing me. Green NyQuil was my saviour. I also find that if I lay in bed trying to recover, my cold/flus drag on longer. But that was impossible with my last cold, because I'd cough up a lung just getting out of bed. I also had a fever dream (though I had no fever, but it sure felt like I did) that Avatar 2 would only do like 488m. I ran out of red NyQuil and started using the green. Green is like drinking mouthwash, but it kicked in almost immediately, and allowed me to drag myself out of bed and power through the thing.

IIRC, it started when he said 500m for TGM was 'locked', which turned into an argument over what 'locked' means, and descended into EC being an asshole and having a meltdown. But I could be wrong, I don't follow much drama and haven't been here long. I'd thought he was only banned until the Avatar 2 OW. But I remember him melting down on Twitter afterwards.

Wasn't his ban supposed to be over by now?

Top Gun was in like 12th place back in its day, wasn't it? Obama tweeted his list of fav 2022 films on the 23rd. He listed the fablemans, which I believe is the only one on his list still in theaters. With such a low gross, it would only take a couple thousand people to swing that number. So the question becomes, is a tweet from Obama enough to get a couple thousand people to hit theaters the next day? And will this translate to more over the next week? Violent Night is available on demand now. My TV wants 25 Canadian loons to rent it, lol. I haven't seen any ads for it. The beauty of ad blocker, as well as being completely blind to commercials when watching TV.

Cap and SLAM! (and the few guesses between them) are all fake accounts created to steal the win from me. I'll be showing proof of this tomorrow, at a press conference in front of the Four Seasons (Total Landscaping). SAD!

Interesting that Wakanda and Violent Night both had miniscule drops and are both higher than Monday.

There were two major storms. One from December 16-20, and a second from Dec 22-28. So both the first and second weekend were impacted, as well as weekdays. There were also dozens of tornadoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2009_North_American_blizzard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_North_American_Christmas_blizzard

James Cameron should start tying all his movies together. The JCCU, James Cameron Cinematic Universe. Have the Avatar peeps fight Aliens (you can have Sigourney in 2 roles!), and finish it up with them going back in time, where Jake's avatar will be swimming in the water in the Atlantic, and find Jack and save his life. They take Jack to a future. His memories are all messed up, and he's given a new identity; Kyle Reese.

Inflation being lower just means costs are increasing, but not as quickly. But when you take into account the breakneck inflation of the past year or two, even 'lower' inflation is going to bite into the pocket book. Also, most inflation relief has been fuel prices dropping, but other costs have continued to increase at, or above, the summer rate. Food in particular. Interest rates rising is also hurting people. Don't know how American mortgages are, but in Canada they are 5 year terms, and tons of people are getting hit by sky high rates that are basically doubling their mortgage payment. I feel bad for the people who are currently blissfully unaware of rate hikes, and will end up facing a real shock when they have to renew. I wish 25-30 year fixed mortgages were a thing in Canada.