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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Trivia 44: That's Not All Folks
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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Diligence is the mother of Luck

DeadMansSuspenders posted:

I don't know how much I'll be able to help, but I'll give it a shot.

To anyone else not sure they can help, the questions are so vast you just might be the person who has what we need. Last year there was a Bisquick question, someone had some in their cabinet. Another person had the exact record we needed and was able to run down and grab it to look on the inside cover for a small sign. Maybe watching that marathon of Horders will pay off this year.

Everyone is welcome to stop in and see what they can do.


As for IRC:

There is a webclient here http://cgiirc.synirc.net/

Change the channel there to #tp and pick a nick and you'll be right in

If you know how to work irc we are on this server irc.synirc.net

If not, ask and someone can help you get in.

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Fatkraken
Jun 23, 2005

Fun-time is over.

Athanatos posted:

To anyone else not sure they can help, the questions are so vast you just might be the person who has what we need. Last year there was a Bisquick question, someone had some in their cabinet. Another person had the exact record we needed and was able to run down and grab it to look on the inside cover for a small sign. Maybe watching that marathon of Horders will pay off this year.

Everyone is welcome to stop in and see what they can do.


Yes, it sounds like having hundreds of people working from their *homes* will be massively more effective than those same people all in one room. If a lot of questions are about a product or item that there is a 1% chance a specific individual might have in their house, then if you have 300 people online posting FROM their house the chance of at least one of them having it is pretty good.

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Rugpisser
Aug 1, 2007

PHONES DOWN...PHONES DOWN IN THE BACK

feld posted:

Can you actually get the radio broadcast at your house? Would you be willing to be our second radio stream source?

This year I'd like to see that be a bit more redundant. I picture there being two different stream channels in Mumble so if one goes down (technical issues, power outage, etc) we have some people in the other channel listening to the nearly identical backup stream.

I could try doing this as well, I imagine. Either thru radio or the cable access broadcast.

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

 I had a great time playing last year. If we need more help doing anything leading up to or during the event this year let me know.

I was CST last year, but recently moved to Boston so i'll be slumming it with the EST goons this year. SO MUCH FUN

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Tygor
Feb 20, 2008

UNTUCKEM. GO BREW CREW WOOOOO


 I'm definitely not missing this. In fact, I'm flying across the country this year to be in town for the festivities Let me know if some Goons want to grab a drink or something the night before.

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McStabby
Jun 26, 2007

I think, therefore you are.

Fatkraken posted:

Yes, it sounds like having hundreds of people working from their *homes* will be massively more effective than those same people all in one room. If a lot of questions are about a product or item that there is a 1% chance a specific individual might have in their house, then if you have 300 people online posting FROM their house the chance of at least one of them having it is pretty good.

Having goons from around the world helps too. I vaguely remember someone from Europe helping us with a picture question in Trivia 42. There was a logo that we couldn't find the source of until he or she remembered that it was from an airline.

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rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009


 We're going for a Top 10 finish this year or else I'll have a stroke.

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

rawillkill posted:

We're going for a Top 10 finish this year or else I'll have a stroke.

I'm surprised you didn't last year. STOP YELLING RAW

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rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009

DancinJack posted:

I'm surprised you didn't last year. STOP YELLING RAW

I am positive there is a math equation that correlates my yelling directly into standings at the end. Good times will be had by all.

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JackRabbitStorm
Apr 24, 2008

Bitch betta have my money!


Evil_Urna posted:

Plover sucks. But at least you have Galaxy Hobby.

And O'so Brewing.

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

Athanatos posted:

As for IRC:

There is a webclient here http://cgiirc.synirc.net/

Change the channel there to #tp and pick a nick and you'll be right in

If you know how to work irc we are on this server irc.synirc.net

If not, ask and someone can help you get in.

I want to suggest everyone get a better client for use if you're going to be on pretty frequently. Web clients generally have stupid interfaces, random timeouts that poo poo up the channel, and just suck in general. Feel free to ask in this thread as to how to set up these clients for use. I'd be happy to help with mIRC.

http://www.mirc.com/ for windows
http://colloquy.info/ for mac

edit: spelling

DancinJack fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 16:30

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Evil_Urna
Aug 15, 2004

I swear, by mah life an mah love o da thang, that I will never live fo da sake o another nigga, nor ask another nigga ta live fo mine

JackRabbitStorm posted:

And O'so Brewing.

They make the only Night Train worth drinking.

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foxatee
Feb 27, 2010

That foxatee is always making a Piggles out of herself.

Athanatos posted:

As for IRC:

There is a webclient here http://cgiirc.synirc.net/

Change the channel there to #tp and pick a nick and you'll be right in

If you know how to work irc we are on this server irc.synirc.net

If not, ask and someone can help you get in.
No. You must use a client and register your nick to receive voice in channel. You will be kicked from the room otherwise, unless someone can vouch for you, I guess. Still, cgiirc sucks and will poo poo all over you.

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Athanatos
Jun 7, 2006

Diligence is the mother of Luck

foxatee posted:

No. You must use a client and register your nick to receive voice in channel. You will be kicked from the room otherwise, unless someone can vouch for you, I guess. Still, cgiirc sucks and will poo poo all over you.

Im not kicking anyone for 2 months, come in mill around dont reg, I dont care. When the day comes then I'll worry about who is who. (You dont have to be regged to be voiced)

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feld
Feb 11, 2008

Out of nowhere its....

FELDSPAR

Rugpisser posted:

I could try doing this as well, I imagine. Either thru radio or the cable access broadcast.

A radio that can do line out to line in on your PC/laptop is ideal. We can supply you with the instructions and what cables to buy if you need help.

edit: or I'd even mail you the cables myself. Can get them for pennies on the dollar at Monoprice.com if you dont want to pay BestBuy/Radioshack prices.

Evil_Urna posted:

They make the only Night Train worth drinking.

I have some limited release Bourbon barrel aged Night Train

feld fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 17:49

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Tygor
Feb 20, 2008

UNTUCKEM. GO BREW CREW WOOOOO


 I understand people wouldn't want the name "Trivial Fursuit 3: Tokyo Yiff" but drat it's a wasted opportunity.

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JackRabbitStorm
Apr 24, 2008

Bitch betta have my money!


feld posted:


I have some limited release Bourbon barrel aged Night Train

So good. Check out the Wee on the Lam sour Brown if you get a chance, was released at the same time as the bourbon barrel



Didn't realize there were so many more local goons then past years

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Evil_Urna
Aug 15, 2004

I swear, by mah life an mah love o da thang, that I will never live fo da sake o another nigga, nor ask another nigga ta live fo mine

feld posted:

A radio that can do line out to line in on your PC/laptop is ideal. We can supply you with the instructions and what cables to buy if you need help.

edit: or I'd even mail you the cables myself. Can get them for pennies on the dollar at Monoprice.com if you dont want to pay BestBuy/Radioshack prices.


I have some limited release Bourbon barrel aged Night Train

My stereo can do line out. What cable do you need? If you are in Point I am totally going to break into your pad and steal that.

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

Evil_Urna posted:

My stereo can do line out. What cable do you need? If you are in Point I am totally going to break into your pad and steal that.

Depends on what kind of line out you have. Could be RCA stereo to 3.5mm if we're talking about going to a line in on PC.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...&seq=1&format=2

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rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009

Athanatos posted:

Im not kicking anyone for 2 months, come in mill around dont reg, I dont care. When the day comes then I'll worry about who is who. (You dont have to be regged to be voiced)

Yeah we will start kicking when we get the trivia times paper

Edit: for those unaware a portion of the contest actually begins before the radio portion.

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Evil_Urna
Aug 15, 2004

I swear, by mah life an mah love o da thang, that I will never live fo da sake o another nigga, nor ask another nigga ta live fo mine

DancinJack posted:

Depends on what kind of line out you have. Could be RCA stereo to 3.5mm if we're talking about going to a line in on PC.

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...&seq=1&format=2

Ok I have like 6 of those. What program should I be useing to handle that input?

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McStabby
Jun 26, 2007

I think, therefore you are.

 I don't know if anyone follows 90FM on facebook, but they've updated their page with the logo for Trivia 44:
http://www.facebook.com/wwsp90fm

Any idea who the guy in the picture is supposed to be? Maybe we will have more than just Looney Tunes for a theme.

Edit: Or I could just link the Trivia 44 page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/90FMTrivia

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

Evil_Urna posted:

Ok I have like 6 of those. What program should I be useing to handle that input?

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

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Evil_Urna
Aug 15, 2004

I swear, by mah life an mah love o da thang, that I will never live fo da sake o another nigga, nor ask another nigga ta live fo mine

DancinJack posted:

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

Thank you. I will start testing it on wed when I have a day off.

Are you guys going to have a meet up in point? I just talked to MY GIRLFRIEND and she said the team I am going to be playing on is "in a row" as in 37 dicks in a row from Clerks. Horray, Kevin Smith fans. This year is going to be so fun.

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IceLicker
Dec 26, 2005

Licking the ass of society one cheek at a -- ah thit aye thongue is sthuck.

rawillkill posted:

Yeah we will start kicking when we get the trivia times paper

Edit: for those unaware a portion of the contest actually begins before the radio portion.

The picture portion is mad fun. It's a great little sort of "pre-party event" that gives a pretty good idea of just how tough this contest is and just how resourceful some goons can be.

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

Evil_Urna posted:

Thank you. I will start testing it on wed when I have a day off.

Are you guys going to have a meet up in point? I just talked to MY GIRLFRIEND and she said the team I am going to be playing on is "in a row" as in 37 dicks in a row from Clerks. Horray, Kevin Smith fans. This year is going to be so fun.

Let me know if you need help. I've set it up a few times for others things. You'll need someone else in mumble to see if they can hear the stream anyway.

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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

A true leader of men

Superrodan posted:

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.

Yeah, sorry that was me last year

And where the hell did that gif come from, anyways?

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McStabby
Jun 26, 2007

I think, therefore you are.

 That was from 3 Godfathers, the movie they played last year before the contest started.

Here's the contest logo, by the way:

McStabby fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2013 around 19:09

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Vagueabond
Aug 24, 2012

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NIGHTCREWBESTCREW

 This sounds amazing. I don't know if I'd be much help with /answering/ the questions but I type like 130WPM and do transcription work on the side so it sounds like that's a useful thing on the whole logistics side of it. I love pub trivia and this sounds like just the thing to knock my socks off.

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rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009

Vagueabond posted:

This sounds amazing. I don't know if I'd be much help with /answering/ the questions but I type like 130WPM and do transcription work on the side so it sounds like that's a useful thing on the whole logistics side of it. I love pub trivia and this sounds like just the thing to knock my socks off.

You are in very high demand. Hop into IRC one of these days so we can get you setup and what not. We always need excellent transcriptions.

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Totally TWISTED
Sep 13, 2005

Also, angels.




Oh gently caress yes trivia! My work schedule *should* be wide open for this weekend finally. Time to put it on the calendar and tell the fiancée to

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feld
Feb 11, 2008

Out of nowhere its....

FELDSPAR

DancinJack posted:

http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm

Probably won't even need to do this as I think mumble can pick up your line-in if you have a non-crap sound chip in your computer. Otherwise VAC is going to be the trick -- make your Line-In hook to your "Microphone" so Mumble can listen to your Mic input and get the radio feed.

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Thora
Aug 20, 2006
panzerwench

 Did this for the first time last year with little (no) preparation. I may not be the fastest typer or researcher, but I can confirm answers like they're going out of style. I'm off that weekend, yay!

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Messyass
Dec 23, 2003



 This looks right up my alley, but I've got a weekend away planned. I may drop in to channel the wisdom of 16 drunk idiots though.

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DancinJack
Jul 11, 2006
yer dun

Messyass posted:

This looks right up my alley, but I've got a weekend away planned. I may drop in to channel the wisdom of 16 drunk idiots though.

Seriously, cancel it. You will likely have more fun doing this. I'm not joking.

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rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009

DancinJack posted:

Seriously, cancel it. You will likely have more fun doing this. I'm not joking.

A few of my herbally inclined friends are postponing 4/20 for this competition.

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feld
Feb 11, 2008

Out of nowhere its....

FELDSPAR

DancinJack posted:

Seriously, cancel it. You will likely have more fun doing this. I'm not joking.

It's pretty hard to explain the rush of finding the answer to a particularly hard question and then learning we got some decent points. So many moments of virtual and celebrations.


edit: it's so drat addicting.

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taco show
Oct 6, 2011


 Yessss so in for this. The IRC music channel was best channel.


McStabby posted:

I don't know if anyone follows 90FM on facebook, but they've updated their page with the logo for Trivia 44:
http://www.facebook.com/wwsp90fm

Any idea who the guy in the picture is supposed to be? Maybe we will have more than just Looney Tunes for a theme.
Well, they made an 'end of the world' joke on their main page, so maybe one of their DJs wearing a Mayan headdress?

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AcetylCoA!
Dec 25, 2010



 ohgod ohgod ohgod so excited. Had the theme been announced or did I miss it.

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rawillkill
Aug 15, 2009

AcetylCoA! posted:

ohgod ohgod ohgod so excited. Had the theme been announced or did I miss it.

It has been announced. Looney Toons

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