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I think you're being a trifle unfair Isaac Send a noteboard - 14/03/2012 12:19:41 AM
Wiki does have a category for Belgian television but even had I thought of it first I didn't recognize any of the shows, even Tin Tin, which I was sure I'd know but only as it turns out because I kept putting 'Rin' in front of it. As for the search not being sensible, Nationality Recipe, Nationality History, Nationality News, and even Nationality *Films* work just fine. Nor is *sensible* necessarily applicable to me at all times, I did during my re-draft of this quiz today, when looking for other non-anime cartoons, use 'adult cartoons' as a search, which might be kinda dumb but it did actually give me two of my replacements when I rephrased it as 'cartoons for adults' after a quick head smack. It was never a criticism of anything, just an accident then produced a disturbing and vaguely humorous result.

As for the Belgian thing in general, and the 'everything well-known being American' comment, that's simply unfair. I read the comments on the quizzes and see what people did or didn't get so I can better future quizzes, it made perfect sense to follow the lead and to start with the first country that came to mind which was Belgium for obvious reasons. I hardly limit it to American material, Sunday's quiz referenced a British series, Canadian sci-fi shows have got named in prior ones, this one hand multiple Japanese ones. Nonetheless, I, the person who writes these, am most familair with English material and the board's one shared trait is everyone speaks English and so it will be, as I said, mostly unavoidable that most of it will be American because most English language TV, movies, books, etc come from English language nations and the US is the biggest one of those and does produce more proportionally where TV and movies are concerned. I've no idea what the value is but I'm pretty confident if we have a series name-off to see what the top twenty book/film/comic/TV are on the site in terms of familiarity at least half of them will be American and a large part of the remainder will be British and I would write quizzes on any of those that I knew well enough to make a question about over ones I didn't know or ones I loved but no one else knew. That is what was meant by 'unavoidable'

You are also reading way too much into what were mostly off-the-cuff remarks made in humor and fun and which were also mostly making fun of myself. I kind of feel like I walked into a door, mentioned it as dumb thing I'd just done, and had you tell me in seriousness and sobriety "Yes, that was not smart"
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