Question

Walter Chandoha is considered the most influential creator of these things and made about 90,000 of them in his career, including a famous one titled “The Mob”. Jonathan Coulton sings “I didn’t want to be useless today” and repeats “I am looking at [these things]” in a song from his 2017 album Solid State. A search engine AI becomes sentient and wants to help humanity, only asking for these (-5[1])things in return, in a Naomi (-5[2])Kritzer story that won a 2016 (-5[1])Hugo (15[1])Award. That story is titled “[these objects] Please”. Dan Kaminsky quipped that “The internet was never designed to be secure. The internet was designed to (*) move [these things]”. A popular 1970s motivational poster (10[1])added the text “Hang in there, baby” to one of these things. (10[2])For 10 points, an early kind of internet meme added text like “I can has cheezburger?” (10[3])to what objects? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: cat pictures [accept anything indicating pictures or photos of cats; prompt on partial answer]
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= Average correct buzz position

Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Andrew SzetoI thought this was a Counter-Strike themed tournamentA TV Guide for Netheads68-5
Corry Wanga neural-net processor; a thinking machineMacro Editors74-5
Dan Niplaying emacs while my parents are arguingscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)74-5
Jerry VinokurovEight Megabytes And Constantly SwappingEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins80-5
Jaimie CarlsonDianetics for DiabeticsWe Bought a Complexity Zoo Story8115
Michael DuI Paused My Unique Game to Be HereWhy does ACF have electrons do its work?11410
Rob CarsonEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial SinsEight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping12610
Michael CoatesEventually Munches All Computer StorageThe12610
Matt Jacksonscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)playing emacs while my parents are arguing14210
Sky HongComputer Science: Going OutsideCarnegie Lemons14210
David BassJAX guide -league -of -legends -lol -mortal -kombatfoo14210
Earthflax GeologybuzzerMacro Editorsa neural-net processor; a thinking machine14610
Andrew HunterA TV Guide for NetheadsI thought this was a Counter-Strike themed tournament14610

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?TUHConv. %Power %Neg %Average Buzz
EMACS at CO08/06/2023Y4100%25%75%123.75
EMACS Online10/01/2023Y5100%0%20%134.00