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I might just make it up there this year. Plus now that I'm my store's acting manager, I get to do all the approvals for time off 
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This sounds like a blast. Just marked it on my calendar.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 06:00 |
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With luck, I'll actually be at Stevens Point this year. The Portesi's...shall be mine. my cat is norris fucked around with this message at Feb 10, 2013 around 06:28 |
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Athanatos posted:*A Trivia Question Timeline* You forgot the part where Goons all decide the answer is correct and phone it in confidently One lone goon appears in the chat channel and says "Wait no don't I just found something..." Another confirms his story and everyone gets sort of somber and the initial few people apologize about their answer Everyone forgets who or what the question was ten seconds later because here comes the next question Five questions later... The chat all groans in unison when it is announced how many points the real answer would have netted us. Also the more fun part where they announce the scores and everyone waits through the seemingly hundreds of names for ours to appear then we all cheer when we realize how much we've gone up in the ranks EDIT: Oh, and about a hundred links to the baby grease picture per hour.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 10:04 |
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Bitching about mushmouth was pretty great, too. It was even better when he got told off by Oz for loving up so many times.
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H2Eau posted:Bitching about mushmouth was pretty great, too. It was even better when he got told off by Oz for loving up so many times. Didn't he get pulled off the air in the middle of a question? Team name suggestion: Trivial Fursuit 3: Mushmouth read the questions McStabby fucked around with this message at Feb 10, 2013 around 14:50 |
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The Birthplace of the Cheese Fries. And the place of my dinner last night.  
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 15:45 |
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quote:The Fast and the Furriest 3: Tokyo Yiff'd This is fantastic.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 15:51 |
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I won't be there in person, but I sure as hell will be on IRC. I've got a fairly robust Looney Toon knowledge base in my head, so this may be a good year (though not as good as if it were Tom and Jerry, which I have the full set on DVD.) To newcomers: The trivia questions are intended to be 'google proof'. Last year we showed that they believe that only because they never had enough dedicated people on the same team trying enough variations. We cracked the top 20 against over 200 teams composed of people who literally spend all year building up basement libraries of potentially useful facts for the contest. These people: http://youtu.be/qKrzJlxVYg4
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 17:17 |
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I watch Loony Tunes daily ever since my 4 year old decided that that was his new go-to brain rot. I will do my best to assist.
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I Greyhound posted:I won't be there in person, but I sure as hell will be on IRC. We almost cracked Top 10. Our highest was 12 last year, which we held for at least 9 hours (minimum) We lost 2 ranks in the last 6 hours only, so we definitely have some weight to throw around behind our name.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 18:41 |
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This sounds freaking awesome, I'm definitely in for the night shifts (EU goon). Do the threads tend to go into real time like the live TVIV threads?
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Fatkraken posted:This sounds freaking awesome, I'm definitely in for the night shifts (EU goon). Do the threads tend to go into real time like the live TVIV threads? Nothing is done on the forums, everything is in IRC, forums are too slow and too public for the competition. We occasionally post updates bumping our position and trying to get more people but that's about it.
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Fatkraken posted:This sounds freaking awesome, I'm definitely in for the night shifts (EU goon). Do the threads tend to go into real time like the live TVIV threads? We actually go into security lockdown shortly before and during the contest. People on other teams take this VERY seriously (and we do too, somewhat), so putting a spy into an open-recruiting team to steal tough answers is absolutely on the table. Also, the theme represents maybe 5% of questions, MAX. Last year was "True Grit", and we got questions about obscure Halloween candy from 2011, singers of the 40's and Reese Witherspoon's loving imaginary friend, a question which I believe only Reese Witherspoon could answer. I Greyhound fucked around with this message at Feb 10, 2013 around 18:52 |
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On my kid's birthday again, so I'll not be around on the 20th, but I will definitely try for most of the other days. Also, please remember the goons who must represent us IN PERSON when creating the team name. I wouldn't want to be associated with yiffing or furries, and I'm sure they don't either.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 18:55 |
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I would absolutely be down for this, can't promise I can stay awake 54 hours but I can certainly help with the night shift all weekend long!
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feld posted:The Fast and the Furriest 3: Tokyo Yiff'd Goddammit. I was planning to propose this name since last trivia. (Although I'd shorten it to Trivial Fursuit 3: Tokyo Yiff) I'm not sure how much I'll be able to participate this year but I'll probably wind up clocking in 8+ hours anyway. It's addictive "I'll stay up for one more question. Okay, just one more after that..." TrixRabbi fucked around with this message at Feb 10, 2013 around 19:15 |
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foxatee posted:On my kid's birthday again, so I'll not be around on the 20th, but I will definitely try for most of the other days. Yeah, this ironic love of furries is a bit much. I really would prefer a team name that has nothing to do with people in animal suits loving other people in animal suits. I've come to accept the Fursuit part, but the yiffing is meh.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 19:09 |
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Tokyo Yiff'd is really the only logical name for us. As long as they make Fast and Furious movies, we should keep punning them up. While I respect the wishes of anyone who actually chooses to represent us, being worried what a joke-trivia-team name means is awfully silly. That being said, it's silly to really care what our team name is either way, so I'm cool with whatever. The real question comes down to whether we want to be up for "Trivia Focus" or not, and who talks on the phone.
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JackRabbitStorm posted:Yeah, this ironic love of furries is a bit much. I really would prefer a team name that has nothing to do with people in animal suits loving other people in animal suits. I've come to accept the Fursuit part, but the yiffing is meh. Please note that some people are local and have to explain to their family members that their team is ironically being named regarding people in fursuits having sex with each other. Please chose another name so that i don't have to explain that to Grandma, thanks in advance.
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Fatkraken posted:This sounds freaking awesome, I'm definitely in for the night shifts (EU goon). Do the threads tend to go into real time like the live TVIV threads? OK, that makes sense. Does anything stop spies from using the IRC channel though (other than honour)?
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 19:48 |
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If I recall correctly people were kicked unless they linked their relatively old profile or something.. So no regs from the day of or the few days before it. I remember being asked for credentials.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 20:05 |
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Team name idea: Fatal Furry 3: Terrier Bogard and the "Hungry" Wolf. However, if we really are worried about goons being portrayed as furries (because goon-furries totally don't exist, and it'd be silly to recognize something that doesn't exist), we can go off in a completely different direction. Speaking of which... Backup team name idea: "This Beverly Cleary is my sandwich, Bathsheba." When all else fails, refer to an obscure one-line reference from Homestar Runner.
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Superrodan posted:If I recall correctly people were kicked unless they linked their relatively old profile or something.. So no regs from the day of or the few days before it. You were asked to register your IRC nick and give your forums account to get voice in the main channel (and not get kicked). The channel must be muted while questions are going on, so having voice is the only way to suggest answers. I think we unmute the channel during down time because I remember someone from team thicko  coming into the channel and chatting for a while.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 21:02 |
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I would love to join again. Participated in the one 2 years ago, but had to skip on the previous one. I'm pretty decent in regular trivia games, but this is nothing like that, so google fu it is. Are people still editing Wikipedia pages?
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 21:44 |
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I doubt I helped much last year but it was a lot of fun so I'm in again.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 21:56 |
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I'm definitely in for this again, and I'll be able to gently caress up my sleep schedule EVEN MORE for this this year. edit: Paging the 1v100 crew.
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90FM at Steven's Point? Holy poo poo I have a brother who attends college there and works at the radio station!Buane posted:Is he able to speak intelligibly? 
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Farecoal posted:90FM at Steven's Point? Holy poo poo I have a family member who attends college there and works at the radio station! Is he able to speak intelligibly?
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 22:05 |
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I'll be in again this year. Maybe I'll know another question this year. Honestly the best way to win is have a huge group of people so we have a greater collective knowledge. I'm amazing at trivia but these questions are so hard the only one I remember knowing off the top of my head was the name of the pop the pig boardgame. It would be fun if goons in each region picked a bar that was wifi and trivia friendly and had mini goonmeets.
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Farecoal posted:90FM at Steven's Point? Holy poo poo I have a brother who attends college there and works at the radio station! The people at the radio station are pretty much mumble fucks with their mouths and mispronounce the simplest of words, which is where Buane's question comes from.
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I'm not for sure. I've kept my weekend clear for exactly this.
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rawillkill posted:The people at the radio station are pretty much mumble fucks with their mouths and mispronounce the simplest of words, which is where Buane's question comes from. Well in that case yeah he can speak intelligibly. I mean, I'm family, so of course I'm biased, but he's pretty smart.
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He could be literally retarded and as long as he can enunciate words properly off a sheet of paper we'll love him
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traveling midget posted:He could be literally retarded and as long as he can enunciate words properly off a sheet of paper we'll love him This. After you've been awake for 18 hours googling non stop, if people aren't speaking clearly reading the questions it does not make for happy fun trivia times.
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traveling midget posted:He could be literally retarded and as long as he can enunciate words properly off a sheet of paper we'll love him I actually don't know if he has anything to do with the trivia contest, I'll have to call and ask.
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 23:14 |
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This looks like fun, I'll probably join in assuming nothing crazy comes up for that weekend. Just out of curiosity, for the Mother Muffin question posted on the last page, did they accept Boris Karloff or only William Pratt? If anyone can remember a 2 year old question, I'm just wondering how tricky the trivia gets.
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Alkanos posted:This looks like fun, I'll probably join in assuming nothing crazy comes up for that weekend. Just out of curiosity, for the Mother Muffin question posted on the last page, did they accept Boris Karloff or only William Pratt? If anyone can remember a 2 year old question, I'm just wondering how tricky the trivia gets. The answer that is on the spreadsheet is the only thing they accept
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| # ? Feb 10, 2013 23:36 |
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Another Eurogoon for late-night duty checking in.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 05:51 |
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Oh, hey guys. Yeah, I'm down for another year of trivial fursuit.
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