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gotta be a Monday
Oct. 7th, 2019 06:01 amDuolingo: 'We'll introduce leagues, which will be a fun way to encourage people to do more lessons! What could go wrong?'
Me: 'But consider this. Research has indicated that your league "teammates" are a somewhat random group selected based on the time you do your first lesson of the week. Therefore, you can theoretically game the system by adjusting that time.'*
(Seriously, all they needed to do was check how many online resources are dedicated to things like 'how can I attract ALL the cats in Neko Atsume' and they could have guessed this plan would go off the rails from the start.)
((*The easiest league level-up I got was when we were hiking and I streak-freezed out of the first day of the week. I'm still experimenting with timing, but I am determined to get out of the emerald league and I haven't managed to convince myself to do it by completing twice as many lessons as my average, so gaming the system it is!))
Me: 'But consider this. Research has indicated that your league "teammates" are a somewhat random group selected based on the time you do your first lesson of the week. Therefore, you can theoretically game the system by adjusting that time.'*
(Seriously, all they needed to do was check how many online resources are dedicated to things like 'how can I attract ALL the cats in Neko Atsume' and they could have guessed this plan would go off the rails from the start.)
((*The easiest league level-up I got was when we were hiking and I streak-freezed out of the first day of the week. I'm still experimenting with timing, but I am determined to get out of the emerald league and I haven't managed to convince myself to do it by completing twice as many lessons as my average, so gaming the system it is!))
