#salty trivia with candy barre

[kimulokml]

I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TUMBLRS REBLOGS WORK SO RETYPE

QUICK PSA BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON THIS INFORMATION WAS WITHHELD FROM THE YDKJ/JACKBOX FANDOM!!

NOTE: DO NOT HARRASS ANYONE IN THE DOC!!! THIS IS JUST A QUICK PSA THAT AT LEAST YOU SHOULDN'T PLAY THE GAME!!

Your girl Kimulo here with a quick Public Safety Announcement regarding Haley.

So some of you know Haley as that person who made Salty Trivia, yeah? Well... She's done some very problematic things, and hasn't apologised for them or is attempting to change herself. In fact, here's everything she's done:

fizzy/haley/val evidence compliation - Google Docs

Oh yeah, fun fact, the last time someone tried to spread this doc, Haley was whining about it, and I'm pretty sure she promoted harassing and mass reporting the victim.

And she hasn't changed. One look at her twitter account is enough to confirm this. And she has tried correcting members in this one fan-ydkj server in a very rude way. Okay, it isn't as major, but it is proof she hasn't made a change about herself attitude wise.

Why am I making this? I'm seeing a few people still play her game, and let her into servers while being unaware of her actions. And I want to put it out there to this fandom that she is a danger and doesn't plan to change anytime.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Block all accounts listed in the below section.

If you share any circles with any of the accounts listed, report them if you can.

Please reblog this!! The main point of this is to get the message out to the YDKJ and Jackbox fandoms!!!

DO NOT HARRASS ANYONE!! MY GOAL ISN'T TO INCITE HARASSMENT, IT'S TO MAKE THE FANDOM AWARE OF WHAT SHE'S DONE!!

WHICH ACCOUNTS SHOULD I BLOCK?

Any alias of Haley listed in the doc

@/saltytriviaofficial (tumblr) - Haley's fan-game account. FORMERLY run by River, but is rendered inactive.

@/ha1touch (discord) - Haley's current Discord alias.

Again, please reblog for awareness!!

And a few messages to a few people.

To Haley - Your behaviour on twitter and in the server are both proof you haven't changed. Nor do I expect you to act civil about this and maybe think that you need therapy or something to show you the wrong of your ways.

To the Server Owner - Yeah, I, uh asked my friend Evan to report Haley to you. I got nervous about making two reports within the span of one month. Sorry that this will probably be how you find out, but yeah. I overthink a lot, and that was one of those moments.

3AM UPDATE - Got an apology from River, alls okish with her now. Not gonna bother you. Phyrro and Roo, like I said I didn't talk with them so I was making assumptions. Have a nice day/night/whatever.

[saltytriviaofficial]

Welcome to the somewhat official Salty Trivia Tumblr page!

This is where you’ll learn new things about the game, get fun BTS moments and maybe even talk to the staff and people behind the lovely voices (and terrible audio quality, again I am sorry Haley)

This page is run by River (me!) but will also hopefully feature input from Haley, Roo, Pyrrho and Walter (if we can find that man anywhere)

Also, play the game. We worked hard on it.

[localyardchicken2]

hi guys PLEASE PLEASE check out salty trivia with candy barre its a ydkj fangame but its SO GOOD and so ON SPOT please please please PLEASE get into it

[haleyhalcyon]

How to write a You Don’t Know Jack-style trivia question

by Haley Walker, the head writer of Salty Trivia with Candy Barre, a YDKJ fangame

The anatomy of a YDKJ question

As the tagline says, YDKJ is where “high culture and pop culture collide”. A good YDKJ question is first and foremost a soft trivia question that most people can reasonably confidently expect to guess. It also has a little pop culture coating around it, like the hard candy shell on a Tootsie Pop.

The “pop culture” bit could be references to movies, video games, music, memes, or TV shows (or their modern equivalent, online streaming service originals). It could even just be a stupid pun.

Asstronomy How many Earths could you stuff into the volume of Uranus before it just couldn’t take any more? A. 6 B. 63 C. 630 D. 6300 —YDKJ2011 E1 Q1

Oh, and of course, official YDKJ questions have a lot of fart jokes in them.

High-to-Pop Balance

The questions should be fully understandable with cursory knowledge of the reference in question. For example, someone who has only kind of heard the name “Paul Rudd” in passing could get all the questions right in YDKJ2015’s Paul Rudd episode. In fact, none of the questions ask anything about Paul Rudd.

Let There Be Rudd If Paul Rudd’s real first name were like Paul the Apostle’s original first name, what would he be called? A. Raul Rudd B. Saul Rudd C. Gaul Rudd D. Simon Rudd —YDKJ2015 “Paul Rudd Episode” Q4

Be careful, though, to make the pop culture reference clear enough, without sacrificing the understandability of the trivia question underneath it.

The ideal YDKJ question is a Tootsie Pop, with a soft trivia center inside a hard pop culture shell. When there’s too much lollipop, it’s too much effort to get to the tootsie roll center. Too little lollipop, it’s just a tootsie roll on a stick.

Examples

Let’s review some fanmade YDKJ questions.

This is a well-balanced question.

Moderating’s Hard Say you were spamming in a server. Mostly what were you caught doing? A. posting multiple chicken pics at once B. starting beef with others C. slapping someone with a large fish D. not shutting up about pork

The high culture layer is what kind of meat Hormel’s luncheon meat Spam is made of, and the pop culture layer is the act of spamming that the Monty Python skit gave name to.

This is a question with too much pop culture.

Mythic Baked Liquids Guess what Pastry's Skill Quote this rhymes with In test, Delight of Denise. 1: You are able to control all water and have a Crush on the Moon. 2: You want your Enemies to WITNESS something. 3: Perhaps something about the SEAS?

This question is all pop culture, and requires more than a cursory knowledge of what "Pastry's Skill Quote" is. (The question writer then clarified that it's supposed to be some kind of thing from Cookie Run, but that doesn't explain anything and doesn't cause us to be able to guess that the right answer is "Witness the might of the seas", and that’s kind of the point of why this question is so unbalanced.)

I would raise an example of a question with too much high culture, but ample of them are already in Jeopardy!, so I won’t harp on about it.

Pitfalls

Some sources are not very reliable, including Wikipedia, but there are a lot of other places that are less reputable.

Names of phobias come up in fanmade YDKJ questions quite often, but the vast majority of them are invented by some random person with a less than stellar understanding of Greek and Latin. If you can find it in Wikipedia’s list of phobia names that aren’t in the “Jocular and fictional phobias” section, it’s safe to use. Otherwise, if you can’t find a medical paper that uses that name, it’s wise to discard it.

Terms of venery are another iffy subject. Aside from the very famous “flock of birds” (but “murder of crows”), “pack of dogs/wolves”, “herd of cows/horses”, “pride of big cats”, and “school of fish”, you should generally shy away from them.

Writing patterns

There are some common pitfalls that a YDKJ question can fall into, most of which arise from the wording not being clear enough. Here are some phrases to mitigate the issues.

“Which of these [things] is the MOST/LEAST likely”

This pattern is used when there are multiple correct answers, or the options all apply to a different degree. It is also used to signal that it’s a matter of opinion or simple wordplay.

“Based on [criterion]” or “Because [criterion]”

This pattern is used to clarify why. I will show you a bad YDKJ question for a change.

Pixar Movies Make Me Gassy If I wanted to reenact the movie Up, what would I definitely not want to attach to my house? A. hydrogen balloons B. helium balloons C. carbon dioxide balloons D. ammonia balloons —YDKJ2011 E25 Q6

The intended answer was C. carbon dioxide balloons, because it was the only one of the three had a lower density than air at room temperature. However, you wouldn’t want to attach the rest of them to your house for various reasons: Hydrogen and ammonia are both hazardous to handle because they are flammable, while we are running out of helium, so they would be very expensive to use. This is not even to mention that ammonia has a very strong odor. (Did I mention YDKJ has a lot of fart jokes?)

Adding the phrase “Based on” to the question, I can rewrite the question to clarify why Cookie would definitely not want to attach to his house:

Hydrogen: Because it is the most flammable, what would I...

Helium: Based on the price, what would I...

Carbon Dioxide: Based on its density, what would I...

Ammonia: Based on the level of health hazard, what would I...

“If/Say/Suppose [premise]. [question]?”

This pattern is used to introduce a premise that too complex to be woven into the question itself. If you need multiple sentences to introduce the premise of the question, even after the little rant Cookie sometimes does before the questions, you may want to reword the question, work on it some more, or scrap it.

[terumimi-your-foxy-fren]

Hi!

A bit of a different thing from what i usually post but i really want people to check out something cool i found!

While scrolling through youtube i found an indie game based on You Dont Know Jack, called Salty Trivia with Candy Barre!

Rn its only in its demo, but it seems like the creators put a lot of heart into making it fun and have a similar energy to YDKJ while also making its own thing! Works with keyboards, controllers, and phones! Go check it out and give the creators some love!

[saltytriviaofficial]

We’re missing something, aren’t we? I swear we’ve missed out something. Something important and outside the box-

BOXART GOD DAMMIT

[localyardchicken2]

ANOTHER!!!! new oc

[saltytriviaofficial]

Now, you may question how Salty Trivia goes well with other games and franchises.

Here’s how, thanks to River and an hour of wasted time.

[saltytriviaofficial]

That moment when you get an email with “no death threats” in cuz THEY forgot how the British Monarchy works.

[saltytriviaofficial]

We regret to inform you we have a child on our team.

Don’t worry, she’s a legal adult but she did laugh at “clean and jerk” for a solid 3 minutes which makes her a child.

[saltytriviaofficial]

So… Batch 2 is now out.

Yeah I’m confused too. I thought there were delays but we decided to delay the delays, Miles can have his mental breakdown later. So enjoy episodes 4,5 and 6; some new random questions and enjoy my suffering cuz WE’RE DOING IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR.

(Also I literally left to do something for like 5 hours and come back to the new batch out)

[saltytriviaofficial]

So there may be some delays for Batch 2 of Salty Trivia with Candy Barre. Here are the reasons why.

Haley’s throat is staging a coup against her body AND WINNING.

Roo found an anti-gravity gun and he can’t turn it off. (he is now perpetually upside-down)

Pyrrho tried to take over the world, settled for taking over a circus.

We can’t find Walter. This man is a cryptid, I swear. WE SEARCHED EVERYWHERE FOR HIM.

River almost got crushed by her copious amount of penguin plushies while trying to sort them.

Candy is getting questioned by the FDA for “too much salt in a product”.

Miles is collapsed on the couch due to being overworked and underpaid.

Daisy is being Daisy.

Ozzy has been put in prison for 30 days after absolutely wrecking the studio and cussing out everyone while doing it.

So yeah… A lot of stuff happening. Expect either delays or the end of the world.

[saltytriviaofficial]

To all those wondering if we have a Tumblr.

We don’t.

Look up off your phone, you’ll miss the Sugar Rush.

[saltytriviaofficial]

Oooo~ Game! When does it officially launch, and is there jackbox lore intertwined? And do the guys here know the hosts of jackbox party pack? Asking the Creator of this Tumblr btw.

Officially, we have the first 3 episodes, a bunch of random questions and a “test” episode out (it was made before anyone except Candy was cast).

And for lore, this game is as so. Salty Trivia came out in 2006 as a TV show hosted by Frank O’Pinnian. (more name puns, I know) It ran from 2006 to 2011 but shut down due to low viewership and the fact YDKJ was coming back from the dead.

In 2022, a trio coming off of a sitcom called Slouch Couch picked up the idea for Salty Trivia. They now rent a studio and have to suffer with things like trapdoors and the angry Australian who keeps barging i- FUCK OFF, OZZY!

And who was this trio? Miles Stone, Daisy Chaine and the main girl herself… Candy Barre.

[saltytriviaofficial]

Reading Lines in a nutshell

Recording: Sounds alright

Not recording: FLAWLESS, LIKE A GOD.

(Yeah, that’s why my lines sound like shi-)

[saltytriviaofficial]

If anyone can tell me how to pronounce Candy’s first surname, I will be happy.